Allergic To Furry Things But Can Pet Them Mentally – CH46

Chapter 46

“What does straight guy mean?” It was the first time Tang Rong had ever heard a term like that, and since it was being used on the little friend he was closest to, he could not help feeling curious.

Luo Yue thought for a moment and explained, “I’m not totally sure either, but it should mean the kind of boy who’s really no fun at all. Like… say you haven’t had a little cake in a long time and finally buy one, then he sees it and insists on saying stuff like eating cake will make you fat or ruin your teeth. If he says it before you buy it, that’s one thing, but saying it after you already bought it totally ruins your good mood.”

Tang Rong mentally replaced little cake with pumpkin steamed bun and nodded in agreement.

Ordinary buns were white buns, and when you ate them, they had a tiny bit of sweetness, but overall they were still pretty bland. Pumpkin buns had pumpkin mixed in, so the flavor was richer—fragrant and soft—and Tang Rong liked them very much. But pumpkin buns were more expensive than white buns, so he rarely got to eat them. After Grandma passed away, he had never had one again.

If he had finally bought himself a pumpkin bun, and Little Han-brother saw it and said eating pumpkin buns would make him fat and ruin his teeth, Tang Rong would be unhappy too. It wasn’t like he ate them every day—he would only have one once in a while.

As Tang Rong’s gaze toward him gradually turned aggrieved, even with the faintest trace of inexplicable resentment mixed in, alarm bells instantly went off in Shen Muhan’s head. He immediately took Tang Rong’s other hand too. “I would never do that. This weekend I’ll treat little Rong to cake.”

Tang Rong blinked and came back out of his imagined scenario. The way he looked at Shen Muhan softened again, and he asked in a small voice, “Can we have pumpkin buns?”

Shen Muhan didn’t even bother asking what pumpkin buns were and directly answered, “Little Rong can eat whatever he wants.”

Tang Rong immediately became happy again.

The moment food came up, Qi Fu came over and shared enthusiastically, “Creamy little steamed buns are really good too. If you pour condensed milk on them, they’re amazing—one bite each, super fragrant. And there’s toasted buns, toasted bread slices, crispy and sweet…”

Shen Muhan silently memorized it all. This weekend, he would treat Tang Rong to everything.

Bai Tu was quieter, but inside, his emotions were already churning like a storm.

The moment Tang Rong arrived today, he had shared stories about going to the mall with Shen Muhan over the weekend. And now he had heard Shen Muhan say that this coming weekend he would also be meeting Tang Rong offline. Bai Tu was practically dying of envy.

Wuwu, he wanted to meet little Rong offline too. He wanted to go to the mall with little Rong too…

His grandma seemed to know little Rong’s dad. Once he got home, he would ask Grandma to contact little Rong’s father and invite little Rong over to his house to play.

After this little interruption, Luo Yue and Luo Xing went back to showing Tang Rong links to the little clothes their cat wore.

Tang Rong’s optical brain also had StarMall installed, but since he knew very few characters, he had not really used many of the functions and apps on it before, so he was unfamiliar with it.

Under Luo Yue and Luo Xing’s guidance, Tang Rong opened the product links they had shared and saw fluffy-sized little skirts and bows.

There were many colors and many sizes. Tang Rong knew colors and numbers, but he had no concept at all of the little snow leopard’s measurements, so he had no idea how to choose.

The system could actually tell Tang Rong directly—it still had that much ability—but it deliberately acted as though it didn’t know and told Tang Rong to go back and measure it himself. For a little cub, that would also be a pretty good experience.

So Tang Rong spent the rest of the day full of eager anticipation, impatiently waiting for school to end.

During that time, Shen Muhan badly wanted to keep subtly trying to persuade him to give up on buying little snow leopard clothes, but he was afraid Tang Rong would dislike him for it. In the end, he chose silence. He did not want to solidify the image of being a “straight guy.”

Compared to being disliked by little Rong, he could accept wearing one of those little outfits.

Just one.

…

At last school was over. The very first thing Tang Rong did after leaving the learning pod was scoop the little snow leopard into his arms and start measuring it.

The little snow leopard knew what he was doing. Although it resisted inwardly, it still cooperated obediently.

Tang Rong carefully measured its body length, girth, tail length, and even the lengths of all four little paws. Whether they would be useful or not, he recorded everything one by one in the notes app of his optical brain.

The butler watched the whole thing and asked curiously, “What is Rongrong planning to do? Record the little snow leopard’s growth?”

Before Tang Rong had even come home, the children’s room had already been set up. There was a giraffe height chart inside, and the butler had once brought Tang Rong over to measure his height and mark it with a pen, wanting to record Tang Rong’s growth year by year.

So by reflex, he assumed Tang Rong wanted to do the same thing for the little snow leopard.

But the little snow leopard was in the juvenile state of a spirit form and would never grow up. It was like this now, and after decades it would still be like this.

Tang Rong shook his head and obediently explained what he really meant to do.

The butler could not help laughing then and finally understood why the little snow leopard’s tail had been drooping the whole time.

The butler did not tell Tang Rong ahead of time that he had already asked Second Miss to make little clothes, because he wanted it to be a surprise. At the same time, he also very much supported Tang Rong personally choosing an outfit for the little snow leopard.

Since it was Tang Rong’s first time shopping online, the butler patiently taught him for a long while, helping him fill in the address information and explaining every section of the product page interface. Other than not knowing enough words, Tang Rong had no real trouble with it.

He had also been working hard to learn. During this period, after coming home from kindergarten, aside from playing with the little snow leopard and watching cartoons, he would also hug the little snow leopard while watching some early childhood educational lessons on the optical brain and learning things.

Finally, with the butler’s help, Tang Rong placed an order for a light blue little dress, the type that came with a big butterfly bow. The bow could be tied onto the tail, worn on the head, or pinned onto the back—you could DIY it however you liked.

The little snow leopard lay in Tang Rong’s arms and watched helplessly as he pressed confirm payment.

The heart that had been hanging in suspense finally died.

The next second, Tang Rong suddenly said, “I want to buy one for Xiao Hu-brother, Little Sister Qiu, and little kitty too.”

When the little snow leopard heard that, it fully supported the idea with all four paws.

If you’ve been rained on, you should go smack away other people’s umbrellas too.

But the butler said, “Xiao Hu-brother has too many tails, so it wouldn’t be very convenient for him to wear little clothes. Little Sister Qiu is too small, so it’s hard to find the right size for her. And little kitty isn’t a house pet—it has to hunt outside, so wearing little clothes would make hunting very inconvenient.”

Spirit forms generally didn’t wear clothes. It made switching back to human form inconvenient. The little snow leopard was a rather special exception.

Tang Rong thought that made sense, so he gave up on the idea and decided he would prepare different gifts for them instead.

Little snow leopard: “…??”

The little snow leopard felt deeply betrayed.

After browsing StarMall a bit longer, Tang Rong ordered a gift for every family member.

For Grandpa, it was a little tiger ornament that could wave its paw, because Grandpa liked little tigers.

For Dad, it was a cup, because Dad liked drinking tea.

For Second Sister, it was a little pair of scissors, because she liked making crafts.

For Third Brother, it was a box of throat lozenges, because he liked singing.

For Xiao Hu-brother, it was a fox scratch board, because he really liked sharpening his claws.

For Little Sister Qiu, it was a beautiful little bird nest—one of those super soft cloud-like ones—so she wouldn’t have to sleep in a cage and could sleep in the nest instead. Tang Rong had seen lots of little birds outside building nests in trees for themselves.

For the little wildcat, it was a box of cat food cans, so it could eat until its tummy was full.

…

When it came time to pay, Tang Rong could not help feeling stunned.

It was the first time he had ever spent this much money. If converted into buns, it would be enough to buy so, so, so many of them.

Still, compared to the balance in his account, it actually wasn’t very much at all.

And when it came to preparing gifts for his family, he wasn’t stingy. Even though he was shocked, he still paid without hesitation.

He would earn even more money in the future and buy even more gifts for his family.

After buying everything, Tang Rong lifted his little head and said, “Uncle, I’ll go buy your gift this weekend when I go out with Little Han-brother.”

Uncle could teach him on the optical brain how to buy surprise gifts for the other family members, but there was no way Uncle could teach him how to buy one for himself, because then it wouldn’t be a surprise anymore.

So Tang Rong had decided he would secretly buy it when he went out to play with Little Han-brother this weekend.

The butler froze. He had not really been surprised by the fact that he, too, would receive a gift. After all, since Tang Rong had even prepared one for the little wildcat, of course there would also be one for him. But actually hearing it still moved him deeply, and something warm and soft passed through his eyes.

“Alright. Uncle is very much looking forward to it.”

Hearing the words this weekend and going out with him, the little snow leopard’s mood eased a little.

Suddenly, Tang Rong thought of something else and asked carefully, “Uncle, is Eldest Brother’s surgery still not finished? How is he now?”

Naturally, Eldest Brother was also one of the family members. Even though Tang Rong had never met him, he still wanted to prepare a little gift for him too.

Over these past days, he had not heard the family mention Eldest Brother at all. Because he was instinctively afraid of sickness and surgery, he had not dared ask on his own. He had only been silently praying that Eldest Brother would get better quickly and suddenly appear in one of their family video calls.

But after so long, there still had not been the slightest news of Eldest Brother.

Now, using the gift-buying as an excuse, Tang Rong finally could not help asking.

When the butler heard that, he gave two somewhat guilty coughs. “Almost finished. In about a week or so, Rongrong should be able to meet Eldest Brother. When the time comes, Eldest Brother will personally tell Rongrong some secrets.”

This was the relatively “gentle” method the family had thought over for quite a long time. The plan was to let Tang Rong personally try soothing Eldest Brother Tang Yao, and through Tang Yao, discover the whole truth. This would both align with Doctor Lin’s suggestion—letting Tang Rong come into contact with wounded spirit forms at the recuperation base—and gently reveal everything.

At that point, they would apologize to Tang Rong one by one and seek his forgiveness.

Secrets?

Tang Rong tilted his little head in confusion, curiosity bursting inside him. That only made him look forward even more to meeting Eldest Brother.

The little snow leopard, meanwhile, instantly became alert and grabbed its own tail in its mouth.

Little Rong’s family was preparing to tell him the truth.

It still hadn’t figured out how to make sure little Rong wouldn’t be angry with it…

Holding its tail in its mouth, the little snow leopard got so lost in thought that it couldn’t help nibbling on it.

Suddenly, inspiration flashed through its mind.

Eh—got it!

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