Beast taming, starting from zero point
Chapter 308 - 295: Reasonable Leeks

Chapter 308: Chapter 295: Reasonable Leeks

Qiao Sang was stunned for a moment, then overjoyed.

She had thought that it would take another month or so, but she had never expected her mother to be so efficient that she had managed to open the breeding store in just around a month.

It was important to know that a breeding store was different from other shops. Because it directly involved pet beasts, even the process of registering as an individual business was much stricter than for other entities.

It was not impossible for some people to wait half a year for approval.

She truly lived up to the title of an independent career woman!

"Where is the shop now?" Qiao Sang couldn’t help but ask with an upward curl of her lips.

"Number 77 Yumin Road, just 200 or so meters to the left when you go down from our apartment complex. That breeding store was just about to change hands, so I took over, and the equipment and all..." Ye Xiangting paused as if she suddenly remembered something, then stopped speaking, furrowing her brows and staring at Qiao Sang without saying a word.

Unable to restrain herself, Qiao Sang asked, "What about the equipment? Why did you stop talking?"

Ye Xiangting was silent for two seconds, "What was that song you just had Binglu Qia sing used for?"

"I’m sorry!" Qiao Sang quickly apologized.

Beginner-level Healing Sound Wave isn’t good enough, huh? Its effect is way too short!

After several seconds of silence, Ye Xiangting spoke again, "Right, what did I ask you just now?"

Qiao Sang was startled, "You asked what the song Binglu Qia was singing was used for."

"Not that," Ye Xiangting looked at Qiao Sang and said, "The previous question, when did you have a mental breakthrough, and why didn’t you tell me at all when you contracted a new pet beast?"

Qiao Sang replied with a baffled look, "Didn’t I just answer those questions?"

Ye Xiangting’s face darkened as she said coldly, "Look at the answers you gave! They are exactly the same as when you didn’t tell me about Xiao Xunbao’s evolution! You didn’t even bother to change a single punctuation mark! So, Xiao Xunbao’s evolution, your mental breakthrough, and the contracting of a new pet beast all happened together, right!"

Qiao Sang: "..."

Silenced by the rebuke, only one thought flashed through Qiao Sang’s mind:

Healing Sound Wave comes with risks, use with caution!

...

Opening a breeding store at home was a big deal. Although Qiao Sang was eager to go check it out immediately, she had no choice due to the excuse she gave her mother that she was too busy.

No choice but to wait for the weekend.

Early Saturday morning, Qiao Sang set off on Yaobao’s back to the address her mother sent.

"Yaobao!"

On the way, Yaobao was very excited, moving much faster than usual.

In the minds of pet beasts raised by humans from a young age, finding an outstanding Beast Tamer to contract with was a major life-changing event.

The more precious and promising a pet beast in the Pet Beast Base, the larger the area it was allocated.

Now that her own family’s Beast Tamer had opened a store specifically for breeding her own kind, that meant the whole area belonged to her species!

For a moment, Yaobao felt that her species had quite a presence!

However, once it arrived at the store, its happily wagging tail immediately drooped down.

This was way too small!

Where was the promised grandeur?

"This is way too small!" blurted out Qiao Sang, unable to hold back her criticism.

She saw the whole shop was only about 70 square meters, with twenty or so Pet Beast Eggs of the Fire-Toothed Dog displayed in the glass-panelled freestanding showcases in the center and on both sides.

And that was it...

"It’s good enough we could open at all," Ye Xiangting said. "Our family has limited funds, and I’ve hired a Breeder, which isn’t cheap every month."

Still the problem of being poor.

Qiao Sang came to understand and sighed.

To open a breeding shop, having a qualified Breeder was essential.

Just as a restaurant needed chefs, and a school needed teachers, higher-level breeders could attract more customers to a breeding shop.

Many breeding shops would even advertise by displaying the honors and details of their breeders on site.

During the period before the research institute had figured out the evolutionary conditions for the Fire-Toothed Dog to evolve into the Flame Listening Dog, attracting customers could only rely on the Breeder.

And Breeders could certainly be considered a cutting-edge profession.

Qiao Sang looked around and saw that there weren’t many people around. She asked, "Where’s the Breeder you hired?"

"Not working hours yet," Ye Xiangting replied, taking out her phone pointing it at Qiao Sang and Yaobao and speaking, "Smile, I’m going to make a promotional poster."

Qiao Sang subconsciously showed off her big white teeth.

"Teeth..."

Yaobao also grinned, revealing an "embarrassed yet polite" smile.

"Okay," Ye Xiangting said with satisfaction as she looked at the photo on her phone.

Qiao Sang was quiet for a while, then suddenly said, "Mom, remember to Photoshop it."

"Teeth."

Yaobao nodded, expressing agreement.

Ye Xiangting: "..."

...

Evening.

Qiao Sang lay in bed, her thoughts drifting.

She remembered the vice principal had said that the research project from application to inception would take at least three months.

And that was just the start of the research project; who knew when the results would come out.

Her mother hadn’t mentioned the family’s financial situation, but she estimated that if they kept hiring a breeder, they probably wouldn’t last until the research results were out.

Qiao Sang felt a headache coming on, so she took out her phone to browse and switch up her mood.

After replying to a few messages from acquaintances, she opened Super Blog and logged into her account.

There were quite a few people interested in the Flame Listening Dog; even without posting for a long time, there were always many new comments every day.

The latest Super Blog post was still the photo of Yaobao in cyberpunk-style tech scribbles from last time.

Qiao Sang clicked on the comments.

[So cool and handsome!]

[Damn, I’m uneducated — I can only swear, you look so handsome]

[What time is it already? Why haven’t the evolution conditions for the Flame Listening Dog been announced? My Fire-Toothed Dog can hardly wait!]

[I feel like there are so many fake videos online, videos of Flame Listening Dogs flying in the sky, and you can’t even see the edits. Has the blogger seen them?]

[Forget flying, I’ve even seen a video of a Flame Listening Dog using telekinesis and teleportation. Isn’t there a rumor going around that Flame Listening Dogs also have psychic abilities? I think those pet beast dealers are going crazy for money, coming up with tricks like this. Add fire element to psychic series, they treat us like chives ready to be harvested, only a fool would fall for it]

Qiao Sang suddenly realized that a big reason for the decline in popularity of the Flame Listening Dogs was that people didn’t know or believe that they truly had psychic abilities.

If the public knew and believed in the psychic abilities of the Flame Listening Dog, wouldn’t it be possible to push them back into the limelight without waiting for the results of the evolution research to come out?

Qiao Sang thought for a while, then replied to the comment that doubted the psychic abilities of the Flame Listening Dog.

[This is true, the Flame Listening Dog really does have psychic abilities]

Less than two minutes after sending it, the comments below exploded.

[Unfollowed, I thought you were smart, but you take me for a fool]

[WTF? How much did they pay you, blogger?]

[Bullshit, if the Flame Listening Dog had both fire and psychic elements, the market would have gone crazy with prices starting from a million]

[Awesome! The blogger came out to reply!]

[Has the blogger’s account been hacked?]

[I don’t believe it unless you post a video!]

[Can’t even trust videos, haven’t you seen enough fake ones now?]

[We are all sensible chives]

This string of comments made Qiao Sang abandon her initial idea to post a video.

Without official certification or seeing it with their own eyes, even if a video was posted, the vast majority would still only believe their own judgment.

After pondering for a while, Qiao Sang closed Super Blog and dialed the vice principal’s number.

After two "beeps", the call connected.

"Hello," came the vice principal’s deep voice through the speaker,"What is it now? Wanting to take another leave?"

Was she that kind of person... Qiao Sang felt somewhat speechless and cleared her throat before saying, "It’s not about taking leave, vice principal, I wanted to ask when exactly does the National Campus Beast Taming Competition start?"

"October 27th," Liu Yao replied.

"Will there be media coverage then?" Qiao Sang asked.