Chapter Seventy-Six: If He Were a Cat
When the bus arrived at the terminal, the driver swallowed his saliva and shouted softly: "The terminal has arrived, let's get off." ”
Gou Rixin jumped out of the car and looked at the end of the road with some trepidation, which was a bungalow area.
Everything around is inexplicably familiar, this is the south of City B, along the road in front of you all the way to the east, you can get to Qiao Ming's home. If you continue to walk south, you will turn over a dirt mountain bag, which is the Thorn Fox Temple. Gou Rixin squatted under the stop sign, and countless memories flooded through his mind.
What is Qiao Ming doing? Is she okay alone? Is her grandmother's illness cured? Does she occasionally think of herself? If she thinks of herself, does she hate or miss?
Behind him, a man jumped off the bus, looked around, and started talking on the phone.
"I'm back, are you home? Where have you been?··· Forget it, you go to sleep first.··· No, I've taken half a month's leave at the barbecue, otherwise I won't have a salary. Well, bye-bye. ”
The man hung up the phone and walked towards a residential building.
Gou Rixin's stomach rumbled, he swallowed his saliva, turned around and limped behind the man. Since it's a barbecue restaurant, follow him, at least you can find something to eat.
The man entered the community and came to a small six-story building. When he reached the door, the man turned a corner and went down a flight of stairs, and saw a dimly lit hallway. On one side of the hallway, there is a row of semi-basement houses. The man turned on his phone flashlight, walked to the door closest to the stairs, took out the key, opened the door and walked in.
Gou Rixin stopped at the top of the stairs, his nose moved slightly, and he smelled a faint smell of barbecue seasoning. With another growl in his stomach, he silently walked over to the garbage bag in front of a door, stretched out his paws and flipped through it.
There were a few leftover chicken bones inside, as well as the familiar ketchup, and a smiling old man printed on the box. Gou Rixin stared at the bones, gritting his teeth and not moving.
Qiao Ming took him to eat KFC a few times when he was in a good mood, and he remembered the taste, but now, he can only eat the bones that come out of other people's mouths.
If he had been a real cat, he might not have felt so humiliated, and might have been happy to have found food.
The smell of meat tempted his hungry stomach, and his stomach was also uncomfortable. Gou Rixin's eyes were slightly wet, he lowered his head to get close to those bones, and opened his mouth to bite them.
If he were a real cat.
But he wasn't.
Ever since he met Qiao Ming, he has not been.
Da Zhuang said, don't worry about the next life, you can live well in this life. But if there is no next life, he will always be trapped in the cat's body, unable to do anything, and even have to rely on people to snort when he eats.
The stomach was finally no longer uncomfortable, but Gou Rixin couldn't help but feel a little nauseous. He wiped away his tears and ran out like crazy. As if unwilling to face his misery.
The injury on his hind leg caused him to stop before he could run far, gasping for breath. Seeing a tricycle parked around the corner, he jumped on his seat and lay there in a deep sleep.
The night breeze blew softly and brushed his back. Qiao Ming in the dream held him on his lap and gently scratched his neck, a gentle and quiet. Gou Rixin hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled, Qiao Ming rarely had such a gentle time.
"Who said I wasn't gentle?" Qiao Ming grabbed his ear and yelled, "Kick your nose in the face, don't you?"
Gou Rixin struggled with his limbs, and finally pulled out his ears and watched Qiao Ming stretch out his claws. But Qiao Ming lifted the hair on the back of his neck and stared at him sharply, "What, you still want to rebel, you are tired of being crooked?"
Those eyes were clear and clear, and there was a smile. Gou Rixin looked at each other in a daze, and suddenly lowered his head, cowardly like a thief.
"Qiao Ming?" a sunny male voice came from not far away.
The black figure stood stiffly to the side, watching Qiao Ming behave intimately with a man, walking farther and farther away. When Gou Rixin reacted, he rushed to catch up.
"Qiao Ming—" Gou Rixin shouted and kept chasing, but Qiao Ming's figure became more and more blurred until he disappeared.
He stood in a blank light, dazed.
The sky was faintly bright, and a sound of footsteps suddenly approached, and Gou Rixin opened his eyes vigilantly. An old man squinted slightly at his tricycle, and suddenly shouted angrily, "Go away!"
Gou Rixin jumped out of his seat and ran into the distance.
Coming to the familiar road, Gou Rixin looked in the direction of Qiao Ming's house, his eyes hesitant. After a long time, he gritted his teeth and walked forward with a determined step.
The last time, he went to see if she was doing well.
There is a saying called watching the mountains and running a dead horse, obviously the bungalow is in front of him, but Gou Rixin feels that he has crossed thousands of mountains and mountains, and there are thousands of mountains and mountains away from the goal.
He stopped in front of a barbecue restaurant, sniffed it, and suddenly saw the back of a familiar man. Like the man it tracked yesterday. I saw that the other party opened the iron door, went into the house, took out a broom, and began to sweep the floor. When I looked up and saw the black cat in front of me, I was stunned.
"It can't be the one on the bus yesterday, right?" muttered the man.
Gou Rixin cleared his throat, raised his paws, and said hello, "Meow~"
"Holy!" the man clutched his broom in surprise and took a step back.
Gou Rixin rolled his eyes and continued to walk forward.
The door of Qiao Ming's house was closed, and Gou Rixin was a little lost. He squinted at the wall, gritted his teeth and leaped forward. The pain of his hind leg grinned in pain, but Gou Rixin didn't dare to scream in pain.
Along the wall, I came to the backyard of Qiao Ming's house. The dog next door heard the movement and barked at him. Gou Rixin yelled at him, and the dog whimpered and retracted into the kennel.
Jumping off the wall, Gou Rixin looked around at the familiar surroundings. To his surprise, in a corner under the eaves, there was his cat nest. Next to it, there is also a self-feeding and water feeding machine.
Did she move all the things in the school dormitory back home? Gou Rixin walked to his cat kennel step by step, raised his paw and pressed the switch of the feeder, and the cat food was poured out with a bang.
The tears in his eyes disturbed his vision. He sniffed with a nose, and he was still familiar with the taste of 30 yuan buy two get one free cat food. After filling his stomach, he stepped into the soft cat nest, and Gou Rixin lay there in a daze for a long time, burying his head and starting to whimper in a low voice.
He has been looking for his past life, has always wanted to know why he became a cat, and has never understood why he fell into the animal path after living a miserable life for five lives.
And now it seems that even if he knows the reason for becoming a cat, in the next life, he will probably not be able to be a human being, and he will be a dull beast in the next ten lives.
Even, because of the obstruction of black and white impermanence, it is not certain whether there is a next life.
If he hadn't met Qiao Ming, he would have starved to death or frozen to death as a cat in this world, and his nine lives would have been squandered long ago.
Qiao Ming brought only luck to himself, but what he brought to her was fatal doom for several lifetimes.
Thinking of this, Gou Rixin raised his head suddenly. The cat nest under him, the cat food and water next to him, were obviously left by Qiao Ming for himself, if he enjoyed it, would he? Trouble for her.
The heart suddenly thumped with fear, Qiao Ming had been killed by him without a father and mother, if... Whoever she loses, will she break down and cry like she did last time in the Thorn Fox Temple, and escape from it all with death.
Gou Rixin instantly fled the courtyard in a panic and left in a hurry.