I will never give in to Miss Death

I tried to touch Miaomiao's head.

The little guy turned around and licked my fingers with his pink tongue.

Cici.

It turns out that the rumor that cats' tongues are covered in barbs is true.

But the feel of this cat is a bit... a bit bad.

It's all meat, with lots of wrinkles and no hair at all.

If you don't really like them, hairless cats are probably only suitable for people who are allergic to cat hair, right?

Seeing that the two cats had gradually begun to adapt to the environment, I went back to the door of the coffee shop and moved "Beibei" and "Jiajia" in.

Then there are other breeds of cats.

"These are all British shorthair cats. Tom in Tom and Jerry is this type of cat. There are British shorthairs, British shorthairs blue and white, British shorthairs cream, etc."

“This one is called pomegranate, and this one is called pizza.”

"..."

"Then there's the rural cat, this is Du Fu, this is Li Bai."

"The patterns of rural cats are easy to distinguish, just look at the color and spots."

"..."

"This one is called Building Three. He has the worst temper of all the cats."

"This one is called a mosquito bag, this one is called a bite, and this one..."

“Why do so many of these rural cats have strange names?”

"Because some cat cafes collect stray cats from outside, for example, the cat named Building 3 was caught in the No. 3 office building of a certain college, so it was named Building 3. The name Lai Yi Bite comes from the fact that the kitten bit my glove when I caught it, so it's called Lai Yi Bite."

"..."

Well, it turns out that the cat wasn't abnormal, it was the person who named it who was too careless.

So, while listening to Ouyang Xue's introduction, I helped her move the cats into the coffee shop one by one. It took more than ten minutes to move all the cats into the house.

Suddenly, the originally empty coffee shop was full of life because of the arrival of these elves.

"Okay, we still have a lot of cat food left. Your task today is to negotiate with the cat food suppliers at the port and try to get a lower price. We are a big customer, and there will be a big gap in cat food in the future. But no matter what, quality comes first."

Amid the "meowing" sounds of various cats around, Ouyang Xue said to the driver: "Cat food is of utmost importance. There must be no problems."

"Don't worry, Sister Ouyang."

The driver said confidently: "I guarantee that the task will be completed."

In less than ten minutes, the cats that moved in quickly found their own positions and began to "rule the king of the mountain" as Ouyang Xue said.

Some cats walked around to familiarize themselves with the environment, some pounced on the automatic feeder and kept eating, some jumped nimbly to the top of the cat climbing frame, and some simply lay on the ground and looked like a lazy fish.

"Ding Dong! Welcome!"

Before I had time to remember the names of these cats, I heard the sound of someone entering the house again.

"Boss? Is anyone there?"

The couple who came this time were both around 20 years old. If I'm not mistaken, they were students from a nearby university who had no classes and came out to play.

"Wow! There are so many kittens! Is this a cat cafe? Not a place to eat?"

"Ding Dong! Welcome!"

The young couple just came in, and two uncles with briefcases on their backs came in from outside. "What a big mushroom house. Is there really food here?"

"Well, the peak dining time is coming, and we'll be busy from now on."

Ouyang Xue next to me patted my shoulder.

"Leave those two uncles to me, and you go serve the young couple."

No. 089 Tuanzi Family

Just as the store manager Ouyang Xue predicted, compared to the deserted morning, the number of people dining in the store exploded starting from 11 a.m.

It was as if ten minutes ago this was a remote restaurant on the verge of bankruptcy with few visitors, but ten minutes later it instantly became a popular check-in spot for internet celebrities.

The job of a restaurant waiter is similar to some white-collar jobs. It is particularly idle when it is slow. In the morning, afternoon and late at night, few people will eat at this time period. The waiter can do almost anything, play with the phone and sleep - of course, this coffee shop is still in the preparation stage before its opening. I can't rest when no one is around. I have to take care of the cats and deal with various chores.

"Little maid! This way! This way!"

"Waiter! Give me an order of that meow meow egg tart! Meow meow cat claw egg tart! 20% off!"

"Maid sister, do you have sweet flower stuffed chicken or wolf claw grilled meat pie?"

"Give me a butter crab!"

"Why don't you sell coffee in this cafe? Let's go."

"..."

Starting from 11 o'clock, people of all kinds gradually sat down at the tables on the first floor.

These people seem to be mostly college lovers, college dormitory buddies, and good gay friends. Since today is not a holiday, most of those who can come out to play are college students or special workers who have taken time off. They are basically all attracted by the tourist projects on the nearby Shenbin River. After experiencing speedboat or fishing on the river, they wandered around and found the coffee shop.

Because I saw many people even coming in with fishing gear on their backs, and asked us to help them deal with the fish they caught.

"Come on waiter, fry this for me and I'll give you the labor fee!"

"There's a little one here too, can I feed the cat?"

"No? Why? Isn't this a cat cafe? Don't cats eat fish?"

"Parasites? Then you can boil this little fish and feed it to the kitten after it's cooked, haha."

"..."

There were all kinds of customers with all kinds of strange requests, which kept me very busy.

According to Ouyang Xue, the tables and chairs in the lobby on the first floor can theoretically accommodate 80 to 100 customers. If that doesn't work, the second floor can accommodate about 30 people. At this peak time at noon, the customers in the store are already making me busy: some are ordering food, some are adding food, some are asking for photos, some are asking for the maid to chat with them, some are asking for cats...

I can't imagine how busy I will be if this store is promoted well in the future, the surrounding commercial streets are built, and more people come to the store, and if I am still the only maid in the store.

But while being busy, serving customers also makes me very happy.

Because it's all money.

Ouyang Xue in the store has a very complicated calculation method for the "maid's commission for receiving customers". I didn't look at it carefully, but I can roughly understand that this commission is positively correlated with my "hard work" or "effort". That is, every time I receive a customer, let them place an order, or lure them to pet cats and give them snacks, I will get a commission for these.

Currently, I am the only maid in the coffee shop. Basically, all orders and consumption will be counted as my commission. Ouyang Xue is also generous. Although she helps me receive more than half of the customers, those customers are also counted as my "performance".

By the way, the commission for "taking photos with the maid" is 100%.

Each photo costs one dollar, and all of it can be counted into my salary commission.

When I was asked by customers to take photos, I listened to the "clicking" sounds of the cameras and made a cute victory gesture. All I could think was -

[One dollar, two dollars, three dollars, five dollars, great! ]

Then you can smile very naturally.

The "group photo" on the bill is calculated by the number of photos, but Ouyang Xue and I will not take the initiative to ask customers how many photos they have taken. It is all based on their own willingness to pay.

After all, taking photos is not prohibited in coffee shops, and no one will stop you even if you take photos secretly.

"You have so many cats here... There are so many varieties. Aren't they afraid of people?"

"Hey, Chen Zhi, this cat is so ugly. It has no hair."

"Can I feed them food? Huh? So many kinds of snacks? And canned food?"

"What canned food does this ugly cat like?"

"..."

When I was welcoming customers who had eaten and drunk their fill to play in the cat living area at the back, I discovered a strange phenomenon: almost all customers who came for the first time would be attracted by the four hairless cats, and then would come up to them in surprise and want to touch them.

Miaomiaoqiaoqiao, they don't mind being touched. They basically lie lazily on the ground and let the guests ravage them.

Whenever I see this scene, I sigh from the bottom of my heart - these cats are indeed cats that have seen the world and come from a cat cafe, and they know how to please the guests.

If it were any other wild or stray cat, or the orange cat that Yang Kun, the property manager of the apartment, had raised, let alone touching it, it would run away the instant you got close to it.

"Don't touch it, this cat is really ugly. It's too ugly without hair. I still like furry ones. Let's look at another one."

"This feels so strange, why is it licking me..."

"Is this Beerus from the Dragon Clan? Or the God of Destruction? Oh my goodness."

"Haha, I just like this kind of ugly cat, Miss Maid, give me a can!"

"..."

Then it basically started with the hairless cat Sphynx. The customers began to have different opinions, because the four hairless cats were very good at trying to please people. When they were touched, they would either turn over on their bellies or lick the customers' hands. Therefore, they always received a lot of cat biscuits and canned cat food. However, those customers who didn't like hairless cats would quickly turn their attention to other breeds of cats after observing them curiously for a while.

At this time, the first cat to be noticed is often the largest cat in the group - the Maine Coon.

There are currently two Maine Coons in the store, one named Ding Man and the other named Nian Gao. They are both three-year-old adult male cats, weighing more than 30 kilograms and more than half a meter long. Including the tail, they are almost as big as me. They are both "giant cats" with fluffy hair and a "scarf" like a lion under their necks. With sapphire-like eyes, they look particularly domineering.

Secondly, there are the Ragdoll cats and Norwegian Forest Cats in the store. Ragdoll cats are the most popular cat breed on the market. They are named because they look like ragdolls. Their bodies are mainly white, and their eyes are as blue as the sky. The appearance of the Norwegian Forest Cat is similar to that of the Maine Coon, but the hair of this cat is more "wild". Just looking at it gives people a feeling that "this guy must live in the forest."

In addition to these large cats, many customers also like some popular cat breeds on the market, such as the British Shorthair cat, the prototype of Tom in "Tom and Jerry", the American Shorthair cat with a python-like back pattern, and the "big-faced" Exotic Shorthair cat, also known as Garfield.

There are many varieties of "Chinese rural cats" that are everywhere in our country and are also very popular with customers, such as the black and white cow cat, the black and gray dirty tortoiseshell cat, the long-haired rural lion cat and so on.

However, the most popular among Chinese native cats is the orange cat - I really don’t understand why orange cats are so fat. Is it because orange cats have a fat gene, or is it because humans like orange cats and feed them more, so orange cats are fatter than other cats?

To be honest, personally, my favorite part of the job is the four hairless Sphynx cats, followed by the short-haired rural cats.

Because they require little care, do not shed, and do not require combing.

Needless to say, the hairless cats, these four little guys have very good personalities. They allow you to pet them, hug them and kiss them. The only boy, Miaomiao, will even turn around and lick your hand when you touch him. Except for the fact that they have no hair and look like the alien destroyer Beerus, which does not conform to some people's aesthetics, they are simply perfect cats to me.

The same goes for rural cats. The amount of fur of rural cats can be considered relatively perfect and very strong. Although they shed some hair, it is not much and is still within an acceptable range.

Apart from these two types of cats, the rest of the cats, especially the long-haired cats, yes, specifically Maine Coon, Ragdoll and Norwegian Forest, and the blue cat over there, you are simply devils.

The cats' hair was falling down like it was free. I saw that there were not many customers in the hall ten minutes ago, so I caught a ragdoll cat and used a small comb to comb its hair for five minutes. I pulled out half a bag of hair and thought that the cat would not shed hair today. But after the child fell from my arms, he jumped excitedly and rolled over the railing. His huge body rubbed against the two sides of the railing, and a large ball of cat hair fell down with a "swish". I had to chase him, picking up the hair balls and calling his name to stop him from running to the customer dining area.

Before I came into such close contact with a cat, I really thought that the UP bloggers on the video website were just joking when they said cats were shedding.

Moreover, not all cats like to be combed. Some cats will run away when they see me pick up the comb. Some cats think I want to play the cat and mouse game with them, so they happily retreat when I approach them. Some cats get so excited that they run towards the customer area.

As a result, my job throughout the day was basically... to entertain customers, write orders at lightning speed, deliver them to the kitchen at lightning speed, bring the food over at lightning speed, run back to pick up balls of hair if I saw them, chase after a long-haired cat that was shedding hair, catch it and bring it home to comb its hair, and after combing the hair, use a special roller brush to brush the cat hair off my maid's skirt and garters before going to serve customers.

There is a very low fence between the customer dining area and the cat area. Some cats are not afraid of people. On the contrary, they particularly like strangers. After all, the cats here all work in cat cafes. In their eyes, strangers are equivalent to cat cans and snacks. So cats often sneak out of the hall to act coquettishly with customers. Except for hairless cats, I need to catch these escaped cats.

However, for some reason, the customers who come here to eat seem to like watching me catch the cat.

They were eating in the lobby, gnawing on chicken legs. Whenever they saw me chasing after a cat, or finally catching a cat that had escaped from jail and bringing it back with a bitter face, I could always see happy smiles on these customers' faces.

Many people even took out their mobile phones to take pictures here.

At this time, I had to hurriedly adjust the hem of my skirt and then pick up the cat.

But some cats are particularly heavy, like those Maine Coons and Ragdoll cats. I was tired after lifting them for a long time and was not prepared. After lifting them for a while, they were so tired that they fell over.

Why are there cats weighing more than 30 kilograms in this world? They are the same weight as tiger cubs, right?!

"Look at that little maid. She can't even hold a cat."

"Haha, so cute. Isn't she so weak?"

"It must be because I didn't eat well when I was a kid!"

"To be honest, that cat is pretty big. What kind of cat is it?"

The most annoying thing is that these customers would laugh out loud when they saw me being tormented by the cat, and talk about it here.

hateful……

If I were still the uncle I used to be, a few thirty-pound cats... this tough guy could lift them up with one hand!

In this way, during the busiest time at noon, I basically didn't have a second to rest. I kept shuttling back and forth between the kitchen and customers to deliver things. When I had nothing to do, I would go to visit the cats, stroke their fur, remove their hair and clean the place.

I was busy until around three in the afternoon, and only got an hour's break after lunch.

"Go eat something and take a nap. I'll take care of the customers this afternoon."