Chapter 12 of 93

Chapter 12

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Pei Shiyi curiously asked, “How did you have the guts to just come and recommend yourself to me?”

Xu Tuzhi scratched his head. “We also watched the online video and thought you were quite easy to get along with.”

Before coming here, he was also worried that he might be too offensive if he rushed to the door, so he simply pretended to be a customer and came over, thinking that he would make contact first, and deliberately picked an auspicious day to go out, just to avoid Bao Jin.

When this rabbit was confused, he confessed.

Pei Shiyi lost his smile and couldn’t figure out how the ghost liars, a large clan, could raise a rabbit of Xu Tuzhi’s character.

The ghost liars, a race that was good at making up lies, turn over from other races by virtue of their intelligence. They look like rabbits but were not as bold. But Xu Tuzhi was not cowardly when he had the guts to come to him without inquiring anything.

Xu Tuzhi pulled out the samples he had brought from the small bag he had brought with him and opened the boxes one by one. Faint spiritual energy escaped from the ingredients inside the boxes. It was not easy to cultivate such ingredients nowadays when spiritual energy was scarce.

Xu Tu Dao, “I started a farm with Dang Kang, the production is not very high and other non-humans can not buy often. We hope to have a stable point of customers. And… these things are good. They’re a pain to cultivate, but mortals don’t understand what’s so good about it. They just have a taste and don’t want to accept the price…”

Bao Jin said, “Why not go to the AMB if you can’t sell it?”

Xu Tuzhi looked bewildered. “Why would we go to the AMB? We’re just doing business, we didn’t get into conflict with other beings.”

Pei Shiyi couldn’t help but smile. “See? That’s the image you AMBs have in people’s eyes.”

This bird really slanders him whenever he gets a chance.

Bao Jin’s thin lips twitched slightly. “…Childish.”

Pei Shiyi just assumed he had nothing to say and was in a surprisingly pleasant mood.

Xu Tuzhi couldn’t understand the two bigwigs’ way of getting along and still trembled. “All our products are agricultural, not processed. The wholesalers won’t want them if the price is a little higher, preferring to have the ordinary ones.”

He was full of grievances. “It’s true that it’s a bit more expensive, but it’s really not that much more expensive, mainly because the wholesalers who go to our place don’t have access themselves, and they can’t sell it if the cost is a bit higher.”

After all was said and done, it was still a matter of access.

Pei Shiyi thought about it and said, “Let’s discuss the specifics for a while longer.”

Apart from other things, at least the plushes food was changed.

The order was finalised and included fresh milk, seasonal fruit and a variety of meats.

The order was not a small one for Xu Tuzhi’s small farm, so he was grateful and left all the samples he had brought with him, stumbling, “Just, just for you to taste.”

He said that as he was about to walk out.

Pei Shiyi couldn’t laugh or cry. “Don’t run away, you’ve ordered so many things and paid for them, you have to finish eating.”

Scratching his head, Xu Tuzhi found an empty seat and sat down. The waiter hurriedly brought up desserts and drinks and set a table full of them.

Pei Shiyi glanced at the time,. They had been talking for hours and it was dusk by this time, so they could prepare an extra meal for the plushes.

At this time, Fondant pounced on a teasing stick and bumped headfirst into Pei Shiyi’s leg, immediately flipping her belly open and performing a live porcelain bumping1. “Meow.”

Fondant opened her mouth, showing a bit of pink tongue, she tilted her head to look at Pei Shiyi and squealed coquettishly: Bumping into you makes all my toys fly away.

The guests who gathered around the porcelain bumping scene couldn’t help but laugh. “So it’s really a ragdoll dog, right hahaha.”

This tongue out action was really too much like a dog, and fetching a ball and playing with a cat teaser stick was really cute.

She was so sweet that Pei Shiyi walked a little, leaning down to pick up the teasing stick for her and waved it in front of Fondant.

Two coloured ribbons were attached to the teaser stick and curled into waves as they were shaken. Feline nature kept Fondant’s eyes on the ribbons and she lowers her body, a move that cat owners have lost to, as a preparatory pose for the catapult.

But a figure was quicker than Fondant. Copper Coin jumped down from the climbing frame and bit down on the teaser stick with his mouth open, his whole body hanging on the cat stick and was stretched into a long strip.

Fondant, “??”

Pei Shiyi, “…”

He really didn’t understand how Copper Coin thought, was this the way to please a girl?

Not far away, Yun Chao watched coldly for a moment, jumped onto the shelf, pulled down a fish toy and brought it to Fondant.

Fondant pressed the fish happily, licked Yun Chao’s ear, stuck close to her and walked away.

Copper Coin loosened his mouth and dropped down, staring blankly at the backs of Yun Chao and Fondant.

Pei Shiyi couldn’t even bear to hit him, but it was clear that to Fondant, Yun Chao was the saviour of her life and Copper Coin was just a silly cat who fell from the sky.

In order to avoid the office love triangle hurting the cats and hurting people, Pei Shiyi could only say in a serious tone, “Silly child, of course the fairies only playing with fairies.”

The copper turned his back in loss and closed himself off.

Bao Jin crouched down on one knee and patted his fur twice. “Silly cats are pretty cute too.”

Copper Coin, “…” Inwardly roared: Yours truly is still a beautiful young boy, how come I am a stupid cat now?

Once he met Bao Jin’s eyes, Copper Coin, “Meow.”

……

Xiao Zhou, as a part-time worker, only worked four hours a day, yesterday on the early shift and today on the late shift. He had just arrived at the cat cafe. Today he rushed in to replace another part-time worker on the day shift, and when the other person saw his big smile, he laughed and said, “How come you’re so happy today?”

Xiao Zhou smiled and said, “Mhm! I watched a video before I came and thought it was particularly funny.”

In fact it was he who went back last night and took advantage of the inspiration to cut the video of the Copper Coin scratching the scratching board directly into a video, watching it twice himself and almost laughing himself silly.

He said hello to the part-time worker and went into the cat cafe. “Take care on your way, I’m going in.”

Xiao Zhou found Copper Coin when he entered, nodded and said, “Good evening, Chief Copper.”

Copper Coin, who had just suffered the biggest blow of his cat’s life in the afternoon, looked up with extraordinarily cold eyes.

Xiao Zhou suddenly became even more dog-legged. “Chief Copper, I’ve set a background music for your improvisation yesterday and also made an edit, the finished product is already out, do you want to review it?”

Copper Coin patted his paws: Present it.

Zhou Yan took out his phone and set it up in front of Copper Coin.

After a brief black screen on the phone, a video began to play of a large orange cat with its back to the camera, pulling itself into a long strip. Unlike the chubby orange cat, most netizens remembered the leopard cat was well-proportioned and muscular, all black spots lining the predator’s configured body to make it more and more lean.

The leopard cat on screen stabed and scratched the scratching board, followed by the sound of muffled drums. The cat’s athletic body twisted and turned in time with the scratching board, in perfect harmony with the rhythm of the music in the background, and through the editing, the cat stepped on beat with each twist.

While the soundtrack had an extra female voice, chanting in a low, dishevelled manner, the leopard cat twisted and turned with glee. Its long tail raised in the air as the soundtrack played, and the chug-chug of the scratching board blends in with the music without any sense of dissonance. And the scratching sound is inexplicably refreshing and stress-relieving.

Although Zhou Yan had already seen it twice, he couldn’t help but laugh out loud at the moment.

Copper Coin didn’’t quite understand the human’s point of laughing, only that the video showed his attractive body from multiple angles, so he was satisfied and pat Zhou Yan on the arm as a kind of praise for the quality of the video.

Having received the approval of Chief Tong, Zhou Yan ran upside down to find Pei Shiyi.

“Boss, I’ve cut the video and Chief Tong has approved it, do you want to see it?”

Pei Shiyi didn’t expect him to actually make a video of Copper Coin scratching the board and said, “Sure, let me see.”

Zhou Yan clicked on the video with great interest and the strange music immediately poked Pei Shiyi’s ears, he raised his eyebrows and got serious.

At first Zhou Yan was worried that Pei Shiyi was not used to hearing this kind of music and explained, “This song is called bad guy, the style is rather peculiar, some people like it and many don’t, but it’s really hot and many people will click in to see it because of the song title.”

He was really wrong in thinking that Pei Shiyi accepted most novelties well.

The melody of this song was very different from the music he used to come into contact with, but it was really interesting. Listening to it, the person sounded lazy and a bit unmotivated, but it also oddly scratching their ears, feeling…

Pei Shiyi suddenly turned around, Bao Jin was right next to him, probably because there were no cats to pet and resumed his half-dead face, drooping his eyes as if he could fall asleep at any moment.

Pei Shiyi flexed his fingers and tapped the table, whispering to Zhou Yan, “Look at him.”

Zhou Yan was unsure, following Pei Shiyi’s line of sight to look at his boss’s friend, his face puzzled – what’s wrong boss?

Pei Shiyi said, “Do you think this song goes well with him?”

Zhou Yan thought carefully, the song bad guy was indeed funeral-like, the boss’s friend was also funeral-like… buy why did the boss’s words feel a bit gay2.

Pei Shiyi finished watching the video, curled his lips up and smiled for a while, nodding his head. “It’s quite funny, I didn’t expect Copper Coin to be talented in the music area, you cut it very well and the soundtrack was also appropriate.”

Zhou Yan was complimented by him twice, and the big young boy blushed at that time. “Actually, I’m just doing self-publishing, I’ve just been semi-popular, just scraping by to support myself. If you don’t mind, boss, I’ll register an account on the website for our cat cafe, and put the video up as a promotion.”

If he wasn’t a self-publisher, he wouldn’t be able to get such a good grasp of editing and what’s hot right now. He loves cutting videos and doing this job gives him a sense of happiness and fulfilment.

Pei Shiyi had already slightly grasped the horror of online publicity when the cat cafe opened, and multiple publicity channels were obviously a good thing, so he patted Xiao Zhou’s shoulder. “Good, then please do so. The work isn’t for nothing, so I’ll add a bonus this week.”

Zhou Yan cheered, “Thank you, boss.”

Only when he left did Bao Jin say indifferently, “He’s a part-time, and you trust him too? The account will be his after registration, aren’t you afraid of getting into trouble after he leaves?”

Pei Shiyi took a sip of tea and said slowly, “As good as his video is made, the cat is still my cat. And… I think he’s a good boy.”

The ghosts and spirits can see what people can’t, they see people more accurately and sharply, not to mention Pei Shiyi was a phoenix, the community was illustrious but also more complex than ordinary demons. He had seen a lot of demons and devils, people who were not refined couldn’t really fool him.

But Bao Jin’s implicit reminder was accepted by Pei Shiyi, who raised his hand to pour him a cup of milk tea.

But Bao Jin disagreed. “Hearts are fickle.” So what if the ghosts and spirits were keen? There were countless mountain spirits and ghosts who had fallen into the hands of humans, all of them falling victim to the word “change of heart”.

Pei Shiyi was in a good mood and just took him as another type of concern, looking at Bao Jin in a rare smooth way. He pushed the milk tea in front of him and hummed and laughed, “You fear choking from eating3.”

……

Zhou Yan registered an account for the cat cafe on Bi Shui station that night, and after passing the quiz questions, he took the hot account and clicked submit.

So a few minutes later, the first official video of the Xian Chan Cat Cafe crept into the online web unnoticed.

The next step was to see the site reviewed, and they’d see the video by tomorrow afternoon at the latest. Then he’d be able to use the big number of followers he’d been gaining for a few years to spin it and get a little exposure.

As for what to do after having the exposure… he believed the magic of this video would impress the audience.

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碰瓷 – “Literally means porcelain bumping, but basically, it means faking an accident to claim for compensation.” SourceIn this part, the original raws use “gay gay” and im-??????因噎废食 – Avoid something essential because of a slight risk.

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