When Song Xinmin went back to the store, the expression on his face was filled with emotion.
"What's wrong?" Lin Lan couldn't help but care when she saw his expression, "Boss Cat made you angry today?"
Xiao Song, who was helping the manager to clean up the teahouse so that it could be closed, shook his head. He didn't want to speak, but when he saw the boss of the tenth level of Maoyu, he seemed to think of something and turned to look at Lin Lan: "Manager, can you persuade me? What about a cat leaving where it used to live?"
Song Xinmin told Lin Lan what he had seen and heard about the boss of Pat Mao during the day, and soon it was Lin Lan's turn to accept the request and began to put on the same expression.
Until she closed the store and went upstairs to go home, she pushed the door and entered the house in a state of contemplation.
In the living room, the heated floor mats for the cats were still in place. After all, even if all the cats in the teahouse were moved to the new house and no longer needed, it would be the same to make room for others.
Just like now, Grandma Lin is sitting on it. She uses the big cushion as a mat for laying the floor, and sews a quilt cover on it by herself.
The old lady took the long quilt hook and sewed up and down along the corner of the quilt, and put the quilt cover and the cotton core together little by little. From time to time, she swiped the tip of the needle on her head twice before placing the needle.
On the quilt with the brown peony flower head, a pure white cat lay on its side, and from time to time it stretched out its claws to catch the needle and thread that grandma was going through up and down.
"Why did you sew the quilt all of a sudden, grandma?" Lin Lan temporarily forgot about the empty-nest tabby cat, caught her attention, "Didn't the quilt be washed years ago?"
"Then I'll ask your father." Grandma Lin didn't lift her head, "Drinking tea at home, he could accidentally pour water on the quilt. If you don't find something for me and your mother to do on the New Year's Day, he is probably covered in Not comfortable."
After being answered by grandma, Lin Lan noticed the sound of the hair dryer coming from her parents' room. She moved her steps to look around the room, and saw her father sitting in the room holding the hair dryer against the wet cotton wool. The tire is being artificially dried.
On the balcony, the drum washing machine made a beeping sound when it was finished, and the mother who was standing beside opened the door and took out the quilt cover. No, you can watch TV when you watch TV, drink tea when you drink tea, and do all three things together. Even if someone trips and falls on the bed, even if they throw the cup up, I really want you to sleep here at night because of my temperament. Forget the tide quilt!"
The more he talked, the more angry he became, and finally he shouted at someone in the room with a loud voice.
Soon, Lin Lan saw that Dad's expression became even more sluggish to the naked eye.
The sinister atmosphere at home did not affect the snowflakes rolling on the new quilt at all. The big white cat lay on its side in strips with its small paws stretched out, and it was a lot of fun to follow grandma's flying needle.
Coincidentally, the place where grandma was going to have a needle was where the cat was lying. Snowflake was still ignorant of her blocking cat. Grandma grabbed a corner of the quilt and shook it deftly, and the white cat who was in the way was overturned. the other side.
Lin Lan's previously heavy heart suddenly recovered at this moment, she smiled and took the cat away, moved it to the sofa in the back, and patted its little head: "Xuehua, don't hinder grandma from sewing the quilt. "
Grandma raised her head in the gap: "It's okay, it's not a once or twice thing that gets in the way." She was completely used to the rhythm of kittens making trouble, "It's you, you didn't look very good when you came in, is there something bad going on in the store? "
When Grandma Lin said this, the family's parents, Lin's father and Lin's mother, also seemed to be concerned. Opening a tea house is different from a tobacco and alcohol shop. It is much more annoying to deal with customers. Not good to send. Although the girl never complained to them once, but the elders might not pay attention at all.
"It's alright in the store." Lin Lan said quickly, "It's Xiao Song, didn't he ask for three days to go out to collect pictures and take pictures? After he came back, he told me what happened today. Just our urban village. In the back alley, an old man is gone, but he has a cat that remains in the old house..."
She finished what Song Xinmin had seen in a few words, and the elders in the family were silent and sighed after hearing it.
"When you're old, there's nothing you can do." Grandma Lin sighed, she herself is half-in-the-earth, and she has cats at home, so she's even more touched by this kind of thing, "It's just pity for that cat, it's stupid. Wait."
"Don't the old man's children take the cat back to raise it?" Mother Lin asked involuntarily.
Lin Lan shook her head: "I didn't care at all. The neighbor said that he had done a funeral for the old man, so he locked the door and left. He asked him if he wanted to take the cat to take care of him and go straight back to the adopted stray cat, and wait for no one to feed it in the house. Naturally you know to run away."
"What the heck!" Father Lin couldn't help scolding, "Just taking care of the cat raised by my father can tire him to death!"
"It's on the one hand that no one picks it up, on the other hand, the cat doesn't want to move the nest." Lin Lan was also helpless, "I know that the family really wants the cat to fend for itself, and the uncle of the neighbor wants to take over and keep it. , but it only hides in the old house and does not come out, and every day when the time comes, it waits behind the window of the gate, waiting for the old man to go out as usual and come back at the hour."
The family was silent again, and Mother Lin couldn't help sympathizing: "I'm so pitiful for this kitten, how can these stupid and stupid things live without people."
It seems that whether it is a cat or a person, the more loyal it is, the more stupid it seems, even if everyone knows it is not the case.
"Maybe... it's really stupid..." Lin Lan sighed, thinking of Xiao Song's unbearable request for help, how could she bear it. The man has passed away, and the cat has to look forward.
At this moment, a cat meow broke the heavy atmosphere in the room.
"Meow-" (Lan Lan, it's not stupid! Because that's its home!)
Lin Lan looked at the sofa in surprise, and the big white cat lying on it was calling at her.
"Meow-" (Like this is my home, I want to guard you here, don't run around anymore!)
It meows, and has jumped off the sofa, first rubbing her, and then rubbing her grandma and parents all over again.
"Why are you acting so coquettish all of a sudden?" Mother Lin hugged the cat into her arms with disgust on her lips, but she ruffled the cat's fur again and again in her hands, "Hungry again? I don't know who taught the male cat to be so coquettish."
Snowflake was lying in grandma's arms, and the familiar smell of the family made it feel very safe, and grandma's eyes narrowed her tail and she flung it comfortably.
"Ah..." Lin Lan looked at this scene and seemed to suddenly realize something.
For Snowflake, these people are the existences where it opens its eyes, and the home where they operate is also the site it guards, and everyone on this site is the object of its watch.
Just like when she went to work in the magic capital, every time she came back, Xuehua kept her with food. Every time, it is Snowflake's efforts for this home.
If no one else is in this family, it will do the same thing as the tabby cat.
Not just because of loyalty and longevity, but also for another important reason.
Day two.
"Xiao Song, let me go to the back alleys with you today." In the teahouse, after finishing the shop opening, Lin Lan took off her standard apron and said to Song Xinmin, who was about to leave and continue to follow the cat boss, "It just so happens that I also have something to do. Looking for the cat boss, the follow-up problems of that tabby cat can be solved a day earlier and you can feel at ease."
Of course, Song Xinmin would not refuse. After working in the cat teahouse for so long, although he still did not become a cat slave, he still had a lot of affection for cats.
"The store manager is the store manager, so I figured out a solution so quickly!" He didn't hesitate to praise himself.
"Don't be too busy complimenting people, we can solve the problem today." After explaining everything to Wang Jiayi, who was in charge of the store, and telling the eldest lady to go directly to the parents of the tobacco and alcohol department for help if she couldn't cope, Lin Lan carried her bag and Song Xinmin went outside together, facing the cold wind in the morning to the abandoned dwelling.
The first stop, first find the cat boss to understand the specific situation of the cat.
"Ah woo woo..." (Before it was taken in by the twoleg beast, it was following me. The twoleg beast that raised it has left and hasn't come back, so I occasionally bring some food there.)
In the abandoned dwelling where the stray cats were located, a white-gloved lily flower sat on a high place and talked to Lin Lan, who came to ask questions.
"Is that so." Lin Lan suddenly realized, no wonder the boss cat went over to take care of him, it turned out to be the former younger brother.
The next second, she was startled by the words behind the cat.
"Wow." (I know, the old Twoleg won't come back.)
Lin Lan was stunned, her surprised face reflected in the calm golden pupils of the raccoon cat.
"Ahhh." (If you can help it find another Twolegs that can be adopted, I can make the Twolegs with the small box over there hold the box and stop running.)
Lin Lan glanced back at Song Xinmin who was standing not far behind, looked at the "small box" in his hand and was silent for a moment, then turned his head back.
"Okay, I'll try my best." Lin Lan nodded vigorously, "You take care of your little brother so much, I can't let my employees get no benefits."
The deal was thus concluded, and the cat boss took Lin Lan and Song Xinmin to the empty house where the cat was once again.
Along the way, Lin Lan also asked the cat boss a lot of questions about the cat.
Then when she arrived at the destination, she didn't ask the cat boss to lead the cats out of the house, but followed Song Xinmin's direction and knocked on the door of the neighbor next door.
The elderly usually get up very early. Lin Lan knocked on the door, and someone responded quickly. It was the uncle who was talking to Song Xinmin yesterday.
"Hello, old man, I take the liberty to interrupt, I was yesterday..." Lin Lan stood at the door with Xiao Song, and directly explained the purpose of her visit, "According to what you mean, I actually want to take the cat to your house to take care of it, right? We? I also can't bear to have the cat stuck in the empty house, if you want to adopt it, we can help."
There was a foreshadowing of meeting Xiao Song yesterday. Although the uncle of the neighbor welcomed two enthusiastic people in the early morning of the next day, he was a little confused, but after he found out that he didn't want money, he didn't want anything, and he reported that the people from the urban village in front of him were definitely not liars. It was a pleasure to receive them.
"I just want to raise Qiuqiu." Sitting in the dining room, the old man looked in the direction of the old house next door and sighed, "Qiuqiu is a stray kitten adopted by old man Li next door two years ago. Old man. Now that old man Li is gone, his children are unwilling to take care of the kittens. I really don't want such a good cat to be spoiled like this. But Qiuqiu is stubborn. Just don't leave the house, just call me through the window."
Lin Lan nodded as she listened: "So, Uncle Jiang, you and Uncle Li have a good relationship, right? You must know a lot about Uncle Li and Qiuqiu, right? ... There are many? That's great, you and me Tell me more carefully!… By the way, have you two given each other any gifts?… Have you? Great!”
After collecting all the information, Lin Lan came out of Uncle Jiang's house. She summoned the cat boss who was sitting in the corner and asked him to go to the empty house and call out the cat.
This series of operations made Song Xinmin, who was watching from the beginning to the end, bewildered. He didn't understand what the store manager was doing, but he didn't have time to ask. He was ordered to go back to the door of Uncle Jiang's house to watch. He had already seen the empty room. The tabby cat was led out by the head cat.
The next moment, he saw the store manager greet the cat: "Qiuqiu, I was called by Uncle Li to see you."
The author has something to say: Manager Lin: I am very good at deceiving the feelings of kittens.