The days of being a cat in Japan

The traces of this winter's early snow are slowly dissipating, but the power of winter is gradually deepening.

There is an old saying that goes well, the snow is not cold and the snow is cold.

When Xu Jie was a human being, he didn't have a deep understanding of this sentence because he would pay attention to changing clothes according to the temperature.

After becoming a cat whose everything depends on fur, it has a deep understanding of the meaning of this sentence.

Don't look at the sun shining outside when he wakes up in the morning. Xu Jie, who was confused, climbed out of the house to deliver ink and went out, but was quickly blown back by the cold wind.

Mrs. Fujimoto, who was serving breakfast on the dining table, saw her cat shrinking back from the outside, and immediately said: "Look at the appearance of the great sage, he will shrink into a ball when he goes out to show his head. I'd better put the down jacket on." Find it out for you."

After speaking, Mrs. Fujimoto took off her apron and went to the room to find thick clothes for the family members.

At this moment, the phone on the other side of the entrance suddenly rang.

After hearing the sound, Mr. Fujimoto put down the newspaper in his hand, got up and went to the entrance to answer the phone.

Then Xu Jie, who was burying his head in eating breakfast with A Zhong Heiyu, heard Mr. Fujimoto holding the microphone and saying: "Moshi Moxi, this is the Fujimoto family, oh, it's mom. Are you coming tomorrow? No problem when I’ll pick you up. Ah, did you hitchhike here? Well, we’ll be back at noon tomorrow.”

Just as Mr. Fujimoto put down the phone, Mrs. Fujimoto came out of the room holding a stack of thick down jackets.

As she walked, she asked, "Is the mother from the suburbs coming over? When will I come?"

Hearing this, Mr. Fujimoto took the clothes from his wife and said: "Mom said she missed us, and it happened that the neighbor, Mr. Yamaguchi, was going to drive into the city tomorrow, so she came to see us by car and said that it would be at noon. If you can come to our place, let’s come back for lunch tomorrow.”

Mrs. Fujimoto said after hearing the words: "Of course there is no problem. Speaking of which, the last time I saw my mother was when you went to the beach for a meeting and we went to the suburbs to pick up the children. It was early autumn, and it is already winter now." , I haven't seen her for nearly three months, and I miss her a little."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Fujimoto seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and clapped her hands together before continuing: "I remembered, my mother is not used to the air conditioner, and when I come back tonight, we have to find the heating table."

After breakfast, the Fujimoto family began to go out one after another.

Seeing that the upper half of his body was tightly covered by hats, scarves, and gloves, but the lower half of his body was still wearing a school uniform and skirt, Xu Jie couldn't help but sigh that the girls here are really resistant to freezing.

After dinner in the evening, Mr. and Mrs. Fujimoto began to rummage through the storage room in the house.

After a while, the couple worked together to lift out a pair of square table tops.

This thing is the warming table in Mrs. Fujimoto's mouth. Xu Jie wagged his tail and walked around the 'warming table' several times, and then remembered where he had seen such a thing.

This kind of thing is very common in cartoons, it is the kind that is placed in the living room, and the top is like a table, where you can put anything.Surrounded by quilts or blankets, it is a kind of big warm table that can fit legs and body.

This kind of thing is called a quilt in some places, and a warm table in some places.

It has two tiers with a blanket or quilt sandwiched between them.Below the supported table top, there is a heating device that can generate heat.

It is said that when air conditioners and other heating equipment were not yet popular, kotatsu was a must-have item for almost every household here.When you have nothing to go out in winter, you can almost nest inside without moving for a whole day.

Like the generation of the Fujimoto couple, more than half of their childhood memories of winter are spent in kotatsu.

So when carrying out this warming table, Mrs. Fujimoto stroked the dust on it with her hand full of nostalgia.

Then the couple worked together to carry the kotatsu to the living room and install it.

This heating table has been used in their family for more than ten years. It was bought and used by the Fujimoto couple when they were newly married.

After a few years, the air conditioner was installed in the house, and the warming table naturally became useless.

But every winter, when the elders from both sides of the family come to see their children, this heating table still has to be carried out for use.

Because the elderly who have spent most of their lives in the countryside are not very good at using air conditioners, they are still more accustomed to heating with kotatsu.

In order to make the old people live comfortably, the Fujimoto couple also specially prepared a soft sofa in the living room of their home, which is used to match the kotatsu.

After getting everything ready, the Fujimoto couple left the living room and returned to their room.

The people left, but the animals at home stayed. Xu Jie was very curious about this kind of "artifact" that was only famous before and had never been seen before. quilt.

Compared to Xu Jie's politeness, Ah Zhong's reaction was much more straightforward.

It is more than one year old this year, and it was brought home by Mr. Fujimoto when it was three months old. At that time, it was the end of winter, and the heating equipment used at home was exactly this warming table.

In Ah Chung's first memories of coming to Fujimoto's house, this warming table took up quite a large proportion, so Ah Chung, who was reliving his old dream, regardless of his grown body, excitedly crawled under the table.

Compared with them, Heiyu is much quieter. It is an old member of the family, and it is no stranger to something like a warming table that is used several times every winter.

When Mo crawled in from the cat road outside, he found something extra in the living room of Fujimoto's house.

Being vigilant, Mo stood on the cat climbing shelf to observe for a while, and after confirming that the thing was safe and harmless, he arched his body and jumped down.

Stepping on the catwalk to the little fat man's room, bypassing Jiantai who was buried in her homework, and coming to the living area of ​​Little Lihua, Mo stretched his head to look inside the cat's nest, it was empty and there was no cat.

Seeing this, Mo raised his eyebrows, he clearly felt that Lihua was at home, and now he wasn't watching TV in the living room, nor was he resting in the cat's nest, where did he go?

Thinking of this, Mo raised his head and began to sniff the air with his nose.

Well, although the smell of the little raccoon in this room is very strong, it is slowly spreading. It must be at least four or five hours that the little raccoon has not come back.

Hey, the smell here is stronger than that, so the little raccoon flower should be coming here.

Following the direction of the smell, Mo came out of Jiantai's room shaking his beard.

The smell of raccoon flowers in the living room is very strong, it seems that it should be here.

Mo looked around the living room with his golden-brown cat's eyes, and finally his eyes stopped on the warming table that newly appeared in the living room.

In order to accommodate the kotatsu, the original table in the living room has been removed, and the soft chair has also changed its position.

Now in the entire living room, the only thing that can be used to hide cats is under the warming table.

So Mo walked over and used his paws to lift the foot of the quilt, and poked his head in to have a look. Sure enough, his little raccoon dog was sleeping coiled up inside, and the big golden retriever dog was lying beside it.

Seeing this, Mo walked over gently, pushed his body between Xu Jie and Ah Zhong, and squeezed himself in.

Feeling something beside him, Ah Zhong raised his ear and opened one eye to take a look. When he saw that it was Mo, he turned over and continued to sleep.

As for Xu Jie, he was very familiar with Mo's breath and body temperature, so he didn't even open his eyes. He just wrinkled his nose and snorted a few times, then leaned against Mo's back and snored.

Neither the cat nor the dog went back to rest in their den that night, but when the Fujimoto family came out for breakfast the next morning, they saw their cats and dogs coming out from under the kotatsu table.

The long-haired golden retriever stuck out its tongue, and ran towards its owner with a haha. After sleeping all night, it now wants some food.

After it, Xu Jie got out of the warm table. After cooking in it all night, after coming out, Xu Jie first propped himself up on all fours.

Mo came out right behind Xu Jie. It first kicked its own neck with its hind legs, scratched it, and then approached Xu Jie and asked, "Ah Jie, what do you want to eat this morning? Is it food?" Canned cat food, or do you want me to go out and find you some favorite food?"

Hearing this, Xu Jie turned around and looked at the warming table behind him. He was very satisfied with this new toy. Xu Jie, who hadn't played enough with his interest, thought for a while and said, "Meow, I don't want to go out today, I just want to stay at home."

After listening to this, Mo licked the top of Xu Jie's head with his tongue and said, "Okay, I'll come back to accompany you after I finish patrolling the territory."

In order to come back earlier to accompany Little Lihua, Mo jumped out from Maolu without even having breakfast.

After the Fujimoto couple sent the children away, they also brought the golden retriever into the car.

Seeing Ah Zhong being taken away by the doctor, Xu Jie remembered that today is the day for daily nursing of Ah Zhong.

Not long after, Heiyu, who usually likes to stay at home, flew out early today, so in the huge home, only Xu Jie was left who could breathe.

Bored, Xu Jie turned on the TV, flicked through the programs with the remote control for a while, but couldn't find what he wanted to watch, so he turned off the TV again.

Go into the house and take out your own toys and cushions, throw them and chase after them for a while, and then feel bored again.

In the end, Xu Jie still put all those things aside, and went to sleep under the warming table with his cushion in his mouth.

When Mo came back, he heard the snoring of his little raccoon under the warming table.Mo, who was in a hurry to accompany it, bit into his food plate a few times in a hurry, and after swallowing half of the plate, he got under the warming table.

Inside, Xu Jie was leaning on his cushion, sleeping soundly.

Seeing this, Mo stared at it tenderly for a long while, then leaned over, licked Xu Jie's ups and downs belly with his tongue, and finally fell asleep on it.