The western suburbs of Lianhai City.

Cute pet home pet shop.

The pet store is quite large, and it is a small two-story building built by itself.

There is a storefront downstairs, people live upstairs, and there is a large yard behind the small building, with several simple sheds in the yard, and many cages are placed in the warehouses for pets.

Pet home wholesale and retail all kinds of pets, so the store turnover of pets is huge, the back of the warehouse is used to raise all kinds of pets, common cats and dogs, Dutch pigs, hamsters and corn snakes, turtles......

Usually, a warehouse in a shed keeps similar kinds of pets separately, such as hamsters and Dutch pigs will be kept together, various birds will be kept in one warehouse, cats and dogs will be kept together, and cold-blooded snakes, lizards and the like will be kept in one warehouse.

Sometimes there are too many types of pets, and they will also be temporarily mixed for a period of time.

The owner of the pet store is called Zhang Feng, a middle-aged man in his 40s, who runs the pet store with his wife Li Mei.

The couple usually live upstairs, and the backyard of the downstairs and small building is used to raise pets.

The two of them couldn't get busy, so they recruited an uncle surnamed Qian in his 70s from a nearby village, who was usually responsible for feeding the animals and preparing feed.

Uncle Qian's only son was not around, and his wife died early, leaving him alone, and the boss and his wife promised him to take care of food and housing when they recruited, so he opened a separate cabin in the backyard of the pet store, which was his dormitory.

In the middle of summer, the weather is hot during the day, and it is cool only in the morning and evening.

Uncle Qian got up early in the morning and began to clean the pet store, and then added food and water to the pets in each warehouse.

As soon as the pet shop opened, a young man came.

The boss came out to greet the guests, "What do you want to see?" Not to mention anything else, there are many types of pets, as long as you want to raise, we have them here. ”

"Do you have pandas?" Young people joked.

The boss replied very seriously, "Our cute pet home does not sell giant pandas, but we can help you contact the zoo to adopt giant pandas, which is not the same as what you raise." ”

The young man looked around the animal display area on the first floor and found that there were really a lot of pets here, so he asked, "I want to raise green monkeys, do you have them in your store?" ”

The boss was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted, "Green monkeys native to Africa? There are very few of them sold in our country. ”

"Well, I know, but I like the appearance of the green monkey with white hair, and I also heard from others that there are many types of pets in your cute pet home, so I came here, is there?"

"Yes, but there is no stock, if you confirm that you want to buy, you need to make a reservation, pay a deposit first, and come to pick it up in a few days."

"Buy, how to pay the deposit? Is it OK to swipe a card? ”

"Yes, how many do you want?"

The young man thought for a while and stretched out two fingers, "Set two first, one male and one female, not too big, preferably three or four months old." ”

The boss agreed again and again, and at the same time looked at the young man, thinking that he looked like he was just in his early 20s, with such high requirements and such a generous shot, it seemed that he was a pampered rich second generation.

The young man paid a deposit, left his phone number and left.

A few days later, in the early morning.

Old money got up early to clean as usual.

The sanitation was just halfway cleaned, and a small truck drove in front of the pet store.

The truck driver parked the car, opened the door and jumped down, shouting at the store, "Boss Zhang, the rat you ordered has arrived." ”

The boss and his wife heard the voice and walked out one after the other.

The truck driver walked around to the back of the car, opened the car door, and the smell of rat droppings came to his face.

"Boss Zhang, there are a total of 800 mice, all of them are alive, you come and count them."

Zhang Feng glanced into the carriage, turned around and shouted from the store, "Old Qian, vacate a place for the warehouse for the rats in the backyard, and come and move the rats after it is vacated." ”

Last night, Lao Qian received instructions from the boss to clean the warehouse for the rats in the backyard in advance, but he didn't expect the mice to be delivered early in the morning, and the old money hurriedly put the cleaned warehouse again, and hurriedly ran out to unload the rat cage from the truck.

The boss and his wife first counted the number of mice, and after the counting, they let the old money be moved to the backyard warehouse one by one.

This time, the rat was different from usual, not as round and cute as the Dutch pig, nor as elfty and eccentric as the hamster, and it was a breed that Lao Qian had never seen before.

Lao Qian asked the boss while moving the rat cage, "What kind of rat is this?" Haven't seen it before. ”

"Prairie dog rats, also called marmots, come from the northwest grasslands, look carefully, one is worth a lot of money."

Lao Qian was carrying the rats cage after cage, and the boss approached the truck driver and whispered in his ear, "Did the goods you brought last time arrive?" ”

The truck driver glanced at the co-pilot's position, "Here, two, you come over to see the goods." ”

The truck driver opened the door on the passenger side, and the seat of the car was covered with a black cloth, and when the black cloth was uncovered, it turned out to be two cages, each with a small monkey in the cage.

The monkey has no hair on its cheeks, and there is a circle of fluffy white hair around its face, which is very cute.

The truck driver whispered, "The African green monkey came from the waterway, and the price was as agreed before." ”

The boss Zhang Feng looked at the two little monkeys jumping around and smiled, "Okay, according to the previous price." ”

The boss took out a wad of bills from his trouser pocket and handed it to the truck driver, "Count." ”

"No, I believe you, what kind of friendship do we have." The truck driver directly put the money in his pocket, and continued to talk to Zhang Feng with a smile, "Boss Zhang, if you have such a job in the future, just look for me, I have a way, and I can get you anything you want." ”

The boss took out a cigarette and gave it to the truck driver, lit it at the same time, and the two called each other brothers, "That is, if it weren't for your way, how dare I brag in front of the guests." ”

"Isn't it just two monkeys, and I'll get you a few more."

"In the past two days, a guest has ordered a lion with me, can you help me get it?"

"Okay, wait for my news."

The boss and the truck driver discussed things, and Lao Qian moved all the rats in the car into the warehouse.

In the end, the boss handed the cage containing the monkey to Lao Qian and instructed, "Good life takes care of it, and a customer will come to pick up the goods today." ”

Lao Qian carried a cage in one hand, thinking that he hadn't taken care of the monkeys since he came to work in the pet store, and this was the first time he encountered it, and he didn't know which warehouse to put it in first, so he asked the boss, "Where do you put these two monkeys first?" ”

"Let's put it with the rats that came with me first, anyway, someone will come to pick up the goods today, remember to feed the monkeys, put two more apples, don't go hungry."