Zhang Zian dared to agree to Sun Xiaomeng's request because of the restriction of the game system. Richard couldn't leave even if it wanted to. Also, he always believed that nothing forced would be sweet. Just like how he asked Old Time Tea if it wanted to leave. Just like how Snowy Lionet left its original owner, elfins had their own will and dignity. It was up to them to decide whether to stay or leave.
Sun Xiaomeng followed him through the first floor. She noticed that the workers Guo Dongyue brought were very well-trained. They paid special attention to dust prevention and noise reduction, so the construction environment was not as bad as she had imagined.
Zhang Zian installed a curtain at the stairs, which could more or less keep the dust out.
"It's so cold here. The temperature is almost the same as outside. Don't you feel cold?" Sun Xiaomeng asked with her arms crossed. She had noticed this last time, but she forgot to mention it. The last time she was here, it was dry and cold. Since the construction required a lot of water, the shop was damp and cold today.
Zhang Zian joked, "I am not cold. You are too weak."
In the past, he might have felt cold, but now that he was practicing Wing Chun with Old Time Tea, his physical fitness was getting better and better. Although he was still far from being immune to heat and cold like in martial arts novels, at least he was colder than ordinary people.
Sun Xiaomeng shook her head and reminded him, "The weather forecast says it will be windy and cold tomorrow. Be careful not to catch a cold."
"Thanks, but I am fine." Zhang Zian didn't care.
They lifted the curtain and entered the corridor on the second floor. All the doors were closed. Zhang Zian pointed to the living room, "Richard is in there."
They opened the door of the living room. Richard was standing on the windowsill, looking out.
"Good afternoon, Richard," Sun Xiaomeng greeted.
Richard turned around. She couldn't see what it looked like because of the light.
"Good afternoon, doctor. You changed your clothes today. "
Sun Xiaomeng looked down, "Oh, you mean the white coat? It is very cold outside. You will catch a cold if you wear that. Does Richard like the white coat? "
Richard looked out of the window again, "No, doctor. I don't like the white coat."
Zhang Zian sat on the sofa in silence.
Sun Xiaomeng didn't know what to do. Richard seemed to be a bit cold today. Was it angry because she hadn't been here for a few days?
She slowly walked over. Seeing that it didn't object, she stood beside it and followed its line of sight.
Richard was looking at the green field behind the pet shop. Because it was late autumn, the green field was a withered yellow. Only the evergreen pine and cypress were still the same. A few sparrows landed on a bench in the green field, competing with each other to feed on the grass seeds and dried wild fruits blown by the wind.
"Does Richard like birds?" she asked.
Richard nodded. "I'm a bird, doctor."
I'm a bird, so isn't it normal to like birds? She understood so well.
"It must be hard to be locked in a room, right? The noise, the dust, and the cats … Do you want to go out and play? A change of environment? "she asked tentatively.
Richard was about to answer when a wild cat suddenly jumped out from the withered grass beside the bench like lightning and pressed an unlucky sparrow under its claws. The other sparrows screamed in panic and scattered in all directions. The wildcat lowered its head and looked up again. There was only a pool of blood and a few feathers left on the bench. The wildcat licked its lips, coldly stared at another group of sparrows on the wall, and then jumped back into the grass and disappeared. The sparrows' brains were not very developed, so they quickly forgot this horrible scene.
Sun Xiaomeng was speechless. What a coincidence!
"Doctor, you …" Richard's expression seemed to be smiling, as if it wanted to comfort her. However, its words were interrupted by a series of coughs. "Ka, ka, ka, ka, ka …"
Its coughs were a bit like a child's cough, but shorter and sharper. Its chest moved up and down rapidly, and every time it coughed, the cluster of red tail feathers would shake up and down.
It was not easy to distinguish a parrot's cough from a sneeze. Zhang Zian hadn't had much contact with parrots before, so this was the first time he heard this sound. He was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is it coughing or sneezing?"
Of course, he was asking the only veterinarian present.
Sun Xiaomeng frowned and said with certainty, "It's coughing, not sneezing."
"Will it be okay?" Zhang Zian stood up from the sofa.
"Richard, are you okay?" Sun Xiaomeng approached Richard and asked with concern.
"I'm fine, doctor, it's just … you know, too much dust." Richard stopped coughing and said as if nothing had happened.
Sun Xiaomeng turned around and asked Zhang Zian, "Did Richard cough before?"
"Well … no, I don't think so." Zhang Zian said uncertainly, because he had been busy communicating with the construction team about the renovation, and had no time to care about other things. Richard didn't like to be disturbed when it was training the red-headed lovebirds, unless it asked him to come over and help. So he really didn't know whether it had coughed before or not. Anyway, this was the first time he heard it.
"I'm fine, doctor. Don't worry, I just choked." Richard's voice was no different than usual, and it was neither hoarse nor nasal.
"…" Sun Xiaomeng was not satisfied with Zhang Zian's slightly perfunctory answer, but Richard was right. There was indeed a lot of dust. After all, it was still under renovation. When she passed through the first floor, she also choked and coughed a few times because of the dust.
"Your room is too cold." She mentioned this again, "Can't you find a way to make it warmer?"
Zhang Zian really didn't feel cold, but he remembered that a few days ago in the morning, Richard had complained about the cold. At that time, he thought it was just joking as usual, so he didn't take it seriously. Speaking of which, Richard's ancestral home came from Africa, and it didn't wear clothes or have long hair. It was indeed the first resident in the pet shop to feel cold.
"Okay, I'll go to the supermarket to buy electric heaters later," he said.
He plugged in the electric heaters a few days ago and found that the electric heaters left by his parents last winter were broken, and they couldn't heat up the house. He had always wanted to buy a few new ones and put one in each house. But there were too many things these days, and he always forgot about it.
"Don't wait for a while. Go and buy them now." Sun Xiaomeng complained, "You're not afraid of the cold, but the pets can't stand it."
Zhang Zian thought it was reasonable. If there was free labor, why not use it?
He called Wang Qian and Li Kun and asked them to go to the supermarket to buy electric heaters. He wanted the famous ones with strong heating performance, and the price was not a problem. Anyway, they could last for many years, and he would reimburse them when they bought them.
While Zhang Zian was on the phone, Sun Xiaomeng asked Richard again, "Is it really okay?"
"I'm fine, Doctor," Richard insisted.
When Zhang Zian hung up the phone, Sun Xiaomeng was about to say something, but her own phone also rang.
"Hello?" She answered the phone.
"Sister Xiaomeng, a customer's dog's leg is broken … No, no, I didn't mean that. I mean the customer's dog's leg is broken, and it's very urgent. You should come back quickly." Long Xian said anxiously on the phone, and from the background, a male customer could be heard complaining loudly — "How can you talk like that?"
"Okay, tell the customer that I'll come back right away." Sun Xiaomeng knew that Long Xian was still too inexperienced, and she was still far from being able to handle things on her own.
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