Su Li was a bit dazed, but she still went to the kitchen to help the cat carry the dishes.
The cat could feel that the food was hot, but Su Li couldn’t.
In the past, the moment she opened the door, the cat would pounce into her arms. Now, the cat was welcoming her home.
Su Li felt very happy. A few cats obediently gathered around their feet. Su Li looked down at them.
Actually, she had never kept more than two cats before, and she didn’t know how big a room needed to be for them to feel comfortable.
But now, with the cat here, maybe that problem could be solved.
After all, the cat had the ability to communicate with cats.
When she talked to them, she could find out if they were used to the environment or not.
The cat, wearing an apron, was busy in the kitchen.
The clay pot was bubbling with white steam.
Carrot dices rolled on the chopping board like little suns.
Shiitake mushroom slices stacked like dark brown umbrella lids, and together with green peas, they jumped into the boiling golden chicken soup.
The frying pan sizzled. Ribbon fish segments were seared with caramel-colored edges.
Shredded ginger curled into little moons in the hot oil.
Seeing Su Li helping, the cat really wanted Su Li to go rest properly, saying she could handle it alone.
But seeing the determined look on Su Li’s face, the cat didn’t chase her away.
Having Su Li by her side seemed quite nice?
If Su Li helped carry the dishes, she could do more things. For example, tidy up the room.
Of course, all that would be done while Su Li was at school.
Otherwise, when Su Li came back from school and saw her busy with these things, she would definitely come to help, and then she wouldn’t be able to rest properly.
After they ate, the cat hurried back to her room and took out all the characters she had practiced writing that afternoon.
Seeing that Su Li wasn’t busy, she nervously went to Su Li with the written characters.
Hearing the footsteps, Su Li stopped what she was doing and looked at the cat.
“Su Li, Su Li, I learned so many characters this afternoon.”
“And I learned a lot of idiom stories.”
“Do you have time to listen?”
The cat, holding the notebook in front of her, looked nervously at Su Li. If Su Li was busy, then she wouldn’t disturb her.
The cat leaned on the table, holding the school supplies Su Li had bought her, and wrote a crooked “fish” character.
Her apron pocket was stuffed with square sticky notes, each drawn with the new characters she had just learned today.
There were too many practice sheets, and they were too messy.
If she showed them all to Su Li at once, Su Li would be overwhelmed and wouldn’t be able to focus.
So before Su Li came back, she secretly rehearsed. Just to waste less of Su Li’s time when telling her.
“The character ‘porridge’ looks like a small boat carrying rice grains. Under ‘hot’ sits a little flame. Next to ‘fresh’ swim three small fish.”
“And… and…”
The cat excitedly shared what she had learned with Su Li.
Su Li felt that letting the cat teach herself seemed like a great idea.
If the cat were put into a school to learn, she might lose interest in learning.
But if she learned on her own, interest would be the best teacher.
For now, the cat was full of interest in learning characters.
When she recognized all the commonly used Chinese characters through her own efforts, she would feel a unique sense of accomplishment.
Then she could learn more things.
Although it’s said that mastering math, physics, and chemistry makes you fearless anywhere, if these knowledge points are not often used, they might be gradually forgotten.
Su Li patted the cat’s head, then took out the cat food she had bought today from her bag.
“Here, this is a reward for your hard work today.”
“Huh?”
The cat stared at the cat food, blinking.
Actually, the bag of cat food Su Li had given her was almost empty.
And when she passed by the convenience store, she had thought about buying a bag to reward herself.
Su Li gave her a lot of money, but she was a little reluctant to spend it.
The salary Su Li paid her was way too much.
If one day Su Li ran out of money, she could support Su Li.
So the cat held back and didn’t buy more, but she didn’t expect Su Li to buy it for her.
The cat immediately reflected on whether she had let something slip.
Had she secretly taken out cat food at some point and Su Li noticed she was running out?
Actually, she also fed the cats at home.
Or she would see if the cats wanted to eat something else and cook it for them.
The cat could naturally notice, when she and Su Li ate fish, how Big Thunder and Potato looked at the bowl.
So she would also share some little fish snacks with them.
She would also secretly cook fish for the little kittens.
“Su Li.”
The cat felt her nose tingle, looking at the cat food Su Li had prepared for her.
“When I passed by the convenience store today, I happened to think that your cat food had run out, so I went in and bought some.”
“There’s still cat food at home.”
The cat said shyly. She was actually a little reluctant to let Su Li spend money on her.
Before, when she was still a kitten, her poop-scooper spent money on her, and she didn’t know how much.
After all, she was just a kitten and didn’t understand the human world.
But now that she understood humans, she wanted to save some money for Su Li.
And… and Su Li was still a student.
She had to go to school and work hard to earn money. It must be really hard.
“If you want to eat it later, you don’t need to be so frugal. Just eating doesn’t cost much.”
“If you like eating it, buy it for yourself.”
“Just like how you used to like buying little fish snacks to reward yourself, from now on you can reward yourself more.”
Su Li said. Naturally, she could also give the cat rewards.
If the cat didn’t want to spend money, that was fine too.
“Okay.”
The cat nodded obediently, clutching the cat food tightly.
She looked at Big Thunder and the others gathered around her feet.
Then she looked at Su Li again.
After seeing Su Li nod at her, she shared some of the cat food with Big Thunder and the other cats.
[Su Li, Su Li, get online!]
[Get online!]
[Get online!]
The phone buzzed with messages.
The cat looked at the screen and immediately became serious.
She put Big Thunder down from her arms and started replying to Xiao Yuyu.
It was time to repay Su Li.