After New Year's Day, the biggest holiday is the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the most special festival among the 365 days in a year. This day is endowed with too many symbolic meanings, such as family affection, reunion, harmony... All the problems you encounter can be summed up in the phrase "big Chinese New Year". It has been said that during the period of more than half a month from the 30th of the New Year's Eve to the 15th day of the first lunar month, there is nothing that cannot be solved with one sentence of "New Year's Eve". If there is, then two sentences.
This is Yu Miaoyin's first Spring Festival as a cat, and it is much more deserted than she imagined.
On New Year's Eve, Yu Miaoyin was lying on the sofa and wiping her tail boredly. Xiao Man lay down in front of the desk and buried her head in writing, not knowing what to write. Yu Miaoyin didn't dare to disturb her. After lying down all morning, she looked up at the calendar on the wall. On the calendar, a certain day was drawn in a circle, and a red ballpoint pen trace , a shocking red.
Below that date were two Chinese characters too small to be seen: New Year's Eve.
It's Chinese New Year, Yu Miaoyin thought, and she doesn't know what happened to her parents. Yu Miaoyin has slowly had some impressions of what happened on the day of her accident. She vaguely remembers that she was hit by something and lost consciousness. It probably killed herself at that time. , the soul was reincarnated as a cat.
Up to now, Yu Miaoyin has no extravagant hope that she can become a human again. After all, her physical body has been dead for so long, and she has probably been cremated long ago. There is no body left, and there is no such a living person as Yu Miaoyin in the world. If she hadn't met Xiao Man, if Xiao Man hadn't happened to bring her home, it is still unknown whether Yu Miaoyin would have survived to this day, so in her life There are no more relatives and friends from the past, only Xiao Man is left.
On New Year's Eve, Yu Miaoyin thought that Xiao Man would go home to celebrate the New Year, but Xiao Man was busy at the desk until four o'clock in the afternoon and had no plans to leave the small rental house and go home to celebrate the New Year. Yu Miaoyin fell asleep on the sofa boredly, then woke up again, Xiao Man was still busy.
What is the senior sister doing mysteriously? Yu Miaoyin couldn't restrain her curiosity, jumped off the sofa, and approached Xiao Man's desk quietly. Now she is more and more used to being a cat, she jumps and walks very professionally, she looks like a cat It's like a cat.
"Meow~" Yu Miaoyin grabbed the edge of the table and jumped onto the desk, walked back and forth in front of Xiao Man's eyes twice, and found that Xiao Man was drawing a picture.
It was a black-and-white sketch portrait of a person, 8/90% of which had been completed. The image of a middle-aged man full of vicissitudes appeared on the paper, including every wrinkle at the corner of the eye and every white hair on the temple. Even the turbidity in the eyes is very real, as if this man is really standing in front of him.
When Xiao Man drew this picture, she didn't have any reference objects at hand. It seemed that she had already known the face of the man in her pen. The pencil fell lightly and sometimes heavily on the paper, rubbing and colliding with the paper, leaving outlines of different shades shadow.
Yu Miaoyin herself is an art student, with some basic skills, she could see through Xiao Man's kung fu at a glance, and secretly sighed that her annual scholarship was not for nothing. An architecture student, this "professional" Yu Miaoyin's sketching kung fu could not Humbled. It took many years of painting to fully understand the appearance of the person in the painting, so much so that she didn't even need a photo as a comparison, and the appearance of that person was already so vivid by relying solely on her memory.
Both of Xiao Man's hands were stained with pencil dust, and the black-gray refill was stained into the texture of Xiao Man's fingers, Yu Miaoyin swept her pen tip with his tail, Xiao Man was interrupted by Yu Miaoyin, stopped writing, looked up , found that the kitten I raised was standing in front of my desk, sweeping its tail, so I put down my pen to touch her, stretched my hand halfway, looked at the pencil dust in one hand, and retracted it again.
"Is Miao Miao hungry?" Xiao Man asked.
"Meow." Yu Miaoyin shook her head, bypassing Xiao Man's almost finished work, her front paws threw herself into Xiao Man's arms, and neatly trimmed nails protruded from the pads of her paws to hook her collar, her back paws supported the table, Xiao Man He tried his best to raise his head, and licked Xiao Man's jaw.
Xiao Man was tickled by her licking, the gloom in his heart disappeared, he laughed and stood up, "Miao Miao don't make trouble, I'll go wash my hands." Since Xiao Man picked up Yu Miaoyin last time, her hair has always been gray. Misty, it was clearly a little white cat, snow-white, cute and beautiful, but it turned into a little gray cat overnight, Xiao Man blamed himself so badly, it took almost two months to bring back Yu Miaoyin with her white fur, She didn't want to stain Miaomiao's beautiful fur with something dirty.
Xiao Man removed the stool and got up to wash his hands, Yu Miaoyin also quickly jumped off the table to follow, although the senior sister didn't say anything, Yu Miaoyin could feel that she was in a bad mood. Being in a bad mood on such a day of national celebration must have really hurt the senior sister's sadness. Yu Miaoyin couldn't share the burden for the senior sister, so she had to accompany Xiao Man to let her not be so sad.
After washing his hands, Xiao Man hugged Yu Miaoyin and sat on the sofa without saying a word. It got dark early, and the living room didn't turn on the lights. Although the heater was fully turned on in winter, and the arms of the senior sister were also very warm, Yu Miaoyin felt cold.
"It's Chinese New Year." Xiao Man stared blankly at the wall clock on the wall, his eyes wandering.
At 4:30 in the afternoon, someone knocked on the door of the rental house that no one had ever knocked on, but Xiao Man turned a deaf ear to it.
The door was knocked several times, but Xiao Man still acted as if he didn't hear it.
In the end, the door was violently thumped and banged a few times, and the person who knocked on the door shouted loudly: "Oman! Open the door!" It was a woman's voice, which sounded like she was holding back her anger.
Xiao Man finally moved. She put down the cat she was holding in her hand, stood up and opened the door for the mysterious woman. She took a deep breath, twisted the doorknob, and the door finally opened.
It was a well-maintained woman, wearing a black over-the-knee wool coat, wearing a white woolen scarf, and wearing a beret on her head.
"I asked you to go back to celebrate the New Year, why don't you go back?" The woman stood noblely in the room and scanned around, focusing on Yu Miaoyin who was huddled in the corner. shiver. She quickly stood up and shook her hair, and shed her restlessness along the way.
This woman is horrible. Yu Miaoyin hid at Xiao Man's feet, trying to avoid the woman's sight.
"You have a cat?" The woman asked again, looking at Xiao Man with something that Yu Miaoyin couldn't understand.
"It has nothing to do with you." Xiao Man said, Yu Miaoyin trembled again.
Yu Miaoyin has always known that Xiao Man has a very cold personality, has no friends, and never goes out unless necessary. She is a typical housekeeper, and she is different from other houses. Although she doesn't like to go out, she has a regular schedule and keeps everything at home Well-organized, like a set program, every day is exactly the same, when to get up, when to eat, when to wash clothes and clean, when to study.
After a long time, Yu Miaoyin deliberately broke a bowl in order to find something new, stepped on the soil in the flowerpot and brought it into the living room, and intentionally caused trouble for Xiao Man. Xiao Man can always deal with everything as quickly as possible. Back to her inherent routine.
This is not like a house, more like a kind of autism.
Yes, autistic, Xiao Man lives in an endless loop set up by herself, no one else can get in, and she can't get out either.
Yu Miaoyin was thinking wildly, and the woman spoke again, "Aman, don't be stubborn, go home with your mother for the New Year." The woman who could freeze to death a second ago now spoke in a spring breeze, as if she had a mental breakdown, Yu Miaoyin Can't believe it's the same person.
It turned out that this woman was the mother of the senior sister. Thinking of this, Yu Miaoyin tightened her tail even more, for fear of leaving an annoying bad impression on the senior sister and mother.
"Go home?" Xiao Man sneered, "My dad also wants to go home, he has been thinking about going home for more than ten years."
Yu Miaoyin turned her head to look in the direction of the desk, thinking about the picture that her senior had drawn all day, maybe that was her father.
Aunt Xiao sighed, "Oman, it's been so many years, I'm your mother anyway, blood is thicker than water, you can't do this to me."
Xiao Man even disappeared the sneer from the corner of his mouth, and stared at the ground expressionlessly without saying a word.
Aunt Xiao persuaded her earnestly: "Aman, you haven't been back for a year. Your younger brother and sister are already 9 years old this year. They always ask me where is my sister and when will I go home?"
Xiao Man listened to her mother's persuasion like a joke, and said sarcastically: "My surname is Xiao and their surname is Zhao. I don't have that much face, so I put gold on my face." At the end, she mockingly added another title: "Mrs. Zhao."
Mother Xiao's color changed drastically, her lips trembled slightly, and she couldn't speak a word.
The two stalemate for a long time, Yu Miaoyin squatted at Xiao Man's feet, meowing in time, Xiao Man picked her up, "Miao Miao wants to eat?"
"Meow meow!" Yu Miaoyin nodded quickly. For the Chinese New Year, the atmosphere is too weird, if she doesn't do anything, the mother and daughter will have to fight.
"Okay, let's cook." Xiao Man carried Yu Miaoyin into the kitchen, then turned to Mother Xiao and said, "Madam Zhao, please walk slowly."
Mother Xiao didn't say anything in the end, she sighed heavily and left.
After she left, all the muscles in Xiao Man's body relaxed, his shoulders collapsed from exhaustion, and he leaned against the sliding door of the kitchen and couldn't regain his senses for a long time.
"Miaomiao," Xiao Man scratched Yu Miaoyin's chin, "Thank you for accompanying me."
Yu Miaoyin rubbed against Xiao Man's palm, feeling like crying.
"Meow..." Sister, I will always be with you from now on.
But the cat's lifespan is so short, Yu Miaoyin is worried, if she dies, who will accompany senior sister.