563 The Disturbing Dog (1/2)
Chapter 563: The Disturbing Dog
Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
When the conversation between Zhang Zian and the newly-arrived customers ended, Snowy asked them politely, ”I'm hosting a live broadcast. Do you mind appearing on on camera?”
From the moment the new customers entered the pet shop, Snowy had been avoiding filming their faces. She only aimed the camera at their bodies.
Qian Bowen was startled. Since he had never watched a live broadcast before and did not know what it was, he was hesitant. However, his son, Small Money, responded quickly without hesitation, ”It's okay, film us! Big sister, are you livestreaming the Chicken Dinner (alias of Player Unknown's Battlegrounds)?”
Qian Bowen flicked his son on the forehead. ”What chicken?! This is not a restaurant!”
Covering his head, Small Money glared at his dad and complained, ”The uneducated are terrible! Chicken Dinner is the most popular game nowadays, don't you understand?”
Qian Bowen raised his hand and scared his son. ”How dare you say that I am uneducated! You want me to beat you?”
Snowy smiled and explained, ”We just want to capture the process of customers selecting pets.”
”Oh, let's do it. I have never done anything bad, so I have nothing to be afraid of.” Qian Bowen still didn't fully understand Snowy's intentions, but he agreed anyway.
Zhang Zian asked, ”What kind of dog do you plan to buy?”
Qian Bowen pushed his son. ”He is asking you! What kind of dog do you want? The same breed as our previous dog? Or another breed? Let's try another type of dog. The previous one was really quarrelsome.”
Small Money was obviously upset. He said sullenly, ”I want a dog that looks just like Kiddo! I am willing to buy a new dog with my own lucky money! Not a big deal!”
It seemed that this kid gained his nickname, Small Money, because he kept bragging about his lucky money. Zhang Zian was curious how much lucky money this kid had? Judging from the clothes of the father and his son, they came from an the working class family.
Qian Bowen was very helpless. He sent his son to the display case to watch the dogs. Then he took Zhang Zian to the side and vented his grievances in a low voice, ”Seriously, when we lost our dog Kiddo a few days ago, apart from feeling sorry for the dog, I felt kind of at ease… I could even say that I felt relieved, because that dog was so noisy and it was barking all the time.”
According to Qian Bowen, he worked in a factory and was responsible for operating the assembly line. He worked three shifts a day and often needed to work at night. He was tired and sleepy after the night shift. After returning home, all he wanted was to sleep for, but the dog was always barking at home. It was so noisy that he had a headache and he couldn't sleep well at all. One time, he almost caused an accident because of his drowsiness.
Not only that, but even when he was on the shift, he still needed to sleep at night. Yet, the dog was still very rowdy at night. It would stay quiet for a while if Qian Bowen fed a bit of a snack to it. But later, it continued barking and did not quiet down until after midnight.
Qian Bowen sighed. ”Since we raised this dog, the experience was almost the same as having a second child. Every night when it barked, we would go to look at it and tell it not to bark. Don't be fooled by its small size! It's especially good at barking! Because of this, our neighbors upstairs and downstairs came to us more than once. Some neighbors were students who would need to take the high school or college entrance examinations this summer, so they must rest well at night…We got along quite well with our neighbors originally, but since raising this dog, our neighbors rolled their eyes at us every time we met. Someone even warned us that they would call the police should the dog bark again…”
Zhang Zian frowned. From Qian Bowen's description, he understood the seriousness of the problem.
Snowy and Vivi frowned, too. Since Snowy and Vivi lived in single-family homes, they did not need to worry about if their neighbors minded if they have pets. They had never thought that keeping pets could bring such big trouble.
Setting aside other small troubles for the moment, the two issues alone—that Qian Bowen nearly caused an accident due to his dog's barking affecting his sleep; and the dog's barking had interfered with the examinee's rest—were enough to decide that this family should not have a dog.
”I know.” Qian Bowen noticed that Zhang Zian, Snowy and Vivi were about to say something, so he waved his hand and said, ”I know that under such circumstances, we really should not continue raising the dog. In fact, even if the dog had not been lost, I had intended to give it away quietly, and then tell my son that the dog was lost. But I felt quite sad when we did lose our dog. After all, my son and I had been raising that dog since it was a puppy…”
Snowy chimed in weakly, ”I think raising cats might be a good option. Cats are quiet and obedient, and they will not bother other people...”
Vivi was allergic to cats but she still nodded.
The comments of the netizens in the live broadcast were fiercer—Why did some people in hate pets? It was because some families were obviously not well suited to keep pets, but they raised pets anyway, causing trouble for people around them. Hence, many people began to hate pets.
Fortunately, Qian Bowen could not see these comments. Otherwise, he would argue with the netizens.