The days of being a cat in Japan

Feeling that his beloved pet was patting him, the little fat man sniffled and raised his head, staring at Xu Jie with pitiful eyes.

Xu Jie turned sideways to signal the little fat man to go with him. In order for Jiantai to see his movements clearly, Xu Jie nodded while walking behind his back.

Although the eyesight of cats is much better than that of humans, it is not 360 degrees without blind spots.

So all his thoughts were on the little fat man, and he carried the walking raccoon cat on his back, and accidentally bumped into the tin trash can on the side of the street.

The little fat man who just raised his head only had time to say: "Be careful, Great Sage..."

Before he had time to say the latter words, Xu Jie had already slammed into the trash can.

Meow, it hurts, who put the trash can here?

Before taking a few steps, the raccoon cat had to hold its head and stopped while rubbing its head with its paws, while complaining meowing.

Seeing this, the little fat man no longer cared about his own emotions, and immediately stood up and ran to Xu Jie's side and asked concerned: "Great Sage, are you okay? Did you bump into any bleeding? Let me take a look."

As he said that, the little fat man pushed away the civet cat's paws covering its head with his hands, and picked up its fur to examine it carefully.

After confirming that Xu Jie's head was not swollen or wounded, the little fat man breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's okay, it's just a little red."

But after saying this, he remembered the money he lost again, so he squatted on the ground and said in a very disappointed way: "I lost the money I saved for more than two months. I don't have a present for my mother's birthday. Give it to her."

Hearing this, Xu Jie walked over and rubbed the little fat man with his body, comforting him silently with his actions.

Meow, don't be discouraged, follow the cat, maybe we can get the money back.

The little fat man who couldn't understand cat language but was familiar with the meaning of all Xu Jie's body movements stared at Xu Jie for a while, and then understood its meaning.

After that, the little fat man who regained his strength decided to find the pocket money he had lost with Xu Jie.

Under the high noon sun, Xu Jie and the little fat man split up and searched from both sides of the street towards the middle.

They pushed from both sides to the middle, paid attention to each other when they met, and found that they couldn't find each other.

So after discussing for a while, they separated and followed the other party's route to find one side.

Just looking back and forth on both sides, the two of them still found nothing.

In order to find more clues, Xu Jie even asked the pigeons and sparrows here, but these birds gave Xu Jie a unified answer that they didn't see it.

After working for more than half an hour, the exhausted little fat man sat down on the nearby steps, lowered his head and remained silent, looking extremely depressed.

Seeing this, Xu Jie turned around anxiously, not knowing what to do.

Just when it was considering whether to suggest to the little fat man that he could help, they suddenly heard a very gentle voice asking them: "Little brother, I noticed that you have walked back and forth on this street many times. Now, what happened? Is it convenient for Fang to tell me?"

The two little things raised their heads together when they heard the words, and saw a very gentle aunt looking at them with a smile.

The little fat man was at a loss when he heard the words. He didn't know whether he should confide his difficulties to someone he had never met, even though this person seemed very kind.

It was a gentleman next to them who explained the current problem for them.

A middle-aged man said beside him: "Mrs. Harada, this little guy wanted to come over to pick out something for his mother as a birthday present, but then he lost the money in his pocket. Those who came back should look for it again, but it seems that they still haven’t found it.”

The little fat man and Xu Jie followed the words and found that the person who spoke was the middle-aged shop owner who just wanted to sell them the wind chimes.

It turned out that Xu Jie and Fatty walked back to the place where they had just started before they knew it.

The gentle aunt called Mrs. Harada was stunned for a moment when she heard the words, then she got up and went back to the flower shop she ran, took out a pink carnation and handed it to the little fat man and said, "Son, I believe in your mother's intentions." You must be able to feel it, so it really doesn’t matter what the gift is. Give this carnation to your mother and say happy birthday to her, believe me this will be her greatest happiness.”

Hearing the words, the kid was very happy at first and wanted to reach out to pick it up, but then he lowered his head and whispered, "Auntie, I don't have any money."

The proprietress of the flower shop smiled lightly and said, "It's just a flower. My aunt gave it to you. I really envy your mother for raising such a sensible child."

Seeing the movement of the flower shop proprietress, the middle-aged shop owner of the gift shop patted his hand and said, "Son, I am in business. I can't do business at a loss because it is too unlucky. How about it, my shop There are still many beautiful gift box wrapping papers inside, I found some for you, you wrapped this flower beautifully, and gave it to your mother."

A few minutes later, the little fat man, holding flowers in his arms and holding a stack of gorgeous wrapping paper, bowed to the two elders who helped him and said: "Thank you for your help, I will definitely send the beautifully wrapped flowers to you." For mom."

Holding the things that kind-hearted uncles and aunts supported him, the little fat man took Xu Jie and ran back home panting.

But after opening the door, the little fat man and Xu Jie froze at the entrance.

Sister Junko was standing on the tatami not far from the entrance, crossing her arms and raising her eyebrows, looking at her younger brother and his cat who came in from the gate.

Xu Jie didn't dare to offend Chunzi's majesty in the slightest, so when he saw this, he hid behind the little fat man without any morale.

The little fat man was also very surprised when he saw his sister, he opened his mouth wide and said, "Hey, sister, why did you come back early?"

Junko Fujimoto put down her embraced arms and said, "When your homeroom teacher was chatting with Uncle Ishikawa, he said that you had something to ask for leave and went home early. Uncle Ishikawa didn't know what was going on at our house, so he came to ask me." .”

Having a relative who is in the same school as your teacher is not a happy thing for a child.

Looking at the colorful wrapping paper and flowers in his younger brother's hand, Junko, who also knew what day it was today, said: "I guessed that you must have come out early for my mother's birthday, but you didn't come out more than two months in advance Have you started saving money, why did you only bring these things back? Which store owner asked you to buy these with more than 1000 yuan?"

Junko Fujimoto, who thought her younger brother was being fooled by others, asked her younger brother in a bad tone.

The little fat man lowered his head when he heard the words, and said with some fear: "I'm sorry sister, I lost the money to buy my mother a gift. This flower and these colorful wrapping papers were given by the kind flower shop aunt and gift shop uncle. mine."

A little fat man who would be punished by his sister for losing money by himself stood there with a panicked expression.

Who knows that Junzi didn't blame her younger brother when she heard the words, she took the things that the little fat man was holding and said: "If you lose it, just throw it away, don't worry, just be more careful next time. "

The understated Junko let this matter pass. In her opinion, as long as her brother is not cheated, everything else is acceptable.

Besides, losing money is not a big deal, Yi Jiantai's character is the most learned from a fall in the pit, I believe that after this time, he will never lose the money in his pocket again.

So Junko, who watched her younger brother changing shoes, only said: "I will find you a wallet later, and your money will be put there in the future, so that it will not be easy to lose it when you take it out."

The little fat man was overjoyed when he heard that, the two siblings sat on the tatami in the middle of the living room, and began to decorate the pink carnations with the wrapping paper that the little fat man brought back.

Just how to dress up, there is only one carnation, so after packing, there are many beautiful colorful wrapping papers left.

Looking at the flowers in his hand, and looking at the wrapping paper left on the ground, the little fat man who felt that his gift was a little thin suddenly had a whim.

He said to his elder sister: "Sister, let's fold these wrapping papers into paper cranes, hang them on the roof, and give them to mother as gifts, shall we?"

The courtier who also only prepared one gift held his chin and thought for a while, and then readily agreed to his brother's proposal.

Xu Jie, who had been hiding on the cat shelf, jumped out when he heard the words, and meowed that the cat could also help.

Meow, although cats can't origami, cats can help you put ropes on the folded origami cranes, but how to hang them on the ceiling is a problem that you have to solve by yourself.

Hanging paper cranes on the ceiling is a difficult problem for others, but it is easy for the Fujimoto siblings, because they also have two foreign aids with wings at home.

Chunzai pushed open the glass door and came to the small courtyard, and shouted to the mynah and crow on the second floor who were in Futian's house, "Hei Yu, George, stop playing, come down and do us a favor."

So the Fujimoto siblings were in charge of folding the thousand paper cranes with beautiful wrapping paper, Xu Jie was in charge of putting rope on those thousand paper cranes and sticking scotch tape on them, and Kuroba and George were in charge of gluing those thousand paper cranes with tape on Go above the ceiling.

In order to be able to give their mother a birthday surprise, the Fujimoto siblings worked so hard that they didn't realize that their seven-seater SUV had just driven past the outer wall of their house.

It was Mrs. Fujimoto who drove back, because today was the day when the two children in the family ended their sleep together, and she wanted to come back and clean up the house for the children who had lived outside for three or four days.

At this time, the Fujimoto siblings still had less than half of the paper cranes stacked, and more than half of the ceiling in the living room was empty.

So before the arrangement of the surprise for the siblings was completed, the person they wanted to give the surprise came back early just like them.