The world is getting worse, and the cat's heart is not ancient.
Recalling the phrase "I want you to raise me and my child" that the gray-white female cat called to Miss Wei on the stairs, Lin Lan felt that if it was not a cat but a person, there might be a physical conflict on the spot.
However, who made such a call is a cute kitten, the two-legged beast, the spirit of all things, can only recognize it by pinching its nose.
Lin Lan covered her mouth, giggled and took her cat army to the new house.
The father who was left confused was still stunned: "What cat grandma? Who? Xiaowei?"
Lin Lan is not a person who is keen on gossip. Although she is very curious about how Miss Wei, a salty fish girl who only has a rare holiday and stays at home during the holidays, will raise a cat after that, but she will not take the initiative to ask.
Her own dozen or so cats are enough for her to toss.
"Okay, the meal has been fed, the heating pad has been turned on, and the running wheels and cat toys have been arranged. It's up to you whether you want to sleep or wave. I'll go back to sleep."
In the new room, after finally serving the cat masters, Lin Lan yawned, waved at them, and turned away.
The purring of one or two cats is something to enjoy, but not the seventeenth last night. She has to go back to sleep quickly.
Like many second-tier cities with economic development, the population of Xicheng will become sparse every time a big festival such as the Spring Festival arrives. There are not many real locals in the city, and it is those who really make the city prosperous. A foreigner who rushes home for the Chinese New Year.
The small building that has become empty, and the urban village behind it that is equally sparsely populated is undoubtedly the best proof.
The first day of the first lunar month of the old Lin family was extraordinarily leisurely, and he and his relatives called each other to greet each other during the New Year and made an appointment to visit someone’s house for dinner in the next few days.
Mother Lin and Wang Xiuzhi even released the little sunflower from the cage. One person and one bird were in the sofa area clacking against a plate of melons, sunflowers and peanuts. A bunch of melon shells fell off.
Next to them, Grandma Lin was also sitting on the sofa, holding the big white cat at home and watching the replay of the Spring Festival Gala on TV. The old man's hand swiped on the cat that was coiled up on her lap. The cat being kicked has long been accustomed to this frequency, and the tip of the ear on its small head with squinting eyes twitched twice from time to time.
Father Lin saw that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had either a bird or a cat, and then saw that he was empty-handed, and suddenly felt very uncomfortable. He walked out of the old house and went to his daughter's new house, which had become a cat paradise. A few minutes later, he came back with the puppet cat Sapphire.
He also sat on the sofa, he shook the cat to the other two as if showing off, then hugged the cat and slumped on the sofa, and started watching TV.
The docile and beautiful puppet bag was wrapped in his arms like a doll by his grandfather. When the person stopped moving, he adjusted his posture on his own, so that he could lie there more comfortably and enjoy the warm human flesh cushion, one person and one cat. One covets each other's body temperature, the other enjoys the smoothness of the fur, and is too lazy to move when stuck in the sofa.
"Mother Lan Lan, give me the remote control. Didn't you watch the CCTV's last night? I want to watch the Spring Festival Gala at Mango TV."
After nibbling on the melon seeds, Mother Lin glanced at her husband who was paralyzed and could only stretch out his hand, but got up and handed him the remote control.
Compared with the leisure downstairs, Miss Wei upstairs is quite busy.
A kitten came into the house and plans to stay there, so there are more things to prepare.
"I want... a cat bowl, someone to eat and drink, and a cat litter to sleep... What else?" Wei Yan, who has zero experience in raising pets, had her head blank, and she glanced at the bathroom unconsciously, thinking about another important thing. "And cat toilets!... Then don't you want to buy cat litter?"
If it is normal, she can go directly to the pet clinic downstairs to get these things, and she can also ask other precautions by the way. But it was the first day of the new year, and Dr. Liu had already closed the door and went home for the Chinese New Year. Online shopping was even more unrealistic at this time. How could we wait a few more days for all the things that I needed, and Miss Wei was immediately blinded.
how to do? How to do it? She won't!
Miss Wei walked up and down the living room in confusion and annoyance. Not far away, the gray-white long-haired cat who jumped on the sofa and squatted on the thick fabric armrest looked at her quietly, her little head moving back and forth with Miss Wei. Turning around, a pair of green vertical pupils reflected her troubled figure, only the gray hairy tail hanging down gently swayed up and down.
The cat's excessive calmness quickly attracted the attention of Miss Wei. Seeing that the old cat came into her house and didn't treat herself as an outsider at all, and now that she was in a hurry and flicked its tail leisurely, Miss Wei suddenly Both angry and funny.
The irritability of worrying about not knowing how to raise a cat suddenly disappeared most of the time.
She raised her feet and walked towards the cat on the sofa, getting closer and closer, but the cat still didn't dodge, and was still sitting there staring at her.
Miss Wei tentatively reached out to it, moving cautiously, always prepared for its protruding claws or biting mouth.
The cat still didn't move.
Until her hand was close to its head, the kitten just raised its head and sniffed the smell of her fingertips. This action made Miss Wei's heart a little calmer, and when her hand really covered the cat's head, The kitten also took the initiative to put her head on her palm and arched it.
Feeling the soft touch of the fur in her palm, Miss Wei was stunned for a moment, and when the little fluffy thing under her palm made a coquettish meow at her, her brows and eyes unconsciously twitched.
"Are you really going to follow me?" She gently stroked the cat's head and asked in a low voice, "Then shall I give you a name? You are the cat that came home with me on the first day of the new year, and you will be called Nian from now on. How is the year?"
I don't know if the kitten understood, but after she finished speaking, it meowed at her.
Miss Wei didn't know whether she agreed or not in the "meow", but she just agreed: "Nian Nian, there is no cat litter for the time being, how about I make one for you first out of cardboard boxes and old clothes? As for the cat I'll find a way to get the cat litter box as soon as possible."
So, Lin Lan, who had already slept fully, received a visit from Miss Wei in the afternoon.
At that time, the old Lin family was full of food and drink, and they were looking for fun to pass the time, watching TV watching TV, going out to play mahjong, and Lin Lan chatting with people on the mobile phone.
The objects of chat include but are not limited to relatives, as well as some friends who used to play well.
When Miss Wei knocked on the door, Lin Lan had just finished watching some small videos and photos sent by Cheng Fengyang from her hometown in the countryside, the big white goose, the big yellow dog, the big rooster, and the "grey" cat that had just slipped out of the stove. He was accidentally injured. Feet and... Bian Shexing, the three-legged dog, learns how he jumps and walks.
The dog photos inside and his grievances about being bullied by dogs in his hometown made Lin Lan laugh so hard for a while. Just as he was taking a few photos of the cats at home and sending them, the door rang.
"Uncle Lin, Aunt Lin, are you at home? I'm Wei Yan, I-I want to find Lin Lan for something."
Her mother and grandmother who were still at home looked at her, Lin Lan put down her phone and ran to open the door: "If you are here, come here!"
When I opened the door, I saw Miss Wei who was looking embarrassed.
"I'm so sorry to bother you during the new year." Wei Yan looked cramped, "Well, I just... adopted a cat. I really don't know how to take care of it... The veterinary clinic downstairs is not open... You have Selling cat litters and cat food or something?"
Sure enough, it was for the touch of the porcelain cat.
Lin Lan thought that Miss Wei might come to her, but she didn't expect to come so soon, and she still asked her to buy cat food and pet supplies.
"Xiaowei, do you have a cat?" Wang Xiuzhi and Grandma Lin were very surprised, "Aren't you working all the time, where did the cat come from?"
"Just... when I just got off work in the morning." Thinking of her experience of being left behind all the way, Miss Wei's tone was also weak, "It stayed behind me, I had no choice but to... "
Her expression and lines made the elders in the room involuntarily think of the poor girl in the old society who was targeted by the old scoundrel, and they all showed sympathy for a while.
This is being cheated on by the shameless Pengci cat, I don't know what it looks like.
"Cat food is available." Lin Lan replied with a smile at this time, "But I don't need to buy a cat litter so quickly. I'll find a cage for you first. Miss Wei, you are busy with work, so leave the cat at home alone. It is very dangerous. First, I don’t know if it will touch any electrical appliances, and it can be effectively prevented by being locked in a cage. Second, you can also observe the character of this cat by the way to see if it is suitable for a domestic cat.”
"It's pretty good every year, and it doesn't run around much." Wei Yan subconsciously defended the cat, but in the end he just took the cat and didn't get along for a long time, and he didn't dare to make a deal, he hesitated, "However, still Please get me a cage. I, I will give you the money!"
Oh huh, have all the names taken? It's only been a while since I was attacked by the kitten, you can't do it, Miss Wei.
"If you don't need money for the cage, you should consider it borrowed." She teased in her heart, but Lin Lan's face was still as usual, "Look at the character of your cat before deciding whether to keep the cage or not, maybe it will be returned to me soon. Let me get you some cat food and canned food. I don't have a new cat litter box, can I use the old one? It will take two days to make do, and I will return it when the vet clinic opens."
"Yes, yes!" Miss Wei nodded, as if she had found a savior, "Thank you, Lin Lan!"
"You're welcome, we are all neighbors, and you are still my tenant, so it's nothing to do." Lin Lan took her to the corridor outside the house, heading towards the new house, "Let's go, I'll bring you some things. "
Miss Wei followed behind her, her face was a little nervous. Except for the shop floor on the first floor, the layout of each floor of the small building was the same. After walking a few meters, they stopped in front of a side house. . Lin Lan took out the key and gently opened the door. The light in the room shone on the two of them. At the same time, Miss Wei also heard a large amount of meowing.
"A lot of cats!" Wei Yan took a step back in shock, but was quickly attracted by these clean and beautiful little guys, "So cute..."
No, among the dozen or so cats who just finished taking a bath on New Year's Eve, which one is not fragrant and soft, with fluffy and shiny fur
"These are the cats in my teahouse. Now that the shop is closed, let them live here." Lin Lan greeted Miss Wei to enter the room and closed the door again. "They are all very cute babies."
At this time, many of these cute little babies were surrounded by Lin Lan's feet, meowing.
(Lan Lan, who is this? A new employee like Xiao Song?)
(A human that has never been seen before, what did she want to do here?)
(I didn't bring food in my hand, I didn't come to give it away.)
(Yes, Oh Lanlan, it's delicious, are you here to make dried small fish?)
"How long has it been since lunch? Still thinking about dried small fish? No. I just brought people over to get something, and left soon." Lin Lan squatted down and patted the heads of these curious cats, indicating what they should continue to do. what.
Miss Wei, who was standing behind, was stunned by the scene in the room.
The decoration of this house is very simple, only white walls and floors are painted, and there is no other furniture. However, in the empty living room, there are several cat climbing frames of different shapes against the wall. Cat toys, thrown there in a cluttered way, it is the result of being carried around by cats. Many cats are either lying on the top of the climbing frame, or they stretch their claws and play with the small toys on the ground. .
What attracted her attention the most were the two cat running wheels, one large and one small, on which cats with energy and nowhere to vent ran wildly. Can't move.
"I bought them for weight loss, because I don't allow them to become fat." Lin Lan explained when she saw her staring at it, "But I didn't expect it to be so popular."
It sounds like a manager who controls the weight of his artists. Miss Wei complained in her heart when she heard the words. She was about to speak, but out of the corner of her eyes, when she saw a super-large cat taking over from the previous cat to continue the wheel, her voice turned into a scream.
"Ah, it was the cat that night!"
He hid behind Lin Lan when he spoke.
Miss Wei has no opinion on small animals, but she is afraid of large small animals, large dogs and cats, especially big cats like Maine Coons that are generally more than one meter in length.
Even if Lin Lan repeats the sentence "Miss Wei, Maine Coon cats are very docile, but they look a little more mighty" to her, she still shakes her head vigorously.
"No, no, it's not a character. I'm afraid of the way it looks. The bigger it looks, the more frightening it gets. I was chased by Alaska when I was a kid, and even if it was explained later that it just wanted to play with me, I still felt like these big dogs. It's terrifying." The cowardly program Yuan refused any large pets, and stared vigilantly at the Big Maine Coon cat in the running wheel, "Where is the cat food, let's go after we get our stuff?"
No wonder I was so scared that I changed floors before. It turned out that the psychological shadow was bigger than I imagined. Lin Lan naturally stopped talking and took her to a room dedicated to storing cat food and cat supplies.
The newly raised cat, Miss Wei has nothing, so she also lacks everything, so the two of them walked out of the room with half of their belongings, and planned to carry them upstairs directly.
This time, Miss Wei headed first, but she stopped suddenly when she was passing by the bathroom.
"What's wrong?" Lin Lan, who was behind, couldn't help but ask when she saw that she was still looking at the bathroom.
"What are those two black boxes? They look like microwave ovens." Miss Wei asked curiously, staring at the two square appliances placed on the outside of the bathroom, but everyone knows that microwave ovens can't be placed in the bathroom. "It's also for cats. ?"
"It's a drying box for pets. It's used for drying cats and dogs after bathing." Lin Lan explained.
As soon as she heard the word "bath", Wei Yan suddenly thought of the cat at home, and she became silent at the same time.
Lin Lan guessed what she meant at once: "Miss Wei wants to bathe your family every year? No problem, you can take the cat here to wash it, it's not a problem anyway."
Opportunities have been brought to her door. Why can't she satisfy her curiosity and see the reality of this china-touching cat. Do you really want to find a long-term meal ticket, or do you just want to find a home for the baby, eat and drink well during pregnancy, and leave the baby to go on the waves after the unloading is over. After all, kittens have a very pragmatic animal thinking.
Miss Wei hurriedly shook her head: "No, no, I don't have it. It only comes every year, and I don't know if it dares to take a bath. After all... cats are afraid of water." No matter who doesn't know pets, they also know These are common sense.
Especially the shit shoveling officers who have been scratched and bitten by bathing cats are all over the world.
"It's alright, I'll show your cat at that time. If it can be washed, wash it, and then do a simple deworming." After becoming proficient in cat language, Lin Lan has a lot of understanding of cat self-confidence, such as This kind of cat that picks people to find meal tickets by itself is not only very smart, but also closer to people innately. As long as the process is gentle, it is generally willing to do things that can please humans to obtain food—not to mention that this cat is still pregnant now. , And in the winter of hunger and cold, if you want to be arrogant, you have to look at the weather outside.
Hearing what she said, Miss Wei glanced at the clean and beautiful kittens around her, thinking of Lin Lan's cat-taming skills, she hesitated, but couldn't resist the desire in her heart: "Then... ok. Lin Lan, please help me. Look, if it doesn't want it every year, forget it."
You are so good every year, maybe you will be willing to come and take a bath
Thinking of how docile and well-behaved Kitten was to her before, and how she was coquettish to herself, Miss Wei felt a fluke in her heart.
Lin Lan's mentality was no longer so cautious. She carried her things up to the fourth floor, entered Miss Wei's room, put down the things in her hand, and she saw the gray-white long-haired cat.
"It's a beautiful mixed-breed pastoral cat!" Lin Lan smiled as she looked at the cat's gray back and tail, and pure white fur on its belly and limbs, "It will look better when it's washed."
"Is it beautiful...?" Miss Wei looked at the cat's fur, which had become gray and dirty due to wandering, and some were knotted. She tried to imagine what it would look like after it was washed... The imagination failed, and the program Yuan's brain had been given to all kinds of codes. rigid control.
Lin Lan was already walking towards the cat beside him.
"Come on, kitty, if you want to stay in this house forever and live with the owner of this house, just call me."
When Miss Wei heard Lin Lan's cat-friendly tone, she was suddenly amused. Can she understand this
The next second, the gray-haired cat meows.
(I do! I love this twoleg and I want to live with her!)
Lin Lan was stunned by the unequivocal reply.
Miss Wei next to her called out first: "Wow, it's so smart! It seems that she really understands what she's talking about!"
Lin Lan looked back at her: "Shh, it's not over yet."
Wei Yan immediately stretched out her hand to cover her mouth, indicating that she would not speak. Lin Lan turned around again and looked at the kitten.
"Then first, you have to clean yourself before you can get close to the twolegs you like. Otherwise, she will get sick, and you don't want her to get sick, do you?"
"Meow!" (Don't! Don't make her sick!)
The long-haired cat jumped off the sofa and hurriedly called out to Lin Lan.
"Meow!" (Sick will die! Don't let her die!)
Miss Wei was stunned when she saw that it was so urgent: "What's wrong with Nian Nian? Why are you running around us?"
This time, Lin Lan looked at her with a complicated expression: "Miss Wei, I can't see that you are actually a cat-chosen person, and at a glance you have become a kitten's dream shoveler."
Wei Yan froze in place, the latter didn't care about her, just took out the cat cage and said to Nian Nian, "Come in here, I'll take you a bath, and she can hold you to sleep with you at night."
In no more than five minutes, a stray cat will obediently enter the cage and prepare to take a bath. For Miss Wei, the process is confusing and fantastical. She still doesn't understand the principle of Lin Lan's cat taming, but it does not prevent her from being able to. The joy of a smooth cat wash.
The two returned to the third floor with the cat cage. Just as they were about to leave the stairs, Wang Jiayi's voice came from below: "Lanlan, where are you going?" She went upstairs and saw Lin Lan's hand. The stray cat in his eyes showed doubts, "Is this the new cat in the teahouse?"
"No, this is my cat." Wei Yan stepped forward and explained, "It's called Nian Nian, and it came home with me this morning."
I still have an impression of Miss Wei's former neighbor Wang Jiayi. After she was replaced by Tang Xiaoya, the impression was even deeper, but now the eldest miss is more concerned about the words of her former neighbor: "Following you home?" Her eyes widened in surprise. , like listening to a story.
"It's true." Lin Lan affirmed, "every year, I fell in love with Miss Wei at first sight, and I thought she was his queen's shoveler, and I was ready to stay."
Wang Jiayan believed it immediately, the eldest lady never doubted her friends, and looked at this overtime mad neighbor who always had the impression of being decadent and dull: "It's good. If only I, Baiyin, would fall in love with me at first sight. "Unfortunately, the opposite is true. She is the one who licks the dog.
"Did you come here to play with me?" Lin Lan had seen Wang Jiayi's temperament every day in the teahouse before, and the two had become friends again, so she no longer maintained the polite tone she used to say, "I'm going to go. The new house is bathing the cat, I don't have time to chat with you for the time being."
"It doesn't matter, I can play with Baiyin obediently first, and then talk to you when you are done." The eldest lady replied with a smile.
So the three girls walked together and walked towards the new house.
The group of cats who stayed in the new house found that Lan Lan would bring an extra person every time she came here today, oh no, she also brought an extra cat.
Wang Jiayi is still very familiar with all the cats, especially Jinjila Baiyin. As soon as the eldest lady appeared, the cat automatically ran to her feet and gave her a hug.
The eldest lady was also very skillful in holding it into her arms, and after being intimate with one person and one cat for a while, she also entered the bathroom where she had started working because of her curiosity.
After a baptism on the New Year's Eve, all the cats in the teahouse knew that the bathroom was a place for cats to bathe. Seeing that Lan Lan took the cat to drill into it again, some cats followed curiously.
They can't get in the bathroom, but they're happy to be heard outside.
It didn't take long for a cat to make a vibrato scream of "meow". Of course, the cats immediately heard the companion's fear and resistance to bathing.
Then there was Lan Lan's voice.
"The water is not half your height. It's too embarrassing to keep calling you scared? Think about your master Wei Yan, she's still waiting to live with you."
The screams immediately became much smaller, followed by Lan Lan's commanding voice.
"Raise your claws and wash your feet! Look how dirty your four claws are... They are all muddy, and you still have the face to ask not to take a bath?"
"Lift your butt... oh! That's not good for long-haired cats. Stinks always stick to their fur."
In addition to Lin Lan's voice of disgust, Wei Yan and Wang Jiayi's surprised voices were interspersed from time to time.
"Wow, so I can use this to soak the knotted hair? I don't have to worry about my silver hair being too long to be untied!"
"The brain and head are washed slowly like this? The tear stains are very serious every year? Can it be improved by wiping it every day? I wrote it down."
Because the stray cat was so dirty every year, and there were two curious babies beside her, it took an hour for Lin Lan to thoroughly wash and dry the cat.
"Okay!" After combing the dry hair every year with a brush, Lin Lan showed the cat to the other two, which immediately attracted two exclamations.
"The difference between before and after taking a bath is so big!" Wang Jiayi was very surprised, and couldn't help but looked at Jinjila, who was as pure as snow in her arms, "Don't worry, Baiyin, my mother will never let you have such a dirty day. ."
"This is Nian Nian?" Wei Yan stared blankly at the cat in front of her, unable to imagine what it would look like after it was cleaned. Now it has a real entity, "It's really beautiful."
It seems that long-haired cats are easy to have a beautiful big scarf, and the same is true every year after being carefully groomed by Lin Lan. The gray and white coat color, the green vertical pupils, and the fluffy hair makes it a little fatter. She raised her head and let out a soft meow towards Wei Yan. Her voice was so delicate that Miss Wei's heart melted.
She squatted down and tentatively reached out to the cat. The other party walked over to her very proactively, and Miss Wei easily picked up the cat.
The light weight does not match the fluffy appearance, and the tip of the nose is a faint shampoo smell emanating from the hair.
"Thank you Lin Lan." She thanked Lin Lan, "Today is really bothering you, I, I will transfer the bath money to you right away!"
"No, the money for the cat food I gave before will suffice." Lin Lan shook her head and touched Nian Nian in her arms, the little guy was very obedient, "As long as Miss Wei can be as good as Nian Nian, it is enough. already."
"How does this work?" Miss Wei tried to give money several times but was rejected. She was grateful and became a little closer to Lin Lan, who had never been familiar with her, "Don't keep calling Miss Wei like that. Just call me Wei Yan."
"Okay, Wei Yan." Lin Lan followed her kindness. "Seeing that you look like you really want to be alone with Nian Nian, you should go upstairs and go home. You haven't sorted out things like the cat toilet."
The person whose mind was seen blushed, thanked him in a low voice, and took the cat to leave.
As soon as Wei Yan left, Lin Lan turned her head and saw Wang Jiayan's bright eyes, she just opened her mouth and said, "It's really interesting to raise cats, Lan Lan, can I also work in your teahouse?"
Lin Lan: "..."
Regardless of the various quarrels between Manager Lin and the eldest lady who wanted to work part-time, Ms. Wei upstairs was full of energy.
Even though she didn't sleep last night, she didn't feel tired at all.
There is a cat who is relying on her wholeheartedly, even willing to endure the most annoying water for fear that she will get sick. This is an experience Wei Yan has never experienced.
A corner of the soul seems to be soaked in warm water, and the dry bad soil begins to not only survive weeds, but also faintly new shoots grow.
There is a cat who needs her, and it belongs only to her.
Miss Wei only now understands why some people like to keep pets so much. It turns out that cats are like this. She has been preparing things for Nian Nian all day, toilets, cat litter, cat food, cat mats... I only regret that many shops are closed on the first day of the new year, otherwise she can immediately go out to make big purchases. After tossing until the night, I was so tired that I went to the bedroom to rest.
As soon as he got into the bed after washing, the cat also jumped up with his feet every year.
"Are you going to sleep together?" Miss Wei raised her eyebrows.
"Meow." Nian Nian called out to her, like a positive response.
Miss Wei smiled even more: "Come on then." She patted her pillow, "I'll sleep here for you, or?"
The cat stepped on the pillow, and the four pads circled around the place a few times and lay there in a ball.
For a moment, Wei Yan felt extremely satisfied. It's great that she has a cat too.
She didn't sleep all day and night, and she quickly fell asleep to the sound of the cat's purring.
When I opened my eyes again, it was the next morning.
Chen Xi's eyes were full, and Miss Wei subconsciously looked at the pillow and found that the gray-white dumpling had been moved from the pillow to the quilt, and she couldn't help laughing all of a sudden.
"Nian Nian..." she called softly.
The next second, the cat who had been sleeping all of a sudden got up.
"Meow..." It called to her on the quilt, and the kitten's soft head rubbed against her face.
puff. There was a slight sound from the corner of the heart that was covered with weeds.
There is a small flower blooming quietly there, facing the wind, swaying gently.