Strange Life of a Cat

Seeing Wei Xiaopang scratching the cat's tail, Ermao smiled and said, If it was any other cat, it would have clawed it up long ago. Brother Wei, you should be more careful. My wife's relative's child is like this, and he is three years old. , No matter what I say, I don’t listen to it, and the parents don’t always stare at it. Once the child ran to grab his cat’s tail and was scratched by the cat. You know, children don’t know the severity, the cat’s reflex There was blood on one of the paws, and if the child didn't wear a lot of clothes, let alone his hands, his arms would have been scratched.

Ermao said it well, this kind of thing happened a lot, it was lucky to scratch his arms, but it would be difficult if his face was scratched and his eyes were scratched.

Wei Leng nodded. It is really important to pay attention to this. He has heard a lot about it before, but the cats he is familiar with are all good and have never had such problems, so he ignored some of them. Now imagining, it really takes a lot of thought. , You can’t let your son develop this habit, you have to know what you can and can’t do, after all, not every cat is a “black brother”, they won’t tolerate it.

Thinking of something, Er Mao smiled smugly again: But my two daughters get along well.

The two girls in Ermao's mouth refers to his cat, Heimi, and his daughter, Eryuan. He also took out his mobile phone and showed Wei Leng the photos taken together by the two girls. It looks really harmonious.

Zheng Tan decided to stay away from Fatty Wei until he was eight years old. The birthday party will not be close either.

After dinner at Wei Leng's house in the evening, Ermao first sent Zheng Tan back to the compound, and on the way, he said that he would put a fake cat tail on Wei Xiaopang's first birthday party. Can't help being happy. But he was just talking about it, many children’s first birthday parties don’t know how to deal with this now, but since Wei Leng wants to do it, Ermao won’t make trouble. Leng, in turn, is also cheated.

Hearing Ermao's complaints, Zheng Tan looked inside the car. Compared with when he went there, there were a few gifts missing in Ermao's car, and there was one more box, which was not covered tightly. Wearing two braids similar to the red ropes given to Wei Leng.

Ermao did this to give away?

Heitian, don't destroy that red string. It costs 50 yuan a piece. I took the last few today, and I will give them away at that time. Ermao said.

fifty dollars? !

That old woman is so cruel!

Zheng Tan stared hard at the braided red ropes, not even a stone was strung on them, why are they so expensive?

Hearing what Ermao said, there are quite a lot of people buying it?

She is such an old woman who can fool people, no wonder she was living well in a small village without plowing or plowing before being found by Er Mao.

Fifty yuan is not much, and to many people it is a small amount of money, but when you think about the red rope that looks like a big roll for a few yuan on the street, think about the woven finished product that has doubled the price. , Zheng Tan couldn't help slandering that old woman for cheating.

However, while complaining, Zheng Tan also thought, should he also buy one?

Xiaoyouzi is twelve years old this year, because many people in the same grade are a year or two older than her, and the children don't care much about the term birth year, and no child in the compound has ever heard of the birth year. Things are generally said to be adults, so apart from Jiao Ma buying some red clothes for Xiaoyouzi, Zheng Tan didn't see anything deliberately aimed at the saying of the birth year. After all, among young people, Although there are many people who pay attention to this, they are not too many. At the beginning, Jiao Yuan didn't pay attention to this aspect, and Zheng Tan only heard Jiao's mother mention it, Jiao Yuan didn't care at all, and Jiao Yuan didn't do things like wearing red underwear.

After returning home, Zheng Tan checked the drawer where he put his money. Most of the money he saved years ago was wrapped in red envelopes and given away. After the next year, he worked overtime a few times and made some money. Xiao Guo is also generous now, fifty Not a few times, basically a hundred.

After flipping through the money to make sure it was enough, Zheng Tan decided to go to the old woman's house to see if there were so many people like Ermao said. People have such a mentality, join in the fun, everyone buys, and we follow suit.

On a sunny morning, Zheng Tan went to the villa area by the lake and lay down on a tree near where the old woman lived.

Although the old woman is always in a wheelchair and doesn't see her anywhere on weekdays, there are quite a lot of people who talk to the old woman, most of them are middle-aged women or elderly people. With Zheng Tan's hearing ability, he can hear Hear the voice of the old woman fooling people over there.

Not to mention, when the old woman fooled people, she did look a bit superior, and fooled those people for a moment - at least in Zheng Tan's opinion, this old woman was fooling people.

When fooling people, the old woman was not idle, she was knitting something with a red rope. Although I am getting old now and my hands are shaking a little, but it is not slow to weave. Zheng Tan is far away and can't see clearly, but when the old woman finishes chatting with others, her hands are finished, and the finished product is put aside. Continue to edit. Most of the people who came to chat would pay for one or two.

Zheng Tan decided to continue to stay in the afternoon to see how many people the old woman could fool. As for the lunch at noon, Zheng Tan thought about it and decided not to go back to eat. My aunt's cooking is pretty good.

Zheng Tan was planning to go to Feng Bojin's house for dinner, when he saw two ten-year-old children running towards the old woman's house as if they were thieves, as if they were afraid of being seen by others.

This should be a primary school student returning home from school at noon. There is a primary school nearby. Many children from this community and some nearby communities go to school there. I heard that the quality of teaching is not bad. Naturally, some fees are relatively expensive, although it is compulsory. Education, but there are many other costs as well.

Both children held bags of bowls in their hands, which they took to school for breakfast, and took them back to wash at noon.

The little girl was dressed like a child from this villa area, and the little boy was more shabby, probably from a nearby community.

Seeing the behavior of these two children, Zheng Tan was not in a hurry to get down from the tree to eat, and continued to squat here to see what the two children were going to do.

Generally, people who go to the old woman either want to chat about facial features, horoscopes, five elements, feng shui, etc., or they just want to buy red ropes because of her reputation. These two kids shouldn't be the former, as for the latter... These two kids won't be looking for a trap, right? Fifty yuan a piece!

At this time, no one was there to chat with the old woman, and everyone had to go back to prepare lunch. The old woman was taken care of here, so she didn't have to do it herself. She was still weaving red rope in the yard. The three-legged cat was lying next to it, guarding the finished products.

Grandma Yang! The little girl stood at the gate and shouted politely.

Zheng Tan heard from Ermao that this old woman's ancestry seemed to be Ouyang, but she didn't know when she became Yang. I didn't listen much, but in retrospect, the word Ouyang was on the jade plate back then, and Zheng Tan only recognized the word Yang.

Hey, little Nini. The old woman smiled as she looked at the little girl standing at the door, her face wrinkled and her eyes narrowed.

Grandma Yang, I brought my classmate over to buy a bracelet, no, buy... The little girl couldn't tell what it was, and pulled the little boy who was one step behind, You tell me.

The little boy was a little embarrassed and nervous, but following the seemingly random questions from the old woman, the little boy relaxed and answered them one by one.

Zheng Tan listened to their words and realized that the little boy didn't buy this for people, but for cats. No one in his family is born this year, but the old cat in the family is twelve years old, older than the little boy.

The old woman didn't have any surprised expression, she still had that smiling and kind face to the children, listening to the little boy talking about the cat at home, at the same time, her hands didn't stop, a knitting thing was being completed.

Grandma Yang, look, can you buy one for it? After finishing speaking, the little boy asked with a blushing face.

In the eyes of many people, his behavior is like a prodigal, doing useless work, and looking for pitfalls. Can cats be like people?

According to the conversion between the age of cats and humans, many people say that a seven or eight-year-old cat is equivalent to a human being fifty years old, and a twelve-year-old cat like his is equivalent to a human being's 60th or 70th birthday. Really old cat.

Of course. The old woman handed over the things she had woven.

The little girl came over and took a look, Hey, it's different from the one I saw last time. To be sure, she looked at the bracelets woven in the box next to it, this one was indeed different from the others.

The old woman just smiled and didn't answer.

The little boy carefully put the red knitting in his hand into his pocket, and then took out a plastic box filled with sugar from the bowl bag. Quite a few, and some dimes.

After counting the money with a blushing face, the little boy said embarrassingly, Grandma Yang, you...don't mind these things, do you?

It's okay, just put it here. The old woman said indifferently.

When leaving, the little boy turned his head to look at the old woman again, Grandma Yang, I heard that the birth year is a hurdle, will it pass this hurdle?

Do you want it to pass this hurdle? asked the old woman.

Of course! I heard that there is a cat in the north of the city who lived to be in his twenties and is doing well! the little boy said excitedly.

That's fine.

The little boy was a little confused, but soon smiled again, and waved to the old woman, Let's go, thank you Grandma Yang!

The two children left the old woman's yard, talking in a low voice while walking, Zheng Tan was curious and planned to follow to see what the old cat looked like.

I will return the twenty yuan to you as soon as I have money. The little boy said. This matter has to be done urgently, the pocket money I have saved for so long is only thirty, not enough to make up fifty.

Don't worry about this, you don't have much pocket money. Besides, I don't need much. Most of the children living in this villa area are from very good families. Generous parents will give more, and many of them play games. The primary school students are at the trench level.

Next week... I should be able to pay it back next week. The little boy affirmed. He thought of a way.

Don't talk about that yet, is your cat okay now? the little girl asked.

It's very good. I heard from others that cats will lose their teeth when they get old, but I opened it up yesterday and saw that my cat didn't lose any of its teeth and has a good appetite.

But when I saw it last week, it didn't look energetic, it didn't jump when I teased it with a wool rope, it looked so lazy.

...it's not lazy, it just can't jump up.