The days of being a cat in Japan

After a few days of cooling, today's temperature finally has some upward trend.

But even if it is rising, winter is still winter, so even with the warm sun shining on him, Xu Jie still feels the breeze around him is chilly.

Mo looked at it shrinking its head, so he walked over and asked with concern: "Meow meow?" It's still a bit cold outside, Ajie, why don't you go back to the room first.

Xu Jie shook his head and replied, "Meow, meow." No, the cat has come out anyway, so let's take a walk outside for a while.

Mo asked Xu Jie again where he wanted to go?Xu Jie said that he wanted to come out to get some fresh air, and Xu Jie said that he can go anywhere without a goal.

Mo thought for a while and then asked again: "Meow, meow meow?" Since this is the case, why don't you come and inspect the territory with me?

Xu Jie squinted his eyes and wagged his tail a few times to express his agreement.

Although Mo is honored as the lord of Nancheng by Heiyu, his territory is not limited to the south of the county.

After several turf battles with the Wild Dog Gang, most of the county is now under Mo's territory.

On the side of the wild dog gang, after the old and disabled were expelled, there was no dog with the ability and courage to dare to provoke the cat gang.

So the dog gang who self-destructed the Great Wall, after Lao Can left, life began to get worse day by day.

All the dogs in the dog gang who have thought and ability have left here to find another way, only Lai Pi and his confidants are still struggling to support in the gradually shrinking territory.

Mo on the Mao Gang's side has always been a hands-off shopkeeper. Unless it is a serious incident such as foreign enemies invading and vying for territory, Mo will not care about other things.

Mo's temperament has formed the independent personality of the members of the cat gang. Except for the routine gatherings at the villa, each member of the cat gang has its own separate nest and sphere of influence.

In short, in the cat gang, Mo is like the king of ancient Europe.

The king's territory is entrusted to the knights. While governing their own land, the knights must always be loyal to the king, obey its orders, and follow its footsteps.

Just thinking about it, Xu Jie felt that Mo was really majestic.

Although most of the chores in the territory are coordinated by Awang, as long as Mo is in the territory, it will still exercise its power as the owner of the territory very responsibly.

That is to inspect your territory regularly and at fixed points every day.

Mo's daily patrol starts from the border of the territory, and every time it leaves its own scent or paw prints in the most conspicuous places on the border of the territory.

These conspicuous traces will clearly leave the pheromone of the territory owner, so that every animal that approaches here can perceive the majesty and strength of the territory owner through the sense of smell.

Mo's pheromone can stay in one place for a long time, so its territory boundary is always very clear, and there is no chance of confusing other animals.

Due to Mo's strength and the decline of the main opponent, the Dog Gang, the Cat Gang has been peaceful and stable without any war for several months.

As the master of the land under his feet, Mo is very respected by the animals here.

However, during the ten minutes that Xu Jie and Mo visited, six different animals came over to greet Mo politely.

Although he knew that he was using Mo's power to pretend to be a tiger, but the feeling of the king going on tour was really good.

So the excited Xu Jie walked faster and faster with his tail cocked, and soon walked in front of Mo.

Mo followed Xu Jie with his paws, and did not respond to the question that Xu Jie was walking in front of him.

When the other animals on the road saw this situation, they stared at Xu Jie and Mo in surprise, and after realizing that Mo really didn't care, no animal said anything more.

Anyone who understands cat behavior knows that if you want to determine the status of a cat in its group, one of the very important things is to observe its position before and after in the group of cats when it travels.

When the cat gang acts together, the higher the position of the cat in the group, the higher the status in the group, and the one walking in the front is naturally the leader.

Now Mo Da, who has always walked in front of cats, actually let other cats walk in front of him, which is really strange.

But everyone looked at the raccoon cat walking in front of Mo Da, and they were relieved again. If it was it, it would be right.

The two cats spent nearly two hours walking around all the boundaries of the territory. When walking back, they passed the new house of Tian Yuan's house that had just moved.

Looking at the kittens playing wildly in the yard against the cold wind, Xu Jie remembered that he hadn't seen Tianyuan for a few days.

Tianyuan, Tabby and Awang are the cats that Xu Jie is familiar with in the cat club. They will always come to play with Xu Jie when they are free.

Whether it's the shop or the apartment, there are a few of them. Why do I only see tabby and Awang these days? Where did that guy in Tianyuan go?

Hearing Xu Jie's question, Mo shook his beard and gave it a strange expression of wanting to smile, and then said: "This question is up to Ajie to find the answer by yourself, or you will take advantage of this opportunity." Go and see their family?"

Xu Jie thought for a while and felt that what Mo said made sense. Since he was a friend, there was no reason for him not to say hello when he came to someone's door.

So Xu Jie stood at the gate of Fujiwara's house, and asked the kittens inside who were chasing and playing each other: "Nellie, Jasmine, Meili, Uncle Ajie is here, where are your parents?"

When the kittens heard someone meowing at them, they turned around and stared at the gate with shining eyes. When they found that it was Xu Jie, they ran over to surround Xu Jie, and said in a childlike voice, "Hello, Uncle Ajie, hello, Uncle Mo!" .My mother went out to find food, but my father was lying in the nest and refused to come out."

Xu Jie was very surprised when he heard that, because Tianyuan cared so much about his litter of kittens. Since he recovered from his injury, he let Sanhua stay in the nest to look after the cubs, while he went out to look for food.

In the first few days of winter, you can often see figures running around in the countryside in the territory.

And the cats who know that it has a big family to raise, also consciously take care of it, and basically avoid letting it hunt in the same place.

Now, the model father in the male cat's eyes, and the standard husband in the female cat's eyes, actually just nest in the nest and let his wife go out to find food. Isn't this an idyllic character?

Could it be that something happened to Tianyuan, sick or injured?

Thinking of this, Xu Jie hurriedly asked: "Is your father resting in the nest because he is not feeling well?"

The kittens looked at each other a few times, and finally Nari, who was the eldest sister, said, "Dad is not sick, it was just burned by Grandma Fujiwara's stove."

"I was scalded by the stove, is the burn serious?" Xu Jie hurriedly continued to ask.

Nai Li shook her head and nodded again and said, "It wasn't burned, oh, it's not that the meat wasn't burned, but Dad's beard and fur were burned."

Xu Jie wanted to ask more carefully, but the two-month-old kittens couldn't express what they saw clearly.

Xu Jie, who was worried about Tian Yuan's body in his heart, didn't ask any more when he saw it. He would know it by himself.

So Xu Jie ran into the yard, pushed the door of the storage room with his paw and said to the inside: "Tianyuan, I am Ajie, I heard from the kittens that you were burned by fire? Is there anything wrong? Come out and let I have a look?"

Not long after its voice fell, Tian Yuan said inside: "Mr. Jie, I'm fine, you don't have to worry. It's too cold outside and I won't go out. Teacher Ajie, you can do whatever you want."

Xu Jie squinted his eyes and stared at the door of the storage room for a while before saying: "Tian Yuan, we have known each other for so long, and I am very familiar with your personality. If you are really okay, you would have come out to accompany me. It is even more impossible for Sanhua to go out alone in the winter to find food for the child and you. So you come out and explain clearly what is going on. If you don’t come out, I will kill myself went in."

After it said this for a long time, there was still no movement in the storage room.

Seeing this, Xu Jie moved away, and said loudly to Mo behind him, "Ah Mo, help me break the door open."

Just as Xu Jie finished speaking, he heard Tian Yuan panicked inside and said, "Mr. Jie, don't knock on the door, I'll come out right away."

After Xu Jie finished speaking, he heard the sound of things rubbing against each other in the storage room, and then Tian Yuan's familiar fur color came out from the gap in the door of the storage room.

When it first saw Tian Yuan's current appearance clearly, it was stunned for a while without any psychological preparation.

After it came back to its senses, it couldn't hold back its smile, and in an instant Xu Jie hugged his belly and laughed on the ground.

Seeing that his friend was about to burst into tears, Tian Yuan looked at it sadly and said, "I said I don't want to come out, but you let the cat come out, and now you laugh at the cat when it comes out."

Hearing this, Xu Jie wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his paws, stood up and wanted to say sorry to Tian Yuan, but when he saw Tian Yuan's face, Xu Jie couldn't help laughing and fell to the ground.

It really can't be blamed that Xu Jie's laughing point is too low, it's all because Tian Yuan's current appearance is so funny.

I saw that on the current pastoral face, the eyelashes and eyebrows have been lifted, and the beard has been burnt and curled around the mouth, so its appearance looks too funny.

No wonder Mo had such an expression when he mentioned Tianyuan just now, the meow would laugh when he saw it now.

Realizing that under his own laughter, Tian Yuan's eyes became more and more sad, Xu Jie quickly suppressed his smile and asked, "Ahem, Tian Yuan, how did you make yourself look like this?"

Hearing this, Tian Yuan shook his curly beard and began to complain to Xu Jie.

It turned out that there was another heavy snowfall a few days ago. Mrs. Fujiwara was afraid that it would be too cold outside and freeze her new neighbors, so she took the initiative to open the door and invited Tian Yuan's family to enter the house to avoid the wind and snow.

If there were only two big cats, Tianyuan and Sanhua, they might not accept the invitation.

But Nari and they are not frost-resistant, so the pastoral couple accepted Mrs. Fujimoto's kind invitation.

As an old man in her 70s, Grandma Fujiwara's life is not very modern. The heating equipment in her home is still a very old-fashioned kotatsu and kerosene stove.

As the head of the family, Tianyuan left the safer and more comfortable heating table to the old lady and her wife and children, while he went to the kerosene stove to keep warm.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with Tianyuan doing this. It can only be blamed because it is greedy for warmth and puts its own stove too close to the kerosene heater, so it has become what it is now.

Looking at Tian Yuan's unlucky face, Xu Jie felt that he couldn't stay any longer, or if he couldn't help laughing, his friendship would end.

So after it simply said a few words to Tian Yuan, it found an excuse and left. When it was confirmed that Tian Yuan really couldn't hear it, Xu Jie laughed out loud.

Looking at the little raccoon flower rolling around laughing on the ground, Mo was afraid that it was laughing too badly, so he walked over and licked it and said, "It's almost four o'clock, and the temperature is starting to drop, let's go back Let's go home, Mrs. Fujimoto said there will be sukiyaki tonight."

Hearing this, Xu Jie stood up from the ground, shook the fur on his body and said, "It's good to have tender beef, but I don't know when the fluffy hair on Tian Yuan's body will grow back."

Mo Wenyan replied: "It won't be too long, ten days and a half months is about the same. But the scorched spot on its body will have to wait for some time, if not, it will have to wait until the spring is replaced. Only when it is time for hair can it all disappear.”

Hearing that there will be nothing wrong with Tian Yuan, Xu Jie felt relieved. He raised his head to look at the sun that had begun to slant west, turned around and touched the top of the ink and said, "It's almost time, let's go home and have dinner." Beef to go."