Lu Meimei said she wanted to take Maomao home, but she couldn't just leave. She needed to take leave for work, and the journey back also required planning.

"We came out by a long-distance bus, let's take a long-distance bus back together." Lu Meimei rubbed Maomao's ears and said with a smile.

Zhou Hai took the initiative to say, "I'll drive with you back. This way the itinerary is a little free. Aren't we going to prepare for a self-driving tour?"

Lu Meimei said hesitantly: "I was planning to go out for a Golden Week. Now I have to ask for leave, and I don't know how long it will take. My hometown is very poor and there is no place to play."

"It's okay. My colleague and I have already transferred the shift. He was on duty during the holiday, so I told him that there are still many overtime pays during the holiday." Zhou Hai smiled and teased Maomao again, "Maomao, can I go back with you?"

Mao Mao lifted his eyelids and did not answer.

Lu Meimei remembered the feeling of putting Maomao in her down jacket on the day she left her hometown, and she felt warm all the way. Because Maomao was there, she didn't feel lonely even when she was waiting for the drive at the station door.

When she returned to school, she devoted herself to the postgraduate entrance examination review. Whenever she raised her head in the bright lights, she would definitely see Mao Mao lying quietly on the pile of books.

She gradually forgot her hometown, her parents, and her unhappiness.

Later, she met Chi Ai through Mao Mao's serious illness. Chi Ai, who was two years older than her, took great care of her. In addition, Chi Ai was a local, so she provided a cheap rental house for her when she was about to graduate.

Then, through Chi Ai, she met Zhou Hai, was in love for the first time, had someone she liked for the first time, and wanted to introduce someone to Mao Mao for the first time.

Now, are they going back to their hometown together?

Lu Meimei looked at Maomao.

Maomao lay on Lu Meimei's leg and rubbed against the back of her hand.

"Well. Then let's go back together." Lu Meimei smiled and turned her head to look at Zhou Hai, "I don't know if Maomao's previous cat nest is still there. I'll take you to see it then."

"OK."

...

In the dark TV room, the cell phone was lit.

The doctor was not sitting on the lazy sofa, tilting his legs and heading, watching the video on his phone.

The camera hangs over Maomao, photographing it as it bathes in the sunshine and jogs on the stone brick road. Two shadows fall beside it, one man and one woman, standing on the left and right. The background sound is not that kind of vulgar music, but Lu Meimei’s introduction:

"......I used to be a ridge of the field. It was the first time I met Maomao. It didn't know how it landed in the grass here. Then, it went over and was the cat's nest. Its mother was also a gray raccoon flower. Among the brothers and sisters, it was a gray raccoon cat, and the others were either three flowers or white."

Maomao stopped at the edge of the stone brick road, and poked his head to sniff the grass and loess beside him.

"Over there, I used to be either greenhouses or ordinary fields. I forgot what I planted... Maomao can catching birds in it."

Accompanied by this sound, the shadow on the road reached out and pointed to the neat greenhouse in the distance.

Mao Mao straightened his neck and looked over as if he was following the direction of his fingers. After a while, it trotted again "da da da da".

"This forest is still there. Then the hill is the village's earthen grave." Lu Meimei followed Maomao's footsteps. "Maomao used to live in the forest. There was a tree there, and the roots grew on the ground, forming a natural small cave. It set up a nest there. I bought several cat nests for it. Every time I came back from school, I would exchange it for a new one."

On the stone brick road, a middle-aged couple came towards us. They seemed to have met Lu Meimei and Zhou Hai, smiled and greeted: "Young young, are you here to play? We have moved graves in the village for a while, and the farm stay is not open for the time being."

Lu Meimei's shadow stopped.

Maomao also stopped and turned to look over, as if looking at the doctor outside the screen.

The doctor's dark blue eyes narrowed.

The camera narrowed, enlarging Maomao's figure and enlarging the shadow in front of it.

The shadow floated strangely, like a breeze blowing across the ground, without blowing Mao Mao's hair, but it blew its shadow, and it seemed that some changes that could not be captured by the camera were happening on Mao Mao, reflected in its shadow.

"We are here to relocate the grave." Zhou Hai replied on behalf of Lu Meimei.

"Who are you from?" the middle-aged couple asked in confusion.

Outside the picture, Zhou Hai's voice was also: "My girlfriend is Lu Guixiang's granddaughter."

The shadow in the picture floated more violently. The camera moved with it, as if something was flying from Maomao's body, drifting along the wind to Zhou Hai's shadow.

A cloud floated over, and the huge shadow covered the stone brick road.

At this moment, Maomao's shadow expanded, suddenly expanded dozens of times, cracking the huge mouth and biting Zhou Hai's shadow.

"Meow!" Maomao suddenly screamed.

Lu Meimei said, "Maomao is urging us. Let's go."

The camera was pulled away again, and the perspective further than before made Lu Meimei and Zhou Hai appear in the picture.

Zhou Hai nodded to the middle-aged couple, walked side by side with Lu Meimei, and passed by the couple.

The couple turned their heads and looked at their departure backs.

"Why does Lu Guixiang have a granddaughter? What we just met is not..."

"It's the younger one."

"Huh? The little one? That's just..."

Their whispers were left behind by the camera.

In the camera, Zhou Hai wrapped around Lu Meimei's shoulders. Maomao stopped, raised his neck and looked at Lu Meimei.

"Don't you want to ask anything?" Lu Meimei asked in a low voice.

"What are you asking? If you want to say it, just tell me. I'm in love with you, not in love with your hometown." Zhou Hai smiled and said, "I knew your parents had passed away and had no relatives. That's enough. Ah, no!" He suddenly stopped smiling and looked at Maomao on the ground, "I have a little love rival. Is it, Maomao?"

Maomao's tail hooked on Lu Meimei's ankle.

As the clouds float away, its green eyes shine brightly in the sun.

Lu Meimei also lowered her head, looked at Maomao, and said with a smile: "Let's go, Maomao, it's better for you to lead the way."

Maomao looked at Lu Meimei, and his eyes seemed to have swept across Zhou Hai. It let go of Lu Meimei's tail and trotted "dadadadadada".

The doctor's fingers hit the edge of the phone, and the smiling face on the nails turned into a crying face. He looked at the doctor with grievance and let out a low whimper.

The tapping action suddenly stopped.

The doctor turned his head and looked into the darkness.

A faint sound came from the darkness and became louder and louder:

"...It's almost done. Go and invite the doctor to have a meal."

"Give him a lunch box. Don't he refuse to eat with us every time?"

"You go and invite it."

"Okay...ah, have you seen a young man? He is very tall and energetic. He runs a pet shop. It was the monster clinic he introduced to me. He said he had come to the clinic to find a doctor."

"I don't know. I only met the one you introduced. Maybe I didn't notice it in the ward."

"oh."

"Don't change the subject, go and hire a doctor. Really... Are you still having trouble with the doctor? People don't care about it."

"No...I'll go and invite him."

"Go quickly."

The face on the nail moved to the edge of the nail, as if whispering to the ears.

The doctor took off his cell phone.

Footsteps sounded in the dark room, and a door appeared out of thin air.

When the door was opened, the doctor saw the light in the clinic.

...

The village’s grave relocation work was actually started to be carried out a month ago. The graves on the hill were hollowed out, leaving behind messy mounds and pits, as well as abandoned tombstones lying on the ground.

This scene made the gravestone of Lu Guixiang and his wife, which was originally covered with weeds, stand out on the top of the mountain with great striking striking appearance.

The first thing Lu Meimei saw was the grave. After passing through some pits and tombstones, she saw the person squatting in front of the grave.

Zhou Hai glanced at the inscriptions on the tombstone in surprise, looked at the burned paper money in front of the grave and the bucket rag for cleaning the tombstone, and his eyes finally fell on Lu Meimei.

He thought Lu Meimei had no relatives and no family. Why was there anyone in front of her grandparents' tombstone? Is he from the village committee?

Lu Meimei's gaze was a little vague and her expression was dazed. She forgot Zhou Hai beside her and Mao Mao beside her.

Maomao jumped onto two tombstones stacked together, with a tail upright, and a slight arched back. In the green eyes, there was a slit-like pupil. Its tail hair exploded little by little, and a bird's beak that was as sharp as an iron hook stuck out from under the fur.

The man in front of the tombstone seemed to hear the sound of footsteps. After turning his head, he showed the same expression as Lu Meimei.

Zhou Hai looked at the two and found that the two were of different ages, with completely different temperaments, but had the same smile.

"Hello. You belong to Mr. Lu Guixiang..." Zhou Hai took the lead in breaking the silence.

The woman looked at Zhou Hai and stood up slowly. It was probably because she had been squatting for a long time. When she got up, she shook and held the tombstone in front of her before she stood firm.

"I am Lu Guixiang's granddaughter." The woman glanced at Lu Meimei and added, "Big granddaughter."

Lu Meimei woke up from her trance and introduced to Zhou Hai: "This is my... cousin..."

The woman's expression was a little stiff and she did not say hello to the two.

Lu Meimei also became silent and stiff, and did not introduce Zhou Hai to her cousin.

Zhou Hai was very proactive and introduced himself: "Oh, hello. My name is Zhou Hai, and I am Meimei's boyfriend."
To be continued...