Chapter 17
It was Lin Gui's first day setting up her stall, and she was able to make her first sale thanks to the person in front of her. The person was named Xu Xinyue, and she brought her little Beagle into Lin Gui's shop.
The little beagle looked very naughty then, and it still looks the same now. As soon as it entered the store, it rushed towards where Dahuang was. Fortunately, Xu Xinyue held it back.
Lin Gui went forward to greet her. Xu Xinyue was not a reserved person and soon started chatting with Lin Gui. Everyone here was a shit scooper, so there was a lot to talk about when they gathered together. The little beagle also happily entered Dahuang's social circle.
After chatting about the topic, Xu Xinyue asked Lin Gui if she had seen him somewhere before. Lin Gui smiled and said, "I was setting up a stall in the small park next door to promote my shop, and you were the first one to buy from me."
"Ah, so it's fate. Is this the shop you advertised? Jingjing ate all the three I bought as soon as I got home."
"Yes, there are many more varieties now than before." Lin Gui did not forget his original intention and promoted it.
Xu Xinyue walked around the store and found it so attractive. Even without considering the taste, the packaging and description alone would attract a lot of pet owners to buy it.
She couldn't help but buy a few.
In Dahuang's social circle, the little beagle is a newcomer, and as soon as he arrived, he heard many dogs praising Dahuang.
"Hey, Brother Dahuang, do you have any new products? I bought the duck meat bun you mentioned last time, and it's really delicious."
"Yeah, yeah, Brother Dahuang, I feel like you have such a good grasp of the taste of every snack. In comparison, I don't like eating dried vegetables."
"Brother Dahuang, I was taking a walk this morning and heard the dogs in the circle say that you have a new toy. Is it really fun? I don't have a toy yet, and I don't know if my mom will buy me one."
Dahuang, who was in the center, was very calm, and did not look like he was actively trying to sell his products as before. It seemed that the shortage of supply was still a good thing. Everyone gathered around Dahuang, and he felt very comfortable as he tried to sell the whole dog to others.
Little Beagle had just arrived and hadn't learned this yet. He asked why they were so nice to Da Huang. After the dogs explained the reason, Little Beagle got excited and said, "Is it the little biscuit that looks like a bone? I ate it once and never forgot it. But the owner never bought it again, so I ate it that time."
Some dogs who have tasted many of Lin Gui's new products are starting to feel proud: "Although bone biscuits are delicious, they are no longer the latest trend. Now we are all chasing small bone toys." "I don't want to talk to dogs who have only eaten biscuits."
Da Huang saw that the customers were actually comparing themselves to each other. That was not okay, so he tried to smooth things over: "Little Biscuit, I love dogs too." He started to flatter: "The dogs that the master bought are all very good. As long as the products in our store are popular, they are all popular."
The dogs began to ask about Dahuang's snack business again. The little beagle Jingjing also realized how tempting Lin Gui's products were. Dahuang's description was very tempting to dogs, and Jingjing drooled when she heard it.
After a while, Xu Xinyue was ready to leave and came over to call Jingjing. Jingjing heard her owner calling her and ran towards her owner while looking at Dahuang's sharing session reluctantly.
Seeing the owner holding the snacks that Dahuang had described, he happily rushed to Xu Xinyue. Xu Xinyue hugged him and said, "It seems that you are really happy playing here. Let's go home."
Jingjing obediently went home with her owner. When they got home, Xu Xinyue opened some snacks and gave them to Jingjing to try to see if she liked them. Unexpectedly, Jingjing loved them so much that she gobbled them up like Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit.
The little beagle is a local internet celebrity dog, but he doesn’t have many fans. Xu Xinyue only shares her daily life quietly, so the number of fans increases very slowly.
This time, Xu Xinyue went home and posted a video of Jingjing eagerly eating these snacks as usual. As a result, many comments asked what Jingjing was eating, saying it looked delicious.
Xu Xinyue didn't expect that Jingjing's somewhat rough eating habits could also help sell goods. After asking Lin Gui, she posted the news about Lin Gui's store in the comment section.
Lin Gui didn't expect that Xu Xinyue's video would make the snacks popular. In the past few days, people have been coming to check in and buy snacks. Lin Gui's experience points have increased even more than when there were discounts in the past two days.
Because of the popularity of the video of Jingjing eating snacks, other local pet bloggers also came to try to buy these snacks. At first, these pet bloggers were not particularly surprised by the snacks sold by Lin Gui. After all, bloggers with a few fans have all kinds of pet snacks at home.
But since I bought the dog snacks from Lin Gui's house, my dog has been gobbling them up just like Jingjing. It seems that the puppy really likes these snacks.
So these pet bloggers posted videos to attract traffic as if they had found a treasure shop. As more videos about Lin Gui's store appeared, more customers came, and negative reviews gradually appeared.
"This is the seventh video I've seen from Ertu Snack Shop today. Can you guys please not post all the promotions for these shops at once?"
"That's right, saying how much your dog loves to eat all day long is all bullshit. I bet you bloggers must have starved your puppies for several days, otherwise how could they eat so eagerly? They weren't like this before."
"I'm even suspicious that this store has some inappropriate items in there. After all, what puppies eat is not what humans eat, so they wouldn't be able to check it strictly."
009 surfs the Internet at a very fast speed. Seeing these negative reviews, he was extremely angry and transformed into countless small accounts to argue with them. As a result, these rumor mongers became more convinced that what they said was right, and kept saying that 009 was a water army.
009 couldn't convince them and came to Lin Gui for comfort. Facing the recent minor controversy and the negative reviews, Lin Gui remained calm and said to 009, "The innocent will be innocent. Those who don't like it will not like it no matter how you try to convince them. We just need to make those who like our snacks happy to buy them, and make the dogs who like snacks happy to eat them."
"But it's not good to be slandered by others all the time. These large-scale negative reviews seem like someone hired water armies to slander us. I don't know who is behind them." Lin Gui pondered.
"Leave it to me to check this, I will definitely find it." 009 gritted his teeth.
Lin Gui asked, "Doesn't your system forbid violating the laws of our world? Don't do anything illegal, or it will affect you."
"Don't worry, don't worry, I will just keep an eye on their IP addresses. The person behind the scenes will definitely meet them one day." 009 said.
Lin Gui cannot guarantee whether 009's approach is feasible, but it has to be allowed to do it. It can't be allowed to argue with others online every day, and it won't win the argument.
But public opinion must be in one's own hands. After thinking about it, Lin Gui decided to take the initiative. His own store must have its own account, so the account of Ertu Pet Snack Shop was born.
The recent internet craze has caused Lin Gui's management system to be upgraded very quickly. This time, the sixth level required quite a lot of experience points. Lin Gui initially thought it would take ten days or half a month, but plans could not keep up with changes, and the upgrade was completed in just four or five days. The next level of experience points is twice that of the sixth level. It seems that the later levels are, the harder it is to upgrade.
The system upgrade also brought two new snacks and shelves as usual. Lin Gui decided that the initial direction of the account would be to film how the snacks were made. It just so happened that this time the new snacks were small.
【Feeding small meatballs
Main ingredients: chicken, beef
Details: It’s time to test the tacit understanding between you and your dog with a thumb-sized meatball. Can you make a 100% hit?
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Small quail legs
Main ingredients: Quail
Details: The cat's mouth is too small, so if it wants to chew a whole "big chicken leg", it can only chew quail.
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Seeing that the snacks were also for cats, Lin Gui asked 009, "Will all future rewards be for cats and dogs?"
009 recovered from his surveillance of the navy and replied to Lin Gui: "For now, yes, but if the host lights up other species in the future, it may change."
Although the store has added new cat snacks, there are basically few families with both cats and dogs among Lin Gui’s old customers, so the sales of cat snacks have always been not as good as those for dogs. Moreover, without a taster like Dahuang, Lin Gui doesn’t know what cats think of these snacks. After all, cats are much more picky eaters than dogs.
Taking advantage of the fact that Zhou Xiao had already gotten off work tonight, Lin Gui closed the store early and started putting new snacks and shelves in place. Looking at the full store, Lin Gui felt a sense of accomplishment.
Da Huang was no longer surprised by Lin Gui's tricks, and waited quietly for Lin Gui to finish cleaning the shop and take him home.
When they entered the community, Dahuang suddenly became energetic and wanted to rush in one direction for a moment, causing Lin Gui to stumble. Seeing that Dahuang rarely looked like this, Lin Gui looked in the direction he was going.
The cat that was in a standoff with Da Huang was a gray cat with a little leopard print on its pattern. It looked particularly cool. Judging from its size, it should be a big cat.
The big cat was in a stalemate with Dahuang at first, but when it saw Lin Gui looking at it, it quickly slipped away.
Lin Gui saw that the big cat seemed to be very familiar with the community, but it should not be a cat raised by the residents. It might be a stray cat that had recently arrived. Without thinking much, she took Dahuang home.
The next day, Lin Gui took Da Huang to the small park for a walk after a long time. During the walk, they met Grandma Xu. Lin Gui had been busy recently and had not gone to Grandma Xu's house for meals very often, but their relationship had not become distant.
Lin Gui skipped over to Grandma Xu and greeted her.
"Oh, who is this? I don't recognize him at all." Grandma Xu teased.
"Oh, grandma, I haven't seen you for four or five days." Lin Gui explained.
Grandma Xu stopped teasing and took a peaceful walk with Lin Gui. During this time, Grandma Xu kept asking Lin Gui how the store was going and whether there were any problems. Lin Gui responded to all her questions one by one, telling her that there was no need for Grandma Xu to worry, as the store was doing well.
Halfway through the walk, they saw someone taking a cat for a walk. When Lin Gui saw the cat, she remembered the cat she saw last night, so she asked Grandma Xu if she knew about the new gray leopard-print cat in the community.
Grandma Xu thought for a moment after hearing the sound: "Oh, it's that cat. It's actually been in the community for over a month. When it first came, it was quite timid. It would run away when it saw people, and it wouldn't eat the food people in the community fed it. It would only rummage through the trash cans. The community cleaning staff scolded it several times. But recently, it must have become familiar with this place. It stopped running when it saw people and started to eat the cat food thrown for it by the community."
"Why are you looking for this cat?"
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