Chapter 15: 015 Dog owner makes a doorstep apology_1 Chapter 15: 015 Dog owner makes a doorstep apology_1 The rush hour bus in Hua City was truly packed with people, the subway having taken some of the load off the buses, but there were still many workers relying on this form of transport.
No wonder Sun Qing would complain.
When the bus reached the stop for Culture Street, Tang Su’s phone rang.
Lu Han’s medicine was truly effective. In the past few days, Tang Su’s hearing seemed to have recovered to how it was before Ye Sichen hit her, and she could clearly hear the sounds around her.
Making Ye Sichen compensate her fifty thousand yuan was indeed a lot.
But Tang Su had no regrets, if someone had the audacity to hit another, they should be willing to bear the consequences.
She wasn’t deaf, and that was down to good luck.
If she had really become deaf, fifty thousand yuan wouldn’t have been enough to settle it.
This time it was a spam call, ringing for thirty seconds before Tang Su could answer, and then it hung up on its own.
Tang Su glanced at it and didn’t bother with it, reasoning that if it was truly important, they would call a second time.
However, there was no second call.
Tang Su headed straight for the bookstore. Today was Sunday, and Zhao Yue had already promised her daughter to spend a day at the aquarium, so she took the day off. Zhang Li messaged in the morning saying she would be half an hour late. Her husband was out of town on a business trip, and she had to drop her daughter off at the art class before she could come over.
Tang Su told her to take her time, there was no rush.
The bookstore wouldn’t have many customers in the morning anyway, and she could tidy up and clean by herself, she could handle it.
Besides, Tang Su arrived quite early.
It was only eight forty when she arrived.
Customers familiar with their bookstore’s opening hours would come after nine.
No sooner had Tang Su opened the door than a rough male voice rang out from behind her, “Miss Tang, hello!”
Tang Su turned around and saw the strange man standing behind her, “Hello, sir, are you looking to buy a book?”
The man looked to be in his thirties, with a fierce-looking five-centimeter scar on his right eyebrow.
Such a man, Tang Su knew at a glance, was unlikely there to buy books. But if he wasn’t there to buy books, what was he doing in the bookstore looking for her?
She didn’t recognize the man—she had no recollection of this individual.
The man gave a toothy smile, his white teeth flashing, “No, I’m the owner at Jinxiu Mountain and River. That day, my big dog killed your boyfriend’s dog and injured you. I’ve come to apologize.”
“I accept your apology,” Tang Su said. “But aren’t fierce dogs like the one you own not allowed in Hua City? Aren’t you afraid it will kill someone like it did that day?”
“No, that won’t happen. Speaking of which, it was my negligence. At noon that day, an elderly family member fell, and I rushed to the hospital with the ambulance, leaving the nanny to bring some clothes over. Later, when the nanny returned, she found the dog had bitten through its leash, and we didn’t even know when it had escaped. We are truly sorry for the harm caused to you.”
The man earnestly explained.
“Our Guai Guai is usually very well-behaved. Maybe it just wanted to play with your little dog that day and went too far. I’m really sorry about that. An animal is still an animal; it can attack its own kind when provoked, something even I didn’t foresee. But I assure you, I’ll discipline it better from now on. That dog is from the countryside and was brought over by an older family member—it holds sentimental value. So please, I ask you to talk to your boyfriend and let us take Guai Guai home.”
“Sir, as for your dog injuring me, I can forgive you if you just pay for the vaccine. I don’t need anything else. However, the matter of your dog killing his, whether he forgives you or not, is not for me to decide. You might not know, but we’ve broken up over this incident,” Tang Su replied.
“Ah? Really?” the man hadn’t expected such a response.
But Tang Su spoke so sincerely that the man believed her words. He insisted that Tang Su accept a basket of fruit he brought and transferred the vaccination fee to her before leaving.
Tang Su accepted the money and the fruit.
Two days after the incident, the dog owner had come to apologize so earnestly, Tang Su felt that the incident might indeed have been an accident.
She believed the man’s words, guessing that the elderly person was probably injured and in the hospital, as the man’s face showed clear signs of weariness.
She had forgiven them, but it was not certain that Ye Sichen would forgive so easily; after all, the dog had been a gift from Shen Tian, his beloved pet.
It was something Ye Sichen valued greatly.
This matter would not be easy to resolve.
However, it really had nothing to do with her anymore. If the man didn’t seek her out, she wouldn’t pursue compensation from him.