129 The Ragdoll (1/2)
Chapter 129: The Ragdoll
Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
A small truck parked in front of Amazing Fate Pet Shop. There was an abstract cat painted on the vehicle’s side. It was a truck from the Pets’ Home Breeding Base.
Sun Yinian jumped off the passenger’s seat. Together with the driver, he started moving the pets inside the store.
There were no customers in the store, so Zhang Zian came over to help.
To avoid confusion with the current stock, he put all the kittens back into the display cabinet.
After unloading the truck, he gave Sun Yinian and the driver each an ice-cold drink. He was checking the pets on the packing list.
The number looked right. He then pulled up the photo album in his cell phone.
He had taken a picture of each pet he picked. Now he was trying to check and make sure they had delivered what he had chosen.
”Don’t worry. They are correct!” Sun Yinian was impatient.
Zhang Zian smiled and insisted, ”A double check keeps us out of trouble.”
Even reckoning makes long friends.
After double checking, everything looked fine.
Zhang Zian signed the packing list and then used an online transfer to pay the balance.
In fact, Zhang Zian didn’t have much cash on hand, even though sales had been great. He had to keep buying more stock, thus the cash wouldn’t stay in his account for long. Theoretically, his capital should be growing like a snowball, but he couldn’t really see it. The money had been going right back into inventory. As famous Chinese saying goes, ”animals cannot be counted as money”.
This saying is for the breeding and animal farming industries. It means that money is not secure in these industries. It may disappear overnight. If a breeding base or an animal farm caught an animal flu or a fire, or if there was a change in government policy or market, a millionaire would easily be destroyed.
A pet shop is the downstream industry of the breeding base industry.
Zhang Zian invested every penny he had in those pets. If the pets had problems, he would go broke. He might not end up killing himself to stay away from debt, but it would definitely destroy him.
The atmosphere relaxed. Sun Yinian and the driver each lit a cigarette and took a break. Zhang Zian was good when it came to payments. He didn’t bargain very much either. The last time they delivered pets, they saw that Zhang Zian’s business was doing great; as a result, they thought Zhang was making big bucks. No one knew he was almost out of cash.
”Boss, could you tell the breed of that golden cat?” the driver asked Sun Yinian with a cigarette in his mouth.
Zhang Zian kicked them out of the store when they started smoking.
”I don’t know,” Sun Yinian shook his head. He could care less. ”That’s none of my business.”
”Yo! Look! That Dragon-Li is wearing a hat and a vest and watching TV!” The driver had good eyes. He patted his boss on the shoulder, and pointed at Old Time Tea, ”No kidding!”
Sun Yinian turned his head and stole a glance. He was surprised, but he didn’t want to admit it. ”Don’t bullsh*t! Cats don’t watch TV. It was just curious.”
Zhang Zian emptied the cages and took them to the door. The breeding base had to take them back.
”Mr. Sun, may I ask you a question?” he said.