The days of being a cat in Japan

On Christmas Day, Mrs. Fujimoto, who woke up to make breakfast for the whole family, received two gifts from her husband and children.

A gold bracelet from Mr. Fujimoto, although the source of the bracelet is not a big international brand.But everyone who lives in the county knows that the goldware store has been open in the county for more than [-] years, and its reputation is still quite good.

As for the gifts for the children, it was much simpler, all of them were handmade greeting cards by themselves.

Although the two pieces of paper were not worth a lot of money in terms of commercial value, Mrs. Fujimoto liked them very much. After all, this was the heart of her children, and such things as hearts cannot be measured by value.

But after the joy, Mrs. Fujimoto frowned in embarrassment as she watched her youngest son's homework this week.

Seeing his wife's embarrassment, the curious Mr. Fujimoto put down the newspaper in his hand, and stretched his head to look at the homework sheet of his youngest son in his wife's hand.

Looking at him, he couldn't help but read it in a low voice: "Students and parents are invited to make a lantern with fruits or vegetables as the main material. The size of the lantern is not limited. The lanterns will be brought to the school next Tuesday, and everyone will light the lanterns on the playground together."

The more you read, the lower the voice. Obviously, this manual work by the little fat man also made this gentleman scratch his head.

Putting the card down, Mrs. Fujimoto savored the smell in her son's homework message, and suddenly she had a bad feeling.

So the lady looked at her daughter and asked: "Junzi, since everyone lights up the lanterns in the playground, wouldn't your middle school also..."

Before Mrs. Fujimoto finished speaking, Junko also took out her weekly manual homework notification card from her jacket pocket, handed it to her and said, "Mom, my weekly manual homework is the same as my brother's. It is also necessary to make fruit or vegetable lanterns with the help of parents."

Mrs. Fujimoto, who felt that she had been hit knowingly, took a deep breath and said with a smile: "That's it, then please leave this matter to your father. Your grandma said that he liked doing handicrafts since he was a child, and he is still taking it now." Knives, such dexterous hands must be great for making lanterns, and my mother will be responsible for buying all the things you need."

Mr. Fujimoto opened his mouth wide and looked at the wife who pushed him to fight against thunder without hesitation. He vaguely knew that his wife was not good at handicrafts since she was a child, but this kind of avoidance attitude, what is Rie's handicrafts? How bad is it?

If this is the case, is it really okay to hand over the styling of the guests to the wife whose hands are too poor?

But this gentleman doesn't dare to question his wife's craftsmanship now, so he had no choice but to change the subject and said: "Aren't jack-o'-lanterns something that is only used for Halloween? It's been almost two months, your school How did you remember to do it?"

The little fat man blinked his eyes and said, "Dad, the school said that it's not just pumpkin lanterns, as long as it's made of vegetables and fruits, any kind of lantern is fine. Inoue said he would make banana and orange lanterns. Dad, I want to make lanterns with other people." Can you help me make a different lamp?"

The little fat man who made the request looked at his father expectantly, not knowing how much his father's head hurt from his request.

Since Mo was by Xu Jie's side, Mrs. Fujimoto didn't even work as a temporary assistant that day. After arranging the cats' things in the rest area backstage, she went back to the store to help.

Since he got a big, red and delicious apple from the organizer yesterday, Xu Jie is extraordinarily energetic today, standing on the stage full of vigor to attract popularity for the merchants.

At noon, Mrs. Fujimoto drove over to give them food and filled some water. After afternoon tea in the afternoon, Mo didn't know where to go.

It was time for dinner, and Mo didn't come back. Xu Jie listlessly ate up the rest of the food on the plate with his own cat.

After eight o'clock in the evening, Mrs. Fujimoto handed over the things in the store to her husband, and she brought her two children to buy all kinds of things needed for the store.

When Mrs. Fujimoto came over, it was just in time for the lucky draw to end on the hour.

Seeing a lone cat standing in the background, Mrs. Fujimoto asked in surprise: "Hey, why is only you here, Dahei? Where is Dahei?"

Xu Jie meowed weakly when he heard the words, indicating that he didn't know either.

It's strange that the big black cat is not with his cihuamao.

Just when Mrs. Fujimoto was about to ask again, there was a small commotion at the entrance of the mall.

Seeing this, Mrs. Fujimoto stood up and looked towards the door, and then said, "Oh, isn't that big black? Why did it come back with a cardboard box? What's in the box?"

Xu Jie immediately regained his spirits when he heard the words, and ran to the door with the little fat man.

Mrs. Fujimoto and Junko followed behind them. After meeting each other, the two cats hugged and rubbed together, while Mrs. Fujimoto bent down to carefully examine the cardboard box pushed by the big black cat.

The outer packaging of the cardboard box was very complete. After looking around, Mrs. Fujimoto understood that the box contained vacuum quick-frozen imported turkey legs.

This kind of thing is a hot commodity around Christmas, and you can't get it without pre-ordering it. Where did you find this big black cat?

This question happened to be what Xu Jie wanted to know, so he pointed at the box of vacuum quick-frozen turkey legs with his cat's paw and asked meowingly.

After listening to Xu Jie's question, Mo licked his nose with his tongue and said, "That's what Meow went to the warehouse to catch mice this afternoon. Meow bought this box with ten piles of twenty mice today. Turkey leg."

Xu Jie took a deep breath when he heard the words. Although Mo's mathematics is very good, but because he didn't study for a long time, he was only limited to two digits.

If it exceeds this number, it will not be able to count, but it will intelligently switch to another calculation method that it can understand.

Just think of the ten piles of twenty that it just said, that is, 200 mice. Such a huge number is a very difficult challenge even for an expert mouse catcher like Mo.

No wonder it went out after 2 o'clock this afternoon, but only now came back.This is still thanks to the large number of mice in the warehouse, otherwise it would not be easy to collect 200 mice.

No wonder the warehouse agreed to take out the hot-selling turkey legs as a reward, and it was probably because the number of mice Mo caught this time was too alarming.

But what does Mo want turkey legs for?Xu Jie, who couldn't figure it out, asked this question.

Mo Wenyan shook his beard, rubbed his head against Xu Jie's neck and said, "Meow, I heard that today, the human beings said that today is a holiday, and everyone eats turkey legs. Everyone else has eaten it, but you didn't eat it. This is not allowed, my cat has to have what other people have. Not only has to have, but also the best."

Xu Jie snorted excitedly when he heard the words, and twisted hard in Mo's arms, and it was thanks to Mo's steady foot that Xu Jie couldn't get out.

Looking at the two crooked cats, Mrs. Fujimoto sighed and looked at the box of turkey legs and said, "Oh, this is my job again. But it's too late to eat turkey legs at this point today, wait I will take them out tomorrow morning to marinate, and everyone should be able to eat delicious roasted chicken legs in the evening. Hey, this box is still packed with four pieces, which is great enough to eat twice.”

Carrying the box of turkey legs that Mo brought back to the backstage rest area, Mrs. Fujimoto looked at her mobile phone and said, "It's already this time, I have to go to the supermarket right away, otherwise I won't be able to buy good things, Junko, Jiantai, do you want to go with me?"

Junzi heard that he wanted to go to the supermarket. Jiantai originally wanted to stay here to accompany the Great Sage, but he saw the two cats in the rest area as if no one was there, and only cared about each other, so he curled his lips and talked to himself. mother left together.

Anyone who has lived in Japan knows that leafy vegetables, non-quick-frozen cut meat, and melons and fruits that are sold in large supermarkets here cannot be sold the next day.

So every night at [-] or [-] o'clock, the fresh food section of major supermarkets will start discounts and promotions, and the prices at that time are very favorable.

Experienced mothers will rush out to buy during this time period, so as to ensure that they can have a nutritious and delicious breakfast at a reasonable price tomorrow.

Mrs. Fujimoto, who was pushing a shopping cart, squeezed into the crowd rushing to buy mothers, and quickly snatched two pieces of chicken breast from the fresh meat stall.

Then she took out two green peppers and carrots from the vegetable stall and put them in the shopping cart and said, "Tomorrow morning our main course is stir-fried chicken breast, now we can go buy materials for your craft class. "

When the third woman pushed the shopping cart out to check out, in addition to chicken, green peppers, and carrots, there were pumpkins, grapefruits, oranges, and coconuts in their carts.

Judging from the materials they selected, Mr. Fujimoto is going to be in some trouble.

Sure enough, after the lottery ceremony, Mrs. Fujimoto drove them home. Mr. Fujimoto, who was waiting for them at home, looked at the handmade materials bought by his wife, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

But staring at his son's expectant eyes, as a father, he couldn't let the child down, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and start making fruit and vegetable lanterns with his son and daughter.

Junko's side is more dismissive. This young lady doesn't care about the material and style of the lantern, as long as it is qualified and usable.

Finally, there was a snack, Mr. Fujimoto heaved a sigh of relief, and picked up the pumpkin.

He had made jack-o-lanterns before, so Mr. Fujimoto decided to settle his daughter first before coaxing his son.

In fact, pumpkin lanterns are not difficult to make, as long as you draw a pattern on the outside, and then use a knife to cut out the nose, eyes and mouth along the drawn design.

So after listening to your husband drawing a pattern on the pumpkin, let my daughter take a utility knife to buckle the pumpkin, wait for the pattern to be cut out, and then take out the pumpkin seeds inside.

After setting up his daughter, Mr. Fujimoto went to plan the next lamp, and the father and father began to study coconuts, oranges and grapefruits.

Xu Jie was very interested in the handicraft class of Fujimoto's family, and it had been lying around in the living room to watch, but after that Xu Jie got a hat that must be made of grapefruit peel.

Mo Ze didn't feel anything about these things. It was guarding the door of the kitchen, watching Mrs. Fujimoto prepare tomorrow's meal.

After finishing the chicken breasts, Mrs. Fujimoto turned her head and looked at the big black cat squatting at the kitchen door without any intention of moving, so she shook her head and said, "Okay, okay, I'll deal with the turkey legs right away, marinated Okay, can you wait for the oven tomorrow? You are a real guy, you can’t do anything worse than the Great Sage.”

Seeing Mrs. Fujimoto put the marinated turkey legs into the storage room of the refrigerator, Mo wagged his tail in satisfaction and left the kitchen door.