My Wife is an Evil Dragon – Chapter 138

Chapter 138: Cat Director

Although Xia Li repeatedly emphasized the importance of naming to Lucia,

he said that a name not only follows a kitten for a lifetime, but also represents the mark it leaves on society.

But Lucia’s dragon brain wouldn’t think about such things.

She directly pointed at the soft plush toy on the sofa and said,

“Let’s call it ‘Sheep’!”

“…” Xia Li was speechless.

“‘Sheep’ and ‘kitten’ are essentially animal nouns. If you call a cat a sheep, it will be difficult for others to understand!”

Not only would it be difficult for outsiders to understand, but for her, a dragon, to raise a ‘sheep’ as a pet, it would seem like she was raising emergency food, wouldn’t it?

“…That seems to make sense.”

Lucia thought about it and agreed, so she thought for a moment and changed her mind, saying,

“What was the thing you said was stuffed inside the sheep last time…?”

“Cotton.”

“Oh, then let’s call it Mianhua （Cotton）!”

“Are you sure?”

Xia Li still felt that the name was a bit casual.

“You have to think carefully, once the name is…”

“Mianhua!”

Lucia didn’t even wait for Xia Li to finish his lecture, she picked up Mianhua without hesitation and confirmed the name.

“Meow~”

Mianhua was held high, her tail curled up against her belly in fear, her ears drooped, responding to Lucia’s call.

“Meow…”

“Hee hee hee!!”

Lucia beamed, lifting the kitten up and burying her face in its small belly for a sniff.

Lucia only found the two cold-blooded goldfish she accidentally bought last time to be fun, not something she liked.

But this fluffy kitten was undoubtedly a bullseye for her.

Lucia had loved furry little animals since she was a child, but unfortunately, small animals didn’t like her.

Now she had finally met a small animal that wasn’t afraid of her, and this small animal was willing to go home with her.

Meeting the right one at the right time.

Wasn’t that just like her and Xia Li!

“Hee hee, Mianhua, MuaMuaMua~”

“Don’t kiss it yet, we haven’t done the deworming…”

Xia Li looked hesitant.

Previously, Lucia was worried that having another ‘female’ at home would compete with her for status.

Now it was the other way around, it was Xia Li who was worried about his own family status.

This little calico wouldn’t take away Lucia’s limited affection, would it?

Xia Li thought about it for a moment in a daze.

Then he realized that his way of thinking must have been assimilated by the dragon.

How could he even be jealous of a kitten?

“Forget it, Mianhua it is, it’s better than Sheep.” Xia Li sighed.

Although he still felt that this casually chosen name was too random, as long as Lucia liked it, it was fine.

“It will be your cat from now on,” Xia Li said.

“Mm!” Lucia nodded vigorously.

“And you are my dragon.”

“Mm! …Mm?”

Lucia looked back at Xia Li, feeling that there was something controversial about that sentence.

Xia Li just liked to trick her like this, always thinking she was easy to fool, but in reality, she could understand all these human tactics.

She could understand, but it took some time to react, and it also took some time to counterattack.

“Don’t put your nose on the cat’s belly… Give me Mianhua.”

Seeing that the dragon was slow to react, Xia Li took the kitten from Lucia’s arms and put it back into the cardboard box wrapped in a towel.

“Let’s go, let’s go out and get the cat dewormed and checked. Since we’ve decided to keep it, let’s raise it well.”

“Oh, oh…”

Lucia followed behind Xia Li to change her shoes.

She habitually squatted down, only to realize that she hadn’t taken off her shoes when she came home, so she tore off the velcro on the side of her small leather shoes and stuck it back on.

“Get the car keys.” Xia Li raised his chin towards the shoe cabinet.

Lucia did as she was told and thoughtfully stuffed the car keys into Xia Li’s trouser pocket.

“Why do we need to deworm it… I’ve checked Mianhua’s body, there are no worms.”

Lucia trotted to catch up with Xia Li.

Xia Li first put the kitten on the back seat and then put the little dragon on the passenger seat.

Only then did he walk around the car and get into the driver’s seat.

“The probability of stray cats having fleas is very high, and not only externally, but there may also be parasites internally. We’re taking it for a checkup now, and we’ll give it all the necessary injections and medications so that it can grow up healthy, understand?”

“Oh…”

Xia Li explained a lot, Lucia understood half of it, and nodded straight.

There was so much to learn about raising a cat?

When she raised fish, she only needed to throw two small beans in every day and change the water occasionally.

“You still have a lot to learn,” Xia Li said to the little dragon, seeing her blank expression.

“Cat food, cat litter, cat water bowls, you’ll be responsible for these things in the future… I’ll let the vet tell you about it when we go to the pet hospital later.”

Lucia was stunned by Xia Li’s words and silently took out her phone to start searching on Baidu.

Being a good cat parent was not that easy.

Xia Li smiled.

Thinking, this dragon hadn’t even figured out how to take care of herself, and now she was taking on the challenge of raising a cat.

It was amazing how a once proud race that viewed all species as ants was now carefully learning the guide to raising small animals.

“It’s okay,” Xia Li comforted the troubled kitten parent beside him.

“Learn slowly, it’s my first time raising a cat too, we’ll learn together.”

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The pet hospital Xia Li took Lucia to was the one they had been to before.

The largest pet shop in Jinjiang District.

The first floor was a shop selling pets and pet supplies.

The second floor was a pet hospital.

The two stores used the same name, so they should be owned by the same person.

Taking the elevator to the second floor, Lucia let out a sigh of relief after stepping out.

This kind of enclosed elevator had always been a difficulty she couldn’t overcome, every time she entered, she would have a suffocating feeling of being unable to breathe.

Today, the elevator ride was very short, and coupled with her eagerness to protect her child, she barely managed to suppress the negative feelings.

“Phew~” the little dragon exhaled.

Xia Li noticed these changes in the evil dragon.

‘Endurance’ was also a common human behavior.

If it was expressed with emotion, it would be a kind of ‘tolerance’.

“Let’s go.”

Xia Li held the cardboard box with one hand and led Lucia with the other.

A few steps out of the elevator, there was a very festive red sign that read: ‘Pet Family Animal Hospital’.

Coming to the glass door of the pet hospital, Xia Li waited for a moment.

He originally thought that this kind of glass door would be an automatic door, but after standing for a few seconds, he realized it wasn’t.

On the wall next to the door, there were a few black words: ‘Please press here to enter’.

Xia Li suddenly realized that this design was probably to prevent the pets inside the pet hospital from ‘escaping’.

“Click.”

He pressed the button, and the glass door in front of him quietly opened.

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Every time Lucia saw this ingenious design of humans, she couldn’t help but marvel at its greatness.

The first time she came to Earth… she thought it was some kind of high-level defensive magic.

“Director!”

“The Director ran away!!”

As soon as the door opened a crack, a ghostly figure seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

It seized the opportunity, whizzing past Xia Li’s feet.

“Huh?”

“…Huh?”

Xia Li looked back.

He saw the black and white cow cat standing at the elevator entrance, looking back at him.

The man and the cat locked eyes for a moment.

When the cow cat saw the group of people in white coats chasing after Xia Li, it quickly turned around.

First, it looked up at the number at the top of the elevator, and after finding that the number had already risen to the third floor, it quickly moved, aiming for the half-open fire escape and rushing out.

“The Director ran away again!!”

“He took the stairs this time, quickly tell the people downstairs to watch out!”

Several vets in white coats chased out, calling the pet shop downstairs with their walkie-talkies as they ran.

It seemed like it was a repeat offender.

But, this cat was quite clever.

It actually wanted to take the elevator downstairs just now?

Xia Li stood at the door for a while, waiting for the group of people to chase after it before slowly walking inside.

“Hello.”

After a short interlude, Xia Li walked into the store.

The air conditioner inside was set to a very high temperature, and as soon as he entered, he felt a wave of heat blowing on his face.

The air was filled with a faint smell of disinfectant and a fresh floral fragrance that tried to mask the smell of disinfectant.

A shop assistant in a light pink uniform walked over to Xia Li and greeted him.

This shop assistant wasn’t wearing a white coat, so she should be the receptionist at the front desk.

“How can I help you~?” the receptionist said with a slight smile.

“Kitty!”

Lucia, who was beside Xia Li, wasn’t shy at this moment.

She actually had the courage to step forward and talk to a strange adult.

As expected of a dragon mother with a ‘child’.

“Cat?”

The receptionist walked over and saw the small animal in the cardboard box in Xia Li’s arms.

“A stray cat you picked up?” the receptionist said in surprise.

“Mm, picked up… Want to adopt it, so we came for a checkup,” Lucia said concisely.

While speaking, she sounded confident, but the whole dragon still looked timid, constantly hiding behind Xia Li.

“Is that so… What a kind little girl.”

Seeing the little girl so shy, the receptionist softened her tone.

“Let’s do the deworming first, then do some basic checks, and it’s also necessary to rule out feline distemper and parvovirus. You can go inside and find Doctor Li in room number two, he will tell you in detail.”

As she spoke, the receptionist gave Xia Li a friendly look.

Young people nowadays liked to keep pedigree cats, and very few were willing to pick up stray cats.

It was even rarer to find someone who picked up a stray cat and was willing to bring it to the pet hospital for a checkup and vaccinations.

At least their kindness was worthy of respect.

“When can the cat be bathed?”

Xia Li asked, holding the cat in one hand and the dragon in the other.

“The kitten is still too young, its immunity is low and it’s easy to get sick when bathing, so it’s not recommended to bathe it before it’s fully vaccinated,” the receptionist replied.

“Alright.” Xia Li said.

Mianhua smelled of beer, but fortunately, it wasn’t dirty.

Cats were quite clean, so it wouldn’t be a problem to wait a while.

“…That Director just now?”

After taking two steps, Xia Li looked back with some concern.

The title ‘Director’ didn’t sound simple.

Xia Li thought to himself that this was his first time here, and he had let the Director of someone else’s hospital run away, which was a bit bad.

“It’s okay,” the receptionist shook her head gently.

“Director is a nickname everyone gave it. That cat has been living here for a long time, and it has run away countless times, and we catch it back every time…”

The receptionist patiently explained, and Xia Li felt relieved after hearing it.

He pushed open the door of room number two and had a discussion with the doctor inside.

Lucia happily received a ‘Cat Raising Manual’.

Mianhua was taken by the doctor in a surgical gown for a checkup, and Xia Li lost 800 yuan.

This 800 yuan was only for one checkup and one vaccination.

The vaccine needed to be given three times in total, and each shot cost 200 yuan.

Looking at his suddenly shrinking account balance, one couldn’t help but sigh, opening a pet hospital was really profitable.

This was much more profitable than selling pets downstairs, right?

The pet shop downstairs was busy all day long, receiving hundreds of customers, and might not even close a single deal.

But the pet hospital upstairs, as long as someone came in with a pet, they wouldn’t leave empty-handed.

This place was simply a money-making machine, every visit would make your wallet thinner.

“Can you understand?”

“I can understand!”

Lucia sat on the waiting chair outside the examination room, her two small legs in white socks dangling, holding a breeding manual in her arms and reading it with great interest.

Xia Li leaned over and glanced at it.

He found that this breeding manual should have been prepared for child-level customers, and it was full of easy-to-understand graphic introductions.

“After reading it, we’ll go downstairs to choose a litter box and a cat bed,” Xia Li said, craning his neck.

The physical examination and vaccination were just the entry level, and there were bigger expenses waiting for Xia Li.

From pet supplies to food, and then buying some toys… It would probably cost another few hundred yuan.

Raising a pet was really expensive.

Xia Li had this idea when he was living alone in college. At that time, it was precisely because he searched online for the process of raising a pet and felt that the expenses were not enough to support himself, so he gave up the idea.

Now that he had Lucia, Xia Li had even raised a dragon, so having one more cat at home was acceptable.

“Meowww!!”

The automatic glass door of the pet hospital entrance was opened by the doctor in a white coat.

The black and white cow cat that had slipped past Xia Li’s feet earlier was being carried over, its limbs held together like a roast suckling pig.

The heart-wrenching expression on its face, coupled with its howling, made it seem as if it was really going to be roasted over a fire.

“Director, the pet market is almost saturated now, it’s not easy being a stray cat, you should go back to your cage.”

“Meow!!”

The vet soothed the struggling cow cat in a soft voice, but the cow cat didn’t appreciate it, and its screams rose and fell.

Xia Li watched this scene quietly.

It was said that this kind of cow cat was quite neurotic, fortunately, the one he picked up was a docile calico.

“It will take a while for Mianhua’s results to come out, why don’t we go downstairs and choose supplies first?”

Watching the cow cat being carried away to a room by four strong men, Xia Li stood up, patting his thigh.

Lucia stopped reading, closed the booklet in her hand with a ‘snap’, and slid her bottom off the sofa chair.

“Let’s go, buy cat food for Mianhua!”