When Little Older Brother Liu saw these comments, he nodded in agreement.

“I feel sorry for him. He hasn’t caused me any losses yet, so I naturally don’t want to pursue the matter.

“Hiring a cleaner these days costs a lot of money. He kept my shop so clean, I guess I made a profit.

“But he came into my restaurant without me knowing his identity, and I am a little panicked. What if he put poison in our food?”

He looked up at An Rugu on the screen. “Host, the surveillance footage hasn’t arrived yet. Can you help me figure out who he is? Is he one of the people around here?

“He works quite efficiently, and I’m quite satisfied with him. I can hire him as a waiter, give him a job, and let him enter my restaurant with dignity.”

He already had a guess in his mind. His restaurant was located in a semi-rural area, where many poor people lived. Perhaps they were too hungry and came to his restaurant to find something to eat.

An Rugu stared intently at the other person; his face was well-proportioned and full, his mouth was square, and he had a very kind heart.

He wasn’t lying; he genuinely wanted to find the other person and offer him a job.

“Let me calculate it for you.”

An Rugu closed her eyes, raised her hand to calculate, and after a long while, suddenly opened her eyes. “You were born in that village, right?”

Little Older Brother Liu was a little confused, but he still answered truthfully, “Yes.

“My grades weren’t very good, so I went to a big city to learn cooking. My mom used to work in a factory. She has poor eyesight and is almost blind. She’s getting worse as she gets older and can barely take care of herself. She didn’t want to live in the city. So I came back to take care of her.

“As the area gradually developed, I thought I could open a shop here, make some money, and take care of my mother nearby. Wouldn’t that be the best of both worlds? So I opened a shop in this place.”

“Did your mother pass away this year?”

Upon hearing this, Little Older Brother Liu sighed deeply, a look of grief flashing in his eyes. “Yes, we just finished her funeral.”

An Rugu picked up her teacup and took a sip of tea. “Your mother seems to have a connection with an animal, did you know that?”

“Animal?” Little Older Brother Liu was stunned for a while, scratched his head, and after thinking for a long time, a flash of inspiration struck him. “Ah, I remember now, there are many people in our village who keep dogs, almost every household has a guard dog.

“I heard that there are guide dogs for the blind, but they are too expensive. I thought a local dog would be good too, so I brought home a little black dog from someone else’s house and fed it with leftover food from the restaurant. I hope it can be a guide dog and keep my mom company.

“But Little Blackie didn’t even stay with my mom for two years before he fell into the water and drowned.

“My mom was so attached to Little Blackie that I didn’t dare tell her that Little Blackie was dead, otherwise she would definitely cry like she did when my dad passed away and ruin her eyes.

“So I told her that Little Blackie was missing, probably because he ran off with his mother.

“My mom searched for a long time near our home but couldn’t find it, so she eventually stopped looking.”

Little Older Brother Liu felt extremely sad when he said this.

He remembered that the Shark platform allowed users to post pictures in the comments section, so he opened his phone’s photo album and posted Little Blackie’s photo in the comments.

The little black dog on the screen had a round, chubby face and glossy black fur, looking like a big black mouse.

Viewers in the livestream exclaimed how adorable it was.

[Ahhhh, this is totally my dream dog! I want to rub its face hard!]

[My family is also from the countryside. Our puppy was stolen by dog ​​traffickers, which made me so angry.]

[Sigh, did Mom find out later that Little Blackie had passed away?]

After seeing the comments, Little Older Brother Liu frowned. “I don’t know either, because she was a bit eccentric in her last few years.

“She told me not to throw away the leftovers from the restaurant, but to bring them back for Little Blackie to eat. I was thinking, Little Blackie is already dead, what could he eat, and how would he eat it?

“I subtly asked her where Little Blackie was, and she said Little Blackie was right next to her.

“I suspect that she either has a bit of dementia or can see unclean things, maybe even Little Blackie’s soul.

“Our family treated Little Blackie so well, and Little Blackie wouldn’t hurt her. He was also good to my mom, so I didn’t interfere.

“When my mother passed away, she asked me to take good care of Little Blackie. She was a little insistent about it, so I still agreed.”

As Little Older Brother Liu was talking, a sudden inspiration struck him. He had completely forgotten about it, and he wouldn’t have remembered it if the streamer hadn’t brought it up.

He licked his dry lips and stammered, “Host, could it be that Little Blackie’s spirit came to our shop to eat?”

He once casually promised his mother that he would take good care of Little Blackie in the future.

Was it because of this promise that Little Blackie came to his shop?

An Rugu slowly shook her head. “It’s not a dog.”

“Then what is it?”

She mentioned an animal that seemed completely unrelated to the discussion. “A rat.”

Little Older Brother Liu: “???”

Viewers in the livestream channel: “???”

[Wait, was the dog that Little Older Brother Liu’s mother kept a black dog or a rat? I don’t understand.]

[I guess so. After Little Blackie died, that rat secretly took its place, deceived Mom’s feelings, and stole leftovers. What a wicked rat!]

[The rat replaced the black dog, but Mom couldn’t recognize it?]

[His mother has poor eyesight, and Little Blackie looked like a rat, so she probably wouldn’t recognize him.]

[Poor Little Blackie, its spot was stolen by a rat, boohoo.]

[I absolutely hate rats, just as much as cockroaches. The thought of rats makes me want to explode. Hamsters are okay, but rats?!]

I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: When I was a child, my family got a brown dog and my older brother named him ‘Browny’. Then we got a white dog and I named him ‘Pinky’. What? It was my turn to name the dog 😌

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