Chapter 98: Meow
Grandpa Jiang wasn’t fashionable enough to know what “shipping CP” was. He was simply analyzing his little great-grandson’s relationship from the perspective of an elder.
Because of Grandpa Jiang’s words, Jing Mi and Wang Qiyou both harbored different little thoughts during this period. It didn’t affect the college entrance examination, but it exploded after the exam.
…
After accompanying Great-Grandpa for nearly a month, Jing Mi walked into the college entrance examination hall with a good mindset.
On the day the college entrance examination ended, Jing Mi was the first to walk out of the campus.
A reporter interviewed him, asking if he had anything to say to everyone.
Jing Mi spoke unhurriedly to the camera: “I hope everyone pays more attention to animal protection public welfare, rejects animal abuse, rejects malicious breeding, Scottish Fold cats, teacup dogs, etc…”
Every year’s college entrance examination interview has certain traffic. Jing Mi didn’t know what to say, so he simply used the traffic to say what he wanted to say most.
Recently, another case of animal abuse was exposed online, causing quite a stir. Coincidentally, two traffic sources colliding should have a considerable influence.
Soon, several more students came out, including Wang Qiyou. Wang Qiyou wasn’t interested in interviews and slipped away agilely.
Several other students were caught by reporters and started acting as atmosphere creators facing the camera:
“XX game, please buff XX character, thanks.”
“Can someone give me a concert ticket for my idol XX? Didn’t manage to grab anything.”
“If I can’t get into University A, I’ll repeat a year. Do family members think the streamer can get in?”
…
Wang Qiyou had already met his family with Jing Mi and left first.
Grandpa Jiang had difficulty moving, so Jing Mi went to the hospital to see him immediately, telling him the good news that the college entrance examination ended and he performed normally.
Grandpa Jiang smiled and touched the head Jing Mi proactively leaned over, his eyes full of love.
Seeing Mimi take the college entrance examination, another of his long-cherished wishes was fulfilled.
Next was waiting for the results and the university admission letter.
Hopefully, his old bones could drag on smoothly until then.
Ah, one more thing…
Grandpa Jiang lowered his hand and said to Jing Mi: “Mimi, you have graduated and become an adult. Is there anyone you like? I wonder if Great-Grandpa can have the honor to see you with the person you like.”
Grandpa Jiang only told Jiang Yuanyuan about his discovery for the time being, daring not to tell Jiang Suifeng and Jing Zhi, afraid their poor acting skills would give it away and affect the two children’s college entrance examination.
Jiang Suifeng didn’t know the little plan in Grandpa Jiang’s heart. He just thought he was getting senile and wanted to use his life to urge Mimi’s relationship progress, scolding: “Grandpa, Mimi is still young. Relationship matters should take their natural course. You can’t rush Mimi to fall in love and get married when he’s only eighteen.”
He and Jing Zhi never worried about Mimi’s puppy love. Mimi was busy with studies and hobbies, accompanied by family and friends, living a fulfilling and happy life. He seemed to have no needs in that regard for the time being, nor did he meet anyone who made his heart flutter.
Grandpa Jiang glared at him dissatisfiedly. This unfilial grandson only knows how to misinterpret and slander him.
How could he be so senile as to force things? He just wanted to push a bit to see if Mimi and Little You could work out before he kicked the bucket.
Jing Mi smiled helplessly: “Great-Grandpa, I’ll try if there’s someone suitable. If the other party is willing, I’ll bring them to meet you.”
Grandpa Jiang’s mood brightened slightly: “Okay.”
…
Wang Qiyou was taken home by his parents and didn’t go to the hospital with Jing Mi. However, there was a graduation dinner in the evening, so they would meet then.
Leaving the hospital, Jiang Suifeng drove Jing Mi directly to the location of the graduation dinner.
The class monitor had booked the restaurant early, and the private room number was posted in the class group.
As soon as Jing Mi got out of the car, he saw Wang Qiyou waiting for him at the restaurant entrance. After saying a hasty goodbye to Papa, he strode towards him.
“How is Great-Grandpa?” Wang Qiyou asked.
“Okay, just the same old condition,” Jing Mi answered.
To avoid affecting the college entrance examination, Grandpa Jiang didn’t let them come to the hospital to see him these few days. Finally, the exam was over.
Wang Qiyou nodded, just about to say “Let’s go in,” when he heard Jing Mi change the subject: “It’s just…”
Wang Qiyou: “Hmm?”
Jing Mi: “He mentioned me finding a partner again.”
Wang Qiyou’s lips pursed instantly.
Ever since Great-Grandpa mentioned Mimi finding a partner for the first time, they had different thoughts in their hearts.
For Jing Mi, having been a kitten turned human, he naturally wanted to experience everything about humans, including love.
Cats are influenced by heat periods and forced to find partners to reproduce, but humans are different. Humans don’t have heat periods; humans can follow their hearts to choose their desired partners.
Previously, he was busy with studies and had a fulfilling life, with no time to think about other things. Now that the college entrance examination was over and he suddenly became idle, plus being urged by Great-Grandpa, he treated this matter as serious business.
Although even if he fell in love, he might not be able to go to the end, and even marriage might end in divorce, seeing him and his partner doing well in the last moments of Great-Grandpa’s life would leave no regrets.
Wang Qiyou asked directly: “What do you plan to do? Really going to find someone to date?”
Jing Mi didn’t know how to answer.
He was a bit itching to try dating.
But he couldn’t find a suitable candidate.
He didn’t want to leave Great-Grandpa with regrets, but he didn’t want to be perfunctory either, finding someone randomly to date.
Jing Mi couldn’t think of an answer. Seeing classmates approaching, he muttered perfunctorily and pushed Wang Qiyou into the restaurant.
He walked holding Wang Qiyou’s hand with his head down, not seeing the obscure look in Wang Qiyou’s eyes.
The dinner gathering was lively. Boys boldly drank some wine, and some girls who could drink weren’t far behind.
Jing Mi didn’t touch a drop of alcohol.
Because of the experience of accidentally getting drunk on rice wine when he was little, Jing Mi had always been somewhat repulsed by alcohol, which didn’t diminish with age.
Wang Qiyou, however, drank quite a bit silently.
He could drink. There was homemade wine in the estate. As he grew older, every year he went there for a short stay, his parents would drag him to drink a little.
But being able to drink didn’t mean having a high alcohol tolerance.
Drinking and drinking, Wang Qiyou’s body temperature rose, but it didn’t show on his face, so nothing could be seen.
Later in the gathering, it turned into various jokes and chats. Everyone stopped sitting in their original seats, turning into a chaotic mess.
Suddenly, a short-haired girl appeared beside Jing Mi, with a hairpin on her head, patting his shoulder somewhat shyly.
“Jing Mi, come here for a moment. I have something to say to you.”
Jing Mi wasn’t stupid and roughly guessed something, but didn’t refuse.
After all, the other party didn’t directly state her purpose, and he had no reason to refuse. Moreover, he also wanted to hear how he would feel after the other party expressed her feelings.
So, Jing Mi went to the corridor outside the private room with her.
There was a small terrace at the end of the corridor. No one was there, but the hot summer air of early June hit his face.
Jing Mi was led onto the terrace by her.
“Jing Mi, do you plan to go to University A?” the girl asked.
Jing Mi nodded.
Fang Yuan asked the students in the class to write their target universities on the blackboard at the back of the classroom very early on. Many people knew he wanted to go to University A.
“I want to go to Medical University A, quite close.” The girl’s eyes flickered, her hands behind her back, shy yet with the unique clarity and cuteness of this age.
“I also feel you are very suitable to be a doctor,” Jing Mi said with a smile.
This girl was named Fu Ruan. Jing Mi was actually quite familiar with her.
Fu Ruan’s family background wasn’t good. Her father fell ill early and became disabled. Her mother killed and sold fish in the vegetable market. During holidays, she would help her mother.
Jing Mi knew her because for a while, rumors about Fu Ruan’s family suddenly spread in the class, attacking the sensitive self-esteem of an adolescent girl with a mocking tone. Fang Yuan stopped the budding school bullying immediately after knowing about this and planned to go to Fu Ruan’s mother to buy a few fish and chat with her.
It happened that during that time, Big Papa and Little Papa went on a business trip. Jing Mi stayed at Fang Yuan’s place for a week and was taken to Fu Ruan’s mother’s place by Fang Yuan.
It was the weekend. Fu Ruan was helping her mother kill fish. Her movements were neat and efficient, processing a fish very quickly, leaving Jing Mi dumbfounded.
During the time the kitten Mimi wandered, there were actually some kind people feeding him, some feeding cat food, some feeding raw fish.
The pet cat Mimi was scared by the jumping fish, clumsily sticking out his small tongue to lick the fishy smell on it, not knowing how to start eating. Before he could take a bite, he was snatched away by a strong Dragon Li cat that suddenly rushed out.
The kitten Mimi lost his dinner painfully, still fresh in his memory.
Later, after becoming a human, he still dared not handle fish, only waiting eagerly for Little Papa to feed him.
Therefore, Fu Ruan might have been captivated by his heartfelt admiration and became a friend with an okay relationship, able to talk in class usually.
Also because of Fang Yuan’s timely intervention and positive guidance, some students in the class stopped treating other students’ suffering as a joke, and Fu Ruan’s personality became livelier.
Because he had seen Fu Ruan holding a knife, and many doctors also held knives, Jing Mi felt Fu Ruan was suitable to be a doctor.
Fu Ruan’s eyes curved. “Thanks for your auspicious words.”
Before this, Fu Ruan had never shown any ambiguous tendency towards Jing Mi. The most interaction between the two was the transaction of buying and selling fish.
Because Jing Mi liked eating fish, and Fu Ruan’s fish were fresh, Jing Mi thought he could support her family’s business and eat delicious fish, so he told his papas about this. His papas were also happy to fulfill his kindness and always bought fish at Fu Ruan’s home.
But it’s hard for people to resist the light that appeared in their youth.
Fu Ruan felt that pursuing someone should be as clean and efficient as killing fish, not dragging things out.
So, taking advantage of the dinner gathering on the night the college entrance examination ended, she brought Jing Mi here.
Before this, Jing Mi might refuse her focusing on studies. After this, there was one less reason for refusal, and the chance of winning was a tiny bit bigger.
But just a tiny bit.
Fu Ruan took a deep breath and mustered up the courage to ask: “Jing Mi, do you want to fall in love?”
Jing Mi subconsciously wanted to give an affirmative answer because he was indeed thinking about love recently due to Great-Grandpa. But he stopped in time. He couldn’t answer Fu Ruan like this; it was like giving her hope.
Jing Mi knew the feeling in his heart.
Even if the other party hadn’t fully expressed her feelings, he felt nothing, and even wanted to stop it in time to avoid embarrassment.
So Jing Mi answered carefully: “Don’t have this idea for now.”
It was a polite refusal.
Fu Ruan understood.
This fish didn’t belong to her; couldn’t kill it, could only release it.
But still a bit unwilling to give up.
Fu Ruan asked: “What kind of person do you like?”
Anyway, their universities were not far apart; there would still be opportunities in the future.
Jing Mi shook his head: “I don’t know either.”
Fu Ruan changed the question: “Then what kind do you hate?”
Jing Mi still shook his head: “Don’t know.”
Fu Ruan: “What about hated things? Are there any hated things?”
Must gain something.
Jing Mi fell into deep thought.
Speaking of this, he subconsciously thought of “dogs,” which he had hated for a long time.
But he didn’t hate dogs anymore.
His best friend was a dog. He liked him very much, but he still kept a respectful distance from other dogs.
Before Jing Mi could think of an answer, the phone in his pocket vibrated suddenly.
It was a message from Wang Qiyou.
Brother Qiuqiu: [jshdjkasdh]
Jing Mi stared at this string of garbled characters in confusion, not figuring out anything. After a while, he realized something and said to Fu Ruan: “Brother You seems to be drunk. I’ll go back first.”
After saying that, he left hurriedly. They had indeed been out for a while.
In the corridor, a tall figure disappeared quickly, unnoticed by anyone.
