I Can Talk to Cats

At three in the morning, Song Xinmin finally packed up the basement he had just rented.

The not-so-large single room was simply renovated. The clean and tidy cabin when he came in with the key only had a simple bed and a pair of small tables and chairs. Few things made Song Xinmin more satisfied than expected. Everything he brought was full.

At this time, not only the bed was covered with futons, but the table was filled with daily necessities. The most striking thing was that the wall next to the bed was hung by him with a dense lattice iron frame, and large and small photos were hung with small clips On the top, there are either landscape or animal photos, and occasionally several photos of people will appear, but most of them are shot with back view, distant view and body parts.

This is the most satisfying part of the photos he took on the road in the past few years. Some even helped him win some winning prizes in the photo competition. With these bonuses, he can continue to walk on this road.

At this moment, a cold night wind blew in from the only small window, blowing the photos on the wall slightly, but also made him tremble.

"Guru ..." The stomach also took the opportunity to protest to him.

"It's not the time to dream, and it's time to work and save the travel expenses." While he grinned bitterly at the stomach, he quickly got up and stepped on the stool to fasten the tight windows.

Since the room is a basement, the windows are naturally very short relative to the ground outside. Song Xinmin's eyes can see some night scenes outside through the anti-theft net. It is a clean and beautiful narrow courtyard, covered with strips of wooden planks. With the dim light of the street lamp outside, he adjusted his angle and looked farther away, and found that there was a row of square flower beds on the left, but there were no flowers, and there seemed to be only a few grass seedlings; looking to the right, you can see a pair Emotional wooden table and chairs.

Song Xinmin can instantly imagine that if it is a windy and beautiful weather, the owner of the courtyard sits here to drink tea and read a book, and enjoy the leisure time in this narrow courtyard.

Suddenly, a shadow appeared on the wooden floor. Something fell on the glass ceiling of the narrow courtyard. The shadow was illuminated by the street lamp outside. This movement surprised Song Xinmin and subconsciously bent his knees short. Looking up, I only saw a fluffy figure flicking its tail and stepping on the glass to leave.

"It turned out to be a cat ..." Song Xinmin was relieved and sat back on his bed again, reminded by the cat that he also remembered something during the day.

When he saw the house and signed a contract with the landlord and left, he saw that the cat cafe had newly posted job advertisements.

Thinking about the dangerous deposits in his pocket next month's rent, and recalling the experience of working for all kinds of travel expenses in recent years, Song Xinmin made up his mind instantly and went there to see tomorrow.

Lin Lan, who was sleeping at home on the third floor, knew nothing about tomorrow ’s employee recruitment. Now she only feels that her chest is a little stuffy, and she seems to have heard something quietly in her ears, which made her already half-dreaming. Gradually sober.

When I opened my eyes, I saw a puppet cat sitting on her chest, tilting her head and staring at her. The seven-month-old large kitten has no weight for her weight, and she does n’t know how to put her home. Shoveling **** was so overwhelming, I thought I was a cute little one who could wrap my body with one hand.

"Sapphire." Lin Lan was feeble. "Why don't you go to sleep in the middle of the night, why do you stare at me while sitting on me?"

"Meow." The puppet cat shouted delicately at her, the voice was very nice, but the content could kill Lin Lan. (Mom, you have been motionless for a long time, I thought you were dead, so I came to see you.)

"Come down." Hurry up and get rid of this silly cat that is useless except for the good-looking. Lin Lan's face is tired. "I'm sleeping, isn't it dead? You also play cute with the guests during the day. Are you tired at night? ? "

"Meow!" (I'm not tired, I just lie on those people's legs and close my eyes when I'm sleepy, they will stop and let me sleep!)

Lin Lan: "..."

Those of her kind really have no bones to face cat color! When she was a human warmer, she thought she had received the gift, which was too disappointing.

When there was nothing to say, the door handle of the closed room suddenly loosened, a crack was opened in the door, a white cat got in, and the familiar door jumped into bed.

Lin Lan was not surprised by this movement, and even spoke directly to the cat: "I came back so late, where did you go in the middle of the night?" He reached out and nodded the white cat's small head to continue his education, "I tell you Snow, The weather forecast says that there will be snowfall in these two days. You are not allowed to go out anymore. You step on the paw mud and go home to provoke your grandma. Do n’t blame me for not pleading for you. ”

The white cat Snowflake bowed her head against Lin Lan's hand and meowed melancholy: "Lan Lan, I'm going to play with the cat boss, there are many cats there."

"Oh." Has the number of playmates increased, have you already lost your mind?

Lin Lan is trying to make Snowflake take her mind, remember her identity as a domestic cat, and do n’t be taken away more and more wild, Snowflake calls to her: "Meow!" (Lan Lan, there are some other cats saying that Want to enter your territory to hunt, let me ask if you want it?)

She was stunned: "You mean, some kittens that are not pet cats also want to come over?"

"Meow!" (Yeah. There is a cat from the cat boss secretly came over here and found out that all the cats on your site have hunted canned food from humans, they said they can also.)

Actually still engaged in secret investigation? These slippery kittens.

With a little thought, Lin Lan knew why. She originally proposed that cats come to mix with her, stray cats ... or cat bosses are on guard, on the one hand, they dare not fully believe her humanity, on the other hand, they also do not believe that she can successfully bring a cat They got it.

Now that the tea house is open, the business is good. Those pet cats that are used as pathfinders are mixed in the wind and the water. What is the matter? Some people are still not hungry when they are waiting. The cat boss also let go of it, letting some people want to follow Lin long ago The blue cats came over.

These cats will certainly not be expensive pet cats, but Chinese rural cats, that is, the native cat that Qian Xuan blurted out when he saw the snowflake.

But all the people who have raised such cats know that native cats are very smart, strong and easy to feed, can be literate, can be salty and sweet, and can be spoiled and stolen. They are great cat breeds. Especially raccoon cats are the only domestically recognized Chinese cats that can compete in the world. Purebred raccoon cats are also expensive abroad, which means that the Chinese do n’t take them everywhere.

Lin Lan is willing to accept a few more local cats into the teahouse, but like the boss recruiting employees, there must be conditions for recruitment.

"You can have a few, but you have to tell them about snowflakes. My site only has the best kittens in the eyes of the two-legged beast."

Boss Lin is very realistic in this respect. After all, it is to open a store to do business. A beautiful kitten can attract more customers to buy canned food, right?

"Meow!" "Meow!" Both sapphire and snowflakes cried out at this time, and they fell into Lin Lan's ears (I am the most beautiful!) (I am beautiful in human and cat eyes!) This means.

"Yes, yes, you are all beautiful, cats are beautiful cats!" She felt like she didn't need to sleep anymore. Lin Lan picked up one hand and placed it on the left and right sides of her pillow. "Now, sleep for me immediately . Wake me up again. You will all go back to the living room to sleep tomorrow. You are not allowed to come again. "

Alas, the eldest and second sons of Lao Lin's family are too sticky.

After receiving the warning, the kittens no longer dared to make trouble, honestly in two groups, and quickly snorted, and Lin Lan gradually fell asleep again in this double snoring.

The new day is coming, the weather is a bit gloomy, but it doesn't look like it will snow.

At 9:30, Lin Lan went downstairs to open the rolling door, and sent the cats into the teahouse. When he started a simple routine cleaning work, the basement tenant who had a connection yesterday pushed open the door and walked in.

"Hello, can I still hire full-time employees here? I can work till the end of the year, and it's no problem not to go back to work after the New Year."

He is a ruthless man who lacks money. He has only been thinking about earning a little more part-time job for years.

Although he did not expect that the first full-time employee accepted by the teahouse was his own tenant, Lin Lan carefully confirmed the identity and origin of the other party.

Song Xinmin, 24 years old, a graduate of a prestigious university, is a wandering photographer, and his reputation is still at a level where it has not been spread to a small fame-um, it is a kind of impression in the circle but there is no special impression, so Qinghuang can't make money by her job.

It is said that he is currently wandering all over the country to find inspiration and strive to improve himself, while quickly finding a suitable store for a full staff of one to two months as long as he is short of money, after he has enough travel expenses, he goes on the road to practice.

It's no wonder that looking so dismal, Dangqing is a dream chaser who gives up a stable life for his dreams.

For such people, Lin Lan admires and is a little envious, but it is absolutely irrelevant to let her learn from the other party. She is a vulgar, now there are shops and cats, and the days are very smart, so no poems are needed. And far away.

Now that there is a helper who can help her until the end of the year, Lin Lan will not be picky about this tenant and employee and will run for at most two months.

"Okay, that's it." Looking at the other party's honest ID card and even some of the works he photographed himself, Lin Lan burst into tears and laughed like a serious sample of white-collar jobs applied to the newspaper and magazine. Let ’s talk about it first, the salary and benefits are all on the poster. I do n’t know that because you are my tenant, there will be additional subsidies for you. The salary I give you is the salary, and the rent you give to my family is the rent. Not to be confused. "

"I know, doing so would cause confusion in the accounts." Song Xinmin smiled and fully agreed. "After all, the rent of the building and the expenditure of the tea house are completely different."

The newcomer is very sensible, Lin Lan nodded with satisfaction: "So Xiao Song, this shop apron is for you, and it will be your first day from work from now on. I will teach you some process systems and care for the guests in the shop. Some precautions for cats. "

Famous university graduates learn these things quickly, Lin Lan guides him at most twice on the spot, and he will quickly get started. Because of the rich experience in working, he greets the guests in the store more skilled than Lin Lan, and works equally hard. Worth the name of a working veteran. In addition to making refreshments, the work in the morning was basically covered by him alone.

Lin Lan deeply felt the convenience of being a boss, and the recruitment of employees was really clever.

On weekdays, there are not many customers who come to cat cafes. Song Xinmin only feels that the new job is really easy, but also deeply feels that his decision to apply for this store is also wise. In particular, the lunch was given back to the shop at noon, which really saved him the biggest expense every day.

Eating home-cooked meals from the landlord ’s family, Song Xinmin felt that he had to take care of all the cats in the tea house, otherwise I ’m really sorry for the salary and benefits.

During the lunch break, Lin Lan confessed to Xiao Song, saying that he would leave for an hour or two, let him help to see the shop, while the other party responded with a bit of confusion: "Where is the manager going?"

Then he got a confused answer: "Probably a few cats."

How many cats do you take? Where is the collar? What is it like?

This doubt did not last long, and Xiao Song got the answer. The store manager retrieved three stray cats, an orange cat, a black and white cow cat, and an American shorthair cat.

Song Xinmin can understand that the last one is short, after all, it is quite a popular pet cat, but should the first two native cats also be brought back to the teahouse?

As a new employee, Xiao Song did not ask for the exit, but silently watched the boss send the stray cat to the nearby pet clinic, and after another hour, brought them back.

When I really saw the two cats that were cleaned and cleaned, even Song Xinmin had to praise: "These two cats are so beautiful!"

The first is the orange cat. It is not all orange-and-white tiger stripes, but the neck and limbs are covered with white fur, especially the inverted triangular white hair from the neck to the chest, plus four snow-white paws. , Like a beautiful gentleman in a white bandana and white gloves.

It is not obese at all, but has a smooth and handsome posture, squatting in a cage with its small head, handsome and elegant.

Another cow cat's coat color is not inferior to those pet cats on the market. It is covered in black, belly hair, and white limbs. It is most often its head. The black covering from the ear tip to the end of the eye is like a superhero. The hood worn by Batman only gave out a little inverted V to the hair on the nose. The overall black and white layers are clearly defined from top to bottom, which is quite beautiful.

At this time, it stared at the round eyes and tilted his head to look at everything outside the cage. From time to time, he also yelled at the store manager as if to ask what the curious baby looked like, but it reminded Song Xinmin that the cow cat is a cat world. Rumors.

The last beauty short born as a pet cat has nothing to say, its cuteness has long been recognized, especially the pair of all-inclusive eyeliners than girls will, how many people envy it when they are born with beautiful makeup and never fade. The silver tiger stripes, the two front paws are white gloves, which is the most calm of the three cats, lying on the side to lick their hair.

"Pretty?" Lin Lan patted the cage gently and said to the employees as if to show off.

"NICE! The manager has a good eye!" Song Xinmin praised, and it was not easy to find such good-looking ones in a bunch of stray cats.

However, they may not be suitable for staying in teahouses as wild cats. When Song thought of this question and wanted to ask it, the sound of the truck engine came from outside the door.

At the door of the building, a container truck of a moving company stopped.

As the people from the moving company came down together, there was Bai Fumei who rented an apartment yesterday.

"It's her." As a stranger who found an agent to rent a house together, Song Xinmin was certainly impressed. The other party responded to the rent when he rented it yesterday, and he was impressed by the few bargaining arrogances. Compared with his own tears in order to reduce the rent, Xiao Song is quite sad.

Lin Lan glanced at him without a word, and stepped closer to the gate, looking out.

The girl changed another set of clothes today, a brown-red leather coat, dragging a small 20-inch suitcase in her hand, and the other empty finger pointing at the stairway was talking to someone from the moving company , Faintly can hear her voice.

"It's the second floor ... the one on the left ... you come with me ... I'll put it wherever I say ..."

With a little arrogant but unconscious tone, a typical spoiled rich lady.

Why did you come here to live at the stall near New Year?

The author has something to say:

Human employees, yes.

Cat employees, there are new arrivals.