At night.

Binhai City.

Qiyuan Pet Shop.

The streets are quiet, and the wind is still quite cold in spring nights.

Bang bang.

Knock knock knock knock knock.

A strange knock sounded outside the closed roller shutter door. The knocker seemed to slap the roller shutter door twice, and then knocked it three times with his knuckles.

Inside the door.

Zhang Zi'an held his breath, put one ear on the roller shutter door, and listened quietly.

Confirm that the knocking sound did not sound again, he made a light sound, pulled the roller shutter door a little bit, and the steps above the ground were only two fists at the height, and then pushed three packs of dog food out of the door.

Brush it.

Three packs of dog food were picked up by the person outside the door, turned around and left.

Hearing the sound of footsteps away, Zhang Zi'an dropped the roller shutter door.

During the whole process, the two of them didn't say a word and didn't even give up.

"..." The elves in the store looked at him speechlessly.

Lao Cha said with distress: "Zi'an, are you a thief?"

Zhang Zian: "...what, no, Mr. Cha, isn't there any way I can do this? If the customer needs it, I have to serve the customer! Mr. Lu Xun taught us to serve the customer!"

Lao Cha recalled a little, "I am not talented and I was born in the same era as Mr. Lu Xun. On the way to send my bride, Miss Wu's family has read Mr. Lu Xun's articles to me more than once, but I don't seem to have heard this sentence..."

The snow lion spat, "A smelly man who speaks all day long!"

Richard flapped his wings and said in a slight manner: "Gaga! According to my intuition, the man outside the door just now should be a man. As the saying goes, the moon is on the top of the willows, and the man makes an appointment with a chrysanthemum..."

Before it could finish speaking, it was thrown by a towel that Zhang Zi'an threw over.

Feimas sighed, "Zi'an, when will this kind of confinement last? The set was about to be finished, but it suddenly made such a fuss... I don't know that the work will start in the Year of the Monkey and Horses..."

"This... I'm afraid no one dares to make assertions at the moment. We can only look at the arrangements of the country, province and city. Besides, it's not just our crew who are affected, and other crews who are filming cannot escape the disaster. What's even more unlucky is that those films that are scheduled to make a lot of money in the Spring Festival are now losing all their money. So, to be good, we are also a blessing in disguise. At least we can use this period of time to do the later stage, which is equivalent to moving the work after the completion of the filming to the present. Anyway, those otakus who are in the later stage can work online."

Richard shook off the towel, "I feel your deep malice towards the otaku..."

There is no way, due to well-known reasons, normal life is now in a state of silence, every household is closed, and any place where a large number of people may gather is suspended due to force majeure, including pet stores.

"This Spring Festival, I had planned to travel abroad, learn a foreign language, and have a wonderful relationship... all of them were ruined!" Zhang Zi'an sighed regretfully.

"Ga? Even if this is not the case, you are still dreaming, right?" Richard said.

Zhang Zi'an ignored the complaints of the little bird, looked around the kittens and dogs indoors, and said worriedly: "Now that business has plummeted and pets can't be sold anymore. You can only sell cat food and dog food to subsidize your life, and you can only sell them secretly..."

Everyone wants to keep pets from childhood because everyone thinks that pets raised since childhood will be more owners. Most of the pets introduced by Zhang Zi'an are over three months old. When business is fine, basically a batch of pets come in and sell them out in at most half a month. Now...

Basically, kittens and puppies over four months have become nail owners in the store, which is not easy to sell. Every time, Zhang Zi'an has to fool him.

In fact, kittens and puppies over four months have no problems with relatives, especially cats. Whether they are relatives or not has much to do with age. As long as there is no problem with social education and has not been abandoned or abused, they will still be relatives since they were raised at a certain age, because during the long-term targeted breeding process, the breed cats that are not relatives or even fierce. However, the character of the pastoral cat is to be drawn, and it is very difficult to find a pastoral cat with relatives like Siam and a mutton.

As for dogs, if you plan to train them carefully, it is better to raise them from a young age, but how many people can really persist in training dogs? Most people keep pets for fun. Some people buy border herders and go back to work, and they swear to train dogs, but in the end they are trained by border herders...

Every time a customer calls for a pet that is younger, Zhang Zian will ask about the customer's situation. If the customer keeps a pet for the first time, he will highly recommend that the customer keep a slightly older pet, because younger pets are difficult to support, and pets between four and half a year old are more solid.

As the current situation continues, business will resume, and the year of the Monkey and Horse Month will be restored. By then, all the kittens and puppies in the store will be more than four months old. He has to think about it carefully.

Pet shops are not related to the national economy and people's livelihood. The most optimistic estimate is that they must be the last few stores approved to resume business, so... life is so hard.

There is nothing to complain about. After all, there is a game of chess in the country, and everyone is the same. His situation is not the worst. I can only find a way to alleviate it as much as possible.

Fortunately, almost half of the profits of pet stores come from pet supplies and pet food. They had long been starved to death by selling pets.

Now that transportation is inconvenient, express delivery has become slow or no delivery. Many customers have used up their consumables such as cat food, dog food, cat litter, and canned cats. It is not so easy to replenish them, so they can only find familiar physical stores to buy them. The sales of pet consumables in Zhang Zi'an's store are not affected, but they sell better than before, because the express delivery is paralyzed.

However, since he could not openly operate, he could only conduct underground transactions with customers in the middle of the night. The customer first placed an order on the second-hand trading platform to pay, then chose to trade in person, came to the pet store to pick up the goods, and then confirmed the receipt.

bite.

The second-hand trading app on his mobile phone was sent to push it, the customer has confirmed the receipt and the money has arrived.

Many customers are worried that the situation will worsen, especially families with more than one cat or dog. They are worried that cats and dogs who are used to eating imported cat food and dog food at home have no food. Because the situation abroad is worse, they choose to stock up on grain. Often, only 10 or 20 kilograms of cat food and dog food are placed at a time. The sales are so good that Zhang Zi'an has to limit purchases. Only customers who have bought pets in his store are given priority, and each person buys up to three bags.

If the pet store can still complement each other's profits and losses, the aquarium will be in a pure loss state.

In the past, the saying "I have a wealth of money, but I don't count the ones with fur" was only spoken, but now it has been put into practice.

You can't just sit there and eat the whole country and wait for the slim reopening. You have to think of other ways...
Chapter completed!