Chapter 21 The Cat Master
The river surface is very wide, and there is no source or tail.
On the hot day, there were a few children playing on the river bank. In addition to ducks and geese floating in the shallow water stalls, there was also an old ox soaked in it to take a bath.
The owner of the old ox sat on the shore and watched.
A woman walked to the river with a heavy wooden barrel and put it down, picked up a gourd and scooped the water from the river into the bucket.
Not everyone has a well at home, and some people are poor and can’t even afford to drill wells. They come to the river to carry water every day.
Tian Ruyue was so hungry that she glanced and looked back and walked along the river bank.
She wanted to see if there were fish, shrimp, snails or other things in the river.
If so, she could jump into the river to catch fish when there was no one.
Who made the original owner unable to do anything and was reluctant to do things?
At this moment, a woman's lion roar suddenly sounded in her ear: "You two little bastards are peeing into the river again!"
Tian Ruyue subconsciously looked up and looked over.
I saw two tanned boys standing by the river bank to compete for someone to pee far away, but the woman who fed water was just downstream of them.
The two children were not afraid of being yelled, but instead made faces at the woman.
Widow Zhou was so angry that she took the gourd ladle to chase after her. The two children raised their pants and ran away.
Tian Ruyue: ""
He looked down at the snails on the river bank, then looked up at the children running away and playing, the old ox, ducks and geese soaked in the river, suddenly lost their appetite and turned to the village.
Widow Zhou did not chase the naughty child, and she walked back with a gourd ladle in her heart.
Seeing Tian Ruyue's back as she was leaving, she said to herself: "What are you doing when this girl is here to wander around the river?"
Tian Ruyue was walking on the small road back and suddenly looked up at the sky.
It was probably the plum rain season, and the sun was shining the past moment. At this time, dark clouds were covered with strong winds. I couldn't help but speed up when it was about to rain again.
As soon as I stepped into the thatched hut, heavy rain suddenly fell.
The thatched hut whimpered like a beast. Tian Ruyue sat on the earthen kang with her knees holding her knees and huddled in a corner, watching it raining heavily outside and it started to rain lightly inside the house.
The dilapidated windows didn't even have paper, and the wind and rain rushed in and wet the ground.
The rain became more and more rapid and quickly flooded the ground.
"Well, well."
Tian Ruyue was shocked when she heard this call and eagerly stretched out her feet to get off the ground.
Looking at the sewage that was flooding the ground, then looking at the newly made shoes by Tian’s mother for her. After hesitating for a moment, she took off her shoes and put them on the earthen kang, and went barefoot to search with the sound.
"Heizi? Heizi!"
Walking out of the room and passing through the main hall full of firewood, I found a poor black boy who was soaked and shriveled into a ball outside the door.
Tian Ruyue quickly carried it into the house, closed the door again, and took it back to the earthen kang.
Seeing it curled into a ball and licked its fur, I looked down at the worn clothes on my body, and without hesitation reached out and teared off a piece of cloth from the hem, and when a towel helped it dry the fur on its body.
Heizi is very obedient and lets the shoveler serve it.
Seeing that it was showing its white belly at her mercy, Tian Ruyue couldn't help but reach out to scratch its chin.
Seeing it squinting its amber-like cat's eyes comfortably and making a purr-like sound, I couldn't help but pick up the cat's head and kissed it several times: "I miss me so much, where have you been these days?"
Heizi turned his head proudly to the side, and the cat kicked her hand to protest.
Tian Ruyue was so eager that she grabbed the cat's paws that came to her door and kept pinching them.
The cushion on the cat's paws is soft and easy to touch. It's so lovely! I can't help but rub the whole cat into my arms and rub it.
"San Ya? San Ya?" Tian's mother's voice suddenly sounded outside the house.
Tian Ruyue was shocked and hid cats everywhere in panic, but there was no place to hide the house in the middle of the walls.
But Maozi didn't want to put it in his arms and kept running out.
After thinking about it, I could only put it on the earthen kang, let it continue to lick the fur on its body, and quickly went to the main hall to open the door with barefoot.
Standing outside the door, Tian’s mother, who was holding an oil-paper umbrella in her hand, had a straw mat under her left arm, and handed over a few roasted potatoes with her right hand.
Tian Ruyue saw the food and quickly reached out to take it, and started eating it voraciously.
Tian’s mother looked at her starving ghost and her eyes turned red and tears fell down.
He lowered his head and tried to wipe away his tears secretly, but suddenly he found her barefoot and raised his head to ask in surprise: "Where are your shoes?"
Tian Ruyue took the time to point out the sewage that had flowed across the ground: "It's put on the kang so that it won't get dirty." Suddenly, he heard the movement from the roof, and subconsciously looked up to look.
Tian’s mother explained in time: “Your elder brother is here too. He is laying straw to repair the roof.”
Seeing it raining heavily outside the house and lightly inside the house, it is not a place for people to live.
But my mother-in-law was cruel and didn't treat the girl as a human being. The more she thought about it, the more she felt sad, and the more she was wiped away the more she cried.
Tian Ruyue, who was eating delicious food, burst into tears when she saw her crying again and suddenly lost her appetite.
It is said that women are made of water. She didn't believe it before, but now when she saw Tian's mother believe it, she never saw her for a day without crying!
"Attack, look." Heizi's scream suddenly came from the house.
Tian Ruyue's body suddenly stiffened and quickly explained: "This house has been around for a long time. There are many mice, so I caught a stray cat and came back to raise it."
Mother Tian still had tears on her face and looked at her with strange eyes: "You have no food to eat and you still have a cat?"
Tian Ruyue was guilty but straightened her back and was confident: "It caught mice by itself, so I didn't need to raise them." There were no mice in modern houses. Heizi ate cat food and used cat litter, so he didn't need to catch mice at all.
Heizi shouldn't forget his instinct when he travels here, right?
Tian’s mother thinks that cats and mice are definitely happier than them when they eat meat every day.
In addition, she was worried that her daughter would be afraid of living here alone, so she stopped stopping: "If you want to raise it, raise it. Remember to close the door when you go to bed at night." She put away the oil-paper umbrella and walked straight in, preparing to make her bed.
When she saw the black cat in the pit, she was shocked: "How do you raise a black cat?!"
Looking at the black cat's amber-like eyes, they were trembling with fright: "This cat's eyes are so terrible, you should throw it away!"
Seeing Tian’s mother being scared, Tian Ruyue was trembling all over. She remembered the robber’s fear of the black cat, and hurried forward and said, “Mom, this black cat is very obedient, I don’t believe it.” She walked to the earthen kang and picked up the black cat and kneaded it for a while. The black cat was slumped on her legs and revealed her belly and made a pursing sound.
Heizi is so beautiful and so well-behaved, because they are superstitious and they are all very taboo!
Chapter completed!