Luo Jiang is a single dog, and Luo Xiaoqi is a Chinese pastoral cat raised by Luo Jiang.

Until now, many people will ask Luo Jiang: Why do you want to have a cat? A creature that is like a neurotic all day long, and it still grows old!

At this time, Luo Jiang would always go back with a disapproving face: If you still lose your hair, you are not allowed to lose your hair? And then the chat died.

However, if you really want to find the reason for having a cat, you have to start with Luo Jiang when he was a child.

Luo Jiang was born in a small ravine in Anhua, the highest county town in Hunan, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a ravine, surrounded by mountains, the land is the land opened up at the foot of the mountain during the Great Leap Forward, the field is a layer of terraced fields, and the fields assigned to every household are not as many as the mountains, so that Luo Jiang, who is still single at the age of 26, is urged to marry and shouts to go out to rob a boss in the village, because Xiangxi unearthed bandits!

Ahem, it's far away, in short, it's just one word - poor, national-level poor counties are not crying.

In the 90s, the countryside of Xiangxi was full of wooden houses, the windows were pasted with broken mosquito nets, and most of the wooden house columns were rotten, either crooked to the left or to the right.

If there is a son in the family who grows up to be in his 10s, the family will be ready to build a house to accept the daughter-in-law, otherwise the father-in-law will come to the door to take a look, hey, this family matter will be gone.

Luo Jiang has an older brother who is 10 years older than her and has been in junior high school, and the house at home was built by her father's grandfather when he was a child.

Luo's father looked at the deposit of less than 10,000 yuan in his hand and was worried, and later summed up with several brothers-in-law, the red brick house could not be built, so he gritted his teeth and borrowed money to repair a house built of cement bricks.

As a result, Luo Jiang, who was less than 3 years old, became a left-behind child and lived in the ancestral house with his 70-year-old grandmother.

Luo Jiang's parents have been working outside for more than 10 years to earn money, and they only go home once during the Chinese New Year.

made a joke about this, Luo's mother, who hadn't come back for 2 years, rushed home on the day of the New Year, and went to the ancestral house along the country road to get the key, and happened to meet Luo Jiang who came out to carry water.

Luo's mother happily touched Luo Jiang's head and asked: Is grandma at home?

Luo Jiang replied sweetly: My mother is coming back today, grandma went to the vegetable garden to cut cabbage, what are you looking for her, Auntie? Dam's mother shed tears on the spot.

Slowly Luo Jiang grew to an age where dogs disliked, most of the people of the same age in the village were boys, and Luo Jiang, who played with them, also grew into a boy's temper, going up the mountain to climb trees all day long, and going down to the river to play in the mud.

But how can the old man have the energy to take care of such an energetic leather monkey? One day, when I went to the market to buy vegetable seeds every Wednesday, I saw Luo Jiang guarding in front of a cage of kittens and couldn't move his legs, so he gritted his teeth and bought a cat.

So, Luo Jiang's fate with the cat began.

In the countryside, there is a large area, everything is raised, and cattle and sheep are raised in the mountains all year round. However, the cat cub has just been full moon, and it is estimated that it can't fight the rats that are about to become fine at home, and the grandmother will put more soup when stir-frying every day, and mix it with leftovers, which is the kitten's rations.

Luo Jiang will have some leftover food at the beginning to secretly add food to the kitten, and being caught by Grandma Luo is a good scolding: The cat can't stop killing pigs when it's full [1], do you want the rice to be stolen by the mice?

Luo Jiang can only touch the kitten's belly every night, looking at the roundness to rest assured, if it is still flat for two consecutive days, the meal will still be added.

Since he had a cat, Luo Jiang didn't run out all day and night, and his grandmother would follow him when he went to the mountains to do farm work - catching grasshoppers for the kitten, and he originally went to the field, but after catching two tadpoles for the kitten to eat, it pulled its stomach for a day, and Luo Jiang didn't go to the field. When I grew up, I realized that pesticides can not only treat mice, but also remove pesticides from rice.

Luo Jiang is good to cats, and kittens are also good at repaying their kindness, and the first big mouse he caught when he grew up was given to Luo Jiang.

Luo Jiang, who woke up from a nap, saw a bloody thing at the head of the bed as soon as he woke up, and he screamed in fright. However, Grandma Luo went out to do farm work, and no one came to see after calling for a long time, and finally Luo Jiang threw the mouse tremblingly with tongs.

That night, Luo Jiang sleepwalked, and when the moon hung in the center, Luo Jiang went out with his schoolbag, but fortunately he was bumped into by a neighbor who had just come back from a long distance on the way, otherwise he would have been taken away by Hanako.

Luo Jiang doesn't sleep honestly, lying in bed is like fighting. In winter, Grandma Luo was covered with a thick cotton quilt, and Luo Jiang, who was carrying three fires, was so hot that she couldn't stand it, and kicked the quilt several times at night to cause Grandma Luo to catch a cold.

Later, the two slept on one side, Grandma Luo covered the big quilt, Luo Jiang covered the small quilt, and there was already a heavy kitten just pressing the quilt for Luo Jiang.

After 8 years in this way, Luo Jiang went to the town to study in junior high school, and when she went home during the monthly vacation, Grandma Luo told Luo Jiang worriedly: The cat is gone, and the people in the village say that they haven't seen it, probably because they know that they are old enough to run away from home.

Luo Jiang didn't believe anything, put down his schoolbag and began to look for the cat, not even letting go of the sweet potato hole dug in the back room, and finally found the tanuki cat that had hardened in the straw pile in the attic. In the past, when the cat gave birth, the kitten was hidden here, but I didn't expect it to choose to live here for the rest of its life.

Luo Jiang opened the wardrobe and found the little red dress that his aunt bought when he was less than a year old, and put it on for the kitten. At that time, the quality of the clothes was good, and Luo Jiang wore them for a summer before they were worn, so Luo's mother kept them and prepared them to give to her sister-in-law who was pregnant at the time, but she gave birth to a son, so the skirt was not sent out and left until now.

Luo Jiang took a small hoe and dug a pit in the small bamboo forest, put the kitten in it and buried it, and found a chopping wood to carve a tombstone for the kitten, Luo Jiang was worried.

Cats in the countryside do not take names, and kittens are called "Mimi" until they die.

Luo Jiang thought about it, the kitten grew up with him, just like his sisters, there are four brothers and sisters in the family, and the kitten is the fifth, but Luo's father's name is Lao Wu, and the kitten is called Luo Xiaoliu.

So Luo Jiang neatly carved the five big characters of Luo Xiaoliu's tomb on the tombstone, and gave Luo Xiaoliu gifts during the New Year's holidays, catching grasshoppers in summer and dried fish in winter.

In the third year of junior high school, Luo Jiang's parents came home and decided to find some odd jobs in their hometown, so Luo Jiang moved back to his own home from his grandmother's house.

Grandma Luo was afraid of being lonely when she was old, and it happened that the female cat who had been sold to the village had a kitten and gave birth, so she took another one back and raised it.

This cat grew up with a dog since childhood, and when it is hot, it will stick out its tongue, and Grandma Luo will go up the mountain with her, and when she is tired of playing, she will go home and lie on her stomach, and when she wakes up, she will see that Grandma Luo has not returned and knows to pick her up in the mountains.

Luo Jiang looked at this cat as if he was a junior, and saved up for his living expenses to buy a small bell for it to tie, but he was lost by it in one morning, so angry that Luo Jiang never bought a gift again, and he was only willing to feed the fish head when he bought dried small fish at home.

Unknowingly, Luo Jiang graduated from university, and Grandma Luo is over 80 years old and can no longer do farm work. As soon as Luo's father and brother summed up, they took Grandma Luo from the old house, and the two families took turns to live.

The cat's sense of territory is very strong, and the two heads of the three days fought with Luo Jiang's neighbor's cat, and once the neighbor's dog also came up to help, Grandma Luo's cat was bitten hard, and she went back to the old house after raising her injuries.

Grandma Luo remembered the cat in her heart, and from time to time she went back to the old house on crutches to have a look, and she could meet a few times in the first two years, and she would never see her again.