A cat's secret 1
Waiting is a blunt knife. It will not kill you, but it will only cut your soul and flesh day and night, eating away at your heart and bones.
——"If Time Never Grows Old"
When talking about "If Time Had Not Gone Old", I have to mention Xiaoxiao.
Xiaoxiao is a cat, Gu Yeliang's cat, and the matchmaker between Gu Yeliang and Si Cheng. Gu Yeliang and Si Cheng's funny first encounter was caused by a cat, and their sad reunion was also caused by a cat.
Don’t underestimate cats. Maybe if you raise a cat, you can get rid of being single.
In the youth stories I wrote before, I either used the first-person perspective or the God's perspective. I never used any other perspective. Sometimes I wonder if someone teases a dog on the side of the road, will the dog think he is a psychopath?
Haha, just kidding.
The next story is about cats.
The cat is the protagonist.
The cat records every detail of its owner and the surroundings from its perspective.
Warm reminder: This is a super arrogant and bad-tempered cat!
"Ah - the sun is so warm." Sitting on the park bench, Su Yue couldn't help but stretch out her arms and sigh.
She was wearing a white high-necked knitted dress, white leggings, white boots... In short, she was dressed in white.
In Su Yue's opinion, this is the "Japanese sweet girl style". She had just dyed her hair chestnut-colored a few days ago. This color makes her look particularly gentle - of course, this is also in Su Yue's opinion.
I don't think so. I always feel that she looks exactly like the white parrot that the old man downstairs keeps.
"Miss, excuse me for disturbing you--" Suddenly, a stuttering male voice sounded.
Hearing this, Su Yue and I opened our eyes at the same time.
The man who came was a handsome boy dressed casually. His eyes flickered, as if he wanted to look at Su Yue but didn't dare to. The sun shone from behind him, making him look like a backlit beauty... No way! Hey! You're blocking my sun!
"Is there anything wrong?" Su Yue asked.
"Um..." The boy hesitated again and again, blushing, and mustered up the courage to ask, "Do you have a boyfriend?"
Hearing this question, Su Yue was stunned. After three seconds of silence, she smiled and replied, "I already have a boyfriend."
After saying this, the boy looked disappointed. But after he turned and left, Su Yue suddenly put away her smile and said impatiently: "Raising a cat is tiring enough, how can I have time to have a boyfriend! Don't you think so? Oscar." After saying this, Su Yue reached out and smoothed my fur.
I wanted to roll my eyes at her, but I couldn't resist the sunshine and the pleasure of petting her fur, so I let out a "meow". Su Yue heard my satisfied answer and closed her eyes again. Her right hand slid rhythmically from top to bottom across my back.
Alas! Cats have nine things in their lives that are not as they wish, but they can all be made right with dried fish, sunshine, and smooth fur.
My first meeting with Su Yue was on a rainy summer night.
That day, Su Yue broke up with her boyfriend. According to her sad monologue, her boyfriend of three years had cheated on her with the daughter of the boss of her internship company. He played a trick of "If you love me, let me go and give me a better future."
Back then, when I heard this story, I was still young. Not only could I not comfort her, but I was still thinking about the question, "Isn't breaking up just because you don't like each other?" Now, I can tell Su Yue with certainty that I still haven't figured it out!
The human world is too complicated. There are hundreds of reasons for breaking up alone, but in fact there is only one reason, that is, "not enough love."
Because I don’t love a person enough - for me, it’s because I don’t love a cat enough, so I have thousands of reasons not to love each other.
I mentioned this to Lao Hua, whom I met later. Holding a dried fish in his mouth, Lao Hua looked into the distance with his experienced eyes, and answered me with emotion: "Humans are creatures that are accustomed to deceiving others and themselves."
"Why?" I demanded.
Lao Hua swallowed the dried fish in his mouth and stood up: "Because they dare not face their ugly side."
At this point, I suddenly realized and wanted to thank Lao Hua and praise him for being not just a lazy cat who ate and slept, but also a cat with ideas and knowledge. However, he had already walked towards the cat food not far away.
Lao Hua is still the same Lao Hua I know. In his eyes, there is no poetry in the distance, only food. But I still firmly believe that Lao Hua is a cat with a story, otherwise how can he tell such profound truths?
Whenever I think of this, I feel lucky that Su Yue took me home that night, because if it weren't for her, I wouldn't have encountered so many interesting things in my life.
I am full of gratitude towards Su Yue, but when Su Yue adopted me, she only used me as a tool to comfort her empty emotions. She admitted this herself.
At that time, she wiped my fur that was wet from the rain and cried, "I don't have a boyfriend, but I still have cats. Animals are human beings' best friends!"
That night, Su Yue cried for a long time. I felt very sad when I saw her door was not closed tightly.
I was sad because I was sick, but I didn't have the strength to go through the door and ask Su Yue for help. At this moment, my mind was full of images of myself dying without anyone noticing. Maybe when the sun rose the next day, Su Yue would know that I was dead, and then she might find a place to bury me, or throw me away in a garbage dump...
With this thought in mind, I fell into a deep sleep.
Of course, I didn't die in the end, otherwise I wouldn't be here to tell you about it. The fact is, when I opened my eyes again, I found myself lying in the hospital. The doctor seemed to have already examined me and was currently treating me. Also, I heard Su Yue crying.
"Wow, wow, wow, I...I got up in the middle of the night to get some water and wanted to check on it, but I found that it didn't respond at all...I...I was really afraid that it was dead! Wow!"
"Hey, little girl, take your time," the doctor comforted.
"Oooooh, I...I can't lose it!"
"The little girl has a really good relationship with this cat. How long have you had it?"
"Today... I just picked it up today..."
"Oh? Picked it up? The little girl is really kind. But I suggest you give it a comprehensive check-up, and get it vaccinated if it hasn't been vaccinated yet. Also, this kind of stray cat may have fleas. Did you check it when you brought it home?"
When Su Yue heard the word fleas, she stopped crying all of a sudden. She probably remembered the time when she held me and wiped the cat's hair for me.
"Also..." The doctor continued. He didn't look much older than Su Yue, but he talked a lot more than Su Yue. "Kittens like this whose teeth haven't grown yet can't be fed milk. Feeding milk may cause diarrhea. Generally, they are fed goat milk powder or cat milk powder..."
"Ah!" Su Yue screamed. If I had the strength, I would have screamed too, "I... I think I fed it milk, but it only drank a little."
Su Yue was terrified when she suddenly learned the cause of my illness, and the doctor was angry and helpless. In the end, he told Su Yue a lot of details. Since then, Su Yue's attitude towards me perfectly illustrates the saying "If you hold it in your hand, you are afraid it will break; if you hold it in your mouth, you are afraid it will melt."
I forgot to mention that Su Yue majored in fine arts in college and worked as an editor in a comic magazine after graduation. In the eyes of many people, this is not a promising job, but I like it very much - Su Yue draws a portrait of me every day, which is one of the manifestations of her careful care for me.
Since I am Su Yue’s first pet, in order to get to know me quickly, Su Yue joined many QQ groups and WeChat groups for cat owners, and also followed many Weibo accounts or public accounts of cat owners.
On the third day after the breakup, her WeChat Moments and Weibo were filled with all kinds of cat-related information. Among all the "cat friends", the one she communicated with most frequently was the doctor at the pet hospital.
Besides being a bit talkative, the young man is also very handsome, especially when he smiles. Whenever I see them chatting happily, I can't help but think of Su Yue's ex-boyfriend who broke up with her "in pursuit of a better future".
You know, although they broke up, Su Yue did not delete his contact information. It was not that she was reluctant, but my sudden appearance completely disrupted her life rhythm, and even made her shorten the time she spent feeling sad for the breakup, or even skip it directly.
Three years was not as good as a short glance, which only meant that Su Yue had trusted the wrong person before, and it was a pity that they broke up.
That day, Su Yue was looking at Weibo messages when her cell phone suddenly rang.
Probably about work, Su Yue picked up the phone and chatted for a while before running to the study to find something. Coincidentally at this moment, a "ding dong" sounded.
Su Yue is still busy in the study and probably won't be back for a while. After thinking about it, I got up and jumped onto the computer desk.
The ding-dong sound was the notification tone of a Weibo message, and the sender was Su Yue's ex-boyfriend. He said a lot of things, including his concern for Su Yue, his helplessness about his own choice, and the good memories of their past.
Seeing these words, even as a cat, I wanted to roll my eyes. But I also knew that Su Yue was a soft-hearted guy, so at this moment, I made a great decision.
"Oh, really, he's delaying the manuscript again and asking me to help find information. I'm an editor! Not a cartoonist's assistant! He's a best-selling boys' cartoonist, is that a big deal? You little brat! I'll definitely beat his ass next time..." Su Yue finally came back accompanied by bursts of complaints. When he saw me lying on the chair, his face was full of helplessness.
"Oscar, why are you lying on my chair again? Didn't I buy you a pillow? I can't work if you lie here." As she spoke, Su Yue picked me up and put me back on the pillow at her feet.
The moment she picked me up, I glanced at the laptop on her desk and sighed: touchpads are so convenient.
We won’t say much about the ex-boyfriend, but I would like to say a few words about the “best-selling boys’ cartoonist” I mentioned last time.
This "young cartoonist" is a true "young manga artist". He loves drawing and wants to be a cartoonist, but his family has high hopes for him, hoping that he will work in a state-owned enterprise or become a civil servant. Fortunately, he did not give up his dream, and while maintaining good grades, he began to create his own works.
Su Yue was his first editor, and he was also the first great writer signed by Su Yue.
Of course, the great god was not a great god at the beginning. He tried many times, but failed every time - I heard him say this when he went to dinner with Su Yue one time.
He also said that if it weren't for Su Yue's encouragement and support, he might have given up on painting and just followed his parents' arrangements. So he was very grateful to Su Yue, which was why he was willing to stay in Su Yue's small comics club after he became famous.
He left it for Su Yue.
As the two were reminiscing about the past, Su Yue sighed and opened a can of beer, but before he could take a sip, it was snatched away by the other party.
"Hey, hey, hey! Children can't drink alcohol!" Su Yue shouted hurriedly and reached out to grab it back, but the boy dodged it easily.
"I am an adult now," the other said, looking down at her.
There was no other way. Reasoning was not an option, and suppressing with force was even less effective. Su Yue had no choice but to accept her fate and planned to get another can.
"It's okay, it's okay, he's an adult..." Su Yue muttered as she opened the refrigerator, but when she opened the refrigerator, she froze.
I took a peek - oh, it turned out to be the last can of beer.
The two chatted that day, which was the day when the boy finished the college entrance examination. He came to see Su Yue after having dinner with his classmates. In order to celebrate the boy's graduation, Su Yue specially cooked two dishes.
I stared at the fragrant dishes on the table, and just as I was about to stretch out my paw to taste them, the boy grabbed me and lifted me to the ground.
How dare you! How dare you be so rude to me! You know, I am the one that Su Yue holds in her heart!
In order to let the boy know how powerful I am, I rushed towards him as soon as I landed -
It turned out that Su Yue's use of force to suppress him was ineffective, and I was not much better off against him.
"What's wrong?" Just as the boy was holding me and we were staring at each other, Su Yue came out with a plate.
"It was about to eat the food on the table when I caught it." The boy said slowly.
"Oscar!" Su Yue quickly put down the plate and planned to teach me a lesson. Seeing this, I didn't plan to resist.
Anyway, every time Su Yue said "lesson", she would soften her heart as long as I called her casually. However, cats are not as good as humans.
"You are cooking, so don't touch the cat. It's dirty." The boy turned his body slightly and immediately distanced himself from Su Yue and me.
From my perspective, Su Yue looked like she was half-hugging the boy from behind.
This rascal, did he do this on purpose? And what did he just say? He said I was dirty? The dried fish I ate was cleaner than his!
"Oscar is very clean!" As expected of my little Su Yue, she spoke up for me immediately.
“Cats shed easily.”
Su Yue thought about it after hearing this, and then agreed: "That's right, then you can help me keep an eye on Oscar, I only have one dish left to finish."
"Okay, go ahead."
Su Yue nodded, turned around and walked towards the kitchen again.
However, as soon as she turned around, the boy called her again.
"etc."
"What's wrong..." Before Su Yue could finish her words, the young man who had already put me on the ground walked behind her.
The boy's hands were slender and flexible. He held the flowers in the air and tied a bow in just two or three seconds.
"The apron string was loose, it's fixed now, go ahead." "Oh."
At that time, it was already dark, a bright moon had already risen outside the window, and the lights in the house had already been turned on. Looking at the warm yellow light of the range hood falling on Su Yue's face, I suddenly felt pain in my knees and mourned for the boy.
This silly girl has such a long reaction time that I can’t bear to watch it anymore.
Because there was no more wine, Su Yue planned to go to the supermarket downstairs to buy a few bottles - as the saying goes, a little drink can soothe your mood.
The boy went with her.
Before closing the door, Su Yue said to me with a smile: "Oscar, stay at home and we will be back soon."
Us? You and I are us!
Although I felt helpless about Su Yue's slow reaction time and mourned for the boy, I still couldn't let this guy who obviously had improper thoughts about Su Yue be alone with her.
Alas, this is probably the worry a father has for his daughter.
So, as soon as the two of them closed the door, I jumped out of the window - fortunately Su Yue lived in an old residential area with only four floors at most.
There is no supermarket in the community, and the nearest supermarket is probably... In short, it is quite far away. However, an elderly couple living on the first floor has a "convenience store" that sells daily necessities such as cigarettes, alcohol, popsicles, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, toilet paper and so on.
When the two of them came down the stairs, I had already been waiting for them in the darkness behind the corner.
In the store, there was an orange light, and not far away, the street lights were lit up in a row, and there were tall trees and bushes on the roadside. The illuminated part was emerald green, and the part hidden in the darkness was as deep as the night, making it impossible to peek.
I kept looking at the scenery in front of me, and my waiting posture changed from standing to half-lying, but the two people never appeared.
To be honest, I was panicked.
I was careless. How could I wait downstairs? The stairwell is the best place to "commit a crime"! Thinking of this, I stood up and planned to sneak in... No, to quietly take a look in the stairwell. Coincidentally, at this moment, two figures, one tall and one short, appeared in my sight.
The two of them probably talked all the way down. When they reached the exit, Su Yue was still talking to the boy with her side face, and the expression on her face was very vivid. The boy was also relatively honest, following behind Su Yue with his hands in his pockets, and they kept a certain distance between them.
Not bad, not too bad, I was a little relieved. But at this moment, something unexpected happened.
Perhaps Su Yue was too engrossed, she did not realize that she had already walked the last step, so she turned her foot and suddenly rushed forward.
It happened in a flash. The boy, who had originally looked lazy, was like a leopard hunting. I didn't even see when he stretched out his hand, but I saw him hugging Su Yue around the waist.
By the waist? By the waist! Although it was to save someone, couldn't you hold hands? Why did you hold the waist?
I was very angry, but even though I was so angry that my claws scratched four bars on the wall, I didn't dare rush out - a little impatience can ruin a big plan, and I couldn't expose the fact that I could sneak out at any time.
Lying in the corner, I stared at the boy, but fortunately he let go after Su Yue stood firm. Su Yue didn't seem to think anything was wrong, just said thank you, and the two continued to walk towards the store.
Su Yue was in front, and the boy was behind. She was a head shorter than him, and looked particularly petite. In the light, I saw the boy staring at the hand that he had just held Su Yue, and was slightly stunned.
Idiot, you have never seen the world. I sneered. You know, I haven't dated a female cat before... Forget it, never mind. Anyway, apart from that hug, the two of us never had any intimate contact again. I bought some beer and planned to go home.
Before leaving, the old couple joked that the boy was Su Yue's boyfriend. Su Yue didn't show any shyness at all and replied, "He's still a child."
At that moment, the boy's face was as cold as ice, but I was filled with joy.
All the evil in this world is probably not as evil as the word "not love".
In fact, I am a generous cat, and the boy has a bright future. Logically, even if I don't like him, I shouldn't be wary of him. But I also said that the reason I was so nervous was because I was worried about Su Yue.
You know, Su Yue has almost no experience in love. I still remember that the day we met, she was just heartbroken. And her relationship with her ex-boyfriend couldn't really be called love either - they spent too little time together and it ended too quickly. So I said "almost zero".
Su Yue and her ex-boyfriend were college classmates and they started dating in their senior year. In the second semester, her ex-boyfriend started looking for an internship. At that time, Su Yue hadn't decided what to do, so she stayed in school and planned to decide after graduation.
Su Yue's family was well-off, and she was the only daughter of her parents, so she was spoiled since she was a child. Fortunately, Su Yue did not grow up crooked, and her values were quite positive. Because of her comfortable life, she did not think there was anything wrong with such a "plan". But her ex-boyfriend did not think so!
The ex-boyfriend’s family conditions were actually not bad, but he had a younger brother. Plus, his family education was strict, and they believed that boys should be independent. So from then on, the ex-boyfriend felt that Su Yue was a little "unmotivated", and the two had quarreled several times over this.
Maybe because of the frequent quarrels, Su Yue gradually felt that she was too decadent. She began to send out a lot of resumes - but no one responded. When her ex-boyfriend found out, he encouraged her to use her free time to do part-time jobs to earn some pocket money, so that she wouldn't have to ask her family for living expenses. So from then on, Su Yue stopped going home during holidays.
It is a good thing for children to grow up and be independent, but everything should be done in moderation. Su Yue's "radical" behavior frightened her mother. Coupled with the recent news reports, Su's mother thought her daughter had borrowed high-interest loans from an illegal platform.
After Su Yue hadn't returned home for a month, her mother finally couldn't sit still and came to the school. Fortunately, Su Yue was resting in the dormitory that day because of a cold.
Mother Su came to Su Yue's dormitory carrying a lot of bags. When she saw her daughter lying alone on the bed, tears instantly burst out.
"Mom? Why are you here?" Su Yue was surprised and quickly took the things from Su's mother's hand.
"Why am I here? How long have you not been home? If I didn't come, would you not recognize me as your mother?" Mother Su was full of complaints, and her words were full of grievance.
Looking at Su's mother crying, Su Yue suddenly felt a beam of light shining on her head, and her mind suddenly became clear.
Recalling the madness of those days, she found that she had not only lost herself, but also neglected her loving parents.
Although her boyfriend has his own persistence and beliefs, his beliefs do not necessarily represent her beliefs! Besides, she only plans to find a job after graduation, not to find a job, so how can she be said to be "unmotivated"?
Love can indeed make people blind, blindly trusting others and blindly denying themselves.
Later, Su Yue comforted Su's mother and explained her recent abnormal behavior. She concealed the relationship with her boyfriend and only said that she was afraid that she would become the kind of person who had no ambition. She repeatedly assured that she would not "disown" Su's mother and Su's father. Only then did Su's mother calm down.
Sitting in the dormitory, Su Yue ate the "family cooking" brought by her mother Su with big mouthfuls. While sighing at the deliciousness, she listened to her mother Su say: "Whether you are motivated or not has nothing to do with whether you find a job or not. What matters is whether you 'do' it or not."
Since I was born a little late, I was not able to be a "spectator" when Su Yue and her ex-boyfriend acted out a melodrama. Otherwise, I would have broken them up long ago, and Su Yue would not have been dumped by the scumbag, because I have an absolutely reliable source of information, that is Su Yue's good friend Jin He. However, Jin He doesn't like to call herself Su Yue's "best friend", because the word "best friend" has been "blackened" too badly in the past two years, and coupled with her own "advantage" in appearance, she always feels that this word is a kind of ridicule when applied to her.
Speaking of Jin He, she is really a typical "vase", but she is different from the general "vase". Although she does not have superb intelligence, she is not "big-breasted and brainless".
She loves sports and participates in marathons whenever she has time. She also loves art and goes to art exhibitions or listens to musicals from time to time. More importantly, she likes small animals very much. For this reason alone, I can give her a perfect score.
A big-breasted beauty who loves small animals. Which cat wouldn’t like her?
Jin He has a good personality and is kind. He doesn't like to argue with others - except when it comes to Su Yue's emotional issues, he will never back down.
After learning about Su Yue's breakup, she rushed over as soon as possible. Su Yue said that Jin He was still at work at the time, and Su Yue asked for leave because of "feeling unwell", but Jin He's reason for asking for leave was "good friends breaking up and need to celebrate."
Su Yue asked Jin He why she asked for leave, and after learning the answer, the sadness after the breakup disappeared. "Little Jin Huaer, are you announcing to the world that I'm heartbroken? How can I go to your company to find you next time?" Su Yue said with a sad face.
Jin He didn't care at all. She waved her hand with light grey nail polish and said, "I wish I could announce to the whole world that you broke up with that scumbag! So that more and better resources can come to you."
Su Yue had nothing to say. When it came to relationships, she was never better than the "experienced" Jin He. But if you ask me, the leader who gave Jin He leave for this reason was also a "talent".
"Hey, but what are you doing in the pet hospital? Are you planning to raise a pet to distract yourself from the grief after a breakup?" Jin He asked again.
Su Yue didn't answer immediately, but pointed at me who was still lying on the bed, and slowly explained: "I found a kitten when I went home yesterday. It was already weak from the rain, and I finally managed to blow its fur dry. But then I fed it a sip of milk, and it ended up being sent to the hospital."
