The Daily Life Of Mei Furen Doting On Her Husband - Chapter 87

In the following days, not only the officials of the Ministry of Justice but even those closer to Mei Zhuyu could often see him carrying a cat when he went in and out. So, everyone couldn’t help but sigh that Minister Mei was indeed a cat lover.

Some people even tried to find faults with Mei Zhuyu, hoping to punish him. However, before they could, the Minister of Justice praised Minister Mei’s cat for a while and then also brought a cat to work. Since the boss did it, how could anyone dare to say it was wrong?

After that, somehow, petting cats became a trend in the six ministries. One day, even Censor Liu, who loved to find faults with others, brought his cats to work for the first time. He brought two cats, one squatting on each shoulder, which almost scared the stubborn people in the Censorate silly.

When someone asked about it, Imperial Censor Liu said with a straight face, “What’s wrong with cats?”

No one dared to argue with Iron-headed Censor Liu, and thus, no one dared to say another word on the matter.

Because her injuries had not yet fully healed, Wu Zhen spent more time in cat form than in human form, as that form allowed her to recover faster. Strangely enough, Wu Zhen was someone who could not sit still and had to find something interesting to do every day; otherwise, she would feel bored. But since she got closer to Mei Zhuyu, she seemed to be influenced by her husband and could tolerate the quietness.

There was no more horse racing in the suburbs, no more competitions in the military training grounds, no more Cuju and polo, and even fewer visits to music houses and brothels. During that period of recuperation, Wu Zhen mostly transformed into a cat during the day to accompany her husband at work in the Ministry of Justice, taking a nap on his lap. At night, she transformed into a human form, sleeping on her husband’s lap to enjoy the coolness, feeling lazy all over.

However, she did not always stay with Mei Zhuyu during the day. Sometimes, when she had enough sleep, she would go out and visit various government offices.

Since petting cats had become a trend, there were a lot more cats in that area. Unlike stray cats, cats with shiny fur and sturdy bodies were usually brought by officials. Many officials had been secretly competing with each other over their cats.

Wu Zhen also ran to a group of bored officials and watched their cats competing for beauty. The scene was so terrible that a group of cats almost fought each other, and the officials who raised cats almost fought each other as well.

The place Wu Zhen visited most often was the Censorate, because the two cats of Censor Liu in the Censorate were raised by his daughter Liu Taizhen, and they looked exactly like Wu Zhen’s cats. Censor Liu couldn’t tell the difference between Wu Zhen and those two cats, so Wu Zhen often went there to pretend to be one of the cats.

Censor Liu would glare at her whenever he saw her, but when she turned into a cat, she could jump on Censor Liu’s head to show off her power. Wu Zhen was secretly happy and would come to play whenever she had time, often taking the opportunity to take revenge—for example, she would suddenly jump up and kick him, and Censor Liu would only smile with a loving face, being so kind as if he were a fake Censor Liu.

Every time this happened, Wu Zhen felt that she had made a good choice when choosing the two cats for the Snake Lord a few years ago; otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to take advantage of their similar appearance.

However, considering that he was her friend’s father, Wu Zhen did not dare to go too far, fearing that if Liu Taizhen found out, she would be beaten into a dead cat. So she just came over occasionally to hang around, squat on his shoulders, and suddenly give him a light flying cat kick. Liu Yushi was not annoyed by that mild cat punch, and he would show off to others every time that his cat was friendly to people.

Wu Zhen went to the Censorate more often. If she didn’t see Mei Zhuyu coming back before her shift ended, she would wait at the door of the Censorate. When Censor Liu discovered something was wrong for the first time, he was stunned to see three identical cats appear at the same time. When he saw Mei Zhuyu examining the three cats for a long time and finally carefully picking up one of them, Censor Liu felt very uncomfortable.

Censor Liu: “Is this your cat?”

Mei Zhuyu was still carefully looking at the cat in his arms, and felt that it must be correct, so he nodded and said, “Yes.”

Censor Liu glanced suspiciously at the innocent and well-behaved tabby cat in Mei Zhuyu’s arms. He suddenly felt a strong suspicion that he had been taken advantage of during this period, but that suspicion came out of nowhere.

Mei Zhuyu kept talking on the way back with the cat in his arms, but the cat in his arms didn’t make a sound, as if it didn’t understand what he was saying. Mei Zhuyu’s eyesight had improved a lot these days, much better than before, and he could accurately choose his lady nine times out of ten. But every time, even if he chose correctly, Wu Zhen would deliberately tease him and pretend to be a real cat. Once Mei Zhuyu took her back, but she didn’t change back until midnight. He thought he was really wrong and almost took her to search the Liu family’s house in the middle of the night, which made Wu Zhen laugh for most of the night.

Having been deceived by his wife several times, Mei Zhuyu did not dare to make a hasty conclusion. He held up the cat and looked into her eyes for a long time. Finally, Wu Zhen could not help it and pressed a paw on his forehead, grinning and saying, “You made the right choice today!”

Mei Zhuyu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Taoist Shuangjiang had left Chang’an a few days ago. With Wu Zhen around, Taoist Shuangjiang was finally not beaten to a pulp by his junior uncle. Before he left, Wu Zhen heard him muttering to himself that he would tell his brothers, junior brothers, masters, and uncles about his junior master’s marriage.

Wu Zhen thought to herself, could it be that after a while, the Taoist priests of Changxi Temple would gather in Chang’an City?

It was midsummer, and in previous years, Wu Zhen would look for a place to escape the heat. But that year she could bear it and lived peacefully in Mei Zhuyu’s house. Before she knew it, she stayed there almost every day, rarely returning to Duke Yu’s Mansion.

Mei Si, Cui Jiu, and others wanted to go out with her, but after several unsuccessful attempts to find her at Duke Yu’s Mansion, they gradually got used to looking for her at Mei Zhuyu’s place. However, Wu Zhen was recovering from her injuries and was with Mei Zhuyu almost every day, so Cui Jiu and others rarely ran into her. As a result, when they finally met her, the boys and girls were extremely resentful, and their tone made Wu Zhen feel like a heartless person.

On that day, Wu Zhen finally went out to play with Cui Jiu and the others and did not go with Mei Zhuyu. Mei Zhuyu felt empty and was very uncomfortable. He stopped writing dozens of times in the morning and looked at the tung tree outside the window several times, but he never saw Wu Zhen. At noon, two monsters carrying food boxes came to deliver his meal. They were two rat monsters. They smelled the remaining scent of Wu Zhen, and the two little monsters trembled and ran away after delivering the food.

Although the food was still rich, Mei Zhuyu found it tasteless. He held the bowl for a moment, sighed, and put it down.