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I Can Talk to Cats - Chapter 5

Published at 17th of August 2021 11:02:32 AM


Chapter 5: 5

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Lin family was lucky to have a building in Xicheng. His grandfather, Lin Aijun, made a lot of money by doing business in the spring breeze of national policy. Later, instead of continuing to invest in business, he used most of his money to build the building and started to collect rent.

Although Xicheng is far from being compared with the super first tier cities like Mordor capital, it is also a leader in the second tier cities. In recent years, with the ever-increasing high housing prices, Xicheng gradually has the strength to compete for a new first tier position. Many foreigners come here to work and settle down every year. Grandfather Lin also specially selected a piece of land near the main street, which is fundamental Don't worry about no tenants, let alone too cheap rent.

Eight years ago, the old man died of illness, and the building was inherited by his only son Lin Youyu. He and his wife Wang Xiuzhi not only continued to rent in law, but also occupied a shop on the first floor and opened a tobacco and wine shop.

The couple's daily life is not slow, not very busy, not idle to decadent, rhythm that is quite steady.

"It's a pity that your grandfather's eyes are not sharp enough." Father Lin murmured regretfully. He turned his head and looked across the street. "I should have chosen the one across the street when I chose the land."

On the other side of the road, there is a high-end community with lots of garden houses and excellent environment. On the other side, there is a prosperous business district and a subway station that has been built for less than a year. The location is very good. At this time, there are famous brand cars in and out of the gate of the community with strict security.

In contrast, on the other side of the street, except for the row of houses on the street, there are a lot of private houses in the back. There are all kinds of early low houses and residential buildings. Bicycles, batteries and cars scurry in the scattered streets and alleys. From time to time, the vendors selling vegetables and meat almost don't connect the stalls to the middle of the road. The environment and the opposite district are just like a day One by one.

For this kind of place, the Chinese have a unified name - village in the city.

Fifteen years ago, the situation on both sides of the street was the same. Unfortunately, the good policy of demolition did not fall on Laolin's side. At the end of the street, the neighbors could only look at the old acquaintances on the opposite side with the demolition money and the allocated houses. They were all developed at once, and they had nothing to do.

Across the street, fate is a world of difference.

When Lin Fu thought of it, he felt that it was very difficult.

"Come on, don't look." Lin's mother said to him, "after so many years, you are still thinking about it. Even if the government didn't choose us, the life of the old Lin family is not bad. It's not short compared with those who live in western style houses."

"I don't mean it." Lin's father murmured in dismay. He took another look at the high-end residential area opposite him. He turned to talk to Lin Lan about the old saying, "Lan Lan, I tell you, if your grandfather had built a small building opposite him, there would be at least two buildings in our family now. That's a little more to say. It's said that there's a family surnamed Cheng in the opposite, whose courtyard style house has been demolished, and the public has given him four new houses. If we want to replace them with our old Lin family, we must... "

"Are you bored?" Lin's mother was so impatient that she clapped her hand on her husband and said, "what can I say if I go upstairs and go home? Take all Lanlan's luggage with you! Mom's still up there watching the pot for me. "

When his wife speaks, Lin's father doesn't dare to say more. When he mentions the big and small bags on the ground, the family of three goes to the stairway. No one is afraid to look at the store. Even if he doesn't mention the monitoring in the store, even the store next door will help take care of them.

All the things in her hands were snatched away by her parents. Lin Lan walked at the end empty handed. Looking at her parents' hair, which was nearly 50 years old but not stained with frost, there was a quarrel between the couple in the stairway from time to time, and she couldn't help chuckling.

Lin Lan's family lived on the third floor. When they passed the second floor, a woman was about to go down with a bag of garbage. When she looked up, she immediately said with a smile, "Oh, Lan Lan Lan is back from tourism! No wonder Lao Lin, you two have bought a lot of things there

"How are you, aunt Yu?" Lin Lan says hello with a smile. This is the family of Uncle Yu, the driver who helped her act together before. They are the oldest tenants in this small building. They lived when their grandfather was there. They are a real neighbor of more than ten years old. "Today is the weekend. Should Lingling have a holiday?"

"It's a holiday. As soon as the girl comes to the holiday, she looks like a pig." Aunt Yu scolded, "no, I've finished lunch. She's still lying dead in bed. She's in the second grade of junior high school. She still doesn't have any consciousness."

"Not to mention the second year of junior high school, even the second year of junior high school is still this virtue." When Lin's mother heard the familiar complaint, she immediately took the call and looked back at Lin Lan, "your Lingling is like this. My family was not much better when I was studying."

When Lin langdun coughed hard, his voice lengthened: "Ma --"

this appearance amused the adults in the stairs, and aunt Yu shook her hand: "Oh, young people are like this now. Don't say, you are busy. After I throw out the garbage, I still have to ask the little ancestor to get up for dinner. "

At the end of a greeting, the two sides said goodbye, and the Lin Lan family soon went up to the third floor.

The third floor of the small building is the self occupied floor of the Lin family, which is not for rent. The pattern of three suites on the first floor was divided when Mr. Lin was still alive. One belongs to him and Mrs. Lin, one belongs to his father and mother, and the rest belongs to Lin Lan.The plan is very good, but when he dies, Granny Lin doesn't like to stay alone in the empty house without his wife. She prefers to stay with her son and daughter-in-law. She usually eats three meals a day and goes to his son's house every day. She only goes back to bed at night. Lin's parents have no problem with this. After all, it's convenient to take two more steps to take care of the old lady.

As for Lin Lan? She lives with her parents, and her apartment is still in a simple style. No one has ever lived in it. Lao Lin's family is waiting for their daughter to get married, and they will use it as a wedding room to decorate it again.

The three went to the middle of the suite door. Without waiting for anyone to open the door, the door was opened from the inside. An old woman in a thin coat and vest was standing there, with white hair but strong posture. At this time, she was holding a spatula and smiling at them: "I heard the movement of the door before, but it's back."

"Grandma Lin Lan was the first to rush over and happily hugged the old man, "I'm back!"

"Come back, come back, grandma's baby, let Grandma have a look!" When her beloved granddaughter came back, Mrs. Lin couldn't close her mouth with a smile. She held her and looked up and down. Then she felt a little distressed, "I'm thinner, and I don't have meat on my face before."

"Yes? I eat a lot of seafood in Greece. " Lin Lan replied with a smile, "by the way, grandma, the leather clothes and shoes there are very cheap. I'll buy all of them for you. In addition to these, I'll bring a lot of olive oil and olive soap there. I'll open them for you later!"

"Really?" Granny Lin didn't complain as soon as she heard that her child had spent so much money on so many things. After listening to this, she just narrowed her eyes with a smile, "I'll have a good look then. But it's better to wait until dinner. I must be hungry after such a long ride. There's another dish. It's ready to serve. "

"Grandma, don't tell me, I've been hungry for a long time! I smell my favorite braised spare ribs when I enter. I'm so greedy! "

The whole family entered the house happily. As the door was closed again, the red couplets on the door were quiet and bright while all the sounds in the house were isolated.

Dragging his luggage into the room, Lin Lan took off his windbreaker coat and changed into a more lightweight household clothes. After washing, he helped to carry several bowls, and the dishes were all on the table.

As she sat down in her usual seat, she gave a comfortable sigh.

"Home is better?" Lin's mother looks at her daughter with a smile, and the unfinished words behind all end up on a piece of braised spare ribs.

Lin Lan didn't answer the question. He said to his mother, "at the beginning, I advised you to find a job in your hometown, but I had to go to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. How about now?" This kind of subtext is vague in the past, and the head turns around and says, "where's the snow flower? Why didn't you see it? "

"I went out in the morning and haven't come back yet." It was granny Lin who was talking. She held up her chopsticks and pointed to the cat food bowl in the corner. "I just put a big bowl of cat food in the morning. I didn't have any left. A while ago, it rained all the time in Xicheng. These two days, it's not easy to clear up. It's suffocating. I don't know where the cat is basking in the sun when I run out. "

"It seems that I can't see it today." Lin Lan is a little disappointed. His big white cat either doesn't go out. Once he goes out, he will not come back until midnight.

Snowflake is a stray cat that Lin Lan accidentally found four years ago on New Year's Eve. At that time, it was only three months old. It was covered with half dry and half wet ice and snow, hidden under a broken water pipe. If it was left alone, it would definitely freeze to death. She couldn't bear to take it back. It took a lot of effort to warm it up and clean it up again. The family who didn't have pets at first saw that they were going to have a new year's Eve, so they kept it if they didn't throw it away.

That's why snowflake got its name.

I didn't know that I didn't have a pet before. When I had a cat in the house, Lao Lin's family realized that the fun was not just hearsay. They even gradually changed Lin's father-in-law and Lin's mother-in-law's attitude towards tenants who brought pets to rent houses. Over the past four years, the number of tenants who kept pets in the small building has gradually increased.

"You might as well think about what kind of" welcome gift "it will bring you the next day." At this time, father Lin said to his daughter, "every time you go home, it will send you something good. The whole family is the only one."

Although it was a joke, Lin Lan swore that she saw jealousy in her father's face.

"Dad, you like me to give you a ride." Lin Lan showed very calm, very calm reply, "remember when it's noodles are eaten."

Lin's mother and granny Lin on the table burst out laughing. The "gift" of snowflake was not a kindness that everyone could bear.

Lin Youyu was also defeated. The head of the family immediately changed his face and said, "let's not talk about snowflakes. Lan Lan, you won't go back this time, will you?"

Lin Lan took the chopsticks hand to pause: "should be." Her voice is still a little confused. She was so angry about Shao xiuye's cheating that she resigned and spent a lot of time planning the revenge.

Now that people have got revenge and have gone through travel, it is impossible to say that they have lost their job without regret. But now it's too late to say anything.

"Look again." After a meal, Lin Lan lowered his head and planed, "take a few days off first, and then still have to find a job." She knew that she was not only able to eat and drink, but also had more money than when she was working. But that person would be useless. Lin Lan thought it was better to find something to do.For this point, the old Lin family is supportive. Don't look at the house with a building. It can really make them eat and sleep all day, and do nothing. What's more, they will not get into a cigarette and liquor store, or they will be too busy.

After dinner, help clear the table together. Lin Lan took out all her Greek spoils. In addition to the special products she told granny Lin before, she also bought two exotic local hand-made blankets, one large and one small. The large one can be hung on the wall or spread on the ground. The small one is for the cat snowflake at home.

"It's just right on the nest of the cat trestle." The blanket of square towel size is spread on the highest point of cat climbing frame, the extremely high degree of coincidence makes Lin Lan very satisfied, "but I bought it specially after looking at the size."

In this way, the family and the cat will have gifts.

"Be careful it's used to grind your paws." Father Lin said carefully.

"No way!"

also ate the meal, and the gift was collected. Someone had to go downstairs and watch the shop. According to the usual practice, Lin Mu would go over to the shop, because it would make her play after her wits. Lin Fu would go to play chess with a man on the back of a Wutong tree.

Lin Lan sent her grandmother downstairs to the elderly activity center. The old lady also had her own hobbies. Their elderly activity center was rehearsing some performances such as sunset red fan dance and Errenzhuan, and now they were practicing very well.

"Lan Lan, it's not urgent to find a job. It doesn't matter to have a rest." At the gate of the activity center, the old lady patted her granddaughter's hand and said, "grandma knows you've been hurt these days, and she doesn't tell you anything more. Anyway, you're still young, and you'll always meet better people."

"Granny, you're worried. Don't worry. I'm fine. " Lin Lan smiles to his grandmother, "the dog man can't get along with him. The rich girl who pries him away is playing with him at most. Now I don't even bother to follow her. She will soon lose interest and throw him away. " It's like a toy in a child's hand. It's a treasure valued by other children. If no one looks at it, it will be boring for him to play for a while.

Just as it has never been a woman's only patent to dislike poverty and love wealth, it has never been a man's only talent to abandon everything.

Granny Lin looked at her bright and charming granddaughter and sighed: "you have ideas since you were a child. Granny is very relieved of you. Now that you're home, you can think about the future. Even if you don't want to do anything, your parents and I don't mind

"I'll think it over."

Seeing her grandmother enter the activity center, Lin Lan turns around and returns. She doesn't want to face the old man and the old woman in the activity center. She will be asked if her scalp is fried.

Stepping on the curb of the horse and walking back alone, Lin Lan looks at the surrounding environment. Compared with the last time she left, there is not much change in the neighborhood. A row of Wutong trees built on the roadside often fall down with the wind and fall down on the yellow leaves. Sometimes, when they step on them, they will hear the sound of fine pieces.

Just when the aimless radiation line of sight, behind the non motorized vehicle lane came a familiar cry and the rapid sound of dog hoof running.

"Yes! Coke, that's it! Go! I'll be home soon Young people were not ashamed to pull their voices, attracted many passers-by's eyes, and Lin Lan also did not accidentally turn back.

In front of him, a husky kept running with his mouth open. Behind him, a man in casual sports clothes pulled the dog rope with one hand and stepped on a skateboard to control the direction from time to time.

One dog, one person, one skateboard, it's not clear whether it's a person or a dog.

"Hey, cola, what's wrong? Don't run to the sidewalk Husky suddenly changed his way and rushed to the sidewalk, which made the young man in a hurry. Fortunately, the dead dog slowed down and even stopped, which made him a lot easier.

When he raised his head and saw the broken dog pounce on the passers-by, he was shocked and angry at first. Then he saw who it was and was surprised: "Oh, this is not the young master! Why did you come back suddenly

Lin Lan, who was patting the dog's head with enthusiasm, had no choice but to smile: "I said not to call me that, Comrade Xu Xiangfei."

"No problem. I rent your house. You are the landlord and I am the west of the house. It's very appropriate to call the young master." He picked up the skateboard and came to Lin Lan with the dog rope in his other hand.

This is a tenant on the fourth floor. He is a single young man. He has a husky named coke and has lived here for two years. It is said that working in a big company in the center of the city, commuting nine to five with a weekend, single dog's Day is happy and arbitrary.

In order to prevent erha from demolishing his family, he made a skateboard dog walking method based on the Internet. Every day after work and on weekends, he would take the dog with the skateboard to go out and enjoy the pleasure of "going for a ride".

It can be easily seen from the words and deeds of the goods that he definitely has a place in the crowd of contemporary young people.

But people and dogs are both funny

Lin Lan looked down at erha, who was waving her tail and spilling her tongue. This is a beautiful big dog with light gray hair. It's gray and white. The hair color is very beautiful, especially the heart-shaped beauty tip and almond eyes, even the long eyelashes.

I have to admit that even a dog is so beautiful these days that people can't help forgiving him for changing his IQ.He was trying to raise his hand and turn two dogs. He started to jump and suddenly ran to a Wutong tree and shouted in his voice.

"Coke, what are you doing?" Xu Xiangfei was pulled by it and took a few steps in that direction.

Lin Lan looked at the dog's gaze. It was discovered that the Wutong tree, which was staring at him, did not know when to climb up a wild cat. Its four claw was pulling the trunk of the tree, and its whole body was blowing up. It pointed out a sharp mew and haste toward the dog below.

"Coke, stop. You scared the kitten!" Xu Xiangfei tugged erha hard to let him leave. He looked awkwardly at Lin Lan beside him. How could this broken dog make him lose face in front of beautiful women.

But Lin Lan didn't notice. She was staring at the cat in the tree. There was a sharp meow in her ear, but now her brain automatically understood and translated it into understandable words.

"Meow, meow, ha!" Go away, stupid dog! If you come here again, I'm welcome

"Woof, woof, woof! Woof, woof, woof Erha Cola's barking is still going on, but in Linlan's ear, it is a simple barking.

Can be a change to the top of the wildcat: "ha --!" Keep away from me! Last warning, keep away

The wild cat has changed its posture from fleeing defense at the beginning to a fierce posture that can attack the dog at any time. Lin Lan can't help but reach out and help Xu Xiangfei pull the dog rope together and forcibly drag away the provocative fool Er ha.

Sure enough, as soon as the dog was far away, the cat's mood was much more relaxed. Seeing that it was still frightened and in a confrontation with the dog, Lin Lan couldn't help opening his mouth to it: "it's OK, it can't catch up, you run quickly!"

The wild cat looked up at her. Lin Lan thought it would call twice, but it ran away.

"This dog is always teasing cats and dogs!" Wild cat ran, two ha also restore calm, Xu Xiangfei is heavily patted on the dog's head, dry smile twice, no words to find words.

Lin Lan looked down at erha, then looked at Xu Xiangfei, with a serious face: "I think Coke's energy is still a bit excessive, or you can take it to run two laps?"

That makes sense!

Funny force youth with his erha and skateboard away, Lin Lan continues to walk slowly on the road, not long, back to the door of their own small building.

There are six shops on the first floor of the building. In addition to the tobacco and wine department opened by her parents, there is also a clothing shop, a snack shop, a milk tea shop, a snack bar and a pet clinic. The business is good or bad. Lin Lan, who has seen many shop changes, does not comment.

At this time, she just glanced at it, thinking about what happened to the cat barking she heard before.

Just as he was about to go upstairs and go home, there was a rather sad cat cry in his ear.

"Meow, meow, meow, meow!" (help! Help! The excrement shovel is going to take me for injection again!)

Following the sound, Lin Lan saw a passer-by carrying a pet box straight to the door of the pet clinic.

Staring at the pair of fluffy claws desperately plucked from the air hole, Lin Lanmu was stunned, and he also bowed his head and fell into meditation.




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