Dream Pet Shop

Although the baby mermaid didn't quite understand the meaning of the words "child labor" and "report", he sensed malice from Mr. Li's expression and tone, so he stared at him fiercely, threatening to wait for an opportunity in his throat. Voice: "em..."

The mermaid baby thinks it's super fierce and wants to scare off the enemies, but in fact it's so cute that it wants to be rubbed twice.

Xia Ji saw what the baby mermaid was thinking, and quickly pulled him behind him, and explained to Mr. Li with a smile: "Guest, you misunderstood, this is my child, playing in the store, just helping out by the way."

"Huh!" Mr. Li blew his beard and stared at his eyes: "Do you think I will believe you when you say that? I will report you anyway, and you can explain it to the people from the Industry and Commerce Bureau!" left the store.

"I hate it! Bah, bah, bah~" The baby mermaid made a face at Mr. Li's back, sticking out his tongue.

"Don't do this, it's rude." Xia Ji reached out and touched the baby mermaid's head, comforting him, and then let him go upstairs to play by himself.

There are still customers in the store looking at this side from time to time, Xia Ji apologized to the customers: "I'm sorry, there was a misunderstanding and it affected everyone."

The guests all expressed their understanding. A few girls recognized Mr. Li and reminded Xia Ji: "That old man is the owner of the small supermarket at Jiekou. He must be jealous of your good business and come to find fault. Manager, be careful." A little."

Xia Ji always felt that the old man looked familiar just now, but he just couldn't remember where he saw it. He immediately remembered it when he heard the guest say that.

"Hey, I see, thank you." Xia Ji scratched his head in embarrassment, then turned and went to the kitchen.

When Xia Ji first moved to the pet store, he went to Xingfu Supermarket to buy things several times. After all, Xingfu Supermarket was the only store on this street, and it sold common daily necessities. At that time, it also solved Xia Ji's urgent needs.Xia Ji met Mr. Li just a few times, and since then he has been busy running a pet store, so he never went to that supermarket again.

Recalling that the old man blushed and said that he was going to report it, Xia Ji was really worried. If he really called the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to report him, and the people from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau came to ask, he would really not be able to explain the origin of the mermaid baby.

Although the old man did come to find fault, Xia Ji was not too angry.Ke Ruyun has a deep understanding of how difficult it is to do business in the commercial street. An old man has maintained such a small supermarket and has been tenaciously operating it for several years. It has to be admired. Xia Ji himself may not Can hold on.

In business, having one more enemy is worse than having one more friend. Being friendly makes money, and since the two stores are on the same street, Xia Ji doesn't want to really get into trouble with Mr. Li.After thinking about it, he decided to pack a dessert from the store and send it to Mr. Li.

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Mr. Li went back to his small supermarket angrily. He rolled up the anti-theft door of the supermarket. His vest was drenched with sweat. , I took out my mobile phone and wanted to call the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to report it.

But when he dialed the number, the old man realized that he didn't know the number of the Industry and Commerce Bureau at all. He sat down on a chair discouragedly and wiped the sweat from his forehead.After sitting for a while, he thought of his son Li Changshun again, and thought that it would be all right to call his son to help him check the report number of the Industry and Commerce Bureau.

There were only a few numbers in Mr. Li's phone contacts. He quickly found his son's number and dialed it. After the phone rang a few times, he was picked up.

"Hey, Dad, what's the matter? Why are you calling at this hour?" Li Changshun's listless voice sounded from over there.

"Help me check the report number of the Industry and Commerce Bureau, and then report it to me." After finishing speaking, Mr. Li began to look for a pen and paper.

Li Changshun asked unexpectedly, "What do you want the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to call? Fake goods have entered the supermarket?"

Mr. Li said angrily: "No, I want to report the pet shop next door, they employ child labor!"

"..." Li Changshun didn't know when another pet shop opened on that street. He was not interested in these things. He felt that his father was completely idle and had nothing to do, so he said speechlessly, "Dad, you take care of me." What are you doing with the shop? It’s hot weather, and if you report it, no one will take care of it.”

"If I ask you to check it for me, you can check it for me. How can there be so much nonsense!" The old man was suddenly unhappy, and started yelling on the phone.

Li Changshun was scolded for no reason, and he also became angry, and said impatiently: "I'm at work, I'm busy! You're old, can you stop causing trouble everywhere!"

"You know your dad is so old! You are so busy, you don't see what you are doing, and you don't even want to ask you to look up the phone number. You are a white-eyed wolf!" The old man finished scolding. , hung up the phone severely.

Li Changshun, who was still in the company, was also annoyed by the old man's inexplicable phone call, so he simply turned off his phone.

After Mr. Li made this call, not only did he not want to call the Industry and Commerce Bureau, but he got angry again for nothing.Panting, the old man threw the mobile phone into the drawer, got up and walked to the supermarket again, intending to tidy up the shelves and divert his attention.

Such a supermarket is neither big nor small, and has a lot of various goods. Mr. Li insists on ordering and loading all the goods himself, and he is not willing to spend money to hire people.Residents who often come here to buy things sometimes say that Mr. Li can't think about it. Why do you have to work so hard to open a shop when you are already old? Wouldn't it be better to retire and enjoy the happiness.

Whenever this time, Mr. Li would always say that he was too busy to be idle.In fact, why did he not want to be free in his heart? He only blamed himself for using all his savings to buy this shop, but he didn't want his son, so he didn't have the capital to be free.My son is busy with work and often doesn't see people. He might as well guard the supermarket and look forward to life.

Mr. Li bowed his waist to organize the shelves. The air conditioner was not turned on in the supermarket on a hot day, and sweat dripped from his head after a while.There were few packages of ham sausage left on the shelf, so he turned around and went to the small room at the back of the supermarket to get them.

The small room was full of large cardboard boxes, all kinds of goods imported, and only the old man himself could tell which ones were which.The old man pulled out a cardboard box from below, and opened it to find the bagged ham sausages that came in last month.He took out a few packages and walked to the bright place at the door of the warehouse, only to see that the packaging bags of ham sausages were bitten open, and the ham sausages inside were also bitten to pieces.

Mr. Li's heart tightened, and he hurried back to the small warehouse to find out the other ham sausages in the box. As a result, many bags were bitten open, and the old man was angry and distressed.He hurriedly dragged the other cartons out, trying to check how many goods had been bitten.

Just after dragging a few large cardboard boxes, Mr. Li heard two "squeaks", and a huge black shadow rushed out from the corner of the warehouse.After seeing it clearly, Mr. Li jumped angrily. He really got a rat!

The rat ate up all his good stuff, Master Li ignored his age, picked up the mop by the wall and chased after that damned rat.

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After Xia Ji packed the dessert, he brought a few lucky charms with him, intending to give them to the owner of Happy Supermarket. He greeted Long Wei and came out of the store.

Xia Ji came to the entrance of the Xingfu Supermarket, looked inside, but didn't see Mr. Li, so he put the cake on the cash register and called into the supermarket, "Is the boss there?"

As soon as the words were finished, there was a sound of pinging, bang, bang, and bang in the supermarket. Xia Ji turned his head curiously, and saw a huge rat jumping out of it. Xia Ji immediately took two steps back in fright.

"Stop it! Don't let it run away!" Mr. Li shouted, holding the mop upside down and kicking it out from inside.

Xia Ji was completely frightened by this sudden scene, he could only stand there dumbfounded, watching the mouse jump past his feet with a pale face.

"Don't even think about running!" Old Man Li strode over with red eyes, picked up the mop in his hand, and beat down.However, after all, he is a very old man, with a fragile body and presbyopia, and he almost fell because he missed the mouse.

"Be careful." Seeing this, Xia Ji hurriedly gave him a hand, preventing the old man from falling, and the big mouse had already escaped from the supermarket gate.

"Are you alright?" Xia Ji helped him up and asked.

"Hey!" Mr. Li sighed angrily looking in the direction of the door. He turned his head to look at the person who supported him and was about to thank him. After a look, he found that it was Xia Ji. He immediately pushed away Xia Ji's support and asked angrily: "What are you doing here?"

Xia Ji was deeply afraid that the old man would spread his grievances against the mice on himself, so he immediately put on a smiling face to please the elders, and said: "I didn't treat you well in the store before, so I specially packed a cake, I hope To your liking."

Mr. Li looked at the cardboard box on the cash register, snorted through his nostrils, and said, "I don't care about your stuff. You did something wrong, and you were afraid that I would report you. Now you are begging me." no?"

"Look at what you said, who dares to use child labor now? I'm still such a young child. I'm afraid someone would have reported me." Xia Ji and the old man couldn't get angry, and said with a smile: "I was ignorant before. It's time to come and say hello to you. We all set up shop on the same street to do business, of course we have to take care of each other, I just hope that there will be more and more customers on this street."

Mr. Li walked to the cash register and sat down to drink some water, staring at Xia Ji.I thought to myself, this young man is not annoying, he has a good temper and a sweet mouth, he looks much better than his own white-eyed wolf.He thought so in his heart, but he said unforgivingly: "Young man, don't be complacent in front of me, my supermarket earns less than your pet store in a month."

"Yes, yes, of course." Seeing that Mr. Li was no longer as angry as before, Xia Ji hurried down the steps.He caught a glimpse of some cardboard boxes piled up randomly on the ground near the supermarket, and remembered the big mouse just now, so he asked the old man, "Did you get bitten by a mouse?"

"Don't mention it!" Mr. Li's blood pressure rose when he thought about it: "I don't know how to sneak in, and I chewed up all my good goods. I lost money this month!" Mr. Li patted his thigh and sighed: "I don't know if there are any mice hidden in it."

Xia Ji saw that the old man was really not easy, so he wanted to help him find a way. He suddenly remembered the cats in the store, so he suggested: "How about I lend you a cat to help you catch mice."

Mr. Li said with a look of disbelief: "Don't think that I don't know the little tricks of you who run pet shops, and deliberately put those foreign breed cats here. Yes, you have to pay me for it.”

The corner of Xia Ji's mouth twitched. This old man was probably a little bit "persecuted paranoia", and everything could be associated with cheating money.He explained with a dry smile: "No, I don't sell those breeds of cats in my store. They are all native cats waiting to be adopted, and they are especially good at catching mice. After a few nights in your store, they probably won't come back. There are rats."

"Really?" The old man looked at Xia Ji sharply.

"Really. I'll bring the cat over later, and you'll know it when you see it." Xia Ji said.

"Okay, if you can really help me catch mice, let's forget about what happened before, and I won't report you." The old man said with his arms folded.

Xia Ji thought to himself, this old man hasn't forgotten about reporting. "Okay, I'll go back to the store first, and I'll bring the cat to you later."

Xia Ji went back to the store and told Long Wei about the matter. Long Wei also agreed with his approach and helped pack the cat's supplies.

Xia Ji immediately sent the cat to the Happy Supermarket. This is an orange cat, the legendary orange cat that is ten oranges and nine fat. Can't get fat.

Xia Ji put the cat cage in the small warehouse, asked Mr. Li for a basin, and poured some cat litter into it.He brought a few bags of cat food to Mr. Li, and said: "This orange cat has a stomach injury before, and its digestion is not very good. This is a cat food specially designed to promote digestion. I have fed it before coming here. If the cat Hungry, pestering you, you feed it this."

Mr. Li took the cat food, looked at the thin orange cat in the cage thoughtfully, and said nothing.

Xia Ji saw what he was thinking and said: "Don't worry, this cat is good for everything except being thinner. It's extremely sensitive, and it's easy to catch mice. At night, you close the shop door and let the cat out of the cage." That's it."

After Xia Ji sent the cat back to the store, Mr. Li looked at the cat for a while, then continued to guard his supermarket.At ten o'clock in the evening, Mr. Li closed the supermarket, released the cat from the cage, and went upstairs to sleep by himself.

When he got up early the next morning, Mr. Li unexpectedly found that the orange cat had come upstairs and was squatting beside his bed. He put on his reading glasses and saw that there was a dead mouse under the cat's paws. .

Mr. Li was stunned for a moment, got out of bed and wrapped up the dead mouse with a newspaper. He looked at the thin orange cat with admiration in his heart, but said, "What did the dead mouse do with it?"

Mr. Li took the dead mouse outside and threw it away. When he returned to the store, the orange cat meowed at it and circled around his feet.The old man thought he must be hungry. He took out a few bags of cat food that Xia Ji gave yesterday and looked at them. There were a bunch of foreign characters on them, which looked like foreign products. He couldn't help sniffing: "Of course local cats will suffer from indigestion if they eat foreign things."

The old man put the cat food aside, went to the refrigerator and took out a small crucian carp, cooked it on the stove, then poked the fish meat with chopsticks, added some rice into it, boiled it into fish porridge, let it cool and put it on In front of the orange cat.

The orange cat came over and sniffed it, then stuck out its tongue and licked it, jumping back so hot that Mr. Li couldn't help laughing.Although it was hot, the little orange cat couldn't wait to dig out some porridge with its paws, and then licked its paws with relish.

Mr. Li reached out and touched the orange cat's head, and sighed: "Raising you is more useful than raising a son."

For the next whole day, the old man began to organize the goods in the warehouse, picking out all the things that had been bitten by the rats and throwing them away.This is a big project. He is getting old, and he has to rest after moving twice. The little orange cat just smells "meow" everywhere. When no customers come to buy things, the supermarket doesn't feel deserted. Li The old man is in a much better mood than yesterday.

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The orange cat has been sent to the happiness supermarket for two days. Xia Ji was a little worried that there was not enough cat food, so he wanted to send a few more bags.He just took the cat food in his hand and was about to go out, but was seen by the guests.

The customer asked: "Boss, do you sell cat food and dog food in your store? I've run out of food at home, so I want to buy it in your store by the way, so I don't have to wait for the express delivery when I buy it online."

Xia Ji apologized: "I'm sorry, we don't sell pet food in our store, and the purchase is only enough for the foster pets in the store."

"Eh? Is that so." The guest was a little disappointed.

Xia Ji had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly said: "There is a supermarket at the corner of the street, you can go and ask."

"Really? Thank you." The guest said.

Xia Ji didn't plan to buy and sell pet food. After all, the purchase channel was quite troublesome, so later when customers asked him if he sold pet food, he said no, and recommended the customer to go to the Xingfu Supermarket at Jiekou.

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Recently, there are always a few customers going to Xingfu Supermarket to buy cat food and dog food every day. Mr. Li also noticed that this is an opportunity to make money, so he immediately contacted the delivery company to send him several kinds of cat food and dog food. grain.When the deliverer heard that he was going to buy pet food, he was very enthusiastic and sent a full range of trial packages, after all, the profit was huge.

The old man was about his age, and he sat and studied the varieties of pet food for a whole day wearing reading glasses, and finally chose the most bought ones and bought them.After buying the goods, he found that because Xia Ji's pet shop was opened nearby, there were quite a lot of customers who came to buy pet food, and sometimes they would buy some snacks along the way, and the business of Happy Supermarket gradually improved.

The orange cat has been in the happiness supermarket for several days, and Xia Ji felt that it was time to pick it up, so he took the cake to find Mr. Li again this day.

"Boss, I'm here to pick up the cat." Xia Ji called into the shop.

"Hey, here we come." The old man came out from behind the shelf.

"How is the mouse caught?" Xia Ji asked him.

Mr. Li laughed and gave Xia Ji a thumbs up.

It was the first time for Xia Ji to see the old man smile, and he felt that his smile looked quite amiable.So he said, "Then I'll take the cat back."

"What are you picking up?" Mr. Li waved his hand straight away: "Don't you say that this cat is waiting for someone to adopt? Then I will adopt it! It tastes delicious here!"

"You want to adopt?" Xia Ji was a little surprised.

"Why not? I guarantee you will be well-fed!" Mr. Li said with a serious face.

Xia Ji went to have a look at the little orange cat, and found that it has fully adapted to the happiness supermarket, which is like its adventure playground.Xia Ji also saw the cat rice cooked by Mr. Li for the orange cat, and the little orange cat liked it very much.

Most importantly, Xia Ji felt that both the old man and the orange cat had changed after the arrival of the orange cat.So he readily agreed to the adoption, and officially "turned an enemy into a friend" with Mr. Li.

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After adopting the little orange cat, the old man suddenly felt that life seemed a little richer. In addition to running the supermarket, he also thought about cooking for the cat and changing the litter box for the cat every day. The day passed by in a flash, and it was not as difficult as before. up.

At night, the old man dozed off in front of the cashier, holding the orange cat in his arms and gently smoothing its fur. The cat was already asleep and purring.

When it was about to close, someone opened the door and came in, complaining: "It's such a hot day, why doesn't the store turn on the air conditioner?"

Mr. Li opened his eyes in a jerk, and found that it was his son Li Changshun who had returned.

"Hmph." Mr. Li didn't look good and didn't talk to him.

Li Changshun sighed, closed the store door, walked around behind the cashier to find the remote control of the air conditioner, and turned on the air conditioner.Looking back, he caught a glimpse of his father holding a cat in his arms, and asked, "When did you start raising cats?"

"You care about me raising cats and dogs? You don't care if I raise another son!" Mr. Li roared.

Li Changshun knew that the old man was getting awkward again, so he didn't want to quarrel with him, so he turned around and walked to the back of the shelf. When he saw the cardboard boxes piled up on the floor, he asked, "Is there a rat in the warehouse? No wonder you keep cats."

He took off his shirt, and started to sort the damaged goods with his bare chest. He tidied up and said: "The things are broken, you should call me earlier to get them back and get them done. How about flashing your waist when you are old?" manage?"

The expression on Mr. Li's face softened. He kept holding the cat and looked at his son's back silently. He felt a little thinner again. He said, "What's the use of calling you back, you're as skinny as skinny."

Li Changshun chuckled. His old man has the ability to turn good words into bad ones. Thinking of the phone call a few days ago, he asked again, "Did you report the pet shop next door? Do you want me to check the number for you?"

Mr. Li didn't say a word, and it took a long time before he said: "I still need to investigate the devil. If they are afraid of reporting the report, they must have fired the child laborer."

Li Changshun tidied up the goods and saw some new pet food on the shelves. Then he remembered that he hadn't been in the store for a long time, so he joked: "The project in my company is about to end. When I'm done, Let’s go to the newly opened store next door with you to see if they still employ child labor.”

"Hmph." Mr. Li said with disdain, hugging the cat.

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At the same time, in Xia Ji's store, the sound of the system came as expected.

[Ding——Congratulations to the host for completing the task, the pet egg rewarded by the system has been distributed, please check it. 】

The author has something to say: It’s time for the pet egg quiz again~~~