Free Web NovelChapter 1001: Chapter 998: Hu Family Mouse
"Big kitty!?"
When Ah Qing heard Chen Nian say that he brought back a Maine Coon when he returned from Amei, her eyes instantly lit up.
Among the cat tribe, Maine Coons are one of the rare large cats that can actually wear a collar and be taken out shopping.
An ordinary cat at twenty jin is already considered super fat and seriously unhealthy, but the normal adult weight of a Maine Coon hovers around a bit over twenty jin, and some naturally gifted individuals can even hit a terrifying thirty jin.
As for the black big snake Chen Nian mentioned, Ah Qing had actually already guessed who it was.
It should be that little fox’s friend, the big chubby black cobra Snake King.
"It’s normal for our village to have snakes anyway. After all, it’s not really cold in Xia Dong yet."
Ah Qing lightly nodded and said to Chen Nian.
In Jiule City in December, daytime temperatures can still hold at 18–22 degrees, and at night the coldest it gets is around 7 degrees. It won’t be until January of the coming year that Xia Dong will go through its coldest month of the year.
Even then, "coldest" still means temperatures in the teens, with only nighttime dropping to around 6 degrees. freёwebnoѵel.com
"Oh right, where’s your kitty? Later I’ll just have Xiaolan take it for a walk around the village so all the little ones in the village can get to know it." Ah Qing made a suggestion to Chen Nian.
The reason the Maine Coon got beaten up in the village is most likely its foreign-cat looks working against it.
When the time comes, have the cat pay its respects around, then let the village tyrant little fox take it for a tour; that should solve it.
"Uh... it went to the milk-tea shop to pound lemon tea." Chen Nian pulled an embarrassed face and said:
"My mom complained its poop was huge and stinky and nearly clogged the toilet, so I sent it to a friend’s milk-tea shop, and it’s doing a part-time gig hand-beating lemon tea."
That’s how Chen Nian put it, but the truth was that the shotgun Maine Coon, the maid brown bear, and two Preggo Demons had all been hauled off by Homeless House and thrown in jail.
Addicted Beasts Dishes could only go serve tables, increasing revenue for the businesses under Homeless House.
"Chen Nian!"
Chen Nian let out two awkward laughs and was just about to explain the cat’s whereabouts to Ah Qing when the door of the special-care ward was suddenly shoved open from the outside. A middle‑aged woman in a white coat stormed into the ward, fuming.
"Mom..."
Hearing the voice, Chen Nian’s eyes widened as he looked at the middle‑aged woman entering through the door, and he sucked in a breath of cold air.
"Oh? Ah Qing, you’re here too?"
Seeing Ah Qing there as well, the anger on Mrs. Chen Nian’s cheeks slightly eased. She forced a smile, greeted Ah Qing, then waved at Chen Nian.
"You all sit for a bit, I need to talk to Chen Nian..."
"Uh... no no, I just heard that my little bro seemed to be hospitalized, and since I happened to have a bag of fruit, I came to visit, that’s all."
Seeing the look on Mrs. Chen Nian’s face, Ah Qing hurriedly waved her hands at the auntie, ready to take her leave.
Once she saw Mrs. Chen Nian’s opening move, Ah Qing knew all too well what was coming next.
They might not have the same mom, but she’d seen that exact same opener on her own mom plenty of times.
She wasn’t about to get in the way of auntie giving her son a beating.
Any time she refused to drink that bowl of notoginseng chicken soup, Chen Peipei’s voice would crank up a few decibels.
"...That’s fine too, Auntie still has some things to do, so I won’t walk you out."
Mrs. Chen Nian smiled as she said goodbye to Ah Qing, then turned around and grabbed Chen Nian, dragging him out of the ward.
"Let’s have tea tonight if you’re free..."
Right before leaving, Chen Nian didn’t forget to call out an invitation to Master Fuli on Ah Qing’s shoulder.
There were simply too many things he wanted to consult Master Fuli about.
But... Grandma Hedgehog had also said that Master Fuli wasn’t planning to reveal himself yet, so just now, Chen Nian hadn’t mentioned anything about the gang, the Spirit Beast Gang, or the club.
"Tea! You still have the nerve to drink tea! Get back in that ward and tell me, among that stack of foreign chicks, which one is the daughter‑in‑law of our Chen family... and are you some kind of psycho?"
"Helping people schedule appointments to trim the wings of butterfly specimens..."
"Hey hey hey! That’s none of my business. They were already like that before I hired them. They came because medical care in our Xia Country is cheap..."
Facing his raging mom, Chen Nian obsequiously massaged her shoulders while trying to speak "reason" with her.
This time, his mom was really wronging him.
He never eats the grass by his own burrow; with the strip club next door charging three to five hundred bucks, why would he snack at home?
Nine years of compulsory education had taught Chen Nian that once the team’s morale falls apart, they’re impossible to lead.
He was the first to oppose office romances and any of the gang family’s women engaging in internal palace‑fight girl-on-girl drama.
So he never touched any of the ones at home, even if one of them was exactly his taste.
But there’s nothing a three-hundred-yuan add-on can’t fix, and if that’s not enough, just tack on another two hundred!
"Uh... can you even snip anything there?"
Ah Qing had just turned the corner past the nurses’ station when she vaguely heard Mrs. Chen Nian’s snark, and she instantly froze. She subconsciously lowered her head for a glance, full of stunned awe.
"???"
Ansheng heard that and also turned his head toward Chen Nian with a brain full of question marks.
Good grief, girls can get circumcised too?
If both husband and wife go get circumcised, won’t they trigger some ’second surgery half price’ discount!?
"Medical procedures, Huhu isn’t allowed to listen..." Seeing Xiaolan turn around with gossip written all over his face, Ah Qing’s expression turned odd as she raised her hand to cover his ears. "If you listen to too much of this, some fox trafficker will secretly kidnap you..."
Whether a fox trafficker could really kidnap Xiaolan, Ah Qing wasn’t all that sure.
But the conversation in the hallway was truly outrageous.
She was already about to go home, and still got sniped from afar by Chen Nian’s mom, even triggering a faint phantom pain down below.
"Fine, I won’t listen. Just remember to give my tummy a good massage when we get home later."
Ansheng waved it off, looking completely unconcerned as he spoke.
"Speaking of which, where’d Dad go?"
Ah Qing walked out of the hospital back to the parking lot, saw Yu Zhenghong’s pickup parked in the spot but no person in sight, and puzzled, took out her phone to call him.
"Ring ring ring..."
A faint ringtone drifted over, and Yu Zhenghong’s figure poked out from behind the hedge on the edge of the lot as he said,
"Coming, coming, I’m just lighting a stick of incense for the Lady..."
"The Lady?"
Both Ansheng and Ah Qing looked at Yu Zhenghong in confusion.
"Doumu Lady, of course! When you come to the hospital, you definitely have to pay respects to the biggest local power." Yu Zhenghong said with a face of absolute common sense.
Doumu Lady, a Taoist deity with the mana to dissolve calamities and prolong life, highly revered.
"Let’s go home!"
"Your mom made the shrimp-and-crab congee you wanted, and she just bought a platter of marinated goose."
Yu Zhenghong asked a bit about Chen Nian’s situation, then told Ah Qing about running into Chen Nian’s mom.
He went to pay for Chen Nian; over there the system had just generated the bill and he hadn’t even checked out yet when Chen Nian’s mom got the message and immediately rushed over to pin him down.
Then... after barely exchanging a few words, she rolled up her sleeves saying she was going to beat Chen Nian’s dog head in.
He asked what happened, but Chen Nian’s mom wouldn’t say, only muttering that new grudges layered on old ones had surpassed the limit of motherly tolerance.
Yu Zhenghong was especially curious whether Chen Nian’s mom had leapt up and literally kicked Chen Nian’s dog head off.
"No, but before I left I heard something about several foreign chicks and something something wives." Ah Qing thought for a moment and tossed that to her dad.
"Oh..." Yu Zhenghong nodded lightly and turned his head away, almost grinding his teeth to powder as he cursed inwardly, "Scumbag!"
The pickup drove from the city hospital toward Changxi Town.
When they got back to the old house gate, Ansheng and Ah Qing finally saw that albino big rat with their own eyes.
The whole rat was standing upright like a little person on the stone block used for incense sticks in front of the door, twisting its waist and dancing.
Its dance moves were extremely weird: both hands raised in front of its body, and when it twisted its waist, its arms were driven to sway freely back and forth. After each cycle of left and right, it would give a light hop and alternate its feet.
Rather than calling it a dancing rat, it’d be more accurate to say it was a kind of defensive footwork stance, similar to a Sanda fighter’s movement. ƒrēewebnovel.com
The rat’s snout wasn’t long, a bit short, its big front teeth smooth and shiny enough to shoot a toothbrush commercial, and its round ears sat on top of its head like a pair of hair clips.
It didn’t have the sleazy vibe of a brown house rat; it even had a snout shaped like a faint smiling mouth, and its big eyes were especially bright, giving off a strangely cute feel.
"Wow! Xiaolan, look, samba dancing!" Ah Qing pressed against the car window with a cry of surprise, hurriedly calling the little fox over to watch the family’s enlightened rat.
"Samba? More like Brazilian war dance!" Ansheng gave the rat a weird look.
He couldn’t tell what dance it was, but he could clearly see that the rat’s movements looked more like it was charging up.
Every motion was driving all its muscles, the power from waist, shoulders, hips, and feet all converging at the tips of its fists. As long as any creature stepped into its attack range—
Next would come a world-shattering heavy punch, crashing into the enemy at lightning speed faster than the eye could follow.
There was no need to think about where this rat came from; just from that agile physique, it was obviously a Spirit Beast enlightened by the Hu Family.
