"Alright, it's getting late. Let's pack our things and head back."
"Little cat, you'll come back with us in your physical form today. Just say you found me on the mountain."
It's good if the physical body goes back; it would be troublesome if it suddenly appeared one day and startled everyone.
"So you'll just say you found it when you get back? But look at it, it doesn't look like a stray cat."
With its shiny white fur and big eyes, it doesn't look like a stray cat at all. It's even better than the cats that rich people raise with great care!
"Indeed, kitten, can you become a little thinner?"
"Okay," the system said, making its fur dirty and its body weak, as if it had been abandoned.
"Okay, that's settled for now. You'll gradually change back on your own after some time."
After resolving the system issue, Huo Haocheng packed the wild vegetables Ruan Ruan had picked into his basket, wrapped the roe deer's body in twigs, laid it horizontally on the basket, and covered it with large bamboo leaves so that no one would notice if they passed by.
After everything was ready, Ruan Ruan, holding the kitten, followed Huo Haocheng down the mountain and back home.
"Hey! Ruan Ruan, what are you holding?" Huo Yue saw that Ruan Ruan was holding something dirty and thought it was a wild rabbit.
When Huo Yue asked again, Ruan Ruan picked up the cat to show her. "Sister, I found a cat in the mountains. It was probably abandoned by someone, and I felt sorry for it, so I brought it back."
The kitten seemed to understand Ruan Ruan's words, and opened its eyes slightly before closing them again, making itself look very weak.
"Its eyes are so beautiful. If you take good care of them, they'll be even more gorgeous."
"Since you like it, then keep it." The Huo family is a loving family. A kitten doesn't eat much, and it's fate that it came to their home.
"Okay, thank you, Grandpa and Grandma." The two elders agreed to take care of the kitten, and Huo Yue happily went to fetch water to clean it up first.
Over here, the Hao Jie and Hao Shen brothers followed Huo Hao Cheng to the backyard.
"Brother, it looks like there's a lot of good stuff today." They all knew that their eldest brother had gone to check on the traps in the morning, and they could tell from the weight of the baskets the two of them were carrying.
"First, lift the branches down from the top. Haojie, go get two basins."
While Haojie went to get the basin, they first opened the branches, lifted out the roe deer inside, and placed it next to the water pipe. The water was drawn down from the mountain using a bamboo pipe, which was convenient for washing clothes at home. However, the drinking water still had to be fetched from the well.
After bringing the basin, they separated the wild vegetables from the basket and put them in. "Haojie, ask Mom if she wants to cook them for lunch. If so, wash some first. Haoshen, let's take these pheasants and rabbits over too. Clean them first, and then we'll sort them out this afternoon. We'll use salt to air dry them first, otherwise they'll spoil easily in this weather."
"Okay, big brother."
The siblings each washed their own clothes, without disturbing each other.
"Wow, Ruan Ruan, look! I told you it was pretty! It's white! And it's so tiny!" The kitten, after being cleaned, was still quite beautiful, except for its weakness.
"Ruan Ruan, have you thought of a name for it?" Huo Yue looked at the tiny white cat and really liked it.
"Its fur is white, so let's call it Little White."
"Meow" protests; the system disagrees with being called such a casual name.
"(⊙o⊙)...Isn't it too ordinary?" Huo Yue didn't expect Ruan Ruan to choose such a casual name.
"So... Sister, what do you think we should name it?" Ruan Ruan was truly terrible at naming things. From childhood to adulthood, whenever she had to name someone, it was always based on their appearance: white was Little White, black was Little Black, and yellow was Little Yellow. She really couldn't understand why anyone would bother to come up with a name that was hard to remember; this was so much easier to recall.
For a moment, Huo Yue didn't know what to name it, so the two of them looked at the three brothers beside them.
"Don't look at me, I don't know how to name people either. Our names were all chosen by Grandpa. Why don't you go ask him?" Huo Haoshen shook his head and said.
“Calling him Xiaobai is a good idea,” Huo Haojie said, his naming approach was the same as Ruan Ruan’s.
"I think we should call it 520, which is the date of our wedding. That way, we can always remember this day," Huo Haocheng said to Ruan Ruan.
"Meow" protests! How dare you name me after your wedding anniversary? "Unlimited protests!" "How dare you!"
"Okay, from today onwards, your name will be 520." Ruan Ruan hugged the kitten and looked happily at Huo Haocheng.
"Ugh..." The three siblings all made a vomiting face, indicating that they were disgusted by their eldest brother.
Ruan Ruan didn't care what they thought; as long as she felt happy and touched by the sweetness, that was enough.
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