Chapter 462: Lu Yiyun's Big Adventure

The busy and fulfilling weekend has passed.

After sleeping in for two days, Zhang Zian got up early again on Monday morning, cleaned the shop briefly, and prepared lunch for Femas and the two police dogs—still beef stew with potatoes.

He received an official notice last night, and all crew members except him returned to the crew to report on Monday morning. As for him, today he and director Feng Xuan will go to the police dog training base in Binhai City to select dogs as substitutes, and temporarily bring these dogs back from the brink of death.

The police dog training base is usually not open to outsiders, and Zhang Zian has never been there before, so he doesn't know the reality of it, and he still has some small expectations in his heart.

Lu Yiyun came early as usual, and as soon as she entered the store, she could smell the mouth-watering aroma of beef. When she heard that Zhang Zian was leaving the store to report to the crew again, she immediately felt guilty, worried that she would not be able to handle the customers.

Zhang Zian encouraged her a few words, let her relax, and do business if it can be done, and don't force it if it can't. There are many more customers now than when he first took over the pet shop, and it is inevitable that they will raise some weird requests and questions, which even he can't handle, let alone Lu Yiyun who is new here.

Just as he was talking, the car horn rang twice outside the door. Zhang Zian turned his head to look, and as expected, it was Xiao Liu who came to pick him up again.

After instructing Lu Yiyun a few more words, he left the shop with Fei Max and got into Xiao Liu's car.

After Zhang Zian left, the store became quiet.

Compared to the weekend when customers flocked in, Lu Yiyun enjoyed the quietness of Monday morning. She turned on the computer, spread out the painting tools on the cash register table, let Jasmine lie on her lap, and prepared to take advantage of the first customer before she arrived. Draw for a while.

When Zhang Zian fed Snow Lion raw beef brisket, he also gave Jasmine a few pieces. Jasmine ate a lot, and yawned loudly, her body curled up into a ball, and she was used to using her master's legs as a second cat litter.

Before starting to write, Lu Yiyun stroked the cat for a while. She gently stroked the hair on the back of Jasmine's neck. She didn't know if it was a psychological effect. She felt that after eating raw beef brisket for a few days, her body became much stronger, and her hair became smoother, making it very comfortable to touch. She looked at the time number in the lower right corner of the computer, and whispered to herself: "Touch for three more minutes, not more than one second..."

The time of petting cats always feels very fast, and often the time slips away before you have enough fun.

In the quiet pet shop, the painting of the girl and the cat, which was originally an excellent picture, was suddenly broken by a scream!

"Help! Help!"

Lu Yiyun was so frightened that she trembled all over,

His hand trembled, maybe he accidentally pulled Jasmine's hair, it meowed softly, jumped off her lap, and jumped inside - exactly the direction the sound came from.

"Jasmine! Jasmine! Come back! Don't run around!"

The sudden cry for help made Lu Yiyun terrified, she didn't know what happened, why there was a cry for help from the pet shop, could it be that Zhang Zian didn't turn off the TV when he left?

Jasmine disappeared in the blink of an eye.

She looked around in bewilderment, and looked outside the store. Pedestrians and vehicles rush to and fro in the early morning, and no one has the intention of stopping to enter the store. Although I am very sorry for Zhang Zian, in fact, she usually prays that there will be fewer guests, but at this time she hopes that someone can come in casually to give her courage.

Wang Qian and Li Kun would not come so early. They are college students, so they go to bed late and get up late. Except for special circumstances, they basically come to the store no earlier than 10 o'clock every day. After they came, there were many things to do, such as shoveling the excrement and clearing the cat litter, and leading the puppies through the newly opened back door of the store to walk the dogs in the nearby uninhabited green space.

What should I do, should I call the police?

She squeezed the phone, her palms were sweaty.

After standing still for a long time, she decided not to call the police. She didn't know how to deal with the police. What if she called the police and found out that it was a false alarm? She doesn't know the private cell phone number of the policeman named Sheng Ke who often comes to the store.

"Jasmine! Jasmine!" She called out a few more times, but Jasmine still didn't come back.

The room returned to calm, Lu Yiyun bravely walked a few steps inside.

business as usual.

The black and white kittens were chasing and playing with a few Abyssinian cats, the golden cat and the white cat were lazily sleeping on the cat climbing frame, and the other kittens and puppies showed no abnormalities.

There was a buzzing TV in the corner, and she knew there was a small TV there, and there was an old cat wearing a bamboo hat and a long jacket, always lying there watching TV, it was a special scene in Qiyuan Pet Shop, anyone could watch it Everyone thought it was funny, everyone thought it couldn't understand the TV content, just pretending to be blind.

She walked over on tiptoe, the old brown cat turned its head and glanced at her slightly. For some reason, she always felt that its eyes were very kind and kind, like a grandfather who stayed in his hometown in the countryside.

It grinned, as if smiling at her, then moved to the side to make room, and waved its paw towards the open space, as if inviting her to watch TV together.

The fluff in the middle part of the old electric blanket has been bald and polished, and a few brown cat hairs can still be seen.

Lu Yiyun wasn't quite sure if she had misunderstood it. Was this old cat really inviting her to sit down and watch TV together?

There was a movie she had seen on the TV, which was "Ip Man 3". Of course, she didn't watch it in a movie theater. After all, she didn't have any friends who could go to the movies together, and she didn't even know which way the movie theater door opened... …

She waved her hand to show that she didn't want to see it, then gestured and asked, "My cat, Jasmine, is so big and yellow, do you know where it went?"

Lu Yiyun felt that she was so stupid, why did she have to talk seriously to a cat?

But the old brown cat seemed to understand what she meant, moved back regretfully, continued to stare at the TV intently, and shook his head when he saw the highlights, as if intoxicated by it.

No way? Can it really understand?

Lu Yiyun thought for a while, since Zhang Zian can teach a kitten to dance, it seems nothing unusual to teach an old cat to watch TV? But is there any point in teaching this?

She didn't get an answer from the old brown cat, so she went to the cat climbing frame and looked at the golden cat anxiously. The morning sun slanted in from the window and shone on its body. The tip of every hair shone with golden light, as if it was made of gold.

This cat seemed to have a big temper. She saw it meowing at Zhang Zian with a cold face several times as a demonstration, but Zhang Zian always gave in helplessly, so she was a little afraid of it when she first entered the store.

The golden cat noticed her gaze, opened its eyes a little, and looked at her with bright green eyes, as clear as ice and as sharp as a gun.

Lu Yiyun took two steps back in fear, widened the distance, and asked with gestures: "My cat, Jasmine, is so big and yellow, do you know where it went?"

She felt that her hands were shaking, and the cat's eyes were too aggressive. It's hard to imagine how Zhang Zian persisted... No wonder he was able to compete with the Asela cat who looked like a little leopard.

The golden cat only took one look, then lost interest in her, yawned lazily, and closed his eyes again, as if even barking was unnecessary.

However, there were a few meows coming from a slightly lower position. The white cat stared at her, stretched out its pink tongue to lick its lips, and meowed three more times.

Lu Yiyun is very familiar with this expression, it has the same expression every morning when it grabs the hem of Zhang Zian's trousers to give birth to beef brisket, while Zhang Zian's expression is always very embarrassed, and he needs to use one hand to grab the waist of his trousers, Only in this way can she prevent her pants from being taken off... Whenever this time comes, she will always look away in embarrassment.

"I don't live here, and I don't have brisket." She waved again.

The white cat curled its lips in disappointment, closed its eyes and took a nap like the golden cat.

"I'm sorry." She bowed her head and apologized. She herself wondered why she apologized so earnestly, since she had done nothing wrong.

She went around the room and searched carefully, but she didn't find Jasmine. Whether it was on the top of the shelf, under the recliner, behind the cat litter box, or in the bathroom... she searched all over, but she still couldn't find Jasmine. When passing by the reclining chair, she stared at it for a long time, resisting the urge to try lying on it—she thought the store manager lying on the reclining chair was very cool, no matter what kind of customers he could handle, she also wanted to be able to Become such a person, neither humble nor overbearing, neither shy nor speechless when facing strangers.

Maybe this reclining chair is some kind of golden finger, you can get some skills and points by lying on it, and maybe you can get some inexplicable store opening system...

She shook her head, restraining her wild delusions, probably because she read too many online novels.

The most important thing is to find Jasmine.

"Jasmine! Jasmine!"

Lu Yiyun yelled a few more times in a low voice, but Jasmine still didn't appear.

"Help! Help!"

The cry for help came again.

Although she had made some psychological preparations, Lu Yiyun still trembled with fright. This time she heard clearly that the cry for help came from upstairs, the second floor where Zhang Zian lived, and it sounded like a girl.

Her legs trembled slightly, and some bad imaginations emerged in her mind-could the shop manager kidnap and imprison the girl? There are many reports on this kind of thing on the Internet, both at home and abroad.

So you are such a store manager?

wrong! wrong!

Lu Yiyun denied her own thoughts, Mr. Store Manager is not such a person.

It's not that she trusts Zhang Zian blindly, but that she feels that such a perverted maniac cannot show sincere love for pets, so she trusts her eyes and intuition.

That being the case, what's the matter with this cry for help?

She was hesitating, but she saw the black and white kitten squatting two or three meters away at some point, looking at her with silver-gray eyes blinking.

Before coming to the pet shop to bathe Jasmine, Lu Yiyun had never seen or heard of a cat with silver-gray eyes, and was amazed every time she saw it. It seems to come from the second dimension, from another different world, and the boundary between reality and illusion becomes blurred on it.

There are many customers in the pet store, but few people have seen it. It often disappears when the customers come, and it doesn’t know where it hides—it must be very good at hiding. But when there was only Lu Yiyun in the store, it never hid.

"Do you know where my Jasmine has gone?" she asked hopelessly.

The black and white kitten tilted its head, as if it understood what she said, raised one of its front paws and pointed to the stairwell leading to the second floor, meowing.

"Is it upstairs?"

Lu Yiyun more or less guessed the answer. It was impossible for Jasmine to run out of the store. Since she had searched all over the first floor, she must have gone to the second floor, but the cries for help from upstairs made her hesitate.

The black and white kitten nodded.

"Can you understand me?" she asked in surprise.

Whether it is the old tawny cat, the golden cat, the white cat, or this black and white kitten, they all give her a strange feeling. They are not like cats, but like people—if you apply the common characters in comics They are the hidden old housekeeper in the castle, the domineering and arrogant young lady, the head maid who stays close to the young lady in a fluffy white maid outfit, and the mysterious child who is ignorant of the world.

So what is Zhang Zian's personality?

A young man who strayed into the castle?

It sounds like the protagonist of the manga...

The mind of a young illustrator slips away again without knowing it.

The black and white kitten didn't answer. It walked a few steps towards the stairwell, then turned around and waved to her.

"Let me go up with you? That's not good... After all, it's Mr. Store Manager's private residence..." She hesitated even more.

It blinked its silver-gray eyes and beckoned to her again.

"...Okay. I'll apologize to Mr. Store Manager when he comes back." Lu Yiyun murmured to herself as if comforting herself.

Following behind the black and white kitten, she walked up the stairs step by step to the second floor.

"Is... anyone there?" She summoned up her courage and asked in a low voice. In fact, she hoped that no one would answer.

"Help! Help! Help me down!"

Most of the rooms on the second floor had their doors tightly closed, except for one door that was ajar, leaving a gap, and the cry for help came from this room.

Strange, where did the black and white kitten go?

She obviously followed it all the time, but after going up to the second floor, it disappeared.

Lu Yiyun stared at this false door, as if it was a trap to invite you into the urn. Jasmine must have run into this door and got trapped.

Now that she has come here, whether it is for the girl calling for help or for Jasmine, she is not allowed to back down.

Emboldened, she grabbed the doorknob and pushed it open——

This is a very ordinary living room, with old-fashioned sofas with worn leather surfaces, old tea tables with mottled paint, carpets with no original pattern, and an outdated TV set.

From the ceiling hangs a globe-shaped chandelier with a string attached to it, the end of which is tied to the calf of a gray parrot. It stared upside down at Lu Yiyun with its little black eyes, and shouted: "You wage earner, what are you waiting for? Put me down quickly! Also, drive this damned cat away!" !"

Lu Yiyun: "..."

The gray parrot flapped its wings and swung like a pendulum. The thin rope is not long, and it is tied to its calf so that it cannot fly far and cannot find a place to stay, so it can only be hung upside down like this.

Jasmine was squatting just below the gray parrot, staring up at it, licking her lips from time to time, and trying to jump up to catch it, but unfortunately it was far away, but it still brought enormous psychological pressure to the gray parrot.

"What's wrong with you, why did you hang yourself up?" This scene was so weird that Lu Yiyun couldn't help asking.

She knew the gray parrot was talkative and liked to join in the fun, and many customers were amazed by his talking ability.

"Gah? I'm out of my mind, and want to hang myself up?" It yelled angrily, "It was that idiot Zhang Zian who hung me up!"

"Mr. Store Manager won't hang you up for no reason, did you do something bad?" Lu Yiyun asked.

"Bad thing?" it screamed, "I just accidentally dropped some shit on the bed sheet! Zhang Zian, that narrow-minded! Hanging me up for such a trivial matter, he deserves not to have a girlfriend!"

Lu Yiyun: "..." How disgusting!

"Is this your cat? Get rid of this damned cat first! It has no good intentions for me!" the gray parrot yelled loudly.

Lu Yiyun has never seen someone so arrogant while asking for more.

"It's called Molly," she said.

"Whether it's Jasmine or Lily, get rid of it quickly!" it shouted, "If this continues, I will become cat shit. This is a huge loss to human civilization!"

"Jasmine, come here." She said to Jasmine.

Jasmine glanced at the gray parrot reluctantly, then returned to her side meowing.

She carried Jasmine to the door, closed the door, thinking about what to do with the gray parrot.

Zhang Zian must have hung it here to punish it, so would it make him unhappy if she was good at putting it down?

"What are you still doing in a daze? Put me down quickly! There are scissors on the coffee table over there!" The gray parrot fluttered its wings, managed to fly a few more times, and soon exhausted its strength, and was hung upside down again.

"Did you imitate the girl's voice calling for help just now?" Lu Yiyun asked.

It shouted quite proudly: "Who else can it be besides me? Isn't it very similar?"

"Well, it's really similar." She nodded and admitted.

"It's good to know, why don't you put me down soon?" It stared at her.

"Wait a minute." Lu Yiyun took out her mobile phone, "I'll call the store manager and ask him."

"No!" the gray parrot tried to stop her, "Hey! Tell you no!"

Before she finished dialing the number, the phone rang suddenly, and the caller was Zhang Zian.

"Hello?" She answered the phone.

"Hello? Xiaoyun, go down to the second floor and put down the gray parrot in the living room. I forgot about it when I left." Zhang Zian said on the phone.

"Oh, I'm on the second floor and I heard it come up." She justified her behavior.

Zhang Zian paused, as if thinking for a while, and asked again: "Its voice... Did it scold me?"

"No!" cried the gray parrot, winking at Lu Yiyun desperately.

Lu Yiyun answered truthfully: "It called you an idiot."

"Oh, let's hang it for another 15 minutes." Zhang Zian decided decisively, "Anything else?"

"Say you deserve to have no girlfriend."

"Another 15 minutes!"

The gray parrot screamed angrily: "You are ruthless! You are cruel! You are making trouble for no reason! Put me down!"

"That's it for now. I still have something to do here. See you tonight." Zhang Zian ignored its protest and hung up the phone.

Lu Yiyun calmed down, checked the time, and put the phone back in her pocket.

"Mr. Store Manager said to hang you for another 30 minutes, and I will start the timer from now on." She said.

The gray parrot yelled: "You are an idiot too! Have a little opinion, okay! What about doing what you agreed to do? He told you to die, so are you going to die too?"

"Of course not." She shook her head, "Don't take me for a fool."

At this time, there seemed to be voices passing by in the alley outside the window.

The gray parrot seized the opportunity and imitated the girl's voice and screamed: "Help! Help!"

Pedestrians stopped when they heard the cry.

Lu Yiyun heard someone talking outside: "I think I heard a cry for help, should I call the police?"

"I seem to have heard..."

She walked to the window, opened it, and said to the passers-by downstairs, "I'm sorry, don't call the police, I'm watching a horror movie."

The passer-by looked up at her, then left in disappointment.

The gray parrot yelled with all his might, "Gah! Ga! You stupid humans, you're all idiots!"

"I advise you to save some effort, there are still 29 minutes." Lu Yiyun suggested seriously.

If we apply the common character design in comics, then this gray parrot should be the stable boy who always likes to cause trouble?

She quietly sat in a corner of the sofa, counting the time silently with her chin in her hands, and immersed herself in the fantasies of comics by the way.

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A chapter of nearly 6,000 words

Regarding the cover that everyone complained about, this is from the starting point, and it has nothing to do with me...