Chapter Nineteen: The Real Parvenu Hamster (2/2)

Fine, seeing how he still had to bother Yan Jin for quite some time in the future, he decided to be the losing party this time. In any case, he was just a hamster now, he should not interfere with human Xiao Yu’s fate anyway.

Xiao Yu’s ‘birthday’ concluded with a picture of Yan Jin and Xiao Yu togetherwith Chu Ge as the photographer.

After the picture was taken, Yan Jin said, “Let’s go.”

Go? Go where?

Unlike the ignorant Xiao Yu, Chu Ge immediately guessed the answer, “You’ve organized the second floor? So fast? You even ordered the cage?”

“Nope. Fishy likes that cage you gave him. I don’t plan on getting a new one. The one upstairs will be his other cage.”

Xiao Yu caught a keyword and was instantly excited.

The second floor! They were finally going to the second floor?

As an adventurous hamster, Xiao Yu had long wanted to take look at the second floor. However, something had been stopping him from doing so. That obstacle was the stairs.

The stairs in this villa were one of those types of spiral glass staircases that were leveled with glass panels, but not directly connected to one another. For humans, the fifteen centimeters in between two glass panel steps were not a big deal. But for Xiao Yu – a hamster that was at most ten centimeters in length – probably couldn’t reach the higher panel even if he jumped. Plus, he dared not risk his own life, which was why he had not ventured to the second floor.

Now that he finally had a chance to visit the second floor, Xiao Yu’s spirits immediately perked up.

Didn’t Yan Jin just say that he prepared another cage for him on the second level?

Xiao Yu expectantly looked at Yan Jin as he stretched his paws and tapped on Yan Jin’s palm.

“Squeakkk.” Quick, bring me there.

Yan Jin got the message as he grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the table and then headed to the second level with Chu Ge following behind him.

The second level’s arrangement was different compared to the first level; the initial design was made with the common rooms as the main highlight. After Yan Jin took over this villa, he had the first level renovated but had left the second floor untouched. Hence, the corridor on the second level had nothing special other than the doors to the common rooms. The design was not as complicated as the first level, which made it not as appealing.

Xiao Yu had always looked forward to seeing Yan Jin’s collection room and etc. on the second level. He thought that he would witness one of those rare collection sets or maybe some designed artifacts, but now, he couldn’t help but feel disappointed.

Yan Jin seemed to sense Xiao Yu’s gloomy mood. Then, he opened one of the doors.

…

If Xiao Yu was still a human, he would have suspected that he had opened the wrong door and would have closed the door once again.

Too bad he was only a mere hamster now. That was why he could only widen his eyes in disbelief as he watched the incredible scene before him.

This room was different from the other common rooms. It did not have a bed or any kind of furniture. The four walls of the room were covered with pink and blue checkered wallpaper and the floor had no carpet. But, the flooring was soft; a person’s feet would sink deeply into the floor with every step they took. There were a lot of soft pillows and cushions at all four corners of the room and the ceiling’s chandelier was a small carousel that emitted a soft, warm glow as the colorful wooden horses moved in circles.

But all those features did not capture Xiao Yu’s attention when he had first entered the room.

At the center of the room, there was a low billiard-sized table that barely reached the height of Yan Jin’s calves.

On that table was something that Xiao Yu had never seen before, never heard of before and never thought that it would appear in his imagination before –

The first thing that came into his sight were the white clouds drawn on the sky background board with watercolor, planted at the far end of the table.

Then, under that ‘sky’, there was a town!

As if he had entered a fairy tale kingdom, the walkway was paved with limestone tiles and at the sides were rows of European apartment buildings. The buildings were structured to look broad on the top and narrow at the bottom, just like how they would normally appear in cartoons. With the pointy roofs and compact attics, every household and building was exquisitely decorated. Every glass window could be opened. Looking out from those windows, he could see the messy trash bins at the corners of the street where the dim street lights flickered. The low bushes were set off by contrast with the brick red walls that had tomatoes pencil drawn on it.

They were just round circles, but Xiao Yu knew they were tomatoes, they had to be tomatoes.

The small town had cafes, a cinema, a barber’s shop and a bar. Wine glasses and small cheerful decorations embellished the bar counters. Every table came with three small chairs as they waited for their only customer. The display windows in the shopping street had cute bags and dresses. Every poster was appropriately pasted on the wall, along with some older brick walls that were about to fall off as it lined with the edge of the torn posters. It seemed as if it really was a small town from a decade ago.

Opening the windows of the highest storied buildings, he could see the town’s most beautiful flower bed, along with the water fountain splashing water towards the sun like a blooming flower. At the center of the flower bed was a gothic church with white doves on top of the clock tower, singing the songs of harmony.

Xiao Yu had gone overseas to study at country F before. He had also travelled to deserted places as well, but he had never seen a town as gorgeous as this one. It was as if it had all the essences of what the most beautiful town should have, and it was all compressed and built in this place that was like a marvelous wonderland.

Too bad this town did not exist in any corner of the world; instead, it was all on top of this low table with the dove of peace at the peak of the church that was as high as Yan Jin’s shoulder.

This town did not belong to any human being, but it was a tiny man-made town.

At the front end of the small town, there was a semi-arched door with fresh flowers and lamp posts at its sides. Written on top of it was –

A Little Town for Fishy

This was the ‘other cage’ that Yan Jin had mentioned earlier.

As Xiao Yu walked on the pavement laid with flagstones polished from every angle, he truly felt like a parvenu hamster.