Shanhai Pet Shop

The singing of the sharks in the North Sea confuses people's hearts

The cry of the squid brings floods

鹸鵌 Weaves nightmares out of birdsong

cover your ears

Don't listen to the ravings of alien beasts

——"Hazard Response Handbook: Mountain and Sea Volume"

The tinkling marimba was mixed with "Wu Hao" pronounced in standard Mandarin. For a man, his slightly slender arms protruded from the fluffy quilt and groped around on the bedside table.

"Hey."

Ye Yao sat up from the bed with his forehead propped up, his hair was disheveled, blown like a round hedgehog, he was a little slumped, and there were two deep black and blue marks under his eyes.

"Yaozi? Where are you? I've been @你 several times on WeChat, why didn't you reply once? Don't you read WeChat?"

When he came up, he asked all over his head and covered his face, so that his brain, which was still on the verge of chaos, was completely awake.

If you look for him on WeChat, you will definitely not be able to find him. Ye Yao has a habit that is neither good nor bad. He does not turn off his phone when he sleeps. Of course, most young and middle-aged people in the same age group as him do not have this habit. Get used to it, because you never know when there is something wrong with the company, your classmates, or your counselor.

Although WeChat is in power these days, if it doesn’t work, you can still call people on QQ, but something happened, and it’s not just a phone call. Who knows if you’re using oppo or Xiaomi, on WeChat @personalphonewillhave Interface prompt?

Ye Yao is the type of person who likes diving very much. Generally, there is a reminder on WeChat and QQ. He never responds, either he doesn’t see it, or he is too lazy to return it. Answering a message means that I am still alive, but it is just a way of answering such as "OK", "Oh" and "Got it".

The kind that can drive people crazy.

For someone like him, it doesn't seem to make any difference whether you can find him on WeChat or not. Before going to bed at night, he naturally puts his phone into airplane mode with peace of mind.

Whether it is a computer or a mobile phone or a TV screen, as long as it is turned on, there will be radiation. The health care official account will post "Top Ten Modern Cancer Factors" and other sensational articles full of gimmicks. Many middle-aged and elderly women still Believing it to be true, the children turned black on the computer screen and pretended to ask them to wear anti-radiation glasses.

This is similar to the anti-myopia sugar in the 80s.

Although Ye Yao didn't believe those nagging articles, he kept it in his heart when he took a look at it, thinking, wouldn't there be waves on the iPhone?Maybe you can live an extra hour by flying and sleeping at night?So I developed a good habit of turning on the airplane mode.

He said, "Still at home, what?"

"What time are you still at home?"

Wu Hao was almost mad at him.

"Did you forget what day it is today? You said you were going out for a drink two days ago, and you forgot everything?"

Ye Yao said: "It's not that we'll meet at the food stall in Nanjing at 12 o'clock, the first ones will go to the line to get their numbers."

Wu Hao said, "What time do you think it is now?"

Ye Yao moved the phone away from his ear, and 12:31 was hung on the interface brightly, as if mocking his statement of 12 o'clock just now, he blurted out: "Fuck, it's already 12:[-]?"

Only then did Wu Hao understand, and he said, "You're sleepy, you!"

This time he became Ye Yao with a guilty conscience, and he said, "Wait, I'll be right back."

Wu Hao uttered a series of angry curses on the other end of the phone. The time of 12 o'clock was originally delicate, and it was set at this time because he was afraid that everyone would not be able to wake up early in the morning, but he never expected that the most punctual time is usually One of them even slept until 12:30.

"Did you go dark last night or just go out and have fun..."

Without saying a word, Ye Yao cut off the phone directly.

As soon as he turned off the airplane mode, he saw that both QQ and WeChat had 99+ unread messages displayed on the screen. He was terrified to see this number.

He rushed into the bathroom like a whirlwind, and then rushed out the door like a wind, with only a mobile phone and a Jinling Tong card on him.

At 12:53, he rushed to the 7th floor of Deji, and he was still waiting at the gate of the Nanjing food stall.

Ye Yao breathed a sigh of relief, then walked to the door of a group of people and said, "Sorry, sorry."

At that time, Cao Chaochao said unequivocally: "Apologizing is useful, what do you want the police to do?"

Zheng Tao spat and said, "Fuck, fuck, what are you talking about, the ones from 45 are much better than the ones from 53."

Cao Chaochao curled his lips and fell silent.

God knows how there are parents in this world who give their children such difficult names. China has a vast land and abundant resources, and people in some dialect areas can't tell the difference between c and ch. After calling it for the first year, Cao Chaochao's name became Cao. Fuck it.

It sounds like a curse, but everyone calls him that.

There are only a few men in the Faculty of Arts. This year, there are only 11 men in total, 6 of them are in their class, and they are in the same dormitory. The relationship cannot be said to be bad.

This situation is actually quite rare. You must know that men who study literature have a little more emotional intelligence than men who major in science and engineering, but they are also prone to freaks. In the previous class, the coquettish chickens in the first dormitory strangled you to death, which was much more dramatic than the girls' dormitory.

But Ye Yao’s dormitory is quite lucky, everyone is quite manly, they get together to study, play games, play basketball and participate in sports, it seems that there is not much difference from engineering men, and the relationship in the dormitory is also quite harmonious, it’s like burning Gao Xiang's good Chinese roommate.

In particular, most of them are locals, or they stayed in Nanjing after graduation. Although there is a gap between the rich and the poor, no one is so poor that they can't get rid of it at home.

That's why we can come out to eat Nanjing food stalls together.

Wu Hao waved vigorously at them beside Miss Calling and said, "It's our time, come in!"

Ye Yao has a good relationship with Cao Cao Cao, but if it is true, he has the best relationship with Wu Hao.

Their relationship can be traced upwards, they are probably good brothers who wear a pair of pants, a primary school, a middle school, high school classmate, university bedmate, there are not many in the whole country, and it is rare to co-produce, although occasionally there will be need to send Moments The plastic brotherhood incident, of course, was all sent by Wu Hao. Ye Yao himself never leaked private information in the circle of friends, but all in all their relationship is not bad.

There were a few bottles of Tsingtao beer on the table, chattering all over the place, all about fucking things like work and graduate school.

Among them, Wu Hao was the only one who had good grades and ability, and was admitted to Nantah University as a graduate student in literature and art. Although this is not uncommon in their university, it was quite unusual for a man to be admitted. Everyone booed and asked him what happened to Nantah University Like, is it really "a strong academic atmosphere", of course, what is more important is whether the girls there are good-looking or ugly.

Wu Hao's family is rich, bold in action, good-looking, and looks different from Ye Yao, and has always been quite popular in their nunnery.

Wu Hao waved his hand and made a funny expression like "please forgive me", then turned his head and asked Ye Yao: "How is your work?"

"How else can it be?"

He rolled his eyes: "I visited the Confucius Temple yesterday, and it turned out to be a pet shop."

Everyone laughed at the time. They knew that Ye Yao was going to inherit the "family property" before, and congratulated him on not having to become a dog in the workplace like themselves and others. They didn't expect it to be a pet shop.

"The pet store is good."

Wu Hao winked.

"I'm not talking about Yaozi, you just wear an apron, hold a kitten and a puppy, take pictures, and then post them on Weibo Moments. If you operate again, you won't have to worry about becoming a new generation of Internet celebrities."

Ye Yao laughed dryly, thinking that he was still a kitten and puppy, holding a ball python to take pictures and scaring all the girls to death.

For some reason, there were many animals in the pet store, but the Senegal ball python was the only one that left an impression on him.

Even thinking day by day and dreaming at night.

Thinking of the huge boa constrictor in his dream last night, he shuddered a little.

Forget it, anyway, Deji is only one stop away from the Confucius Temple, so let's go and have a look after dinner.

The shop that I couldn't find after wandering around for an hour the day before was finally unveiled, and I huddled up in a corner of the street aggrievedly. How could I not find the store yesterday.

He was not surprised to find that the door of the store was not locked, and it was obviously still open today. Although Qiongqi ran away suddenly yesterday, he also knew to come back to feed the pets.

Although he didn't see the feed in the store at all.

Ye Yao pushed open the door, and asked politely, "Is anyone there?"

No one answered him.

He pushed open the door.

Compared with yesterday, the mysterious atmosphere in Shanhai Pet Store has not diminished. Even on a sunny day at noon, there is still cool air flowing in the one-way closed space.

Ye Yao lifted the curtain and glanced at the dog lying quietly in the cage. To be honest, it really didn't look like a dog.

Qiongqi is not there.

He walked to the ecological box containing the Senegalese ball python, and knocked on the box. The pet snake seemed to sense Ye Yao's existence, swinging its cold and slippery body, and swam towards the edge.

"Was it you last night?"

A crazy dialogue unfolds between a man and a snake.

He crouched down, his knees touching the cool marble floor.

Ye Yao said: "You said you want me to liberate you."

As soon as these three words were uttered, the atmosphere in the cramped space changed. The cat pricked up its ears, the dog sniffed its nose anxiously, and those lizard-like cold-blooded animals that were also crawling in the eco-box Rolled his eyes in a very human way.

release.

It's a magic word.

The ball python slowly raised its upper limbs.

Only then did Ye Yao discover that this ball python is undoubtedly longer, or even taller, than its counterparts with a length of 1 to 1.5 meters. It is about 2 meters long. When it props up its upper body, it is flat. The snake head can even touch the top glass surface of the eco-box.

What does it want to do?

Does it really want to squeeze its way out of the hole left by the biobox?

Ye Yao was bewitched by some kind of mystery. His fingers had already touched the glass surface, and there was a small mechanism on his hand. Once he pressed the button, the glass surface would become movable.

He was able to release the ball python.

"What are you doing?"

Qiongqi's voice exploded in his ears like thunder.

Ye Yao raised his head suddenly and saw the man in the apron walking to him in three steps in two steps.

But this time, Qiongqi didn't have the charizard-like angry expression that Ye Yao saw yesterday. His eyebrows were frowned and almost knotted. Focus on his hands.

More precisely, it was his hand near the biobox button.

Ye Yao said: "I didn't want to do anything."

He has regained his composure: "What did you feed this ball python? It is much larger than its peers. I guess you feed it young mice or birds? But I don't know from the ecology. Do you see blood on the sand grains at the bottom of the box, or did you use a syringe to push the baby mouse directly into its abdominal cavity?"

Qiongqi's face took on an impatient expression again, as if he was saying, does it have anything to do with you what I feed him?Ye Yao already felt Qiongqi's unhappiness, so he changed the subject.

"I thought about it after I left yesterday. You are the clerk of this pet shop, and I guess that according to grandpa's financial resources, you should be the only one. Considering that I am not going to directly overthrow this shop, we should find This is an opportunity to have a good chat, you always have to tell me how high the turnover is here and how much money is usually needed to maintain it, right?"

Qiongqi rolled his eyes, and he said: "Okay, if you really want to know, we can find a time to chat."

He actually let go, which made Ye Yao very excited.

"how about tomorrow?"

He said: "Find a Starbucks, or any coffee shop, and we can chat there all day."

Qiongqi said: "The Starbucks in Confucius Temple will do. I have time all afternoon."

Ye Yao said: "Then it will be three o'clock in the afternoon."

He was in a good mood, for the rare development, but said nothing about his dream, about the conversation between him and the ball python.

Qiongqi said: "You can go."

His attitude has always been tough and very bad, but this time, perhaps because of the promise that the two of them could talk together, Ye Yao didn't take his attitude into consideration.

"We can leave a mobile phone number with each other, and add WeChat friends."

Qiongqi uttered a loud tut with the tip of his tongue, and then took out his mobile phone.

Like Ye Yao, it is iPhone7.

"Is the nose really bad?"

Qiongqi reluctantly nodded and said, "It's me."

"Pills, pills?"

He said with disgust: "This name is really nothing new."

Ye Yaoxin said, that's because your name is too innovative, and why is it a nose?

But no matter what, today is quite a complete day for him, at least compared with yesterday when he hit a wall everywhere, today is much better. When he walked out of Shanhai Pet Shop, he even felt that the sun in the sky became brighter , the heat surging in the air just made him feel too warm.

Not a bad day.

"liberation?"

The zippo made a clicking sound, and a Marlboro cigarette was caught between Qiongqi's fingers.

He didn't even bother to smoke Zhonghua.

[I heard humans say liberation]

The listless dog opened its mouth.

[He was abnormal yesterday, I wonder what he did to that human]

"is it?"

Qiongqi bent down and looked at the ball python with his overly dark pupils, while the pet snake just vomited the snake letter innocently in the ecological box.

"Whatever you do, it's good to teach that man a lesson, but you think he can set you free?"

He exhaled a puff of smoke, and the ball python could only see a cloud of smoke.

"Did you think too highly of him?"