go home

07.

It rained suddenly when I got off work that day, and a few girls in the office without umbrellas got together and chatted while waiting for their boyfriends to pick them up.One of them poked on the phone screen, held it up and showed it to the others: "Look! My friend's rabbit gave birth to a bunny, and gave me a hug! It's super cute!"

"Really," Yan Xu's voice sounded close to her ears, "It's not as good-looking as my family's."

The other party turned around abruptly, "Director Yan?! You scared me!"

Yan Xu pressed his ears and took a step back: "Didn't you scare me?"

The other girls immediately caught the point: "Director Yan also raises rabbits!"

"Yeah." Yan Xu stretched out a hand and scratched with the palm upward, "It's so big."

"It's too small!" the girl said worriedly, "Director Yan, please take good care of it. Small animals are very fragile and can die easily."

"Really," Yan Xu asked without sincerity, "What should I pay attention to?"

"Like buying good quality hay—"

Yan Xu thought about the scene where he put a large handful of hay in the Yuangu bowl and sat opposite to eat meat, and almost laughed.

"Don't keep it in the cage all the time, let it out and run around—"

There is no cage, but let's forget about running, Yuan Gu will trip himself up when he walks on flat ground.

"Also remember to keep an eye on it and not let it eat strange plants, otherwise it will get sick."

Yan Xu thought of the half-dead flowers and plants on the terrace of his home and Yuan Gu who just vomited the night before, and nodded silently.

The sound of the rain is getting louder.Yan Xu looked out the window and suddenly remembered that Yuan Gu had been out of class for a while, so he took out his mobile phone and sent Yuan Gu a message.

- are you home

- No, there are a lot of people on the bus today, I am going to take a taxi outside the school.

-I will pick you up

It took a while for this message to be sent before Yuan Gu replied.

-Need not.

- wait

- Really no need, I'm already soaked, it doesn't matter if I pick it up or not.

Yan Xu exited the chat interface directly, and called Yuan Gu while walking outside.

Not long after, Yuan Gu's voice came from the other end of the microphone: "Hello?"

"Wet?"

"Ah."

"You send me a location, and I'll go there now."

"I--"

"Shut up." Yan Xu interrupted him, "Do you know that small animals are very fragile and can easily get sick and die?"

"...Are you talking about me?" Yuan Gu said a little aggrieved.

"Who else do you think can be called a 'fragile little animal' beside me, could it be Bo Yan?" Yan Xu said, "Why don't you put the two of you in the same cage and see who can be worthy of the name? Head? I just haven’t seen how a snake eats.”

Yuan Gu shivered violently.

"What else do you want to say? After finishing speaking once, I'm going to drive."

"……No."

Yan Xu hung up the phone.

Yan Xu drove to Yuan Gu's school, and saw Yuan Gu standing alone at the door of the library from a distance.He lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking. He stepped on the ground with the toe of his shoes as if he was stepping on milk, and raised his hand from time to time to stroke his dripping hair.

Yan Xu parked the car on the side of the road, rolled down the window and honked the horn.

Yuan Gu raised his head belatedly, walked to the side of the car, looked at his wet clothes, and bent down to look at the leather seats inside the car.

"What are you looking at?" Yan Xu honked the horn twice impatiently, "Waiting to celebrate the New Year here?"

Yuan Gu opened the car door without saying a word, put his schoolbag on the floor mat of the co-pilot, and leaned half of his body into the car door hesitantly.

"Are you going home or not—" Before Yan Xu could finish his sentence, Yuan Gu's clothes shrank quickly and fell under the seat.I don't know if it's because of the wet clothes sticking to his body, Yuan Gu, who has turned into a rabbit, is huddling around in it, but he can't get out of the pile of clothes no matter what.

Yan Xu stared at the pile of moving fabrics for a while, then reached out and peeled the gray rabbit out.As soon as he picked up the wet Yuan Gu, Yuan Gu sneezed fiercely with the tip of his nose raised.

Yan Xu clicked his tongue, pulled out a dry towel to wrap Yuan Gu up, and rubbed it gently.Yuan Gu, dizzy and turned from the torment, stretched out his claws to press Yan Xu's hand to make him stop, but Yan Xu turned a blind eye, stuffed the claw that hadn't been wiped dry into the towel, and rubbed Yuan Gu's whole body a few times.

Yan Xu touched Yuan Gu's body, but his wet hands couldn't feel whether Yuan Gu's hair had been wiped dry.He lifted Yuan Gu up, lowered his head and touched Yuan Gu's forehead with his lips.

— wiped off.

Only then did Yan Xu hold Yuan Gu by the fur on the back of his neck and put him on the front of the car.Yuan Gu got a little irritated by Yan Xu, and didn't dare to shake his face at Yan Xu, so he just closed his eyes and lay still on his stomach.

Yan Xu got out of the car, picked up a shoe that Yuan Gu left outside the car just now, and threw it on the cushion.He closed the car door, and when he looked up, he saw his subordinate leading a female student out of the library.

"Director Yan." The other party greeted Yan Xu, "I'm here to pick up my sister."

Yan Xu nodded and walked around to the cab.

The pair of brothers and sisters walked to the front of Yan Xu's car, and the girl accidentally glanced at the inside of the car, and immediately couldn't move: "Wow! Is that a live rabbit! So good!"

"No," Yan Xu picked up the limp Yuangu and shook it, "it's just a simulation ornament."

-

Back home, Yan Xu threw Yuan Gu's clothes into the washing machine, and took a hot bath with Yuan Gu in his arms.

When Yan Xu came out of the bathroom with the rabbit, it was no longer raining.He put Yuan Gu on his lap, and while turning on the computer to read documents, he held up a hair dryer to blow the soft fluff of Yuan Gu.

The company has recently received several new orders, and Yan Xu has a heavy workload.Yuan Gu was drenched in the rain and was tossed by Yan Xu, both of them were very tired.At nine o'clock in the evening, Yan Xu turned off the computer and left the study with Yuan Gu in his arms.Yan Xu fell on his bed, Yuan Gu in his pajamas pocket was thrown out and fell on Yan Xu's chest.

Yan Xu lifted Yun Gu by the back of his neck and held Yuan Gu in front of his eyes.He looked at Yuan Gu's ruby-like eyes in the dark, and sighed: "Let's raise people. Rabbits are too difficult to raise."

Yuan Gu moved his three lips for unknown reason.

Yan Xu turned over, and a male leopard rolled on the bed sheet.He picked up Yuangu in his mouth as usual, and put him between his forelegs to go to sleep, when he suddenly heard a knock on the door downstairs.

——What time is it?

The male leopard stuffed its head into the quilt and covered its ears.

The knocking on the door downstairs didn't mean to stop at all, each knock was louder than the last.

This time even Yuan Gu, whose hearing was slightly worse than Yan Xu's, heard it. He scratched Yan Xu's paw to remind Yan Xu that someone was knocking on the door.Yan Xu pushed Yuan Gu down with one paw, and didn't intend to open the door.

Not long after, Yan Xu turned over and sat up impatiently amidst the endless knocks on the door.He took human form, put on his slippers and went downstairs.

Yan Xu walked to the door with strides, and opened it forcefully, but he didn't see anyone at a glance.He lowered his head, and a little girl was looking at him with a big box in her arms.

"You..." Yan Xu looked hesitantly at the noisy box in her hand, "Are you a child from the family behind?"

"Uncle," the little girl cried out of breath, "my mother won't let me raise the chicken, hiccup, she told me to throw the chicken out, it will die—"

With a headache, Yan Xu squatted down and looked at her at the same level, "But uncle doesn't have time to raise chickens."

"As long as you help me raise it for a few days, it will be fine." The little girl hugged the box in her hand tightly, "I made an agreement with my grandma, and I will take it to the countryside for her to raise on weekends."

"I--"

Yan Xu looked at the chirping box.

He doesn't want to raise it at all.

"Uncle——" the little girl's nose burst into tears.

"Okay, okay," Yan Xu turned around impatiently and took a napkin from the entrance to cover the other person's face, "help you raise, don't cry."

"Well—thank you uncle—" The girl bowed deeply while hugging the box, the arc was so big that she almost threw all the chicks out of the box.Yan Xu quickly rescued the box and put it on the carpet.

"I'll take you back." Yan Xu took the other party's hand.

When he closed the door, he saw Yuan Gu jumping down from the second floor through the crack of the door, he opened the door again and shouted: "Yuan Gu, I'm going out, take care of the things in the box!"

Yuan Gu sat up slowly, and looked towards Yan Xu with his ears up.

Yan Xu clicked his tongue and closed the door.

The response to becoming a rabbit is still so slow, and I don't know how to survive until now.

The little girl raised her face curiously: "Uncle, who are you talking to?"

"My rabbit."

"Can it understand what you're saying?"

"I don't know," Yan Xu said, "He is rather stupid."

"Wouldn't it be tiring to raise it?"

"Tired." Yan Xu said, "If you get wet, you have to help take a bath, if you are scared, you have to coax, if you grow flowers, you have to be careful not to let him gnaw the flowers, or you will vomit." Yan Xu paused, " If there are too many times, I still have to remember to beat me—although I forgot.”

"If you're so tired, why bother?"

Yan Xu recalled Yuan Gu's stunned expression with his mouth half open.He is so stupid no matter in animal or human form, Yan Xu couldn't help but want to kick his ass every time he saw him in a daze.If it was in human form, the frightened Motoya would show his tail, protruding in a bulging ball at the tailbone.

"Because he's stupid."

Yan Xu narrowed his eyes, and slightly raised the corners of his lips without knowing it.