When facing soul-devouring beasts, humans often behave strangely and make noises that make them want to beat them up.
Dou Sheng squatted at the narrow opening, lowered his palm and shook it gently.
"Mimi, come here."
"Come here, Mimi~"
Xie Lan looked down at him, "How do you know its name?"
"Shh. All cats in the world are called Mimi." Dou Sheng explained in a low voice, and continued to call: "Mimi, Mimi~"
Yu Fei took off his hat and put it in his pocket. "You are over 1.8 meters tall and standing here. Do cats dare to come over?"
Dou Sheng paused, then returned to his usual indifference, "You can you up. Canbb."
Xie Lan was stunned, "What?"
He doubted his ability to speak English.
Dou Sheng calmly explained: "A gentleman is slow to speak but quick to act, this is what Confucius taught."
Xie Lan said "Ah" in a confused manner.
Yu Fei looked at Dou Sheng with a look of suspicion, "Get up and let me try."
Yu Fei occupied the narrow gap, knelt on his knees, unpacked a snack and squeezed it into his palm, then stretched his hand into the gap devoutly.
"Mimi~" he called softly, "Come to daddy, daddy has food."
"Look whose favorite is this tuna king salmon?"
“Mimi mimi~”
"Mimi? Mimi?"
Xie Lan couldn't help but pick his ears.
He seriously suspected that his ears were damaged and he could not hear any other sounds except "mimi".
"How disgusting." Dou Sheng whispered in his ear: "Even he can tolerate it, I think I can eat Haggis too."
Xie Lan looked at him sideways: "You are not much different from him."
"It's different. I'm a handsome guy with natural affinity, and he's a hot-tempered man pretending to be gentle." Dou Sheng smiled and raised his hand to hook Xie Lan's shoulder, and kicked Yu Fei's thigh with his toes, "Get up, let Xie Lan try."
Xie Lan froze.
The hand clasped his shoulder, and four fingers naturally pressed on his collarbone.
He could even feel Dou Sheng's fingers with his collarbone.
Yu Fei said anxiously: "Don't rush me, I'll try again, she and I are very close."
"Kiss what?" Dou Sheng took back his arm from Xie Lan, "Does she remember you?"
Having said that, Dou Sheng still cooperated with Yu Fei to adjust the position of the light, so that the light stopped between the cat and Yu Fei, and slowly moved towards Yu Fei to lure it over.
The beam of light passed over the outline of the kitten, and Xie Lan suddenly caught a glimpse of something unusual.
He grabbed Dou Sheng's wrist.
Dou Sheng turned his head, his eyes swept across the hand holding him, and fell on the side of Xie Lan's face, "Hmm?"
Xie Lan grabbed his wrist and moved it to the right and forward, carefully adjusting the angle and tracing the right side of the kitten's belly.
"Injured." He frowned and said, "The right one is bigger than the left one, and it's hanging down."
There was silence for a long time. Yu Fei, who was kneeling in front, sighed and said, "It's true."
Dou Sheng asked in a low voice, "She hadn't given birth yet when I saw her at the end of the semester, right?"
Yu Fei nodded. "She should have given birth not long after the exam. Logically, the kittens are two months old now, and the mother cat should be normal by now."
"pyometra."
Xie Lan said softly: "If it can still run, it's not a bone. It's better to have pyometra, but I hope it's not a tumor."
Yu Fei looked up at him, "Tumor is a tumor? What is pyometra?"
Dou Sheng had already looked it up in the dictionary, "Pyometra?"
"I don't know Chinese." Xie Lan shook his head. "Mother cats often get this disease. There is dirty water where the kittens are placed. That's probably what it means."
"That's it." Dou Sheng nodded, "We have to catch her quickly."
Yu Fei didn't care about the dirt. He leaned his shoulder against the entrance of the narrow alley and stretched his hand into the narrow gap.
"Mimi, come out quickly, Mimi—"
Where the light shone, the cat hesitated and took half a step back.
"Let me do it." Xie Lan said in a low voice.
YouTube cannot be used in China, so he tried opening Bilibili and typing “kitten’s meow” in the search box.
The first video he searched for was the one he wanted—“Play this video and your cat will come to save you”
Xie Lan turned up the volume to the maximum and took two steps back with the phone.
The coquettish and anxious howl of a kitten came out of the phone, echoing in the narrow alley.
A few seconds later, the black cat inside suddenly jumped up and ran out, dragging its heavy belly.
She walked past Yu Fei and Dou Sheng without stopping, all the way to Xie Lan's feet, where she hesitated, stopped and walked around in circles.
Xie Lan immediately bent down to grab her, but she reacted quickly and turned around to run. Dou Sheng blocked her from behind and both he and Xie Lan held the cat down at the same time.
“Woo—”
Xie Lan grabbed Dou Sheng's hand, that slender hand with smooth bones.
But he only held on for a moment before letting go, frowning and hissing.
Yu Fei picked up the stun gun and shook it in Xie Lan's hand.
—There was a white line from the fingertip to the fingertip, more than one centimeter long. It was just white in the first few seconds, but soon blood seeped out.
The tip of the left index finger is where you rub the strings.
Xie Lan shut himself in.
Being scratched by a cat doesn't hurt much, but he is used to cherishing his hands. Even though he only plays the piano a few times a year, he still retains the subconscious that he developed since childhood and thinks that finger injuries are troublesome.
"Hold me for a minute."
Dou Sheng carefully transferred the cat to Yu Fei, "Be gentle, yes, avoid the stomach..."
The cat had been struggling fiercely just now, but now it was caught and did not move, just humming through its nose.
"Don't be so whiny." Dou Sheng tapped her nose and taught her a lesson: "I disguised myself as your cub with good intentions to catch you, and you're not happy?"
"…" Xie Lan couldn't help but say, "It sounds like you really have good intentions."
"嘤—" The little black cat turned its head away angrily.
Immediately afterwards, Yu Fei let out a howl, and the electric baton tilted, and the mask of pain on his face flashed in the light.
"Bite me!" he hissed. "The little she-cat has an unpredictable temper. She's so difficult to deal with!"
Dou Sheng took the electric baton, shone it on Xie Lan's fingertips, and blew on it twice.
"Squeeze out two drops of blood."
Xie Lan immediately replied: "No."
"?"
Dou Sheng stopped abruptly and looked up blankly, "Why?"
Xie Lan retracted his hand, bent it up and held it in the air near his palm for protection, and carefully put it in his pocket.
"We'll go to the hospital to get some medicine later." Xie Lan said, "I can't do it myself."
"That's right." Dou Sheng nodded blankly, and couldn't help but sighed: "You are quite careful."
"Douzi, call a taxi and go to Katie's house." Yu Fei said while holding the cat. "I feel like she's not in good condition. When I saw her outside the alley just now, I felt like she was trembling when she walked."
"OK."
Domestic pet hospitals are similar to those in the UK. It was the middle of the night and there was no one else there. The doctor took the cat into the treatment room, and after touching its belly, he said he suspected it was abscesses and wanted to take an X-ray and do a blood test.
The little black cat seemed less alert after entering the hospital, but he became visibly listless. The hen squatted at the foot of the table, squinting her eyes and not moving.
"A stray cat, right?" the doctor asked while examining the ear canal.
Yu Fei said, "I really don't have the conditions to adopt her, but I take her for vaccinations every year. The last booster shot was six months ago."
The doctor was a little surprised when he heard this. He looked up and carefully examined the three of them. "Students? From English High School?"
"Yeah." Dou Sheng reached out and gently stroked the little black cat. "She is about three years old. She gave birth to cubs a month or two ago. She has been vaccinated every year before, including against rabies."
The doctor sighed, "The student is very kind. Okay, I'll take her directly to have her blood drawn."
"Mimi, you are strong." Yu Fei lowered his head and rubbed the cat's head with his forehead. "If you are sick, go to the doctor. Daddy will take care of you no matter how much money it costs. Be good, be good."
Xie Lan asked Dou Sheng quietly, "Is he like this often?"
“Yeah.” Dou Sheng’s lips barely moved: “I can’t walk when I see a little cutie.”
Xie Lan couldn't help but sigh.
The nurse came to take the cat away, and Dou Sheng stopped her, "Can you bandage it? My friend's finger is injured."
"Finger?" The nurse came back from the door holding the cat. "Let me see."
Dou Sheng reached out and grabbed Xie Lan's index finger, then stretched it forward a little, "Here."
There was silence for a few seconds.
The nurse lifted the cat up, stepped back from the threshold, and took a closer look at the small, almost imperceptible wound.
"Ah..." She hesitated, "The blood has already coagulated. There are cotton balls at the front desk to wipe it. It will be fine after the rabies vaccination."
"Let's bandage it up," Dou Sheng said. "He bled quite a bit just now, and he was still playing the violin."
Yu Fei said quietly beside him: "There was so much blood that the alley was dyed red. There was at least 0.0001 milliliters of blood."
Dou Sheng curled his lips: "Stop making trouble, it turns out that you are not the one who got hurt."
"???"
Yu Fei flew into a rage on the spot, "I think you are really blind, absolutely."
He waved his hand in front of the nurse and said, "I was bitten."
"You need to take care of this!" the nurse said immediately, "Why didn't you mention it earlier? Come with me now."
Yu Fei stood in front of Dou Sheng with a gloomy face, "Did you hear me? Get out of the way."
"Sorry, I forgot." Dou Sheng made way for him. "Please come in."
Xie Lan returned to the waiting area and looked at the wound on his left hand.
It was really nothing. A shallow blood line had already solidified, but it was not as serious as the blisters caused by rubbing the strings when I was a child.
Dou Sheng was selling Band-Aids. Xie Lan glanced at his screen and said, "Forget it."
"It doesn't count. If Ms. Zhao Wenying sees this, she'll scold me." Dou Sheng poked at his phone. "And I know your hands are precious when you play the violin, especially the fingertips of your left hand. If they get a little broken, you have to take good care of them. You can't do anything. You have to stop everything and take care of your hands, right?"
Xie Lan was stunned.
This theory coincides with his ideas.
But he knew that his ideas were outrageous. This was instilled in him by Xiao Langjing when he was a child. Xie Jingming and all the teachers and friends around him thought it was outrageous.
When Xie Lan grew up, he also felt that it was exaggerated, but he just got used to it.
Many habits acquired in childhood, especially those taught by our mothers, cannot be abandoned even when we realize they are unreasonable when we grow up.
Dou Sheng finally found the Band-Aid he liked. It was transparent and waterproof, and had a donut pattern on the cotton pad.
He added the Band-Aid to the shopping cart, and added some iodine bandages, saying casually, "I understand. My friend who plays the violin is like this."
"A friend who plays the violin?" Xie Lan was a little surprised. "From Class 4?"
"You don't know him." Dou Sheng shook his head, carefully inputting the delivery address of Hello Kitty, and muttered in a low voice: "He is not like you who works for three days and rests for two days. He is really good at it."