When I was a child, my mother told me many stories, but most of my memories were blurred, and this was particularly impressive.

There was a time when I was a child, I had a rash all over my body, and I cried night after night, and I couldn't be at peace. My mother snuggled up to me, patting me to sleep and telling me stories, and so was the story of the gambler and the cat.

It is said that a long time ago, there was a big family, very rich, the owner struggled all his life, got ten thousand pieces of family wealth, the family had ten thousand hectares of fertile land, and the money was incalculable. The old club has never been arrogant and lascivious because of the wealth of the family, but has been frugal all his life, saving what he can save, and the only shortcoming is that he has no children under his knees.

Later, the old club got a son in his later years, called Lingyue. Because he is an old man, he loves his children very much, and the whole family is used to him. So this child has been arrogant since he was a child, and he has developed a bad problem, and the old club has turned a blind eye, and others dare not say much. In the past eighteen years, the old club has passed the age of six, and he can't control his son who can't be a weapon. It is said that this Lingyue has been greedy for fun since he was a child, does not enter the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and does not practice martial arts and the art of war, and his only hobby is to raise cats, but most of them are average. On his eighteenth birthday, someone gave him a cat, which was snow-white, with bright eyes, and was very good-looking.

I don't know when it began, this spirit began to gamble like a life. But I will bring that cat every day and feed it with the best ingredients every day. But nine out of ten gambles were lost, and soon, more than half of the family's fertile land and real estate were lost, and the servants were all dismissed one after another. It's just that Lingyue never repented, and he also became Bengali, and the old club fell ill in bed in a fit of anger.

On this day, Lingyue came back from the casino with a bad loss, lay down at his father's bedside, and asked his father for the title deed of the ancestral house. The old proprietor knew that it was too late for him to say anything, so he took out the title deed from the pillow and handed it to his son, shouting three times: If you don't raise it, your father's fault, and then swallowed her breath and drove the crane west. Lingyue didn't feel sad, all he thought about was that he was going to the casino to turn over the book and win it back tenfold and hundredfold. However, luck never seemed to be on his side, and soon, the last copper plate was lost, and he left the casino, not knowing where to go. Because the family's property had long been lost by him, the servant left home, his father was angry, and he didn't even have anyone to talk to. The only one who accompanied him was the white cat. The neighbors looked at him so pitifully that they couldn't see it, so they gave him a firewood house for shelter.

Lingyue was hungry and full every day, and he didn't even have a decent piece of clothing on his body, and he didn't know how long he had worn it and never changed it. Even at this point, he still did not repent, believing that he would win one day. But the cat didn't leave him because he was down. Every time he loses, he will look at the cat and say, "It's still hello, you've always been with me, and when I win it back one day, I'll let you eat meat."

On this day, Lingyue's gambling addiction was committed again, but he didn't even have a copper plate to buy steamed buns on his body, and he still wanted to gamble for money, as long as he could gamble, what was it to eat one less meal. He was really helpless, so he complained to the cat and said: You said that I have raised you for so long with good food and drink, even if I am down, I have never made you hungry, you can't repay me? If you can understand me, find me some money, I swear that I will never gamble again.

With that, he fell asleep, not so much asleep, but fainted from hunger. When he woke up, he found the cat standing beside him with a glittering gold coin in his mouth. Lingyue sobered up all of a sudden, held it in his arms, was happy for a long time, and then went to the casino again, and the ending was always so similar, losing a lot.

When he returned to the dilapidated house, he held the cat again, and he found that the cat was thin, and his eyes were listless and lethargic. Lingyue thought that the cat had not eaten well recently, so he begged for leftovers from the roadside to feed it. The white cat devoured it and fell asleep.

After a few more days, Lingyue began to itch again, he was so easy to block, he thought about quitting gambling, but it was all after every loss, but whenever there was a copper plate on his body, he would take it to the casino to try his luck. He bent down and looked at the cat, "Cat, cat, if you can understand me, get me some more money." I must stop gambling this time and be a new person. With that, the cat broke free from his arms and ran away. Lingyue shouted angrily: Beast, I just complained to you, and you left me.

It wasn't long before the cat returned, like last time, with another glittering gold coin in its mouth. Ling Yue's eyes lit up, but he didn't think about where this gold coin came from, he just wanted to gamble, even if he lost again and again, he never won. It's just that after the cat came back, it seemed to have lost weight again, and the skinny remained. But Lingyue didn't care, nothing made him happier than gambling money.

Like every previous one, he lost it all again, and he seemed to be used to this kind of ending.

Ling Yue returned to the dilapidated house, and he remembered something very important. Why does the cat get money back every time he goes out, does the cat know where the money is, and if he can find it, wouldn't he be rich.

So he picked up the cat again, knelt on the ground and said, "Cat, if you can understand me, find me some more money to come back, I swear to God, I will change my past mistakes, and never gamble again." Since the white cat came back from giving him money, he has been thinner and thinner every time, and he is no longer so white, his hair is gray, his eyes are hollow, and he is dying.

When he had finished speaking, the cat broke free from his arms and fell to the ground. This time, Ling Yue thought about it, and he wanted to follow the cat behind to find out. He quietly followed the cat, through the jungle, and across a bridge, not far from which there was a temple.

I saw the cat enter the temple, kneeling in front of the idol like a man, and muttering: Remove some flesh, remove some bones, just give some money. Just get rid of some meat, get rid of some bones, just give some money... I read it in a loop. This scene was seen by Ling Yue, who was hiding behind the door, and his heart seemed to be stabbed fiercely, and the pain was unbearable. He walked out from behind the door, his eyes were full of tears, he could no longer see the greed of the past, he knelt down from afar and shouted: Cat, I was wrong, I was wrong, I don't want this money, go home with me.

Lingyue suddenly woke up at this moment, and fell on the ground crying. The cat glanced back at him, and continued to lie on the ground with its two hind paws, its two front paws folded together like a human, and its eyes were closed and its mouth was still muttering: just remove some meat, remove some bones, and give some money。。。。。。 The cat disappeared into thin air, and what remained in place was a few gold coins. As if he had lost his soul, Lingyue dragged his steps to the gold coins, knelt down, and wept bitterly, crying like a newborn child.

Lingyue took the gold coins and returned home in despair. When he got home, he picked up the kitchen knife and cut off his left hand. Then he buried himself in front of his father's monument, but he didn't say a word.

Since then, Lingyue really quit gambling, took the last few gold coins, and started a business with frugality, working from day to night, and the business has grown from small to big. Within a few years, Lingyue's business became bigger and bigger, and he redeemed his family's thousands of hectares of fertile land and ancestral house. The family is like when the old club was alive, and there is an endless stream of people. It's just that Lingyue has been talking less since he quit gambling, let alone laughing. He sent the top craftsmen to build a pure gold statue for the cat according to his own description, and offered it there every day, and outsiders listened to the servants at home talk about it, and Lingyue talked the most every day when he sat in front of the statue, talking to himself every day, and often burst into tears and was in pain.

It's just that what outsiders don't know is that what Lingyue says every time in front of the statue of the cat is, cat, cat, if you can understand me, you can come back, I will raise you again, and I will quit gambling, you can take a look. This was followed by beating his chest and crying.

According to legend, Lingyue never married in his life, and he was kind and charitable, never caring about gains and losses. All his life was fine, except for his left hand, but no one knows how his left hand was gone. Lingyue passed away in his eighties and died at the end of his life. Before he died, he told the servant that after his death he would give all his wealth to the poor, and when the servant asked him why, he said with tears that none of the wealth of the family belonged to him today. And his only funeral goods were the cat statue made of pure gold.

Later, I heard that on the day of Lingyue's burial, it was raining heavily, and someone saw the shadow of a white cat from a distance, following behind the burial procession, crying like a person, and then disappeared.

Today, do you think I'm going to say something, the prodigal son won't change his money? Wrong, what I want to say is that everything in this world has its own creatures, flowers, plants, trees, birds, beasts, fish, and insects. Please respect every life and revere every living being. Don't think that what you don't see doesn't exist, don't always live in your own world, that's not good.

We all know that the most precious thing is not what you can't get, nor what you have lost, but what you have now, so may I ask you, do you cherish it?

We all have things we care about, and we all have important things, a person, a job, a thing, or a word. But please always remember, always, ever, ever, never be so quick that you ignore the feelings of the most important people around you, because for them, the most important thing is always you, yourself.

Please be sure to think more about others, think more about other people's feelings, anything, including a person's patience, a person's love for you, is not inexhaustible, there will always be a day when it disappears, and when it really comes to that day, it will really be lost, and it will never come back.

My mother used to tell me not to take everyone's love for you for granted, because they love you for enough reasons, and if one day, there will be no more reasons. You really have no reason or excuse to love you anymore, because love is exhausted.