Not too many out of four

The Christmas decorations started on Christmas Eve, which took them a lot of time.

Even if four people and one cat work together to complete all aspects of the house with the size of Kudo's house, it will definitely take a lot of time, so they can only work hard to catch up with the progress.

Colorful light strips and shiny garlands are hung inside and outside the house. When the electricity is turned on, there is a faint but brilliant light in the dark night, shining like stars falling in the world.

"It's almost like this." Zhong Yuanzhong also patted the glitter powder on his hands, and looked around with his head raised.

It's great to be able to do this in a few hours, and it's also a great way to celebrate the first Christmas. I don't know if there will be such an opportunity in the future.

Nakahara Zhong also doesn't have many opportunities to use gravity. He carries things with Li Jia, accompanies her to and from school, and occasionally helps her when cooking. He can even take over some simple cooking more often.

The taste has been honed and adjusted by Lijia, and it has reached a pretty good level.

Of course, it's just some simple and quick cooking. Li Jia is mainly responsible for the difficult and troublesome cooking. He only needs to help with housework at home.

He simply maintains his human form, and the vague sense of repulsion will not be particularly obvious, but whenever he uses gravity, the heavy pressure will instantly crush his nerves and body.

Fortunately, Zhongya Zhongya's ability is gravity, which allows them to quickly adapt to this sense of repulsion. Under pressure, they can even exercise their abilities and master a more comfortable and relaxed rhythm.

If it was another ability, he might not be able to bear this obvious sense of repulsion.

When I was a cat, I was the most relaxed and at ease. This also shows that the world rejects maybe just the supernatural ability and not the individual of Zhongya Zhongya. Of course, it is only the second year of their existence here. It is hard to say what will happen after a long time. .

All they can do is to extend the time as long as possible, at least to clean up everything here before they can leave with peace of mind.

"Mr. Zhongye, come back to sleep." Li Jia supported the balcony fence and looked up.

The glossy black hair falls naturally, and the white face is more delicate and lovely. The blue eyes are like small fans, and the eyelashes are fluttering.

Light and silent, it floated up with the night wind, and walked into the Central Plains with the tip of his nose. He only looked down, and turned his eyes away with a blushing face: "Got it."

With a kick, the body freely turned back and raised the clothes to reveal a thin and powerful waist. Like a cat, he adjusted his landing posture in mid-air, and turned back into an orange fluffy kitten and fell into the girl's arms.

She hurriedly raised her hand to catch the cat, and complained in a low voice: "Mr. Zhongye jumped down so suddenly again, if I didn't catch you, I would have fallen to the grass on the first floor."

Even gravity is useless, even if Zhong Yuanzhong adjusted his posture and landed when he fell headlong, he would fall hard into the snowdrift and turn himself into a snow cat.

Zhong Yuanzhong didn't care much about licking his nose, and didn't take Li Jia's murmurs to heart.

Anyway, if he fell to the first floor, there would still be snowdrifts to catch him, and at worst, he would shake off the dry snow before running up.

"Little bad cat, are you listening to your sister?" After nagging for a long time without hearing Nakahara Chuya's reply, Li Jia huffed and puffed up her face.

She is now 16 years old and will be 17 years old in a few months. No matter how you calculate her age, she is older than Zhongyuan Zhongye. There is no problem in calling herself an older sister in front of him.

"Meow, meow!" Zhongyuan Zhong also quickly lowered his head and licked her hand, his tail hung down under the girl's arms and raised the tip of his tail.

Maomao turned her head around and didn't look at her directly. The plush pajamas Lijia was wearing today were tightly wrapped, but when looking from above, she could still vaguely see some skin inside the neckline.

He glanced casually just now, but now he is too embarrassed to even turn around.

It's obviously not very revealing clothes, but there is a cute and docile atmosphere on Li Jia's body, which makes people dare not look at it after one glance.

But perhaps the only person who dared not look at it was Nakahara Chuya, and those who didn't have a heart would not think there was any problem even if they saw it.

He couldn't remember when the feeling of liking started to appear.

Nakahara Chuya has never been good at remembering these things, as long as he knows that the person he likes now is Toshika Fujimine.

"Meow meow! Meow meow!" The cat's ears were pricked up, trying to catch her muttering fragments.

Li Jia lifted Zhongyuan Zhongya back to the cat nest where he usually sleeps, touched his head, and said earnestly: "A good boy should sleep well, and you must not wake up in the middle of the night, you know?"

The fingers that had cooled down shortly after leaving the warm bathroom stroked the soft and fluffy hair on the top of his head, and his ears were slightly pushed back, trembling when Li Jia withdrew his hands and trotted back to sleep.

He tilted his head puzzled, turning off the lights in the dark room didn't affect his sight, but he was a little surprised why Li Jia suddenly emphasized that he couldn't wake up in the middle of the night.

It always feels very deliberate, as if I want to get up secretly in the middle of the night to do something that they can't let them know.

……

The hands of the clock passed three laps rigorously and slowly. Li Jia's original plan to close her eyes and pretend to be asleep, waiting for Zhongyuan Zhongya and the others to fall asleep, and then get up quietly was almost shattered.

Lying in the warm blanket in the cold winter, with her eyes closed, she listened to the familiar snoring of the cat and the ticking of the clock hands, sleepiness came up little by little, and she fell into sleep unconsciously.

If it wasn't for subconsciously remembering that she was going to wake up tonight to be Nakahara Chuya's "Santa Claus", she might sleep until dawn.

Waking up in a dream and opening her eyes dazedly, Li Jia sat in the middle of the bed in a daze for a while, moving slowly and carefully to get out of bed.

In fact, she doesn't need to be so careful. Once the Zhongye cats in the house fall asleep, they will not wake up easily without any special movement. This is what she finds when she wakes up thirsty in the middle of the night and goes to the kitchen to drink water.

But when Li Jia got up to act secretly with the feeling that she could not be discovered by Chuya and the others, she would inevitably be frightened by the sound of them waking up and froze her body.

The regular snoring of cats suddenly stopped, and Li Jia froze in the position where she got out of bed. Like a robot, she slowly turned her head to look at the dark cat climbing frame at night. In the dim sight, only the black shadow of the cat with its body lumped up could be seen. Probably did not wake up.

She was a little relieved, and she simply didn't plan to wear slippers, and was going to go out directly to pack socks and gifts.

At two or three o'clock in the morning, almost all the cats fell asleep and rested, and only one cat who had been waiting for a long time opened its eyes.

Nakahara Chuya flicked his tail and jumped down lightly and nimbly.

With the rug muffled to muffle the sound of his landing, he didn't even need to tiptoe and cautiously leave the room like Li Jia, just follow her way out and the open door all the way.

Due to deliberately slowing down his steps and movements, Li Jia was no longer in the corridor outside the bedroom when he went out.

The thin cat ears trembled, and turned to the sides to concentrate on collecting the subtle movements and sounds in the bungalow. He unexpectedly discovered that Li Jia had gone to the living room again.

Didn't she finish decorating the living room with "Zhong Ye" tonight, so there's no need to change or add anything?What are you doing there in the middle of the night?

The meat pad fell to the ground without a sound, and he approached slowly and quietly, not letting the little girl who was hiding in the living room and yawning diligently at work in the middle of the night notice that her tail was raised high with excitement and exploration.

It was the first time that Chuya Nakahara didn't sleep in the middle of the night and came out to see what Li Jia was doing.

The usual daytime activities have consumed a lot of his energy, and the nighttime sleep time is the time for them to sleep seriously.

Unlike normal cats, which sleep more than ten hours a day, they may spend more time in doze.

They usually sleep in real sleep, and only when they first become cats will they get used to false sleep for a period of time. After the body is completely used to it, Zhong Yuanzhong has also learned how to replenish physical strength through just a few hours of sleep. down the day.

I will deliberately stay up tonight to see what Li Jia wants to do.

Mao Mao poked its head out from the door frame with its head tilted, its high raised tail swayed behind it and hooked the tip of its tail.

From this angle, he could only see that Li Jia seemed to be hanging something on the wall, but what she was doing was basically blocked and he couldn't see clearly.

Taking a silent catwalk, Zhongyuan Zhong also approached carefully step by step, wary that Li Jia would turn around at any time.

"Phew... maybe this is okay?" In the middle of the night, with the lights on in the living room, he sneaked out presents and wanted to avoid being discovered by Chuya Zhongye and the others.

She breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to hang the last gift on the cat climbing frame in the bedroom, but when she turned her head, she saw a group of familiar orange fur.

Zhong Yuanzhong also raised his footsteps and stopped motionless in mid-air, feeling embarrassed.

Following Li Jia out in the middle of the night to peek at what she is doing is not what normal cats should do.

"Huh?" She couldn't believe it, lowered her head and rubbed her eyes, and muttered, "Did I read it wrong?"

Taking advantage of the moment when she lowered her head and staggered her eyes, Nakahara Zhongya rolled over and hid behind the sofa, listening to Li Jia's movements with his ears open.

Li Jia muttered in astonishment: "It's gone..."

It was just a brief movement of lowering and raising the head, but the kitten in front of him disappeared.

It was scarier than when she thought no one would notice her getting up in the middle of the night and secretly arranging Christmas presents, thinking she was ready to go back to sleep, only to turn around and find the cat behind her.

The girl's delicate brows couldn't help but frowned, she walked lightly towards the direction where she found the kitten, and when she got close to the sofa, she suddenly bent down and looked behind the sofa——

Nothing, no cats or orange furry things.

"Where did you go?" Li Jia murmured in confusion. Compared with the hallucination of lack of sleep, she believed that a cat at home had sneaked down.

Although at first I thought it was an illusion and didn't look carefully at which Chuya cat it was, but Li Jia was sure that the cat was still staying in a corner of the living room.

The consciousness that was still too sleepy just now became energetic after being startled by the Chuya cat. She didn't want to go back immediately, she had to find the cat.

……

The moment Li Jia saw it, the brain hadn't reacted yet, and the body reacted first and hid behind the sofa.

Zhong Yuanzhong also raised his ears, inexplicably nervous.

Before going to bed, Li Jia had already told them not to get up secretly in the middle of the night, and if he came out with her specially, would she be angry if he was found out?

He didn't even have to think about the answer, he was sure it would be.

Usually, the ears were erected high to catch Li Jia's voice and footsteps in time. Fortunately, she rushed to the porch to pick her up as soon as she came back, but this time she erected her ears and listened attentively to avoid Li Jia.

The thick blanket in the living room is too sound-absorbing, and Li Jia deliberately slowed down his pace, so he can only judge the distance between them by the sound of his voice.

Even if Ben Jia didn't find him, as soon as she started to walk out, she would definitely pass behind the sofa and find him hiding here, so she must find a new hiding place as soon as possible.

The heartbeat slowly started to speed up, Nakahara Chuya nervously licked his nose to relieve the pressure, his eyes turned left and right, and he felt that the bungalow of Kudo House was really very empty.

He had never felt that the living room was such an empty place, not even a good hiding place.

Taking advantage of the moment when Li Jia went around to the back of the sofa, Zhongyuan Zhong also went around to the front of the sofa along the other side, and directly found a gap to get in and hold his breath.

He didn't know why he wanted to hide, obviously as long as he went out and confessed his mistake, he could go back to sleep immediately, because when he conditioned himself to hide, he began to have to continue to hide in a troublesome situation.

Going out and admitting your mistakes now will definitely be worse than admitting your mistakes directly at the beginning.

"Is it Zhongye? Or Mr. Zhongye? Brother Zhongye?" Li Jia's voice became blurred and unclear through the sofa cushions, and she could only vaguely hear her calling their names in a low voice.

Zhong Yuanzhong also shrank his body and didn't dare to respond, it turned out that Li Jia didn't recognize him.

"Shouldn't it be Zhongye-kun?" She murmured to herself, holding her chin, the kitten who usually sleeps the most and is the hardest to wake up.

He breathed a sigh of relief quietly, and was going to come out after Li Jia gave up searching and went back to the room.

The voice of Nian Nian talking swayed from left to right, Li Jia seemed to be looking for him everywhere, but there was really no place to hide in the living room.

"... Forget it, maybe I really got it wrong." She shook her head and turned on the light in the living room, muttering.

Zhong Yuanzhong also lay down quietly, and waited for a while.

After confirming that there was no sound or movement in the living room, this time he arched his cat's head and let out a long breath.

As soon as he raised his head and looked up, he happened to meet the girl who was smiling and bent over to look at him, and her body froze in place for an instant.

"Sure enough, it's Mr. Zhongye..." The soft and lovely voice in the past deliberately dragged on.

Zhong Yuan Zhong also stared at her blankly, not knowing how to react for a moment.

Li Jia snorted softly, clamped his forelimbs with both hands and carefully carried the cat out, and tapped his wet nose: "How long do you think I've been with you?"

Could it be that she misunderstood her cat and didn't know what kind of character her cat was?

"... Meow." Li Jia's faint breath was left on the tip of his nose, and Zhong Yuanzhong couldn't help licking his nose, and even the tail hanging behind him seemed a little stiff.

Will he be forgiven if he turns back into a human and apologizes now?

He was really just curious for a moment, the reason why Li Jia would suddenly act differently than usual.

"Little villain, please don't get up in the middle of the night and pretend to be asleep." Skillfully holding the kitten in her arms, Li Jia turned off the light in the living room again, and said angrily, "The more you are not allowed to do something, the more disobedient you are, the little villain." .”

Just now she just turned on the spotlight in the living room and made a sound like turning off the light, and stood on the edge of the sofa waiting, but she didn't expect that there was really a silly cat hiding in it, and wanted to wait for her to go back to the room before coming out.

"Meow, meow." Zhongyuan Zhong also defended himself with guilt.

He really didn't mean it, but what Li Jia said before going to bed made him so curious that he couldn't sleep.

The difference between a cat's feigned sleep and real sleep lies in whether he falls asleep or not. He feigns sleep because he can't fall asleep, not because he wants to get up in the middle of the night on purpose.

"I won't listen to your explanation," she snorted softly, carried the kitten back to the cat's nest, lowered her voice and pretended to be fierce: "Go to sleep, don't peek!"

Zhong Yuanzhong also called out in a low voice: "Meow."

But there were always rustling sounds in his ears, and he couldn't help his ears froze.

"Eavesdropping is not allowed! Bad cat!" Li Jia looked up at Zhongyuan Zhongye with his ears raised high, angrily covered his cat's head with one hand.

"Go to sleep! Do you know?" Li Jia pushed him a little harder, and pushed the kitten sleeping on the edge of the cat's nest into it: "We have to get up early tomorrow to unwrap presents."

A little bad cat who doesn't make people safe.

The cat's ears and mouth were suppressed, and Zhong Yuanzhong could only purr a few times in response to her.

After finally hanging up all the presents with one hand, Li Jia breathed a sigh of relief and withdrew her hand: "I'm going to bed too, good night, Mr. Zhongye."

"Meow." Good night Li Jia.