Please Be More Serious

Ch 29

“Your cat?”

“Sort of.” Yin Ting nods, looking a little sad. “It’s a stray cat. Sometimes when I walk around the neighbourhood, I would see stray cats rummaging the garbage for food. So I tried to learn from others and try to feed them. I ended up buying cat food and feeding them regularly, but these few days none of them showed up except for this one.”

She is baiting cats now?

Qiu Zheng Qing refuses to speak his opinion. No comment.

“Then this one start showing every day, eventually it even stays here. It’s very close to me, it will even rub against my legs and play with me. When I come home, it will run to meet at the entrance of the neighbourhood. But my dad has quite a serious fur allergy, so I can’t take it home. None of our family members have a pet since I’m young. I want to help Da Da find a family but there’s no luck there. I posted on Weibo but no one is willing to keep it. Since Da Da’s tail is curved, some complain it’s not pretty, some complain it’s unlucky. There’s an uncle who wanted to keep Da Da in his factory to hunt for mice. I ask him how he’s going to feed it. But he said, if Da Da is hungry, only then will it be persistent in hunting for mice. So I didn’t give it to him. He even scolded me! Afterwards I found a family who has had cats before, I thought it’d be appropriate. But then I saw the family bragging that they have another cat on Weibo, someone commented asking if they forgot what happened to their last. They didn’t install fences, causing their previous cat to fall to their death. I contacted that person, and he told me that he also once gave his cat away to that family. Not only did the family not install the fence, they even fed the cat food of the lowest grade. The cat ended up dying from a fall. Now, they are even keeping another one. After hearing this, of course I am very worried and immediately went and pick up Da Da. They scolded me again, saying what’s the big deal with a little cat with a curved tail.”

He wants to pat her head to comfort her. He couldn’t resist the temptation and ends up really patting her head, only to flinch a second later. He doesn’t want to frighten or upset Yin Ting. Luckily the Heartless and Thoughtless God is still tightly embracing Yin Ting. She looks up and smiles at him, thanking him for comforting her.

This is when he realizes he has been overthinking it. This girl has no sense of propriety between females and males at all. But thinking it this way makes him feel depressed, she couldn’t be this careless when dealing with other guys, could she? He sits down beside Yin Ting and patiently waits for her to continue.

“I have quite a lot of Weibo followers, so there are quite a few people who contacted me about the cat. At first I’m really happy, thinking that it’ll be easy to find Da Da a home. But after that two incidents, I’m a little shocked and become very cautious. I even asked those pet rescue volunteers for guidance. Afterwards there is a family who wants Da Da. Their qualifications seem decent, so I’m very happy, but they ended up returning it to me because it is not compatible with their cat. Afterwards, I give it to a girl but she returned to me saying that his boyfriend doesn’t like Da Da and even got into a fight with her about it. Either way, none of it went well. In the end I just deleted the Weibo post. Those people online are not reliable at all. I begin to ask my friends if they want to keep Da Da and even asked around at those pet shelters. But they already have a lot of cats and dogs that needs to be adopted, Da Da still needs to wait for its turn. So I feed it here. After eating, Da Da will play around in the neighbourhood, its life is quite good. I think if we wait patiently, eventually we’ll be able to find a good family for it. But now I can’t wait anymore.”

“Why?”

“There are complaints from people in this neighbourhood, saying that there are too many stray cats affecting the neighbourhood. They even ask who will be responsible if the stray cats attack people? There’s even a family who says that their daughter-in-law is pregnant and cats will cause miscarriage. They demand the property management company to deal with the problem. I tried explaining to them but they’re not listening to me. I ask for more time to find Da Da a home, but early this morning that family took brooms to hit Da Da and even made a fuss at the property management company. They even took away its bowl and told me that the next time I see Da Da, I must chase it away. So I took this container with me and waited for it to appear. After a long time, I finally found it.”