The kitten is too young, maybe only a month or two, watching me from a distance, being careful and cautious.
I threw away the trash and stood looking at it for a moment, trying to get closer. It seemed to be frightened, lowered its body all of a sudden, and stepped back vigilantly.
"Come, come here." I squatted down, trying to reduce my threat, "Mi, come here."
The little orange cat looked at me timidly, with curiosity and fear in its almond-shaped eyes.
It was dirty, with black mud on its pink nose, like the rest of its body.
I once heard my dad say that cats are very clean creatures. Once a wild cat looks dirty, it means that it has struggled to survive and has no intention of taking care of itself, and it is not far from death.
Moreover, the temperature has dropped recently, such a small cat has just been weaned, and I am afraid that it will not be able to survive this winter without its mother.
If I turned away now, I might see its dead body next to the trash can tomorrow.
There are a lot of wild cats in this world, poor cats are everywhere, I can't save every one of them. But this one is different, not only does this one look too much like the cat back then, it also appeared downstairs at Sheng Minou's house, and I saw it.
In martial arts novels, if the protagonist wants to achieve great things, he must suffer a lot of hardships to achieve his own chance.
It looks like the "old cat", homeless, and abandoned by its mother. What kind of protagonist cat is this? Therefore, I am its chance, the "hidden expert" who helps it to be reborn.
"Come here obediently. I'll give you a full meal and find you a good house. Wouldn't it be better than if you wandered on the street and have a meal? You think about it."
The little orange cat ran away without turning around. It confronted me quietly for a moment, probably feeling that I was no threat to it, so it leaned closer.
Still timid, it just sniffs my fingertips cautiously. If I move a little bit, it will jump away like a frightened rabbit, and then when I am still again, it will come closer, and so on.
"Okay, okay, don't be afraid, I won't eat you again." I patiently waited for it to trust me completely, and when it began to arch my palm, my fingers gently stroked its rough coat, and grabbed fate the back of the neck.
At this time, the milk cat still has the memory of being carried around by the cat mother, and generally does not struggle. I took it home and turned it off in the shower as soon as I got in the door.
Facing the unfamiliar environment, the kitten raised its guard against me again, shrank itself into a corner, and began to breathe at me at the same time.
This is not like the cat back then. The orange cat back then was not so fierce. It was fat and soft. Whenever it saw Sheng Minou, it would act like a baby and meow at him with its belly exposed.
I closed the glass door, dug out the frozen chicken wings I bought not long ago from the refrigerator, boiled them in white water, rinsed them in cold water, tore them into strips and put them in small plates, and sent them to the kitten.
"I wanted to eat these chicken wings myself, so it's cheaper for you." After eating liquid food for almost a month, I'm now dreaming of eating hot pot, and when I pass by a fried chicken shop, my mouth is watering.
Originally, I wanted to take advantage of Sheng Minou's absence for a few days to sneak some meat, but it turned out that what wasn't mine wasn't mine after all, and Cheng Yaojin was killed halfway through, and couldn't even eat a bite.
The kitten was afraid of me, and it didn't taste good when I was eating, so I had no choice but to close the door, exit the bathroom, and leave it there alone.
In the four-person chat group @沉小石, ask him to post an adoption announcement on the account of the pawnshop to see if anyone wants to adopt a cat.
Shen Xiaoshi asked me to take a photo of him, and I went in again with the bowl, filled some water and put it in the shower room, and took a photo of the kitten wolfing down chicken by the way.
"..." Shen Xiaoshi was silent for a while.
"What's wrong?"
"Isn't this really a big mouse? It's too dirty."
I looked at the photo for a while, and forcefully defended the little orange cat: "It's just not in the photo, its face is still pretty pretty..."
Shen Xiaoshi expressed doubts: "Brother Feng, why don't you take it to the pet shop for a bath tomorrow? It looks like no one would want to adopt it. Those of us who are in this business should know best. It depends on its appearance when you bring it home, let alone a living thing like a cat that needs to be raised for more than ten years."
I thought what he said was very reasonable, so I asked him to suspend the adoption announcement, open the software and start looking for nearby pet stores.
The location of Sheng Minou's apartment is very good, there are shops for everything from food to clothing in the surrounding area, a large shopping mall is 500 meters away, there is a pet living center, a pet grooming shop, and a pet hospital on the street.
Early the next morning, I took the kitten to the pet hospital for an examination. After a doctor's diagnosis, the kitten is fine except for mild moss and malnutrition.
The doctor suggested that I vaccinate the kitten and do internal deworming. He is a professional, and I am a layman, so of course I listen to him.
After the injection, the kitten became even more frightened and shivered in the backpack. I touched its little head, and it looked up at me and meowed softly. After experiencing the breakdown of trust last night, I thought it would not be so quick to reconcile with me, but I didn't expect it to show up to me, which is kind of silly and sweet.
Taking the prepared medicine and nutrition cans, I took the kitten to the pet store again. Since I couldn’t take a bath for seven days after vaccination, I just asked the clerk to cut off the hair knots on its body and apply ointment to it.
The kitten lost its fur, and the bones under the skin were more clearly visible. It was shivering all the time, whether it was cold or fear. The clerk brought me a blanket to wrap it up, and recommended a novice cat raising kit for me—cat litter, cat food, and cat toilet.
I bought them all, and bought two pet bowls and a cat bed that looked very soft, and went home with the cat's bags on my back.
After a busy day, just to catch my breath, the furniture deliverer called again and made an appointment with me, saying that the delivery would be early tomorrow morning.
Human beings are both tenacious and fragile, and after only one month, the gunshot wound on my abdomen was nothing but a freshly grown, pale red scar. However, after all, he is a person who has undergone a major operation, and his face is healed, but his physical strength cannot be recovered all at once, and he is prone to sweating when he is tired.
I helped move the furniture during the day, and shoveled the cat’s excrement and fed the medicine at night. I couldn’t do it the next day. I lay in bed without getting up, and my head was dizzy.
Hearing the miserable cry of the kitten in the bathroom, I didn't know if it was out of water or food, I struggled to get up from the newly bought big bed, passed the greatly changed living room, and came to the bathroom.
The kitten was sitting behind the glass door, and when it saw me, it barked even louder.
In a moment of resignation, I opened the door and wanted it to move around in the bathroom.
Unexpectedly, it had been premeditated for a long time, and it sprang out from the crack, passed through my body, rushed towards the bathroom door behind me, and disappeared in front of my eyes.
My eyes widened, stunned by this development.
Sheng Minou had few things in this house before, not to mention cats, even a fly could be seen clearly, but since I moved in, the painting style here has become increasingly chaotic, with many corners and nooks. The kitten is small in size, and I have no way to play peek-a-boo with me.
"Mimi, come out and eat canned food..." I squatted on the ground, opened a nutritional can, and tapped the can with a spoon to lure it out.
I leaned over and looked at the bottom of the sofa, behind the curtains, and even removed the coffee table and cabinet, but found nothing.
My head is even more dizzy. And just when I was about to let it go, let it come out as it likes, and go back to bed to lie down and continue to sleep, there was a sound of opening the door.
The electronic door lock successfully verified the fingerprint, and the mechanical female voice reported "unlocked", and the next second, the door was slowly pushed open.
With sharp eyesight and quick hands, I stuffed the can in my hand onto the coffee table the moment Sheng Minou entered the room.
Sheng Min'ou was carrying the suitcase, and when he looked up and saw the furnishings in the house, he froze there, frowning slightly.
"Brother, why did you come back early?"
It is impossible for him not to know that I use his account to buy things, but it is one thing to know, and another to see it.
"The prosecutor in charge of Xiao Meng's case wants us to meet him in his office tomorrow, and I sent you a message." He changed his shoes and entered the house, put the suitcase at the entrance, and began to look at every change he saw. "Didn't you see it?"
"I was sleeping in the afternoon and didn't pay attention."
I smiled and stood up and introduced him one by one: "Look, brother, this sofa can sit and sleep, and there is storage space, and this coffee table can also put things. This is a TV cabinet... The TV will be in a few days." I just came here, I bought a 72-inch one, we can lie on the sofa and watch movies together in the future... "
Sheng Minou's apartment may be on a large flat floor. Although there are only two rooms, the space in each area is extremely large, especially the living room. I didn't move the sandbags that were originally hung, and divided the living room into two areas, one area for Sheng Mingou's boxing, and the other area for leisure and entertainment, and I didn't even feel crowded.
"I bought a bed and a bookcase for the bedroom, so that we can read in bed together before going to bed." I nervously put my hands behind my back and twisted my fingers, worrying about how to tell him about the cat.
I always had a hunch he wasn't going to like it. Not only because of his cleanliness, but also because... it was so much like the cat back then, the cat that made him lose control.
"Good."
Sheng Minou made a brief comment. He took off his tie and entered the bedroom, as if he had gone to change clothes.
I rushed into the bathroom in a hurry, stuffed all the cat pots and toilets into the cabinet under the sink, and rinsed the floor of the shower room with water, hoping that Sheng Mingou would not see any flaws.
"Lu Feng, come here."
As soon as I hid the "criminal evidence", Sheng Minou's voice came from the bedroom.
"Here we come!" I didn't think much, got up and rushed over, but when I saw the situation in the room, I stopped and stared at Sheng Minou's feet like a ghost.
That little orange cat, the little bastard I've been looking for and hasn't come out for a long time, is now meowing around Sheng Minou's feet, and I can hear the purring sound from its throat from far away.
Was Sheng Min'ou a Genmu Tianliu in his previous life? Why are cats so popular
"What is this? Your guinea pig?" Sheng Minou raised his foot, and the little milk cat followed him up and down.
I was already hot, and when I was nervous, it became hotter, and my forehead kept sweating.
"No, no, it's the little wild cat I picked up." Wiping the sweat from my forehead, I approached Sheng Minou lightly, trying to catch the kitten while it wasn't paying attention, "Brother, don't worry, I'll send it to you soon." Let's go, but... let me catch it first!"
When I pounced, the kitten ran away with its hair blown, and disappeared again, and I fell into Sheng Minou's arms due to inertia.
No, I'm dizzy.
Sheng Minou held me up and firmly supported my weight.
Maybe because he saw that my expression was wrong, he leaned forward and pressed against my forehead. I panted heavily and closed my eyes slightly, my eyelids felt hot.
While retreating, Sheng Minou clicked his tongue lightly: "You have a fever."
Suddenly my whole body lightened, I opened my eyes, and found myself being hugged by Sheng Minou.
He sent me to the bed in a few steps, his face was neither red nor out of breath, and he didn't look like he had just picked up a man weighing more than 100 jin.
On the other hand, I am so vain that I can't even catch a cat.
Sheng Minou went out and came in again, and found a mercury thermometer somewhere.
He sterilized the poison, shook off the temperature on it, and handed it to my mouth: "Hold it."
I grabbed his sleeve: "That cat..."
He narrowed his eyes: "don't make me say it a second time."
I obediently opened my mouth to hold the thermometer in my mouth, without saying another word.