Zhang Zi'an opened the roller shutter door and led Zhan Tian back to the store.

The elves had already woken up, and Fina was lying on the cat's climbing frame, and when she saw him empty-handed, she asked unhappily, "What about the breakfast in the main palace?

"Wait a minute, it's too early, it's not done yet. In order to avoid listening to it any longer, Zhang Zi'an did not take off his coat, picked up a big broom and a shovel and went out again to clear the snow and ice in front of the store.

Wang Qian and Li Kun are not here today, and all the cleaning work must be completed by him alone. The characteristics of pet stores are that even if they are not open for business during the holidays, the cat litter must be replaced, the dog poop must be shoveled, and the room must be disinfected and sterilized, and if these heavy things are done, why not simply continue to open for business and make money?

That's what Zhang Zi'an planned, anyway, there is no arrangement, it will open as usual today, and if there are customers, it will be profitable.

The passenger flow on the sidewalk at the entrance is not small, the snow is trampled very solidly during the day, slightly melted, and freezes at night, and it cannot be swept clean by sweeping alone, and many times it is necessary to use an iron shovel to smash and shovel.

Zhang Zi'an worked very hard, not because he wanted to be a model citizen, but in case an old man and an old lady slipped and fell in front of his store, then he would not be able to compensate for selling his pants.

As he was doing it, a slender figure passed by him and walked straight into the pet shop, which was currently unoccupied.

Zhang Zi'an was a little puzzled, and said that on the first day of the new year, there were customers who came to the door so early?

However, before he could rejoice, the figure pushed the door out of the store again, and it took no more than 10 seconds for him to enter and exit, and Zhang Zi'an, who looked up, only saw the back of a girl wearing a white short down jacket and blue jeans hurrying away to the north.

Probably a mistake?

He didn't care, and there were people who occasionally found the wrong place, and continued to shovel snow and remove ice.

After a while, he returned to the store with a big broom and a shovel, and then cleaned up the cat litter and dog poop as usual, ready to take it outside, and throw it away when the sanitation workers came. As he passed by the cash register, he seemed to notice something out of the corner of his eye, and then stepped back.

There was a piece of paper taped behind the computer screen at the cash register, and when he took it down, he saw another dog search notice, exactly the same one he saw on the lamppost.

In this way, the girl who entered the store just now is the owner? Looking for a dog and finding a pet store, it is really a rush to the doctor.

He walked out of the store with a garbage bag and stacked it at a designated place outside the store, at this moment, a horn sounded softly, and Sun Xiaomeng drove the car to stop on the side of the road.

"Yo, Happy New Year!" Zhang Zi'an raised his hand to greet him.

Sun Xiaomeng rolled down the car window, his eyes did not look at his face, but stared at the paper in his hand, "Happy New Year, what is that piece of paper you are holding?"

"This? You said it's interesting, the dog search notices have been sent to the pet store. Zhang Zi'an pinched the paper and let her read it.

Sun Xiaomeng took the paper, frowned and said to himself: "I haven't found it yet......"

Zhang Zi'an seemed to know this when he heard her tone, and his curiosity became aroused, so he asked, "Did you also go to your clinic to post a notice?"

Sun Xiaomeng pointed to the phone number on the notice and said: "She is a regular customer in my store, and she often brings her dog to my store for vaccinations and physical examinations...... Tuan Tuan's sterilization surgery was also done in my shop. Seeing her dog lost and looking for a dog made me feel very uncomfortable. ”

"Oh, no wonder. ”

It turned out to be Sun Xiaomeng's acquaintance, and Zhang Zian expressed his understanding.

"It seems that a lot of dogs have been lost recently, and I have lost two or three dogs in my clinic who come for regular check-ups. She handed the notice to Zhang Zi'an again.

"So many?" Zhang Zi'an was deeply surprised, her clinic was quite small, but two or three dogs could be lost in a short period of time, which was really a lot for the nearby urban area.

He thought for a while, relayed to her what Aunt Li said about dog trapping, and then asked, "Do you think it's possible?

Sun Xiaomeng thought seriously for a while and replied: "It is true that there are few people in the city who take dogs, but you see, it will be the Spring Festival in a short time, and many people are short of money at this time, and they may have a bad idea." Now that it's cold, many people wear masks when they go out, and even if they are photographed by surveillance, there is no problem, so naturally some people take risks. Whether these dogs are sold or sold to dog meat restaurants, they are worth a lot of money. ”

Zhang Zi'an's eyes glanced at the pedestrians, and indeed, as she said, at least five or six out of ten people wore masks around scarves — it's strange to wear masks in summer, but it's different in winter, especially now that many people wear masks to prevent smog.

"I think it's more profitable to return things to their original owners. He pointed to the 10,000 yuan honorarium on the notice and smiled.

"People aren't so stupid, they take the risk of giving you back your dog, who knows if they will receive a reward or be beaten violently......"

Jokes are jokes, Zhang Zian also knows that no one will do such a stupid thing.

"Today's New Year's Day, your clinic is not closed?" he asked.

She looked regretful, "I was going to rest...... By the way, you should be quite idle today, right? The girl who posted the notice should be waiting for me at the clinic now, and want to ask me to help her with her ideas, or you will come with me? You have a lot of ideas in this area, so you should think of it as a good deed. ”

Zhang Zi'an: "...... You think I'm idle?"

"Like!" she replied succinctly.

But it was really idle, Zhang Zi'an was also a little curious about this, so he pulled down the roller shutter door and locked it, sat in the co-pilot seat, and came to the clinic with her.

The girl in the white down jacket and blue jeans just now was really waiting at the door of the clinic, she put her hands in her pockets and kept looking around, maybe waiting for Sun Xiaomeng's arrival, or maybe hoping to see her dog.

"Sister Xiaomeng!"

Seeing Sun Xiaomeng getting out of the car, she hurried to catch up, and then noticed Zhang Zi'an who got out of the car together, and felt that he was a little familiar......

Sun Xiaomeng took out the key to open the door and introduced: "This is Ning Lan, my customer and friend. This is Zhang Zi'an, you went to his pet store just now to post a notice, didn't you see him?"

Ning Lan then remembered that she saw that the pet store was open but there was no one, and she still wondered in her heart, but she regarded him as a street sweeper......

"I'm sorry, I barely slept last night, and now my mind is confused, and I didn't notice you just now. She said to Zhang Zi'an apologetically.

Zhang Zi'an noticed that the dark circles around her eye sockets were quite obvious, and knew that she was not lying, and it seemed that she was exhausted in order to find the dog.

"It's okay, I was clearing the snow and you didn't know I was the owner...... But I want to ask, why do you want to come to the pet store to post a notice when you are looking for a dog?" he asked curiously.

"Well...... she was very embarrassed, glanced at Sun Xiaomeng, and said hesitantly: "I was thinking, if someone picks up my dog, maybe it will be sold to a pet store...... I went to other pet stores to post it before, but people didn't let me post it, and there was no one in your store at the time, I wanted to go in to find out if there was a dog for me, but when I thought about it, it wasn't good, so I quickly ran out after posting the notice......"

"I remember your dog was 3 years old, and I don't have that big dog in my store. Zhang Zi'an proved his innocence.

Sun Xiaomeng pushed open the door of the clinic and signaled, "Don't freeze outside, come in and talk." ”

Ning Lan and Zhang Zi'an followed her into the clinic one after another, and he immediately saw the same notice posted on the cash register.

Nurse Long Xian is not here, so she probably has a holiday.

Sun Xiaomeng invited them into the office, turned on the electric heater, took off his coat, and introduced Ning Lan again: "You can explain the situation to him in detail again, he has a lot of ideas in this regard, and he may be able to help - don't look at him as opening a pet shop, even the captain of our city criminal police team owes him favors." ”

Zhang Zi'an pondered for a long time, but he didn't know whether this sentence was praising him or belittling him......

Ning Lan was immediately impressed by him, and hope was rekindled in his heart. Since her Tuan Tuan was lost, her parents sighed and wiped their tears all day long, she was worried that her parents were sad, and she was looking everywhere in the neighborhood these days, but there were no clues at all, and it had reached the point of rushing to the doctor, no matter who it was, as long as she could help.

She cleared her throat and explained the story in detail from the beginning.

Ning Lan's parents are teachers at Binhai University and have retired, and she is also a graduate student at Binhai University, living at home instead of a dormitory. Tuan Tuan is a not very pure Samoyed, very affectionate, whether it is an old man or a child, it never opens its mouth to bite, not even shouts loudly, and the old people and children in the courtyard also like it. After a long time, she didn't have to hold it with a rope, because she felt that it was pitiful to be held.

That day, she walked the dog as usual. During the winter vacation, she walked around with the group while swiping the WeChat group to discuss the plans and arrangements for the holiday with her classmates.

As he walked, a stray cat jumped over beside him, and Tuan Tuan chased after it excitedly - it was purely for fun, and had no intention of harming the stray cat, Ning Lan emphasized.

Zhang Zi'an remembered the process of going to Coastal University to capture Richard, and there were indeed many stray cats near the university, and all of them were not afraid of people, because students and faculty would always feed them.

Ning Lan said that Tuan Tuan had also chased cats before, of course he couldn't catch up, cats were too flexible, Tuan Tuan would run back by himself if he was lost, or stand in place and wait for her to pass. She had just typed half a message at the time, and when she saw that Tuan Tuan was chasing the cat again, she absentmindedly called it twice to let it come back. She sent out the message, saw that Tuan Tuan had really lost the cat again, and stopped ignorantly at the corner of a building and waited for her to pass.

Ning Lan walked over unhurriedly, glancing down at her phone from time to time, waiting for her classmates' responses.

Speaking of which, Ning Lan recalled that Tuan Tuan was originally waiting for her around the corner, but after a while, as if attracted by something, he tilted his head to look at the other side of the corner, and then walked around the corner.

At that time, Ning Lan called it twice, but still didn't think anything would happen, just quickened her pace slightly, but when she reached the corner, she completely lost its trace—it disappeared without warning as if it had evaporated from the world.

She couldn't find Tuan Tuan, and was a little nervous, but the long-term comfort made her not think about the worst, or dare not think about the bad, thinking that Tuan Tuan had gone into the hallway or hid behind the garbage can. She searched the area, but never found a shadow of Tuan Tuan, and then she was completely panicked.

After looking for half an hour, it was getting dark, Ning Lan took a fluke and called home to ask if Tuan Tuan had gone home by himself. When my mother answered the phone, she was surprised and said no, didn't Tuan Tuan go for a walk with you?

"I should have calmed down. Ning Lan covered her face with her hands and sighed, "I should have told my parents that Tuan Tuan was borrowed to play at a friend's house for a few days, so that at least the old couple wouldn't be so sad......

Sun Xiaomeng patted her on the shoulder and comforted: "Tuan Tuan may not have an accident, it's too late to regret it now, you can finish the matter first." ”

Ning Lan wiped the corners of her eyes and continued to speak in a nasal voice.

After her parents knew that Tuan Tuan was lost, they rarely scolded her for being a bloody dog, scolding her for why she always had to play with her mobile phone even when walking her dog. She knew that she was wrong, and her parents were angry, so she didn't dare to talk back. After scolding, the old couple put on their clothes and came out with flashlights to help her find them.

On a cold day, they found it until eight o'clock in the evening, searched all the vicinity of the family home, their faces were frozen blue, and their voices were hoarse, but they still didn't find Tuan Tuan.

It was only at this time that they had the idea that "Tuan Tuan may not be able to get it back" for the first time.

Under Ning Lan's hard persuasion, they returned home for the time being. His parents are retired faculty members of Binhai University, and he knows many people in the family home, so he calls around to ask people to help find them, while Ning Lan posts on Weibo, posts on Moments, and finds some public accounts on the Internet to help find lost dogs, and prints a notice to find a dog, and posts it everywhere the next morning.

Her parents stayed at home with their mobile phones and other calls, and occasionally someone called to say that they saw a similar dog, but when they asked carefully, they knew that it was not their Tuantuan. Again and again, the mother, who was already in a bad heart, was bedridden due to physical discomfort......

Two days have passed, and there is no news of Tuan Tuan, and the probability of recovery is getting lower and lower. Ning Lan had already regretted it for a long time, she tried to tell her parents that if she really couldn't find it, she would buy another one, but they didn't want to live or die, so they wanted to be together...... She is not like this, even if she buys another dog, she is still worried about Tuan Tuan's safety.

"Didn't you look for security guards to watch the surveillance?" Zhang Zi'an interjected.

"I found it, the family home is a relatively old community, although some surveillance cameras have been installed recently, but there are many dead ends. Ning Lan explained.

When she finished, she sobbed under her breath.

Sun Xiaomeng comforted her a few words, took out her mobile phone and said, "Look at this." ”

Zhang Zi'an and Ning Lan leaned over to take a look, and on the screen was a message sent by a customer surnamed Li to Sun Xiaomeng, the time was last night, and the content of the message was: Woo woo ~ Dr. Sun, my Maomao is gone, and it seems that someone stole it from the surveillance, if you meet a dog that looks similar to Maomao, please be sure to contact me as soon as possible.

Then there is another message, sent by a customer surnamed Qian, the time is more than 6 o'clock this morning, that is, less than two hours ago, the content of the message is: Dr. Sun, my little girl is lost, I am looking for it, cancel the appointment in the morning, I am sorry to trouble you.

Zhang Zi'an gasped, looking at it like this, it is estimated that there is a gang of dogs operating nearby......