The Paris Incident Chapter 28: The Cat and the Bird (1)
Recently, Miss Margaret has a white Persian cat called "Rabbi", which she often brings to the salon to play with everyone.
Originally, everyone thought that a child of Anna's age would love to play with pets. As a result, Anna seems to prefer sweets to cats. Not to mention the possibility that this new companion may compete with her for food, which makes Anna always wary of the white furry creature.
Actually, the rabbi is not as greedy as Anna.
Surprisingly, Elena and Rabi had a good time, and soon became very good friends.
Indeed, judging from Elena's character, she can't stand the boring time every day. Now that she has finally found a pet, she can't wait to play with it all day long.
Miss Margaret seemed to have something to do these days, so she left the rabbi with Mrs. Roland for the time being. Madame Roland, who was busy with all sorts of social chores during the day, and could not take care of the new member of the salon, put it in the drawing-room and let it roam freely.
The rabbi is a relatively well-behaved child, with a relatively docile personality and a rather elegant manners, which is very easy to get along with. Moreover, it has been with Elena for a long time, and has learned all kinds of coquettish and cute behaviors, which is really very likable.
The rabbi is athletic and responsive, able to jump back and forth between various pieces of furniture. Sometimes it climbs up to a person's knee and takes a nap on it. Everyone also tolerated its somewhat "presumptuous" behavior very kindly.
That well-behaved and cute expression, coupled with a body of soft hair, can really make people feel healing when they are touched.
Elena also fed her a variety of food, including random snacks in addition to specific cat food.
This made Anna feel a little uneasy.
Although the rabbi is usually quiet, he occasionally runs around the living room mischievously. Sometimes he jumps on Bella's chessboard to end Elena's "seven-game losing streak"; Sometimes they would come to Mr. François-Marie Aroué's table, which forced the old men to pause for a moment to deal with the unexpected events at hand.
However, no matter how much the rabbi messed around, it was only to the extent of slightly disrupting the game, and did not cause any actual property damage to Mrs. Roland.
Sometimes, although everyone was disturbed, they couldn't get angry when they saw the little guy in front of them coquettishly and cutely.
Everyone treats it as a naughty child, and they are all relatively tolerant.
Rather, it is this cute little cat that makes the whole salon more vibrant.
Charles-Louis Montesquieu was an older man, and he also saw the white Persian cat as a good player to liven up the atmosphere. Although the appearance of this little thing will always be accompanied by some trouble, it will not cause too much trouble to people. This was unanimously agreed upon by my friend Mr. Aroué.
Monsieur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a little younger, and he was more affectionate to the new members of the salon, sometimes dropping the cards in his hand and stroking the soft hair of the rabbi. This kind of behavior often made Monsieur Arouet and Monsieur Montesquieu wonder if he deliberately diverted everyone's attention knowing that the game was already a loss.
In any case, it was natural for everyone to integrate the little rabbi into their daily activities.
Marquis Condorcet kept a green parrot named Boogie. It is able to imitate what a person says. The Marquis de Condorcet often carried it on his shoulders and carried it around.
When it comes to this magical parrot, everyone is very curious at first, because it always says something out of place for some reason.
For example, when you say to it, "Hello!" , but it will come out with the phrase "Die! Go to hell! ......" such rude words. If you accuse it of not being so rude, it may say, "Great! That's great! ……」
Despite this, everyone still only regarded it as a very unique "poisonous tongue boogie" and didn't care too much.
There's even someone who likes to talk to it (and that's definitely not Elena).
And Monsieur Aroué and Monsieur Montesquieu were particularly fond of the green parrot. Even when the Marquis de Condorcet sometimes found Boogie a little annoying, Monsieur Aroué often said, "It should have the right to speak freely!"
But in fact, everyone thinks that the reason why these two old men like this parrot so much is mainly because when they were playing cards, as soon as the Marquis de Condorcet drew the "ghost card", the little Boogie standing on his shoulder would keep repeating "I'm going to die!" I'm going to die! ......", and when the Marquis of Condorcet gets the "K", it will say "Ahaha! Ahaha! ……」。
After a few such tosses, others learned to speculate on Condorcet's hand based on the parrot's reaction. This bothered the Marquis de Condorcet, who often wanted to put it aside. But after a while, Boogie would fly back to the Marquis de Condorcet's shoulder, and begin repeating "Death!" Ahaha! Oh, my God! Die, die! ......", and reported several important hole cards in the hand of the Marquis of Condorcet in turn.
Originally, Elena had nothing to do, and occasionally borrowed little Boogie to play. Soon, however, the unspoken boogie made Elena lose interest, especially when she once dropped her excrement on Elena's newly purchased fan, and Elena never wanted to be near the pickled creature again.
In contrast, the rabbis are much more well-behaved, at least not in the open, which can cause hygiene problems.
Despite this, the rabbi is a purebred Persian cat, and his hair shedding efficiency is really worthy of the breed's reputation.
Ever since it arrived in the salon, white hair has been everywhere in the living room, and sometimes when Elena is bored, she can follow the white hair on the floor and on the surface of the furniture to draw the route that the rabbi has taken today.
If you collect all the cat hair that falls off every day, it is estimated that it can be clumped into the size of a tennis ball. Although this caused a lot of trouble for the cleaning maids, it became a new pleasure for Elena every day.
Elena would clump all the white hairs she had collected and place them in front of the rabbi and let him roll around on his own.
In this way, the "fur ball" made of the rabbi's hair became the rabbi's toy, and the rabbi became Elena's toy.