Quick Travel: Destiny for Thirty Lifetimes

The next day, the store manager came early in the morning. When he pushed open the door, he saw Chi Linchen squatting beside the crib, scratching the kitten's chin with two fingers. The kitten was so comfortable that it closed its eyes and purred.

"Xiao Chi, you're here so early? It's not time to go to work yet." The store manager stood next to Chi Linchen and looked down at the comfortable Xiao Sanhua.

Chi Linchen stood up and stretched his numb feet, smiling warmly: "I was a little worried about this little guy, so I came to see him early."

The store manager nodded and reached out to touch the kitten's body, causing it to open its eyes and bare its teeth.

"Oh, it's quite fierce. What's wrong? You only let young handsome guys touch it? I, an old handsome guy, can't do it?" The store manager took a quick look at the kitten's body and was a little surprised. "It's amazing! It couldn't move much yesterday, but today it's almost fine."

Chi Linchen's slightly frowned brows relaxed and he breathed a sigh of relief. When he was cleaning and applying medicine to the kitten yesterday, he discovered that the blood was not its. Its limbs and body were intact, but its limbs were weak and its body was frail, as if it had been hollowed out. Fortunately, it has recovered now.

"By the way, manager, I'm thinking of taking the little guy home to raise him after he recovers." Although Chi Linchen has a gentle personality, he always speaks his mind.

The store manager was surprised. Although Chi Linchen was more popular with kittens and took good care of the animals in the store, he would never adopt an animal under any circumstances. He was both affectionate and heartless.

Now that Chi Linchen had brought it up, he was surprised but nodded and readily agreed: "Sure, you can't let anyone else touch this little three-flowered flower anyway. You can bring it to work on weekdays, and you can leave it in the store when you need to go out."

Chi Linchen's smile became more obvious. Just then, Lin He pushed the door open and saw his happy smile. He asked, "Brother Chen, why are you so happy so early in the morning? In the morning, I only feel irritable and resentful about being a working animal."

The store manager teased him when he heard this: "Xiao He, are you going to slack off?"

Lin He put on his work clothes, stood up straight, and said to the store manager loudly, "Good morning, store manager. I will treat my work with full enthusiasm and contribute my own strength to the development of this small store."

The store manager and Chi Linchen smiled at each other, waved their hands at Lin He and said helplessly, "Go to work, stop joking."

Then he yawned and said to Chi Linchen, "Since Xiao Sanhua is fine, I'll go back to sleep. If you have anything, just call me. Don't forget to vaccinate it!"

Chi Linchen nodded: "Okay, Manager, Xiaolin vaccinated it yesterday."

The store manager nodded, said goodbye to Lin He who was playing with the cat, and left.

*

There were not many people coming to the store today. Lin He sat at the cashier with his head propped up. Chi Linchen took a chair and sat beside the little guy's bed, talking to it in a low voice.

Lin He listened for a while, then couldn't help but smile and asked, "Brother Chen, it's a cat, can it understand what you are saying?"

Before Chi Linchen could say anything, the kitten turned its head and bared its teeth at him.

With his hands in surrender, Lin He hunched his shoulders and said, "Okay, okay, if you understand, I'm just saying it casually. You can treat it as a fart, little ancestor."

The kitten then turned its head back, staring at Chi Linchen with its glass-like eyes, and then meowed in a soft voice, as if to say "Go on."

Chi Linchen smiled, rubbed its little head, and said softly: "Why are you so cute, little one? By the way, I'm going to get an adoption certificate later. Can I give you a name?"

The kitten blinked and tilted its head to understand what he said. After a while, it meowed and placed its paw on his hand.

Chi Linchen thought for a moment, then looked at the pair of eyes that were wide open, like Liuli, and asked, "How about calling me Liuli?"

The kitten couldn't just grab the phone and type its name, so it meowed in agreement.

The man and the cat chatted for a while. Chi Linchen stroked its fur and coaxed it to sleep. Looking at it closing its eyes and snoring sweetly, his heart suddenly softened. He picked up his phone, took a photo, and set it as the screen saver with a slight movement of his fingers.

After covering the kitten with a thin blanket and pressing it under its chin, Chi Linchen stood up, said something to Lin He, and went out to get the adoption certificate.

*

Liuli woke up again to the noisy sounds. Several groups of people came to the store and Lin He was busy entertaining them. She opened her eyes and turned her head to look around. Chi Linchen had not come back yet, so she buried her head in the thin blanket and prepared to sleep for a while.

A man saw it poking its head out and walked towards the crib. He wanted to pull back the quilt to take a look, but was almost scratched by the kitten. The man immediately refused to do so, looking quite angry and humiliated. He shouted at Lin He, "What's wrong with the cat in your store? It actually wants to scratch people. Why do you keep a cat like this? If it scratches me, your store will have to compensate you. I want it to be euthanized to prevent it from causing any trouble."

Those people stopped talking and looked over. They all came to the store because they loved animals, and their faces turned a little unhappy when they heard these words.

A girl looked at the troublemaker with a stern look and said sharply, "The clerk just told you which pets you can touch and which you can't. You should choose your pet according to the clerk's instructions. You didn't listen and are asking for trouble. Who can you blame? Besides, the kitten on the bed may have been hurt or injured. It's much more alert than other cats and can't be touched casually."

Before Lin He could pay attention, someone came over there to cause trouble.

Those words scared him. If Brother Chen knew that someone wanted to euthanize his cat, he would probably be euthanized by Brother Chen first.

"I'm sorry, this kitten already has an owner, and I won't let other people touch it easily. I also told you to follow me, please. If you are not here to buy a pet sincerely, please don't come into the store and make trouble. I'm really sorry." Lin He looked a little cold when he was not smiling, and now his half-smile was even more frightening.

The man didn't look at him and continued forcefully, "I don't care if this little beast has an owner or not. It's wrong for it to want to hurt people. Where's its owner? I demand compensation for my emotional damages."

Lin He didn't move. The glass door was pushed open and the voice of "Welcome" rang out in the quiet shop. Chi Linchen walked in with a bag of things and was a little confused by the cold atmosphere.

He looked at Lin He, asking with his eyes what was going on.

Lin He smiled at him, bowed slightly and said, "Hello, Liuli's owner, your cat was frightened while recuperating in bed, and was falsely accused and demanded compensation."

The man obviously didn't expect Lin He to say that. He was stunned for a moment, and then he heard a cat's meow beside him.

Liuli suddenly stuck her head out, probed under the bed with her front paws, then closed her eyes, fell to the ground with a plop.

Unable to lift its hind paws, it used its front paws to scratch the floor and crawled towards Chi Linchen.

Chi Linchen was startled by its action. He strode over, picked up the kitten crawling on the ground, and looked up at the person who was causing trouble. His eyes were not as gentle as usual.

Liuli also didn't stop. She meowed in his arms at the top of her lungs, as miserably as she could, and pointed at the man with her front paws.

The others were so amused by its actions that they wanted to laugh but couldn't, and they couldn't hold it back.

The person who started the trouble was also stunned. He stared at the particularly dramatic cat, and finally said coldly, "You're sick," and walked around Chi Linchen and quickly walked out of the store.

As soon as the door closed, Liuli stopped meowing and lay obediently in Chi Linchen's arms, her voice becoming softer: "Meow~"

Lin He laughed and gave Chi Linchen a thumbs up: "Your cat can enter the entertainment industry."