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When Yu Nian returned home at six o'clock in the afternoon, he opened the door as usual and yelled twice.

"Steamed bun"

"Okay?"

Unexpectedly, there was no sound in the house, and the cat ran away somewhere, neither answering him nor appearing.

After changing his shoes and putting down his bag, he looked inside strangely and called his name several times, but there was no sign of the two bedrooms and the living room.

Are you sleeping?

He ran back to the bedroom and tiptoed to check the top of the closet for the last time. After making sure that it was not there, he ran to the balcony. As soon as he entered, he saw the half-open window, and the outside wind blew in.

He panicked instantly.

After Mantou came to this house, he escaped from prison twice, one time he slipped away while he was opening the door for work, but fortunately he was caught by him in the stairwell, and the other time he opened the window and ran away.

For cats, the balcony on the third floor does not pose any obstacles, and they can parkour along the pipe wall for half a minute to land on the garden on the first floor.That time Yu Nian searched for it for two whole days, and finally ran back to the corridor by itself.

At this moment, Yu Nian opened the window and leaned half of his body out to look around. Apart from the cement floor, there was a car downstairs, and there was no sign of a cat.Without thinking about it, he changed his shoes and rushed out. He didn't even take the elevator, and searched along the corridor floor by floor until he found the grass around the building.

"Steamed buns! Steamed buns—!"

"Steamed bun--"

Dimly lit at dusk, not easy to find.In the bushes and on the branches of trees, Yu Nian searched carefully, not to mention steamed buns, not even a stray cat.The community is so big that there is no way to find it, not to mention that he doesn't know how long Mantou has been out, and whether he has left the community.He stood on the grass and wanted to cry, regretting that he forgot to lock the window when he went out.

The neighbor across the door came back from get off work and saw him, and asked strangely, "Yu Nian, what are you doing standing there?"

Yu Nian hurried forward: "My cat is gone, it's the tabby. Sister Mei, have you seen it?"

"Ah?! When did you disappear? I also just got off work. I didn't see the cat when I came from the north gate. Did you see where it went?"

"No..." Yu Nian looked flustered, "I'll look elsewhere, Sister Mei, if you see steamed buns when you go upstairs, call me."

"Okay, let's go."

Yu Nian hummed and walked in the opposite direction, but just after walking far, the neighbor suddenly called him back.

"Yu Nian!"

"Ok?"

"Where's your husband? Call him down and look for it together. It's getting dark when will you find it by yourself?"

The neighbors face them day and night, and usually nod and say hello when they come out and go in to meet each other, so they naturally know Xiao Mocun's existence.Standing ten meters away, Yu Nian pursed her lips, hesitating and not knowing how to answer.

He did think about calling Xiao Mocun the minute he found out that the cat was gone, but his rationality told him that it was unnecessary.

Xiao Mocun had ridiculed him when he lost it the first two times, saying that he couldn't even look after a cat and was not qualified to keep a pet.

From then on, Yu Nian worried that he would just find an excuse to send the steamed buns away, so he has been very careful.But in the past two days, he has more important things on his mind, and he has been restless for several days, so he accidentally forgot to lock the window when he went out this morning.

This time he could almost imagine what the other party would say. "Run and run", "I still have things to do", "It's just a cat, what's the big deal".

Xiao Mocun can always pick out the most indifferent words to perfuse him.

In the distance, the sun was red, and there were occasional pedestrians passing by in the community. After the neighbor reminded him, he didn't wait for an answer and didn't care. He turned around and disappeared in front of his eyes.

Time is running out, once it gets dark, it will become even more impossible to find the steamed buns by yourself.Yu Nian hesitated for a long time, and finally ran upstairs quickly, panting, picked up the phone on the sofa and sent a message.

"Mo Cun, the steamed bun is gone, is it convenient for you to answer the phone?"

After sending, he sat on the sofa holding the phone in both hands, feeling as if a fire was burning in his heart.

Just wait for 5 minutes, Yu Nian thought, once the 5 minutes are up, no matter whether Xiao Mocun ignores or refuses, he will go downstairs to look for it again.

But what he didn't expect was that this torment ended soon.

"Call me in 2 minutes." Eight cold words appeared on the screen.

Yu Nian stared at it for a few seconds as if he didn't know him before standing up in overjoy, holding his mobile phone and pacing back and forth in the living room, watching the time skip two 60 seconds, and then impatiently dialed it.

"Silence! Man—"

"When did you see me?"

He couldn't wait to ask what to do now, and wanted to tell how he had searched a lot and still found nothing, but he was interrupted as soon as he called his name.There was a kind of indifference in Xiao Mocun's voice, just like the police investigating a case.

Yu Nian was taken aback, and swallowed all the words.

"do not know……"

He turned his head and looked at the empty balcony, "It disappeared when I came back from get off work, the window on the balcony was open, and the cat food was not finished yet."

Xiao Mocun quickly rebounded: "I told you that the windows must be locked with clamps, you don't understand me?"

After the first time he discovered that Mantou had opened the window, he told Yu Nian in a bad tone that the edge of the window should be clamped with dovetail clips when he was not at home, otherwise the cat would run away and stop yelling at him to help him find it.

"I forgot." Yu Nian blamed himself and was afraid, "It's all my fault that I forgot in a hurry when I went out today. What should I do now? It's getting dark outside..."

"It's already gone, what's the use of worrying, go downstairs and look for it first."

"I've searched... I've searched downstairs just now, but I didn't see it. Do you think it may have escaped from the community? If it went outside, can it be found like last time?! "

Yu Nian spoke faster and faster, with an extremely anxious tone.I was afraid that something might happen to the steamed bun because of my negligence, and I was also afraid that it would never come home again.Thinking of its cute appearance sleeping on his arm every night, he wished he could whip himself twice.

Xiao Mocun didn't understand Yu Nian's feelings at all.The phone was quiet for a while, and then there was a crisp sound of the lighter cover, and everything seemed unhurried and leisurely.

"Mo Cun, are you still listening?" Yu Nian guessed that he was smoking.

There was a pause for several seconds before a low voice answered from the receiver.

"Ah."

Yu Nian breathed a sigh of relief.This reaction was much better than expected, at least he was still willing to listen to himself, and didn't scold himself bloody immediately.Yu Nian touched the fabric on his knee with his left hand, held up his mobile phone with his right hand, and asked tentatively, "Can you come back now? The community is too big, and I can't find it alone."

Xiao Mocun seemed to puff out his cigarette, and refused without hesitation: "Of course I can't leave now, you can figure it out."

"But if you can't find it tonight, then—"

"Since I've searched all over, if there's nothing there, it's nothing, so what if I go back?"

No matter what he said, Xiao Mocun was waiting to pour cold water on him as if he was ready to refute.

The palms on the knees were slowly released, and Yu Nian's mouth was full of bitterness, as if a blower was working at full speed in his heart.

This feeling is not unfamiliar.Once he had a fever, and lying on the bed with tinnitus and fatigue, his consciousness was a little confused.People are very fragile when they are sick, including Yu Nian who has not yet developed a steel heart.

He sent a message to her husband: I have a fever of 39 degrees.

Then he waited.Take medicine, drink water, and wait.After waiting until one o'clock in the morning, there was always silence outside the second bedroom door, and he finally fell asleep with his limbs feeling weak.

Today is a bit like that day, he was stupid again, said inappropriate words again, and asked Xiao Mocun to go home early.

People living in the world, being stupid two or three times is justifiable, but you can't go on being stupid endlessly.

He lowered his eyes and saw a circle of mud on his feet, and suddenly realized that he had forgotten to change his shoes when he entered the house.Turning his head and looking, there was a series of footprints on the originally smooth floor on the road from the door to the sofa, which could be easily found under the reflection of the light.

Normally, he must have wiped it with a rag, lest Xiao Mocun see an unclean home when he came home, but today he didn't.

click-

click-

He suddenly got up as if venting, and walked back and forth several times, until he wiped all the mud on his feet onto the living room floor.To put it bluntly, this house belongs to him alone, and no one cares about dust except him.Just like the steamed buns belong to him alone, no one except him cares whether they can be found if they are lost.

After soiling the floor, he threw his mobile phone on the sofa, grabbed a flashlight and rushed downstairs, only to find that it was completely dark outside.

"Mantou! Come out, Mantou!"

This time his tone was much more anxious, and it sounded extraordinarily loud in the dark.

"Steamed bun--!"

"Steamed bun!"

He bent down and held a flashlight to inspect the garden inch by inch, looking for any place where the cat could hide.

After going back and forth twice to no avail, he went to the property to watch the surveillance again.The security guard was not very willing to help. After switching out the video from morning to night to speed up the playback, he sat in the swivel chair and yawned, his eyelids kept falling.There were no extra chairs in the monitoring room, and Yu Nian was too embarrassed to speak, so he bent down and stared at the screen alone, his waist sore.

Half an hour later, things finally came to light. Mantou appeared at the entrance of the corridor at four o'clock in the afternoon and went to the south of the community, but it was never seen in the surveillance camera at the south gate.

After Yu Nian thanked him, he quickly left the monitoring room and started searching in the southern district again.But Mantou seemed to be avoiding him on purpose, he yelled over and over again, and walked around the huge area, but still found nothing.

For him, Mantou is an indispensable part of his life, no different from his family, because Xiao Mocun didn't accompany him on many lonely and helpless nights, and his brother was not by his side, only Mantou was sensible and quiet, sleeping with him and listening to his nagging.

He refused to give up, running and calling it repeatedly.

"Mantou, come out! Go home!"

"come out--"

After shouting several times, the tree suddenly let out a meow.

"Meow--"

Yu Nian was shocked: "Steamed buns?!"

He searched for the sound and squatted down, while pushing aside the branches and leaves of Pittodia chinensis, he poked inside with a flashlight, and he saw the back of a light-colored fluff.

Afraid of scaring Mantou away, he didn't dare to shout again, so he simply stretched his hand forward, wanting to grab it directly.

"what--!"

The back of his hand was scratched hard by sharp claws, and Yu Nian retracted in horror to see that there was already a five or six centimeter long wound on the skin near the wrist, and dark red blood was oozing out.In the next second, a nimble figure sprang out of the grass, and ran away like electricity before he could react.

"Steamed bun!" Yu Nian yelled in the direction it ran away, doubling the volume, "Don't run away!!"

But Mantou ignored his cries and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"Steamed bun!!"

After Yu Nian ran for dozens of meters, he didn't know where to go.He propped his hands on his knees and gasped for breath, the wound on the back of his hand was stabbing painfully.

Didn't even the cat want to stay with him?

Yu Nianming knew he shouldn't think so, but he still couldn't help feeling disappointed and frustrated.

"What are you calling?"

Suddenly, a familiar male voice came from behind.

Yu Nian trembled all over, and it took him two seconds to turn around in disbelief.

"Silence?"

Xiao Mocun's tall figure walked in front of him from the shadows, and the sound of his leather shoes stepping on the ground sounded very stable.

Yu Nian's chest was still heaving slightly after exercising, and his eyes were looking straight at the person in front of him.

"you--"

"found it?"

Before you could ask a few words why you came back, Yu Nian was stunned for a moment, then shook his head discouragedly, "No."

"What did you call?"

"I saw it just now, it's under this bush." ​​Yu Nian turned around and pointed at the Pittosporum, "I tried to catch it but didn't catch it, and scared it away instead."

Xiao Mocun glanced at it lightly and then sneered, "It's really stupid."

He went to the grass, picked up the flashlight, and shone on Yu Nian contemptuously, causing Yu Nian to cover his eyes with the back of his hand.

"What more do you want to find?"

Yu Nian slowly took his hand away: "I want to look for a while, you go up and rest first."

Xiao Mocun finally lowered his right hand and took a few steps closer, looking at him with deep eyes.

"Give me the flashlight."

Yu Nian reached out to get it, but the slender flashlight in her husband's hand couldn't be pulled out no matter what.

"You..." Yu Nian looked at him suspiciously.

Xiao Mo kept his hand hard, his five fingers clenched tightly, and saw him like angrily: "The back of your hand was scratched by a cat?"