A chess player.

This is the piece of the big banyan tree that sets up the stall, it should be an old friend with Zhao Banxian, no wonder as soon as he entered the store, he played chess with Zhao Banxian.

The fat boss stood up and shook my hand cordially, "Brother, you are amazing, I have heard Lao Zhao say it, you can call me Lao Zhang, I am fifty-five years old this year, born in January, Capricorn." ”

This old Zhang is quite trendy, he is in his fifties, and his mental head is almost the same as that in his forties.

He thinks of me as a fortune teller like Zhao Banxian.

I thought that our tattoo was going to be born, and as soon as it came up, I reported the date of birth, and even my zodiac sign was shaken out.

Tattoos and tattoos are only a minority unless there are special exceptions, and we are not fortune tellers, so we don't talk about this.

I smiled and said, "Lao Zhang..... You sit! Is it for a tattoo? Do you want to change your luck to help you do business, or do you want to do something? ”

"I want to help my luck, I've been so bad lately, damn, I don't want to talk about it, my store has suddenly suffered a catastrophe." Lao Zhang wiped his fat face and said, "Actually, Brother Cheng, in fact, we are old acquaintances." ”

I went to the water dispenser next to me and poured a glass of water, and when I heard this, I was stunned and turned my head: We knew each other before?

"Yes."

Lao Zhang smiled, wiped the hot sweat on his forehead, and said: You are a noble person who has forgotten everything, didn't I sell you the little fox before.

When I heard it, I remembered.

Isn't that the owner of the pet shop at the time?

He said that a farmer got a wild fox in the mountains and sold it to the fat owner of the pet shop, who negotiated the price at that time and built a cage for me.

I patted my head and said, "It turned out to be the owner of the pet store at the intersection of Qinghua Road next door." ”

If you want to say that his store, it is complete.

There are not only regular pets, but also foxes, cats and dogs, pet lizards, spiders, and snakes.

"Yes, yes, it's me, the business is not big, barely making ends meet, I can have a support when I'm old, pass the time, it's really funny." This old Zhang was very talkative, and asked me: How is the fox?

I said okay, it's the mascot in the store.

"That fox has spirituality, wild fairy." Lao Zhang laughed and said: You people in the yin industry know this better than me.

I'm pretty relaxed, too.

This old Zhang person looks good, and he can see his character when he bought a fox before.

I looked at them and said, "Why don't you finish this game and let me rest for a while?" I had just come back from a trip and it was too hot. ”

"Done!" Lao Zhang and Zhao Banxian continued to play chess.

I'm so hot.

It's dog days now, it's hot and stuffy, as soon as I go out, I sweat unconsciously and go out, don't ask me if the tattoo shop is not equipped with air conditioning, just install a hanging fan on the wall, I didn't have money before, but now I have changed stores.

I blew on the fan for a while, and the cold sweat slowly retracted, and the chess game was finished over there, just right.

I sat on a chair, blowing a fan, and asked, "So Lao Zhang, do you want to help your luck?" It's a tattoo, to be specific. ”

Lao Zhang told me that something strange happened in his store.

He runs a pet shop, and some of the pets in the store have stopped barking recently.

At first, the cat was not called Chun, and then the lizard, and the snake no longer stuck out its tongue, but then I looked at it and found that it was amazing: those cats, lizards, snakes, and tongues were all gone.

I said: What does it mean that the pet in your pet store has no tongue?

"It's just that the tongue is gone." Lao Zhang's answer to me was a little vague.

I thought about it for a moment and asked him, "What do you think of it?"

"Actually, I suspect that there is a pervert who sneaks into my store in the middle of the night and tortures the pets in my store." Lao Zhang asked me if I could smoke.

I made a gesture of please.

Lao Zhang shivered and lit a cigarette and shook the ashes, "Damn, Lao Tzu was a soldier, went to the countryside to be a educated youth, and opened a pet store when he was old, but he encountered this kind of thing..... I opened a shop, saw those stray cats and dogs, took care of some, gave them food, dealt with injuries, looked at those stray cats and dogs, and knew that people now have a lot of work pressure, especially love to abuse animals, and vent on animals. ”

I understand.

This modern life is fast-paced and stressful.

Xiao Rou abuses cats, and the second generation of dog-headed centipedes who abuse dogs.

I said, "Do you suspect that you are a psychopath, who secretly pried open the door of your shop in the middle of the night after you closed the shop and came home, went in to abuse the animals, and cut out their tongues?" ”

Lao Zhang sighed and didn't speak.

Fortunately, I was poor, so I could only live in the small attic of my own shop, and I could guard myself against thieves.

But how psychologically twisted is that person? In the middle of the night, he pried open the door of the pet store, pulled out the tongues of the small animals, and cut off their tongues with a knife in their pitiful eyes of dry and begging for mercy, which was to vent his anger on the weak.

I poured him a glass of water and said, "Lao Zhang, take a breath, don't worry."

"Can you not be in a hurry? The loss is too great! Lao Zhang cried with a sad face and said: I have a small business, and I don't recruit anyone to mess with anyone, so I want to guard a shop and spend my old age happily with small animals.

I sighed, this Lao Zhang is also an old man with a story, but he can't live in peace when he is old.

I said, "Then Lao Zhang, why did you wait until you were cut off so many tongues before you found out?"

"Alas!" Lao Zhang said: Because the man was smart, all the tongues of other animals were cut, and only the dog's tongue was left uncut.

Don't cut the dog's tongue?

I get it.

No wonder I didn't find it, because in most pet stores, dogs bark the most happily.

As soon as the shopkeeper enters the store every day, a group of dogs will be chattering, and other animals basically don't like to bark, and they are covered by the barking of dogs, so it is naturally difficult to detect.

Lao Zhang said that the second day felt wrong, and on the third day, he completely felt hairy, opened a cat's mouth, and found that the tongue was gone.

I said, "This is a bad nature, why do you think he cut his tongue?"

Lao Zhang said: "I think there are three possibilities, one is that the way of abusing the tongue is not easy to find, because it is abused, and it can't be called, second, using the tongue to do yinjutsu, and third, the tongue is delicious." ”

I smashed my mouth: the tongue is delicious?

"Let me tell you that, that pervert, I suspect that he cut his tongue and ate it, the tongue is very tender, for example, pig tongue and beef tongue are very expensive luxury dishes, how many animal tongues have to be cut off on a plate? It's an expensive dish that costs a lot of money. Lao Zhang said.

Zhao Banxian next to him couldn't help but speak: That's not right, lizards and snakes have long tongues, and they can indeed be eaten, and some people eat them, but the cat's tongue is not delicious.

I said, "Zhao Banxian, why is the cat's tongue not delicious?" Have you eaten it? ”

Before Zhao Banxian could answer me, Lao Zhang took the lead in speaking, saying, "Lao Zhao is right! I suspect that he cut the cat's tongue, not for eating, but for bathing and wiping the back. ”

I was confused.

With the tongue ... Taking a shower, wiping your back?

Zhao Banxian said: "Think about it, it may be true, using the cat's tongue to wipe the back and take a bath, this person may be a pervert." ”

From beginning to end, I didn't know what these two people were talking about, and I was too young to talk.

Zhao Banxian couldn't cry or laugh, and said, "You haven't ever had a cat, right?" ”

I said I hadn't.

When I grew up in the village, I used to raise local dogs, and my grandfather was very strict with me since I was a child, quite traditional, and he told me: Men don't keep cats, women don't raise dogs, so don't give me cats.

This time, Zhao Banxian became interested and said: "No wonder you don't understand, let me tell you, this cat's tongue is barbed, dense and dense barbs, so it's not delicious." ”

I said: Do cats have barbs on their tongues?

"Yes, you can look it up on the Internet and see what this barb looks like." Zhao Banxian said.

I'm not polite, this Lao Zhang is not an outsider, I opened the phone and took a look at the cat's tongue: dense white barbs, I can see that my dense phobia is a little guilty.

I think this cat is so cute and cute, and it has such a terrible tongue.

"Felines have barbs on their tongues, and the fierce tiger will get blurred when you lick you, but now domestic cats generally have light and heavy, and they are raised by people, and it will not hurt you if they lick people, and it will not hurt you, but if you encounter a cat that does not understand the severity of light, or if you provoke it, you can use your tongue to scrape a few layers of skin."

Zhao Banxian continued: "As for why the cat's tongue can be used to wipe its back? This is a perverted play of the ancients, the cat's tongue has a barb, you brush upside down, will hook off the meat, and along the brush? Those fine and dense barbs are like scratching the back, especially very comfortable, in ancient times, rich families, more like to use this tongue as a soap to wipe the back, along the rub, is a kind of enjoyment. ”

"Hahaha, Lao Zhao still knows a lot, I just wanted to talk about this." Lao Zhang laughed and said to me: "Young man, you have to learn some of this knowledge, you don't even understand that the cat's mouth has barbs, it's a shame." ”