"Of course, after all, more than 20 years have passed, and the cat before I don't know if it's still there, and now this cat is only two or three years old." Jiao's father said.

The old woman shook her head, "This cat is male, and it was only a female before." ”

Jiao's father: "......" Why didn't I know that it was just a mother?! And grandma, you didn't say it back then!

didn't pay attention to Jiao's father's face, Zheng Si was just puzzled by the words of the person lying on the recliner.

it! How does this old woman know about her mother?!

Zheng Si remembered that he had always been facing this side when he came over, and, from a human point of view, shouldn't he look at the "back" to confirm the male and female? Besides, Zheng Si has never had the same chrysanthemum fetish as other cats.

Suddenly, Zheng Si's thinking galloped. I didn't expect this old woman to be quite obscene.

"Is it scolding me?" The old woman lying on the recliner looked at Zheng Si and said to her father.

Zheng sighed: "......"

Dad Jiao's face twitched, and he didn't know how to answer.

The old woman didn't seem to be waiting for Jiao's father's answer, and asked again, "Have you bought a car?" ”

Jiao's father nodded, "Well, I bought it for a few months." ”

"That's right." The old woman opened a cabinet next to the recliner sideways, took out a hanging ornament from the drawer and handed it to Jiao's father, "I've sent it to you." ”

Zheng Si glanced at the ornament that looked very ordinary, there were many similar pendants on the stalls set up by the students around Chuhua University, just a few yuan of things, and the wholesale price was cheaper. Although the old woman said "send", Zheng Si thought that if it weren't for Jiao's father coming over with gifts. This old woman won't even take out a few cents.

After Jiao's father took the things and thanked him, the old woman smiled and showed her dentures, and sighed at Zheng, "Take care of this cat." Encountering is also fate, and it can bring blessings. ”

Zheng Si likes to listen to the latter sentence, it can bring blessings and the like, Yuan Zhiyi also said it, thinking about it, Zheng Si is still a little embarrassed.

Although Jiao's father doesn't believe in those ethereal things, he has to admit that up to now, his cat has indeed brought a lot of good luck to the family.

"Grandma, you can continue to rest, I won't disturb you." Jiao's father was ready to say goodbye and leave. He knew that the old man had always spoken relatively little. Said that he would have to rest later. I'm not going to stay here anymore.

"Before you leave the village. Take this cat one more time. The old woman lying on the chaise longue said.

Although he didn't quite understand what Grandma was going to do, Jiao's father nodded in agreement.

Zheng Si looked at an old man and a cat on the recliner, turned around and followed Jiao's father away.

After Jiao's father and Zheng Si left. The old woman lying on the chaise longue with her eyes slightly closed sat up, touched the cat on her lap, and continued to look for fleas for it, "Oh, it's a big one again, next time you can find a mouse with fewer fleas to eat." ”

The three-legged tortoiseshell shook its ears, and it didn't know if it understood.

Over there, after Zheng Si followed Jiao's father out of the old woman's yard, he walked to another different path than when he came.

Seeing that it was getting farther and farther away from the village, Zheng Si was very curious about what Jiao's father was going to do. He could see that Jiao's father was hiding something in his heart.

There is a mountain near the village, which is not very big, after all, it does not belong to the category of barren mountains and mountains. Now that many parts of the mountain are being exploited, they are not as wild as they were a few decades ago.

Zheng Si followed Jiao's father to an orchard, Jiao's father stood there, looked at it, came to a big tree and sat down, then lit a cigarette, and when the smoke was almost halfway, Jiao's father sighed to Zheng who was squatting next to him and was distracted: "Black charcoal, I'll tell you a secret." After saying this, Jiao's father paused, smiled, and said: "Actually, it's not a secret, I told some people, they just don't believe it." ”

That's what you've been waiting for!

Zheng sighed and came back to his senses, bracing his ears to listen to Jiao's father's next words.

"Before, when I was a child, well, it was a little smaller than a little grapefruit. At that time, it was naughty, and there were rumors among the children that there was treasure in the mountains, and I came to the mountains with a few children in the village to hunt for treasures, but there was no harvest for several days, and some people gave up, but I didn't. So, one day I went up the mountain alone when my parents were not paying attention, I didn't harvest for half a day, I was tired and hungry, and after eating a dough cake with me, I lay down on the grass and fell asleep, and I didn't have much sense of crisis.

When I woke up, I found that it was getting dark, and after dinner, I was in a hurry to go home, but I accidentally slipped down a steep slope, sprained my foot, and dragged my injured foot into a hole after a few steps.

The hole was so deep that at least it was hard for me to climb out of it, because someone had buried something and dug it out without filling it. At that time, I didn't have much strength, I couldn't climb out for a while, and no one came to help after shouting for a long time. I picked at the stones and dirt on the wall of the cave to have a support point when climbing, and when my fingers were bleeding, I heard a cat meow from above the hole, and it didn't take long to see a cat's head. It looked at me and left, and it didn't take long for a thick straw rope tied to firewood to be thrown down from above, and I grabbed the straw rope and struggled to climb up, and at the same time I also felt that someone was pulling the rope on it, not very strong, but it helped me, and when I climbed up the hole, I found that it was a cat who was pulling the straw rope. The other end of the rope was stuck in a crack in a large rock near the pothole, a very clever cat. It ran away as soon as I climbed up, and not long after my grandmother appeared, she told me that she had noticed a black cat stealing the straw rope she had used to tie firewood, and she had followed. ”

During that dark period, Grandma was ostracized by the people in the village, and no one wanted to have contact with Grandma at all, and Jiao's father remembered that he himself and other children in the village had thrown stones and mud at Grandma's small courtyard. Later, Grandma had no choice but to go up the mountain temporarily, set up a small shed, and lived there alone, knowing that the dark period had passed.

To this day, Jiao's father still remembers the time he spent in the pit, the hunger, fear, and the coolness brought by the mountain wind.

"Later, Grandma found a cat tooth on the straw rope, which was broken when the cat bit and pulled." Jiao's father flicked the cigarette butt and looked into the distance. Keep reminiscing.

The thick straw rope woven by the people in the village is very strong, but if you bite it, you won't break your teeth, but if you bite the straw rope and pull hard, it's not certain. The cat's tooth may have been broken when the straw rope was pulled from the firewood stack. It may also be broken later when dragging it. Anyway, Dad Jiao is grateful for it. It's just that since then, Jiao's father has never seen the black cat again.

"Grandma melted the rosin and put the cat's tooth in it to make an artificial amber for me...... I'll still keep it, and I'll show it to you when I get back. Jiao's father sighed to Zheng.

Nearly 30 years have passed, and Jiao's father knows that the cat in his memory may no longer be there, but when he saw the black cat his wife picked up for the first time, he suddenly thought of the one back then.

Coming out of the night. The black cat that shuttles through the night. Even if you need to look up at people when you stand on the ground. The eyes are fearless, even with a condescending disdain for other things, like a little leopard.

And because of that. Jiao's father, who has not agreed to have pets since he lived in a big city, relented after Jiao's mother brought Zheng Si home. At that time, not long after the epidemic panic passed, there were still two children at home, and Jiao's mother really didn't expect Jiao's father to agree. The rest of the Jiao family didn't know the reason for this.

"When Grandma took me to the direction of the village, I asked me not to tell other people, there are some things, just rest assured, and others may not believe it when they say it, but there will be trouble."

Jiao's father didn't understand it at the time. When I grew up and became sensible, I realized that in those days, everything was easy to associate with demons and monsters, and if you didn't get it right, you would get into trouble. Later, the dark period passed, and people's minds became more and more open, and regardless of whether some phenomena could be explained by science, their behavior was not too extreme. Even so, Jiao's father still doesn't tell people much about the events of the year, and once told people stories to others, but unfortunately he didn't believe it. And that cat's tooth amber also reminds Jiao's father that the events of the year were not a dream.

Jiao's father also took Zheng Si to see the place where the pothole was located back then, every time he came back to the old house, Jiao's father would come over to take a look, even if this place has changed a lot, the pothole has been filled, and the wilderness has become an orchard and vegetable field.

Back to the old house from the mountain, Jiao's father went to help with the New Year's goods, Zheng Si was idle and didn't go with the two children to catch rabbits, and secretly ran to the vicinity of the grandmother's residence to listen to the things about this person. Recently, many people from the village who had gone out to work have returned, and some people come to visit every day. Young people are more open-minded, knowing that this kind of thing is not as good as before, and some people in big cities are much more arrogant and bold, and they can make a lot of money by talking nonsense, compared to this grandma is really low-key enough.

She is not well-known in Yanyang, and she has a little influence in the local village. I heard that he is almost 90 years old, and he was not from this village in his early years. The villagers are now in awe and fear of her. Now people in the village will come to her old man to ask for safety before they go to work in other places.

Of course, there are many people who don't believe in this thing, and now science is popularized, and this thing also talks about orthodoxy and unorthodoxy, and what is unorthodox is feudal superstition, breaking the law and committing crimes. But people's psychology is always like that, and they always have to ask for a "just in case" to rest assured.

So don't look at the surface that everyone says they don't believe them, they say that they are cheating money, and they don't walk around with the old woman, but there are many people who give money and gifts in private, and after a long time, everyone tacitly agrees. As some people say, there are some things that you believe in and you don't believe in them.

Although Zheng Si didn't know much about this old woman, he could now understand some things based on what he saw and heard. Regardless of whether the old woman was deceived or not, she had never heard of anything bad, but more and more people secretly praised her, proving that she was indeed a little capable. Besides, she saved Jiao's father, Zheng Si had a better impression of the old woman based on this alone, and whether a liar is a liar or not, it is second to Zheng Si. What's more, it was precisely because of the events of that year that maybe she also mentioned a few words to Jiao's father, so that Jiao's father could accept his different cat so quickly.

Thinking of the old woman asking Jiao's father to take her over when she left the village after the New Year, Zheng Si couldn't figure out the reason, but according to what Jiao's father said, the old woman ...... There shouldn't be any bad intentions, right? What's more, the three-legged tortoiseshell cat was picked up by the old woman after someone broke one of her legs, so it seems that this person should be pretty good.

(To be continued)