Start at the pet store

The girl comforted Xiaobai for a while, and Lu Jingxing wrote the bill for her. Knowing that she was kind and wanted to save the stray dog, he gave her a big discount, and she didn't need to pay for the treatment fees in the next few days.

The girl smiled when she left, and obviously didn't take the fact that others regarded her as a victim to heart.

Yang Pei had to admire this girl's big heart.

After the girl left, Yang Pei put Xiaobai in the cage and shook his arm: "Brother Lu, now you can really get off work. Haha"

Lu Jingxing also finished recording the information: "Get off work, I'll pick up my brother and sister."

The two walked out of the store together.

Yang Pei was going to the intersection in front to take the subway. He said he was going to pick up Lu Yin, and the two walked to the subway entrance together.

"Hey, that dog seems to be the one who came to the door every day to scold my Da Huang during that period." Yang Pei saw a man walking his dog.

"No, it looks smaller." Lu Jingxing followed his gaze and looked over. "Why, I'm not here to scold you, you're not used to it, right? Haha."

"Don't say it, you really don't say it. Haha." Yang Pei also laughed.

People passing by turned back to look at him, wondering what made him so happy.

Yang Pei quickly stopped laughing.

They separated at the subway entrance. Lu Jingxing just had to cross the intersection to pick up his brother and sister.

Today is my uncle's birthday. My aunt called in the morning and asked him to take his brother and sister to dinner.

At the training school, the teacher told him that his brother and sister didn't have much homework today.

Lu Chen ran over happily when he saw his brother coming: "Brother, I finished my homework at school, and I also did the preview today."

Lu Jingxing smiled and touched his brother's head: "Not bad, you are getting more and more obedient."

Lu Chen smiled when he heard his brother praise him, and he hummed a song and jumped in to pack his schoolbag.

Lu Xi had packed her schoolbag and ran to her brother, looking up and asking, "Brother, what are we going to eat tonight?"

"Let's go buy a cake and go to my aunt's house tonight. My uncle's birthday is today." Lu Jingxing said gently to his sister.

"Okay, let's go buy a cake together." "Yeah, I can see Xiaobao again." The two siblings pulled Lu Jingxing out on the left and right.

Lu Jingxing had already ordered the cake, and took the two siblings to get it, and came to my aunt's house.

My aunt prepared a large table of dishes, and when she saw the cake Lu Jingxing brought, she said, "There are only a few of us, so just come and have fun. Why buy a cake?"

"It's fun, have fun." Lu Jingxing knew what my aunt would say.

"Okay, come in quickly, I'm waiting for you to start the meal." My uncle was setting the table and chopsticks.

"Grandma." Lu Chen and Lu Xi saw the old lady coming, and they shouted sweetly together.

"Hey, so good. Wash your hands and eat quickly." The old lady smiled and disappeared when she saw the two children.

"Hello, grandma." Lu Jingxing is not as sweet as the two younger ones.

"Hey, good, good, good." Grandma has already sat down, and her eyes are full of love when she sees the three babies.

Xiaobao is sitting in the baby chair. When he sees his brother and sister coming, he shouts "Yaiya". Lu Chen and Lu Xi are immediately attracted by Xiaobao.

"Okay, let's eat first, the food is getting cold." The aunt asked Lu Chen and Lu Xi to sit down.

Everyone clinked glasses together and said some blessings. Uncle was so happy that his crow's feet appeared.

Grandma asked Lu Jingxing: "Xiao Lu, is the business in the store good? Can you handle it?"

Lu Jingxing smiled and said: "It's okay. There are Xiao Yang and me in the store, and there are a few part-time clerks. We can basically handle it."

"It's okay, don't be too tired. By the way, you mentioned Xiao Yang. I remember that you posted a video last time saying that the dog always went to your store to scold Xiao Yang. Is this true?" The old lady suddenly said.

"Haha, yes, you know it too? Xiao Yang was talking about it today, saying that it hadn't come to scold him for a long time, and he still missed it a little." Lu Jingxing remembered that he had just talked about this with Yang Pei, and the old lady suddenly mentioned it again, what a coincidence.

"He's not used to not scolding him, right?" Uncle laughed.

"Yes, I said that about him too, what's wrong, grandma?" Lu Jingxing looked at the old lady.

The old lady thought for a while and said, "It's like this, I went to buy vegetables this afternoon, and there were several dogs in the cage of the dog meat stall, and one of them looked very much like that one. The main thing is that I have watched your video several times before, and I knew it was that dog, so I went up and called it 'Da Huang', and then it kept wagging its tail, and I thought it was it."

"Ah, at the dog meat stall?" Uncle looked at the old lady with a little surprise.

The old lady nodded affirmatively: "I'm sure it was him. I went back to the video and watched it. I also called out."

She looked at Lu Jingxing without saying anything and said: "I was going to go to your store tomorrow, but then I thought you would come tonight, so it's just right."

The aunt was also a little confused: "Did its owner sell it? Or did it run away?"

Lu Jingxing was not sure: "It shouldn't have been sold, but it wouldn't be easy to catch it if it ran away. The dog is very smart. Every time Xiao Yang scolded it, it would go back by itself. Besides, if it was caught secretly, it wouldn't have the courage to put it outside for display."

The uncle also nodded: "Yes, it shouldn't have been stolen, so... the owner sold it."

"Do you want to ask?" My aunt felt that even though the dog scolded Xiao Yang every day, it just meant that it was very smart. Moreover, the video was posted at that time and so many people knew about it. It would be a pity if it was killed like this. .

"I'm looking for the owner's contact information. Xiao Yang should know it. I'll call him and tell him the situation."

Lu Jingxing searched for the owner's contact information on his phone for a long time, and thought that maybe Yang Pei was in charge at that time, and he should know.

The phone call was made to Yang Pei: "Yang, didn't you talk about rhubarb this afternoon? Grandma Gang told me that she seemed to have seen it at the vegetable market this afternoon. It was locked in a cage at the dog stall."

Yang Pei shouted in disbelief from the other side: "How is it possible that such a smart dog was caught or sold?" He was also confused.

"We don't know yet. Do you have the contact information of its original owner? Could you please ask to see if there is any misunderstanding?" Lu Jingxing looked at everyone.

The aunt nodded quickly.

"Okay, I have his phone number, I'll call him right away." Yang Pei immediately hung up the phone.

After a while, Yang Pei called back: "I wanted to curse him, but he actually sold it. He said he was going back to his hometown and sold it for two hundred yuan. XX, you gave me this Come on, I'm willing to pay you two hundred and fifty. I'm so angry. Brother Lu, I'm going to go find it. I have to buy it back."

"Don't go now. It's so late. The boss must have closed the stall early. You should go early tomorrow, so as not to see you go so late. The boss knows you must be in a hurry. He increases the price randomly. As long as he doesn't kill you this afternoon, he should go tomorrow." It's been there since this morning," Lu Jingxing advised him.

"There shouldn't be any killing today. The boss just killed two when I passed by." The old lady said quickly.

"Okay, then I'll go tomorrow morning." You could hear that Yang Pei was very angry.

"Okay, okay, don't be angry, everyone, not everyone loves animals." Seeing that Lu Jingxing was in a low mood, the aunt quickly comforted him.

Lu Jingxing gave everyone an apologetic look: "Today is my uncle's birthday, and we don't want these people to be unhappy."

"Yes, yes, come on, let's cut the cake." The aunt asked Lu Chen and Lu Xi to come over and eat the cake.

Put the rhubarb thing aside for now.

Lu Jingxing had just gotten up the next day when Yang Pei called: "Brother Lu, I found this dog meat stall, but the boss didn't admit that he bought it, and I didn't see rhubarb either."

Lu Jingxing hurriedly washed up and said, "I'll be right over."

The vegetable market was not far from home, and Lu Jingxing jogged there in less than fifteen minutes.

From a distance, I heard that Yang Pei seemed to be having a dispute with his boss.

"You are the only one selling dog meat in the whole market. Who are you? Did you kill it?" Yang Pei's voice was a bit loud.

"No, no, if you don't want to buy meat, don't bother me." The boss said in a not very good tone.

Lu Jingxing followed Yang Pei. Yang Pei looked a little aggrieved when he saw Lu Jingxing: "He refused to give it to me."

Lu Jingxing patted Yang Pei on the back: "Boss, my old lady saw Rhubarb yesterday. This dog is quite affectionate to us. Just be generous and ask us how much we can buy it for?"

The boss looked at Lu Jingxing and asked if someone would give him the chance to step down. Don't affect the business: "I wish I had said no earlier. I don't know which ones you are talking about. I just brought these ones today. What about you?" The young man said no, I still have a few at home, you can go and see Luo yourself."

"Hey, okay, where do you live?" Lu Jingxing quickly signaled to Yang Pei, telling him not to say too much.

"My dear, take them to your house to see if there is the dog he mentioned." As he spoke, a slightly fat woman in her fifties wearing a black leather apron came out of the back room.

She took off her gloves and put them on the lounge chair, then turned out from the side: "Let's go, just in front."

Lu Jingxing smiled at her and followed her towards her home, and Yang Pei quickly followed.

Most of the people in the vegetable market rent houses behind the market, which are houses built by nearby villagers themselves. It is an alley with work sheds on both sides. The garbage dump is not far away, and the sound of the vegetable market adds to the environment. Just not very good.

The stall owner lives at the back of the alley, and many people say hello to her as she passes by.

It seems that they have lived here for a long time.

Lu Jingxing greeted her: "You have been in this business of killing dogs for a long time, right?"

The woman looked at the roadside and replied: "We have been doing this for more than ten years, but we never steal dogs, and we do not accept dogs of unknown origin."

She paused and then said: "My old man has a bad temper, so don't be surprised. It's not easy to do business now."

Lu Jingxing immediately said: "Yes, yes, I understand. We just want to find our own dog. We will definitely not care about anything else. Don't worry."

The woman raised her head and glanced at him, meaning that as long as you don't get into trouble, that's fine.

Soon they arrived at the woman's house. Their house was at the very back, so they built a yard at the back. When they saw someone coming in, the dogs barked high and low.