Domineering Moral Animal Husbandry: Where Can Sanhua’S Lovely Wife Escape? Chapter 8

Chapter 8 Mouseros

Forty-watt lights blazed, and sparkling diamonds covered the walls, floors, and ceilings, illuminating the room with a brilliant white light.

From behind a tall solid wood desk, a deep voice drifted from an armchair.

“Speak.”

The bead-eyed hamster curled into a ball, straining to open his eyes wide, yet he couldn’t even make out the silhouette of the animal in the armchair.

“C-Cousin,” he turned his head slightly, signaling that there were other animals present.

Mouseros blew a smoke ring. “Don’t worry. Just like you, he is blind as a bat whenever the light is too bright. Heh.”

“You don’t mind, do you, my old friend?” he said to Night Owl.

“Of course not.”

The tall black owl rotated his head 360 degrees. As his head snapped back around, he gave a sharp nod, and a pair of tinted contact lenses slid down from beneath his eyelids.

His sharp gaze instantly transformed from (I)v(I) to (O)v(O).

He took in the sight of the mouse sitting in the armchair with his legs crossed.

Mouseros smoothed his meticulously groomed whiskers. He didn’t have much patience for this 1,342nd cousin who had come knocking on his door. He said, “Spit it out! I only bailed you out from the fuzz because you said you had important news to report. If what you have to say is useless, I’ll make you realize that eating slop in a jail cell is a luxury!”

The hamster shuddered, remembering his cousin’s luxury bodyguard squad of over a dozen hyenas. Not daring to hide anything, he said dejectedly, “Cousin, do you remember the House of Ragdoll, the wealthiest family in the Meow Kingdom?”

“Of course.” Mouseros’s voice dropped, his raspy tone laced with ruthlessness.

That was the greatest humiliation of his life as a mouse.

The hamster continued, “Back then, you were generous enough to give the Meow Kingdom a chance, telling those cats to hand over half the Dried Fish in their national treasury so you wouldn’t have to pay them a visit personally. But those cats didn’t know what was good for them. They actually dared to refuse your proposal and even conspired with the neighboring Woof Kingdom to set a trap, which resulted in you losing half an ear…”

“Get to the point!” Mouseros slammed his paw on the desk.

“Y-yes, Cousin.” The hamster barely dared to breathe. “Even though you were wise enough to figure out that the Ragdoll couple were the masterminds behind the cat-dog alliance, and you deliberately shorted the Dried Fish index to bankrupt them and even sent our 2,244th cousin to kidnap their youngest son… half an ear still won’t grow back after all…”

“The point!”

The hamster was pelted with chestnuts thrown by Mouseros, leaving bumps all over his head. Clutching his head, he cried, “This is the point! Cousin, do you remember that little kitten who escaped? I found him!”

“What?” Mouseros stopped pummeling his cousin. “Are you sure?”

“Absolutely!” the hamster said. “Male Sanhua cats are rare to begin with, and I remember it clearly—he has a heart-shaped patch of orange fur on his butt!”

Mouseros: “…”

The hamster added, “He escaped back then after scratching our 2,244th cousin, but we definitely can’t let him get away this time… Cousin?”

Mouseros waved his hand, signaling his hyena bodyguards to carry him over to the hamster. Sitting in his chair, he looked down at the hamster from within the massive shadow.

The sound of grinding teeth creaked closer and closer.

He asked, “How exactly did you see the fur on another cat’s butt?”

“…………”

“No wonder ‘peeping’ was among the charges for your latest arrest… You wouldn’t even let a male cat off the hook. You’ve disgraced the entire Mouse family!”

“Cousin, have mercy!!”

Author’s Note

Mouseros’s Inner Monologue:

Me: Outlaw, Treasury Slayer, Shorter of the Meow Kingdom’s Dried Fish, Face-to-face with natural enemies, an eagle-like mouse.

My cousin: Digging holes in grain stores, peeping up other animals’ skirts, imprisoned for voyeurism, perfectly fitting the stereotype, a cat-crap-like mouse.

Family misfortune!

PPS: Owls can’t see clearly during the day, so Attorney Night Owl (Yexiao) cleverly equipped himself with tinted contact lenses.