The Cat's Inheritance

This was the first time Ah Li came back after leaving home.

Xin Qin said that the house has been redecorated, but in Ah Li's opinion, it hasn't changed much from his fluffy days.It's just that the toys that once belonged to him have been put away properly.

Qin Qin asked Ah Li to sit in the living room by himself for a while, and he went into the kitchen to prepare something for him to drink.Ali put down her heavy backpack and chose his favorite sofa seat without hesitation.

The sofa has not been changed, and there are notes on it that he grabbed with his claws.

The countertops and grids of the furniture are filled with photo frames, many of which Ah Li has never seen before, but each one is a photo of him when he was fluffy.Some photos are cool and some are goofy.Ah Li made a grimace at her grimace.

Televisions are much bigger than they used to be.Ah Li fumbled to change the channel by herself, and finally settled on his favorite human family ethics drama.Leaning on the sofa, the soft cushion bears the weight of the waist, which is extremely comfortable.Ah Li remembered that he used to spend a lot of leisure time lying on the sofa like this, watching human TV dramas and learning human languages.

I miss the cat so much.

In the past, Miwu would take him out.They have been to different places and stayed in various hotels or hostels.He also boarded a cat hotel, although the time was short, it was also quite interesting.Later, he lived in the research institute again. At first, he was in the nutrient solution in the underground laboratory. Gradually, he was able to move independently. Finally, he adapted to the human body, and the teacher took him to the ground.

When he left home, Ali didn't have a clear concept of home.Probably because of racial instinct, he is not very family-loving.The world is so big and so good, although we always need a place to take a nap, but this does not prevent us from being open-minded to make the world our home.

However, just now, when he really returned to the long-lost home belonging to him and his humans, Ali suddenly felt a strong sense of nostalgia.

This kind of emotion is a little strange, like someone holding a small hammer, knocking on the place close to your heart.It's as if someone's hand has inserted you into a void, and you find yourself blending flawlessly into the void.You are caught off guard, yet feel reassured.

Ah Li rubbed her nose with her hands, took a deep breath, then bounced off the sofa and went straight to the kitchen.

Xin Qin had just boiled a pot of hot water and was pouring it into the water bottle when suddenly Ah Li hugged him tightly from behind, shaking his hands and almost spilling the pot of hot water.He stabilized his figure and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Ah Li felt a little pain in her chest, and wanted to hug something to fill her arms.He put his hands around hardworking waist, put his head into the hollow of his neck, and rubbed it.

Hardworking stopped talking, he raised his hand, touched Ah Li's head, rubbed it gently, and then continued to fill the water bottle with hot water.

A Li pressed his face against his neck, and said in a low voice, "I want to eat grilled chicken wings."

Xin Qin laughed and agreed: "Okay."

After eating the roasted wings, Ah Li's mood improved again.He clamored to visit the second floor.After finishing speaking, he ran up the stairs by himself, opened the bedroom door with ease, thought for a while, then backed out, and closed the door again.He stood at the door, waiting for the hard work to come.

Seeing him standing, Xin Qin asked curiously, "Why don't you go in?"

Ah Li blinked and said, "I don't know what room is inside, sorry."

Hardworking couldn't help laughing out loud.He took a step ahead of Ali, pushed open the door, stepped aside, and introduced: "This is the bedroom. I changed to a big bed."

The bed is huge.

But in Ali's heart, nothing seemed to change.When he was a cat, he was small relative to the bed, and he needed all his attention to jump up from under it.At that time, Miwu's bed was a very big bed for Ah Li, no matter how he played, he would never jump over the boundary.From one end to the other, it took a long time to roll into the arms of humans.

Most of the nights in his cat's life are spent with Miwu, regardless of spring, summer, autumn or winter.In those cold days, he would use his fur belly to cover Miwu's neck tightly.

Ali was a little dazed, walked slowly to the head of the bed, sat down, and looked around.

The mattress was soft and the pillows looked soft too.

Xin Qin sat with Ah Li for a while, neither of them spoke.

Finally, hard work breaks the silence.He asked Ah Li if he wanted to visit the next room.

Next door is still the hard-working game room, and the closet is neatly stacked with game CDs, although he rarely plays it now.This room was originally my grandma's bedroom.In the year of her illness, when she was admitted to the hospital for the last time, she quietly packed her luggage in this room.Let's renovate the room, she suddenly said to Qin Qin.Then, she completed the arrangement of this room by herself, and every piece of furniture was selected with great care.

Ali wandered around the game room curiously, then nodded, and said: "Here..." He originally wanted to comment that there was no change here, but suddenly realized something was wrong, stopped again, played a cautious role, and changed his words: " It's nice here."

Like every other room in the house, the bedroom is filled with pictures of Sparta.Ah Li pouted, picked up a photo frame casually, and played with it in her hand.

Xin Qin looked at him, and after a while, he suddenly said, "I won't show it anymore."

Ah Li didn't understand at first, but later she did.Hard work wants to put away all the photos about Sparta.He asked strangely: "Then what if you still miss him in the future?"

Xin Qin replied: "Didn't you tell me? He has always been in my heart and is not going anywhere."

Ali was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

In the end, the two decided to keep only one photo frame, and put the other photos in the album, and then turn them out when they want to see them.Picking only one photo is a bit of a task.Worked hard to remove all the photo frames in the house and put them in a pile.Ah Li sat in the pile of photo frames and carefully selected photos for herself.

"This is the first photo I took of Pancake. He hasn't showered yet and looks dirty." Xin Qin pointed to one of them and said.

The cihuamao in the photo does not look like Xin Dabing at all. It looks thin, with a sharp chin and dull fur.The lighting is also poor, and the whole photo looks gray.Ah Li pushed the photo frame aside in disgust, intending to get rid of it.With hard work, I carefully removed the photo and embedded it on the first page of a blank photo album.

"This is the first time I've taken Bibing out to play. I just bought a traction vest."

Ah Li looked at the big gold chain in the photo and laughed.At that time, he hadn't learned how to skillfully capture the camera and make an elegant gesture, he only knew how to stare at humans stupidly, showing a frightened expression.He eliminated this photo without hesitation.

"This is the first birthday I celebrated for Pancake. He was standing in the small villa, distracted all the time, not knowing what he was thinking."

I'm thinking about how to pass the human language test CET-[-], silly meow.Ali thought proudly, his human beings really don't know how powerful they are.If Miwu finds out his secret one day, he will definitely be terrified by me.This photo is very nice, the light is soft, the angle is well grasped, and his round profile is perfectly displayed.His green eyeballs shone brilliantly under the sunlight.

It was the first birthday in his life, and before that, he never thought that one day, someone would be grateful for the insignificant thing that he came into the world.

Ali loves this photo.Through the thin piece of paper, he seemed to see himself who was buried in his studies and worried about his future studies.It seems that he hasn't worked hard like this for a long, long time.At that time, he was really foolish and satisfied as he continued to study hard to advance to higher education.

Ah Li took out the photo by herself, held it in her hand, and looked at it for a long time.But he ended up putting it on the eliminated side.

If I have to keep a photo, Ali wants to choose the one that makes him happier, the one that can bring happiness to Miwu, and the one that can tell his human beings that he really, really likes him.

The last photo that Ah Li chose was a photo of him squinting and smiling at humans with a rose on his head.For some reason, the moment he saw it, his heart suddenly beat softly.

Xin Qin took the photo, looked down for a long time, and stroked it gently with his hands, as if he was stroking his raccoon cat through the distance of time and space.

This is the last photo taken of Sparta.

That day was the sunniest day in the whole spring, the flowers were in full bloom, and the breeze was sweet and warm.He looked at Sparta from a distance, walked into the

Xinqin put this photo in a conspicuous place in the living room. Next to the photo frame is a transparent landscape cover with a flower in it.

Dried flowers made from a single rose.

The once bright red petals faded to a warm, soft pinkish purple.

Hard work put away all the other photos and neatly filled two large albums.He also has countless electronic photos and videos of Sparta, many of which he does not want to share with anyone, including the videos taken in the years when Sparta went out with a small camera.There are too many things, I have worked hard to buy a lot of large-capacity mobile hard drives, carefully mark and file them in chronological order, and store backups.

When Qin Qin handed over these mobile hard disk backups full of memories to Ali, he seemed very happy.

These are very valuable research materials, I thought they were all gone!

"Give it to me?" Ali asked loudly with a bright smile.

"For you." Xin Qin nodded.

"Why did you give me a gift?" Ali was a little curious.

"Because..." Xin Qin also laughed, "Because it's my birthday today, so I want to give you a present."

Huh?

Ali was stunned.

He suddenly remembered that after being together with Miwu for so many years, Miwu celebrated his birthday several times, and it seemed that he had never seen Miwu's birthday.

"Why didn't you celebrate your birthday before?"

"Because there is no one to eat cake with, and there is no reason to eat cake."

Ali suddenly felt a little sad.

"Then I'll give you a present too." Birthdays deserve presents, don't they?

"Okay, what do you want to give me?"

Ah Li sniffed and said loudly, "I'm going to give you myself."