In fact, Luo Jiang pleaded with Luo's mother to have a cat. Luo's mother doesn't like cats, but Luo Jiang finally opened her mouth, and it was not difficult to raise a cat, so she agreed.

In March, the cat of Aunt Xiao in the same village gave birth to 4 cubs, and Luo's mother went to order one when she heard about it, and made an appointment to send it home when the kitten was full moon.

There is a custom about cats in Luo Jiang's hometown, holding cats and raising them either gives money or things, otherwise white cats will not catch mice. I think that when Luo Xiaoliu was in heat, Grandma Luo borrowed a male cat from the next village, and when she returned it the next day, she also gave a bottle of rice wine and a pound of peanuts. It's not worth much, but that's what it means.

Later, the cubs under Luo Xiaoliu were all able to climb over the eaves and walk the wall before the full moon, and they all rushed to catch mice, and the mice in the village were almost extinct during that time. As soon as the full moon arrived, all 5 kittens were set.

When I caught the cat, I was bitter Luo Jiang, except for the first cat that was caught in the nest early in the morning, the others were all ghostly. For this reason, Luo Jiang and his friends specially made a basket to catch birds, the basket was supported by a small wooden stick tied to the root of the rope, and small dried fish were placed on the bottom line.

When I first got it, a few kittens were full, and they didn't eat small dried fish under the basket, but they played with the rope, so they naturally didn't catch it, and then they changed it to a thin thread for sewing clothes.

The last kitten learned to be obedient, and when he went home to eat, he saw the basket and slapped it directly, or stood directly outside the basket and hooked the dried fish with his paws to eat.

After more than ten days of busy jumping up and down, Luo Jiang finally caught it on the roof of the attic. As for stepping on a few tiles, I can't count them, the attic leaks badly on rainy days, and I don't know if the tiles were originally broken or broken by Luo Jiang.

Getting back to the point, when I saw that the kitten had been at home for almost 2 months, and was about to be named Luo Xiaoqi by Luo Jiang, who was going home from the monthly vacation, the cat was gone.

Luo Jiang's house was built near the national highway, and Luo's father used a 6-acre vegetable garden to exchange it with others.

Dad Luo likes this kitten very much, he is brave enough to catch mice, and he dares to catch up with big mice and stretch out his paws. So he poured a bowl of tea, lit a stick of incense, and put it on the shrine to pray to God.

It's just that I lost a cat, and I was embarrassed to alarm the ancestors, so Dad Luo talked to Grandpa Luo: Dad, I caught a new cat in my family, and I brought it to you when I first arrived home. I haven't been back for 2 days, and I don't know if it's lost. Please show it the way, and I'll give you a big buck when it gets it back.

This big money is not the kind of paper money sold in funeral shops, and it is a bit difficult to get it just by making yellow paper for big money. After the old man in Luo Jiang's hometown passed away, the children would close the doors and windows and burn paper money after the onmyoji wiped the old man and put on a shroud, which was called choking money.

This paper money is soaked for half a month with the young bamboo that has just grown tall and has not had time to grow branches, and the fine yellow paper made of bamboo fiber is extracted, and it is necessary to bask in the sun for 10 days after buying it at home, and it can not be dried in the place near the road.

After the yellow paper is dried, it is hand-stamped with money seals, and most of the old people will make it themselves before they die, so that the paper money is stained with their own taste, and they will not receive the wrong one when they arrive at the underworld. Luo Jiang's grandmother beat more than a dozen pounds when she was 70 years old.

Luo's father's big money is made of this sun-dried yellow paper cut into a bowl-sized copper coin style (when the funeral team carries the coffin out of the door, there will be a person in front of him holding a string of big money while scattering and guiding the way, Luo's father Xu's big money is made of this style), dripping with the comb blood of a big rooster.

It is said that a big sum of money is worth more than a pound of paper money, which is also the same reason as the current lost and found bounty.

It's also magical, Luo's father made a wish around 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and before 6 o'clock, he saw his kitten limping back from the other side of the mountain, retreating and bloody, and I don't know if he was bitten by a mountain mouse.

Luo Jiang was so distressed that he found disinfectant to treat the kitten's wounds, and was afraid that it would run out again, so he simply found a chicken coop made of bamboo strips to lock the kitten up, and a big stone was pressed on the top of the cage.

The big money that Luo's father promised here was naturally burned at the intersection in front of the hall, Luo Jiang felt that a big money was too little, and the next day he picked a few oranges on the tree and a few tender cucumbers in the vegetable garden.

As a result, Father Luo saw it and scolded him: "How many times have you said it, melons are not available for the stage, otherwise the ancestor will be angry, you can't remember it!" ”

Luo Jiang didn't dare to talk back, and took the cucumber down stupidly, only daring to slander secretly: There are many rules in our family......

After the kitten's wound scabbed, Luo Jiang released it. In the morning, he honestly lay on the pyre to bask in the sun, and Luo Jiang couldn't find it when he had lunch.

Asking God is indispensable, Luo's father comforted that this cat has no fate with our family, and he won't look for it if he doesn't come back at night.

Luo Jiang didn't give up, and called "Mimi" along the side of the mountain for a while, but he didn't see the kitten running back.

After dinner, the family sat in the courtyard to cool off, and the neighbor Uncle Hu came back from the field with a hoe. Dad Luo saw it and hurriedly shouted: "Brother Hu, come and drink a bowl of tea to rest and cool off!" ”

Uncle Hu waved his hand and said, "No, I'm going back to dinner!" Old five, your cat is very bold, I saw it fighting with Wong Tai Sin when I was hoeing grass in the field today, a mouthful of blood, just now I saw a pile of chicken feathers when I came down from the mountain, I guess I stole chickens in which house. How's it going, did your cat come back? ”

Dad Luo slapped his thigh proudly when he heard this: "I said, the epithelium of its hind legs was about to be torn off a few days ago, and its feelings were fighting with Wong Tai Sin." I was still basking in the sun at home at noon today, and I guess I went out to chase after seeing Wong Tai Sin. ”

Here, Mother Luo listened and took a look at the chicken pen, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ah, there is one less!

Luo Jiang hurriedly took a flashlight and planned to go to the mountains to find the cat. Luo's father snatched the flashlight and glanced at Luo Jiang, "The children's family, what kind of door to go out at night, there are graves in the east and west on the mountain behind, if you are scared by ghosts, I will collect your soul." ”

Luo Jiang thought about how gloomy the place was during the day, and he didn't dare to follow, so he stood on the road and watched Luo's father's flashlight slowly shine on the mountainside, swaying left and right and then froze.

"Dad, have you found the kitten?" Luo Jiang put his hands to his mouth and shouted, but he didn't hear anyone answer even after screaming several times.

After a while, Dad Luo came back, carrying a weasel in his left hand and a cat in his right hand, with a flashlight caught in his armpit.

Luo Jiang ran forward and looked at the kitten's red eyes that were stained red with blood. The kitten's body is cold, you can't see that it is panting if you don't look carefully, and its eyes can't be opened, and it can't be lived. Luo Jiang stayed next to the kitten and watched it lose its breath.

Father Luo put the kitten and Wong Tai Sin in front of the shrine in the hall, lit a stick of incense, and buried the kitten that night, and the weasel was buried under the kitten's grave, and was crushed by the kitten.

In the next few years, Luo's mother had dogs and cats, but none of them could live to grow up.

When Luo Jiang said that he wanted to raise small animals, Luo's mother said that she didn't agree with anything.

"You do something good, don't raise it anymore. Our family doesn't know what the hell we have touched, raise one and die one! ”

So, Luo Jiang didn't dare to say any more.

You said that how could the Luo family, who are in front of the road and the hill, have less animals who can take care of the home? What if there is a thief and there are rats in the house? This Luo Jiang is not afraid.

It is said that a big goose can be a dog, and a big rooster can sometimes watch the house. Luo Jiang has a big rooster weighing more than ten pounds at home, and when he sees a living person, he spreads it up and pecks, and Luo Jiang is pecked several times when he comes home from the lunar vacation.

It is said that this kind of big rooster will peck people when it eats centipedes, and if it touches it, it is only a matter of hiding, and it is no joke if it is pecked in the eyeballs.

Every time it was the New Year's holiday, Luo's mother wanted to catch and slaughter the guests, but unfortunately her legs were pecked blue, and her clothes were grabbed out of the cotton and she didn't catch it, so she raised it for several years. It wasn't until one day that it stopped pecking people, and it was finally caught by Luo's mother as a snack, but unfortunately the meat couldn't be chewed anymore, and it took a lot of firewood.