"Is Miss Betty here?"

"No, Miss Betty is a volunteer and will come only when she has time."

Holding Ron, James leaned into the pet hospital and looked around but didn't see Betty, so he stopped a staff member of the pet hospital and asked.

"Can you tell me where she lives?"

"have no idea."

However, after the staff of the pet hospital glanced at James, they immediately refused to disclose Betty's news expression expression expressionlessly.

In his opinion, James, who was thin and decadent, was definitely a bad idea when he saw this.

"Thank you~"

"Please tell Betty that James wants to pay back the money, but she is not here."

“I’ll come again next time ~”

With a wry smile, James said to the staff, then walked out of the pet hospital and returned to the cement pipe in the small park - this day, compared to other times, James and Ron were very full, and James made an exception to buy himself a cup of coffee, which fulfilled his wish to eat burgers and drink coffee.

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In the following days, James' business became better and better. With Ron present, James received no less than 30 pounds per day.

This made James' pockets bulge little by little, his cheeks bulge little by little, and his smile increased, so that Val was surprised when he went to the drug rehabilitation clinic to meet Val again.

"Hey, James, your face looks good lately."

"Val, you're kidding again."

"I mean, you have a lot more smiles on your face recently."

"I think this may be because of this fat orange cat."

After the routine checkup, James smiled and looked down at Ron at his feet. Because of the existence of this orange cat, his income has improved a lot recently and he no longer has to worry about food.

At James' feet, Ron made a snoring sound - he has eaten well recently and has been sleeping for a long time, and a slight numbness and itch began to appear at the fracture.

This is a sign that the fracture begins to heal.

There is a proverb in the Dragon Kingdom, which hurts the muscles and bones for a hundred days.

Although cats are not like humans and take a hundred days to fully recover, they still need them for a few weeks.

And in the past few weeks, Ron has decided to rely on James to raise his bones. At worst, the fracture will be cured. Thank you very much.

As for why he didn't send a message to Lorraine, Ron thought, but James didn't have a cell phone.

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"It seems that keeping a pet helps with drug rehabilitation, I can write it down."

Val would not let go of anything that is effective for drug rehabilitation. He recorded this possible effective incident in his notebook. Val closed the notebook, sorted out his face, and looked up at James.

"Get back to the point."

"James, due to your recent good performance, I applied for a welfare home for you."

"What! Is this true?!"

Val's words immediately made James' face look surprised, and he even jumped up.

People who have never wandered do not know how huge the impact of a residence on people is - living in cement pipes every day, sleeping on a park lounge chair, and allowing the wind and rain to be exposed to it is an unimaginable pain.

For James at this moment, even if he is dilapidated, he has a wall that blocks the wind and a roof that hides the rain, which is a luxury that is hard to come by.

"Of course it's true."

"It's located in the suburbs, although it's a little dilapidated, but you know, the welfare houses are like this."

Val also smiled empathically for James' excitement - she had seen too many homeless people hear the touching smile of being able to own a welfare room.

And for James, this was even more touched - he was a drug addict. If he hadn't been to the drug rehabilitation clinic every once in a while recently, and after examination, he had not taken drugs again, this welfare room would not be his turn.

"Meow?!"

Have a house to live in?

Even Ron, who was squatting at James's feet, felt a little excited.

After living in the cement pipe for so long, I suddenly had a house to live in, which was quite good.

"Thank you, thank you so much!"

James' thank-you series sounded, and he even pounced on him and gave Val a kiss on the cheek - letting James kiss himself, Val said with a smile.

"When the inspection is completed, you can go to Mary where to get the keys."

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Mary was in the hall outside Val's office. After chatting with Val, James walked to the old black aunt with a smile on his face.

Then the black aunt handed James a small test tube.

"Drink this."

The test tube contains drugs instead of medicine, which is specially prepared for drug users. In fact, it is a potion containing trace amounts of drugs that can replace drugs, but the taste is not satisfactory.

However, James had already drunk many times. He took the test tube and raised his head and drank the potion inside. This behavior made the black aunt Mary nodded with satisfaction.

Then she turned around and went out of the drawer to two keys and a small note and handed them to James.

"This is the key, this is the address."

"Thank you, Mary."

But just as James reached out to take the key from Mary's hand, the black aunt suddenly retracted her hand, put her head close to James' face, and at the same time, she used her fist to squeeze James' chest twice.

"Don't thank me!"

"You are an addict, and I hate addicts the most."

"If you dare to take drugs in the welfare room!"

"Just get out of here!"

"Do you understand?"

The black aunt's fist made James take several steps back, but he was not angry. Instead, he smiled and took the key and address from the aunt's hand, happily picked up Ron, walked quickly to the door, ready to take over his house.

Behind him, Val walked out of his office.

"Val, are you sure this guy can quit drug addiction?"

"So much effort did you put in for it?"

"Of course, I'm sure."

Facing the black aunt's words, a sure smile appeared on her face.

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“…”

What a dilapidated house ~

The welfare room is located in the suburbs. James and Ron took a long car to arrive.

When James opened the door and Ron walked into the house, this was his first feeling.

But in James's opinion, this is his happiest moment.

“There are roofs, walls~, and wallpapers~”

“There is a bed and a quilt inside~”

"Look, not only has a toilet, but also a bathtub~"

"Ah! There is actually gas in the kitchen~"

As if an excited child, James circled and lingered in various rooms, while Ron jumped onto the only furniture in the living room: a shabby sofa and curled up.

His bones were still itchy and needed rest.
Chapter completed!