start with a pet store

Chapter 917: Taking Advantage of People’s Hearts
"Actually, this is what happened. You said you went to several hospitals. If the doctor told you that you couldn't eat after having the tooth removed, would they recommend it?" Lu Jingxing explained to her with a smile.

The woman nodded involuntarily: "Now that you put it, it seems to be true..."

"Yes, just like treating a tumor, they will only remove the useless parts. It is impossible for them to make you disabled directly. If the result of treating a tumor can only turn you into a vegetable, the doctor would rather choose not to treat it." Lu Jingxing said by analogy.

Oh, the woman nodded as if she understood.
Lu Jingxing was afraid that he still didn't understand, so he continued to explain: "If you have ever seen a cat eating cat food in a bowl, you will find that what is left at the end are cat food crumbs. Do you know why?"

The girl shook her head.

"That's because cats and dogs are born with wild habits. They don't chew their food into small pieces like humans do and then swallow it." Lu Jingxing looked at the kittens outside: "They only swallow their food, not chew it, so they swallow most of the cat food. The crunching sound you hear in their mouths is just part of their teeth chewing the cat food into pieces."

Only then did the girl feel relieved.

Just when Lu Jingxing thought he had explained it properly and that the girl should have settled down, the girl raised another question.

"Then why can tooth extraction solve this problem?" she said with a hint of stubbornness.

"It seems like you want to get to the bottom of this, so let me explain it to you." Lu Jingxing leaned back in his chair and sat upright: "Human bodies and animals are similar. We both have immune systems, you know that."

The girl nodded.

"You know that when a part of your body is injured, your immune system will release immune cells such as white blood cells to help you eliminate the infected bacteria."

"These are all junior high school knowledge. I still have some impression of them," the girl replied.

"That's easy. A cat's stomatitis is caused by a problem with its own immune system. Once certain bacteria in the food touch that area of ​​the teeth, the immune cells there will increase. Once the immune cells increase, it will cause inflammation, and the inflammation will make the cat feel uncomfortable." Lu Jingxing explained to her in the most understandable words.

The girl understood this and asked, "Will stomatitis recur after the tooth is extracted?"

Lu Jingxing gave him another example: "When you have any surgery, will the doctor tell you that the success rate is 100%?"

The girls were speechless, so Lu Jingxing added: "I have actually extracted teeth for many cats, ranging from three months old to 30 years old, and there have been recurrences of feline stomatitis. The 30-year-old cat had surgery when it was 10 years old, and it died because of this problem."

The girl's eyelids suddenly drooped, and she looked a little confused.

Seeing that she was a little worried, Lu Jingxing took the initiative to say, "You don't need to worry too much about the success rate, or whether it can recur. The symptoms of your cat are not serious. With the efforts of many experts, this symptom has a success rate of 70% to 80%. Even if it recurs, there are ways to deal with it."

The girl finally made up her mind and decided to have the surgery.

After leaving the office, Lu Jingxing breathed a sigh of relief
It is not easy to persuade people.

Lu Jingxing was worried that the girl might not be comfortable with the surgery, so he decided to do it himself.

But the schedule may have to be postponed a little bit, as there are six or seven cats waiting to be sterilized.

Ever since Lu Jingxing started rescuing cats in the wild, the number of sterilization surgeries has increased, with at least 15 sterilization surgeries performed every day.

Xiao Liu, who was helping, had cramps in his hands. He said that since he came to Lu Jingxing's place, he is no longer very cautious when doing surgeries, especially sterilization surgeries, which he basically does in one go.

Lu Jingxing answered him with a wry smile.

In fact, he himself had thought about whether it was too much of a burden to perform this kind of surgery on so many cats. Although he did not have to spend a lot of money, the subsidies from caring people and the income from the park were enough to make money from each operation. But in fact, if he performed surgery on more pet cats, he would earn more.

Whenever he thought of these furry kids, Lu Jingxing felt both headache and relief.

Lu Jingxing took off his coat, walked into the operating room, and started a busy day.

By about nine o'clock in the evening, today's surgery was completed.

The cat with stomatitis still couldn't undergo a successful operation today. There was no other way. A previous cat had a problem during surgery and it almost went wrong. Fortunately, Lu Jingxing was experienced and saved the cat.

Lu Jingxing dragged his tired body and sat in the office.

There was a knock on the door outside the office, and Xiao Liu brought him dinner.

The dinner was already cold. There was nothing he could do. Lu Jingxing was too busy. He had been operating on the endangered cat until eight o'clock. He thought he might as well finish this last operation. So he had delayed it until now.

That girl sent a message this morning asking, "Boss Lu, was my kitten's surgery successful?"

Lu Jingxing smiled bitterly. How could he have the time to do it?

"I'm so sorry, but I'm really busy today. Your cat's surgery may have to be postponed until tomorrow."

The girl sent an emoticon with the word "OK".

The food was already cold, and Lu Jingxing couldn't eat much.

Xiao Liu did the same, and shook his head as he looked at the rice that had become a mess.

"Brother Lu, how about I take you out to eat something?" Xiao Liu was still very good at reading people's expressions.

"Let's go!" Lu Jingxing pulled Xiao Liu and walked outside without saying a word.

There is a snack street outside the store, but they don't choose to eat here.

The main reason is that we have tried all the food here before. Xiao Liu said he has a good idea, but the store is a little far away.

Lu Jingxing smiled and said, "It's a little far, but if it doesn't taste good, I'll hold you responsible."

Xiao Liu nodded and said innocently, "If Master doesn't like it, I will do the surgery tomorrow by myself."

Lu Jingxing knew he was joking and patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, then I'll wait for you to do it, don't regret it."

Xiao Liu touched his head and smiled.

The two of them walked to the store together.

Halfway through their journey, they passed a small square.

There were many middle-aged women dancing in the square. After seeing the group of middle-aged women, Xiao Liu led Lu Jingxing to go around the square.

Lu Jingxing asked in confusion: "Why don't you just walk past them? Why are you going around in such a big circle?"

Xiao Liu didn't say anything, but just continued to walk outside.

Lu Jingxing guessed something and acted like a boss: "Let's just go through the middle, don't go around."

Xiao Liu resisted: "Oh, no, it's too noisy over there. I can't afford to damage Master's ears."

Lu Jingxing didn't answer, but just walked straight over there.

Xiao Liu had no choice but to follow. When passing in front of the square dance aunties, Xiao Liu kept his head down.

Sure enough, when Xiao Liu walked past the speaker, an old lady rushed out from the front of the position.

"Hey, kid, why are you here?" The old lady's face was shining with joy.

"I...I just..." Xiao Liu blushed and stuttered a little.

"Everyone, come and take a look. This is my son. I've told you many times, look and see if he is handsome. Hey, Old Wu, you said before that he was not worthy of your girl. Now take a good look and see if he is worthy of her?" Aunt Liu had a really loud voice, even though she didn't say anything else.

Seeing this, Lu Jingxing quickly avoided the spotlight and walked to the side.

Xiao Liu was the only one left, helplessly dealing with the dozens of elderly people watching over him.

Seeing that Xiao Liu was entangled, Lu Jingxing found a stool next to you and sat down. Unexpectedly, less than two minutes after he sat down, a kitten crawled out from under the stool.

Lu Jingxing thought the cat would run away directly, but he didn't expect the cat to rub against Lu Jingxing on its own initiative.

Lu Jingxing smiled and touched the kitten's head.

Only then did he realize that the kitten's ears had been cut.

And the cutting method they are most accustomed to is not to cut a line in the middle of the ear, but to use a cutting tool to cut a circle on the ear.

This method is quick and painless, and it can keep the cat's ears as intact as possible. It also has certain characteristics, so Lu Jingxing immediately recognized that this cat had undergone surgery before.

"This shouldn't be the case. Why are you here?" Lu Jianhang frowned as he picked him up.

Lu Jingxing has performed surgery on many cats, but he has never released any cat directly. Their principle is that if the rescued cat is a stray cat, it will be placed directly in the park, or it will be taken away by an adopter. It is unlikely that the cat ran away from the park, so the cat may have been abandoned by the adopter or escaped.

So this is a problem. It takes at least half an hour to walk from here to the store. We are almost at the eating area. It is impossible to bring a cat in to eat. Not to mention whether the cat can stay quietly for so long, what if the cat is not allowed to eat and is kicked out?
Lu Jingxing thought about it for a long time and decided that the best way was to ask a clerk to take it back.

So Lu Jingxing issued a call in the employee group: "@Everyone, is there anyone still in the store? I found an adopted cat, someone help me bring him back to the store."

Lu Jingxing had never seen the employee group so quiet.

The scene was very embarrassing.

Normally when we ask who wants to eat, everyone is very enthusiastic. But now when we ask them to work overtime, no one says a word.

It seems that I can no longer rely on my employees and can only ask others.

Lu Jingxing called Yang Pei and said, "I found a cat that was adopted from our store at West Street Square. Can you come and bring it back to the store?"

"Ah? What? My signal is not good here. I'm going to eat. Thank you, boss..."

Before Lu Jingxing could say anything, there was a beeping sound from the other end of the phone.

Now Lu Jingxing was a little speechless.

"Boss, we can go now." Xiao Liu wiped the sweat from his head and walked towards Lu Jingxing.

"What happened to you? Why are you so embarrassed?" Lu Jingxing joked.

"Don't mention it, this is the dominance of the square dance aunties." Xiao Liu showed a painful expression.

"Haha." Lu Jingxing laughed heartlessly: "But now we are in some trouble, look at this cat."

Xiao Liu took the cat and saw the mark on the ear: "I told you, there will always be some irresponsible adopters who raise cats but don't know their actual conditions. Alas, poor kitten, it is abandoned like this." Xiao Liu felt a little sympathy for it.

"Don't be so pessimistic. It may not have been abandoned." Lu Jingxing said, "Look at its fur. It feels so soft and neat. It doesn't look like it has been wandering outside for a long time. I think it ran away secretly."

Hearing Lu Jingxing's well-reasoned words, Xiao Liu nodded.

"The problem now is that we are going to eat, and no one can take him back, unless we simply don't eat." Lu Jingxing was a little conflicted.

"That's easy. I'll just come." Xiao Liu smiled and made a phone call: "Hey, Xiao Sun, I'm inviting you to a barbecue. Do you want to come? It's right there. Yes, yes, yes, you can come over now. Boss Lu and I will be waiting for you here."

Lu Jingxing was dumbfounded.

Xiao Liu scratched his head and said, "I'll go order some food first. Boss, just wait for him to come over."

Lu Jingxing agreed with a smile.

After a while, Xiao Sun came. Seeing Xiao Sun's car slowly parked in the parking lot, Lu Jingxing couldn't help but be impressed by Xiao Liu's wisdom.

People are like this, they only focus on things that are good for themselves, so many people take advantage of this to commit fraud.

Unfortunately, Xiao Sun became the victim today.

Seeing Xiao Sun taking the cat and showing a bitter face, Lu Jingxing laughed out loud.

After a while, the three of them sat down in the barbecue restaurant together.

Only then did Lu Jingxing realize what the selling point of this barbecue restaurant was. The decoration was indeed very unique.

There are skewers of meat decorations everywhere, giving people the feeling that they are eating as soon as they come in.

Moreover, each skewer of meat is in very large pieces, and the slightly smaller pieces of meat are like chicken offal.

"Xiao Sun, how is the area you are responsible for recently?" Lu Jingxing asked him while eating meat.

"It's okay. I can't say the exotic pet store business is particularly good recently. It may be because there were too many people popular before, and now the popularity has dropped." Xiao Sun answered while drinking beer.

"It's okay. Business is not your main concern. I just hope that through our store, we can attract more people to the exotic pet market. Don't worry too much about it." Lu Jingxing helped Xiao Sun solve his problem.

Xiao Sun nodded.

Xiao Liu also patted Xiao Sun on the shoulder and sighed.

Lu Jingxing said slowly: "You two, plus the fat boy Jian, are the busiest. I'm thinking about giving you a raise at the end of the month. It's tiring, but you have to get something in return."

Xiao Sun and Xiao Liu were all smiles and quickly toasted Lu Jingxing.

Lu Jingxing took it with a smile and looked at Xiao Liu: "But you still have to pay for today's meal."

(End of this chapter)