After Zhang Zi'an returned to Binhai City to take over the pet store, he once set two small goals, the first is to gain a firm foothold in the pet industry, and the second is to save some money and redecorate the store. Luckily, both of these small goals were achieved.

Now he wants to set a third small goal, which is to introduce more pets, especially rare pets that are rare for ordinary people, and let the pet store be known by more people.

Qiyuan Pet Store is no longer a small shop, the reputation has gradually spread, and even spread across the ocean to the United States and Fuso, more and more people know that there is such a unique pet store in Binhai City.

He could have chosen to be content with the status quo, as long as he continued to operate, at least he would not have to worry about food and clothing.

But many customers came to visit, but they returned disappointed, because there was no pet they wanted in the store, which made him feel that he was missing N billion!

So he learned the hard way and decided to expand the scale.

Of course, there is a risk to scaling up, but even if he loses money, it is a big deal that he will roll back into the company and work as a 9-to-5 office worker.

The only principle is to try to be as close to the pet store as possible, taking advantage of the fact that the house prices and rents are in a low period before and after the Spring Festival, he doesn't want to drag it out anymore.

The aunts of the neighborhood committees walk the streets and alleys all day long to collect protection money...... No, it is a management fee, and they should be more well-informed about these news, and they usually like to chat about gossip when they gather in the neighborhood committee, and they can know what is happening in the street at the first time, so Zhang Zian asked Grandma Gu about the situation.

Grandma Gu didn't believe it at first, she had lived on this street all her life, and she used to see Zhang Zi'an's parents get up early and run a pet store in the dark, and they didn't make a lot of money except to pay off the mortgage.

"Forget it, Xiao Anzi, you went out to college and didn't come back for several years, and now you finally came back, and it can be regarded as a return to the roots - listen to grandma's words, don't think nonsense, An Ansheng runs your one-third of an acre of land, save some money to buy a car, and in two years, grandma, I will introduce you to a person who is satisfactory to you, get married and live a good life, and then give birth to a handsome girl or a big fat boy, if you can be rated as a model worker in Dongcheng District, you will not ......live in vain in this life," Grandma Gu persuaded earnestly.

Grandma Gu chattered self-righteously, while Zhang Zi'an couldn't laugh or cry, not knowing what to say.

From the perspective of her older generation, she is right, and many young people are also pursuing this pursuit, and their wives and children are hot on the kang.

But Zhang Zi'an doesn't think so, he doesn't expand his scale entirely to make money. He has seen a lot of strange and rare pets from books such as "Rare Pets Illustrated", and often finds it not very enjoyable to just look at them, but if he can introduce these pets into the store, even if it is not for sale but just for display, it can bring great satisfaction.

"There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is greater. Grandma, I watched Xiao Anzi grow up day by day, after this year, you are a year older, but you don't even have a partner, grandma, I see it in my eyes, anxious in my heart......"

Grandma Gu, as the big boss of the neighborhood committee, is very eloquent and loud, Zhang Zi'an hurriedly stopped her from continuing, and said with a smile: "Grandma Gu, I still have something, just tell me, is there a shop nearby for rent or transfer?"

"Alas, you kid, why are you disobedient, grandma, I'm doing this for your own good......" Grandma Gu shook her head regretfully, sighed and said, "If you want to say transfer...... Hey, it looks like the store next to you is about to be transferred, why don't you go over and ask? But grandma, I still advise you to think twice before doing things......

Zhang Zi'an was stunned when he heard it, which store next to him? Speaking of which, he still knew the owner of the shop, but he had never heard of the store being transferred?

"Grandma Gu, are you sure? I live next door, why haven't I heard about Brother Tao's transfer?" he asked suspiciously.

"Hey, you kid still don't believe in grandma, grandma, can I still lie to you?" Grandma Gu said unhappily, "Didn't I go to your store a few days ago to collect this quarter's sanitation fee and management fee, and by the way, I also went to Xiaotao's store, but he didn't pay it, saying that he planned to transfer the store, and said that whoever bought it would let me collect it...... Xiao Anzi, you give a comment to grandma, the whole street is handed over, but he doesn't pay it, isn't this a nail household? Let grandma and I do other people's ideological work in the future......

"I see, thank you Grandma Gu!"

He didn't wait for her to finish, and hurried out of the way.

People of Grandma Gu's age always like to admonish the younger generation as a life mentor, and put on a clear picture of "I have eaten more salt than you have eaten", "If you don't eat the words of the elderly, you will suffer in front of you", but in fact, they are behind the times - the neighborhood committee can only collect cash for sanitation fees is a typical example.

She is indeed for Zhang Zi'an's well-being, but the thinking of the older generation can only be kept, not enterprising, in this rapidly changing era, many things are like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat. If she was asked to decide, she would definitely not be like Zhang Zi'an, who would rather go to great lengths to introduce an automatic dog washing machine, and this opportunity would be gone.

Zhang Zi'an didn't bother to listen to her nagging, let alone explain anything to her, and trotted all the way out of the neighborhood committee.

The south side of the Qiyuan pet store is close to a shoe store, the history of the shoe store is longer than the Qiyuan pet store, it seems to have been opened since the eighties of the last century, and it has been operating until now, and it looks like it will be a fifty-year-old store for more than ten years.

Lu Yiyun saw Zhang Zi'an coming back, but he didn't enter the store, but turned to the side and blinked suspiciously, because Zhang Zi'an rarely went to the neighbor's house.

Zhang Zi'an walked to the door of the shoe store, he was too familiar with this shoe store, when he was a child, during the New Year's holidays, the family's new shoes were basically bought from this store, so they usually get along well. The quality of the shoes is average, and the parents buy shoes from here mainly to take care of the neighbor's business, followed by the quality problems that are easy to replace.

The gold-lettered signboard on the dark red background reads "Zhonghua Road Shoe Store", the old façade has not changed for at least ten years, and the layout of the store is almost exactly the same as that of Qiyuan Pet Store, but the area is larger, the first floor is a store, and the second floor is a residence and warehouse.

The floor-to-ceiling glass door looks very dirty because it has not been wiped for a long time, like a pure natural and pollution-free protective color, and the situation in the store is almost invisible from the outside, but because it is not locked, the owner should be inside and has not gone out.

Zhang Zi'an looked carefully up and down, left and right, but still didn't see the "transfer" sign, so he had to push the door in to see what was going on.

"Welcome, just take a look. ”

There were no customers in the shop, except for a man who was the owner with his back to the door, crouching on the floor and fiddling with his shoebox.

This man's name is Xie Tao, a few years older than Zhang Zi'an, he has known him since he was a child, and Zhang Zi'an wants to call him Brother Tao.

There are many types of shoes on the shelves of the store, from slippers for a few dollars to domestic brand-name shoes for hundreds of dollars, but the styles are slightly old, and most of them seem to be popular last year or even the year before last.

"Brother Tao, it's me. ”

Xie Tao turned his face, "Yo, isn't this Xiao Anzi?" Is there something wrong?"

Zhang Zi'an smiled, not knowing how to speak. It's fine if it's a stranger, but an acquaintance can't just ask you if this store sells it, right?

"Brother Tao, you don't seem to have opened the door much lately?" he said with an excuse.

Since he returned to Binhai City to take over the pet shop, whether it is cloudy or rainy, whether there is business or not, it will be open normally, on the other hand, the shoe store next to it is almost three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, and the days of closing are much more than the days of opening.

"Business is not good, you can't make money, and now people are shopping online. Xie Tao patted the ash on his hands and stood up, kicked the shoebox aside, and smiled helplessly, "And my mind is not here." By the way, I got married a while ago. ”

"Brother Tao, why didn't you tell me about such a big thing? Zhang Zi'an said regretfully.

Xie Tao scratched his hair and said hesitantly: "It's the wedding wine you did in the days when you came back, I originally wanted to invite you, but ...... After discussing it, forget it and don't bother you. ”

Zhang Zi'an was stunned for a moment, and then he realized what he meant - Xie Tao's wedding wine was the period when Zhang Zi'an was preparing for the funeral for his parents, so he was not invited. Xie Tao expected that he would definitely not be in that mood, even if he invited him, he would not come, so he simply didn't inform him and let him be quiet.

He nodded his head to show that he understood, "I'll have at least one gift to make." Where is my sister-in-law from?"

"Don't be so outward. Xie Tao shook his head, "Your sister-in-law is a foreigner, and we are married to our sons—isn't this quite popular now? After the wedding wine, we went on our honeymoon, and then gave birth to a child, went back to my parents' house for confinement or something, it was very troublesome, I was too tired to run at both ends, and I couldn't make a few dollars, so I simply rested for a while." After the break, I found that the business in the store was even worse, and many old customers were gone. ”

Zhang Zi felt the same way. In the past, the pet store had been tepid under the management of his parents, but he was able to maintain normal operation, but after he closed down due to an accident, he reopened and the old customers were gone...... Although the pet store did not have many regular customers, the impact of the closure was real.

At the same time, he also knows why this shoe store is always not open, it turns out that Xie Tao married a foreign daughter-in-law, and experienced a series of life events such as honeymooning, giving birth to children and doing confinement, so it seems that the rumors that Grandma Gu said that this shoe store is going to be transferred are probably not groundless.