Zhang Zian got up too early, and the first rays of dawn had just appeared in the eastern sky. Looking out from the window of the living room on the second floor, there were only a few houses with lights on. Zhang Zian didn't know whether they got up early for work, came home late after their night shift, or were reading by candlelight.
Xinghai squatted in the dim light coming in from the window, and carefully put down its paw. Its silver-gray eyes reflected the few bright stars in the sky.
"Meow, Richard is not teaching them to talk," it said.
"Not teaching them to talk?" Zhang Zian didn't understand. Richard was an Apprehensive Bird, and all its abilities were in its mouth. If it wasn't teaching them to talk, what else could it do?
Xinghai shook its head, and then nodded, "Yes, and no."
"Meow, Xinghai doesn't understand, and I can't explain it clearly. But Richard needs Zian's help, and it needs the help of a doctor," it said awkwardly.
"Doctor?" Zhang Zian was surprised. Xinghai only knew one doctor, right?
"The one who often comes to the store, Sun Xiaomeng?" he confirmed with Xinghai.
Xinghai nodded hard, "Meow, the doctor in white."
"I see..." Zhang Zian still didn't understand, but he made a mental note of it. He didn't ask further, because if he knew too much, he would be afraid of the future. For example, if you knew in advance that you would cross the threshold with your left foot, and when you walked to the threshold, you would carefully calculate your steps to make sure that the future would not change — it was too tiring to live like this.
He knew that Richard needed help, not only from him, but also from Sun Xiaomeng. That was enough.
And he also knew that Richard was not satisfied with just teaching the red-headed lovebirds to talk, but was secretly preparing to make a big news, so it was better for him to pretend that he didn't know anything.
Sun Xiaomeng... It seemed that since Guo Dongyue mentioned parrot fever and pigeon breeder's lung, Sun Xiaomeng had been involved in this matter.
"Meow, that's it," Xinghai said.
"Okay, I got it. Go play, Xinghai." Zhang Zian suddenly said with a smirk, "Do you want me to tell you where the cat is hiding?"
"Meow! Meow! Xinghai, don't listen! Zian always cheats! "Xinghai lied on the ground, closed its eyes, and covered its ears with its paws.
"Alright, I won't say anymore." Zhang Zian touched his nose dejectedly. When did he give Xinghai the impression that he was always acting shamelessly? He hadn't cheated many times in total … Peeking a few times during hide-and-seek, how could that be called cheating? Of course not!
"Meow." Xinghai opened one eye to make sure that Zhang Zian didn't say anything, and then quickly ran out of the living room.
Zhang Zian changed into his sportswear and practiced boxing in the living room for a while. He didn't stop until he was drenched in sweat.
He quickly took a shower, dried his hair, changed out of yesterday's clothes, and threw them into the washing machine before going downstairs again.
Fina opened its eyes. He didn't wait for it to urge him and said, "I know. I'll get your breakfast later."
Xinghai and the American Shorthair were still chasing each other upstairs and downstairs. Snowy Lionet was lying on the lower level of the cat tree, admiring Fina's tail. After a night, the water in the press-type teapot was probably getting cold. He planned to boil another pot of water for Old Time Tea later.
"Zian." Old Time Tea waved its paw at him.
"Grandpa Tea, what's up?" He quickly walked over.
Old Time Tea stroked its whiskers with its paw, looked at Richard and said, "Zian, have you heard of the story of 'Cock Crow and Dog Thief'?"
Zhang Zian thought for a moment, "I think it's a story about a rich family in ancient times who had a bunch of henchmen. One of them could crow like a cock, and the other was good at digging dog holes to steal things?"
"Haha, exactly." Old Time Tea nodded happily, "But we'll change it to 'Cat Thief' here."
Zhang Zian was stunned, "Grandpa Tea, I don't understand …"
Old Time Tea laughed and pointed its paw at Richard in the birdcage, "Cock Crow."
It moved its paw and pointed at Snowy Lionet, "Cat Thief."
Zhang Zian suddenly understood and pointed at his own nose, "Rich family?"
If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have mentioned the word "rich family". Now he was digging a hole for himself to jump into!
"Ahem, well …" Old Time Tea coughed a few times and then said seriously, "Cock Crow and Dog Thief are derogatory in the future, but there is no difference in ability. If Lord Mengchang didn't have the help of Cock Crow and Dog Thief, he would have died a long time ago. "
Zhang Zian understood that Old Time Tea was reminding him not to look down on Richard and Snowy Lionet, because he might need their special skills in the future.
"Got it, Grandpa Tea." He listened to the instruction respectfully.
The Navigation Elf had told him that the level of an elfin only represented the strength of its Strength of Faith. However, there were specializations in different fields, and a high-level elfin might not be stronger than a low-level one. When the Apprehensive Bird appeared on the radar, Zhang Zian did look down on it. He thought it was just a low-level elfin, and it didn't matter even if he didn't catch it. However, what he had experienced in the past few days made him feel lucky that he caught the Apprehensive Bird. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to help Guo Dongyue.
Old Time Tea was always like a wise elder, giving him advice at the right time.
Zhang Zian already knew that Richard was good at helping people, but Snowy Lionet …
Fina was napping on the top of the cat tree, and its tail was swaying as it breathed. Snowy Lionet stared at the tip of Fina's tail, and licked its tongue from time to time, as if it was trying to suppress its desire to hug and kiss Fina.
Zhang Zian thought that with Fina here, Snowy Lionet would be useless. It was good at stealing, and he couldn't let it do bad things, could he? Besides stealing, what else could Snowy Lionet do?
Well, he decided not to think about it, and let nature take its course.
Lord Mengchang could raise a lot of guests, so Zhang Zian could afford to raise a few pets. Even if Snowy Lionet could do nothing but act cute, he wouldn't treat it differently … The problem was that Snowy Lionet always treated him differently, and always called him a stinky man …
"Stinky man! What are you looking at? I will castrate you if you keep looking! " Snowy Lionet noticed his gaze, and turned its head to glare at him, showing its claws to threaten him.
Zhang Zian smiled mysteriously, and said to it, "Don't you feel that there is a strange taste in your mouth?"
"Strange taste?" Snowy Lionet closed its mouth and carefully felt the taste on its tongue, and then its face changed.
"Bah, bah, bah! What is this smell! "Snowy Lionet was so disgusted that its face scrunched up," What did you do when I was asleep? "
"I didn't do anything. To tell you the truth, you licked a blanket in your dream this morning. "
"Fur … blanket …" Snowy Lionet smacked its lips, and there was indeed some fine fur hanging on the barbs on its tongue, and judging from the taste, it was not the fur of its own species, but the bitterness of artificial fabrics.
"You bastard, how dare you not wake me up! I will make you pay later!" It didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly jumped down from the cat tree, and dived into the basin to rinse its mouth.
In the birdcage, Richard and the two red-headed lovebirds were silent.
Little Purple and Yellow Pea Cake stared at him cautiously, and found that he was not a threat, so they combed each other's feathers with their beaks.
Richard suddenly spread its wings, and said in its original voice, "Gray, I am Gray."
Little Purple and Yellow Pea Cake stared at it for a while, and said in a hoarse voice that could barely be distinguished, "Gray …"
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