Chapter 67: Meow
Fortunately, the snow was soft, and there were no sharp objects where he fell. Wang Qiuqiu only felt his butt cold and a bit painful, nothing serious.
The white puppy in his arms breathed weakly and had lost the strength to struggle. Even though it was startled, it didn’t move around, only letting out a very small whimper.
Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng hurriedly picked up Wang Qiuqiu who had fallen on the ground and took the puppy from his arms.
The puppy was about a month old, small enough to be held in an adult’s palm. It was pure white without a single stray hair, almost merging with the snow. No wonder Mimi mistook it.
Jing Mimi stood aside reservedly, having recovered from the fright. Seeing Papa take the puppy from Brother Qiuqiu’s arms, he approached, patted the snow off Wang Qiuqiu, and asked in a whisper: “Does it hurt?”
Wang Qiuqiu smiled and shook his head, answering: “No.”
Only a little bit, it would be fine soon.
Jiang Suifeng: “This dog…”
Jing Zhi: “Take it to Shen Ziyuan’s place first. Leaving it here will definitely freeze it to death.”
Jiang Suifeng hummed, thinking the same.
After speaking, the two looked at Jing Mimi standing with Wang Qiuqiu.
They knew how much Mimi rejected dogs. Even if they wanted to rescue this puppy, they had to consider his feelings.
Jing Mimi pursed his lips, looked at Papa, then at the little white ball in Papa’s arms, and finally said: “Send it to the rescue station.”
He knew Sister Chestnut was taken home by Uncle Shen and Auntie Shen from the rescue station. The rescue station would adopt various small animals.
Although he didn’t like dogs, he wasn’t cruel enough to watch this puppy freeze to death here.
“Okay,” Jiang Suifeng said. “We’ll send the puppy to the rescue station after helping Uncle Shen move.”
Jing Mimi didn’t say anything more. Holding Jing Zhi’s hand, who wasn’t holding the dog, the group walked towards the apartment rented by the Shen family.
Jing Mimi was most familiar with this unit building. When he was the kitten Mimi, his papas had taken him out to play.
His papas would put a harness on him, let him lie on their shoulders, admiring the scenery outside the home against their solid chests. When reaching flat ground, his papas would put him down for a walk.
It was also in this community that the kitten Mimi would use his meow-meow punches to drive away any dog he saw approaching, not letting them get close to him and his papas.
A few years passed, wondering how many cats and dogs living in this community were left.
Walking into the elevator, pressing the floor where the Shen family lived, the elevator began to ascend slowly.
Jing Mimi glanced at Big Papa holding the puppy in his palm from time to time, pursing his lips. Finally, after arriving at Uncle Shen’s home smoothly and putting down the puppy, he pulled Big Papa’s clothes and went to the bathroom with Wang Qiuqiu, supervising them to wash their hands clean with hand sanitizer.
He didn’t like the smell of dogs.
Jiang Suifeng was naturally happy to cooperate and make his little cub happy.
He didn’t like dogs, but he didn’t let them leave the puppy in the snow to fend for itself. He was a soft-hearted and kind little friend.
Wang Qiuqiu fell into deep thought looking at the foam rubbed in his hands.
After so long, Mimi still rejected dogs as always, but this time he didn’t ask his papas to leave the puppy behind, but silently accepted bringing the puppy back. Did it mean the situation was developing in a good direction?
To confess his identity as a puppy to Mimi sooner, he had to take some action.
Shen Ziyuan found a little leftover goat milk powder at home and prepared to make a bowl of warm goat milk for the puppy. But the water dispenser at home was out of water, and the boiled water was too hot, so they had to wait for the temperature to drop before making the milk.
The adults were busy sealing things into boxes or bags. Wang Qiuqiu took the initiative to take on the task of making goat milk for the puppy.
Jing Mimi stood not far away, looking at the white puppy nestled in Sister Chestnut’s former cat nest, feeling indescribable emotions in his heart.
If a dog used his former cat nest, he would definitely be angry.
But just now when Uncle Shen took out Sister Chestnut’s former cat nest and he was about to stop it, the Cat God suddenly said to him: “Chestnut doesn’t hate dogs and doesn’t mind sharing her nest with this poor puppy. Mimi don’t worry.”
Jing Mimi silently retracted the step he was about to take to stop it—he couldn’t decide the usage rights of Sister Chestnut’s cat nest.
While he was dazing, Wang Qiuqiu suddenly opened the goat milk powder, poured it into a small bowl, and stirred it with a spoon.
Not long after, the puppy slurped up the warm goat milk voraciously.
Perhaps because it hadn’t eaten such delicious and warm food for a long time, the puppy got more and more excited as it ate, arching forward while eating. Arching and arching, its two hind legs lifted up due to inertia, its body flipped, and it fell headfirst into the bowl containing goat milk.
—Delicious enough to flip over.
Wang Qiuqiu: “!”
Jing Mimi: “!”
His papas were packing things with Uncle Shen and didn’t notice the situation here. Jing Mimi and Wang Qiuqiu looked at each other, and Wang Qiuqiu quickly picked up the puppy.
The fur on the puppy’s face was wet with goat milk, its pink little tongue still diligently licking the delicious goat milk around its mouth, and its little tail wagged rapidly because its tummy was filled.
Wang Qiuqiu couldn’t wipe the fur while holding the puppy, so he could only cast a help-seeking look at Jing Mimi.
“Mimi, can you help get some tissue to wipe the puppy’s fur?”
Jing Mimi struggled for a few seconds, turned around, and pulled out a few tissues.
The three adults finally noticed the situation here because of his action of pulling tissues. But seeing it wasn’t a big problem and could train the children’s ability to help each other, they just paid attention out of the corner of their eyes and didn’t intervene immediately.
Seeing Mimi standing a meter away from him clutching the tissues, Wang Qiuqiu mustered up the courage to speak again: “Can Mimi help me wipe the puppy? I’m holding it with both hands, so it won’t move around. Don’t be afraid.”
Step one for Mimi to accept dogs—touching a dog.
Jing Mimi clutched the tissues until his fingertips turned slightly white. Finally, under Wang Qiuqiu’s sincere gaze, he carefully moved a step forward and stretched out his arm.
Finally, the tissue in his hand touched the soft dog fur.
The puppy was too small. Jing Mimi gradually lost his fear of it, leaving mostly rejection of canines.
Jing Mimi wiped the puppy’s fur with a frown while saying disdainfully: “Puppy is so dumb.” Doesn’t even know how to eat milk.
Wang Qiuqiu smiled and said: “Maybe because it left its parents when it was too young.”
This sentence touched Jing Mimi’s little heart.
Before being taken home by his first owner, the kitten Mimi lived in a cattery with his kitten family. It seemed a mother cat had taught him some life skills, such as eating, grooming, and burying litter.
Too much time had passed, and memories of kittenhood were very vague, but there was still a tiny impression.
With something on his mind, Jing Mimi couldn’t help speeding up wiping the puppy’s fur.
Soon, the wet goat milk on the puppy’s face was almost wiped off, but the dog fur was wet into clumps, emitting a faint pleasant milky smell.
Compared to the dog smell, Jing Mimi’s perception of the milky puppy improved slightly.
Just as he was about to put away the tissue soaked in goat milk, a warm and soft little tongue quickly licked his hand.
Jing Mimi: “!!!”
Jing Mimi retracted his small hand as if electrocuted, looking incredulous. In his vision, the puppy wagged its little tail at him cheerfully. After reacting, Jing Mimi ran da da da to the bathroom to wash his hands immediately.
He squeezed out a bit too much hand soap, rubbing out a lot of bubbles, almost covering his small hands completely.
Jing Mimi washed for a long time to wash off these bubbles, but couldn’t wash off the sensation of being licked by the puppy’s tongue just now.
Jing Mimi pursed his lips tightly, lowered his eyelashes, looking like life had lost its meaning.
Licked by a dog—the cat is dirty.
When he came out of the bathroom, the puppy was loosely held by Wang Qiuqiu’s small hands to prevent it from doing a handstand and falling into the bowl again, continuing to eat goat milk.
Jing Mimi clutched his small hands, daring not to approach easily again, his mood very complicated.
Full of food and drink, the little tongue licked the milk stains in the bowl clean. The puppy finally was willing to raise its head. Wang Qiuqiu took the opportunity to wipe the fur on its face completely dry and released the small hands restraining it.
Mimi’s Papa gave him a pack of wet wipes just now, which could wipe the milk stains on the puppy’s fur cleaner. With the floor heating on indoors, the fur would dry in a while.
Soon, the puppy, energized after finishing a bowl of milk, looked around and walked towards Jing Mimi, its little tail wagging like a propeller.
Jing Mimi: “!”
Jing Mimi became alert instantly, subconsciously wanting to flee, but not as panic-stricken as when he saw Big Black in the welfare institute. After all, this was such a small puppy in front of him.
He was a big, big cat, not afraid of a tiny, tiny dog.
But because of the rejection of canines, he still moved away subconsciously.
Just like this, the puppy and the little cub circled around the house.
For some reason, the puppy particularly liked following Jing Mimi, but because it was too small and had been frozen outside for too long, it couldn’t run fast and couldn’t catch up with him who could already control his human body agilely.
Because of moving, there were boxes and bags everywhere in the house, like a small maze.
Not long after, Jing Mimi nimbly climbed onto a big box, looked down at the puppy spinning around below unable to climb up, and gave it a triumphant “smug cat” smile.
If he were in kitten form now, he would definitely be looking down at the puppy below with his cat head lowered contemptuously, his cat tail swaying happily.
Hmph.
Cats are just better than dogs.
The next second, the unsealed box couldn’t bear the weight of the human cub and suddenly caved in. Jing Mimi fell directly inside.
“!!!”
Not long after, a soft ball also tumbled in.
It was the puppy who climbed up via the lower box next to it and also tumbled in.
The puppy was stunned by the fall for a few seconds, then happily pressed against the little cub who played chase with it for a long time. Its tail rubbed against the box wall making a swishing sound, getting closer and closer. It was the sound of a puppy expressing affection.
Jing Mimi had nowhere to escape.
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Author’s Note:
Kitten draws a circle to imprison himself.
Will know Qiuqiu is a puppy soon.
