The next morning, Xiao Celery passed by the pet shop again.
Today the owner and his wife did not stand at the door, but were busy inside the store.
After a while, the middle-aged woman noticed a small figure standing at the door. Looking back, she found that it was Little Celery that would appear on time from Monday to Friday.
"Good morning." She waved to Little Celery.
"Good morning." Little Celery also waved, but didn't run away immediately like usual.
The middle-aged woman thought about the thoughts of the child, and immediately understood that she also had children after all.
"Do you want to see the lop-eared rabbit?" She asked with a smile.
"It... didn't it run away today?" Little Celery searched for a reason.
"Ah, I haven't run away yet, do you want to come in and take a look?" She invited again.
Little Celery hesitated and did not express her opinion right away.
"I... I don't buy pets."
"It's okay, it's okay if you don't buy it." She added with a smile: "Just take it as a thank you for helping us stop it yesterday."
Little Celery told herself in her heart, I just went in to see the rabbits, and didn't talk to them, and I didn't go with strangers either.
"Then... that's fine."
Little Celery stepped into the store cautiously, looked at the decorations and various pets in the store with curiosity, and glanced at the middle-aged couple from time to time, ready to run away at any time.
The middle-aged couple acted as if she didn't exist, working skillfully while chatting about household chores.
Little Celery saw the lop-eared rabbit in a cage. At that time, the pet store seemed to divide the areas according to the type of pets. Next to the lop-eared rabbit, she also saw a hamster, which was also a rodent pet, which was also very cute.
The lop-eared rabbits and hamsters all gathered on one side of the cage, as if anxiously waiting for breakfast. There were fresh vegetables and nuts outside the cage, but they couldn't eat them across the cage.
She looked back at the middle-aged couple.
"You can feed them if you want, and we can save trouble," they said.
Still the same sentence, children's minds are too easy to guess.
Seeing the lop-eared rabbit and the hamster finish their breakfast contentedly, Little Celery was as happy as if she had just had a delicious meal.
"Oh! Oops! We're going to be late!" She looked at her watch and realized that she had been delayed here for too long.
"Go to school quickly, you can watch rabbits any day." The middle-aged couple laughed.
"Bye...bye!"
Little Celery ran out of the store in a panic, and ran towards the school. After running a few steps, she suddenly remembered something, and stopped to look back.
"Odd... pet shop."
The second character has too many strokes, so she doesn't know it, but the teacher teaches new Chinese characters every day, and she will definitely know it in the future.
When eating dinner this day, my mother was not as distracted as yesterday. She also talked and laughed when Xiao Celery talked about the interesting things in school during the day. It seems that yesterday's work was done well.
"Mom..." Little Celery took a sip of the soup, and peeped nervously at her mother's face, "The lop-eared rabbit...seems very cute."
"No way." Mom seemed to have guessed what she was thinking, and she refused straight away, "Our family does not keep pets, which will affect our studies and take care of them. It is also very troublesome. The most important thing for students is to study. If you want to raise them, you can wait until you grow up. keep."
The reason is very common. Basically, when children begged to buy pets but were rejected by their parents, they heard the same reason, even the wishes they made were the same, as if they could do anything when they grow up... After all, parents hope Children become dragons and phoenixes. Since ancient times, keeping pets can be attributed to the category of playing with things and losing one's mind.
"oh."
Maybe Xu Zhuangzhuang would lie on the ground and roll around until his wish is fulfilled, and promise that keeping a pet will not affect his studies, just like buying a computer will not affect his studies... But Xiao Celery didn't say anything more, just kept silent drink soup.
Fortunately, she would stop by the pet shop for a while every day when she went to school and feed the lop-eared rabbits and hamsters by herself. As for the evening when school was over, she would have had more time, but there were always other customers in the pet shop at that time, so she just kept silently Take a look outside the store and look forward to the brief moments the next morning.
Then one day, the daily, repetitive cycle suddenly and without warning stopped.
That day, the pet shop, which would open early regardless of the weather, was not open.
Little Celery stood outside the shutter door of the store and waited for a while, then looked up at the second floor, did the owner and his wife sleep late
She waited and waited, but there was no movement in the store.
It was almost class time, and she couldn't wait any longer, so she could only run away regretfully.
After school in the afternoon, when she passed by the pet store, she found that the store was still closed.
The next day, the third day, the fourth day... As long as it was school days, Little Celery came to wait at the door every day, but the pet shop never opened, and Little Celery never saw the lop-eared rabbit and hamster again.
Every afternoon when she ran past the store, she saw some elderly grandmas and grandpas pointing at the pet store and talking in a low voice. She couldn't hear what they were saying, but felt that they were moaning.
In those few days, her mood was inexplicably low, and her mother was a little surprised, thinking that she was sick or being bullied by her classmates, but taking her body temperature was normal. I contacted the school teacher, but there was no feedback that anyone bullied little Celery. The teacher also noticed that Xiao Celery was a little unhappy, but thought it was something wrong with her family.
However, Little Celery's gloom did not last long, because the pet shop was open again. Although the owner of the shop was no longer the kind middle-aged couple, the shop door was still open to her.
Reopening pet stores have changed a lot, not only in terms of layout and furnishings, but also in people.
The shopkeeper's aunt and uncle are gone, and the new shopkeeper's elder brother can come up with strange ideas almost every day. When she comes every day, she feels that the pet shop is different from yesterday.
She saw with her own eyes that there are more and more clerks in the pet store, from the two silly clerk brothers to the cashier sister who draws well, to the fish sister who always stays with fish...
She saw with her own eyes that there were more and more pets in the pet shop, all kinds of cute cats and dogs, and strange fish...
She saw with her own eyes that there were more and more customers in the pet store. When school was over in the afternoon, the store was often crowded with people, and sometimes they even lined up outside.
There are also those cats, dogs, and birds that seem unusual, all appearing in the pet store like magic.
She's seen it all change firsthand, before anyone else.
Most importantly, there is more and more laughter in the store.
Little Celery likes to stay in the pet shop very much. She still misses the former shop owner and couple, but prefers the current shop manager and shop assistants.
Ah, one more thing, the teacher taught new Chinese characters, and she finally got the pronunciation and font right, so she can write the name of the shop on her road map.
The second character of the store name is pronounced as "Yuan".