start with a pet store

Chapter 520: Rhubarb was sold?
The girl comforted Xiao Bai for a while, and Lu Jingxing opened the order for her. Knowing that she was kind-hearted to save the stray dog, he gave her a big discount, so there would be no need to pay for the treatment fees in the next few days.

The girl was smiling when she left, obviously not caring about others treating her as a victim.

Yang Pei had to admire how big-hearted this girl was.

After the girl left, Yang Pei put Xiaobai into the cage and shook his arm: "Brother Lu, you can really get off work now. Haha."

Lu Jingxing also finished recording his information: "Let's get off work. I'll pick up my younger brothers and sisters."

The two walked out of the store together.

Yang Pei was going to take the subway at the intersection ahead. He said he was going to pick up Lu Yin, so the two of them walked to the subway entrance together.

"Hey, that dog looks like Dahuang who came to the door every day and scolded me." Yang Pei saw a man walking his dog.

"No, it looks smaller." Lu Jingxing followed his gaze and looked over, "Why, I won't scold you anymore. Are you used to it? Haha."

"Don't say it yet, you really don't say it. Haha" Yang Pei also laughed.

Everyone passing by turned to look at him, wondering what made him so happy.

Yang Pei quickly stopped laughing.

The two of them separated when they arrived at the subway entrance. Lu Jingxing only had to walk across the intersection to pick up his younger siblings.

Today is my uncle's birthday. My aunt called me in the morning and asked him to take his younger siblings over for dinner.

When he arrived at the training school, the teacher told him that his younger siblings didn't have much homework today.

Lu Chen saw his brother coming and ran over happily: "Brother, I finished my homework at school, and I also did the preview today."

Lu Jingxing smiled and touched his brother's head: "Not bad, he is becoming more and more obedient."

Lu Chen's eyes widened with laughter when he heard his brother praising him. He hummed and jumped in to pack his schoolbag.

Lu Xi had already packed his schoolbag, ran to his brother and raised his head and asked, "Brother, what are we going to eat tonight?"

"Let's buy a cake and go to my aunt's house tonight. It's my uncle's birthday today." Lu Jingxing said to his sister gently.

"Okay, let's go buy cakes together." "Yeah, we can see Xiaobao again." The two brothers and sisters pulled Lu Jingxing to the left and the right and walked out.

Lu Jingxing had already ordered the cake and took the two brothers and sister to get it and arrived at his aunt's house.

The aunt prepared a large table of dishes and saw the cake brought by Lu Jingxing: "It's just a few of us. It's enough if everyone comes. Why don't we buy cakes."

"It's fun, have fun." Lu Jingxing knew what his aunt would say.

"Okay, come in quickly, I'm waiting for you to start the meal." My uncle was setting out the chopsticks.

"Grandma." Lu Chen and Lu Xi shouted sweetly when they saw the old lady coming.

"Hey, you're so good. Let's wash our hands and eat." The old lady smiled when she saw the two children.

"Hello, grandma." Lu Jingxing was not as sweet as the two younger ones.

"Hey, okay, okay." Grandma had already sat down, and her eyes were full of love when she saw the three dolls.

Xiaobao was sitting in the baby chair. When he saw his elder brothers and sisters coming, he shouted "baaaah". Lu Chen and Lu Xi were immediately attracted to Xiaobao.

"Okay, let's eat first. The food is getting cold." The aunt asked Lu Chen and Lu Xi to sit down.

Everyone clinked glasses together and said some blessings. My uncle was so happy that his crow's feet appeared.

Grandma asked Lu Jingxing: "Xiao Lu, how is the business in the store? Are you busy?"

Lu Jingxing smiled: "It's not bad. There are me and Xiao Yang in the store, as well as a few part-time clerks, so we can basically keep busy."

"Okay, don't be too tired. By the way, you mentioned Xiao Yang. I remember the last time you posted a video saying that the dog always went to your store to scold Xiao Yang. Is this the case?" The old lady suddenly said Talk about it.

"Haha, yes, you also know? Today Xiao Yang is still talking about it, saying that it has not come to scold him for a long time, and he still misses it a little." Lu Jingxing remembered that he had just told Yang Pei about this matter, and the old lady suddenly Speaking of which, what a coincidence.

"He's not used to scolding him, right?" My uncle laughed.

"Yes, I said the same to him. What's wrong, grandma?" Lu Jingxing looked at the old lady.

The old lady thought for a while and said: "That's right, I went shopping this afternoon. There were several dogs in the cage at the dog meat stall, and one of them looked very much like that one. It was mainly because I watched your video. After a few times, I saw that it was that dog, so I went up to it and called it 'Big Yellow', and then it kept wagging its tail, and I thought it was him."

"Ah, at the dog meat stall?" The uncle looked at the old lady in surprise.

The old lady nodded affirmatively: "I'm sure it was it. When I came back, I turned to the video and watched it. I also screamed at that time."

Seeing that Lu Jingxing remained silent, she added, "I originally wanted to go to your store tomorrow, but then I thought you might come tonight, so it's just right."

The aunt was also a little confused: "Did its owner sell it? Or did it run away?" Lu Jingxing was also unsure: "It shouldn't be sold, but it wouldn't be easy to catch it if it ran away. Then The dog is very smart. Every time he scolds Xiao Yang, it will go back on its own. Besides, if you catch it secretly, you probably won’t have the courage to put it outside to show off."

The uncle also nodded: "Yes, it probably wasn't stolen, then... it was sold by the owner."

"Do you want to ask?" My aunt felt that even though the dog scolded Xiao Yang every day, it just meant that it was very smart. Moreover, the video was posted at that time and so many people knew about it. It would be a pity if it was killed like this. .

"I'm looking for the owner's contact information. Xiao Yang should know it. I'll call him and tell him the situation."

Lu Jingxing searched for the owner's contact information on his phone for a long time, and thought that maybe Yang Pei was in charge at that time, and he should know.

The phone call was made to Yang Pei: "Yang, didn't you still talk about rhubarb this afternoon? Grandma Gang told me that she seemed to have seen it in the vegetable market this afternoon. It was locked in a cage at the dog stall."

Yang Pei shouted in disbelief from the other side: "How is it possible that such a smart dog was caught or sold?" He was also confused.

"We don't know yet. Do you have the contact information of its original owner? Could you please ask to see if there is any misunderstanding?" Lu Jingxing looked at everyone.

The aunt nodded quickly.

"Okay, I have his phone number, I'll call him right away." Yang Pei immediately hung up the phone.

After a while, Yang Pei called back: "I wanted to curse, but he actually sold it. He said he was going back to his hometown. He sold it for 200 yuan. XX, you sent it to me. Sa, I'm willing to pay two hundred and fifty, I'm really mad at you. Brother Lu, I'm going to go find it right now, I have to buy it back."

"Don't go now. It's so late. The boss must have closed the stall early. You should go early tomorrow, so as not to see you go so late. The boss knows you must be in a hurry. He has increased the price arbitrarily. As long as he doesn't kill him this afternoon, he should go tomorrow." It's been there since the morning." Lu Jingxing advised him.

"There shouldn't be any killing today. The boss just killed two when I passed by." The old lady said quickly.

"Okay, then I'll go tomorrow morning." You could hear that Yang Pei was very angry.

"Okay, okay, don't be angry, everyone, not everyone loves animals." Seeing that Lu Jingxing was in a low mood, the aunt quickly comforted him.

Lu Jingxing gave everyone an apologetic look: "Today is my uncle's birthday, and we don't want these people to be unhappy."

"Yes, yes, come on, let's cut the cake." The aunt asked Lu Chen and Lu Xi to come over and eat the cake.

Put the rhubarb thing aside for now.

Lu Jingxing had just gotten up the next day when Yang Pei called: "Brother Lu, I found this dog meat stall, but the boss didn't admit that he bought it, and I didn't see rhubarb either."

Lu Jingxing hurriedly washed up and said, "I'll be right over."

The vegetable market was not far from home, and Lu Jingxing jogged there in less than 15 minutes.

From a distance, I heard that Yang Pei seemed to be having a dispute with his boss.

"You are the only one selling dog meat in the whole market. Who are you? Did you kill it?" Yang Pei's voice was a bit loud.

"No, no, if you don't buy meat, don't bother me." The boss said in a not very good tone.

Lu Jingxing followed Yang Pei. Yang Pei looked a little aggrieved when he saw Lu Jingxing: "He refused to give it to me."

Lu Jingxing patted Yang Pei on the back: "Boss, my old lady saw Rhubarb yesterday. This dog is quite affectionate to us. Just be generous and ask us how much we can buy it for?"

The boss looked at Lu Jingxing and asked if someone would give him the chance to step down. Don't affect the business: "I wish I had said no earlier. I don't know which ones you are talking about. I just brought these ones today. What about you?" The young man said no, I still have a few at home, you can go and see Luo yourself."

"Hey, okay, where do you live?" Lu Jingxing quickly signaled to Yang Pei, telling him not to say too much.

"My dear, take them to your house to see if there is the dog he mentioned." As he spoke, a slightly fat woman in her fifties wearing a black leather apron came out of the back room.

She took off her gloves and put them on the lounge chair, then turned out from the side: "Let's go, just in front."

Lu Jingxing smiled at her and followed her towards her home, and Yang Pei quickly followed.

Most of the people in the vegetable market rent houses behind the market, which are houses built by nearby villagers themselves. It is an alley with work sheds on both sides. The garbage dump is not far away, and the sound of the vegetable market adds to the environment. Just not very good.

The stall owner lives at the back of the alley, and many people say hello to her as she passes by.

It seems that they have lived here for a long time.

Lu Jingxing greeted her: "You have been in this dog-killing business for a long time, right?"

The woman looked at the roadside and replied: "We have been doing this for more than ten years, but we never steal dogs, and we do not accept dogs of unknown origin."

She paused and then said: "My old man has a bad temper, so don't be surprised. It's not easy to do business now."

Lu Jingxing immediately said: "Yes, yes, I understand. We just want to find our own dog. We will definitely not care about anything else. Don't worry."

The woman raised her head and glanced at him, meaning that as long as you don't get into trouble, that's fine.

Soon they arrived at the woman's house. Their house was at the very back, so they built a yard at the back. When they saw someone coming in, the dogs barked high and low.

(End of this chapter)