Every winter, Jin Ling's grandparents would go to live at her uncle's house in Shenzhen for a while. This year, it was supposed to be okay for Jinling's family to go to play together, but Jinling didn't do well in the exam, and was knocked out of 3,000 yuan by Li Lin's family, Huizi's mood was very bad, and she announced that she would cancel her plan to go out to play.

Grandma didn't give up, and she and her grandfather rode a tandem bicycle to Jin Ling's house, to do Hui Zi's persuasion and mobilization work, and wanted to take Jin Ling out alone to see the world. Grandma said: "There is still a way to govern the country, the child has studied hard for a semester, and it is also appropriate to play during the New Year." ”

Hui Zi shouted: "Mom! You've been retired for a long time, and you have no idea how cruel the competition in society is now! Jin Ling went out to play during the winter vacation, but other people's children didn't go out, and other people's children learned more things than Jin Ling. Think about it, Jin Ling didn't study as well as others......"

Grandma interrupted Hui Zi unhappily: "Who said that my granddaughter is not as good as others? Learn, learn! One by one, they learned like a stupid wood, and they couldn't beat a fart with three whips! I don't like kids like that. ”

Huizi said: "It doesn't matter if you don't like it, people like it!" College loves! Jin Ling is the one who will be admitted to the school next year. ”

Grandma ignored Huizi, pulled Jin Ling into the room, closed the door, and asked her quietly: "Tell me the truth to grandma, do you want to go out to play?" ”

Jin Ling lowered her head and peeled her nails, silently. was asked by her grandmother in a hurry, so she replied slowly: "I think I want to, but I didn't do well in the exam, I feel sad, and I won't be happy when I go out." ”

Grandma raised her hand and touched Jin Ling's face, sighed, took out her wallet, and took out 200 yuan and put it on Jin Ling's hand: "Take it, grandma gave you the New Year's money, buy something you like." ”

After her grandmother left, Jin Ling consciously handed over 200 yuan to her mother. Huizi turned around and took the money to the street, and brought home a lot of review materials for Jin Ling: mathematics classification test papers, the latest Chinese mathematics test papers of 100 famous primary schools in the country, three-star question banks for primary schools, and English elementary tutoring tutorials.

Jin Ling calmly flipped through the exercise materials. She was no longer surprised. She thought to herself: without these materials, her mother would not let her be idle; No matter how much material she has, there is only so much she can do in a day, so she doesn't need to express her thoughts.

A total of 3 major books were distributed for the winter vacation homework in the school: Chinese, mathematics, and English, plus 10 winter vacation diaries, and a page of brush words every day. Every morning, after drinking milk, eating a steamed bun or siu mai, Jin Ling began to do his homework. Regardless of whether it's right or wrong, the progress is not slow, because my mother really doesn't have time to check a question, but takes a look at the book one by one, counts the number of pages newly made that day, and then snorts in the nose, and then allows Jin Ling to watch a half-hour animation program.

Mom said to Jin Ling, "Don't be antagonistic, I've taken care not to overload your studies." Look at Wen Feng upstairs, people are about the same age as you, in addition to homework, you have to learn piano every day, and you have to take art training classes, why are people's learning so good? Don't worry about his parents at all. He also said: "If I can let the mother have the right to choose her child, I would rather choose a good child like Wen Feng." ”

Jin Ling sat down at his desk with his head bowed. Tears had actually welled up in her eyes, but her mother didn't notice it, and she was still chattering about the intelligence of other children, as if she had forgotten that there was another reason why Jin Ling did not do well in the exam this time.

After a while, the sound of my mother's counting suddenly stopped. Jin Ling was very strange, and his ears were suddenly so quiet that he was not used to it, so he got up and walked to the kitchen door, and looked in. It turned out that my mother was leaning over the gas stove, staring at something. Seeing Jin Ling sticking into a head, her mother hurriedly called her: "Jin Ling, come and see what this is?" ”

Curious, Jin Ling walked over and found a long, round grain like a grain of black rice lying on the gas stove. Jin Ling leaned closer to smell it, touched it with her finger again, and shouted: "This is a mouse!" ”

Hui Zi clapped her hands: "Oh my God, sure enough!" How did rat droppings get on the stove? Could it be that we have rats in our house? ”

Hui Zi panicked all of a sudden, as if she was facing a great enemy, and removed all the bottles and cans in the kitchen, searching everywhere for traces left by mice. Sure enough, she found a bag of rice noodles that had been bitten and a potato that had been gnawed out of her teeth.

Huizi ran back to the study and reported to Jin Yiming: "It's amazing, it's amazing!" We're going to have a rat infestation in our house! ”

Hui Zi and Jin Yiming took urgent action to find the rat hole in the corner corner. Hui Zi's strange thing is that the four walls of the house are made of cement, how can a mouse practice the ability to make holes in the cement wall with one hand?

The result of the search was nothing. Jin Yiming opened the big bed he was sleeping on, and he didn't see half of the mouse hole. That night, Hui Zi put everything she could eat in the refrigerator, meaning to discourage the rats from coming to their house in search of food.

The next day, Huizi was the first to get up, and as soon as the door opened, she screamed, "Ahhh Oh no! ”

Jin Yiming and Jin Ling rushed out, and both of them were dumbfounded: Jin Ling's review materials stacked on the dining table in the outhouse were bitten by rats overnight, and the broken pieces of paper were scattered all over the ground, like an indoor heavy snow out of thin air. Hui Zi stared at a pair of distracted eyes, and said to herself in horror: "It's revenge!" It's revenge! ”

Jin Yiming pulled out his legs and ran into his study, took a look at it and then withdrew, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, I didn't bite my things." It's still very measured. ”

Hui Zi shouted, "But it ruined all the review materials of Jin Ling!" Isn't the review material more important than your essay? ”

Jin Yiming stretched out his hands: "Why are you so compared?" How can this be compared? ”

Hui Zi said, "Why can't you compare? You're an associate professor anyway, so learn more and learn less. Jin Ling is different, she will be admitted to middle school next year! The review materials are all bitten, what else is she learning? ”

Jin Ling stood aside silently, looking at her mother's distress for her review materials, and suddenly felt a sense of happiness in her heart: she could do less damn review questions! The rat is so nice and knows what she hates the most, so he rushed to help and help her out of her predicament. Maybe it's the "Shuke" or "Beta" in the cartoon, who specializes in being friends with children.

For half a day, Jin Ling was very relaxed, because there were no review questions to do. She played with plasticine for a while, pinched a clay doll in red, and pinched a little mouse in green. The little mouse lay on the shoulder of the little doll, staring at a pair of dark eyes, a thin short beard, and tilting his head to look at people playfully. Jin Ling put the doll and mouse on his desk, and then watched TV again. Luckily, Jackie Chan's fight movies were playing on TV. Jackie Chan is Jin Ling's most admired movie star, his every move is so funny, Jin Ling laughs from time to time. Later, another channel began to show Stephen Chow's comedies, and Jin Ling became even more energetic. She couldn't even know how a morning had passed so quickly, and she hadn't even had time to turn the remote to the third channel!

The door rang, and Jin Ling guessed that it was her mother who came back, so she quickly turned off the TV and stood up. Hui Zi put the big bag on the table, glanced at Jin Ling, and said, "Don't pretend, I know you're watching TV." The review materials are gone, why are you not in a hurry at all? ”

Jin Ling muttered, "I'm not a qigong master, and I won't restore the shredded paper." ”

Hui Zi poured the contents of her bag onto the table, and it turned out to be another pile of exercise books. Jin Ling was dumbfounded and couldn't say a word. She feels that she is now very numb to doing questions, and she doesn't care how many questions there are in total, anyway, she just does it, keeps doing it, and counts to death!

What came out of the other bag was a rat trap and a packet of rat poison with a skull on it. Jin Ling just wanted to reach out and touch it, but Hui Zi shouted: "Can't move!" Frightened, Jin Ling quickly retracted her hand again.

Finally, Hui Zi magically dragged out a shoebox from the third bag, and inside was a fluffy white cat! Jin Ling exclaimed, "It's a dead cat!" Hui Zi glared at her and said, "What dead cat?" I fed it half a diazepam tablet. Jin Ling was surprised and delighted: "Mom, you promised to let me have a cat?" Huizi said: "You can't take care of your studies, and you still have time to wait for the cat?" This is a colleague of ours, and I borrowed it to catch mice. Said that it would be returned in 3 days. ”

Jin Ling's heart suddenly turned gray. She asked her mother tentatively, "Are you really going to get rid of that mouse?" ”

Hui Zi looked at her strangely: "Are we going to keep the mouse as a cat?" ”

Jin Ling didn't answer, and poked the sleeping cat in the shoe box with his fingers, feeling that the cat's skin was not white at all, his face was also dirty, the corners of his eyes were still pasted, and his drooping ears were disgusting.

After lunch, the cat woke up. As soon as the cat woke up, he immediately realized that this was not his original home and began to fight back. First he let out a terrible scream, then put the hair on his body upside down, found the exact location of the gate, and threw himself on the door and scratched and scratched, his nails creaking and crunching, and his teeth ached. Then in desperation, it jumped on the ledge, arched over a flower pot, and sprang up to Golden Bell's desk, knocking over one of her bottles of blue ink. Fortunately, there was only a little sticky slag left in the inkwell, and it didn't cause any trouble.

Hui Zi chased the cat all over the room, trying to catch it and then leash it with a rope. Helplessly, the cat's skills are really agile, and they can always escape from Hui Zi's hands when they jump up and down. Coupled with its round eyes, straight tail, and vicious and desperate look, Huizi stretched out her hand several times and was scared back by it. Hui Zi shouted loudly: "Golden Bell, Golden Bell!" How do you stand and watch the excitement? ”

Jin Ling said, "I don't think this cat is useful. It will be scared out of when it sees people, don't you faint when you see a mouse? ”

Huizi looked back at her, "What's wrong with you?" Didn't you like cats the most before? ”

Jin Ling retorted, "Who said I like cats the most? Why can't I like rats the most? ”

Hui Zi muttered: "Inexplicable." ”

After a while, Jin Ling finally couldn't bear to see her mother panting and chasing the cat, and slowly stepped forward to help. Two people chased and intercepted, one pressed the cat's head, the other pressed the cat's buttocks, and subdued the cat on the sofa. Hui Zi hurriedly wrapped a rope around its neck and tied it to the kitchen.

Hui Zi gasped for breath and said in the tone of a victor: "There is this cat guarding the house, and the scare also scares the mouse away." ”

Jin Ling seemed to be deliberately against her mother, and immediately asked a question: "The rats are scared away, what are you buying rat traps and rat poison for?" ”

Hui Zi patted her head: "Really! Why didn't I think of this? ”

Huizi weighed it for a long time and decided to let the cat live at home for 2 days. Today's rats are too cunning, they all know how to properly protect themselves, clips and medicine may not fool them, or it is safer to have a white cat at home.

The cat was tied to the neck, and the barking became more and more miserable in the kitchen, and Jin Ling's heart was stirred up by it, and he calculated 5 times before and after a four-rule mixed calculation problem, and calculated 5 different answers, which was a mess. Jin Ling rushed to the kitchen and yelled at the cat, "Can you shut up?" The cat really shut up, stared at the golden bell with a pair of green eyes, and stared at the golden bell with hatred. Jin Ling stomped his feet in fear, and the cat quickly fell down again, and let out a low whimper in his throat, like crying and laughing, which made Jin Ling's neck cold, and he pulled his legs and fled back to the room.

As soon as Jin Ling left, the cat began to bark high and low again, and I don't know if it is tired or not, whether it wants to soak in the water of the "fat sea" like Mr. Xing did.

When Jin Yiming came back in the evening, he sniffed as soon as he entered the door, saying that he smelled a sour smell of stinky tofu. Jin Ling rushed out and exposed: "It's a cat defecating in the open!" When Jin Yiming heard that there was a cat at home, he was stunned at first, and after Huizi's explanation, he became happy again, because he was thinking about the books and information notes in his study all day today, for fear that the mouse would change its taste and use his baby as a venting object. If there is a rat plague in the study, it will be miserable, and he will not even be able to start classes for the next semester.

Jin Ling coldly watched her parents busy with a cat, one boiled catfish for it, and the other got coal ash from downstairs to clean up its urine and urine, and her heart was astringent. She turned back to her room and wrote a few ping-pong ball-sized words on a piece of paper: Intelligence test - cat and mouse, which do you like?

Hui Zi went to the sink to wash her hands, and as soon as she bent down, she saw the note attached to the washing machine. Hui Zi was surprised and said, "Can this also be a problem?" Cat or mouse, which one can you like? Cats, of course. ”

Jin Ling said sourly, "I knew you would say that." ”

Hui Zi turned her face and said, "No one likes mice, right?" ”

Jin Ling bit her lip and whispered, "I like it." ”

"Why?" Hui Zi raised her eyebrows.

"This cat is lazy and greedy, what else can he do besides catching mice? But why should it bully rats? They should be equal in nature, every life, no matter how weak it is, always has the right to live, cats are not nobler than mice, and mice should not be inferior to cats. People like cats, but because cats are more obedient than mice, and cats are more beautiful than mice. ”

Hui Zi said funny, "Rats will steal human food to eat. ”

Jin Ling retorted fiercely: "Will a mouse eat more than a cat?" It's so small, it needs very little food, a tenth of a cat's is enough. Why can't humans allow it to live? In addition to raising cats to bite it, it is necessary to clamp it, poison it with poison, burn it, flood it with water, and hit it with stones...... The rats are so pitiful, and the animals that no one likes live too wronged! ”

Hui Zi reached out and touched Jin Ling's forehead: "You don't have a fever, do you?" What nonsense are you talking about? ”

Jin Ling shook off Hui Zi's hand suddenly, and said loudly with tears on her face: "Because I am the poor mouse, Wen Feng upstairs, the good students of our class Hu Mei, Liu Yaru, and Ni Zhiwei...... They're just cute cats! ”

Hui Zi was stunned for a moment. The association of cats and mice comes from the mouth of an 11-year-old child, with that unforgettable sadness and resentment, which constitutes a shock to adults! Only then did Hui Zi know that her daughter had a lot of grievances in her heart, and that the ordinary life that had not been valued or praised for many years had actually deeply stabbed the child's heart. She may have really tried, but she can't do better than others because of her age, personality, ability, etc. She often hides herself up with happiness, when in fact she cares a lot about other people's opinions and attitudes, and hopes to be pampered and praised by her parents.

Hui Zi squatted down, put her arms around her daughter's waist, and looked up at her: "You're right, the mouse is also cute, how kind its eyes are, and how playful its little round ears are!" And its fur, that beautiful gray, must feel good to the touch. ”

Jin Ling whimpered and said, "If you were really asked to choose a child, would you want Wen Feng or me?" ”

Hui Zi said loudly, "Of course I want you!" There are thousands of children in the world who study well, but there is only one golden bell in the world is my daughter, the dearest and most precious daughter! ”

Jin Ling pressed her cold face full of tears to Hui Zi's face, hugged her head tightly with both hands, and refused to let go for a long time.

The cat that was chained to the kitchen was poured half a diazepam tablet by Hui Zi the next day, and returned to his familiar home for no apparent reason. The rat traps and rat poison that Hui Zi bought back naturally did not use them. Strangely enough, the rat no longer visited Jinling's house, as if it had understood Jinling's words that night by hiding in the dark, and did not want to embarrass the girl who sympathized and pitied him.