Start at the pet store

Lu Jingxing watched the principal enter the kindergarten area without stopping for a moment. The little ones also looked at him with a mixture of love and fear. He must have come to the kindergarten area often.

The principal looked at Lu Jingxing and said with a smile: "These little guys are precious. I'm afraid that something unexpected will happen and I won't be able to explain it to the superiors, so I come here to stay if I have nothing to do. If there is any problem with them now, our employees will be the first to do it." Let me know when the time comes..."

Lu Jingxing laughed: "I can tell, they love and fear you at the same time..."

At this time, the little bear who had just been put in the cage ran out again, twisted his little body to the feet of the director, hugged his right foot, and hummed for a hug.

The principal patted its head lovingly: "Don't make trouble, let's go and play..."

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

"That's right, when you grow up, you don't even dare to hug her casually even if you want to. If their little claws come over casually, everyone will 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 risks..." The director raised his hand and looked at the time: "Doctor Lu, it's dinner time. If you don't mind, Come to our canteen and treat you to a staff meal. The food in our canteen is pretty good..."

It was getting dark, and it was indeed almost dinner time. Lu Jingxing waved his hand and smiled: "Thank you for your kindness. I will definitely try it next time I come over. I won't go today. A friend of mine called me just now and he just went out. I just came back after traveling for a month, and he asked us to get together, and I agreed..."

"Haha, right? Then go and do your work. You can come to my side at any time, and I can invite you at any time, haha..." The principal smiled and laughed.

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

There were paw prints all over his body after being pounced on by the panda. He had to go back to take a shower and change his clothes. Judging by the time, he must be in a hurry.

He didn't lie. Someone indeed invited him to dinner. Song Yuan, who had been traveling for almost a month, finally came back.

He said that he had invited a few people who were traveling with him in the evening, and also called Yang Pei and asked him to come over after he was done.

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

"Come on, come on, we're on our way..." Yang Pei shouted.

"Okay, it's just you two..." Song Yuan's original intention was to invite them, and he just invited the others casually, so if they didn't come, he wouldn't let them serve.

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, so we hurried and hurried slowly, and the two finally arrived.

Song Yuan was picking them up at the gate. When he saw the two people getting out of the car, he immediately greeted them.

"Oh my God, didn't you wear any sunscreen?" Yang Pei exclaimed when he saw Song Yuan exaggeratedly.

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

Yang Pei raised his eyebrows in amusement, then turned back to look at Song Yuan's appearance and couldn't help but frown.

His voice was a few notches lower and he asked: "Say, brother, did you go to XZ without sun protection?"

"Is it really dark?" Song Yuan raised his arm and looked at it, then looked at Lu Jingxing: "Is it really dark?"

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

"It's more than just a little bit. I can't tell what you looked like before you went out and what you look like now. Is the skin on your face peeling off?" Yang Pei pointed at the sun 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 blackness at all.

The three people walked in arm-in-arm.

"I'm treating you today, so don't rob me..." Song Yuan walked to the door, laughed, and said to the people in the room, and also to Lu Jingxing.

Lu Jingxing smiled slightly and glanced around. Inside was a large round table with four empty doors. Everyone was about the same age. There were four girls and the others were all boys. There were six or seven. He saw Song Yuan and Lu Jingxing. , Yang Pei came in together, and everyone raised their hands to say hello.

The three of them smiled and sat down together.

"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, chatting happily about what had happened over the past month.

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

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

Lu Jingxing nodded. Song Yuan said it was a treat and there was no need for him to grab the order. They happened to have to pass the cashier to go to the toilet, so the two of them left together.

When they arrived at the checkout counter, the two of them were still chatting, and Lu Jingxing also stopped.

Song Yuan said to the front desk: "Please make a reservation for the 888 box..."

"Okay, wait a minute..." 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 yuan..." 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 also 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 for everyone to come to this restaurant. Wasn't it too expensive?

"It's like this. One of your customers ordered two packs of cigarettes here and said that they would pay together, so the total including the cigarettes is 4,315 yuan." The cashier printed out the list and handed it to Song Yuan.

Song Yuan frowned and looked at the list.

"Damn, who are these people..." 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 3,000, no wonder it cost more than 4,000.

Lu Jingxing also came closer to see: "Damn, there are such people?"

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

The cashier nodded: "I asked our waiter to follow him. It's 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?"

"How is your relationship with that guy?" Lu Jingxing waved at the cashier and pulled Song Yuan to the side.

"Not very good. We haven't talked twice. Every time we talk about group activities, he is the one who is the last to do it. I didn't invite him today. He wanted to come on his own..." Song Yuan frowned and said.

Lu Jingxing understood: "In this case, we can't let him get away with it so easily. He doesn't want face, so why should we give him face..."

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

"No, rushing in and asking now will make us look stingy. Besides, he might do this kind of thing often. It's best to cure him once and for all, so that friends won't suffer losses next time." Lu Jingxing shook his head.

"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, and after talking to the cashier for a few words, handed the list he had just printed 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 this matter was not what it seemed on the surface. As expected, 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.

"Be sure to keep that person later, don't let him slip away in advance..." Lu Jingxing whispered.

Song Yuan nodded. There were no such mean people around him, so when he encountered such things, sometimes he felt that the money was not much, so he took it on himself, but no one would feel comfortable if he encountered such a dumb loss.

The two sat down again without making a sound.

Seeing that the two had been out for so long, Yang Pei smiled and asked: "Why, you two are empty again, right? Come on, have another glass, you must continue..."

This time, Lu Jingxing raised the glass and clinked it with him.

The laughter resumed at the dinner table.

Lu Jingxing had been paying attention to 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, he saw the man in the blue shirt standing up with his bag. Lu Jingxing quickly said, "Brother, you don't need to carry a backpack to go to the toilet..."

"Oh, no, I have something to do at home, I have to go first..." The man in the 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 to the outside.

"Okay..." The waiter had been ready outside the door for a long time, and he responded immediately when he heard the call.

Everyone at the table looked at each other in bewilderment. They had just had a drink 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 the man in the blue shirt before. Lu Jingxing probably didn't know him either. Why did he have to go with him?

Those who knew the man in the blue shirt at the table didn't understand 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's paying the bill? The total consumption here is 4,315 yuan, 4,300 yuan after the discount..." The waiter's timely voice was like the sound of nature, which made Lu Jingxing frown.

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

"How much?" Everyone said in unison.

Some people even ran over excitedly: "Are you sure? This table of dishes 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, and frowned at the waiter: "Did you make a mistake? We didn't order cigarettes, what's the matter with these cigarettes?"

The waiter looked at the man in the blue shirt with some embarrassment: "This gentleman ordered the cigarettes, and he said that the bill should be paid 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 taking two packs of cigarettes. No one bought cigarettes, so just come and get them when you need them."

"But I didn't see you take them out, and are you stupid? Who would come to the restaurant to buy cigarettes for no reason..." The most irritable man on the opposite side slammed the table and roared.

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

He wanted to see how he would justify himself.

Unexpectedly, the man in the blue shirt sat down and didn't say anything.

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 AA, one, two, three, four, five... There are fourteen of us in total, on average..." He took out his mobile phone and dialed a number: "308 yuan per person..."

He saw that this was what Lu Jingxing and Song Yuan did on purpose, and he had to come out to be the peacemaker, and couldn't let Song Yuan really suffer such a dumb loss.

Lu Jingxing's eyebrows curved, and he looked at Yang Pei with a smile. He had thought about this step before, but he didn't expect that Yang Pei, this kid, had a very flexible mind and saw through his meaning at once.

Yang Pei also raised her eyebrows: "You guys are playing, how can you not take me with you?"

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. If he didn't say it well, this was a joke. Just digest it yourself.

The girls glared at the blue shirt.

No matter how thick-skinned he was, the blue shirt couldn't sit still. 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 he would return the cigarettes before, but he didn't expect that he wanted to confront Song Yuan and let Song Yuan suffer this loss.

Now, everyone is looking at him angrily, and it's a bit unreasonable for him to return the cigarettes again.

After hesitating for a long time, he said, "It doesn't matter who's treating. I treated you to this meal today. Enjoy it, everyone. This is just a small episode. Sorry. 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 the blue shirt reluctantly paid the bill, and then left with a dark face.

This time, Lu Jingxing didn't say that if they were going to leave, they should leave together.

However, naturally, everyone was not in the mood to eat next. In less than ten minutes, 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 made you laugh."