start with a pet store

Chapter 923 Black Shop
Lu Jingxing couldn't stop watching the director enter the nursery area. The little ones seemed to love and fear him at the same time. He must have come to the nursery area often.

The director looked at Lu Jingxing and said with a smile: "These little guys are precious. I'm afraid that if something unexpected happens, I won't be able to report it to the higher-ups, so I stay here whenever I have time. If there's any problem with them now, our staff will notify me immediately..."

Lu Jingxing laughed: "I can see that they both love and fear you..."

At this time, the little bear who had just been locked in the cage ran out again. He twisted his little body to the director's feet, hugged his right foot, and whined for a hug.

The headmaster patted its head lovingly and said, "Stop making trouble and go play somewhere else..."

"Watching them grow up slowly is like raising a child. They are the cutest when they are little. You can hold them and touch them as you like..." the head teacher said to Lu Jingxing with a smile.

"That's right. Now that they've grown up, I can't hug them even if I want to. If they use their little paws to touch me, I'll be dead..." Lu Jingxing replied with a smile.

"Haha, that's right. Although those big guys seem to know me, I don't dare to take the risk..." The headmaster raised his hand to check the time: "Doctor Lu, it's time for dinner. If you don't mind, I will treat you to a staff meal in our cafeteria. The food in our cafeteria is pretty good..."

It was getting dark, and it was almost time for dinner. Lu Jingxing shook his hand and said with a smile, "Thank you for your kindness. I will definitely try it next time I come. I won't go today. Just now, a friend of mine called me. He just went out to travel for nearly a month and just came back. He asked a few of us to get together. I promised him..."

"Haha, yeah, then you go and do your own thing. You can come to my place anytime. I'll treat you anytime, haha..." The head teacher laughed.

Lu Jingxing also smiled: "Okay, I'll leave first. I have to go back and wash my clothes..."

His body was covered with paw marks from the panda, so he had to go back to take a shower and change clothes, so it seemed like he should be there in a hurry.

He didn't lie, someone did ask him out for dinner, it was Song Yuan who had been traveling for almost a month and finally came back.

He said that he had invited several people who had gone on a trip with him in the evening, and also called Yang Pei, asking him to come over after he finished his work.

He returned home, took a shower, changed his clothes, and went to the second store to take Yang Pei with him. On the way, Song Yuan called: "Are you two almost there?"

"It's almost there, it's almost there, on the way..." Yang Pei shouted.

"Okay, you two are the only ones missing..." Song Yuan's original intention was to invite them two, and he just invited the others as a by-product, so he would not allow the dishes to be served if they didn't come.

Yang Pei and Lu Jingxing smiled knowingly: "It looks like you had a lot of fun this time, right?"

"It's hard to say..." Lu Jingxing shook his head.

There was a bit of traffic on the road, but after hurrying, the two finally arrived.

Song Yuan was waiting at the gate. When he saw the two people getting out of the car, he immediately went to greet them.

"Oh my God, didn't you put on any sunscreen?" Yang Pei shouted exaggeratedly when she saw Song Yuan.

Lu Jingxing pulled him, and his loud shout attracted all the guests at the door.

Yang Pei raised her eyebrows and smiled, then turned around and looked at Song Yuan, and couldn't help frowning.

The one with a slightly lower voice asked, "Hey, brother, do you go to XZ without sunscreen?"

"Is it very dark?" Song Yuan raised his arm to take a look, then looked at Lu Jingxing: "Is it really dark?"

Lu Jingxing smiled slightly: "Yeah, a little bit..."

"It's more than just a little. You can't tell what you looked like before you went out and what you look like now. Is your face peeling off?" Yang Pei said, pointing at the sunburn marks on Song Yuan's face.

"This is called health, you don't understand..." Song Yuan curled his lips, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with his black skin.

The three of them walked in arm in arm.

"I'm treating you today, you guys are not allowed to snatch it from me..." Song Yuan walked to the door and laughed, then said to the people in the room, also to Lu Jingxing.

Lu Jingxing smiled slightly. He glanced inside and saw a large round table with four empty doors. Everyone was about the same age. There were four girls and the rest were boys, about six or seven in total. When they saw Song Yuan, Lu Jingxing and Yang Pei come in together, they all waved and greeted them.

The three of them sat down together with a smile.

"Waiter, the food is ready..." Song Yuan shouted towards the door.

Soon a table full of dishes was served.

At the dinner table, everyone was eating and drinking, talking about what had happened in the past month, and having a very happy chat.

Seeing that it was almost time, Song Yuan got up. Lu Jingxing also happened to need to go to the toilet, so he got up with him.

"I'll go settle the bill first..." Song Yuan said to Lu Jingxing.

Lu Jingxing nodded. Song Yuan said he would treat them, so there was no need for him to rush to pay the bill. It just so happened that he had to pass the cashier to go to the restroom, so the two of them went together.

When they reached the checkout counter, the two were still chatting, and Lu Jingxing stopped too.

Song Yuan said to the front desk: "Please settle the bill for room 888..."

"Okay, wait a moment..." The cashier smiled sweetly and left.

Song Yuan continued the conversation with Lu Jingxing.

"Hello, sir, the total consumption is 4,315 yuan, please pay 4,300..." The cashier interrupted the conversation between the two.

Song Yuan turned around and glared at the cashier: "How much did you say?"

The cashier repeated: "The total consumption is 4,315 yuan..."

Lu Jingxing and Song Yuan looked at each other, and he took a step forward and looked at the cashier: "No, are you sure? Are you a black shop? That table of dishes is more than 4,000?"

He was as shocked as Song Yuan. This was not the first time they had come to this store. Was it too expensive?

"It's like this. One of your customers ordered two packs of cigarettes and said he wanted to pay for them together. So the total including the cigarettes is four thousand three hundred and fifteen yuan." The cashier printed out the list and handed it to Song Yuan.

Song Yuan frowned as he looked at the list.

“Damn, what kind of people are these…” After seeing the two packs of cigarettes at the back, he couldn’t help but curse in a low voice. Two packs of cigarettes cost almost three thousand, no wonder it cost more than four thousand.

Lu Jingxing also came closer to take a look: "Damn, there are actually people like this?"

"Did you notice who it is?" Lu Jingxing asked the cashier.

The cashier nodded and said, "I asked our waiter to follow him. It was the guy in the blue shirt sitting at the back of your table..."

"It's this guy again..." Song Yuan looked at Lu Jingxing: "What should we do?" "What's your relationship with that guy?" Lu Jingxing waved at the cashier and pulled Song Yuan to the side.

"Not very good. We've hardly talked to each other. Every time when there's some group activity, he's the one who takes the initiative. I didn't invite him today, but he wanted to come on his own..." Song Yuan said with a frown.

Lu Jingxing understood: "In this case, we can't let him off so easily. He doesn't care about face, so why should we give him face..."

Song Yuan nodded, but he hadn't thought of a solution yet: "Rush in and ask him now?"

"No, if we rush in and ask now, it would make us seem stingy. Besides, he might do this kind of thing often. It's best to cure him once and for all, so that our friends won't suffer next time." Lu Jingxing shook his head.

"Then what should we do?" Song Yuan suppressed his anger and asked Lu Jingxing humbly.

Lu Jingxing patted him on the shoulder, walked to the cashier, said a few words to the cashier, and handed the printed list back to the cashier: "We will call for the checkout later, you bring the list in..."

The cashier nodded. When the man came to get the cigarettes, she felt that things were not as they seemed. It was just as she expected, so she was willing to cooperate with Lu Jingxing and the others, and she felt that she should cooperate.

After receiving a positive answer, Lu Jingxing took Song Yuan to the box.

"We must stop that person later and don't let him slip away early..." Lu Jingxing said in a low voice.

Song Yuan nodded. There were no such cunning villains around him, so when he encountered such things, sometimes he felt that the money was not much, so he just took it himself. However, no one would feel comfortable when encountering such a loss.

The two of them sat down again without saying a word.

Seeing that the two had been out for so long, Yang Pei asked with a smile: "Why, you two are bored again, right? Come on, another drink, you must have another one..."

This time, Lu Jingxing picked up his glass and clinked glasses with him.

Laughter returned to the dinner table.

Lu Jingxing had been keeping an eye on the man in the blue shirt. He was the only one wearing a blue shirt at the table, so he could tell at a glance.

After a round of drinking, seeing the man in the blue shirt standing up with his bag, Lu Jingxing quickly said, "Hey, bro, you don't even need to carry a backpack to go to the toilet..."

"Oh, no, something happened at home, I have to go first..." The man in blue shirt had to stop when Lu Jingxing called him. Everyone at the table looked at him, and they could see that he was a little flustered.

"Don't worry, let's go together. Everyone has finished eating, so let's go together. The waiter will pay the bill..." Lu Jingxing shouted towards the door.

"Okay..." The waiter had been waiting outside the door and responded immediately when he heard the call.

Everyone at the table looked at each other in bewilderment. They had just had a few drinks and hadn't eaten much of the main course yet. They didn't understand what Lu Jingxing was saying. Yang Pei was even more confused. He looked carefully and confirmed that he had never seen this blue shirt before. Lu Jingxing probably didn't recognize him either. So why did he have to go with him?
Those who knew the man in the blue shirt at the table were confused and said to him, "Let's go together later. Look, we haven't finished eating yet..."

The man in the blue shirt was embarrassed: "Sorry, brothers, I really have something to do..."

"Hello, who is paying the bill? The total consumption here is 4,315 yuan, which is 4,300 yuan after the discount..." The waiter's timely voice was like the sound of nature, making Lu Jingxing frown.

However, for the people at the table, it was like a bomb.

"How much?" everyone asked in unison.

Someone even ran over excitedly: "Are you sure? This table of food costs more than 4,000 yuan. Are you running a black shop?"

Everyone's first reaction was similar.

Song Yuan took the list, looked at the back carefully, frowned and looked at the waiter: "Did you make a mistake? We didn't light a cigarette, what's the matter with this cigarette?"

The waiter looked at the man in blue shirt with some embarrassment: "This gentleman ordered the cigarettes, and he said he would pay for them together..."

Everyone looked up at the man in the blue shirt at the same time, with a look of suspicion on their faces.

The man in the blue shirt probably didn't expect this to happen. He slowly retreated to his stool with some embarrassment and coughed twice to cover up: "Well, I was thinking of getting two packs of cigarettes. No one has bought any yet, so just come and get them when you need them."

“But, I didn’t see you take it out. Besides, are you stupid? Who would come to a restaurant to buy cigarettes for no reason…” The most irritable man on the opposite side slammed the table and yelled.

Lu Jingxing just sat and watched the man in the blue shirt perform.

He just wanted to see how he would justify himself.

Unexpectedly, the man in the blue shirt sat down and stopped talking.

Song Yuan waved his hand and said to the waiter: "Okay, bring the card machine, I'll swipe the card..."

Yang Pei was not happy: "How can that be? How about we split the bill? One, two, three, four, five... There are fourteen of us in total, and on average..." He took out his cell phone and made a call: "308 yuan per person..."

He realized that this was what Lu Jingxing and Song Yuan did on purpose. He had to act as a peacemaker and couldn't let Song Yuan suffer such a loss.

Lu Jingxing frowned and looked at Yang Pei with a smile. He had thought about this step before, but he didn't expect that Yang Pei had a sharp mind and saw through his intention at once.

Yang Pei also raised an eyebrow: "How can you play without me?"

However, when he said AA, the men were fine. Although they were reluctant, they didn't say anything. The girls were unhappy: "Why? Why did he buy cigarettes and let us pay? We don't smoke..."

Lu Jingxing had already asked the waiter to leave. To put it bluntly, this was a joke and he just had to digest it among himself.

The girls glared at the blue shirt.

No matter how thick-skinned he was, the man in the blue shirt couldn't sit still any longer. He touched the back of his head awkwardly: "No, that, that's not what I meant. Since no one wants cigarettes, then... then..."

Lu Jingxing thought that he would return the cigarette, but he didn't expect that he wanted to confront Song Yuan and make Song Yuan suffer in silence.

Now, everyone was looking at him angrily, and it would be unreasonable for him to return the cigarette.

After he waited for a long time, he said, "It doesn't matter who's paying. I'm paying for today's meal. Enjoy your meal. This is just a small episode. Sorry for the inconvenience. Waiter, pay the bill..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the waiter came in with a card machine.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the man in blue shirt paid the bill with great reluctance, and then walked away with a sullen face.

This time, Lu Jingxing no longer said that if we were to leave, we should all leave together.

However, naturally no one was in the mood to eat afterwards, and within ten minutes or so, everyone went their separate ways and left.

Finally, a man who looked a few years older than them came over and said to Song Yuan, "Song, I'm sorry, he's just like that, he likes to take advantage of others, I'm sorry to make you laugh."

(End of this chapter)