meow if you are happy

Chapter 158 Fire
After everyone arrived, Chi Yan carefully hung up the plaque of "Pond Bookstore". This plaque was taken down when he moved.

Chi Yan has considered whether to change the name of the new store.After all, the original name "Pond Bookstore" was also related to the location of the store.

However, in the end, Chi Yan decided to continue using the previous store name.

Because on the day of moving, Xiao Xiu pointed to the plaque of "Pond Bookstore" and said to him: "Chi Yan, this is the earliest written word in the human world that I know."

——Because it was the place that Xiaoxiu once called home.

When the plaque was hung up, Chi Yan looked up at the big characters above his head with a warm smile on his face.

After moving to a new store, Xiao Xiu became busy.The new store has a strategic location and the surrounding environment. There are always many people visiting and buying books on weekdays.

Facing the customers coming and going, Xiao Xiu didn't feel tired at all, and was even secretly happy for Chi Yan.You know, when Pond Bookstore was still there, she thought of many ways to increase the number of customers.

"Chi Yan." After finally sending away the last batch of customers, Xiao Xiu sat in a small room next to him and said to him while eating the food Chi Yan brought back from outside, "I think the bookstore still needs to do some activities. .”

"I'm going to make a poster!" Xiao Xiu took a few more mouthfuls of rice, put down his bowls and chopsticks, and ran to the bookshelf, "I can make posters. I've made them for bookstores before!"

"Take a break." Chi Yan put down his bowls and chopsticks and followed him out, "Eat first."

After a pause, he added: "There are posters."

As he spoke, he bent down and pulled out a neatly folded poster from the album next to him: "This can be used."

Xiao Xiu opened it and saw the familiar crooked handwriting.She looked at Chi Yan with some joy: "Chi Yan! You still keep it!"

Looking at Xiao Xiu's expression, Chi Yan turned his head away. He was right. The poster was indeed Xiao Xiu's handiwork.After confirming that Xiaoxiu is really a cat, those fragments that he didn't pay attention to before would flash in Chi Yan's mind from time to time, including the poster in front of him that he almost threw away.

"Take a break." Something in Chi Yan's heart suddenly softened. He looked at the cheering girl in front of him and said after a long time, "I will accompany you."

"Ah?" Xiao Xiu was stunned.

"I will accompany you to find the murderer of your sister."

——Just thinking about what Xiao Xiu has been carrying these days, Chi Yan feels regretful that he shouldn't have been so cruel to her that time.

"Beep beep beep—"

As soon as Chi Yan opened the door of Pond Bookstore early in the morning, he heard the sound of fire trucks roaring past, accompanied by black smoke in the sky...

At nine o'clock in the morning, Chi Yan glanced at the watch on his wrist.

"There's a fire, right?" Two female students walked into Pond Bookstore while chatting. "Isn't that the fire truck that just passed by?"

"Yes." The girl with a ponytail next to her nodded, "She came from my house. There was a fire at the stray animal shelter near my house. When I went out in the morning, the firefighters were still putting out the fire!"

"Fortunately, the fire truck rushed over, otherwise it would have burned down the house next to it."

"Ah, is anyone injured?" The companion was obviously worried.

"No. I heard there were no casualties, but...it's a pity about the cats and dogs kept there..." the pony-tailed girl said, shaking her head, "I heard there were hundreds of them, and they all died. …”

Ten past nine.Chi Yan looked down at the watch on his wrist again, and he began to panic inexplicably.It seems that Xiao Xiu will take care of the affairs of these cats and dogs, just in case she was there at the time...

Chi Yan looked outside the bookstore again and saw no familiar figure on the crowded street.

I'm always on time for my break, so how could I be late all of a sudden?

"Chi Yan!" Just when Chi Yan was hesitating whether to make a call, Xiao Xiu appeared in his sight.Xiao Xiu ran to Chi Yan panting, "There's a fire in the nearby homeless shelter!"

Chi Yan handed her the water: "Well, I heard about it."

"I heard about it when I came here, so I ran to take a look." Xiao Xiu was obviously frightened by the scene, and his hand holding the water glass kept trembling. "The fireman stopped me and refused to let me pass, but I still looked. arrive……"

"So many... so many burnt corpses." Xiao Xiu said, his eyes began to turn red, "I just sent a few stray cats there a few days ago..."

It was too late at that time, and the space at Xu Zihao's rescue station was limited. Xiaoxiu thought that the shelter here would be bigger, so he took a few stray cats he had rescued there.When she left, she told the kittens that she would visit them in a few days and bring them dried fish to eat.

did not expect……

"It's not your fault." Chi Yan comforted him softly, "Xiao Xiu, sometimes natural disasters are inevitable."

"It's not a natural disaster." Xiao Xiu clenched his fists, with grief and anger on his face. "I met a cat who had a lucky escape there. He saw a human figure. I'm very sure that this is not a natural disaster!"

"I'll accompany you to call the police." After hearing Xiao Xiu's words, Chi Yan made a decision immediately.

"I've already called Sister Mingming." Xiao Xiu calmed down, and when she felt better, she spoke again, her tone full of hesitation and hesitation, "Chi Yan, what do you think... Doctor Luo? "

"He." Chi Yan didn't know why Xiao Xiu suddenly asked about topics related to Luo Jiaxuan, but he still answered him seriously, "He is a person with a very sense of justice."

"I smelled the smell left by Dr. Luo at the scene." Xiao Xiu thought about it and decided to tell Chi Yan what he found.When she smelled the smell left by Dr. Luo at the scene, Xiao Xiu was also surprised. She originally thought that Dr. Luo was just like her and came after hearing about such things. However, among the onlookers at the scene, Xiao Xiu Dr. Luo was not found.

For some reason, Xiao Xiu thought about the time when she followed Chi Yan to track the man in black. At that time, she smelled the smell of the man in black on Dr. Luo.There were people coming and going in the hospital at that time, so Xiao Xiu didn’t think much about it.But now... I smell Dr. Luo's scent at this time...

The human brain is like this. Once you become suspicious of something, you will fall into deep suspicion for a long time.

"Chi Yan." Xiao Xiu didn't want to hide it from Chi Yan. She decided to tell Chi Yan what she was thinking, "I think Dr. Luo is suspicious."

Xiao Xiu also explained to Chi Yan the reason why Dr. Xialuo was suspicious, and even told Chi Yan that they had followed the man in black in order to catch the cat abuser.

"Have a break." Chi Yan shook his head, "Luo Jiaxuan is definitely not that kind of person. When I was in high school, I was wrongfully accused of cat abuse by my classmates. He was the only one besides Mingming who believed in me, and he was the only one who stood up for me. The person I spoke to also suffered a lot from those classmates because he spoke for me."

"He will never have anything to do with the man in black you mentioned as a cat abuser. I believe him." Chi Yan's tone was full of certainty.

(End of this chapter)