Solstice Secrets

Tangdou fell asleep hungry.It dreams of delicious braised fish, delicious bibimbap and goat milk, and the meaty bones brought by Mommy and Daddy for grinding their teeth.When I woke up in the morning, the ground under my head was wet with saliva.

The big yellow cat sat across from it with a look of disdain, holding a newly caught mouse under its paws, "How did you raise it? The mouse dare not eat it, so throw the cat to death!"

Tangdou saw that the mouse's paw was still twitching, and immediately jumped back in fright, "Is that your... your breakfast? Good... good..."

"What good?"

Tangdou stammered and flattered it, "...so nutritious."

The big yellow cat sneered, lowered its head and began to enjoy its breakfast.

Tangdou closed his eyes in fright when he heard the sound of chewing.Fortunately, the meal didn't take long, so the yellow cat said lazily: "I'm full, let's go."

Tangdou opened his eyes quietly, and the yellow cat turned around and walked forward first.It was empty where it had just stood, and there were hardly any traces to be seen.Even so, Tangdou carefully avoided that area when he was catching up.For a cat like Tangdou who has never even seen a mouse, eating a mouse alive is really cruel!

Tangdou ran after him in two steps, "What should I call you?"

The yellow cat lowered its eyes and glanced at it, "They all call me Baozi. What about you, little guy, what's your name?"

"My name is Tangdou." Tangdou couldn't help but licked his lips when he heard the word bun. If only a real meat bun appeared in front of him now!

Baozi grinned with three petals of his mouth, "This name is so cute."

Tangdou drooped his head and said, "This is the name Winter Solstice gave me."

Baozi asked it, "I heard that the winter solstice can understand our speech, is it true?"

Talking about the people he was familiar with, Tangdou perked up a bit, "Yes, he can still understand Uncle Brown Sugar. He can also understand the big bird that came to our house as a guest."

Baozi had an incredulous expression on his face, "This is really strange. I've never seen such a person before."

"He was so kind to us." Tangdou thought of the relatives who hadn't seen each other, his little heart was full of melancholy, "My dad said that he used to run around, he didn't eat every meal, and he was often bullied .Later, I went to Dongzhi’s house with Uncle Xiao Mian’er and Uncle Little Hui, and living with him got better.”

Baozi sighed, which stray cat has never been hungry?Who hasn't been bullied?

"Aunt Baozi, after finding the winter solstice, will you live with us?"

Baozi shook his head, "I'm old, I haven't lived with anyone in the first half of my life, and I probably won't in the future. This is my way of life, I'm used to it, and I don't want to change it."

Tangdou didn't understand, "Is there someone who can't take care of you?"

Baozi didn't answer it.For it, jelly beans are just a child, and topics such as ideal life are too deep for it.

"Have you ever had a master before?" the curious student Tangdou continued to ask.

"No." Baozi got a little impatient with this topic, "but I want to remind you, it's best not to ask such stupid questions after seeing the fish head. It doesn't like to talk about the care of the master with others."

Tangdou was puzzled, "Why?"

"Because the title of master has brought about a great change in its appearance," Baozi quickened his pace, "you will know when you see it."

Yutou is a black cat with pale yellow pupils.The first time Tangdou saw it, he thought it must be very old, because many places on its body were bald, and there were many strange scars on the bald skin.But then, it remembered the words that Baozi had said on the way here.

Jelly beans are small, but they are not stupid.It looked away from the black cat, followed Baozi's example, and obediently said hello to the big cat lying on the grass slope basking in the sun.A few ferocious big cats surrounded Yutou, walking back and forth, their eyes fixed on them intentionally or unintentionally.

The eyes of the fish head were half-opened and half-closed, as if not surprised by their arrival at all, "What's the matter?"

"It's like this," Baozi gently touched Jelly Bean with his tail, signaling it to be quiet, "This little guy is lost, he wants to find Ling Dongzhi."

"Ling Dongzhi?" The black cat's eyes widened suddenly, "The Ling Dong Zhi who can talk to us?"

"Yes."

The black cat's eyes rolled twice, "If it's him, I can take you there."

Tangdou was overjoyed, and was about to speak when Baozi touched him with his tail.

The head of the fish didn't notice their small movements, and said to himself: "I don't care what you have to do with him, as for the reward, I will talk to him personally."

Baozi glanced at Tangdou worriedly.

"Let's go." Yutou climbed up from the grass slope and walked out first.Just as Baozi wanted to keep up, he was blocked by a big cat turning out from behind the grassy slope.When Yutou heard the movement, he turned around and glanced at it, his eyes seemed to have some meaning, "Baozi, I never knew you old cat was so meddlesome."

Baozi licked his lips nervously, "Boss Yutou..."

"Okay," Yutou flicked his tail lazily, "Since this matter has been handed over to me, don't worry." As he said that, he winked at the two big cats blocking the way, Gu Zi took the jelly beans and left.

Jelly Bean doesn't quite understand what's going on, but it can feel that something is wrong between the big cats.It turned to look at Baozi suspiciously, but Baozi was blocked by several big cats.

"Meow~" Tangdou's little paw tapped twice on the ground, should it follow this old black cat whom it met for the first time?

Yutou sneered, "Little thing, hurry up, your winter solstice is still waiting for you."

Hearing Dongzhi's name, Tangdou no longer hesitated, and said goodbye in a childish voice in the direction of Baozi, "Aunt Baozi, thank you, goodbye!"

Baozi anxiously circled around in a small circle surrounded by several big cats, but unfortunately every direction he could leave was blocked.Baozi finally got angry, lowered his body and bared his teeth at the big cat in front of him, "What are you guys doing?!"

"Baozi," a big gray cat hooked its chin frivolously with the tip of its tail, "You're doing Boss Yutou a favor, it's not kind to regret something halfway."

Baozi became anxious, "This little guy knows Ling Dongzhi, aren't you afraid of getting into trouble?!"

Several big cats exchanged a look, and the gray and white cat laughed, "Ling Dongzhi? Who is that? I don't know what you are afraid of. Who will tell him that you gave it to Boss Yutou?"

Baozi looked at their arrogance, and his back was blown coldly, "Where did Boss Yutou take it?"

"Don't worry about this." The gray-white cat scolded it impatiently, "As long as you bring this little one here according to the prior agreement, it's fine. You shouldn't ask about other things."

This was a condition that was negotiated early in the morning, but for some reason, Baozi felt a little uncomfortable when he thought of that little guy who would jump up in fright when he saw a mouse.But when it managed to get around the gray and white cat, the figures of the fish head and jelly beans had disappeared.

Sometimes things happen so coincidentally, Baobao Ling finds his toy car driving out of the gate of Zhuang Zhou's house, before he rushes out to chase his baby car, Ling Lidong who comes out of the living room picks it up and takes him back to the living room Go wash your hands and get ready for dinner.He handed over the task of picking up toy cars to Zhuang Zhou who had just entered the door.How did Zhuang Zhou know that his kitten was still sitting in the car?Find out along the intersection, only to find the overturned toy car outside the bushes.

Cherry didn't realize her daughter was missing until after dinner and the guests left.The family suddenly panicked.Zhuang Zhou and Ling Dongzhi were not in the mood to sleep anymore, so they quickly found the emergency light and went out to look for the cat.At this time, the boy Tangdou had already been dragged by the bun and ran to the small park called Sunshine Garden, which was far away from Yujingyuan.

No jelly beans were found near the community, so Ling Dongzhi could only find another way.He printed out small photos of Tangdou and hung them around the necks of several cats at home, letting them go out to contact the stray cats nearby. If anyone has seen Tangdou or knows about Tangdou, they can come to Lingdongzhi Receive a reward: fried small yellow croaker or canned cat.

The cherries were left at home to look after the red and mung beans.If stray cats came here to pass the news, the yard would definitely be in chaos again. They couldn't take the risk of putting Red Bean and Mung Bean in danger again.

By the afternoon of that day, the cats and cats traveling through the city brought back various news one after another.When the news came together, Tangdou's situation began to look less rosy.

"Yes, I saw this little guy, it ran out of the city with the fish's head in its mouth..."

"I've also seen Yutou and his followers take two white kittens out of the city..."

"..."

Ling Dongzhi decisively contacted Chen Linxia, ​​asking him to pay attention to whether someone sent jelly beans to him.In the end, what Chen Linxia told him made Ling Dongzhi completely furious. "Recently, many people have reported that their pets are lost, especially puppies and kittens. Several of my clients reported to the police. The police suspected that these lost The pet has been sent to some special place. For example... the underground black workshop."

Tangdou followed Yutou for two steps before being dismissed. Yutou lowered his head and picked up the little one, throwing off his four legs and running forward.Tangdou has been hungry since yesterday until today, and she was dizzy at first, but after being shaken like this, her eyes were full of mosquito coils, and she couldn't find it in the southeast, north, east, and west.When it woke up, the fish head was gone, and it was thrown in a messy garbage dump.Tangdou got up from a pile of broken plastic bags in a daze, and crawled out with one deep foot and one shallow foot. Before it could climb a few steps, it was picked up by a big hand.Tangdou was startled, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a dark and thin face.

This is a stranger that Jelly Bean has never seen before.

"Meow~"

The stranger pressed it a few times and grinned, "It's quite fat."

Frightened by the potential malice in his words, Tangdou shrank back subconsciously, wrestled out of the man's grasp, and fell on the trash heap in all directions, and fainted again in grief.

When it woke up again, it found itself locked in a dirty iron cage.In addition to it, there are two gray and white kittens in the cage.They have wounds on their bodies, and they look more miserable than jelly beans.

"What is this place?" Tang Dou leaned his head into the crack of the railing and looked out. In the small dark room, there was only a small window near the roof.The room was full of sundries, and several iron cages were stacked together, and there were cats, big and small, inside.Most of these cats lay there limply, occasionally making weak moans or two.There was a strange fishy smell in the air, and Tangdou felt inexplicably wanting to vomit when he smelled this smell.

The white cat cub looked at Tangdou, with tears in his light blue eyes, "Are you also caught by the fish head?"

"Fish head?" Tangdou was stunned for a moment, "It said it would take me to find my master."

The gray-and-white cat shook its head, "That's how it lied to us."

Jelly Bean flinched uneasily, "Why did it bring us here?"

Chen Linxia and Ling Dongzhi squatted behind a broken wall, looking anxiously along the gap in the courtyard wall to the other side.In front of them, several people in uniforms were creeping towards the dilapidated old warehouse in the center.

This is an abandoned feed mill on the outskirts of the city.There was a lot of rubbish and sundries piled up in the yard, and weeds grew everywhere.But if you look closely, you can still see a trampled path in the wild grass.A low humming sound came from the warehouse, and the air above the broken yard was filled with faint smoke and a disgusting fishy smell.

Ling Dongzhi wanted to scratch the wall anxiously, "Could they have peeled the jelly beans and put them in the pot..."

"It won't be so fast." Chen Linxia comforted him, "Didn't the police say that there are only four or five of them, except for those who run errands outside, and there are only two or three people in the warehouse operating the machines, so it won't be so soon. From your jelly beans."

Regardless of the jelly beans, it is also worrying for other cats and dogs.Before they came, they had an agreement with the police. If they could rescue the small animals that hadn't been brutally murdered, Chen Linxia would take them all back to Tong Xin's Love Home.But smelling the choking smell, Chen Linxia really didn't dare to say how many they could save.

A cat's head protruded from behind the broken wall not far away, its pale yellow eyes looked around, and stopped vigilantly on Chen Linxia and Ling Dongzhi.Immediately afterwards, several wild cats protruded from behind it, two of them ran up the wall quickly, and rushed into the yard in a flash.

Ling Dongzhi asked it tentatively, "Fish head?"

The black cat bared its teeth at him, "That's me. What do you want?"

"No way," Ling Dongzhi stared at it, "You took my jelly beans away?"

The black cat continued to grit its teeth, "I want to use your kitten as bait, why don't you find this black workshop?"

Ling Dongzhi was annoyed by its righteous tone, "Why don't you be the bait yourself?!"

The black cat grinned at him maliciously, "I think, the problem is that people like your cub's chubby type. Less bones and more meat, understand?!"

Chen Linxia quickly patted him, "Quietly, someone is coming."

Ling Dongzhi didn't dare to make any more noise, and anxiously watched the movement in the yard.A moment later, there was a sound of fighting from the direction of the warehouse.Just as Ling Dongzhi was about to drag Chen Linxia in to have a look, he found a black and thin young man scurrying out of the yard with his waist down, and ran towards their hiding place at a trot.

Ling Dongzhi and Chen Linxia looked at each other, and picked up the thing from the ground at the same time.Ling Dongzhi picked up a brick, and Chen Linxia got even better and directly touched a broken broom.So, when the black guy looked back frequently, he was unprepared and set up an ambush ahead, and was directly knocked out by Ling Dongzhi with a brick.

Chen Linxia was about to catch up with the black guy and hit him on the head again, when the stray cat outside the wall jumped out and rushed to him, scratching and scratching.Chen Linxia handed over the suspect to the police, and when he ran to the front yard, he found that several suspects had been detained in the open space in front of the warehouse with their heads in their hands.The police were moving things out one by one.Ling Dongzhi was anxiously looking for jelly beans in the pile of cages, and Chen Linxia followed the police into the warehouse to take a look, and was so shocked by the bloody scene inside that he vomited out on the spot.

The black cat stood not far away watching all this with cold eyes.

Chen Linxia vomited and couldn't stand, holding on to the broken door frame next to her and trembling, "Hey, hey, someone, here are some stray cats, let's take them to our stray cat shelter together."

"Tch, who cares." The black cat glanced at him disdainfully, turned and left.

On the other side of the yard, Ling Dongzhi was lucky enough not to have to run under the warehouse to get stimulated.He found the shivering jelly bean kid in a corner of a cage.

When Ling Dongzhi took it out, its legs and feet were limp.

Jelly Bean twitched in his palm, "I'm hungry. I miss you."

With lingering fear in his heart, Ling Dongzhi kissed it on the forehead again and again, "Go home. Let's go home right away."

The author has something to say: I originally wanted to write a cute side story, but in the end it read...it was dark...

Could this be related to the hidden properties of the horns? !

small theater:

Winter solstice: The police smashed the black workshop of meat products, jelly beans went home~ jelly beans: meow~~

Cherry: Ah, ah, my good boy...

Servant: Don't run around in the future!

Cherry: Shut up!The child is not crying yet!

Tangdou: ... Daddy is good, don't cry, don't cry~~

Servant: Whoa, whoa, whoa~~

Tangdou: ...Mom, is Daddy possessed by Uncle Brown Tang?