The cat's age limit is only fifteen or sixteen years old, and if conditions are good, it can live to be twenty years old. This cat has accompanied Mr. Jiang from his second year of high school to his graduation from college, marrying a wife and having children.
Mr. Jiang is already 30 this year, and Erbai is also seventeen or eighteen years old.
She is an old cat. Her beautiful hair is less flowing. She likes to sleep all day long. She prefers to stay at home in winter and does not bark as much as usual. Only her eyes are still bright, like the surface of a lake. Clear summer sky.
"Is she really...not a monster?"
Mr. Jiang looked at the white cat sleeping on the table, his stomach rising and falling slowly with his breathing.
"She doesn't have that monster quality about her."
"Do you also feel that the story I just told is like losing your mind and going crazy..."
He looked at the white cat with a very gentle expression, and reached out to gently stroke the white cat's thin back.
The white cat raised his head in confusion, licked the palm of his hand, and purred softly.
He said softly: "That's right. How can a cat talk?"
"I believe it." Mr. Jiang actually didn't fully understand the world of monsters. Feng Wuli replied, "After all, my cat can talk."
Yeji meowed at the right moment in response to his words.
Mr. Jiang smiled and asked her what she said.
"She said that not only can she speak, but she can also recite lines from cartoons."
"That's awesome."
"Mr. Jiang still thinks, is it a monster? It's not that I don't believe what you just said, but now it seems that Erbai is indeed just an ordinary cat."
Mr. Jiang was silent for a long time.
"She often runs out recently, and it takes a long time to find her every time. This is something that has never happened before."
"She is very old. When cats in the countryside die of old age, they will run out of the house and find a place to wait for death."
"She used to like eating octopus balls, but now she doesn't like them anymore."
The wind is unreasonable and silent.
He smoothed the hair of the white cat on the counter step by step, gently.
Feng Wuli didn't ask Mr. Jiang any more about whether the past affairs between him and Erbai were hallucinations or what.
He already had a calculation in his mind.
People and monsters, cats and humans.
The answer is no longer important.
He was silent when he was young. Because of the appearance of a white cat, he experienced a lot with one person and one cat. He is no longer the lonely and lonely boy he used to be.
In the end, the white cat, which was originally a very important part of his life, has become a 'hysteria' that affects his life.
He is no longer the boy who sits in front of the window in winter, reading in the cold wind. Instead, I have a family, a wife, children, a job, and go to work... I remember the white cat following my feet, shouting about where to go to play. Now looking at himself quietly, a pair of cat eyes seemed to be able to see through his heart.
Even if Mr. Jiang couldn't hear her speak, he seemed to be able to hear Erbai's tugging voice in his heart:
It's time to grow up, boy.
No matter what happened in the past, now the weird cat demon has indeed disappeared from his world, leaving only an old cat that looks exactly like her.
Mr. Jiang left and said to Erbai when he left: "Xiaobai is gone...Xiaobai?"
He looked back
Erbai looked up at him at the door of the incense shop. The man and the cat looked at each other for a long time. Erbai gave a soft cry and ran away in the opposite direction.
The sun was shining brightly outside, and the white cat disappeared into the heat of summer.
The cicadas chirped like a waterfall. When the cicadas stopped chirping intermittently, there was no one or one cat left in the old street.
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"Unreasonable, why don't you let me talk to her?" Ye Ji rolled over in her arms, holding the soft and warm little ball of hair in her arms, which was so heavy that it made people feel healed.
"Well, she asked us not to tell Mr. Jiang."
As soon as he came in, Erbai asked him not to let Mr. Jiang know that he was a monster.
"Why can't you tell that person?"
"Because she wants to say goodbye to that person."
"Why?"
"Maybe because her identity as a monster has affected Mr. Jiang's life, she realized that she was leaving."
"Why are you leaving?"
"Because she found that Mr. Jiang could no longer hear her."
Mr. Jiang could not see monsters or hear monsters speak, but perhaps his desire for someone to talk to him when he was a boy made him suddenly hear the monster Erbai speak.
As for why I couldn’t hear it anymore.
Probably that boy has grown up.
Erbai also realized that Mr. Jiang no longer needed her, so she pretended to be an ordinary cat and slowly left Mr. Jiang's life.
I just don’t know if they said goodbye properly.
While Feng Wuli was looking at the computer, he was stroking the cat in his arms with one hand. He felt something was wrong when he touched it. He felt that there was a small bean on Ye Ji's belly.
He pinched
I did have a pimple.
He felt strange.
"No reason what are you doing?"
Ye Ji watched him lay her down on his lap and peel the cat off his belly to look for something. She stayed still and raised her neck to watch him looking for something on her belly.
"Why do you have a pimple here?"
Ye Ji's cat was too long. Feng Wuli pressed his fingers on the pimple, as if finding scabs on the scalp. It required a certain amount of patience. He felt strange: "Can cats also have pimples? Could it be some kind of tick?" some type of?"
"Tick!?" Ye Ji was shocked.
"Does it hurt when you pinch it?" He began to study his cat.
"A little bit."
"If it's a tick, it doesn't seem like it can be taken out directly."
"I'm a little scared."
"Don't move, lie down."
Ye Ji was like a fish on the operating table, lying down obediently, with her hands close to her side and her short legs together, lying between Feng Wuli's legs, her head resting on her knees, leaning back slightly.
Feng Wuli worked hard and finally untangled the hair on her belly and found the strange thing that felt like a tick or a pimple.
One master and one pet came up to watch.
"Oh, it's my grandma!"
"..." Speechless!
…
In fact, Mr. Jiang had already made preparations for the separation.
But when the day finally arrived, he found that it still felt sudden. A friend with whom he had talked about everything in the past suddenly said goodbye to him.
After all, is it really true that we talk about everything? He has also wavered as to whether he is mentally abnormal.
I don't know where he was passing by, and the grass on the roadside was stirring, and suddenly a white kitten jumped out, but the white kitten didn't look at him and walked towards a girl on the side of the road who came to the park with cat food to feed wild cats.
The girl was happily meowing like a cat to attract the white kitten to come over.
Mr. Jiang stopped in his tracks.
"Nanshan Park... I really miss it."
Over there, the shadows of the trees were mottled. Mr. Jiang stopped for a while and knew it was time to leave.
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