Chapter 274: Trick Succeeded
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Long Xian had heard about Zhang Zian from Sun Xiaomeng before — that his pet shop and Sister Xiaomeng’s pet clinic would work together. She also heard something about Zhang Zian from Wang Qian and Li Kun who were working at the clinic. Curiously, when describing Zhang Zian, Sun Xiaomeng’s narrative was completely different from that of Wang Qian and Li Kun.
In Sun Xiaomeng’s narrative, Zhang Zian liked hoodwinking others, was stingy and unreliable, but also had excellent tricks in cat training. From Wang Qian and Li Kun’s perspectives, who both raced to answer her questions, Zhang Zian was a rare and unique master hiding in this world, opening a pet shop to keep a low-profile...
Long Xian, of course, tended to believe Sun Xiaomeng’s words. Though Sun Xiaomeng was not much older than her, Sun Xiaomeng looked mature and prudent, and was a reliable senior sister. However, when she took Wang Qian and Li Kun's advice and searched on the internet, she really found the popular video where Zhang Zian was confronting with seven gangsters in a late night. So, she was at quite a loss, getting increasingly more curious about this person.
When Sun Xiaomeng introduced that the person in front of her was Zhang Zian, Long Xian felt a bit disappointed. After all, he looked just like an ordinary guy. Maybe it was because she had unrealistically high expectations of him.
Zhang Zian defended himself several times, trying to leave a good impression on the new nurse, but his intention seemed to have failed. Probably before he arrived, Wang Qian, Li Kun and Sun Xiaomeng had already told a lot of strange things about him to this new nurse.
"Where is the customer who want to buy pets?" he asked helplessly.
"Inside." Sun Xiaomeng pursed her lips, "You can go hoodwinking him, just leave me out of it."
"What? How is that hoodwinking..." Zhang Zian looked at Long Xian and smiled embarrassingly, trying to clarify the facts.
Just then, his cellphone rang again.
Hm? What’s going on today? Usually no one but the mailman would call him, but he had received two phone calls just this morning...
The caller ID belonged to Guo Dongyue.
"Hello?" He answered the phone.
"I’ll bring the construction team over later." said Guo Dongyue on the phone. "Are you in the shop?"
"I..." just when Zhang Zian wanted to answer "yes", he immediately realized he was not there.
"I'm in a pet clinic up north," he changed his answer. "When will you arrive at my shop?"
"Ten minutes or so." Before replying, Guo Dongyue went into silence for a few seconds, estimating the speed of his vehicle and the mileage through the navigator.
"So soon?" Zhang Zian faced a dilemma.
Guo Dongyue heard his hesitation from his tone, "I can come another day if it’s inconvenient for you."
"No, no, no inconvenience." Zhang Zian thought he must not change the day, who knew when the construction team would be available again? The construction workers were paid on a daily basis. If his project was postponed, they would not just wait there and did nothing, certainly they would find other jobs, and it was hard to tell when they could finish with other projects.
"Okay, we'll be there soon," said Guo Dongyue, "Have someone open door for us."
"Sure, bye." Zhang Zian confirmed Guo Dongyue was not talking, and hung up the phone.
He held his cell phone, feeling stumped.
He could not turn away Guo Dongyue and his construction team today, and he must meet with the customer here at the clinic. If only he hadn’t just sent away Wang Qian and Li Kun. He wondered whether it was too late to ask them to come back...
Just when Zhang Zian was thinking hard about possible solutions, he turned around and saw that Sun Xiaomeng was in a leisurely state. She brewed a cup of hot coffee behind the cashier, picked up a pet magazine and skimmed at it while sitting on the chair in the waiting area, and instructing Long Xian what to do from time to time. As a new employee, Long Xian was not familiar with the routines in the clinic, but she was very serious about her work. That’s why she could get along with Sun Xiaomeng. Long Xian was holding a pen and a notebook, writing down the words of Sun Xiaomeng one by one.
"Hey. I see that you are not very busy now, are you?" He walked over to Sun Xiaomeng and asked her brazenly.
"What do you want?" she looked up and asked warily.
"Guo Dongyue is taking people to my place for renovation, but I need to meet that customer inside. I can’t be in two places at once, so… can you please go to my shop and open the door for them? I locked the shutter door when I left." He took out the keys and swayed them in front of her.
"None of my business!" Sun Xiaomeng refused bluntly. "You really think I’m not busy at all? Right now, I can rest for a little while because clients haven’t shown up for their appointments. But usually, I have to stand all day, and my legs get so stiff that my knees can’t even bend in the evening!"
"Life lies in movement, while sedentary people will get hemorrhoids easily. Just take a walk. It’s not that far anyway. Wait there till they arrive, open the door for them and then you can come back." Zhang Zian was patiently persuading her.
"In your dreams. Why can’t you go back by yourself? It’s only one customer here, so it’s not that big a deal." Already accustomed to his hoodwinking, Sun Xiaomeng was unpersuaded.
Zhang Zian said with solemnity, "Customer is king. If you miss one king, you may have missed the chance to earn tens of thousands of dollars!"
She simply lowered her head and ignored him.
"Galaxy is still in the shop. I wonder if it feels lonely... I should have brought it over..." said Zhang Zian as if murmuring to himself. Failing at his first trick, he now resorted to another one.
Sun Xiaomeng’s heart leapt with a flicker of interest. Pulling a few loose strands of hair behind her ears, she extended her hand to him, "Give me the keys."
Zhang Zian stepped back instead and waved his hands, "No, no. Forget it. I really think it’s too troublesome for you. I should go back by myself... as for the customer, who cares? More and more people will come visit my shop in the future..."
Sun Xiaomeng became angry. She leaned forward and snatched the keys, drank her coffee, flung the pet magazine to the seat next her, and said to Long Xian, "I’m going out for a while. You take care of the clinic on your own. It the clients who have made appointments show up, call me and ask them to wait a minute."
Long Xian nodded, "Okay, Sister Xiaomeng, understood."
Sun Xiaomeng completely ignored Zhang Zian. She buttoned up her white gown, put the keys in her pocket, pushed the door and left.
Zhang Zian was delighted by his own wit. He turned around and saw that Long Xian was staring at him with a weird look. When his eyes met hers, she quickly lowered her head.
"What?" He touched his face and asked.
"No... nothing..." Long Xian whispered and didn’t dare to look up. She couldn’t point out to him that his expression and tone were just so disgusting...
Zhang Zian didn’t mind. He pointed to the ward and said, "I’ll go in then, the customer that wants to buy pets is in there, right?"
"Yes," she said.
Zhang Zian walked a few steps inside, stopped and looked back, "By the way, let me kindly remind you—the two college students working here, Wang Qian and Li Kun, they have the most severe teenage syndromes, and there is no cure for their diseases. Trust no word said by them. If your trust them, you are fooled. I suggest you delete them from your WeChat contact book. For your own sake!"