Super Zoo

By 4:30 in the afternoon, the zoo was still open, but Nurse Hu had sold all the animal feed she brought. She took her gear and went back to the clinic to settle the accounts, sending Nurse Liao and little Nurse Liao to find Suming to arrange for tomorrow's 'goods,' planning to order another two hundred pounds.

Suming was a bit surprised, considering they only started selling the feed in the afternoon. In reality, they only worked for a mere two hours and sold a hundred and thirty pounds of feed, earning over two hundred dollars. Moreover, today was the first day they set up shop. As word spread, the number of customers seeking animal feed would only increase.

According to that calculation, for an eight-hour day, they should at least plan for four or five hundred pounds for tomorrow to make sense.

After asking around, he found out that the three of them had to do shifts at the clinic and couldn't spend the whole day by the lake, so they could only commit three or four hours each day to this venture.

Suming nodded his head, realizing that selling animal feed could be a viable path, but relying solely on these three nurses was not enough.

"Why are you two so stressed? With such an introverted personality, it's not a big deal if you're not cut out for business. But how will you manage dating and marriage in the future?" After discussing the important matters, Suming chatted idly and laughed.

Nurses Liao, who were cousins, came straight to the zoo after earning their associate degree and had been working there for just half a year, always inside the clinic without much interaction with people, animals aside. They had rather introverted personalities. Sitting in the back of the Wrangler following Suming to the warehouse to pick up goods, both of them kept their heads down all the way. If Suming asked them a question, they would just reply and not dare to say anything extra, looking all nervous.

The little liveliness that Nurses Liao had mustered up with great difficulty vanished instantly upon hearing Suming mention dating and marriage. They buried their heads into their chests, their ears turning beet red.

Suming shook his head helplessly, knowing the sisters were famously reticent. They would blush at the drop of a hat when speaking with male colleagues, to the point where the zoo's young men felt awkward about going to the clinic, fearing they might be assumed to be up to no good.

Luckily, the wolfhound brothers were also in the car. While Nurses Liao might not be good with people, they were quite affectionate with animals. Each of them held a big dog in their arms, checking tongues and scratching itches, making the wolfhound brothers so comfortable that their tails wouldn't stop wagging.

"You turncoats... Are you brothers planning to marry the pair of sisters?" Suming sent a scornful message with his spiritual power.

All of a sudden, little Nurse Liao let out an "Aiya" from the back seat, alarming Suming into thinking she got bitten by a dog. He immediately hit the brakes and turned to look.

The bashful sisters had their heads hanging even lower, their faces flushed a cooked crab's shade of red. They huddled together like two quails, shivering and about ready to cry, not daring to look at Suming.

The wolfhound brothers were eagerly rubbing against the sisters and sticking out their long tongues, trying to lick their faces!

Upon closer inspection, even Suming's face turned red!

After being fondled by the sisters, the wolfhound brothers shamelessly became aroused, poking around their waists with... that thing.

The awkwardness Suming felt at that sight was indescribable; he seriously wanted to dig a big hole, bury these two shameful hooligans first, then bury himself!

"Get down, you shameless rascals!"

This time, without using his spiritual power, Suming slapped them with two smacks, causing the wolfhound brothers to howl in protest as they scrambled down from the back of the Wrangler.

Completely oblivious to the concept of shame, the brothers stood on their hind legs at the door after getting out of the car, with their tails wagging they stuck out their tongues at the nurses, displaying an exceedingly lewd expression, as though the words "perverted wolfs" were engraved on their faces.

"Go on, get lost!" Suming kicked the accelerator and restarted the Wrangler.

After that commotion, the atmosphere in the car grew even more awkward. The nurses sat silently, blushing and keeping their heads down, and Suming didn't know what to say, so he pretended to enjoy the scenery while driving.

Fortunately, the warehouse wasn't too far and they arrived shortly. Suming called on Mr. Lin and little Lin from the warehouse to open the door, and they weighed out two hundred pounds of feed from the cold storage.

"Thank you, Mr. Su..." little Nurse Liao finally managed to force out the words, looking as if it was the hardest thing she'd ever done.

Afterwards, silence ensued. The wolfhound brothers were off mixing somewhere for half the day and only returned to Shuijun Lake around 8:30 in the evening.

When it comes down to it, mating is a natural instinct for animals, and humans too get impulsive—it's just that humans know how to control it, or to put it another way, humans know how to pretend.

Education is still necessary, Suming said seriously, "Love doesn't distinguish age, gender, or nationality, but it does distinguish species. No matter how cute you two act, the nurse sisters won't let you climb onto their beds or get fresh with them. You're barking up the wrong tree, purely wasting your energy and feelings…"

The wolf-dog brothers didn't seem to understand and sat side by side with blank expressions, looking at Suming.

A few cats lay in their nests, looking at the wolf-dog brothers with scorn.

Speaking of which, the wolf-dog brothers were also unlucky. They used to live by the Huating Reservoir, where they occasionally encountered a few stray dogs to settle their personal issues. Now living in the zoo, although their living conditions have drastically improved, they've had to completely give up on that aspect of their lives.

The zoo had all sorts of animals, except for dogs, and no matter how bold the wolf-dog brothers were, they didn't dare target tigresses, lionesses, female crocodiles, or female bears. Even if they had the guts, they didn't have the ability.

"How about I get you two neutered? That would save all the fuss," Suming scratched his head, tentatively asking.

Perhaps understanding him this time, the wolf-dog brothers let out a pitiful howl, their tails curled between their legs, clamping their hind legs tightly together as they shook their heads frantically.

"Why so dramatic, it was just a suggestion... No sense of humor at all..."

...

A week passed by quickly, and on the weekend, Nurse Hu came to settle the feed accounts with Suming.

It wasn't even a full week, just over four days, with each of the three taking turns spending two hours a day selling the feed, almost one thousand pounds of mixed feed were sold.

Nurse Hu might not be much to look at, but she was really thoughtful. According to her observation, the reason for the good sales of the feed was partly because the fish in Shuijun Lake were abundant; every time a handful of feed was thrown in, it would draw many fish competing for it, creating a quite spectacular scene!

Moreover, there were a rich variety of fish, unlike ordinary parks with only koi. People get aesthetic fatigue; if they can only see one kind of fish, they lose interest over time. The fish Suming brought from Huating Reservoir mainly included the 'Four Major Families' of fish, along with seven or eight other species, even some that weren't economically valuable but not commonly seen.

"Goodness, this money is too easy to make!" Nurse Hu slapped a stack of bills in her hand, making a snapping sound.

The total amount of money wasn't huge; over half a week, the profit for the team of three nurses was just over thirteen hundred, averaging out to just over four hundred for each nurse, close to two thousand per month.

Just like the actual situation for all zoo staff, the nurses didn't have much to do, their salary wasn't high, and they didn't have many opportunities for extra income. An additional two thousand a month was purely a no-cost business, free money.

After settling accounts with Nurse Hu, it was already past ten in the evening, and Suming went to Shuijun Lake alone to check out the fruits of the week's work.

The feed was basically pollution-free. The Mixed Sea Fish was almost completely eaten by the snakehead fish, and the shrimps and crabs in the water also benefitted.

At the bottom of the lake, the mud showed signs of snakehead fish moving around, and occasionally dark clumps would emerge from the mud, resembling large clumps of water grass slowly drifting up to the surface.

Of course, it wasn't water grass but snakehead fish poop.

Without waiting for the snakehead fish poop to fully disperse in the water, various domestic fish, drawn by the smell, would converge from the surroundings and open their mouths to vigorously suck in the floating snakehead fish poop…

With an overabundance of snakehead fish, if you stood beneath the surface of the water at that moment, the lakebed would seem like an active 'volcano', with poop erupting from various places, and immediately afterward, swarms of fish would rush over to consume it.

Suming scratched his head, unsure if this scene should be described as spectacular or creepy…

In fact, although snakehead fish poop is excrement, it isn't as dirty as one might imagine. After a round of purification through the digestive tract of snakehead fish, things in the feed that might not have been very hygienic and could cause pollution, or bacteria, would be broken down and absorbed, neutralized. Therefore, snakehead fish poop was definitely much cleaner and more nutritious than most of the things wild fish ate.

In summary, in just a short week, the ecological chain of Shuijun Lake was basically established. If you observed carefully, you could see that the sizes of various fish fry had grown a bit.