Chapter 156: The Not So Simple Square Kitten

“Boss, I think living on your Ranch would make every day very happy,” Amelia said with emotion as she ate her delicious breakfast.

Liu Heming’s method worked very well. Last night, after he rubbed their wrists, they didn’t feel anything, and they even worried that he might have hurt their wrists. But after waking up, they found their wrists had recovered a lot. Although there was still some slight discomfort, it didn’t affect their normal movement anymore.

It was Sasha who suggested they stay and rest here. She said it was better not to let the girls travel back and forth late at night, wasting time on the road.

“Yeah, Boss, I want to live here too,” Bella added from the side.

“Sorry, I didn’t think about this before. You all work very late every day, and walking at night is dangerous. Let’s work hard this month. If the profits are enough, we’ll first find a property in town and fix it up,” Liu Heming said after taking a sip of his porridge.

“Boss, that’s not what we meant,” Amelia said, sounding a little anxious.

The job here was very good. Although it was a bit tiring, the pay was high. She didn’t want Liu Heming to think they were complaining.

“Don’t overthink it. It was Sasha who reminded me yesterday,” Liu Heming shook his head.

“You are all pretty girls, and you have to travel home late every night. Even though you have a car, if you encounter bad people, you would still be in danger. I used to care too little about what happens at the shop. There are many houses in town. A simple repair won’t cost much money. It could also save you a lot on gas money each month.”

Sasha gave him a frustrated look. She really didn’t like Liu Heming mentioning her so often. She felt that after living here for a while, the people of Xiangshui Town had truly started to see her as the lady of the Ranch.

But what could she do? She was kind of a victim in this situation too. And now that she was quite familiar with Liu Heming, it felt awkward to keep a stern face every day.

The girls didn’t rest properly all morning. They ran around the Ranch, either playing with the Bear Kids or following behind Selin, sneakily watching him. As for those Little Kittens, they could only watch from a distance; they couldn’t get close to them at all.

“Dexter, you are really good to your employees,” Robin said with a smile.

“Ah, they are all poor young girls,” Liu Heming sighed.

“George told me about their situations. They originally had very good grades in School. But after the School in Xiangshui Town moved, they had to travel far to study.”

“Amelia even got accepted into the Montana University, but she didn’t get a scholarship, so she had to start working right after high school.”

“Who wouldn’t want to experience University life? Who wouldn’t want a job with higher pay and more respectability? But she could only watch that potentially wonderful life slip away.”

These were his shop’s people; how could he not know anything about their situations? He felt the most sorry for Amelia. One could only say that in the US, besides insurance and medical fees, another major expense is tuition.

It’s not so bad before high school, but for University, if you don’t get a scholarship? Well, that tuition becomes a huge amount of money. And that’s for ordinary majors. If you study medicine, you might spend half your life working just to pay off the debt after graduation.

If it weren’t for Amelia, he wouldn’t have known that tuition here was so expensive. He guessed many families probably start saving for it as soon as they have children.

“Hey, Jenny, what brings you here so leisurely today? Coming to visit?” He was just talking with Robin when he saw Jenny driving over.

“I was just passing by and thought I’d stop in. Things have been busy lately, and it’s been a long time since I visited the Bear Cubs. I miss them,” Jenny said with a smile as she got out of the car.

The Bear Kids gave Jenny plenty of face, each walking over to give her a big hug. As long as Jenny wasn’t holding a syringe, she was a good comrade.

“Yesterday I saw a news report. Two crocodiles escaped. Did you find them?” Liu Heming asked with a smile.

“We found them. Ah, they had a very careless owner,” Jenny said helplessly.

“But there’s more trouble. Their owner thought they were two male crocodiles, so he didn’t notice they had laid eggs and hatched them.”

“After they escaped this time, their babies also got out through the gaps. We’ve recovered 27 so far, and we don’t know how many more are still out there. The weather is getting colder now. If we can’t find them, they will definitely freeze to death in the winter here.”

The crocodile owner was also a rich person who kept them just for fun. After the novelty wore off, aside from feeding them, he paid them no attention. It was only after they found the eggshells this time that they realized the crocodiles had laid eggs. And crocodiles lay a lot of eggs, at least several dozen.

Liu Heming was speechless hearing this. Crocodiles are so terrifying, and yet someone kept them for fun. He didn’t stop to think that bears are terrifying too, and he was raising two like they were his own children.

“Dexter… they… are they the Little Kittens that Alex found last time?” Jenny was about to say something else when she saw four little Square Kittens lazily wandering back from outside.

“Yeah, that’s them. Their hearts have grown wild now. They go out to play every night, and the time they come back in the morning varies. Today they came back quite late,” Liu Heming said with a bitter smile.

“Dexter, they are not cats. No, they are also cats. They… they…” Jenny grabbed Liu Heming’s arm, looking at the four Square Kittens, her words becoming jumbled.

“Jenny, what’s wrong? Calm down,” Liu Heming asked curiously.

“They are Pallas’s Cats,” Jenny said to Liu Heming very excitedly.

“Pallas’s Cat? Don’t joke, how could they be related to rabbits?” Liu Heming shook his head.

“Wait a moment,” Jenny said, then ran to her car and got her laptop. After fiddling with it for a while, she handed the computer to Liu Heming.

Liu Heming looked down. On the screen was a picture of his own Square Kittens, although the cats in the picture had darker fur and were even more square than the ones at his home. And their name was Pallas’s Cat. After reading the information about Pallas’s Cats below, Liu Heming was dumbfounded. These four square things were actually a vulnerable protected species.

“Jenny, just because they look like this, you aren’t going to stop us from keeping them, are you?” Liu Heming asked Jenny nervously.

His daughter really loved the Square Kittens. If Jenny took them away, his daughter would be so heartbroken.