Chapter 204 The End of Kitten Diary
When you realize that separation is not far away, time passes by very quickly.
The cold wave is about to come and then dissipate, and the rainy season is about to arrive, and disasters are cycling back and forth in this city.
In the end, Tan Zhaozhao was unable to take Xingxing out to see the flowers blooming in the spring of the new year.
Under the shadow of the natural disaster, she celebrated the kitten's three birthdays.
It was not until the fourth year that new green buds suddenly appeared in the soil downstairs outside the window.
Wildfires cannot be extinguished; they will spring up again with the spring breeze.
Even after nearly four years of natural disasters, the roots and seeds buried deep in the soil still tenaciously broke out of the ground when they sensed the arrival of spring.
But before spring fully arrives, the stars witness the demise of life.
The little orange that was as fat as a big truck died.
Before it died, it pestered Tan Zhaozhao to eat a can of goat milk, and snatched the chicken breast floss from its cubs. Then it lay on the soft cushion, closed its eyes peacefully, and died.
The stars were the first to notice its death.
When Xingxing called their mother, Little Orange's children surrounded its body. They meowed anxiously and confusedly, and kept stretching out their claws to try and scratch.
When Li Shan held little Orange's body in her arms, it was still warm, but soon became stiff and cold, lying quietly in Li Shan's arms, as if it was just taking a peaceful nap in the most ordinary afternoon.
Until big tears fell directly on its still soft orange fur.
Li Shan cried for a long time.
Holding the cat that she had raised for eight years, she squatted beside the cat bed, sobbing, letting her tears fall down in strings.
Tan Zhaozhao stayed by her side, stroking her back slowly with his hand.
Xingxing squatted at her mother's feet and looked at the two silent and sad humans with concern.
The little orange children circled around their mother's body and the human holding her body, meowing and wagging their tails anxiously.
Does the kitten know what death is?
Maybe you understand?
But the kittens were powerless against death. They could not save the life that was supposed to leave, nor could they bring a bouquet of beautiful flowers to their mother in front of the small mound of earth.
In this spring that is finally coming back to life.
The kittens lost their mother.
After burying several of Xiaojuzi’s favorite toys in front of his grave, Tan Zhaozhao took Xingxing home.
She was not in a good mood, and just like Li Shan, she would stare at the stars and suddenly become dazed for several days.
Xingxing knew what her mother was thinking.
After unlocking his special powers, Xingxing can hear everyone's thoughts.
Mom is sad.
She was just like the star that realized the separation three years ago. Although they were still with each other, she had already seen the separation between herself and the star through Xiaojuzi's death.
There will be a day like that.
Compared to the long lifespan of humans, a kitten's life is really too short.
From the moment you realize this, the rest of your life will fly by quickly and be difficult to hold on to.
Tan Zhaozhao knew that she was powerless to keep Xingxing, so all she could do was to record more and give Xingxing more love and companionship.
In addition, she is also preparing in advance for when that day comes.
"Baby, you are a very special kitten."
Tan Zhaozhao held the chubby kitten in her arms, patted its head, and said in a gentle voice with eyes curved, "Mom doesn't know why you came to my side, and I don't know how you are different from ordinary kittens. Mom just wants to tell you that no matter what your soul becomes, as long as it is you, Mom will always love you."
"Mom promises you that if we have more fate, no matter what you become, as long as mom meets you, she will choose to love you without hesitation."
"If the stars become puppies, I will take you home the first time I see you; if the stars become birds, I will feed every bird that stops by my window; if one day the stars become human children, then mom hopes that you will always be loved and be a healthy and happy child before you meet me."
Xingxing looked at her mother's eyes full of tenderness, meowed, and moved closer to touch her mother's chin gently with the tip of her nose.
Rather than fearing death and separation, Tan Zhaozhao is more afraid that Xingxing will suffer loneliness and be bullied in places where he can't see her.
Just like when I was just born, I was thrown out of the cat nest countless times by my mother cat because I was too weak.
Tan Zhaozhao carefully records every precious and lovely moment of the kitten every day.
She is not planning to fall in love and have children, nor is she planning to raise another kitten or puppy. She devotes all her emotions to giving the kitten the most and best love. She hopes that no matter the kitten goes to the cat planet or to another planet, it will be a rich kitten with a lot of love from its mother.
After a major disaster, there will be a longer period of post-disaster reconstruction and social and economic recovery.
Li Shan lost Xiaojuzi, but in the second month of the same year, she finally met her parents.
The two men looked like they had aged ten years. Their once strong bodies and vigorous spirits had all disappeared, replaced by decadence and frustration. Even their eyes were filled with fatigue that could not be concealed.
When the first group of people returned to the city, Tan Zhaozhao and others learned from them how thrilling and difficult life was in other provinces.
Fortunately, even after surviving a near-death experience, the family was successfully reunited. As long as people are still alive and everyone works together, any difficulties can be overcome.
After four years of getting along, the eight people have gradually become a family that trusts and relies on each other from being teammates.
After a long period of struggle and hesitation, Song Qianyi finally nodded and agreed to get to know each other at Tang Jin's initiative, and they became the first and only couple in the team.
When the third cold winter came, Tang Jin proposed, and they agreed to get married and become a family after the doomsday disaster was over.
Tan Zhaozhao and Li Shan had official positions and became busy after the disaster.
Xingxing is her mother's little pendant and a non-staff cat in the team, but she is still often kept by her mother's side.
So the kitten finally stepped on the tender green grass buds in the lawn with its paws, and saw countless colorful kites flying in the sky.
Spring is here.
Then comes the hot summer, the golden autumn, and the frost and snow.
Xingxing grew from a kitten the size of a palm into a chubby white and orange cat.
Except for the first year after the apocalypse when he hid in the underground parking lot with many humans, Xingxing had never eaten a single grain of cat food. His mother always tried her best to take good care of him.
So Xingxing also lives very seriously. As a premature kitten, its lifespan is much longer than other kittens.
It lived in this world for a full 21 years.
It is a long time that is enough for a child to grow from a babbling child to an adult.
It is also enough for the mother to grow from a socially anxious and sensitive girl into a tough, gentle and strong woman.
Everyone who knew Xingxing smiled and praised it as a long-lived kitten, saying that it would live as long as humans. They also said that it was the team's mascot and the guardian beast of the team.
But a kitten's life always comes to an end.
Even though mom and Xingxing herself are trying very hard to prolong this life journey.
The kitten is sleeping soundly in its mother's arms.
Everyone comforted its mother, saying that it was just having a dream from which it would never wake up.
Tan Zhaozhao listened quietly, holding the kitten that had been with her for twenty-one years, and she was not even willing to shed tears on the kitten's fur.
The kitten's soul is light and its tears will become a burden on its journey to the cat planet.
Tan Zhaozhao cried with a smile, combed the fur of the little one in her arms, and then, as she had done every day for the past 21 years, she gently rubbed the kitten's head and ears, and coaxed it in a gentle voice: "Baby, mom will come to see you every day, so even if you sleep in a dark little mound, don't be afraid, mom will always protect you."
It was a furry and warm little ball when we first met it, but it ended up sleeping in a cold little mound of earth in the suburbs.
Tan Zhaozhao’s Little Cat Diary has finally come to an end.
She sat beside the lonely little grave, hugged her knees, and looked up in a daze at the real yet fake white clouds and blue sky above her head.
She even began to be thankful for the falsity of this world. It was precisely because it was fake that the stars' specialness was real.
That means that the kitten’s death is not real death. Perhaps it will go to a more beautiful planet, see more scenery, and meet more humans.
Her baby Xingxing is so cute, he will definitely be favored by fate and meet more and better people and get more and better love, right?
She was not jealous because she knew that the kitten had lived very hard just to love her.
She got all the love from Star Kitten.
She is as lucky and rich as the stars.
For the luck and wealth brought by the kitten, Tan Zhaozhao was even willing to suppress all dangerous thoughts of exposing this ridiculous false world.
She is willing to be born, grow old, get sick and die in this false world. She is willing to be an insignificant supporting role. She is also willing to disappear or reincarnate with this world when the protagonist dies.
Because she was not sure whether this world would become an anchor point for the stars, not sure whether the stars would be willing to come back one day to take a look, not sure whether her madness would make the appearance of the kitten a mistake that should be erased.
So even though he had been planning in his mind for several years and had countless dangerous ideas, on this day, Tan Zhaozhao stood guard beside Xingxing's little grave and calmly accepted the so-called pre-written fate.
Her star is more important than the whole world.
She planted a peach pit in the kitten's arms in the grave.
The child loves peach blossoms the most. Every year when the peach blossoms bloom, it will lie on the window and look out eagerly. Every time I take it out, it will flutter towards the peach tree with its kitten steps.
Now she has planted the peach tree in the kitten's arms. When the peach tree grows and blooms, the fragrant peach blossoms will fall all over the child.
"Baby, it's spring again."
"Mom will love you for many, many springs."
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