ninth tail

Every morning at six o'clock, Lu Kuan's alarm clock would ring on time, and then he would reach out and press it.

Then the alarm clock would ring every 10 minutes, and he would reach out and press it every time. After about five times, he finally got up.Sometimes my mother would come to him to clean up the house, and then stay for two days. She never understood his inexplicable habit.

"If you can't get up, set it to seven o'clock."

"I can't get up until ten o'clock." Lu Kuan would explain to his mother in the same words every time.

In fact, this habit is not his own, but Lu Haoyu's.Lu Haoyu's alarm clock was set at five o'clock, and he would have to press it ten times before he would get up. Compared with his brother, Lu Kuan felt that he had already made great progress.

The weather was fine today. Lying on the bed, Lu Kuan could hear birds chirping outside the window, and cool wind would blow in from the open window from time to time.If it was before, my brother would always push open his door in such fine weather, and make a gesture to tell him, Lu Kuan, your bird is singing.

Thinking of Lu Kuan couldn't help laughing, he took out a photo frame from under the pillow and held it up to look at it for a while.The above is the last photo of him and his brother, taken by his mother while rowing on the lake.

At that time, Lu Haoyu's health was already very bad, every day Lu Kuan would be woken up by his suppressed cough in the middle of the night.

Lu Kuan was very worried, but he was helpless. He could only watch helplessly as Lu Haoyu became weaker day by day.

Brother seldom tells him about himself, about the nine-tailed cats, about those nine-tailed cats whose souls he took away, and those who will appear no matter what age, use the nine-tailed cats to satisfy their greed, He rarely mentions it.

Lu Kuan knew that he didn't want his younger brother to have anything to do with the Nine-Tailed Cat anymore.

He only hoped that Lu Kuan could live out his not-so-long life in peace.

But Lu Kuan would still know, since the day Lu Haoyu suddenly stopped talking, he had a feeling.Everyone thought that the car accident cast a terrible shadow on the old man, because from that day on, he no longer spoke.

That year Lu Haoyu was 14 years old and Lu Kuan was 10 years old.

Only he stubbornly believed that Lu Haoyu's silence was due to other things. They lived in the same room since childhood, and he was very sensitive to his brother's every move.

He quietly observed Lu Haoyu's every move, until one day he saw the bell in Lu Haoyu's hand and the weird green glowing cat.

He knew that his judgment was right, Lu Haoyu's silence was not because of the car accident, but because he could no longer speak.

Lu Kuan didn't know how many such cats there were, but he only knew that my brother would go out suddenly occasionally, never saying where he was going, and never letting him follow him. Every time he came back, he would cough all night.

The phone rang, interrupting Lu Kuan's memory. He picked it up and took a look. It was the uncle.

"Uncle?" Lu Kuan answered the phone, but there was no voice over there. He sighed, "Has your face hit silence again?"

After a few seconds of silence over there, the uncle's voice came: "Ah, yes, your phone is not easy to use at all, you will touch the screen when you smile, why should I use your old phone?"

"I want to buy a new one myself." Lu Kuan sat up from the bed and put the photo frame back under the pillow.

The uncle has never had a mobile phone, and every time he finds Lu Kuan, he uses someone else's phone or a public phone. Lu Kuan happened to have a new mobile phone, so he gave him the old one.

As a result, every time the uncle calls, the first sentence must be inaudible, because every time he presses the mute button with his face.

"Just give me your new one. I'll exchange this with you." The uncle laughed for a while, then fell silent again.

"You've pressed the mute button again," Lu Kuan said helplessly, "If you need anything, hurry up and say it."

"Come here and meet Xiaohe," the uncle said, and then seemed to put the phone away, when Lu Kuan heard him say, "Come on, call Uncle."

"Hello, Uncle." A childish voice came from the phone.

"Hey, good." Lu Kuan quickly responded, it sounded like a little girl, he was a little surprised, if the voice and age can be matched, this child is much younger than Ding Wei.

"Come here, cute little girl." The uncle hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

Lu Kuan felt that the uncle probably didn't want to hang up the phone so quickly, he probably wanted to laugh again, and then he hung up the phone with his face touched.

Lu Kuan was sitting in the car. His plan today was to hold a meeting in the store, but now it has failed again. He sometimes wonders that the half-run cafe has never closed down.

I don't know what my brother will say when he knows his current situation, maybe he will gesture to him, Lu Kuan, you are too worrying.

He smiled and started the car.

I saw the uncle on the day when Lu Haoyu fell asleep.Lu Haoyu left a note at home that day, saying that I was gone and would never come back, please forgive me.

Lu Kuan knew where he would go. Lu Haoyu rented a small single room, and sometimes he would go there to stay alone when his health was bad.

"Lu Kuan, stay away from this person."

This is the first time Lu Kuan heard Lu Haoyu's voice after 13 years of silence, the only sentence and the last sentence.

The person Lu Haoyu told him to stay away from was the uncle who was sitting beside his bed and guarding him.

He has always been very obedient, listening to Lu Haoyu, from childhood to adulthood, his elder brother has been his backbone.

But this time he was not obedient, instead of staying away from the uncle, he asked, "What can I do?"

Lu Kuan felt that if he changed to the present, he would definitely stay as far away from the uncle as possible. This man is very annoying, and there is no end to the things he has been looking for.At that time, he just couldn't accept the fact that his elder brother would never wake up again. He was used to living with two brothers. If Lu Haoyu disappeared from his life, he couldn't bear it.

Even if there is only a slight connection, he is willing.

"Would you like to do me a favor?" This was the first sentence the uncle said to him.

The favor he was asked to do was to take care of a nine-tailed cat.

If he knew that this kind of care is endless, one after another, and he has to accompany the uncle for so many years, he would definitely not agree to it. This guy likes to make trouble for whomever he likes...

This time the Nine-Tailed Cat is indeed a little girl, she looks like a primary school student, Lu Kuan saw her well-behaved appearance sitting on the sofa, and was thinking about rejecting the uncle, so he couldn't say a word .

"How do you plan to arrange it?" Lu Kuan looked at the uncle, a little worried. The cats he had taken care of before were not so young, and there were no girls.

"Let's live with you, it will save you the money to rent a house..." The uncle must have thought about it a long time ago.

"Wait," Lu Kuan interrupted him, pulling him aside, "Boss, do you know how old I am?"

"I know, 30." The uncle smiled.

"How old is this little girl? She looks eleven or twelve years old, right? Do you understand what I mean?" Lu Kuan lowered his voice.

"I don't understand, are you afraid that she is not sensible? She has lived longer than you."

"Boss, I'm a 30-year-old unmarried man living with an eleven- or twelve-year-old girl." Lu Kuan was helpless, "Do you want the neighbors to treat me like an old hooligan?"

"...Aren't you?" The uncle looked at him, "When you wear casual clothes, you look like a hooligan."

"Don't talk nonsense with me, this is definitely not okay," Lu Kuan couldn't help but glanced down at his clothes, "How do you look like a hooligan?"

"Temperament," the uncle smiled, Lu Kuan is sometimes quite likable, he is different from Lu Haoyu, compared to Lu Haoyu's introvertedness, Lu Kuan is much more relaxed, "You don't have to worry about anything else, if you can't, You can rent a room, but you can't let her live alone, she will be suspicious if she is found."

"Let me deal with it." Lu Kuan glanced back at the little girl sitting on the sofa, turned and walked over, "Your name is Xiao He?"

"Ye Xiaohe." The little girl stood up with a crisp voice.

"My name is Lu Kuan," he went to sit on the sofa, "I'll contact you with a place to live, and there will be a nanny to take care of you. If you have anything to do, you can call me, and let me know if there is any trouble."

"En." Ye Xiaohe nodded.

Looking at her, Lu Kuan felt a lot of emotion in his heart, remembering that the first time he saw Ding Wei before, it was a world of difference.

Every time Ding Wei said a word at that time, he would choke him so much that he didn't know what to say, so that when they got along with each other later, Lu Kuan couldn't help but speak first to annoy Ding Wei, because he found that Ding Wei Ignore him only when he is upset.

"You go back to the store with me first, I have to contact first," Lu Kuan glanced at the uncle, "I took that person away?"

"Okay." The uncle smiled.

"Is this the last one?" Lu Kuan still looked at him.

"Well, don't you still trust me?"

"Of course I can't believe it. Ye Xiaohe is the only one anyway. Hurry up and find someone else to replace me." Lu Kuan walked towards the door. "My brother is not long now. I really don't want to do it without him. I'm too tired."

It was noon when Lu Broadband brought Ye Xiaohe back to the store. He just parked the car at the door of the store when he saw a few people sitting at the table under the parasol outside the store. Seeing his car approaching, they all turned around watch.

"It's just right, let's get to know each other," Lu Kuan pointed to those people, "There are people like you, can you recognize them?"

"Well, that little brother." Ye Xiaohe nodded.

Lu Broadband led her to get out of the car, and Ji Xiao smiled at him: "Just now I said you were a bit depressed not in the store, so here it is."

"Are you here for a party?" Lu Kuan looked, Lin Zi and Shen Yu were both there, turned around and pulled Ye Xiaohe, "This is my... friend's daughter, send me here to stay for a while."

Ji Xiao smiled, and glanced at Ding Wei, he knew that of course this would not be the child of Lu Kuan's friend's family, Lu Kuan just didn't have such leisure.This little girl, like Ding Wei, is a nine-tailed cat, but he never thought there would be such a small nine-tailed cat.

"It's so beautiful," Shen Yu looked at Ye Xiaohe, and stretched out her hand to pull her to her side, "How old is it?"

"12." Ye Xiaohe smiled at her, revealing two dimples.

"Call me sister." Lu Kuan said.

"Hello, sister."

"So nice."

"This is Lin Zi, sister's boyfriend." Lu Kuan pointed to Lin Zi and introduced him to Ye Xiaohe.

"Hello, Uncle." Ye Xiaohe smiled at Lin Zi.

"The mouth is so sweet." Lin Zi also smiled at her, but soon felt wrong, "Wait, why is Shen Yu the older sister and I am the uncle?"

"Isn't that right?" Ji Xiao laughed, and turned to ask Ding Wei, "What do you think?"

"Isn't it always Uncle Lin?" Ding Wei took a sip of his drink, laughing until his eyes blurred.

"You two are so compatible!" Lin Zi pointed at Ding Wei, "Xiao He, what do you call him?"

"Hello, brother." Ye Xiaohe looked at Ding Wei, she could feel the breath of a nine-tailed cat on Ding Wei's body, and she could feel that this man was different from her, he seemed very strong, very similar to Uncle.

"Hello." Ding Wei smiled.

"This is Ji Xiao, what do you call him?" Lin Zi pointed at Ji Xiao again.

"Hello, Uncle." Ye Xiaohe replied quickly.

"Damn it," Ji Xiao lay down on the table, "Little girl, do you want to do this, I'm two years younger than that sister!"

"I'm balanced," Lu Kuan led Ye Xiaohe into the store, "She also calls me Uncle."

"Then you don't have to ask her to call Shen Yu sister!" Lin Zi shouted from behind, "Calling Ding Wei brother is enough to provoke Ji Xiao, why do you have to stimulate me first!"

"That's great." Ye Xiaohe walked upstairs behind Lu Kuan, and said softly.

"Well, it's very happy to have friends. From now on, they will all be your friends." Lu Kuan turned his head and smiled, "Where were you before you came with Uncle?"

"There is no one in the mountains," Ye Xiaohe whispered, "I only meet people when I go down the mountain to find something to eat."

Lu Kuan didn't say anything, is this a lynx?

After entering the office, Lu Kuan asked someone to bring up a glass of milk, and after closing the door, he asked again: "You are quite sensible, not like a wild cat."

"Someone raised me for a while, and after they moved away, I was alone," Ye Xiaohe took a sip of milk, "I won't trouble you, as long as I can fix my tail with peace of mind."

"Don't worry, I'll find you a quiet place." Lu Kuan smiled, picked up the phone and started contacting.

"We are going shopping in the afternoon, are you going?" Shen Yu was drinking juice.

"No," Ding Wei replied immediately, "I'm going to find Su Gui, and Chen Xiuyu will take us to the food festival."

"I have to be on duty in the afternoon, unlike some people who don't even care about work for the sake of their girlfriend." Ji Xiao lit a cigarette.

"Don't force me to tell you that you asked for leave for half a month." Lin Zi squinted at him.

"Really, Ji Xiao hasn't explained this matter to me. Why did you take such a long vacation?" Shen Yu stared at Ji Xiao, saw that Ji Xiao didn't speak, then turned to stare at Ding Wei, "Yes Did I take you to cut class and play?"

"I don't know about this," Ding Wei narrowed his eyes, "Ji Xiao never told me."

"Damn," Ji Xiao laughed, and thought for a while, "Yes, I asked for leave to take a girl to Cambodia, and brought back a stone for Uncle Lin, and almost threw a cat into the lake on the way..."

Before he finished speaking, Ding Wei slapped him on the back, Ji Xiao hugged the table and coughed for a long time.

"Let's go?" Lin Zi beckoned the waiter to come over and prepare to pay.

"Well," Ding Wei nodded, "Let Lu Kuan waive the order."

"That's why we come here to eat," Ji Xiao glanced at the list handed over by the waiter, then raised his head and shouted at the open window of Lu Kuan's office on the second floor, "Lu Kuan!"

Lu Kuan poked his head out and shouted, "Remember it in Uncle's account, and I'll ask him to calculate the total next month!"