In the recent phone call, the wealthy Taiwanese man, who had caused Zheng Qing endless hatred in the past, said sadly that their mutual wife, Huo Tong, had a car accident this afternoon while driving along Binhai Road and unfortunately passed away. She drove the car off a cliff and was swept into the depths of the ocean by the flying white waves, and her body was never found. Although the Taiwanese man still held some grudges against him, he still informed him. After all, people are gone, what meaning does hatred have?
By calculating the time, when Huo Tong fell off the cliff, it coincided closely with the time Zheng Qing was buying a long-haired Siamese rabbit at a street-side pet market.
Thinking about this, Zheng Qing's stomach began to cramp again and again, as if an invisible hand were ruthlessly kneading his abdomen, making him helpless.
Amid Xiao Yu's astonished eyes, Zheng Qing held onto the toilet, crying and vomiting at the same time. In these few days since receiving the news, Zheng Qing had not been feeling well. He did not want Xiao Yu to see him sad and decadent all day, so he sent his son to full-time care at the kindergarten. At home, the only companion he had was that white long-haired Siamese rabbit.
This long-haired rabbit, with teeth similar to Huo Tong's, hopped around the house all day, and its body gradually became plump, with its belly increasingly swollen. Zheng Qing's emotional state also made it impossible for him to take better care of the rabbit, so whatever he ate, he would feed a bit of the leftovers to the rabbit. Zheng Qing liked to eat meat, and every meal he had ordered bento boxes with meat dishes from the restaurant downstairs. The leftover dishes mixed with meat were fed to the rabbit, and he was strangely surprised to see that every time, the rabbit would eat all the meat in the bento box, leaving nothing behind.
In Zheng Qing's memory, rabbits should be cute little animals that like to eat carrots, but this rabbit liked to eat meat, which puzzled him. It was a long-haired Siamese rabbit; Zheng Qing had never heard of such a breed before, and even searching online, he could not find any introduction about this kind of rabbit. However, since this rabbit liked to eat meat, he decided to feed it meat. Thinking back then, Huo Tong also loved to eat meat the most. He had heard that the Taiwanese man she married had a mother who was a Buddhist and that the whole family followed a vegetarian diet every day, so Huo Tong probably lived uncomfortably. Thinking of Huo Tong again, Zheng Qing's eyes involuntarily became slightly red.Huo Tong's body was washed up on the beach seven days later by the frothing tide, bleached and swollen, her fingers thickened like carrots. Her entire body showed no trace of curves, looking like a seaweed rice ball that had been fresh and appetizing a few days ago but was now moldy, spoiled, and emitting a foul stench. According to the forensic pathologist, after driving away the swarms of flies covering Huo Tong, they found her deformed body. Pressing on her muscle with a finger would immediately create a small dent that wouldn't refill for a long time, gradually accumulating a layer of thick, yellowish bodily fluid. Her body was also covered in wounds, marks left from the bites of sea creatures. The funeral was held with great solemnity, attended by many people. When Zheng Qing, dressed in a black suit, saw that Taiwanese man, he remained silent. Huo Tong was gone; what meaning did lingering hatred have?
The overweight elderly Taiwanese man, shedding tears, muttered, "A Tong always drove steadily, how could such a thing happen? When I used to drive, she would remind me constantly to be careful, yet how did she fall off the cliff along with the car? Just last month, she told me she was pregnant and would give me a chubby little boy, but now..." His words dissolved into helpless sobs.
Zheng Qing didn't want to listen anymore. He feared he might break down into tears himself, so he found an excuse to leave the funeral.
He didn't go straight home but went to a street-side pet market. He wanted to ask the shop owner who had sold him the Siamese rabbit back then whether feeding rabbits meat was actually harmful. But when he arrived at the pet market, he couldn't find that store at all.
Frustrated, Zheng Qing bought some meat from a roadside stall and went home. As soon as he opened the door, he saw his long-haired Siamese rabbit hopping to the door, holding a slipper in its mouth. Zheng Qing forced a smile, unsure whether he was raising a rabbit or a dog. Slipping on a pair of slippers, he crouched down and scooped up the rabbit, saying, "Little cutie, look what I brought you today! Your favorite meat!" But as his hand touched the rabbit's belly, he suddenly froze. The rabbit's belly was flat and empty.
Zheng Qing was struck with sudden shock. Wasn't the rabbit supposed to be pregnant? How could there be nothing inside now?He put down the rabbit in confusion, and immediately the rabbit bit his pant leg, desperately moving its body, trying to drag him along with it. Zheng Qing gave a bitter smile and let the rabbit pull him into the bathroom. On the clean, white tiled floor of the bathroom, two fluffy pink balls of meat were slowly crawling on the floor, snuggling against each other. These were two newborn baby rabbits. Zheng Qing chuckled, and the gloom in his heart instantly vanished. Having two adorable little creatures in the house was truly a joyous thing. But for Zheng Qing, who had never raised rabbits before, it brought a different kind of trouble. The mother rabbit had no milk, and even with formula, the baby rabbits refused to eat. Zheng Qing didn't know what to do, so helplessly he resorted to his final plan: he cut the freshly bought meat into small pieces, mixed it with rice, and heated it in the microwave. Unexpectedly, when the steaming hot meat and rice were placed in front of the baby rabbits, the two round little fellows immediately crawled over and started eating the meat in an endearingly clumsy manner.
