Strange Life of a Cat

Early in the morning of the new year, Zheng Tan heard the voices of Mr. Jiao and the old lady. The old people are always used to getting up early, and they are even more diligent during the Chinese New Year.

No one slept in late today, Xiaoyouzi and Jiao Yuan also woke up quickly, there are still many tasks today, and there will be New Year guests at home. However, when Xiaoyouzi and Jiao Yuan woke up, their vision was still blurred and they were not so clear-headed. They yawned when they smelled the smell of braised pork.

Usually breakfast is lighter, so the two children thought, could it be braised pork for breakfast today? When I was getting dressed, I realized that there was a red envelope on the bedside.

When I picked it up, I found that the red envelope was much thicker than the usual ones, and on the back, there was a greasy cat paw print with the smell of braised pork. It didn't take much thinking to know who it belonged to.

What surprised Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyouzi even more was the five hundred yuan in the red envelope.

Zheng Tan has a lot of private money, Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyouzi have known for a long time, Jiao Yuan also borrowed money from Zheng Tan, but borrowing money is one thing, receiving "lucky money" red envelopes is another thing, Jiao Yuan Yuan and Xiaoyouzi's mood was quite strange and complicated. After all, in their opinion, Zheng Tan's cat was much younger than them, and there was five hundred yuan in it! For students, the money is already quite a lot.

Jiao Yuan looked at the red envelope in his hand with a troubled face. He really wanted to shout "Fuck" to relieve the impact of the red envelope, but obviously he couldn't. If he really shouted out, he would definitely be criticized by the four elders in his family. On the first day of the new year, he didn't want to be scolded.

Seeing Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyouzi coming out of their respective rooms, the old man and the old lady narrowed their eyes with a smile. Before the two children could say anything, they quickly took out their pockets and handed over the prepared New Year's bag.

Just as Zheng Tan expected, the old man always offered one hundred yuan, just look at the thickness. Zheng Tan couldn't help being complacent beside me, not as much as I gave.

"Ah, Heitan, and yours."

The old man and the old lady took out again, and it was the same as in previous years. One of Zheng Tan’s red envelopes was filled with dried pork, and the other was filled with dried fish fillets. However, this year, the old man and old lady gave more. In previous years, each red envelope contained only one bag. Yes, double the bags now.

There is also a reason why Zheng Tan doubled the amount of red envelopes. Zheng Tan deserved the most credit for the incident the day before yesterday. Although in the eyes of many people, the credit goes to Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyouzi, the old man and old lady knew that the key role in this was Zheng Tan, and because of this incident, several cadres in the village came over to thank Mr. Jiao, and even two officials from the town came over to talk to Mr. Jiao. When chatting with Mr. Gu over at Mom's side, Mr. Gu often gets embarrassed. He relies on his face for everything. Now Mr. Jiao feels that he will be able to show off more when he sees Mr. Gu next time.

Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyouzi didn't tell the two old people about Zheng Tan giving them a "huge" red envelope, for fear of scaring the old people. Jiao Yuan pulled people into the room when Papa Jiao was free, and told Papa Jiao that Zheng Tan had given them the red envelope with an expression on his face.

Papa Jiao pondered for a while, and then said: "Then accept it. According to the conversion between the age of a cat and a human, Heitan is already middle-aged, and you are only a teenager. It probably treats you as a junior."

Jiao Yuan: "...No such calculation."

"This is also Heitan's intention. Besides, Heitan is considered a high-paying class who has been working for several years now. You are still a middle school student. His monthly salary is equivalent to half a year's living expenses. Oh, it's the salary for filming documentaries at the end of the year. More."

Jiao Yuan: "..." It's so shocking.

There are also many examples of cats from other families giving gifts, such as dead mice, incomplete grasshoppers, or other "gadgets", but the experience of being given lucky money by their own cats is probably only Jiao Yuan and Xiao Grapefruit will have it, and only they can experience that complicated and tangled feeling.

After going out to visit the grave in the morning, Zheng Tan found a man named Song Ting sitting in the old house. Mr. Jiao was smiling all over his face, shouting "Expert Song" eagerly.

Compared to when he was tied up, Song Ting looks much better now, and the bruises around his eyes have faded a lot. Fortunately, the robbers didn't just strip off their down jackets, otherwise, they might not be able to wait for rescue safely. Song Ting was not negative because of what he experienced that day, he looked energetic and his complexion was much healthier.

When Song Ting came, Papa Jiao brought Jiao Yuan and the others just left, because Mr. Jiao said that it would not be too long, Song Ting sat here and waited. Seeing Papa Jiao and his party come back, a smile flashed in Song Ting's eyes, and his eyes It landed on Zheng Tan who was wearing a vest first, then Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyouzi, and then looked at Jiao's father and mother behind.

After saying the New Year's greetings, Song Ting took out his pockets.

Zheng Tan's heart twitched inexplicably, always feeling a bad premonition.

Sure enough, at the next moment, Song Ting took out two large red envelopes with exquisite workmanship that were twice the size of Zheng Tan's, and the red envelopes were very thick.

Father Jiao and Old Man Jiao couldn't sit still when they saw it, they got up and wanted to block it back, but finally couldn't stand Song Ting's insistence, and nodded to let the two children accept it.

"Hey, Expert Song, you're too polite!" Mr. Jiao felt a little stressed, as his village hadn't given the New Year's money directly a thousand.

Just now after Jiao Yuan received the red envelope, he went back to his room to look at it, and then secretly gestured to Papa Jiao and Mr. Jiao, telling them how much was in the red envelope, so that they could have an idea.

In fact, many relatives of Song Ting gave their children a lot of red envelopes. Twelve thousand is normal. How much, he will give it to your children at that time, and send red envelopes to each other. If you can’t give the lucky money red envelopes, it will be recorded in other things, and it will be added to the share money and returned.

Song Ting really didn't like the so-called "reciprocity". It was prepared by his wife in the past, but now after his wife went abroad to pursue a Ph. A big red envelope was given to the two children, 1,000 each.

Song Ting originally wanted to pack more. He was sincerely grateful to the two children. It was the first time he encountered such a thing in so many years. Fortunately, the two children and the cat helped. Otherwise, the consequences are really unpredictable, and more red envelopes are fine. , but in the end a few friends on Song Ting's side were suppressed. Generally speaking, in the village, too many people put too much pressure on them. If you want to thank you, other methods will work. Therefore, the thousand dollars was the result of Song Ting reducing a lot under the persuasion of his friends.

As for Zheng Tan, when Jiao Yuan went back to the room to look at the red envelopes, he hurriedly followed him. After seeing it, his heart was filled with countless words of "良" as the alpaca galloped around, and Song Ting's eyesight was not very good. It was originally planned to give the highest red envelope this year, but it was broken before it lasted for two hours.

Zheng Tan was so depressed that he wanted to flip the table, and at the same time, he was thinking about saving more cash to give away next year! At that time, there will be a bigger and more exquisite and beautiful red envelope!

Someone over there came to look for Mr. Jiao, so the old man asked Dad Jiao to stay here and talk to Expert Song. After Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyouzi were called away by Jiao Ma, only Pa Jiao and Song Ting were left here. They are both professors and about the same age. When he woke up, Zheng Tan felt sleepy after listening to the profound academic stuff.

When Zheng Tan woke up from a brief nap, Papa Jiao and Song Ting turned to the loss of fruit trees after the snow disaster, and they also talked about making donations.

Zheng Tan has always been heartless. He has no intention of donating money at all, and he doesn't think that the money he earns should be given to people he doesn't know. He doesn't need to donate money to make himself famous. He would rather For the people of the Jiao family and the friends they know, so when Papa Jiao was talking about the donation to Song Ting, Zheng Tan ran out, planning to take a walk outside.

This year, the festive atmosphere of the New Year in the village is not so strong, because the snow disaster has made many people who live on the land troubled. The people who grow and breed are in the same situation. some losses.

There are also a lot fewer children playing with firecrackers outside, and they all help the family to keep busy. The income of the family is directly linked to their future schooling and marriage, so they give up the time of playing firecrackers to work.

Zheng Tan squatted on a big rock next to the dirt road, watching the villagers fleeing nearby.

The two old men walked by the dirt road in front of them, they were talking, and they didn't notice Zheng Tan.

Listening to their conversation, it seems to be about the matter of everyone joining together to donate money to a family. The family conditions of that family are not very good. There are many problems with the tile-roofed house. Fortunately, people are fine, and the New Year's Eve was barely passed with the help of some people, otherwise they would have to suffer from cold and hunger. Some people in the village wanted to collect money to help them repair their houses first, otherwise they would have no place to live.

According to the two old people, the conditions of their own family are not very good, but they are passable. The son and daughter-in-law of the family do not agree to donate money, but the old man thinks, do some good deeds to accumulate more virtue for his sons and grandchildren, In this way, you can go at ease in the future.

Many people, the older they get, the more they believe in some mysterious things, such as doing good deeds and accumulating virtue.

It is said that good people are rewarded with good rewards, and evil people are condemned by God. Zheng Tan used to disdain this, because all kinds of cheating, cheating, deceitful, murdering and stealing people in the society live in luxury houses and drive luxury cars with high-quality girls. It is better than anyone else, but some good people live in misery.

The dereliction of duty in education, the increasingly heavy pressure of life, and the growing gap between the rich and the poor, make people overwhelmed, do good deeds? No, they believe more and more that money comes first, so what does it matter if the process is good or bad?

However, Zheng Tan suddenly became confused again. He used to think, did he suddenly become a cat because he did too many wicked things?

There is a vegetable garden on the opposite side of the dirt road. Some of the vegetables in it are frozen to death, but some are still alive near a fence. Angry and expecting.

Zheng Tan watched the vegetable sprouts over there gradually fascinated, until a donkey's face suddenly appeared, accompanied by a rather sudden donkey bray, Zheng Tan almost jumped up in shock. But the donkey turned its head and followed "Grandpa Fifth", wagging its tail.

Seeing the man and the donkey walk away, Zheng Tan stretched himself and ran towards the old house.

After seeing off Song Ting, Papa Jiao went into the house to drink water. As soon as he entered, he found Zheng Tan squatting on the table with his head bowed in "meditation", with a bank card under his cat's paw.

I came back to sleep at night and overslept, sorry I just came out.

A new month has begun, August will usher in a big push on the site, and there will be as many submissions as possible. I dare not say that there are double updates every day, but the updates will definitely be better than July. Go to bed first today. good night everybody.