The days of being a cat in Japan

When Xu Jie and Mo returned home, Mrs. Fujimoto had already prepared dinner.

On the square heating table, pots, bowls and chopsticks, and various ingredients are fully placed.

The main ingredient of sukiyaki is beef, and it is served with shallots, tofu, shiitake mushrooms, konjac and seasonal vegetables. After the ingredients are stir-fried, add the sauce and stir-fry in the pot, and heat until mature.

The sauces prepared by different people have different tastes, and different regions also make sukiyaki have many variations in eating methods.

But what remains unchanged is that this kind of delicacy is widely loved. It is the first dish that housewives consider when they gather together or entertain relatives and friends.

When Xu Jie and Mo turned into the house from the cat road, Xiaojian, who was walking on the hot table facing them, waved to them excitedly and said, "Dasheng, Dahei, come here quickly, the sukiyaki prepared by mother today But there’s Kobe beef.”

Kobe beef?Is that the legendary wagyu beef with black skin?

Xu Jie, who has lived here for a while, knows that Kobe's black cattle are their pride, and the word Wagyu is almost synonymous with top-quality beef.

In particular, Kobe's black cattle are top-notch wagyu cattle. The annual output is very limited, and they are basically digested in the country, and only a small part will be exported.

The market price of one kilogram of this kind of beef can reach 2 yen, but even at such a high price, there is often no market for it.

So when he heard that he was able to eat this legendary top-level ingredient today, the greedy little raccoon cat, who is a foodie, immediately brightened his eyes, and turned his head to chase Mo to run to Jiantai.

On the warming table, Mrs. Fujimoto is making sukiyaki on the spot. The broth is already boiled. Put the shredded onion and green onion in a butter-based pan and stir fry, add the prepared soup, Add vegetables and meat one by one, and finally crack a raw egg into the pot, and the home version of sukiyaki is ready.

Although the method is simple, it is better because of the fresh materials, coupled with Mrs. Fujimoto's good craftsmanship, the room is filled with fragrance all of a sudden.

While her daughter-in-law was frying sukiyaki, Grandma Fujimoto took out a bottle of wine from the cloth bag she brought and put it on the table, saying: "This is the rice wine I fermented and brewed by myself in autumn. It’s the rice grown in our field. There are two big bottles brewed out, one of which I drank myself, so I brought this one here for you.”

After hearing this, Mr. Fujimoto hurriedly finished the wine bottle in his mother's hand, and took out a small wine glass to have a few drinks later.

Mr. Fujimoto is not surprised that his mother can make wine.

When my father left, my mother worked as a workshop worker in the winery for several years in order to support herself and my younger sister. You must know that most of the work is done by men.

When Mr. Fujimoto finished pouring the wine, Mrs. Fujimoto's sukiyaki had also been made.As the youngest child in the family, Mrs. Jian waited for the elders to move the bowls and chopsticks before picking up the chopsticks to pick up the dishes.

Stretching out her chopsticks to pick up a piece of beef, Jiantai didn't put the beef into her mouth, but put it into Xu Jie's dinner plate who was waiting at the side.

The beef that was still wrapped in thick egg juice was put into his dinner plate. Xu Jie smelled the aroma, and he just bit down on the beef just out of the pan, regardless of the hot mouth.

The fresh and tender beef burst directly in Xu Jie's mouth, and the hot juice scalded his cat's tongue in his mouth, but even so Xu Jie was unwilling to spit out the beef in his mouth.

The smooth and tender taste almost made Xu Jie gobble it up, and almost swallowed his own tongue.

Seeing his raccoon cat eating happily, Jiantai was very happy, and soon he brought another chopstick of beef to Xu Jie.

Xu Jie didn't choose to eat this piece of beef himself, but picked it up and brought it to Mo's mouth.

It is a sin for a cat to enjoy such a delicious thing alone, and sharing is the ultimate pleasure of tasting food.

While delivering the beef, Xu Jie didn't forget to tell the little fat man not to just think about feeding the cat, but to eat it himself.

The Kobe beef that Mrs. Fujimoto bought this time is a standard package of one kilogram. Although it looks quite full after being cut out, it is not much for a family of three adults, two children and four pets. .

Mrs. Fujimoto also knew this, but it wasn't that she didn't want to buy more, but that she couldn't.

This top-notch Kobe beef needs to be ordered in advance. Yesterday I knew that my mother-in-law was coming, and Mrs. Fujimoto also entrusted her old classmate to allocate some temporarily today.

In order to allow others to eat more, Mrs. Fujimoto didn't pick up a piece of beef herself, and all she ate was vegetables, tofu and radishes.

Just when she picked up another chopstick konjac, she lowered her head and found a pair of chopsticks suddenly appeared in her bowl, and a large piece of beef was caught on the chopsticks.

After delivering the meat, the pair of chopsticks were quickly put back. Mrs. Fujimoto looked in the direction of the chopsticks, but saw that her husband was very calm and continued to eat the mushrooms in the pot.

Others who were busy eating didn't notice the sweet gesture of the Fujimoto couple. Xu Jie, who was very curious about the homemade rice wine, put his paw on Grandma Fujimoto's thigh after eating, and looked at her with milky white inside. rice wine.

Finding that the raccoon cat of her grandson was staring at her wine glass all the time, Grandma Fujimoto smiled and nodded at Xu Jie's head and asked, "Does the great sage want to try it too? Now that you are also a big cat, just Share some for you to taste."

As he spoke, he tilted his wine glass and poured out a little into Xu Jie's food plate.

Seeing this, Mrs. Jian couldn't help asking: "Grandma, can cats drink alcohol?"

Grandma Fujimoto smiled and said, "It's okay to lick a little once in a while, as long as you don't drink it often. I think the old cat in our family loved drinking the rice wine I brewed the most."

Hearing this, Xu Jie lowered his head and sniffed the plate first, um, the taste is acceptable.

So Xu Jie stuck out his tongue and licked it. The first thing he tasted was a fermented sour taste, followed by a hint of sweetness and the spicy taste of wine.

Tasting wine with a cat's tongue, this feeling can't be described in simple words, but Xu Jie couldn't help squinting his eyes to savor the aftertaste of rice wine.

Seeing Xu Jie enjoying himself, Mo also came over curiously and licked the inside of the dinner plate with his tongue.

Well, it has tasted this kind of taste before, but this time the thing called rice wine tastes better than sorghum wine.

The two cats licked each other, and soon the small amount of rice wine that Fujimoto poured on Xu Jie's dinner plate was licked clean by the two of them.

Xiaojian, who was worried that the cats were getting drunk, squatted down and observed the cats carefully, and found that there was nothing unusual about them, so he returned to his seat and continued to eat.

In fact, the little fat man was really relieved a little early, because although rice wine is not high in strength, it is notorious for its stamina.

So it didn't take long for Xu Jie, who started to get drunk, to walk a little unsteadily.

Seeing the little raccoon flower drawing an arc there, Mo stood up and walked over. Xu Jie focused on Mo's face for a long time with eyes that had begun to blur.

Xu Jie, who found it useless, shook his head, then stood up, patted Mo's face with two paws and said, "Don't dangle around, I can't even see your face clearly."

After speaking, he probably felt that the fleshy cat's face under the paw was very interesting, but Xu Jie still rubbed it with his paw.

Under Xu Jie's paws, Mo's cat face continuously changed into various shapes, round, flat, and long.

But no matter what shape it becomes, as long as it matches the serious face of the ink, it will have a very funny effect.

Xu Jie looked at the cat's face under his paws and kept smirking, meow hehe, meow hehe looked a little scary.

But Mo didn't care about it, because it also started to have some alcohol.

When Mo is drunk, he is different from all other animals. Other creatures talk nonsense when they are drunk, and their brains are hot and can do anything.

Mo, on the other hand, gets more sober as he gets drunk, and the more he drinks, the faster his brain turns. As long as he falls asleep without getting drunk, it doesn't make any difference whether he drinks too much or not.

Xu Jie, who became more and more excited as he played, had already started to use his paws to pull Mo's cheek. Halfway through the pulling, he suddenly smelled a hint of rice wine.

? ? ? , the smell of alcohol coming from there?

Xu Jie sniffed the air carefully with his nose shaking, and smelled Mo's mouth.

Well, that faint smell of alcohol came from here.

So Xu Jie, who was already so drunk that he couldn't tell the difference between east, west, and north, bit Mo's mouth with a single sip.

Licking, licking, licking vigorously, hey, why is there no sweet and sour taste in my memory?Did Mo hide the good things?

So Xu Jie, who was not reconciled, began to roll his tongue into the innermost part of the ink.

Mo, who had been obediently squatting there all this time, allowing Xu Jie to ravage him, finally couldn't sit still this time, it stood up and unceremoniously picked up Xu Jie and left.

Early the next morning, a contented Mo got out of Xiaolihua's cat nest in good spirits.

Behind it, Xu Jie curled up in the cat's nest, pressing his paws on his old waist bit by bit.

What kind of broken wine, the ink that I drank seemed to be on fire, I must remember this time, and never let Mo touch anything containing alcohol in the future.