Chapter 33 Chapter 33 Who allowed her to keep a cat

After a few days of recuperation in Yitong, Ruan Xiangyi's leg had almost fully healed. After the winter solstice, Zhao Qingshi accompanied her for a prenatal checkup before flying to Xianglin. The day he left Yitong, Chou Xunyin suddenly arrived. Ruan Xiangyi sat stiffly on the sofa. Facing her "mother," whom she had only met twice, she couldn't act naturally. Furthermore, she felt guilty; she hadn't forgotten the promise she'd made to Chou Xunyin that night.

She said she would not be with her son, but then she got the marriage certificate.

Zhou Xunyin came to see Zhao Qingshi specifically. When she heard Ruan Xiangyi say that he was on a business trip, she didn't look happy.

Ruan Xiangyi looked at her expression and asked, "What do you want to see him about?"

"Do I need to explain anything to you about my son?"

"That's not what I meant." Ruan Xiangyi could tell that Zhou Xunyin didn't like her.

Xun Yin ignored her.

Halfway through the meal, Aunt Cui brought a bowl of black medicine. I could smell the bitterness from a long distance away.

Aunt Cui glanced at Xun Yin, who was frowning, and said, "Madam, this is the Chinese medicine that Madam specifically ordered."

Ruan Xiangyi looked at Xun Yin, who hadn't looked over. She elegantly raised her chopsticks and said, "I heard you had severe morning sickness. This is a prescription given by an old Chinese doctor."

"Thank you, Mom." Zhou Xunyin brought the recipe specially, and she couldn't waste this thoughtful gesture. She put down her chopsticks, picked up the bowl and took a sip. The tip of her tongue tasted bitterness. Ruan Xiangyi frowned and drank it all in one gulp, then picked up the water cup next to her and took a few sips.

Seeing that she had finished drinking, Xun Yin spoke again and told Aunt Cui: "Remember to make a bowl for Madam every day."

Ruan Xiangyi swallowed when she heard this.

Zhou Xunyin stayed at Xiangshan No. 1, which she had not expected. She had not prepared anything.

"Mom, if you need anything, I'll go get it ready now."

Aunt Cui said, "Madam, don't worry. The lady's room has been prepared long ago."

"What about daily necessities?"

"These are ready too."

Ruan Xiangyi was relieved: "Okay."

At ten o'clock in the evening, Zhou Xunyin came out of the room while applying a facial mask. She was about to ask someone to send her some fruit when she was frightened by the cat that suddenly appeared at the door and the mask fell to the ground. Ruan Xiangyi heard the noise and rushed over. Cake was lying by the door, raising his cute chubby face and looking at Zhou Xunyin: Hello!

No wonder she couldn't be found in the room. It turned out she was here. Ruan Xiangyi quickly picked her up and apologized: "Mom, I'm sorry to scare you. Don't worry, she doesn't bite."

Xunyin took off her mask. She was very angry about the sudden appearance of a living animal in her home: "Why is there a cat in my house? Don't you know that I hate this kind of creature?"

Ruan Xiangyi explained: "I raised it in college."

"Then why did you bring her home?" Zhou Xunyin was so disgusted that she even took two steps back. Her words puzzled Ruan Xiangyi. "She's very clean and doesn't shed much hair. She usually moves around in a small area. Don't worry, I'll take good care of her."

"What I'm asking is why you brought him here?" Zhou Xunyin turned and went into the house. Too lazy to talk to her, she dialed Zhao Qingshi's number.

The door was not completely closed. Ruan Xiangyi was standing outside and could faintly hear her words.

"Who allowed her to keep a cat? Don't you know she's pregnant?"

"Tell her to send the cat away tomorrow!"

Ruan Xiangyi didn't want to listen to the rest of the conversation. She carried the cat away, lowering her eyes and wiping away tears. The white kitten seemed to sense her sadness and placed its paw on her chest: "Look~"

Not long after returning to the room, Zhao Qingshi's voicemail came through. Ruan Xiangyi carefully cleaned the cat's paw pads and didn't intend to answer. It rang for a minute, then he hung up. Within seconds, the phone rang again. She could tell Zhao Qingshi didn't like cake either; he always ignored it, even looked disgusted with it. She'd seen it several times.

Cats don't understand human thinking. As long as humans show a little kindness to them, they will tilt their heads and rub against them. Cake acts coquettishly to her, but of course she doesn't understand that they have no place for her in this house.

"Baby, they don't like you, but mommy will never abandon you."

The cake didn't understand and meowed at her~

After taking a shower, Ruan Xiangyi played with her phone for a while before going to bed. She saw that Zhao Qingshi had five missed calls and several WeChat messages. She deleted the messages, and the next second, his call came in again, and the screen was jumping wildly.

Ruan Xiangyi picked up the phone and without waiting for the other party to speak, "I won't give the cat away. I can move out."

"Move away?" His voice rang out on the phone. "Move where? Who dares to ask you to move away?"

"I know you all dislike my cat."

"Did Mom say something?"

"I heard you guys calling." She had automatically grouped them together.

It was quiet outside, and Zhao Qingshi's voice echoed in the bedroom: "When did I say I wanted to send your cat away?"

"Weren't you discussing this just now?"

"Did you hear me agree?"

Ruan Xiangyi paused: "No."

Zhao Qingshi laughed angrily: "Why are you accusing me of something when I don't have one?"

"But your mother seems really angry." She still felt like an outsider.

"She just finds it hard to accept." Zhao Qingshi sighed, "Ruan Xiangyi, this is your home. You should decide what to do and what to raise. Even if the other party is our relative, they cannot interfere too much. Do you understand?"

Can I really make the decision, even if the other person is your mother, Ruan Xiangyi thought. In her life, she had never made her own decision, only accepted or was forced to accept.

She asked cautiously, "Will you agree?"

The phone suddenly became as silent as the silence outside the window. After a while, I heard his cold voice: "You just don't believe me, right?"

Ruan Xiangyi was silent. It wasn't that she didn't believe it, it was that she had too little. She just needed a clear message so that her heart would be at peace.

"I didn't agree, and I won't agree. Are you satisfied?" he asked angrily.

Ruan Xiangyi opened her mouth: "I..."

Just as he opened his mouth, Zhao Qingshi hung up the phone. This was a sign of his anger.

The next day, Xun Yin asked her, "When will the cat be sent away?"

When Ruan Xiangyi moved out of Zhao Qing, he said, "He said he wouldn't send the cat away."

"I don't like it, you know."

Ruan Xiangyi nodded: "I know, you don't like me either."

"I will respect you and be filial to you. Can you give me some free space? I don't want to send the cat away, and I won't send the cat away, because it has been with me for a long time and I can't abandon it."

"Are you saying that my son spends too little time with you?"

"That's not what I meant. Cats are just like people. Just because they're small and easy to handle doesn't mean we shouldn't ignore the bond we share."

The negotiations ended in a bad mood.

Zhou Xunyin was almost pissed off to death by the couple.

Yesterday, Zhao Qingshi actually told her, "I won't give the cat away. Keeping a pet won't affect a pregnant woman's normal life. Why do you let Xiangyi make this decision?"

"If I send the cat away, she will be unhappy and may even move out. I don't want to see her sad, nor do I want her to feel that this is not her home. I hope you can understand."

"The cake is very cute. Maybe you can try to get along with it. It will act cute and turn over its belly. Maybe it will heal you."

She never knew that her son could say such things. Could he have forgotten that when Wen Yin brought a puppy to her when they were little, he had the puppy thrown away and no live animal was allowed in the house since then?

What was he thinking, letting her get along with a beast?

Ruan Xiangyi was not at home, so only Aunt Cui and Zhou Xunyin were at home. The weather was good today, so she and Aunt Cui sat in the yard around the stove, brewing tea and asking about their affairs.

Hearing that Ruan Xiangyi could cook, Xun Yin asked in disbelief, "Is it edible?"

Due to her family circumstances, Zhou Xunyin had no women around her who could cook. They were all wealthy women, and cooking was, of course, a time-consuming and troublesome task for them. How could they afford to do something so fumes-filled with beautiful manicures? And as for Ruan Xiangyi, her mother was clearly a person who despised the poor and favored the rich. She'd probably raised her daughter with the goal of attracting a wealthy husband. But she couldn't help but think about it. Over the past two days, she'd discovered that Ruan Xiangyi wasn't quite the girl she'd imagined, especially when she heard she could cook.

Aunt Cui nodded: "Madam's cooking skills are very good. I have seen her knife skills and they don't look rusty."

Xun Yin couldn't help but think for a moment, could it be that her life in the Ruan family was not good? Indeed, before this, she had never heard that the Ruan family had a second daughter.

Miao~ Hearing a few cat meows, Zhou Xunyin came back to her senses. Not far away, a short-legged cat was lying on the ground.

Legs so short? Xun Yin frowned as she thought of her son's suggestion.

"What's the cat's name?" she asked.

Aunt Cui replied: "Cake, look at its furry belly. The white fur on it looks like a small cake, doesn't it?"

Zhou Xunyin took the blanket off her legs. Cake saw her squatting down, and walked with her short legs while looking at her. When he reached her feet, he rubbed the stone with his front paws, stretched his body and then performed a belly-flip for her. Now she could see clearly that the hair on his belly really looked like a cut birthday cake. Cake twisted into a dough while making a baby sound, and his face was so pretty and cute that Aunt Cui's heart almost softened.

It didn't stop until Xun Yin tentatively placed her hand on its head. It took the opportunity to bury its face in her palm, rubbing and glancing.

Although he didn't want to admit it, Xunyin's heart was melted by her.

Cake continued to increase the firepower, stood up on two legs, waved his claws at her, and aimed~

Xun Yin hesitated for a moment, not understanding what it meant. Aunt Cui said, "It wants you to hold it. Madam, please don't move. I'll do it. Be careful not to dirty your clothes."

"It's okay, let me do it." Xun Yin was already captivated by it. She bent down and picked it up. She didn't know how to hold it, so she could only follow her memory. She remembered that she held Zhao Qing like this when she was a child. Cake's cat face buried in her neck, glancing at her.

Xun Yin was completely subdued: "Little Cake, what do you want? Are you hungry?"

"Does it have any snacks or something?"

"Yes, I'll get it."

Aunt Cui came back with two cat strips in her hand. She frowned and gave them to Xun Yin. Cake's eyes widened when he saw the cat strips and he stared at them even more intently.

Zhou Xunyin opened the package and laughed at it: "Eat it."

In just a few bites, it finished a whole cat strip. Seeing that there was still one on her phone, it glanced at her and said: I want more.

Xun Yin felt that her mood had improved.

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The author has something to say: Important notice: This article will be reversed starting from Chapter 15 tomorrow.