ninth tail

Chen Xiuyu was sitting in the corner of the open-air bar with a glass of wine in front of him. It had been more than two hours and he hadn't taken a sip. He just sat quietly in the dark, looking at a three-story building across the street.

The first floor is a small supermarket, and there is an iron staircase on the side wall leading to the second and third floors.The man bought a bottle of water in the supermarket, spent 5 minutes, then walked up the stairs to the second floor and disappeared behind the iron gate on the second floor.

It's been half an hour now, and the man hasn't come out yet.

From the position Chen Xiuyu was sitting in, he could only see a window on the second floor with the curtains drawn. He had been here several times, but the curtains had never been drawn.Now he can tell from the faintly flickering yellow light behind the curtains that the lights on the second floor are not electric lights, but candles or oil lamps.

It is not normal to have such a room in such a modern bar street.

Chen Xiuyu has been with this person for a whole night. This person is an old widower, and his life is not very good, but recently he suddenly sold the only house that was worth a little money, and then ran to this house every three days.

Originally, Chen Xiuyu didn't want to meddle in this nosy business. On the surface, it seemed that this person's affairs had nothing to do with him. However, he has been in poor health recently, and it was difficult for him to go out. After staying for a long time, he felt out of breath.

But Xiaoxiao hurt someone today, which is a surprising thing. It was unheard of for a cat with nine tails to suddenly hurt someone.

Chen Xiuyu couldn't get any information from Xiaoxiao. The little cat appeared once downstairs in his house and disappeared. He could only come out to find out what happened.

He took out his phone and checked the time. The man hadn't come out yet. He had to go back to his room before two o'clock. Two o'clock was the time to take his medicine. If he was found not in the room, the family would be in trouble.

At 01:30, Chen Xiuyu stood up, threw the wine money on the table, and was about to go home.That person still didn't come out, maybe he thought too much...

His head hurt so much, he pressed his forehead, got into a taxi parked on the street, took out an electronic notebook from his pocket, wrote down his home address, and handed it to the driver.

After the driver started the car, he glanced at the window on the second floor again. He was still the same. He closed his eyes, took out a medicine and put it in his mouth. He had been out for too long today, and his head was dizzy.

Along the way, he was thinking about the look in Xiaoxiao's eyes when he came to him after hurting someone, confused and frantic, what happened to this usually calm and steady cat?

When Chen Xiuyu was more than 100 meters away from his house, he asked the driver to stop the car. There was a dog in his yard, and the car was too close. If the dog barked, it would wake up the family.

He walked along the path to the back door of his garden. At this time, sister Zhang should have gotten up and prepared the medicine, so he had to go back to the room immediately.There was a noise in the grass by the back wall of the yard, Chen Xiuyu stopped, bent down and looked into the grass.

A white cat was lying on the grass looking at him, he smiled, this is an ordinary stray cat, not a small one, nor another nine-tailed cat.

He sighed, and was about to sneak back to his room from the garden, but he felt dizzy when he straightened up, and he grabbed something to the side with his hand, but it was in vain.

Su Gui fell asleep on the sofa. He seemed to be in a deep sleep. He probably didn't even have a dream.Ding Wei wandered back and forth in the bedroom, changing between the human form and the cat form a few times nervously, and there was no problem, except that when he changed back to the human form once or twice, the tail was still on his body.

He didn't study why the tail sometimes couldn't change back, as long as there was no abnormality in the cat shape, as long as it didn't affect his tail trimming, he didn't care if he had two cat ears on his head.

He closed the doors and windows, went to the balcony and looked around. It was late at night, all the lights in the building had been turned off, and there were no pedestrians on the street.Ding Wei lightly jumped to the edge of the balcony and stood. He couldn't go for a ride on the motorcycle today, so let's make up for it now.

He jumped forward lightly and fell into the night.

His head rushed down against the wind and fell rapidly in the air. The feeling of the wind penetrating through his body was wonderful. He raised the corners of his mouth and smiled in the air, and opened his arms.

Its goal is the tree downstairs. Although it makes a little mistake every time it jumps from the air and lands, it still doesn't like to fall directly on the ground. It prefers to fall on the wall or the tree first. Jump down lightly, it will look more... elegant.

This time the judgment of the position of the tree was correct, but the judgment of the leaves was again wrong.

It didn't expect this tree to have such lush branches and leaves. It smashed into the bushes like a small cannonball, and then slid down from the branches.

asshole!

How can this tree grow so many leaves before summer!

It bumped from branch to branch, leaves and twigs brushed against it, and many leaves fell on its face.While shaking its ears desperately, it swung its paws around like an electric fan, but it couldn't catch anything...

It didn't finally hug the branch with its two front paws until it fell onto the thicker branch at the bottom.

After hanging on the tree branch, it breathed a long sigh of relief, twisted its neck and looked around, but there was no one.

But then the problem reappeared, it wanted to gracefully climb up the branch, and then gracefully jump down the tree again, but the legs... couldn't reach the tree.

After kicking and tossing its hind legs in the air for a long time, it was still hanging on the tree as it was, and finally had to loosen its claws unwillingly, and landed on its buttocks.

It sat on the grass, hugged its tail and groomed it, then jumped its head and jumped onto the road.

Alright, let's go, amazing fire brigade.

Most of the dormitory lights of the fire brigade were extinguished, but the duty room on the first floor was still on, and the duty personnel could be seen shaking in front of the window.It raised its neck and glanced at the window of Ji Xiao's dormitory, the light was still on.

There was a tiny silver light shining in the yard, it jumped into the flower bed, walked around for a long time among the small silver flowers the size of a fingernail, looking for a suitable place to calm down and trim its tail.

Someone was talking in the duty room all the time. Although the voice was not loud, it could be heard all the time, making it a little uneasy. It planned to run to a higher place.But... a tree?No, not on trees.

It turned its head to look around, and climbed up the wall of the dormitory. It wanted to go to the roof to stay there, but it stopped when it passed Ji Xiao's window on the second floor.

What is Ji Xiao doing?It couldn't help but gently jumped onto the window sill, and poked half of its head from the window to look in. In order not to be discovered by Ji Xiao, it specially pressed its ears back so that its face would be smaller. less obvious.

Ji Xiao's computer was placed in front of the window. He sat on the computer and didn't know what to play, with a smile on his lips.There were still people in the room, Lin Zi was sitting beside his bed with his head down, playing with his mobile phone.

"Uncle Ji, I met a braggart who has real kung fu." Lin Zi kicked Ji Xiao's chair while pressing his phone, "My high school classmate, this kid has never discovered that he can brag like this before."

"What are you talking about?" Ji Xiao stared at the screen, he just got a set of equipment for Tang Pao Pao, but Tang Pao Pao was not online.

"This kid said he was fighting with two hooligans, and those two beat him up for two hours, but they didn't beat him to the ground." Lin Zi shook his phone, "Now he is frightening in front of me with the image of preferring death to surrender. "

"Crap, ask him if he was tied to a tree and beaten," Ji Xiao laughed, "Then he won't be knocked down overnight."

"...Uncle Ji is still talented," Lin Zi moved to his side, "Have you got your equipment ready, let me play for a while."

"Let's play." Ji Xiao stood up and leaned against the window.

It shrank back quickly, sticking its tail to its side and forming itself into a small ball, so that Ji Xiao couldn't see it. Although it was basically completely integrated with the black night outside the window, in front of Ji Xiao Too many mistakes have been made and one must be doubly careful.

Ji Xiao didn't see the black ball on the window sill, his eyes stayed on the glass, after looking at the glass for a while, he leaned over to take a few breaths, a thin layer of white mist enveloped the glass.

He tapped his finger on the glass and began to draw.

It stared at Ji Xiao's hand outside the window, a little surprised. With just a few strokes, Ji Xiao drew the shape of a cat on the glass. It was very fat, but it looked quite attractive.

It didn't expect Ji Xiao to be able to draw. This carefree man, who deals with various fires and dangers every day, would draw such lovely pictures.

Ji Xiao looked at the cat on the glass for a while, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he raised his hand to write a few words next to the cat.

Because the characters are reversed, and it has always been insensitive to characters, it took a long time to recognize the positive ones. Now it took a full minute to recognize the three characters after reading the reversed characters: Ding Xiaozhao.

……idiot.

It's not too disgusted with Ding Xiaozhuo's name, at least it sounds much better than Xiao Hei and Ding Xiaoxiong, but it's too stupid to write this name, too stupid!

It leaned against the window and flicked its ears. For some reason, it felt a little warm in its heart when it saw someone drawing its own face where it couldn't see it.

The uncle has always said that he is too obsessed with trimming his tail, and he doesn't care about other things except trimming his tail, so he can't remember the things he has experienced and the people he has met. He thinks that these have nothing to do with trimming his tail. Forget it and forget it.

Now it suddenly fears that one day it will forget about Ji Xiao.

Lin Zi went out to wash up, and Ji Xiao followed him out of the room.

It carefully moved to the middle of the window, stood up slowly with its front paws holding the window frame, its tail swung slightly, and its paws were raised above its head, trying to touch the painting on the glass.

But it's too short, and it's barely padded.It jumped up cautiously, finally touched its chin, and then sat down on the windowsill contentedly.

This was the first time someone drew a picture for itself. It raised its head and stared at the self painted on the breath, until the breath slowly dissipated and the painting gradually faded from the glass, then it lowered its head.

It's time to fix the tail.

It jumped up slightly, hugging the wall and crawling towards the bottom of the building.

When Ji Xiao entered the room, he habitually glanced at the window. The Ding Xiaozhuo he just painted could no longer be seen clearly, and there were only some faint traces, but in a trance, he seemed to see a black tail dangling from the upper left corner of the window.

He froze for a moment, ran to the window, pressed his face against the glass to see more clearly, but outside the window was pitch black... pitch black?Then how did I see a black tail in the pitch black?

He pulled the window latch, trying to open the window and stretch his head out to have a look, but he couldn't open it after a long time.

"Damn it, when did it rust like this bird..." Ji Xiao slapped the latch, sighed and fell back on the bed, it must have been tricky, just drew a small claw, maybe it was an illusion.

Ji Xiao doesn't know why he is so sensitive, he's just a cat, although he looks cute and smart, but he's still a cat...Maybe, it's because he subconsciously feels that Ding Xiaozhuo and Ding Wei are not removed. In the relationship between the owner and the pet, what other connections are there?

What's the connection?He thought of the little blisters on Ding Wei's hand again, it was too coincidental, yes, too coincidental.

Nine-tailed cat?

nonsense...

After the little silver flower in the yard gradually faded into the night, it stood up from the roof, stretched all four paws, squinted its eyes and stretched its back arched. Although it was already late at night, it Still refreshed.

The fire brigade is a good place, which it has never thought of before. In such a noisy place, there will be such a small piece of spiritual energy, where it can rest assured to trim its tail.

Butt, no, the base of the tail is a little itchy, this is the feeling when the eighth tail is ready to sprout, this is its favorite feeling.It twisted its body, hugged its tail and rubbed its face.

one two three four five six seven eight.

There are still seven in total, but it gently scratched the base of the tail with its paws, and here it is, the eighth one will come out soon.

what!what!

Ding Wei didn’t use the cat shape when he returned home. He was a little hungry. He went to the supermarket and bought a bag of fried fish and a bag of biscuits. The biscuits were for Su Gui. This was far worse than the box of dried fish that Ji Xiao gave him, apart from being hard and salty, there was no other feeling.

There are still small dried fish at home, and he was happy thinking of this again, and put the fried small fish in his hand in the grass by the roadside, so that stray cats and dogs passing by could eat it.

Ding Wei trotted all the way home easily, when he passed a villa area near the community, he heard a cat meowing.

The cat meowed very softly, a little timidly, from the intersection of a small road beside him, Ding Wei was a little hesitant, he was very tired, and he had to go to school tomorrow...

But in the end he followed the sound and walked over.

This path is beautifully built and leads to the villa area. Ding Wei looked inside and found a person lying on the side of the road ahead.