The cat that wakes up and becomes a rival

Shen Du cleaned the thermos bucket after eating, opened the cabinet and pulled out a few pieces of kitchen paper to dry off the water, screwed the lid back on and went back to the living room, looking at Pei Zhao who was sitting on the sofa.

"I'm going back to the studio later, do you want to stay here and wait for me to come back, or should I send you home now?"

Pei Zhao raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at the stray cat in the cage with flickering eyes, and fiddled with his own little calculations in his heart.

"It's not an option to keep them in cages like this. I'll clean them up for you, and then feed them, so that you can rest for a while when you come back from work."

After listening to Pei Zhao's words, Shen Du nodded with a smile and said, "Anyway, I even gave you the keys to the house, so I won't be polite to you."

Pei Zhao knew how to use the things for cats, and didn't need Shen Du's guidance, so he just explained where to put the things, so that Pei Zhao could call him at any time if he was unclear about anything.

Pei Zhao sat cross-legged on the sofa, holding a big pillow in his arms, no matter what Shen Du asked, he nodded happily in agreement.

After Shen Du explained everything, he took his coat and went to the door to put on his shoes. Just as he was about to open the door and go out, he remembered that there was an important thing that he hadn't explained.

"These stray cats have hurt people. Be careful when feeding them. If it doesn't work, you can wait until I come back." Shen Du said to Pei Zhao who was on the sofa.

Pei Zhao rolled his eyes, spread his hands and shifted his weight backwards, allowing his body to hit the soft sofa, and his voice seemed weak.

"You are just rambling like this at a young age, what will you do when you are seventy or eighty?"

Shen Du was not angry when he was complained by Pei Zhao, and the corners of his eyes were still full of smiles.

"Then wait until I'm seventy or eighty and come back to see me?"

"Hurry up and go to work, you, who is dating you!" Pei Zhao curled his lips in disdain, and threw the pillow in his hand towards Shen Du.

After some nonsense with Pei Zhao, the haze that had been lingering on Shen Du's chest finally dissipated, and he returned to the studio in good spirits. On the way, he brought a few boxes of egg tarts to his colleagues to relieve the pressure brought by work.

The hard-working employees, looking at the smile on the corner of their boss's mouth, looked at each other and secretly exchanged glances, trying to encourage each other to be the first bird.

"Boss! What makes you so happy? Tell us about it and let us hear it too." Among them, a courageous one asked the question that everyone was looking forward to, under the instigation of his colleagues.

Shen Du didn't know why he raised his head, he glanced at himself in the mirror from the corner of his eye, and after a closer look, he found that the expression on his face was indeed very happy.

Thinking of the unknown person at home and the undigested dumplings in his stomach, the corners of Shen Du's mouth turned even higher.

"Could it be that the boss is in love?"

Seeing that Shen Du was in a good mood, everyone's emotions relaxed, you joked with each other sentence by sentence, trying to dig out some gossip from Shen Du's mouth.

With the corners of his raised mouth drooping, Shen Du changed his face in a second, pretending to be serious, and bent his index finger and sternly knocked on the table.

"Eat quickly, and continue working after eating!"

The people around the table quickly put away their gossip expressions, buried their heads in gnawing on the egg tarts in their hands, and their hearts were pounding.

Seeing his majesty take effect, Shen Du added slowly.

"Strive for an early end, and don't have to work overtime tonight."

Shen Du's magnetic voice reached everyone's ears, and the studio was silent for three seconds, followed by warm cheers.

..

The tiger is not at home, the monkey is called the king.

Relying that Shen Du was not at home, Pei Zhao acted like the host of the house, half-lidded his eyelids, and stared at the stray cat in the cage with a half-smile.

"Be lenient when you confess, and strict when you resist. I will give you three seconds to think." Pei Zhao pointed to the wall clock on the wall.

Three seconds?

This time seems to be given, but not fully given.

In the blink of an eye, the big cat saw Pei Zhao sitting cross-legged in front of the cage, with a notebook he found somewhere on his lap, and a pen in his hand, clearly wanting to record " Confession".

The big cat swallowed its saliva, its eyes flickered, and it didn't dare to look directly into Pei Zhao's eyes. It moved in small steps nervously, protecting the cubs behind it.

Pei Zhao had expected that the "interrogation" process would not go smoothly, so he was not surprised when he saw the big cat's resistance.

Pei Zhao took the key from the tea table behind him, unlocked the lock on the cage door, hooked his light-white index finger around the handle and pushed gently, and the cage door opened a gap.

"Think slowly, I'll catch a kitten to satisfy my greed first." Pei Zhao stuck out his tongue and licked the corner of his mouth, and grabbed a kitten from the cage.

The little boy was innocent and ignorant of worldly affairs, and he didn't know what happened. He looked curious about the baby and was caught in his hands by Pei Zhao.

"Steamed or braised?"

With the tangled expression on Pei Zhao's face, it is not difficult to see that he is worrying about the choice.

"Would it be too troublesome to stir-fry? Otherwise, it's better to sashimi. The little one weighs how little meat there is, so it saves you a lot of trouble."

After finalizing his attention, Pei Zhao squeezed the kitten in his palm and walked briskly into the kitchen, as if he didn't see the eager expression of the big cat in the cage.

Hiding in the kitchen, Pei Zhao took out the cutting board and put it on the cooking table, took a kitchen knife from the knife holder, and made some scary noises on the cutting board.

"I heard that while the prey is alive, plucking the hair directly will make the skin tighter and taste better when eaten. I don't know if it's true or not. Let's try it first."

Pei Zhao yelled towards the living room at the top of his voice, and kept scratching the kitten in his hands. He had been a cat for so long and was rubbed by Shen Du, so of course he knew where the kitten's weakness was.

The innocent kitten was tickled all over by Pei Zhao, wriggling uncomfortably, struggling and begging for mercy.

As Pei Zhao expected, the little cat only meowed a few times, and the big cat in the cage in the living room couldn't sit still. He howled with his mother.

"Ancestor, spare your life, ancestor, spare your life! It's not that I don't want to say it, but that I really don't know anything!"

The big cat was so frightened by Pei Zhao that its fur all over its body exploded, and its back stiffened with an eager look, for fear that the child would become Pei Zhao's dinner because of him.

"you do not know?"

Pei Zhao poked his head out from the kitchen, half-closed his eyes, and said to the big cat word by word.

"I...I really don't know anything." The big cat didn't dare to look at Pei Zhao, shivering and shrinking its neck, protecting the cubs behind it.

"If you don't know, just think about it slowly, and you can tell me when you think about it," Pei Zhao stuck out his pink tongue and licked the corner of his mouth, shrugging his shoulders indifferently, "Anyway, you have plenty of time to think, so I'll fill it up first." Let's talk about the stomach."

When the big cat heard Pei Zhao's words, it became anxious immediately. The beards on both sides of its cheeks trembled again and again, and it hurriedly flipped its little paws, and rushed to the door of the cage, howling.

"I really don't know what to explain."

Pei Zhao bent a finger, scratched the skin on his chin, and said casually, "How about I ask you?"

The big cat hesitated and thought for a moment, thinking of the unweaned cubs behind him, gritted his teeth and nodded.

"The first question," Pei Zhao said seriously, "Who am I?"

The big cat was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "Isn't your name Pei Zhao?"

Picking up the cat teasing stick on the ground and holding it in his hand, the plastic handle was shaken and knocked on the iron cage, making the sound of clattering metal.

The cats in the cage were so frightened by Pei Zhao that they didn't dare to look at him curiously, but hid behind their mother in a ball.

"Okay, thank you. If you didn't tell me, I really wouldn't know my name is Pei Zhao."

Pei Zhao's mocking tone made Big Cat feel uneasy.

"I'm going to eat sashimi, do you want to save a leg for you?"

"I, I, I...I really don't know your name." The big cat started to stutter.

"Then what do you usually call the other me?" Although this question sounds strange, Pei Zhao couldn't think of a better question.

The big cat shook its beard and looked at Pei Zhao in fear for a few seconds, and finally lowered its head as if resigned to its fate, even its voice sounded weak.

"Actually, we've only met each other a few times..." Big Cat's voice was sharp and harsh, and his speech was intermittent, but Pei Zhao still sat seriously in front of the cage and listened to her talk. Tell it word by word.

"My original owner, the family didn't agree with her to raise me. They took advantage of my owner's going to school, put me in a cardboard box and threw me next to the trash can, and lied to the little owner that I ran out by myself."

When mentioning the sad past, the big cat's eye ends were drooped by the sadness, and countless sad grievances overflowed his face.

It once squatted on the road that its master had to pass to go to school. When it saw its former master again, it could only hide behind the fence and peek, not daring to come forward to recognize it.

"Pet cats like me are left in the wild. They don't know how to survive in the wild. They can't even find food. They are ridiculed by other stray cats, bullied by stray dogs, and some ruthless bad guys."

Pei Zhao remembered that the reason why Shen Du picked up Little Maine and brought it home was also because he was being bullied by a group of children when he met it. He wondered if there was some kind of connection between the two.

"So..." Pei Zhao pondered, "It was "I" who saved you? "

Big Cat nodded firmly.

"At that time, I was pregnant and homeless, so I followed wherever "you" went. Later, "you" helped me find a place to live and entrusted my elderly mother The cat takes care of my delivery. "

Pei Zhao frowned, and asked, "Did 'I' tell you about 'I'? "

According to the current description of the big cat, Pei Zhao could not extract any useful clues.

The big cat shook his head hesitantly, then buried his head in deep thought for a moment, and said cautiously: "You" seldom bring up these things, and even seldom say anything. When I ask questions, you are silent except for a hum. , I don't dare to ask too much, after all, I know that your status is special and different from ours. "

Mentioning Maine's identity, Pei Zhao suddenly remembered that since the big cat opened his mouth to now, he has always been called ancestor. Could it be that he is the ancestor of this group of cats?

"Why do you call 'my' ancestors? "Pei Zhao asked.

The big cat shook its beard in embarrassment, and said, "You never mentioned your identity, and you refused to reveal your name, so I had to think of a name for myself. I don't know much, and the one I can think of has the highest status and is most worthy of you." Calling it is the ancestor."

Big Mao thought for a while and added, "Anyway, every time I call you, you just nod and never refuse."

The only clear clue was interrupted. Pei Zhao lowered his head and sighed in disappointment. He thought he would dig out some useful information from the stray cats. Judging from the current progress, things have become more and more confusing and involved. More and more people came in.

"That's right!" Big Cat's eyes lit up, "I remembered a very important thing!"

The author says:

Sorry QAQ