Chapter 76: Meow
Jing Mimi’s eyes lit up instantly, and he couldn’t wait to reply: “Yes!”
He knew the Earth was big, and people and cats might not meet again easily, just like Great-Grandpa went back to City C and could only meet him through the phone.
Therefore, after seeing Sister Luo Luo in the tablet video, he didn’t ask his papas to take him to see her, especially since Sister Luo Luo might not recognize him, as he was no longer the kitten Mimi.
Knowing Sister Luo Luo was living well now was enough for him.
Unexpectedly, his papas suddenly gave him such a surprise.
He could see Sister Luo Luo!
The kitten was so excited that he didn’t sleep well all night.
Early the next morning, Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng drove Jing Mimi out.
The car Bluetooth played the cheerful BGM of Happy Star Cat, but Jing Mimi slept groggily in the back seat all the way.
Jiang Suifeng smiled and drove steadily, while Jing Zhi in the passenger seat scrolled through his phone casually.
The accounts of “Shovel Officer Qizi” and “Fa Cai Cute Pets” had been banned, and the internet was full of abuse towards the two of them.
Luo Luo’s current owner also posted a video on her account cursing those two people, feeling very unlucky to have given “Fa Cai Cute Pets” a large sum of money. At the end of the video, she generously attached a screenshot of a six-figure donation to the Animal Protection Association.
Because the accounts of those two scumbags were banned, netizens had nowhere to vent, so the comment section of this video was particularly lively.
[Indeed unlucky, but it’s good to rescue Luo Luo from that bitch’s home. Who knows how Luo Luo would be treated if she stayed there.]
[Luo Luo is a Siamese cat, and Siamese cats are all type A blood. Maybe she would have been sold for blood.]
[If not sold for blood, she would have been drugged to earn traffic.]
[Some people really have no bottom line for making money [vomit]]
[Fortunately, they kicked an iron plate. Failed to leech off Little Jing’s traffic and splashed dirty water on him instead. Don’t they look at what disgusting cesspit they came from?]
[Evil doers will eventually be bitten back.]
[Remember their names—Li Cai, Wang Qi. Friends in City A, help me spit on them if you see them.]
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Li Cai and Wang Qi were high school classmates with a good relationship. After graduating from university, they both returned to City A for development, drinking together from time to time and complaining about work.
Suddenly one day, a video of encountering a beautiful stray cat randomly posted by Wang Qi went viral.
He had just been laid off at that time, seized this opportunity, and embarked on the path of a cute pet blogger following the popularity.
It wasn’t so smooth at first.
He tried several cats, cute, ugly, beautiful… Later, the traffic slowly picked up.
Among them, he was entangled by the owner of a Tortoiseshell cat for a long time.
The Tortoiseshell cat owner’s cat gave birth to many kittens, and she couldn’t raise them all, looking for adoption online. All born were native cats. The Tortoiseshell cat was the ugliest one, but a little chatterbox, with interesting meows.
At that time, several ugly cats had good traffic online, so he wanted to try too and took the Tortoiseshell cat back, since it was free anyway.
Unfortunately, that Tortoiseshell cat wasn’t ugly in a distinctive way, and its meows didn’t attract much traffic.
He also found the Tortoiseshell cat more and more unpleasant to the eye day by day, and had to reply to the previous owner’s messages regularly, taking photos and videos of the cat for her, which was really annoying.
Later, once he got drunk, not knowing what happened, he woke up to find blood all over the house, cat scratches on his hands, one ear of the Tortoiseshell cat missing, and glass fragments on the floor.
He simply threw caution to the wind and threw the Tortoiseshell cat far away from home under the cover of darkness.
Not long after, the previous owner began to contact him frequently, asking about the current situation of the Tortoiseshell cat.
Really didn’t understand what was so good about an ugly native cat to argue about. Still harassing him after being adopted for so long.
Probably just wanted to extort money from him.
He wasn’t stupid and didn’t fall out with her, afraid of getting into trouble. He lied that the cat was lost and apologized to her repeatedly. Anyway, it was just typing and sending voice messages, harmless.
That woman harassed him for a while and then stopped.
Later, he raised some new cats.
Accidentally, he photoshopped a picture of a cat, making the cat’s pupils bigger, rounder, and cuter according to human aesthetics. That set of pictures attracted a lot of traffic.
But he couldn’t photoshop pictures forever. He had to shoot videos and live stream sales.
He learned about a drug called “mydriatic (pupil dilating) drops.” After using it on cats, it could achieve the effect of photoshopping.
Since then, he began to use this drug on the cats at home and became a cute pet blogger with stable traffic.
And because of dealing with those “failed products” that didn’t bring him profits before, he learned about the “blood cat” commercial chain.
Because of his identity as a cute pet blogger, he had many channels and connections. On the surface, he was a kind-hearted blogger, easily obtaining information about many cat owners needing blood. Secretly, he hired people to transport many blood cats in vans to various pet hospitals around, selling blood at high prices.
Making a lot of money.
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Making money together and sharing traffic, Li Cai was also incited by Wang Qi early on to buy a cat, preparing to test the waters and make a living from self-media.
He bought a Siamese cat with some defects, a small piece of tooth chipped off, and slightly cross-eyed. The price was very cheap—at that time Wang Qi’s traffic hadn’t picked up yet, and Li Cai was also hesitant, daring not to invest too much. After all, the investment was not only the money to buy the cat but also those cat supplies.
Li Cai named it Luo Luo.
He started recording various vlogs since buying Luo Luo, but the popularity was always mediocre.
The best traffic was actually a video asking netizens how a novice should raise a cat, posted casually before bringing Luo Luo back. Enthusiastic netizens gave him a lot of advice.
It was precisely because of this video that gave him a little hope, thinking the video traffic would definitely be better after bringing Luo Luo back.
Unfortunately, things went contrary to his wishes.
Later one day, Wang Qi shared a video of rescuing a stray cat to start an account. That stray cat looked particularly miserable and pitiful, resonating with many passersby. Netizens kept waiting for follow-up videos, wanting to see the stray cat after being cleaned up.
Wang Qi said: You can also follow suit. The more you can win passersby’s sympathy, the better. Recently many people discuss the genetic diseases of Scottish Fold cats. I know a cattery breeding Scottish Folds, can give you an internal price to buy a good-looking one. Luo Luo’s appearance is not good, popularity is not good. To take this path, you still have to be cruel and invest appropriately.
So, Li Cai bought Little Gold.
A beautiful beige Scottish Fold kitten.
Li Cai deliberately starved it for a long time, threw it into muddy dirt, pretended to pick up an abandoned Scottish Fold cat, and filmed it into a video.
Traffic exploded.
The dirty Scottish Fold cat transformed, beautiful and cute. Because of hunger, it ate so hard that its face was covered with goat milk, which was screenshotted by many netizens and made into emojis.
Because of Little Gold, someone asked him to advertise and sell goods. He finally tasted the bonus of the internet, and soon earned back the money invested in Little Gold.
During that time, a particularly lucky thing happened—he was worrying about how to deal with Luo Luo because it couldn’t earn any traffic. A rich woman suddenly approached him, saying she wanted to buy Luo Luo, offering a high price because Luo Luo looked very much like the Siamese cat she raised before. He sold Luo Luo without a second thought.
But in this era of rapid traffic updates, Little Gold’s video data got worse day by day, making him very worried.
He started trying every means to catch Little Gold to shoot various videos, but the effect was mediocre, and the traffic of the videos got worse one after another.
Worse still, Little Gold started to get sick.
It was the genetic disease of Scottish Fold cats, which could only be intervened but not cured, requiring a lot of money for maintenance and care.
Poor traffic, unable to make ends meet, he didn’t hesitate for too long before abandoning Little Gold.
That year’s winter in City A was exceptionally cold. A sick and delicate pet cat wouldn’t live long. Buried by snow, dying silently, leaving him no trouble.
Later, he never saw Little Gold again.
After that, he pondered for a long time and decided to develop into a funny style cute pet blogger.
In such an era of working like cattle and horses, people prefer to see some videos that make them laugh heartily, relieving the fatigue of work.
What the public likes is traffic.
He raised a native dog without investing a penny. Through Wang Qi’s sharing, he used a small electric shock device to shoot some funny videos with it.
The native dog had an excellent personality, particularly close to people.
He said some nasty words, and the native dog wagged its tail at him affectionately.
He said some gentle words, turned on the shock device, and the dog bared its teeth in pain, becoming irritable, barking at the air.
The comment section was often amused, and although the traffic wasn’t explosive, it was stable, providing a good gimmick for his live streaming sales.
Wang Qi also used pupil dilation drugs on his cat, making the videos shot more beautiful and cute.
They occasionally shot some collaborative videos, sharing traffic and gaining more fans.
These animals ate theirs, lived in theirs, so it was right for them to make money for them, and right to suffer a bit. Money wasn’t that easy to earn. Humans could work like cattle and horses, exhausted to death. What’s wrong with them taking some medicine and getting some shocks? Being full and living well every day was already much more comfortable than those stray animals.
Besides, Wang Qi also secretly started the blood cat business, selling the blood of some lowly bred blood cats to the owners of those pet cats, making a lot of money and changing to a big house.
He regretted a bit that he should have let that Siamese cat give birth to some little Siamese cats before selling it, because Siamese cats were all type A blood and had good physiques, very suitable for use as blood cats to sell blood.
But regret was useless; it had been sold for a long time.
Have to say, the woman who bought it was really rich. That cat lived better than him now.
Occasionally scrolling through the videos posted by that woman, seeing that cat living in such a big house and eating so well, he even felt jealous.
If he had known… he should have asked for more money back then.
Tsk.
The blood cat business wasn’t easy to do either, requiring wide connections and great risks. He didn’t enter the industry, only occasionally helping Wang Qi as an assistant, paying attention to the dynamics of cat owners seeking blood online, and sharing some profits.
Thought he could keep earning like this until he leeched off the traffic of that big game streamer, and the nightmare began.
At first, it was that person’s live stream clarification, proving he wasn’t a child from surrogacy but an orphan adopted legally and compliantly from the welfare institute. The wind direction began to change. Some brainless fans of that person started attacking him in the comment section and private messages, scolding him for failing to leech traffic and deliberately insinuating and guiding public opinion.
After discussing with Wang Qi, he played the victim, explaining that they had always dissed surrogacy behavior, not that streamer. Then magnifying being “cyberbullied” by that streamer’s brainless fans, he slightly turned the wind direction back.
Unexpectedly, not long after, when taking Wang Wang out for a walk, a stranger accidentally spilled a drink on Wang Wang. The drink wasn’t cold or hot and didn’t hurt the dog, just dirtying the dog’s fur.
The man had a very good attitude, apologizing to him repeatedly. There happened to be a pet hospital that could wash dogs ahead, and he proactively offered to pay for the dog wash out of his own pocket.
He agreed without thinking too much.
Unexpectedly, this man was in cahoots with that streamer Little Jing.
That night, Little Jing put the evidence of Wang Wang being shocked online.
Pet hospital bathing didn’t restrict pet owners from entering and exiting, but that man kept talking to him to distract him. Chatting happily, he didn’t pay attention to the scene in the bathing room at all.
Didn’t expect… to be calculated.
His brain was confused. He subconsciously wanted to discuss with Wang Qi, but didn’t expect Wang Qi to be in bigger trouble than him.
Wang Qi’s blood cat industry chain was exposed.
And it was caused by his own hands.
The cause was that he found the rich woman who bought Luo Luo suddenly posted a video saying Luo Luo was sick and needed blood donation from a cat with matching blood, price negotiable.
He told Wang Qi about this directly. Wang Qi also knew this generous rich woman and thought he could make a big profit, so he contacted her.
Unexpectedly… also calculated.
That rich woman actually knew Little Jing too.
Not only was the blood cat industry chain exposed, but the evidence of Wang Qi feeding mydriatic drops to the cats at home was also exposed online.
This was related to another beauty blogger.
The beauty blogger was Shen Luo. She recently had a baby and said she wanted to shoot a video of the baby and the cat, popularizing that cats had no impact on pregnant women and infants, corresponding to the behavior in society of being forced to send away pets raised for many years after pregnancy.
The beauty blogger had very good traffic. Wang Qi agreed to cooperate without hesitation and sent the cat over, leaving the other party an opportunity to collect evidence.
The beauty blogger knew Little Jing, but when sending the cat over, Li Cai hadn’t met Little Jing’s family in the beef noodle shop yet, hadn’t posted that video leeching off Little Jing’s traffic, and had no concerns. Didn’t expect… they started planning so early.
Even without the traffic leeching incident, maybe they couldn’t escape.
Wang Qi and Li Cai were terrified thinking about it.
Overnight, their information was thoroughly dug out by netizens. Not long after, because of the bad influence, their accounts were also banned directly by the platform.
Many righteous netizens in the same city began to wander outside their homes. Some threw rotten eggs at their doors. Some worried they would smash the jar (act recklessly in despair) and abuse the cats and dogs at home, monitoring them all the time.
They couldn’t live a normal life anymore and fled to other places in a sorry state.
People from the Animal Protection Association took away the cats and dogs in their homes through formal channels using public opinion. Those blood cats also received good treatment and care. They couldn’t care less, only shrinking in dark places like rats, tense at the slightest disturbance.
Later, Li Cai ate too much inferior takeout and had an unhealthy diet for a long time, suffering from gastroenteritis again. This time it hurt too much and he went to the hospital, only to be diagnosed with stomach cancer.
Wang Qi probably committed too many sins and got leukemia. He spent all his savings on blood transfusions for treatment, heavily in debt. Later, trying to save money, he bought blood through private channels, bought problematic blood, got infected with a virus, and died miserably.
These are stories for later.
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“Mimi, wake up, we’re at Luo Luo’s house.”
Jing Mimi opened his eyes groggily, was carried out of the car by Papa, yawned, and mist appeared in his amber eyes.
The car was parked in an indoor parking lot, not cold. After a sleep, he was much more awake, and Jing Mimi’s sleepiness gradually dissipated.
A woman in her forties, a girl of fifteen or sixteen, and a tall and thin man in his thirties came to pick them up.
Jing Zhi introduced: “This is Auntie Zhao, this is Sister Zhao, Auntie Zhao’s daughter, Luo Luo’s current owner. This is Uncle He, the owner of Tie Tie Mimi saw in the video.”
Jing Mimi called out one by one: “Auntie, Sister, Uncle.”
No one would dislike a beautiful and polite little cub.
Zhao Yan treasured him very much, touching his head and his little face. “Auntie prepared a lot of delicious food for you. Luo Luo is in the house. Auntie will take you to see it later.”
He Xiaokang was tall and thin, looking funny at first glance. He gave a thumbs up and said: “Heard Mimi likes Siamese cats very much. Good taste.”
It’s a pity Tie Tie had passed away; otherwise, he would definitely let Mimi meet it.
Zhao Chule was a girl of fifteen or sixteen with long hair, a bit shy, smiling and making a few gestures to Mimi.
Jing Mimi’s puzzled gaze fell on Zhao Chule, asking: “What is Sister doing?”
Zhao Yan explained: “My daughter is deaf-mute, can’t hear or speak. This is sign language, meaning ‘Mimi is so cute, she likes Mimi very much’.”
Jing Mimi’s eyes widened in surprise.
Actually… speaking with hands?
He remembered meeting a little orange cat using paw language on Planet Meow. Because it was a mute cat in life, couldn’t hear or meow, but its owner treated it extremely well, not disliking it at all. It didn’t hate its deaf-mute self. After coming to Planet Meow, it didn’t ask the Cat God to repair its body, but learned paw language instead, and taught paw language to other cats.
During that time, the kitten Mimi cried every day, so it used paw language to coax him beside him.
The kitten Mimi didn’t know this at first, thinking it was deliberately “dancing” beside him to gloat and provoke him, crying even harder.
“Meow ow ow—”
The deaf-mute kitten couldn’t hear, but was scared seeing the pit on the cloud getting bigger and bigger from the tears.
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Author’s Note:
They are all good cats [Pitiful].