Zhou Shixun looked at the calico cat. The cat didn't seem to be afraid of people. It stretched lazily, stood up, arched its back, changed its posture and lay down again, looking at Zhou Shixun with a cold look.
An An turned his little head, looked around while drinking the soda, and saw the calico cat on the wall. After gulping it down, he held the soda bottle in one hand and pointed at the calico cat with the other: "Daddy, cat, daddy, cat, An An wants a cat, An An likes cats."
Zhou Shixun reached out and picked up An An, adjusted her soda bottle, and said with a smile: "Let's go back and play with Ji Guang, okay? That cat belongs to someone else, we can't bring it back."
An An looked disappointed, her face fell for a moment, then she happily held the soda bottle and started drinking.
Zhou Shixun sent An An and Zhou Zhou back into the house and asked Zhou Hongyun to watch them. He went out again when they were not paying attention and went to Mrs. Chen's house next door.
Mrs. Chen has been in a bad mood these past two days, thinking that Li Ergeng had brought bad luck upon her and that this had caused her bad luck recently. Both of the two tenants in the courtyard had canceled their leases and rented houses elsewhere.
She was so angry that she cursed these people at home every day for being ungrateful. She tried to find a way to use her connections to get temporary residence permits for these people so that they could rent a house in the city. But they were so good that they ran away faster than rabbits when something happened.
I didn't even have the mood to cook lunch and just sat in the yard sulking.
Seeing Zhou Shixun enter the yard, he thought for a moment and stood up without even raising his eyelids: "I don't know anything. If I knew that the blind man not only cheated people but also did such immoral things, I would definitely not rent the house to him. Our ancestors are clean and have never done anything immoral."
Zhou Shixun looked towards the courtyard wall. The calico cat that was lying there just now was gone. He turned around and asked Mrs. Chen, "I saw a cat on the top of the wall. Is that your cat?"
Speaking of cats, Chen's wife was also very angry: "That's not our cat. I don't have the time to keep a cat. It's a cat of a dead blind man. I don't know where he got it from. The man ran away and the cat was left behind."
"This cat basks in the sun on the wall and roof every day. I can't afford to be so mean to an animal. I'll just feed it a bite of food and it won't leave."
Mrs. Chen looked around and said, "It was here just now, but it disappeared again in a moment. What an ungrateful person. Why are you asking about the cat? Could it be that this cat is related to Li Ergeng?"
What she meant was that you couldn't find Li Ergeng through a cat.
Zhou Shixun shook his head: "I'm just curious. When the cat comes back, can you catch it?"
Mrs. Chen wanted to refuse, but she thought less trouble is worse than more trouble: "Okay, if I come back, I'll catch it and give it to you. Anyway, I don't want to feed it anymore, and I have to waste half a steamed bun every day."
Zhou Shixun thanked him and left. Mrs. Chen was still puzzled and couldn't help muttering, "It's just a broken cat. What's so rare about it?"
She didn't believe that a cat could solve the case.
At night, the calico cat came home to eat. Mrs. Chen went over and caught the cat, then carried it to the next door. It was a favor after all.
Sheng Anning had just arrived home and took the children to wash their hands and sit down at the dining table to prepare for dinner.
As soon as the noodles were served in the bowl, Mrs. Chen came over to take the cat away.
Sheng Anning was curious and followed Zhou Shixun out.
An An also heard someone shouting in the yard to send the cat over. She was so excited that she refused to eat. She struggled to climb down from the chair and ran out, still shouting, "Where's the cat? Where's the cat? An An wants to see it?"
Mrs. Chen was standing in the yard holding a calico cat. When she saw Zhou Shixun and Sheng Anning coming out, she raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, "You wanted this cat, so I brought it to you. I usually take good care of it, and it's fat."
Zhou Shixun thanked him and went over to take the cat. From a distance, he felt that the calico cat was quite plump. After holding it like this, it seemed even heavier and the whole cat looked unusually plump.
Sheng An Ning took a curious look. This cat was much fatter than ordinary farm cats. Its neck was round like a ball and its body had beautiful patterns.
And their bellies are also round and some are surprisingly big.
She knew that calico cats were mostly female, so she couldn't help but ask, "Does this cat have kittens in its belly? Why is its belly so big?"
Mrs. Chen is not sure: "It's normal for a kitten to run outside every day, but this cat has always been so fat. I don't know what the blind man feeds it every day to make it so fat."
Zhou Shixun pressed the calico cat's belly with his slender fingers, stroked its belly, and thanked Mrs. Chen again: "Thank you for sending it here. I will send the cat to the public security bureau tomorrow."
Mrs. Chen's eyes widened in surprise: "This cat, could it be that it knows the whereabouts of the blind fortune teller?"
She couldn't believe it and guessed that Zhou Shixun wanted to have a cat but was too embarrassed to ask for one directly, so he took such a big detour.
Zhou Shixun nodded, but there was no need to explain to her.
An An had been pulling at his father's trouser leg. Seeing that his father ignored her after pulling for a long time, he interrupted anxiously, "Dad, Dad, An An, look at the cat. An An wants to see the cat."
Zhou Shixun squatted down holding the cat and let An An touch the cat.
An An touched the kitten gently with her little hand and felt that the kitten's fur was exceptionally soft, softer than Aurora's fur. She opened her eyes and mouth in surprise and touched it happily again: "Dad, this is so fun, can you give this kitten to An An? An An wants to play with the kitten."
Sheng An Ning was worried that the cat that was always running outside might have parasites on its body, so she reached out and held An An's hand back, "An An, you can't touch it. The cat hasn't been bathed, so it has bugs on its body."
An An immediately retracted her hand and took a step back: "You can't touch it, or the bugs will get into your stomach and it will hurt."
Mrs. Chen saw the family chatting and didn't understand whether they wanted to keep the cat themselves. However, the cat had already been given away and would have nothing to do with her in the future.
Said hello and left.
Sheng An Ning sent Mrs. Chen out, and when she came back, she saw Zhou Shixun holding a cat, stroking its round belly with one hand, frowning, and looking a little thoughtful.
He walked over and reached out to touch the calico cat's head: "Is there something wrong?"
Zhou Shixun pressed the cat's belly and asked, "Can you feel if this cat is pregnant?"
Sheng An Ning was stunned for a moment: "Ah, I'm not a veterinarian, so I may not be able to feel it accurately. Let me take a look."
I reached out to the cat's belly and pressed it gently. There was no response, which was quite strange. "If the cat is pregnant, I should be able to feel it. Now I can't feel anything unusual, but this belly is a little abnormally big."
He put three fingers together and pressed hard on the cat's belly again: "And there seems to be a lump inside. If it were a human, this lump would be fine because the size of the lump is a bit too big."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
