Pet King

Even though the fat boy’s reaction was slow, he knew that Zhang Zian was deliberately playing with him. Suddenly, his face turned red, and he looked like he was about to explode. Zhang Zian had played his cards well to tell him only when he was almost finished. The fat boy thought that with 180 words written today and an additional three to five more days of observation to wait for the hatching, he would be done.

“You… How could you do this?” he asked with hatred, pointing his fat finger at Zhang Zian’s nose.

If Zhang Zian hadn’t helped, it would not be that bad. However, having helped, he was now deliberately crushing his spirit. How could he not be furious?

“What did I do?” Zhang Zian feigned innocence.

The fat boy was beyond angry. “I said it! I said it clearly! Our teacher let me observe the moth! Moth! The teacher also specifically emphasized that we are not to observe a butterfly! Why didn’t you remind me that this is a butterfly?”

“Would you like me to remind you?” Zhang Zian smiled. “You can observe, and so can I. When I have nothing to do in my store, I like to come out and see Swallowtail Butterfly larvae and talk to myself. Why did you take the initiative to write down what I said?”

“I…” The fat boy was stumped.

From the beginning, Zhang Zian had never said that he would help him with his observations. The fat boy had merely assumed that Zhang Zian was voluntarily helping him.

In fact, if this fat boy’s attitude hadn’t been so bad, Zhang Zian would have reminded him early on that this was not a moth. However, the boy knew nothing about manners. Not only was his attitude poor, he also talked poorly. He scolded his teacher and claimed he was silly. It was normal to be assigned observation work by a teacher. Also, the work was not something like observing the moon for 30 days or counting hundreds of millions of rice grains. What then was the basis of him scolding his teacher?

Since his parents could not teach him well, Zhang Zian would give him a little lesson to let him know that no one owed him anything.

The fat boy thought about it for a long time. In the end, he could not think of anything and merely felt very indignant. With tears in his eyes, he stomped hard on the ground and screamed, “Why did you do this? Isn’t it just a caterpillar? They are everywhere! I can find lots of them in other places! Don’t you dare follow me!”

This simply didn’t make sense. Why would Zhang Zian follow him?

With these words, the fat boy turned and walked away. From observing where he walked, it seemed that he was heading to the greenspace behind the pet shop. There were many trees in the greenspace. There were many caterpillars there in the summer, but could he distinguish which were butterfly larvae and which were moth larvae?

Anyway, this was not a matter of concern for Zhang Zian.

Zhang Zian looked up again and glanced at the larvae before thinking about his shop. It was the weekend, and he would soon have customers.

As soon as he turned around, he saw a person pointing a mobile phone at him. They seemed to be taking a video.

“Hello… Is it… Mr. Manager?” Snowy asked, sticking her head out from the side of the mobile phone.

Zhang Zian didn’t say anything.

“Hey, I am joking! Although physically, Mr. Manager has changed a lot, and I can’t recognize you anymore, I see that the habit of bullying children is still the same!” Snowy said, laughing.

“I am not going to agree with you! When did I bully the children? This is an exception!” Zhang Zian argued. “Also, ain’t I just a little darker? That’s all! You don’t recognize me anymore?”

Snowy held the mobile phone in one hand, and the other hand held his chin and frowned. She stared at him for a while and said, “Well…you did not change too much. You’re only slightly darker and slightly thinner. But I feel your temperament changed.”

Temperament? A thing like temperament was difficult to quantify. Any discussions on it would lead to nothing.

“In any case, why are you here? And so early?” Zhang Zian changed the subject.

“It’s because I got insider news that I can eat native Egyptian products if I come to the pet shop! First come, first served, so I rushed here immediately after breakfast!” Snowy smiled and stuck her hand out. “Souvenir?”

Needless to say, it must have been Lu Yiyun who’d spread the news. Otherwise, people would not have known already.

That’s right! Snowy’s mother had woken her up this morning. Then, Snowy lay in bed scrolling through social media. There, she saw that Lu Yiyun had just posted an update, happily showing off the gifts that Zhang Zian had given her, including the gold plate amulet and fresh dates.

She knew that Zhang Zian had gone to Egypt. After all, he’d said on social media that he would go to Egypt with the expedition team of Binhai University. If something urgent came up, they should convey it to his staff at the pet shop or wait for him to come back.

In Egypt, he’d posted tons of updates as well as selfies. He’d shared things such as the pyramids, Alexandria, and the port of Mersa Matruh. However, he’d suddenly disappeared online and posted no new updates. He also had not given the expected date of return.

So she didn’t know that he had already returned. After seeing Lu Yiyun’s update, she thought she might as well visit since she was free. She wanted to get some local Egyptian products. After all, fresh dates were difficult to come by. Plus, recently on her live broadcast platform, the mermaid called Sihwa had caused quite a ruckus. She seemed to have also gone to Egypt at the same time as him. She would like to ask if Zhang Zian had seen Sihwa in Egypt.

Thus, she’d come here early in the morning, only to see Zhang Zian bullying a small boy. She quietly started a live broadcast.

“Souvenirs… I have something for you. Go get it in the store. However, those people who said bad things about me in the online chat rooms, you get nothing! Don’t even dream about it!” Zhang Zian didn’t have to look. He knew people there were making fun of him.

However, as today’s live broadcast time was relatively early and there had been no advance notice, the audience in the live broadcast room was relatively sparse. Only hardcore fans were online.

“Hey, who is this big black brother who obviously feels confident about himself?”

“What big black brother? It is obviously a black uncle!”

“Yes, he looks like someone who beats old people! He is merely wearing adult clothes to terrorize small children. He just demonstrated to us how to do it!”

“I haven’t seen the store manager for a while. I still…don’t want to see him at all!”

“Haha, the black uncle is still willing to give souvenirs? Did you get the dates? Maybe you have to pay for them!”

Compared with the nonchalant attitudes of the netizens, Snowy was curious about what Zhang Zian and the fat boy were talking about. She’d only heard the latter half of the conversation and knew nothing of the rest.

“Then let me first thank Mr. Manager.”

She thanked him but did not immediately walk into the pet store. Instead, she took up the spot where the fat boy had stood and looked up at the caterpillar.

As Zhang Zian had said, this caterpillar was somewhat pleasing to the eye. However, she still felt like puking up the breakfast she’d just eaten.