Chapter 521: Gang

Zhang Zian opened the rolling shutter door and led Zhan Tian back to the store.

The elves had already woken up. Fina was lying on the cat climbing frame. Seeing that he had returned empty-handed, she asked unhappily, "Where is my breakfast? Did you feed yourself when you went out?"

"Wait a while, it's too early, it's not ready yet." In order to avoid listening to it, Zhang Zian didn't take off his coat, picked up a broom and shovel and went out again to clear the snow and ice in front of the store.

Wang Qian and Li Kun couldn't come here today, so he had to do all the cleaning work by himself. The characteristic of a pet store is that even if it is not open for business during holidays, the cat litter must be changed, the dog poop must be shoveled, and the room must be disinfected and sterilized. If these heavy tasks are done, why not just keep opening the door? What about making money in business?

That's Zhang Zian's plan. Anyway, there is no arrangement, the door will be open as usual today, and if there are customers, it will be considered as a profit.

The pedestrian flow on the sidewalk at the entrance is not small. The snow is trampled on during the day and melts a little bit, and freezes again at night. It cannot be cleaned by sweeping alone, and it is often smashed and shoveled with a shovel. .

Zhang Zian worked very hard, not because he wanted to be a model citizen, but because if an old man or woman slipped and fell in front of his shop and got injured, he would not be able to pay for it by selling his pants.

While he was working, a slender figure passed by him and walked into the currently empty pet shop.

Zhang Zian was a little puzzled, thinking that there are customers coming in so early on the first day of the new year? Is it a good start?

However, before he had time to be happy, the figure pushed the door out of the store again. It took no more than 10 seconds to enter and exit. Zhang Zian raised his head and saw only a man in a short white down jacket and blue jeans. The girl left in a hurry to the north.

Probably went wrong?

He didn't care, there were occasional people who found the wrong place and continued to shovel snow and remove ice.

After a while, he returned to the shop with a big broom and a shovel on his shoulders. Then he packed up the cat litter and dog feces as usual, and prepared to take them outside and throw them away when the sanitation workers came over. When he passed the cash register, he seemed to notice something out of the corner of his eye, and then turned back.

There was a piece of paper pasted behind the computer screen at the cash register, and when he took it off, it was another dog hunting notice, exactly the same as the one he saw on the lamppost.

So, the girl who entered the store just now is the owner? Even looking for a dog, I found a pet store. It was really urgent and rushed to the doctor.

He walked out of the store with garbage bags and piled them in a designated place outside the store. At this moment, a horn sounded softly, and Sun Xiaomeng drove his car to the side of the road.

"Hey, happy new year!" Zhang Zian raised his hand in greeting.

Sun Xiaomeng rolled down the car window, did not look at his face, but stared at the paper in his hand, "Happy New Year, what is that paper you are holding?"

"This? Someone posted a dog hunting notice. Do you think it's interesting? The dog hunting notices have all been sent to pet stores." Zhang Zian held the paper for her to read.

Sun Xiaomeng took the paper, frowned and said to himself, "I haven't found it yet..."

Hearing her tone, Zhang Zian seemed to know about this, and he became curious, and asked, "Did you go to your clinic to post the notice?"

Sun Xiaomeng pointed to the phone number on the notice and said, "She is a regular customer in my store, and she often brings her dog to my store for vaccinations and physical examinations... Tuantuan's sterilization operation is also done in my store. Seeing that her dog is lost and looking for it everywhere, I feel very sad."

"Oh, no wonder."

It turned out to be an acquaintance of Sun Xiaomeng, Zhang Zian expressed his understanding.

"It seems that a lot of dogs have been lost recently. In my clinic alone, two or three dogs who come for regular physical examinations have been lost." She handed the notice to Zhang Zian again.

"So many?" Zhang Zian was deeply surprised. Her clinic was quite small, but two or three dogs were lost in a short period of time. When it expanded to the nearby urban areas, the number was quite a lot.

He thought for a while, and relayed Aunt Li's words about dog trapping to her, and then asked, "Do you think it's possible? Doesn't it mean that there are very few dog traps in cities?"

Sun Xiaomeng thought about it for a while,

He replied: "There are indeed very few people in the city who wear dogs, but you see, the Spring Festival will be soon, and many people are short of money at this time, and they may have misguided ideas. It is cold now, and many people wear masks when they go out. It’s okay to be caught by surveillance, so some people will take the risk. Whether these dogs are sold or sold to dog meat restaurants, they are worth a lot of money.”

Zhang Zian glanced at the passers-by. Indeed, as she said, there are at least five or six of the ten people wearing scarves and masks. It is strange to wear a mask in summer, but it is different in winter, especially now that many people wear masks. To prevent smog.

"I think it's more profitable to return things to their original owners." He pointed to the 10,000 yuan remuneration on the notice and smiled.

"He's not that stupid. He took your dog and took the risk to return it to you. Who knows whether he will receive a reward or be beaten up..."

Just kidding, Zhang Zian also knew that no one would do such a stupid thing.

"Your clinic is not closed today on New Year's Day?" he asked.

She had a look of regret on her face, "I was planning to take a rest... By the way, you should be free today, right? The girl who posted the notice should be waiting for me at the clinic now, and she wants me to help her make up her mind, or you can come with me A trip? You have a lot of ghost ideas in this area, so just treat it as a good deed."

Zhang Zian: "...do you think I look very idle?"

"Like!" she replied succinctly.

But it was really free, Zhang Zian was also a little curious about this matter, so he pulled down the shutter door and locked it, sat in the co-pilot seat, and came to the clinic with her.

The girl in the white down jacket and blue jeans just now was waiting at the door of the clinic. She put her hands in her pockets and kept looking around. Maybe she was waiting for Sun Xiaomeng's arrival, or maybe she hoped to see her dog.

"Sister Xiaomeng!"

Seeing Sun Xiaomeng getting out of the car, she hurried up to meet her, and then noticed Zhang Zian who got out of the car together, and felt that he looked familiar...

Sun Xiaomeng took out the key to open the door, and introduced: "This is Ning Lan, my customer and friend. This is Zhang Zian. You just posted a notice in his pet shop. Didn't you see him?"

Only then did Ning Lan recall that she was puzzled when she saw the pet store was open but no one was there, but she thought of him as a street sweeper...

"I'm sorry, I hardly fell asleep last night, and now I'm in a daze, I didn't notice you just now." She said apologetically to Zhang Zian.

Zhang Zian noticed that the dark circles around her eyes were quite obvious, and knew that she wasn't lying. It seemed that she was exhausted looking for a dog.

"It's okay, I was sweeping snow at the time, and you didn't know that I was the owner... But I want to ask, why did you come to the pet store to post a notice when you were looking for a dog?" He asked curiously.

"Well..." She was very embarrassed, glanced at Sun Xiaomeng, and said hesitantly: "I was thinking, if someone finds my dog, maybe it will be sold in a pet store... I have also bought other pets before. I posted it in the store, but I was not allowed to post it, and there was no one in your store at the time. I wanted to go in and look for my dog, but I thought it was not good, so I ran out after posting the notice... ..."

"I remember your dog is 3 years old. I don't have such a big dog in my store." Zhang Zian proved his innocence.

Sun Xiaomeng pushed open the clinic door and signaled, "Don't freeze outside, come in and talk."

Ning Lan and Zhang Zian followed her into the clinic one after another, and he immediately saw the same notice posted on the cash register.

Nurse Long Xian is not here, so she must be on vacation.

Sun Xiaomeng invited them into the office, turned on the electric heater, took off his coat, and introduced to Ning Lan again: "Please explain the situation to him in detail, he has a lot of ideas in this regard, maybe he can help you don't look at it." He runs a pet shop, and even the captain of our city's criminal police owes him favors."

Zhang Zian thought about it for a long time, but he didn't know whether the words were complimenting him or belittling him...

Ning Lan immediately looked at him with admiration, and hope was rekindled in her heart. Ever since her Tuantuan was lost, her parents have been moaning and wiping tears all day long. She was worried that her parents would be overwhelmed. She searched everywhere in the neighborhood for the past few days, but there was no clue at all. Just help.

She cleared her throat and told the whole story from the beginning in detail.

Ning Lan's parents are teachers at Binhai University and have retired. She is also a graduate student at Binhai University. She doesn't live in a dormitory but lives at home. Every morning and evening, she takes Tuan Tuan to walk her dog near the family courtyard. Nothing ever happened. Tuantuan is a not-so-pure Samoyed, very friendly, whether it is an old man or a child, it never bites, or even screams loudly, and the old people and children in the yard also like it very much. After a long time, she didn't use the rope to hold it, because she felt that it was very pitiful to be held.

That day, she walked the dog as usual. It's winter vacation, and while walking with Tuan Tuan, she scrolls through the WeChat group, discussing holiday plans and arrangements with her classmates.

As we walked, a stray cat jumped by, and Tuantuan excitedly chased it away. It was purely for fun, and had no intention of hurting the stray cat, Ning Lan emphasized.

Zhang Zian recalled the process of going to Binhai University to capture Richard. There were indeed many stray cats near the university, and none of them were afraid of people, because students and faculty members would always feed them.

Ning Lan said, Tuantuan had chased cats before, but of course they couldn't catch up. Cats are too nimble, and if Tuantuan lost it, they would run back by themselves, or stand where they were and wait for her to pass. She had just typed halfway through a message at the time, and seeing that Tuantuan was chasing the cat again, she called it twice absent-mindedly to let it come back. She sent the message, and saw that Tuantuan had lost the cat again, and stopped at the corner of a building in a daze, waiting for her to pass.

Ning Lan walked over unhurriedly, looking down at her phone from time to time, waiting for her classmates to respond.

Speaking of this, Ning Lan recalled that Tuantuan was waiting for her at the corner. After a while, she seemed to be attracted by something. She shook her head to look to the other side of the corner, and then walked across the corner.

At that time, Ning Lan called it twice, but she still didn't feel that anything would happen, she just quickened her pace a little, but when she came to the corner, she completely lost track of it. Disappeared without warning.

She couldn't find Tuantuan, so she was a little nervous, but the long-term comfort made her not think of the bad, or dare not think of the bad, thinking that Tuantuan got into the corridor or hid behind the trash can. She searched the area all over, but she still couldn't find any shadows, and only then did she panic completely.

After searching for half an hour, it was getting dark. Ning Lan took a chance and called home to ask if Tuantuan had gone home by herself. Mother answered the phone and said in surprise, no, didn't Tuantuan go for a walk with you?

"I should calm down." Ning Lan covered her face with her hands and sighed, "I should tell my parents that Tuantuan was borrowed to play at a friend's house for a few days, so at least the old couple won't be so sad..."

Sun Xiaomeng patted her on the shoulder and comforted her: "Tuantuan may not have an accident, and it's too late to regret it now. You should finish the matter first."

Ning Lan wiped the corners of her eyes and continued speaking with a nasal voice.

After her parents found out that Tuantuan was lost, they rarely scolded her bloody, scolding her for always playing with her mobile phone even while walking the dog. She knew she was wrong, and her parents were angry, so they didn't dare to speak back. After cursing, the old couple put on their clothes and came out with a flashlight to help her find it.

In the cold weather, they searched until 8 o'clock in the evening, and searched all around the family courtyard. Their faces were frozen blue and their voices were hoarse, but they still couldn't find Tuantuan.

Until then, for the first time, they had the idea that "Tuantuan might not be able to get back".

Under Ning Lan's hard persuasion, they returned home for the time being. Her parents are retired faculty members of Binhai University, and they know a lot of people in the family home, so they called around to ask for help, while Ning Lan posted on Weibo, Moments, and found some people on the Internet to help find the lost dog. number, and printed a dog hunting notice, and posted it around the next morning.

Her parents stayed at home with their mobile phones waiting for calls. Occasionally, someone would call and say that they saw a similar dog, but after careful questioning, they knew that it was not Tuantuan from their family. The repeated disappointments made the mother, who already had a bad heart, stay in bed due to physical discomfort...

Two days passed, and there was no news from Tuantuan, and the chances of finding it were getting lower and lower. Ning Lan regretted it a long time ago. She tried to tell her parents that if she couldn't find it, she would buy another dog, but they were unwilling to live or die, so they wanted Tuantuan... Why is she not like this, even if she buys another dog, She still has Tuantuan's safety in her heart.

"Didn't you ask the security guard to watch the surveillance?" Zhang Zian interrupted.

"I found it. The family courtyard is an old community. Although some surveillance cameras have been installed recently, there are many dead spots." Ning Lan explained.

She finished, sobbing softly.

Sun Xiaomeng comforted her, took out her mobile phone and said, "Look at this."

Zhang Zian and Ning Lan went over to take a look. On the screen was a message from a customer surnamed Li to Sun Xiaomeng. The time was last night. It was stolen. If you meet a dog that looks similar to Mao Mao, please contact me as soon as possible.

Then there was another message, which was sent by a customer surnamed Qian. The time was around 6:00 this morning, that is, less than two hours ago. , please cancel the appointment in the morning. I'm sorry to cause you trouble.

Zhang Zian gasped, looking at it like this, there must be a dog gang operating nearby...