Chapter 176 Do you understand what people say?
After closing the door, Li Shan's expression was not very good.
She was about to say something, but it was Tan Zhaozhao who adjusted his mood, smiled at her with a squint, reached out to take the sausages and bacon that she had been holding in her hand stupidly, and pulled her inside with his other hand.
"Even if the sky falls, we have to wait until we have eaten. I have steamed rice and plan to make scrambled eggs with tomatoes. We still have time. I will cut the sausages you brought and steam them. If the weather is too hot in the future, these things will be difficult to store."
She changed her alert look when facing strangers and became gentle and homely. She seemed to be covered with a layer of warmth. So Li Shan swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue and smiled again, agreeing: "Yes, in the world, eating is the most important thing. My parents bought local pork and made sausages by themselves. It's hard to buy them outside. We have to eat them quickly and not waste them."
As she finished speaking, she saw the kitten sitting on a high stool with its head tilted and looking towards the kitchen door. She couldn't help but laugh and said, "Why do you need a stool specifically for it? It's so high, you're not afraid that the little guy will fall down from it."
In the eyes of cat owners, the first thing they see is not cuteness, but hidden safety hazards.
Other cats might be able to land steadily with their paws if they fall, but Xingxing is a kitten who has just learned to walk crookedly. If he falls, he will definitely scream in pain.
Tan Zhaozhao also laughed and shook his head, "No, Xingxing is very well behaved and smart. These past few days, as long as I put it somewhere and told it not to move around, it would be obedient and I wouldn't have to worry about it at all."
Li Shan walked into the kitchen, reached out and picked up the kitten who was pricked up his ears to listen to the human's praise, and without waiting for the kitten to struggle, she pinched the back of the neck.
Although he didn't use much strength, nor did he lift her up, the indescribable magical feeling made Xingxing stunned. He curled up his paws and let the human grab the back of his neck, and then looked him up and down, left and right.
Tan Zhaozhao was already turning on the fire to prepare fried tomatoes and eggs.
Li Shan stared at the star for a while, held it in her arms, and walked over to watch her cook, chatting with her as they watched.
"Zhao Zhao, you said that in the future, when the end of the world comes, where can we go to sterilize and vaccinate kittens?"
The pet hospital is closed too.
Hearing the strange words, Xingxing tilted her head in confusion.
What about sterilization and vaccines?
It asked Qiuqiu curiously, because Qiuqiu showed it this was knowledge that cats don't have in their daily lives.
"...Ah?!" Qiuqiu was confused and shocked. He was so scared that the light all over his body trembled.
“I don’t know.” Tan Zhaozhao shook his head, looked back at the stars, and said worriedly, “If I keep it at home all the time and don’t vaccinate it, it shouldn’t be a big deal. But as for sterilization… I don’t know whether it’s good or bad to sterilize a cat. I forgot to check it, and I never thought about it before.”
Then she considered, "But if Xingxing reaches estrus one day, as long as he stays at home and can't find a female cat, he will just pee and poop everywhere. It won't be a big problem, right? If that's the case, I think it's good not to sterilize him. Who wants to get neutered for no reason? Besides, he is so young and he survived with great difficulty. I'm afraid of infection or insecurity after the operation..."
Li Shan didn't even need to explain the pros and cons of sterilizing cats. Tan Zhaozhao quickly convinced himself and decided not to sterilize Xingxing.
She couldn't bear to see her own kittens get hurt, and she could tolerate their mischief when they grew up.
Seeing her like that, Li Shan swallowed back her words of persuasion.
That’s right. There won’t be any pet hospitals in the apocalypse anyway. If the medical conditions are not up to standard, where can we find professional veterinarians to do this?
The image of Dr. Bai who had just appeared at the door suddenly flashed through her mind, and the next second she was amused by her own imagination.
Li Shan couldn't help but share her imagination with Tan Zhaozhao, about the wonderful scene of Dr. Bai, who was as cold and indifferent as a flower on the mountain top, wearing a doctor's uniform, wearing a mask, and lowering his head to sterilize the kitten Ga Dandan.
Tan Zhaozhao: "..."
The two looked at each other and laughed at the same time.
"Let's eat." Tan Zhaozhao smiled until his face hurt. He brought the prepared food to the table and put the portion specially picked out for Xingxing in a small bowl specially for Xingxing. The two of them and the cat had a warm and peaceful delicious lunch in this world so silent that only the heavy rain could be heard.
At the same time, Xingxing also learned about the existence of "sterilization" and "estrus" from Qiuqiu's video science.
Essentially, Xingxing was just a confused kid of four or five years old.
It listened to the two humans washing dishes in the kitchen chatting in low voices. Its light green cat eyes stared blankly at the cat in the video that was tied to the operating table with its arms and legs spread out. It had lost consciousness and its tongue was sticking out unconsciously. Its eyes were empty, as if it had lost its soul. Its small body suddenly shuddered.
All its fur exploded, its claws dug into the carpet beneath its feet, its ears drooped back, and the whole cat was in a state of great shock.
In fact, Xingxing still doesn't quite understand the so-called "sterilization", because it used to be an unconscious zombie who didn't feel pain, and now it's a one-month-old kitten. No matter how you look at it, it is a non-human life form.
It does not understand how terrible the so-called "loss" is, nor does it feel how unbearable the pain is, and it does not have the dignity of human males that is more important than life.
Xingxing was just scared by the appearance of the kitten in the video.
Because the kitten Qiuqiu showed it happened to be the tabby cat teacher who taught it how to hunt and survive before! !
Xingxing's claws were grabbing the carpet in fear, and when two humans came out talking and laughing, it exploded into an orange fur ball. Every step they took towards it seemed like a heavy step taken by a giant, full of a strong and oppressive feeling.
Tan Zhaozhao was the first to notice that something was wrong with the stars.
When she saw Xingxing's fury and her ears curled up at her, she reached out and grabbed Li Shan who was still walking forward.
"What's wrong?" Li Shan staggered when she was pulled by her, and wondered in her heart why her best friend suddenly had strength. It was not like before when she couldn't even unscrew a bottle cap.
Tan Zhaozhao shook his head, let go of her, and half squatted down, looking worriedly at the kitten whose fur was standing on end and whose face was full of alertness.
"Stars?" She reached out to touch them tentatively.
"Meow!" Xingxing roared fiercely, but he stumbled backwards and fell on the carpet, sprawling across his body.
Tan Zhaozhao wanted to laugh, but held it back.
She reached out her hand again, trying to pick up the fallen and struggling kitten.
Before my fingers even touched it, the kitten started crying miserably again.
Tan Zhaozhao couldn't laugh anymore.
She stepped forward a little nervously, then turned around and asked her best friend in a hurry, "Shanshan, what happened to Xingxing? Is she feeling unwell?"
It was her first time raising a cat, and there were so many things she didn’t understand.
Li Shan didn't panic. She watched Xingxing retreat after he got up. She frowned and guessed, "What is he afraid of?"
Tan Zhaozhao shook his head and wondered, "I don't know. He was fine when he was eating just now. Why did he become like this all of a sudden? Did he see something that we can't see?"
She had to guess in the metaphysical direction, after all, nothing had happened just now.
Li Shan didn't believe in metaphysics. She tried to look behind her in the direction of the stars, but after scaring the kitten so much that it staggered again, she had to withdraw her hand and started to think.
"Shall we take a closer look?"
She pondered and searched her memory.
Then the conversation stopped at a certain point.
She looked at the cat and thought about the conversation, and an extremely absurd guess slowly emerged in her mind.
"Zhao Zhao." Her voice was a little unsteady, and it sounded a little vague if you listened carefully. "Didn't you tell me before that your cat is very obedient and well-behaved, and seems to understand human language?"
Tan Zhaozhao was stunned. As sharp as she was, it was as if a flash of lightning suddenly flashed through her mind. She suddenly raised her eyes to look at Xingxing, whose small body was trembling non-stop.
"Does it... understand?" Her voice also became extremely slow and light.
Li Shan shook her head strangely, "I'm just guessing, how about... giving it a try? After all, even the rebirth space and the end of the world have arrived, and a cat that can suddenly understand human language should probably be normal."
Even she herself felt it was ridiculous to say this.
But Tan Zhaozhao doesn’t think so!
In just a few breaths, many images flashed through her mind. Every time she spent with Xingxing these days, every time she praised the kitten and gave the kitten instructions, all of them were clearly recalled in bits and pieces. After thinking about it carefully, even she felt that there were too many loopholes in them to be believed.
"Maybe it's just very smart. Don't you always praise it for being smart? Maybe it's just too human. There are many kittens like this on the Internet. They are very well-behaved and clingy. Cats and dogs are very smart. Some people say they are just like children..."
Li Shan is still trying to convince herself.
Tan Zhaozhao had already withdrawn her hand, and got down on the carpet with her knees pressed down. She patted the carpet with her palms facing down, and coaxed the obviously frightened kitten softly: "Baby, were you scared just now? Mommy said she won't send you to be sterilized, don't be afraid, okay?"
Her fingers were trembling slightly and her voice was very unstable, and it was even harder to hear against the ghostly sound of wind and rain outside the window.
She coaxed, while tentatively reaching out towards the stars.
The little orange ball obviously shrank back at her approach, but did not hide away. Instead, it was curled up obediently in her warm palm.
Tan Zhaozhao took it back.
She spoke softly, as if she was afraid of disturbing anyone, and whispered to the little kitten in her arms: "Baby, do you understand what mommy is saying?"
She looked a little nervous, but Li Shan was equally nervous, holding her breath and staring at the cat in her hand.
This was a kitten that the two of them delivered personally and that they had to exhaust all their efforts to save.
How come you can suddenly understand what people say?
Was it possible to understand it before, or is it only possible to understand it at the end of the world?
Or... is there a soul hidden inside this cat that has been reborn like Song Qianyi and has a golden finger?
It’s not that there are no novels on the Internet with cats as the protagonists. On the contrary, there are quite a lot of them. Maybe Xingxing is one of them?
Li Shan's mind was in a mess, with all kinds of thoughts in her mind, it was a complete tangled mess.
However, Tan Zhaozhao just held the stars in his hands and waited for the kitten's answer with bated breath.
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