Fang Ning chased after her, but the woman had already gotten into the car and left.
Shi Nian frowned slightly, "Senior, should we give it a bath?"
Fang Ning turned back and threw the hundred yuan in cash onto the cashier counter. "No, it would be troublesome to wash it."
Shi Nian carried the cat bag and placed the kitten in a corner of the store.
She squatted in front of the cat bag, poked the kitten's furry ears through the gauze, and the corners of her lips raised slightly.
Fang Ning came over and said, "Niannian, why are you here so late today? Did something happen to you?"
Shi Nian's eyes flashed with embarrassment, and he stood up and said, "I forgot to set the alarm and accidentally overslept."
She said apologetically, "I'm sorry, senior, I kept you busy for so long. Please deduct my salary."
Fang Ning smiled and said, "It's okay, Nian Nian, everyone oversleeps sometimes."
He winked at her and said, "Since this is your first offense, I won't deduct your money this time, but this won't happen again."
Shi Nian breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "No problem, I promise!"
A customer came into the store, and Shi Nian hurried to greet him.
When it was almost time to get off work, a little girl about seven or eight years old suddenly came into the store.
Shi Nian saw that there was no adult with her, so she asked hurriedly, "Little friend, who are you looking for?"
The girl pointed to the cat bag in the corner, "My kitten!"
The girl walked around her, ran over, opened the cat bag, and held the kitten in her arms.
The cat was given by a woman, and Shi Nian couldn't let the girl take the cat away.
When she saw the girl was about to leave, she hurried to grab her arm.
As soon as Shi Nian touched the girl's arm, she jumped aside as if she had received an electric shock, staring at her warily, "You are not allowed to take my kitten away!"
Fang Ning went to the inner room to look for something and came out when he heard the noise. "Niannian, what's wrong?"
"Senior, a little girl suddenly came in and wanted to take the cat away. It was the one that a woman came into the store and gave us a hundred dollars to wash."
Before Shi Nian finished speaking, the woman he mentioned suddenly entered the store.
She heard the girl calling the woman mom, and whispered to Fang Ning, "So you are a family, senior, I'll go get the cash."
Fang Ning stepped forward, "Ms. Song..."
As soon as he opened his mouth, his voice was immediately drowned out by the man who suddenly broke into the store, "Didn't I ask you to get rid of the cat? Why did you send it to the pet store?!"
The woman was scolded and said angrily, "It's easy for you to say that! Nini asked me where the kitten was the first time she saw me. How do you want me to deal with it?"
"You know what it means to be distracted by playing with things! Nini is in the period of developing her concentration. Raising a cat is time-consuming and laborious, and it will only harm her! You think you can't handle a cat now, so why didn't you discuss it with me when you bought it?"
The woman lost control of her emotions, "Nini likes it. If she wants it, can you not buy it for her? I'm not as hard-hearted as you!"
"Who are you calling heartless? I'm doing this for Nini's own good!"
While Shi Nian was taking the money, a fierce quarrel broke out at the door.
The girl hugged the cat tightly and burst into tears, "I want to keep it! I want to keep it!"
After the man and the woman had finished arguing, he pointed at the girl and said sternly, "Look at what Nini has become because of you! She is disobedient and willful. How can she be good when she grows up!"
The woman retorted, "It's just a cat, it's not as serious as you say!"
A crisp slap sounded, and Shi Nian was stunned.
She reacted quickly, frowned and said, "What are you doing!"
Fang Ning held Shi Nian back and said, "Nian Nian, stop meddling in other people's business."
"Senior, he hits women!"
Shi Nian couldn't believe it. Was the cold Fang Ning in front of her still the warm and gentle senior she knew?
The woman covered her face, held back her tears and turned to the girl, "Nini, be obedient and give the kitten to your mother."
"I don't!"
The man pulled the woman away, snatched the kitten from the girl's hand, and threw it to the ground with a ferocious face.
Shi Nianxin's heart was in her throat for a moment. She shook off Fang Ning's hand and rushed over to grab it.
The man's action was blocked and he looked unhappy.
He glared at Shi Nian warningly, "Get lost! Stop meddling in other people's business!"
Shi Nian was afraid, but he still gritted his teeth and stood on tiptoe to grab it, "If you don't want to raise it, then don't raise it! It's also a life, why would you smash it to death!"
The man was stopped by Shi Nian many times, and he waved his arms to push Shi Nian away.
Shi Nian stumbled backwards, but Fang Ning held onto his arm, preventing him from falling.
Outside the store was a busy street. The man had a sullen face and threw the kitten out of the store. As the cars passed by, the kitten disappeared in an instant.
Shi Nian covered her slightly open lips with both hands, and her eyes turned red in an instant.
The little girl sat on the ground and cried. The man stood with his hands on his hips and kept blaming her, "You were disobedient and killed the kitten! Will you be willful and obedient in the future?"
Shi Nian's whole body stiffened, and he became furious when he heard that.
She was breathing rapidly and was about to speak when her arm was pulled.
Fang Ning walked past her and said sternly, "If you want to quarrel, go outside and quarrel!"
The man was dissatisfied, and he lowered his voice a lot in response to Fang Ning's cold gaze.
He grabbed the little girl's arm and lifted her up from the ground, scolding her as he walked.
After the three of them left, Fang Ning turned around and asked with concern, "Nian Nian, are you okay?"
He took a step forward, but Shi Nian took a step back.
She was still stuck on the moment when Fang Ning had just lost his temper, and hadn't recovered yet.
This was the first time Shi Nian saw Fang Ning angry.
So scary…
There was no trace of hostility in Fang Ning's eyes, and she was as gentle as usual, as if the oppressive moment just now was just her illusion.
Shi Nian's tense nerves slowly relaxed, "Senior, I'm fine."
She thought of the kitten that had disappeared into traffic, her eyes reddened, "But the kitten is dead."
Fang Ning suddenly spoke up, "Niannian, a madman can do anything when he gets mad. I was just trying to protect you. I hope you don't blame me."
Shi Nian shook her head with tears in her eyes, feeling so upset that she couldn't speak.
She didn't blame Fang Ning for stopping her, she only blamed herself for being too slow.
There were several times when she could have snatched the kitten away if she had reacted faster.
She could have saved it...
Fang Ning frowned slightly when he saw the tears in Shi Nian's eyes.
He stretched out his hand, but before he got close to her cheek, Shi Nian's gaze fell on somewhere behind him, and the light that had gone out in her eyes lit up again.
The corners of her lips turned up as she brushed past him.
Fang Ning heard the kitten's cry, turned around, and met Feng Sihan's eyes.
Feng Sihan's eyes were full of warnings, but Fang Ning looked calm as he glanced at the kitten in his hands.
Shi Nian recognized that the kitten he was holding was the one that the man had just thrown out, and she burst into tears of joy.
Feng Sihan retracted his gaze, wiped away the tears from the corners of Shi Nian's eyes with his fingers, and held the kitten to her.
Shi Nian hugged the kitten, as if she was holding a lost treasure.
She poked the kitten on the forehead and said, "Little guy, you really survived a disaster."
Fang Ning's voice rang out from the side, "Mr. Feng, whenever something happens in our store, you always show up suddenly and promptly. Could it be that you've been waiting somewhere, waiting for an opportunity to come out?"
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