Strange Life of a Cat

Chapter 207 - 207 206 Luck This Thing

?Chapter 207: Chapter 206 Luck, This Thing Chapter 207: Chapter 206 Luck, This Thing Zheng Tan felt that he must have been languid and sluggish lately, with too little activity, for he was tired just from climbing the stairs. After hopping up the stairs using alternate leg thrusts, his leg muscles still ached a bit, probably from pulling too hard just now. Fortunately, he hadn’t cramped up, otherwise, he would have rolled down the stairs.

Without stopping for a rest, Zheng Tan hastened to the door where Xiao Jiu was confined, examined the keyhole of the lock, then the key. Thankfully, it seemed there was only one key matching that keyhole, so there was no need to try several keys, saving him a lot of effort.

He picked out the correct key and held it with one paw, using the strength of his hind legs once more after jumping up the stair steps. He leapt up, hooking the doorknob with the other paw that wasn’t holding the key. The key was a bit more complex than the ones for the Jiao family’s wooden doors, and Zheng Tan had to insert it a few times before it went in.

Inside the room.

Xiao Jiu lay on the iron frame bed in the room, staring at the light coming through the window, lost in thought.

The window was sealed with a security net, and the window itself couldn’t be opened at all. Even if she shouted for help, the people outside this building might not be able to hear her, and it would only draw the people outside the door to her. Xiao Jiu had seen plenty of people in the village and could sense the dangerous vibe they carried. Therefore, she had been very well-behaved all the way here.

When she first arrived, those people took a tube of blood from her arm, seemingly to send to the buyer for “inspection”. In the past few days, every time they came in, it was to bring food, as if they were afraid she would get too skinny, and sometimes Xiao Jiu felt like a pig being fattened up to be sold for a good price.

Although she had only completed first grade and knew little of book knowledge, she was far from the naive other children in the village.

Her hearing was actually a bit better than many kids in the village, perhaps because she often had to find food outdoors. So, even separated by a door, she could faintly hear some of the things those people talked about. She didn’t understand things like blood types, just that she was going to be sold off because of it.

Every time she woke up, Xiao Jiu would remember her drafty house in the village.

The indifference between sisters, the favoritism of the parents when it came to their children, combined with her own personality had led to a buildup of contradictions, but even so, even though she was often beaten black and blue, even though her family never provided her with a proper bed, Xiao Jiu would still go home. Kinship was a peculiar thing.

But this incident exacerbated the conflicts, and now Xiao Jiu’s previous luck and hope were gone.

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