The Cub Comes from Planet Meow 58

Chapter 58: Meow

Although it wasn’t incongruous for the kitten Mimi to call this cat “Grandma”—after all, this cat looked very old from appearance to movements—the scene still had a weirdly cute feeling.

The old cat ate slowly, dropping crumbs. Jing Mimi reached out his small hand to catch them, very thoughtfully.

Jiang Suifeng stood behind him, his expression a bit hard to describe.

Jing Zhi raised an eyebrow at him and teased: “Is this the grandma cat that scared you?”

Jiang Suifeng: “…”

Jiang Suifeng strode over, leaned close to Jing Zhi’s ear, and whispered: “It really scared me when I saw it in the corridor.”

In terms of appearance, this cat was indeed a bit lacking, especially the protruding lower teeth and drooping features. Seeing it unexpectedly in the dark could indeed be scary.

But looking closely, one would find its aura and movements very gentle, without any aggression. Its fur was also well-groomed; it was a clean and gentle old cat.

Jiang Suifeng shouldn’t be afraid of it now.

Hearing this, Jing Mimi looked up and said, “Big Papa, don’t be afraid. Grandma Cat isn’t scary.”

Zhu Shan heard this and smiled, “It’s an old cat, indeed not very good-looking, but its personality is really good.”

Zhu Shan was holding something. Jing Zhi threw the bag to Jiang Suifeng, bent down to smooth the old cat’s fur, and said bluntly, “He’s just timid. I think this cat is quite cute.”

Jiang Suifeng didn’t talk back, curled his lips, asked, and put the bag on the dining table.

Zhu Shan put down the things in his hand, washed his hands, came to the dining table to taste a piece of cat ear from the bag, and praised: “Really delicious. Haven’t eaten such delicious cat ears for a long time.”

Jing Mimi had finished feeding snacks to the old cat. Hearing this, he was in a very good mood, straightened up, and urged: “Uncle, let Auntie taste it too.”

Zhu Shan smiled and hummed, taking a piece of cat ear to find his wife.

His wife Tian Yuan was organizing the wardrobe in the bedroom. Seeing him approach, she complained: “Why only these few clothes?”

Zhu Shan brought the cat ear to her mouth and said, “Enough to wear. Buy new ones for the New Year.”

Tian Yuan casually bit the cat ear, chewed, a distant memory appearing in her eyes, murmuring: “Delicious. You fried some during the New Year before too…”

Zhu Shan: “I’ll fry some this New Year too.”

Tian Yuan: “Okay.”

Zhu Shan: “I’ll go pour some water for the guests.”

Tian Yuan hummed, “I’ll go over after tidying these up.”

When Zhu Shan came out of the bedroom, Jing Mimi was combing the old cat’s fur with his small hand, and the old cat lay comfortably on the ground.

Any creature becomes lazy when old. Not because they don’t want to move, but really because they can’t move anymore.

In his memory, Moon was still a young and strong cat, jumping up and down, running and jumping, occasionally causing trouble at home. He didn’t expect to see it aged like this.

His wife was the same. Many wrinkles were added to her face, and she didn’t like makeup anymore, but she still applied a little lipstick when meeting him.

Bright red, just like their first meeting.

Hasn’t he also aged…

Coming out of prison, people become numb, and there is no light in their eyes. If not for the debt not yet paid off, he would be no different from a walking dead.

Zhu Shan hurriedly poured a cup of tea for Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng respectively, and took a bottle of pure milk for Jing Mimi.

It was the expensive Deluxe milk. He bought it specially today, thinking he could give it to Mimi when they met later. Pure milk is best for children’s health.

Seeing this, Jing Zhi apologized: “Mimi is a bit lactose intolerant and can’t drink milk; he’ll get diarrhea. He doesn’t need to drink anything; having the cat play with him is enough.”

Zhu Shan said “Oh oh” twice, put the milk back somewhat helplessly, feeling a bit disappointed.

The old cat was moved to the sofa by Jiang Suifeng. Jing Mimi sat beside it, smoothing its fur while talking to the Cat God who suddenly appeared in his mind.

The Cat God said: “This cat is also going to Planet Meow soon.”

Jing Mimi’s lowered eyelashes trembled, asking: “Does it have any wishes?”

The Cat God said: “I’ll ask it then.”

Jing Mimi: “It would be great if I could help it fulfill its wish while it’s alive.”

Both humans and cats hope to fulfill all regrets while alive.

The Cat God: “You can guess its wish and try.”

Jing Mimi just met this grandma cat and had no clue.

It should be Auntie’s cat. To guess its wish, he must understand Auntie.

Just as he was thinking, Tian Yuan walked out of the bedroom.

Jing Mimi’s gaze fell on her instantly. Seeing her walking towards the sofa too, he spoke immediately, asking curiously: “How long have Auntie and Uncle been together?”

As soon as the words fell, the adults present were stunned.

Such a question, not private but somewhat overstepping boundaries, would be a bit inappropriate if asked by others, but asked by a few-year-old cub, it seemed pure, without those messy emotions.

After being stunned, Zhu Shan answered without thinking: “21 years.”

He was 42 this year, and his wife was 41.

They met when he was 21 and his wife was 20.

Counting it up, it was 21 years.

Jing Mimi exclaimed “Wow” in surprise after hearing this.

21 years! Older than the grandma cat!

Jing Mimi asked again: “Why haven’t I seen Auntie before? Will Auntie live here from now on?”

Tian Yuan smiled and touched his little head, humming, “Will live here from now on. Mimi can come often to play with Moon.”

On the sofa, the old cat wagged its tail lightly.

…

Zhu Shan still remembered the scene of seeing Tian Yuan for the first time.

She powdered her face and put on makeup, her lips bright red, tied in a braid, very thin, wearing hot pants, looking very beautiful.

At that time, most people got married through blind dates, and that was their first meeting on a blind date.

He soon fell in love with this blind date partner, probably love at first sight.

Later, Tian Yuan talked about her first impression of him: They happened to pass by the factory where Tian Yuan worked. There were a few cats at the factory gate. His expression and attitude towards the cats made her feel he was a kind person. She liked kind people.

It could be considered… passing the review of the cat matchmaker.

Later, they got married naturally. After marriage, their relationship got better and better, and life got better and better.

He was a person who dared to think and act, could endure and suffer. The opportunities in that era were good. He and his friends opened a food factory together, targeting the infant field, getting more and more prosperous.

Remember it was around the beginning of the millennium. People’s quality of life improved, life became more hopeful, and everything was full of longing and hope.

And children were the biggest hope.

He saw the business opportunity in infant food and boldly invested with his closest brother. He had suffered setbacks but was never defeated.

At that time, he often stayed up all night, running around. His wife felt sorry for him, quit her job in the factory, and helped him behind the scenes. His wife didn’t understand those things, so she could only take care of his daily life, ensuring he had hot meals when he got home, and take care of the elders at home, so he had no worries.

He could understand his wife’s dedication. During that time, he thought every day that he must let his wife live a better life, become a leisurely wife of a rich family in TV dramas, only thinking about how to spend money and enjoy life every day.

This thought was like a carrot dangling in front of a donkey, motivating him to move forward.

He did it.

His career flourished, and he earned a lot of money.

He bought his wife the first gold necklace, gold ring, gold earrings, gold bracelet, and bought several houses for the family.

The cat Moon was adopted by him and his wife through a friend of a friend.

The friend of a friend saw the business opportunity in the pet industry and tried to breed pedigree cats, but there were many “failed products.” Later, due to improper management and inability to make ends meet, the cattery closed down, and many cats inside were unwanted.

Hearing this, his wife thought since their house was big, they could raise a cat to make it livelier, so he asked his friend to bring a cat over casually.

His wife didn’t have a favorite cat breed either, just said lively and healthy was fine.

Heard Moon was the most noisy among that group of cats, a Chinchilla cat, but with some protruding teeth, bad appearance, couldn’t be sold.

He and his wife didn’t mind; protruding teeth were also quite fun.

The day Moon arrived home happened to be the fifteenth, a full moon, so his wife named it “Moon.”

Every name carries a hope, and the name Moon carries the hope of reunion and completeness.

For them, they were still missing a child to be considered complete.

They both liked children very much and wanted to have a child, their child.

At that time, he and his wife were both over thirty.

In the early years, because his career was too busy and income unstable, the two didn’t have children too early. Later, after stabilizing, they had been preparing for pregnancy, but couldn’t conceive for a long time.

His wife thought it was because she had been in poor health since childhood, thin figure, difficult to conceive.

He thought it was because he worked desperately for his career in the early years and ruined his health.

They went to the hospital for a checkup. It was said that both had some deficiencies, but not infertility. Taking some medicine to regulate, regular checkups and observation, no need to worry too much.

Later, his wife finally conceived a daughter successfully.

However, this pregnancy was hard, and the child’s health wasn’t very good after birth. He took care of her carefully, spending lots of money, but she still had minor illnesses constantly.

Fortunately, his wife recovered well after delivery. He hired a very good confinement nanny to take care of her.

Moon was very curious about this new sister and always leaned over the crib to look at her.

The daughter also liked Moon very much, liked the soft touch of cat fur, and liked hugging it.

After learning to call “Mom and Dad,” the third name the daughter learned was “Moon.”

They named their daughter “Zhao Xi” (Morning Sun), symbolizing the rising sun.

In this way, there were both sun and moon at home.

He naively thought—their family of four was finally complete.

He never expected that the brother who started the business with him and had the closest relationship would lose his conscience, tampering with the formula of infant food, secretly replacing some high-priced raw materials with cheap and harmful things to make huge profits.

How could he have thought of it?

He gave those to his daughter too.

Later, many children had health problems, the scandal was exposed, and the media reported it. The brother had long prepared a perfect plan to escape overseas, digging many pits for him, leaving him to bear and face everything alone.

He couldn’t prove his innocence, and he should also be responsible for those innocent children.

Some people don’t want a conscience, but he couldn’t do without one.

His wife fell for him back then because she thought he was a kind person.

How could he disappoint his wife?

During that time, his daughter’s health worsened, almost living in the hospital. Later, a tumor was found in her body, malignant. Because she was weak and had low immunity, plus eating those problematic infant foods, the situation became worse.

He was facing bankruptcy, lawsuits, and abuse.

His wife guarded her daughter by the hospital bed, crying her eyes out.

Later, his daughter closed her eyes forever, and he went to prison.

His wife came to visit him, missing many things on her body, empty. Those gold and silver jewelry should have been sold by her. She didn’t wear makeup, her eyes were red, and the whole person was very haggard.

He said to his wife: “The divorce agreement is in the bottom drawer of the bedroom cabinet. Leave here, change a place to live.”

His wife didn’t speak, with a wooden face, and left without a word.

Life in prison was hard, but it didn’t matter to him whether it was hard or not. His life ended here. For the rest of his days, he lived only on the pumping of that conscience.

He had to pay his debts.

He didn’t dare to go underground to see his little daughter so early.

Life is not easy to come by. Alive, he could contribute more to this society and alleviate some sins.

After getting out of prison, he seemed to have seen his wife somewhere, but he didn’t dare to confirm and walked away with his head down.

He had no face to see her, nor did he dare to see her.

He knew his wife didn’t leave. Later, he received the key to the house in this community.

This was the house they bought in installments together back then. Later, they made a lot of money and changed to a new big house, so they moved out from here. But the house wasn’t sold, given to his wife’s parents.

The two elders only had his wife as a daughter. They were simple and honest, not used to living in the city, and this house was still very new.

This house wasn’t under his name and wasn’t sold. It was obviously cleaned by someone. There was a letter with familiar handwriting on the table, written by his wife to him.

It only wrote eight words: [Live here, live well.]

He couldn’t bear to leave after all.

Later, he met his wife a few times in City A, and every time he avoided her in a panic immediately.

He secretly checked; he and his wife were still in a marital relationship.

But he really didn’t want to implicate his wife anymore.

After getting out of prison, many older people still remembered what happened back then, and some people heard rumors that he had been to prison and looked at him with disdain.

He didn’t want his wife to bear these with him.

Moreover, he indirectly caused the death of their daughter, and he had no face to face his wife anymore.

Life after getting out of prison passed day by day like this. He was like a numb walking dead. He didn’t expect to encounter that cat abuser, making his cold blood boil.

Later, during those nights of squatting, he fell ill. He originally wanted to hold on, but unexpectedly fainted directly while holding on.

A kind person called 120. He didn’t know what happened after fainting, only knew that when he woke up and opened his eyes, he saw his wife sitting by the hospital bed.

Probably couldn’t contact his family, so the police contacted his wife.

After all, they were still legal husband and wife.

His wife took care of him in the hospital for many days. He had nowhere to escape and could only be forced to face it.

They said a lot of heartfelt words.

His wife said she didn’t blame him.

His wife said their daughter didn’t blame him either.

His wife said Moon was already an old cat, wondering if it still remembered him.

…

His wife said, let’s go home together.

The walls of his heart collapsed completely.

After being discharged, he and his wife went back to her place and saw Moon.

Moon was already an old cat walking slowly, but it still remembered him and liked rubbing against his legs like before, just not as agile as before, and its voice became low and hoarse.

His eyes became moist again.

Precisely because he saw the aged Moon, he finally had a sense of crisis.

So close… so close to not seeing Moon for the last time.

Without the sun and moon, the earth would still rotate.

He and his wife wasted half their lives, experienced ups and downs, still loved each other, and should continue to rotate for each other.

But actually, in the final analysis, it was also related to the cat abuser incident.

Some people looked at him coldly because of his past, while others were willing to believe him and stand side by side with him.

His body was injected with fresh warm blood again because of this trust, no longer stiff and cold.

He regained the ability to embrace.

…

Three years later, on the day Moon died of old age, the Cat God came to pick it up.

The Cat God asked Moon: “Do you have any wish you want to fulfill?”

Moon flicked its tail, opened its slightly protruding mouth, and said: “I want Mimi to stop crying; his eyes are going to swell from crying.”

As for others—there were none.

Before dying, its most important family members were by its side, and it had no regrets.

The man who indirectly caused the death of its sister Little Zhao Xi and fled abroad also died tragically abroad while Dad was serving his sentence, with no one to collect his body. People who lost their conscience eventually had no good end.

The Cat God hesitated after hearing this: “…Mm, I’ll try.”

Not long after, the kitten Mimi’s first mission failed.

Hearing the Cat God’s words, Jing Mimi cried even harder.

…

Time returns to the present. Jing Mimi asked Uncle and Auntie many more questions curiously, rubbing Grandma Cat’s fur while asking.

Just like Tutu in Big Ear Tutu, always having endless questions.

Children are like this, full of innocent curiosity about everything.

The two also picked and chose to tell him.

Jing Mimi took the opportunity to invite them to be guests and have dinner at home.

Hearing this, Jing Zhi also said: “Your home hasn’t been tidied up yet. Don’t tire yourself cooking at night. Come eat at our place; it’s just two more pairs of chopsticks.”

Zhu Shan and Tian Yuan couldn’t refuse and agreed.

Not long after, in front of the cloud TV on Planet Meow, several kittens sat side by side, hearing the notification sound of wishes being fulfilled.

They were the cats who died at the hands of the cat abuser. The last face they saw was Zhu Shan who found them.

In the cold winter, their lives drained away too quickly, and no one could bring them back.

But before they died, they were all held by a pair of warm big hands.

It was Zhu Shan’s hands.

So, their wishes were all related to Zhu Shan.

They hoped Zhu Shan could be accepted and trusted.

Finally summarized into the wish Jing Mimi received.

One of the ways humans express acceptance and trust is to invite the other party to eat at home.

Zhu Shan ate this meal with a warm body and a warm heart.

When the meal was almost finished, Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng’s phones vibrated simultaneously, receiving the same WeChat message from the same person.

Shen Ziyuan: [I’m a dad!!!]

Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng looked at each other and subconsciously looked at Jing Mimi who was drinking soup.

Mimi still remembered the kitten Chestnut.

And also remembered Chestnut’s mom and dad.

***

Author’s Note:

Baby Mimi is going to see the little baby [Milk Tea].

The first owner is also about to appear (won’t have a good ending version).

These are Sister Chestnut’s mom and dad, introduced in Chapter 12.

[Facepalm laughing and crying] Feel like there are too many supporting characters surnamed Fang… secretly changed the surname.