Start at the pet store

Ji Ling nodded: "Okay, I'll ask them to call anytime."

Someone came outside, so Ji Ling went out.

After a while, Lu Jingxing remembered that he was still worried, so he picked up his phone and called the employee who was out: "Jian, this is Lu Jingxing, what's the situation now?"

"Brother Lu, we want to bring Benben back now, but its owner doesn't want it, and Benben is also very resistant, but it's so pitiful..." The employee named Ji An looked at Benben's fur, which should have been snow-white and soft, but was now covered with dirt, and said with heartache.

"Are you sure it's Benben? Does that mean you can't take it away?" Lu Jingxing stood up, looking a little anxious.

"Its owner is not at home, only an old man is there. We said we wanted to take it back, but the old man refused, saying that his son bought it specially to guard the house, and that we came here to kill the dog, but he just didn't want to let us do it..." Ji An said a little aggrieved.

He and another employee have been doing the return visit work these days, and it has been going smoothly. Generally, the owners are very cooperative. Even if they are not at home, when they know that they are visiting with their pets, they will explain it clearly to their families.

Although some of the little guys may be a little thinner because their owners do not take care of them so carefully, they can also accept the opinions of Ji An and others sincerely, and promise to bring the little guys back to the store for regular physical examinations.

It was also a coincidence that they found Benben this time.

Because Lu Jingxing and others had contacted Benben's owner many times before, but they could not get in touch.

Yesterday, Ji An and others went to the home of another customer who adopted a cat. When they were chatting, she said that she came to the store to adopt a cat because of Benben's owner.

The house that Benben's owner rented was hers. When she went to collect rent on behalf of her mother, she saw Benben, and then she knew that Benben was adopted by the tenant in their store. She thought Benben was very cute, so the tenant brought her to the store.

She originally wanted to adopt a dog, but then she saw her cat, a stray ragdoll cat named Jimmy. Jimmy would stick to her and kiss her, so she changed her mind temporarily.

Ji'an didn't know about this at first. She asked Ji'an and others. Benben's owner had returned her house a long time ago, and she didn't know how Benben was doing now.

Ji'an and others didn't know about Benben at all. When they came, Benben had been adopted out for half a year.

So she called the store and found out that the store hadn't contacted Benben's owner for a long time.

At the beginning, when Benben's owner came to adopt Benben, it was not long after the old store opened. At that time, the adoption procedures were not as complete as they are now. Lu Jingxing was not in the store on the day of adoption. It was handled by an employee who had just joined the company not long ago.

However, Lu Jingxing visited several times later and found that he was still raising the dog well. At the beginning, he would come back to see it every month or so and help it take a bath.

Until one time, he hadn't brought Benben here for almost two months, so Lu Jingxing called him, but he couldn't get in touch with him.

Lu Jingxing had thought of many ways to contact him, but the address he left was a fake ID card. It was too difficult to rescue someone in this vast sea of ​​people.

Perhaps he was lucky at the time, thinking that the person in front could raise Benben so well, and the person in the back should not be too bad, so as things got more and more, he slowly forgot about it.

Now he heard that Benben was locked in the cowshed, and he was very upset.

After hearing what Ji An said, Jimmy's owner immediately said: "I'll look for it. When I was clearing my mother's belongings a few days ago, I seemed to have seen a copy of his ID card that he left when he lived here before."

"Really? Thank you so much. Our boss said that the ID card he left in our store was fake, so we couldn't find him. This has become a headache for our boss. I just don't know if the one left for you is also fake..." Ji An said happily.

"Definitely not, because my father used to work in the police station to do household registration, he couldn't fool my father with a fake one, but later I did hear that he changed his name, maybe he was the one who changed his name for you, he lived with us for a long time at that time..." Jimmy's owner was very enthusiastic, and immediately went to the house inside to find a package of information.

Lu Jingxing also came to Jimmy's house at the beginning, when Jimmy's mother was very sick, her father didn't know the existence of these materials, and because he was in a bad mood, he hastily sent him away.

Jimmy's owner didn't even know about this.

"It should be here, my mother likes to put these things in a wooden box, after she left, my father kept it as a reminder, I only found it when I was cleaning a while ago, and then I found this ID card copy, you go check it out..." Jimmy's owner gave them a piece of yellowed paper, the name and address on it were completely different from the one left in the store.

But after they sent the photo to Ji Ling, Ji Ling said that the photo and the ID card photo left in the store were the same person.

So the two of them wrote down the address and went straight over the next day.

Ji Ling had just told Lu Jingxing these things, because she was not sure about the accuracy of the information, and she forgot to tell him yesterday because she had a lot of things to do.

She was also reserved at first, because she knew how upset Lu Jingxing was when he could not contact this person, and because of this, the subsequent adoption procedures were more rigorous.

Ji Ling asked Ji An and the others to go there first because she thought that if Benben was gone, she might hide the matter secretly and not let Lu Jingxing know about it, so that he would not always feel guilty about Benben.

Of course, if she was still here and living well, it wouldn't be too late for her to tell Lu Jingxing, so that he could feel at ease.

If your life is not going well, just tell him and pick him up again.

At that time, Ji Ling told Ji'an that he should drive to find this address today because it was quite far away from Long'an. Ji'an immediately agreed. It was a return visit anyway, so the distance was not important to them.

The two drove Lu Jingxing's van and asked many questions before finding the address on the ID card.

They didn't even see Benben at all when they came over. When they asked an old man at home about it, the old man was very resistant.

It wasn't until the two of them were about to go home in despair that an inconspicuous barking of a dog attracted their attention as they walked to the cattle pen.

There was an old tricycle parked in front of the cattle pen.

The entire ground was muddy and smelly.

Another employee even pulled Ji An and prepared to leave: "What's so strange about dogs barking in the countryside? This is a cattle pen. How can you keep the dogs in such a stinky way? Let's go, let's go..."

Ji'an patted him: "Why don't you come and take a look, so that you won't feel regretful if you think about this again when you go home..."

As he spoke, he ducked and walked past the tricycle.

The old man looked sick and listless just now. When he saw Ji'an and the others going straight to the cattle pen, he quickly walked over.

"What are you doing? I told you I don't have a dog. If you don't leave, I'll call someone..." He glared and yelled sternly.

"Grandpa, let's see if your family raises cows. We live in the city and have never seen cows up close. Let's take a look..." Ji'an walked inside and looked at the cows. Glancing at the bar.

"What are you looking at? The cow is out now and not in the pen. Stop wandering around. We don't have a dog at home. Let's go quickly..." The old man waved his hand impatiently.

Hearing their voices, a clearer sound came from the cattle pen: "Woof woof...".

"Grandpa, didn't you say you don't have a dog at home? Why are there dogs barking in the cattle pen?" Another employee heard the dispute between the two and followed him.

"No way, it's the wild dogs outside. Are you going to leave?" The old man even picked up the broom and prepared to wave it at them.

Ji'an quickly pulled his colleague back, and the two narrowly avoided the old man's broom.

The more he blocked it, the more it showed that there was something wrong. Why didn't he dare to let them see it without a dog?

The two of them saw that their grandfather was very angry. After all, they were so old and they didn't want to have a direct conflict with him. They were afraid of any accidents, so they had to pretend and walked outside: "Okay, okay, let's go, let's go..."

The two people quickly backed out, drove the car to the corner, and found a hidden spot in the distance to stop. After they could no longer hear the grandfather's scolding, the two people found the right opportunity to sneak away again. Come in.

The old man was too old and couldn't stand the trouble. When he saw them walking away, he went back to the house.

After the two of them slipped in, they saw a dog in the cattle pen, a dog whose breed was almost unrecognizable with only its head and some white hair.

The two took several close-up photos before retreating to the car.

I took out Benben's old photos and compared them for a long time. After confirming that it was Benben, I wanted to call Ji Ling directly to tell him about the situation, but Ji'an said: "This is so far away from Long'an, so we drove the car again." When we come out, the boss and the others won’t be able to catch up at once, so why don’t we go find Murakami..."

"Are you looking for the village cadre? Will they take care of us?" Another employee is about the same age as Ji'an. They are both in their twenties. He is taller and taller than Ji'an. He is a little chubby. Everyone calls him Xiaopang, but the two We are all fresh out of school and have little experience in these things.

"Let's try it. This old man is like this. If something happens if we force our way in, we won't be able to tell. But if the village cadre comes forward, the effect will be different. If it doesn't work, we will call the police. We have information here. That means he is stupid..." The newborn calf in Ji'an is not afraid of tigers, has a lot of energy, and has some brains.

"Okay, let's go. I took a look when I came here. The row of houses at the entrance of the village seems to be the village committee..." Xiaopang pointed to the village committee not far away and said.