"Hmm?" Li Xu retracted his leg from the car door, walked to the side of the car door, and squatted down.
This was a two-month-old kitten. It was a Chinese field cat with yellow and white stripes. Its head, back, and limbs were covered with orange stripes. The exposed part of its chest under its head was white, and the ends of its limbs were also white.
The kitten looked very scared, and its body was tightly curled into a ball. Its two white front paws covered its head, and its tail covered its small nose. It shrank under the car tires and shivered.
Seeing Li Xu squatting down, the kitten shrank its body under the tires again. However, the lights in the parking lot were very bright, and its small body could not be squeezed under the tires. Under the lights, it looked like a yellow and white ball of fur.
Li Jiu moved closer, and the kitten seemed to be frightened. It turned its body in another direction and stuck its head under the wheel. Its butt was facing the outside. It was a classic example of someone who only cared about their head and not their butt.
"What's wrong?" Kim Minna walked over from under the tires.
"Shh!" Li Xu signaled her to be quiet.
"Ah! It's so cute. "Looking at the yellow and white kitten under the tires, Kim Minna exclaimed in a low voice.
"I have to take it out. Otherwise, if the owner of this car does not notice it when he starts the car, it will be very dangerous."
Li Xu reached out and touched the kitten's back. Maybe it was too cold, but the kitten's body kept shivering.
The kitten raised its head and looked at him. Li Xu tried to put on a kind smile, but the kitten immediately meowed as if it had seen a ghost and put its head under the tires. Its body was shaking like a sieve.
Li Xu felt like he had been hit hard. He touched his face. Am I that scary?
"Let me do it." Kim Minna pushed Li Xu away and slowly touched the kitten's back. The kitten was still shivering. Kim Minna carefully held the kitten with both hands and took it out from under the tires.
The kitten's body was dirty and thin. It kept shaking in Kim Minna's hands, looking very pitiful.
Kim Minna didn't mind. She held the kitten in her arms. The chest of her black coat was stained with white dust.
The kitten didn't struggle in Jin Minna's arms. It just kept trembling and calling out in a childish voice.
Li Xu took a closer look. The kitten was thin and weak, but its body didn't seem to be injured.
Kim Minna stroked the kitten's thin body and said, "It seems to be very hungry. Go and buy some milk."
"Do you have any common sense? Cats are lactose intolerant, so they can't drink milk. They will have diarrhea. "Li Xu showed off his experience of raising cats.
"Then what should we do? It seems to be very hungry and cold. " Kim Minna was at a loss of what to do. She carefully covered the kitten with her arms, and a panicked look appeared on her face.
"You get in the car first and turn on the air conditioner." Li Xu reminded her.
"Oh!" Kim Minna quickly sat in the car with the kitten and turned on the car's air conditioner.
"I'll go and buy something for it to eat."
Li Xu quickly ran to the entrance of the parking lot. There was a vending machine at the entrance. He bought two cans of coconut milk, one heated and one at room temperature.
He poured out more than half of the heated coconut milk, and then mixed in the room temperature coconut milk. He tested it with his hand. The temperature was about 40 degrees.
"It's coming."
Back in the car, Kim Minna held the kitten and looked at Li Xu eagerly. Li Xu poured a little coconut milk into his hand and held it in front of the kitten.
The kitten stuck its head out and sniffed hard. It carefully stuck out its pink tongue and licked Li Xu's palm. It cried out in a childish voice and started licking happily.
"It's so cute." Looking at the kitten, Kim Minna's heart almost melted.
"Why don't we adopt it?" Li Xu liked cats very much. He had raised one when he was young.
"Can we?" Kim Minna was not sure.
"Of course. Look at it. It's very likely that it was abandoned by someone, or it was lost."
"How do you know? What if it's a stray? "Kim Minna expressed her doubts.
"If it was born a stray, it would be very vigilant. It wouldn't wait for us to get close to it and run away. Also, it didn't have a strong reaction when we touched it. It should be a cat that has been in contact with people. But it's here in such cold weather. There's a high probability that it was abandoned in the parking lot by someone nearby."
"Then what should we do?" Kim Minna was at a loss. She had no experience at all.
"First, we need to go to the hospital to check its body."
"Then you drive. Do you know the pet hospital in Hong University?" Kim Minna poured the coconut juice into the palm of her right hand and held the kitten in her left hand. She took over Li Xu's job.
"Yes. So, we're adopting it?"
"Not us, me."
Li Xu started the car and slowly drove out of the parking lot. The kitten was full. It curled up in Kim Minna's arms and looked around carefully with its big eyes.
Li Xu glanced at the kitten in Kim Minna's arms.
What a lucky guy!
• • • • •
It was almost 11 p.m. when they arrived at a large pet hospital in Hong University. Fortunately, the pet hospital was open 24 hours. Otherwise, the two would have made a wasted trip.
There weren't many customers in the pet hospital at this time. The two took the kitten to register first. After a series of checkups, fortunately, the kitten was healthy and didn't have any diseases except that it was a little thin.
The kitten was about the same age as Li Xu, about two months old. It was a little female cat. After the deworming, the nurse helped to clean up the kitten.
Because the kitten was too small to bathe, its body was dirty. The nurse could only use a special kitten cleaner to wet a towel and clean it little by little along the direction of its fur.
After nearly half an hour, the yellow-and-white little guy finally looked like a new person. Although he was still very thin and looked malnourished, he looked really cute with a strong and dignified look.
Jin Minna had been watching from the side, and all her attention was focused on the kitten.
After confirming that the kitten was healthy and scheduled a vaccination time with the doctor, Li Xu and Kim Minna bought a lot of cat supplies on the first floor of the pet hospital, including a cat bed, cat bag, special cat food, sheep milk powder, and so on.
Carrying a lot of cat supplies, Li Xu looked at Kim Minna who was still holding the kitten and asked tentatively, "How about this? I'll take it back to the dormitory. You're busy with work, right? "
Kim Minna looked at Li Xu vigilantly, "Don't you have to train every day?"
"Our training is very easy. I have time to take care of it."
"No!" Kim Minna flatly refused. She really liked this cute little thing.
"Then can I give it a name?"
"Let's hear it." Kim Minna said that she wanted to decide first.
"How about Big Orange?"
This name is very vivid! It will grow up healthy in the future.
"No."
"Xiao Jin? Look at his fur color, and your surname is Jin. You two are a good match. "
"No." Kim Minna still refused.
"Tire? We picked it up under the tire. "
"That's too old-fashioned."
"Then tell me one." Li Xu was not convinced.
Kim Minna tried hard to think, "Orange."
"As long as you're happy." Li Xu was speechless.
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