In fact, if conditions permit, Lin Lan doesn't really want to choose a kitten at this time.
Milk cats are just born, the hair on their bodies is considered lanugo, and they will undergo a rebirth when they grow up. Only then will they be truly finalized and better judge the color.
But looking at Miss Wei's colleagues who are staring at the kittens in the mobile phone, these people have stayed up for most of the night just to watch the cats. I can imagine what kind of ruthless people they are, and then think about how easily Miss Wei is soft-hearted. The personality of the refusal, Manager Lin decided to make a quick decision.
First of all, he gave up the pure black, pure white, and orange colors that he already had at home. Lin Lan's eyes wandered back and forth between gray tabby, gray and tortoiseshell, and finally stopped on the gray-white kitten.
Well, when the final form cannot be determined, it is obviously safer to pick a kitten of the same color as its mother. After the end of the wandering career, someone takes care of it carefully every year, and it is very beautiful, otherwise it would not be able to attract so many men... Bah, the hearts of so many two-legged beasts, they stay up in the middle of the night and care about their cubs.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he could no longer delay, so Manager Lin quickly took action.
"I want this kitten of the same color as Nian Nian." Nodding lightly on the head of the gray-white kitten that was still drinking milk, Lin Lan said to her cat grandma, "Wei Yan, make an appointment with you first. Yes."
Miss Wei, who was chatting with the group of colleagues on the phone, was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously turned around and agreed, "Hey, the gray kitten, okay."
In an instant, the group video exploded.
[Didn't you agree that a kitten won't be given away! Wei Yan, you liar!]
[That's right, our big old men stayed up all night waiting for them to be born. They are not pro-grandfathers or grandfathers. How could you bear not to send us kittens!]
[We stayed up all night and worked overtime together, exchanging various snacks and late-night snacks with each other. The friendship is so fragile, Wei Yan, I misunderstood you. Take back that sentence when you send me a kitten!]
[Grandma Wei, raising so many cats by one person is actually very hard work. Bring the company and we will help you share the burden.]
"Shut up! Shut up! You shameless bastards!" Miss Wei scolded for three times in an instant, "I'll give them kittens every year before giving birth. I deliberately didn't sleep at night to help, and compared with others, you all added noise next to you! It's nothing!"
It was not until she came out of Miss Wei's room that Wang Jiayan finally laughed out loud, as if she had been holding back in the room for a long time.
"I really can't see it. Wei Yan usually looks at such a gentle and good man. It turns out that he is so arrogant in the company. Those male programmers have no temper at all."
Her voice echoed in the quiet corridor, and the movement shocked the eldest lady. It was already 3:30 in the morning, and it was dark outside. She had never been outside at this time, and she was a little frightened. .
Fortunately, there are voice-activated lights in the corridor and stairs, and there is someone next to him, otherwise Wang Jiayi would not dare to walk alone.
Lin Lan, who was used to her own small building for a long time, was not afraid, but continued to follow the other party's previous topic: "A lot of times when it comes to technology, it doesn't look at gender, Wei Yan can get along with those male colleagues and even get a little temperamental. , to prove that her ability is not inferior to anyone else. The most important thing is... the ownership of the kitten is in her hands. At this time, if you don't hold the cat, do you still want a cat?"
"It makes sense." Wang Jiayi was stunned, and then a new question emerged, "But Lan Lan, why don't you take the kitten away immediately, and instead stay by Nian Nian's side?"
"Take it back now? Jiayi, what are you kidding?" Manager Lin instantly changed into a frightened face, "A newborn kitten wouldn't be able to defecate on its own a month ago, without the help of a female cat. Licking and excreting requires manual help every day. And before they can eat cat food, they have to drink milk to grow their bodies, which is no different from bringing children. I took care of Lan Lan, who was still sick in less than two months. Bao is dying, let alone a kitten with no eyes open?"
"It's so troublesome?" The eldest lady opened her mouth wide, "... I'm sorry for disturbing you." It completely dispelled her idea of raising a milk cat when she went home.
"You, even if you see cute kittens in the future, it's best to listen to professionals. It's best to get a three-month-old kitten from a regular cattery. At that time, the kitten had already learned what it should learn from the mother cat. , such as getting close to people and using the cat toilet, etc. Initial socialization ability. The master looks cute, but he is not so easy to serve." Seeing Wang Jiayi's eagerness to move, Lin Lan persuaded, "Okay, The second floor is here, you go back to rest, I'm going upstairs to sleep too."
Only then did Wang Jiayi realize that she had reached the stairs on the second floor. She blushed a little after realizing that her previous timidity had been seen, and when she was embarrassed to say something thankful, Manager Lin yawned and walked upstairs. .
The eldest lady was left slightly moved.
Lan Lan, what a nice guy.
In total, after two people stayed up late at the cat teahouse with one manager and two employees, it was logical to delay the opening of the shop the next day, and it took a long time to open until the afternoon teahouse.
Xiao Song, an employee who was forced to take a half-day leave: "..."
Thanks to him, he already knew that the store manager did not pursue how to make money from the beginning, and it seemed that he had found a new way to make more money.
However, it seems that because it was not open in the morning, the guests thought that the teahouse was not open today, and no one came in the afternoon.
So, at the moment, only the staff and a group of cats are left doing nothing in the store.
At this time, Wang Jiayi was sitting behind the water bar, holding her mobile phone and frantically posting the kitten videos and pictures she took last night in the group. This is what Tang Xiaoya, who couldn't stay up late, said she wanted to watch. The two women were in the group non-stop. Discussing the color of the cat, and also said that the store manager ordered a gray and white kitten.
Song Xinmin watched the photo of the kitten in the group for a while, then looked up at the group of cats in the store who were idle, and suddenly discovered an aesthetic hobby of the store manager.
— The store manager seems to like cats with squares or scarves on their chests.
Not to mention the top brand Ragdoll cat sapphire, blue mountain bicolor, blue eyes, and thick chest hair on the neck is very beautiful.
Then there is the largest Maine Coon cat in the store, Mercury, with silver-spotted fur and a big white scarf on the chest.
Jinjila silver not only has a big scarf, but also has a big tail like a feather duster.
It is the orange cat gentleman among the shorthair cats. There is also an inverted triangle square scarf white hair on the chest, and the color of white gloves with four claws is also dignified and charming.
The cats above are all stray cats that the store manager picked and retrieved by herself without exception. This time, I added a little milk cat with the same color distribution as the mother cat year after year. It is not good to say that the preference is not obvious.
… but she herself seems to be completely unaware of it.
Song Xinmin's video tour found Manager Lin who was leaning against the back door.
Yes, lie down.
Because the weather was getting warmer, the kotatsu table that was used in winter was removed, and it returned to the original bed-type cushion, on which Lin Lan was lying comfortably. And, a Maine Coon cat is standing on her back, and her two front paws are pressing back and forth on her back waist.
"Yes, it's right here, step on it well." Manager Lin, who uses the big cat as a masseuse, is playing with his mobile phone while supporting the cat staff without turning his head, "A little more effort, Mercury, you are the only cat in the entire teahouse. Eat the most and pull the most, you have the strength to eat small dried fish to grab canned food, take it out!"
The big cat, which has been raised more than one meter long, did not say a word, and continued to massage the store manager. Song Xinmin felt that the cat really understood the words, and the pressure it pressed really increased.
But the wicked store manager did not let go of the poor debt cat, and Tiempo viejo kept saying, "Alas—it was agreed that you would come to the teahouse to work and pay off your debts, when will you pay off the canned money and when will you be released. As a result, These few months have passed, not only did you not repay one of your canned food debts, but you also owe me more canned food, tell me, what should you do in the future?"
The mighty and handsome big cat lowered its head even lower, and Song Xinmin almost died of laughter with the look of knowing that he had made a mistake. The reason why he likes to stay in this teahouse is not only the good welfare, but also the interaction between the manager of the tenth-level cat language and the kittens.
But at this time, his professional instinct was faster than his consciousness. He raised his hand and raised his DSLR to snap this scene.
That's right, he also took out his equipment when he had nothing to do, flipped through the photos he had taken, and constantly adjusted the camera's values with reference to it.
His click also alerted the resting store manager and the nearby cats. One person and several cats all looked at him. Song Xinmin couldn't help but press the shutter again with the highly consistent confused expression.
"Xiao Song..." The store manager squinted at him.
Song Xinmin immediately explained with a smile: "Because it's very interesting, you'll know when I print out the photo, the store manager."
Lin Lan imagined the third point of view where she let the Maine Coon cat step on her back, and suddenly found it quite interesting, so she didn't bother, but she didn't continue to lie down: "Xiao Song, you put the ear mites on the back of the counter. Drops and cotton swabs, and I'll clean up Gray."
Unlike other cats who have been here for a few months or even more than half a year, Gray's new cat has some minor problems because it doesn't let people get close to her. Deworming is being carried out regularly, ear mites are one of them, but It's almost over, it's almost done.
Song Xinmin hurriedly picked up the job and left, fetching medicine for the store manager.
And Lin Lan got up to look for the cat.
The leopard cat Gray was not in the lobby of the store, but in the narrow courtyard at the back door. When Lin Lan found it, the cat was sharpening its claws on the support column of the wooden round table, and the pointed hooks of the long cut claws were left on the column. Under the criss-cross traces.
Suddenly, the back of its neck was grabbed by someone, and the leopard cat, which had lost all resistance at once, was lifted up in midair and turned around. A pair of cat eyes saw the gloomy face of Manager Lin.
"G... Ray..." The terrifying two-legged beast stretched its voice and stared at it, "I told you, kittens can't scratch or scratch on furniture. There are special scratching boards for cats. You don't have to, you came behind to do damage? You have no more fish this month!"
"Meow!"
The leopard cat let out a scream, but there was no cat sympathy, and the other two-legged beasts schadenfreude laughter.
"Meow—" (Don't deduct my little dried fish!)
Being carried all the way into the store by Lin Lan, what Gray was thinking about was not to resist, but to fight for his own dried fish. Since the cats gave it a piece of roasted dried fish from the old Zhou family last time, the leopard cat has been conquered by the taste. Although it is still cold, sometimes it will compromise a few times in order to eat the dried fish. For example, asking the other two employees in the store to hug or even help with a haircut or something, it gradually became able to bear it.
But it is limited to the temptation of dried fish, and the others are still not thrown away.
Lin Lan is now taking hold of this temptation to make the cat gradually obedient.
"Want to eat it? That's fine." Manager Lin sat back on the cushion, put the cat on his lap, then picked up the ear mite medicine from Song Xinmin next to him and shook it in front of him, "Take it. How do you come down, do you understand?"
Cleaning up ear mites for cats is actually not a pleasant job, especially since the cat itself is quite uncomfortable. When he started to deworm Gray, if Lin Lan had not let Mo Mo and Mercury star together and kept giving warnings, the cat would have been long ago. It hurt people.
That is to say, later, it found that it became more and more comfortable in the ear, and then gradually lowered and struggled, but it still hated the feeling that the ear was being pulled and digged and the jar filled with medicine.
"It's the last time, I won't go after I'm done." Half coaxing and half persuading, the little leopard cat obediently lay on Lin Lan's lap and asked her to pull her ears and apply medicine.
Lin Lan poured the glycerin mixed with the medicine into both ears of the leopard cat, then squeezed it tightly and rubbed it carefully for a while before letting it go. The first time the leopard cat was free, the leopard cat instinctively shook its head wildly, and there was a potion for cleaning ear mites. It's all thrown out in no time.
comfortable.
Gray felt that his ears became fresh again, he looked back at Lin Lan, and then fled as quickly as a dog, for fear of what she would do if he was caught again.
"This timid cat..." She shook her head amusingly and muttered. Lin Lan was about to screw the lid of the medicine bottle tightly when a cat suddenly jumped onto her lap and sat upright.
It's the Russian Blue Cat Grey Grey.
"What's the matter, Hui Hui?" Lin Lan was surprised. Didn't he lie down in the window area with the gentlemen and bask in the sun before, why did he suddenly come to her to act coquettishly.
"Meow!" (Lan Lan, Gray painted it, I want to paint it too!)
The kitten answered her doubts, and Manager Lin became even more confused.
However, Hui Hui, you don't need to take medicine if you are not sick.
However, the kitten didn't listen. It said that Gray had something it had to have. As a future agent, Meow, it had to prove that it was better than Gray.
Manager Lin: "..."
Good kitty, no problem kitty. Manager Lin, who pets cats, said that all requirements can be met.
So Song Xinmin, who has been observing here, saw that the store manager really unscrewed the cap of the medicine bottle again, and really put some medicine on the cotton swab, grabbed the pointed ears of the Russian blue cat, and began to wipe it.
Does it matter? Song Xinmin was a little nervous, because everyone knew that medicine could not be used indiscriminately.
However, when he subconsciously got closer to look, he realized that the store manager was using a simple cleaning solution, and the kitten could be used for daily care even if it was not sick, so he felt relieved.
Song Xinmin originally thought that it would be over at this point, but Hui Hui very cleverly used his claws to pick up the bottle of glycerin that Gray used in the end, meaning that this should also be done, and it cannot be ignored.
he:"… "
I feel that the cats raised by the store manager have become refined, and they are too smart to understand human nature.
"Alright, I'll use it for you, too." Lin Lan readily agreed and picked up the bottle.
Then, without opening the lid, it started pouring into the cat's ear, "filling" one ear, "filling" the other ear, and then rubbing it all the same as with the ocelot.
"Wow, Gray, you are awesome!" At the end, the store manager exaggeratedly praised the blue cat, "You are braver than Gray! You are really the best kitty!"
At first, Hui Hui, who was always shaking her head because of itching, felt that something was not right, but after being praised like this, the kitten suddenly forgot everything, ran away happily with her head held high, and continued to return to the window area to sit upright again. Began to act as a beautiful fake cat.
Song Xinmin, who watched the whole process of the kitten being fooled: "..."
The store manager is still the store manager, and there are new routines at any time.
Lin Lan ignored the complicated mental process of Xiao Song's staff, and hummed a little song and put the medicine back in the cabinet behind the bar.
As soon as I got up, the doorbell made a loud noise because the door was pushed hard. A little girl ran in and went straight to the window compartment.
"Meow, Huang Meow!"