Chapter 12: The Feeding Cat
Early the next morning, Xu Jie was woken up by a scream.
The cat that opened its eyes looked back and forth for the source of the scream, and saw the new nurse in the pet hospital, who was pointing to the windowsill outside the window on the third floor with a panicked face.
Mr. Fujimoto and Mr. Nurse, who had just finished the night shift, came over together, and the nurse almost jumped up and hid behind them.
"Miss Hiromi, are you like this?" Mr. Fujimoto asked cautiously at his female employee.
The young nurse pointed to the windowsill and whispered, "There's a mouse on the windowsill over there." ”
When Mr. Fujimoto heard this, he and Mr. Nurse looked at each other, and said to himself, isn't it normal to see rats in a pet hospital? Where is there any need for such fuss.
Understanding the doubts on the faces of the two gentlemen, the nurse quickly explained: "It's not Totoro or other pet rats, it's a gray mouse on the windowsill that can make trouble and steal things, and it's still dead." ”
When Mr. Fujimoto heard this, he walked over to take a look, and sure enough, he saw a fat, strong, and short-tailed Japanese vole that had died on the windowsill outside the glass window.
Surveying the surroundings of the window, he soon spotted the plum blossom-shaped paw prints left by the black cat.
Finding a rag, Mr. Fujimoto wiped the glass clean, and said comfortingly to the nurse, "There must have been a big cat here last night, and that mouse may be its leftover dinner, or a gift left behind." Either way, it's just a dead vole, and Miss Hiromi don't be afraid, I'll get rid of it. ”
Mr. Fujimoto was a man of his word, and after a while he took the towel with gloves and put the carcass of the vole into a convenience bag, took it downstairs and threw it away.
Xu Jie and everyone in the pet hospital thought that this time it was an accident, but they didn't expect that the same thing happened again, and this time the vole that was left on the windowsill was still alive.
Seeing the fat vole with its spine bitten off and only one breath left on the windowsill, Mr. Fujimoto glanced around the third floor with a suspicious gaze.
Xu Jie, who felt a little weak for some reason, coiled up in the cage and pretended to rest, but his mind was carefully recalling whether there was anything abnormal last night, but he didn't find anything abnormal when he thought about it.
Xu Jie slept very early last night, and the night watchman had not finished his work, but Xu Jie was already asleep and slept until dawn.
So what happened to the window last night, it didn't know at all, but after secretly glancing at the half-dead vole, the shadow of a cat faintly appeared in Xu Jie's heart.
That night, Xu Jie stood guard on the windowsill on the third floor, pestering the nurse who was keeping vigil, not letting him close the screen window and locking the window.
Mr. Nurse lost his temper by Xu Jie, so he had to touch his little head and said, "Okay, okay, since you want to stay here and blow the wind, then I'll close the window later." But I'll only stay a little longer, and I'll be here when I'm done with the next episode, and then you won't be allowed to play tricks again. ”
Xu Jie meowed obediently, and Mr. Nurse scratched its chin again before turning around and going downstairs.
Xu Jie was sitting on a windowsill with a cat, he didn't know if his judgment was correct or not, and whether the cat he was waiting for would come.
Just when Xu Jie was staring at the street lamps on the street and was distracted, he suddenly remembered the sound of wings fluttering in his ears.
Xu Jie followed the sound and looked up, but saw that the black cat that had made him wait for half a night had fallen from the top of the third floor to the windowsill.
The cat had a sparrow in its mouth, still alive, and was flapping its wings in the cat's mouth.
Finding Xu Jie waiting for him on the windowsill, the black cat was obviously very happy, and the fluff on his excited tail stood up.
But soon it dropped its tail, and a pair of cat-eyes were round, staring at the screen between the two cats, and it felt like it was going to tear the screen with its paws.
Seeing this, Xu Jie stood up and barked a few times at the black cat outside ~ meow ~ .
The pacified black cat sat down obediently, spit the sparrow in its mouth on the windowsill, and before the sparrow had time to react, it instantly held it down with its front paws.
Seeing this, Xu Jie hurriedly asked, "Mo, did you send the mouse on the windowsill two days ago?" ”
Hearing this, the black cat wagged its tail and did not answer Xu Jie's question directly, but said, "You are injured, eat more meat, you can get better faster." ”
The two mice were the sick meals prepared by the black cat for it, and Xu Jie, who learned about this situation, was surprised.
Then he looked at the sparrow that was still fluttering under the black cat's paws, and wondered if this one had also been sent to him to nourish his body.
Finding Xu Jie's gaze, the black cat's paw pressed down hard, and the sparrow immediately stopped moving, but looking at its still undulating chest, it should still be alive.
The sparrow was honest, and the black cat was also satisfied, it lowered its head slightly and looked at Xu Jie and said, "If you don't like to eat the dead mouse and throw it away, I'll send it alive." If the mouse doesn't like to eat, I will send the sparrow over, and if you don't like to eat it, there is something else, there is always one that can match your appetite. ”
Xu Jie was speechless about this, from humans to cats, this was the first time that a living creature was busy with its preferences.
Finding that Xu Jie didn't reply in time, the black cat frowned slightly and moved to press the sparrow's paw and asked, "You don't like to eat sparrows either?" ”
Faced with the kindness of the black cat, Xu Jie decided to tell the truth: "I have never eaten sparrows, and the same is true for mice." ”
The black cat thought about it when it heard this, and found that there was really no scene of this little raccoon flower predating in its memory, so it said clearly: "I know, next time I will bring you fish." ”
Xu Jie's apricot eyes smiled like a crescent moon when he heard this, and something faintly in his heart seemed to be covered warmly, and this temperature was still going up along his chest, and even his head began to become hot.
Still, it said, "I'm well fed here, and the doctor and Kenta take good care of me." Eat the sparrows, you don't have to send the fish, Dr. Fujimoto won't let the patient eat anything outside, and if you send it, he will throw it away. ”
When the black cat heard this, he looked at the sparrow under his paws again, and was a little unhappy.
Xu Jie raised a smile that he couldn't hide and said: "I'm much better, the doctor said that I can be discharged from the hospital in three or four days at most, and then I'll learn from you how to catch sparrows, okay?" ”
The black cat raised his head with satisfaction, sat on the windowsill and looked for several laps, and made sure that there was no place to send the sparrow in, so he lowered his head and ate the unlucky sparrow one by one.
The black cat's supper didn't last long, and a small sparrow was eaten by it in a few bites.
At this time, it stood up and shook the fur on Huashun's body, and said to Xu Jie in the window: "I'm coming to see you tomorrow night." “
It wasn't until the inky figure disappeared that Xu Jie's feverish brain began to cool down gradually.
With his brain activated, which was finally able to rethink, Xu Jie only had time to think about things at this time.
Resting its chin on its front legs, it closed its eyes and thought silently, why did the black cat be so kind to him?
Is it really just because it hit it off at first sight?
The tip of the soft tail twitched lightly a few times, and Xu Jie, who was a little apprehensive in his heart, decided that when the black cat named Mo came over tomorrow, he must ask it clearly.
But it's a pity that Xu Jie didn't wait for the arrival of the black cat on the night of the second day, and Mo broke his promise.