After a few days of cooling, today's temperature is finally showing some upward trend.

But even if it is rising, winter is still winter, so even if there is a warm sun shining on his body, Xu Jie still feels that the breeze around him is cold.

Mo looked at it shrinking its head and brain, so he came over and asked with concern, "Meow meow?" "It's still a little cold outside, Applejack, why don't you go back to the room first.

Xu Jie shook his head when he heard this and replied, "Meow, meow." "No, the cat is out anyway, so let's just wander outside for a while.

Mo asked Xu Jie where he wanted to go? Xu Jie said that Xu Jie, who wanted to come out and breathe, said that there is no goal, and you can go anywhere.

Mo thought for a moment and asked again, "Meow, meow?" "In that case, why don't you come with me to patrol the territory?

Xu Jie squinted his eyes when he heard this, and waved his tail a few times in agreement.

Although Mo is called the lord of Nancheng by Black Feather, its territory is not only in the south of the county seat.

After several turf battles with the Wild Dog Gang, most of the county is now within the territory of Mo.

On the side of the Wild Dog Gang, after expelling the old man, there is no dog that has the ability and courage to dare to provoke the Cat Gang.

So the dog gang that self-destructed the Great Wall, after the old cripple left, life began to deteriorate day by day.

The dogs in the dog gang who now have some thoughts and abilities have left here to find another way, and only Rapi and a few of his henchmen are still struggling to support themselves in the shrinking territory.

The cat gang has always been a hands-off shopkeeper, unless it is a strict incident such as a foreign enemy invasion and turf, otherwise Mo doesn't care about other things.

Mo's temperament has developed the independent personality of the members of the cat gang, except for the routine gathering at the villa, each member of the cat gang has their own own nest and sphere of influence.

In short, in the cat gang, ink is like the kings of ancient Europe.

The king's territory was divided among the knights, who, while governing their fiefdoms, were to remain loyal to the king forever, obeying his orders and following in his footsteps.

Just thinking about it, Xu Jie felt that Mo was really majestic.

Although most of the chores in the territory are coordinated and resolved by Ngawang, as long as Mo is in the territory, he will still exercise his power as the owner of the territory very conscientiously.

That is, to patrol their territory at a fixed time every day.

Mo's daily patrol starts at the borders of the territory, and each time it leaves its own scent or paw prints in the most conspicuous places on the borders of the territory.

These conspicuous traces will clearly leave the pheromones of the owner of the territory, so that every animal that approaches here can sense the majesty and power of the owner of the territory through the sense of smell.

Ink's pheromones can remain in one place for a long time, so its territory boundaries are always very clear, and there is no chance of confusing other animals.

Due to Mo's toughness and the decline of the main □□ Gang, the Cat Gang has been safe and secure for several months without any war.

As the owner of the territory under his feet, Mo is very respected by the animals here.

Xu Jie, but in the ten minutes that Mo was on patrol, there were already six different animals that came over to greet Mo politely.

Although he knew that he was taking advantage of Mo's power to pretend to be a tiger, the feeling of this kind of king going out on patrol was really good.

So the excited Xu Jie walked faster and faster with his tail cocked, and soon walked in front of Mo.

Mo followed behind Xu Jie with his paws, not reacting to the question of Xu Jie walking in front of him.

After the other animals on the road saw this situation, they all stared at Xu Jie and Mo in surprise, and after finding that Mo really didn't care, no animal said anything.

Anyone who knows how a cat behaves knows that if you want to determine a cat's position in the herd, one of the most important things is to observe its position in front of and behind the cat's group when it travels.

When the cat gang acts together, the higher the position of the cat in the group, the higher the status in the group, and the one who walks in the front is naturally the leader.

It's really strange that Mo Da, who has always walked in front of cats, actually let other cats walk in front of him.

But when everyone looked at the tanuki cat walking in front of Moda, they were all relieved, if it was it, then it would be right.

The two cats walked around for nearly two hours to complete the boundaries of the territory, and when they walked back, they passed by the new door of the pastoral family, which had only been moved for a long time.

Looking at the kittens who were playing wildly in the yard against the cold wind, Xu Jie remembered that it seemed that he hadn't seen the countryside for a few days.

Tian Yuan, Tabby and Ngawang are the cats that Xu Jie is more familiar with in the cat gang, and they will always come to play with Xu Jie when they are fine.

Whether it's the shop or the apartment, there are no less than a few of them, why are you only seeing tabby and Ngawang these days, where is that guy in the countryside?

Hearing Xu Jie's question, Mo shook his beard and gave it a strange expression of whether to smile or not, and then said, "Ajie, you have to find the answer to this question yourself, or you will take this opportunity to go over and see their family?" ”

Xu Jie thought about it and felt that what Mo said made some sense, since they were friends, there was no reason to go to someone's door and not say hello.

So Xu Jie stood at the gate of Fujiwara's house and asked the kittens who were chasing and playing with each other inside, "Nelly, Jasmine, Beauty, Uncle Applejack is here, where are your parents?" ”

The kittens heard a meow at them, turned around and stared at the gate with bright eyes, and after finding that it was Xu Jie, they ran over to surround Xu Jie, and said in a milky voice: "Uncle Ajie is good, Uncle Mo is good." Mom went out to look for food, but Dad lay in the nest and refused to come out. ”

Xu Jie was surprised when he heard the feeling, because Tian Yuan was very concerned about his litter of kittens, and since the injury was healed, he let Sanhua stay in the nest to take care of the cubs, and it went out to forage for food.

In the first few days of winter, you can often see the countryside running around in the territory.

And the cats who know that it has a large family to raise, they also consciously take care of it, and basically avoid hunting it in the same place.

Now this model father in the eyes of male cats and standard husbands in the eyes of female cats actually nest in the nest like this, letting his wife go out to find food, this is not a pastoral character?

Couldn't something happen to the farm, sick or injured?

Thinking of this, Xu Jie hurriedly asked, "Is your father uncomfortable, so he is resting in the nest?" ”

The kittens looked at each other a few times when they heard this, and finally Nelly, who was the eldest sister, said, "Dad is not uncomfortable, it was just burned by Grandma Fujiwara's stove." ”

"I was burned by the stove, so is it burning strictly?" When Xu Jie heard this, he hurriedly continued to ask.

Hearing this, Nelly shook her head and nodded and said, "I wasn't burned, oh, it's not that the flesh wasn't burned, but Dad's beard and fur were burned." ”

Xu Jie wanted to ask more carefully, but the kittens who were only two months old couldn't express what they saw too clearly.

Xu Jie, who was worried about the pastoral body in his heart, simply didn't ask when he saw this, he could always know it by looking at it himself.

So Xu Jie ran to the yard, pushed the door of the storage room with his paws, and said inside: "Tianyuan, I'm Ajie, I heard the kittens say that you were burned by fire?" Is there anything wrong? Come out and let me have a look? ”

Not long after its voice fell, it listened to Tian Yuan say inside: "Teacher Jie, I'm fine, you don't have to worry." I'm not going out when it's too cold outside, Mr. Applejack, feel free to do so. ”

After hearing this, Xu Jie squinted and stared at the door of the storage room for a while before he spoke: "Tianyuan, we have known each other for so long, and I am very familiar with your personality." If it was really okay, you would have come out to play with the children or with me. It is even more impossible to let Sanhua go out alone with a cat to find food for the child and you in the middle of winter. So what the hell is going on, you come out and make it clear, if you don't come out, I'll have to go in by myself. ”

After saying this for a long time, there was still no movement in the storage room.

Seeing this, Xu Jie stepped aside and said loudly to Mo behind him, "Ah Mo, help me smash the door open." ”

As soon as Xu Jie finished saying this, he heard Tian Yuan say in a panic: "Teacher Jie, don't slam the door, I'll come out." ”

After speaking, Xu Jie heard the sound of things rubbing against each other in the storage room, and then the familiar fur color of the field came out of the crack in the door of the storage room.

When I first saw the current appearance of the countryside, it was stunned for a while without any psychological preparation.

After it came back to its senses, it couldn't hold back its smile, and in an instant, Xu Jie hugged his stomach and leaned back and smiled on the ground.

Seeing that his friend's tears were about to burst into laughter, Tian Yuan looked at it sadly and said: "I said I didn't want to come out, but you let the cat come out, and now that the cat is out, you laugh at the cat." ”

Hearing this, Xu Jie wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his paws, turned over and stood up to say sorry to Tian Yuan, but when he saw Tian Yuan's face, Xu Jie couldn't help but laugh and fell to the ground.

This really can't blame Xu Jie's laughter for being too low, it's all because the current appearance of Tian Yuan is so funny.

I saw that the eyelashes and eyebrows were all lifted on the current pastoral face, and the beard was burned and curled around the mouth, so it looked too funny.

No wonder Mo had such an expression when he mentioned the countryside just now, and the meow of its current appearance had to laugh when he saw it.

Realizing that under his laughter, Tian Yuan's eyes had become more and more complaining, Xu Jie hurriedly held back a smile and asked, "Ahem, Tian Yuan, how did you make yourself look like this?" ”

Hearing this, Tian Yuan shook his curly beard and began to complain to Xu Jie.

It turned out that a few days ago, it had cooled down and it snowed heavily, and the old lady Fujiwara was afraid that it would be too cold outside and freeze her new neighbors, so she took the initiative to open the door and invite the family to come into the house to escape the wind and snow.

If it were just two big cats, Tian Yuan and Sanhua, they might not accept the invitation.

But Nelly and they are not frost-resistant, so the Pastoral couple accepted the kind invitation of the old lady Fujimoto.

As an elderly man in her seventies, Grandma Fujiwara's life is not very modern, and the heating equipment in her home is still very old-fashioned table warmer and kerosene stove.

As the head of the family, Tian Tian left the safer and more comfortable table warmer for the grandmother and her wife and children, and went to the kerosene stove to keep warm.

In fact, there is nothing to do in the past, and it can only be blamed for being greedy for warmth, so it is too close to the kerosene stove, so it has become what it is now.

Looking at Tian Yuan's unlucky face, Xu Jie felt that he couldn't stay any longer, otherwise he couldn't help laughing, and he would be a friend if he didn't get it right.

So after a few words to Tian Yuan, he found an excuse to leave, and only when he was sure that Tian Yuan really couldn't hear it, Xu Jie laughed out loud.

Looking at the little raccoon flower rolling around laughing on the ground, Mo was afraid that it would laugh too badly, so he walked over and licked it and said, "It's almost four o'clock, and the temperature is starting to drop, let's go home, Mrs. Fujimoto said that there is sukiyaki tonight." ”

Xu Jie stood up from the ground when he heard this, shook the hair on his body and said: "Of course it's good to have tender beef to eat, but I don't know when the hair on Tianyuan's body will be able to grow." ”

Mo Wenyan replied: "It won't be too long, ten days and half a month will be about the same." However, it will take some time for the scorched spot on its body, and it will not be gone until spring when it is moulting. ”

Hearing that there would be nothing going on in the countryside, Xu Jie was relieved, he raised his head to look at the sun that had begun to set westward, turned around and said to Ding Mo: "It's almost time, let's go home and eat beef." ”