The Egyptian Mau was the fastest among domestic cats.
Zhang Zian had seen Fina's attack in the air. It was as fast as lightning. The benevolent and righteous cat was a Dragon-Li, and it was an old cat. If it fought, it would be at a disadvantage. It might even get KO'd. However, the benevolent and righteous cat didn't seem to notice the weird atmosphere. It didn't put up any defense, and it didn't have any hair standing on end like other cats did when they were in danger.
As he was thinking about how to lighten the atmosphere, Xinghai interrupted and introduced itself, "Meow! Hi, I am Xinghai! "
Xinghai happened to block Fina's attack. Fina sneered and jumped onto the highest cat tree. Although Xinghai never showed any signs of aggression, Fina was still afraid of it, because it couldn't tell how strong Xinghai was.
Zhang Zian was relieved.
The benevolent and righteous cat laughed and said, "I am old and have forgotten my name. Just call me Old Time Tea."
Zhang Zian didn't believe that Old Time Tea really forgot its name. It probably just didn't want to say it. Old Time Tea was a good name. Its fur was brown with black stripes. Of course, it might also be because it liked drinking tea.
He introduced himself, "My name is Zhang Zian. You can call me Zhang Zian or Zian."
Xinghai happily circled around Old Time Tea, "Old Time Tea, do you want to play hide and seek?"
"Haha, my legs are not very good. You guys can play."
Old Time Tea declined, but Xinghai didn't mind. Zhang Zian and the kittens were there to play with it.
Zhang Zian thought for a while and asked, "Grandpa Tea, you must be tired from the journey. Do you want some tea to quench your thirst? Although we don't have any good tea at home … "
Old Time Tea immediately smiled and its whiskers curled up, "You are welcome. Tea is good enough. It's not like I haven't drunk tea that costs one copper coin a bowl by the roadside. "
Zhang Zian was a little thirsty after lunch, so he went upstairs. He first went to the kitchen to boil water, and then went to his parents' bedroom to find the best tea leaves in the house. He took out a set of tea set that was used as a display at home and washed it. After making the tea, he took it downstairs.
"Please."
He deliberately took out a short table from the storage room and put the teacup on it. This way, it didn't need to take off its hat or lean over to sip the tea.
Old Time Tea did not complain. It even praised the tea. However, Zhang Zian knew that compared to the water, tea, and tea set in the Teahouse in Hidden Fog, the things in his house were a bit shabby. The quality was several orders of magnitude lower. However, facing the pressure from Stars Pet Chain Supermarket, even if he knew that tea was a way to improve Old Time Tea's favorability, he couldn't spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy high-end tea leaves and tea sets.
After drinking a cup of tea, Old Time Tea leisurely looked into the distance and said, "I'm sighing when I'm old. Old friends are gone. Who will have tea with me in the afternoon …" Its expression was gloomy, as if it was reminiscing about the old days.
"My little friend, what's important isn't the tea, but the person you're drinking with," it lamented.
With Zhang Zian's current age and experience, of course, it was impossible for him to completely understand Old Time Tea's state. However, he also thought of the colleagues that he had worked with for a short time in the company, and the classmates that he had studied and played with in school. In his memory, although it hadn't been that long, it seemed as far away as the last century.
He hadn't told his high school and college classmates about his return to Binhai City. There were two reasons. First, he didn't think it was necessary, and he didn't want them to worry. Second, he felt that he was inferior to them. Other people were making careers in their companies and society, but he was staying here with his pets, living a life that was close to seclusion.
But did he regret it? His answer was definitely no.
…
The effect of Stars Pet Chain Supermarket's discount promotion was apparent. The number of customers in the afternoon seemed to be less than usual. Most of the customers were here to bathe the cats. But it didn't matter. From the first day he opened the store, he decided to go the route of "less, but better." As the people gradually became richer, the concept of consumption would definitely change from abnormal to normal. For a pet that could accompany you for 10 or 15 years, the initial price difference of two or three thousand dollars wouldn't make much difference. But if you sold a shoddy pet … Wasn't there a saying that people's eyes were always clear?
Justice may be late, but it would never be absent.
In the evening, Wang Qian and Li Kun arrived on time to help him clean up the store and the pet area. Then they had dinner together. Zhang Zian gave them the 100 yuan he earned for the day, let them go back to school, and closed the store.
Old Time Tea was not picky about its food at all. It ate whatever was given to it, and didn't care about the simple food. Of course, it wasn't really simple food. It was just that Zhang Zian's cooking skills were so modern that all the good dishes and meat became simple food in his hands.
It was still very respectful to Fina, but not the kind of respect that a subject would show to an emperor, and not the kind of respect that a slave would show to a pharaoh. In Fina's eyes, it was really rebellious. Zhang Zian was afraid that they would fight, so he had to temporarily separate them during dinner. Fina ate at the dining table on the second floor, and Old Time Tea ate on the first floor. Luckily, Old Time Tea didn't mind.
Zhang Zian felt that Old Time Tea was like an ancient hermit. It didn't fight for fame or money. It just picked chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, and looked at the southern mountain leisurely.
The more it didn't fight, the more he didn't dare to look down on it. The nickname "benevolent and righteous cat" didn't come from nowhere. In ancient China, the benevolent and righteous people didn't get angry, and they didn't fight. However, once they got angry and fought, their names would be written down in history!
Before going to bed that night, Zhang Zian wanted to vacate the storage room on the second floor for Old Time Tea, but Old Time Tea insisted that he didn't need to bother. He just wanted to give it a cushion and let it sleep on the first floor.
He remembered that in the Teahouse in Hidden Fog, Old Time Tea was lying near the stove for warmth. He knew that all old cats were afraid of the cold, so he took out the small electric blanket that he used when he was young. It still worked after plugging it in. Zhang Zian put a thick cushion in the corner of the wall on the first floor, covered it with the electric blanket, and asked Old Time Tea to lie on it.
Old Time Tea was very satisfied and thanked him repeatedly.
Zhang Zian thought that he could finally take back his bedroom from Fina, but Fina was very unhappy today. Zhang Zian didn't trust Fina and Old Time Tea to stay on the first floor at the same time.
"Xinghai, come here." He called Xinghai to the second floor.
"Zian, what's up?" Xinghai was confused.
Zhang Zian put his palms together and asked seriously, "Can you do me a favor? Can you help me keep an eye on them? Don't let them fight each other. "
"Help? Zian, you want Xinghai to help? "Her silver eyes were shining.
"That's right. This is something that only you can do."
"Great! Xinghai can help! Xinghai can help! "She was very happy and jumped up, eager to try.
What? Xinghai was so happy to help … Zhang Zian was very surprised and touched at the same time.
He remembered when he was a child, when his mother was very busy in the kitchen, she asked him to help. He was also very happy to be able to help his mother.
He always wanted to take care of Xinghai and let it play freely and happily, but he ignored Xinghai's feelings. Compared to playing, Xinghai wanted to help him more.
"Xinghai is such a good child," he whispered, just like what his mother used to tell him.
Zian is such a good child.
He seemed to hear his mother's voice again.
"Xinghai is a good child! Xinghai is a good child! "Xinghai was even happier.
Zhang Zian watched Xinghai walk around in circles and said, "Xinghai, I have a task for you!"
"Task?" Xinghai stopped jumping and looked at him confusedly.
"A very important task!" Zhang Zian said seriously, "Xinghai likes to have fun, right?"
"Xinghai likes to have fun! We can play hide-and-seek together! "Xinghai nodded.
Zhang Zian smiled, "That's right. We will have more and more friends in the future, and some of them may be …" He looked at Fina and lowered his voice, "Some of them may be as bad-tempered as Fina. I need you to maintain the peace in the shop! Xinghai, are you confident that you can do it? "
"Yes!" Xinghai said proudly.
"Good! I will leave this important task to you! "Zhang Zian encouraged.
Even so, he couldn't push everything to Xinghai. At the same time, he had to consider Fina's feelings. After all, cats were very territorial. If a new cat suddenly came to the house, the original cat would definitely be unhappy.
In order to separate Fina from Old Time Tea, he moved Fina's princess bed to his bedroom on the second floor.
"You sleep in your bed, and I sleep in mine. Is that okay?" he asked Fina.
Fina stared at him coldly, jumped onto her princess bed, pulled the light gauze curtain, and lay down on the bed.
Zhang Zian breathed a sigh of relief and lay down on his single bed. He looked at the cold night sky through the familiar window. He didn't get his bedroom back, but at least he got his bed back.
He was afraid that the favorability of Fina would drop again!
What was that saying again? Only women and kittens were hard to raise!
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