Chapter 32: Lai Ya

Is that the logic?

Yun Mu was stunned by what Lita said.

"Meow~"

Just then, a long, drawn-out cat meow caught her attention.

A slender black cat with dense fur appeared, walking with an elegant gait to her side before she even noticed.

The other party first rubbed affectionately against her feet, then leaped onto her lap.

"Wow, you fat cat, you're so affectionate to outsiders, how come you dodge me for ages whenever I try to touch you?"

Seeing the scene before her, Lita widened her eyes and said.

"Meow~"

The black cat licked its paw, ignored Lita, and lay directly on Yun Mu.

"This is?"

Yun Mu subconsciously stroked the black cat's head, then used her fingers to gently Scratch its chin and said.

Lita, watching from the side, felt so envious she couldn't even enjoy her meal, and said with a hint of sourness: "This is the cat I keep at home, her name is Lai Ya."

"Lai Ya?"

Isn't that the last two characters of Lita's surname?

"Yes, her name is Lai Ya."

Lita nodded, confirming her thought.

After a moment of thought, Yun Mu extended her left hand and gently shook the bell on her wrist.

"Meow~"

Just as the Equipment Panel said, after Yun Mu shook the bell on the bracelet, Lai Ya immediately opened her eyelids and looked up at the top with her pitch-black eyes, full of curiosity.

Yun Mu shook it twice more, then pulled her left hand away, brought it back close, and even swayed it left and right.

Lai Ya's gaze followed the bell as it moved, and even when the bell was very close, she clumsily reached out her paw to gently Scratch at it.

"Has she been spayed?" Yun Mu asked Lita while teasing the cat.

"No." Shaking her head, Lita looked at her strangely and said: "Why ask that?"

"It's best to spay pets, otherwise she'll be very uncomfortable when she's in heat, and she might go off and mess around with other cats; if she gets pregnant and has a bunch of kittens, and you choose not to keep them, there will be more and more stray cats on the street."

Yun Mu answered almost subconsciously.

She had kept cats before she transmigrated and had learned about many things to pay attention to when keeping cats, so answering these questions was a breeze.

"Is that so!?"

Hearing Yun Mu's words, Lita looked deeply shocked, and then she suddenly remembered something, a look of realization appearing on her face.

"No wonder Lai Ya was always in a bad mood before and kept meowing at me, was she in heat?"

"You didn't take her to see a vet?" Yun Mu frowned.

"Ah, this..." After thinking about it, Lita answered honestly: "Actually, Lai Ya is a stray cat I picked up on the street. I saw she was quite pitiful so I brought her back, and I don't really know how to keep a cat."

"Even when she was in heat before, I just thought she had a bad temper and didn't pay much attention to it."

"It's fine, just pay more attention in the future." Yun Mu gently rubbed Lai Ya's head, placed her on the ground, then stood up and walked to the kitchen sink to wash her hands.

She still had to eat; she had been talking for so long that she hadn't touched a single bite of her food, and she was nearly starving to death.

"Meow~"

After being placed on the ground by Yun Mu, Lai Ya didn't make a fuss, just gently swept her tail against Yun Mu's ankle, then walked back the way she came with an elegant cat gait.

"Find time to take her to a vet to get spayed later." Sitting back down on the chair at the dining table, Yun Mu hadn't forgotten about spaying Lai Ya and said.

"I will, I will, I'll take her to the vet tomorrow," Lita promised.

"Mm."

Yun Mu nodded, then didn't speak again.

Actually, she also wanted to say that she could give the cat some vaccines, but after thinking about it, she didn't say it.

Because she had no idea if this world even had vaccines!

It should have them, she supposed, but her predecessor didn't seem to have heard of them either.

Because she wasn't sure and didn't know, Yun Mu decided to stay silent.

Eat!

Hmm, the meat sauce lasagna was salty and fragrant, the vegetable salad was refreshing and appetizing, and as for the caviar.

Whether in her past life or this one, it was her first time eating this thing.

It didn't taste like much when it first entered her mouth, but once she started chewing, she could taste a faint fishy flavor.

It felt a bit strange the first bite, but after a few more bites, she got used to it; she couldn't say it was delicious, but it wasn't bad either.

Perhaps some people would like it, but she didn't want to give too much of an opinion on this taste.

And after finishing the main course, it was time for the dessert she was looking forward to most.

"What would you like to drink?"

Edward poured himself a glass of sparkling wine of an unknown brand, then looked at Yun Mu and Lita and asked.

"There is black tea, coffee, milk, beer, wine, and purified water."

Finally, he explained to Yun Mu.

"I want beer!" Lita said first.

Cake with beer, what kind of weird combination is that?

Yun Mu looked at Lita strangely, then looked at Edward and said: "I'll have milk."

She had originally wanted black tea, but after thinking about it, she felt a bit embarrassed.

It is not just that black tea is more expensive; the time required to brew it, as well as the technique, are all quite troublesome.

She would not trouble others here.

"Alright, beer and milk, is that right?"

Edward turned and walked into the depths of the kitchen, returning after a short while with two glass bottles, which he handed to them respectively.

"Thank you."

Yun Mu took the glass bottle from Edward's hand; it felt somewhat icy to the touch, as if it had been stored at a lower temperature.

She used the bottle opener Edward had just placed on the table to pry the glass bottle open, then took a light sip.

It was pure milk.

She judged in her heart, then sent the cake into her mouth.

On the third day since transmigrating, the food she was eating was actually catching up to what she had before transmigrating.

Thinking of the rye bread she ate on the night she first transmigrated, and the roasted potatoes and vegetable stew she ate at the Gray Stone Inn last night.

The dinner she was eating today could certainly be called extremely sumptuous.

And she would be able to eat three meals of this standard every day from now on!

Perhaps, this is happiness.

Before transmigrating, what she ate was not much worse than this, but her life had not been all that happy.

After transmigrating and accepting the memories of her predecessor, she could be this happy just by eating a good meal.

As expected, happiness is all about comparison.

Yun Mu sighed silently in her heart, then said to Lita and Edward: "Um, I have something to do and need to go out after twelve o'clock tonight."

"Going out at such a late hour?"

Hearing Yun Mu's words, Lita immediately became alert; as a member of the Guard Hall, she was very sensitive to this time.

"What are you going to do?" she asked subconsciously.

Yun Mu cast a pleading gaze toward Edward, hoping the other party could help her out.

"It's not anything illegal, is it?" Edward asked her after noticing her gaze.

"Absolutely not!" Yun Mu said without hesitation.

She did not know if the thing that white-haired young girl asked her to do was illegal, but her act of going out to meet the other party tonight was definitely not illegal!

PS: The Frost Kingdom has refrigerators.

Although I feel most people should know this, I will still explain it briefly.

The principle of a refrigerator is mainly to use machinery to compress the gas used for cooling, followed by a process of releasing the gas.

This process does not necessarily have to use electricity; a steam engine can certainly drive it as well.

By the way, when the Energy Tower is working, in addition to being used to heat the city, the excess water vapor will also follow the pipes to provide energy for certain machines in the city.

As for what these certain machines are, I don't know, hehe~

(End of this chapter)