Shen Wuqiu quickly stuffed a piece of cantaloupe into her mouth, "Look how sweet this is?"
When it comes to competing for attention with her partner, Gu Miaomiao is always very aware of it. She happily ate the cantaloupe her partner stuffed into her mouth, and after leaving the kitchen, she snuggled up to him affectionately and whispered ambiguously, "Qiuqiu, are you jealous? Don't want me to get my hands on other people's saliva?"
Shen Wuqiu nudged her: "You don't actually enjoy getting your hands dirty with other people's saliva, do you?"
"No, I just like being close to you."
"..." Shen Wuqiu saw her constantly rubbing against her and angrily pushed her away, "Don't get so close, it's hot."
Gu Miaomiao still cared about her partner's feelings, so she immediately straightened her posture and distanced herself from him. She stuffed a piece of cantaloupe into her mouth and then took another piece and fed it to Chen Wuqiu. "This cantaloupe is very refreshing to eat in this kind of weather. It would be even more refreshing if you soaked it in well water."
Shen Wuqiu dodged it, saying, "You eat it yourself. I'm not used to these melon seeds."
"That's easy." Gu Miaomiao immediately swished the melon to her own mouth, then handed over the clean melon. "Alright, there are no more melon seeds."
"..."
"Qiuqiu, do you still dislike me?"
Looking into the person's beautiful, sincere, and expectant eyes, Shen Wuqiu finally spoke.
Gu Miaomiao was satisfied. "That's perfect, I like eating the seeds even more now."
Shen Wuqiu felt that it would be better for her to get used to eating seeds as soon as possible.
*****
After lunch, Zhou Xingxing, who hadn't eaten or slept well for nearly forty hours, had dark circles under her eyes but was full of energy. She rushed to wash the dishes and, without saying she was going to sleep, started tinkering with the things in her pickup truck. "This time I've made full preparations for my career. I have all the live streaming tools I need. I have a feeling that I will definitely become a rising star in the world of internet celebrities."
"..." When Shen Wuqiu heard that she was tinkering with these things, she was originally going to help, but she immediately sat leisurely on the rattan chair in the yard and fanned Er Mao, who was sleeping in the rocking bed.
Er Mao has the longest fur of the four cubs, which is why her long fur, which she could wave around freely when she was little, earned her the nickname "Little Lion." Now that summer is here, when the temperature is high at noon, Er Mao will occasionally turn into a little baby, wearing only a bib.
Sanmao, addicted to vying for attention, watched her mother fanning her older sister. She had been sleeping soundly on the cat tree outside, but after stretching, she climbed onto the wicker chair and found a spot on Shen Wuqiu's lap: "Meow~"
Shen Wuqiu patted her head and chuckled, "Okay, Mom will fan you too."
Sanmao was finally satisfied, buried her head between her legs, and fell asleep peacefully.
Stephen Chow stood to the side, looking at her with envy: "I wish I could have such a cute kitten."
After saying that, a thought suddenly struck her, and she blurted out to Gu Miaomiao, "Can you introduce me to a partner like you?"
Gu Miaomiao: "You wish!"
"I'm serious, I don't need to be as pretty as you, and gender doesn't matter, as long as I can have a litter of kittens."
Gu Miaomiao: "Then you'll have to wait at least another ninety-nine years."
Stephen Chow thought she was mocking her: "Wouldn't it be better if you just told me to wait until the next life?"
"Reincarnation is not something that humans can control. Your next life may be ninety-nine years, or it may be hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years. And in your next life, you may just be a blade of grass, or you may become an adorable kitten."
Zhou Xingxing looked at her serious face and was a little dumbfounded. He said to Shen Wuqiu, "I almost thought she was an academic."
Shen Wuqiu explained considerately, "She wasn't joking with you. Their clan needs a divine fruit to have children. This divine fruit only ripens once every hundred years. I ate it last year."
"..." Zhou Xingxing stopped talking and continued to fiddle with the equipment in her pickup truck.
Half an hour later, Zhou Xingxing had set up the live broadcast platform and everything. After finding a camera angle that wouldn't capture Shen Wuqiu and the others, she prepared to start the live broadcast.
She has had her account registered for more than half a year, but has never done a proper live stream. However, when she is extremely bored, she will turn on voice live stream and chat with fans she happens to meet.
For an account like hers that only works sporadically and lacks capital for operation, gaining followers is very difficult. If it weren't for the fact that she gained more than 10,000 followers at the end of last year by riding the wave of popularity of a few cats, she would be a lone streamer right now.
"Aren't you going to start a live stream right now?" Shen Wuqiu asked as she watched her tidy herself up in front of her phone.
"Okay. Don't worry, I won't include you in the photos."
Shen Wuqiu still believed in her. Zhou Xingxing, though seemingly carefree and easygoing, was a trustworthy person. She would keep her word if she was forbidden to say or do something.
After fixing his hair and clothes while looking at his phone, Zhou Xingxing thought of something and walked towards her again, turning his attention to Sanmao. "Shen Xiaoqiu, kids, you'll let me work whenever I want, right?"
Shen Wuqiu shrugged. "It depends on whether the kids are happy or not."
"Of course, I would never force them."
Shen Wuqiu paused, then made one last attempt to argue, "You really want to become an internet celebrity?"
“I don’t want to be an internet celebrity.” Zhou Xingxing was a little troubled about how to explain it to her. “I don’t want to become famous. I just feel that life is still long and I really want to experience this kind of work of sharing life. Don’t you think that making sharing life a way of life is a wonderful experience?”
Shen Wuqiu bluntly exposed her: "Then you can just share your own life, why bring the baby along for business?"
"Ugh, you've seen right through my little schemes, it's so annoying." Zhou Xingxing feigned girlish shyness. "Anyway, you just don't understand. You don't really like to share, so you don't understand the feelings of people who share. When you want to share, you definitely hope that someone will pay attention, right? It's only when someone pays attention that you'll have more enthusiasm to share, right?"
As she said, Shen Wuqiu is indeed a bit of a closet pervert, so she doesn't quite understand Zhou Xingxing's feelings. However, she generally doesn't completely deny other people's thoughts or opinions. She even put herself in their shoes and made a simple assumption: if she really wanted to tell her friends and family something one day, she would still hope that they would pay serious attention to it.
“Although I don’t understand, I don’t deny it.” Shen Wuqiu paused. “I don’t consider you an outsider, so I hope you will protect the children.”
A solemnity expressed in a seemingly casual manner.
Zhou Xingxing nodded vigorously, "Definitely, definitely."
Shen Wuqiu covered her mouth and yawned. The mountain breeze, carrying the heat of midsummer, gently caressed her body, which was very hypnotic.
"The kids are taking a nap right now, you should go and get some sleep too, I can't stay awake any longer."
Zhou Xingxing looked at Sanmao sleeping soundly and nodded. "I'll just check if any fans are online, tell them where I'll be live streaming this afternoon, and then I'll end the broadcast."
Shen Wuqiu casually asked, "Where are you planning to do your live stream this afternoon?"
"Let's go to the Gesang Flower Paradise here."
Locals call it the Gesang Flower Base, but Lao Du markets it as Gesang Flower Paradise.
Shen Wuqiu didn't think much of it, "It seems that Lao Du's marketing and promotion are very effective."
"Speaking of which, I was also about to ask you, did you invest in this Gesang Flower Paradise?"
"Um?"
"I only found out about this little scenic spot because I saw Sanmao advertising for this Gesang Flower Paradise online. There are also Sanmao's photos on the billboards in your county, not to mention online. If you didn't invest, you should have someone pay Sanmao an advertising fee."
"Sanmao?"
"What? You don't know?"
Upon hearing this, Stephen Chow immediately became indignant and found his other phone to search for photos of her online.
A note from the author:
Love you all, muah!
Chapter 152
The last rays of the setting sun still cast their last bright glow before fading away, a layer of golden, dazzling light enveloping the entire world, making the blooming five-colored flowers even more radiant and flamboyant.
In the glow of the sunset, a white cat sits on the edge of a field, its back to the setting sun sinking into the distant mountains. It stretches its neck slightly, closes its eyes, and gently touches a blooming pink flower with its pink nose. The whole scene looks serene and pure.
For a moment, it was hard to tell who in the picture was the one complementing whom.
If there truly is a paradise on earth, this is probably what it looks like.
Shen Wuqiu stared blankly at the pictures Zhou Xingxing had found. Although she had always known that her kitten was no ordinary kitten, she was still a little surprised to see such beautiful photos.
"Are you dumbfounded?" Zhou Xingxing waved his hand in front of her eyes when he saw that she didn't react for a long time.
Shen Wuqiu blinked, then came to her senses. "Has this picture been edited?"
"It looks pretty high-definition, at least it's not photoshopped." Zhou Xingxing didn't quite understand, but after glancing at the picture, he couldn't help but praise, "I have to say, our Sanmao's looks are really top-notch. When I first saw this picture, I almost drooled."
Shen Wuqiu couldn't stand it and glanced at her away. "Is there anything else?"
“I’ve seen this picture on every advertisement I’ve seen here. There are a few more online, but this one is the most frontal and clearest. I doubt anyone who doesn’t know our little one would recognize the others…” Zhou Xingxing paused, then noticed something and looked at Shen Wuqiu, “Why don’t you seem angry at all?”
Shen Wuqiu sighed, pondered for two seconds, and said, "If these are the photos, then they must have informed me beforehand and obtained my permission."
"???"
"If I remember correctly, I was there when the photos were taken that day."
"Then why were you acting like you'd never seen this before?"
"...Maybe I didn't pay attention at the time and didn't realize that Sanmao was so photogenic."
"..." Zhou Xingxing rolled his eyes. "I give up. Seriously, you're just going to let Sanmao advertise for free? You don't know, Sanmao is a huge internet celebrity now. I wanted to tell you when your rapeseed flowers were blooming, there was this internet celebrity called Chili or something, who became popular again by using Sanmao. During that time, a lot of internet celebrities were riding on Sanmao's popularity."
Shen Wuqiu looked at her: "Then why didn't you tell me back then?"
Zhou Xingxing scratched his head. "What was I doing back then... Oh, I remember now, I was with my grandma who was pretending to be sick every day. My grandma and her family live in a remote mountain village where the signal is bad. I was dragged to play cards with them every day. More than a week has passed since then, and I only just saw this. I don't know what I did after that, and I forgot about it again."
Seeing her annoyed expression, Shen Wuqiu almost laughed. "Alright, I was just kidding. I know about that. Her name is Chili But Not Spicy..."
Stephen Chow looked surprised. "You actually know this?"
Shen Wuqiu yawned. "I'm going to take a nap. I'm too sleepy. I'll tell you the details next time."
Seeing that she looked sleepy, Stephen Chow didn't ask any more questions.
After exchanging a few more words with her, Shen Wuqiu picked up Sanmao and stood up.
"Meow~" As soon as she moved, Sanmao lazily opened its eyes and stretched out its paws to tug at her clothes.
"Sweetheart, baby, let's go back to our room to sleep."
"Meow~" Sanmao immediately closed his eyes obediently and became well-behaved.
Shen Wuqiu placed Sanmao on Ermao, and then carried the baby and kitten upstairs together.
After confirming that she didn't need his help, Zhou Xingxing started doing her live stream.
When Shen Wuqiu returned to her room, she was puzzled not to see the cat. Just as she was getting curious, she saw the white cat emerge from under the bed, lazily yawning and stretching.
For cats, spring drowsiness, summer naps, autumn lethargy, and winter hibernation mean that every season is a time for sleeping. Especially on a summer afternoon like this, when the sun is scorching outside, the wooden floor inside is cool and refreshing, and lying on it is incredibly pleasant.
After shaking off her fur, the white cat nimbly jumped onto the bed. Finding the little white cat stuck in the middle in the way, she simply picked it up and tossed it into the crib next to her.
Sanmao was half asleep when she was thrown around, completely disoriented. She sat up halfway in the crib and looked around in a daze. After figuring out her situation, she tried to climb out of the crib and onto the bed, but as soon as her little feet touched the crib railing, the cold-blooded white cat slapped her on the forehead.
Although Sanmao felt wronged, she only dared to whimper softly for a moment before rolling back to her crib and continuing to sleep, cursing under her breath.
After getting rid of the little Sanmao, there was still one on the bed. She originally wanted to take the baby doll away as well, but under the tyranny of her partner, she changed her action of grabbing the baby doll's bib to yawning.
Shen Wuqiu was too lazy to expose her, and said sarcastically, "Weren't you sleeping comfortably under the bed? Go on then."