"Ah, where did you say just now?" Lu Meimei put down her phone, turned to ask Sheng Yao with a smile.

Sheng Yao's gaze deflected, and when he went to see Maomao again, he saw that Maomao had returned to its original state.

The round cat head leaned against Lu Meimei's shoulder, her eyes closed and her mouth closed, as if she was falling asleep.

"It's all right when it comes to Maomao." Zhou Hai replied, reaching out to touch Maomao's tail.

His fingers paused slightly, and his fingertips touched the scar under the gray hair.

Lu Meimei smiled and said, "Is there any? I didn't lie to you. It's really Maomao."

Zhou Hai was a little embarrassed, "This is too amazing. Rejuvenation... Ah, no, it is not right to say that rejuvenation is not right. It has been seven years since now? It was sick when you first entered graduate school, right?"

"Yes, it's been seven years."

"How old is Maomao now? Ten years old?"

"Nineteen years old." Lu Meimei touched Maomao and said gently.

Zhou Hai was surprised, "Nineteen years old? The lifespan of a cat is usually only more than ten years, right?"

"Well. But we Maomao is still the little prince, not the old man." Lu Meimei smiled.

Sheng Yao was silent.

He believed that what Lu Meimei said was true. The one who ran back then must be the sick cat. Now Maomao's old and healthy body must be due to the doctor's treatment.

The syringe image he had seen twice appeared in Sheng Yao's mind.

Maomao was also injected with that kind of injection.

He stared at Maomao's cat face, unable to see its emotions and thoughts.

Lu Meimei didn't seem to know about the Monster Clinic and the doctor. Did Maomao run to the Monster Clinic and receive treatment? In this way, how should he inquire about the Monster Clinic? Maomao can't speak... Does Maomao really can't speak?

Sheng Yao's heart was pounding.

Cats can't speak human language. However, Maomao is not an ordinary cat. He was injected with a monster clinic injection by a doctor and had a terrifying mutant reaction on his body. It's not surprising that he suddenly spoke human language, right? Even if he can't speak, he might be able to understand human language like a smart dog in a pet video, and then make the corresponding "yes\\no" answer. Is this also possible?

In this way, if he wants to communicate with Maomao like this, he must first get the opportunity to be alone and help Lu Meimei.

Sheng Yao thought about it.

The cell phone ringing rings again.

This time it was a short notification ringtone.

Lu Meimei took her cell phone and opened the newly received text message, and was stunned for a moment.

"Who sent the message?" Zhou Hai said with concern.

Lu Meimei did not answer. She suddenly picked up Maomao and looked at it.

Maomao opened his eyes, and Lu Meimei reflected in his green eyes. It lowered its head, looked at the phone that was thrown on his legs by Lu Meimei, and then looked up at Lu Meimei.

Lu Meimei opened her mouth, pursed her lips, and put Maomao down.

"Well, sorry, I suddenly had something to do." Lu Meimei looked at Sheng Yao and said apologetically, "I have been talking about Maomao before... Are you trying to inquire about the Pegasus Pet Hospital and the problem of raising stray cats? Let's add a friend first and then talk later."

Sheng Yao nodded with a smile, "Okay."

He took out a new phone and added a friend to Lu Meimei. The phone was new, and the phone card and the account he applied for were naturally new. The account was not bound to an ID card, the avatar was the default picture, and the nickname was the pinyin of the surname.

Lu Meimei didn't care about these things. After adding friends, she got up to see the guests off.

After seeing Sheng Yao off and closing the door, the smile on Lu Meimei's face disappeared.

"Who sent the message just now? What happened?" Zhou Hai asked with a frown.

"It was a message from my hometown." Lu Meimei rubbed her forehead and looked at Maomao on the sofa.

Maomao lay on the sofa, looking at her with green eyes.

"Hometown...you are here..." Zhou Hai asked cautiously.

"My hometown is in the countryside. I haven't been back in nine years." Lu Meimei sat down beside Maomao, and habitually stroked Maomao's head. "I have been calling before, and the village party secretary of my hometown is going to be renovated and moved to the grave, and I want me to go back."

"Is there no one in your hometown?" Zhou Hai sat down with Lu Meimei and hugged her shoulders.

Lu Meimei's eyes were a little blank, "The village party secretary said that my uncle died more than six years ago. If I don't go back, my grandfather's grave will be moved into the collective cemetery. They died early, and they were buried. This time, the grave was moved to cremation before being buried. He hoped that I could go back and deal with all these things."

Lu Meimei still remembers the earthen tomb in her hometown.

The villagers were buried on a hill. When they were buried, the whole village would carry a coffin and see it off together, and then have dinner together after returning to the village. Although some people would cry and invite monks to chant scriptures, the overall atmosphere was lively, as if it was a festival.

This is Lu Meimei's memory. After all, she is young and has only met two funerals in her hometown in those years. The two people died were all over the age of 80, and they were all funerals, so the atmosphere was naturally a bit relaxed and cheerful.

On the Qingming Festival, the atmosphere was particularly depressing during the Winter Solstice. The uncle always had a stern face and would lose his temper inexplicably and take his anger on her. The uncle and aunt would pay tribute to her, who had never been masked, clean up weeds for their graves, kowtowed in front of the graves, burn paper, but didn't even look at the graves of her parents.

For the first few years, she didn't know that her parents' urn was buried under the deserted grave. Later, when she went to school, recognized the words, and knew that the tombstone was engraved with her parents' names, she imitated her uncle and aunt, kowtowed in front of the grave, burned paper, and used her tender little hands to pull out the weeds that covered the tombstone, and she pulled out the blood in her palms.

When the uncle saw this, he got angry and dragged her to the tombstone of his grandparents, punished her to kneel and refused to care about her parents' graves. She later secretly went up the mountain to clear the graves. During the second year of worship, the uncle discovered this and scolded her again, forcing her to kneel in front of the tombstone of his grandparents for a long time. In the end, the old branch secretary, Grandpa Sun, couldn't see it, stopped her uncle and pulled her up.

She has a stubborn temper and still secretly clears her parents' graves. Her uncle can only use "filial piety" as an excuse to make her kneel for about ten minutes, and then she was taken away by Grandpa Sun.

The two of them barely said to be "settled".

Until she returned to her hometown for the New Year in her junior year, at the dinner table, my aunt asked about her graduation job. My aunt rarely cared about her situation. She replied that she was preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination and had already started to review.

As soon as the words came to an end, the quarrel broke out.

...

My aunt shouted sharply and harshly: "...graduate student? Where do you get the money to study for graduate school? You still have to eat ours, drink ours, and use ours!"

Lu Meimei replied with confidence: "I have applied for subsidies and exemptions since I was a child, and I didn't spend a penny on tuition. I started working in high school and saved money. I can pay for the tuition for graduate students myself."

"Do you need to eat? Don't you need to spend money on clothes and pencils? You have no conscience! You didn't raise us?" My aunt looked ferocious, and her fingers were about to poke Lu Meimei's face. "You hid the money secretly, and didn't know how to take it out for home use?"

Lu Meimei slapped the hand open and replied without showing any weakness: "You provide me with food and drink, have you taken away all the money from my parents?"

My aunt opened her mouth wide and couldn't speak for a moment.

My cousin shouted, "What are you talking nonsense!"

Lu Meimei sneered, "You think I don't remember it? I remember my home when I was a child!"

She is no longer the child who could only hide outside and secretly shed tears after being bullied.

Her grades have always been very good. She started working with her tutor in her sophomore year, and her current postgraduate entrance examination review is also very smooth. Next, as long as she studies step by step and graduates, she can find a job in the city where she is located in the university and settle down. She slowly separates from her uncle and aunt's family and becomes a distant relative who will meet during festivals.

In fact, she did this after she went to college.

She had no feelings for her uncle's family, and her only friend in the village was a gray tabby cat. She was waiting for graduation to move out of the dormitory and take it away.

The only person in the village who deserves her concern is Grandpa Sun. Grandpa Sun always calls to care about her. Grandpa Sun helps to go to school and study. She also gives her new schoolbags and new clothes, and stuffs her pocket money. She wants to wish Grandpa Sun a New Year, but she doesn't want Grandpa Sun to make things difficult for her.

If it weren't for this, she wouldn't have come back at all if it weren't for visiting the cat.

During the day, she had already visited the cat, fed it, and prepared a new cat's nest. After the New Year's Eve dinner, she was going to visit Grandpa Sun's house as usual. The train tickets were bought for tomorrow morning. She didn't plan to stay here for a long time.

As for her parents' inheritance, she had already given up. After all, it was too long since she remembered the scene where she lived in the city when she was a child. Her father drove a motorcycle and her mother hugged her in the back seat. She had forgotten her parents' appearance. Her uncle and aunt did not leave anything behind her parents.

Bang!

The dining table was suddenly overturned and the bowls and chopsticks were spilled all over the floor.

Lu Meimei looked at her uncle in surprise and saw the red eyes bulging from her thin face.

My uncle's eyes were turbid, as if he had drunk too much wine, but there were no wine bottles or wine glasses on the dinner table tonight.

He roared angrily: "Working? What job do you do? The work is enough for you to spend? It is enough for you to study for graduate school? Where did you get the money? Did you steal it? Did you steal the money?!"

"I don't! I will tutor for others when I enter university..." Lu Meimei defended.

"It's all lies! You're lying! It's just the stolen money! After stealing money, you're secretly hiding it outside, use it outside, right?! You're pretending to be poor when you get home! You're just a little liar! Just like your mother!" Uncle cursed angrily, blurting out his swear words.

Lu Meimei blushed and jumped up, cursing her uncle, but she couldn't deal with her uncle's swear words.

"...I tell you! Don't even think about it! You will come back to work after graduation! Work in the village! Uncle Sun agreed and arrange a position for you! You take the civil servant exam and do things well for the village! If Uncle Sun hadn't spoken back then and asked me to take you kindly, I would have smashed you to death long ago!"

"I won't come back! I won't come back!" Lu Meimei roared angrily, feeling that she recalled many things about Grandpa Sun in an instant. Her eyes became hot, but she gritted her teeth and couldn't hold back her tears.

The uncle waved his hand to beat him, but was pushed away by Lu Meimei.

Lu Meimei looked at her uncle who was stumbled and fell to the ground, and listening to the screams of her aunt and cousin, she suddenly realized that the uncle who was so scared when she was a child was now just a thin old man.

He had no way to hit her again, nor could he force her to do anything.

The uncle collapsed on the ground and panted and said fiercely: "When you are leaving, I will dig up your parents' grave and throw them out!"

"You dare!"

The uncle was like a lion who was completely angry. He rushed out to get the shovel and ran towards the top of the mountain.

Lu Meimei wanted to stop her, but she was pulled by her aunt and cousin.

They screamed and cursed, attracting the villagers all the way and chasing them to the top of the mountain.

Lu Meimei still remembers the persuasion of the villagers and neighbors around her. They were all urging her to make her feel at ease and not to make her uncle angry.

Why are they all helping their uncle? Just because her parents died early, are they an orphan?

This was the case before. Children of the same age in the village played with their cousin and squeezed them out. The adults in the village gave their children something, but when they arrived, they were obviously worse than others.
To be continued...