Chapter 174 April Fools' Day Joke
Tan Zhaozhao went home in the rain.
When I walked out of the elevator, I was not surprised to see Li Shan standing blankly at the door.
Tan Zhaozhao opened the door and let her in. Li Shan changed her shoes and as soon as her butt touched the sofa, she could no longer suppress the burning desire to complain in her heart.
"What do you think my parents were thinking? We have made so many preparations. Staying here is a natural safe zone. After the government arranges for evacuation, can't we just live comfortably with those supplies? Why did they soften their hearts and agree to escort them to evacuate just after listening to the relatives' crying and begging?"
Li Shan grabbed Tan Zhaozhao and started complaining. Finally, she took a deep breath and swallowed back the unfilial words, "Did they get struck by lightning?"
But she was still very angry. Just thinking about the scene this morning when her parents asked her hesitantly to go with them, she couldn't suppress the anger in her heart.
She felt that in just one morning, she, who had been healthy and lively since childhood, could be irritated by the bunch of aunts and uncles at home and develop breast hyperplasia!
"I'm so pissed off. My parents can't control their mouths. Before the official evacuation notice was issued, they called all the relatives at home one after another to inform them. I won't say anything about this, after all, it's a matter of life and death. A minute or a second earlier can make a difference. But not only did they not believe it, they also said that my parents' brains were damaged by practicing martial arts every day, and that I drove my parents crazy by not getting married. This is outrageous, it's outrageous to the extreme! ”
"When the official notice was issued in the morning, they immediately changed their attitude and called my house one after another. That's not all. They also came to my house in a group to persuade my parents to go with them, saying that we are all family and it is safer to go together. If they didn't fancy my parents' fighting ability and wanted to use family ties and morality to get two bodyguards for free, I would have taken their last names!!"
Tan Zhaozhao: "..."
Li Shan was still expressing her passion, so she naturally didn't say that even if she took the same surname as those relatives and friends, it should still be Li, right?
After all, both Li Shan’s parents have the surname Li, and their relatives on both sides also have the surname Li.
Swallowing the words with a bit of amusement, Tan Zhaozhao took an ice cream, tore it open and handed it to Li Shan, who was getting more and more angry as he spoke.
Eat something cold to cool down.
Li Shan angrily took a big bite of the ice cream, her gums shivering from the cold, but she continued to eat while mumbling and cursing those blood-sucking worms.
Later, when only the stick of Li Shan's ice cream was left, Tan Zhaozhao finally found a chance to interrupt and ask, "Are your parents sure they want to evacuate with your relatives?"
Li Shan nodded with a sullen face and sneered, "Yes, you know, my parents have always had the final say in my family since I was a child. They can beat me, but I am afraid of being beaten. Anyway, what they say is what counts, just like when I raised Xiaojuzi..."
At this point, she paused and said irritably, "Anyway, I can't convince them, and the worst thing is that they want to take all the supplies we worked so hard to get and distribute them to our relatives, you know? If I hadn't had a big fight with them, I'm afraid we would have spent money to make wedding clothes for others. I'm really going to be mad at them!"
When Tan Zhaozhao heard that uncle and aunt Li were going to evacuate with their relatives, she felt vaguely worried.
Hearing Li Shan's words now only confirmed her previous worries.
Tan Zhaozhao was not surprised. Instead, she gave her a thumbs up and praised her with eyes curved: "My dear, you are awesome. You have strong fighting power. If it weren't for you, wouldn't all our preparations be in vain? Fortunately, you are here!"
Li Shan, who was furious, said: "..."
What should I do if my best friend is too emotionally stable and good at providing emotional value?
I simply can't be angry anymore.
In the completely sincere praise, Li Shan's mouth corners unconsciously raised several arcs. She was helpless and annoyed and hit her friend with her elbow, "You are annoying too. It's such a time and you are still praising me. Aren't you afraid that those people in my family will really make us lose all our money?"
Tan Zhaozhao pretended to be hurt, but in the next moment he couldn't help laughing.
"Remember the day we first found out the truth? I told you that you could let your family come live in my house."
After recalling, Li Shan asked blankly: "I remember, what's wrong?"
Does this have any relevance to the current situation?
Tan Zhaozhao smiled and looked at her, and said softly: "In fact, the reason why I had the courage to say such words at that time was because I knew that there were too many family members behind you. My home can only accommodate you or your parents at most."
"The difference lies in whether your parents can give up their relatives and friends."
"Now it seems that it is impossible. Fortunately, they still took you into consideration. After you resisted and fought for it, they did not cruelly give our supplies to relatives as a favor. Otherwise, the image of the two elders in my heart would have completely collapsed."
In fact, when Li Shan said yesterday that her parents didn't allow her to keep a cat, Tan Zhaozhao was not particularly surprised.
Because in the eyes of the older generation, no matter how much they love cats and dogs, and how good they are to these little guys, there is a bottom line in their hearts.
Once their own interests may be infringed upon or any disadvantages exceed this bottom line, there is no need for cats and dogs to exist.
It's just a pet.
If you feed it and give it food, you should be grateful and content.
There won't be any psychological burden in throwing it away. Instead, you will just feel like you have thrown away a burden and a trouble.
Even though Li Shan claims every day that she is Xiaojuzi's mother and the kittens' grandmother, in the eyes of her parents, she is just an animal that is lucky to be raised by others.
Tan Zhaozhao was very familiar with these ideas of the older generation because she had seen them countless times when she was a child.
She is more aware of the nobility and ugliness of human nature.
Li Shan's parents didn't want to keep a cat, but they were willing to escort their relatives to evacuate and survive in the doomsday.
Therefore, that kind of contradictory human nature is particularly striking in them.
"I was even prepared that your parents might be instigated by relatives to kick me out of my house one day." Tan Zhaozhao also tilted his head and told a hellish joke.
Li Shan, however, couldn't laugh at all.
She leaned forward, put her arms around the smiling girl in front of her, and whispered in Tan Zhaozhao's ear: "Zhaozhao, thank you."
When she thought she was worthy of that trust, she realized belatedly that the trust was actually much deeper than she had imagined.
On the other side of the sofa, Qiuqiu was still diligently serving as Xingxing's round little toy and a small round pillow for his chin and paws.
The two little ones looked at the friendly interaction between the two humans quietly and tacitly, communicating quietly with their voices.
"Baby, after experiencing so many worlds, I still can't seem to see through the complexity of human beings."
Every time Qiuqiu thinks that human beings are almost like that, some new things always pop up, layer after layer, which cannot be fully understood or guessed.
The little orange cat tilted his head and said, "I don't remember there being so many worlds."
Qiuqiu: "Because you sealed your memory."
The tips of the kitten's ears twitched slightly, "Have I also met a human as good as my mother?"
Qiuqiu answered without hesitation: "Yes, every time the guardians of the stars are very good people, they all love you very much."
Therefore, in many sealed memories, there is actually a lot of love hidden.
"Have you ever met anyone very bad?" Star Kitten scratched the ball of light.
Qiuqiu's brain seemed to be short-circuited for a moment. After thinking for a while, he answered carefully: "...Yes, but it seems that there are not many, because Xingxing rarely cares about how bad the bad guys are, and will not deliberately provoke bad guys, so the bad guys that Xingxing encountered did not hurt you much. You and your guardian protected yourself very well."
"That's good." Star Cat blinked his round light green eyes, hugged the small ball of light in front of him, and comforted softly: "We don't have to see through the complexity of humans. They have good people, bad people, and people who are neither good nor bad. No matter what kind of people they are, it doesn't matter, because they are all being themselves."
The stars don't want to see through every human being.
To be precise, Xingxing thinks the current state is good enough.
Being a kitten who can neither speak cat language nor human language.
Be a small, insignificant listener.
He is also a little spectator in this small world that no one knows about.
"That's good."
The star said something similar again.
Because after coming here, it can't help but think of another world, the world that is also called the end of the world by humans.
"I like this world, where humans rely on their own discoveries to avoid danger, and then rely on their own abilities to resist natural disasters."
"In the apocalypse we were in, Uncle Hu would not abuse my abilities to support humanity. Even before another savior came to us, he never thought of exposing my special abilities."
In the crisis-ridden doomsday, the stars enjoyed the airtight protection of humans.
Originally, there should have been one more person to protect her.
But because of its ability to listen to the inner voice, because it heard and saw through a human being, it lost that person forever, and it can no longer accept love that is not pure enough.
Now it has no special powers, just like a real kitten. It does not need to listen to whether humans have any moment of hesitation or entanglement in their hearts. Instead, like the big orange cat downstairs that does not understand human language, it can safely enjoy the care and love of humans, and will be able to calmly face being abandoned and wandering by humans in the future.
So Xingxing no longer thought about seeing through humans. It lay in the cat bed, and its pair of light green cat eyes quietly watched the two humans on the sofa, listening to their conversation topic which jumped several times and finally turned to how to have a hot pot dinner in the doomsday.
And its human mother, even when talking about a hot pot dinner that was still far away, did not forget about it, but said happily: "Sure! I have saved a lot of freeze-dried chicken breasts and dried fish. When the time comes, I will make a tomato mushroom soup pot that is not salty or spicy, specially for Xingxing and your little orange family of three to have hot pot!"
The two families and the cats are all neat and tidy, no one is left behind.
Human beings always imagine the future with expectations and aspirations.
But more people are panicking about their current ignorance.
When the authorities integrated all TV channels and social media platforms to broadcast news about the end of the world and evacuation, people in every city who were living their lives stopped what they were doing and listened or looked at the strange and harsh news in a daze.
end?
Natural disaster?
Evacuate?
What a ridiculous word, such a strange combination, such a bizarre day.
Doomsday, on such an ordinary and normal day, suddenly broke into everyone's cognition like an April Fool's joke.
Coincidentally, the next day was April 1st.
April Fools' Day.
If the official announcement is delayed by one day, the optimistic people will be able to smile and create a hot search term on the Internet: Official April Fools' Day scam.
Unfortunately not.
So on April Fools' Day, the entire Internet fell into doomsday silence and panic.
Just refresh the hot search terms and you will see that they are all about the current natural disaster situation in various places.
If you don’t pay attention, you don’t know. Once you pay attention, everyone will be shocked.
The whole country is experiencing natural disasters of varying sizes. Some are earthquakes that are not high-level but cause panic two or three times a day, some are torrential rains that have flooded people up to their knees but are still ongoing, and some are mudslides, landslides, and seawater backflows...
All provinces and cities across the country are facing the threat of natural disasters.
So, where can the people who migrate out of cities move to?
Is there really any absolutely safe place in this world?
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