die like the dodo

It was only an hour since Pei Zian left the hospital, and the old man sent three or four video requests. He had a plaster cast on his feet and wanted to watch Pei Zian feed the cat with his own eyes.Pei Zian tapped on the side of the bowl full of cat food, and the fluffy heads of kittens popped out of the hole one after another, like several exploded dandelions.

Pei Zian picked up his mobile phone and pointed the camera at the kittens who were eating by the bowl: "There are not many of them, so you can rest assured now, right?"

The old man raised his white eyebrows: "Where is rhubarb, how is it?"

Pei Zian reacted for a while before he realized what the old gentleman was asking. He couldn't laugh or cry: "Master, her name is Monica."

The old man was embarrassed, and argued, "I know, it's just touching your card, and it doesn't sound better than rhubarb..."

Just as he was talking, a cat meowed from the side of the rockery. Pei Zian raised his phone and looked over. There was a yellow cat squatting in the grass with white eyebrows and missing ears. It was Monica.

"Meow--"

Monica's cry sounded a little weak, and the old man was worried on the other end of the phone: "Xiao Pei, I don't hear the sound right, is Da Huang hurt?"

"Let me see." Pei Zian pushed aside the grass and carried Monica out. The big yellow cat was very obedient and didn't struggle, but it couldn't get any more excited.Pei Zian checked his right hind leg and found a wooden thorn stuck in the sole of his foot, probably injured when he got stuck on a tree in the afternoon.

Through the screen, the old man felt very distressed, and said again and again: "Hey, poor boy, my leg must be hurting like hell, Xiao Pei, hurry up and take him to the hospital!"

Seeing the old man's love for cats, Pei Zian couldn't help teasing: "Master, don't your legs hurt?"

"What's the matter, Rhubarb is just a kitten... Be good, it doesn't hurt..."

The old man was urged to rest by the nurse soon, Pei Zian thought about it and called Monica's master.

"Which one?"

The phone was connected, and a magnetic male voice came from the receiver, which sounded familiar, but Pei Zian didn't remember who it was for a moment, and only told the other party about Monica's situation.

Ten minutes later, when Pei Zian saw two acquaintances standing in front of him, he remembered that the voice just now was Jiang Yan's guitarist boyfriend who opened a bar.

"Monica, did your claw get stabbed? Does it hurt? Let's see if you dare to come out and run around next time?" Jiang Yan picked up the big yellow cat, rubbed its head, and put it into the cat bag. It does look quite close.

It turns out that Monica is Jiangyan's cat, no wonder Jiangyan uses a little yellow cat with white eyebrows as an emoji.

"Mr. Pei, thank you so much this time. Monica likes to play outside. If you hadn't notified her in time, the wound might fester when she returns home." Jiang Yan and Pei Zian thanked her.

"I didn't expect this cat to be raised by you." Pei Zian suddenly remembered that there was a litter of kittens in the rockery, and quickly said, "By the way, Monica also gave birth to a litter of babies, did you know?"

Jiang Yan and Tang Yu were stunned for a moment, and both showed puzzled expressions: "What baby, Monica has already been sterilized?"

Now the confused person was replaced by Pei Zian: "No way, Monica still comes to take care of her every day."

The three of them looked at a litter of yellow and white kittens and looked at each other. Among them, the chubby cat with short eyebrows was full and jumped into the rice bowl to act softly. It was indeed somewhat similar to Monica.

Of course, it is also similar to sugar chestnuts...

Not Monica's birth...

Could it be that Mr. Tang is really a scumbag?

The last litter of kittens was sent to Jiang Yan’s house. Jiang Yan said that Monica is a stray cat. He is very experienced in adopting stray cats. He intends to keep one or two for Monica as companions, and the rest will be kept locally. A group of cat friends looking for adoptions.

Pei Zian helped him send the kitten home, and chatted about his experience of adopting Monica on the way.

"Monica is very courageous. She ran around on Changying Road. If it wasn't for my cousin...I rescued her, she was almost killed by a car."

Changying Road is a road in front of the Provincial Expo. It is named because it will be full of cherry blossoms in spring.Pei Zian asked: "The Changying Road in the Provincial Expo?"

"Yes... yes."

"Well, there is indeed a lot of traffic in that area."

Jiang Yan spoke halfway, but didn't continue, Pei Zian always felt that he seemed to be hiding something.

Provincial blog, car accident, Monica...

what is it?

Pei Zian helped Jiang Yan deworm a few kittens. Jiang Yan saw that Pei Zian was holding the cat professionally, and asked him, "Teacher Pei also raised cats?"

"Yeah." Pei Zian nodded, thinking of Tang Lizi, with a smile on his face: "It's my teacher's cat, and now I'm taking care of it. It's raised in Shengbo, and it looks a lot like Monica. At first I didn't know it, maybe there is some kind of family relationship."

Hearing what Pei Zian said, Jiang Yan's face unknowingly became heavy, he took a deep breath, as if he had something to say, he had to interrupt Pei Zian: "Teacher Pei, have you ever thought about my brother Why come back?"

Pei Zian didn't know why Jiang Yan suddenly mentioned Lu Boyuan, his smile froze at the corner of his mouth: "What...?"

Jiang Yan opened his mouth and was about to speak when Tang Yu suddenly pulled him away.

They quarreled in the corner, and Pei Zian vaguely heard the words "Lu Boyuan", "returning to the country", and "leg injury", and he froze in place like a lightning strike. The yellow cat didn't even notice when it escaped from his grasp, only one thought swirled in his mind.

Pei Zian's finger landed on the phone screen, and the word Lu Boyuan was reflected in the contact column. He really wanted to ask Lu Boyuan, are you injured?Is it bad?why did not you tell me?So, why come back...

Tang Yu pulled Jiang Yan to prevent him from telling the truth, but Jiang Yan didn't understand at all: "He should know these things, have you seen that Monica's leg is injured and Teacher Pei is so concerned about it, if he knows that my brother is doing it for Why did he go back to the country, and why did he hurt his leg, he will definitely..."

Tang Yu said flatly: "He will reunite with Lu Boyuan."

Jiang Yan didn't understand why he still stopped me since he knew it: "Then why are you still stopping me?"

"Calm down, think about your brother, does he really want this?"

Jiang Yan lowered his voice and shouted: "Why doesn't he want to, he obviously still loves him!"

But Tang Yu just said something lightly, and Jiang Yan died down.

"What he wants is love, not sympathy."

Pei Zian stared at the screen for a long time, until the quarrel between Jiang Yan and Tang Yu gradually subsided, he did not dial the number.

Jiang Yan's eye circles were a little red, he lowered his head and apologized, Pei Zian knew he shouldn't stay anymore, and said goodbye to them.

The wind at night was cold, passers-by buried their heads forward, looking forward to returning to the harbor of home soon, only Pei Zian was different, he wanted the wind to be stronger, so as to blow away the heavy weight on his heart.