Chapter 296 It Always Comes to an End (1)

years later.

The pet hospital, which has been in preparation for half a year, has finally opened.

The name of the pet hospital is ‘Longlong Love Pet Hospital’.

Lucia had given this name.

Xia Li reminded her that if she wanted to use the word “love”, she had to assume certain social responsibilities.

For example, animal rescue, arranging for stray cats and dogs to be sterilized.

Lucia clapped her hands and said, Isn’t this perfect!
Xia Li thought about it and agreed.

This dragon loves small animals so much. Although the small animals don’t like her very much, that’s the nature of dragons.

From now on, their pet hospital will be half business and half welfare in nature.

They have money anyway.

A small loss is not considered a loss.

As the ribbon-cutting ceremony ended, flower baskets symbolizing the opening of the new store were lined up in two rows at the door.

Xia Li didn’t have many friends after graduating from university, but he kept in touch with his childhood playmates. These flower baskets were arranged by Taozi, Monkey and Yuanzi.

Saying that they must give Xia Li a good show, the three brothers each bought two pairs, just enough to line the door neatly.

Looking at the sky full of colorful fireworks, Xia Li stood together with the “rich second generation” Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan looked relieved, as if he had finally delivered a work he had been working on for half a year.

Xia Li, on the other hand, looked confused.

To be honest, Xia Li didn’t feel any real sense about this.

Most of the decoration and equipment here were purchased by Qin Chuan. Xia Li was only responsible for swiping cards and making decisions. Even the documents were obtained by Qin Chuan. Xia Li would only leave the Dragon’s Nest when he had to take action. He would take a walk outside and then quickly buy delicious roast duck and roast chicken to take home to feed his wife.

So, in the blink of an eye, the pet hospital was completed and ready for business, but Xia Li was still not mentally prepared.

“Dean, please.”

Qin Chuan took out a work badge with the word “Dean” printed on it and hung it around Xia Li’s neck.

Xia Li came back to his senses and looked at the work badge on his chest.

Then he took off his work badge and casually hung it on the head of Wuqi, who was licking his paws and washing his face at his feet.

“Meow???”

Wuqi’s head was full of question marks.

“Brother, what are you doing! !”

“Dean Wu, let’s go.” Xia Li said with his head down.

Wuqi, the stray cat who was suddenly given a work badge, widened his golden eyes.

“No, man.”

“I still want to date Xiaohua, I don’t want to be the dean! !”

“What’s that? That’s the dean’s wife. I’ll keep a room for you. You can bring your girlfriends in to live here. I’ll provide you with food and water. Don’t go to Qin Chuan’s house every day. The couple over there kiss and kiss each other every day. It’s so inconvenient for you.”

Xia Li squatted down and stroked the cat. He lowered his voice so low that others thought he was just talking to himself.

“Meow???”

When Wuqi heard this, his mood, which had originally been about to refuse, suddenly took a sudden turn.

He looked up in surprise, and his eyes changed when he looked at Xia Li.

“Really, bro? ?”

“Can I bring Xiaohua and Lijie with me? ? “

“The premise is that you want to be the dean.”

Xia Li was afraid that Xiaoxia and Lao Xia would hear him if he said too much, so he stood up and added the final words.

“I’ll send the things you need to do to your watch in a moment.”

Anyway, Xia Li thought it was interesting to let Wuqi be the dean.

The identity of “Dean”, if given to a certain person, would create invisible pressure on that person, but it is different when it comes to a cat.

Where does a cat have any moral constraints? All the customers who come to the pet hospital are pet lovers. Whether the cat director does good or bad things, he will be praised. Maybe in the future, this cat director Wuqi will become an Internet celebrity.

Xia Li has already thought about it. In the future, she will start a live broadcast of Longlong Love Pet Hospital and let Wuqi perform his talents in the live broadcast room.

Isn’t this way of selling products ten or a hundred times better than those online where families connect with each other in groups of three, two, and one?

“Why are you standing there like an idiot? Go check out your son’s shop.”

After the fireworks were over, Fang Xia pulled Xia Yuanjun beside her into the house.

Besides Xia Li, the only pets the couple had ever raised in their lives were the goldfish in the fish tank. After Xia Yuanjun entered the store, he looked around, wanting to say something but not knowing where to start.

After strolling around the reception room and consultation room, Xia Yuanjun went to the laboratory to look around, and finally uttered a few words.

“This is good, this is good…”

“…”

Fang Xia rolled her eyes at her old man and dragged him out of the house.

“What are you doing in here? Don’t break anything. The hygiene conditions in here are very high. You don’t even change your shoes or wear gloves. Get out now.”

“It’s okay, Mom. We’ll start the equipment in a few days. Today is just a trial run. We’ll mainly offer free cards and anthelmintics for recharges.” Lucia followed the old couple and explained.

When Fang Xia saw her daughter-in-law following her, she quickly let go of the old man’s arm and hugged Lucia’s wrist.

“Xiao Lu, let’s go out. This place has just been renovated and there is formaldehyde. Don’t stay in the house for too long.”

“Mom, Xia Li has removed formaldehyde from the whole house several times. We keep sick and weak animals here, so the environment requirements are very strict…”

Lucia explained enthusiastically while following Fang Xia out.

Xia Li did not accompany the old couple to visit his shop.

He discussed some things with Qin Chuan at the door, and then called a group of cheap and useful college students.

Stuffing stacks of thick flyers into the hands of this group of college students, Xia Li handed each of them a cup of milk tea, and reminded them that if customers took the initiative to add the WeChat public account, he would give them a commission.

Most of these college students are doing part-time work for the first time. Not only do they get a free cup of milk tea, but when they hear that there will be commissions, they become even more excited.

“No problem, boss!”

“Boss, can I get a commission if I ask my classmate to add your public account? My classmate has a cat and a dog at home, she will definitely need it.”

“Boss, can you guys take care of lunch? If you do, we’ll come back in the afternoon!”

“Sure, no problem. Even if you ask your 80-year-old grandmother to add our official account, I will give you a commission. I must provide lunch at noon. I will treat you to KFC.” Xia Li said kindly.

“The boss is so generous!”

It is rare to meet such an easy-going boss in a part-time job like this. A group of college students left in a noisy manner, carrying more than ten kilograms of flyers on their backs.

Their lively publicity method was very effective, and people would look at them curiously just by standing at the street corner.

Xia Li looked at their backs as they left and couldn’t help but sigh how great it was to be young.

He had come this way before.

“Xia Li, Mom asked you if there are any activities for your opening today. She wants to help you promote it on WeChat Moments… Mom said she has a lot of friends in Qingcheng City.”

Turning around, Xia Li saw the big-bellied dragon jumping towards him.

She hugged Xia Li’s arms tightly, not letting the weight on her body dampen her lively mood at all.

Lucia was wearing a long, wide, off-white down jacket. The reflective fabric of the jacket made her little face look white and soft.

She took out a small biscuit from somewhere and stuffed it into Xia Li’s mouth. Xia Li was caught off guard when he took the first bite of the biscuit.

Xia Li mumbled something and walked into the house holding Lucia’s little hand.

“The activities are all on the flyer. Wait a minute, I’ll send her the electronic pictures.”

Xia Li went into the room to drink water. His office was the innermost one. When he opened the door, he was greeted by a leisurely and elegant decoration and the scent of sandalwood.

Although at this age Xia Li has not yet reached the stage of returning to nature and appreciating the Chinese style, this low-key yet elegant tone is just right here.

“Madam, you’re welcome. Come and sit down.”

Xia Li sat down in the boss chair and patted his thigh proudly.

Seeing this, Lucia didn’t hesitate and sat down directly.

“Tea or refreshments?”

Xia Li asked casually and opened the drawer under the table.

Generally speaking, when the boss opens his drawer, there are either contracts and seals, or cigarettes, alcohol and tea.

But Xia Li’s drawer was filled with snacks.

No, it’s all for Lucia
Xia Li was worried that Long would be hungry when she came to watch over him at work every day, so he prepared a lot of snacks for her.

Lucia had been here twice before, and today was the first time she discovered the snacks in Xia Li’s drawer.

Stars appeared in her eyes, as if she had found a treasure. She opened her mouth and let out a long “Wow~” sound.

“I have a self-heating hot pot here, but I can’t eat it today, or Xiaoxia will…”

“Son, you have a lot of equipment in your laboratory. The last time I had a physical examination, the doctor said my cholesterol was too high. I haven’t had a follow-up check since then. Why don’t you ask Xiao Liu from your store to test it for me?”

Fang Xia was not polite when she entered the boss’s office. When she saw the words “Xia Li” hanging on the doorplate, she pushed the door open and came in, talking as she walked in.

“…”

Lucia was still sitting on Xia Li’s thighs, with her hands hanging on Xia Li’s neck, acting coquettishly.

Suddenly my mother came in. She had nowhere to hide and her cheeks turned red.

In the past, she could forcefully put the blame on Xia Li, but today she was too proactive, and it was unacceptable for her to be coy and blame Xia Li for kissing her in the office.

Xia Li looked down and saw the evil dragon’s smoking little face, and couldn’t help but smile.

They are an old married couple, but they are still so shy.

After giving Lucia a kiss on her smooth forehead, Xia Li put Lucia back on the chair and went to the door to greet Fang Xia.

“Mom, this is a veterinary device, and its accuracy is not very high. You should go to the hospital to check it out. I’ll go with you.”

“I’m not going. It’s normal for us to have some ailments at our age. It’s not convenient here, but I’ve made an appointment for Xiaolu’s prenatal checkup the day after tomorrow. You should take her there when you have time.”

“I know.”

The door creaked shut, and Xia Li gave Lucia a look before leaving.

There is a water dispenser in the corner. If she wants to have a self-heating hot pot, she can make it herself, but be careful not to get burned.

Lucia winked at Xia Li and secretly took out a small hot pot from the boss’s drawer.

……

Before going to the formal People’s Hospital for a prenatal check-up, Xia Li actually tested Lucia’s blood using the pet hospital’s equipment.

He had this plan from the beginning, because he was never sure what the difference was between Lucia’s blood and that of humans, so he had been trying to find a chance to test Lucia.

Some time ago, Qin Chuan happened to say that he wanted to get some samples to test the accuracy of the equipment. Xia Li slapped his thigh and thought, this opportunity has come.

A total of five blood samples were collected, from Xia Li, Lucia, Mianhua, Wuqi, and a ‘volunteer’ kitten living downstairs in the community.

The results showed that the blood values ​​of Cotton, Wuqi and the volunteer kittens were all within the reference range for cats, while those of Lucia and Xia Li were within the reference range for humans.

Moreover, Lucia’s hormone indicators are all within the range of human pregnant women.

Only then did Xia Li feel relieved and turned around to agree to the prenatal check-up that Fang Xia had been putting off doing.

What made Xia Li even more relieved was that all the prenatal checkups were given the green light.

Lucia’s baby is healthy.

Moreover, it is in complete human form.

Xia Li heard Lucia talk about the dragon race’s method of pregnancy.

If a dragon cub is conceived in the form of a giant dragon, the dragon egg will have to be kept in the belly for two to ten years. It will take a very long process for the egg to come out and hatch. The dragon cub born in this state is born with unique powers.

However, it only takes ten months for humans to conceive offspring.

Ten months, in such a short period of time, is not enough for a dragon cub to develop horns and wings that symbolize strength, so the offspring conceived in human form are human cubs.

Only after absorbing enough magic power and developing its body for the second time, will the cub slowly develop the physical signs of a dragon.

Therefore, even if Lucia was given a prenatal check-up using the most advanced color ultrasound, the baby in her belly looked like a human baby.

However, modern doctors will not tell the gender of the child.

For Xia Li and Lucia, whether the baby is a daughter or a son is purely a blind decision.

As the day approaches, Xia Li has already prepared maternal and child supplies.

Diapers, ear thermometers, baby pillows, baby bottles, milk powder, baby bottle sterilizers, thermostatic kettles, baby bottle brushes, baby food machines…

The list Fang Xia made for Xia Li was more than 30 items long. Xia Li went to all the maternal and child supplies stores around her home, and finally managed to get everything together in one stop through online shopping.

As for the style and color to buy, Xia Limo thought it was pink.

Xia Li has made up her mind. No matter whether she gives birth to a son or a daughter, she will raise her as a daughter for two years to satisfy her desire to have a daughter.

April of the same year.

The doctor set Lucia’s due date for early May, and now there are less than twenty days left.

The pet hospital business is still going on in full swing. Xia Li goes out early and comes back late, thinking about his wife at home and the newly opened shop. He is so busy every day that he wishes he could split himself into two pieces to take care of both ends.

After all, the current pet hospital has just started operations, and the doctors and staff it hired are still a mess. It would be unreasonable for Xia Li, as the boss, not to show up every day.

Not only does he have to go, he also has to go more often and hold a meeting whenever he wants, which at least can bring people together.

This kind of team-based service is the most challenging to the word “harmony”, harmony between employees, harmony between employees and customers, harmony between employees and bosses…

As long as the atmosphere is created, the service and reputation will naturally follow.

Fortunately, Xia Li entered the industry with the intention of “doing a loss-making business”, so he was very good at employee welfare. He often paid out of his own pocket to organize team-building activities for employees, and during holidays he generously distributed cards and money, which made the employees very motivated and worked more enthusiastically than each other.

If the employees are happy, the customers will be happy, and if the customers are happy, the boss will be happy.

A virtuous cycle, a conscientious cycle.

It is no wonder that many young people nowadays complain about work and are unwilling to work. Sometimes you have to look for the reasons with your boss.

Work benefits have been improved and people’s hearts are taken care of. No one wants to go to work with a gloomy face every day.

“Boss, this is last month’s financial report.”

In the office, Xia Li was chatting and sending sweet messages to his wife. Halfway through recording a kiss and blowing a kiss, there was a knock on the office door. Xia Li raised his pouty lips and pressed them down several times before lowering them.

Sister Wang, the sales manager who came in, seemed to be accustomed to the affectionate scene between her boss and his wife. She put a document on the table and summarized.

“Now more and more people are recharging their cards for consumption, accounting for 80%. Most of these 80% are attracted by live group buying, which proves that our conversion rate is high and the stickiness is also high. This is a good start…”

Sister Wang reported last month’s cash flow in just a few words.

She has been engaged in marketing and promotion for more than ten years, and this is the first time she has taken over such a worry-free business.

She didn’t even have to put in any effort, customers kept coming.

Bosses who are willing to spend money, shops in prime locations, and live broadcast rooms with over 10,000 online users easily every day.

It can be said that we have mastered the traffic password.

Especially their dean.

It’s strange to say that the cow cat starts showing off its talents every day when the live broadcast room is opened. With its crazy performance that makes people praise it, it attracts a lot of rewards, not to mention the people who come to watch the fun for field visits.

Some fans even come from other provinces. They don’t bring their pets with them, but they still spend 500 yuan to get a membership card and buy some miscellaneous pet supplies. The purpose of doing this is to give their dean a try in a legitimate way.

However, some black fans deliberately said that Longlong Love Pet Hospital abuses and trains cats, and that the reason why Director Wuqi is so funny is that he was trained through abuse.

These rumors were debunked as more and more fans came to verify.

There was no sign of injury on Dean Wuqi’s body. Not only was he healthy and slightly plump, but most importantly, he was not afraid of people. These behaviors were not at all like those of an abused animal.

Instead, those black fans who deliberately smeared Longlong Love Pet Hospital were found to be colleagues in the same industry, and ended up getting into trouble.

“Not bad.”

After reading the financial report, Xia Li took a photo and sent it to Fang Xia.

Xiaoxia has been at home accompanying Lucia on behalf of Xia Li during this period, and she has been very busy. When Xia Li encounters good things, she naturally wants to make her happy as well.

“I’ve said before that if there’s money to be made, we’ll all share the profits. This month’s performance bonuses have all been raised to a thousand. We’ve only been open for a few months, and this is the time when we need everyone to spread enthusiasm and build a good reputation. I don’t know what everyone likes, so let’s just give out the money.”

Xia Li waved his hand, and the expression on Sister Wang’s face brightened a little.

She was entrusted with the important task of knocking on her boss’s office door in the hope of getting just such a result.

“Boss, I heard that your wife is going to give birth next month, so we pooled our money to buy a baby chair… I don’t have any other intentions, but I just thought that when your wife holds the baby to play, the baby can have a special place to sit. Hehe, we all like small animals, so we naturally like children too… You see, why don’t we put the baby chair in your office.”

This is Sister Wang’s second task today, she said with a gentle smile.

Xia Li was holding the phone. After sending the financial report to Fang Xia, he turned back to Lucia’s chat window. He was sending Lucia a kiss emoticon package.

After coming back to his senses and hearing what Sister Wang said, Xia Li first finished typing two lines of words.

Summer Dawn: Wife, my colleague bought you a baby chair!!
Summer Dawn: Do you want to bring your baby here to play in the future, and accompany daddy to work?

After calmly clicking send, Xia Li looked up again, his face still sporting the solemn expression that a boss should have.

“Okay, leave it here with me.”

After saying that, he took another photo and sent it to Lucia.

Summer Dawn: Honey, honey, can you put the baby chair next to my chair? ?
Sister Wang closed the door gently when she left.

Their boss’s mouth is so twisted that it looks like a god of war.

This couple is a model couple in the company.

Sweet and nice.

……

Xia Li has always felt that taking good care of employees’ emotions is also the responsibility of a boss.

For these employees recruited in the talent market or through friends’ recommendations, a period of adjustment and adaptation is inevitable.

In order to shorten these two periods, Xia Li chose to use his money ability.

Yes, give the horse more grass and let it run faster.

A very conscientious capitalist.

However, money ability is indeed a superpower in modern times, but it is not universal.

For example, in the case of Dean Wuqi.

Apart from providing him with enough food and water and allocating a single room for him to spend time with the little female cat, there seemed to be nothing Xia Li could do.

Wuqi works diligently for eight hours every day, acting cute and silly in the live broadcast room, attracting countless customers.

Among the customers who recharged their cards and signed up for membership at Longlong Love Pet Hospital, more than half were attracted by Wuqi. Later, these customers were impressed by the thoughtful service and advanced equipment here, and finally successfully converted into regular customers.

It can be said that it has been two or three months since the pet hospital opened, and it has been so smooth sailing, and this is due in large part to the extraordinary efforts made.

Based on the principle of ‘slow and steady progress’, Xia Li decided to give Wuqi a few days off.

I’m also afraid of tiring the cat.

After all, it is the body of a cat, and a cat with broken balls at that. Xia Li was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to bear it physically.

“Meow!!”

“Who said I can’t handle it? I can handle it very well!”

“I work during the day to earn cat food, and use the cat food to pick up girls at night. It’s so beautiful!”

In the lounge, Xia Li turned off the live broadcast and lay on the sofa with Wuqi and the cat to rest.

Xia Li opened a can of cat food for Wuqi, Wuqi took a few bites and licked his paws, then jumped off the sofa nimbly and went to the corner to drink water. This hard work of live performance must have exhausted him.

The key point is that he, a big male cat, has to act cute in front of the camera in order to satisfy his fans’ hobbies.

Fortunately, Wuji is an old expert at acting cute and coquettish, so he didn’t embarrass himself in front of his fans.

Wuqi is still very confident about this.

If he really gets horny, those sweet little female cats won’t have a chance.

“Meow.”

“Really? I didn’t work that hard during my college entrance exams.”

Wuqi sighed. Canned cat food was not satisfying enough for him. He still preferred to eat crunchy cat food.

A real male cat should eat hard things!
“I’m giving you a day off, but you really don’t want to rest?”

“Meow.”

“No rest.”

Wuqi flatly rejected Xia Li’s kindness.

Xia Li thought to herself, this cat is really strange.

Let’s just say Wuqi is half human. There is no one who really loves work and refuses to take a holiday.

Xia Li is very worried about Wuqi’s current mental state.

You won’t really go crazy doing live broadcast, will you?

Even though Xia Li usually likes to exploit Wuqi, he still feels a little guilty when he sees this cat brother really working so hard for his career.

“Forget about that. Don’t you like going out for a walk? You haven’t been out for several months. It’s okay to go out and relax. Don’t stay in this live broadcast room all the time.” Xia Li persuaded.

“Who said I didn’t go out? I go out to pee every night to consolidate my position in the cat world!”

Wuqi spoke back sternly.

Although the cat spoke in a rude manner, he actually appreciated Xia Li’s kindness.

“To be honest, I always thought I was a cat and had no self-worth in human society…”

Wuqi suddenly changed the subject and became gentle.

He confessed.

“However, during this time of live streaming, I discovered that I can actually be a ‘human’, a creature recognized by society.”

“Hehe, there are still people who need me… This feels pretty good.”

Wuqi finished speaking to himself, then raised his head and looked at Xia Li with a bit of pride and a bit of foreignness.

“You may not know, but last month a little girl sent me a private message. She wrote me a long paragraph. She said she was a patient with mental illness. She always felt that the world was boring and she had no interest in anything. She didn’t know why she was alive every day… But after watching my live broadcast, she said she was interested in life. The greatest pleasure every day was waiting for me to start broadcasting in the afternoon. She said she liked watching my live broadcast the most. I helped her get out of the predicament. She also wanted to work hard to get in touch with society and work to save money. She wanted to come to Shu Province to see me.”

When he said this, Wuqi straightened his neck proudly.

This is because he feels from the bottom of his heart that he is great.

It turns out that even if you become a cat with your balls cut off, you can still be needed by others.

“I replied to her private message and told her that I was the real person, but she still didn’t believe it!”

Wuqi said with his head held high.

Xia Li laughed after hearing this.

“No normal person would believe this. You are just a cat in her eyes.”

“Yes, I am a useful cat.” Wuqi nodded.

Xia Li said “hmm”.

He thought so too.

To Wuqi, who has been a cat for twenty-two years, being recognized by society is what he wants.

“Oh, that’s right.”

Wuqi waved his cat paw and flipped through his little watch.

With an assistant by his side during the live broadcast, Wuqi didn’t dare to show himself too human. Only when there was no one around, or when he was alone with Xia Li, did he have the opportunity to take out his watch and look through the private messages in the background of his account.

Colleagues in the pet hospital thought that these accounts were managed by the boss, but in fact Xia Li had already handed the accounts over to Wuqi.

After quickly flipping through the watch interface several times, Wuqi didn’t find what he wanted, so he jumped onto the coffee table again, unlocked a tablet computer with the fingerprint of his claw, and then continued to browse his account on the larger screen.

“Look at this.”

“What’s wrong with this?”

Xia Li thought he had something important to say, so he quickly went over to take a look.

The screen showed Wuqi’s personal account favorites. He opened the favorites and clicked on the first video.

Soon, a series of gibberish conversations that Xia Li couldn’t understand emerged.

The content of the video is the daily chat of a rural family. There is nothing substantial in it. It should have been casually shot by someone to record their life. There are only two likes on the video, and I guess one is from the creator himself, and the other is just ordinary.

“What’s wrong with this video? I don’t understand it.”

Xia Li looked at it for a long time but couldn’t figure out what it meant.

In his opinion, it is just an ordinary short video.

“Listen to the sound.”

“I don’t understand.” Xia Li shook his head.

Wuqi’s eyes lit up with joy.

“You don’t understand, right? That’s right!”

“I understand!”

Wuqi’s tone was a little excited, and Xia Li looked at him suspiciously.

I seriously doubt whether this cat really has mental problems.

“Didn’t I tell you that I’m from Jiangsu Province? The dialect in this video is obviously from where we are!”

“You mean…”

Xia Li finally reacted. He held the tablet upright and looked at it more carefully this time.

“Is this your hometown?”

“Meow!”

“right!”

“I am very sure that the dialect in this video is the dialect of the place where I used to live!”

While listening to him, Xia Li opened the video creator’s interface.

As Wuqi said, the creator’s IP showed Su Province.

“Let me ask for you.”

Xia Li said this and directly clicked on the private message interface.

He had suggested before that he wanted to help Wuqi find his hometown.

However, Wuqi at that time flatly rejected Xia Li’s kindness.

Wuqi said that he is a cat now, and even if he really finds his hometown, the fact that he has become a cat cannot be changed.

Instead of looking for things that belong to memories, it is better to be a cat happily.

It only adds to the sadness.

However, in Xia Li’s opinion, Wuqi was not mentally prepared at that time.

He was born in the 1980s.

He was not ready to face today, a total of forty years later.

But now, Wuqi should be prepared for this.

Xia Li opened the private message.

It was discovered that Wuqi had already contacted this creator.

The other party was also a kind-hearted person. After hearing that Wuqi was a lost child in their town, he generously sent his detailed address.

Qitang Town, Anhai City, Jiangsu Province.

“brother……”

Wuqi appeared in front of Xia Li at this time.

His black and white cat face blocked the tablet in Xia Li’s hand.

To Xia Li, his voice sounded hoarse and choked with age.

“I, Wu Qi, have never begged anyone in my life…”

“But please take me back to take a look.”

“This way, I will have nothing to regret in my life.”

……

After Xia Li sent a message to Lucia saying “Honey, I won’t be back for dinner tonight”, he booked a flight to Su Province that day.

Qingcheng City itself has two large airports, and it is very convenient to take a direct flight from here.

He didn’t have much luggage to bring, just a two-way magic teleportation scroll for the return trip, a coat, an airline box, and an excited cow cat.

There was a slight delay in processing the pet’s consignment.

Fortunately, Wuqi worked in a pet hospital, and Xia Li treated him like a guinea pig and took him for physical examinations whenever he had nothing to do. Therefore, Wuqi’s vaccination registration and quarantine procedures were quite complete, and he went directly to the counter to check in the pet.

It was noon when we landed in Jiangsu Province, and it was already five in the afternoon when we arrived at Qitong Town, Anhai City.

The light of the setting sun gradually faded from fiery red to soft, and the entire sky was shrouded in a warm and layered light.

Along the way, Wuqi was as excited as if he had been injected with chicken blood.

“Don’t say that!”

“Don’t say that!”

“I can understand all the dialects here, meowhahaha!! “

The cat was so excited that he even meowed, which shows that he was quite excited.

“Hello, big sister. You look like my long-lost aunt.”

“Mr., you really look like my grandfather!”

“Meow, hahaha, I’ve definitely seen this dog on the ground before!”

Wuqi lay in Xia Li’s arms and looked left and right.

Xia Li held the cat in one hand and the airline cage in the other, and didn’t even have time to look at the navigation on her phone.

It’s not that he wants to hit Wuqi. At this moment, Xia Li really wants to say to the cat: You are forty years old in total cat age plus human age, and twenty-two years have passed since you left this town.

These years are enough for a dog to live two lifetimes. As for your aunt, it is impossible for her to be so young.

Xia Li held back and didn’t dampen Wuqi’s enthusiasm.

According to Wuqi’s recollection of the town’s streets, the two walked around and finally stopped at an intersection.

This road is well connected and has a total of five forks. Due to the constant traffic of large trucks, the surface of Youbai Road is bumpy. On the left and right sides of the widest road, there is a five-story red brick building and a four-story blue brick building respectively.

It is a very iconic intersection.

Wuqi said he had some impression of this place.

However, after all, so many years have passed, and everything and everyone here has changed. Wuqi only has a deep memory of the red building, and can’t remember anything else.

Xia Li stood at the intersection, made up his mind, and went to the red building with Wuqi in his arms.

The buildings in the town all have one thing in common: the first floor is a shop selling food and daily necessities, and the second floor and above are used as residences.

Xia Li remembered that Wu Qi had told him that his family was well off and had a computer at the turn of the millennium. Wu Qi also played the game Meteor Butterfly Sword at home.

Come to think of it, they should be considered a wealthy family.

So Xia Li went directly to the snack shop on the first floor which occupied two shop floors.

He bought a bottle of water, unscrewed it and took a sip, then asked the middle-aged man who was guarding the shop as if he was just chatting casually.

“Boss, is there a person named ‘Wu Qi’ around here?”

“Wu Qi? Never heard of it.”

The middle-aged man quickly gave Xia Li a positive answer.

“It’s Kou Tian Wu, strange Qi.” Xia Li continued.

“I’ve never heard of this. How old is he? Is he from our town?”

The middle-aged man spoke Mandarin mixed with Jiangsu dialect, which Xia Li found difficult to understand.

“There are many people in our town. Why don’t you go to the intersection ahead and ask?” The man pointed to the street ahead.

Xia Li shook his head and said, “No, it’s nearby, and it should be a family living upstairs.”

“hiss……”

The middle-aged man took a breath, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it.

Although there are a total of fifteen households living in their building, there is very little turnover among the people. In addition, houses in the town are rarely sold or transferred, so it is basically the same people who come and go.

“I’ve run a shop here for nearly 20 years, and I’ve never heard of anyone named Wu Qi… But there is a family with the surname Wu upstairs.”

“Meow!”

The middle-aged man took a puff of his cigarette and exhaled white smoke.

Wuqi in Xia Li’s arms couldn’t sit still anymore and wanted to pounce over excitedly.

The man glanced at the strange cat and continued.

“I bought my store from that family, and the person who sold my store was the male owner’s sister… That family’s situation was very special.”

The middle-aged man didn’t say much in the end. He just gave Xia Li a location and asked Xia Li to go and take a look.

Xia Li originally wanted to ask which floor and room it was, and whether he could go up through the iron gate to check the situation, but when Xia Li saw the address of the location, he hesitated to speak.

“If you are forty years old, then your parents should be sixty years old, right?”

No online taxi was willing to go to that location, and there were no shared bicycles in the town, so Xia Li had no choice but to walk there.

On this road, Wuqi, who was originally in an excited state, suddenly fell silent.

He fell silent, looking at the familiar street, as if recalling something.

Wuqi did not answer Xia Li’s question. Xia Li wanted to find some topic to chat about, but some words were stuck in his throat and he couldn’t utter them.

When we arrived at our destination, it was already completely dark.

The light pollution in the town is not as serious as in the city. Walking on this one-way road, you can even see faint stars twinkling in the sky.

Qitang Town, cemetery.

Xia Li finally found the tombstone he was looking for.

Three, to be exact.

The tombstone with the words “Wu Qi” written on it lay quietly in the middle.

“I’ve always envied you guys…”

Wuqi’s voice went straight into Xia Li’s mind.

In this dark and cold cemetery, his hoarse voice did not sound creepy at all to Xia Li, but instead moved Xia Li a little.

“I envy you and Qin Chuan.”

“We are all time travelers, why are you humans and I am a cat?”

“Watching you guys talk about love, using your hands to do what you want, and eating human food casually with your mouth open… I’m so envious that I can’t express it.”

“I want a human body, too… but I am trapped in this cat’s body forever. Why? If I am a cat, where is the real me? Is there someone else who has taken over my life?”

“I have been avoiding going back to Jiangsu Province because I don’t want to face these facts. I am really afraid that someone will replace me, and I am also afraid of seeing my parents grow old or die.”

“I can’t face these things.”

“It wasn’t until a few days ago, when I accidentally saw that video, that I felt that our fate had come and I should face reality…”

Xia Li didn’t say anything.

He listened to Wuqi’s story quietly. Wuqi was usually crazy and he was rarely willing to tell Xia Li his true feelings like this.

Listening to the chaotic voices becoming more and more trembling, Xia Li lowered his head and saw tears in Wuqi’s golden cat eyes.

He sniffed and continued.

“Now, I understand.”

“Actually, I’m very lucky.”

“Brother, do you know…?”

“Actually, I died a long time ago.”

Even though he was mentally prepared, Xia Li was still a little surprised when he heard the answer.

He looked down at the cow cat in his arms and listened to him continue.

“When that middle-aged man sent you the location just now, I remembered…”

“When I was in my senior year of high school, my parents and I went to play on a mountain behind Qitang Town. Halfway through the trip, it suddenly started to rain. We went down the mountain as fast as we could, but the collapsed mountain swallowed us up like a flood…”

“I think my parents and I were drowned in the landslide.”

“Maybe God felt sorry for me and wanted to compensate me by giving me another chance to live.”

“No wonder I can predict the future, nyahaha…”

“No wonder, you are in the body, but I am in the soul… because my body is long gone!”

Wuqi laughed dryly twice.

After two laughs, he seemed to be unable to laugh anymore.

After jumping off Xia Li, Wuqi came to his own grave and sat for a while.

Then he walked around and picked up two leaves.

One leaf was placed on the left side of the tomb, and one was placed on the right side.

“Fortunately, I didn’t have to wait for my parents to leave me… until the end, my parents were by my side.”

After doing all this, Wuqi’s tone was somewhat relieved.

He swung his tail, turned around and jumped onto Xia Li again.

“Wuqi, what a good name…”

“Meow~”

He muttered twice.

The clear sound of a cat’s meow echoed in the dark cemetery.

“Thank you for giving me a new name.”

“From now on, I will be called Wuqi!”

The ordinary life is over long ago.

The rest is a cat’s life.

(End of this chapter)