see you in spring

Chapter 218 The Immediate Difficulties II

It’s not just Guyu who’s worried about his job, traveling around isn’t much better either.

In fact, since the outbreak of the epidemic, the zoo has entered a state of martial law and prevention and control.It's just that Zhou You had just come into contact with Liu Quantao at that time, and there was a risk of infection, so he could only be isolated at home.And his colleagues all take turns in the park every day to disinfect the public places and the interior of the cages, as well as the entrances and exits of the cages.

Except for those who need to be quarantined and some employees who have returned to their hometowns and are unable to come back, all zoo employees who remain in the city are duty-bound to participate in this "battle" to protect animals.

As the epidemic has been effectively controlled across the country, some companies have begun to gradually resume work in batches due to pressure to survive.Although the Jincheng Zoo where Zhouyou is located is a public institution, it falls into the second category of public welfare.Since the institutional reform, the second category of public welfare is actually fiscal balance allocation.In other words, part of the unit's operating expenses are financed by the government and part is raised by itself.

During the epidemic, almost no one came to the zoo.In order to maintain its own operation, the zoo has to end the traditional model of "depending on the sky, nature and tourists".We must actively think of ways to get out of the downturn caused by the epidemic as soon as possible and monetize the characteristics of our own park.

In addition to financial reasons, there is another important factor that made the zoo decide to open the park immediately, and that is that the animals have symptoms of depression to varying degrees.

Since the epidemic, all zoos have been closed to ensure that the animals are not infected.It has been more than two months, and I thought that the animals would be happy without human interference. Unexpectedly, without humans coming for sightseeing, these animals, which usually "receive countless guests", actually showed varying degrees of "social hunger". thirsty".

For people, animals are objects of appreciation.But for animals, the humans on the other side of the cage are not the objects of their appreciation.

At first, everyone thought that animals did not care about tourists, but this epidemic has made zoo employees discover that animals pay attention to and respond to humans beyond imagination.

Therefore, after seeing that Jincheng's tourism market, which had been stagnant for two months, was slowly recovering, the zoo made decisive preparations to open.

Since they don't have children, they don't have to pay off the mortgage or car loan, and the couple works in a public institution that guarantees income during droughts and floods, so Zhou You and Gu Yu don't usually have the habit of saving money.During the period when they were not at work, Gu Yu and Zhou You only paid part of the financial allocation. During this period, for the first time, he felt like he was sitting on nothing.

After the main zoo campus begins to resume operations, the large theme park in the zoo is preparing to open, which means a large number of manpower is needed.Many employees who were out of town were still unable to come back, and those who had already left the quarantine period were naturally recruited back.

After receiving the notice to go back to work, Zhou You breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he could finally increase his income.But Guyu was worried. After all, he was going back to work now, but it was different from sitting in the ticket office before.Although the epidemic is under control, it is still risky to stand at the door and take the temperature of tourists every day.

However, Zhou You didn't think there was any problem. After all, he was wearing protective clothing issued by his employer. Besides, the park now adopts traffic restriction measures to control the number of visitors within a safe range, and implements a real-name ticket purchase system on the online platform.The information of those visitors who enter the park will be kept for 14 days.

These measures will undoubtedly make the staff and tourists who come to play feel more at ease.

After going to work, the daily work of traveling around is not only to strictly control the entrance, strictly implement the temperature measurement and code scanning of tourists entering and exiting, but also to carry out regular disinfection work with the keepers.On the basis of the preliminary disinfection work, regular disinfection of office areas, tourist sites, wild animals, animal venues, employee canteens and other places will be carried out.

But even with all the preparations in place, the zoo still had very few visitors after it opened.

So, I had another task when traveling to work: picking different leaves and flowers for the orangutans and monkeys, letting them smell them, and letting them play with them, in order to make them feel fresh.Then he took out his cell phone, posed for photos, pretended to be a tourist, and excited them.

Because of these inexplicable things to Gu Yu, Zhou You came back later and later.

In the evening a week later, it started to rain lightly outside.After finishing his dinner, Guyu glanced at the increasingly heavy rain outside and thought about Zhou Yu who was still working overtime in the garden.I don’t know what animal he is playing with now, or whether he is holding an umbrella.

By the time Gu Yu finished preparing the materials for the online class, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.She looked up at the time and was about to call Zhou You when she heard the sound of the key opening the door.

"Why didn't you come back at this hour today?" Although Gu Yu complained, he went straight to the kitchen and hurried to warm up Zhou You's meal.

"Ouch, I'm starving to death." Zhou You looked dirty all over and was so hungry that stars appeared in his eyes.

"Eat quickly." Gu Yu took things out of the microwave as quickly as possible.

Zhou You washed his hands and face, sat down quickly, took the dinner brought out by Gu Yu, and ate it hungrily.

"Slow down." Gu Yu handed him a glass of water.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou You choked. He took two gulps of water, hit his chest with his hands, and squeezed together with uncomfortable expressions.

Gu Yu was speechless. Ever since he went back to work, he was basically in this state of starvation every night when he came back.

"Tell me, what animal did you go to make happy today?" Gu Yu asked after Zhou You was half full.

Although she was worried about the risks of him going to work every day and felt sorry for him being so tired every day, she had to say that since he went to work, they started to talk more and more.

Although they talked a lot before, the two of them always stayed at home and talked about the same things over and over, which was nothing more than eating, drinking and having sex.If you talk too much, it will become boring.Ever since Zhou You went back to work, every day he came back, he would tell her some funny stories that were ridiculous.Following these things, she started a new conversation with him, about his work, his daily feelings, his colleagues and so on.And before the epidemic, she couldn't imagine that they could sit together and talk about these things.

The benefits don't end there.She was taking online classes. Once, in order to expand the relevant content, she told some interesting things about animals that her travels told her. Unexpectedly, the naughty children in her class especially liked to listen.She liked it so much that every time she talked about the zoo, they all listened with interest, without making any noise or making a fuss, and no one in the class dropped the line.

When Gu Yu saw the opportunity, she made a rule with them. She would tell these interesting stories only if she performed well in the online class.In order to listen to the interesting stories about animals, the attitude of those little kids taking online classes has really changed a lot.So now listening to interesting stories from Zhou You's mouth has become her indispensable "job".

"Today is too busy. After the park closed at two o'clock in the afternoon, I started to walk around the flock of flamingos."

"Walking? How? Let them walk on the road?" Gu Yu couldn't imagine.

"Yeah, just take the tourist route, let them experience the feeling of being a tourist, and also meet garden friends they have never seen before. Let me tell you, when they saw the expressions of various animals, they looked like they were seeing The 'ugly' expression is so funny to me."

Gu Yu also smiled: "You are really bold. There are so many flamingos, what should I do if one of them is about to fly away or falls behind?"

When you imagine chasing a flock of red flamingos around, it feels a bit like a fairy tale.Gu Yu suddenly felt that she had always thought that Zhou You's dead-end job seemed quite good.

Zhou You swallowed the food in his mouth and told her enthusiastically: "They have been domesticated for many years and are much more obedient than the monkeys in your class. Today I not only walked the flamingos, but also the alpacas." . There were several alpacas following behind me, and no one dared to block the way. The alpacas would spit on anyone who blocked them, and I actually felt like a fox pretending to be a tiger."

Guyu and Zhou You laughed together.

"Hey, there's more. My colleague brought a violin today and went to play for the rhino. Our leader told us to take all the musical instruments at home tomorrow and show our skills to the animals."

Guyu laughed so hard: "Isn't this playing the piano to a cow? You guys are serious about it."

Zhou You immediately said: "They really understand. When I was playing the piano, the kangaroos and ostriches living around me were all fascinated. Those who were spinning in circles and pecking themselves stopped. , I was fascinated by it. Because of this, our leaders let us each use our talents to perform for the animals."

Gu Yu disagreed, and after she had laughed enough, she asked: "Are the things you do that you think can help animals relieve their boredom actually useful? Is this just wishful thinking on your part? Maybe what the animals are thinking may not be true at all. It’s not what you think. If you’re depressed because there are no tourists, then aren’t you working in vain?”

Zhou You wiped his mouth and put down his chopsticks: "Are you a layman? There are many great zoological experts in our park. They said that for animals, the excited humans in the past were also the source of their joy. When tourists surrounded them and pointed Pointing and taking pictures will give them a lot of stimulation. The animals have adapted to this kind of stimulation. Now that it is gone, they will not adapt.

Not to mention, since we started interacting with animals, eating with them, chatting with them, and taking them for walks, their weird behaviors have indeed decreased a lot.Animals are partners of humans, and humans are also the "companions" of animals. Without anyone, it would be incomplete, so we find ways to comfort these animals that do not receive the attention of tourists. "

"Wow." Gu Yu looked at him, smiled without saying a word.

"what happened?"

"Suddenly I feel that you are quite handsome now." Gu Yu reached out and pinched his face.

"What now, I've always been quite handsome." Zhou You pretended to be dissatisfied.

"Okay, okay, handsome boy, hurry up and take a shower. Tomorrow you have to go eat, drink and play with me." Gu Yu stood up and cleaned up the bowl he had finished.

Zhou You took her hand and said, "Let me do it. You are tired after a long day of class today."

Watch him humming a tune and take the bowl to the kitchen to wash.She sat at the dining table, looked at him under the light, and raised the corners of her mouth slightly.Gu Yu knew that this was the home she had always wanted.Fortunately, they all gave each other a chance to start over.

(End of this chapter)