Qin Xu's grandfather, although he is over eighty years old, maintains good exercise habits, an optimistic and open-minded attitude, and a healthy three-meal diet, so his body is still very strong, and his legs and feet are quite neat.

He pushed a small two-wheeled shopping cart and walked slowly to his home.

When people reach this age, there is nothing to worry about, and Grandpa Qin Xu is not in a hurry, and he can still greet and chat with familiar neighbors along the way.

"Old man Qin, why are you shopping alone today, why didn't the old lady come out. "Probably on weekdays, they see the two of them inseparable every day, going out for a walk arm in arm, and now when they see Grandpa Qin Xu going home alone, the old neighbors feel strange.

Grandpa Qin Xu grinned happily and explained unhurriedly: "She is at home, she has a small animal, she takes care of it at home, and I am looking for food." ”

"Old man Qin, what is in the pocket of your small cart, looking at the bulging, do you want to help. Someone else asked with concern.

"It's not heavy, it's not heavy," the smile on Grandpa Qin Xu's face didn't break along the way, he waved his hand and explained, "I raised a small animal, and now it's quite edible, get it some dried leaves, it loves to eat it the most, it's full of dried leaves, it's not heavy at all." ”

Listening to it, everyone probably thought that the old man had a rabbit at home.

Regarding their misunderstanding, Grandpa Qin Xu smiled and didn't explain, but walked straight home.

Pushing open the gate of the Qin family, Grandpa Qin Xu saw his wife sitting on a rocking chair in the courtyard, talking to himself.

"What's the matter, this is a kitten," Grandpa Qin Xu looked left and right, and asked strangely.

When Sun Sun came back, something seemed to have happened to the cat, and he hugged it, saying that he would take it down later, which took more than half an hour. Grandma Qin Xu shook the rocking chair a few times and muttered.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Grandpa Qin Xu smiled unabated, happily opened the shopping cart in his hand, and happily shared his harvest with his wife, "Come and see, the magnolia leaves in the park have fallen badly these days, I made an appointment with the little brother of sanitation, he left me two piles every day, and in the future, the two of us will have a trolley for each person to take back those leaves." ”

When Grandma Qin Xu heard this, the troubles just now were gone, her face was full of wrinkles and smiled like a chrysanthemum, she stood up with a rocking chair, and began to discuss with Grandpa Qin Xu with a smile where to arrange these fallen leaves.

"According to my observation, although this kitten loves to eat everything, but it eats the most is tree fiber things, just now I met Xiao Liu, he didn't work in the municipal greening management office He told for a while, the greening management office to the street mango trees and geraniums pruning branches and leaves, when the time comes, I asked Zhengyang to transport two cars back to us, to ensure that the kitten and cat have a good time. ”

Grandpa Qin Xu is from a scholarly research background, and his observation is still good.

"I told my old neighbors that there was clean garbage and plastic bags at home. Grandma Qin Xu clapped her hands and said happily.

When Qin Xu walked to the yard with the golden retriever puppy in his arms, he saw his grandparents, one holding a broom, slowly sweeping a bunch of leaves together.

Although Grandma Qin Xu was chatting with her wife, she had been paying attention to the movement of the stairs, and when she felt Qin Xu walking down, she immediately turned around and blurted out, "Is that cat hungry?"

These two old men, asking Qin Xu for a long time, did not complete the task, but enjoyed the fun of feeding very much.

Especially when the garbage at home doesn't have to be thrown out for a while, it is completely gnawed by this silver-gray "cat", and they feel happy to see it eat.

"Hey, what about the cat" Grandma Qin Xu looked at the golden milk dog in the crook of Qin Xu's arm and asked in surprise.

"What a spirit puppy!" said Grandpa Qin Xu.

"Well, what the hell, I told you last time, although it looks like a cat, in fact, it's not really a cat, it's a doll cat. ”

Qin Xu's grandparents looked at Qin Xu with two pairs of curious eyes, waiting for him to explain.

Qin Xu thought about it, and didn't hide it, so he told the two old men the real situation, and said: "Actually, this is an ant with very unique habits, it can swallow many materials, and process these materials into an ant nest that looks like an animal. ”

Qin Xu didn't say that it was termites, he knew that his grandfather had always been extremely disgusted with termites, so he only said that they were ants.

Anyway, alienated termites won't run out of their comfortable nests, and Grandpa Qin Xu won't find out.

Compared with Grandma Qin Xu, who looked confused, Grandpa Qin Xu obviously understood what Qin Xu said better, he looked thoughtfully at the quiet golden retriever puppy in Qin Xu's arms, and then at the blue dragonfly that had been staying on Qin Xu's shoulder.

"What about now" Grandma Qin Xu listened, focusing on where the fat cat went, and then asked, "Where did the cat go, where did this dog come from?"

"The ant colony will continue to grow," Qin Xu explained in popular terms as much as possible, so that the two old men could understand the process of the fat cat becoming a small milk dog, "When it obtains enough nesting materials and the population grows, the cat's size can no longer meet their needs for growth, and this outer skin will be replaced." ”

Qin Xu did speak very simply and easily understood.

However, this matter is so bizarre that neither Grandma Qin Xu nor Grandpa Qin Xu have answered for a long time.

About the time he had just finished changing the nest, the golden retriever puppy who was held in Qin Xu's arms wanted to get food very much, so he couldn't help shaking his head, his soft nose rubbed against the back of Qin Xu's hand, and his fluffy tail kept shaking.

Qin Xu simply carried it to the pile of fallen leaves that Qin Xu's grandparents had just cleaned up, put the golden retriever puppy on the ground, and then picked up a large dried white magnolia flower leaf and put it next to the golden retriever puppy's mouth.

The alienated termites immediately discovered the existence of the magnolia leaves, and the golden retriever puppy opened its mouth, and the posture was the same as that of a silver-gray cat, like gnawing on biscuits, and eating the magnolia leaves.

It was probably this familiar eating pattern that made Grandma Qin Xu finally understand her grandson's words.

She also walked over slowly, picked up fallen leaves on the ground, and fed them to the golden retriever puppy.

The golden retriever puppy did not refuse, wagging its tail and eating happily.

When Grandma Qin Xu saw the appearance of the puppy, she was in an inexplicably complicated mood, and she instantly became happy again.

"Ouch, it seems that eating faster than before!" Grandma Qin Xu couldn't help but say.

Grandpa Qin Xu looked at his grandson and seemed to think about a lot of things, but he didn't ask anything, but stood beside Grandma Qin Xu, patted Qin Xu's shoulder and said, "Sun Sun, you can rest assured that you will hand over the puppy to us, and we will definitely feed it for nothing." ”

Qin Xu thought of the cat that was so fat that the meat was squeezed out, and completely believed what the old man said.