At night.
Binhai city.
At the amazing fate pet shop.
The street was quiet, and the wind in the spring night was still quite cold.
Whoosh. Whoosh.
Knock, knock, knock.
A strange knocking sound came from outside the tightly closed curtain Door. The person who knocked on the curtain Door first patted it twice, then knocked on it three times with his knuckles.
Inside the door.
Zhang Zian held his breath and put one ear on the curtain Door, listening quietly.
After making sure that the knocking didn’t sound again, he lowered the sound and opened the curtain Door a little. The steps were only two fists ‘height from the ground, and then he pushed the three bags of dog food out of the door.
Whoosh.
The three bags of dog food were picked up by the people outside the door and they turned around to leave.
Hearing the footsteps moving away, Zhang Zian closed the curtain Door.
Throughout the entire process, the two of them didn’t say a word, not even a fart.
The elves in the shop looked at him speechlessly.
“Zian, are you a thief?” old time tea said, its heart aching.
Zhang Zian replied,”well, no, Grandpa tea, I don’t have a choice.” If the customers need it, I have to serve them! Mr. Lu Xun taught us to serve our customers!”
Old time tea recalled,”I’m not talented. I was born in the same era as Lu Xun. On the way to see my wife off, miss Wu read Lu Xun’s articles to me more than once, but I don’t seem to have heard of this sentence …”
Snowy Lionet spat.”You’re such a glib-tongued stinky man!”
Richard flapped his wings and said mischievously,””Kaka! My intuition tells me that the person outside the door just now should be a man. As the saying goes,”when the moon shines on the willow branch,” a man dates behind the chrysanthemum …”
Before it could finish, Zhang Zian threw a towel at it and covered its face.
Famous sighed.”Zian, how long will this life of confinement last?” The filming was about to start, but now this happened … I don’t know when we’ll start work …”
“Well … I’m afraid no one can say for sure at the moment. We can only wait for the arrangements of the country and the provinces. Besides, we’re not the only crew affected, the other filming crews are also affected. The more unfortunate ones were those films that were scheduled to make a lot of money during the spring Festival, but all of them lost their money. So, looking at it from the bright side, we’re lucky in our misfortune. At least we can use this time to do post-production, which is equivalent to moving our work after the Green Film Festival to now. Anyway, those otakus who do post-production can do office work online. “
Richard shook off the towel.”I can feel your deep malice towards otakus …”
It couldn’t be helped. Due to well-known reasons, normal life had come to a standstill. Every house was closed, shops were closed, and any place where a large number of people might gather was closed due to force majeure, including the Pet Shop.
“I had planned to travel abroad this Spring Festival, learn a foreign language, and have a wonderful relationship … But it was all ruined!” Zhang Zian sighed.
“Gah? Even if that didn’t happen, you must be dreaming, right?” Richard said.
Zhang Zian ignored the bird’s complaints, looked around at the kittens and puppies in the room, and said worriedly,””Now that my business has taken a nosedive, I can’t sell my pets anymore. I can only sell cat and dog food to make up for my living expenses, and I can only sell them secretly …”
Everyone wanted to raise pets from a young age because they felt that pets that were raised from a young age would be closer to their owners. Most of the pets that Zhang Zian had brought in were more than three months old. When there were no problems with business, the pets would be sold out in half a month at most. But now …
Basically, kittens and puppies over four months old would become permanent customers in the store, and it would not be easy to sell them. Zhang Zian had to trick them every time.
In fact, kittens and puppies over the age of four months would not have any family issues, especially cats. Whether they were close or not had little to do with their age. As long as there were no problems with social education and they were not abandoned or abused, they would still be close to each other when they were raised at a young age. This was because in the long directed breeding process, cats that were not close to people or even fierce people had been eliminated. However, it was quite difficult to find a domestic cat as close as a Siamese cat or a Ragdoll cat because of the character of the domestic cat.
As for dogs, if one intended to train them seriously, it was indeed better to raise them from a young age. But how many people could really persevere in training dogs? Most people kept pets for fun. Some people bought border shepherds and vowed to train their dogs, but in the end, they were trained by border shepherds …
Every time a customer asked for a younger pet, Zhang Zian would ask about the customer’s situation. If it was the customer’s first time raising a pet, he would strongly recommend that the customer raise a slightly older pet, because young pets were not easy to raise, and pets that were four to six months old were tougher.
If the current situation continued, who knew when the store would resume business. By then, the kittens and puppies in the store would all be more than four months old, and he would have to think carefully about what to say.
The Pet Shop was not related to the national economy and people’s livelihood. The most optimistic estimate was that the last few shops would be approved to resume business, so … The days were hard.
There was nothing to complain about. After all, the whole country was the same. His situation was not the worst. He could only try to alleviate it as much as possible.
Fortunately, almost half of the profit source of the Pet Shop came from pet supplies and pet food. The money from selling pets had long starved to death.
Now that transportation was inconvenient, express delivery had become slow or non-delivery. Many customers had used up their cat food, dog food, cat litter, cat canned food, and other consumables at home. It was not so easy to replenish them, so they could only find familiar physical stores to buy them. The sales of pet consumables in Zhang Zian’s store were not affected. Instead, they were selling better than before because the express delivery service was not working.
However, because he couldn’t do business openly, he could only quietly carry out underground transactions with his customers in the dead of the night. The customers first paid for the order on the second-hand trading platform, then chose to do face-to-face transactions, come to the Pet Shop to pick up the goods, and then confirm the receipt.
Ding.
The second-hand trading app on his mobile phone sent a notification that the customer had confirmed the receipt of the goods and the money had been transferred.
Many customers were worried that the situation would worsen, especially those who had more than one cat or dog. They were worried that their cats and dogs, who were used to eating imported cat and dog food, would run out of food. Because the situation in foreign countries was worse, they chose to stock up food. Often, one order would cost 10 to 20 kilograms of cat and dog food. The sales were so good that Zhang Zian had to limit the purchase. Only customers who had bought pets in his store had priority to buy, and each person could only buy three bags at most.
If the Pet Shop could still complement each other in terms of profit and loss, the aquarium was in a state of pure loss.
In the past, the saying “a family is extremely rich, but those with fur don’t count” was only said on the tip of his tongue, but now it was actually true.
He couldn’t just sit around and wait for the business to resume. He had to think of another way …
