The next morning, Little Celery passed by the pet shop again.
Today, the owner and his wife were not standing at the door, but were busy inside the shop.
After a while, the middle-aged woman noticed a small figure standing at the door. She looked back and found that it was Little Celery, who always showed up on time from Monday to Friday.
"Good morning." She waved to Little Celery.
"Good morning." Little Celery waved back, but she didn't run away like usual.
The middle-aged woman thought about children's thoughts and immediately understood. After all, she also had a child.
"Do you want to see the lop-eared rabbit?" she asked with a smile.
"It … it didn't run away today?" Little Celery tried to find an excuse.
"Yeah, it hasn't run away yet. Do you want to come in and see?" she invited again.
Little Celery hesitated and didn't say anything immediately.
"I … I don't buy pets."
"It's okay. It's okay if you don't buy one." She smiled and added, "Thank you for stopping it for us yesterday."
Little Celery told herself that she was just going in to see the rabbit and not to talk to them. Besides, she didn't go with strangers.
"Well … OK."
Little Celery carefully stepped into the shop, curiously looking at the decorations and the various pets in the shop. She glanced at the middle-aged couple from time to time, ready to run away at any time.
The middle-aged couple acted as if she didn't exist. They were skillfully working and chatting.
Little Celery saw the lop-eared rabbit in the cage. At this time, the pet shop seemed to be divided according to the types of pets. Next to the lop-eared rabbit, she also saw the hamster, which was also a rodent pet, which was also very cute.
The lop-eared rabbit and the hamster were all gathered on one side of the cage, as if they were anxiously waiting for breakfast. There were fresh vegetables and nuts outside the cage, but they couldn't eat them.
She looked back at the couple.
"You can feed them if you want. It will save us a lot of trouble," they said.
Again, it was easy to guess what a child was thinking.
Seeing the lop-eared rabbit and the hamster finish their breakfast, Little Celery was as happy as if she had just eaten a good meal.
"Oh! Damn it! I'm going to be late! "She looked at her watch and realized that she had been here for too long.
"Go to school. You can see rabbits any day." The middle-aged couple laughed.
"Bye-bye!"
Little Celery hurriedly ran out of the store and to the school. After a few steps, she suddenly thought of something and looked back.
"Qi … Pet Shop."
The second character had too many strokes, so she didn't recognize it. However, the teacher taught her new characters every day, so she would definitely recognize it in the future.
During dinner, Zhang Zian's mother was not as absent-minded as she had been the day before. When Little Celery talked about the interesting things that happened at school during the day, she talked and laughed. It seemed that she had done a good job yesterday.
"Mom..." Little Celery took a sip of soup and peeked at her mother's face nervously. "Lip-eared rabbit... looks cute."
"I can't." Her mother seemed to have guessed what she was thinking and immediately refused, "We don't raise pets at home. It affects our studies and is very troublesome to take care of them. The most important thing for students is to study. If you want to raise a pet, you can wait until you grow up."
It was a very common reason. Basically, when a child begged to buy a pet and was rejected by their parents, they would hear the same reason. Even their wishes were the same. It was as if they could do anything when they grew up … After all, parents hoped that their children would become dragons and phoenixes. Since ancient times, raising a pet could be summed up in the category of playing with and losing one's ambition.
"Oh."
Perhaps if it were Xu Zhuang Zhuang, he would lie on the ground and make a scene until his wish was fulfilled. He would guarantee that raising a pet would not affect his studies, just like buying a computer would not affect his studies … But Little Celery did not say anything more. She just silently drank the soup.
Fortunately, she would stop by the pet shop for a while every day when she went to school to feed the lop-eared rabbit and hamster. As for the evening after school, she had more time, but there were always other customers in the pet shop, so she just silently looked outside the shop and looked forward to the short time the next morning.
Then one day, without warning, the daily repetition of the cycle broke off.
That day, the pet shop, which usually opened early, rain or shine, was not open.
Little Celery stood outside the shutter door of the shop for a while and looked up at the second floor. Did the owner and his wife sleep in?
She waited and waited, but there was still no movement in the shop.
It was almost time for class. She could not wait any longer, so she regretfully ran away.
After school in the afternoon, when she passed by the pet shop, she found that the door was still closed.
The next day, the third day, the fourth day … As long as it was a school day, Little Celery waited at the door every day, but the pet shop was still not open, and Little Celery did not see the lop-eared rabbit and hamster again.
Every afternoon when she ran past the door of the shop, she saw some elderly grandmothers and grandfathers pointing at the pet shop and whispering to each other. She could not hear what they were saying, but she felt that they were sighing.
She was inexplicably depressed for a few days, and her mother was a little strange. She thought that she was sick or being bullied by classmates, but her temperature was normal. She contacted the school teacher, but there was no feedback that anyone was bullying Little Celery. The teacher also noticed that Little Celery was a little depressed, but instead thought that there was something wrong with her family.
However, Little Celery's depression did not last long, because the pet shop opened again. Although the owners of the shop were no longer the kind middle-aged couple, the door was still open to her.
The reopened pet shop had changed a lot, not only in terms of layout and furnishings, but also in terms of people.
The owner's aunt and uncle were gone, and the new store manager could almost come up with strange ideas every day. Every day when she came, she felt that the pet shop was different from the day before.
She saw with her own eyes that there were more and more staff in the pet shop, from the two silly brothers to the cashier sister who was good at drawing, and then to the fish sister who always stayed with the fish …
She saw with her own eyes that there were more and more pets in the pet shop, all kinds of cute cats and dogs, and strange fish …
She saw with her own eyes that there were more and more customers in the pet shop. In the afternoon after school, the shop was often crowded, and sometimes the line even went to the outside.
There were also a few unusual cats, dogs, and birds, all appearing in the pet shop like magic.
She witnessed all these changes with her own eyes, earlier than anyone else.
Most importantly, there were more and more laughter in the shop.
Little Celery liked to stay in the pet shop. She still missed the former owner and his wife, but she liked the current store manager and staff even more.
Ah, there was one more thing. The teacher taught her new Chinese characters, and she finally matched the pronunciation with the font, so she could write the shop name on her road map.
The second character of the shop name was pronounced "fate".
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