loyal dog becomes cat

The strange thing happened, and the whole family was puzzled, not knowing who made the tofu overnight last night.

For some reason, Ma Ke subconsciously felt that the matter had something to do with the kitten, so he woke Liu Xiaodong up and stared seriously into its eyes, hoping to see something.

Liu Xiaodong looked innocent, seeing his master looking at him, he thought he was playing with it, so he tilted his head and stared at Ma Ke, couldn't help but blink for a long time, let out a "meow" to admit defeat, and then rolled on the bed Rolling around like a baby.

Ma Ke stretched out his hand to hold its head, and said seriously: "It's shameful to be cute, stop obediently, Liu Xiaodong, what did you do last night?"

"Meow." Liu Xiaodong grinned, noncommittal, shook his head and wagged his tail and broke away from Ma Ke's hand, then jumped on his fingers and began to gnaw.

Ma Ke couldn't laugh or cry, and he didn't know whether this matter really had nothing to do with it, or this little thing's psychological quality was too good, and he began to doubt his guess again-had he watched too many magic movies?How could such a small cat do so many things? Could it be possible that it could turn into a human?

Change?Ma Ke's heart moved, he hugged Liu Xiaodong, looked at it nose to nose, and said, "Liu Xiaodong, can you change?"

"Ang~" Liu Xiaodong's ears trembled, and two pink hearts "DUANG" popped out of his eye sockets, and his pink and tender tongue hit Ma Ke's lips with lightning speed.

Ma Ke was on guard against its sneak attack, and took it away at once. Liu Xiaodong didn't lick it, groaned twice in dissatisfaction, scratched his feet, broke free from Ma Ke's hand, jumped off and ran away.

"Oh..." Marco sighed helplessly.

In any case, the tofu was made on time. Nanny Wu took Huajian to deliver the goods early in the morning. Ma Ke lay on the bed and continued to recuperate. Sitting on his bed doing needlework, he chatted about some housework: the backyard is quite big, and it’s time to be idle, and it’s time to raise some chickens at home in spring; although the five acres of land at home is not much, it depends on people to take care of it. Well, you still need a strong laborer. If you have a cow, your family can do it. At worst, you can hire a day laborer when the farming is busy...

Ma Ke responded without saying a word, his thoughts had already gone to the sky, thinking about who came out to work in the middle of the night, could it be the legendary snail girl?No, the figure looks quite tall, probably Mr. Snail...

"Ake, let's try this dress." In a word, his thoughts were pulled back, and when he looked up, Madam Ma was happily carrying a pink jacket, and said with a smile: "It's almost Chinese New Year, you should have one too." New clothes."

Ma Ke 囧囧 looked at this ELLOKITTY-style padded jacket, grinned and said, "Mom, aren't you, how can I wear such a timid color?"

Mrs. Ma said: "Hey, Chinese New Year, red is festive, girls naturally look good in red, your clothes are either blue or green, it's too plain."

Ma Ke smiled bitterly and said, "Mom, I'm a boy, do you really think of me as a girl? It's fine to wear skirts usually, and make it pink, tell me how to meet people in the future." Covering your head with the quilt, you said in a muffled voice, "If you kill me, you won't wear it. You should keep it for my wife in the future."

Seeing him acting like a baby, Mrs. Ma smiled and bent over, saying: "Oh, I liked girls when I was young, and I almost forgot that you are a kid after all these years, haha, forget it, let it be if you don't like it, I will give it to you separately." Make something plain."

Ma Ke got out of the quilt and nodded, Liu Xiaodong suddenly took the padded jacket from Madam Ma's hand, put it in front of Ma Ke and meowed, seeming to think that Ma Ke was more suitable for this loli padded jacket than his wife.

All in all, after all, Ma Ke still kept his heart. After falling asleep that night, his head was always tense, and he woke up just after the ugliness. Sure enough, there was no sign of Liu Xiaodong around him. The bed was cold, and he had obviously left. It's been a while.

The westerly wind blew up outside at some point, and the paper on the windows blew lightly. Ma Ke lay down for a while, and vaguely heard some noise in the direction of the kitchen. He became more suspicious, hesitated, and got up.

Ma Ke listened carefully while dressing, and sure enough, he heard two slight noises again. Without any doubt, he put on a cotton cloak and tiptoed towards the kitchen.

It was the end of the twelfth lunar month, and there was only a crescent moon hanging in the sky, a few dark clouds covered the stars, and the yard was dark. Ma Ke had just recovered from a serious illness, and his body felt dizzy when he walked into the yard.

I struggled to walk to the door of the kitchen step by step, and suddenly heard a soft "dong" sound inside, as if a wooden bucket filled with water was gently placed on the ground.

Ma Ke's heart was beating wildly, and he suppressed his excitement and looked through the crack of the door. The inside was so dark that he could not see clearly, only a black shadow swaying vaguely.

A gust of strong wind blew by, and Ma Ke felt like sneezing when his nose itched, so he hurriedly pressed his mouth and nose, took a deep breath and held it tightly, but he accidentally touched the door and made a "click" sound .

Ma Ke secretly thought that it was not good, the people inside must have heard it, and without thinking about it for a while, he pushed open the door and said, "Who? Who is in there?"

As soon as the door opened, Ma Ke caught a glimpse of a tall figure quickly hiding in the shadow behind the door. Just as he was about to take a closer look, he suddenly felt a strong wind blowing under his feet, and a small black figure disappeared in a flash .

"Who!" Ma Ke suddenly turned his head, but there was no trace of that person. Looking into the kitchen, the firewood under the stove had just been extinguished, and the remaining sparks were still shimmering. The warm tofu was neatly piled up on the chopping board. The utensils have been washed clean, and the wooden spoon is still stained with water.

However, the workers have disappeared without a trace.

After being dazed for two seconds, Ma Ke quickly ran back to his room and touched the bed, but Liu Xiaodong hadn't come back yet. He looked at the cotton pad under the table, but there was no sign of it.

Unwilling to give up, Ma Ke ran to Mrs. Ma's door again, knocked on the door lightly and said, "Mother, mother."

Mrs. Ma was startled, and hurriedly opened the door and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Is the kitten here with you?"

Mrs. Ma rubbed her chest, and said angrily, "You scared me to death in the middle of the night - didn't the cats sleep with you at night?" Looking back, she said, "Hey, why are you sleeping in the bed tonight?" here?"

Ma Ke took a look and saw Liu Xiaodong lying on the edge of the stove in a fur ball, snoring soundly.

"It's weird, it wasn't here when I went to bed at night, when did it come in?" Mrs. Ma wondered.

Ma Ke frowned and said, "It's probably because it's too cold in my room, mother, I'm bothering you, go back to sleep."

Back in his room, Ma Ke felt a little chilly all over his body. Knowing that he was not well at all, he was afraid of feeling bad, so he hurriedly crawled back to the bed and covered the quilt tightly to sweat.

Although it is not certain that this matter has something to do with Liu Xiaodong, what happened tonight is so strange that Ma Ke always feels that something is wrong. Could it be that Liu Xiaodong has been going to sleep by the fire in the middle of the night these days and only returned to his bed in the early morning? ?

For the next two days, Ma Ke would get up at midnight every night, but he never saw the man appear again, as if he was frightened by him that night, and he didn't dare to come.

Liu Xiaodong really changed his schedule. Every night after sleeping with Ma Ke, he went to Mrs. Ma's room, and came back in the early morning to warm his bed. He was more punctual than the alarm clock, without showing any flaws.

In the twinkling of an eye, it is the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and it is also the last day of the new year to deliver goods. Tomorrow, Hexiangji will be closed. It will not open until after the tenth day of the first lunar month. Suppliers can also take a rest and prepare for the New Year.

Aunt Wu left with Hua Jian early in the morning. Ma Ke became much stronger and was able to go to the ground, so he wore a homemade blue cloth jacket and read a book in Mrs. Ma's room. Mengdi also watched more than half of it, and learned a lot about the history of Chizhang Kingdom.

Just after the hour, Mrs. Ma put down the half-made Xinru skirt, straightened her waist and said, "I don't know why, but my waist is always tired lately, A Ke, come and beat your mother."

Ma Keyi said to go over to beat her back, just hit her a few times, suddenly heard the door was slapped three times, and after a while, they slapped three more times.

Marco put on a cloak and went out to open the door, only to see a middle-aged woman in red and green standing at the door, with raised eyebrows and a pair of triangular eyes. With a smirk on his face, he said: "Yo, it is said that Miss Ma's family is also a fairy-like character. I didn't believe it at first, but now I know that it is so... Is your mother at home?"

"Yes." Ma Ke led him to Mrs. Ma's room, and hurriedly hid back in the room.

Ma Ke is most afraid of this kind of middle-aged woman who is full of smiles and sharp teeth. He thinks that when he was in college, he went to Lijiang with a few classmates. Those with middle-aged female relatives never suffer, and later discovered a rule—you must bring a middle-aged woman with you when you go out on a trip. Merchants and hawkers run away with their heads in their hands, and their companions will never suffer.

Mrs. Ma knew that woman. Her maiden name was Hua. After marrying in Dengzhuang, her husband died young, she had no children, and she couldn't farm the land herself, so she leased the land to others, and usually made a little money as a matchmaker. Everyone calls her the flower matchmaker.

As soon as Mrs. Ma saw the matchmaker coming to the door, she knew that Deng Liang's words two months ago had come true. Sure enough, after the matchmaker sat down, she first praised Ma Ke fiercely, and then said: "Madam is very happy, I am here today to celebrate your family The girl said the matchmaker is here."

Mrs. Ma was thinking about how to refuse, so she heard the flower matchmaker continue: "Madam, if you say that your girl is really a blessing from a previous life, who do you think is the matchmaker? I don't even believe it—— It's Deng Youcai, the eldest son of our Dengzhuang No. [-] rich family, the patriarch Deng Qigong's family."

Although she knew that her son was a man, Mrs. Ma couldn't help but get angry when she thought of comparing the beautiful Ma Ke with the plump winter melon Deng Youcai. ".

"It turned out to be the family of the patriarch, Mr. Deng." Madam Ma said with a suppressed anger, "My Ma family is now in decline, and the family fortune is also in ruins. I'm afraid I won't be able to climb high."

"Ma'am, where are you talking about?" The flower matchmaker said with a smile on her face, shaking her fragrant handkerchief, "As the saying goes, a man is a talented woman, your girl looks like a flower, and Mr. Deng's family has been a flower for several generations." The endless family wealth, according to me, it is a match made in heaven, there is nothing to climb high or not."

As a matchmaker, she can't even tell the difference between "talent" and "wealth". Madam Ma secretly sighed, shook her head and said: "My master went out to do business in the spring of this year, and he hasn't come back yet. My Ma family's family rules are that every major event at home must Master please decide, marrying a daughter is needless to say, let’s wait for my master to come back.”

The flower matchmaker rolled her eyes and said again: "What the wife said is right, but there is an exception to everything. Now this marriage is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The patriarch's family is so rich, the wife is the one who made the decision, and the master came back. It’s only for praise.”

Mrs. Ma remained silent, thought for a while and said, "How did I hear that the young master of the Deng family has already been engaged?"

The flower matchmaker smiled coyly, and said: "Young Master Deng fell in love with the eldest girl at first sight, but unfortunately the family has already engaged in marriage, so I came here today just to discuss with you, and I want to marry your girl as a second wife."

No matter how good-tempered Mrs. Ma was, she was annoyed when she heard this, and she patted the table and said, "That's it, flower matchmaker, you go back and tell Deng Qigong that if he wants to bully others when he sees that my master is not here, I advise him to die." Be careful, my Ma family is a decent family, no matter how poor they are, they can't afford to sell their daughters, there is no reason for a good-looking daughter to be someone's second wife, as long as my wife is alive, this matter will not be discussed!"

Seeing that such a kind-hearted person as Mrs. Ma was furious, the flower matchmaker knew that this matter must not be settled, so she pretended to persuade her a few words, and then left embarrassingly.

Seeing off the flower matchmaker, Mrs. Ma saw Ma Ke standing under the eaves, and she was afraid that he would be angry, so she was about to speak to comfort her, but she saw Ma Ke smiled slightly, and persuaded her: "Mother, don't take Deng Youcai, a clown like Deng Youcai, to heart." , just as a joke."

Madam Ma breathed a sigh of relief, and Ma Ke said again: "I'm hungry, let's cook, don't lose your appetite for this kind of person."