Chapter 66: Meow
Jiang Suifeng: “Who can translate Meow language for me?”
Jing Zhi smiled at him and said, “As Mimi’s Papa, how can you not understand Meow language?”
After hearing this, Jiang Suifeng looked at the letter in his hand for a while, slowly analyzing and translating: “Suifeng, I like you, want to make l…”
Seeing the trend was wrong, Jing Zhi quickly covered his mouth. He glanced guiltily in the direction of the little cub, and after finding no movement, he breathed a slight sigh of relief, then glared at him.
Although it was harmless for lovers who were already living together and had reached third base to say something explicit, there was a little cub at home.
Jiang Suifeng took the opportunity to kiss his palm. “Mimi is watching TV; he won’t hear.”
Jing Zhi withdrew his hand and rubbed the place kissed just now.
Actually, writing this Meow Meow love letter was to let Jiang Suifeng fill in the blanks himself.
Filling in the sentence he just said… was also fine.
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On the weekend, Jiang Suifeng drove Jing Zhi and Jing Mimi to Wang Qiuqiu’s house first and picked him up.
Wang Qiuqiu received the letter written by Jing Mimi but didn’t open it directly. Instead, he left it at home to open when he returned at night.
The two little cubs sat in the back seat. Jing Mimi sang along with the Bluetooth in the car all the way.
They were all new songs he learned recently. Jing Zhi categorized them into a playlist, and they would play in order with a click.
Tone-deaf Wang Qiuqiu admired Mimi, this kitten who sang well, even more after listening.
Dare not imagine, if he had known the kitten Mimi when he was still the puppy Qiuqiu, and the kitten hummed songs meow-meow around him every day, what a happy puppy he would have been.
The temperature was still very low these days. A thick layer of snow accumulated outside. Breathing on the car window glass would form a thin layer of mist.
Wang Qiuqiu drew a Scottish Fold kitten on it and showed it to Mimi boastfully.
Jing Mimi liked it very much, but not long after, the pattern on the window slowly disappeared.
Like childhood memories, fading bit by bit with time, but leaving the most colorful fragments, never disappearing.
The car slowly arrived at the entrance of the familiar community. Jing Mimi stopped singing and pressed his little head against the window, looking freshly at the familiar yet strange scenery outside.
Nowadays, times develop very fast. A few years are enough to cause great changes in a place, let alone in winter wrapped in silver.
But Jing Mimi still recognized some places in his memory.
Because the time he was abandoned by his first owner and wandered was winter, he lived around here for a while.
The owner of a small fresh food supermarket was very nice. Sometimes he would throw a few unsold fish to stray cats. The kitten Mimi wasn’t strong in combat and could only pick up a fish occasionally.
The security guard at the community gate would drive away stray cats and dogs, looking a bit fierce, but never hurt them.
A bakery was very warm. When there were few customers, the staff wouldn’t bother the small animals warming themselves at the door. But when customers came and went, for business and customers’ safety, they had to ask them to leave.
There was also an abandoned brick-red telephone booth. The door was dilapidated, and the phone inside couldn’t be dialed anymore, but it wasn’t demolished, existing there as a decoration. The kitten Mimi often went inside to sleep. It was his temporary small nest during wandering, a shared one, because many other cats would also curl up inside, snuggling together furrily.
…
Unfortunately, the car’s trajectory didn’t pass by that telephone booth. Jing Mimi wanted to go and see, but could only walk over after getting off the car.
After registration, the car parked in the open-air parking line inside the community.
Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng got out of the car holding a little cub each. The two little cubs held each other’s small hands, sandwiched in the middle.
“Let’s go eat at that beef noodle shop first.” Jiang Suifeng said.
They hadn’t eaten breakfast yet, only eating some small bread in the car to cushion their stomachs. It was almost digested now, and they were hungry, needing to fill their stomachs first.
The beef noodle shop was on the commercial street at the community gate. Parking wasn’t easy at the door, but walking was convenient. It was all flat brick road, and the snow in the middle of the road had been cleared, not slippery.
At this time, there were already many people sitting in the beef noodle shop, bustling. Because the noodles were made well, it was the best business breakfast shop on this street.
There were also some residents walking dogs and eating breakfast in the morning. There was a big dog and a small dog. The big dog was a black and white Border Collie, and the small dog was a gray Teddy. Both sat obediently at their owners’ feet, not barking or causing trouble.
Fortunately, there were still empty seats. Because Mimi was afraid of dogs, they found a seat far away from those two dogs.
The two little cubs had small appetites. The four ordered three bowls of beef noodles and took two small bowls for them to share.
Jing Mimi ate while guarding against the two dogs in the noodle shop.
Fortunately, their owners finished breakfast not long after and left with them.
Jing Mimi finally felt at ease and enjoyed the fragrant beef noodles heartily.
Wang Qiuqiu was actually not very interested in his own kind, only having special feelings for his former breed, German Shepherd. He liked kittens with soft and cute voices and agile movements the most, so he didn’t pay much attention to the two dogs in the shop.
The beef noodles in this shop tasted really good. Both little cubs ate until their little tummies were full.
Jing Mimi said: “Next time, bring Brother Xiao Ze here to eat delicious beef noodles too.”
Wang Qiuqiu wiped his mouth, threw the tissue into the trash can, and unhurriedly called his cousin Wang Qize with his phone watch.
Wang Qize answered quickly. Their phone watches all had video functions, but the video screen was very small, not as clear as a phone.
But when Jing Mimi leaned his little head over, he still saw a furry puppy figure.
It was black and yellow fur, moving around in Wang Qize’s arms.
This was the first time Jing Mimi saw Mumu, but whether it was a big dog or a small dog, he didn’t like it.
This was also the first time Jing Mimi saw Wang Qize holding a puppy in his arms. Suddenly, he felt a bit uncomfortable and didn’t want to hug Wang Qize anymore.
Wang Qize saw Jing Mimi with his head touching Wang Qiuqiu’s on the phone watch, and his eyes lit up instantly, saying with non-standard pronunciation: “Qiuqiu, Mimi! Are you guys having breakfast (Zuo Sen)?”
Wang Qiuqiu was about to speak when he heard Jing Mimi say: “We’ll eat first, talk to you later.” Then hung up the phone.
He didn’t want to chat with someone holding a dog.
Wang Qiuqiu was already used to it. He lowered the hand wearing the phone watch, pulled out a tissue, and wiped the beef soup off the corner of Jing Mimi’s mouth.
Jing Mimi muttered softly: “Forget it, won’t take Brother Xiao Ze to eat beef noodles…”
Wang Qiuqiu swung his legs in a good mood.
Full of food and drink, because of Jing Mimi’s request, the four left the beef noodle shop together to find the brick-red telephone booth near the community.
Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng still had some impression of the telephone booth, but didn’t know if it still existed after these years.
They sent a message to Shen Ziyuan to ask. Shen Ziyuan replied quickly: [Still there, right at the original location, at the entrance of the moxibustion health center.]
Shen Luo had been discharged and went to a nice confinement center near the new home with the baby. Shen Ziyuan was packing things in the rented apartment in the community, planning to pack everything today and move to the new home.
After accompanying Mimi to see the telephone booth, they would go upstairs directly to help Shen Ziyuan.
It was the morning rush hour. There were many passersby in a hurry around, and some walking dogs. Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng kept observing people and animals in their field of vision.
They had a deep impression of the face of the “Fa Cai Cute Pets” account owner.
Fortunately, until they arrived at the telephone booth smoothly, they didn’t encounter anything they shouldn’t.
The telephone booth was still the same, but due to the wear and tear of time, it seemed older than before. The top accumulated slow white snow, and most of the door was broken. Many furry little figures were curled up inside.
“It’s kittens.” Wang Qiuqiu said.
The other three naturally saw them too.
Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng felt a soft pain in their hearts.
Mimi specifically asked to see this telephone booth. The reason wasn’t hard to guess—when he was a stray kitten, he most likely curled up in the telephone booth to keep warm and sleep like these kittens.
Calling it keeping warm, it wasn’t warm at all actually. Melted snow water would flow in, wet and cold, and leaky. Wonder if they could survive tonight.
Inside the telephone booth, one or two frozen kitten corpses could actually be seen, not yet cleaned up by sanitation workers.
Jing Mimi also saw the kitten corpses, pursed his lips, feeling a bit sad.
The Cat God’s voice sounded in his head at the right time: “Don’t be sad, Mimi. The kittens have been taken back to Planet Meow by me. It’s very warm there, and they won’t be hungry or cold anymore.”
Jing Mimi felt a bit better after hearing this.
Although he liked Earth with his papas, these stray kittens without parents might like Planet Meow more.
Hearing someone approaching, the living kittens in the telephone booth opened their eyes one after another and cast their gazes at them.
Most of them were garden cats (Li Hua Mao) because garden cats had good health and adaptability, with a higher survival probability compared to bred pedigree cats.
Not all cats liked being kept by humans. The kitten Mimi had met stray cats who liked wandering, so he didn’t pity them, just worried about them freezing and starving. It wasn’t easy to find food in winter.
But actually, “wandering” was just a biased definition given by humans. The earth belongs to all animals; it’s their common home. Living in their home, how can it be considered wandering?
Some cats liked humans and liked building small homes with humans, while some cats liked freedom and liked the big home of Earth.
Every cat’s pursuit is different. Whatever choice is good.
Finally, they would all go to Planet Meow and share their unique cat lives.
Suddenly, Jing Mimi’s attention was attracted by a white fur ball breathing weakly on the white snow outside the telephone booth. He strode over immediately.
It seemed to be a white kitten about to freeze to death.
Jing Mimi picked it up without a second thought.
Leaving the cold snow and surrounded by warmth, the white fluffy thing lifted its little head from his arms with difficulty.
Jing Mimi met a white puppy’s face at close range unexpectedly.
Jing Mimi: “!!!”
Startled, Jing Mimi threw the puppy in his arms out by reflex.
Fortunately, Wang Qiuqiu reacted quickly and caught the puppy, but because his body was too small, he fell on his butt in the snow.
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Author’s Note:
Mimi: [Scared] [Spread hands]
Qiuqiu: [Scared] [Helpless]
Puppy: [Starry Eyes] [Scared]
