Only when the sound completely faded away did the little snake, who had narrowly escaped death, cautiously peek its head out of the grass. The dangerous heat source had completely disappeared, signifying that the crisis was over.
Still shaken, it lingered for a moment, gazing longingly at the sunlight streaming down the rocks. Ultimately, however, it decided the outside world was too dangerous and prepared to return to its nest to properly digest its baby mouse.
As a result, it had barely crawled two meters leisurely through the grass when it fell into enemy hands again.
Upon seeing the majestic little lion in front of him, the little snake gave up, putting on an act.
Meow~
Er Mao wasn't a very patient person to begin with. Even if he won over a spot, he wouldn't stay there for long. After fishing for half an hour without catching a fish, he somehow caught a little frog. While he was chasing the frog around for fun, he sensed the danger his younger sister was in.
Although the four sisters were not very friendly to each other, the affection passed down in their blood could not be faked.
He immediately threw away the little frog and ran up.
By this time, the cat thief had already driven away on his motorcycle with Sanmao. Anxious and having found nothing, Ermao heard that there was only one living thing in the grass, so he set his sights on it.
The little snake was both innocent and frightened. Faced with a powerful enemy, it could only feign death, weak and helpless.
After Er Mao pulled it out of the grass, she swaggered up to it and sniffed it. The little snake still had San Mao's scent on it. With her impetuous nature, she had no patience. Seeing that the little snake was still pretending to be dead, she picked it up and threw it down. After throwing it down, she showed the sharp claws on her little feet and scratched the little snake.
Fortunately, just as she was on the verge of death from all the torment, Gu Miaomiao and Dai Ying arrived.
"Er Mao, San Mao?" Gu Miaomiao usually seemed unreliable, but now that she felt her daughter's presence fading away, she felt a little uneasy.
Meow~
Er Mao naturally couldn't explain it.
Gu Miaomiao didn't blame her. Instead, she followed Daiying and her husband and looked around. Finally, they both stopped their gaze on the little flower snake that was pretending to be dead.
After staring at the little snake for two seconds, Gu Miaomiao walked up to the little flower snake, raised her hand and formed a magic seal on it. The little flower snake, which had been pretending to be dead, immediately raised its head tremblingly.
Gu Miaomiao looked directly into its eyes, and soon she knew what was going on.
She narrowed her eyes slightly, then ignored the little snake on the ground and said to Daiying and her husband, "Sanmao has been taken away."
Dai Ying's expression froze for a second, but she quickly regained her composure: "That's good, it's a day when the little ones can see how treacherous the human world is."
Gu Miaomiao glanced at her, somewhat displeased, "Qiuqiu will worry."
Daiying hesitated for a moment, then said, "Then I'll have to ask you to comfort your wife. After all, this kind of opportunity is rare."
"..." Gu Miaomiao rolled her eyes at her mother, then looked at her father: "Aren't you in a hurry?"
Gu Junshan said calmly, "I think your mother is right. Anyway, we can't go back in the short term, and as the little ones grow up, we can't always follow each of them around. Giving them a lesson and teaching them a lesson is a good kind of training."
"..." Gu Miaomiao was too lazy to say more. After looking around, she turned into a big white cat and ran in the direction the cat thieves had left.
Daiying shrugged and said lazily from behind, "Are you sure you don't want to comfort Qiuqiu yourself?"
Gu Miaomiao hesitated for a couple of seconds before finally running away like the wind.
Meanwhile, the three cat thieves took Sanmao directly to a secluded hotel in the county town.
Once inside the room, the group didn't dare to relax. They closed all the windows tightly before releasing Sanmao from the net.
As a lonely cub leaving home for the first time, Sanmao was a little uneasy about the unfamiliar environment, his big eyes looking around nervously.
"Brother Yong, should we feed this little thing something?"
"What are you going to feed it? Where are you going to catch a mouse for this thing?"
“I remember my grandma used to feed her cats leftovers.”
The man called Yong Ge lit a cigarette, then flicked each of them on the forehead, saying, "Your grandma's cat is worth over ten thousand?"
"Brother Yong is right... So what should we feed them? S City is quite far from here. It will take us at least a day and a night to drive there in our van. We can't just leave them without feeding them anything, can we?"
Yong Ge exhaled a cloud of smoke and looked at Sanmao, who was curled up on the bedside table.
Sanmao looked at him too, and the two stared at each other for several seconds. Sanmao then tucked its little paws under its belly, and pricked up its ears, meowing.
Yong lowered his eyes, stubbed out his cigarette, and felt a strange tenderness in his heart. "I've never raised a cat before, how would I know what to feed it? Youzi, you look it up."
The man named Youzi immediately took out his phone and quickly found a lot of answers: "This website says that cats nowadays eat cat food, and kittens still need to drink goat milk... Brother Yong, shouldn't this cat be considered a kitten?"
"It's just a tiny bit, it's definitely a kitten, you don't even need to ask, right, Yong-ge?"
Yong didn't say anything. After a dozen seconds of silence, he took out his phone and checked the time. "Youzi, go out and buy some goat milk first."
Yuzu was somewhat reluctant, but she agreed nonetheless.
After Yuzu left, Yongge took out his phone and made a call: "We got the cat. Such a precious cat, you should at least give it some money for nutrition on the way..."
Are you sure this is the cat I want?
What the hell do you mean?
"I just wanted to confirm, could you send me a video?"
Yong sneered, "Stop your fucking nonsense. Let me tell you, if you don't want it anymore, I'll just find another buyer. Anyway, there aren't many kittens that know how to fish with a rod."
There was a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone, then someone said, "Are you kidding me?"
Yong Ge was too lazy to waste words and hung up the phone directly.
Seeing this, the henchman immediately stepped forward and said, "Brother Yong, aren't you afraid that they might really change their minds and not want it anymore?"
Yong glanced at him, then his ambiguous gaze returned to Sanmao. These past few days, the three of them had gone to great lengths to catch this kitten, but their efforts hadn't been in vain. Not only had they gotten the cat, but they had also discovered something even more remarkable.
At first, when the three of them saw these kittens squatting by the river and fishing so skillfully, they thought it was just a visual illusion caused by being too far away. Later, when they saw that the kittens were far away from them, they dared to get a little closer. They didn't expect that these kittens could really fish.
Even so, Yong didn't think about anything else. At most, he just sighed, "No wonder this cat is worth over 100,000 yuan."
Yes, they'd rather believe a sow can fly than believe these kittens are truly sentient.
Although he didn't believe the kitten could actually become a spirit, Yong Ge thought that such a human-like cat would definitely be worth more money.
That's right, Yong Ge now thinks Sanmao is worth more than 138,000 yuan, and he thinks the price can be increased.
Therefore, his phone call just now was intentional.
Sure enough, less than two minutes later, the buyer called back: "Okay, you don't need to deliver it yourself. Just take the cat to the nearest airport, and I'll send someone to pick it up."
Yong lit another cigarette: "And the price?"
"Naturally, we will stick to the original agreement."
Yong Ge smiled dismissively: "Times have changed."
"What do you mean?"
“You guys didn’t say before that this cat can also fish.”
There was a moment's hesitation on the other end of the phone: "Then what price do you want?"
“I’m not greedy. The three of us brothers have been working on this for a week or so, so we should at least get our money’s worth.”
Two hundred thousand.
"Two hundred thousand is not easy to divide, there are three of us brothers."
"Three hundred thousand, I hope you'll know when to stop."
"Deal made. When will you send someone to pick us up? It takes about four hours to drive from here to the nearest airport."
"I'll arrange it right away, wait for my news."
After saying that, the woman on the other end of the phone quickly hung up because she heard the sound of high heels outside the restroom. She pretended to have just come out of the restroom, then raised her face and greeted the person who came in: "Hot lady, you're using the restroom too?"
"Or should I watch you use the toilet?"
The woman's expression stiffened slightly, but she quickly recovered, pretending to have suddenly remembered something: "By the way, hot lady, have you found your cat? I've been seeing a lot of comments in your live stream lately asking for your cat to appear on camera."
Chili-Not-Spicy glanced at her and said, "Looks like you really have a lot of free time."
The woman shrugged: "I'm definitely not as busy as Hot Sister, after all, I'm not as popular as Hot Sister..."
Chili wasn't spicy, so she ignored him and went straight into a restroom inside.
The woman looked completely confident of victory; she couldn't wait to see the other person suffer the consequences of the backlash from the online traffic.
After the clatter of high heels disappeared, Chili Not Spicy came out of the bathroom again. She stared at the mirror, thinking about what the woman had just said. She felt that the woman was acting a little strange today.
They signed with the company at the same time, and their starting points were exactly the same—both were beauty bloggers. However, she became a blogger with tens of millions of followers in less than three months, and their development afterward was worlds apart.
She knew the other person had always treated her as an enemy, but on the surface they had always been quite warm towards her, but today they seemed a bit arrogant.
Chili-Not-Spicy stared at the mirror for a long time but couldn't figure it out. It wasn't until she came out of the restroom and saw a blogger from her company filming a short video of herself interacting with her pet that a flash of inspiration struck her and she realized what it meant.
She called Mr. Du again, almost as if possessed: "Mr. Du, are you sure that cat isn't for sale?"
Speaking of the cat, Lao Du felt like he was caught in the middle. "I'm absolutely certain that when I said I was going to buy the cat, they gave me a real dressing down."
Chili wasn't spicy, so he nodded.
"By the way, why are you suddenly asking about this again? Little Chili, don't even think about that cat. If you really like it, come visit when the Gesang flowers bloom next time, and I'll shamelessly go to their house to ask them to lend it to you."
As a seasoned marketer, Lao Du naturally knows why someone would want three cents for something that isn't spicy.
However, since Chili is not spicy and has some popularity, using Sanmao to generate some traffic and hype will be beneficial to his next wave of Gesang flower marketing.
He's quite happy to do well in this mutually beneficial situation.
Chili-Not-Spicy chuckled and, before hanging up, jokingly said, "Then you'd better tell the cat owner that her cat is really popular lately, so she should keep a close eye on it to prevent anyone from eyeing it."
Although "Spicy But Not Spicy" is an attention-grabbing internet celebrity who wants to boost her popularity by associating with Sanmao, her behavior is still relatively upright. While she tacitly acknowledged to netizens that Sanmao was hers, she didn't have any other intentions after failing to acquire it through legitimate channels. Furthermore, she reasoned that since the cat owner cherished their cat dearly, it meant the cat wouldn't belong to any internet celebrity. Once the hype died down, the matter of the cat would simply fade away.
In reality, her losses weren't that great, so there was no need for her to go to such lengths.
"Alright, I'll definitely pass on your good intentions."
In order to improve the situation for Chili-Not-Spicy in the Shen family, Lao Du immediately called Shen Wuqiu.
Shen Wuqiu was still unaware that her precious daughter was missing, and she found Lao Du's phone call rather strange, not to mention the female internet celebrity she had absolutely no recollection of.
To her surprise, in the evening, Ms. Daiying dropped a bombshell on her: "Qiuqiu, I have something to tell you, Sanmao has been taken away..."
A note from the author:
I saw in the comments that I would feel bad if I stopped updating at the end of the last chapter, so I'm trying my best to update today.
Chapter 146