Chapter 31: Meow p1
Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng were both stunned.
Jing Zhi ignored the phone in his hand, casually putting it aside, and started coaxing the little cub in his arms.
He hadn’t seen Mimi cry for a long time.
He didn’t know what happened this time; they were chatting happily, and suddenly he cried.
It was after asking him to sing the English version of the Christmas song—the problem must be there.
Didn’t he always have “Jingle bells” on his lips before? What happened?
Jiang Suifeng was anxious on the other end of the phone, wishing he could crawl through the screen.
Being held in Jing Zhi’s arms and having his back rubbed, Jing Mimi’s tears stained the clothes on his chest. He sobbed, his voice choking: “Woo woo… Papa… I don’t want, don’t want to go to the UK… woo woo…”
So it was Jiang Suifeng saying he would send him to study in the UK that scared him.
But it definitely wasn’t just as simple as rejecting studying in the UK; suddenly being unwilling to sing English songs was also suspicious.
Jing Zhi hurriedly went along with him first: “Okay, okay, not going to the UK, not going to the UK.”
After being coaxed by Jing Zhi for a while, the tears finally stopped. Jing Mimi sniffled, nestled in Papa’s arms, his little face covered with tear stains.
Jing Zhi quickly got a tissue to wipe his face.
The little face was wiped clean, but the eyes were still red.
Jing Zhi asked him carefully, “Does Mimi dislike English and the UK?”
Jing Mimi looked at him with round, watery eyes and answered with a choked voice: “Not the same country as Papa.”
A string in Jing Zhi’s brain suddenly snapped. He couldn’t wait to ask: “Did Uncle Fang Yuan say something?”
Jing Mimi pouted, his voice aggrieved: “Uncle Fang Yuan said, Orange cats are Chinese cats, British Shorthairs are British cats…”
Sure enough.
Jing Zhi finally understood everything.
When they were in the hospital before, his mother called Mimi a “little foreigner.” Mimi’s appearance did look like a mixed-race child. His facial features were fine, but mainly his hair color was different from most children in the country.
Even an ordinary human cub would feel resentful because of being different from those around him, let alone a cub transformed from a kitten with British blood.
He had neglected Mimi’s education in this regard.
“It’s okay, Mimi. Bloodline doesn’t affect nationality. A British cat born in China is a Chinese kitten.”
“Really?” Jing Mimi’s eyes lit up.
Jing Zhi nodded and continued: “Jiang… Big Papa said sending you to study in the UK just now wasn’t to send you away, but to let you continue school abroad. The world is big, Mimi. There are many interesting countries and cultures outside. When you grow up, as long as you want, you can go and see.”
“Moreover, no matter which country Papa and Mimi belong to, we will always be a family. No matter where we go, we can always come home. Mimi doesn’t need to care too much about these things.”
Jing Mimi finally felt much better in his heart.
Jing Zhi raised his hand again and touched his bangs, where there was a bit of premature gray hair that looked like highlights.
It appeared suddenly in high school. Maybe because the academic pressure was already heavy at that time, and his father, who hadn’t died yet, always harassed him and his mother, boasting to outsiders that he, who ranked at the top of the grade in No. 1 High School, was his son, without fulfilling any fatherly duties at all. He probably even thought about relying on Jing Zhi to support him in old age after graduation. His face was extremely disgusting.
Fortunately, the wicked have their own retribution. In his senior year of high school, he died in a car accident without a whole corpse left, which was very satisfying.
Later, after graduating from high school, he successfully got into University A, and life went much smoother, but this bit of premature gray hair never disappeared.
Maybe everything experienced in life leaves a mark.
He didn’t hate this tuft of white hair; instead, he liked it quite a bit.
And now, he took the small hand of the cub in his arms and touched his tuft of white hair. “Look, Papa’s hair is also a bit different from others. Being different from others is special and cool. Mimi’s hair is too.”
Jing Mimi’s small hand touched the bangs on Jing Zhi’s forehead.
In the past, Jing Zhi liked to touch foreheads with the kitten, and the kitten’s head would always touch this place.
Being coaxed by Papa like this, the last bit of resentment in the kitten’s heart disappeared.
Although his hair wasn’t black like his papas’, it was determined by his coat color in kitten form. He actually liked this color too, and Papa said it was special and cool!
Although Orange cats were Chinese cats, their coat color was also orange, not black.
Moreover, later he met Auntie Wang with hair color similar to his. He wasn’t the only human around with this hair color.
Thinking of this, Jing Mimi suddenly spoke: “Papa, I want to call Brother Qiuqiu and ask if he ate an apple tonight.”
Since Brother Qiuqiu left the welfare institute, they would talk on the phone for a while every night. Although not as long as the calls to Big Papa, hearing Brother Qiuqiu share his life in his new home every day made Jing Mimi feel it was very interesting.
“Okay.” Jing Zhi picked up the phone beside him indulgently.
On the phone screen, Jiang Suifeng, who had been left hanging for a long time, was holding a cat teaser stick and met his gaze across the screen.
After their eyes met, the cat teaser stick shook slightly, and the small bell on it made a crisp sound.
Jing Zhi: “?”
Jing Zhi: “What are you doing?”
Jiang Suifeng: “…Trying to amuse the kitten.”
It was really because seeing the little cub crying just now made him too anxious. Being on the other side of the screen, he couldn’t do anything. Holding the phone, he walked anxiously around the house and suddenly walked into the kitten Mimi’s former cat room, seeing one of his favorite cat teaser sticks.
Jing Zhi thought to himself, Why didn’t I realize Jiang Suifeng was so silly before?
Jing Zhi: “Go sit at the same table with Fang Yuan.”
Jiang Suifeng: “Why compare me with him?”
Jing Zhi was too lazy to pay attention to his jealousy drifting around anytime and anywhere, and said expressionlessly: “Hanging up, Mimi wants to call Qiuqiu.”
Although he said that, his finger didn’t approach the hang-up button directly.
“Wait,” Jiang Suifeng leaned closer to the screen. “Let me say a few more words to Mimi.”
Jing Mimi’s gaze also fell on Big Papa on the phone screen. He held the apple that had been bitten a few times in his hand, and his eyes were still a bit red.
It was him misunderstanding Big Papa just now, thinking Big Papa wanted to send him back to the UK, which scared him.
“Mimi, Big Papa can’t wait to see you every day, how could I send you away? Big Papa has already cleaned up the house, waiting for you and Little Papa to come back.”
Saying that, he shook the cat teaser stick in his hand casually.
Jing Mimi’s gaze followed the cat teaser stick swaying back and forth. Although he was no longer the kitten Mimi, he couldn’t quite quit some old habits. Or rather, it was normal for a little cub to be attracted by a moving cat teaser stick.
Hearing “waiting for you to come home,” Jing Mimi curved his eyes happily.
“Okay!”
Behind him, Jing Zhi showed a fake smile across the screen.
A few days ago, he just said he would celebrate his 30th birthday here. Today, he pushed his luck and acted first before reporting.
There was no news from Grandpa Jiang yet.
Whether they could go back was still uncertain.
Because the camera was facing Mimi, Jiang Suifeng only saw Jing Zhi’s slightly curled lips, but he could guess what kind of expression he had now.
But Jiang Suifeng only had two words in his mind right now: Want to kiss.
Jing Zhi’s lip shape was beautiful, and kissing felt great too.
Before Jiang Suifeng could peek for too long, the little cub pressed the call countdown: “Goodnight Big Papa, I’m going to call Brother Qiuqiu now.”
Jiang Suifeng had to “compete for favor” with this Brother Qiuqiu every night. Although depressed in his heart, he still nodded and said goodnight.
After the call ended, Jing Mimi couldn’t wait to make a video call to Uncle Wang’s WeChat.
The call was picked up quickly, and Wang Qiuqiu’s face appeared on the phone screen.
When Wang’s father knocked on the children’s room door and walked in with the phone, Wang Qiuqiu was hugging a new puppy doll and reading a book on the sofa.
Hearing it was a video call from Mimi, Wang Qiuqiu immediately threw the puppy doll in his arms onto the bed not far away in a parabolic arc.
The puppy doll bounced twice on the soft bed and stopped completely in a posture with four legs facing the sky.
Wang’s father: “…”
Wang Qiuqiu couldn’t wait to take the phone from his father and chatted with the little cub on the other end.
“Brother Qiuqiu, did you eat an apple tonight?”
“Ate it, but the apple was too big, didn’t finish.”
“Mm… burp, I seem to be a bit full too.”
Jing Zhi heard this and took the apple from his hand, saying, “Don’t eat if you’re full, or your tummy will be uncomfortable when sleeping at night. Papa will eat it for you.”
Jing Mimi obediently gave the apple to Papa, wiped his small hands, and continued chatting with Brother Qiuqiu.
Seeing this, Jing Zhi got up and went to the laptop, opened it to take a look, and saw the message Fang Yuan sent him on the computer WeChat.
Fang Yuan: [Damn, you don’t know what I just experienced…]
Fang Yuan: [The apple Mimi gave me accidentally rolled down from the front of the car. I stopped the car on the roadside thinking to pick it up first. Just as I stopped and picked it up, there was a car accident in front.]
Fang Yuan: [[Photo]]
Fang Yuan: [Lucky Mimi, Lucky Apple.]
Fang Yuan: [I want to adopt Mimi as my godson.]
Jing Zhi clicked open the car accident photo to take a look and also sweated for him. Turning his eyes, he looked at a certain little cub not far away whose eyes reflected the phone screen and looked exceptionally bright.
Yes, Mimi was a lucky kitten.
After he came back, everything became lucky.
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