Chapter 3 A stray cat that sells cute and begging for food
Returning to his temporary residence along the same road, there was an unfinished building with only three floors, and Xu Jie lived in the underground part there.
It was supposed to be a lounge reserved for the security guards in the underground parking lot, but the main body was almost finished, and the walls on all four sides were very strong, except for the windows and doors, which were still empty.
It's close to the exit of the abandoned underground car park, and it's not very quiet, but it's sheltered from the wind and rain. Once there is any trouble, Xu Jie can quickly escape outside, which is already a very good place for wild cats.
Xu Jie found an old piece of clothes that others didn't want, and put a bunch of them in it to make a home for the time being.
Lying in his own nest, Xu Jie slowly digested his food while thinking about where to solve the problem of dinner.
Now Xu Jie has gradually adapted to the identity of a cat, three meals a day is the most important thing for him, breakfast and lunch are easy to say, and the most headache for him is dinner.
Think about it, it's still the best at the school, the children not only have food in their hands, but the effect of its newly proficient selling skills is the best.
Unfortunately, there is no one in the school when it gets dark, and the security guard will lead a big dog to patrol at night. Otherwise, Xu Jie would definitely settle his home there, and he wouldn't come out if he lived in.
Thinking about Xu Jie's consciousness was a little blurry, and slowly he fell asleep again.
In the abandoned security room, which is spacious for cats, the snoring of purring cats soon sounded.
When he woke up, it was already dark, and Xu Jie, who had overslept, couldn't help but run out of the nest in a hurry.
Unlike daytime, nighttime cities do not only belong to humans, some small rodents or insects that live in cities will come out to forage under the protection of night, and nocturnal animals that target them will also come out to hunt at this time.
If it weren't necessary, Xu Jie would never choose to come out after the sun went down to find food, but today was different, when he was wandering around the school after lunch, he heard the radio saying that it would rain tomorrow. If the news is accurate, it is difficult to say when it will be hungry tomorrow, so it must be full tonight.
I found a place to look at the time, at nine o'clock in the evening, at this time the people who had eaten dinner and went out for a walk had begun to go home one after another, and after a while, when there were fewer people on the road, all kinds of things would have to bubble out.
After hesitating for a moment, Xu Jie finally decided to take a risk and not go to the back alley of the relatively safe but long way restaurant street, but planned to try his luck at the night market.
There may be rain tomorrow, and tonight it will be very stuffy, and people don't want to be bored at home in this kind of weather, so the night market can be described as a crowd of people.
Xu Jie cautiously shuttled through the crowd, looking for a target that could allow him to use his cute skills.
If you want to use this skill, you must find the right person, those who are selling food are not suitable, and they need to support their families when they are busy doing business, they do not have the extra patience to appreciate whether a cat is cute or not.
The best targets are girls in their teens and twenties, who have no resistance to fluffy fur and round apricot eyes.
It would be great if they were still accompanied by their boyfriends, and the boys who were anxious to show their love in front of the girls would definitely meet Xu Jie's request for begging. This is Xu Jie's life experience summed up in the past few days as a cat.
Xu Jie sat cross-tailed on the steps outside a shop, shaking his head, his eyes fixed on the crowd coming and going.
Suddenly, it stood up, its head tilted upward, and a delicate cry like that of a kitten.
The two high school girls who were passing by stopped when they heard the sound, and then they looked for the sound and saw a tanuki cat about half a year old, shaking its gray-brown fluffy fur and looking at them softly.
The two girls were attracted by the pair of watery yellow-brown apricot eyes, and the closer they walked, the cuter they found the cat.
It has a small round head and a pair of well-sized furry ears standing on top of its head. Unlike other monochrome or variegated fur, this cat's fur is not lumpy, although it also has gray, yellow, brown, and white colors. Rather, they are mixed together in a regular manner like a doped thread, and each of them has at least three colors on it, like the fur of a hare.
In addition, the most conspicuous thing on the cat's body is the long black stripes that start from the head and end to the tail.
The two young girls couldn't help but trot all the way to Xu Jie's side, and after probing for a moment to make sure that Xu Jie was not aggressive, they couldn't help but start reaching out and caressing its smooth fur.
Xu Jie obediently squatted on the steps, letting the two girls go up and down on it, and from time to time he used his tail to sweep the back of the two girls' hands.
The feeling of the fluffy tail sweeping on the back of the hand was like a fine fluffy brush gently sweeping the tips of the girls' hearts, and one of the girls could not resist the temptation and took the cat into her arms.
Xu Jie, who was held in his arms, rubbed his head against her cheek, and the girl screamed quietly that she wanted to raise it, but unfortunately she was stopped by her companions on the grounds that the rented apartment did not allow it.
Xu Jie doesn't really want to be adopted, otherwise it would be easy to find a family to adopt him with his current selling skills, after all, cats are very popular pets in Japan.
But becoming a family pet means that it is likely to lose its freedom, and it is locked up in a room the size of only dozens or even a dozen tatami mats every day, and it must be dressed up in various ways according to the owner's hobbies.
In contrast, the wandering life is unsafe, but it is still free. Although life is a little more difficult, but it lives freely, and Xu Jie has not encountered more difficult days than this, he has carried it all at that time, and it makes no sense that he can't do it now.
Xu Jie believes that for it to become a cat, it is more prudent to find an owner than to find a partner. If you really meet someone with the same personality and the right temper, Xu Jie doesn't mind having multiple companions around him. But if he can't meet the right one, Xu Jie would rather wander like this.
Thinking about it, Xu Jie found that the items in his line of sight suddenly changed, it turned out that two girls came to the door of the convenience store with it in their arms, and now they were discussing what to buy to feed the cat.
The owner of the convenience store apparently encounters this situation from time to time and quickly gives some food that the cat will be interested in.
The two girls picked and chose among them, and finally paid for some loose grilled fish fillets.
Xu Jace ate the fish fillets handed over by the two girls, and after eating, he played with them for a while in order to express his gratitude.
After ten o'clock, the crowd in the night market was getting smaller and smaller, and even the shops began to gather things to prepare for closing, and the two girls reluctantly said goodbye to Xu Jie.
After seeing the two kind-hearted girls get into the taxi safely, Xu Jie turned around and lifted the food packaging bag that had just been filled with grilled fish fillets.
The two girls bought more than a pound of grilled fish fillets, Xu Jie had only eaten a third of them just now, and the rest of the girls said that they had left it, and Xu Jie planned to drag these grilled fish fillets back to the nest.
This night was finally not in vain, and even tomorrow's breakfast and lunch were brought out together. And the grilled fish fillet is durable, Xu Jie plans to set aside some for himself as reserve food.
While dragging the reserve grain to the nest, Xu Jie also kept an ear to pay attention to the movements around him, and his sensitive sense of smell had already told him that this was the territory of another group of stray cat groups.
The owners of the territory are very tough, at least it didn't smell the information of the nearby wild dogs from the air, and it was obvious that this group of guys did not dare to set foot here.
In order not to anger the owner of this territory, Xu Jie was extra careful every time he passed here.
There is no way, it is now begging for a living on other people's territory, and it must pay attention to it.
Just as Xu Jie was about to return to the nest after dragging the food bag around the street, it suddenly heard some strange sounds.
Spit out the bag in his mouth, Xu Jie's eyes widened and he searched around, but found nothing.
Xu Jie, who shook his ears and thought he was careless, took the bag back in his mouth and dragged it in the direction of the unfinished building.
Not long after it was gone, a black shadow followed it with its long tail.