"Depending on your situation, I recommend that you raise a short pitch. ”

Zhang Zi'an suggested to a customer who was hesitant about what cat to buy.

"Okay, I'll take another look. "The other party has not made a decision for a long time.

"Squeak!"

Zhang Zi'an was stunned, and immediately looked back at the stairwell on the second floor, and saw that π showed a small head, quietly beckoned to him, and then immediately retracted.

"What's the voice?" the customer looked around in confusion, "Manager, do you have any other pets besides cats, dogs, and birds?"

"No, you heard me wrong, it's the stairs that are a little old, and they creak when you step on them. Zhang Zi'an disguised, "You can take a look, I'll go upstairs, you can ask the cashier of our store if you have any questions." ”

With that, he hurried back upstairs.

π waited for him at the door of the living room.

"What's wrong, π? Is something wrong? Or is there something uncomfortable?"

He asked repeatedly.

π had never gone downstairs to look for him before, he thought that something had happened to π, and what he was most worried about was that π was sick, and he didn't know how to cure a fantasy elf, and even if he could, his raising of monkeys would be discovered by others.

"Squeak?"

π pointed to the tablet, his face anxious, but it didn't look like he was sick.

Zhang Zi'an didn't understand what it wanted to say, "Go to the computer and type it." ”

Together, they entered the living room, π jumped on the swivel chair, and typed in the ORD document: "You can only read part of the book, not the back." I've tried several copies, but it doesn't work.

Zhang Zi'an didn't understand what it meant at first, picked up the tablet and looked at it, his mood suddenly relaxed, and said with a smile: "Because there is a paid chapter in the back, I haven't recharged my account yet, of course I can't read it." ”

π typed puzzled: Recharge?

"Yes, although the reading carrier of the Internet and physical books are different, they are the same as rice, computers, drinking water, and clothes, which are the products of other people's labor.

π typed: Is it expensive?

Zhang Zian said that the price of online reading is indeed not expensive, but the reading speed of the π is fast...... But he didn't want it to be psychologically burdensome, so he pretended to be relaxed and said: "As a form of entertainment, the Internet is already very cheap, at least much cheaper than finding a girlfriend...... π Which app do you mainly read books in? I'll give you some money to go in. ”

π points to an icon on the tablet screen.

"Okay, I'll see how I should top up. Zhang Zi'an took the tablet, deliberately avoided the π's sight, estimated how much money should be charged according to the reading speed of the π, and finally gritted his teeth and charged a thousand.

"Alright, π, feel free to read whatever you like. He handed the tablet back.

"Squeak!"

π took the tablet and tried to click on the paid chapter, and sure enough, I could read it, and immediately sat down in the hanging basket and began to read.

Zhang Zi'an looked at its page turning speed at a glance and felt that the wallet was crying, but π really liked the Internet, so he went downstairs to ask him for help.

Still, he thinks it's well spent, π the need for brick-and-mortar is less with the internet, which saves him a lot of trouble and allows him to devote his time to the day-to-day operation of the pet store.

The only thing he wasn't sure about was ...... He wasn't sure if this was a thirst quenching for π, because the number of networks was so vast that even π couldn't watch it for a while, and would it exacerbate the isolation of π?

He couldn't think of anything else for the time being, so he had to let time test.

......

π gradually relaxed his guard in the pet store, no longer holding on to the nameless book all the time, and when he was reading in the hanging basket, he would put the nameless book on the desk casually, next to the laptop.

It stared intently at the screen of the tablet, and was seeing the highlights, and had just finished reading a chapter, and with a flick of its finger, it jumped to the next chapter.

"π, don't always read, get up and move. ”

It looked up and saw that Zhang Zi'an had come to the hanging basket at some point, and was looking at it worriedly.

"Squeak!"

It waved its hand, meaning to wait a moment, rest after reading this part, and then continue to read with its head down.

“π！”

π's heart moved, it didn't seem right to hear Zhang Zi'an's tone, raised his head again, and asked him blankly what happened.

Zhang Zi'an said seriously: "π, you have been reading for 5 hours in a row, you should get up and move, otherwise your body will not be able to stand it." I'm playing hide and seek with Xinghai, would you like to come along?"

"Meow~"

Xinghai also emerged from behind him, blinking at π with silver-gray eyes.

"Meow~π, let's play hide and seek together?"

π looked at the two of them alternately, their expressions serious, their eyes full of worry and anxiety, obviously worried about its affairs.

"Squeak?"

π stretches out a palm, meaning that 5 hours have passed?

Zhang Zi'an nodded, "Yes, when I got up in the morning, I found that you were reading, it was not 7 o'clock at that time, and it was already 12 o'clock at noon, I just finished lunch, and you haven't moved for at least 5 hours." ”

"Squeak. ”

π put down the tablet and jumped off the hanging basket, but suddenly stumbled and almost lost his footing.

Zhang Zi'an hurriedly held it, "π, are you okay?"

After reading in the same position for a long time, π found that the joints of his whole body were stiff, especially his neck, which creaked like rusty bearings when he moved slightly, and his legs were simply numb and did not obey the call at all.

"Squeak ......"

It leaned on Zhang Zi'an with the weight of its whole body, stretched out a finger, trembled and wrote in his palm: I'm fine, just take a rest.

Zhang Zi'an looked at its weak and powerless appearance, and couldn't help but secretly regret it, why let π watch the Internet? It has nothing else to do, it will be fascinated by it when it looks at it, if it is a physical book after reading it, it will not read it, it can only rest, but the number of networks is too much, and it will read one book after another.

He carried the π to the hanging basket, let it lie down to rest, and stood by it with Xinghai to guard it.

"Squeak. ”

π twisted his face inward and covered it with his hands.

Zhang Zi'an guessed that it was saying "I'm sorry", so he comforted: "There's nothing to be sorry for, π you just need to pay attention to the time you read the book." ”

π nodded.

After a while, the numb legs regained sensation, and it jumped out of the hanging basket despite Zhang Zi'an's dissuasion.

"Squeak?"

It raised its hand to cover its eyes, then removed its hands, and so on.

"π want to play hide and seek with us?" Zhang Zi'an guessed.

π nodded, his eyes wandering over him, "Squeak?"

"Absolutely, you are always welcome to join. Zhang Zi'an smiled, "Right, Xinghai?"

"Meow~ Welcome!" Xinghai said excitedly, "Let's play hide and seek together!"

"Wait a minute, I'm going to call Pemmas to play with him, that guy is sleeping all day now, it's time to wake up. Zhang Zi'an ran downstairs with a bang.

After a while, he returned to the second floor with a sleepy-eyed Pegasus and asked, "Who will be the ghost? I suggest guessing the boxing! Come, let's guess the boxing together, rock, scissors, paper!"

He didn't allow everyone to refuse, so he made the decision to guess the boxing on his own.

"Meow ~ cloth!"

"Squeak!"

Pegas: "Exo me?"

As a result of guessing the boxing, Zhang Zian and π both came out of the scissors, and Xinghai and Feimas both came out of the cloth.

"Wowhaha, one of you is a ghost!" Zhang Zi'an smiled proudly.

Pemmas stared at his paws speechlessly, "You are cheating! Xinghai and I can only go out ...... cloth."

"Then I don't care!" Zhang Zi'an said trickily, "Anyway, which of you two is the ghost? Continue to guess the boxing, I don't think you can tell the winner, or just flip a coin to decide?"

He magically pulled out a coin and flicked it into the air with a clatter.

The coin drew a silver reincarnation line back into his palm, where he snapped it with his other hand.

"The flowered side or the unflowered side?" he asked.

"Meow ~ there are flowers!" Xinghai replied first.

Pemmas was even more speechless, playing with Xinghai to guess the coin, is this not clear that he is going to lose? The probability of winning is simply zero!

Zhang Zi'an looked at it narrowly and asked, "Feimars, then you choose the side that doesn't have flowers?"

"No, I don't choose either side, I throw in the towel. Pemmas sighed, "Forget it, I'll be a ghost - did you guys gang up to bully me today?"

"That's what I'm saying, where did we bully you? Why did you lose the original gamble!" Zhang Zi'an smiled, "Go and count—by the way, don't use your sense of smell to find us, otherwise it's even cheating!"

"You're the only one who is not qualified to talk about anyone else!" Fei Mars reluctantly found a corner, closed his eyes to the wall, and said, "1, 2, 3, 4......"

Xinghai first found a place to hide, Zhang Zi'an squeezed his eyes at π, and signaled to hide separately.

π had seen Zhang Zi'an and Xinghai play hide and seek, but it was the first time to participate in this game in person. It stayed in the living room almost all the time, unfamiliar with the other rooms, didn't know where to hide, and ended up hiding under the desk.

Feimars counted to 100, opened his eyes, and looked inside.

If you can use your sense of smell, it's easy to find, and even if you don't use it, it's just a matter of taking a little more time.

Feimas had an idea and shouted, "Don't hide, I see you!"

"Squeak!"

π played it for the first time, and I didn't know that there was a fraud, thinking that Pegasus had really seen it, and I panicked and wanted to get out from under the desk. It moved too quickly, its body had just recovered from its numbness, it was not very agile, and its head slammed into the desk.

"Squeak!"

π fell to the ground in pain, clutching his head and whimpering.

The table shook twice, and the nameless book placed in the corner of the table fell to the ground with a clatter, spreading out.