"What’s the matter with you?" I asked.

"Have you seen my daughter? She is a three year old girl with a small red flower shirt and a knee length skirt." She asked me.

"No, I haven’t." I told her.

"Where is my daughter? I’ve lost my daughter." She was bursting into tears.

"Don’t worry, maybe she is looking at the fish or pets somewhere. Where and when did you found your daughter didn’t with you?" I asked.

"Just now, she just followed me coming out of the pets department." She told me with tears.

I stopped my job immediately and went around the fish ponds looking for her daughter but had no trace of her there, then I ran towards the pets department.

When I passed the displayed of dog kennels（狗舍） , I heard a dog barking in a kennel. This kennel was just a displayed to show customers, so why was there a dog inside? I bent down and had a look.

"Wha---- A golden hair puppy." I said.

At that moment, the dog rose its head and looked at me.

"Aha---- Not a dog but a child. Come on, come on! Your daughter she maybe is in the kennel." I said loudly to call the young Mum.

She came running, bent down and had a look.

"Yes, yes! This is my daughter." She was still crying.

The girl saw her Mum have came, she barked again like a dog inside the kennel, her Mum barked too to answer but the tears haven’t stopped yet.

"Mum! Let’s play hide and seek（捉迷藏） ." The daughter said to her Mum inside the kennel.

I was laughing and looked at the kennel.

I imitated some Mum's did, calling '1, 2, 3!' to ask the girl came out.

I looked at the kneel, it had a pointed roof and wooden sides, the door was about eighteen inches high and ten inches wide and looked like a small house.

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