only in this mountain

The mother of the black cat was greedy for food when she was pregnant for the first time and was fed poisonous fish by others. Although she saved her own life, she gave birth to a litter of stillborn babies. After that, her personality changed drastically and she never got close to others. Healthy self-born kittens were also very aloof, so the black cat was raised by other female cats in the yard.

There are dozens of cats living together, and the black cat is not the most beautiful, and has a little bit of aggression in his personality. In fact, he is very sensitive to the psychology that the owner does not want to get close to it.

There is a big banyan tree behind the kitchen, and the black cat often goes to the tree to chat with an old cat after stealing food.The old cat was half blind in one eye, and the hair behind the ears was completely bald. According to the old cat, it had lived for hundreds of years. The black cat also asked many cats, but they didn't know the exact age of the old cat.

The old cat talked about how the owner's family turned from prosperity to decline. Behind the power are often brutal killings and shocking human nature. The owner's father managed to escape those battles with his wife and children, and he was still losing for several years without stability. Ended up depressed in resentment.The owner of the courtyard supports his family by selling calligraphy and paintings. Apart from that, his only pleasure is raising cats. With a radius of ten miles, no one knows that there is such a person who loves cats in this remote small courtyard. The kitten will be brought to him.Although the black cat does not seem to be favored, it has a unique name like the dozens of cats in the yard, called Tayun.

Ever since the black cat knew that it had a human name, it wanted to know more human characters, and even began to ask the old cat how to understand their language. The old cat told the black cat everything it knew, Not long after, the black cat found its dead body under the banyan tree. It probably fell off the tree accidentally while sleeping and fell to death.

A few years later, the number of cats increased, but the number of familiar faces became less and less. The black cat also had its own offspring. When the clothes are hem, the owner just chuckles and sighs helplessly, which can make it feel happy and proud.

But the good times didn't last long. The owner of the courtyard was famous for his calligraphy and painting, and also caused unreasonable disasters because of his calligraphy and painting. Someone asked for a picture of a pine and crane celebrating his birthday with a thousand taels of gold. Wouldn’t life be worse than death if people with extravagant desires are in the same room?” Originally, it’s fine if the person can’t get it, it’s just a painting, and it’s not a rare treasure, but the words of the master of the courtyard let the dignitaries who want to please that person know .

It's just a sentence, the rich and powerful think that they are too generous, and don't intend to care about it, but the elegant young master just has some interest in the master and his talent because of this.

The eldest son came to visit in person with a gift, but the owner of the house looked on coldly and dismissed him. After several times of shutting the door, the eldest son was like a demon. I stopped thinking about the crane, and as time passed, I became extremely ill.

Obviously, the eldest son is suffering from lovesickness, when others asked him what, he just answered in a dazed way: "Crane, crane..." There is another word after that, the dignitary didn't have the heart to distinguish what he was talking about, he loves his son dearly. , hurriedly went to the master of the house.

"Mr. is noble and pure. He doesn't paint for ordinary people like me. I don't intend to live the same life as Songhe. It's just that my son loves calligraphy and painting since he was a child, and he admires Mr. Mr.'s character. Can Mr. see him as an ordinary person who is obsessed with painting?" , draw a crane for my son?"

The owner of the courtyard replied: "It is okay to paint other things, but not for cranes."

"Why not? Aren't they all paintings?"

"Forgive me for being helpless."

After saying this, the rich and powerful stopped being nice and angry, and murderous intent appeared in their eyes: "The crane in the painting is just a painting after all. You put a dead thing above human life because of that intangible and invisible thing. Even if you let yourself die, it's just to help you free yourself."

The owner of the house is alone, and he can't find anything other than cats.On that day, ten live cats were missing in the yard, and ten cat corpses were added.

"Tomorrow, I will come again."

The cats didn't know what happened, only the black cat licked the dead body of its own child, climbed to the banyan tree behind the kitchen and sat there all night.

The owner of the courtyard opened the courtyard door. The cats who were used to living here didn’t know what to do. He pushed them out of the courtyard door one by one and told them to get away from here quickly. The door waited for him to open it again.

The next day, the cats waiting outside were slaughtered.

For humans, the cat's resistance is negligible, perhaps to torture the owner's will, those people do everything they can, the cat's death is different, and the screams are endless.

The black cat can understand some human words, and it knows the general reason, but it does not understand what is human nature, nor what is the human heart, and it is full of confusion.I can't bear to see my companions die one after another, but where can I tell them to escape?

Of course, the black cat did not escape the fate of being killed by the butcher knife, and none of the cats in the yard was spared.

The owner of the yard set a fire and burned the cat's body completely. Since then, it seems to have evaporated from the world, and only the soul of the cat who is reluctant to leave stays in the yard.

The black cat bit and cursed: "Let's go, humans don't love you at all, you have been abandoned by him!"

Even its own children opened their innocent eyes in disbelief.

When it is a cat, it is not noticed by people, and when it becomes a cat spirit, it has no sense of existence. Sometimes, when the wind blows, it is blown from the banyan tree to the outside of the yard, floating in the world in chaos.

One day by chance, the black cat saw a painting. It lay down in front of the window and looked at it for a long time. The two beings who were not alive looked at each other. Suddenly, it was full of resentment and wanted to tear the painting with its paws. broken.

"No matter what, you are just a painting!"

But as soon as it touched the paper, its heart calmed down again. It felt a faint vitality, and the faint fragrance of ink lingered around it. It devoured all the breath greedily. When it sensed that someone was approaching, it Quickly jumped up from the table and jumped out the window.

The inkstone was overturned, and the blank rice paper was stained black with ink.

"What did you draw just now? I can't see clearly anymore."

"I didn't draw anything, now I can just draw plum blossoms."

The black cat looked back, and it could feel that it was different from its soul at this moment. It regained its life with the help of a cat in the painting. It didn’t need to walk on clouds, but its body was lighter than ever before. It held its breath, as if the wind around it had stopped for a moment.

It returned to the original yard, and the cats were still the same as before it left.A kitten asked it: "Where have you been? If you don't come back, you won't be able to see Hezhi when Hezhi comes over."

But the black cat didn't scold them again, and said softly to them: "I know where Hezhi is, I'll take you to find him."

It tried the same method to let the cat spirits enter the painting, but it failed once. Later, the black cat wandered around with the cat spirits while practicing, looking for the people who abandoned them.

After listening to the black cat's narration, Jiang He felt very sad. He imagined whether he would have painted that painting if it was him, but after all, he was not the person involved, so he couldn't make the decision for others.

"Same situation, two different results. It can be seen that he doesn't really like us or care about us. After all, we are just cats."

That's why I hate him and blame him for making him unable to draw cats again in this life.

If it wasn't for Jiang He, the black cat's wish would have come true.

Normally, humans cannot see cat spirits, so even if the room is full of cat spirits, no one will notice. That day Jiang He went out to pick cherries, and the black cat wanted to take this opportunity to disappear all the cats on Jiang He's painting. But the cat spirit pestered it to play with it. The black cat's heart moved, and he couldn't help but wonder if he could give the cat a new life again.

It made the cat spirit stand on the painting and use spiritual power to integrate it with the ink and wash in the painting. In the process, it felt a breath similar to that of the past.The cat spirit was ignorant and didn't know how to absorb it, so the black cat condensed the breath that was tentatively regarded as "life" in its body, and then spit it out to the cat spirit.The black cat succeeded, and the cat meowed as soon as it landed, which almost caught Zhao Xiufeng's attention.

After that, it vaguely felt that the aura that could give life to the cat spirit might come from Jiang He, and it also confirmed that morning that as long as Jiang He was in the house, that spiritual energy would flow continuously.But it didn't dare to absorb too much, fearing that it would suck all his life away. After all, it had no enmity with Jiang He, and it didn't hate him.

The kitten that came back tonight was the first one. Maybe it was Jiang He who temporarily possessed a physical body. Even though it returned to the state of cat spirit because of the rain, the aura was still there, so Jiang He and Xiaogu could temporarily see it.

"So, if I have the mountain god stone and can understand the speech of animals, I have to be prepared to make offerings to animals? Besides, can't I have other high-end skills?" Of course, this sentence is just complaining silently in my heart, even if No matter how tasteless it is to him, he can't just tell people to miss him.

Jiang He also thought of a question: "It's been so long, how do you know that the person you found is the owner of the courtyard back then? Even if it was him, he is not the same as he used to be. The him at this time and the him at that time should be It seems to make sense for two different people to react differently."

"You can't say that he didn't paint the crane because he didn't care about you. If he really didn't care, he could start all over again after burning all the traces with a fire. In fact, sometimes the most sad thing is not facing the moment when life is gone. , but in a familiar environment, facing the memories of the past bit by bit and eating away at the soul. When I suddenly woke up, I couldn’t touch anything. The life of animals is short for humans, and I can’t guarantee that I will only live in my life. Raising Er Fool's dog, but Er Fool's company with me these years is a unique part of my life. Zhao Xiufeng's answer to you cannot satisfy you, and I can't let you accept my idea on behalf of the host. I just hope I don’t hurt anyone else.”

The black cat also consumed a lot of spiritual power, otherwise the yellow shirt wouldn't have caught it effortlessly, and the time it scratched Zhao Xiufeng in order to break through the restraint, the frequency of its body heaving there became more and more frequent. slow.

Jiang He didn't hear it speak again, reached out to touch it, and it opened its eyes and looked at him indifferently.

"I want to rest, don't bother me."

"Oh, good." Jiang He turned to hug his little Sanhua who was having a great time playing with him, and lowered his head to rub it, but the kitten stretched out its tongue first and licked his lips.

"Little guy, you can't do this in front of Zhang Huai, or he might throw you into the water." The kitten didn't understand his threat, and licked it several times in succession. Jiang He had no choice but to put it in the snow. In the nest of the ball, seeing Jiang He turn around, it still wanted to follow Jiang He, but when Jiang He's voice became louder, it obediently lay down.

Feeling drowsy, Jiang He wrapped himself tightly in the blanket and fell asleep after a while.

It seemed to be a dream. In the dream, he was still drawing at his desk, and a pair of hands stretched out to hug him from behind, with his chin resting on his shoulder, a little itchy.

"Is there a cat under the plum tree?"

"Ah, it seems so."

"Didn't you draw it? Why is it more surprising than me."

He turned around and sealed the man's mouth with a kiss.

When he opened his eyes in the morning, Jiang He first saw the kitten lying down and sleeping peacefully. After making sure that last night was not a dream, he looked around for the shadow of the black cat. In the painting."

Jiang He sat quietly for a while, not knowing who he was feeling sorry for, Xiaogu said again: "Go and open the door, Zhang Huai is here."

The weather was gloomy, and low air pressure spread around several people. After breakfast, Jiang He asked Zhang Huai to help Zhao Xiufeng find a driver. Zhang Huai said, "I have a driver's license."

Jiang He wanted to say that if he didn't see you all year round, would you dare to drive even if he had a driver's license?After thinking about it, Zhang Huai has always been reliable in his work. He doesn't say things that he is not sure of. Maybe Zhang Huai drove the car during the time when they didn't want to be together?When people are depressed, it is easy to think too much, and he feels that he still knows too little about Zhang Huai. He wants to know many things only after seeing them, and he is trapped by inactivity and guilt.

He told Zhang Huai about this, and Zhang Huai would never say that he was thinking wildly, but only said: "These are small things, we still have a long time."

Jiang He added: "I'm always entangled in these small problems, probably because I'm afraid that I'm not as good as you imagined, careless, inconsiderate, unable to take care of others, and unable to share your troubles."

"I didn't imagine that the real you is in front of me. If it's trouble, the only thing I'm afraid of is what should I do if you are no longer by my side."

"It's very likely that you abandoned me in your previous life, so you're so afraid of me leaving in this life, isn't that right?"

I said something with a smile on my mouth, but I said in my heart: "The earth will continue to shine and heat without the sun, and the earth will continue to rotate without people on the earth. Whoever is missing will not affect life, but I am without you. I'm afraid it really won't work."

I don't know if it is possible for the black cat to come out of the painting again, so Jiang He found a frame to put the painting inside and put it in Zhao Xiufeng's car. Since Zhang Huai and he couldn't do without each other, he finally followed in the car .

The temperature and rain fell in a large area in the city. A car accident on the road delayed some time. When we arrived in the city, it was already noon. Zhao Xiufeng's phone kept ringing, and he didn't answer it or turn it off. City.

"Let's take you to the hospital first, and you can call someone to pick you up later."

Zhao Xiufeng didn't nod or shake his head, Jiang He presumptuously asked Zhang Huai to drive the car to the First Hospital of G City.When Zhao Xiufeng went to see a doctor, his mother called again, and Jiang He thought about answering for Zhao Xiufeng, just in time for their family to come over.

However, along with Zhao Xiufeng's mother was a man in his 40s, wearing glasses and looking gentle.

Zhao Xiufeng looked at the man with disgust, and said, "Why are you here? Didn't I say that I will draw for you tomorrow? Can't wait in such a short time?"

"I thought about it, and suddenly I don't want a cat anymore." The man smiled politely, not minding how annoying his inconsistency annoyed the other party, and took a step closer to examine Zhao Xiufeng's face carefully, "The injury is quite serious, It's a pity that you have such a beautiful face, if there are scars, no one will want you. However, no matter what you become, I like it to death."

He kept the last sentence very low, Jiang He who was very close to Zhao Xiufeng still heard it, Jiang He blushed, took a step back and looked away embarrassedly.

Zhao Xiufeng, on the other hand, became furious and left angrily.

Although he didn't want to admit it, Jiang He and the others were disturbed those days, and Jiang He didn't want to make up for it, so he said, "Let's have a meal together, and I'll ask my friend to send you back after eating."

Even if he is not reconciled, Zhao Xiufeng also understands that in the face of reality, no matter how powerful the imagination is, it is not worth mentioning.

When leaving the hospital, he went to Ximen to take Zhao Xiufeng's mother's car. Zhang Huai stared at the license plate of a nearby car for a few more seconds. Jiang He noticed his abnormality and thought he liked the brand of the car. When can I save enough to buy him a car, I suddenly heard Zhang Huai say to him: "That is my brother-in-law's car."

What a coincidence?Zhang Huai's brother-in-law is also in the hospital?

Zhao Xiufeng opened his mouth to speak, but in the end he just frowned and said nothing.