Pets can shame their humans too

[thetopofthefoodchain]

From: Anonymous
Date: 11th April

[The camera is a little shaky as it moves through corridors, twisting and turning. Whoever this mysterious poster is he is moving slowly, as if he were exploring somewhere dangerous and frightening.

There is a noise in the background and as the phone gets closer it is recognisable as singing. The phone moves around a door to a kitchen where Shen Wei can be found at a chopping board surrounded by various ingredients, meat and vegetables.

He is singing as he works. In full flow of the song. There's a soft laugh from whoever this mysterious individual with access to Shen Wei's temple might be.

The image fades and refocusing, clearly later. Or another day. It's hard to say but the camera is now at a different angle, as if the filmer might be in a tunnel, or hidey hole close to the ground.

This time Shen Wei at the oven, frying meat, boiling noodles and once again he is singing as he works.

The footage is posted with just a single line in text.]

See he is not as stuffy and strict as he makes out to be!

Comments

text | from: Carl Adler

[smilingbullet]

How unusual, to hear German here!

[ D2 didn't even know that anyone besides him spoke it. Though, of course, it's always possible to sing words without knowing what they mean. Nonetheless, how nice. ]

[thetopofthefoodchain]

Is that what language it was in? [He'd got as far as not Japanese and that was it. He'd wondered if it had been whatever language Shen Wei had spoken before he became a god.]

I had been wondering.

[smilingbullet]

It is! It's really unexpected to come across so casually.

[ Not usually, but here. ]

[thetopofthefoodchain]

Well Shen Wei knows so many things, I'm not surprised he can speak different languages.

[smilingbullet]

Yeah? It's great to do so, the more languages that you know the more useful it is. So good for him!

[thetopofthefoodchain]

I'm not sure I can speak any other languages. I doubt it though, I can't even speak cat. [ He has no idea why, it would seem obvious he would be able to talk to other cats but he can't.]

[smilingbullet]

You could try to find out, there are loads of dictionaries and such in the library. That's how I figured out that I know various languages.

[thetopofthefoodchain]

More books... [He sighs. He supposes that's one way to find out. But he's not sure he cares enough. He speaks Japanese, so does everyone else here. He can be understood.

He can't speak cat, that's sort of annoying but it's also not going to be something he finds in a human dictionary.

Cats are too smart to need dictionaries.]

How many languages can you speak?

[smilingbullet]

It doesn't mean that you have to study, it means that you just need to look and maybe skim a bit.

[ You'll discover easily enough if you understand something or not, right?

But how many languages...? ]

Mmm, at least half a dozen, as far as I know?

[thetopofthefoodchain]

Skimming I can do! [That sounded much better.]

Half a dozen? That's impressive. You must be very smart.

[smilingbullet]

That's good. [ Skimming is much easier than in-depth reading. ]

Ah, I dunno about that.

[ He was just dedicated to being useful and got a lot of practice. ]

[thetopofthefoodchain]

I mean for a human.

[He grins. Of course he will never be as clever as a cat. But that's not his fault.]

[smilingbullet]

[ Well. Cats are very clever. And humans are impossibly stupid. ]

Not even that, probably. But thanks.

[thetopofthefoodchain]

You're welcome?

[Strange human.]

[smilingbullet]

[ Da Qing is not the first and won't be the last person to think that. ]

Mh! Well, I shouldn't hold you up any longer, I'm sure you have other things to do than talk to me.

[thetopofthefoodchain]

Mhmmm [A noncommital noise. He actually... Doesn't have anything better to do. But he's sure he will find something.] Have a good day.

[smilingbullet]

You have a good day as well.