Evening in early summer.

Lianhai City, Dongping Community.

Stray cats in the community play in the garden with kittens that have just come out of the nest.

Next to the garden, several old ladies living in the community gathered together to chat about family life.

"Recently, there have been more and more wild cats in the community."

"Isn't it, as soon as spring the female cat gives birth, there are five or six in a litter, which is of course more than last year."

"With so many cats, where do you usually find food?"

"Rummaging through the garbage cans, there are so many garbage cans in the community, and there is a lot of kitchen waste in them, and you can't starve to death if you find something to eat."

"That day I saw a female cat with a big dead mouse in her mouth."

"Whether there are stray cats, I found that the number of mice in our community is less, I used to see it often, but now I haven't seen a single mouse scurrying around in the community in the past six months."

"In addition to rummaging through the garbage and eating mice, these cats are also fed."

"I know that an old lady surnamed Zhang in Unit 2 of Building 14 often comes over with leftovers to feed stray cats, you see, isn't this coming again?"

The chatting old ladies pointed to the grass in the community garden, and a white figure was an old lady with gray hair, who was the old lady they were talking about.

"Mrs. Zhang, you're here to feed the cat again."

Someone greeted Mrs. Zhang.

Mrs. Zhang put the cat food in her hand into the iron rice bowl prepared in advance in the garden, and many stray cats surrounded her and began to eat.

After feeding the cat, Mrs. Zhang also came to the old lady pile to chat, "Yes, several stray female cats have given kittens recently, and I am worried that they will not have enough to eat, so I brought more." ”

"Mrs. Zhang, you are really kind-hearted, you have been feeding these stray cats for a long time, right?"

"It's been almost three years, from the first stray cat in the community, to more than a dozen stray cats this year, many of which I have fed since I was a child."

Mrs. Zhang said, while pointing to the building not far away, "I live on the first floor, there is a small yard outside, there are a lot of cats in the yard that I took in, I deliberately opened a small door for the cats on the side of the gate, so that they can enter and exit, many stray cats have become domestic cats, these are relatively wild outside, and I don't want to live in the yard." ”

"Mrs. Zhang, you are so patient, if I were to raise such cats, I would have been annoyed to death."

"It's not like my wife died early, and my children are not around, so I live alone in the house, and these cats are my companions."

The old lady who was chatting together asked Mrs. Zhang about some experience in raising cats, and the topic turned to another place.

That night, Mrs. Zhang, as usual, fed the cat and went to bed early as soon as it was dark.

Early the next morning, the sky was slightly bright, and Mrs. Zhang lay on her small bed and was sleepy.

Suddenly, she felt as if something furry was shaking around her face.

Mrs. Zhang woke up.

When I opened my eyes, it was a cat.

This cat Mrs. Zhang knows, it is a stray cat she adopted, just a few days after the kitten, how could it appear at her bedside early in the morning? Is it hungry?

Mrs. Zhang sat up and was about to get cat food for the cat, but the kitten suddenly rubbed beside her and meowed.

The kitten rubbed Mrs. Zhang for a while, and then rubbed her head against the pillow.

Following the kitten's movements, Mrs. Zhang found a black-brown hairy thing next to the pillow.

A slender tail extends from the black-brown hairball.

A big mouse!

Mrs. Zhang jumped out of bed in horror.

In a panic, Mrs. Zhang subconsciously picked up the feather duster at the head of the bed and poked the mouse next to the pillow.

The rat didn't respond, it was a dead mouse.

Mrs. Zhang stabilized her mind and looked at the cat's actions just now.

It's giving gifts.

The stray cat actually brought her a dead mouse.

Mrs. Zhang felt angry and funny, and picked up the gray mouse next to the pillow with her hand and shook it in front of the kitten, "You like to eat mice, I don't like it, next time you give me a gift, it's best to catch a fish, just forget about the mouse." ”

The kitten didn't understand Mrs. Zhang's words, but followed Mrs. Zhang all the way to watch her throw the gray mouse into the trash can outside the yard.

For the next two days, Mrs. Zhang continued to feed the stray cats as usual, but every time she woke up, she would check the pillow to see if there were any stray cats to give her mice as gifts.

When Mrs. Zhang woke up on the morning of the third day, she found another dead mouse next to her pillow, and this time the mouse was bigger than the last time.

The cat that sent the mouse squatted next to Mrs. Zhang's pillow, waiting for Mrs. Zhang to wake up, her eyes looking forward to it, as if waiting for the master's praise.

When she woke up from her sleep twice in a row to find a dead mouse next to her pillow, even the caring Mrs. Zhang felt sick in her heart.

In the evening of the same day, Mrs. Zhang sealed the small door on the gate specially reserved for cats to pass through to prevent any more stray cats from carrying dead mice to her pillow.

After the door was sealed, the dead rat never reappeared.

Mrs. Zhang told the old ladies who were chatting with her about the stray cat giving her a mouse as a gift.

Everyone was amazed, but they didn't expect the cat to be an animal that knew how to repay the favor.

After a few days, Mrs. Zhang began to feel unwell.

She began to have a fever.

Mrs. Zhang, who was lying on the bed, was sore all over, her eyes hurt, her joints hurt, her muscles hurt, she didn't want to eat, she didn't want to go to the toilet, and her whole person was in a very bad state.

Mrs. Zhang knew in her heart that she couldn't go on like this, otherwise she would lie in bed alone, and she didn't know when she would be found by others.

I fumbled out my phone and dialed 120 with the last of my strength.

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Lianhai First People's Hospital, emergency room.

Mrs. Zhang was taken to the emergency room by 120 ambulance.

The emergency doctor examined Mrs. Zhang.

First of all, the basic signs were checked, and the consciousness was quite clear, there was a fever, redness of the face, neck, chest, and redness of the eyes, which was the phenomenon of eye congestion.

Peeling off the clothes on the back, I found a large number of red rashes on the back.

Gentle pressure on the abdomen is painful.

Knock on the kidney area, there is a painful sensation.

The emergency doctor prescribed a list and asked the nurse to draw blood and urine for Mrs. Zhang, and send her to the laboratory for examination.

Blood routine, urine routine, kidney function, and liver function are examined in a series of tests.

When he got the test report, the emergency doctor wrinkled his head and asked Mrs. Zhang, "Have you been exposed to rats recently?" ”

Mrs. Zhang remembered the mouse gift that the stray cat gave her, and responded hoarsely, "I have contacted, it was the stray cat that took two dead mice next to my pillow, and I carried the dead mice to the trash can and threw them away." ”

The emergency doctor sighed and shook his head, "There is a history of rat exposure, I have to prescribe another test for you." ”

The doctor's attitude made Mrs. Zhang very flustered, "Doctor, I have touched dead mice, is it plague?" ”

The emergency doctor was stunned for a moment, and looked up at Mrs. Zhang, "Old man, you know a lot, and you also know that contact with rats can spread plague, but your symptoms are not, your situation is very similar to a patient I received before, I will prescribe an antibody test for renal syndrome hemorrhagic fever for you." ”

Mrs. Zhang heard it in a fog, "What kidneys?" What is hemorrhagic fever? Is it serious? ”

"Early detection and early treatment are not serious, and if it is treated late, people will die."

Mrs. Zhang was frightened again, "Then hurry up and investigate, hurry up and treat it!" ”

"Let's go through the hospitalization procedures and send it to the infection department."