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09.

On the weekend, the girl who asked Yan Xu for help a few days ago came to take away her chick. She stood at the entrance and kept bowing to Yan Xu, and gave Yan Xu a big bottle of paper cranes that she had folded for a long time.

Yan Xu said goodbye to her, turned around and held up the bottle containing the thousand paper cranes to Yuan Gu who was sitting on the sofa watching TV: "Here, for the salary of raising chickens, you can open it to see if you can eat it." Yan Xu sneered, "Don't you like to gnaw on things?"

"..." Yuan Gu pursed his lips, he didn't seem to want to talk to Yan Xu very much, but he had to accept the bottle obediently, lowering his head and slowly buttoning the sticker on the bottle.

"Unhappy?" Yan Xu reached out and squeezed the back of Yuan Gu's neck, "Can't I throw away the flowers I raised?"

"Yes." Yuan Gu whispered.

"You have vomited three times because of eating flowers." Yan Xu said, "There are only three things. I can't control you, so I can only throw the flowers away, understand?"

"Understood." Yuan Gu lowered his eyelashes.

Yan Xu bent down to look at Yuan Gu, but Yuan Gu just looked down with a stiff neck.Yan Xu pressed the fingers on the back of Yuan Gu's neck slightly, and the pinched rabbit couldn't ignore Yan Xu anymore, so he had to raise his eyes to meet him.

"Be happy when you understand, and don't flirt with me." Yan Xu narrowed his eyes, "Otherwise, I will bite you."

Yuan Gu's whole rabbit was startled, and he lowered his head even more. He pinched the crooked bottle of thousand paper cranes in his hands, but he didn't know what flowers he could conjure.

"It's not just because I threw the flowers away." Yan Xu said, "And why are you unhappy?"

Yuan Gu turned his head slightly, and turned his gaze to the cage at the entrance.

That cage was in the house before it was used for the chicks.

Yan Xu had never had a pet before himself.In other words, that cage was actually prepared for him.

"Are you going to lock me up?" Yuan Gu said with his head down.

Although Yuan Gu's words were nonsensical, Yan Xu also understood Yuan Gu's meaning.

His rabbit must have started to feel uneasy when he saw the cage. Today, the chicken was sent away, and the cage was empty, so Yuan Gu was even more worried that he would keep him in the cage as if he were a real rabbit.But Yuan Gu didn't know that the cage was actually just a decoration for Yan Xu, he just bought it to increase the sense of ritual of raising pets after hearing his subordinates talk about the precautions for raising rabbits.

"As long as you are obedient and don't eat things randomly, you won't need that thing." Yan Xu teased him.

"Then what if I eat recklessly." Yuan Gu said, "Are you going to lock me up?"

Yan Xu was taken aback.

The last time Yuan Gu showed such obvious uneasiness was already a week ago when he frightened the chick, and before that, it was when he first raised Yuan Gu.And now, Yuan Gu picks up the things at hand nervously after a long absence.His hair was disheveled, and even the circles of his eyes were reddened, looking like a rabbit whose hair was blown out by a predator.

Before Yan Xu had time to say anything, Yuan Gu said to himself again: "No matter what the reason is, I don't want to live in a cage." He timidly raised his head with red eye circles, facing Yan Xu's gaze. A threat that I also feel is unnecessary——

"If you don't throw the cage away, I'll run away from home."

Yan Xu raised his eyebrows.

He crossed his arms and looked at Yuan Gu for a few seconds, thinking that it was really funny for a rabbit to ask him so seriously.Before he had time to put his hand to his lips to cover the smile, he burst out laughing.

Yuan Gu heard the disdain in Yan Xu's laughter, and narrowed his eyes a little annoyed, but finally relaxed in discouragement.

As far as Yan Xu is concerned, no matter in appearance or in spirit, he can cause great pressure on him at any time.

If Yan Xu really wants to put himself in a cage, what can he do.

"Okay, I won't lock you up, I promise." Yan Xu reached out and smoothed Yuan Gu's hair, "I'll put the cage in the storage room in a while."

"Since it's no longer needed, can't it be thrown away?" Yuan Gu said in a very low voice.

"Is it because I'm afraid I'll regret it or something." Yan Xu said, "That cage is your monthly salary, so remember to put the money into my card when you throw it away."

Yuan Gu thought about his salary, almost trembling: "You, why did you spend so much money on the cage?"

"Because I want you to live better. Who knew you were so ungrateful." Yan Xu tilted his head, "Do you still want to throw it away?"

"No need." Somewhat discouraged, Yuan Gu put his hands behind his back to touch the position of his tailbone, and when the back of his hand rubbed against the dark patterns on the sofa, he turned his palms to buckle those patterns.He just tapped it a few times with his nails, thought about the price of the sofa that Yan Xu would buy, and silently withdrew his hand.

Yan Xu stood in front of Yuan Gu and observed the subtle expression changes on Yuan Gu's face.After Yuan Gu finished his round and took his fingers away from the tailbone, Yan Xu asked, "Why do you hate cages so much?"

Yuan Gu paused.

"Let me guess." Yan Xu said, "Did someone lock you up when you could only exist in the form of a beast?"

"...Yes." Yuan Gu wrinkled his nose as if thinking of some bad memories.

"They locked you up and you tore off your ear when you ran away, didn't you?"

Yuan Gu nodded stiffly.

"I've always thought it was weird." Yan Xu stepped forward and gently touched Yuangu's incomplete right ear, "If the other party grabs your ear, it's more likely to tear it off directly. , how could there be half of it left." Yan Xu's fingers slid across the fault of Yuan Gu's right ear, "It's impossible for the wound to be so smooth."

"Those people put tags on my ears. At that time, they only grabbed the tags on my ears, and I tore my ears and escaped." Yuan Gu said, "As for why the wounds are all--"

"There is still a string of numbers on the ear that they left with a tattoo stamp. Anyway, the ear was torn, so I cut it off with scissors."

Yan Xu was taken aback, "Cut it off?"

Yuan Gu nodded, a trace of obvious disgust flashed across his eyes.

Yuan Gu was stroked by Yan Xu's ears, and he narrowed his eyes submissively and rubbed Yan Xu's warm palm.

Thinking about it now, Yuan Gu feels that "his rejection of humans has gradually increased since then" is also an important reason why he ran away from the beast without tucking his tail when he met Yan Xu who was of the same kind.

Predator or human, he couldn't tell which frightened him more.

Yan Xu wanted to say something to Yuan Gu, but his rabbit looked calm, not like he needed comfort.He had no choice but to touch the soft hair around Yuan Gu's ear again.

Suddenly, Yan Xu's hands were empty, and seeing that Shi Yuangu's clothes had sunk, a gray rabbit struggled to crawl out from the hem of the clothes, and knelt on a pile of fabrics with its mouth half open in a daze.

Yan Xu asked inexplicably, "What's wrong with you?"

Yuan Gu shook his head.

He didn't know either.

"Then change back." Yan Xu said, "Didn't you say you were going shopping?"

Yuan Gu nodded, sat up straight and stabilized his body.

Yan Xu looked at him silently.

Yuan Gu exerted so much effort that his cheeks swelled up, but he didn't turn into a human.

The gray rabbit was so frustrated that his ears drooped. He looked at Yan Xu and shook his head, indicating that he could not change into a human form.

"No," Yan Xu said, "You just finished talking about your experience of not becoming a human, and now give me a live demonstration?"

The gray rabbit bit the clothes under him a little depressed.

During this period of time, the two have developed the habit of going out on weekend afternoons, and now Yuan Gu has turned into a gray rabbit, and Yan Xu feels a little regretful that they can't go out together.

It seems that this weekend has to be used for sleeping.

Yan Xu sighed inaudibly.He took the remote control on the table and turned off the TV, then took a step forward, pushed Yuan Gu aside and sat on the sofa by himself.

In the next second, Yan Xu turned into a leopard.He adjusted a comfortable posture and sank into the sofa, held Yuangu to his chest, and fell asleep with his head tilted.

Yuan Gu stared at the dark TV screen for a long time in his arms.

In fact, he would rather watch TV than sleep.

Yuan Gu gently pressed the beautiful fur around him, closed his eyes, put his head on his forelimbs, and tried hard to fall asleep.

Feeling Yan Xu's steady breathing, he vaguely felt that it would be nice to spend the weekend like this.