The sky outside the window was gloomy.
In the living room of the villa with full heating, Cao Yuze leaned on the sofa with a photo album in his arms and stared outside, only feeling that his mood was worse than the weather outside.
The album half-spread in his arms is open, and you can see the photos of him and a beautiful shorthair cat. There are some photos of him holding a palm-sized kitten when he was in college, and there are also the companies where he joined his family after graduation. I started to learn how to take photos of the workplace experience and saying goodbye to the kitten, and there was a group photo of him and the cat hugging each other with a bright smile at home... The most recent period was a recent photo three months ago.
In the photo, a three-year-old silver tabby cat wearing a cute birthday hat is standing upright in front of a low table, with two small paws on the edge of the table, in front of which is a birthday cake in the shape of a cat's face with decorative flowers on it The words are written—[Happy three-year-old Weiwei!]
"Why can't you find it..." Cao Yuze muttered to himself, his eyes blank and puzzled, "I admit that I have been busy for a while, but the family also told the servants to take good care of you... Why did you suddenly run away... "
Weiwei has been lost for a month. From the frantic search at the beginning to the decadence and powerlessness now, no one knows the torment of Cao Yuze during this period.
At this time, a woman slowly walked down the spiral staircase leading to the second floor. It was Mother Cao. Seeing her son's appearance, she immediately frowned, and scolded very displeasedly: "Isn't it because you lost a cat? It's almost enough to make trouble for a month! If I knew you would be like this, I shouldn't have agreed with you to accept the cat sent by your classmates, play with things and lose your mind!"
"..." Cao Yuze's eyes moved when he heard the reprimand, but he didn't look back at her, but his fingers holding the photo album tightened.
Seeing that her son ignored her, Mother Cao became more and more angry, and her voice became a little higher: "Isn't it just a cat! For such a small thing, is it so half-dead?"
"Isn't it just a cat? It's different... Weiwei is different." Cao Yuze finally reacted, looking over with a pair of eyes, "Mom, you and Dad never cared about me except for study and work. Other things. I have been working hard to meet your expectations and requirements, key high schools, prestigious universities, violin champions, winning competitions... Up to now, company management, competing with other companies for projects... Mom, I'm very tired. Do you know? My classmates can see it, so I specially chose a silver tabby from my cattery and sent it to me. I hope I can have some spiritual comfort, but my parents never saw it. Funny isn't it?"
Mother Cao was stared at by her son's eyes and her heart skipped a beat, and she didn't want her son to speak in a husky voice again.
"Mom, Vivi is no longer just a pet in my heart, it is my soulmate who has been supporting me to keep going for the past few years. Every time I feel so anxious and painful that I want to die, it is the one who has always been He is with me. I can't figure it out, Vivi is just a cat, this house can't hold him, right? The cat food he eats every month is not as good as a piece of jewelry you pack, but why? , how did he get lost all of a sudden? Mom, tell me, why did Weiwei stay in this house for three years and didn't run out, and this year he just got lost so coincidentally?"
"What do you mean!" Cao's mother's voice suddenly became sharp, "Could it be that you thought it was a cat I threw on purpose! I'm so bored, so careful to be angry with a cat?"
Seeing her mother's reaction, Cao Yuze, who knew her character, still didn't know the real answer, so he couldn't help laughing out loud.
So no matter how he searched, no matter how he mobilized people to help people search the whole city, he couldn't find even a cat's hair, so how he asked the servants at home one, two or three couldn't explain clearly.
It's ridiculous.
After looking for it for a month and thinking about it for another month, the answer he had been most reluctant to think about turned out to be the truth.
"Mom, just because the daughter you want me to marry is allergic to cat hair, I rejected her, and you threw Wei Wei away without telling me, what about you?" After a month, Cao Yuze lost his patience. He asked directly, "I'm so bad in your heart, you have to find the marriage partner yourself and make peace, otherwise you won't be able to find it?"
"What nonsense are you talking about, I'm not doing this for you but also for this family!" Cao's mother retorted sharply, "What's wrong with the appearance of the eldest lady of the Huang family, as long as you marry her and get the support of the Huang family, you know How much help does the Cao family have? She is only allergic to cat hair, so what if you get over it a little bit and don't keep cats anymore!"
Although there was no mention of Wei Wei's loss, Cao Yuze knew that she had acquiesced.
When he truly felt a fact that he refused to admit, Cao Yuze's heart suddenly stopped hurting.
His Vivi was a pet cat that was pampered and had never suffered outside, and then it was deliberately abandoned far away, and it was still in a cold winter that even a stray cat might not be able to survive. Now that a month has passed, Cao Yuze no longer has any hope of whether he can survive.
Right now, he just felt that in the eyes of his parents, he might be no different from Weiwei.
"Mom, I'm your son, not a toy you can play with as you want." Taking a deep breath, Cao Yuze looked at his mother expressionlessly, his tone extremely cold, "Do I want to keep a cat or get married? , and who to marry is something I can decide for myself. From now on, don't try to manipulate me. "
After closing the photo album, he left those words and turned around and left the villa, leaving behind all the shock and scolding that followed.
In ten days or so, it will be the Spring Festival, but Cao Yuze feels that he can't stay in this house for a whole day, let alone sit together to celebrate the New Year.
He has now taken the position of an executive in the company. In addition to the company shares he received on his twentieth birthday, his grandfather also gave him some last year, plus the confidants he has managed in the company over the years, and his father It's not impossible to fight and win some voice.
He is no longer a child who can only follow orders, and he may not be able to sit in the position of the company's talker.
Driving the car out of the gate of the villa, Cao Yuze, who was sitting in the driver's seat, was expressionless, but his eyes were surprisingly bright. What happened to Weiwei made him fully understand that under a pair of parents who were extremely controlling, he would never be liberated by being a filial son.
The car was driving all the way and was about to drive to another property owned by Cao Yuze when his cell phone suddenly rang.
The caller ID from Wang Jiani above made him stunned for a moment, but he quickly opened the communication, and the girl's voice immediately came from the other end of the microphone: [Brother Yuze, I seem to have found your Weiwei! I uploaded the photo and sent it to you, can you check it out for yourself?]
A few minutes later, the car made a U-turn at an intersection, turned to the expressway on another road, and set off directly in the direction of Xicheng.
On the other side, in the cat teahouse, Lin Lan and her two employees looked confused.
"You said this is the cat from the next city?" Pointing to the beauty short that Lin Lan had been taken out, Tang Xiaoya looked unconvinced, "What a joke, no matter how far a cat gets lost, it can't run directly to another. City? Unless it's in the city frontier to begin with."
But looking at the dress of this eldest lady, she is holding the latest version of a foreign-brand mobile phone that has not been released in China, and even thinking on her knees, she knows that it is impossible for a family who can be friends with this person to live in the city center. Villa area
"I'm not lying, this is my friend's lost cat, and you all heard the call just now." Wang Jiani pouted very unhappily, "The reason why Weiwei is called Weiwei is because he has a belly on his belly. A small V-shaped piebald."
Lin Lan lifted the cat up, there was indeed a pattern like this in the center of the kitten's abdomen, and then she took the cat back into her arms, reached out and stroked the cat's head: "Little guy, you didn't say anything about your former owner before. Is it a big family?"
Mei Dian raised his head and called at her: "Meow-" (It's useless to say, there is no smell of Xiaoyu in this city, I can't find him. And I can't even see it when I get dirty on the road. If you look like you are, no one cares about me when you act like a spoiled child, I finally found you who are willing to take me in.)
The sad cat's wandering history, it's good to be alive.
Thinking that when the cat was sent to the clinic, Dr. Liu added a bunch of medical expenses in addition to the usual set of charges, Lin Lan could only sigh secretly. Compared with the other two pastoral cats, this beautiful shorthair does have to be raised for a while before entering the teahouse.
Now that its owner can find it in advance and take it back, it is actually quite a happy ending.
While the three were talking, the guest bell at the door rang again.
"Welcome to Cat Tea House!" x3
Lin Lan and the two employees greeted each other in unison.
"Wow, startle me!" A young man's voice came from the door immediately, with a smile, "I don't need such a big battle for me, right?"
Lin Lan smiled involuntarily when she heard the voice, hugged Mei Dian and greeted her: "Cheng Fengyang, I haven't seen you for two weeks, you finally showed up!"
The young girl holding the cat walked towards him with a look of joy, and Cheng Fengyang also unconsciously showed a happy smile, but complained in his mouth: "Don't mention it! It's the customer who made me unable to make a string with you last time. , I helped solve the problem of the house, but he said it was a test, and then sent me an urgent order to design another house for him, but I was exhausted!"
Working hard to work overtime for half a month can be regarded as completely getting rid of the customer who has a lot of money but a lot of money.
"I told the company that I won't be accepting orders until the new year is over. I want to rest, I want to take a holiday!" Cheng Fengyang looked at Lin Lan in front of him, and silently added another sentence in his heart, and wanted to see you every day .
Lin Lan kept giggling while listening, and finally said, "Okay, designer Cheng, who is finally on vacation, let's go have a skewer together tonight."
"That could not be better, but I waited for half a month, and I have to make up for it."
The two at the door were talking, but Tang Xiaoya narrowed her eyes in the store. She remembered this man. It was the employee who came to help when the teahouse opened. The manager said that he was a friend he knew. .
As a leisure shop, the morning is generally more leisurely. After all, there are many young people who sleep in on weekends, and those who can leave the warm bed before nine o'clock in winter have been praised as ruthless.
Now there are five ruthless people gathered in this teahouse. Except for Miss Wang, all of them are wearing teahouse-style aprons, and their style is very uniform.
And Cheng Fengyang also got the ins and outs of the beautiful short cat from the mouths of several people.
"You said that the original owner of this stray pet cat will be found soon?" Compared with the pure joy of others that the cat could return home, Cheng Fengyang's expression was a little more serious.
He swept his gaze to the inside of the teahouse, and three or two guests came in one after another. Some simply came to drink milk tea, eat snacks, fill their stomachs, and have a brunch meal. Some had already started taking selfies with their cats in their arms. .
"What's the matter?" Lin Lan looked at his expression, but she also raised her mind in doubt, "Isn't it good for the kitten to go home?"
"No, it's pretty good." Cheng Fengyang glanced around the inside of the teahouse and turned to look at Lin Lan, "Have you been doing well during this time? Regular cat shows on weekends must attract a lot of repeat customers, right?"
"Yeah. I'm one of them, and I'm still working as an hourly worker." Tang Xiaoya answered first, "This teahouse is awesome, and the refreshments are delicious. As long as you have free time, it's really comfortable to come and sit and play with cats. There are repeat customers. Isn't it normal?"