Early in the morning of the New Year, when Xu Jie was sleeping in a daze, he was woken up by the little fat man.

Raising his head from Mo's arms, Xu Jie opened his apricot kernel eyes that were a little confused, and tried his best to focus on the little fat man's face.

When it came to its senses, Xu Jie found that Fujimoto's family were dressed up in kimonos.

Looking at the cat's eyes in the cat litter, the little fat man rubbed its fluffy little head and said, "Great Sage, we are going to the temple to pray for blessings, you and Ah Zhong have already prepared them for you in the living room, remember to eat." ”

Xu Jie looked sideways when he heard this, the sun hadn't risen yet, and they were about to go out?

However, thinking about it, it seems to be a tradition in Japan to worship the temple and pray for blessings on the New Year's Day, so Xu Jie opened his mouth wide and sighed with tears in his eyes, waved his tail to signal to the little fat man that he knew, and then lay back on Mo's body to continue sleepy.

When it woke up, it found that Mo was enclosing it inside, and a large golden retriever outside the cat kennel was poking its head towards the cat kennel.

Finding that Xu Jie was awake, Ah Zhong said to the two cats in the cat kennel in a humble voice: "When you wake up, get up and have breakfast, Hei Yu said that the 'people' who stay at home for the first meal of the new year must get together to eat." ”

Hearing this, Xu Jie hurriedly climbed out of the cat's nest and looked at the quartz clock on the wall, it was almost eight o'clock, which had already passed their daily breakfast time.

With Ah Zhong's bottomless dog belly, he must have been hungry at this time, so he didn't wake it up but obediently waited outside the cat kennel, which is really strange.

What Xu Jie didn't know was that Ah Zhong, the golden retriever, had actually wanted to wake him up for breakfast a long time ago. It's just that the big black cat stopped at the door of the cat nest to prevent it from approaching, and it stretched out its paws to push the great sage, but the black cat actually bared its teeth at it.

It was so terrifying, Wang had never seen such a fierce cat, no wonder Black Feather had been warning him not to provoke the black cat.

Wang woo woo, or Hei Yu is good to Wang, and after a while, Wang will carry Hei Yu out to bask in the sun.

Xu Jie came out of the room to eat breakfast with his tail arched and arched his ink, and found the crow of Black Feather at the door, actually taking a sand bath in its sand basin.

Seeing Xu Jie and them coming out, Hei Yu shook the sand on his body and jumped out of the sand basin and said, "On the first day of the new year, you have to take a bath." The master said that this will be auspicious next year, do you want to give it a try? ”

Xu Jie shook his head again and again when he heard this, what kind of joke is it to let the cat take a bath, if you want to clean your body, it and Mo will lick each other after breakfast.

Well, cats are so trouble-free.

For feral cats, the human festival does not mean anything to them.

The only good thing about these wild cats is that they have more food.

But I heard those humans say that the New Year is a time of reunion, so Mo plans to give himself a holiday on the first day of the new year, and today he will not step on the turf, and the cat will accompany his little civet here.

After eating breakfast, Xu Jie and snuggled together, you clean each other's bodies one bite at a time.

Ah Zhong didn't want to look at the shiny two, so he pushed open the glass door with his paws with the black feathers and went to play in the small courtyard.

However, Ah Zhong and Kuroba did not stay comfortable in the small courtyard for long, and soon seven or eight cats jumped onto the fence of Fujimoto's house.

Some of these cats are known to Ah Zhong, such as Ngawang and tabby. But there are still some Ah Zhong who don't know, such as the round face and the pastoral couple.

These wild cats came to see what was going on when they found out that Mo Da, who couldn't be moved, didn't come out to inspect the territory today.

Although he knew that wild cats were not easy to mess with, Ah Zhong, who was a housekeeper, could not let these cats enter and leave his house lightly, so the golden retriever, who had always been docile, barked at the wall.

Compared with the golden retriever Ah Zhong, the well-informed Black Feather knows a lot about the cat gang.

It raised its paws with ankle rings, gently tapped a few times on the golden retriever's big head and said, "Ah Zhong, don't bark, these are the backbone of the cat gang, they once helped rescue the corgi upstairs, remember?" ”

When the golden retriever Ah Zhong heard this, he stared at the bird paws dangling on his big head with his eyes, and his eyes were almost cross-eyed.

Black Feather looked at the golden retriever dog that was about to disappear under his paws, and really used the urge to fan its head with wings.

Ngawang didn't care what the black crow and the golden retriever were thinking, he stuck out the cat's head and looked through the glass window to see if Mo was inside.

The cat's eyes were very smart, and soon it saw Xu Jie and Mo licking each other's fur while basking in the sun on the windowsill.

Looking at the pair leaning together, with slimy black hair mixed with stripes inside, and two black hairs sandwiched between the stripes, the corners of Ah Wang's mouth twitched several times.

It's really stupid, how could that guy have an accident, it didn't go out to step on the turf today because it was reluctant to leave a certain tanuki cat.

What do humans call this kind of thing, isn't it? Should you learn to learn that the king will not be early from now on, right?

Xu Demon Concubine, Woe Shui, Jie, Mei and Mei were in Mo's arms, and when they heard the noise on the other side of the yard, they shook their ears and raised their heads, and saw a wall of cats with curious faces.

Xu Jie's soft cat body stiffened, and Mo looked up at the wall when he saw this.

The cats of the cat gang suddenly looked at the sky, looked at the ground, licked their paws, and licked other cats' paws if they couldn't lick their own paws.

I saw it, I saw it, the cat's face

But the New Year's Eve is also considered to be a guest, Xu Jie naturally can't let them squat on the wall.

So Xu Jie pushed away the cat's head that Mo stretched out, and said to the cat gang on the wall with a little weakness: "Happy New Year, everyone, uh, I have good cat food and pure water here, let's come down and eat some." ”

As if to cover up his weakness, it quickly ran to the locker to rummage through the high-grade cat food that had just been delivered last month.

A bag of each flavor of cat food was selected, and Xu Jie held the bag and dragged it out.

But the weight of those bags of cat food is almost equal to Xu Jie's current weight, how can it be dragged with its small size.

Seeing this, Mo came over to help, and just as they were working together to lift the cat food out, there was a sound from the entrance opening the door, and the Fujimoto family, who had gone out early in the morning to say goodbye, came back.

The little fat man who ran in first stood in the entrance and looked at Xu Jie and Mo who were holding cat food outside, and looked at the cats squatting on the wall all over the wall, and suddenly said: "Great Sage, are those cats coming to pay you New Year's greetings?" I'll help you open some cans of cat food, and you can take them out and serve them together. ”

Saying that, the little fat man didn't even change the kimono on his body, so he went to the storage room to rummage the cans for the cat.

By the time the little fat man pushed the door open with the canned cat food and came to the small courtyard, the invited cat gang members had already jumped down from the wall and were ready to eat in rows.

In order to come to find ink, most of the cats in the cat gang haven't had time to eat breakfast yet, and since there are cats willing to entertain them, the cats are also happy.

The golden retriever Ah Zhong squatted aside, sticking out his tongue ha, watching a group of cats gather around the cat food and canned cat food to pick their favorite flavors under Xu Jie's introduction.

Walking over with a bag of beef-flavored cat food, Xu Jie sent half of the cat food to the golden retriever and asked, "Although you have already eaten breakfast, do you want to have a little snack to try?" ”

Ah Zhong's sensitive nose smelled the smell of beef constantly wafting towards him, and the saliva in his mouth involuntarily began to secrete.

But as a trained pet dog, Ah Zhong still took a look at the little owner who stayed in the yard first.

Sister Junko said that good dogs don't eat things given by outsiders. The hostess also explained that dogs can't bully the cats in the house because of their size, and they can't grab food from cats.

Although Ah Zhong has always felt that he has an advantage in terms of size, he really can't necessarily take advantage of cats.

But this time, the cat invited it to share the cat food, so there should be no problem, right?

Rubbing his golden retriever's dog head, Kenta agreed to the other party's request to taste cat food.

After hooking/hitching up with the golden retriever, Xu Jie set his sights on the crow Black Feather again, and it held a newly opened can of cat food in front of the crow and said: "Brother Black Feather, try it, the latest canned chicken cat is full of chicken thighs, and it tastes much better than the chicken breast." ”

Crows are omnivorous birds, and their diets have a variety of grain seeds, insects and other things, so a can of chicken and cat food still has some attraction to crows.

Seeing that everyone was eating, Hei Yu also put down his reserve, jumped in front of the canned chicken, first nodded to Xu Jie to express his gratitude, and then began to peck at the canned food.

Seeing that everyone began to bury their heads in eating, Xu Xinji Jie thought that if there is food, these cats/dogs/birds should soon forget the picture of it sticking to the ink, right?

When the little fat man returned to the house, he was surprised to find that there were guests in the house, and these guests were still familiar to him, and they were the neighbors who lived upstairs.

The kind Fujimoto family has a very good neighborship, living here for more than ten years, and every year on the first day of the new year, there will be neighbors who come to visit the New Year.

However, looking at the various fruit snacks and rice cakes on the table, and looking at the various eating patterns of cats, dogs, and crows in the courtyard outside, the little fat man felt that he had understood the meaning of the New Year.

In addition to family reunions and gatherings of relatives and friends, another meaning of the Chinese New Year is that you can eat casually.

Holding a plate of rice cakes baked for him by his sister, wrapped in seaweed and dipped in some soy sauce, it smelled fragrant. Eat smooth and soft in the mouth.

The little fat man who squinted his eyes and attacked the whole plate of baked rice cakes, knew that he didn't have to worry about someone saying that he was overweight for a while, and let himself control his appetite, after all, it was the New Year, how could he not eat too much.