Chapter 33 Chapter Thirty-Two

Sunday arrived as expected, cloudless. "Small blog!" Shiro stood at the pre-arranged ticket gate of the station, watching Reiko running towards him from the bustling crowd. "It's so strange that you arrived early, ten minutes before the appointed time." Reiko is an out-and-out king of being late. From the first date, she will be late by ten minutes or so every time, and as time goes by, Shiro is used to it.This time, Lizi arrived nearly ten minutes earlier than ever before, which shows that she attaches great importance to today. Reiko also took great pains in dressing up today.She put on a rare make-up, and instead of choosing her favorite dress or casual clothes, she changed into a well-chosen pink suit.

"Let's find a shop and sit down, let's plan the route." The two squeezed out of the crowd and came to a cafe not far from the station.This is a small two-story store, and the business is booming.The two were lucky enough to find a seat by the window with a pretty good view. "Where's your car?" After ordering from the waiter, Reiko rummaged through the big bag she was carrying, her casual question made Zhirou's heart sink, his cheeks seemed to be wrapped by a pair of cold hands, he pretended to be nonchalant and nodded cigarette. "Nothing...why ask this?"

"Because, Xiao Zhi was so happy the day I got the car, I thought you would drive me today." "You said this, I have to travel a lot today, it is more convenient to take the tram than to drive, and I don't have to look for parking lots... And you see, we have to consider the guests, we have to consider the distance from the station to the wedding venue distance." "It's really thoughtful." After hearing Shirou's explanation, Reiko nodded.But she still seemed to be unrelieved, and she was looking at Shirou's expression thoughtfully. No matter how you think about it, it is more reasonable to choose to drive in this situation.

Of course Zhirou thought so too, but he wouldn't say anything... He was afraid of getting in that car, more precisely, he was too scared to get close to his own car.After parking the car back to the place where the little prince's body was buried, he never approached there again. "Then, let's take a look at these first." Reiko took out a file bag commonly used by office workers, took out a large stack of brochures, and piled up a small mountain in front of Zhirou's eyes. "That's too much..." God knows when she collected this pile of information, but at least it can be seen how much Reiko attaches importance to the wedding.

"Actually, I already have a few candidates. Next, Xiaozhi will choose a few favorites from here. The one that both of us like will be the first candidate. How about it?" For Shirou, there are bound to be jokes at the wedding, and it doesn't matter where it is held.Shirou didn't want to turn the wedding into a comical stage show, something like a bride and groom sailing slowly out of dry ice smoke in a gondola, it was best if it could be avoided.Zhirou has a headache when he thinks about all the troubles at the wedding, so he doesn't have any objection to doing everything according to Reiko's preferences-or he is too happy to be happy.

Shiro really wanted to tell the truth, but in the end he held back.If you push everything to Lizi without even looking through the brochure, your future wife will not forgive you. "Xiaozhi chooses what he likes, and don't take care of my preferences." Zhirou raised his head and was about to say something, but inadvertently shifted his gaze to the window. At that moment, his peripheral vision caught something moving in white. Zhirou and Reiko sat facing each other by the window on the second floor of the coffee shop. Through the light amber glass, they could clearly see a large area in front of the station, and the view was quite good.Looking down from Zhirou's position, you can see a beauty salon on the first floor of the opposite building. There seems to be something hiding in the viewing plants in front of the beauty salon.

Shiro observed curiously—it was a tabby cat. If it were normal, this would be an ordinary daily scene, but after going through various changes in the past few days, Zhirou has become extremely sensitive to the cat's sight. When he goes in and out of the house in the morning and evening, he will be "greeted" by countless domestic cats and wild cats.Those guys pretended to look around and didn't care, but in fact they all watched Shirou's every movement closely, just like collective surveillance. This tabby cat was the same as them. It hid in the shadow of the ornamental plants and looked up at Shiro's direction.Zhirou pretended to be looking at the brochure in his hand, but actually quietly observed the creatures downstairs.

Is it the king's companion?No, how is it possible... Shirou repeated this question and answer in his heart. "Xiaozhi, what's wrong with you? Are you in a daze?" Shirou was taken aback by the sudden question, and raised his head abruptly. "I see you've been looking outside since just now, what's there for fun?" Reiko looked out of the window as she spoke, but the plants in the beauty salon blocked her view, and she couldn't see the tabby cat hiding in it from her position. "Nothing, just something I can't figure out." "Can't figure it out? What can't figure it out?"

"Huh? Um... it's this special program, what kind of wedding goblin on an open-air stage, what exactly is it?" Shiro immediately picked a topic that fit the situation and muddled it away. "You said this project, I heard that the evaluation is quite good." Lizi began to introduce the contents of the brochure in detail, and she knew that she had done a lot of homework, and she explained it like a professional. That cat must have nothing to do with the king, Shiro nodded to Reiko absent-mindedly, and continued to think about his own thoughts. It's eight stations away from Shenyin Town, no matter how capable the cat is, it's impossible to chase all the way here.Take a closer look, the cat has a red collar around its neck, it must be a pet of someone nearby.

Shirou once read in some books that domestic cats have an unexpectedly small range of activities, and they hardly leave their homes too far.Taking domestic pet cats as an example, the activity range of male cats is only within a radius of 50 meters at most, while female cats are smaller, only about 30 meters.If it is a cat that can freely enter and leave the house, the range of activities is several times higher, but it is also about 500 meters. Probably the pet cat of that beauty salon. Although Shirou told himself so, a certain corner of his heart seemed to have a barb, and there was always an uneasy premonition hidden.

He could sense an element of disbelief in the tabby cat. It was its gaze, and there was an elusive deep meaning hidden in its straight gaze towards Shirou. Shirou was able to conclude that the cat was watching him consciously.When Zhirou looked downstairs, it would immediately turn its back, and when Zhirou turned his gaze back to the brochure, it would immediately turn around and look at the second floor again.Although Shirou couldn't see its movements clearly, he received its gaze with absolute certainty. There was no doubt that the cat was watching itself.It is entangled like a human being, staring at itself in pursuit. The two took a break in the store and read the brochures one by one. They decided to go to the meeting place five shops away from the coffee shop to check the situation. "Look, Xiaozhi! That child is so cute." As soon as she walked out of the store, Reiko suddenly yelled.Zhirou looked in the direction of her finger, and saw a tabby cat with a red collar sitting right in front of the viewing plants, as if it had been lying in ambush to welcome the two of them. "Good cat, come here." The cat walked towards Reiko with an expression of "you don't need to tell me, I'll go there too".Meow, it chirped crisply, its tail stood upright, and it walked in a very dignified way.Seeing its behavior and demeanor, Shirou's heart sank—it was very beautiful and cute, just like Joachim when we first met. "Sure enough, domestic cats don't recognize their own. If it was a stray cat, it wouldn't be so easy to come here." Reiko stroked the tabby cat that came to her with a look of joy. The tabby cat fell asleep on the ground again like Jingoro, raised its head and raised its feet, as if urging Reiko to touch her stomach and throat. "It's cute. Mmm - its name is Louie." "Another arbitrarily named animal." Shiro stood aside in a daze, but Reiko pointed to the cat's collar. "I didn't take it without authorization, you see, it's written here." Just as Lizi said, the throat of the red collar was written with the three letters "Lui" with a black marker. Judging from the handwriting, it should be done by a senior elementary school student. The point of the letter "i" is drawn as a heart-shaped symbol. , it seems that its owner is a little girl. "This cat has a little master." The immature handwriting on the collar dispelled Zhirou's suspicion, and sure enough, he was overthinking. "Hey, let's play a prank." "Prank...you don't want to take it home, do you?" "How is it possible, I mean this." Reiko smiled like a naughty child, and took out a rubber band from her pocket.A manga-style plastic flower adorns the headband, which Reiko happily attaches to the cat's collar. "Why is this a prank?" "No way, Xiaozhi, I really don't understand girls' minds at all." Reiko patted the head of the tabby cat—no, it was Louis—and smiled happily, and Louis responded enthusiastically by purring from his throat. "The most beloved little Louis has been marked with a cutie mark by someone he doesn't know... Do you know that? Women, whether they are children or adults, don't like their beloved things to be touched by others, let alone themselves. people who don’t know.” "I see." "No way, who told it to be so cute." During the conversation, Louis seemed to have had enough fun, he rubbed Reiko's wrist and stood up.After a tweet and a lazy waist, it turned and walked towards the beauty salon. "Oh, why did you just leave like this, and I said to take off the hair rope." Lizi took two or three steps forward to catch up with it, but the tabby cat had already jumped up the wall next door, walked briskly along the wall, and soon disappeared. "This is really a prank... what should I do?" Reiko watched the cat go away with a dejected look on her face. "It's hard to say, maybe the little master likes that hair rope very much." Zhirou comforted Reiko, and at the same time comforted the slightest uneasiness in his heart—that cat really had nothing to do with the king. Thinking of this, Zhirou also felt a little helpless, he was always thinking about the king and the king, and he was going to be nervous if it went on like this.