my friend is a stray cat

And Ah Ye was not paralyzed by this pleasant smell that made him feel relaxed. Once he regained consciousness, he would maintain an instinctive vigilance. At that time, Cheng Hui wanted to help lick a wound on his shoulder. Ah Ye stretched out his claws to push away the opponent's head, and nimbly jumped aside, his figure was still hidden in the night, but his eyes were very bright and energetic.

"Don't touch me." Ah Ye said coldly.

Cheng Hui squatted on the spot and said, "Sorry for disturbing your sleep." There was no sense of guilt in the voice, it sounded lazy.

A Ye said bluntly: "I thought you were captured, or went home directly, or got lost, anyway, you won't come back to bother me."

"How come? I really underestimated me." Cheng Hui said: "I brought back a mouse that was about to die, would you like to see it?"

Ah Ye let out a long breath, moved forward from the shadow, and asked, "Mouse? Where is it?"

Cheng Hui pointed to a small open space outside the corner with his paws, the silver-white moonlight just crossed the high wall and projected on the ground, forming an irregular and bright quadrilateral, a gray mouse was lying in the moonlight, its hind legs Slightly twitching, hovering on the edge of life and death, the scene actually looked a little sacred.

A Ye looked at Cheng Hui again, and then walked towards the mouse that was about to die. When he got closer, he found dark brown blood foaming from the mouth of the mouse by the moonlight. A Ye lowered his head and sniffed the mouse again. Startled for a moment, then turned his head and looked at Cheng Hui with disdain.

Cheng Hui also came over, tilted his head and looked at A Ye, "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Are you going to poison me or yourself?" Ah Ye said, "Can't you smell that this is a rat that only ate rat poison?"

"Of course I know, I still watched him eat the rat poison." Cheng Hui said calmly, "Because I picked this one up at the rat poison injection port, and brought it back for you to see while he was still alive."

Cheng Hui approached Ah Ye a little more, and said, "Anyway, the living creature has been brought back, and the task you entrusted to me has been completed. Of course, you have passed my test."

"Your test?" A Ye asked.

Cheng Hui nodded, "It's okay, you're good at fighting and you're not stupid. Although you're a little arrogant, you know how to distinguish between poisonous and non-poisonous things. I think... If you can't tell the difference, you will end up eating this one." Mouse, then I just happened to take over this site, and the result is not bad, isn't it?"

A Ye turned his head and stared at Chenghui silently, the latter did not avoid his gaze, his round cat eyes looked back at the other party, this was a silent confrontation, different purposes motivated different The brilliance of each other dances in each other's eyes.

But the confrontation didn't last long, Chenghui's eyes soon brought some smiles, he pointed to the leeward corner, and asked: "Can I sleep here for a while? Now the mice have learned to be smart, I waited for a long time for one to eat rat poison, and my neck hurts from exhaustion."

Ah Ye flatly refused: "No."

Cheng Hui withdrew his claws and muttered, "Stingy."

Ah Ye commented on the other party mercilessly, "hypocritical."

Cheng Hui shook his soft ears, but he was not angry, and said: "Okay, you have the final say on your territory, I'll go find another place." Cheng Hui was about to turn around and leave.

"Take this thing away and throw it far away." A Ye pointed to the dead mouse on the ground.

Cheng Hui let out an "oh", dragged the dead mouse, and stumbled out of A Ye's sight.

The night returned to silence, and there was no sound of vehicles passing by on the road not far away. Ah Ye curled up in his small corner and closed his eyes, but in fact he had been disturbed by the clear dust so that he didn't feel sleepy. He still couldn't fall asleep in this posture, so he jumped along the low slope to the high wall, and waited for the sunrise here.

Watching the sunrise is one of Ah Ye's rare pleasures, because the sunrise represents a new day, which means that he has lived through another night. He often sits on a high place and watches the silent city gradually come back to life, watching The sun spread from a distance, leaving some warmth on his black fur.

But today, Ah Ye's attention was not on the sunrise at all. He just looked down at the cat with the same color as the sun running across his territory. He thought that he still wasn't used to having another cat. Live in your own territory.

Cheng Hui ran across the straight road and stopped at the door of the hardware store. Douding had just finished his breakfast at that time and stood at the door and burped for a long time. Halfway through the belch, his eyes caught sight of Cheng Hui, and his stomach shrank inexplicably. With one click, he almost bit his own tongue.

Douding coughed twice, took a step back, and asked Chenghui, "You...what are you doing?"

Cheng Hui leaned over and said, "Do me a favor."

Douding blinked at the other party and reminded, "You still hit me yesterday."

"How do you say that, if you don't fight, you don't know each other." Cheng Hui said, "Why don't I get you something to eat later, as an apology."

"Really?" Douding tilted his head and asked, "A Ye asked you to stay?"

"Anyway, he didn't come to chase me this morning." Cheng Hui moved closer to the other party, lowered his head, and urged: "Quick, help me."

"What?" Douding asked, and took another step back. He was very afraid of the yellow-and-white cat in front of him. During the short time with him yesterday, he felt that this cat was very difficult to get along with.

"The collar." Cheng Hui said at this time: "Help me take it off, I can't take it off by myself."

Douding snorted twice, and said, "Why don't you ask Ah Ye to help you? My mouth is too big for your neck, and your collar is so thin, it may not be able to catch it."

Cheng Hui considered the words for a while, and said, "I think you look more... kind-hearted than him. As for the collar, you can try to grab it, so that I can use my strength to break free."

Douding hummed again, "Okay." After speaking, he lowered his head and carefully held the collar on Chenghui's neck.

"Yes, yes, that's it, hold on tight, don't let go." Cheng Hui said, then struggled backwards, and finally got out of the collar. He suddenly felt a relief on his neck, and let out a long sigh of relief. .

Douding put the collar in his mouth on the ground. It was a pink wool loop with orange cat paw prints on it. Douding shook his head and said, "This collar is pretty pretty, anyway, it's better than mine. too much."

Cheng Hui gave a perfunctory "hmm", raised his head and said to Douding, "Thank you." Then he picked up the collar on the ground and ran away quickly.

Not long after, Ah Ye saw a yellow and white point in the distance gradually approaching him, climbing up the high wall where he was, but Cheng Hui's movements were not neat, during which time his paws slipped and he almost fell , but no matter what, he finally climbed up to Ah Ye, put the pink collar in front of the opponent's paw, then looked around, and said with emotion: "The scenery here is really good."

A Ye glanced at the collar, pulled it with his paw, and asked, "What does this thing mean? Are you showing your determination?"

Cheng Hui came back to his senses from the distant scenery, turned his head and said: "This is just a gift for you, I hope it can remind you, don't always treat me like a useless house cat."

Ah Ye said in a flat voice: "I will keep it for you first, and if you want to go home soon, I will give it to you again."

There was a little anger in Chenghui's eyes, but he quickly returned to normal, and said: "Whatever you want, you can deal with it as you like, anyway, your impression of me will not be reversed for a while."

A Ye glanced at the other party, his yellow-green eyes looked very deep, then he picked up the collar in front of him, stood up and jumped off the high wall.A Ye deliberately chose a tricky angle to jump off, even though the wound on his body was a little painful after landing, then he turned around and looked up at the high wall.

Cheng Hui looked at him, took a step back, and jumped down along A Ye's route. The movements were still clumsy, but finally landed successfully, and raised his jaw towards A Ye after landing.

Ah Ye didn't speak, turned around and continued to walk forward, found a wide cement gap along the base of the wall, and stuffed the collar into the gap in front of Cheng Hui, and pulled some dust with his claws, The bright pink was buried.

Cheng Hui watched from the side without commenting, and waited for Ah Ye to finish the series of things before asking, "Can you take me around your territory?"

Ah Ye took a few steps forward and said without looking back, "Let's go."

There was a bit of joy in Cheng Hui's eyes, he trotted to keep up, and walked side by side with Cheng Hui along the base of the wall. The smell of food slowly drifted over from not far away, and the smell made Cheng Hui feel hungry, so he glanced in that direction a few times.

"That's the core of all disputes." Ah Ye said suddenly, "Food."

Cheng Hui turned back to look at the other party.

"There is a famous auto repair center nearby." Ah Ye explained: "The only restaurant is on my territory. For stray animals, restaurants with humans have a rich source of food, while the second block and the third block The guys on the block weren't so lucky, so..."

"So those two wild dogs in the second block always come to harass you?" Cheng Hui continued: "In order to get a better source of food?"

Ah Ye nodded, paused, and said: "But... Actually, this land was originally occupied by those two wild dogs. I originally lived in the third block, where there are many stray cats. Of course, there are also stray cats. Lots of disputes."

"Then... you drove those two wild dogs away? You yourself?" Cheng Hui asked.

"It's not me." Ah Ye said, "It's my mother."

Cheng Hui thought about it, and didn't ask further questions, but changed the subject and asked, "A Ye, how long have you been wandering?"

"It's been... three years since I was born." Ah Ye replied.

Cheng Hui said softly: "Oh? Then I am about the same age as you."

"It's different, very different." A Ye shook his head.

Cheng Hui asked, "How?"

"Stray cats don't live long, because we don't have clean food, clean water, a fixed place to live, and we don't have the vaccinations you domestic cats have had. Our life span is only about one-third of yours." A Ye turned his head. Said: "According to this calculation, I am already an old cat."