The queen must start from the head

Chapter 31
"Go, go, it's you mangy dog ​​again, get out of here, there's nothing for you to eat here! If you dare to come to the door again, I'll skin you and make you a dog meat hot pot!"

At the entrance of a restaurant, the waiter was waving a broom to drive away a slender black dog with peeling coat and scrawny skin.The black dog was very hungry. When he saw the waiter swinging his broom, he quickly took a few steps back. However, smelling the aroma of food coming from the restaurant, he eagerly refused to leave.

It simply squatted down not far from the door of the restaurant, watching the people who came out of the restaurant after eating and drinking with great concentration, waiting for a kind-hearted person to appear and give it a mouthful of food. Things to eat.

It's just that it waited for a long, long time, and none of the people who came out of the restaurant looked at it, and it felt that its hunger was getting worse.It stood up a little restlessly, and wanted to go to the door of the restaurant, but when it thought of the opponent's broom, it had to sit back.

Just when it was about to be too hungry to keep going, a steaming roast chicken wrapped in oiled paper suddenly appeared in front of it, and the aroma made it instinctively open its mouth to drool.

It's just..., it raised its head, wanting to see who this kind-hearted man appeared in front of him.

It was a very young looking human woman with amber eyes looking at it with a smile, "Eat!"

She only said two words, then reached out and touched its head lightly.

It lowered its head to bite the crispy roast chicken, opened its mouth and quickly swallowed the chicken that shed its tears.It can't remember the last time its head was touched by a human.It doesn't even remember when it started wandering.

The original owner abandoned it because it was aging and losing hair all over its body.

It is a smart dog, so when it was abandoned for the first time, when it went back home after all kinds of hardships, it saw the little owner who used to like to play with him the most, holding two strange furry cute little dogs in his arms. When it was a paparazzi, it knew that this home no longer belonged to it.

So, it chose to turn around and leave, and began wandering for unknown years.

Many clean human beings hate stray dogs and feel that they are dirty, and they will drive them away more than pity them.When the children who are about the same age as the little master see it, they will throw stones at it, saying that it is an ugly dog.

It has spent countless cold and windy nights with many homeless people.Human beings also think that their kind, these homeless people are dirty, but in its view, the hearts of these people are very clean.

Someone once smiled at it, waved at it, and called it over, but a corner of the noose he used to hang the dog behind him was exposed.

Mu Lian looked at the stray dog ​​with its head bowed and eating happily, and couldn't help thinking about the things in her previous life.

In her later years, she has been living alone, and what she likes to do most on weekdays is to take cat food and dog food and go wandering in the park. Once she encounters kittens and puppies that beg for her, she will bend down and sprinkle them. Food.

For those old dogs and cats who are old, she often gives them special treatment, because they can't squeeze out her young and strong juniors, and they are always hungry.Young people also don't like to feed old dogs that have lost their teeth, preferring young, fluffy animals.

"As you get older, it's easy to be disliked by others!" Mu Lian touched the old dog in front of her that was dirty and didn't have a few good fur left on it, and subconsciously said the mantra she used to feed the dog.

Hearing the sound, the black dog looked up at her, then lowered his head to lick the last bit of chicken skeleton left on the ground.

In its view, food must never be wasted, and it is shameful to waste even a little bit.

Mu Lian watched it eat a whole roasted chicken and asked, "Little guy, are you willing to follow me from now on? I want to open a bookstore, and then you can help me look after my home. If you want, just follow me."

Mu Lian said and turned around to leave. The black dog immediately stood up from the ground, wagging its tail and followed.

During this period, Mu Lian looked back several times, and found that the dog had been following her the whole time and had not run away.It seems that this dog is quite spiritual. When she returns to the inn later, she has to check her body. The healing pill should also be useful for dogs.

Dongsheng Inn, room 32.

"The windows on both sides are made of mother-of-pearl flowers and feathers, hung with purple gauze curtains, brocade belts and silver hooks. The woman...".

Suddenly there was a "swish", He Ping closed the book red-faced, and Guangming beside him was very puzzled, "Brother Ping, what's wrong with you? It's like this just now, and I always skipped reading once or twice. If you don't want to read this book to me, get another one."

The blush on He Ping'an faded slightly, he shook his head and said, "No, you don't understand, this book... It's not that I don't miss it, it's just that it's not suitable for children of your age."

That’s right, it’s just not suitable for you, He Ping added in his mind.

Although it is not suitable for you, the bookstore supervision office of the government still allows such books to be published.After all, many of the descriptions in the book are really full of flavors of life, and he couldn't stop reading them.

He Ping thought so, and couldn't help opening the book that had just been closed, but he turned to the cover, on which were printed "Jin·Ping·Mei", "Lanling·Xiaoxiaosheng", "Alien Publishing House" etc.

He suddenly stood up, walked to the locker in the room, and picked up the other three books on it.

These three books are all beautifully bound, and there is a fresh fragrance of paper and ink after opening.

He Ping lined up the three books and found that they were all written with the words "Alien Publishing House". He had a guess in his mind. Maybe the four books here were printed and published by this "Alien Publishing House". of.

But he had never heard of the name of this printing house.He had been to most of the bookstores and bookstores in the imperial capital, but he had never seen the name of this printing house. It was really strange.I don't know where Master Mu got these books from. Could it be... from a printing press in another country?
When Mu Lian returned to the inn, it was already evening.

On the way to the inn after picking up Dahei, she saw several bookstores and bookstores and went in to have a look.She found that most of these shops sold Four Books and Five Classics, Anthology of Celebrities, Collections of Current Literature, etc. Occasionally, some novels and unofficial histories were placed in less conspicuous places, and some shops also sold pens, inks, papers and inkstones.

On the way back, Mu Lian looked at all the bookstores she could meet, and she had a lot of bold ideas about the design and construction of the bookstore she was about to open.

Therefore, the journey did take a lot of time. When she returned to the inn room, she found that the two people in the room were so hungry that their chests were touching their backs.

At the dinner table, He Ping and Guang Ming were eating hard, while Mu Lian was drinking soup in a leisurely manner, occasionally picking up a bone and feeding it to Dahei under the table.

After Mu Lian was almost full, she found that the two people on the opposite side were still eating happily.

Among the two, He Ping has been accepted by her as an ordinary disciple of her sect, and she plans to hire Guangming to help manage the bookstore first, so she will not accept him as a disciple for the time being.The bookstore she will open next may surprise many people, and it is more likely to attract doubts and criticism from some people.

She can solve the problem of force with her own hands, but the employees in the store can't help themselves. It seems that she has to spend time to train them tonight.To become a qualified on-the-job employee, I am afraid that it is inevitable to suffer a little bit first.

At this time, the two people who were still eating pig trotters in their left hands and roasting duck in their right hands suddenly felt a bit cold on the backs of their necks. They looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes, and then scanned around the diners who were still dining, but found no one. any exceptions.

Could it be that they were overthinking it just now?
After dinner, head Mu told them with cruel facts that their premonition was not wrong.

　Let me share with you one of my favorite quotes:

　　Have you ever seen those people who kowtow?Their faces and hands are extremely dirty, but their hearts are cleaner than anyone else.

　　——From the movie "Kekexil"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)