Whispering Poems.

Chapter 26 The Sun Cat and the Light

"Of course not, Detective, you can't just be suspicious. But that damn cat."

The man inside the door gritted his teeth and said, as if the cat ate all his belongings, and his expression was distorted:
"Get that cat away, I'll never help take care of any orange cats again."

"Okay, where's that cat?"

Shade asked, he didn't like cats very much, but for the generous commission fee, he would not object even if he walked through the streets with the cat in his arms.

"On the roof."

The man pointed upwards, and the expression of gnashing his teeth became stronger:
"Since the detective came to foster care, this cat won't let anyone touch it easily. It scratched my wife and Miss Cindy at least twice. It doesn't eat cheap cat food, and it keeps bullying other pets here. In all the years I've run this place, I've never seen such an aggressive half-year-old kitten. At this time, it must be sunning on it! Get it away, I can't take it anymore."

Shade pretended not to hear the man's complaint, stepped back slightly from the door, and then looked up at the three-story building:
"How do you want me to climb to the top of the building?"

"In the yard of this house, there is an escalator to climb from the first floor to the top. I won't go, I don't want to see that cat again!"

Of course Shade didn't want to climb so high, but he took safety very seriously.Just trying to convince the big-nosed middle-aged man, the latter directly stuffed him a 1 shilling note:
"Detective Hamilton gave me 1 shilling and 10 pence to take care of him for two months. Now that shilling back to you, get him away! Never let that cat in this alley again!"

The sound was so hysterical that the children chasing and playing on the street and the woman leaning out of the building opposite to hang clothes looked over.

It was hard to imagine how much psychological damage the orange cat had done to him.

Follow the middle-aged man through the house to a backyard full of empty pet cages.The middle-aged man was holding on to the long metal ladder, while Xia De cautiously climbed to the top of the building.

The top of the building is full of garbage and sundries, and I don't know how these things are transported up when they can only be reached by ladders.On the southeast corner of the roof, the only piece of clean ground, Shade saw the cat lying lazily on the metal pipe facing the summer morning sun.

It was indeed a young kitten, whose body was as soft as a puddle of water paralyzed on the pipe.It's not very big, it can even be said to be a little thin.The color of the fur shimmers slightly in the sun shining through the mist, which is a sign of health.

However, rather than an orange cat, it looks more like a white cat in a warm orange blanket.It was only when the cat stood up that Shade realized that the even dazzling orange layer was really the color of cat fur.

The cat was standing on a discarded metal pipe on the roof, with one end of the pipe resting on the broken sofa cushion, so that the cat's position was slightly higher than other surrounding objects.

It stood up and turned its back to the morning sun, its amber eyes turned to Shade, and it looked at the stranger vigilantly.Xia De has no experience in dealing with such animals, and because of the words of the middle-aged man with a big nose, he is a little worried that the orange cat will rush over.

But this orange cat, called "Mia" just like its owner, doesn't look very fierce.It was observing Xia De, and Xia De also knew that he was being observed, so he tried his best to be friendly, and kept reminding himself of the value of this cat:
"I will take you to meet your master, Miss Mia San Gold."

He found a place to stay in the waste, squatted down and clapped his hands, a deliberate smile appeared on his face, and as expected, this suspicious appearance did not get a response from the cat.

"Miss Mia Gold."

It was the most standard "Common Language of Humans in the Northern Kingdom" just now, that is, Delarion.This time, it's a sentence with a native Tobesque accent. This is what Shade has learned in the past two days:
"I'll take you to your master, Miss Mia Gold."

The orange cat's small ears swayed a bit, raised its right front paw to lick it, put it down and continued to stare at Xia De.

Xia De pursed his lips, looked around, confirmed that there were no taller buildings nearby, and then stretched out the index finger of his right hand:

"look."

The silver light on the index finger lit up, and the orange cat's amber eyes immediately widened. It opened its mouth slightly and stood on the rusted metal pipe, with a quivering beard, and slightly stretched out its head to look at the light:

"Miss Mia Gold."

Shade continued, then slowly approached the orange cat.Slowly stretched out his left hand, suppressed his worries about "wild animals", and gently picked it up with one hand.

Orange cats are not heavy, at least not now.

The cat was still tilting its head to look at the fingers of Shade's right hand, but after the light of the fingers went out, it did not escape from Shade's arms.It leaned back against Xia De's chest, swiped its two small claws with appropriate force, and fiddled with Xia De's glowing fingers, as if he was very interested in the "new toy".

"very good."

The detective breathed a long sigh of relief and stood up to leave.And the young orange cat Mia just squirmed uncomfortably, but didn't struggle too much.

"I'm not fierce at all, and I'm even very good. It seems that I am also a person who can make other animals have a good impression."

Xia De thought happily, and at this time, he saw something lying under the pipe where the orange cat was lying on his back.So he hugged the cat in one hand, bent down and picked it up with his right hand, only to see that it was an old box of Rhodes cards.

When using Rhodes cards, you must have a full set of 54 cards before you can use them. If there are special cards, you can replace them according to suits and card numbers, because all Rhodes cards have the same pattern on the back.

The box in front of him is not a special Rhodes card. It is similar to the one used by the three men that Shade saw in the tavern. The pattern on the card surface is extremely simple, and a box can be bought for about a few dozen pence.

Seeing that it wasn't anything important, he put it in his pocket.Then, holding the cat in one hand, he carefully climbed back to the yard along the ladder.

"I got an old Rhodes card on the roof, how much do I need to give you?"

The old deck looked like garbage, but Shad didn't forget to say it.This old card was worthless, and Xia De put it into his pocket just because he wanted to make up a whole deck of cards with that [Founding Silver Moon].

And the middle-aged man with the big nose almost cried in front of Xia De when he saw that Xia De was really going to take the cat away.As for the garbage on the roof, he didn't care at all.

After that, he left Purple Iris Lane, but Xia De did not walk around with other people's cats, but went straight to the house of that Miss Gothe.During the period, the orange cat Mia, except for the sound of "purring" at the beginning, only continued to use her claws to pick up Xade's sleeves and the clothes on her chest, but did not try to escape from his arms.

Since Miss Gothe is willing to pay such a high price to find her own cat, she must not be poor.She lives in a quiet residential block in the south of the city, "Shandru Street", where each household has its own small garden, and the fence gates are marked with their own nameplates.

(End of this chapter)