I got pregnant after my cat died [Interstellar]

"Ah Li, I heard that there is an extra little guy in your house? Did you buy this for him?"

The bi-monthly market has the freshest fruits and vegetables. In addition, many people will put out the rare things that are not used at home or obtained by accident, and barter or exchange them at an equivalent value. Of course, no one cares about them. possible.

The common currency of this planet is a metal, and the common name is "Yari".However, in real life, it is not widely used. Coins minted privately by different tribes or pure barter exchange are still the main forms of commercial exchanges.

A man named Ah Li stood in front of a certain shop and bought twice the amount of Brad fruit in one go.

The fruit is black on the outside and white on the inside. It is ground into powder and mixed into the soup, which can bring a thicker and thicker taste to the soup.It is inseparable from the local people's soup, but there are very few people who buy so much at one time.

After all, if you can't finish eating, no one can think of a second way to deal with it other than throwing away the hairy fruit.

Hearing the shopkeeper's question, Ah Li nodded not unexpectedly.The other party's hand that was holding the fruit paused, and stared at him with wide eyes:

"Wow, so this is its food? Are you sure? I heard that it is not an animal from our planet. Have you gone to the patriarch to identify the race?"

There was a series of questions without panting, and the fruit was selected at the same time as the questions were finished.The man looked at the shopkeeper's bare chin, and after two seconds of silence, he said:

"Probably, it asked for this yesterday, it should mean that it can be eaten. I haven't gone to the patriarch's place yet, so I'll talk about it when I have time."

His thick hair and beard covered his face, so it was impossible to detect his expression.Probably because the owner's expression was not very satisfied, Ah Li added another sentence:

"The pets are all chosen by myself. Through lottery guessing and competitions, there are a total of more than a dozen. Theoretically, they are all alien creatures, and mine is nothing special."

"But I heard that yours is a pregnant pet!" The shopkeeper finally couldn't hold back.

For the Manganese people like them, whether it is the seven major tribes or other dependent groups, the offspring is a very important and unsolvable problem.

Compared with most known humanoid races in Yumeng, Manganese people belong to a very difficult race to reproduce.Their fertility rate is naturally low, and a manganese who can have more than two offspring can already be named a hero mother by the government.

It's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't.

Fortunately, when God closes a door for you, he often opens a window for you.Maybe it's some kind of compensation. In addition to the low fertility rate of Manganese, the threshold for reproductive isolation is also extremely low——

As long as the genetic difference is not too large to the molecular level, it is possible to mate with them and have offspring.

Although it is called "manganese", this race is undoubtedly a carbon-based life, and the source of the name is only because of the color of the fur.Their descendants will also be manganese, showing at least most of the manganese traits that provided the genes.

There are rumors that their talent is very similar to the legendary "meow star".

Since connecting with Yumeng, although most of them are still guarding their own one-acre three-point land, some alien species have been mixed into this planet to some extent.But it didn't do much to improve their fertility rates or reproductive isolation, including the tradition of keeping "pets" that continued for many years.

Although they are all low, according to some unreliable surveys, the fertility rate of other species seems to be slightly higher than that of the Manganese people.This "score" may be only one or two percentage points, or not even one or two.

Although most Manganese don't care much about who they are as long as they can have children.But apart from the Manganese themselves, the wishes of the subject are obviously also taken into consideration, especially if it (they) are a more threatening species.

So from a long time ago, the habit of raising domestic pets has been inseparable from the reproduction of Manganese people.

However, no matter to what extent the earth's economic level develops, there are still people who will remain single all their lives.What's more, the social form of Manganese Star is far from that step. For many Manganese civilians, raising pets is not less expensive than saving money to marry a wife.

"I didn't intend to find a spouse at first," Ah Li replied dryly. "Now that I have this, I'll buy one and get one free. If you can help me with things in the future, you don't have to worry about what to do if it doesn't get pregnant."

For them, the meaning of offspring is more about survival after aging than the continuation of blood.

The shopkeeper choked.

What the other party said was also true. Given their standard of living, they would definitely not be able to raise two children—not to mention that even if they really wanted to have their own children, whether they could have them would depend on God's will.

Therefore, there are quite a few Manganese people like Ah Li.As long as the pet has basic intelligence, it can always help a little after training.

After the not-so-pleasant conversation ended, Ah Li picked up the weighed goods and walked towards the next destination.

Several tribes nearby knew about what happened on the other side of the canyon not long ago.An alien cargo ship that was caught and intercepted is enough to spark a discussion for a while.

So in the cloth store he frequented, when the ten-year-old daughter of the store manager came to ask him, Ah Li was not surprised.

The little girl had a standard Manganese face, with a pointed chin that made one guess that she would be a beautiful woman in the future, and her black eyes were as bright as obsidian.She jumped onto the counter and sat down, so as to reach eye level with Ah Li, with an unabashedly melancholy expression:

"You said that you don't want to find a partner, you have to wait for me to grow up."

"..." Ah Li was silent for two seconds, and finally said, "I said the first half of the sentence, don't add the second half without authorization."

The girl ignored him: "Is it good-looking? Prettier than me? What kind of female is it? Actually, keeping pets doesn't affect your finding a partner."

"Rosa," the man knew he couldn't let the topic develop, so he put on a serious expression, although no one could see it, "I'm a poor ghost."

Rosa: "..."

"Just like the half-dead trading market of this tribe, a poor man who barely supports himself. I have no money to buy pets, no money to support a wife, and I am doomed to die in the house left by my parents since I was born."

Rosa: "..."

"Your home is in the Sixth Tribe, and your mother's business is such that half the planet has heard her name. Your father is gone, but he gave you the surname Lolda, and you know it belongs to the Sixth Tribe. tribe."

The man sighed, like a—or rather, a parent looking at a young child, who is funny but can't bear to be harsh:

"A lady may notice some poor boy, like your bedtime story, but those gazes are not really for him. I am your friend, maybe an elder, no matter who I am, my pet or my wife , will not be part of our conversation."

Because of the gray hair covering his face, others can only guess his expression at this time through his voice.However, until the end of this passage, Rosa could not guess at all what the other party's expression was.

She can only realize one thing: in Ah Li's eyes, she is a child, completely.

So no matter how sincere it is, even if it is really immature, it is just childish talk.

She really wants to object loudly, and wants to seriously list the advantages of the other party. I already know what I want to say, and your answer is a bit too much for the errand.But she didn't say it in the end, just threw the fabric he asked for, jumped off the counter and ran away.

"I'm giving you trouble."

The mature woman's voice was subtly similar to Rosa's, speaking beside Ah Li.The man turned his head while clutching the fabric, and saw an unmistakably beautiful face.

Sissy Lolda, Rosa's mother, stood there, smiling apologetically.She also doesn't seem to have much to do but apologize for her daughter's crush that has lasted more than a year.

It seems a little funny to take this situation too seriously.

Ah Li didn't take this matter to heart either. After confirming that the item was what he wanted, he took out a small piece of metal.

"Wait, without paying," the woman said, "can you tell me about your pet?"

The author has something to say: This should be the first time I have made a full-scale character design, described it through an almost complete onlooker's perspective, and then used the characters to promote the development of the story, and then further dig out the character.

The attack and subject setting in the text is what I think is true. As for the temporary inconsistency with the current situation, of course it is because both sides are still wearing a disguise.