The Cub Comes from Planet Meow 50

Chapter 50: Meow 

Time rewinds to four years ago when they first picked up the kitten Mimi.

At that time, the kitten Mimi had just been abandoned by his first owner and had been wandering outside for a while, full of wariness towards everything around him.

But the pet cat genes in his bones made him not too aggressive towards humans approaching with kindness.

Although he didn’t approach proactively, he didn’t struggle violently when put into the cardboard box brought by his papas.

At least, he wouldn’t get wet by the snow in the cardboard box, and it also blocked the cold wind.

It was a little warm.

His paw was cut by sharp glass while rummaging through garbage, injured and faintly painful.

At that time, they were still living in the previous community with slightly worse conditions. The floor heating wasn’t very hot in winter, but for the kitten Mimi at that time, it was already a very warm place.

Back home, the kitten Mimi quickly hid under the sofa.

His first owner’s home also had a sofa with a hollow bottom. It was the place he felt most secure, cramped and narrow, difficult for humans to reach easily. Except for eating, drinking, eliminating, and necessary physical activities, he would almost always hide inside.

Although his first owner could still find ways to drag him out from under the sofa by force.

After hiding under the sofa for a while, he was still humiliatingly coaxed out from under the sofa by cat treats.

He was too hungry.

Garbage couldn’t fill his stomach at all.

While eating the cat treat, warm and reassuring palms stroked his fur.

With the friendship of the cat treat, he wasn’t as afraid as before.

In his subconscious, bad people would only make him starve. For example, his previous owner, in order to film videos of him devouring food deliciously to gain traffic, always didn’t give him food, only giving a little when filming.

And these two in front of him giving him cat treats—shouldn’t be bad people.

Later, seeing he was still a bit afraid and liked to hide under the sofa, Jiang Suifeng asked Jing Zhi to hold him, pushed the sofa aside, and cleaned the space underneath.

That became his first nest in the new home.

To get closer to the kitten faster, Jing Zhi searched for many practical tips online.

One of them said: You can try mimicking a mother cat grooming the kitten to build intimacy.

It just so happened that the kitten Mimi had finished the checkup and taken a bath at that time. His fur was clean and fluffy, like a soft pudding cupcake, smelling fragrant.

Jing Zhi immediately held him in his arms and licked the fur on his head.

The kitten looked shocked.

Jing Zhi got a mouthful of fur. Seeing how cute he was, he couldn’t help but kiss his drooping little ears twice. Afterwards, he went to the sink in a sorry state, spitting and cleaning the cat hair from his mouth for a long time.

Fortunately, Jiang Suifeng wasn’t there.

He didn’t know if it worked, but after secretly licking a few mouthfuls of cat fur behind Jiang Suifeng’s back, the kitten Mimi became clingier to him day by day.

Jiang Suifeng, not wanting to be outdone, bought many kitten toys and played with the kitten whenever he was free.

Before long, Mimi’s sleeping place changed from under the sofa to the depression in the quilt between them, sleeping sprawled out.

Later, the two would often uncontrollably sniff the cat. Most of the time it was just simple kissing. Sometimes when they got carried away, they would hold its fur in their mouths, simulating the action of wanting to eat the cute kitten.

—This is an experience almost most pet owners have.

Jing Zhi didn’t groom the kitten Mimi again later, but the memory of just arriving at the new home was particularly profound. Jing Mimi remembered clearly the scene of Little Papa grooming him.

The kitten Mimi liked Papa grooming him. Although Papa wasn’t good at it, Papa loved him.

He loved Papa too.

And now, he had become a kitten big brother.

How Papa took care of him meticulously before, he would take care of his little orange brother meticulously now.

Humans didn’t need grooming. After becoming a little human, he hadn’t interacted much with other kittens. The only three were the kittens quickly adopted in the welfare institute. He didn’t have the chance to groom other kittens either. But in his subconscious, grooming a kitten was a very normal behavior, a care from a superior to a subordinate.

Jiang Suifeng didn’t know what to say after hearing this. He put the little cub on the ground, pulled out a tissue, wiped the goat milk off the little orange cat’s ear, and explained to him: “Mimi, people generally don’t use their mouths to lick off dirty things. Human tongues are a bit different from kitten tongues. We just use tissues to wipe Little Orange clean. Don’t groom Little Orange with your tongue in the future.”

Jing Mimi nodded his little head dully.

Human tongues were indeed a bit different from kitten tongues. Kitten tongues had barbs that could groom fur very clean, while human tongues didn’t have this function.

Not long after, Jing Zhi’s voice sounded outside: “Time to eat.”

Jing Mimi couldn’t wait to take Jiang Suifeng’s hand and go to the dining room.

When they were still in the welfare institute, Jing Zhi usually took Jing Mimi to the cafeteria to eat. The cafeteria food was basically mass-produced meals, and the appearance and taste could only be considered mediocre. After returning home, Jing Zhi cooked various delicious meals every day, full of color, fragrance, and taste. The little glutton Mimi looked forward to mealtime the most every day.

As expected, he ate until his little tummy was full tonight too.

Thinking about Little Orange in the cat room, Jing Mimi finished eating quickly, got off the table, and went to accompany Little Orange in the cat room again.

Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng ate slowly, chatting while eating.

It was hard to get a weekend, and the little cub’s attention was attracted by the little orange cat, so they had to seize the opportunity to enjoy some couple time.

Jing Zhi lowered his voice and said, “Miss Bai said that when she found the corpse of the lost cat, its internal organs were almost hollowed out, and there were traces of biting on its body. It should be done by stray dogs nearby. There was some dog food where the cat’s corpse was found, someone fed them, and stray dogs habitually went there to look for food. But stray dogs don’t understand anything, just acting out of survival instinct; nature hunts like this. Obviously, someone disemboweled the cat and deliberately induced it.”

Miss Bai was the person who lost her cat before and finally only found the corpse of the tortured cat. Jing Zhi had already contacted her.

The other party hated the cat abuser deeply and was very willing to contribute to catching the cat abuser. After that incident, she joined relevant animal protection organizations and had been doing related public welfare.

After chatting in detail, they found an even greater coincidence—Miss Bai’s home and Guo Shangjin’s home were actually on the same floor, neighbors.

Even subtler.

After the cat was lost, Miss Bai knocked on the doors of neighbors one by one, including Guo Shangjin’s.

She had a deep impression of Guo Shangjin because of his identity as a delivery guy.

At that time, after knocking on the door, the other party replied that he hadn’t seen the cat, and thoughtfully said he would help keep an eye out in the community these days and tell her immediately if he saw it.

She thanked him repeatedly with great gratitude.

Thinking about it now… maybe the kitten was in his house at that time.

There was a surveillance camera at her door. She saw the cat run away through the stairs in the surveillance, but she searched the whole building and couldn’t find it.

It was very likely that he took it back in the delivery box.

Although called cat abuse, this kind of person was actually a potential murderer, just lacking the guts to defy the law, only daring to torture and kill weak animals to get pleasure. Their psychology was already distorted.

Like an invisible ticking time bomb, which might explode one day.

They must dismantle this bomb cautiously and carefully.

Jiang Suifeng also investigated Guo Shangjin and found that he was actually once a student of University A, even studied for a master’s degree in the same university, considered their junior.

Later, for some reason, he didn’t engage in work matching his professional qualifications and became a delivery guy.

Character and education, profession are never directly linked.

Jing Zhi had seen delivery guys delivering food with dogs. The dogs were clean, wearing beautiful chest harnesses and leashes, well-behaved and polite, showing how well their owners raised them.

At that time, the kitten Mimi was still there, following him to the entrance hall. Seeing the dog outside the door, he instantly flattened his ears (airplane ears), started hissing, trying to scare away this terrible dog to prevent it from hurting himself and Papa.

Hearing the kitten’s hissing, the delivery guy hurriedly pulled the dog further away and smiled apologetically at him, afraid of scaring his kitten.

Obviously the same profession, some were kind to small animals, while others cruelly tortured and killed them.

Hearing this, Jiang Suifeng glanced in the direction of the cat room and also lowered his voice: “Stray dogs have been controlled more and more strictly in recent years, and the number is not large. I didn’t expect that person to be so dark as to design such a scheme…”

Stray dogs were different from stray cats. Dogs were more aggressive and the main source of rabies transmission, posing a greater threat to society. Cats, as long as you didn’t provoke them, would most likely just detour around humans.

So more stray dogs would be caught and sent to relevant rescue centers, while cats were just caught, neutered, marked, and released.

Jing Zhi sneered, “Yes, Miss Bai made a big fuss about this matter at that time. She said that after the property management learned about it, in order to quell the trouble, they secretly took away the stray dogs nearby, probably ‘disposed of’ them. But she just wanted to uncover the real culprit behind the scenes and let the person who deserves punishment be punished.”

Jiang Suifeng: “That cat abuser probably doesn’t like dogs either, but dogs are not as easy to control as cats, and their size is too big to handle easily. He just used this incident to borrow someone else’s hand, killing two birds with one stone.”

He had brains.

But no conscience at all.

The more Jing Zhi spoke, the angrier he got. “Why doesn’t a rabid dog come and bite that beast?”

Afraid he was too angry to eat, Jiang Suifeng quickly picked up a chopstick-full of food and brought it to his mouth, coaxing: “Let’s not talk about this first, it affects the mood. Eat first.”

Jing Zhi took the opportunity to hold it in his mouth and chewed.

There were many little romantic interests between lovers. Jing Zhi actually quite liked being fed by Jiang Suifeng occasionally.

Jiang Suifeng also liked feeding Jing Zhi, feeding him full bit by bit, very satisfying.

While feeding, the atmosphere suddenly became ambiguous.

Staring at a grain of rice stuck to the corner of Jing Zhi’s lips, Jiang Suifeng spoke with a slightly dry mouth: “Rice stuck on your mouth.”

Jing Zhi subconsciously wanted to raise his hand to wipe it, but his hand was grabbed by Jiang Suifeng.

“Don’t move, I’ll help you.”

The next second, Jiang Suifeng’s lips approached, and the warm tip of his tongue licked lightly at the corner of his lips, sweeping away the grain of rice stuck there.

Originally, he should have gotten to the point and enjoyed these thin lips further, but the owner of the lips suddenly pushed him away.

Following his gaze, Jiang Suifeng looked towards the cat room.

Jing Mimi stood at the door of the cat room, looking at his papas in disbelief.

Didn’t you say human tongues can’t lick clean and have to use tissues to wipe?

Papa lied to the kitten.

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Author’s Note:

Jing: [Scared]

Jiang: [Melted]

Must send the cub to Qiuqiu’s house for a night quickly to enjoy couple time properly [Cat Head].