Chapter 3: Pampering to be happy 2
I originally thought that Bai Xiaocong’s home would be far away, but unexpectedly, after passing my clinic, the bus swayed around a street, and after two stops, it arrived at the bus stop near Bai Xiaocong’s home.
Abaibai tried to bite the rope and move backwards, but Bai Xiaocong dragged Abaibai forward without any care. In the end, Abaibai simply lay on the ground, pretending to be dead, and let Bai Xiaocong drag it forward with the traction rope.
Soon, Bai Xiaocong stopped in front of a small building.
This street seems to be full of single-family buildings that look the same. Each building has an off-white exterior wall, a two-story building with an ochre round roof, and a small garden in front. Along the way, I saw many residents who decorated their small gardens super exquisitely, but when I arrived at the door of Bai Xiaocong's house, I stopped.
I feel like I don’t want to go in at all… What’s going on?
Although they should be buildings from the same period, Bai Xiaocong's house inexplicably has a sense of vicissitudes.
Other people's gardens are all rockeries, running water, or small flower beds full of various flowers. At the very least, they would put a table and a few small stools under the wisteria trellis. However, Bai Xiaocong's...
seem……
A bit wild...
In the flower bed at the door, which was originally used to grow climbing plants, an unknown red large-leaf plant covered the entire wall, full of aggressiveness, as if a poisonous spider or bat could jump out from it at any time; looking inside through the gap in the iron gate, a small gravel road led directly to the entrance of the house, and in the cracks of the gravel road, various small grasses grew tenaciously.
On both sides of the gravel road, on the fertile soil, there are no flowers growing, but tall and short weeds, some taller than my calves, making a rustling sound when the wind blows.
I feel like the style is different from others...
Bai Xiaocong took out the key and opened the outermost iron door.
"Well... because I live alone, so, the house might be a little messy..." Bai Xiaocong looked back at me, suddenly scratched his head in a troubled manner, and said to me.
"Oh...Oh!" I nodded in confusion.
Bai Xiaocong stood at the entrance of the house, but did not take out the key. Instead, she put her eyes to a small round hole. Then, a strange mechanical sound was heard, and the wooden door, which looked nothing special, opened automatically.
"Ever since Xiao Meng came to my house and kicked my door in pieces last time, I created this pupil recognition system. As long as the retina is scanned, the door will open automatically. And this door, Xiao Meng and the others will definitely not be able to kick it open, because I used titanium steel to simulate the texture of the wooden structure. It still looks like a wooden door, but in fact, even an elephant can't kick it open." Bai Xiaocong turned around and spoke to me with great pride, but... I didn't understand at all.
"Haha, I always feel that she looks so classy..." I responded to him dryly while hugging Teodora.
"Yeah!" Bai Xiaocong nodded at me without hesitation, then walked in first.
"I don't want to go in... Ahhhhh... Let me go! Xiaoduo, please hold me, I don't want my noble paws to step on this dirty place..." Abaibai, who was forcibly dragged into the house by Bai Xiaocong, screamed in pain.
After exchanging a glance with Teodora, I followed him in.
Wait, what am I seeing?
I looked around at the piles of cardboard boxes, and suddenly felt like I had accidentally stepped on some kind of teleportation array and was teleported to a place like a warehouse.
The living room, which was supposed to be very large, was now filled with several small containers, while other places were filled with cardboard boxes, leaving just enough width for people to pass through; near the windows were several super-large tables, the monitors on which were still in operation, with strings of data flashing rapidly; on the two super-large TV screens overhead, a 3D model similar to Abaibai was rotating, and on the other TV screen were small pictures, with the screen flashing from time to time, and then a "Request to View" dialog box would pop up.
"What's in here?" I held down Teodora's claws that were about to grab it out of curiosity and pointed at a container and asked.
"Inside are my daily necessities and clothes for a year." Bai Xiaocong answered as he stuffed a cardboard box under the bed, while A Baibai touched the ground with one paw and tried desperately to climb onto the bed with the other three paws.
"One year? Why does it take... one year?" I looked into an opened box and saw what looked like a large box of canned luncheon meat.
"This way I can save a lot of time to do the things I like. We humans spend at least two hours a day eating. Of those two hours, only ten minutes are actually spent on eating, and the rest of the time is spent on selecting or waiting; the same goes for buying clothes. With so much time, I can calculate a lot of formulas." Bai Xiaocong said as she took off the heavy doll costume, revealing the dinosaur-shaped pajamas underneath.
"I will do a thorough cleaning once a year, and the room will use the most advanced air purifier to filter the air, so basic hygiene can be guaranteed." Bai Xiaocong said.
Wait! What's the matter with the annual cleaning? Do you mean that you only clean your room once a year?
I stood in the middle of the room and felt like I was standing in a petri dish.
This terrible feeling made me hug Teodora tightly involuntarily, and squeeze to the side where the sun could shine, but because I didn't pay attention for a moment, I kicked over a cardboard box, which fell sideways and several packets of instant noodles fell out.
"Ah - so it's here, the new flavor of instant noodles I bought online!" Bai Xiaocong was surprised as if she had discovered a treasure.
I moved out of the way hesitantly, but unexpectedly I knocked over a box on top of my head, and the contents of the box piled on my head.
"Meow--" Teodora cried and jumped from my arms onto the table, but its hind paws kicked over a cardboard box, and all the garbage in the box poured out.
A gust of wind blew in from the window, and all kinds of wrapping paper and scraps of paper flew in the air, accompanied by dust visible to the naked eye...
Ahh ...
I frantically grabbed the wrapping paper that covered my eyes from my face, and I began to understand why Baibai wanted to escape...
This isn't just a pace that would drive a person with mysophobia to death. Ordinary people wouldn't be able to live in a place like this!
“Ahhh——Xiaoduo, I beg you, please take me away!” I don’t know when, Abaibai hugged my calf again, and I saw clearly that although he had only been in the house for a few minutes, Abaibai’s snow-white fur had turned gray...
I touched Abaibai's small, warm head with sympathy, and felt that I had a responsibility to fight for Abaibai's quality of life.
"I think... the environment you live in now is not suitable for pets to live in. The too narrow space will make Baibai feel mentally depressed." I organized my words carefully, fearing that something wrong would irritate Bai Xiaocong.
"That's right, I'm so depressed--" Abaibai's limbs that were holding my calves still didn't let go, it was moaning and rolling its eyes.
Looking at the weird-looking Abaibai, I laughed secretly, then tapped its head to signal it not to overact.
"My family..." I thought for a moment and continued, "You should know that my family runs a pet clinic. My parents love Baibai very much, so... I can continue to take care of Baibai. Ah, I don't mean to not hand Baibai over to you, I just..."
"I want to go back with Xiaoduo. I don't want to stay here. I will turn into bacteria if I stay here!" Abaibai rolled over desperately without caring that the ground was dirty.
"Meow meow - Oppa Abaibai, what are you doing?" Teodora, who was originally basking in the sun, saw Abaibai rolling around, and he also rolled around in the dust pile with it with great interest, and a cloud of dust suddenly rose in the air.
“Crash——”
Ah Baibai rolled around in high spirits, stretched out his paw, and kicked over another pile of cardboard boxes...
"Okay..." Bai Xiaocong looked at A Baibai rolling on the ground in silence, pouted her lips, as if she was bullied, and nodded reluctantly in agreement, "But I have a condition. I have the right to see A Baibai at any time."
As a master, wanting to see Abaibai...isn't it normal?
But, for some reason, after hearing Bai Xiaocong's embarrassed and serious words, I suddenly felt as if I was fighting for child custody with someone else...
"Meow - you can also come and see Teodora -" Teodora, who was rolling vigorously, stopped, belly up, blinked his green eyes, and said softly, "You can also bring some Little Deer brand fish jerky, and I will let you touch the hair on my ears..."
After solving A Baibai's problem, I suddenly realized that there was a bigger problem that had not been solved - that is, I couldn't believe that I really brought the cat out of Tian Moli's house.
Ahhhh, what should I do?
If I send Teodora back now, regardless of whether Teodora is willing or not, Tian Moli will definitely hate me even more, right? But if I don't send her back, what's the difference between me and a cat thief?
so annoying!
I couldn't help but squat down and rub my hair in distress.
"If you're wondering what to do with this cat, I think I can help you."
Bai Xiaocong's voice came from above my head like the sound of nature.
I looked up and suddenly felt that Bai Xiaocong, who was wearing dinosaur pajamas, black-framed glasses, with his whole face buried in the shadow of his hat, and with his dinosaur claws stretched out towards me with his back to the light, was like a savior.
Without even a second's hesitation, I tightly grasped the claw... no, the hand.
Bai Xiaocong exerted force and pulled me up from the ground, but because I didn't control the strength well, I accidentally fell into Bai Xiaocong's arms.
"thump……"
My heartbeat and the faint smell of laundry detergent at the tip of my nose made my face turn red all of a sudden.
"Ahhh - Abaibai, why are you so unclean!" In order to hide my discomfort, I pushed Bai Xiaocong away, bent down, and picked up Abaibai who had rolled into a ball with Teodora.
"You said...you can help me, do you have any ideas?" I rubbed A Baibai's head and turned to look at Bai Xiaocong.
Bai Xiaocong was standing less than a step away from me. When I turned my head, I could just see his white and almost transparent skin hidden under his hat, and his face that was so handsome that it made me feel suffocated.
He took a step closer to me, I paused for breath, and subconsciously took a step back.
What...what does he want to do?
I lifted Abaibai and placed him in front of my chest, looking at him warily.
Bai Xiaocong got closer and closer to me, then he lowered his head and put his hands on my shoulders. I could even feel his breath.
I was just about to say something when Bai Xiaocong put her hands on my shoulders, pushed me aside, and then reached out to pick up Teodora who was playing with her tail on the ground.
"Oh, sorry, the road is a bit narrow, please make way."
Bai Xiaocong, who had already walked over, said to me with the back of her head.
"flutter--"
I felt like my face was a shrimp boiled in hot water, with hot steam constantly coming out of all my orifices.
Ahhhhhh——what on earth was I thinking just now!
"Xiaoduo, your face is a little red--" A Baibai raised her head, stuck out her pink tongue, licked my face and said.
"Ah, I feel... the air in here is a bit stuffy..." I sniffed and made up an excuse.
"I told you! Look, this place is simply a bacteria concentration camp! We have to ask mom and dad to spray us with disinfectant when we get home--" A Baibai said with his nose wrinkled.
“Crackle—”
While I was talking to A Baibai, Bai Xiaocong sat in front of the computer and typed rapidly on the keyboard. The data on several monitors scrolled rapidly. Ten seconds later, a castle-like villa appeared on several monitors of different sizes at the same time, with a large lawn in front of the villa.
"Where...is this place?" I held Abaibai in my arms and couldn't help but stand behind Bai Xiaocong and look at the monitor.
"This is Teodora's home, meow--" Teodora sat up from Bai Xiaocong's knees, put his head on the table, and said softly.
"Your home?" I asked in surprise.
"Yes, because I always take a nap on that crooked tree--" Teodora waved her little paw and slapped the screen. Where the paw pointed, the branches of a big tree extended into an open window.
"The one with pink curtains is Master Jasmine's room, the one with white curtains is the piano room, and there are a lot of fish in the fountain at the door—" Teodora clapped her paws, pointing out one place after another.
"I hacked into Tian Moli's home security system and retrieved her surveillance footage to get a better understanding of the situation," Bai Xiaocong said without raising her head.
The screen kept switching and finally stopped on one of them.
In the luxuriously decorated living room, Tian Moli was lying on the dining table in a depressed mood. Opposite the table sat a lady in exquisite clothes.
"Meow, she is Master Jasmine's mother." Teodora jumped lightly onto the table and said while licking her paws.
"Moli baby, it's fine if the disobedient cat that scratched you is gone, but mom will buy you another one..." Tian Moli's mother's words came out clearly from the loudspeaker. As she spoke, she took out a gold card from her bag and gently placed it on the table. "The housekeeper will bring all kinds of obedient and beautiful new pets here in a while. If you like any of them, mom will buy them for you..."
As soon as he finished speaking, several people in uniform came in pushing a cart.
They stood in a row beside Tian Moli and then removed the cloth covering the cart.
"This is..." I stood behind Bai Xiaocong and couldn't help but cover my mouth.
On the carts pushed by those people were cages, and in each cage there was a super cute animal.
The little lemurs with big eyes are very popular online recently; the ferrets with soft bodies that look like a big scarf; the Munchkin cats with round faces, short legs, and the cats that fall down when they walk; and the chameleons whose colors change according to the environment...
I secretly glanced at Teodora. It pretended to be indifferent, but its eyes were always on the screen. Even if Tian Moli turned her head slightly, it would get so nervous that it couldn't help scratching the table.
"Baby, if you like, all of these can be given to you as pets. Each one is more precious than the white cat. Your friends will definitely be super envious..." Tian Moli's mother said as she pulled Tian Moli's hand and walked to the front of the cart.
"It's not called the White Cat! It's called Teodora. No cat is more precious than it! You only know how to give me money and cards. What else do you know? When you and dad left me to attend banquets and discuss cooperation, only Teodora was with me! It's my friend! You don't understand anything at all—" Tian Moli shook off her mother's hand, shouted angrily, and ran out of the restaurant. Only her mother, who looked stunned, and the housekeeper, who looked expressionless, and a group of animals who had no idea what was going on, were left in the restaurant...
"Hurry, follow Tian Moli..." I patted Bai Xiaocong's shoulder gently and urged.
The scene switched rapidly several times, and the place where Tian Moli appeared again was actually the stage where Teodora escaped.
Because of what happened before, the party ended abruptly. There was no one in the whole venue, and it looked very desolate.
Tian Moli squatted on the stage, holding the crown that was thrown away by Teodora, and secretly shed tears.
“Mmmmm meow—Theodora misses his master, mmmm…” Seeing this scene, Theodora, who had been pretending to be calm, also started crying. His big eyes were filled with tears and his furry face was wet.
"Why are you crying?"
"Don't you hate your master? Don't you hate that she uses you as a tool for showing off?"
Bai Xiaocong and A Baibai asked at the same time. Although they were of different races, the confusion and puzzlement on the faces of the man and the dog were as if they were cast from the same mold...
I clenched my fists and resisted the urge to hit them hard on the head.
Sure enough, hearing their doubts, Teodora's tears flowed even more unrestrainedly.
“Wuuuuu - you are not allowed to say bad things about Master Jasmine, wuuuuuu... Although Master Jasmine is very vain and spoiled, she is actually just a little girl who wants company. Her parents think that giving her a lot of money can replace companionship and love... Even I was originally a gift that Master Jasmine’s mother bought for her to pass the time... But Master Jasmine treats me as a real friend, and she will tell me anything that is on her mind... She also said that she likes me and wants to make me the noblest and happiest cat in the world..." Teodora rubbed his eyes and sobbed.
"But you still ran away..." Bai Xiaocong muttered softly.
"Pa——" I finally couldn't hold back and slapped him on the head.
Bai Xiaocong cried out "Ouch!", rubbed his head, and looked at me with wide eyes.
Ah——I actually did it!
I made an apologetic gesture to Bai Xiaocong with a look of annoyance.
"Because Master Jasmine doesn't know what I like, she has to learn from her parents and use money to express her love. But Teodora doesn't like gemstone necklaces or high-end custom-made lace dresses... Teodora only likes to bask in the sun, lick her fur and sleep with Master Jasmine..."
"Go to a famous pet store to comb the hair. Jasmine can help. Teodora doesn't like the pet perfume sprayed by the stylist at all..."
"Teodora likes chicken-flavored chew sticks and straw-woven mice the most, but she doesn't want canned cat food with deep-sea cod liver paste and cat rice inlaid with emeralds..."
“Meow, woo, woo—” Theodora lowered his head and spoke, with big tears dripping from his eyes onto the table.
"So...what is your wish now?" I asked.
Teodora raised her head with tears in her eyes. Without thinking, she blurted out: "Teodora, I hope my master understands my feelings. I want to be a cat that doesn't need to wear a jeweled crown or a skirt, but can climb trees, bask in the sun, and roll on the grass with my master!"
"Well! I will help you!" Looking at Teodora who expressed her wish, I touched its head and said seriously.
"But how are you going to help Teodora?" Teodora asked, rubbing my palm gently.
"Hahaha, actually... I... I have the superpower to communicate with animals! You see, I can understand what you say, right? I will definitely convey your feelings to classmate Tian Moli!" Although I agreed with Abaibai not to tell this secret to others, but... Bai Xiaocong is Abaibai's owner, and he also knows that Abaibai has superpowers, so... it doesn't count as a breach of contract, right?
I told him the secret that I had always wanted to show off, and the pride that filled my heart was indescribable!
"You... have superpowers? You... um——" Bai Xiaocong raised his head, looked at me in surprise, then looked at A Baibai, but he was interrupted before he could finish his words.
"Woof - then let's work together to get Theodora home! Xiaoduo, Xiaoduo, don't look at Bai Xiaocong as a Frankenstein, in fact, he is a computer hacker and high-tech expert! We will be more powerful with him! Hahahaha -" A Baibai suddenly jumped out from under the table, hugged Bai Xiaocong's head, excitedly stuck out his tongue and shook his butt at me.
"Okay, okay—" Teodora imitated Abaibai and jumped onto Bai Xiaocong's head. Bai Xiaocong lost his balance and fell backwards along with the chair behind him.
I covered my eyes, unable to bear to see the tragic scene.
