"I recommend your home to my female colleague. The puppets and Jinjira are so delicate and difficult to raise in your home, and the precious Abyssinian cats must be fine. Do you think it is convenient?"
convenient!
Very convenient!
The price of the purebred Abyssinian cat is not inferior to that of the Ragdoll cat at all. It originates from Ethiopia. The shape and outline are similar to those of Siamese. One of the oldest domestic cats.
As a noble among shorthair cats, it is dignified, noble and elegant. Because it is a cat with long legs, it is also called a ballerina cat.
"When do you pick it up? Where do you pick it up? I can come and visit in person! ... Although I want to say that, pregnancy has nothing to do with raising cats." Lin Lan, who is still training kittens in the new house to sell cute 18 styles, is standing there Talking to Xu Xiangfei in the empty living room, he frowned, "Cats are not bad for pregnant women at all, what age does anyone still think this way?"
"It's useless for you to tell me this. In fact, my colleague has told her mother-in-law this many times, but some older elders... You understand." Xu Xiangfei pointed to his head, " They only stubbornly believe what they want to believe. You tell them 10,000 times that the Toxoplasma gondii that wants to infect a cat must eat the lump freshly pulled by the cat, and they will only shake their heads and say I don't listen, I don't Listen. My colleagues have been haggard all over because of this, but I can't beat the old man, so I can only send a good family through my relationship."
Lin Lan finally made an appointment with Xu Xiangfei to pick up the cat from his colleague's house on a weekend.
People who can keep such cats are generally not far behind. Sure enough, Xu Xiangfei took her to a high-end community in the center of Xicheng City. After obtaining the owner's permission, the two arrived at the family smoothly.
The one who opened the door was the owner of the cat, a young woman with a pregnant belly, surnamed Yao.
Probably because the cat was about to be sent away, Ms. Yao looked very bad, but her good upbringing made her try to keep smiling to the guests: "Come on, two people please come in."
Following the owner to enter the door, Lin Lan saw a series of cat supplies such as cat bags, cat food, cat litter and cat toys in the open space of the living room. .
The cat has been put into the cat bag, it is lying in it, the big almond eyes are inlaid on the small head, and only the small and slender cat body and the reddish-brown fur can be vaguely seen.
"It's called Pudding, it's two years old this year." Ms. Yao handed the cat to Lin Lan, and kept telling her, "Pudding's favorite is Baileys brand cat food, and sometimes I eat some from Elken. As a snack, but my favorite snack is dried cod. It is very quiet and a little squeamish. It likes to sleep on the sofa or in the arms of people. It likes to play with electric mice and jumping pigs. There is also this cat mat. I like lying on it very much... I have all these things ready. I only stocked up cat food and snacks last month, enough pudding to eat for half a year... And these cat litters and toys, all of which are his favorite, please also Take it all back, so that it doesn't have to go to a new home... just..."
The more she talked, the redder Ms. Yao's eyes became, and she was so choked up that she couldn't even speak coherently.
The reddish-brown kitten that had been lying quietly in the cat bag suddenly couldn't sit still.
"Meow—" (Mom, don't be sad.)
The meowing of Abyssinian cats is recognized as pleasant, and her delicate voice is like a silver bell.
At this moment, Ms. Yao burst into tears.
"Pudding!" After two years of getting along, even if she didn't understand the cat language, Ms. Yao, the owner, could tacitly distinguish the meaning of her pet's bark, "Woo...! Pudding! Pudding!"
She hugged the cat bag tightly, and pressed the pudding's head across the box wall, tears rolling down her face.
Seeing such a scene, Lin Lan and Xu Xiangfei couldn't bear it.
"Ms. Yao, if you are very reluctant, you can take it back after you give birth." Lin Lan couldn't help but said to her.
Ms. Yao, who was unwilling to let go of the cat bag, raised her head in surprise, with surprise in her tears.
"You can think of it this way, it's inconvenient to keep the pudding with me temporarily." Seeing her expression, Lin Lan also smiled and explained warmly, "Xu Xiangfei should have told you, I will later I will open a cat cafe and help guests in need to foster pets is also one of the items in the cat cafe business. After you give birth to your child, take care of your body, and then choose a convenient day to come to my side and pay the fees for the foster care. Just take the pudding home. What about the proposal?"
Ms. Yao's haggard face suddenly became brighter, and she almost blurted out: "I would like to..."
"No! This cat is not allowed to be brought back after it has been sent away!" An old lady interrupted her loudly, and an old woman in her sixties appeared in the living room at some point, staring angrily at this time. Mrs. Yao said, "Cats can't be kept, I've told you this many times! These cats and dogs love to lose their hair, and in case they are accidentally sucked into their nostrils by children! You should be a responsible mother. OK!"
"No... Aunt, cats and dogs have thick and long hair, and the baby's nose can't get in..." Xu Xiangfei defended weakly, and then the old lady immediately choked back.
"If I say it can be sucked in, it will suck in! Anything that is harmful to my grandson is not allowed to approach! Cats can't do dogs, can't do anything!"
Xu Xiangfei immediately took a few steps back, defeated by the invincible aura that the old lady had cultivated in the village when she was young.
"Mom!" Ms. Yao was a little bit broken when she heard this, "How can you do this!"
"What's wrong with me! I'm not doing it for you and the baby! If something happens to this cat, will you be able to recover it!" The old lady stared aggressively, "Anyway, I won't allow it if I don't allow it! If you really dare to pick it up in the future, I will throw it away in the car the next day, believe it or not!"
The momentum in the living room was extremely stiff for a while, the young pregnant woman was shaky, and the knuckles of her hands holding the cat bag became whiter as she pinched.
The stubborn old man keenly sensed the change in his daughter-in-law's mood. She immediately did not continue to fight with her daughter-in-law. Instead, she changed a soft face and sighed in the tone of someone who had come over: "Daughter-in-law, I know you don't want to treat the cat Send it away, I don't like it like this, but I'm also doing it for your own good."
She stared at the cat bag and glanced at the cat inside. Lin Lan didn't miss the old lady's dislike and impatience with cats, but she changed her attitude when she looked at her daughter-in-law again.
"Think about it, when you give birth to the baby, do you really have the energy to take care of this cat like before? When you don't have a baby, you can get up early every day and get cat food for it, make a late-night snack, and have a holiday. Every day, I clean up the cat's fur for it, buy it toys to play with, and send it to the vet when it's sick. Can you still take care of it when you have children? idle."
Ms. Yao opened her mouth and found that she could not be sure, because…
"Daughter-in-law, you told me before you got married that even if you have a child after marriage, you won't lose your job and raise your child at home. I agreed. But when you have a child, you can't ignore it when you come back from get off work, right? And I definitely won't help you to take care of your cat. Are you sure you have the energy to take care of yourselves, don't you fall behind in raising a cat at work and taking care of your children? This cat is so precious and no one takes good care of it, it must be sick if you say it is. ?"
Ms. Yao was completely silent. She lowered her head, but slowly straightened her arms little by little, and gradually delivered the cat bag to Lin Lan.
Although the action was difficult, it also showed her inner choice.
Lin Lan quietly took the cat bag and held it firmly in her hands. Ms. Yao opposite looked at the cat bag for a while, and then suddenly covered her face with her hands and ran to the back room with a low whimper.
Guilt and escape.
Lin Lan didn't say anything, and together with Xu Xiangfei, took away all the things given by the cat owner, threw them into the trunk of the car, and returned directly to the small building.
The next day, a new house in a small building.
"Actually, I don't know what to say. The old lady's words are actually quite reasonable. Ms. Yao, who is unwilling to give up her career, can't be wrong. She can only say that since ancient times, you can't have both." Sitting on the mat in the new room, Lin Lan told Cheng Fengyang, who had prepared the blueprints, about this, with a low tone, "It's just that this abandoned kitten suffers."
Having said that, she put her eyes on the cat bag in the corner. It has been a day since the Abyssinian cat was brought back. No matter how she called it, she didn't bark once. It still eats and drinks smoothly, which means that it is only in a very low mood, but it has not reached the point of getting into a dead end.
"But Ms. Yao has already done what she can do, right? Entrusting the cat to someone who can take good care of it is much better than abandoning it at will." Cheng Fengyang put forward his own different opinions, "It's really better to keep a pet than to have a pet. Raising a child is not easy, just like the stars in my house, it takes a lot of thought to keep it clean, tidy, smart and healthy at all times, and the relatives are lively, let alone raising a child. The inconvenience of having a child is true. , when my sister gave birth to Li Mengmeng, I think she was nervous and broke down at every turn. If she has another cat, dog, or another at this time, I think her temper is crazy."
"Humph! After all, the husband's family is not good enough!" Lin Lan seemed to think of something with a look of resentment, "Ms. Yao sent cats because her in-laws were too indifferent, and no one wanted to help her take care of the kittens. She even had the idea of throwing the cat away, so she could only give it away for the safety of the cat. I went there that day, and the whole thing ended with the confrontation between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law, and the man in the family did not exist as if he were dead! When I get married in the future, my husband's family dares to treat me like this, and as soon as I get pregnant, I will force me to throw the cat away, and I will definitely let them know what regret is."
At the end, she sneered. If Uncle Yu or the former international student brother were present, she would have noticed immediately that her smile was exactly the same as when she talked about how she cheated on her ex on Rolls-Royce at that time.
Oops, I accidentally exposed a bad side when I got angry!
Realizing that this was not good, Lin Lan quickly restrained her expression, coughed a little awkwardly, and wanted to laugh and buffer: "Well, I was just having fun..."
"That's right, that's how it should be!" Cheng Fengyang slapped his thigh and agreed with the same hatred on his face, "Originally, raising cats and dogs has nothing to do with women being pregnant or not, so why should they send their furry children away because of their ignorance? , I am the first to disagree! That Yao family man didn't take responsibility, I was angry when I heard it! His wife's salary is not low, but he married him and had children for him, and the husband and wife did not say that they would support the family together. Only let him be responsible for the expenses, and if he is a husband, he doesn't even have the ability to solve pet problems for his wife, so it's useless!
Cheng Fengyang really thought so when he said this, and put himself into it, if he married a wife, then his wife and her family forced him to throw the stars away because of her pregnancy, and gave him all kinds of delusions to force him in. In the corner, he will definitely get angry.
No, after getting married, you must find a family who also likes pets!
As soon as this thought flashed through, he was suddenly stunned, and his eyes couldn't help looking at Lin Lan and the large group of cats behind her. The other party was also staring at him blankly at this moment. Also jumped.
"Cough, so what... Let's continue to look at the design drawings. This is just a preliminary draft. If you don't like anything that needs to be changed, tell me."
"Oh... ummm, okay. Let's see!"
Suddenly, they fell into a pair of men and women who didn't know how to speak, and began to have a vague conversation using business as an excuse to communicate.
Lin Lan was pleasantly surprised when she got the design draft given by Cheng Fengyang. After listening to her demands, this person not only integrated all her demands into the draft, but also gave some unique designs that were quite in line with her preferences. Because it is professional, the results designed by others are better than what she imagined out of thin air.
"It's great! It's even better than what I thought!" Lin Lan didn't hide her thoughts at all, pointing to some ingenious designs in the manuscript, she was extremely happy, "Look here, here and here, I just wanted to I want to put up such a wallpaper and paint such a pattern. The warm-colored side table and round stool in this corner can’t be better! When I saw this corner, something like this flashed in my mind. It turns out that this is the picture! I have never told you about these things, but you can think of this level, Cheng Fengyang, you are amazing!"
Lin Lan was pleasantly surprised, but Cheng Fengyang was even more surprised than she was. There were some details that the owner did not expect or required. The designer had to think about how to decorate it himself, which involved personal aesthetics and preferences. When something is made, it is not always possible to receive satisfactory feedback, and it is even worthless to criticize it. Many design-related practitioners are actually used to this situation.
But people like Lin Lan, who match their preferences and aesthetics, and who perfectly follow their inner thoughts, not to mention customers, even have few friends.
Cheng Fengyang felt heartfelt joy in his heart.
"She likes your design, which shows that you two have certain similarities in aesthetic preferences."
Sister Cheng Xingyu's words came to mind unconsciously.
Looking at Lin Lan who was still talking about the design draft, Cheng Fengyang didn't admit that the still vague thoughts suddenly became clear.