into the night.
Marina City.
Wonderful Pet Shop.
The street is quiet, and the wind in the spring night is still quite cold.
bang bang.
Knock knock knock.
There was a strange knocking sound outside the closed rolling shutter door. The knocker seemed to slap the rolling shutter door twice with his palm, and then knocked three times with his knuckles.
inside the door.
Zhang Zian held his breath, put one ear on the rolling door, and listened quietly.
After confirming that the knocking sound did not reappear, he lowered his voice, opened the shutter door a little bit, and the steps above the ground were only two fists high, and then pushed the three packs of dog food out of the door.
Brush it.
The three packs of dog food were picked up by someone outside the door, and they turned around and left.
Hearing the sound of footsteps moving away, Zhang Zian lowered the rolling door.
During the whole process, the two of them didn't say a word, they didn't even fart.
"..." The elves in the shop looked at him speechlessly.
Old Cha said distressedly: "Zian, are you a thief?"
Zhang Zian: "... Well, no, Mr. Cha, isn't there nothing I can do? If the customer needs it, I have to serve the customer! Mr. Lu Xun taught us to serve the customer!"
Old Cha recalled a little, "I am old and not talented, and I was born in the same era as Mr. Lu Xun. On the way to see off my relatives, Miss Wu's family read Mr. Lu Xun's articles in magazines to the old man more than once, but it seems that I have never heard of this sentence..."
Snow Lion spat, "A stinky man who talks all day long!"
Richard fluttered his wings and said narrowly: "Quack! According to my intuition, the man outside the door just now should be a man, as the saying goes-the willow on the moon, the man who made an appointment with the chrysanthemum..."
Before it finished speaking, a towel thrown by Zhang Zian hit his head and face.
Fei Masi sighed, "Zian, how long will this confinement life last? The filming was almost finished, but there was such a sudden incident... I don't know if it will start until the year of the monkey..."
"This...I'm afraid no one dares to make a judgment at present. We can only look at the arrangements of the country, provinces and cities. Besides, it is not only our crew that is affected, other crews that are filming are also doomed. What's more unfortunate is that Those movies that were scheduled to make a lot of money in the Spring Festival stalls have all lost their money, so thinking about the good, we are also lucky in misfortune, at least we can use this time to do post-production, which is equivalent to finishing the film after filming. I’m moving my work to the present, anyway, those nerds who are in the later stage can work online.”
Richard shook off the towel, "I feel your deep malice towards otaku..."
No way, due to well-known reasons, normal life has now come to a standstill, every house is closed, shops are closed, and any place that may gather a large number of people is suspended due to force majeure, including pet stores.
"This Spring Festival, I had planned everything, to travel abroad, to learn a foreign language, to have a beautiful relationship... but it was all messed up!" Zhang Zian sighed.
"Gah? Even if it didn't happen, you're still dreaming, right?" Richard said.
Zhang Zian ignored the bitch's complaints, looked around at the kittens and dogs in the room, and said worryingly: "Now that the business has plummeted, pets can't be sold, so I can only sell cat food and dog food to subsidize my life, and I can only do it secretly." Sell… "
Everyone wants to raise pets from a young age, because everyone thinks that pets raised from a young age will be more affectionate to their owners. Most of the pets that Zhang Zian introduced were more than three months old. When the business was normal, a batch of pets came in and sold out within half a month at most. Now...
Basically, kittens and puppies over four months old have become the key households in the store, and they are not very easy to sell. Zhang Zian has to fool around every time.
In fact, kittens and puppies older than four months will not have relative problems, especially for cats. Whether they have relatives or not has little to do with age, as long as there is no problem with socialization and education and they are not abandoned or abused. From a young age, they are still relatives, because the breed cats have eliminated unrelated or even fierce cats during the long process of directional breeding, but the character of rural cats needs to be drawn. I want to find someone like Siamese and Ragdolls Then it's quite difficult for a loved one's pastoral cat.
As for dogs, if you plan to train them seriously, it is indeed better to raise them from a young age, but how many people can really train dogs persistently? Most people keep pets just for fun. Some people buy a Bianmu and go back, vowing to train the dog, but in the end they are trained by Bianmu...
Every time a customer calls for a young pet, Zhang Zian will ask about the customer's situation. If the customer is raising a pet for the first time, he will strongly recommend the customer to get a slightly older pet, because young pets are not easy to take care of. Pets that are half a year old are more skinny.
If the current situation continues, it will not be a year until the business resumes. By then, all the kittens and puppies in the store will be over four months old. He will have to think carefully about his arguments.
The pet store is not a department related to the national economy and the people's livelihood. The most optimistic estimate is that it will be the last batch of shops that have been approved to resume business, so... life is sad.
There is nothing to complain about. After all, the whole country is a game of chess, and everyone is the same. His situation is not the worst. He can only find ways to alleviate it as much as possible.
Fortunately, almost half of the pet store's profit source comes from pet supplies and pet food, and the little money from selling pets has long starved to death.
Now that the transportation is inconvenient, express delivery has become slow or non-existent. Many customers have run out of consumables such as cat food, dog food, cat litter, and canned cats. Not only did the sales of pet consumables in Zhang Zian's store not be affected, but they sold better than before, because the express delivery was paralyzed.
However, since he couldn’t do business in a fair manner, he could only conduct underground transactions with customers quietly in the dead of night like this. Customers first place an order and pay on the second-hand trading platform, and then choose face-to-face transactions, come to the pet store to pick up the goods, and then confirm receipt .
Ding.
The second-hand trading app on his mobile phone sent a notification, the customer has confirmed receipt of the goods, and the money has arrived.
Many customers are worried that the situation will deteriorate further, especially families with more than one cat or dog. They are worried that cats and dogs who are used to imported cat food and dog food at home will run out of food. Because the situation abroad is even worse, they choose to stockpile food. Often one order is 10 to 20 kilograms of cat food and dog food, and the sales volume is so good that Zhang Zian has to artificially limit the purchase. Only customers who have bought pets in his store have priority to buy, and each person can buy up to three bags.
If the pet store can complement each other's profit and loss, the aquarium is in a state of pure loss.
In the past, the phrase "wealth is rich, hairy ones are not counted" was only on the lips, but now it has fallen into reality.
You can't just sit and eat like this, waiting for the vague reopening, you have to think of other ways...