Chapter 54 Retribution
After all the strange silver fruits exploded, the small tree that had grown to one and a half meters tall withered rapidly, its dry branches shattered, and disappeared into the air. No trace of it could be seen. Only a one-yuan coin shining with silver light on the ground could prove the existence of the small tree.
Lu Qingmian picked up a coin and examined it, then pulled out a hundred-yuan note from his pocket and handed it to Jiang Jinyue, "Would you like to try it?"
Jiang Jinyue's wide-open cat mouth slowly closed, and he stared down at the RMB in front of him, lost in thought. "Meow meow meow?"
Is this really possible?
He was looking so intently that his beautiful little cat eyes turned cross-eyed.
The little mustaches on both sides of his furry mouth trembled. Jiang Jinyue stretched out his two front paws, picked up the folded hundred-yuan bill, put it in the flowerpot, dug it with his little paws, and covered it with a thin layer of soil.
"Do I need to water it?" Lu Qingmian asked.
"Meow meow meow meow?" "That shouldn't be necessary, right?" Jiang Jinyue answered uncertainly.
The man and the cat began to stare at the small flower pot.
A minute passed and nothing happened.
Jiang Jinyue wagged his tail impatiently.
Two minutes passed and nothing happened.
Jiang Jinyue's attention has been attracted by the scenery outside the window. He jumped onto the window, stood up with his two front paws holding the glass, and his little head swayed left and right from time to time following the small flies flying outside the window. His topaz-like cat eyes shrank into a thin line in the sunlight, and his cat's mouth was slightly open, making a rhythmic "ga ga ga" sound, as if sending a telegram to the cat star.
Lu Qingmian took out his cell phone, turned on the timer, and turned to tidy up the messy bed.
After the initial surprise, neither of them took the ability to make money seriously.
Jiang Jinyue used to be very poor, and he saved as much as possible and was very frugal when it came to spending money. Now he has a lot of money, but he is not too extravagant. Ordinary daily expenses are enough for him to live. He does not have any material desires, and his concept of money has always been that it is enough to have enough to spend.
Lu Qingmian was not short of money at all. Although his quality of life was higher, he did not have the habit of squandering money. When he saw that Jiang Jinyue had this ability, he was only a little surprised, and more curious.
If someone else came, he would probably capture Jiang Jinyue and squeeze out every last bit of his ability regardless of his life or death.
Lu Qingmian had just tidied up the bed that had been messed up by Jiang Jinyue when he heard the sound of plants sprouting and breaking through the soil in the small flowerpot.
Because the growth speed is so fast, the branches even make a sound of breaking through the air.
The man and the cat were attracted by the sound and came to the flower pot again.
Just like planting the coins just now, the small green seedling inside grew into a small tree in the blink of an eye, but this time the tree was taller than the previous one, about 1.8 meters. This time, Jiang Jinyue couldn't see the top of the tree even if he raised his head high.
Lu Qingmian simply picked up Jiang Jinyue and placed her on his shoulders.
Jiang Jinyue was so curious that he stood up, supported Lu Qingmian's bald head with one cat's paw, and stared at the crown of the small tree with his cat's eyes wide open.
This time the small tree was covered with a bunch of small pink flowers, which blossomed and bore fruit in the blink of an eye. The fruits were also pink, growing bigger and bigger, and when they grew to the size of a grapefruit, they exploded one after another.
Countless pink coins fell from the exploded fruit and soon covered the ground.
After all the fruits exploded, the small tree withered and disappeared again.
Lu Qingmian picked up a few banknotes and compared them, and found that the serial numbers on them were all different. "These bills seem to have been rationalized in this regard, and they should all be usable normally."
Jiang Jinyue was still holding Lu Qingmian's bald head. He kind of liked the feeling of standing on the shoulders of a "giant".
The warm little pad of flesh pressed against his scalp. Lu Qingmian tilted his head, and Jiang Jinyue staggered from Lu Qingmian's shoulder into his arms.
Lu Qingmian had already thrown down the coins and walked towards the wardrobe with Jiang Jinyue in his arms.
"Meow?" What else is there to do?
Lu Qingmian dug out a few gold bars from the closet and asked, "Try this again?"
Jiang Jinyue was also curious and did not refuse.
Lu Qingmian put the gold bar into Jiang Jinyue's arms, walked to the flowerpot and put Jiang Jinyue down.
The gold bar has a certain weight. Lu Qingmian originally helped Jiang Jinyue put the gold bar into the flowerpot, but the gold bar he helped to insert into the soil did not respond at all. In the end, Jiang Jinyue had to use his kitten paws to pick up the gold bar and put it into the flowerpot with great effort before it worked.
It was the same as before, except that it took a little longer. In about half an hour, a small tree about one and eighty meters tall grew out of the flowerpot, bearing huge golden fruits. The fruits exploded, and crackling gold bars fell to the ground.
Fortunately, Jiang Jinyue lived downstairs from Lu Qingmian, otherwise the sound of gold bars hitting the floor would be considered disturbing by the neighbors.
The gold bars on the ground sparkled in the sun. Jiang Jinyue just thought it was fun and started running around with the gold bars. The gold bars collided with each other, making crisp and pleasant sounds. There was no greed in the eyes of Lu Qingmian and Jiang Jinyue.
"It really can be planted." Lu Qingmian's curiosity was satisfied, so he simply sat on the ground and built blocks with gold bars to entertain Jiang Jinyue.
Jiang Jinyue's attention was easily drawn away now, and the two of them had been playing for more than an hour without realizing it.
After lunch, Lu Qingmian carried a bag in the afternoon, filled it with thick blankets, put the skinny tabby cat from next door in it, stuffed Jiang Jinyue into his coat, and went out together.
They planned to try their luck at the flower bed of H University to see if they could find the girl who had buried the little white cat in the flower bed as the tabby cat had mentioned before.
The tabby cat is very timid. Lu Qingmian left a small opening in the zipper of his backpack for it to breathe. It stayed inside very quietly the whole time and didn't even stick its head out to take a look out of curiosity.
They walked out of the Rhine community and saw the little black cat again when crossing the road. The little black cat was still sitting on the side of the road, and no matter how Jiang Jinyue called it, it didn't move.
Walking towards H University, a boy with wet hair and coat came towards me.
H City has officially entered November, and it is already winter. The boy's wet hair and coat are covered with a thin layer of ice. When passing by the boy, Jiang Jinyue saw the boy's gloomy face and heard his low curse.
"What a fucking bad luck! I don't know which bitch spilled the water! Don't let me catch you..."
Jiang Jinyue suddenly thought of the girl he saw downstairs in the girls' dormitory who was almost splashed by water from upstairs. Wasn't there a little white cat there? Why didn't the little white cat help the boy block the water?
Jiang Jinyue looked up and exchanged a glance with Lu Qingmian, then continued walking towards H University. Neither of them noticed that the skinny tabby cat huddled in the backpack began to tremble after hearing the boy's voice.
The school's flower bed was covered with snow, and no land was visible. They walked to the edge of the flower bed and saw a white rose lying on the snow.
This white rose is in full bloom and must have been placed here today. A little white cat with its two paws holding a plastic bag is squatting next to the white rose, lowering its head and staring at it.
“Who put the flowers there?”
Lu Qingmian bent down and was about to pick up the white rose when a female voice came from behind him.
"Don't take that flower!"
Lu Qingmian paused, stood up and looked back, and saw a thin and petite girl wearing a thick down jacket standing beside him, her face full of vigilance.
When Jiang Jinyue saw the girl, he immediately got out of Lu Qingmian's arms. He jumped onto Lu Qingmian's shoulders, stretched out his paws to pull the backpack open, letting the tabby cat inside come out to have a look.
The tabby cat only poked its head out a little, took a look at the girl, and then immediately retracted it into the backpack.
"It was her. She buried the white cat."
When Jiang Jinyue heard that he had unexpectedly run into this girl, he immediately asked, "Hello, I heard that you buried a little white cat here. I want to ask what happened to the little white cat..."
He asked very seriously, but no one understood except Lu Qingmian.
When the girl saw that Lu Qingmian actually brought two cats, the vigilance on her face did not decrease, but instead became more hostile.
She took a small step back and looked at Jiang Jinyue in confusion.
Jiang Jinyue's words sounded like a long series of rhythmic "meow meow meow" in her ears.
Lu Qingmian couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he looked up and pinched Jiang Jinyue's little cat mouth, and asked, "Classmate, have you ever buried a little white cat here?"
The girl was stunned: "How do you know?"
Without waiting for Lu Qingmian to speak, she continued, "I heard someone in school has been catching stray cats recently. Is that you?"
As she spoke, she glanced at Jiang Jinyue who was standing on Lu Qingmian's shoulder, and then at the bag Lu Qingmian was carrying behind him.
"It's me." Lu Qingmian said.
The girl then took two steps forward, walked closer, and spoke a little louder, with a cold tone, as if trying to scare Lu Qingmian, "Where are the cats? What did you do with them after you took them away?"
"I took it home to raise it." Lu Qingmian explained. The girl seemed to think Lu Qingmian was a bad person.
After hearing Lu Qingmian's explanation, the girl didn't believe it at all. Instead, she said, "I don't believe it. Take me to see those cats!"
It seemed that the girl would not answer Lu Qingmian's question unless she saw the cat, so Lu Qingmian had no choice but to agree.
"I live in the Rhine neighborhood. Come with me."
The girl followed Lu Qingmian at a distance of half a meter and took out her mobile phone to record the video. She did not let her guard down at all because of Lu Qingmian's handsome appearance, and she seemed unaware that Lu Qingmian was now the campus idol of H University.
This is a girl who is very good at protecting herself and is worth learning from.
Lu Qingmian was talking to Jiang Jinyue in a low voice. The girl could only hear Lu Qingmian talking, but his voice was too soft and she couldn't hear what Lu Qingmian said specifically, so she kept a distance from him more cautiously.
When they arrived at the Rhine Community, the girl did not enter the elevator with Lu Qingmian when going upstairs. After asking about the floor, she entered the elevator alone after Lu Qingmian went up.
Lu Qingmian was already standing at the door next to room 1303.
The girl stood one meter away from the door and said, "Open the door."
Lu Qingmian was not angry at the girl's vigilance. He opened the door, and a group of cats of different colors ran out and began to meow around Lu Qingmian.
These cats were adopted by Lu Qingmian not long ago. Although their size has not changed much, each one is kept very clean and you can tell at a glance that they are well taken care of.
Seeing so many cats at once, the girl breathed a sigh of relief and slowly approached the gate.
She stood at the door and looked inside, and found that the house had been completely transformed into a cat paradise, full of things for cats.
The girl turned off the video, put away her phone, and her frown relaxed as she said softly, "Sorry, I was too cautious."
Lu Qingmian: "You did nothing wrong."
The girl followed Lu Qingmian into the house and petted the little heads of the cats one by one. She had fed almost all the stray cats in H University, and these cats still remembered her and were very happy to see her.
"Can you tell me about the little white cat now?" Lu Qingmian asked.
The girl let down her guard and a look of sadness appeared on her face when the little white cat was mentioned.
"I don't know how you knew I buried the little white cat in the flower bed, but since you took them in... I'll tell you."
"I picked up the little white cat from the trash last summer."
"My best friend and I were coming back from the snack street when we passed by the trash can outside the girls' dormitory. We heard the faint meow of a kitten inside. Curious, we went over to take a look and found a black plastic bag moving inside. We picked it up."
Hearing this, Lu Qingmian frowned and his face darkened.
Jiang Jinyue also had a guess, and his face looked serious.
"Inside that black bag was a wet little white cat. It was so skinny and only had one breath left. If I had been any later, it would have suffocated to death."
Thinking of this, the girl clenched her fists and was very angry.
"The little white cat was deliberately put into a bag that was tied with a knot. The little white cat was also submerged in water before being put in. I took it to the veterinary hospital, and the doctor said the little white cat had choked on water in its lungs and would not live long."
"I didn't want to give up and spent all my living expenses on treating the little white cat, but it still died."
"I buried it in the flower bed."
"It's not just the little white cat," the girl looked at Lu Qingmian, "H University must be hiding a habitual cat abuser, I can't catch him."
"You suspect me..." Lu Qingmian thought of the girl's previous vigilance.
The girl nodded, then shook her head. "Not only that, I'm also afraid you're a cat dealer."
"Cat dealer?"
"Well, you might not know this, but there are cat dealers who specialize in catching cats. Cats are weaker than dogs, so they specifically catch stray cats and send them to illegal workshops, disguising them as pork and making sausages."
"During the summer vacation, we intercepted a carload of cats like this. They were squeezed into boxes, with no room to move. If they couldn't fit, their limbs were broken to force them in. Their bodies were covered in feces and urine. If you saw a scene like that... you would be furious too. That's hell."
"We pooled our money to buy these cats, after all..."
After all, the girl didn’t elaborate.
"But most of those cats were seriously injured, and not many survived."
There was silence in the room and no one spoke for a moment.
The girl touched the little heads of the cats again, her voice cold.
"Torturing cats and small animals, isn't that simply abusing the weak? If they kill too many weak lives, they'll eventually become dissatisfied. Children, the elderly, women... anyone weaker than them will sooner or later become a target for people like them."
She stood up and prepared to leave.
"I'm relieved to see that you're taking good care of these cats. I'm not very capable on my own, so if you need anything, you can come to me. My name is Li Xuexi, and I'm a junior."
After exchanging contact information with Li Xuexi, Lu Qingmian sent Li Xuexi downstairs.
Jiang Jinyue was very lost and felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
There was little he could do in the face of this world.
Lu Qingmian held the little calico cat in his arms and kept stroking his furry back to comfort him.
At this time, the skinny tabby cat came over, stretched out its paw and patted Lu Qingmian's trouser leg.
Lu Qingmian squatted down, looked at the tabby cat and asked, "What's wrong?"
This tabby cat was very timid. It seemed to be thinking of something terrible and was trembling slightly. But it still mustered up the courage to speak: "Before... I heard that man's voice in the backpack. That man... I remember his voice. I saw him burn a wire outside the window, and the fire followed the wire into the big house."
Lu Qingmian suddenly narrowed his eyes, "The fire in the women's dormitory was not an accident?"
The tabby cat lowered its head, and even its ears were shaking.
"That man hit me with a stick. I remember his voice and appearance very clearly. He didn't just hit me, he hit almost all of us... He even beat many to death."
Jiang Jinyue was shaking with anger, and what Li Xuexi had said before emerged in his mind.
"If you kill too many weak lives, you will eventually become dissatisfied."
"No wonder the little white cat didn't help him block the water." Jiang Jinyue murmured.
"I'll check his identity and we can report him to the police anonymously," said Lu Qingmian.
They couldn't tell the police that they learned the truth from the cat, so they could only report it anonymously. Even if there was no evidence after the report, the police would investigate and would find clues.
Lu Qingmian acted quickly. He quickly found out the boy's identity. He also learned that the school had already called the police and that the fire in the girls' dormitory was not an accident.
The boy’s name is Yu Nansong, and he is a junior student at H University.
Lu Qingmian asked someone to anonymously report Yu Nansong to the police.
After doing all this, neither of them spoke.
Jiang Jinyue nestled in Lu Qingmian's arms, watching the group of cats playing and fighting with each other. They were simple-minded and had long forgotten the injuries they had suffered before.
"Lu Qingmian, I want to stay here tonight." Jiang Jinyue said in a low voice.
There is no place for people to sleep in the cat room, but Jiang Jinyue is now a calico cat, so he can squeeze in with the kittens.
Lu Qingmian lowered his head and gently kissed Jiang Jinyue's cat head, "I'll accompany you."
At night, Lu Qingmian pulled up the quilt and slept on the floor with Jiang Jinyue in his arms. A group of cats huddled around them, and they slept very peacefully.
The next morning, Lu Qingmian took Jiang Jinyue to class as usual.
As soon as they reached the road in front of H University, they saw chaos across the street and several policemen chasing a boy.
The boy's face was full of panic. He didn't care about the traffic lights and rushed to the road.
Lu Qingmian and Jiang Jinyue stood here and saw that the boy was Yu Nansong, who abused cats and set fire.
Yu Nansong ran to the side of the road and looked at the speeding cars on the road with a look of despair. He was about to stop, but he stumbled and fell off the road.
The little black cat squatting on the side of the road did not stand in front of Yu Nansong like it did before to help the little boy. Instead, it moved its small body to the side and avoided Yu Nansong.
Without the little black cat blocking him, Yu Nansong fell onto the road and was hit by a speeding car that failed to brake in time.
Lu Qingmian took Jiang Jinyue across the street with an expressionless face, walked through the police and the crowd, and headed towards H University.
Along the way, they heard those people discussing non-stop.
"I heard that man had set fire to the girls' dormitory before. After the police investigated, they went to arrest him early in the morning, but he ran away."
"Yes, I know about that fire. If two students hadn't rushed in to save people, who knows how many people would have died."
"After being hit by a car and flying so far, even if he survived, he would be crippled, right?"
"God is watching what you do! This is retribution."
Jiang Jinyue retracted his head and nestled back into Lu Qingmian's coat, pressing his ear tightly against Lu Qingmian's chest, listening to Lu Qingmian's heartbeat.
Lu Qingmian's embrace was very warm, and Jiang Jinyue didn't feel cold at all in the cold winter.
"Lu Qingmian..." Jiang Jinyue suddenly called Lu Qingmian in a low voice.
Lu Qingmian's slender fingers reached into Jiang Jinyue's clothes and rubbed her soft little cat ears. "What's wrong?"
Jiang Jinyue shook her head, bit Lu Qingmian's finger again, and finally said, "It's okay."
Lu Qingmian didn't ask any more questions. He gathered the collar of his coat to block out the cold wind and said, "After class, let's go get something delicious, and then go to the furniture store to customize a skywalk for the cat room, okay?"
"Meow!" Good!
A man and a cat walked into H University, leaving the chaotic voices and sirens behind.
Those who do evil things will not be protected by the little cat god.
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