People who don't keep cats will never know the joy of waking up and the little cat sleeping next to them acting like a spoiled child.
"As soon as I opened my eyes in the morning, I saw it sleeping on the quilt. As soon as I called it, it stretched over and came over meowing... It's really good to have a cat! Lin Lan, I finally know why your family We also have cats, and many tenants in the building have pets too!”
Miss Wei's body, whose soul has been worn away by her endless coding career, suddenly gave birth to countless vitality. A generation of Ah Zhai actually began to take the initiative to find friends to chat with cats, and her eyes are bright when she talks about her cat.
She has to work hard, earn a lot of money, and then buy a big house to support her every year!
After listening to her showing off the cat, Lin Lan said, "Haha."
On the night of the second day of the new year, Wei Yan was on the night shift again, but she no longer had the pain and decadence she had when she went to work before, instead she was full of energy.
She loves to work overtime! The night shift allowance is great! Three times the salary is delicious!
Lin Lan: "Then... you go to work and cheer."
Looking at Miss Wei, the cat slave who went out to work full of energy with that shoulder bag on her back, Lin Lan's face was unfathomable.
After raising a cat, it's not the only time when it's cute and soft. Miss Wei, let's not mention the global problem of cats shedding hair and love to dance in the middle of the night, just say that there will be a big surprise for you every year. .
Manager Lin wouldn't tell her about these things. Splashing cold water during the Spring Festival is too unkind, and it would be more meaningful for her to discover and experience it herself.
On the third day of the new year, Lao Yu's family of three returned from their hometown.
"Sister Lan Lan, we're back!" Yu Lingling stood at the door and knocked on the door first, followed by Uncle Yu who came with the New Year's goods, "This is the ham and mushrooms brought from my hometown, it tastes good!" Aoi seems to have gained weight again!"
The junior high school student jumped into the house and looked up to see the big white parrot that had come out of the cage and was nibbling pistachio nuts.
"I'm not fat, I just took a shower in the morning, and I saw that the feathers are fluffy." The task of greeting each other in the New Year was handed over to the elders, while Lin Lan talked to Yu Lingling, "The cage is on the balcony, you will put it in a while. Take it away in a cage, or let it stand in your hands?"
"Of course I'm on my feet." The bird that has been raised for seven years since she was a child is already familiar, Yu Lingling is not worried that Xiaokui will run around when she goes out, but the little girl's head is spinning around in the living room, "Lan Sister Lan, where are the cats you raised, aren't they here?"
"They're in the next room." Lin Lan knew what Yu Lingling was worried about, so she reached out her hand to point at the parrot that was still eating nuts, "Your Xiaokui is too bad, it doesn't count that the cage can't be locked without the lock. , and secretly pecking at the cat's tail. In order to prevent you from returning, I can only pick up a few bird feathers, so I can only separate the kittens from other places."
"Ah?" Yu Lingling was surprised, but she believed it immediately, "Xiao Kui, this rotten bird has always been super cheap, it's something he can do. Before I was doing homework at home, he secretly hid my pen. , I couldn't find it after searching for a long time, but it was laughing beside me! I was so angry that I wanted to beat it, but my mother stopped me." At the end, her mouth bulged.
The teenage girl's reaction when she was angry was quite cute, but her pouting gesture also reminded Lin Lan of the same expression pattern when she rejected Wang Jiayi on the first day of the new year.
It turns out that even if the eldest miss is not a primary school student, at most she is like a junior high school student.
Not far away, the Yu family's parents had finished greeting the Lin family, and Aunt Yu shouted to her daughter, "Lingling, it's time to go, take Xiaokui with you."
"Hey!" Yu Lingling agreed, and she skillfully stretched her arm in front of the parrot, "Xiao Kui, stop eating, go home."
The cockatoo raised its paw and caught it on the little master's thick clothes, and slowly moved up the arm with no effort, until it stopped on the little master's shoulder.
"Sister Lan Lan, I'll come to play with you when my house is cleaned up!"
Lao Yu's family took the bird and bird cage to leave, leaving behind a few bags of sliced ham, bacon and mushrooms.
Lin's father and Lin's mother took all these agricultural specialties into the kitchen and stored them in categories, but Lin Youyu still felt a little pity: "If I hadn't had to visit my relatives for dinner today, or I really wanted to cut ham and steam it right away, and then make a bacon stuffed with rice. Try it."
Lin Lan was suddenly a little greedy when her father said that. The ham from Uncle Yu's hometown is delicious.
Wang Xiuzhi rolled her eyes at her husband: "I haven't eaten enough meat in the past few days, so you're actually thinking about ham."
The carnivores, Father Lin and Lin Lan, shook their heads in unison: "It's not enough, how can it be possible." They wouldn't get tired of eating meat three times a day, not to mention that the meat dishes were not the same during the Chinese New Year.
Looking at the father and daughter, the mother expressed that she did not want to speak.
Today, the whole family is going out, going to a relative's house to have a lunch and evening meal, so Lin Lan naturally has to take care of the kittens' rations. Cat food is no longer enough, you can only put cat food on top, plus the automatic water dispenser that will heat all the time, the problem is not big.
"I'm going out, you all have to be obedient at home, do you know? Don't bite the wires, don't open the doors and windows..." Lin Lan told the kittens some precautions.
"Meow!" (I know, Lan Lan, be careful when you go out hunting!)
"Meow!" (It's very cold in winter and there's very little food, so it doesn't matter if you can't hunt food. There's a lot to eat here too!)
Lin Lan couldn't help laughing, and was about to explain, "I didn't..."
"Is Lan Lan okay? I'm leaving!" Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by her mother's urging.
"Come on!" Lin Lan got up immediately and ran out the door, "I will try to come back as soon as possible, bye!"
Going to visit a relative's house is nothing more than the same old procedure, New Year's greetings, chats, meals, New Year's money, and the end of the show.
Lin Lan is an adult. Although she is still single, she has tacitly agreed that she has no money for the New Year. On the contrary, she has to pay for red envelopes when she sees children of her peers.
She is already 26 during the Chinese New Year this year, and many of her cousins and cousins are married and even have children. Facing such a family of three, Lin Lan had to admit that it was a little stressful, but it wasn't too big.
—Because relatives in the family agreed that Lin Lan would not worry about getting married even if she was 30 years old.
Therefore, compared to Cheng Fengyang's miserable situation in his hometown where even his nephew laughed at him as a single dog, Lin Lan didn't have it at all here. On the contrary, because he scattered a lot of red envelopes, he received a lot of sweet words from the younger generation. What "Aunt Lan Lan is the most beautiful", "Aunt Lan Lan is always a little fairy", for the little red envelopes, children's rainbow farts are one after another.
Lin Lan, who had lost the red envelopes in her pockets, fell into deep thought, especially when she saw those children took her red envelopes with their front feet and then their mothers took them away. She was troubled by a life problem.
This problem has been bothering Lin Lan until she returns home, and she is still serious.
"What are you doing, you have this expression all the way?" Wang Xiuzhi asked her daughter without saying a word.
Lin Youyu was also very curious, but he was sitting on the sofa and turning on the TV, and then he looked up at the gap and said, "That's right, girl, is your old aunt's food not tasty enough, or is there a lack of vegetables?"
The TV was turned on, and it happened to be a New Year's advertisement for snacks. It was a scene of a boy and a girl paying New Year's greetings to their elders. The picture was red and festive.
"No, I'm just thinking about red envelopes." Lin Lan ignored her father's teasing, and instead looked at the New Year's money plot that just happened to be released on TV, "Mom, I also had quite a few red envelopes when I was young, and they were all taken away. You put it away."
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Wang Xiuzhi was puzzled. Isn't this an old practice? What's wrong? This topic attracted Grandma Lin and Lin Youyu on the side to look at them all.
Then they saw Lin Lan holding out a hand to her mother with a serious face: "I only remembered when I went to my aunt's house today, you took my red envelope and said that you would give the New Year's money to me when I grew up. Me. Okay, I'm so old now, and I've opened my own shop, Mom, shouldn't you give me back those lucky money?"
The whole family was suddenly quiet.
Lin Lan has received a lot of New Year's money from childhood to adulthood, but like most children, these red envelopes have only a beginning and no end, and their whereabouts have long been drowned in the vast memory.
Lin's father and Lin's grandmother looked delicate, and they all looked at Lin's mother, who was being watched by their daughter, with trembling corners of their mouths, as if they would laugh at any time.
The mother, on the other hand, looked at her daughter's outstretched hand, smiled after a while, and patted her daughter's outstretched palm amiably.
"Silly girl, in your mother's heart, you will always be a child who doesn't grow up."
So it is impossible to get back the New Year's money, and it will never be possible.
"Pfft—hahahahaha!" Lin Youyu was the first to hold back, slapped his thigh and laughed wildly, and the grandmother next to him was also laughing non-stop.
Lin Lan stared at her mother, dumbfounded. In the end, her father and grandmother couldn't hold back their hilarious laughter. She could only bow down to the wind. The high wall of her mother was insurmountable in her life.
Lin Lan, who was defeated, went back to the cats to heal her wounds. Her mother was too strong, and there was no hope for red envelopes for many years.
Oh, it will end tonight after the third day of the new year, maybe she should pack up and open a shop.
For many Chinese people, after the third day of the new year, the taste of the New Year will gradually fade, and the same is true in Xicheng, which can be seen from the more and more people returning to the city for work and the more and more shops opening on the street.
On the fourth day of the new year, when Lin Lan reopened the teahouse, Tang Xiaoya also came back. When she arrived at the rental house, she briefly tidied up and came to the teahouse in the afternoon to ask for help.
"The company holiday is on the tenth day of the first lunar month, but if I really want mercury, I'll come here early!" The resolute girl still did the same after the New Year, and she quickly put the teahouse's standard apron on her body, "I'll clean it first or not. take care of the cat?"
"No need, go and bring this set of refreshments to Jiayi's table." Lin Lan put the prepared tray of refreshments on the water bar.
Tang Xiaoya was stunned when she heard it: "Jiayi? Wasn't it all called Miss Wang before?" She didn't come back to her hometown for a week, and the relationship between the store manager and the squeamish young lady has grown by leaps and bounds
Sitting not far away, and the only guest at the moment, Wang Jiayi, who was still angry about the rejection of her application, suddenly became energized when she heard the surprise of her hating neighbors. She raised her chin and said proudly, "Hmph, I can't think of it, right? Lan Lan and I Already good friends."
Seeing her nervous expression, Tang Xiaoya didn't pay attention to her expressionless face.
"Yes, it's a friend." Lin Lan didn't make Wang Jiayi too proud, lest the two girls quarrel again, "So you say you want to come to the teahouse to work, that's absolutely not acceptable."
In a word, the eldest lady, who was so proud just now, wilted again.
This time, Tang Xiaoya was happy, and happily brought the tray with tea: "Miss Wang, your tea." She secretly returned a smug look when she left.
The handicapped party who lives by hotel takeaways and housekeeping aunts every day still wants to go to work, but choose the service industry? Whimsical.
Miss Wang keenly saw the contempt and contempt of the other party from this look, her face was instantly red with anger, and her mouth was bulging with anger.
"Lanlan!" she yelled on the spot, "I want to be a teahouse employee! It's not a full-time job, but a part-time job. It's fine to work three hours a day, and you don't need any wages. You can do whatever you want. Anyway, I'm coming. Working in your shop!"
The irritated eldest lady suddenly became angry, and she would not give up until her goal was achieved.
Lin Lan: "..."
At the same time, in the veterinary clinic that also opened on the fourth day.
"Your family is pregnant every year." Dr. Liu said to Miss Wei, who had finished the cat's physical examination. "It is estimated that it will be almost three weeks."