Chapter 191 The Rain Stopped
Bai Yichen still compromised.
He put on gloves, reached out to take the cat, and ignoring the kitten's human mother's anxious "medical description" beside him, he placed the kitten on a table covered with a urine mat and examined it carefully.
Qiuqiu looked at the scene for a long time, then approached the stiff kitten and whispered, "Xingxing, this is your first time seeing a doctor so seriously."
Albeit in the form of a slow-growing kitten.
Xingxing was still very stiff. He could feel his belly being rubbed by humans, and his tail was being pulled up to check...
"Meow!!!" the kitten screamed in resistance.
Bai Yichen raised his eyebrows, reached out and pinched the kitten's neck, easily suppressing the kitten's insignificant struggle.
Star:"……"
The kitten looked at its mother beside it with tears of grievance in its green eyes.
Tan Zhaozhao: "...Be good, baby. Let the doctor give you a physical examination. That way he can tell if you are sick or not."
She was such a soft-hearted mother that she felt so distressed when she saw her baby's eyes filled with tears, so she chose to turn her head away and not look.
Star:"……"
After several minutes of torment, the hand that was rubbing Xingxing's body finally stopped.
"It doesn't look unhealthy. Are you eating and drinking normally?" Bai Yichen stopped but did not let go. His slender fingers through the gloves still easily clamped the kitten to prevent it from moving.
Without having to recall, Tan Zhaozhao could answer without hesitation: "There's nothing abnormal. He drinks water and eats very well. I haven't heard him retching, urinating frequently, or having watery stools..."
She frowned, just like every mother who took her child to the hospital to see a doctor. She clearly described every symptom and daily life of the child that she could not describe. At the end, she asked worriedly, "Doctor Bai, what's going on?"
Bai Yichen: “…”
Putting aside the strange hallucination, he glanced at the kitten lying obediently on the diaper and said to Tan Zhaozhao, "From the examination results and your statement, it seems that it is fine. It should be developing more slowly than other kittens. After all, you also said that it was born with a deficiency and almost couldn't be saved. It may need more nutrition than other kittens in order to meet its basic growth needs. So you can try to feed it some food with higher nutritional value."
"…But I feed Xingxing goat milk every day, and it eats the cat food I make myself. Other kittens usually eat cat food." Tan Zhaozhao was still puzzled.
Bai Yichen caught something from her words and asked her, "Are you saying that the other cats are so fat because they eat cat food?"
Tan Zhaozhao nodded: "Yes, Shanshan is not very good at cooking, and she is sick and has no energy to cook for so many cats every day, so she stocked up a lot of cat food, cat cans, and cat snacks..."
Before Tan Zhaozhao could finish her words, Bai Yichen raised his hand to interrupt her.
Bai Yichen returned the kitten to her, and then said to her: "Isn't it obvious? How can pigs fed with grains in the countryside grow faster than pigs fed with feed additives?"
Tan Zhaozhao's mouth twitched and he retorted: "Doctor Bai, this is a cat."
Not a pig.
"I'm not a veterinarian either." Bai Yichen looked back with a smile.
Tan Zhaozhao: "..."
Well, this man really holds a grudge and has a sharp tongue. Tan Zhaozhao was not so confident about asking him to treat the cat, so after learning that Xingxing just ate very healthily and grew slower than other kittens, he felt relieved and left with Xingxing in his arms, feeling a little guilty.
Afterwards, she told Li Shan Bai Yichen's inference.
Li Shan was also helpless. "I would like to help them lose weight and feed them better food, but... that's it. Anyway, it's fine as long as they don't get sick."
She knew better than Tan Zhaozhao how to raise a cat, but she was not Tan Zhaozhao, and she could not truly regard the kitten as a child who needed her careful care and feeding. Cat food and dog food were for the convenience of the poop scooper and not so troublesome. Li Shan fed the cats expensive food, and she herself was reluctant to spend so much money on food. Who made her have no cooking skills? She could even burn through the pot when boiling water. She really didn't dare to touch anything in the kitchen.
Just like everyone’s living habits are different, raising cats is also different. Anyway, as long as they don’t get sick and can grow up, it’s fine.
What's more, in the current situation, even if she wanted to feed the cat better food, it would be difficult.
Tan Zhaozhao didn't comment much on this, but occasionally when she made cat food for Xingxing, she would make some extra for the other two kittens.
As for the big orange one that had become as fat as a pig, the little cat meal she made was not enough for it to swallow in one bite...
The heavy rain continued for the 21st day.
The rain is getting lighter.
The accumulated water also slowly decreased.
From the window, Tan Zhaozhao could clearly see the sewage marks on the wall of the building on the opposite floor, which were left by the accumulated water and surrounded the wall. The marks had only dropped a little bit, and if there was no comparison, they would be almost invisible.
The heavy rain turned into drizzle, and except for the occasional thunder, even the wind gradually died down.
The world is getting quieter.
Xingxing lay on a high stool, watching the city garbage and some dead branches and leaves that were rotting and slowly floating in the puddles outside.
Some of them quickly flowed away with the water, while others were blocked in a corner of a high-rise building, accumulating more and more.
Xingxing also saw someone on the opposite floor opening the window and cheering that the rain was about to stop.
Human optimism seems particularly noisy in this silent and humid world.
It’s night, day 22 of heavy rain.
The rain really stopped.
There was no sound of wind either.
Even the occasional harsh thunder and lightning disappeared.
The world seemed to have finally returned to silence at this moment, and it seemed as if after experiencing a long period of disaster, it was finally getting back on track.
The vaguely unusual silence woke Xingxing up from her mother's arms.
Qiuqiu squatted by the window, looking at the bright night sky that finally appeared after more than 20 days, and said slowly and melancholy: "Baby, humans only have a few days to catch their breath. Soon, the high temperature will come."
Outside the window, the stars are twinkling and the moon is high in the sky.
But the brighter the stars and the whiter the moon, the more it seemed to be foreshadowing that a more terrible natural disaster was about to come.
Just at this moment, Xingxing saw a small skeletal corpse floating slowly on the water under the moonlight.
It was a cat that had been soaked in water for who knows how long.
The heavy rain has stopped, but the accumulated water is unlikely to recede quickly.
Once the high temperature comes, these tiny corpses that have been soaked in the wind and rain for many days will be exposed to the high temperature in the water, accelerating their decay.
Can cold standing water become boiling hot?
The stars don't know.
But the stagnant water will definitely become foul-smelling.
"I don't know when the water will recede." Su Mingyue held a bowl of brown sugar ginger tea and drank it while worrying.
Li Shan shook her head, sipping a bowl of ginger tea in her hand.
Chen Yi looked at the clear sky and the faint rainbow on the water, and said in a soothing tone: "No matter what, at least we can finally get some sun. If we don't get some sun, we'll feel damp and moldy."
"Doctor Bai said that our illness can be cured by getting more sun exposure. Those people in the resettlement site shouldn't make trouble anymore, right?" Several people were quarantined at home, and they were still concerned about the news about the resettlement site that Tang Jin and others brought back every day.
Chen Yi shook her head. "I don't know, but the rain has stopped, which is a good thing for now. Looking at the blue sky and white clouds, I feel much more cheerful."
Humans are emotional creatures, so when we are in a good mood, our bodies will naturally recover faster.
This can be seen from the expressions of Tang Jin and others who returned today.
When they came back a few days ago, the expression on everyone's face was as gloomy as a rainy day. Today, under the sun, it seemed as if the bitter oranges had finally relaxed a little, becoming more moist and energetic than a few days ago.
But just because the rain has stopped doesn't mean everything is fine.
On the contrary, as soon as the rain stopped, everyone had to get busy.
Although the water has not receded, many people have stayed in the resettlement site for so many days and have long wanted to go home. Especially since they have been under control all the time, people have been eager to move.
Tang Jin and other official personnel had to call on many volunteers and people with nothing to do in the resettlement sites to carry out post-disaster cleanup.
We need to salvage garbage and floating bodies in the water, check and replace drainage systems in various parts of the city, find and salvage supplies, and deal with the domestic garbage that has been piled up for so long...
All the odds and ends, even food soaked in water, need to be cleared away.
Many people don't understand. They think that food sealed in packaging bags is edible even if it has been soaked in water. When officials are not paying attention, they get sick from eating it. Every time Bai Yichen sees such patients who need rescue, his face is uglier than the dark god of death.
Unfortunately, it continues to happen despite repeated bans.
Therefore, we can only salvage as much as possible and then destroy it in a centralized manner.
While Tang Jin and the others were busy, Tan Zhaozhao and Xingxing were not idle either.
The water on the roof had disappeared, and Xingxing followed her mother's feet, hopping and skipping on her short legs, until she released a group of chirping chicks and ducklings from the top floor with a foam box.
"Baby, please help mommy watch them while mommy goes to pick up other things, okay?" Tan Zhaozhao gently touched the kitten's head.
“Ah~”
good!
Soon, all the vegetable, fruit and melon seedlings, chicken, duck and goose seedlings that were originally on the 17th floor were moved to the top floor one by one by her. She, her children and the seedlings were all enjoying the rare and comfortable sunshine together.
"Xingxing, let's have hotpot tonight and I'll make you some delicious beef rolls, okay?" Tan Zhaozhao lay on the cushion, basking in the sun, holding the cat, squinting his eyes, and breathed a sigh of relief with fatigue and comfort.
"Meow~"
Good~
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