Chapter 236 The Death of the Kitten
Lu Mingfeng was busy with work recently. He left early and came back late every day, so he had no time to spend with the children.
Today, he had a rare leisure time, so he told Liang Qiaoli that he was going to pick up the children from school.
When the car stopped on the side of the road, Lu Mingfeng found a small wild cat in the grass on the side of the road.
The kitten was not afraid of people at all, and even rubbed its body against the wheels of the car.
There were steamed buns and fish bones on the side of the road. It seemed that someone often fed the kitten, so the kitten was not afraid of people.
The school bell rang, and the children came out of the campus in an orderly manner.
Seeing Lu Mingfeng's car, Lu Changyan, Lu Changxiao, Lu Changjun, and Lu Changjie trotted over happily.
Seeing the kitten beside the car, the children liked it very much and reached out to touch it.
Lu Changxiao asked Lu Mingfeng: "Dad, is there any food in the car?"
Lu Mingfeng looked around the car and found some biscuits.
"Are these okay?"
Lu Changxiao took the biscuits and fed them to the kitten.
The kitten sniffed it but didn't eat it.
A little girl about twelve or thirteen years old came over with half a steamed bun in her hand, broke off a small piece and handed it to Lu Changxiao: "The kitten can't eat such hard food, I have a steamed bun here, let's feed it together."
The kitten saw the little girl and ran over to rub her trousers.
Lu Chang smiled and said, "This little cat likes you very much."
The little girl said happily, "Of course, this little cat is originally my pet."
"Isn't it a wild cat? I often see it when I get home from school. If you raise it, why don't you take it home?"
The little girl lowered her eyes and said, "My elder brother doesn't like to keep cats at home because they shed hair. I can only put the little cat outside the school. I put a cardboard box in the grass and some food."
Other children saw the little cat here and came to see it.
A little boy came over and the little cat rubbed his pants and feet.
Lu Chang smiled and said, "The little cat likes you too, why doesn't it rub against me?"
The little boy said, "Because I brought it some dried fish to eat."
So that's it.
Lu often laughed and said that he would bring food for the kitten next time.
Seeing that the children liked the kitten very much, Lu Mingfeng did not urge them to get on the bike and let them play with the kitten for a while.
At this time, a man came over on a bicycle and said in a deep voice: "Xiao Jing, why don't you go home after school? What are you doing?"
The little girl who was playing with the kitten stood up immediately when she heard the voice: "Brother, I'm going home now."
"What's behind you?"
The little girl named Xiao Jing shook her head hurriedly and walked quickly to the bicycle: "Nothing, brother, I'm hungry, let's go home quickly."
The man did not mean to leave, but parked the bicycle and walked towards the children.
Seeing the children teasing the kitten, he said coldly: "I told you not to keep a cat, why don't you listen?"
The little girl hurriedly walked in front of the man and opened her hands to block him: "Brother, I won't take the kitten home, it won't climb onto your bed, please, don't hurt it."
The man ignored them completely, grabbed the kitten on the ground, and was about to throw it.
"No!" All the children screamed.
Just when the children thought the kitten was going to be thrown to death, Lu Mingfeng grabbed the man's arm and said: "This kitten is not your sister's, you have no right to hurt it."
The little boy pointed at the man angrily and said: "Yes, I have fed it, and I am also the owner of the kitten."
The children of the Lu family also expressed their attitudes, saying that they would also feed the kitten and be the owner of the kitten in the future.
The kitten was caught in the man's hand and meowed. Lu Mingfeng pried open his fingers one by one, and the kitten escaped and quickly ran into the grass.
The little girl breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the kitten run away.
After the kitten ran away, the children also dispersed and went home.
The little girl smiled at the little boy and Lu Chang, "Can you take the kitten home and raise it?"
The little boy said he would go back and ask his parents.
The children of the Lu family looked at Lu Mingfeng and sought his opinion.
Lu Mingfeng nodded.
However, the kitten was frightened just now and no one knew where it ran to.
The four siblings of the Lu family looked around but couldn't find it.
The little girl was urged by her brother to
go home. She looked at the Lu siblings who were still looking for the kitten in the grass, and her eyes were full of worry. After a long delay in looking for the cat, Lu Mingfeng asked the children to get in the car first and go back, and bring some food to look for it again when they went to school tomorrow.
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The next morning, the Lu siblings took food and went to the grass of the school to call the kitten.
Suddenly, a scream was heard.
Lu Mingfeng hurried over and saw Lu Changxiao covering his mouth, shaking his finger and pointing in the distance.
The kitten was lying in a pool of blood, its head was crushed by something, and its brains and blood were sprayed on the grass around it.
Lu Mingfeng hurried forward to pick up his daughter and asked the other three children to get in the car.
The kitten was in such a miserable state that if a child who had raised a kitten saw it, he would be sad and scared.
Lu Mingfeng found a stick and dug a hole in the ground and put the kitten in.
When he was about to cover the hole with soil, Xiao Jing ran over.
Seeing the plight of the kitten in the pit, she sat paralyzed on the grass and cried loudly: "It's all my fault! If I hadn't raised it, it wouldn't have died!"
Lu Mingfeng said: "Since it's your kitten, you came to give it a ride. It's not your fault. It was a bad guy who killed it."
Xiao Jing kept shaking her head and crying: "I'm so lucky. I thought it would be fine to raise it outside, but I didn't expect to kill the kitten."
Lu Mingfeng asked in confusion: "Do you know who killed the kitten?"
Xiao Jing cried and said: "It must have been my eldest brother! After I went back, I heard him say that he was itchy, so I should have moved the kitten to another place immediately.
But I had a lot of homework, and it was dark when I finished it.
I wanted to come over in the morning to change the kitten's place, but I was still late."
"Why does your brother hate cats so much?"
"He hates all furry animals. I had a cat before. When I first brought it home, it had fleas on its body. The fleas jumped on it and bit its waist, legs and neck, leaving many big lumps. That same day, the kitten was thrown to death by it.
After that, our family never kept any animals again, not even the neighbors around us."
"Your family doesn't allow people to keep animals, so why does your brother care about other people's homes?"
"He doesn't care, but the neighbors around us keep small animals at home, and they don't stay for more than three days. Either they run away or die. Gradually, no one keeps animals anymore." "
Lu Mingfeng frowned. If the kitten was really killed by Xiao Jing's brother, then this person is too terrible.