Sure enough, when Lin Yao called the two kids downstairs for dinner and saw Miaomiao covered in dirt, he felt a headache coming on.
"Miaomiao, go change your clothes first. Take a shower before dinner," Lin Yao said. He would never dislike his dirty daughter, but he still gently reminded her.
Miaomiao looked at her filthy school uniform. With a shy giggle, she turned around and ran upstairs. She quickly took a shower, changed into her pajamas, and then rushed back down.
After dinner, the driver came. He carried the kitten away for a check - up. Before leaving, Miaomiao was reluctant to part with the kitten. She didn't want to be separated from her new pet for even a moment.
The driver didn't take long. By the time he came back to pick up Wei Ziqi to go home, the kitten was also brought back.
The kitten was in good health and didn't have any infectious diseases. After a bath at the pet hospital, it had turned into a clean little ball.
Miaomiao held the fragrant and soft kitten in her hands, loving it even more. She barely paid attention to her silly dad the whole night. She either watched the kitten sleeping or played with it.
"You love your pet more than your dad?" Lin Yao was a bit jealous. At home, his daughter's attention was completely on the kitten, ignoring him. He wondered if it was a right decision to let Miaomiao keep the kitten.
"No! Miaomiao still loves Dad the most! No one can compare!" Seeing her dad was a bit unhappy, Miaomiao quickly put down her toy, ran to Lin Yao, and hugged him, acting coquettishly.
Lin Yao smiled helplessly. It was a child's nature to love playing. As long as Miaomiao was carefree and didn't do anything wrong, it didn't matter what her hobbies were.
"Miaomiao, you should give it a name," Lin Yao said, stroking his daughter's soft head.
"Um... Let's call it... Lotus Seed Bun!"
......
Why did she always associate pet names with food?
How deeply ingrained was his daughter's foodie nature?
"Okay. Do you plan to keep Lotus Seed Bun in your room, Miaomiao?" Lin Yao complained in his heart but still accepted the name.
"Yes! I want to keep Lotus Seed Bun with me!" Miaomiao nodded vigorously and tightened her arms around the kitten, as if she was afraid Lin Yao would separate them.
"Alright, but it seems that it is not weaned yet. I'll have someone bring some goat milk powder tomorrow. Feed it some soaked cat food. Don't feed it random things during this period. If the kitten has a stomachache and diarrhea, it might die."
Miaomiao never did things half - heartedly. Once she made up her mind, she would stick to it. It was probably the same with raising a pet. Since she had brought the kitten home, she must have been prepared to take good care of it. But Miaomiao had little experience in this regard. If something went wrong with the kitten because of her poor care, she would be very sad.
Lin Yao didn't want to see his daughter sad because of such things. So after dinner, he looked up a lot of precautions about raising kittens and told Miaomiao carefully.
Miaomiao listened very attentively and engraved each point in her mind without being careless at all.
After the father - daughter pair finished discussing the kitten's feeding plan, they were ready to go to bed. Miaomiao hugged Lotus Seed Bun, looked at the cat bed in the corner, then at her soft and fragrant big bed. She decisively took the kitten to bed and fell asleep with it in her arms.
Early the next morning, when it was time to go to school, Miaomiao still didn't want to leave Lotus Seed Bun. She simply stuffed the kitten into her schoolbag and took it to school with her.
Wei Ziqi sat next to Miaomiao. As soon as Miaomiao sat down, he heard very clear meows.
"You brought it to school?" Wei Ziqi asked in surprise.
"I'm a bit reluctant to leave it at home alone. It can't watch TV at home. It would be so bored," Miaomiao nodded slightly and opened her schoolbag. A kitten's head immediately popped out.
Cheng Ruan and Yao Mingxuan also saw the "surprise" that Miaomiao had brought, or rather, it was more like a shock.
No one had ever brought a pet to school before. Although there was no explicit school rule against it, it was still a bit against the rules, right?
"Oh no, Miaomiao! Aren't you afraid of being discovered by the teacher?" Cheng Ruan quickly whispered in alarm.
"It's okay. It won't affect our class," Miaomiao said indifferently.
"We'll be in big trouble if the teacher finds out about this..." Yao Mingxuan also had a headache.
"Really? It shouldn't be like that, right?" Seeing that her friends all looked serious, Miaomiao began to feel a bit worried.
Miaomiao always respected her teachers. Unless it was an emergency, she would hold it in even if she wanted to go to the toilet during class and wait until the break. She tried not to cause trouble for her teachers.
She just didn't expect that bringing pets to school was not allowed.
"Then I'll call Dad and ask him to take Lotus Seed Bun back," Miaomiao hesitated for a moment, looking at the kitten's head peeping out of the schoolbag.
"It's only ten minutes until class starts. Even if Uncle flies here, he won't make it in time. Send Uncle a text message first and ask him to come quickly. We'll cover for you in this class and try to keep the teacher from finding out," Yao Mingxuan looked at his watch and said.
"Yao Mingxuan is right. It's definitely too late to ask Uncle to come now. Just wait until this class is over. Try to keep it from making a sound during class. Put it in your desk drawer first. Did you bring food for it?" Wei Ziqi nodded slightly and chimed in with suggestions.
"Yes, I did," Miaomiao quickly took out the small milk bottle and cat food from her backpack.
The kids scrambled to clean up Miaomiao's desk and made enough space for the kitten.
The four kids thought it would be okay as long as the kitten had food and water and wasn't hungry. But they never expected that the kitten was a real chatterbox.
During class, it would meow from time to time, or it would flop around in the desk, making all kinds of noises.
At first, the teacher didn't pay much attention. But then a sudden meow made the teacher's face change. The teacher stood on the podium, looking around, and finally fixed his eyes on Miaomiao's side.
Wei Ziqi remained calm, but the other three kids were scared out of their wits. For some strange reason, Yao Mingxuan suddenly meowed.
"Meow?"
"Yao Mingxuan! Instead of studying hard in class, you're meowing like a cat. Are you crazy?"