The days of being a cat in Japan

On a skateboard, Tanaka Hideyuki continued to deliver newspapers to the door of the last customer today.

This family is his regular customer, and they subscribe to at least two or three newspapers of various kinds every year.

It's just that their home is a bit remote, on the edge of this small city, near the foot of the mountain.

There were only a dozen households there, and his family was the only one that subscribed to the newspaper.

For newspapermen like them, wages are calculated according to the number of newspapers and periodicals they distribute daily.

The rest of the newspaper dispatchers in the company thought it was too far away, there were not many newspaper subscriptions, it was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and they didn't get any benefits, so they didn't want to go there.

Only Xiu Xing didn't dislike these things, so he always delivered the newspapers of this family.

After delivering the last newspaper of the day, Hideyuki walked into the city on a skateboard in a happy mood after finishing his morning work.

Today is the day when the newspaper distribution company settles the salary. Xiuxing has done a very good job this month, and the salary is half as much as before.

With this salary, which is already a generous salary for him, Xiu Xing secretly calculated in his heart that he would use the salary he got to buy something for his family and his mother and sister.

For my younger sister, I must have a box of high-quality watercolor paints, and for my mother, buy her a new pair of leather shoes. She hasn't changed the old pair of leather shoes on her feet for two years.

Just when Xiuxing was thinking about what style and color of new leather shoes to buy for his mother, a series of car horns suddenly sounded behind him.

Xiu Xing turned around when he heard the sound, and saw a milky white van with a dilapidated appearance driving behind him.

Since it is on the outskirts of the city, the road here is not too wide, and the milky white van is driving very fast.

It should be to remind the vehicles and pedestrians in front and behind, so the van was honking its horn all the way.

Xiu Xing got out of the way when he heard the sound, and after the van passed by, he frowned and said in disapproval: "Since I'm afraid of hurting others, it's fine to drive slower, so what to do quickly."

While talking about Xiuxing, he stepped on the skateboard and continued to walk forward, but it didn't take long before he saw a living thing struggling and thrashing on the road.

Xiu Xing stepped on the skateboard and slowly came to the side of that thing, and found that it was an injured budgerigar that was struggling on the ground.

The size of this parrot is not too big, and the color is the most common yellow-green.

It's just that it's in an extremely embarrassing situation now, with one piece of feather missing from its body, not to mention one piece missing from the west, and a pair of wings are still flopping on its back in an extremely unreasonable state.

Even without calling a doctor, Xiu Xing could tell that the parrot's wing should be broken.

He circled the parrot a few times on the skateboard, picked it up after hesitation, and put it into the backpack behind him.

Soon after, a guest came to the pet hospital of the Fujimoto family. Hideyuki Tanaka came to see the doctor holding the injured budgerigar.

Seeing the parrot whose wings were about to buckle on its back, Dr. Fujimoto quickly took a picture of its skeleton, and holding the picture, Dr. Fujimoto said to Hideyuki: "The injury of this tiger skin is very serious. It is heavy, not only the wings, but when I checked it just now, I found that its neck also has very serious problems. In order to ensure its safety, the best way now is to be hospitalized immediately and undergo surgery immediately."

After hearing this, Xiu Xing touched his wallet, took out all the money in it, and handed it to the doctor, asking: "Mr. Fujimoto, I only have so much money on my body now. I don't know if it is enough for the operation fee of this bird? If not, you Can you operate on the bird first? I'll go home and get the money right away."

Dr. Fujimoto was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, then took half of the money given by Hideyuki, returned the other half and said: "This is enough, budgerigars are small, and the operation time will not be too long." It's long, it's not very difficult, and the dosage of the medicine is also small, so I paid for it together with the cost of hospitalization."

In fact, Dr. Fujimoto's words are just the opposite. The smaller the bird's skeleton, the thinner the nerves and blood vessels, the more difficult the operation will be.

The money that Dr. Fujimoto charged was less than one-third of the normal operation cost, not to mention the rehabilitation medication after the operation.

However, Mr. Fujimoto, who is an old neighbor of the Tanaka family, knows their family's situation very well. The Tanaka family, which is not financially rich, does not have any pets at all.

So this budgerigar should have been picked up by Xiuxing after he was injured and brought here for treatment.

Compared with those who turn a blind eye to the injured animals, or ignore them after sending them over, Xiuxing is much more responsible.

Looking at the money he took out, it must be the compensation he got for working part-time this month.

For a budget-conscious child who is reluctant to buy a new object for himself for a year, it is already a remarkable thing to be able to pay for the treatment of a small animal that has nothing to do with him.

So Dr. Fujimoto decided to give him and the budgerigar a fee waiver.

Hideyuki took the pad prescribed by Dr. Fujimoto and went downstairs to pay the fee. When he was looking for it, the light outside the operating room door was already on. It was obvious that Dr. Fujimoto had already started the operation ahead of schedule.

Two hours later, Dr. Fujimoto, wearing a surgical gown, came out of the operating room.

Xiu Xing, who was waiting outside, hurried up and asked about the budgie's condition.

Dr. Fujimoto took off his mask and said: "The operation was considered a success, but I can't guarantee how far the parrot's wings will eventually recover. Everything depends on its recovery after the operation. If the wing function recovers well, then It still has a chance to fly again, and if it does not recover well, it may very likely not be able to fly again."

For a bird, being unable to fly is tantamount to taking half of its life, but the doctor has tried his best, and the final result will not be known until more than ten days later.

While they were talking, the nurse came out of the operating room pushing the budgerigar that had undergone postoperative treatment.

Xiu Xing took a step forward and looked at the sleeping parrot that was placed in a special heat preservation and sterilization box.

Although it was picked up, Xiuxing was still very worried about the safety of the parrot. The nurse said, "Now the anesthesia meter has not been withdrawn, and it will wake up after a few hours. We will prepare special food for it. , to ensure its nutrition and all the needs of recovery during the hospital, Xiuxing, you can rest assured."

Hideyuki Tanaka raised his head and looked at the time when he heard the words, there was still half an hour before he was going to work in a fast food restaurant, so he stroked the cover of the incubator with his hand, and said: "In that case, I will give it to the doctor I'm with Sister Huimei. My part-time job won't end until nine o'clock in the evening, and your shop will probably be closed by then, so I'll come to see it early tomorrow."

Just when he finished speaking and wanted to leave, Mr. Fujimoto suddenly said, "Hideyuki, please give this budgerigar a name."

The nurse also followed up and said, "That's right, it's hospitalized now, and the medical record says it's all about budgerigars. But we can't just call it budgerigars, right? Anyway, its life is If you saved it, give it a name, so that it will know that we are calling it when it wakes up."

Xiu Xing heard the words and looked at the guy with yellow face, green back and yellow black wings, thought for a while and said: "My name is Xiu Xing, so let's call it Xiao Xing. Lucky Xing, I hope it can be lucky enough to be healthy A healthy recovery."

Soon after, there was a medical record card with Xiaoxing's name on the front of the budgie's incubator.

The second floor of Fujimoto Pet Hospital is still very lively today, not only Xu Jie is here, but also Ah Zhong and Hei Yu.

Ah Zhong, who was playing with his little friends, was showing his own stunt to the baby lion cat at this time, that is, turning his head around and chasing and biting his own tail, without getting dizzy after dozens of laps.

Seeing its stupid look, Xu Jie couldn't bear to look directly at it.

It didn't realize until it turned its head that the black feather that had fallen on the bird stand honestly flew up and fell towards the ambulance cart pushed by the nurse.

The nurse who placed the new patient whispered to them and these animals: "This budgerigar has just had an operation, please be quiet and don't disturb its rest."

The lion cat and the golden retriever obediently stopped playing, and the baby jumped on Ah Zhong's back. The two planned to go downstairs to play, so as not to disturb the patient's recuperation.

After falling, Hei Yu stared at the incubator with black bean-like bird eyes, and then said: "This parrot's wings were broken off on purpose, and it would not be broken under natural circumstances. It’s the shape just now. It’s lucky this time, and the child that met Xiuxing was sent to the husband, otherwise it won’t be able to wait until tomorrow, and it will have to go to see the King of Hades.”

Hearing the words, Xu Jie ran over to look at the parrot, and found that the doctor's skills were really superb. The parrot's back-turned wings had been corrected by the doctor when it was admitted to the hospital. At this time, it was wearing a soft plaster cast to prevent the bones from dislocating again.

Heiyu, who has always been known for his elegant and gentlemanly demeanor, hopped his bird's paw this time and said: "Such a small bird can hit anyone, and the broken wings are not because of those bad things. Damn it, don't let me Know who did it, or see if I don't peck his eyes out."

After lunch, Mo came over on time to pick up Xu Jie to go for a run.

Although the hot weather outside was more than 30 degrees above zero, it still couldn't stop the enthusiasm of Xu Jie's fans.

Along the way, there were already people squatting with their mobile phones. Fortunately, Xu Jie's usual running routes were all under the shade of trees, otherwise there might be a few more people suffering from heat stroke.

Along the familiar route in the past, Xu Jie trotted unhurriedly, and the sound of snapping photos on the road never stopped.

When passing a crossroad, Xu Jie stopped and looked at the car left and right. After confirming that there was no danger, he raised his paw and prepared to cross the road.

When walking to the very center of the intersection, a milky white van suddenly jumped out of the road, honking its horn all the way, and rushed over very fast.

Even after spotting Xu Jie and Mo walking on the road, the van did not intend to slow down at all. It is estimated that the lives of the two cats are not within the scope of the driver's worry.

Fortunately, Xu Jie and Mo reacted quickly. After hearing the sound of the horn, they accelerated and ran inside, so they were not injured.

Running to the other side of the road without incident, Xu Jie angrily meowed at the milky white van that had gone away.

It meowed that the one driving the car didn't have eyes. He drove over when he saw a cat crossing the road. The cat's life is not his life.

Mo, who was protecting Xiao Lihua by his side, licked Xu Jie's blown hair, then squinted his eyes, looking at the van that was about to disappear at the end of the road with a very unkind look.