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The following stories are purely fictitious. Any similarity is mere coincidence.
All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
The friends who grew up together are going to work in another city and plan to leave by the early morning plane.
It has been rainy and rainy since the morning, and until the evening, the rain does not mean to stop at all. After dinner, Miss Xiang would squat on the windowsill of the living room from time to time, staring at the raindrops outside without saying a word. Even knowing that I deliberately took a few pieces of her beloved dried fish as a snack for watching TV, the cat still flicked its tail as if she hadn’t seen it.
Guessing that the time to drop off the plane was approaching, I changed my clothes and prepared to go out, but suddenly I saw Miss Xiang who had turned into a human being waiting at the entrance. The girl with a delicate face was wearing a black sweater and a light gray skirt, and the large and simple plain colors showed the pink and white skin on the exposed neck. It’s hard to think of her appearance as a black cat roaming around the house ten minutes ago.
“What, what’s on my face?” She looked at me suspiciously.
“I wanted to ask a long time ago,” I put my hands on my head, making a “V” gesture, “usually, if a cat is turned into a human, shouldn’t it still retain some cat characteristics? —like cat ears or something.”
“Oh? I disillusioned you?”
“It’s not, Miss Xiang who looks like a human is cute enough.”
“Jing Shizi,” she quickly turned away, “I’ve already occupied the big umbrella.”
Miss Xiang has always hated rainy days, I know that. So I’m still curious about her willingness to go out on a rainy day. That’s why I started out like a personal bodyguard. As long as I was not in the car, I would stick to the figure of the black-clothed girl in front of me, for fear that the continuous rain would hurt her in the slightest.
But slowly I noticed that Miss Xiang’s steps could always avoid the water on the road consciously or unintentionally. The girl is like a skilled ballet dancer, nimbly walking through the blades of the ground with her tiptoes. Gradually, admiring me, I have forgotten my previous worries and fears, and all I see are the umbrellas flying in front of me, and the circles of lights splashed on the small puddles by the raindrops shaken from the edges of the umbrellas. .
The departure hall of the airport in the middle of the night is much more empty than usual, and there are only scattered people looking around. It seems to be earlier than expected, and our friends haven’t shown up yet, so we simply pass the time in the rest area with our mobile phones.
I saw Miss Xiang dragging the map of my mobile phone with her finger, and whispered: “I ask you, where is he going?”
“That guy ran to the edge of the sea. You have to zoom out the map to find it easily. First, use your thumb and index finger to pinch on the screen.”
“Kneading?”
“Like this, it’s like holding a small tweezers.” I gestured with two fingers, trying to teach her to use fingers is not easy.
“To even look at a map, you have to remember irrelevant things. Humans are really screwed,” she said impatiently. “Tell me bluntly, is that place far away?”
“Fortunately, it’s about five hours by plane.”
“I don’t know about the plane. Where’s the taxi?”
“Maybe a week.”
“Far enough,” she said, “no wonder I’ve never heard any other cat talk about ‘the sea’.”
“I saw the sea once a long time ago, and I have only vague impressions,” I said. “The sea itself is not interesting. It is full of salty and astringent water, and you can take a sip. If you want to feel comfortable. In other words, lying on the beach is a better choice: watching the waves from afar being pushed over by the wind from the sea, as if shoveling ice cream. Much like the horseshoe cake we had for breakfast.”
“Sounds good. But what is ‘beach’?”
“It’s an endless cat litter box.”
“I see!”
“Just imagine sleeping in a place like that, enjoying the sun and sea breeze, taking a big sip of the beer you just got out of the ice bucket, gurgling your stomach, and then waiting for the breath in your throat to go straight to the top of your head. Ah! What? Like, do you want to go to the beach?”
“No.”
“Of course—huh?”
“You idiot, do cats really like that kind of place! It’s the sun, the heat, and the water. The thought of the humid wind blowing sand into your ears is more uncomfortable than death.”
I don’t want to let the water vapor run into my ears – is this why Miss Xiang is reluctant to show her ears on top of her head?
“Cats hate stimulation the most. Because they are sensitive to their surroundings, even the sound of rain, which is so common to humans, can make us lose our way. So instead of finding enjoyment in stimulation, I might as well sleep comfortably at home. ,” she said, “in other words. The cat may remember the little things that are insignificant in your eyes.”
I don’t know how long it took, and finally saw the figure of my friend. Miss Xiang did not come forward with me, but stayed alone on the bench not far from the departure gate. After a short chat, I gave the gift we prepared – a bag of homemade cat’s paw biscuits, which was very Miss Xiang’s style.
Seeing the unexpected gift, the other party was naturally very happy, but soon he pondered.
“It may be strange to talk about this now: I suddenly remembered what happened when we graduated from college.”
“So it’s only been a year since we left school,” I said.
“During that time, there were many stray cats on the campus. A group of students from the surrounding elementary schools came to our school as soon as school was over, with slingshots and pebbles, and saw the stray cats caught and shot. The character is really twisted!
“I bumped into it once. A group of furry boys threw stones at a black kitten under the laboratory building. If I hadn’t rushed the injured kitten to the school hospital, I really wanted to peel them off on the spot!” He said indignantly, “Fortunately, even though the people at the school hospital said they didn’t take care of pets, they helped to heal the wounds of the kitten in the end.”
“Hey, this is the first time I heard you mention it.”
“Forget about it. I’m just talking to myself,” he smiled and patted my arm, “but I really want to know what happened to that kitten. I remember it was smooth and it looked like someone was helping it. Take care of it. So I wanted to help it find its owner, but unfortunately it slipped away without paying attention. “
The time to register is coming, and I finally said goodbye to my friends. I silently returned to Miss Xiang’s side.
“Are you gone?” she asked.
“That guy had a solemn expression originally, but that bag of biscuits opened his mouth,” I said. “Unfortunately, he didn’t know that the ‘finished product’ bag was made by us after six batches.”
Listening to my description, she smiled involuntarily: “It seems that he really likes that gift.”
I saw Miss Xiang’s emerald green eyes shining with a dazzling light, like icy emeralds.
The phone vibrated, and it was the friend who had successfully boarded the plane. I looked at the screen and sighed involuntarily. As soon as I relax, I feel a little sleepy.
“Do you feel lonely?” As if aware of my small movements, she secretly leaned her body over.
“By that guy? Oh, how is that possible,” I quickly defended. “Besides, I have a mobile phone. Now that the network communication is so convenient, I can still send messages and make calls in the future. And that guy said it, it’s not that he won’t come back. Yes, at most three years…” I looked at Miss Xiang’s face and didn’t dare to say any more. Three years is roughly equivalent to how long for a cat?
“Humanity is amazing. The communication between two individuals can be satisfied just by pressing against a piece of glass a few times,” I just felt that Miss Xiang was already leaning against my chest, rubbing lightly with her hair on my cheek. There was a good smell on her body, just like the fragrance of forest and turf in rainy days, “compared to it, cats are not so convenient. You have to stay by someone’s side to be able to confirm the other person’s mind. Remedy.”
“Indeed. Rather, when it comes to comforting others, humans are not as frank as cats—the so-called evolution, but somehow they have forgotten how to care for their companions.” I smiled and stretched out my arms, gently He hugged her body, “It’s great, I can see a different side of Miss Xiang today.”
“It’s not because of your weird mood today,” she turned her head away bitterly, “I’m tired now. When you go back, prepare me a cup of hot milk and a warm towel.”
“As ordered.”
“Also,” she added hastily, straightening up, “you don’t need to take a shower.”
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