Chapter 183 Sick Kitten
late at night.
The bulge in the quilt moved. Tan Zhaozhao drowsily reached out to lift the quilt and sat up, turning on the night light at the bedside.
She was awakened by the sudden sound of thunder outside the window.
I looked out the window in the warm orange light. It was pitch black. Only the torrential rain that seemed like it would never stop was still roaring and hitting the world.
Just as she was about to look away, a blinding light suddenly flashed outside the window, illuminating the entire room and half of the sky and earth shrouded in heavy rain with extreme clarity and brightness.
The next second, there was another rumbling sound of thunder that rolled from near to far and echoed in the ears. Even the windows were shaken by the thunder, as if it could shake this tall building at any time, causing it and the humans living in it to be annihilated in the lightning and thunderstorm.
Tan Zhaozhao subconsciously closed his eyes when he was illuminated by the lightning. After the light with the electric arc disappeared from the muffled thunder, he withdrew his gaze to the outside, turned around and touched the kitten that was curled up on the pillow and still sleeping.
Her brows were slightly furrowed, and she kept her hands on the kitten's slowly rising and falling soft belly with a little worry.
Unfortunately, she is not a professional doctor and cannot use this to measure whether the kitten also has a cold or fever.
"Xingxing has been sleeping since he came back..." Tan Zhaozhao opened the door to let Li Shan in, led her to the bedroom, and said worriedly as they walked: "Please help me see if it has a cold. It got caught in the rain with us this morning, and ran out of the house to save me in the afternoon. There was such a loud thunder just now, but it didn't wake up at all. I can't figure out what's going on."
Li Shan was well aware that her best friend had a habit of talking too much when she was nervous.
She just ran downstairs in her slippers and knocked on the door. If she hadn't been woken up by the thunder, she might have huddled outside the door and knocked stubbornly for a long time.
"Don't worry." Li Shan ignored the cat and said to Tan Zhaozhao, who had just run downstairs in a thin nightgown, "You have caught a cold too. Hurry up and put on some clothes. Otherwise, it will be worse tomorrow."
Tan Zhaozhao nodded randomly, still pulling her towards the bed, asking her to help check on the kitten who was still sleeping.
Li Shan could feel that the hand holding hers was very cold. She did not delay any longer and walked to the bedside and leaned over to check on the kitten.
"I do have a slight fever." She said in a more serious tone.
Under the palm of my hand, a tiny kitten curled up into an even smaller ball. It was clearly asleep, but it was still trembling slightly. The situation did not look optimistic.
"Then what should I do?" Tan Zhaozhao also stood by the window and asked in a panic: "Should I give it cold medicine? Can I give it the cold granules I drank at noon?"
She was a little confused. As a first-time cat owner, she knew only a few things. She was annoyed that she had to take Xingxing out in the rain in the morning, and she was also anxious and afraid that Xingxing's condition might be serious.
People and cats are different, and Xingxing is different from ordinary kittens. She really didn’t know what to do for a moment. She could only look to the more experienced Li Shan for help, hoping that she could give her some reassurance.
At this moment, Tan Zhaozhao had completely lost her usual calmness. Her hair was messy, and she looked even more haggard and ugly due to her illness. But she didn't care at all about her current image. She reached out and carefully held Xingxing in her arms, and like every parent who took their child to the hospital to see a doctor, she waited eagerly for the doctor to speak out the best treatment plan.
Li Shan looked at her strangely and was silent for a moment before shaking her head and saying, "No, human medicine cannot be given to cats, otherwise cats will easily die of kidney failure. They are too small and cannot metabolize enough medicine."
"Then what should I do?" Tan Zhaozhao hugged Xingxing tightly.
She was extremely worried, fearing that the little life in her arms that she had snatched back from the hands of death would turn into a cold little corpse because of her negligence and accident.
The reason why she accepted Xingxing's specialness so quickly and accepted that this kitten was not the same soul as before was because she was really scared.
This kitten is the only thing she completely owns in her life. She is always worried about losing it. Sometimes she keeps telling the kitten that she is its mother, but in fact she is more eager to use one-sided words to confirm the identity relationship between herself and the kitten.
She bullied kittens for not being able to talk and children for being too young to leave their mothers, so when Xingxing gently pressed the "Mom" button with her paw for the first time, Tan Zhaozhao was not afraid at all. Instead, she felt ecstasy from the bottom of her heart and even felt flattered.
But Xingxing just called her mother yesterday, and today she fell ill because of her.
No matter how many unavoidable accidents occurred, Tan Zhaozhao would ultimately attribute all the causes to himself.
Since you are a mother, why can't you protect your baby?
Tan Zhaozhao felt the kitten in her arms trembling, and in a trance she felt as if her body was shaking unconsciously as well.
Can't accept all the bad endings, can't lose the only star you have.
So even if it was just a small cold, she was worried that the cold would make the kitten's body colder and stiffer.
"...Don't cry." Li Shan raised her hand to wipe away the tears on her face, and said helplessly: "Cats are just like people. You can't expect it to never get sick. And it's just a cold. Although you can't take medicine, you can wrap it up with a hot water bottle and a quilt to warm it up, and it should feel better."
Tan Zhaozhao did not ask whether it was true or not, but immediately did it.
She had several hot water bottles, and she filled the ones that were filled with water with hot water, and started charging the ones that were charging immediately. Then she found a small solar electric oven, turned it up to the maximum to heat up the sofa, and then wrapped the weak kitten in a quilt and put it on the sofa...
Li Shan seemed to be about to say something but stopped herself several times.
Finally, I couldn't help but remind her: "Don't make it too hot. The kitten already has a fever. If you keep doing this, the child might get confused."
As he spoke, he started to work busily behind Tan Zhaozhao.
However, Tan Zhaozhao was busy taking care of the cat, while Li Shan was busy taking care of Tan Zhaozhao.
"Here, take the cold medicine first, and put on these clothes quickly. After taking the medicine, hug Xingxing and take a nap on the sofa. I will keep watch for you tonight."
She forcefully stuffed the prepared cold medicine into Tan Zhaozhao's hand, then took out some thick clothes and a thick blanket and wrapped her up like a star. Finally, she looked with satisfaction at the two of them, one big and one small, lying on the sofa, baked into a bright orange hue by the warm light of the little sun.
Like two shiny and quiet candies.
Tan Zhaozhao didn't sleep.
She wrapped herself in a big blanket, watching over the little cat, listening to the heavy rain, lightning and thunder outside the window, and finally had a more real feeling that the end of the world was coming.
In the second half of the night, everything is quiet.
Li Shan couldn't bear it any longer. Seeing that she was still energetic, she used the soy milk maker to reserve soy milk for her for tomorrow morning, and went downstairs yawning to catch up on her sleep.
Once again, I was the only one left in the room with the cat.
Tan Zhaozhao lay sideways on the sofa, half of her face was warm and bright under the baking sun. She tried to feel the body temperature of the kitten, which was covered with a blanket and held by several hot water bottles. It was still hot.
She was lost in thought for a moment.
If you're being kept warm like this...it wouldn't be normal if it wasn't hot, right?
She tried calling the kitten's name.
She didn't expect to get an answer, but maybe it was some metaphysical power, the kitten in her arms, who was dizzy from the heat, actually hummed and tilted its head to rub against her fingers.
Tan Zhaozhao: "..."
Oops, I feel like crying again.
She really didn't think she was such an emotional and sentimental person before.
But today I shed all the tears of the past year.
She pursed her lips, reached out and held the drowsy kitten in her arms, bent down and kissed its furry little head, and whispered: "Baby, you must be a little gift from God to mom, right? The world is so big, and you are so small. Mom is really lucky to meet you."
Maybe there really is some so-called special fate.
The stars can hear their mother's voice.
Just like the mother it imagined in the end times, warm and soft, like a nursery rhyme it heard in a dream, covered with a thin layer of mist, carefully placing the beautiful red color on its mother's back.
It’s mom.
She is a mother who is gentler and warmer than Xingxing’s poor imagination.
It is the most surprising gift God has given to the kitten and the little zombie.
In her mother's arms, Xingxing quickly fell asleep peacefully again.
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It's dawn.
Li Shan went upstairs to measure the kitten's temperature. After seeing that it was able to drink goat milk and eat some dried fish, she unilaterally confirmed that the kitten had passed the critical period of its cold.
Tan Zhaozhao breathed a sigh of relief.
Immediately afterwards, she took the initiative to ask Li Shan to train her physical fitness.
Li Shan was not surprised and agreed readily. However, before exercising, the two had more important things to do.
Xingxing squatted on her mother's shoulder and watched her follow Li Shan downstairs.
When the door was opened, a faint chirping sound made Xingxing prick up her ears subconsciously. She grabbed her mother's clothes with her paws, arched her back, and her tail immediately straightened.
Tan Zhaozhao raised his hand to comfort it, but his eyes were looking at a large foam box surrounded by several cats walking around.
"Hatched?" she asked with a little surprise.
Li Shan nodded, picked up Little Orange and its two cubs and locked them in another bedroom, then said to Tan Zhaozhao, "They were the ones that hatched last night. After I came down, I also used your method to set up the small solar oven for them, but only two of them have hatched. The rest will probably come out one after another in the next few days."
Xingxing lay on her mother's shoulder and looked up with her to see the plush little yellow chickens in the foam box walking back and forth on their little feet and pecking at the rice.
cute.
There are stars too.
Xingxing raised chickens before.
Qiuqiu was squatting on Li Shan's other shoulder. When he saw this scene, his eyes went dark.
Xingxing had raised chicks before, but when they grew up and changed their appearance, they produced an outrageous amount of poop! And it was extremely smelly! !
Later, Qiuqiu couldn't bear it anymore. He was tortured by those noisy and dirty chickens, so he made them all into delicious stewed chicken, roasted chicken, grilled chicken, spicy chicken, and boiled chicken...
"It's over. If Li Shan really keeps chickens in the house and doesn't clean up in time, her house will stink so bad that no one can go in!!"
As soon as he said this, Tan Zhaozhao turned around, and Qiuqiu and Xingxing saw goose eggs and duck eggs waiting to hatch in another foam box.
Xingxing's eyes lit up, and the goslings and ducklings were fluffy and yellow. I have never raised them, but I want them!
Qiuqiu: “…”
Very good, I already want to run away.
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