The cat that wakes up and becomes a rival

The sound of cicadas in summer makes people's eardrums buzz, and the heat outside melts the distant scenery, forming heat waves, tumbling, and undulating.

There was a vague fragrance from Pei Zhao's body from the tip of his nose, Shen Du's throat tightened uncomfortably, and he shifted his gaze to the blackboard behind Pei Zhao.

"You have someone you like!! Who is it?" Pei Zhao's jaw almost fell on the table. He never expected that someone like Shen Du, who is so stern and puzzled all the time, would have someone who would make his heart flutter. !

"Tell me who it is, and let me see which unlucky guy it is." Pei Zhao gloated;

Shen Du cast a sideways glance at Pei Zhao, but said nothing.

"Say it quickly!" Pei Zhao was almost dying of anxiety.

If he can't know the answer, he will definitely not be able to sleep tonight because of curiosity.

The class bell rang in time, and Shen Du's tense lip line loosened. He kicked Pei Zhao's chair and said, "Old Liu's class, if you don't want to be punished to stand, turn around quickly."

Pei Zhao turned his head to look at the class schedule on the blackboard, and had to suppress all the curiosity that was about to overflow his head back into his stomach.

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The snow in the city is always cleared in a timely manner, and it falls from the sky profusely. Before it touches the ground, it is pushed away by roaring snowplows.

With his backpack on his back, Shen Du walked all the way to the intersection outside the community, and stopped a taxi with his hand.

"Master, go to No. 55 Yong'an Street North." Shen Du said to the driver, taking off the backpack on his back and holding it in front of his chest.

"Got it!"

Shen Du usually likes to take the bus or the subway when he goes out. For him, the car is just stored in the garage for eating ashes. Unless it is necessary for special circumstances, he seldom drives out.

He rode a bicycle from high school to college, and then from college to founding his own studio. He enjoyed the feeling of the spring breeze while riding the bike. If it wasn't because the winter in S City was too cold, Shen Du would never let it go. Any opportunity to ride.

It took about 20 minutes to take a taxi from Shen Du's house to Yong'an North Street. When he was about to arrive at his destination, Shen Du tilted his head and looked out the window at the street scene.

Seeing a familiar plaque, Shen Du said to the driver through the gap in the seat: "Master is here, please pull over, thank you."

After paying according to the amount displayed on the meter, Shen Du pushed the door and got off with his backpack in his hand.

Yong'an North Street can be regarded as a busy street, surrounded by many large shopping malls, and there are many residents living nearby. There are some exquisite storefronts on the side of the street, all kinds of goods are available.

Walking a few steps along the street, Shen Du stood in front of a coffee shop.

The plaque of the coffee shop is still hung with a red cloth, and it seems that it has not yet officially opened. There is a small fence around the door, and there is a bracket blackboard in the fence, with many cute cat patterns drawn on it.

Pushing open the fence and walking in, Shen Du raised his hand to block the brow bone, blocking the sunlight and looking at the situation inside the coffee shop.

Ning Zhi was wearing a white shirt and a brown apron on his chest. He looked up when he saw someone lying on the glass at the door.

"When did you come in? Why didn't you come in?" Ning Zhi helped open the door, and Ning Zhi turned sideways to welcome Shen Du who was outside the door.

"Just arrived." After entering the door, Shen Du looked around the environment of the store, and said in admiration, "The design is not bad, when will it open?"

"Everything is almost ready, now let these cats adapt to the environment first, and open next Friday."

Ning Zhi opened a cat cafe. In addition to buying coffee and desserts in the shop, he also brought the five cats he raised at home into the shop and forced them to work.

"Come to join us when the time comes, and I'll give you an old school price, [-]% off." Ning Zhi said with a smile.

Shen Du opened the zipper of the backpack, took out "Pei Zhao" who was drowsy from sleep inside, pointed at his head and bargained and said: "I will let him work with you, and the salary will be used to pay for me." Spend it."

"Pei Zhao" tilted his head and half-closed his eyes, was dragged out of the warm quilt, rubbed his paw on his face unhappily, and meowed.

"I don't dare to hire child labor." Taking "Pei Zhao" into his arms, Ning Zhi smiled and stroked his hair, and said to Shen Du, "Why did you bring it too? Do you know you What is this behavior called in the eyes of cats?"

Shen Du was puzzled, and asked back, "What's it called?"

"Take my daughter-in-law to visit the brothel!" Ning Zhi said firmly, "She's still a child bride."

Shen Du was amused by Ning Zhi's metaphor, poked at the milk cat lying in his arms, and said solemnly: "Take your son out to see the world."

Pei Zhao forcefully opened his eyes to confirm the situation in front of him, and after a while he couldn't resist the oncoming drowsiness, and closed his eyes drowsily again.

A few seconds later, Pei Zhao suddenly opened his eyes wide.

He was actually held in Ning Zhi's arms!

Having grasped this fact, Pei Zhao quietly buried his face towards Ning Zhi's chest, and his little paw pretended to fall down inadvertently. The soft paw pads stuck to the back of Ning Zhi's hand, and stretched comfortably. leg.

Shen Du's eyebrows twitched when he saw the shy look on his cat's face, snuggling into another man's arms.

Raising his hand and looking upwards, Shen Du took the lazy cat lying in Ning Zhi's arms into his arms, tied it tightly with his arms, and said fiercely: "Don't act like a baby with other men in front of me. "

"Meow!" Pei Zhao bared his fangs in dissatisfaction, kicking his hind legs.

"Sorry, I'm too attractive." Ning Zhi smiled proudly.

"This ancestor was harder to serve than the national treasure when he was at home. He ate too much and had a bad temper. He beat people when he disagreed with him. Sometimes I suspected that he was a tiger cub. When he saw you, he looked like a docile kitten. " Shen Du pinched "Pei Zhao"'s cheeks and gently pulled them to both sides.

When Shen Du let go of his paw, Pei Zhao punched him hard on the chest without saying a word.

"If you haven't been beaten by your master, you don't have a cat."

Ning Zhi looked at it amusedly, stood up and walked towards the kitchen, and asked Shen Du behind him, "What do you want to drink?"

"Ice American Style, thank you." Shen Du said.

Ning Zhi went to the kitchen to make things, while Shen Du visited the cat cafe with "Pei Zhao" in his arms.

The decoration of this cat cafe is mainly in dark tones, and there are not too many decorations. The style is simple and authentic, which is especially suitable for taking a break in the busy afternoon.

While drinking coffee and petting the cat, life is pleasant.

One wall of the coffee shop is full of cat climbing frames, and the wall above the frame has a channel in the wall, which is very suitable for lively and active cats to climb around.

Ning Zhi's five cats have all been taken to work. All of them are puppet cats. They all have dark blue eyes, soft and thick long hair, and look like royal princes.

The puppet cats themselves have a docile personality, and they were raised by Ning Zhi to be very close to people. When they saw Shen Du approaching, they all stood up and looked at "Pei Zhao" in his arms curiously.

"Yao'er, look how gentle your brothers and sisters are, why are you acting like a little lunatic?" Shen Du was worried that "Pei Zhao" would not get along with these puppet cats, and carefully protected the little ancestor in his arms.

"Shh!"

Dissatisfied with being compared with "other people's children", Pei Zhao squeezed his head out and bared his teeth at the ragdoll cats that surrounded him.

Several puppets were trying to get close to Shen Du, and when they heard Pei Zhao's breath, they were frightened, straightened up, supported the ground with their hind legs, and bounced away like a rabbit.

The cats who were around just now scattered away, jumping up and down to find a hiding place to hide.

Shen Du raised his hand to poke "Pei Zhao" on the forehead, and reprimanded softly: "Be polite, don't be aggressive."

Pei Zhao didn't expect his own ability to be so great, he just didn't want those cats to come close, and whoever knew it would scare them away.

There are many entertainment facilities in the cat cafe. Shen Du wants "Pei Zhao" to go down to play by himself, but is worried that he will fight with other cats, so he can only hold him in his arms for the time being, and let him go down after he adapts to the environment here. .

Walking out of the back kitchen with two cups of coffee, Ning Zhi couldn't help laughing when he saw Shen Du hugging the cat with a serious face.

"What are you holding it for? Your cat rented it?"

Shen Du turned his head and glanced at the empty cat climbing frame. Although he couldn't see the cats, he could feel five eyes staring at him.

"My family has a bad temper, I'm afraid they will fight." Shen Du clasped the cat in his arms with his backhand.

No matter how arrogant this ancestor is in normal times, the left and right are just kids under one year old, if they really want to fight, maybe it will be the one who suffers.

"Don't worry, I can't fight." Ning Zhi said, "My cats are all Buddhist, otherwise how dare I use them to open cat cafes."

Shen Du pursed his lips in thought.

Seeing his appearance of "the old father who travels thousands of miles is worried", Ning Zhi couldn't help laughing and said: "Look at your expression, you almost put the word "protect the calf" on your face."

"Why are you protecting the calf? I love my son." Shen Du retorted.

After hearing Shen Du's words, Pei Zhao waved his claws and punched again.

Holding Pei Zhao and getting acquainted with the cats for a while, and making sure that they got along well, Shen Du released Pei Zhao with confidence, and found some toys for the cats, and let him play around in the store by himself.

"How is it? Do you want to join me when I open next week?" Ning Zhi tasted the coffee he made himself, and the taste was quite satisfactory.

Shen Du lowered the corner of his mouth and shook his head, his eyes fixed on "Pei Zhao" who was not far away.

"I'm going on a business trip next week, and I won't be back in time."

The puppets in the cat cafe were hidden, and Pei Zhaobai squatted bored among a pile of toys, eavesdropping on the conversation between Shen Du and Ning Zhi.

In order to pretend to be more like an ordinary cat, Pei Zhao also symbolically pawed at Rabbit mice with his paws, or scratched the cat scratching post twice, trying to make his behavior look no different from other cats.

"Business trip?" Ning Zhi didn't realize it for a while, and after thinking for a long time, he couldn't remember what day next week was.

Shen Du cut a piece of cake and put it in his mouth, chewed it up and swallowed it and reminded: "DC Fashion Festival."

Being reminded by Shen Du, Ning Zhi suddenly realized, raised his palm and slapped himself on the forehead: "Yes, yes, why did I forget such a big thing, I remembered, you did it because you helped that female star I’m wearing a dress, so that’s why I went?”

Shen Du put down the fork in his hand and nodded.

This kind of fashion festival, at the beginning, really invited famous people in the fashion circle, and later, after various commercial baptisms, it has become a stage for celebrities from all walks of life to gain traffic and gain popularity.

Some time ago, he rushed to make a dress for a popular female star, which was also used to participate in this DC Fashion Festival.

Shen Du doesn't like to join in the fun, especially this kind of banquet where celebrities from all walks of life compete openly and secretly, even if he receives an invitation letter, he will not attend.

This time he made an exception to participate because he saw Ge Qiu's name in this year's attendance list.

Shen Du originally wanted to take this opportunity to get in touch with Ge Qiu, but who would have thought that before the grand ceremony came, he would already be a guest at Pei's house as a "future son-in-law" for dinner, and chatted a lot about design knowledge .

Thinking of Pei Zhao, Shen Du unconsciously twitched his lips.

"What are you thinking? Are you smiling so happily?" Judging from the experience of Ning Zhi's past experience, eight out of ten people with this expression on their faces are in the period of passionate love.

Quickly straightening the lip line, Shen Du denied it without guilt: "No, you read it wrong."

Ning Zhi pouted, before he could continue to ask, Shen Du interrupted the topic.

"Because I have to try on the dress, so I will fly there next Monday. After the ceremony, there will be some interviews, and I will be back next Wednesday at the earliest. During this time, can you help me take care of my son?"

Shen Du had been out for too long, and he was worried about leaving the little ancestor alone at home.

"Of course no problem." Ning Zhi readily agreed, "If you leave a child for me to raise, I may not have much experience, so leave a cat for me, and I promise to feed it to you for nothing."

With his help, Shen Du would be most at ease, this little brat and Ning Zhi got along inexplicably harmoniously, and there would be no problem if he thought about it.

Pei Zhao, who was holding a ball of wool and fiddled with it under his paws, heard that Shen Du was going to foster him in Ning Zhi's house, so he slapped the ball of wool away excitedly, and ran to Ning Zhi's feet with a meow. , yelling in circles around the chair.

Ning Zhi took out the ball of wool that rolled under the chair, and threw it vigorously towards the cat climbing frame.

Pei Zhao rubbed Ning Zhi's trouser leg, watched the ball of wool cut a parabola and flew out, hesitated for a few seconds, and still bouncing after him.

"By the way, I have a few ideas about the wedding dress I told you about last time. Wait until I get the notebook to show you."

Shen Du said that he would help make the wedding dress, and Ning Zhi always kept it in his heart, and he wrote several pages of manuscript paper just thinking about it.

"En." After eating the remaining cake on the plate, Shen Du sat quietly on the chair and waited for Ning Zhi to pick up his notebook.

Excitedly returning with his notebook in his arms, Ning Zhi spread out the notebook and said to Shen Du: "This veil, my wife said she wanted it like this..."

The topic of Shen Du and Ning Zhi turned into professional knowledge, and Pei Zhao, who was eavesdropping on the sidelines, began to have heavy eyelids, and his head became dizzy until he felt sleepy.

This problem has been with Pei Zhao for many years, causing him to turn on his mobile phone to find the video of the public class whenever he suffers from insomnia, and listen to it as a lullaby. Within 10 minutes, he is guaranteed to fall asleep and try everything.

Pei Zhao stood up and shook out his hair, and jumped onto the cat climbing frame with all his strength.

Maybe after this store opens, he has to sell his looks to help Ning Zhi attract customers, and he must not lose the chain at the beginning and leave Ning Zhi with the impression of a little lazy cat.

Stepping on the cat climbing frame and jumping all the way to the top, Pei Zhao planned to cultivate some relationship with those puppet cats first, and wondered if he, a half-way monk, could communicate with normal cats.

Jumping to the top of the cat climbing frame, Pei Zhaoxun didn't see the shadow of the cat even though he looked around. It was obviously here just now, but it disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Turning around to look at the square hole on the wall, Pei Zhao found that this was a secret passage that Ning Zhi deliberately opened in the wall when he was decorating, and it was specially used for cats to crawl around.

Jumping onto the pitch-black passage, Pei Zhao's pupils formed into a thin line slowly enlarged until they turned into round pupils to adapt to the dark environment in the passage.

The vision in front of him became clear, and Pei Zhao saw at the end of the dark passage, five puppet cats with their backs against the wall and their hind feet on the ground, huddled together one by one and shivering.

"Hello!" Pei Zhao waved his paws at them.

The five cats all looked at Pei Zhao at the entrance, their bodies trembling like chaff, and their eyes were full of panic.

"what!"

The screams of five cats came in my head.

"Shh!"

[Stop calling!It pissed me off! 】

The screams made Pei Zhao's eardrums hurt, and he covered his ears with his front paws.

After being snarled fiercely by Pei Zhao, the five cats fell silent for an instant, squeezing one by one to hide, and no one wanted to stand in the front.

[Don't move! 】

"Ouch!" Pei Zhao said fiercely again.

The five puppet cats instantly petrified.

Shen Du with sharp ears heard "Pei Zhao"'s voice, and thought that "Pei Zhao" would not get along with Ning Zhi's cat.

Worried that his son would be bullied at a young age, before Ning Zhi could react, Shen Du had already moved a chair, stepped on it and lay down at the entrance of the cave, using the flashlight of his mobile phone to illuminate the interior.

The six cats are surrounding each other "sweetly", grooming each other and stepping on their milk, getting along very harmoniously.

After confirming that the little boy was fine, Shen Du breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yao'er, don't bully your older brothers and sisters." Thinking about it carefully, with the character of his son, it is absolutely impossible to suffer outside.

"Meow--"

Pei Zhao rarely yelled at Shen Du's sweet milk.

Watching Shen Du leave, Pei Zhao tiptoed towards the entrance of the cave, confirmed that Shen Du had started talking to Ning Zhi about the wedding dress again, and after not having any doubts about the scream just now, he patted his chest in relief.

Turning his head to look at the puppet cats who were acting with him just now, they huddled together in the corner again, trembling.

"Aren't you afraid of me?" Pei Zhao asked suspiciously.

He didn't quite know why they were afraid of him, but judging from the reaction just now, Pei Zhao always felt that these cats would know something.

And Pei Zhao found that he could communicate with these cats with his mind, just like the screams just now, those cats did not speak, but directly transmitted the sound into his brain.

"You, come out." Pei Zhao pointed to the puppet cat standing in the front.

The puppet cat who was named had his eyes darkened and passed out immediately.

".."

"Come out and ask you guys something." Pei Zhao tried to control his thoughts and communicate with these cats.

A two-color puppet hiding in the innermost place quietly poked its head out to look at Pei Zhao. When Pei Zhao caught his gaze, he was so frightened that he shrank his head back.

"Okay, don't tell me, right? Then I'll eat meat today." Pei Zhao lay down in the secret passage calmly, flicked the big tail behind him to his eyes, and talked carefully.

"Do you think puppet cats are better steamed? Or braised?" Pei Zhao threatened, "Forget it, the kitten is so cute, it's better to eat spicy."

"Hey - I say I say!"

There was a sob in his head, and a three-color puppet walked up to Pei Zhao tremblingly, with a look of lovelessness on his face.

"Tell me, why are you afraid of me?" The white hair on the tip of Pei Zhao's tail became more conspicuous as it grew longer, and it looked quite individual.

"We can feel that you are different from me." The three-color puppet cat trembled nervously.

"What's the difference?" Pei Zhao asked.

"You are not a cat." said the three-color puppet cat.

After thinking about it, Pei Zhao felt that the cat seemed to be talking nonsense.

"Of course I'm not a cat, I'm a human!" Pei Zhao said angrily.

Shocked by Pei Zhao, the three-color puppet cat retreated in front of the cats and hugged them again.

Realizing that he had frightened them, Pei Zhao touched his nose in embarrassment, trying to make his voice as soft as possible.

"Do you know that there are cat spirits? Cat demons and the like? They can take human form, or possess spells, and can transform themselves?" Pei Zhao tried hard to search for words in his mind, trying to make his description more appropriate.

He rarely watched this kind of TV series, and he didn't know much about them. The only one he could recall at this moment was the Nine-Life Cat Demon named Miaomiao in "Bright Spring Pig Bajie".

That's because the family status was low when I was a child, and I didn't have the power to control the remote control. He could only watch whatever my sister liked to watch.

"Now there are no cats who are willing to practice. After thousands of years of hard work, they will be struck to death by lightning if they are not careful. It is better to find a good family to act like a baby and be cute as a pet, and live a cat's life in luxury. "

Seeing that Pei Zhao had no ill intentions towards them, the two-color puppet hidden in the innermost place became courageous and stuck out its head to talk to Pei Zhao.

"Then why did I become a cat?" Pei Zhao asked the question in his heart.

A few cats shook their heads like rattles.

"Don't you know?" Pei Zhao raised his fingernails and waved them in the air.

"I don't know, I don't know!" The two-color puppet hugged its head in fright, "We are all house cats who don't leave the house, and have been cut off from the outside world for a long time. If you really want to ask, you can wait for the spring to warm up. Flowers, ask the stray cats in your neighborhood, they know more than us."

"Yes, yes!" the rest of the puppet cats echoed.

"Okay." Pei Zhaomian accepted the suggestion, "I might come to stay for a while next week, you guys, it's best not to show your feet in front of Zhizhi, otherwise I will never let you go!"

The puppet cat that fainted from fright gradually regained consciousness, and just recovered its sanity, when Pei Zhao said that he would never let them go, kicked his legs in fright, rolled his eyes and passed out again.

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