Chenglan General Hospital, 19th floor, VIP ward.
The window was half open and the curtains rustled in the breeze.
Qin Meng was sleeping in bed, and felt her cheek was a little itchy. She was half conscious and called out, "Sweetie, stop licking."
"Who is Tianka?" Assistant Zhao sat on the edge of the bed and brushed away the hair that flew onto Qin Meng's face.
Qin Meng suddenly opened her eyes, confused as if she had just woken up. She turned her head to see the assistant and asked in a hoarse voice, "How long have I slept?"
Zhao Qiong glanced at the time, "It's five o'clock in the afternoon."
Qin Meng frowned. It’s only been three hours.
She always felt that she had been wandering somewhere for a long time, but she couldn't remember where.
It was like having a strange and special dream.
Qin Meng raised her hand and suddenly found that her wrist was empty. She asked in surprise, "Where is my bracelet?"
Assistant Zhao was stunned. "Is it on the other hand?"
Qin Meng raised her hands, "No, I've always worn it on my left hand."
Assistant Zhao's face turned ugly: "This is a VIP ward, there won't be anyone who took the bracelet?"
If it were before, Qin Meng would have lost his temper long ago.
That bracelet was a gemstone bracelet that she liked very much. It was not very expensive, but the style was fresh and it really touched her girlish heart.
Assistant Zhao was also secretly watching her expression.
After Qin Meng was injured and hospitalized, she often lost her temper. She could find fault with nothing. I wonder what kind of fuss she would make if she lost the bracelet.
She is so confused.
Qin Meng felt in his pocket and took out a piece of paper.
"Written by Lu Yao, the owner of the Furry Shop. Miss Qin Meng has charged her card with 18,000 yuan in our shop and has spent 300 yuan. The account is recorded at 17,700 yuan."
Next to the owner's signature, there is a small cat's paw print.
Qin Meng frowned and looked at it for a while, then her mood strangely became calm, and she slowly folded the note, "Forget it, maybe I put it somewhere, maybe I'll find it suddenly one day. You've been watching over me all the time, it's been very tiring, go eat and have a rest."
Assistant Zhao was surprised that Qin Meng didn't lose her temper and asked her to go and rest.
Qin Meng didn't want to explain, and she didn't understand what was going on, but she suddenly felt relieved.
After Assistant Zhao left, Qin Meng took out the strange note again, read it over and over again, and rubbed the cat's paw print on the lower right side with her fingertips. Her mood became soft and relaxed.
It was a very comfortable sleep.
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A sea of garbage and a furry shop.
Lu Yao came back from picking up garbage and brought back a basket of fresh sea urchins and crabs.
Following behind were a small manta ray and a coconut octopus that I had never seen before.
Ji Feiming was looking after the store, and there were two customers lying on the ground playing with the kittens.
This is the latest routine in the store.
Lu Yao insisted on diving into the sea to pick up garbage every morning and afternoon. He also went to the autistic fish school with the little manta ray to "catch sea" and attract customers.
There are a huge number of autistic fish, and their autism levels are not the same. Every day, several of them will be attracted by one person and one fish.
I found the furry shop out of curiosity and gradually became a customer of the shop.
Some people played around in the store, but soon turned into bubbles and flew away.
Some people visit the furry shop again and again and just can’t leave.
Du Qingmei is the second type.
The day Qin Meng turned into an anemone fish and left the store, Du Qingmei also wanted to leave madly.
After trying for two or three days without any effect, she gave up completely and offered herself to Lu Yao as a shop assistant.
The little manta ray accompanies Lu Yao diving every day, helps to attract customers, does his job conscientiously, and creates a good atmosphere.
Lu Yao agreed to hire her as a clerk until she left.
Lu Yao opened the door of the shop and stepped aside to let the Coconut Octopus go in first. This was a new customer.
The method to distinguish ordinary fish from "human-fish" is very simple. The fish with bright red cross wounds on their bodies are the guests, and the fish without similar wounds are the ingredients.
The coconut octopus lives in the gravel area on the seabed and is always looking for a suitable shell to use as a home to protect its soft limbs.
But it likes to use coconut shells as its houses, so it is also called coconut octopus.
It will even build its own homes if there are no suitable shells, jars or coconut shells nearby.
This is an octopus that is very obsessed with its house.
Xu Rumin bumped into the transparent film and fell on the white sand beach. When he got up, he saw two useless grown men lying on the ground with cat toys in their hands, pouting their lips and "shamelessly" teasing the two kittens in the store.
He actually didn't want to come to this strange shop that suddenly appeared. The furry things and petting cats to relieve stress were all "consumerism" traps.
But this is in the sea, and catching a few fish can earn you enough money to pet the cat.
In recent days, the fish around have been talking about it from time to time. Many people who have turned into fish have come to this store and found a way to escape from this sea.
Xu Rumin also wanted to leave as soon as possible.
He is an ordinary office worker, 35 years old, unmarried, and paying a high mortgage.
Life is simple and frugal. I work overtime to get paid and pay the mortgage, and the cycle repeats over and over again.
That morning, he had clearly gotten up early as planned, rode his green scooter to the subway station three kilometers away from his rental house, and took the subway.
The wind was a bit strong on the way, so he raised his hand and rubbed his eyes. When he opened his eyes, he was in the sea and had turned into an octopus.
He has to go back to work as soon as possible. If he takes a day off, his salary will be less, and the day to pay off the mortgage will be further and further away.
He just didn't know why, the more anxious he was and the more he wanted to go back, the harder it was for his body to move.
Being stuck in that spot, forced to swim on your back.
Xu Rumin was not interested in petting the cat and just wanted to go back as soon as possible.
He handed over a sufficient amount of fresh fish, ordered seafood and drinks according to the guide he had heard, and sat down at the low table by the window in a daze.
Lu Yao carried the fish to the kitchen, cleaned it with magic, sliced it into sashimi, fried two plates of typhoon shelter crabs, and made a few pieces of sea urchin sushi, and asked Du Qingmei to take it out.
After working on it for a few days, she finally accumulated enough popularity points to upgrade the deep-sea fish tank. She couldn't wait to mark out an alien space in the corner of the kitchen and planned to do maintenance after closing the store at night.
In front of Xu Rumin was a plate of crystal clear sashimi, a plate of fried crab, five pieces of sushi piled with sea urchins, and a small dish of dipping sauce.
He seldom eats this kind of thing. Besides the fact that he is not used to eating raw food, the main reason is that under normal circumstances, these things are too expensive.
Often a simple meal would wipe out the money left over for a month’s mortgage payment.
Maybe it was because he had turned into a fish, or because of the influence of the store owner and the little manta ray, but Xu Rumin couldn't help swallowing his saliva as he looked at the sashimi in front of him.
He remembered that the little devil fish would pick up sea urchins outside every day and would always say that the sea fish and sea urchins here were very sweet when eaten raw.
Xu Rumin picked up the chopsticks, picked up the fish, and planned to eat a piece first.
"Meow~"
Suddenly, he felt an unusual force at his feet, as if he was hit hard by a "pig". Xu Rumin lowered his head.
Erxin rubbed against his palm lovingly, her stone green cat eyes fixed on his chopsticks, and her voice was soft and tight: "Meow~ Meow~"
Xu Rumin was a little at a loss. The cat was too plump, with a round, furry face and a fleshy body. It was also very strong and kept pushing against him.
Erxin acted coquettishly for a long time, but this human didn't feed her.
She was a little angry, and she jumped onto the low table nimbly, leaned her head over, and tried to smell the fish fillets on the table.
Xu Rumin then realized that it wasn't that she liked him, but that she wanted to eat his food.
For some unknown reason, I suddenly wanted to laugh, but also felt a little angry.
He turned around and looked for the owner, but didn't see him, so he called out to Du Qingmei, who was sleeping on the floor with her cat in her arms, "Can cats eat fish fillets?"
Du Qingmei sat up: "Only sashimi can be eaten. Don't feed too much and don't dip it in seasoning."
Xu Rumin picked up the fish fillet and placed it on a corner of the table.
Erxin lowered her head and ate it quickly, then looked up at him and walked closer to rub his palm, "Meow~"
Xu Rumin picked up another piece and said, "The last piece."
Erxin finished eating: "Meow..."
Xu Rumin: "It's really the last piece."