Bird Doctor
The renovated children's playground, with its brand new look, has diluted the childhood memories of many local people, including Wu Siqi.
She accompanied Zhang Li and brought two company designers to the site inspection. It was not enough to just look at the drawings in the office without checking them on site with a ruler.
Wu Siqi, wearing a black baseball cap, followed the team, taking notes on his mobile phone and recording the requirements of the part his group was responsible for.
Zhang Li was there discussing requirements with the designer, while Wu Siqi was bored and listening with her hands in her pockets. The park manager assigned an intern to lead the way for them. The intern stood aside with his hands clasped at his waist, looking very reserved.
The intern was standing in the shadow of the carousel, and the irregular shadow just covered him. The facilities in the children's playground had been replaced with new ones, and it was no longer the old carriage with peeling paint.
Next to it was a tall sycamore tree with lush green leaves and buds sprouting at the tips of its branches. She remembered that about ten years ago, she picked up a wounded crow here.
The middle school students went on an autumn outing. Teenagers are the most mischievous time for humans. I don’t know which bastard kid injured a crow on a branch with a toy sold in the toy store in the amusement park. At that time, the sycamore tree was not that tall.
The plastic pellets broke the bird's legs. She squatted on the ground with her schoolbag on her back, holding the crow in her palm. "Poor thing." Several classmates who were close to her came over and said, "Hey, it's so dirty. Siqi, throw it away quickly."
Young children always don't care about the people around them. Seeing that she was still squatting and unwilling to move, he ignored her and ran to the back of the carousel queue next to him, chirping like the crows that were just on the tree.
In her memory, she put the crow into her schoolbag and took it home.
When she returned home, the crow was already dying. Her mother did not scold her for bringing a dirty thing home. Instead, she called the uncle who raised chickens in the countryside to ask how to rescue the injured animal.
Her mother called her father who was about to go home and asked him to go to the pharmacy to buy medicine. "Our precious daughter is going to be a doctor for the crow. Come back quickly and buy some medicine."
Her father returned home with the medicine and the birdcage. The three of them helped each other to fix the crow's foot and fed it water and some millet.
The uncle on the phone said: "This little fellow has a strong ability to recover. Just tie his feet and rest for a few days and he'll be alive and kicking again."
In her memory, the first thing she did when she got home from school every day was to go see the crow. It got better day by day, and after a few days it could fly around and call in the cage.
Mom said: Birds belong to the sky. If you keep it locked up like this, it would be better not to save it.
She felt very happy on the day of release, as if she had accomplished something very grand.
She told her mother that she wanted to be a bird doctor when she grew up!
A seed was planted in the heart of the thirteen-year-old girl, and it slowly sprouted thereafter. Unfortunately, the seedling did not grow into a big tree and later died.
Zhang Li: "Siqi, what do you think?"
His eyes refocused, and Wu Siqi knew what she was asking him: "I think your idea is good, but it seems to be quite expensive, and our budget is insufficient."
"It is indeed quite expensive. This is still to be determined. We will make a decision based on the overall effect and price." Zhang Li continued to communicate with the designer.
Wu Siqi looked up at the sycamore tree. It had grown very tall and he couldn't reach it with his fist.
Not really. Today's children's toys are not as dangerous as before, and children nowadays prefer playing with mobile phones and are not interested in these toys.
Those people talked about their own parts. Wu Siqi took out his mobile phone to write down the key points and walked to the free play area of the park. There was a large open space here. There was a carnival party here in the plan, and many warm-up guests were to be invited.
Zhang Li was planning the stage design over there, while Wu Siqi was standing by the big sand pool, kicking the sand with his right foot.
The intern came over and reminded her: "Team Leader Wu, this place has just been cleaned. You will make it dirty outside."
"Sorry." Wu Siqi put away his naughty feet and walked towards Zhang Li.
The sun was scorching hot, and in a trance she saw a cat in the grass not far away, but when she turned around she saw nothing.
She searched for a long time that night, searching every corner of the community, and asked some security guards, but they all said they had never seen a beautiful cow cat with a black back and a white base.
That night she sent an apology message to Xiaoyan, whom she was going to adopt, and deleted the adoption post on the software.
She sat in the quiet room all night, looking at the sunset outside the window, listening to the birds singing at sunrise, took a shower, and went to work with some dark circles under her eyes.
More than a month passed as ordinary days passed. The opening ceremony of the children's playground was scheduled for the following Saturday, eight days later. This event did not attract much attention.
But the number of missing children in the past month has been so serious that some people in higher positions have deliberately promoted certain large-scale celebrations with extra fanfare to cover up some disturbing information.
Their activities received increasing funding, and Zhang Li was very happy. The cash flow was no longer tight, so she wanted to use the best of everything. Wu Siqi and the others, as the executive team, had to make modifications to everything.
Sister Jin was furious in the office. "Fuck her! Is she crazy? She's changing it again! One moment she wants an electronic screen, the next she wants an LED board. She's changed it so many times. The KT board upgrade required an electronic screen, and now they're switching to an LED board with a projector. I won't change it. Anyone who wants to change it can talk to me."
Wu Siqi walked over and waved to Zhang Li's group to go back first. "Let me talk to you. Do you need to pick up the kids today? Go pick them up at the appointed time. You don't have to work overtime today."
"Only you have the patience to deal with them." Sister Jin forwarded the new demands from the other side to Wu Siqi.
Wu Siqi pushed his glasses and walked back to his workstation. "It's okay, it's just work."
Time passed, and Wu Siqi had outlasted most of the employees. The design department was brightly lit. Her cell phone screen showed 20:48. She took off her glasses, got up and went home.
As the elevator door was about to close, Zhang Li's voice rang out again, "Hey, wait!"
This was the first time that Zhang Li came to stop her. She always left work when she was leaving. She really wanted to press the close button, but she still pressed the open button while thinking this in her mind. She had good manners.
He always comes to gossip about her private life, insisting on knowing something. Today is no different. "Hey, Siqi, what do you think of the new intern in the design team? He's quite handsome, isn't he? He seems to be single."
"It's okay, being single is good." Wu Siqi was listless. He was tortured by her demands at work and her curiosity after get off work.
Zhang Li always had that gossipy face, "I noticed you have no interest in men at all."
Wu Siqi: "I don't have any feelings towards women either."
The answer was so quick that Zhang Li got the answer she wanted and smiled triumphantly.
Wu Siqi secretly counted in his mind how many days it would take to end his cooperation with this person. He walked out of the elevator and walked very fast as if he was being chased by a ghost.
There have been more patrol cars recently. When she walked out of the subway station, she saw one passing by with its lights on. She didn't take it seriously and turned back to the neighborhood. She walked slowly and came to the awning where the kitten had fallen.
After that night, she cleaned the house and didn't see a single cat hair. It was a good cat that didn't shed hair. Yi Ning must have touched out the cat hair for her while she was eating.
It was as if it had never existed, leaving no trace. She had been paying attention to the news of stray cats in the city, but had not found any cow cats that looked the same.
Zooming out, we see an elegant cow-cat squatting on the roof of the building, its tail raised high and wagging in the air. Next to it stands Fan Yu, who is wearing a tall hat, black clothes, and the attire of an underworld professional.
Fan Yu: "Your Xiaowu acts as if nothing has happened and life goes on."
The cow cat spoke in human language: "That's good. Xiaowu has had too much hardship in his life. It's better for him to be a little more heartless."
Fan Yu: "You are quite open-minded. Look how good this is. It is good for you and her."
Yi Ning thought to himself - this is not good, and changed the subject: "Is the flower album missing again?"
Fan Yu held the flower album in his hand and said, "Hmm, the number doesn't match. One soul is missing."
"Total, eight souls are missing." Cat's eyes narrowed, worried. "I think that grudge ghost ate them."
Fan Yu nodded. "That should be it. They are all the souls of young children. They acted very secretly and hid themselves very well. I haven't seen such a clever ghost in a long time."
"It's all my fault." Yi Ning was upset that his mistake had frightened the eight children.
Fan Yu stroked her cat's head and comforted her, "We arrived too late that day. This vengeful ghost is somewhat unusual, with a very different smell. It can recognize you as a demon fairy and even knows how to attract thunder to strike you."
Yi Ning: "I feel like it feels very familiar to me. It's someone I knew in the past. No, it's not a ghost I know, but I can sense that lifeline extending from it. It seems to be entangled with my past."
Fan Yu said, "Why didn't you tell me before?"
"I thought it was my destiny to meet Xiaowu, but now I think it's not the case." The cat's tail drooped, and its tone was disappointed.
Fan Yu sneered and clicked his tongue a few times, "What kind of magic water did Lai Siyuan feed you to make you so confused?"
"She gave me my life, what do you think?"
The rain clouds were working the night shift today, and a drizzle was falling. Yi Ning had a layer of shimmering material on his body that blocked the rain.
The rain passed through Fan Yu without leaving any trace. She became curious: "I only know what happened after you sneaked into the underworld for her. What happened between you and me before that? I asked you before, but you didn't tell me. Can you tell me today?"
"The story of the fifth-generation descendant of Lai Buyi, a renowned figure, and you, a little-known cat demon."
"There's not much of a story," Yi Ning transformed into a human, standing on the edge of the rooftop, gazing at the horizon. "When I met Xiao Wu, I couldn't transform yet. I was bullied by the monsters in the mountains and was often beaten to a pulp."
"Her father brought her here to learn mountain watching. At that time, some monsters injured me and wanted to take my spirit. She said, 'I look so pitiful, can you please save me?' So her father drove those monsters away."
"Xiaowu saved me, raised me, and protected me. It's that simple."
"It's so cliché. If you make this plot into a TV series, it will definitely flop." Fan Yu complained.
"Get lost." Yi Ning kicked her. "You big ghost fairies have no idea how hard life is for us little monsters. Can you please understand the depth of your gratitude for saving our lives and protecting us?"
"Blame me." Fan Yu didn't give in and kicked her back. "Gods, immortals, humans, ghosts, and monsters, animals are the lowest class. You, who were born in the animal realm, are sinners. You must atone your sins with your bodies. This is the law of heaven, not mine."
Yi Ning muttered, "This isn't fair, God damn it."
"Do some good deeds, or you'll be struck by thunder again." Fan Yu scolded her with a smile.
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