Volume 6: Summer Chapter 14 Skateboard Cat
On the first day of opening, the turnover was 16 yuan.
Jiang You put all the responsibility on Zhaocai , so after dinner, he gave Zhaocai a half-hour long wolf-like education, telling him to improve himself and reach the peak of his cat life. He set a KPI for him to attract at least 20 customers every day. He also kindly hinted that Zhaocai could recruit other cats and dogs on the street to be his subordinates, and painted a big pie for him - when he became the cat queen who dominated Cultural Street, he could sleep peacefully under the camphor tree.
That night, after the lights in Jiang You's room dimmed, Zhao walked to the pond.
The moon is very round.
It stared at the cat's shadow in the pool, which was very powerful. So it turned around and jumped into the greenhouse, jumped onto the bed, stretched out its claws, and was about to hit a pot of peach beauty when it saw a transparent spider silk hanging from above.
Zhaocai's body suddenly froze.
Then, it gently put down its paws, took two steps back, but missed a step and fell off the bed. After getting up, it looked around alertly, then tiptoed out through the crack in the door, ran to the camphor tree, and curled up in a ball, trembling.
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The next morning, Jiang You was supervised by Lin Yu to run ten kilometers in Wenfeng Park and do one hundred push-ups. After he crawled back to the store like a dead dog, Zhao caught his attention - it was lying in a long strip on the branch of the pomegranate tree, swaying, and looked very comfortable.
"I'll go back first and continue tomorrow." After Lin Yu said this, he left.
Jiang You let out a long sigh. He looked up and exchanged glances with Zhao Cai for a while, then lowered his head and thought for a moment.
The sun moves slowly towards the center of the sky.
"Skateboard Cat, it's you." After coming up with the answer, Jiang You walked into the house.
Zhaocai shook his tail blankly, jumped onto the swing, and then jumped to the ground.
After making up his mind, Jiang You went upstairs to take a quick shower, then walked to the kitchen, took out a cold Coke from the refrigerator, and drank half of it.
After feeling the vitality replenishing his brain, he took out the children's skateboard he received on Jiang Mo's birthday last year, carried it to the yard, threw the skateboard on the ground, stepped on it with his right foot, and then said to Zhaocai who was secretly chewing the leaves of the spiritual flowers in the flower bed: "Zhaocai, come here, learn to skateboard."
Zhaocai buried his body in the grass.
"Are you an ostrich? Look at your size, can you hide?"
Still without a response, Jiang You walked to the flower bed in a menacing manner, stretched out his hand and scooped up Zhao Cai, while holding him to the skateboard, he said: "Have you forgotten what I told you yesterday, that you should improve yourself? As long as you learn to skateboard, you will not be an ordinary cat. Then I will shoot more short videos for you and spend some money on promotion. In this way, when you attend cat gatherings in the future, other cats can only show off what brand of cat food they eat, but you can say that you have millions of fans. How domineering! The gap has widened immediately."
He put his talent on the skateboard.
"Today we'll just do the basics, and then we can try other tricks later."
Jiang You kicked the skateboard and it slid forward a short distance.
Zhaocai dug his claws forward a few times, but lost his balance and his belly hit the skateboard. Then he stretched out his four paws and gave up struggling.
"Get up and continue!"
"Don't lie there, look at the sun, your butt is getting hot, stand up quickly."
"Look, I ran ten kilometers this morning. You're a police cat, you're on the government payroll. Look, police dogs have to practice obstacle courses, rescue hostages, and fight bad guys. You only need to learn how to skateboard..."
Jiang You encouraged it for more than ten minutes, and pushed the skateboard back and forth and left and right. Zhao Cai just lay there stubbornly, maintaining his self-esteem as a cat.
At this time, a young girl in a white T-shirt and wide-leg jeans leaned in halfway and asked, "Is this store open?"
"It's open, it's open," Jiang You said repeatedly, "Come in and take a look, there's a promotion going on right now, everything is 20% off."
The girl smiled and walked in, entering the store.
Soon the girl bought three postcards and asked Jiang You to send them to an address at three different times.
After the girl left, Jiang You ate a candy. When he walked out of the store, Zhaocai was no longer on the skateboard . Jiang You looked around but couldn't find it.
"Everyone is in their rebellious phase." As he said that, Jiang You took out his cell phone and ordered an extra-large cup of dragon fruit yogurt smoothie.
While waiting for milk tea, he diligently found the recliner and small round coffee table and placed them outside the store.
The eaves blocked the sunlight, but it was still a little hot, so he found the electric fan and the power strip, and after setting them up, he connected his phone and Xiaoya via Bluetooth, found a playlist, started playing music, then took out a porcelain plate, opened two bags of potato chips of different flavors and poured them into the plate, then took it to the small round coffee table.
After finishing all this, the milk tea delivery arrived. Calculating that today's sales had tripled compared to yesterday, if he accidentally sold a few more, it would be difficult to set the target for next month, so Jiang You took the takeaway and closed the yard door.
Lie down.
He squirmed a few times and adjusted his posture.
Fanning myself, listening to music, drinking smoothies, eating potato chips...
Zhaocai jumped down from the eaves, walked to the chair, and licked his fur slowly.
After an unknown amount of time, Jiang You opened his eyes. He didn't put on his glasses, and the scenery he saw was automatically filtered through the filter of a watercolor painting.
"The flower wall is indeed not very suitable," he looked ahead, "If there really is something strange coming to Tangjiang, we can just go and watch the fun. It's almost summer, so we can just watch the fireworks display. If there are any good-looking ones, we can bring them back to make beads."
Jiang Mo squatted on the steps with his back to Jiang You .
Jiang You yawned, "Go, make me some chicken soup. I need free-range chickens, some mushrooms, coprinus comatus, and some black fungus..."
Jiang Mo turned around and looked at Jiang You.
"You should act like you're retiring when you retire," Jiang You picked up the half-melted smoothie and took a sip. "I just calculated today's turnover and I started to have a headache..."
He reached out and grabbed a ball of spider silk that was thrown at him from somewhere.
Jiang Mo stood up, turned around, walked past Jiang You with an expressionless face, and walked into the store.
"You haven't painted today..." Jiang You listened to the sound of Jiang Mo coming upstairs. He picked up his phone and suddenly remembered that Meng Xianyang hadn't replied to his message. He clicked on Meng Xianyang's circle of friends. A week ago, he posted an ordinary road photo taken facing the window. It seemed that he had gone out. Jiang You thought about it and called Meng Xianyang, but the call didn't go through. The prompt tone indicated that the phone was turned off.
