Spell Meow

"Xiao Li is sick and asked for leave?"

I was a little dazed when I heard the news as soon as I went to work. I couldn't figure out that Xiao Li, who was fine when I left yesterday, actually asked for sick leave today.

"I heard that I was still seriously ill on the phone. I asked for a week off and I don't know if it will get better..." The section chief also showed concern about the business, "You will take over her work for the time being. You were in charge of it before, and the business is not busy during this time, so it should be very convenient for you to handle it."

Although hearing this kind of words makes people's blood pressure inevitably rise, but considering the friendship between colleagues and fellow villagers between Xiao Li and me——

In addition, there are really not many, so I agreed, thinking about whether I should visit her after get off work.

Please take a week off... It should be more than just a simple cold, right?What kind of illness can occur in such a short period of time... Could it be that eating has ruined the stomach?

That shouldn't be the case, I ate the same dinner with her or it came out of the same pot, it doesn't make sense that she had a bad stomach but I was fine.

With such doubts in mind, I was a little absent-minded at work all day today.

The message Moyu sent to her at work did not get a reply until after get off work. For a while, I was a little worried that she would not be able to take care of herself at home, so I gave up my original plan to work overtime today. I called her when I got off work. I made a phone call, but unexpectedly got through.

To be honest, I was a little relieved.

After all, we are also fellow villagers. Apart from being colleagues, we have a good relationship in private, so we still keep in touch outside of the company. I am a little worried that I have not been able to contact her during the day.

"I thought you were unconscious. How is your body?" I complained and then asked again. After a while, I heard her somewhat vague and hoarse voice from the other side of the phone. The voice was hoarse and soft, as if It sounded like a bad cold, as if a walnut had been stuffed in his throat blocking most of the air flow.

"It's okay...probably..." She started to cough after saying a few words, and I was a little worried that she would cough up her lungs. "It's not a big problem. Anyway, please invite more I've been lazy for a few days, I just had a fever today, but now the temperature has dropped."

Hearing what she said, I immediately felt relieved. I thought that it was not because of illness that I took a week off. It should be because I took the fishing time into account.

"I didn't reply to your message, I almost thought something happened to you."

"I didn't wake up until now..." Her tone sounded sleepy, and then she yawned again: "I saw you just now, and you called. Do I share all my work with you?" You? Some of the information is on my disk, I just took it home yesterday to process some pictures, if you are free after work tomorrow, come and get it, and I will invite you to dinner next time when I am ready."

"Okay, for the sake of this meal, I will come back from get off work tomorrow."

In other words, her workload is not much, otherwise I would have to ask her to add two more meals before waking up.

"Have a good rest. I'll bring you some chrysanthemum tea tomorrow. During this period of time, the temperature is still easy to fluctuate. Don't take off your clothes early—Ash, come here."

The black cat stepped out of the door in front of me very punctually, and my colleague also appeared at the door of our company. After bumping into me head-on, I saw that his body was stiff all of a sudden.

He was stunned for two seconds before he realized that he hadn't sneaked out and was caught by me, and then he lowered his body and leaned against my legs to rub against me, making a soft purring sound from his throat.

"Then I won't talk to you for now. Shi'er is here to pick me up. I'll hang up first. If you have anything to do, send me a message and tell me when I come over tomorrow night."

"Is the cat coming tomorrow?"

I am speechless about the fact that this woman is dying of illness and still misses my cat: "What can he do here when you are like this, and you as a psychological comforter? And it is too troublesome to bring him here. When you recover from illness I will take him to your house next time I rest."

I bent down and touched Shier's head to fasten the leash on him. He tilted his head and looked at the mobile phone in my hand curiously. He was obviously very confused about the fact that Xiao Li's voice came out of it, and he felt a little uncomfortable. He understood why the person who would normally come outside to pick him up at this point in time only had a voice coming out.

She is sick……

I covered the receiver and made a mouth-shape with Shi Er, and then hurried to the individual with Xiao Li. Shi Er still brought a lunch box here today, but because I changed my mind temporarily, so this lunch box can only be taken home have eaten.

"Fortunately, you are in good health. Do you want to put some clothes on for you? The temperature has dropped again recently. Don't catch a cold. You spend more money on the treatment of your cold than I do."

I pinched the tip of Shi'er's nose, and felt that his nose was still healthy and moist before I felt relieved.

It's just that Shir still looks like he really wants to go inside the company. He stuck his head out and looked around the door for a long time but refused to move. I pulled the leash several times before he trotted back to my feet. Come, I feel a little regretful that I can't go inside to play for a few days.

"Let's go, hurry back, it will rain next night, and it will be even colder then."

It’s been so cold these days that I’ve kept my electric blanket on all night regardless of my life’s safety. I don’t want to wait until it’s too late to catch the rain, and I’ll have to hold the cat while holding an umbrella before going back.

As the icy raindrops hit my forehead, I thought I was just a few steps away from the apartment building.

Even more than I care about the rain, the one who has already stretched the rope and rushed towards the door, I ran all the way to catch up with him, almost as soon as the front feet reached the eaves, the back feet poured down with rain.

"You wait here for me."

I tied the leash to the doorknob and told him, pulled up the hood and didn't bother to take out the umbrella, rushed to the door of Boss Xinghei's izakaya, opened the door aggressively, and scared the boss Xinghei inside one jump.

I saw that he raised his spatula. If it wasn't for me, I don't think it's hard to say whether his spatula is in his hands at the moment.

"Boss Xingping, I will trouble you to feed the cat for me tomorrow night. I don't need to prepare my bento. I have something to do and I have to come back later."

"Another offsite job? There shouldn't be any major events that require you to be out there recently, right?" His first reaction was this.

"No, it's Xiao Li who's sick. I'll go see her after work tomorrow and hand over the work..." I shook off the water droplets on my woolen coat, "I'll probably be back late at night, When the time comes, I’ll just come to you and eat directly.”

"Is it that far?"

"It's just a little distance away. After all, we live in different places. Anyway, I will trouble you to take care of him tomorrow. You can feed him whatever you want to eat." I handed over my access control card to him. he.

"Okay." It's not the first time he has helped me feed the cat twice. He is quite skilled in his business, and reminded me again: "Come back alone at night and be careful."

After such a short time, Kungfu Shier was already impatient with waiting, and when he saw me coming back, he meowed loudly, and jumped on me before he wiped his paws clean, but I was hugged very skillfully.

I feel sad that I have such proficiency. I opened the door with the black cat who refused to go down, and then let go and threw him down. A phone call came in.

I took a closer look at the note, and it turned out to be a rare visitor.

"Why do you have the time to call me? Are you back from your honeymoon with Sakura?"

I picked up Li Xiaolang's phone and asked a casual question, and then I heard the airport announcement from his side, which seemed to be Japanese if I heard correctly.

"I'll take Sakura back and take a look at you by the way. We'll go to Hokkaido then, have you been there last time?"

I almost forgot that he gave me the voucher for the Hokkaido hot spring resort before.

During the Chinese New Year, because my parents didn't plan to go to the snowy place in Hokkaido during the winter season, so I didn't take them there.

"If you don't mention it, I will forget about it. What's the matter, is the coupon about to expire?"

"It can be used until next year. Remember to let me know if you are free, and I will stop by your side for a walk."

When I thought of receiving him, I immediately rolled my eyes, and said unceremoniously: "Farewell to you, I have to clean up when you come, you and Xiaoying can go and play, if you don't come here, I will take a detour fine."

"It's just the amulet that my uncle and aunt asked me to prepare for you before bringing you..." He also said very directly, "I will leave as soon as I give you the things."

Having said that, he paused again, then spat out another address and asked, "Is this your company?"

"Yeah, it's the office building where our company is located - don't you want to come over when I'm at work?"

I immediately showed a terrified expression, as if unexpectedly knowing that I have a relative who is in the same school as me and in a different grade, and he also appeared at the door of my class: "In that case, I will never come out!"

"You think it's beautiful..." Li Xiaolang said coldly to everyone except Xiao Ying who was quite a straight man since he was a child, "It's just that I have a relative who also works in that office building, and I'm going to Just look at her."

"Can it happen by coincidence?" I wondered, "Why haven't you mentioned it before?"

"A distant relative, the kind that I contact once or twice a year. I just found out that she is working in Japan this year."

After he briefly talked to me, he didn't continue this topic. After a few casual chats, we both hung up the phone very tacitly, and didn't intend to waste time on meaningless perfunctory socializing.

This is the benefit of being old acquaintances.

After Li Xiaolang hung up the phone, he frowned and put down the phone, Kinomoto Sakura was also a little worried when he saw him showing such an expression, sat beside him and patted his palm on the back of his hand, and asked softly: " Is it bad?"

"Not really..." Li Xiaolang came back to his senses and pursed his lips. Even though he said that, his expression still looked not very optimistic. "She didn't go to Hokkaido, so it should be because she didn't come into contact with the source of the curse. But she I work in the same office building as my cousin... Tomorrow I will go there to see how the curse spreads, and I can't let the curse spread."

"I'll go with you..." Kinomoto Sakura clasped Li Xiaolang's palm and said firmly, "I'm also very good at magic, it's too dangerous for you to go alone."

Li Xiaolang took out a sealed bag from his pocket, which contained a mass of gray-black ash——

And this lump of ashes was originally a yellow amulet, but it suddenly burned out a week ago and turned into this appearance. It can only mean that the other amulet that is a pair with this amulet had an accident.

The other amulet was on his distant cousin, and he only found out after asking that she was also in Japan, and that her work location was quite close to Lu Mu's.

"According to the results of the previous study in Hokkaido, this curse will only be on one target at a time, right? You don't have to worry about Xiao Mu for a while... On the contrary, the younger sister who has been to Hokkaido is more dangerous, right?"

Daidaiji Tomoyo also showed a worried expression.

Originally, their trip did not end so quickly. It was precisely because they saw the amulet burnt to ashes that they hurried back to Japan.

It’s just that after arriving in Hokkaido, the Daidaoji family had some relationship with the magic world, so Daedaoji Tomoyo got the curse that was originally entrenched in Hokkaido——

Or the news of the curse spirit, only then did it become clear that the curse would not only spread, but the curse itself, that is, the curse spirit, would even transfer on its own.

Last time, he just heard from Xiao Ying that Lu Mu was surrounded by a group of unidentified cat demons, or demon cats——

Anyway, it doesn't matter what it is, the point is that these creatures with this specificity will attract each other.

Judging from the recent situation in her circle of friends, those cats have not appeared recently, but the influence left behind will not disappear so soon.

Li Xiaolang wasn't sure if Lu Mu would be the unlucky one, but he was very sure that his cousin was targeted by the cursed spirit because of their family.

Although her branch is just an ordinary person, the minuscule bloodline that has been diluted long ago still had an impact...

It's also because his amulet is not so powerful, otherwise it should be able to prevent her from being possessed by the curse.

"So I'll go and see if that guy is affected by the curse in a few days."

Li Xiaolang only hoped that the aura left by those demon cats on Lu Mu's body would not be enough to attract the curse spirit.

"Then Sakura will go to the apartment tomorrow, and Xiaolang, you go to the office building, and I won't cause you any trouble." Tomoyo Daodaoji said it was a pity.

But she is also very clear.Although she really wanted to fight side by side with her friends, but this time it was so dangerous that if she was by Sakura's side, she would be in danger due to distraction, so she chose very rationally not to add to this trouble.

Maybe she can operate it in advance, and it would be a good thing for the conjurers to eliminate the risk of Hokkaido as soon as possible.