CH. 7
4/4 bonus chapters for our leader S.Coup's birthday!
Just as they were laughing happily, the next second, they watched Lin Miaomiao, who was looking up at the kitten, take off her shoes, hug the tree with both hands, and climb up. Then she turned directly to the tree trunk where the kitten was hiding, and climbed straight over amid the threatening sounds of the kitten's "meow meow meow".
Haters: ???
Lin Miaomiao climbed up the persimmon tree in a few steps, then turned to the branch where the kitten was, slowly squatted down, bent her body, and slowly crawled towards the branch like a cat.
The tree trunk was too thin to bear the weight of an adult. After climbing only one-third of the way up, the branches began to shake violently. The old lady was so scared that she screamed, "Stop, don't go any further, or you'll fall down."
The little kitten hiding on the branch was so scared that it meowed loudly, its fur stood up, and it bared its teeth and glared at her, threatening not to come near again.
Lin Miaomiao frowned, pursed her lips and stared at the kitten for a while, then bravely took a few steps forward. Then she stopped and did not say a word. She held the branches tightly with her hands and feet, and just stared at the kitten quietly in the posture of a cat.
Perhaps the kitten felt that she meant no harm, or was tired of shouting, and after looking at her for a while, the kitten finally stopped meowing.
Lin Miaomiao still didn't say anything. The man and the cat just lay on the tree in almost the same posture, looking at each other in silence.
After about two or three minutes, when the audience under the tree and in the live broadcast room were all confused, Lin Miaomiao finally spoke.
"Come here," she said softly, "I'll take you down."
"Meow~" the kitten replied.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Lin Miaomiao said.
The kitten was silent.
Lin Miaomiao stared at it for a while, then moved one foot, then her hand, and then slowly turned her body. She changed direction so flexibly and slowly crawled back.
When she left the branch and returned to the main trunk, the kitten moved and slowly followed Lin Miaomiao's footsteps.
After getting down from the tree and putting on her shoes, Lin Miaomiao reached out her hand to the kitten on the tree, and the kitten jumped directly into her arms.
[Lin Miaomiao is born in the year of the cat, right? The action just now was simply the incarnation of a cat! ]
[I feel weak in the knees just looking at that branch, but Lin Miaomiao can still come and go freely, so awesome.]
[Am I the only one who paid attention to her conversation with the cat? The kitten was so scared before, but Lin Miaomiao actually comforted it and it listened to her and walked down on its own. It's incredible! ]
After calming the kitten down, Lin Miaomiao held the cat and came to the old lady, "Okay."
The old lady looked at her, then at the cat, and gave a thumbs up, "This little girl is amazing."
Lin Miaomiao curved her eyes and smiled, "Grandma, can you let me take this cat away?"
It has no relatives and is timid. There are many dogs in the village, and it will starve to death if no one takes care of it.
"Take it away, take it away," the old lady waved her hand, "This cat looks only two or three months old, so pitiful, it would be nice if someone could take care of it."
Then the old lady went back to the house to get her reward, which was dried vegetables that she had dried herself, dried radishes, dried beans, fermented bean curd and some other pickled vegetables. Finally, the old lady went to the kitchen to get a piece of bacon.
"I made them all myself. You can't get them in the city," said the old lady proudly.
Lin Miaomiao's eyes lit up. It smelled delicious. She took a piece of dried radish and threw it into her mouth. She was so moved that she almost cried. She mumbled, "Delicious, delicious!"
It tastes better than the lunch just out of the jar. What if it’s fried again?
"We have to save this." Lin Miaomiao suddenly missed Xu Jiayan and said to the camera, "Jiayan's cooking is the best. We have to save these ingredients for her to come back and cook even better food for me. We can't waste them!"
After saying goodbye to grandma, Lin Miaomiao took the cat and a bunch of food back to Happy Farm—she ate all the way back.
After putting down the things, Lin Miaomiao used a towel to wipe the kitten's body. Then she took out the leftover meat from yesterday from the refrigerator, cut a small piece of lean meat and steamed it for the kitten to eat.
"We are very poor now. This meat belongs to everyone, so you can eat some to fill your stomach first. I will find a way to get you something else when they come back."
She tore the steamed meat into strips and said while feeding the cat, "There are five other owners in this house. If you behave yourself and don't make trouble, I will convince them to keep you and let you be our seventh member and eat meat with us. We have a beautiful girl named Jiayan here who cooks delicious food. She is also a nice person. If you ask her for food, she will definitely cook it for you!"
The kitten ate with relish and meowed in return.
Around six o'clock, everyone went home one after another. After listening to Lin Miaomiao's explanation of the situation, everyone supported her in keeping the kitten.
"But the kitten needs to be vaccinated and fed anthelmintics first, right? After all, it was a stray before, and if it is not dewormed, it may have parasites and be prone to illness." Zhao Shuya suggested.
Lin Miaomiao thought about how when she was first picked up by her owner, she not only had injections and medicines, but also had some kind of surgery to make a cut on her stomach. This caused her to wear tight clothes for a long time, which was very uncomfortable.
"Oh, by the way, the cat also needs to be sterilized." Just as she was thinking about it, she heard Zhao Shuya say again.
Lin Miaomiao felt an inexplicable pain in her belly. "Sterilization? Does that mean... the kitten needs surgery?"
Zhao Shuya nodded, "But the kitten is still young now, we can do it when it grows up a little."
"Do we have to do it?" Lin Miaomiao asked carefully.
"Of course, otherwise it will feel uncomfortable when it grows up and goes into heat, which will affect its health."
So that's how it is. It turns out that the master still loves her very much.
Lin Miaomiao looked down at the kitten that was squatting at her feet and licking its paws. Sensing her gaze, the kitten raised its head to look at her and meowed at her tenderly.
"Is there a pet hospital in here?" Lin Miaomiao asked.
Su Zhixing searched on his phone and found out, "There is one in the county, open until nine in the evening."
"Then I will take it to get vaccinated now."
Lin Miaomiao immediately asked the program crew to borrow a car and money and set off to the county town to get vaccinated.
"I'll go with you so I can take care of you." Su Zhixing said as he went upstairs to change his clothes.
"Buy canned cat litter and freeze-dried cat food, and then go to the supermarket to buy some chicken breast and duck breast." When they were about to leave, Ye Zimo suddenly stopped them, pointed at the cat and said, "Steam it for it."
Without Ye Zimo's reminder, Lin Miaomiao knew to buy these, especially the freeze-dried ones, which were her favorite in the past.
When she arrived at the pet hospital, the program team was only willing to lend her money for bathing, vaccinations and deworming medicine.
"The money for the physical examination, bath, vaccination and anthelmintic medicine is considered as a loan to you personally. After completing these, Persimmon will be a member of the Happy Farmer Family, so its food expenses should be paid by you yourselves." said the staff.
The money she earned from working these days was not enough to buy freeze-dried canned food, so she ended up only buying a small bag of cat food. Fortunately, chicken and duck were cheap, so she bought a few pounds of meat to last for a few days - the money was paid by the program crew, and she had to pay it back when she got back.
When she got home and told other people about the situation, they all expressed their understanding and support.
"The bacon you get from Granny is worth more than the meat you give to Shizi."
"That's right. I've wanted to eat local bacon for a long time, but I never had the money to buy it."
"Sister Miaomiao, you are our lucky star. You always find delicious food for us!"
Lin Miaomiao felt embarrassed by everyone's praise, "Then I will find more delicious food for everyone in the future."
The four were very happy and expressed their gratitude.
"Is the kitten's name Shizi?" Zhao Shuya suddenly asked.
Lin Miaomiao nodded, "Yes, we met on a persimmon tree. She is a calico cat, and her yellow pattern looks like a ripe persimmon, so she was named Shizi. And Shizi likes this name very much."
Shizi was squatting in Lin Miaomiao's arms. Seeing everyone looking at it, it swung its tail and rubbed its head against Lin Miaomiao, indicating that she was right, "Meow~"
Except for Su Zhixing, everyone else looked at it in amazement.
"It seems that Shizi can understand what we are saying!" Yang Jun touched Shizi's head with his finger as if he had discovered a new world and tried to chat with her.
"Listen to me, Shizi is super smart!" Su Zhixing perked up when he mentioned this. "She didn't make a fuss during the physical examination, injections, and bathing. Miaomiao asked her to behave, and she really let the doctor do whatever he wanted. Especially when it came to taking medicine, she actually opened her mouth to take the medicine by herself. The doctor said he had never seen such a well-behaved kitten."
The audience in the live broadcast room had already witnessed it with their own eyes, and they were still deeply moved when Su Zhixing mentioned it again.
[If I hadn’t watched the live broadcast, I would never have believed that a cat would take medicine on its own—from a person who was scratched and bitten by a cat while feeding medicine to him, “crying loudly”]
[I think the real point is not how well behaved the cat is, but the interaction between Lin Miaomiao and the cat. She did whatever Lin Miaomiao asked her to do! One can understand human language and execute the owner's orders, and the other understands what the cat is thinking and communicates with it. This is the most incredible thing! ]
[Lin Miaomiao and Shizi have become spirits! ]
[So cute, so cute, the interaction between Lin Miaomiao and Shizi was so cute that I fainted! ]
After listening to Su Zhixing's description, Zhao Shuya and others found it unbelievable, and they surrounded Shizi and asked for verification. Shizi kept Lin Miaomiao's words in mind, and tried her best to please them, almost fulfilling every request. She used practical actions to prove that what Su Zhixing said was true, and the interaction was so cute that the guests and staff were dizzy.
Only Ye Zimo was sitting in the dining room next to the living room, quietly watching the people and cat having fun in the distance. When he saw Shizi nudging Lin Miaomiao with her head to act coquettishly, he thought of the way Lin Miaomiao unconsciously acted coquettishly towards Zhao Shuya in the past few days. It was exactly the same!
With Shizi to take care of, Lin Miaomiao didn't dare to sleep in the next day. She set the alarm and got up early to make breakfast for Shizi.
This was Lin Miaomiao's first time cooking. She took her phone and followed the instructions. She first put the steamer on the stove, then carefully used a kitchen knife to cut through the thawed chicken breast, muttering, "Shizi, just put up with it for one more day. When your beautiful sister Jiayan comes back tomorrow, ask her to make you something delicious!"
As soon as Ye Zimo came in, he saw her mumbling something with a knife in her hand. The scene was so horrifying that he raised his voice several degrees: "What are you doing?!"
Lin Miaomiao almost dropped the knife in her hand because of his shouting, "Ah, I'm cutting meat, steaming chicken breast."
Ye Zimo breathed a sigh of relief and walked over to take the kitchen knife. "Braised chicken is more tender and tastier, while steamed meat tends to get tough."
"Braise? How do you braise?"
Ye Zimo took down the steamer and replaced it with a small cooking pot, then filled it with half a pot of water. "After the water boils, put the whole chicken breast in. Turn off the heat, cover the pot and simmer for about 20 minutes. If the chicken breast is thick, simmer it longer. Let it cool down and then tear it into shreds. This way, the braised chicken will be tender and fragrant."
"Wow, you're amazing!" Lin Miaomiao looked at him in disbelief, "Don't you know how to cook? Or do you also have a cat?"
"No." Ye Zimo stuffed a piece of firewood into the stove. "I heard it from the cat owner."
"Oh……"
Lin Miaomiao felt ashamed. She had been a cat for so many years and only knew how to eat. She knew nothing about how to prepare meat.
Ye Zimo comforted her and said, "It's fine as long as you take care of the food."
Lin Miaomiao: “…”
The chicken breasts were put into the pot and simmered while the two of them went about doing other things.
Half an hour later, the braised chicken breast was finally not so hot anymore. They returned to the kitchen. While Ye Zimo was tearing the chicken, Lin Miaomiao secretly ate a few pieces.
It was indeed tender and fragrant, exactly like the chicken breast her owner had made for her.
Lin Miaomiao remembered that when her owner first started steaming chicken for her, the meat was very tough and hard to chew. After a while, her steamed chicken became tender and fragrant.
It turns out there are so many things to pay attention to when steaming chicken.
Lin Miaomiao looked at Ye Zimo curiously. He couldn't cook and had never raised a cat. He just heard from a friend once that cats liked to eat chicken breast cooked in this way?
If he really was a newbie in the kitchen, he should be as flustered as she is, right?
But he performed these actions very skillfully, as if he had done it thousands of times..
Chapter 7
Just as they were laughing happily, the next second, they watched Lin Miaomiao, who was looking up at the kitten, take off her shoes, hug the tree with both hands, and climb up. Then she turned directly to the tree trunk where the kitten was hiding, and climbed straight over amid the threatening sounds of the kitten's "meow meow meow".
Haters: ???
Lin Miaomiao climbed up the persimmon tree in a few steps, then turned to the branch where the kitten was, slowly squatted down, bent her body, and slowly crawled towards the branch like a cat.
The tree trunk was too thin to bear the weight of an adult. After climbing only one-third of the way up, the branches began to shake violently. The old lady was so scared that she screamed, "Stop, don't go any further, or you'll fall down."
The little kitten hiding on the branch was so scared that it meowed loudly, its fur stood up, and it bared its teeth and glared at her, threatening not to come near again.
Lin Miaomiao frowned, pursed her lips and stared at the kitten for a while, then bravely took a few steps forward. Then she stopped and did not say a word. She held the branches tightly with her hands and feet, and just stared at the kitten quietly in the posture of a cat.
Perhaps the kitten felt that she meant no harm, or was tired of shouting, and after looking at her for a while, the kitten finally stopped meowing.
Lin Miaomiao still didn't say anything. The man and the cat just lay on the tree in almost the same posture, looking at each other in silence.
After about two or three minutes, when the audience under the tree and in the live broadcast room were all confused, Lin Miaomiao finally spoke.
"Come here," she said softly, "I'll take you down."
"Meow~" the kitten replied.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Lin Miaomiao said.
The kitten was silent.
Lin Miaomiao stared at it for a while, then moved one foot, then her hand, and then slowly turned her body. She changed direction so flexibly and slowly crawled back.
When she left the branch and returned to the main trunk, the kitten moved and slowly followed Lin Miaomiao's footsteps.
After getting down from the tree and putting on her shoes, Lin Miaomiao reached out her hand to the kitten on the tree, and the kitten jumped directly into her arms.
[Lin Miaomiao is born in the year of the cat, right? The action just now was simply the incarnation of a cat! ]
[I feel weak in the knees just looking at that branch, but Lin Miaomiao can still come and go freely, so awesome.]
[Am I the only one who paid attention to her conversation with the cat? The kitten was so scared before, but Lin Miaomiao actually comforted it and it listened to her and walked down on its own. It's incredible! ]
After calming the kitten down, Lin Miaomiao held the cat and came to the old lady, "Okay."
The old lady looked at her, then at the cat, and gave a thumbs up, "This little girl is amazing."
Lin Miaomiao curved her eyes and smiled, "Grandma, can you let me take this cat away?"
It has no relatives and is timid. There are many dogs in the village, and it will starve to death if no one takes care of it.
"Take it away, take it away," the old lady waved her hand, "This cat looks only two or three months old, so pitiful, it would be nice if someone could take care of it."
Then the old lady went back to the house to get her reward, which was dried vegetables that she had dried herself, dried radishes, dried beans, fermented bean curd and some other pickled vegetables. Finally, the old lady went to the kitchen to get a piece of bacon.
"I made them all myself. You can't get them in the city," said the old lady proudly.
Lin Miaomiao's eyes lit up. It smelled delicious. She took a piece of dried radish and threw it into her mouth. She was so moved that she almost cried. She mumbled, "Delicious, delicious!"
It tastes better than the lunch just out of the jar. What if it’s fried again?
"We have to save this." Lin Miaomiao suddenly missed Xu Jiayan and said to the camera, "Jiayan's cooking is the best. We have to save these ingredients for her to come back and cook even better food for me. We can't waste them!"
After saying goodbye to grandma, Lin Miaomiao took the cat and a bunch of food back to Happy Farm—she ate all the way back.
After putting down the things, Lin Miaomiao used a towel to wipe the kitten's body. Then she took out the leftover meat from yesterday from the refrigerator, cut a small piece of lean meat and steamed it for the kitten to eat.
"We are very poor now. This meat belongs to everyone, so you can eat some to fill your stomach first. I will find a way to get you something else when they come back."
She tore the steamed meat into strips and said while feeding the cat, "There are five other owners in this house. If you behave yourself and don't make trouble, I will convince them to keep you and let you be our seventh member and eat meat with us. We have a beautiful girl named Jiayan here who cooks delicious food. She is also a nice person. If you ask her for food, she will definitely cook it for you!"
The kitten ate with relish and meowed in return.
Around six o'clock, everyone went home one after another. After listening to Lin Miaomiao's explanation of the situation, everyone supported her in keeping the kitten.
"But the kitten needs to be vaccinated and fed anthelmintics first, right? After all, it was a stray before, and if it is not dewormed, it may have parasites and be prone to illness." Zhao Shuya suggested.
Lin Miaomiao thought about how when she was first picked up by her owner, she not only had injections and medicines, but also had some kind of surgery to make a cut on her stomach. This caused her to wear tight clothes for a long time, which was very uncomfortable.
"Oh, by the way, the cat also needs to be sterilized." Just as she was thinking about it, she heard Zhao Shuya say again.
Lin Miaomiao felt an inexplicable pain in her belly. "Sterilization? Does that mean... the kitten needs surgery?"
Zhao Shuya nodded, "But the kitten is still young now, we can do it when it grows up a little."
"Do we have to do it?" Lin Miaomiao asked carefully.
"Of course, otherwise it will feel uncomfortable when it grows up and goes into heat, which will affect its health."
So that's how it is. It turns out that the master still loves her very much.
Lin Miaomiao looked down at the kitten that was squatting at her feet and licking its paws. Sensing her gaze, the kitten raised its head to look at her and meowed at her tenderly.
"Is there a pet hospital in here?" Lin Miaomiao asked.
Su Zhixing searched on his phone and found out, "There is one in the county, open until nine in the evening."
"Then I will take it to get vaccinated now."
Lin Miaomiao immediately asked the program crew to borrow a car and money and set off to the county town to get vaccinated.
"I'll go with you so I can take care of you." Su Zhixing said as he went upstairs to change his clothes.
"Buy canned cat litter and freeze-dried cat food, and then go to the supermarket to buy some chicken breast and duck breast." When they were about to leave, Ye Zimo suddenly stopped them, pointed at the cat and said, "Steam it for it."
Without Ye Zimo's reminder, Lin Miaomiao knew to buy these, especially the freeze-dried ones, which were her favorite in the past.
When she arrived at the pet hospital, the program team was only willing to lend her money for bathing, vaccinations and deworming medicine.
"The money for the physical examination, bath, vaccination and anthelmintic medicine is considered as a loan to you personally. After completing these, Persimmon will be a member of the Happy Farmer Family, so its food expenses should be paid by you yourselves." said the staff.
The money she earned from working these days was not enough to buy freeze-dried canned food, so she ended up only buying a small bag of cat food. Fortunately, chicken and duck were cheap, so she bought a few pounds of meat to last for a few days - the money was paid by the program crew, and she had to pay it back when she got back.
When she got home and told other people about the situation, they all expressed their understanding and support.
"The bacon you get from Granny is worth more than the meat you give to Shizi."
"That's right. I've wanted to eat local bacon for a long time, but I never had the money to buy it."
"Sister Miaomiao, you are our lucky star. You always find delicious food for us!"
Lin Miaomiao felt embarrassed by everyone's praise, "Then I will find more delicious food for everyone in the future."
The four were very happy and expressed their gratitude.
"Is the kitten's name Shizi?" Zhao Shuya suddenly asked.
Lin Miaomiao nodded, "Yes, we met on a persimmon tree. She is a calico cat, and her yellow pattern looks like a ripe persimmon, so she was named Shizi. And Shizi likes this name very much."
Shizi was squatting in Lin Miaomiao's arms. Seeing everyone looking at it, it swung its tail and rubbed its head against Lin Miaomiao, indicating that she was right, "Meow~"
Except for Su Zhixing, everyone else looked at it in amazement.
"It seems that Shizi can understand what we are saying!" Yang Jun touched Shizi's head with his finger as if he had discovered a new world and tried to chat with her.
"Listen to me, Shizi is super smart!" Su Zhixing perked up when he mentioned this. "She didn't make a fuss during the physical examination, injections, and bathing. Miaomiao asked her to behave, and she really let the doctor do whatever he wanted. Especially when it came to taking medicine, she actually opened her mouth to take the medicine by herself. The doctor said he had never seen such a well-behaved kitten."
The audience in the live broadcast room had already witnessed it with their own eyes, and they were still deeply moved when Su Zhixing mentioned it again.
[If I hadn’t watched the live broadcast, I would never have believed that a cat would take medicine on its own—from a person who was scratched and bitten by a cat while feeding medicine to him, “crying loudly”]
[I think the real point is not how well behaved the cat is, but the interaction between Lin Miaomiao and the cat. She did whatever Lin Miaomiao asked her to do! One can understand human language and execute the owner's orders, and the other understands what the cat is thinking and communicates with it. This is the most incredible thing! ]
[Lin Miaomiao and Shizi have become spirits! ]
[So cute, so cute, the interaction between Lin Miaomiao and Shizi was so cute that I fainted! ]
After listening to Su Zhixing's description, Zhao Shuya and others found it unbelievable, and they surrounded Shizi and asked for verification. Shizi kept Lin Miaomiao's words in mind, and tried her best to please them, almost fulfilling every request. She used practical actions to prove that what Su Zhixing said was true, and the interaction was so cute that the guests and staff were dizzy.
Only Ye Zimo was sitting in the dining room next to the living room, quietly watching the people and cat having fun in the distance. When he saw Shizi nudging Lin Miaomiao with her head to act coquettishly, he thought of the way Lin Miaomiao unconsciously acted coquettishly towards Zhao Shuya in the past few days. It was exactly the same!
With Shizi to take care of, Lin Miaomiao didn't dare to sleep in the next day. She set the alarm and got up early to make breakfast for Shizi.
This was Lin Miaomiao's first time cooking. She took her phone and followed the instructions. She first put the steamer on the stove, then carefully used a kitchen knife to cut through the thawed chicken breast, muttering, "Shizi, just put up with it for one more day. When your beautiful sister Jiayan comes back tomorrow, ask her to make you something delicious!"
As soon as Ye Zimo came in, he saw her mumbling something with a knife in her hand. The scene was so horrifying that he raised his voice several degrees: "What are you doing?!"
Lin Miaomiao almost dropped the knife in her hand because of his shouting, "Ah, I'm cutting meat, steaming chicken breast."
Ye Zimo breathed a sigh of relief and walked over to take the kitchen knife. "Braised chicken is more tender and tastier, while steamed meat tends to get tough."
"Braise? How do you braise?"
Ye Zimo took down the steamer and replaced it with a small cooking pot, then filled it with half a pot of water. "After the water boils, put the whole chicken breast in. Turn off the heat, cover the pot and simmer for about 20 minutes. If the chicken breast is thick, simmer it longer. Let it cool down and then tear it into shreds. This way, the braised chicken will be tender and fragrant."
"Wow, you're amazing!" Lin Miaomiao looked at him in disbelief, "Don't you know how to cook? Or do you also have a cat?"
"No." Ye Zimo stuffed a piece of firewood into the stove. "I heard it from the cat owner."
"Oh……"
Lin Miaomiao felt ashamed. She had been a cat for so many years and only knew how to eat. She knew nothing about how to prepare meat.
Ye Zimo comforted her and said, "It's fine as long as you take care of the food."
Lin Miaomiao: “…”
The chicken breasts were put into the pot and simmered while the two of them went about doing other things.
Half an hour later, the braised chicken breast was finally not so hot anymore. They returned to the kitchen. While Ye Zimo was tearing the chicken, Lin Miaomiao secretly ate a few pieces.
It was indeed tender and fragrant, exactly like the chicken breast her owner had made for her.
Lin Miaomiao remembered that when her owner first started steaming chicken for her, the meat was very tough and hard to chew. After a while, her steamed chicken became tender and fragrant.
It turns out there are so many things to pay attention to when steaming chicken.
Lin Miaomiao looked at Ye Zimo curiously. He couldn't cook and had never raised a cat. He just heard from a friend once that cats liked to eat chicken breast cooked in this way?
If he really was a newbie in the kitchen, he should be as flustered as she is, right?
But he performed these actions very skillfully, as if he had done it thousands of times..
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