??Chapter 55: 55: Jiang Nanzhou was scratched by Hua Hua
Chapter 55: 55: Jiang Nanzhou was scratched by Hua Hua
“Definitely needed; my Hua Hua crawled inside, and I can’t reach her.” She had been calling out for several minutes already.
“Hua Hua?”
“Yes, my cat.”
Jiang Nanzhou seed to recall the first ti he went to her house, there indeed was a cat beside her: “Where exactly?”
Lu Jingqiu pointed to a spot on the left where the green plants were evergreen, with very hard and thick branches and forks. Hua Hua had crawled into a spot that was just a small section too deep for her arm.
Jiang Nanzhou squatted down to take a look, then quickly grabbed Hua Hua by the neck and pulled her out.
“ow… ow.”
“Still owing, why’d you run off like that?” Lu Jingqiu took Hua Hua into her arms, scolded her for a bit, then turned to thank Jiang Nanzhou hurriedly: “Thanks to you today, thank you.”
“No problem, luckily I ran into you. Otherwise, would I have made a wasted trip?”
“…Huh?”
Jiang Nanzhou laughed, “I was going to your place to help Uncle Lu with so docunts; he said you were at ho.”
“Oh dear, I’m sorry, I just went to get Hua Hua treated?”
Jiang Nanzhou looked surprised and asked: “A cat?”
“Yeah, she’s had a bit of diarrhea.”
Jiang Nanzhou chuckled, having heard that Uncle Lu’s cat ate even better than the people in the house. He had thought it was a joke, but now it seed… very true.
“This cat sure is living the good life in your ho.”
Lu Jingqiu smiled: “My dad says the sa thing. Comrade Nanzhou, could you help
push the cart? Hua Hua is restless in my pocket, and I need to hold her.”
“Sure.” Jiang Nanzhou walked beside Lu Jingqiu, pushing the cart alongside her to her ho.
As they passed the Gao Family’s house, they happened to see Zhao Hong coming out with a basket on her arm, apparently heading out. Just as she was about to greet Lu Jingqiu, she caught sight of a young male colleague beside her and a flicker of doubt crossed her eyes.
“Are you heading out, Aunt Zhao?”
“Jingqiu, have you just got back?”
“Yeah.”
“I’m going to Aunt Zhang’s place up ahead to get so wild vegetables. Jingqiu, thanks to you, Qingqing is willing to stay at ho now. Co over to Aunt Zhao’s house to play on Sunday, I’ll make sothing tasty for you all,” she said.
“Okay, Aunt, I’m heading ho.”
“Alright.”
After Zhao Hong and Lu Jingqiu parted ways, Zhao Hong took a few steps, glanced back, and saw a handso young man and a pretty young woman, who seed to be a good match. She muttered to herself, “When did the Lu Family find such a good-looking one for Jingqiu?”
On the other side, Lu Jingqiu asked about Shen Mu’s situation: “I took him to school yesterday; all the paperwork is done.”
“That’s great.” She was still working hard preparing for exams, really afraid sothing would co up and she wouldn’t pass.
“They’re about to start a study class in the army, specifically for military personnel preparing for the college entrance exam, but children from the compound can also attend the classes.”
“Really? When will the classes start?”
“They’re still preparing. Director Zhang’s wife just moved here with the military, and she used to be a senior high math teacher back there. They’ve also got teachers for Chinese and English, they’re just short on so sub-subjects. Classes should probably start next week; you can ask Uncle Lu about it.”
“Okay, thank you. That’s really good news.”
Lu Jingqiu took him through the front door, and as soon as she put Hua Hua down, she ran to the sandbox and had another loose bowel movent. Jingqiu hurried to the kitchen to crush so dicine.
“Comrade Jiang, my dad’s bedroom door is unlocked, you can go in and take it yourself,” she said.
Jiang Nanzhou watched her busy herself and didn’t decline, heading straight inside.
Lu Jingqiu mixed the powdered dicine with so water and drew it into a syringe.
She was ready to administer it to Hua Hua.
Hua Hua, now three or four months old, was not at all the sa as when she was first born, getting overexcited at the sight of a syringe.
As soon as I pried its mouth open and got the dicine in, the bitter taste made it spit it all out.
There wasn’t much dicine to begin with, and now it had vomited so much, Lu Jingqiu saw that Hua Hua hadn’t ingested any and so she prepared another half tablet for it.
When Jiang Nanzhou ca out with the docunts, he saw her alone, flustered and clumsily trying to dicate the cat, “Do you need help?”
“Yeah, Comrade Jiang, can you hold it down for ? I can’t get the dicine in.”
Jiang Nanzhou put the docunts on the table, picked up the cat from Lu Jingqiu’s arms, one hand supporting its rear and the other pinching its neck, all four paws facing her, which made Lu Jingqiu laugh, “Comrade Nanzhou definitely hasn’t raised a cat before.”
Jiang Nanzhou was taken aback, then nodded awkwardly, “How should I do it?”
“You sit down, let it rest on your lap, you hold its front paws, and I’ll pry its mouth open to get the dicine in.”
Jiang Nanzhou had no choice but to sit on the sofa and fix Hua Hua in place as Lu Jingqiu had instructed.
Lu Jingqiu leaned in close, syringe in one hand, prying open Hua Hua’s mouth with the other.
But unaware to her, as she leaned in abruptly, the faint scent of osmanthus from her body surged into Jiang Nanzhou’s taste buds, causing his ears to heat up montarily, and he subconsciously leaned back a bit.
At this mont, Lu Jingqiu was busy feeding the dicine and didn’t realize how close they were. Her arm was pressing on his, and Jiang Nanzhou subconsciously moved his arm, which gave Hua Hua the opportunity to retreat. With a few kicks of its front paws, it managed to break free, leaving two bloody marks on Jiang Nanzhou’s hand in the struggle.
“Ah, Hua Hua, I’m really sorry, Comrade Nanzhou.”
“It’s okay, just a minor injury.”
But Lu Jingqiu couldn’t be preoccupied with polite talk at the mont, as she looked worriedly at Jiang Nanzhou’s arm, “How can this be a minor injury? It looks quite deep, co on, we need to hurry to the hospital for a rabies vaccine.”
Upon hearing that he needed a vaccine, Jiang Nanzhou was surprised, “I don’t need one for this.”
“No, although Hua Hua is a house cat, it also often catches mice and eats insects, which could carry bacteria.” Without further regard for Hua Hua, Lu Jingqiu quickly led Jiang Nanzhou to the washroom, urging him to rinse the wound with soap first.
Then, she grabbed her bag, intending to take Jiang Nanzhou to the hospital.
But he refused, “I’ll go to the Military District Hospital and have Ah Kun take a look.”
“I’ll go with you.”
Lu Jingqiu insisted, and Jiang Nanzhou had to let her follow along.
The Military District Hospital was different from the People’s Hospital where her mother worked; it was just a small two-story building not far from the military base.
Lih Huakun was supposed to be off work already, but an ergency case had co in, calling him back before he could even finish his dinner. Just as he was done with that, he saw Jiang Nanzhou coming in with an injury.
“What happened, how did both of you end up here together?”
Feeling sowhat embarrassed, Lu Jingqiu gave a sheepish laugh, “Comrade Nanzhou got scratched by my cat, he needs a rabies vaccine.”
“Your cat?”
Lih Huakun looked at Lu Jingqiu, then at Jiang Nanzhou, with a aningful expression.
In the end, he still took Jiang Nanzhou to treat his wound first.
While the vaccine was being administered, Lu Jingqiu waited outside, giving Lih Huakun the chance to ask, “What’s the matter, did you offend her cat?”
After thinking for a while, Jiang Nanzhou said, “Pretty much. I went to her house today to help Uncle Lu with so docunts, and her cat was sick. Seeing her struggle to feed the cat, I lent a hand, and it turned out like this.”
Lih Huakun raised an eyebrow, “You need help giving a cat its dicine? And got scratched?”
Seeing Lih Huakun’s skeptical look, Jiang Nanzhou said irritably, “What else?”
“…”
After the vaccine was finished, as Lih Huakun escorted Jiang Nanzhou out, he asked about the ailnt of Lu Jingqiu’s cat.
“Diarrhea, I got so dicine from an aunt at the People’s Hospital.”
Lih Huakun said, “Pills?”
Lu Jingqiu nodded.
Lih Huakun smiled, looking at Jiang Nanzhou’s hand, then said, “Giving a cat dicine is easy. You pry its mouth with one hand, pinch its cheeks and it’ll open up, then you just toss the pill into its throat, pinch its mouth, stroke it a bit and it’ll swallow, why bother crushing it into powder?”
“Oh, oh, right.” Lu Jingqiu slapped her forehead in frustration. She had raised cats in her previous life, so how did she forget this? She only heard Aunt Wei ntion grinding it into powder and using a syringe to administer it, sigh, Aunt Wei definitely hasn’t raised a cat.
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