start with a pet store

Chapter 1012 Taken advantage of

Xi Wenxin's face suddenly darkened and he shook his head slightly.

Lu Jingxing stopped asking.

Zhao Jingming had already ordered the dishes, and they started chatting while waiting for the food to be served.

"I heard about Song Yuan's story. I always thought his family should be well-off, but I didn't expect there was such a thing..." Zhao Jingming said.

Lu Jingxing nodded gently: "Yes, he never told me about his family situation before, but generally speaking, he is still lucky. At least his biological parents finally found him, and according to him, his adoptive parents treated him well."

"How did you know?" Ji Ling asked.

"What a coincidence! My dad actually knew his adoptive father. I don't know how they talked about this. Then, my dad came back and told us about it. He said the old man's surname was Song and the child's name was Song Yuan. I thought it couldn't be such a coincidence that it was the Song Yuan I knew. Then, out of curiosity, I asked him about it. He told me that he had arrived in the United States, and that Song Yuan was him. Don't you think this is a coincidence?" Zhao Jingming laughed when he said this.

"What a coincidence! This world is not small, but it's not big either..." Lu Jingxing also laughed.

"Come on, let's have a toast, for us and for Song Yuan..." Zhao Jingming smiled and raised his cup: "Ladies, please feel free..."

Ji Ling also smiled and picked up the drink in front of him.

After eating and drinking, Zhao Jingming left because he had another party.

Lu Jingxing and others went back to the store first. They counted the items they needed to purchase and discussed what to do in the next few days. The opening was scheduled for a week later.

Many machines have been delivered one after another. Now several inspection rooms in the store are equipped with instruments, and the office has also been properly arranged. There will be no problem in starting business directly.

However, everyone still thinks that they should choose a good day for opening a business, which will be more auspicious. Although Lu Jingxing and Ji Ling do not believe in this, the Chinese people still want to be auspicious to some extent.

Ji Ling and Pan Erdong went to see the cats.

After everything was basically settled, only Lu Jingxing and Xi Wenxin were left in the office. Xi Wenxin took the initiative to talk to him about the female classmate: "Is it my destiny that women can't get close to me? I'm obviously not a rich man, why do I feel like they are only after my money?"

Lu Jingxing chuckled and asked, "What do you mean?"

"When my classmate came here, I told her that our salary is not high, but I know her conditions are not very good either. I didn't tell you that when I gave her the salary, I also gave her an extra 1,000 yuan a month, thinking that she would have to rent an apartment and it would not be easy for her to live alone. But she said within a week that her grandmother was seriously ill and needed surgery, and asked me to help her and advance her two months' salary. I really had no choice but to borrow 10,000 yuan from my credit card for fear that she would be embarrassed. But last week she said that something happened at home and she wanted to borrow money again. This time she asked for 30,000 yuan. How could I give her so much..." he said helplessly.

Lu Jingxing listened quietly, waiting for his next words.

"Later I thought about it and felt that something was wrong. When my mother called me, I asked about her grandmother. My mother said that her grandmother was fine. She was in her seventies, but she was still very healthy. I confirmed again whether she was sick in the past few days. My mother didn't know. My mother knew that I wouldn't care about such things otherwise. When she asked, there must be something wrong. She went to ask specifically to confirm that her grandmother was in good health in recent times. After I knew it, I didn't want to talk for a long time." Xi Wenxin looked indifferent.

"I remember you said that you haven't seen each other for a long time, right?" Lu Jingxing said.

Xi Wenxin nodded: "When we were in middle school, we went to different universities, so we didn't meet each other. Later, when I went back to work, I think we met once at a class reunion, but we didn't talk much. I was with that person at the time, and she was quite stingy, so I didn't stay for long that day. But we did have a good relationship when we were young, and we often played together."

"After so many years, she may have changed a lot. What about now?" Lu Jingxing took a sip of water.

"She wanted 30,000 this time, but I didn't lend it to her. I really didn't have the money to lend her. We were doing such a big thing, and I only invested that little money. I had given it all I had. How could I give her 30,000 in one go? I told her the truth, and then she didn't come the next day. She sent me a message asking me to forgive her." Xi Wenxin handed the phone to Lu Jingxing.

Lu Jingxing frowned as he read the message: "I'm taking advantage of you..."

"I was worried that something might happen to her, so I asked another friend who used to be very close to her. She was already married, but we had always been in contact. I then found out that she was actually pregnant this time. She came to me because she thought I was single now and wanted to see if I was interested in her. If it was possible, I almost became a scapegoat." Xi Wenxin looked incredulous. He probably didn't expect that he had good intentions but was almost tricked.

"Fortunately, I took you to Long'an, otherwise, you might have really been taken away by her. She looks pretty good, but she is pregnant with someone else's child and looking for an honest man to take over. This is too bad..." Lu Jingxing said.

"I have no interest in her, not at all. It's purely out of friendship when we were young. It's a good thing that it is like this, otherwise, it would be really unfair to me." Xi Wenxin laughed bitterly.

"Everyone has to experience a few bad girls in their life, except me of course, haha..." Lu Jingxing laughed without fear of adding fuel to the fire.

Xi Wenxin looked like he wanted to smack him: "Are you really not afraid of getting beaten?"

Lu Jingxing knew that his anger had passed, and he laughed: "I'm not cheating you of your money, I'm not afraid..."

As soon as Ji Ling came in, she heard this: "Ah, who got cheated of money?"

Lu Jingxing and Xi Wenxin looked at each other. Xi Wenxin glared at him and said, "Oh, no, no, I mean one of my classmates got scammed out of money. By the way, where are you guys going tonight? Are you coming to my place?"

"What are you thinking about? I can go to your place, but we can't let Lingzi go there too. We've booked a room, so you don't have to worry about it. Let's go our separate ways tomorrow. Lingzi and I will prepare things according to the list. You post the recruitment notice. It's only a week away. Why don't you go to the job market and bring back the right people. We'll need to train them, and it'd be best if they're majoring in animal pets, as they'll be easier to get started." Because Xi Wenxin would need to be the manager of this store in the future, Lu Jingxing didn't plan to personally take care of the recruiting. He would just check when the people came.

As for how many people to recruit and what kind of people to recruit, they had already discussed it.

Fang will be here in a couple of days. If we fail to recruit a suitable doctor, we will just recruit a few ordinary employees first. As long as they are caring and like small animals, this should not be a difficult task.

In the first two days, Lu Jingxing and Ji Ling went to the market together to buy things according to the list. On the third day, everyone stayed in the store to do the final cleaning.

Xi Wenxin has already put all the commercials into production.

Lu Jingxing had already released this news on the platform, so he didn't plan to make a big fuss. Lu Jingxing himself had just arrived here and didn't understand the local market very well. If he wanted to use connections to organize large-scale events, after discussion, he felt that it was not necessary. So, he just asked Pan Erdong to take a few newly recruited employees to distribute some flyers.

At least a few communities have recently become aware of this situation.

Next, Ji Ling urgently trained the new employees. Everyone was busy, but everything seemed orderly.

"Boss, are you open? Do you have a doctor?" Everyone was doing training that day, and Lu Jingxing and Xi Wenxin were communicating about some daily routines in the store and the use of machines.

Two people came in and asked questions while standing at the door.

Ji Ling was just about to let everyone rest for a while, and when he heard the noise, he immediately walked over: "Hello, how can I help you?"

"Can you treat reptiles? I've been to several hospitals, but none of them treat reptiles." The girl asked anxiously.

"What kind of reptile? Is it a snake or something?" Ji Ling asked.

"Yes, yes, it's a snake, is that okay?" She seemed to have grasped the last straw.

Ji Ling talked about snakes because snakes were the most common reptiles.

"Let me ask our doctor. We will not officially open for business for another two days. Did you bring your snake?" Ji Ling asked again.

"Yes, I brought it. It's in the car outside. The doctor is here, right? I'll bring it in right away." The girl said to the boy who came with her, "Go and bring it in quickly."

The boy ran away quickly.

"Wait here for a moment. I'll go call our doctor." Ji Ling asked the girl to sit down and ran in to find Lu Jingxing.

At this moment, Lu Jingxing and Xi Wenxin were in the ultrasound room. They had just turned on the machine and were doing the final check.

"Brother Lu, there's a customer outside who said her pet snake is sick. Can you take a look?" Ji Ling had never seen Lu Jingxing treat a snake, so she was not very sure.

"Did you bring the snake? Do you know what disease it is?" After hearing this, Lu Jingxing quickly stood up.

"I brought it. I didn't ask what disease it was, so I don't know if you can treat it." Ji Ling said a little guiltily.

"You're underestimating me. I can even deliver a snake baby." Lu Jingxing said with a smile. Besides, even if he is not sure now, he has a cheat. Although the cheat has not been used for a long time, it does not mean that it cannot be used.

With that, the two of them walked out together.

At this time, the boy also brought in the box containing the snake.

Lu Jingxing picked it up, took a look, and asked, "Is it having a difficult birth?"

"Yes, yes, it's been several hours. We called to ask, and they said that under normal circumstances, it should have given birth a long time ago, but it just couldn't. Then, I was really worried, so I took it to the streets to look for doctors, but we went to several, and they all said that they couldn't do it." said the girl.

"This will probably require surgery..." Lu Jingxing said to the two owners after examining the little guy.

"Is the operation risky? Will anything happen?" It seemed like the girl was experiencing this for the first time, and she looked confused.

"Any surgery will definitely have risks. For snakes, dystocia is nothing more than the eggs being stuck. All we have to do is take the eggs out. But I just watched the film of its situation, and it's a bit more troublesome. It requires an abdominal incision to take out the eggs. Another thing is that the egg retrieval process is difficult to predict, and some eggs may break..." Lu Jingxing analyzed.

"The eggs don't matter much, as long as my Liuliu is okay in the end." said the girl.

"No doctor will give a 100% guarantee to a patient who is about to undergo surgery, but I think there shouldn't be any problem." Lu Jingxing said with a smile.

"Okay, I believe you. When will the operation be performed?" After the girl and the boy looked at each other, they made up their minds. Instead of looking for uncertain factors elsewhere, they might as well bet on Lu Jingxing. At least he was the only doctor who dared to take this operation at the moment.

"Once you're sure, we can make arrangements right away. Also, its condition must be dealt with right away. The longer the delay, the more dangerous it will be for it." Lu Jingxing nodded.

"Okay then, thank you for your help..." the girl said calmly.

After listening to the conversation between the few people, Ji Ling quickly found the surgery consent form for the girl to sign. On this side, Lu Jingxing took Liuliu into the operating room.

The employees outside were already chatting away. Not only had they never seen surgery on snakes, they had rarely seen pet snakes. Even though Ji Ling had told them during the training these days that they might encounter all kinds of pets when opening a pet shop, before they saw the real thing, everyone still thought that cats and dogs were normal.

Two brave boys followed him to the door of the operating room and whispered to Xi Wenxin, "Boss Xi, can we go in and take a look?"

Xi Wenxin looked at Lu Jingxing.

Lu Jingxing glanced at the two of them. This group of employees were recruited from the talent market together. There were college students and undergraduates. In fact, their majors were not very relevant, but they basically said that they were interested in this and had experience in raising small animals. Lu Jingxing remembered that Xi Wenxin had specially introduced them to him at that time. There were two people who should be the ones he mentioned, majoring in veterinary medicine, and they were just graduated from college.

Seeing that they were willing to do so, Lu Jingxing nodded: "Okay, go change your clothes."

After hearing this, the two of them jumped for joy and immediately went to change their clothes happily.

"I understand their feelings very well. I am taking advantage of you. Otherwise, I would not be the same as them." Xi Wenxin said as they walked towards the operating room.

Lu Jingxing also laughed after hearing this: "This is their original major. If they can be trained to be assistants, that would be fine. These machines will always need people to operate them in the future. It will be easier for those who study this major to learn these."

(End of this chapter)