Out of the blue, why was there a basket of dead rabbits in the kitchen? They didn't seem to be for cooking!
Mother Qi kept pushing her out, so she didn't ask too many questions. Mother Qi was just a servant. Even if she asked, she probably wouldn't get any answers.
After returning, Liu Yushu's eyelid twitched non - stop. She felt a vague unease in her heart, always having a premonition of something bad. Turning her head, she found that the kitten was gone. Immediately in a hurry, she told Zui Tao to look for it right away.
The image of those dead rabbits in the kitchen flashed through her mind, making her even more uneasy.
The mistress and the maid searched for a long time but couldn't find the kitten. In the evening, Liu Yushu heard a meow outside the courtyard. She quickly rushed out and saw Mu Chan squatting on the ground, teasing the kitten.
She immediately went over, picked up the kitten and hugged it tightly in her arms. She looked at Mu Chan warily.
Mu Chan bowed to her. "I've come to deliver something to the young lady."
Zui Tao took the food box from Mu Chan's hand, with a sour look on her face. Mu Chan watched Liu Yushu's back, squinted her eyes and smiled faintly, whispering to herself, "Miss Shu looks so nice in purple clothes."
Zui Tao heard it and immediately gave her a cold glare. Seeing her infatuated look, Zui Tao thought it was very strange. She glared at Mu Chan again. "You can go back now. Don't look around at things you shouldn't."
Mu Chan didn't seem to care about Zui Tao. She smiled and turned away.
After closing the door, Liu Yushu looked coldly at the food box on the table, thinking that there must be something bad in it. She kind of regretted letting Zui Tao take it.
"Miss, if you don't like it, I'll return it right away." Zui Tao said and was about to carry the food box out.
"Don't," Liu Yushu stopped her. "If you return it like this, we'll give them a handle. Then they might say we sent them poison, and we won't be able to defend ourselves." The best way was not to provoke the Lotus Pavilion on purpose.
Fortunately, during these days when Mistress Sun was in charge, she didn't cause any trouble and the mansion was quite peaceful.
"Open it and see what's inside."
Zui Tao opened the food box. There was a plate of cooked shrimp in it.
Liu Yushu let out a sigh of relief. She thought it might be Mother Qi who asked Mu Chan to send it to her.
The kitten immediately jumped onto the table, sniffed around the plate, and then jumped away without even licking it.
Liu Yushu laughed softly. "It's really picky."
"Miss, have you given a name to the cat?" Zui Tao also smiled.
Liu Yushu shook her head. She wanted to name it, but couldn't come up with a really satisfying name for the moment.
"Go and get a pen and paper."
Zui Tao ground the ink for her. Her fair little hand held the pen, her cherry - like lips pouted slightly. After thinking seriously for a while, she slowly wrote a line of elegant small characters on the paper.
"Let that little guy choose by itself." Liu Yushu smiled sweetly. She had written down all the characters she liked on the paper. Then she picked up the kitten again and let it stand on the paper. Whichever two characters the kitten's paw touched would be its name.
The kitten looked at her, then at the paper on the table. It seemed to understand her intention. After meowing a few times, its sharp claws made two holes in the paper, and then it jumped onto her lap and lay there.
Liu Yushu picked up the paper, looked at the two characters under the holes and read them out. "Wu Qing."
"This name doesn't sound like a cat's name. It sounds more like a person's name." Zui Tao tilted her head and said.
But Liu Yushu was quite satisfied. "That's it. There's no rule that a cat must be named Mimi or something like that. I like this name very much."
Strangely enough, she had always dreamed of these two characters recently.
"Miss, it's time for dinner." Zui Tao went to the small kitchen to get the meal and neatly placed the dishes on the table one by one.
Liu Yushu glanced at the dishes and saw a plate of meat she had never seen before. She asked curiously, "What's this?"
"It should be pork meatballs. I went to the kitchen today. Mother Qi said this is a dish that the master has been fond of recently. She also said that she would send some to each courtyard." Zui Tao answered truthfully.
If it was a dish for her father, there should be no problem.
Liu Yushu picked up a chopstick of the meat and put it in her bowl. Just as she was about to eat, Wu Qing suddenly jumped onto the table and knocked the chopsticks out of her hand to the ground with its paw.
She frowned and scolded, "You little naughty thing. Go and play on the ground." She put the kitten on the ground.
Zui Tao fetched a new pair of chopsticks for her. Liu Yushu picked up another piece of meat, put it in her bowl and split the meatball with the chopsticks. She saw a white thing the size of a mung bean in the middle of the meatball. Her delicate eyebrows knitted together. She picked it up with the chopsticks and observed it carefully for a long time. Zui Tao beside her exclaimed in panic, "This... this seems to be a tooth."
"Ah!" Liu Yushu's hand trembled and the chopsticks fell to the ground. She turned pale with fright.
How could there be a tooth mixed in the food? Was it an animal's tooth or... a human tooth?!