Qinghong

After agreeing to Ning Hong's request to raise a cat, I had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​going back to the office and continuing to write my thesis. I walked out of the campus with him, and went to a pet hospital to give Ivan a full body checkup.

"It's pretty healthy. Take a bath, clean the ear mites, do a deworming, and go back and observe for a few days." The female doctor rubbed the cat's head, "It's quite fat."

Ivan lay on his stomach obediently, with the tip of his tail curled up, turning his head to look at me from time to time, his watery blue-green pupils were big and round.

"What's his name?" asked the doctor.

"Vladimir..." Before I could finish my sentence, Ning Hong snatched me away: "Ivan, his name is Ivan."

I smothered a smile and said, "You clearly mentioned my name before."

"Teacher Zou." He said helplessly, "Please forgive me."

"Handsome young man." The doctor picked up Ivan, "Let's take a shower."

Ning Hong and I watched the doctor leave, looked at each other, and he said, "I'm going to buy ice cream, what flavor do you like?"

"Peach." I said.

"Okay." He agreed and walked out of the pet hospital.

I looked around, it was a weekday afternoon, there were no customers, there was a row of cabinets against the wall, and there were a few kittens lying in twos and threes inside.A little chubby cat with golden fur cocked its tail and called to me: "Meow——"

It has the momentum of a roaring milk tiger.

I smiled knowingly, walked to the glass cabinet, bent down and stared at the little yellow cat.

"Meow————" the kitten lowered its head timidly, its voice gradually disappeared, and it squatted down cowardly, wrapping its tail around itself, like a ball of wool the size of a palm.

I love small, fuzzy animals, but never thought of owning one.Ning Qing mentioned once in a while: "It may rain in a while, let's take Ivanov back."

I found a cardboard box nearby, and led the cat to the door of the teaching building. Ning Qing, the white cat with different pupils, and I stood under the eaves, watching the rain drift down obliquely.Ning Qing stared at me for a while and said, "Lan Sheng, you are so slow."

"Really?" I shrugged, "I thought I was pretty cheerful."

"Cheerful and slow are not in conflict." Ning Qing said.

I turned my head to look at him, and Ning Qing raised his head, as if he was looking at the blue magpie standing on the treetop in the distance: "Are you young?"

"Yes." I said, "I haven't contacted you for a long time."

"Why didn't you contact me?" He retracted his gaze and turned back to me.

"I'm not in a city, and I haven't been back to my hometown for two or three years." I said, "Strangeness is inevitable."

"Me too." He laughed, and the dimples on his cheeks were faintly visible. "In our profession, what we hope most is that something happens, and someone remembers us."

"What nonsense, nothing will happen." I said.

"Life and death are life and death." He said with a deep expression.

"Okay, okay." I compromised, "I will remember you."

He smiled triumphantly: "Okay."

"Here comes the ice cream." A hand patted my shoulder, "Want this little fur ball?"

"I'll just take a look." Suddenly my memory came back to reality, and I looked at Ning Hong, who looked a lot like Ning Qing, "Where's the ice cream?"

"I'm done." He put one hand behind his back and licked his lips deliberately, "It's delicious."

I sighed, too lazy to play childish tricks with him: "Bring it."

He stretched out his hand hidden behind his back, holding a Haagen-Dazs box with two peach ice cream balls in it: "Here."

I frowned: "Why buy such an expensive one?"

"I want to eat." He said, and handed me a wooden spoon, "It's not too expensive."

Forty or fifty for two ice cream scoops. I think my consumption level is average, so I can’t say I’m struggling, but spending four or fifty to eat two ice cream scoops is a bit extravagant.

Ning Hong took a bite of ice cream with a spoon and put it in his mouth, narrowed his eyes and nodded: "Not bad."

"You don't go to work today, Thursday?" I asked.

"Rest," he said.

"What do you do?" I thought in my mind, resting on weekdays means that his work is of a downtime nature. Seeing that he spends money lavishly and doesn't care about the price, his income is not low.

"Airport." He said, "Hurry up and eat, it will melt in a while."

After eating the ice cream in silence, I threw the carton and two wooden spoons into the trash can and sat in a chair to wait for the doctor.

"Teacher Zou." Ning Hong was dishonest again, "Where are you from?"

"Nowhere, why are you asking so much?" I said, I was tired of people asking about my affairs, especially after I found out that the news between Ning Qing and me was extremely unequal, I had little affection for Ning Hong.When I saw Ning Hong's face, I thought of Ning Qing, and when I thought of those bad things, I couldn't help but speak out against Ning Hong.

"..." He glanced at me awkwardly and said, "Oh."

Well, I scolded myself in my heart, a soft heart is a disease, I said impatiently: "Xi'an."

"Your noodles are delicious," he said.

I asked, "Where are you from?"

"I..." He stammered, "When I was young, I often moved, so I don't know what kind of person I am."

"Oh." I've heard Ning Qing say this before. They only think that their family is doing business, and people leave with the store. "Have you lived in Tianjin for a long time?"

"Seven years." He said, "I like Tianjin very much."

I also like Tianjin very much. It has a strong atmosphere of life and a slow pace. It has a unique temperament that is completely different from the first-tier cities.Teahouse, teahouse, comic dialogue, Ning Qing and I often go for a walk in the park, watch the old men play chess, chat a few words, leisurely.

The Western-style concession buildings on both sides of the Haihe River and the well-arranged small western-style buildings have a unique style.

"You have been in Tianjin for so long, can you speak Tianjin dialect?" I asked.

"Why is it called Tianjin dialect?" He learned it decently, "I know this, but I haven't learned anything else, how about you?"

"I know one more, so it's over." I raised my voice, "There's one more, it's all about me."

"Hahahahahahaha Teacher Zou." He laughed so hard, "Who did you learn from?"

"A teacher in my office, surnamed Kang, from Tianjin, always ends with the same sentence when he lectures to his students," I said, "Maybe it's over."

The atmosphere was a little more relaxed and happy, the female doctor hugged the white cat and lifted the curtain: "Look at the handsome boy."

The white cat with different pupils has just been bathed, its hair is fluffy, and it carefully touches my finger with its paw: "Meow..."

I held the white cat's creaking nest with both hands and brought it to my arms. The cat flapped its hind legs twice, its front paws wrapped around my neck, and the short fur rubbed against me a little itchy.

"He's so good, he doesn't make a fuss in the bath, and he's not afraid of picking his ears," said the female doctor.

"I saw that many pet owners said on the Internet that they need to be neutered?" Ning Hong asked.

The female doctor nodded: "Yes, I suggest you take it back to raise it for a while, and choose to neuter it if there is no stress response, otherwise the cat will be scared and get sick easily."

"Okay," I said, "thank you."

"Do you have any recommendations for cat food, cat toys, and cat litter?" Ning Hong asked, "We are newbies and just adopted Ivan."

"Adopted?" the female doctor said, "Then I'll give you a [-]% discount, and you can choose from the shelf next to the door."

"This flight case is very good." Ning Hong picked up the small red and blue case, snapped the buckle, and opened the case from above. "Put Ivan in first to prevent him from running around."

I put Ivan down as I said, and the white cat sat in the box and watched us with its round head.

Ning Hong chose a lot of things for cats on a whim, including four bags of cat food, three bags of freeze-dried food, thirty cans, five bags of cat litter, probiotic hair cream, combing brush, nail clippers, insect repellent, and teething stick for cats. Polygonum menthol...

I watched him shop around like a squirrel hoarding nuts, and I couldn't help but say, "Enough is enough."

"Cat scratching post, toothbrush, toothpaste, shower gel..." He seemed to have never heard of it, "cat teaser, deodorant..."

I turned my head and asked the doctor, "How much are these?"

"Currently... two thousand and eight," said the doctor.

I took out my phone and opened the payment page: "Pay these first."

"You don't need me to do it, I will do it." Ning Hong rushed to my side, grabbed my mobile phone, scanned the QR code and added Alipay as a friend, "It's agreed, I will be responsible for Ivan's expenses, and I will use it for transfer after adding friends."

"...Isn't that just a joke?" I said.

"Do you think I'm joking?" With a serious expression on his face, he picked up his phone and said to the doctor, "I'll pay."

"You two have such a good relationship." The female doctor said, scanning the QR code to collect the money, "I will give you ten feather cat teasers. Cats like these gadgets."

"Thank you." I said, "Can I add a WeChat account? I will find you for sterilization later."

"Okay, my surname is Cai, Cai Yixue." The female doctor said.

"My surname is Zou, Zou Lansheng." I added Dr. Cai's WeChat account, and noted my name, "I'm a teacher of Tianjin University."

"Ivan is a stray cat from Tianjin University?" Dr. Cai said, "Great, it has found a home."

"Lansheng." Ning Hong said, "Let's go."

I froze for a moment and said, "Okay." Ning Hong never called me by my name. Teacher Zou came to Teacher Zou and called me by my name abruptly, which seemed too intimate.

I lifted the flight case, and Ning Hong said, "I took a taxi and put my stuff in the trunk."

"It's not far away. My house is going straight to the left and the community at an intersection." I said.

"There are too many things, I can't carry them." Ning Hong ran around a few times, stuffing the trunk of the taxi.

I picked up the flight case, which contained a cat, got into the back seat of the taxi, and announced the name of the community: "Qingliuyuan."

The taxi driver asked, "Where is Qingliu Garden 500 meters ahead?"

"Well." I said.

Ning Hong opened the car door and sat next to me: "The move is over."

"Good guy, call a car for such a few steps." The driver started the car, "Use my car as a bicycle."

"Isn't it?" Ning Hong said poorly, "It's a good deal to earn a starting price with one kick of the gas pedal."

"Very good, next time you want to go to the other side of the road, call me." The driver said, "I will perform a drift U-turn for you for free."

In less than a few words, when we arrived at the gate of the community, the driver asked, "What building is it? I'll send you to the gate of the unit."

"Building No. [-]." I said, "Go straight in and turn right at the third building, Unit [-]."

"Okay." The driver said.

We moved our things upstairs, put the cat litter in the open space at the foot of the sofa, put the litter box on the balcony, and put a lot of cat nutrition neatly on the table of the TV cabinet.

Ning Hong straightened up, clapped his hands, and said to the white cat: "Okay, come and see if you are satisfied?"

The white cat squatting in the flight box stepped on the solid floor with one leg, lowered its head and sniffed the ground.

I washed my hands and opened the refrigerator door: "It's getting late, do you want to stay for dinner?"

"Okay." He readily agreed, without thinking for a moment.

I stared at him blankly for a while, thinking that I shouldn't be so polite, why I don't have a long memory.