Chapter 378: Entering the Dog Market for the First Time
Tie Ning, with a flat hairstyle, a standard height, a straight waist, a well-proportioned figure, wearing a long black woolen trench coat, with his hands in his pocket, no hat, and his ears were a little red from the cold.
The taxi driver did not expect that this seemingly ordinary passenger was the sanda coach of the National Armed Police Corps, won the 75kg sanda championship for three consecutive years in the national military competition, and won several third-class and second-class merits.
In fact, if there is a choice, Tie Ning does not want to leave the armed police force to train himself, but his family is from a remote mountainous area in western Sichuan, his family is in difficulty, and there are younger brothers and sisters waiting for him to pull him into adulthood, especially this year, the youngest brother has just entered college, medicine, and tuition fees are huge, just relying on the salary and allowance of the armed police, it is really a drop in the bucket.
After entering the security company, he was freed from the heavy daily training of the armed police force, and his life was very leisurely, so idle that he was a little uncomfortable. His task is to instruct the other coaches in the company every morning, and then they will train ordinary security guards, stay there when the boss leaves the company, and be responsible for picking up and dropping off the boss when he is commuting, and that's it.
The boss appreciated him very much and was very interesting to him, and on the day he signed the contract, he gave him an apartment to live in and gave him a car. For more than half a year since he joined the company, he has been calm and has not encountered anything, which is almost equivalent to lying down to earn money.
But Tie Ning knows that being a bodyguard is to take people's money and eliminate disasters for others, and when he has nothing to do, he is so idle that he hurts, and once something happens, he may have to use his body to block bullets for the boss, only in this way can he repay the boss's kindness. Therefore, he did not dare to relax his training at all, and since his retirement, he has maintained his physical strength and martial arts skills very well.
When he received a call from the boss this time, he was deeply surprised that he asked him to secretly protect a little girl who was playing live broadcast, to help her when she was in trouble, and not to reveal his identity. The boss made it very clear on the phone that protecting the personal safety of the little girl is the first priority, and it can be heavier, it doesn't matter, as long as it doesn't cause trouble, even if something happens, there are three important bosses in Binhai City to protect him.
After Tie Ning received the task, he quickly rushed to the Qiyuan pet store with the vigorous and resolute style of the armed police force, he didn't see Xiaoxue enter the store, but when Xiaoxue came out, he could see it clearly, and by comparing the photos uploaded on his mobile phone, he confirmed that this was the target he wanted to protect.
He couldn't help but feel a little emotion in his heart, this little girl's age is almost the same as his younger brothers and sisters, but her status is different, she doesn't have to go to work or school, she lives a carefree life every day, and even when she goes out to make trouble, someone secretly protects her...... Reincarnation is really a technical job, and if you don't accept it, you can't do it!
It's just that Tie Ning has only been in the bodyguard industry for a short time after all, and he forgot to ask when he took the task - do you want to protect Xiaoxue's companions?
He sat in the passenger seat of the taxi and stared at the two heads peeking out of the back of the taxi in front of him...... No, it was three heads, one for a middle-aged woman, one for a young man, and one for a dogβand just as he thought so, a fourth head, a gray parrot, came out of the young man's hood.
What should he do if Xiaoxue is okay and her companion is in trouble?
Tie Ning was very conflicted in his heart, the long-term education he received in the armed police force made it impossible for him to stand by and watch when the lives and safety of the people were violated, but the boss repeatedly told him not to make a move unless he had to, because it was said that the young man next to Xiaoxue was a great martial arts master.
Martial arts master?
Tie Ning smiled silently.
The so-called great master of martial arts may have won several martial arts taolu championships, right? When he saw someone practicing this, in layman's terms, it was a showmanship, and it couldn't be compared with Tie Ning's grappling fight, which aimed at defeating the enemy in actual combat and making the enemy lose the ability to resist, so if something really happened, it was estimated that he would still be unable to make a move.
The taxi crossed the small half of the coastal city and arrived at the dog market in the southern part of the city.
Tie Ning's hometown is in western Sichuan, and he is an out-and-out foreigner, and he has only been in Binhai City for half a year, and he can't even understand many local dialects, so naturally he has never been to the dog market.
He saw that Xiaoxue and her companions had already gotten out of the car, so he asked the driver of his car to stop on the side of the road, put the invoice handed by the driver into his pocket, and waited to go back for reimbursement.
Xiaoxue held her mobile phone steadily, slowly rotated half a circle in place, and took pictures of the largest pet distribution center in Binhai City to the audience like a leopard.
This area of Nancheng is surrounded by low, old two-story buildings or bungalows, where vendors selling pets of all kinds occupy their places, bicycles, electric vehicles, tricycles and pedestrians weave through the gaps, and the ground is full of floating dirt, and when the cold wind blows, sand and dust rises.
Deng Jie put the mask back on, and kindly handed Xiaoxue a spare brand new mask, but Xiaoxue was worried that the audience would not be able to hear her clearly after wearing the mask, so she smiled and smiled.
Zhang Zi'an looked up, it was almost noon, and the sky was even more cloudy, maybe it was going to snow.
It's just the edge of the dog market, and it's already so lively.
At a casual glance, he saw that there were cold-water fish, squirrel rabbits, parrots, starlings, magpies, and many onlookers, haggling with the vendors from time to time.
He patted Xiaoxue on the shoulder, pointed to a vendor selling dyed chickens, and said with emotion: "I remember that when I was in elementary school, someone set up a stall at the school gate to sell this, but I didn't expect that there are still people selling it now." β
The basket contained about thirty or forty fluffy chicks, packed to the brim, each one a beautiful orange color, and squeaking with its mouth open. Several senior elementary school students and their parents gathered around the basket of chicks and pointed with great interest, while the vendors occasionally pulled the chicks with their hands to persuade them to buy a few to go back.
The price of chicks is very cheap, two dollars five a piece, six dollars for three, for today's children is just a bag of snacks or a drink price.
The elementary school students were a little hesitant, worried that they would not be able to feed them if they bought them, but the vendors swore that they would be able to feed them well, as long as they fed the millet.
Parents are willing to buy it for their children when they hear that it is so cheap, because the children are clamoring to buy pets, so they bring their children to the dog market, cats and dogs are too expensive, it is better to buy a few chickens to fool around. Just a few minutes after Zhang Zi'an and the others got out of the car, several chicks had already been bought.
It was the first time for Xiaoxue to see the chicken seller, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she exclaimed in surprise: "Wow!
"Cute is cute, but the problem is that you can't feed it. Zhang Zi'an smiled helplessly, "I was also fooled when I was a child, and I bought two chickens with my pocket money, but I died the next day, and I was sad for a while." You see that these chicks are brightly colored, but they are all dyed - the fluff of the newborn chicks should be pale yellow, how can there be such a bright orange color?"
"Huh, the color of the dye?" Xiaoxue was happy, and when she heard these words, she suddenly poured cold water on her head.
"Yes, these vendors put a large flock of chicks in a container like a plastic basin or a plastic bucket, and pour industrial dyes into the container, and in order to color evenly and not fade, the dyes are often still hot, and then they are constantly stirred, and when they are dyed, they are poured out of the container and dried in the sun, and they become such dyed chicks. Zhang Zi'an explained.
Xiaoxue wrinkled her face, "It's so pitiful!"
She looked at the chick vendor again, her eyes flashing, as if she was thinking about something.
After a few seconds, she asked, "Can the dye still be washed?"
Zhang Zi'an guessed what she was thinking, and immediately dispelled her thoughts, "You don't plan to buy these chicks and wash them, they don't have long to live." The poison has already invaded their internal organs, and tomorrow, at most, the day after tomorrow, they will die, and you can't save them. It was a toxic industrial dye, the cheapest of the kind, and the vendors wore thick rubber gloves and gas masks themselves when they dyed them. β
"It's cruel!" Xiao Xue glared fiercely at the smiling vendor who was counting the money.
He thought that Xiaoxue wanted to buy chickens, and beckoned to her, motioning for her to come over.
A wave of parents and children happily left with dyed chicks, and after a while, another wave of parents came to the dog market with their children, attracted by the beautiful color chicks and stopped to watch, and it was only a matter of time before they paid for them.
Deng Jie shook her head and persuaded: "Don't be angry, child, in fact, think about it, even if these chicks don't come out of their shells, they are eaten as eggs, and they can hatch, and they have lived for a few more days......"
Xiaoxue knew that what Deng Jie said was right, logically speaking, it was right, but ...... I always feel that something is wrong.
Zhang Zi'an said slowly: "There is a saying that is very reasonable, there is no trade, there is no harm." β
Although the price of each chick is cheap, with such a high number of customers in the dog market, it is estimated that such a vendor can sell at least 100 chickens in a day, and the profit of each chicken is nearly two yuan, and the income is almost 200 yuan a day. Although it lacks morality, it is indeed much better than going to a restaurant to brush the dishes, and there is no technical content.
Parents who buy these chicks as pets for their children, most of them are also financially constrained people at the bottom of society, they may not know that these chicks do not live long, but spending two or three dollars can be exchanged for the child's happiness, when the child raises the chick to death, you can also justifiably refuse the child to buy other pets, why not?
The only ones who are hurt are the children, and they will feel sorry for the dead chicks, but they don't know that these chicks are destined to die at all, not that they raised them to die.
"Let's go, take a look inside. Zhang Zi'an took the lead.
Pegasus followed him.
Richard cowered in his hood, hurting the poor chicks.