The little kitten was lying in the cage, and the light coming in after the paper shell was pushed away by Jiang Li made it move its body, raised its eyes slightly to look at him, and let out another weak cry.
The hair on its body was dirty, wet and sticky, and one of its front paws was still wrapped in gauze, and it was embarrassed and weak.
This is a wounded kitten.
Seeing this, Jiang Li squatted down without saying a word, lifted the cage from the side of the trash can to the clean ground, opened the cage, and stretched out his hand to hug the little guy out of the dirty cage, not minding the dirt on his body at all. Dirty filth.
Chi Fang squatted down and asked strangely, "Where did the cat come from? It's so dirty."
"It should have been abandoned by someone." Jiang Li held it with his hands, looked at the cage, and found that the filth should be the vomit of the kitten, and judged that it might be sick, so he said to Chi Fang, "Can you help me?" Shall I go back to your house and get a clean towel?"
"You wait."
After Chi Fang finished speaking, he ran upstairs, and quickly came down with a clean towel and an extra cardboard box.
"Thank you." Jiang Li spread the towel on the bottom of the box, carefully put the little guy in, picked up the box, and said to Chi Fang, "I'll send it to the hospital first, and I'll treat you to milk tea next time."
Chi Fang glanced at the motionless little guy in the box, thinking that going to the hospital must cost a lot of money, and Jiang Li probably didn't have much money on him, so he said, "I'll go with you."
"it is good."
The two took a taxi to the nearest pet hospital. On the way, the little guy vomited twice. When Jiang Li called him, he didn't respond anymore. If it wasn't for his weak breathing, Jiang Li almost thought he had already left up.
"Hold on a little longer." Jiang Li said softly to it.
When they arrived at the hospital, Jiang Li hurriedly got out of the car with the box in his arms, Chi Fang paid the money and chased after him.
After seeing the dying little guy, the doctor's face immediately changed. While ordering the nurse to prepare rescue equipment, he said sternly to the two of them: "Why did you send it here like this? Don't you want to die?!"
The doctor's scolding made Chi Fang a little upset: "What did you say? This is not..."
"Excuse me."
Jiang Li stopped him, and said to the doctor, "We came too late, please save it."
Seeing his sincerity, the doctor looked a little better, nodded, and entered the emergency room.
In the emergency room, Jiang Li and Chi Fang couldn't go in, so they could only watch from the outside window. Jiang Li rubbed some of the kitten's vomit on his hands when he was holding the kitten, and returned to the window to watch after washing it in the bathroom.
After the rescue, the little guy preliminarily judged that the bacterial virus infection caused the onset of the disease, and he had vomiting and incontinence. The exact cause needs a full set of inspection results. In addition, the left front paw showed signs of fracture, which should be from high altitude. Caused by the fall, the situation is very pessimistic.
"This situation should not have happened in a day or two. Why did you send it here now?" The doctor frowned, and his tone was very dissatisfied. If he came one step later, this little guy would be dead. Be responsible, you are disrespecting life like this!"
"We just picked it up today, okay? Don't be indiscriminate."
After being bullied twice in a row, Chi Fang was also angry and turned back.
The doctor was taken aback: "Isn't this your cat?"
"It's ours." Jiang Li whispered beside him, looking at the doctor firmly, "From today on, it's ours, please save it, please."
"I will." The doctor nodded, a little embarrassed at himself for blaming the wrong person, "I'm really sorry, I wrongly blamed you, but the little guy's condition is more serious, you should be mentally prepared, and the cost is also relatively expensive."
Speaking of this, he saw that Chi Fang and Jiang Li were young, at most they looked like high school students, so he said: "The little guy has traces of treatment on his body. I guess it was sent to the doctor by its previous owner. But it is very likely that it was abandoned because the cost of treatment was too expensive, so I suggest that you better talk to your parents about the cost of treatment.”
Jiang Li looked at Chi Fang, and Chi Fang knew what he meant, and he followed him because of this, so he said to the doctor, "I see, you just need to save it."
The doctor saw that he didn't look like a child from a poor family. Since he didn't mind, he didn't say any more, and ordered the nurse to take them to see the little guy.
The little guy was placed in an incubator with a tube inserted into his body. With his eyes closed, he didn't know whether he was asleep or passed out. The small body was curled up, and the abdomen had a slight rise and fall, which proved that it was still alive.
As the doctor said, it was probably abandoned by the owner because it was sick and the treatment cost too much money.
Jiang Li put his hand on the incubator and rubbed it lightly with his fingertips.
"I'll pay the fee first, you wait for me here." Chi put aside and said softly.
"Yeah." Jiang Li nodded, looking at the little guy motionlessly, praying that it would wake up soon.
In the afternoon, the little guy still hadn't woken up. He became incontinent twice during the drowsy process, and his vital signs became weaker and weaker. The situation was very bad.
Jiang Li called the manager of the coffee shop to ask for leave, and stayed at the hospital every step of the way. Chi Fang didn't leave either. After calling the old man at home, he stayed in the hospital and stayed with him.
At night, seeing the little guy being brought into the emergency room again, Jiang Li's mind was full of the doctor's words "Please prepare your family members mentally", and he stood upright outside the emergency room, his face full of bewilderment and helplessness .
He remembered his ginger glutinous rice.
In her previous life, Jiang Nuomi lived for sixteen years.
For Jiang Li, these sixteen years were just a part of his life, but for Jiang Nuomi, it was his whole life. He spent his whole life with Jiang Li and Jiang Zhan.
Jiang Nuomi was very quiet when he left. He died of old age naturally. He didn’t have any major illnesses, but he was too old and his body and spirit were not as good as before. He nestled on the windowsill and napped all day long.
Before it died, it rubbed the back of Jiang Li's hand affectionately, and then scratched Jiang Zhan's trousers with its claws like it did when it was young, but it was too old, and it didn't lift its claws up after they fell.
Jiang Li still remembered that the day before sending Jiang Nuomi to be cremated, Jiang Zhan got up in the middle of the night and sat alone in front of Jiang Nuomi's cat litter for a long time.
If there is anyone besides Jiang Zhan that Jiang Li is most reluctant to end the last world, it is Jiang Nuomi.
The moment he opened the paper shell and saw the little guy, he almost thought he was back in his previous life when he first saw ginger glutinous rice, they were so small, so cute, and so fragile.
The doctor was right. If I could have found it earlier and sent it here earlier, wouldn't it have suffered so much
Chi Fang saw him standing at the door in despair, with a lonely and sad expression, knowing that he was worried about the little guy, and wanted to pat him on the shoulder to comfort him, but when he touched him, he suddenly reached out and grabbed him tightly.
Jiang Li's palms were moist and even slightly trembling.
He is afraid.
Chi Fang was a little surprised, and grabbed him with his backhand: "You..."
"It's going to be okay?" Jiang Li looked up at him, holding Chi Fang's hand firmly as if he was looking for the source of calming himself down, and grabbed the back of Chi Fang's hand so hard that it turned red.
"It's going to be okay, right?" he asked again.
Chi Fang met his reddish eyes, as if infected by his emotions, felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, looked up at the closed emergency room, raised his hand to cover Jiang Li's head, and said softly: " Don't worry, it will be fine."
—Don’t cry, if it doesn’t work, I’ll give you one back.
Chi promised from the bottom of his heart.
The two waited outside for a long time, and when they heard the doctor announce that the little guy's condition was temporarily stable, they both breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiang Lixu sat softly on the bench, leaning his head against the wall, and met Chi Fang standing in front of him.
In the bright white light, the tall and handsome boy reached out and flicked his forehead, and smiled at him: "It will be fine after I say it, don't worry about it."
"what."
Jiang Li responded softly, raised his hand and slapped him lightly.
The little guy stayed in the hospital for three days, and his body slowly recovered. Although he still couldn't walk around, his incontinence and vomiting had disappeared, and he began to eat slowly, and his spirit improved a lot.
Apart from going to work and making up lessons for Chi Fang, Jiang Li went to the hospital to visit the little guy at other times, and Chi Fang naturally followed him. Seeing the little guy getting better, the hearts of the two also fell. During the time we got along, Chi Fang's favorability rose to 30%.
A week later, the little guy was able to walk slowly, but the fractured front paw still had some sequelae, and he couldn't run fast, so he needed to rest slowly.
After washing off the dirty things on his body, the little guy's hair returned to its original snow-white appearance, and he looked very beautiful. The nurses in the pet hospital liked it very much. When Jiang Li was away, he took very good care of him. .
On the day the little guy was picked up and discharged from the hospital, Jiang Li also went with Chi Fang.
As soon as the little guy saw Jiang Li, he screamed coquettishly, lying on the edge of the cage, looking at him with big watery eyes.
Jiang Li's heart softened when he saw it. He opened the cage and hugged it to the cotton cloth on the table. The little guy obediently rubbed against his hand, scratching his palm with its soft paws.
The soft hair rubbed against the palm of his hand, and it was a little itchy. Jiang Li watched the little guy who had regained his health and vitality get close to him, and gently stroked its head: "It's so cute."
Chi put aside to watch him lower his eyebrows and smile slightly, with a doting look on his face, somehow he felt a little uncomfortable, feeling like he was being ignored, he also reached out to touch the little guy, who knew he would be dumped the moment he touched it A tail.
"...Damn it?" Chi Fang grabbed the little guy, "All your food is spent by me, how dare you show me face?"
"Meow!" The little guy struggled to break free from his restraint, but his strength was too weak, so he had to ask Jiang Li for help after struggling a few times.
"Okay, stop messing around, it's just right." Jiang Li rescued the little guy from Chi Fang's grasp, pinched the soft flesh in the center of its paw comfortingly, and scolded Chi Fang, "Get angry with a cat, You don't feel ashamed either."
Chi Fang: "..."
The little nurse next to him watched the interaction between the two, covered his mouth and smiled, and asked aloud: "The little guy hasn't got a name yet, have you thought about it yet?"
"Think it over." Chi Fang said, "It's called heartless."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Jiang Li raised his eyes and gave him a sideways glance.
The little guy also seemed to know that Chi Fang had buried himself, so he bared his teeth and yelled at him twice in protest.
Chi Fang gave it a middle finger, looked at its white hair, remembered the pot of glutinous rice and white sugar porridge that the old man cooked in the morning, and said casually: "Just call it glutinous rice, the one you pick up will be with your surname, ginger glutinous rice .”
Jiang Li touched the little guy's hand for a while, then looked up at him suddenly: "What did you say?!"
"I said call it ginger glutinous rice."
——Jiang Zhan, let's give the little guy a name, what do you call it
-whatever.
—Come on, think about it.
— glutinous rice.
-why
— I ate glutinous rice porridge in the morning.
—You are really enough, but it is so white that it is quite suitable, I decided to call it ginger glutinous rice!
Chi Fang's words were like a knife, cutting a hole in the self-righteous protective shell in Jiang Li's heart, and those fragments and conversations deep in his memory were caught off guard, drowning him whole.
Chi Fang was taken aback when he saw him shed tears without warning: "Why are you crying?!"
Thinking of the previous world several times, Jiang Li swallowed back his tears, because he knew in his heart that just as the system said, the previous world was over, and no matter how reluctant he was, Jiang Zhan would no longer exist. He is just a string of data in this game.
But knowing it is one thing, being able to let it go is another.
Unless one's own memory is erased by the system, how could it be so easy to forget a person who has been in love with him for a lifetime.
Seeing Chi Fang's bewildered look, Jiang Li lowered his head and took a deep breath, suppressing the soreness and tingling pain in his heart, and said in a hoarse voice, "It's okay, I'm just... just too moved."
"Moved?" Chi Fang didn't know why, "What moved you?"
"Yeah!" Jiang Li nodded vigorously and looked up at him, "Because you not only paid for the little guy's medical treatment, but also gave it a name, I was very touched."
"What's so touching about this..."
As Chi Fang said, he felt a bad premonition inexplicably, and as expected, he heard Jiang Li say in the next second: "As expected, I saw the right person, Chi Fang, you are really a good person!"
Chi Fang: "..."
Damn, send me a good person card, you are crying.