Starting with taking in female college students

Chapter 55 The Cat That Crawles into the Cabinet

"Officer Yang, would you like to reconsider?"

Before Li Shiwei could speak, Chen Rang took the initiative to persuade her.

After all, Officer Yang didn't know, but he did know, that this cat had quite a few problems.

Even though its illness has been basically cured in the past few days of treatment, its bad habits and more willful personality than other cats in the house will always cause a lot of trouble.

"Since we're going to help you lighten your burden, we should definitely pick the most troublesome and expensive one, right? Let me adopt it and take care of it, so you won't always think of me as a useless person who can't do anything."

Yang Lichang smiled and waved his hand to stop Chen Rang from continuing.

Of course, only he himself knows what he is really thinking.

"But... what if the cat's owner comes back? After all, they haven't officially said they've abandoned it, right? What if they change their mind someday and want to take the cat back? Wouldn't that be a hassle?"

Li Shiwei raised another question.

"Let her come to me then! If she's willing to pay for Xiao Chen's medical expenses, then it's no big deal for me to return the cat to her. At most, I'll just have to come back again, right? It's not a hassle to pick out a new one."

Yang Lichang made a decision quickly.

After consulting Chen Rang, he opened the door to the cat house and gently picked up the Ragdoll cat.

Because he couldn't see clearly, he moved very carefully. Even so, he still accidentally poked the cat's face. Fortunately, the little guy neither got angry nor resisted, and just obediently let Yang Lichang carry it out.

"It's so cute! But who dyed its fur that color?"

Li Shiwei leaned over and touched it, then pouted in disgust.

"What color?"

Yang Lichang was taken aback.

After listening to Li Shiwei's description, he shook his head, both amused and exasperated. But what could he do now that it was already dyed? He could only patiently wait for the creature to molt, after which it would naturally regain its original color.

Chen Rang brought him a cat carrier, and following Chen Rang's advice, he bought a lot of cat food and cat litter at the store, as well as cat food bowls, cat litter boxes, cat nail clippers, cat scratching posts, fur rollers, cat combs, litter scoops, strainers, and other small items.

Everything was piled up together, forming a large, scattered bag.

"Tsk!"

Li Shiwei clicked her tongue in disbelief, never expecting that raising a cat would be so troublesome. Seeing Chen Rang and Yang Lichang arguing over who would pay and who wouldn't, she silently calculated and settled for Chen Rang taking two hundred yuan.

"Once I've settled this little guy in, I'll treat you to a meal sometime."

Yang Lichang said with a smile.

He held the Ragdoll cat in his arms the whole time, and even while talking, his right hand would occasionally stroke the cat's back. The little guy was usually very noisy in the shop, but in Yang Lichang's arms, he was as well-behaved as could be, like a completely different cat.

It would only occasionally raise its head and stare intently at Yang Lichang, then stretch out its claws to touch Yang Lichang's collar. The stiff lines of the collar intrigued it, and it gently hooked at them with its nails.

After playing for a while, it got tired, settled into a more comfortable position, and continued to stare intently at its new owner...

Chen could tell that the little guy had no problem with Officer Yang at all.

That inexplicable sense of trust even felt magical, as if the person and the cat were meant to be together all along.

This made him marvel at the existence of fate in the world.

However, Chen Rang still took the time to explain all the precautions for raising a cat to Yang Lichang. Many things are very simple for ordinary people, but sometimes not so easy for a blind person to do. For example, the simplest task, scooping the cat litter box, is a bit troublesome for Yang Lichang. Unless he is rich and doesn't care about emptying the litter box every time, he needs a considerable amount of time to become familiar with this one thing.

"That's great! It's perfect since I'm free all day. I have something to do slowly, I have no problem with that!"

Yang Lichang remained cheerful.

He was clearly in a state of high excitement, and had even been eager to name the cat in his arms. The name "Nuomi" (Sticky Rice) suited the Ragdoll cat quite well, at least much better than "Maoqiu" (Fur Ball) that Li Shiwei had chosen.

"After I take Uncle Yang home, you can pick me up for dinner tonight!"

Li Shiwei waved her fist at Chen Rang, and the two of them put various items into the trunk of the car together.

Soon, only Chen Rang was left in the clinic.

Looking around, I saw that because of the commotion, all the cats in the house had hidden themselves. After it was completely quiet, the Ragdoll cat poked its head out from behind the counter, and the big blue cat also struggled to squeeze out from the corner of the cabinet.

As for DouDou and the others, their whereabouts remain unknown, and Chen Rang is too lazy to look for where they have hidden.

He only came back to the cattery to check on the blue and white cat's recovery after the surgery. Although only a few hours had passed, he saw basically no abnormalities; the cat was now in a relatively stable mood and had already urinated.

Chen checked Elizabeth's collar to make sure there was no risk of it coming off, before going to the delivery room.

Sure enough, there was no sign of the female silver tabby in the cat's bed, and even its usual cardboard box was empty. Chen Rang called softly but received no response. After searching carefully for a while, he finally found it in the cabinet in the corner.

The silver gradient cat, curled up into a ball, tilted its head back and stared with its round eyes. It had pushed aside all the various consumables at the bottom of the cabinet to make room for itself in a small nest, with two moisture-proof mats in their packaging bags underneath.

But that's not the point!

The main point is that Chen Rang is very curious about how it opens the cabinet door. The handle of this thing is more than a meter off the ground. With its current belly weight, can it jump up like that?

What's even more intriguing is how it managed to close the door after going inside.

Chen Rang found it increasingly unbelievable.

But soon, he witnessed the patience of this silver mother.

Chen Rang took the cat out of the cabinet, but as soon as he put it in the cat bed, it immediately got up and ran back to the cabinet.

The cabinet door was closed again, and the creature used its claws to pry open the gaps little by little. Even though the cabinet's lock was tightly shut, it would only manage to pry it open a millimeter or two before it bounced back in, but it was not discouraged at all.

Under Chen Rang's silent gaze, it patiently squatted in place, scratching and pulling. Half a minute, a minute, two minutes passed, and finally, it got lucky and managed to pry open the cabinet door a crack. It quickly stretched its paw inside to prevent the door from closing.

Then, without fully opening the cabinet door, it squeezed through the crack and crawled inside, quickly getting its entire body inside the cabinet.

And that's not all!

Seeing that the cabinet door wasn't completely closed after it went inside, it secretly stuck out a furry little paw from the inside. The creature used its paw to hook the edge of the door and tried to close it, finally managing to put the cabinet door back in place after a while.

Now, no one knew that there was a cat hiding in the closet.

"You're really patient!"

Chen Rang, bored out of his mind, watched the entire process of the mother silver gradient hiding herself, and couldn't help but admire this guy.

"Gurgle~"

The faint sound of the mother silver glass could be heard coming from inside the cabinet, as if she was complaining that you've been watching outside for so long without offering to help, and that you're just as idle.

*Click!*

Chen Rang opened the cabinet again, staring at the calm-looking female silver tabby cat, and said, "Although you're trying hard, I still have to tell you, you can't go in this cabinet. It contains supplies needed for childbirth, and I can't let you waste it like this. If you sleep in there, the sticky fur and other things will make it unusable unless it's cleaned properly. So you'd better get out and go sleep in your cat bed!"

"Gurgle~"

The mother silver cat let out a dissatisfied sound, turned her head away from Chen Rang, and let him carry her back to the cat bed once again.

This time, it didn't run towards the cabinet.

After Chen Rang patted its head and turned to leave, it patiently waited a while to make sure the footsteps had disappeared before slowly getting up again. Feeling the weight on its abdomen and a slight discomfort, it flicked its tail and went back to the cabinet.

But this time... no matter how hard it tried or how patient it was, the cabinet door just couldn't be opened wide enough.

The mother silver has a gradient effect, which is very puzzling.

But if you look closely, you'll see that a plastic cable tie has been attached to the door handles that were originally separate on both sides.

Chen cruelly locked the cabinet, refusing to tolerate the poor cat's bad habit.