Chapter 70: The Great Good Man

Chapter 70

Gu Yuqing thought this was a good opportunity to educate her younger sister.

Since Shi Li had mentioned that her sister would become a hopeless romantic in the future, she should start instilling subtle impressions now.

Educating children should start early, with small things.

On the way to dinner, Gu Yuqing earnestly told her sister, "Little sis, let me tell you, there's not a single good man out there. You must be careful of men, they only approach you if they have something to gain."

Gu Yulan replied, "I understand." She also realized that Shi Li must have been taken away by a boy.

While waiting for the cat to be examined, Shi Li felt bad about standing up the Gu sisters.

So she sent a text to apologize and suggested they study together in the library next time.

[Next time, let's have dinner with you and your sister!]

Seeing that Shi Li mentioned another opportunity to go to the library together, and even offered to treat her to a meal, Gu Yuqing's anger dissipated instantly.

She even wanted to brag about it to Fu Huixing.

Fu Huixing, how can you compare to me? I'm the queen, and you'll always be just a concubine!

Gu Yulan witnessed her sister's rapid change of expression and couldn't help but marvel inwardly: Her mood swings are so fast.

Feather Duster returned with the carrier, "The mother cat is very healthy. I gave her an external deworming treatment."

The tabby cat, presumably having not eaten her fill in a long time, devoured the cat food with great enthusiasm.

Fu Huixing told her to come forward and choose, "If you want to adopt, which kitten do you want?"

"I'll take the mother cat."

[Out of the four cats - one mother and three kittens - she likes me the least]

Hearing this, Fu Huixing's lowered eyelashes trembled slightly, but he only stared at the ground.

The tabby cat, still busy shoveling food, was unaware that she was being coveted by humans and their ulterior motives.

"Then I'll pick one of the kittens to keep her company."

Shi Li thought for a moment and asked, "What do you plan to do with the remaining two kittens I don't choose?"

Feather Duster waved his hand dismissively, "No worries, we've raised so many cats, two more kittens won't make a difference."

Shi Li had more concerns, so she asked, "The kittens are only a few days old. If I take the mother cat away, won't that make it harder for you to care for the kittens in the future? Otherwise, I could take all four cats and adopt them."

Their villa was quite large, with plenty of room to raise a few cats.

Feather Duster didn't think raising two newborn kittens would be much trouble.

"You don't need to pay this much."

Feather Duster fumbled to transfer the money back, "You don't need to pay this much, just a symbolic hundred or so is fine."

Although Shi Li didn't know the standard rates at other pet hospitals, letting cats stay for a few weeks for just a hundred yuan? Do you think you're a rural veterinary station?

Even a veterinary station wouldn't be that cheap.

Sometimes people are quite contradictory. They hope expensive things could be dirt cheap, but when faced with dirt-cheap prices, they worry about the quality.

This ridiculous price made Shi Li somewhat concerned. Would this pet hospital sell the kittens? Would they abuse the cats? Would they feed the kittens cheap, poisonous cat food?

Shi Li thought this, so she said half-jokingly and half-probingly,

"With such low fees, you don't need normal operations, huh? Please don't feed the cats poisonous food just to break into the market."

Feather Duster couldn't accept such an accusation. He immediately defended, "That would never happen. All of us colleagues here love cats and dogs. They eat and use the best products available on the market."

"Don't worry about operating costs. Our boss is rich. He pays our salaries and buys medicine and cat food."

"I can see that you're a kind-hearted person, miss, so I'm willing to give you a super discounted price."

"Having an employee like you is truly your boss's good fortune."

Feather Duster thought Shi Li was complimenting him and felt particularly proud.

Having such a good employee like himself was indeed the boss's good fortune.

Now that it was just the three of them, with Feather Duster's boss not present, Shi Li didn't keep her thoughts to herself but spoke them out loud.

"Your boss is really a sucker."

As an employee, instead of trying to create value for the boss, he's taking advantage of the boss.

For Shi Li, as a consumer, the boss was indeed a very kind person.

Feather Duster hadn't expected that Shi Li's previous words weren't praising him.

Actually, if the boss wasn't present, he, as a working man, would definitely agree with calling the boss a sucker.

But now the boss was right in front of them. Although the boss was younger than him and usually didn't put on airs around them,

Even Feather Duster, with his zero emotional intelligence, wouldn't badmouth the boss to his face.

He had a rare moment of emotional intelligence, realizing this was an opportunity to score points in front of the leader.

So he puffed out his chest and said passionately, "My dear lady, you're mistaken. Our boss isn't a sucker, he's just a great philanthropist who loves charity work. He doesn't care about returns... (800 words omitted here)... What a spirit of selfless dedication!"

Fu Huixing listened with twitching lips. Thankfully, Shi Li didn't know that this great philanthropist was him, so he could pretend this had nothing to do with him.