A minivan was parked in front of the Amazing Fate Pet Shop. There was an abstract cat outline painted on the door. This was the delivery vehicle for the Pets' Home Breeding Base.
Sun Yinian jumped out of the passenger seat and moved the pets into the shop with the driver.
There were no customers at this time, so Zhang Zian came to help.
In order to avoid being mixed up with the existing pets in the shop, he had already put the kittens back into the display cabinet.
After unloading, he handed the iced drinks he had prepared in advance to Sun Yinian and the driver, one for each of them. He checked the number of pets on the delivery list.
The number was correct. He opened the photo album on his phone.
He had taken pictures of all the pets he had picked last time. Now he needed to check if the pets were the ones he had picked.
"Don't worry, it's not wrong," Sun Yinian said impatiently.
Zhang Zian smiled and insisted, "I'll be more assured if I check it again."
Even biological brothers should be fair, not to mention that Zhang Zian and Sun Yinian were not biological brothers.
After checking, there was no problem.
Zhang Zian signed on the delivery list and then paid the balance to Sun Yinian through online transfer.
Now Zhang Zian had almost no money left. He kept selling pets and bringing in more goods. The money didn't stay in his hands for long, so he immediately transferred it out. Although in theory, his money was expanding like a snowball, it didn't feel real.
There was a saying, "A family is rich, but it doesn't count."
This saying was aimed at the breeding industry, not just the poultry and livestock breeding, but also the pet breeding industry. It meant that the breeding industry was not secure even if you had millions of assets. It could disappear overnight, whether it was a plague or a fire, whether it was a national policy adjustment or a change in the market environment. It could make you go from a millionaire to a pauper overnight.
Pet shops were considered the downstream of the breeding industry, so they were closely related to the breeding industry.
All of Zhang Zian's funds were invested in these furry pets. Once something happened to these pets, he would lose everything. Even if he didn't end up hanging himself from a building, he would at least suffer a great deal of damage.
The atmosphere suddenly relaxed. Sun Yinian and the driver each lit up a cigarette and took a breather. Since Zhang Zian had always been quick to make payments, and he never pushed the price too low, especially when they saw the good business of the Amazing Fate Pet Shop last time, they thought that Zhang Zian had plenty of money and was confident in the transaction. They never thought that he was already running out of money.
"Boss, can you recognize the breed of that golden cat?" The driver stood at the door and asked Sun Yinian with a cigarette in his mouth.
Zhang Zian did not allow them to smoke in the shop. If they wanted to smoke, they had to go outside.
"I don't recognize it." Sun Yinian shook his head. He didn't care. "Why care about that?"
"Hey, look, that Dragon-Li cat is still wearing a bamboo hat and a mandarin jacket, watching TV!" The driver's eyes were sharp. He patted the boss's shoulder, pointed at Old Time Tea and said excitedly, "City people really know how to play!"
Sun Yinian stretched his neck to take a look and clicked his tongue in wonder. However, he still said, "What nonsense are you talking about! How could cats watch TV? I'm just curious. "
Zhang Zian took out the empty cage for them. They were going to take the empty cage back.
"Boss Sun, I want to ask you something," he said.
The driver threw away the cigarette butt, said goodbye to Sun Yinian, and went to load the empty cage into the car.
"What is it?" Sun Yinian asked.
Zhang Zian thought for a while and asked, "Can you find a breeding grade cat for Ragdoll cats? Or something else, such as a Bengal cat, a Maine cat, or something like that would do. These cats have a high profit margin, and there is little competition in the market. They are suitable for high-end cats. "
Sun Yinian frowned and did not answer immediately.
Zhang Zian waited patiently.
After a while, Sun Yinian shook his head and said, "It will be difficult."
As expected … Zhang Zian was not surprised. If Sun Yinian could make a Ragdoll cat, he would have done it a long time ago.
"To tell you the truth, I have asked before. Without spending hundreds of thousands of yuan, it is impossible to get a breeding grade cat for Ragdoll cats. Now the price might have increased again. "Sun Yinian sighed.
Zhang Zian heard this and understood. The so-called breeding-level breeding cats did not consist of only one. There had to be at least one male and one female. Considering the female cat's pregnancy, birth, lactation, and recovery period, there had to be at least one male and three female cats.
A pet-level Ragdoll cat cost more than 20,000 yuan, so the price of a competition grade and a breeding grade cat was unimaginable.
Because of the high profit margin, the Ragdoll cat market had become a virtual monopoly.
All the catteries that could make Ragdoll cats were extremely resistant to new entrants. They raised the entry threshold and kept a close eye on their breeding cats, for fear that something might go wrong. The Ragdoll cats sold in the catteries were basically pet-level or competition grade cats, and they had been sterilized. The breeding grade cats were all kept in their boudoirs.
If you wanted to enter the Ragdoll cat market, you had to spend a lot of money first.
However, Ragdoll cats were very sweet and beautiful cats. They were relatively obedient and docile, which met the aesthetic standards of people all over the world. They firmly occupied a place in the high-end pet market.
Whether you sold Ragdoll cats or not basically determined the status of your pet shop or cattery.
However, Pets' Home Breeding Base was undergoing a major change of pets, so they were living a tight life. They could not afford to bring in breeding-level Ragdoll cats. Zhang Zian was poor, so he could only sigh helplessly.
Now, he could only try to go to the Ragdoll Cat House or a breeding base further away, but the chances were slim.
"Forget it. I'll take it one step at a time." Zhang Zian did not think too much. It was useless to think too much. This kind of thing could not be solved by "hard work" like in hot-blooded Shonen Comics.
Sun Yinian and the driver got in the car and drove away from the pet shop.
Zhang Zian sent a WeChat message to Sun Xiaomeng, "If anyone in your shop brings a Ragdoll cat to see the doctor, please help me ask where they bought it."
Now there were nearly 30 cats and dogs in the pet shop, which was a world of difference from the three when the shop first opened.
The workload had increased significantly, especially when a batch of pets had just been shipped in. Since the pets were about four months old and had never taken a bath since they were born, they were all dirty. Zhang Zian had to clean them one by one, which was a very arduous and patient job.
While wiping their bodies, cleaning their tear ducts and ears, Zhang Zian seriously considered whether or not to hire a full-time employee. In the end, he decided to wait until the batch of pets was sold.
In fact, Wang Qian and Li Kun were very suitable to be full-time employees of the pet shop, because they were relatively stupid and often confused. They inexplicably believed that Zhang Zian knew some kind of magic, so there was no need to explain to them why cats could do stunts. However, they were both in their junior year, so it was a bit early for them to become full-time employees.
What about the art designer?
Speak of the devil.
Wang Qian and Li Kun ran in breathlessly. "Master! Something big has happened! "
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