The Cub Comes from Planet Meow 41

Chapter 41: Meow

Seeing this, Jiang Suifeng walked around Jing Mimi, who was protecting him behind, and strode into the kitchen.

Jing Mimi’s eyes widened in shock, unable to believe that Big Papa, who was afraid of zombies, just walked in like that.

The next second, he was picked up directly by Jing Zhi.

Jing Zhi said, “Mimi, Great-Grandpa isn’t a zombie. He just accidentally fell and hurt his leg, so he walks with a limp.”

Jing Mimi blinked, his expression becoming even more blank.

So… Grandpa didn’t turn into a zombie?

Papas seem to know him too.

What is a Great-Grandpa? Is Grandpa’s surname “Great”?

Jing Zhi thought for a moment and carried Jing Mimi out of the kitchen first, leaving some space for Jiang Suifeng and Grandpa Jiang.

It was obvious that Grandpa Jiang was so nervous that he was kneading dough in a fluster to relieve stress.

Using the kitchen also required informing the welfare institute, so he took Mimi to tell them.

After Jing Zhi and Jing Mimi left, Jiang Suifeng saw Grandpa still awkwardly burying his head in kneading dough and stepped forward to help him.

He couldn’t help much with the kneading, so he washed the green vegetables in the bag.

Actually, he wanted to tease Grandpa a bit, but he held back—couldn’t abuse the elderly anymore.

After washing the vegetables, Grandpa reached the stage of letting the dough rest. Both grandfather and grandson had nothing to do and stood there awkwardly for a while. Jiang Suifeng spoke first: “Mimi didn’t lock you here on purpose. Don’t mind it.”

Grandpa Jiang’s lips moved slightly. “It’s okay, I don’t blame him.”

How could he blame Mimi? He scared Mimi and was misunderstood as a zombie.

He was actually quite gratified. Mimi was so smart at such a young age, catching the “zombie” directly. As expected of his little great-grandson.

But he wasn’t really stupid. He could see it by now—

They knew long ago that the dummy grandpa was him.

…

Receiving Jiang Suifeng’s message, Jing Zhi took Jing Mimi back to the dormitory first. About twenty minutes later, Jiang Suifeng and Grandpa Jiang came over together.

Jiang Suifeng held a bowl of hot longevity noodles in his hand, and Grandpa Jiang stood somewhat constrained by his side.

Jing Zhi had already told Jing Mimi about Grandpa Jiang’s identity—Big Papa’s grandfather, his Great-Grandpa, not a grandpa surnamed “Great.”

Since then, Grandpa Jiang’s title with Jing Mimi went from “Dummy Grandpa” to “Zombie Grandpa,” and finally became the proper “Great-Grandpa.”

Because of Jing Zhi’s prior instructions, Jing Mimi approached Grandpa Jiang quickly after seeing him and apologized obediently: “Sorry, Great-Grandpa. I thought you turned into a zombie, so I caught you.”

Saying that, he stuffed two candies into his hand.

This was all his property today, given to Great-Grandpa as an apology.

Hearing the new title “Great-Grandpa” and looking at the extra Little Dragon Man milk candies in his hand, Grandpa Jiang’s heart softened completely. He touched his little head, really wanting to hug him, but his sprained waist and twisted ankle prevented him from completing this action, so he could only rub his little head for a while longer.

Finally able to interact with Mimi openly.

Jiang Suifeng put the longevity noodles on the table and looked up at the old and the young. Grandpa Jiang suddenly vigilant stuffed the two candies in his hand into his pocket quickly.

Jiang Suifeng: “…”

Some memories began to revive.

But this time the situation was completely different from the hospital, and he couldn’t throw the candy again in front of Mimi.

At this time, Jing Zhi’s voice sounded beside him: “Eat first, or it will get soggy later.”

Jiang Suifeng nodded and started eating noodles under the gaze of three pairs of eyes.

Longevity noodles were a long, continuous strip, meant to be eaten in one breath with good wishes.

He had spent his birthdays away from home these years and hadn’t eaten Grandpa’s longevity noodles for a long time.

The taste was still as good as in his memory.

Seeing Big Papa eating so deliciously, the little glutton Mimi licked his lips again. But Little Papa said only the birthday person could eat longevity noodles, though the birthday cake could be shared by everyone. He could eat sweet cake later.

Although Grandpa Jiang’s gaze was on Jiang Suifeng, his peripheral vision couldn’t help but size up Jing Zhi beside him.

Putting aside the previous two times he unilaterally saw Jing Zhi, this was their second meeting, and the first meeting after he got together with Jiang Suifeng.

As an elder, he had to show something to his grandson’s partner.

And because of that text message, he also owed him an explanation.

Finally, after Jiang Suifeng drank the soup of the longevity noodles clean, Grandpa Jiang mustered up the courage to speak: “Little Jing, let’s talk alone?”

Jing Zhi nodded and left the room with Grandpa Jiang.

Jiang Suifeng couldn’t help but worry a little, hugging Jing Mimi in his arms and rubbing him.

Although Grandpa had accepted the fact that he and Jing Zhi were together, this was meeting the parents in a way. If possible, he wanted to be by Jing Zhi’s side, but it wasn’t just as simple as meeting parents. Some things could only be clarified by the two of them, and he couldn’t follow.

Jing Mimi looked up at him in his arms. The innocent kitten didn’t understand the complexity between adults. He swung his little feet happily and said proudly, “Big Papa, I learned the Happy Birthday song. I’ll sing it to you later.”

“Okay.” Listening to the little cub’s voice, Jiang Suifeng calmed down a bit.

Jing Zhi and Grandpa Jiang returned after about ten minutes.

When they came back, Jing Mimi was nestled in Jiang Suifeng’s arms, staring eagerly at the birthday cake box. Fortunately, a little human’s sense of smell wasn’t as sensitive as a kitten’s, and the cake was packed well, so no smell came out without opening it; otherwise, he would be drooling again.

Jiang Suifeng observed the expressions of the two nervously and carefully.

He could feel that Jing Zhi was in a pretty good mood. Grandpa was still a bit constrained, but his emotional state was okay.

The stone hanging in Jiang Suifeng’s heart finally landed.

Later, he would ask Jing Zhi what he and Grandpa talked about.

Seeing Mimi looking like a little glutton upon returning, Jing Zhi smiled and said, “Let’s open the cake.”

Jiang Suifeng immediately obeyed and stood up, unable to wait to open the cake.

Although Grandpa Jiang couldn’t eat sweets, he still joined in the fun with the young people.

On the cake was a pattern of three Scottish Fold cats. In the middle was the kitten Mimi, and beside him were two larger Scottish Fold cats, Mimi’s papas, who were just like him.

A fervent light burst instantly in Jing Mimi’s eyes.

He loved this cake so much!!

Jing Zhi inserted candles shaped like the numbers 3 and 0 into it and lit them with a lighter.

Jiang Suifeng closed his eyes and made a wish devoutly.

As soon as he closed his eyes, the little cub’s soft and cute Happy Birthday song rang out beside him.

“Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you…”

His wish was: to live happily together with Jing Zhi and Mimi as a family of three forever.

Opening his eyes, under the gaze of three pairs of eyes, he blew out the candles on the cake.

There were no regrets for his 30th birthday this year.

Next was the cake-sharing session. Jiang Suifeng specially gave the piece of cake with the kitten Mimi pattern to Mimi.

Jing Mimi ate very happily, getting cream all around his mouth.

Grandpa Jiang smiled and helped him wipe it off, teasing: “Turned into a little calico cat.”

Reminded by this sentence, Jing Mimi finally remembered a very, very important thing—he hadn’t completed the mission from Planet Meow yet!!

This was already the third time he met Great-Grandpa, the mission target. He couldn’t miss the opportunity again.

After finishing the small cake on the plate, Jing Mimi immediately clung to Grandpa Jiang and acted coquettishly: “Great-Grandpa, your kitten drawing is so beautiful. Can you teach me?”

Grandpa Jiang was naturally willing.

Seeing this, Jing Zhi found paper and a pen.

Grandpa Jiang asked: “What kitten does Mimi want to draw? A Scottish Fold?”

Jing Mimi asked back: “What kitten does Great-Grandpa like to draw the most?”

He remembered the black cat in the mission. He also knew that kittens on Planet Meow could see him and the mission target. If possible, he wanted Grandpa to teach him to draw a black cat, so that black cat would definitely be very happy.

Grandpa Jiang was stunned for a moment and subconsciously answered: “Black cats, white cats, and black and white cats.”

Because he was good at painting with a brush, and the ink used was mostly black, he could only draw these three kinds of cats.

Jing Mimi immediately said: “Draw a black cat. Black cats are so cool!”

Black dogs were scary existences in his eyes, but black cats were different. Kittens were beautiful regardless of their color, and black cats were particularly cool.

“Okay.” Grandpa Jiang immediately drew a black cat on the paper with a black pen.

He didn’t say that among these three colors of cats, he actually drew black cats the least.

His eldest brother used to raise an injured black cat, and that black cat was also the first cat to be poisoned to death.

He didn’t know how that black cat got injured, but when his eldest brother brought it back to bandage the wound, he took a look. The injured leg looked like it was scalded by a red-hot coal by someone.

Because many people thought black cats were ominous.

Some people would drive away black cats immediately upon seeing them, while others would want to kill black cats directly to get rid of bad luck.

However, cats were mostly agile and vigilant, not easy to catch.

That black cat probably escaped death by a hair’s breadth.

Actually, thinking about it carefully, that was the first time in his life he saw a pure black cat, because many black cats were killed, leaving only other colors.

But precisely because of this, that black cat was particularly formidable. After all, surviving in such an environment was not easy; it must have some skills.

After the black cat recovered from its injury, its movement was still affected a bit, but it didn’t affect its identity as the cat boss. Most cats around were afraid of it, so his eldest brother gave it a majestic name called “Boss”—Boss among cats.

After the matter of his eldest brother being with a man became known, besides abuse, ostracism, and slander, some people went too far and secretly killed the cats raised by his eldest brother. Boss the black cat was the first to die.

Perhaps they had been dissatisfied with this black cat for a long time, thinking it was ominous. Now they finally had a legitimate reason to kill it.

He still remembered that his eldest brother stared blankly at the black cat’s body with empty eyes for a long time that day, his whole person numb.

Later, the remaining cats were all sent away by his eldest brother, and his eldest brother’s spirit also collapsed from that day.

Perhaps at that moment, his eldest brother’s soul had withered along with the black cat.

He was actually a bit afraid of black cats too. That black melting into the night, with sharp beast pupils flashing. If he met one at night, his young self might really be scared.

People always labeled things they feared and hated with negative tags, so they had legitimate reasons to attack them.

Although he was afraid, he never thought of killing black cats, nor did he believe in any so-called bad luck.

Didn’t those people also call his eldest brother who liked men an ominous existence?

He wouldn’t believe those things.

Neither Eldest Brother nor Boss was like what they said.

He drew black cats less because it might remind him of that memory he didn’t want to touch, but he didn’t reject drawing black cats, nor did he hate black cats.

Since Mimi wanted to learn, he would teach him.

Soon, a small black cat leaped onto the paper.

Jing Mimi immediately mimicked him and dropped a blob of black on the paper, finally completing the mission.

Seeing this, Jiang Suifeng fiddled with his phone and showed a video of a black cat blogger to Mimi.

“Look, this black cat is called Little Coal Ball. It has ten million fans.”

He intended to show Mimi this popular little black cat online, thinking Mimi would like it. Unexpectedly, Mimi wasn’t interested, but Grandpa became interested instead.

Jing Mimi didn’t like watching videos of internet celebrity cats. He glanced at it and continued drawing kittens.

Grandpa Jiang picked up the phone and watched the video completely several times.

Although he didn’t know much about electronic products, he knew what “fans” were. Having ten million fans meant ten million people liked this little black cat.

Actually… so many people like it?

Grandpa Jiang repeatedly confirmed in disbelief that this was really a pure black cat without any other colored miscellaneous hairs.

Seeing Grandpa liked it, Jiang Suifeng clicked on the first video on the black cat blogger’s homepage and said to him, “Swipe up to watch the next video.”

Grandpa Jiang began to flip through them one by one.

There were many bullet comments, almost all praising the little black cat. Occasionally, a few bad comments were completely drowned out.

It was really different from before now.

Homosexuality and black cats were gradually being accepted by more people. They would no longer hide in the darkness. Those kindnesses named respect shed light on the corners where they were.

Prejudice was a blob of black. Some used it to swallow everything, emitting the evil in their hearts, while others molded it into the shape of a cat.

With a “meow,” a cute little black cat was born.

…

[Boss Black Cat’s Wish Completed]

Planet Meow, in front of the huge cloud TV.

Boss, black as ink, sat at the very front. Beside it sat a black cat smaller than it.

The little black cat was a round-headed pet cat, spoiled by its owner. After coming to Planet Meow, it was very clingy to cats, especially Boss Black Cat, who exuded a reliable aura of the same color.

—Woo woo woo, this is my destined big brother!

Boss Black Cat licked the fur of this clingy little black cat while watching the cloud TV.

…Little brothers and sisters really gave it no peace of mind.

Among them, the one with gray hair and beard in the cloud TV worried it the most.

Fortunately, he finally walked out gradually.

…

Listening to Great-Grandpa watching videos of the little black cat, Jing Mimi was drawing when he suddenly realized his papas were gone.

He raised his little head and looked around, finding the bathroom door in the room was closed. There was faint movement inside, knowing his papas should have gone there.

He didn’t pay much attention and continued drawing kittens.

Grandpa Jiang was also engrossed in browsing videos of the little black cat and didn’t pay much attention to the disappearance of the two.

Inside the bathroom, Jiang Suifeng was immersed in a long-lost kiss. Jing Zhi was pressed into the corner by him, his lips kissed and bitten repeatedly.

Jing Zhi said Grandpa apologized to him for that text message.

He also said he would talk to the family properly this New Year and invited him and Mimi to celebrate the New Year together next year.

He also stuffed a red envelope into his hand, saying he came in a hurry and didn’t prepare any meeting gift. He planned to use this red envelope to buy a small gold lock for Mimi.

Hoping they could live well, and if they encountered difficulties, they must tell the family and not carry it alone.

Still treating them as children.

Staring at his opening and closing lips, Jiang Suifeng couldn’t hold back anymore after hearing this and kissed him directly.

They hadn’t kissed for almost a month.

Heaven knew how uncomfortable he had been holding back during this time.

First expelled from boyfriend status, then seeing but not being able to eat, his heart felt itchy.

If not for being in a place like the welfare institute dormitory, kissing wouldn’t satisfy him anymore.

Jing Zhi originally just wanted to let him kiss for a while and end it, but he didn’t expect him to get more addicted the more he kissed, gnawing on his lips for a long time, even saying something about getting drunk on fermented rice wine just now.

Old cat pretending to be young?

Still thinking he’s a little milk cat like Mimi?

Can’t get drunk on a few sips of liquor, but drunk on a few sips of fermented rice wine?

But Jing Zhi didn’t expose him.

He also craved Jiang Suifeng.

He also wanted to kiss him.

…

Jing Zhi’s lips swelled up in the evening, after Jiang Suifeng and Grandpa Jiang had left.

Initially, they were just slightly red, but unexpectedly, they gradually swelled up.

Jing Mimi was very worried when he found out and checked carefully in the dormitory room several times.

The kitten Mimi had been stung by a bee before. One paw swelled up, painful and itchy, and it took a long time for his papas to apply medicine before it healed.

In his opinion—Little Papa was also stung by a bad bug.

He wanted to find the bad bug! Eliminate it!

Kittens were best at catching bugs.

But he searched the dormitory almost completely and didn’t find the hiding bad bug.

Jing Zhi watched his strange behavior and asked in confusion, “What’s wrong, Mimi?”

Jing Mimi: “There are bugs!”

Jing Zhi was startled, really thinking Mimi saw some bug, and searched the room with him.

Still found nothing.

Unknowingly, it was time for the daily video call with Jiang Suifeng. Although they had met today, Jing Mimi still held the phone on time and dialed a video call to Jiang Suifeng.

As soon as the call connected, Jing Mimi leaned his little face close to the screen and tattled: “Big Papa, there are bad bugs in the dormitory that bit Little Papa.”

Jing Zhi: “…?”

Bit him? Why didn’t he know? Where did it bite him?

On the other end of the phone, Jiang Suifeng’s heart instantly rose to his throat.

Jing Zhi was very brave, but he was somewhat afraid of bugs. When they were at home before, some bugs might appear in spring, summer, and autumn. But with him and the kitten Mimi around, no bug would be allowed to approach him alive.

Especially the kitten Mimi contributed the most, spotting bugs at home immediately every time.

It was winter now. Theoretically, there shouldn’t be any bugs, but it was hard to say if there were any that slipped through the net.

Jiang Suifeng said immediately: “I’ll buy some insecticide now and have a runner deliver it.”

Jing Mimi nodded and moved away from the screen a bit, letting Little Papa behind him also appear in the lens.

He looked at Jing Zhi’s lips with heartache, his voice indignant: “Little Papa’s mouth is swollen from the bite.”

Jiang Suifeng: “…”

Jing Zhi: “…”

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Author’s Note:

Jiang Suifeng: Turns out the bug is me.