At the beginning of 2020, the new crown epidemic suddenly arrived, starting from Wuhan, the whole country has been locked down one after another, people listen to the call of the state, do not go out and do not gather, we are the same, the family honestly stay at home, there are two black, our life is not lonely, teasing smart, teaching everything quickly to learn, there is a talent to go to the acrobatic troupe, but it is a pity that it is not cultivated from an early age. Now with flowers and flowers, life is more joyful, and this joy can only be understood after raising a cat.
After eating and drinking, Hua Hua often came to the restaurant on the first floor and sat on a chair to look at the outside world. A leaf fall, a gust of wind, and passers-by can attract its curious eyes. The little bird crouched in the tree and called, the flower was motionless, the eyes were wide and focused, the lips grinned into a slit, and the vibrato of "aaaah" was quickly emitted, and if it had not been blocked by the gauze door, it would have rushed out long ago.
Occasionally, stray cats would pass by, flashing outside the fence, running too fast, and sometimes on the more private railings around the corner, we would put some cat food for some daring little ones to eat.
One day, when I was just arriving at the restaurant, my father pointed to the yarn door in the north courtyard and whispered, look, there is a cat there. In the direction, I saw a yellow cat lying in the doorway, looking indoors. Hua Hua was also lying on the ground, looking at it face to face from inside the house. I didn't dare to move, for fear of scaring it away, and the average stray cat never dared to stay outside the door, because the dog in the house was too crazy and too moving. It looked intently at the flowers, the family gathered here, whispering, no wonder these two dogs often ran to the restaurant these two days, slammed the door and barked hard, waiting for us to come and check, and found nothing. As they were talking, the two blacks rushed out of the living room, shouting loudly and pounced on the screen door, we hurried to stop, but it was too late, and the yellow cat outside the house disappeared in an instant.
After a while, I went to the refrigerator to get something, and Yu Guang caught a glimpse of the yellow cat coming again, still in that position, looking at each other across the door with Hua Hua. It wasn't afraid of me, because I slowly leaned over to the flower to look at it up close, and it didn't run away immediately. It looks very similar to a flower, with yellow and white intertwined hair and two white ears on its head. The sister grabbed a handful of cat food, took a few small fish and put it in a small bowl, opened the door and carefully gave it to it, twisting its head and hiding behind the left corner. When we were done with our respective businesses, the food was gone.
The next day, the wind outside was very strong, I ran to the bathroom to try to close the window, vaguely saw that the air conditioner seemed to be lying on the outside of the unit, is this not yesterday's cat? The little body curled up there, with its back to us, letting the wind blow it. Didn't this guy ever leave? I called out to my family to discuss how to do it, or to take a cardboard box and provide it with a temporary shelter. Just like when Hua Hua first came to the house, the cardboard box was covered with towels, there was a nest to withstand the wind and cold at night, and a bowl of food and water was placed next to the carton. The bathroom only has a window to contact the outside world, and the two dogs can't disturb it.
Each of us, whenever we go to the bathroom or restaurant, will sneak a glance, and it will sometimes quietly come to the door to find flowers, but most of the time we stay in the cardboard box to sleep. When I was fine, I sat with the flowers inside the gauze door and looked outside, listening to the birds, watching the little bugs crawling on the ground, the wind rolling up the leaves, rising up and falling, a yellow figure appearing in the grass, jumping around with a floating dandelion, looming, the little one was full of food and sleep, playing happily in the sun, chasing flowers, leaves and small flying insects.
In the evening, it was already late at night, and everyone washed and prepared to rest in their respective rooms. I lay in bed and took out my phone to watch the news for a while, it was quiet outside and the world was falling silent. Suddenly, a terrible cry came from the night sky, which was the sound of wild cats fighting that was often heard at many nights. The neighborhood is very large, there are many stray cats, this kind of roar was common in the past, it is not strange, but on this night, this kind of scream is particularly harsh, a sound comes in, as if the claws scratch on the heart like I tremble unceasingly, I am very worried about the guy downstairs, my sister also ran over, saying do you want to go downstairs to see? Again a tragic "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I threw down my phone and pedaled down, turned on the outdoor lights, and couldn't see anything. I went to the place where the cardboard box was placed to look for it, only to see the little thing lying next to the cardboard box, making an aggressive appearance, full of hair standing up, towards the yard of the neighbor's (uninhabited), and a constant whimpering warning sound came from its mouth, where there was another yellow cat, and found that I was looking at it, and disappeared into the grass. The bowl fell to the ground and fell into two pieces, and the water spilled, and there must have been a fierce fight here just now for the turf. Seeing me come out looking for it, the kitten jumped off the stage and rubbed around my legs, it should not be injured, there was no blood on its paws, and seeing that I was looking at it seriously, it lay directly at my feet, rolling over its belly. This little thing, during the day, wanders around and does not leave, and at night fights fiercely to guard this small haven, and hopes that we will take it in a flattering way. They were so clever, always hitting my soft underbelly in this most effective way, and I could only surrender and pick it up in my arms, and my sister was standing in the doorway and saying: Just know that you will carry it back.
After reporting to the old man at home, the first thing is, of course, to bathe it. Although this is almost two years ago, for us is still fresh in our memory, the whole process is not easy to look back, it seems to be well-behaved, but it makes us pay a big price, wearing gloves to scratch my hand out of a few bloody holes, pulling the alarm like a tooth, the sound of the hair dryer sounds, as if the end of the world, it is wet and dripping water, jumping up and down in the bathroom, jumping three feet high, just don't let the hair dryer get close, hit when you get close, eager to punch the buzzing monster. We were afraid and tired, moving around with it in the bathroom, panting and tossing and turning for half a day and not being able to blow it all dry, and even if we wanted to brush it, we had to be beaten, and the meek judgment when we first entered the door was like two cats. There is really no way, can only fill it with a hot water bottle in the nest, whether it can warm up can only rely on itself. At night, when we heard the sound of Sisoso, we were really sleepy, so we let it go.
Get up in the morning to take a look, this small cargo hair puffy, full of spirit, last night's fierce phase is gone, is walking around the house, smell here arch there, storage room cabinet door wide open, instant noodle box open, a few bags have been bitten, flowers follow behind, do not understand what is delicious about instant noodles? We offer freshly baked chicken liver, which is swept up in the wind, eating pleasantly, flowers and flowers are not polite, and it is delicious.
This little thing is a male cat with two small bells hanging on its butt, and my sister said to call it "ball ball". Qiu Qiu quickly adapted to family life (or maybe he had been premeditated for a long time), ate and drank at home, had unlimited enthusiasm for instant noodles, and could not open the storage cabinet, otherwise he would plunge into it, tear it up, and tear it out. Except for the night of the bath, we were quite docile, and we also let the flowers in everything, licked her hair as if to please, and squeezed the flowers to sleep.
Basking in the sun together during the day, chasing and fighting at night after getting acquainted with it, jumping in from the window of one bedroom, jumping through the balcony and then jumping out of the window of another bedroom, spinning the parkour in circles, running downstairs with a bang, causing the two dogs to keep barking, and then rushing back like arrows, we are often awakened in our sleep, confused to distinguish what has fallen or fallen, struggling not to move, dragging until the morning to get up again to clean up the mess, and dare not complain.
After the family has a dog, we did not think of raising a cat again, who would have thought, at the end of 19 years on the road to pick up one, the beginning of 20 years of isolation at home and find a door, life is such a surprise to you at any time, but still a man and a woman, and then we were negligent, inadvertently created a lot of opportunities for them to get along alone.
Hua Hua was pregnant, and we naively thought that she was fat, until she was about to give birth, and we helplessly found that Qiu Qiu was a father, and Hua Hua gave birth to two cubs in September 2020.
There are now four cats and two dogs in the family, which is about to exceed our number. And the two little boys, who have been at home since birth, do not know the suffering of the world, not like their parents who have wandered and fully perceived the cruelty of life, but every day they have no worries about food and clothing, riding on our heads to pull, hungry to howl at you symphony, unhappy to beat, passing by to give you a punch, when they are asleep to roll your eyelids, in the bed to nibble your feet, do whatever they want, the home is completely their world.
These are all afterwords.