Natsuko is leaving, leaving the city she has lived in all her life.

Leaving this room, the room that houses the memories of half of her life.

Yes, she's moving out.

After the death of her husband, her children planned to take her to live in another country.

The reason is that she is an old man who stays here alone, and her life may be inconvenient.

Natsuko didn't refuse, and in fact she couldn't find a reason to refuse.

Especially when she sits alone in an empty room, when she is alone to take care of the sunflowers by the windowsill, when she waits alone at the silent table.

Xia Zi will always understand more and more clearly that she no longer belongs here.

Unfortunately, she doesn't even know where she belongs now.

The person she had loved all her life and loved all her life left.

As an old man who doesn't want to disturb his children's lives anymore, Natsuko seems to have become a superfluous person, a person who is no longer needed.

She is no longer an indispensable part of anyone's world, and she is no longer a companion that no one can't let go.

Yes, it may seem cruel to say, but the children already have their own families.

They can't stay like she did, and they have to run around for the rest of their families.

She will no longer be the whole of anyone, even if it is short-lived, the whole of a moment.

Half of Natsuko's world was cut off, and it was the half that belonged to her alone, and it couldn't be completed.

So she was ready to leave, to compromise in the most common and common way of an old man.

Try to follow your children's arrangements so that you don't cause them any more trouble.

Although Natsuko doesn't really want to leave here, although almost everything she loves is hidden here......

But what can be done then?

When people get old, there are always some things that cannot be avoided.

The old hands slowly closed a photo album, Xia Zimo sighed as he rubbed the book, and then put it into a cardboard box that had collected his luggage.

If only time could be turned back, she would have waited for her husband to get off work one more time, and watched him sit in the living room, reading the newspaper and disciplining the three little ones.

The eldest is playful, the second is curious, and the third is timid.

At this time, it is time to put on an apron and go to the kitchen to cook.

I thought to myself, let them go.

yes, let them go.

But in the blink of an eye, why did the person disappear......

Why is it that in the blink of an eye, the home is gone......

Natsuko's figure sat alone in the room with the lights on.

Next week, her youngest daughter will come to pick her up, and then the old house will be listed in an agency for consignment.

After that, her relationship with this place should be completely severed.

People may be like this, they come empty, they go empty, and they can't take anything with them.

It's as if she's spent decades here, and now she's gone.

……

"Meow~"

Suddenly, a voice broke the silence in the room.

It came from outside the window, a voice that should have been commonplace, but now it seemed sudden.

Cat, do I hear a cat meow?

Natsuko first doubted her ears, after all, she was old, her hearing had long since declined, and she was not as sharp as a young person.

"Meow~Meow~"

It wasn't until the second and third cat meows sounded that Natsuko confirmed his judgment.

So she turned her head in confusion and looked in the direction where the voice was coming from.

I saw a black cat squatting there outside the side window with the curtain half-hidden.

With a gray-brown box in his mouth, his paws tugging at the closed glass, he screamed as if he wanted to come in.

Natsuko's family lives on the second floor, which is not high, but there has never been a wild cat running onto the windowsill of her house.

This couldn't help but make Xia Zi stunned for a moment.

But then she came to her senses, and as if she had guessed something, she pursed her lips and smiled.

Are you hungry?

She thought, and then stood up.

Seriously, as if preparing to entertain a visitor.

He walked slowly to the window and gently opened it for the other party.

"Wait a minute, can you?"

The old lady smiled and reached out to touch the black cat's head.

There is a very soft touch on it, with a bit of reassuring warmth, and the ups and downs of breathing that are unique to life.

For Jiang Sheng, the old man's hands were dry and steady, with a little twilight, and the slowness of the years.

There is no doubt that the black cat standing in front of the old man's window right now is Jiang Sheng.

It's here to deliver something.

However, Natsuko seemed to have misunderstood what it meant, and didn't even pay much attention to the box it was holding.

Instead, after petting it twice, he turned around and went into the house to get something ready.

Natsuko remembers that she still has some uneaten dried fish at home, which can be used to feed the cats right now. The old people of their time were probably like this, always preparing pickled or dried food at home, but people nowadays rarely have this habit.

Looking at the old man's back, Jiang Sheng did not shy away from jumping into the house.

Its movements are light and almost silent.

The light in the room was dim, but because the curtains were not tightened, a few rays of sunlight still shone in, leaving a slightly dazzling spot on the ground.

Jiang Sheng thought sideways for a moment, then put the jewelry box in his mouth under a beam of sunlight and opened it.

The golden ring shone silently.

Jiang Sheng sat behind it and licked his paws quietly.

This is obviously not very clean, but perhaps because of the nature of cats, Jiang Sheng will always subconsciously make some similar actions.

Luckily, it doesn't mind it either.

"I've been waiting."

Speaking softly, Xia Zi walked in front of Jiang Sheng with a plate of dried fish.

But just as she put down the full plate, the old man finally noticed the ring that Jiang Sheng brought.

The golden, not very conspicuous ring, was firmly attracting her attention at the moment.

Because of its style, it is almost exactly the same as Natsuko's wedding ring.

Then, Natsuko looked at the iron piece embedded in the brocade box. The gilded words on it made her bend over and sit on her knees in distraction, and even her voice trembled a little.

"Is this for me......"

I don't know if I was asking the black cat or what I was asking, the old man's expression was in a trance, and he said to himself.

"Meow~"

Jiang Sheng lowered his head and ate the dried fish, as if he had taken the time to respond.

At the same time, Natsuko also saw the signature on the iron tablet.

The name made her figure pause slightly.

Then even his eyes began to moisten unconsciously.

"Really?"

Natsuko shuddered and stretched out her wrinkled palms.

"That's really, thank you so much......"

As she spoke, she gently removed the ring from the box and placed it on her hand.

"Is it pretty?" The old man asked with a smile.

Tears dripped between my fingers one by one.

"Meow~"

The black cat is still struggling with half of the dried fish.

On this day, Natsuko found something she could take away from this world.

That's a promise.

A piece of luggage to take with you to your birth.