The days of being a cat in Japan

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells...

Cheerful music sounded in the shopping mall, and large groups of people walked into the lobby of the department store following the music.

Tonight is Christmas Eve, a traditional western festival, and tomorrow is Christmas, which is very popular among young people all over the world.

We all know that every time these two festivals come, people's desire to consume will become very strong.

A large number of people who go out of the house to gather with family and friends to celebrate the festival are a large number of consumers.So at this time, merchants will seize the opportunity to seize the opportunity.

In order to attract attention, several large department stores in the county began to show their abilities one after another.

In addition to the most basic discount promotions and lottery entertainment, several department stores also set up stages in front of the gates.

Some of these department stores invite celebrities to come to perform, and some invite model teams to come to the show. In short, they want to suppress competitors and attract customers to their side.

Ono Trading has also made sufficient preparations for this Christmas shopping season. Not only have all kinds of products been prepared, but also started to distribute DM orders around a week ago, so that residents in the county can learn about their special features and special products.

Feeling that these are not enough, Ono Trading also advertised that on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th, all customers who normally spend 10000 yen in their shopping malls can get a chance to draw a lottery. And the prizes prepared by the merchants are also very attractive.

Feeling that this is not enough to attract attention, Ono Trading also released rumors that they invited the famous host of the county TV station, Ms. Ming Zi, to be the emcee of the three-day lucky draw ceremony, and the guest in charge of the lucky draw was a mysterious guest.

People who saw the DM list were very curious, wanting to know who is the mysterious guest that Ohno Trading is talking about?

However, in order to ensure the on-site effect during the event, Ono Trading just gritted its teeth and laughed around and refused to let go.

On the day of the event, the people who were attracted by the gimmick of the mysterious lucky draw guest discovered that the mysterious guest was actually the star cat in their county, the raccoon cat of Dr. Fujimoto's family.

After the last Tokyo Animal Expo, Xu Jie has not had any work for nearly three months.

This is not because its reputation has declined and no one is looking for it. On the contrary, since it and the country name CP of Mo have become a hot topic on the Internet again, companies who want to find it or find them to shoot advertisements are simply The list goes on and on.

In the first month or so, the Fujimoto family could receive several invitation calls every day.

But because Xu Jie didn't want to leave Mo's side, let alone make him uncomfortable, no matter what kind of offer the other party offered, Xu Jie ruthlessly refused all of them.

In this way, Xu Jie's place is much quieter, but this time, the invitation of Ono Trading has made Xu Jie a little interested.

A week ago, the person in charge of Ono Trading visited the door in person and invited Xu Jie to be their mysterious guest in the Christmas lucky draw for three days at a price starting with five characters and starting with seven figures.

Such a price is not too high considering Xu Jie's current social status, but what makes Xu Jie satisfied is that the place of work is within the county seat.

Xu Jie was very happy to be able to make money without leaving home too far, so after Mr. Fujimoto carefully read the terms of the contract for him, Xu Jie happily accepted the job.

On the day of the event, Fujimoto and his wife were worried, and drove Xu Jie to the event site. Mrs. Fujimoto also took the initiative to stay and plan to be Xu Jie's temporary assistant.

The contract that Xu Jie signed at that time was famous. Ono Trading’s lottery activity starts at 10 o’clock in the morning and ends at 22 o’clock in the evening. The lottery will be drawn every hour, and ten lucky customers will be drawn every time.

In the first lottery draw and the last lottery draw every day, a lucky prize will be drawn respectively, and Xu Jie is a little jealous of the prizes given out.

According to the stipulations in the contract, Xu Jie needs to go on stage as a guest to draw lucky numbers during the lottery draw.

When there is no lottery draw, it needs the most mascot to attract popularity for the merchant platform in the event exhibition area.

For this job, Xu Jie had already greeted Mo before leaving the house.

Mo didn't object to this, anyway, as long as Xiao Lihua obediently stayed in her territory, it would be fine.

After everything was ready, the mall opened according to normal business hours. Xu Jie, who was invited as a special guest and mascot, also started his day's work.

As a cat invited here to attract popularity, Xu Jie's job is actually not difficult. He only needs to put on a red base coat with a white fur-trimmed cape on the outside, put on a Santa hat, and stand on the stage facing each other. It is enough to show the cuteness of the guests who come over.

This kind of work is really too simple for Xu Jie, after all, he has made a living by relying on the skill of being cute since the day he became a cat.

The shopping mall that opened to welcome customers quickly became lively. The host, Miss Mingzi, who was invited by a lot of money, has been trying to find ways to enliven the atmosphere on and off the stage.

As for Xu Jie, he just needs to stand on the stage and pose for the guys in the audience to take pictures.

When working, time always flies very fast, and soon the time for the first lottery draw will come.

As the host, Ms. Ming Zi stood tall and graceful on the stage, smiled and said to everyone: "Okay, all the guests in the audience please take care of the numbers in your hands. We have a special guest for today, our lovely cute The cute sage has drawn today's luck for us."

After speaking, a staff member came to the stage and opened the lottery machine that had been covered with a red cloth.

Xu Jie looked at the transparent lottery machine with black lines all over his head, while the host, Miss Ming Zi, was explaining the lottery machine to everyone.

I saw the young lady facing the audience with a smile on her face and said: "Everyone, please see that these are six completely transparent and independent lottery boxes inside. A number is dropped out respectively, and the sum of these six numbers is a winning number. These boxes are completely transparent, and the numbers are also drawn for us by our cute cat. This kind of openness and fairness depends on the knotting It's lucky. Now we invite our guest of honor for the lottery, Mr. Lihuamao Dasheng."

With the cheers and applause of the crowd, Xu Jie, who was expressionless, was picked up by the staff and gently placed in the special lottery instrument.

This lottery instrument is specially made for this lottery event. It is a large transparent hard plastic disc with a whole body.

At this moment, the disk was placed vertically like a Ferris wheel, and Xu Jie was placed inside the erected disk.

If you can't understand this explanation, then please imagine in your mind the running equipment for little hamsters that is often found in hamster cages. This special lottery machine is exactly the same as that thing.

After Xu Jie stood firmly in the disc, the host, Miss Mingzi, said loudly: "Please invite our lovely Great Sage to bring us luck with its claws full of blessings, please run away!" Bar."

Xu Jie, who was a cat but was used as a hamster, silently touched his tears in his heart. Who came up with such a stupid idea?

The complaints are the ones to complain about, since they have taken other people's money and have to cooperate with the activities of the merchants, Xu Jie still has this bit of professionalism.

So while it was running in the cage, it comforted itself in its heart and said: "This is actually not bad, it's like running to exercise."

As Xu Jie ran, the balls with numbers in the lottery box began to roll, and it didn't take long for all six numbers to roll out.

The host, Ms. Mingzi, looked at the numbers on the small ball and raised her hand to show them to everyone in the audience.

While showing her mouth, she said: "Okay, now the Great Sage has drawn the first number for us, which is XXXXXX. Please come to the stage to receive the prize with the guest holding this number."

As more and more people came up to receive the prizes, the quota for the lucky draw was filled soon. The winners happily took away their prizes, and the first round of lucky draw ended.

There were no more activities, and most of the crowd dispersed here. Miss Ming Zi took this opportunity to step off the stage to touch up her makeup, and Xu Jie also jumped off the lottery machine.

Running parched, it felt that it needed some water, so it ran towards the water basin.

The shopping mall took great care of Xu Jie. Not only did they arrange a special person to be in charge of reception, they also left a place for Xu Jie to rest.

Because they have to stay here for more than ten hours, the Fujimoto couple brought a lot of things to it this time.

There are food bowls and water basins that Xu Jie often uses, cat food and canned cat food that he likes to eat, toys that he can’t live without every day, and a cat litter box exclusively for him to poop...

After lowering his head and licking in the basin a few times, Xu Jie, who breathed a sigh of relief, lay down on the mat and closed his eyes to rest.

Seeing the cat resting, Mrs. Fujimoto got up and went to the bathroom to solve her personal problems.

At this time, Xu Jie, who was bored on his stomach, had already stood up, and began to wander around in the stage area designated by the shopping mall.

Walking, it came to the children's activity area. Because it was still in the morning, there were very few parents who brought their children back to play, so the naughty castle here seemed very empty.

Xu Jie wandered around in it, and came to the ocean ball pool. Looking at the ocean ball pool with no one in it, Xu Jie felt that he wanted to play very much.

Xu Jie, who has always had a childlike innocence, was quite interested in children's naughty castles, but when he was still a human, because he was an adult, although he looked at this kind of thing itchy in his heart, he could only restrain himself from playing.

Unexpectedly, after becoming a cat, he could realize his original dream.

Turning his fluffy head, Xu Jie looked left and right, and when he found that no one was paying attention to him, he arched his body and jumped into the pool of the ocean ball with his hind legs.

When Mo came over with a snack in his mouth, he found that there was no shadow of his little raccoon in the rest area reserved for cats behind the stage.

Seeing this, it threw the food it brought over into Xu Jie's food bowl, raised its head and followed Xu Jie's smell to find it.

At this time, Xu Jie was struggling in the ocean ball pool.

When it first came first, it was actually very happy, but when playing with Xu Jie, it felt wrong, because its feet could not step on the bottom of the pool.

If you step on the bottom of the pool very much, the cat will be covered by the ocean ball and affect its breathing, but if you want to keep breathing, then it can only control its body to float on the ocean ball, which is very exhausting.

So feeling bad, it decided not to play and wanted to go up, and then Xu Jie found out tragically that it couldn't climb up to the shore with its short legs without some help.

After circling the pool several times, Xu Jie, who was starting to exhaust his strength, had to start meowing for help.

"Meow meow meow." Is there anyone here, please come and save the cat.

The author has something to say:

Xu Jie: Damn why is the pool of the ocean ball built so deep?This is the feeling of cheating cats, do you humans know that?Do you know this ocean ball pool?

Ocean Ball Pool: You have short legs and a short body, are you to blame?

Xu Jie: Who has short legs and short body?Do you have eyes? Didn't you see that Meow's legs are forked from the bottom of the neck?

The ocean ball pool without eyes: ...