Chapter 125: Florist Helper
"Oops! I forgot the red roses in the car!" exclaimed Li Yao as soon as she walked into her flower shop.
She hurriedly put all kinds of flowers in her arms on the ground, and rushed out to chase the taxi, only to see a big black cat with a large bag of red roses in its mouth and a few bamboo flower baskets following behind with one paw.
It put down its things and immediately got busy, first put the fresh flowers in the refrigerator to keep them fresh, then put some of the flowers that were already in bloom in the bucket for sale, and after sorting out the vases on the shelves, it grabbed the basket in the store and began to arrange the flower baskets.
It stood on its hind legs, and its two front paws were still as busy as a human hand, picking flowers, pruning branches and leaves, and sweeping clean, and it was done with its hands and feet in a few moments. At this moment a customer walked into the store, and he immediately jumped on a chair, curled up in a ball, and pretended to be asleep.
"Wow, boss, this famous breeding cat you have is so strong and big. β
"Well, yes, yes. β
"Wow, this flower basket is so beautiful, the proprietress is really ingenious, I want this. β
"Well, hehe, where, actually...... One hundred and ninety-nine dollars, thank you. β
As soon as the customer walked out of the flower shop, the black cat jumped out of the chair and quickly went to set up a flower basket for sale.
"Black Bean, you're amazing, otherwise, I'm no longer recruiting workers, and you'll stay in my store and help me work, okay?"
Li Yao hung up such a sign at the door of the flower shop: "One recruiter of the flower shop of the flower shop, female, regardless of age and race", this sentence casts a spell and does a special treatment, only monsters can see it. Li Yao brought in the recruitment sign and asked Black Beans in a stammering manner.
The woman who had been working in Li Yao's shop hurried back to her hometown because her father was sick some time ago, which made Li Yao suddenly in a hurry.
She couldn't find a helper, and she couldn't recruit anyone, so she had to temporarily grab a friend around her to help, Jin Hotaru and Yan'er only came to help for one day, Yan'er almost caused a fire in the store, the flowers in the store were almost all scorched, and it also ate a customer.
Ji Ao was even more unreliable, and after only coming to help for less than twenty minutes, the two female customers were soaked away by him, and they came back after they left together, and they also took more than 200 roses of various colors in the store without giving money.
Lu Qing came to help for a few hours in the afternoon, and the hospital called her one after another to beg her to go back to rescue the patient, and finally Lu Qing could only leave apologetically; Xiao Liuzi came to stand for a long time, not a single flower was sold, and the money box in the store was stolen.
Hai Liqing came to work on her own recommendation, she is a good clerk, not only diligent and dexterous but also very good at entertaining guests, but the cost of hiring her is too high, she is particularly afraid of Jin Ying, every time Jin Ying comes to pick up Li Yao, the store is inevitably restless, and it is also a big loss.
In the end, Li Yao had no choice but to temporarily hire Lu Weima's apprentice, a cat demon named Black Bean.
Black Bean has just become a demon for less than a year and can't transform into a human form, but the salary it asks for is super low: it only needs to pack three meals a day plus six yuan of wages, it is not only obedient but also steady, if it damages anything in the store, you can also let Yan'er intimidate its guardian demon deer for compensation for horses.
Li Yao held this idea and asked the black bean to give it a try, the worst plan was that it would not do anything, but he didn't expect the ability of the black bean to be beyond Li Yao's expectations, and a few days later, it turned out to be better than Jin Ying and Ji Ao.
Although Black Bean is only a cat demon, it has a good artistic talent, it can put flower baskets in a beautiful shape, and it is always the fastest selling.
Black Beans especially likes to be tidy, it cleans up the store, is it afraid that it will scare customers to death when it speaks, and it can do all the work in the store by itself.
"How about black beans? If you do it with me for a long time, you can change it to six meals a day, which is already the same treatment as Yan'er, the salary is fifteen yuan, and Jin Ying will also teach you spells." Li Yao tried her best to win over.
Heidou sat upright, nodded respectfully to her, and said, "I'm honored to be complimented by you, but I still have to discuss this matter with the tutor before I can reply to you." β
"Wow, Black Bean is so polite! You're so much stronger than our little overlord Yan'er, I really want it to learn from you. Li Yao couldn't help but hold the black bean in her arms and kiss it hard.
"Whoβwho's better than me??βCome out of here, come out and fight it alone!" Flame screamed and rushed in.
As soon as it entered the store, it angrily slapped off a few vases and fell to the ground and shattered, and raised a claw to knock down a bucket, and the water flowed to the ground, and the feathers on its body burned with flames, constantly searching for targets in the store.
"Hey, Death Flame, you're here again to wreak havoc!" Li Yao angrily pounced on it to stop it.
"Hmph, Li Yao, what about that guy who brags better than me, hand it over immediately, I warn you, it won't do you any good to harbor it!" Yan'er screamed and threatened.
Seeing that Jin Ying and Yan'er had already come to pick up Li Yao, Black Bean knew that it was time to get off work, so he walked outside the store.
"Black Bean, you also live in Taoyuan Community, right? I'll take you back with me?" Jin Ying kindly called it.
"Thank you, Senior Jin, I'm going to help out at Senior Brother Six's farm now, so I won't go back yet. It paused and bowed deeply to the golden firefly as it spoke.
Looking at the back of Black Bean's departure, Li Yao sighed deeply: "Black Bean is capable, polite, and ambitious...... Alas, such a good cat was picked up by that old deer for nothing! That old guy is simply cruelly exploiting black beans, it is better to let black beans come to our house!"
"I'm against it! I resolutely oppose having pets at home! I absolutely don't agree! If you dare to raise them, I'll eat them!" Yan'er turned the flower shop upside down, and found no enemy, it had just quieted down, and when it heard Li Yao's words, it became noisy again.
"Okay, okay, don't make any noise, with your Yan'er here, our family doesn't dare to have pets," Jin Ying comforted it, "Go home." β
"Come home and cook! I'm going to eat braised pork. β
Heidou, who had been standing at the intersection of the traffic light, looked at Li Yao and Jin Yingyan'er and they got into the car with a smile, which seemed to be a very happy family of three, which made Heidou feel envious.
If you want to become a monster like them, you have to cultivate for hundreds of years, at least you have to learn to become a human first. Now Black Bean doesn't fantasize about those things that are too far away, but just follows the master's instructions every day and cultivates hard.
Not so long ago, I had a warm home...... The experience of being abandoned by its owner was so painful that it told itself not to think about it anymore, when it was still a simple cat......
Black Bean shook his head vigorously, trying to get those memories out of his mind.
"Black beans, is it black bean......s?" suddenly a voice called tentatively.
Black Bean's heart "fluttered!" What a familiar voice, it turned its head sharply and saw a group of elementary school students standing not far away. One of them squatted on the ground and waved to himself: "Black beans, is it black beans? Why are you here? I've been looking for you, are you my black bean?"
Black Bean looked at him excitedly, it turned out to be the little owner who loved it the most before, its tears burst out of its eyes, and then the red light at the intersection turned on, the vehicle stopped, and Black Bean immediately ran to the opposite intersection in the crowd crossing the road, ignoring him.
"Look, look, the cat is crossing the street!", and Black Bean stopped paying attention to the child who had been chasing after him and calling for it.
The group of elementary school students gathered together and pointed to the back of the black cat and chattered: "It's amazing, it's the first time I've seen a cat wait for a traffic light to cross the road by itself." β
"This cat is so smart, it should be raised by a circus, right?"
"Xiaoyu, do you know that cat?"
"It looks too much like our black beans, but it shouldn't be, a few years ago our family moved to a place where pets can't be kept, and my mom sent black beans to the countryside...... Poor black bean, it won't catch mice, it's going to starve......" The more the child talked, the more sad he became.
He stood there looking at the black cat that had gone away, and remembered the cat that had belonged to him, with whom he lived like a little brother, how was it in the country?
"He was already in elementary school, and he was bullied in kindergarten, but now he seems to have a lot of friends...... After all, it's been years. Black Bean stepped out of the green belt and stared at the group of elementary school students walking away across the road.
"Hmph! I can't trust humans anymore!" it remembered what it was going to do, snorted disdainfully, and turned and ran off to the outskirts.
"Look, it's the big black cat again. β
"yes, is it going to cross the street on its own again?"
"Why don't we run over and catch it? Such a clever cat must be very easy to raise." β
"No! I'm not going to catch it!"
"It's not your cat anyway...... By the way, didn't you say it looks a lot like your black beans? We're going to catch it for you now and give it to you to take home to raise, okay?"
"Thank you, no need, no pets are allowed in the place where we live, otherwise the black beans don't have to be given away. β
"So is my family. β
"Me too. β
"Then it's useless to catch it, everyone can't raise it. β
"Actually, I would love to have a little pug. β
"I want to raise bunnies. β
"I want to raise scorpions. β
"When I grow up and earn money, I will definitely live in a house where I can have pets. β