I Can Talk to Cats

Chapter 8

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After saying goodbye to the two kittens, Lin Lan took out her mobile phone with a solemn expression and started looking through the addresses of other companies she had seen while looking for a job these days.

At present, a company I like most has been PASS, and of course, I will continue to find other units.

And because of the inspiration from this incident, Lin Lan also realized a new routine that could find out in advance.

After another phone call to the family, Lin Lan told them that she might be coming back very late without having to wait for her to have dinner. Lin Lan closed her phone and drove her little electric donkey directly to the location of the second intended company.

Looking at the whole country, even the most prosperous cities are indispensable for the existence of stray cats, especially these little things are clever and good at evasion, and they are not shunned by humans when they walk in the streets, so they will learn a lot of news.

Now that she can understand cat language, Lin Lan can use it without any burden to spy on whether she can go to the companies she wants to apply for.

One afternoon was long or short, and it passed without knowing it in the consciousness of those who had something to do.

The autumn day is approaching winter, the days are not long, the sun sets very early, and the street lamps in the city gradually turn on row by row, lighting up the road that has completely lost its light.

After working overtime for two hours, Cheng Fengyang, who had just finished his day's work, drove his beloved Daben to his home like most returnees.

As the car was driving on the road, he turned the steering wheel while chatting with his brother in the air: "Oh my mother, after a month of busywork, I finally got Party A's father completely done, but I'm exhausted! I'm with you. Said, it's not easy to eat this meal! I changed the drawings for that client many times, and made many trips to their house. The aunt said she was buying a house for her son and his wife, but asked She mentions it more than her daughter-in-law. Every time I go, I will see the pair of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law smashing each other. What kind of avant-garde style should the bathroom be? Or the bedroom told me to design it as two separate rooms, where the couple and children would sleep, but it couldn’t block the light from the balcony…”

After a contract was concluded, Cheng Fengyang also began to let go of himself. Bala Bala was just a spit, and he said that he had been poisoned for a while.

A burst of laughter from his brother immediately came from the mobile phone speaker, and there was no sympathy at all: [Isn't this normal? This year, the first party is the father, just take good care of him. And you have already become a senior designer in the industry, so the cost of getting it this time is not low, right?]

"That's what I said, but it's still too difficult to make money." Cheng Fengyang was speechless and choked, "Gangzi, let me tell you, when I think that I'm still single now, I don't know where my future daughter-in-law is, and I might have to support it in the future. She, I feel that the burden on my body is very heavy."

[roll!]A vicious spit sound came from the loudspeaker, [It's shameless for you to dismantle the second generation and complain to me here! Don't think I don't know that your house was demolished and mixed up with four houses more than ten years ago. Your father also replaced two of them with big shops in the city center. The monthly rent earned by lying down has caught up with some people's annual income. !]

"Cough, that's my dad's too, not mine." Cheng Fengyang said weakly, "And I'm not an only child, and I don't own all the family property."

[Shut up your face!]The brother on the opposite side of the phone is about to scold again, [Isn’t your family just you and your sister, and your sister got married long ago, and your parents also transferred her a house next to her, and the rest will not be available in the future. It's all yours! Still want to rely on this to sell miserably. Believe it or not, I'll go back and tell your sister, and let her go back to her parents' house to smoke you!]

"Don't stir up troubles, Yao Gang, my sister and I have a good relationship. If you dare to sabotage, I will make a small report to your girlfriend, saying that you secretly bought a set of thousands of VR games behind her back two days ago. machine!"

[Cheng Fengyang, you old yin ratio, how dare you!]The other end of the phone was clearly panicking.

"You're welcome, I'll be the fifteenth when you are in the first year of the first year of junior high school. Everyone is a brother who stabs a knife and is more intimate."

Chatting with his brother, Cheng Fengyang turned the steering wheel, and the car turned into another street. It's a shortcut home, but because there are semi-construction facilities on the left and right sides of the street, and it's not the main road, there aren't many people passing through here.

Cheng Fengyang was stunned when the car turned towards this path.

"Are the street lights broken?" It was originally a small street that was not built, and there were not many street lights, and a few were erected sparsely, which was considered lighting. I don't usually think that now the lights are all off, and the surrounding walls are erected high, making this small road look pitch-dark.

However, this has no effect on him. As soon as Daben's high beams are switched, the dark road in front of him is immediately illuminated for a long time.

Then he saw not only him on the road, but also a small electric donkey.

"It's pitch-black, why don't you turn on the lights?" Cheng Fengyang murmured subconsciously. Under the illumination of the high beam, he could clearly see that the person riding the small electric donkey was a woman, wearing a helmet and wearing a suit. As soon as he saw the professional attire he used to go to work, he was riding a small electric donkey to go home alone in the dark at this moment. He couldn't help but sigh again, "It's not easy."

Lin Lan was feeling depressed at the moment.

This afternoon, she rode an electric donkey and went around the three candidate companies, two of which happened to have local cats nearby, and one had no stray cats, but there were cats in the nearby stores, so she put in a little effort Soon I also found out about the recent events in those companies.

A company is making a fuss about layoffs, because it takes the initiative to fire employees to pay more wages, so it deliberately finds trouble to force employees to leave;

A company’s employee benefits written in the recruitment information are completely inconsistent with the actual situation. The promised five-off and two-off is actually six-off and one-off, and the welfare benefits have shrunk by nearly half. They often force employees to work overtime and do not pay them. overtime pay;

In the last company system, there was no problem at all. It was just that the boss developed an indescribable relationship with his female employees. Yesterday, he was caught on the spot by the boss’s wife’s raid on the post. It is said that the chaos was so bad that he didn’t show up in the unit today.

Lin Lan: "..." Although she had long expected that job hunting was always full of pitfalls, she was very tired after encountering so many pitfalls in a row.

After all this tossing, it was already dark, thinking about promising to bring something delicious to Xuehua, Lin Lan rode the little electric donkey to the house when it was completely dark.

Now, taking a shortcut, God still doesn't even have a street light on, like a deliberate block.

Detours are no good. Today, after so many laps, her little electric donkey has run out of electricity. In order to avoid the embarrassment of pushing the cart home, she didn't even dare to turn on the headlights. On this little road.

Lin Lan's tense heart also eased until a car appeared behind, and the high beams with strong lighting dispelled the darkness on the road, but she still subconsciously drove the little electric donkey to the side of the road to give way, so that the people behind him would give way. car passes.

But the car behind didn't accelerate. Instead, it slowed down and followed her at a constant speed, neither ahead nor approaching. The bright lights just illuminated the road in front of Lin Lan's eyes.

Is this... lighting her up

The unexpected kindness came from a stranger who had never met before. Lin Lan couldn't help but look back, but was forced to turn back by the dazzling light. Not to mention seeing the owner of the car under such strong light, it was difficult even for the driver.

She no longer struggled, and simply accelerated the speed of the little electric donkey to finish the road earlier, and the cars behind also accelerated as expected.

In this way, a small electric donkey and a car completed the dark road in a tacit and silent way.

Turning back to the brightly lit main road, it was already very close to her house. While turning to the non-motorized road, Lin Lan also turned her head and glanced at the kind car that was on the main motor road.

This sight made her wide-eyed in surprise. Under the street light, the other side's sapphire blue Benz car was unobstructed. The speed of the car gradually increased, and Lin Lan was quickly thrown behind, and she also saw the license plate number behind. , I was immediately sure that it was the car I saw in the morning.

Recalling how the car owner was teasing the dog with Wang Zhongwang before the traffic light, and looking at his previous good-hearted actions, Lin Lan, who continued to drive the little electric donkey, was a little complicated.

Then she saw that the car that was driving far slowed down again, and turned directly towards the gate of the high-end residential area opposite.

"It turned out to be the resident on the opposite side." After getting off the little electric donkey, she stared at the gate of the community at the other end and muttered, then turned around and dragged the car into the basement.

It's very late today, her stomach is protesting, let's go upstairs to eat quickly.

Lin Lan felt that she was possessed by a weak spirit. Since that day, her job search has not been successful, but any company she likes can always inquire about some problems.

It was like this for several days, so angry that she didn't want to go out at all, she sat on the sofa with the big white cat at home and complained to her parents, "Mom and dad, what are you talking about!"

Lin Youyu understood her anger at her daughter's anger, but at the same time she was a little helpless, so she comforted her: "Or Lan Lan, don't go out to look for a job in the second half of the year, and wait until the new year's peak season."

"You, you are too picky to find a job." The father didn't say something, but the mother didn't get used to it, and said directly, "As for the company disputes you inquired about before, some of them are not unbearable. You just find that the company you like is different from what you think, and you are not happy to go."

"How can I be so picky?" Lin Lan was very unconvinced by her mother's scolding, and the movements of licking the cat became bigger, "I have already lowered my salary requirements, so I just want to find a quiet and leisurely class. Is this a difficult request? Xuehua, do you think I'm right? Your grandma always scolds me every day, I'm so pitiful."

She bowed her head and betrayed the cat, and the big white cat meowed at Wang Xiuzhi, as if to fight for Lin Lan.

Seeing this, Wang Xiuzhi was both angry and funny: "You even joined Snowflake to attack me!" But she disgusted her mouth, how could a mother really not care for her children, "If you can't pick a job you like, you won't pick it, just According to what your father said, you can stay at home for a while in the second half of the year, and look for a job next year." Anyway, the old Lin family is not really short of that salary.

Lin Lan sighed when she heard the words, and she still behaved well when she got a bargain: "That's the only way to go."

In this way, Lin Lan officially took time off.

In the late autumn season, the temperature gradually decreases, which also makes this person who does not have to go to work sleep until nine or ten in the morning every day, and he is too lazy to eat breakfast and wait for lunch. However, this decadent day only lasted for two days, and was completely banned by my mother using the quilt-lifting method.

"When you were still in school, I was used to you! Get up! People who don't go to work will do housework with me!" Wang Xiuzhi asked her daughter to be soft, "The porridge is still warm in the pot, and it's over. Just take off the sheets and quilt covers at home with me, and wash them all today!"

Lin Lan bowed her head in despair, and after filling her stomach, she hurried to work with her mother.

At this time, my father went downstairs to see the store, and my grandmother was practicing dancing at the senior center, so they were the only mother and daughter at home... Oh, and a big white cat.

"Meow—" Lin Lan heard Snowflake's cry while holding the newly removed quilt cover and stuffing it into the balcony washing machine.

"Are you going out to play?" She stopped and looked down at the cat at her feet, "Then remember to come back at dinner time, I'll cook cat food for you."

"Meow!" Snowflake's tail stood up straight at once, which meant she was very happy.

Seeing this, Lin Lan also smiled: "You said that the cat rice I made is especially delicious? It's much better than your grandma's? You can't let her hear this. Be careful that she won't make it for you in the future."

"I've heard it already." Wang Xiuzhi, who was wearing an apron, glared at her daughter, "Let you do some work and arrange me, and I'll make Xuehua's cat food for you in the future!"

How does this work!

Lin Lan hurriedly changed her words: "Quick Snowflake! Grandma is angry, go and please her!"

Wang Xiuzhi thought that her daughter was just joking, but was about to cry and tell her to change the topic with less cats, when she saw Snowflake really trot towards her, and then rubbed over her to please her, her mouth still meowing, that one. Hearing it softened, the coquettish meowing made Wang Xiuzhi lose his temper.

"You ghostly little thing." Holding the big white cat directly in her hands, the middle-aged woman clearly liked it, but she still disliked it, "Why do you just listen to that girl Lanlan alone, she brought you back , I was the one who fed you the longest."

Seeing that Snowflake was fascinated by her own mother, Lin Lan immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and rushed to the balcony with the sheets in her arms.

Compared with grandma's balcony full of vegetables, the balcony of Lin Lan's home, apart from the two pots of greens that Grandma Lin pointed out to grow, only has cat grass specially grown for snowflakes, which has been bitten by cats from time to time. The traces grow unevenly there.

After stuffing the sheet cover into the washing machine, after one operation started to wash, my mother in the living room had ended the intimate scene with Snowflake, and she even opened a crack for Snowflake, who was pulling the door, and let it slip out for a stroll.

After the cat left, Wang Xiuzhi's face was still a little melancholy, and she looked at Lin Lan with a bit of resentment: "You are obviously not at home all year round, why does Xuehua kiss you like this, and still listen to you now."

"Probably because it is too human. Knowing that I am its savior, let's be different." Lin Lan boldly found a reason.

After all, she also knew that she had to directly say that she could understand cat language, and the people around her would only take her as a joke, and then harvest a bunch of slaughter.

"Huh." Although now I have to face my mother's cold snort and white eyes.

The work has to continue. The mother and daughter went to the grandmother's house first, and helped the grandmother to change the quilt covers and sheets, and then get them for their own home. Not long after Lin Lan came back, she didn't need to change her room, so it was her parents' bed that moved.

Helping to remove the quilt cover, Lin Lan held it aside and was about to remove the bed sheet, when she saw her mother who was sitting there removing the pillowcase and suddenly stopped moving.

"Mom, what's wrong?" Lin Lan, who was waiting to get the sheets, was puzzled.

Wang Xiuzhi didn't say anything, just took off the pillowcase, revealing the pillow core inside.

The pillow of Lin Lan's family is a latex pillow, which is very popular with the old Lin family because it will not deform no matter how you sleep. Anyone who has bought this type of pillow knows that latex pillows generally have many rows of small holes. Lin Lan can clearly see that those small holes are filled with pink small holes in the pillow core that has been removed from the pillowcase at this time. paper block.

Hmm... wrong, it's a pink note.

Wang Xiuzhi reached out and pulled one out of the hole, and the carefully folded compressed paper gradually unfolded, and a piece of Grandpa Mao with a face value of 100 yuan appeared in front of the mother and daughter.

And the small holes stuffed with pink paper, there are many more on the pillow core.

The place was suddenly very quiet.

Lin Lan looked at the silent mother in front of her, and couldn't help but mourn for the old father downstairs.