Chapter 1: The Black Cat

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The story takes place in a small city in Inner Mongolia - Tongliao. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 InfoThis is where I grew up too. When I was a child, I didn't have any concept of geography, but I didn't understand it until I went to university and worked in Beijing, mainly because I was annoyed by others.

Tongliao City was originally under the jurisdiction of Jilin Province, and later transferred to Inner Mongolia, located at the junction of Inner Mongolia, Jilin and Liaoning provinces. The Northeast flavor is very strong here; When I went to college, my classmates would ask where they were from, but no one asked me that, and they would say, "You're from the Northeast, right?" Liaoning's? Jilin's? Or Heilongjiang? "I would explain to others that I am from Inner Mongolia. But others will say, no, you have such a strong Northeast flavor.

I was asked too many times, so I simply changed my words, I am from the Northeast and Tongliao. I happened to know something, so I asked: "Hey, isn't Tongliao from Inner Mongolia?" How is it in the Northeast? "Temad! How did you learn geography? Northeast refers to the three northeastern provinces and the eastern part of Inner Mongolia, understand?

Hehe, where am I being asked now? I will proudly tell him: "I am from Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, a native of Northeast China, Tongliao was originally under the jurisdiction of Jilin, and later divided into Inner Mongolia." By the way, Northeast China refers to the three northeastern provinces and the eastern part of Inner Mongolia, so I have such a strong Northeast flavor, I am not Mongolian, and I don't speak Mongolian, our home is more than 200 kilometers away from the grassland, I traveled there when I was a child. Right! It's tourism, your home is more than 200 kilometers and you can go there? We walked to school or rode bicycles, and I had never seen anyone riding a horse to school; Beef and mutton are eaten during the New Year's Festival, who eats it every day! By the way, I have rice at home, and I eat rice every day! ”

Looking at the bewildered faces of my friends, I felt a great sense of accomplishment.

Come on, to get back to business, my name is Song Weidong, and the story happened when I was a child.

How small? About 5.6 years old, I belong to the kind of children who started early, at that time the family opened a small restaurant, basically my mother worked in Zhangluo, my father worked in the Electric Power Bureau, both of them are ordinary people among ordinary people. If you want to say something special, it is my father, who has a very strong temper and a very good idea, and ordinary people can't persuade him to come back. I remember that at that time, my mother invited a statue of Guanyin at home. My dad fell on her every day, saying that she was superstitious, and that it was a waste of nothing to incense. My mother doesn't care about him, what should I do, and when I'm in a hurry, I say that my dad doesn't respect ghosts and gods. No one can persuade anyone anyway. My dad muttered to my mom every day, saying that she was feudal and superstitious! No matter what my mom says, that's it. What about me? Basically, I have the same opinion as my dad, because when I was a child, my mother always beat me, and my dad not only didn't beat me, but also hurt me very much.

At that time, the conditions at home were okay, after all, my restaurant was backed by a salt factory, and many people ate and drank in the store every day. At noon and at night, the whole house was full of eating and drinking. The house was smoky, very unsuitable for children, I basically didn't go, most of the time at my grandma's house, and when my dad got off work, he came to pick me up.

Coincidentally, one day I went to the store, and there were many people, noisy, drinking, drunk, and swearing, and there was really no place to stay in the front hall, so I ran to the small rest room in the back room alone. This small rest room is behind the back of the kitchen, and the kitchen is connected to a large shed built with a plastic and wood shelf, a simple room of not more than a dozen square meters, I didn't know what to use before, the hotel was decorated and cleaned up directly, when the afternoon was not busy, my mother would settle accounts in it, and take a simple rest. There was a big earthen kang in the house, and there was a big wooden box on the kang that I don't know when.

There are no people in this room at night, and there is nothing to do, the floor is paved with red bricks, and when you push open the creaking wooden door, you can see some miscellaneous items in the hotel. Not used pots and pans, bags of toilet paper. There's also some gibberish stuff. When I entered the house, I began to rummage through the cabinets to find things, although I don't come often, but occasionally I come, here are a lot of my good things, villain books, chess, spinning tops, slingshots, marbles. Every time I come, I will have a meal, turn these things out, play with them, and then pat my ass and leave, and my mother will find Xiaohua, the waitress in the store, to clean it up.

Xiaohua is not yet 20 years old, and she was introduced by her aunt, who lives in the countryside. Xiaohua has many children in her family, and the girls come out early to make money. I have a very good impression of Xiaohua, mainly in a few points, diligent, honest, and discerning; The most important thing is that he is very good to me, he is very frugal, but he often buys me food. My family loves her. Other chefs and waiters either live in relatives and friends' houses, or they don't rent houses, but Xiaohua lives in my house. Every day when the hotel gets off work, I will go home with my mother, and when I get home, I will start to clean up the house, do hygiene, and do laundry. Later, as soon as my parents discussed, they just did it, and they didn't stop it, so they hired a nanny. So Xiaohua earns 50 yuan more than others every month. Xiaohua was grateful for this, and treated me better and better, and even her father made a special trip to the hotel and gave a bag of home-grown sweet potatoes.

It was about 4.5 o'clock in the afternoon, I tossed around, found out the things that Xiaohua had packed, and began to play. I don't know how long it took, I was tired of playing, I went back to the house to read the villain book, went back to the house, sat on the kang and picked up the villain book that my dad bought for me.

To be honest, I've watched it at least 10 times, Journey to the West, Journey to the East, Little Soldier Zhang Ga, Five Heroes of Langya Mountain... I must have vomited today, but at that time, it was all a baby, how could I get tired? I was fascinated by this after watching it for a while, completely immersed in the demon fighting method of Journey to the West, the Great Sage Eliminating Demons, and couldn't extricate myself.

The more I looked, the more tired I became, and the more I looked, the more tired I felt, and I felt that my eyes were glazed and my shoulders hurt. Finally, I couldn't stand it anymore, I couldn't stand it anymore, not for other reasons, the room was too dark to see clearly. Raising his head, he relieved himself, ready to turn on the light and continue looking. Suddenly, something felt wrong!

How do you describe that feeling? It's like being targeted by some beast! I felt very bad, my whole body was tense, my limbs were stiff, I didn't dare to breathe, and the hairs on my body stood up.

I myself have been immersed in the world of Journey to the West, I don't feel anything, I haven't read anymore at this time, that feeling is strong, I look around cautiously. The door is closed, the window is open, Tongliao is the most comfortable place is this, no matter how hot the day, find a shady place with a small cool breeze blowing. I can't remember exactly what month it was, but I remember that it was the intersection of summer and autumn, neither hot nor cold.

The house is not big, except for a pile of rubbish piled up underground, there is nothing to hide, and it can basically be seen at a glance. Except for that big wooden chest.

The wooden box is the kind of old-fashioned kang cabinet, which is not high, about a meter high, 7.80 cm wide, and has a biverse door. The door has a nose and a lock, but it is not locked. I know what's in there. There are two floors inside, and the lower one is covered with something covered, because mom occasionally takes a nap; The upper layer is filled with ledgers and bills.

At that time, I was really bold, and the feeling of handstand did not let me leave, but prompted me to find out, so I climbed into the kang with my hands and feet, pulled the lock, and opened the cabinet door. The cabinet is in the position of the kang near the window, open the door, and see more clearly, there is nothing, or some bills and the like, and I suddenly lost interest. Just as I was about to put the lock back on, I suddenly heard a sound, coming from the back of the box.

People who have seen the old-fashioned kang cabinet in the Northeast know that there is a layer of eaves on the top of the cabinet, which is more prominent than the cabinet, so that the side and back of the cabinet by the window can not be completely attached to the wall, there is a gap of about ten centimeters, and the sound comes from this gap, I tilted my head and looked along the back seam. Maybe it's because I read for a long time, the light in the room is not turned on and it's a little dark, and I can't see it very clearly, only two shiny balls are seen.

The child's heart just doesn't think so much, and when he sees the two shiny balls, he is immediately happy. Aren't these my two glass balls (marbles), or my favorite "agate" (to explain, when we were kids, we called that kind of porcelain glass ball agate). Without saying a word, he stretched his arms and sleeves and prepared to take out the two agate. Just as I was about to reach out, the two balls suddenly moved, and with a "whoosh", they exited the box, ran out from the window, and went out through the window again, glaring back at me before jumping out of the window. I'm not mistaken, just staring!

At this time, I saw clearly, I. A cat! Black cat! Big black cat! A big black cat with no stray hair! Two green eyes, staring at me in a panic, the voice was stuck in my throat, I couldn't come out, until the black cat had jumped off the windowsill and ran away, I screamed "Mom".

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