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"Money money money...we like money...get rich get rich get rich...we like get rich..."

When the phone rang, Ming Xia was squeezing hamsters under the maze-like cat climbing frame with both hands and feet.A few big cats and kittens on top of the head jumped up and down excitedly, as if they had eaten catnip.I don't know if I'm cheering him on, or cheering on those two ghostly little hamsters.

This was the first day of Ming Xia's first day looking after the store. It had only been ten hours since he stepped into the "Tu Zai Pet Shop", but he was exhausted physically and mentally, and felt that half a lifetime had passed.

Ming Xia struggled to get out from under the cat climbing frame, and limped over to answer the phone while supporting his old waist.Before he got to the front desk, he saw the chubby civet cat dozing off next to the registration book, turning over lazily, and just pressed his mobile phone under his belly.

Ming Xia, "..."

This raccoon cat named Meiren doesn't know what's wrong with it. She likes to scratch territory, but as far as its paws can reach, it's its territory. See, that's what it is.It not only has a stubborn temper, but also has very fast claws, Ming Xia has nothing to do with it.

Ming Xia moved tentatively, seeing the cat opened its eyes and stared at his hand, so he could only take two steps back and stand still.

Li Huamao probably thought this servant was very sensible, with a satisfied expression on his fat face, he wriggled his fat belly a few times, and scratched it comfortably.

The phone stopped ringing, and then rang again after a while.Taking advantage of its busy hands and feet, Ming Xia swiftly rushed over and pulled the phone out.The cihuamao reacted quickly, and slapped it with one paw, but was narrowly avoided by Ming Xia, and scratched for nothing.Cihuamao was furious, bared its teeth and scratched the table twice.

The sound of the claws slicing across the table was horrifying.Ming Xia watched with trepidation for a while, and saw that the little ancestor was still lying motionless with his belly shy, so he answered the phone with lingering fear.

The call was from Tu Qing, and as soon as he got through, he hurriedly asked him, "Is there anything wrong in the store? Did Xiao Hei eat today? Is the beauty good? Did you take a walk for nothing? Those newcomers in the isolation room Don't forget to say hello!"

Ming Xia collapsed on the sofa and sighed, "Shouldn't you care about me first? It's not so tiring to stay up late and work overtime."

Tu Qing giggled, "Ming Xiaoliu, you see you are so alien, what is the relationship between us, who is with whom?"

"Don't say such misleading things, you haven't become my brother-in-law yet. Let's not talk nonsense, when will you return?" Ming Xia held back his bitterness and waited to pour it out, "You said that the stationery store you used to have a lot of money?" Well, how quiet it is. What kind of pet shop is open properly? I have raised a house full of ancestors, who can’t be beat or scolded, and ghosts and ghosts, who even open cages and form groups to steal food..."

Tu Qing comforted him with a haha, "The little ones are only interested in this, let's cooperate for a while..."

Ming Xia thought of the two hamsters that got under the cat climbing frame just now, and suddenly felt pain in his waist again, "Think about my body, fold it in half and stuff it into the cat climbing frame to catch hamsters for you... Damn, the key is I still can't catch..."

"Don't worry, don't worry," the experienced shopkeeper Tu quickly gave him advice, "Go and open the door of the cage, put a handful of peanuts in it, baby Beibei will go back after playing for a while."

Ming Xia, "..."

Ming Xia wanted to scold someone.Why didn't you tell me such important information earlier? !

Tu Qing probably also knew that he was holding back his anger, so he quickly changed the subject, "Hey, I could have come back today, who knew that the road ahead was closed, and it was said that there was an earthquake in Xishan, so I can't help it."

"Earthquake?" Ming Xia was stunned for a moment, no wonder at noon I heard two little girls who went to the store to buy cat food muttering that a rescue team had entered Xishan, so it was an earthquake.But he has always been a carefree person, and he is busy all day long, so he doesn't feel much.

Xishan is located on the outskirts of Yaozhou, about two or three hours' drive from the city.When Mingxia was in middle school, the school also organized a visit to the Botanical Garden. The West Mountain in my impression was a virgin forest, and the rolling hills were tightly covered by the greenery covering the sky and the sun. When I stepped on the mountain road, I felt as if I had entered the botanical garden. A mysterious world that is uninhabited and uninhabited, one cannot help feeling awe.

Ming Xia asked him, "Where are you now?"

"At the service station." Tu Qing said: "We came early, and we couldn't even book a room after that. A group of people, noisy and waiting for news."

"Then you can live in peace," Ming Xia said weakly, "I'll stay in the hotel at night, and I'll help you look after it tomorrow."

Tu Qing smiled and behaved, "That's really interesting, brother. I brought you a gift."

Ming Xia snorted disdainfully.There are only a few days during the [-]th holiday, and he is afraid that he will spend it all in Tu Qing's small shop.No gift could make up for the sadness that he couldn't take a vacation.

Tu Qing quickly changed the topic, "Where is the beauty? Did the beauty lose her temper today?"

Just talking about the beauty, the lazy fat cat jumped up from the desk at the front desk, arched its back towards the door, and bared its teeth ferociously.

Ming Xia, "...it's making trouble."

Through a glass door, Ming Xia saw the street lamps casting a warm halo on the sidewalk, and the cannas in the flower garden seemed to be covered with a layer of orange veil, stretching their broad branches and leaves in the quiet night, as if falling asleep As if motionless.The lights in the distance are blurred, and the old-style roof ridges rise and fall, like dark silhouettes embedded in the sky.

"The beauty is in good spirits." Ming Xia looked away, and sat back lazily, "I'm lying on the front desk scratching the table, you just wait to change the table."

Before the words were finished, the beauty let out an extremely shrill howl, which startled everyone on both ends of the phone.

"What's the matter, what's the matter," Tu Qingxian was anxious, "Did the Shiba Inu opposite come to fight again? Let me tell you, that Shiba Inu is very, very annoying..."

Ming Xia had never heard such a sound from a cat, and for a moment he felt a chill on his back, and the hairs on his arms stood up.Just as he was at a loss, he caught a glimpse of the glass door moving slightly out of the corner of his eye, turned his head to look, but saw that the door was empty, the sidewalk was bathed in the warm light of street lamps, and the cannas in the flower garden were still quietly sleeping.

The glass door moved again, and Ming Xia looked down, only to realize that it was a chubby little hamster squeezed into the door gap less than two fingers wide, desperately arching outward.

Ming Xia breathed a sigh of relief, "Hey, that who...you come back to me!"

The hamster is timid, and usually hides everywhere as if frightened by any movement, but this one seems to have not heard Ming Xia's cry at all, and is still struggling desperately to get out.The strangest thing was the beauty. In the past, when she saw baby Beibei, she would always jump over and tease her a few times, but now she just lay on the table and howled desperately at her, howling until the hair on her back exploded.

Ming Xia, one head and two big, threw away the phone and hurried to catch the hamster.

He got up together, and the beauty on the table let out another long howl.Ming Xia shivered, and saw that the little hamster, who didn't know whether it was Bao Bao or Bei Bei, had squeezed out from the crack of the door, and then crawled along the sidewalk in a daze as if being pulled by an invisible rope.Strangely, as soon as the hamster crawled away, the beauty stopped barking, and her taut tail relaxed little by little.

Ming Xia ignored this weird lazy cat, opened the door and chased it out, calling baby Beibei's name while looking around with his head down.But in the blink of an eye, the hamster disappeared.

The stationery store and bookstore next to the pet store are closed.Because of the dark lights, this section of the road looks a little more inexplicably gloomy than other places.

Ming Xia circled around the flower bed in front of the door a few times, and searched for the corners, but he didn't see the little thing in the end.Ming Xia straightened up in frustration, suddenly heard a creaking sound coming from behind him, but it disappeared when he listened carefully, it seemed that he had misheard.

Ming Xia came out in a hurry, only wearing a shirt, and felt a little cold when the wind blew right now.He rubbed his arms and decided to go back to the store first.Tu Qing raised a whole house of little ancestors, and it was impossible for him to leave them in the middle of the night and just focus on looking for that little thing.Right now, I can only pray that it has played enough and knows to go home.

Ming Xia heard the sound of flapping wings in the air, and then there was a gust of wind blowing from behind.He subconsciously dodged to the side, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw a black shadow passing over his head very quickly.It seemed to be some kind of large bird, and the air from its wings almost brushed his cheek because it was so close.

Ming Xia was frightened by the sudden movement, and when she came back to her senses, she realized that she was covered in cold sweat.He didn't dare to stay outside anymore, and ran back to the pet shop trembling with his arms folded.

As soon as he stepped into the brightly lit room, Ming Xia's tense nerves immediately relaxed, and he felt that the faint fishy smell of animals mixed with disinfectant in the air became amiable.The beauty was still lying on her stomach on the front desk, staring at him with her big glazed eyes, as if she was about to explode again.Ming Xia hurriedly avoided it.He had had enough scares tonight, and he didn't want to hear the fat cat's horrible screams again.

Ming Xia checked the inside and outside of the cage, and saw that the hamster that had previously hid under the cat climbing frame had crawled back to the cage at some point, and was resting listlessly in the den.Ming Xia felt guilty for a while, if Tu Qing had been in charge of the store, maybe the accident of letting the hamster get lost would not have happened.

Ming Xia picked up the phone from the sofa, and found that there were several missed calls on it, all of which were from Tu Qing.He called back and decided to confess his mistake to him.

As soon as the phone was connected, Tu Qing asked him anxiously, "Have you not closed the door yet?"

"No," Ming Xia was puzzled by his question, "Didn't you say 10:30?"

"Did I say that?" Tu Qing was stunned for a moment, then laughed again, "I forgot about it. Today is the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, and someone from the store will come to check it, so just keep going."

Ming Xia has never opened a pet shop, and he doesn't know why inspections must be arranged at night, but thinking about what he saw when he went out just now, it seems that there are many shops on this street with their lights still on, and they are probably waiting for inspections Bar?Perhaps this is the case in the old city area?

Tu Qingxu babbled about the situation in the store, where the documents were kept, the records of various medicines, etc., until he heard that Ming Xia was impatient, and then reminded him hesitantly: "What, wait a minute If someone comes to check, don’t be afraid, just tell what you know.”

Ming Xia was at a loss, "Why are you afraid?" Compared to someone coming to check, the little episode on the sidewalk just now was probably more scary.

Tu Qingqian laughed twice, and began to interrupt clumsily, "Hey, I heard my beauty screaming, maybe it's going to make trouble again. At first, I wanted to give it a knife, but I didn't do it for a while... Ouch, it was really so Make trouble..."

Lights and shadows flickered on the glass door, and it seemed that several cars drove into Huaxin Street one after another.Ming Xia looked out through the glass door and found that those cars were parked in the square across the road.Some people got out of the car, but they couldn't see clearly, they seemed to gather together to talk, and then dispersed.

"Several cars have come, they should be the people who came to check." Ming Xia saw two figures walking towards this side, and suddenly became a little nervous, "I said, you didn't do anything illegal, did you?"