I used to be a cat

I used to be a cat. Shit! I forgot to forget me in the car!" As soon as Guier entered her store, she shouted and quickly put all kinds of flowers in her hand on the ground to rush out to chase the taxi, but she saw a big black cat biting the big bag of Don't Forget Me, and a paw pulled a few bamboo baskets to follow in. It put down the things and immediately got busy. First, it put the newly purchased flowers in the refrigerator to keep them fresh, and then put some bloomed flowers in the bucket for purchase. Finally, after sorting out the vases on those shelves, it grabbed a basket and began to arrange flower baskets.

Although it has no hands, it stands on its hind legs, and its front paws are still busy. It picks up flowers, pruns and cleans, and soon it will be easily finished. At this time, a guest came into the store, and it immediately jumped on the chair and curled up into a ball of hair, pretending to be sleeping.

"Wow, the cat raised by the boss's wife is so big."

"Yes, yes."

"I want this flower basket. It's so beautiful. The boss's wife is really clever."

"Ha ha, where, where... 160 yuan, thank you."

As soon as the guest walked out, the black cat immediately jumped up and put in a flower basket for sale.

"Black Ice, you are so awesome! Why don't I not recruit workers, can you keep working for me? Gui'er took in the big sign of "recruining a staff member, female, regardless of age, regardless of race (this sentence is handled in a special way, only monsters can see)" and asked Hei Bing flatteringly.

The girl who had been working in Gui'er's store a few days ago hurried back to her hometown because her mother was ill, which made Gui'er suddenly confused. She couldn't find anyone to help for a moment, so she had to grab a friend to help. Zhou Ying came to work with Huoer for a day. The fire burned half of the flowers in the store and ate a guest. Liu Dilai only worked for half an hour and left with two female customers. He didn't come back. Instead, he took away more than 100 roses in the store and didn't pay; Nan Yu After coming to help for a long time, she received three calls from the hospital asking to go back to rescue patients, and insisted on leaving apologetically until the afternoon. Lu Jiu came to stand for a day, but a flower was not sold, but the money box in the store was stolen. Quanxian volunteered to work, but she was a good clerk, diligent and dexterous and can entertain guests. , but the cost of hiring her is too high, and she is particularly afraid of Zhou Ying. Every time Zhou Ying comes to pick up Gui'er, she can't help jumping in the store, which is also a big loss.

In the end, Gui'er had no choice but to hire Black Ice, the apprentice of the deer as a horse.

Although Black Ice can't change into an adult, its wages are low: three meals plus five yuan a day, and it is obedient and steady. It can also claim compensation from its guardian demon deer for horses (let the fire intimidate it).

Gui'er originally had such an idea to let Black Ice try it. The worst case is that it can't do anything. Unexpectedly, Black Ice's talent was expected by Gui'er. In a few days, it actually did better than Zhou Ying and Liu Di.

Although Black Ice is just a cat (Black Ice: I'm a monster!) But it actually has a very good artistic talent. Its flower basket is beautiful in shape and always sells quickly. It is particularly clean and likes to clean up the flower shop. Basically, if it is not afraid that it will scare customers to death, the boss Guier can omit it and do all the work by itself.

"How about black ice? If you come to work here for a long time, change it to six meals a day (the same as fire), and the wages will be 10 yuan. Let Zhou Ying teach you magic. Gui'er tried her best to pull it over.

Hei Bing sat upright, nodded and saluted, "It's a great honor to receive your praise, but you still need to discuss such a matter with your teacher."

"How polite! You are much better than our fire. I really want it to learn from you. Gui'er couldn't help holding Black Ice into her arms and kissing her hard.

Who? Who is better than me? Who is it? Come out and fight one-on-one!" Huoer shouted and rushed in. It obviously understood the phrase "bworst than fire" as "bworst than fire". First, it flapped off several vases with one wing, grabbed a bucket with one claw, and the flames on its body burned brightly to search for the target in the store.

"Dead fire, come to destroy again!" Gui'er rushed to it.

"Gui'er, immediately hand over the guy who claims to be better than me. It's not good for you to hide him!" The fire shouted.

Seeing that Zhou Ying and Huo'er had come to pick up Gui'er, he knew that it was time to get off work, so he walked out of the door.

"Black Ice, don't you also live in Taoyuan Community? Shall I take you back by the way?" Zhou Ying kindly suggested.

"Thank you, Elder Zhou. I have to go to Brother Jiu's farm to help today. I won't go back." With that, he bowed deeply to Zhou Ying.

Looking at its*, Gui'er couldn't help sighing deeply: "It's capable, polite, and willing to make progress... How can such a good cat let the deer pick it up for the horse? He is just making full use of black ice. It's better to let black ice come to our house!"

"I'm against it! I am firmly opposed to keeping pets! Never agree! Eat it!" Huo'er didn't find the enemy in the store. She just calmed down and shouted again after listening to Gui'er's words.

"All right, we can't keep pets in our family." Zhou Ying comforted it, "Go home."

"Go home for dinner! I want to eat braised pork."

Black Ice has been standing at the intersection waiting for the red light, watching Gui'er and Zhou Ying and Huoer talking and laughing and leaving the car. They seemed to be such a good family, which made Black Ice can't help but feel envious. However, if you want to become such a monster, you don't know how long it will take. At least you have to become a human first. Now Hei Bing doesn't fantasize about the faraway thing, but just practice hard every day according to the master's instructions.

... At a very far distance, I seemed to have had a warm family... But it was too far away to make it clear. At that time, I was still a cat...

Black ice shook his head and drove those memories out of his head.

Black ice? Black ice..." A voice shouted tentatively.

Hei Bing turned his head and saw a group of primary school students standing not far behind him. One of them was squatting on the ground and beckoning to himself: "Black ice, black ice, are you my black ice?"

Hei Bing stared at him quietly. At this time, the red light at the intersection was on and the vehicles stopped. Hei Bing immediately caught in the stream of people and ran across the intersection, no longer paying attention to those "Look, look, the cat is crossing the road!" The curious voice no longer paid attention to the child's call of "black ice, black ice".

The group of primary school students gathered around and chattered, "The first time I saw a cat, I would also wait for the traffic light."

"A very smart cat, maybe it's raised by a circus?"

"Xiaofeng, do you know that cat?"

"... It really looks like our black ice, but it doesn't seem to be. A few years ago, our family moved to a place where we can't keep pets. My mother has sent the black ice to the countryside... Poor black ice, it can't catch mice at all. When it comes to the countryside, it will definitely starve..." The more the child said, the more sad it became, and went far away. Looking for the traces of the black cat, he recalled the cat that once belonged to him and lived like him. I don't know if it's in the countryside.

So he has gone to school? At that time, he was still an old child in kindergarten, and now it seems that he has a lot of friends... After all, several years have passed. Hei Bing came out of the green belt and watched the group of children across the road go far away.

"Hmm! Human beings!" It remembered something, snorted heavily, turned around and ran to the suburbs.

"Look, it's the cat again."

"Yes, is it going to cross the road again?"

"Why don't we catch it? Such a smart cat must be easy to keep.

"No! I won't allow you to catch it!"

"It's not your cat... By the way, didn't you say it looks like your old cat? Just grab it and raise it for you."

"Pets are not allowed where we live, otherwise Black Ice will be given away."

"My family is the same."

"Me too."

"...Then it's useless to catch it. No one can raise it."

"Actually, I really want to have a puppy."

"I want to raise a little turtle."

"I want to raise snakes."

"In the future, when I grow up and earn money, I will definitely live in a house where I can keep pets."

"Me too."

"I want to live too!"

The children expressed their determination. The boy suddenly turned to the black ice. He took out a bag of beef jerky from his schoolbag, tore open the package and slowly approached the black ice. Hei Bing looked at him warily. He squatted down and pushed the beef jerky in front of Black Ice: "Kitty, I'll give you this. This is our Black Ice's favorite food before."

Hei Bing looked at him coldly. At this time, the signal light at the intersection changed, and Hei Bing immediately turned around and ran across the road, throwing the boy and his snacks behind.

Gui'er took a lot of milk, fried fish, prawns and snacks from the bag and put them in front of the black ice: "Come on, eat quickly. You have been selling flowers here and raising pigs these days. You must be very tired. Eat more nutritious food..."

Black ice politely thanked him, and then began to eat generously. No matter how hungry he was, he would not devour it.

"Black Ice is really upbringing." Gui'er touched its head and praised it.

Although Hei Bing is very unwilling to be stroked like a cat, even the fire is hugged and touched by Guier all day long. He can't be more airs than Bi Fang.

"I don't know how Huoer and Fox are doing. They won't come back for dinner today, will they?" Gui'er said to herself that she was dragged out by Lin Rui these days and never came back to eat, so that she had to cook and eat by herself. She didn't have a sense of accomplishment.

"Bearby the way, Black Ice, help me take this to the hospital to Nanyu after dinner." Guier took out the dried flowers she made, and Nan Yu always gave him embroidery or something. She made some dry flowers as a return gift. Anyway, Black Ice went to the hospital and went to run errands with it. Today, Zhou Ying was out by Huoer and others. He will have to find another car to go home later, so close the door early.

Recently, there have been several disappearances of children in Lixin City, which has made parents highly nervous. Lin Rui's mother also personally picks up her son to and from school every day after her busy work. Of course, Lin Rui is not afraid of kidnapping and trafficking gangs, but he is afraid of seeing his mother's tired appearance. In order to reassure his mother that he goes to school alone, he finds a fire all day looking for those who abduct children and is ready to eat forever.

Huo'er has to be busy. Of course, Yuwai has to be a follower last week's shadow. These days, those innocent criminals engaged in robbery and theft don't know how much they have been barbecued by Huoer, but they have never found the theme. They just wander outside all day and rarely come home.

So Guier was listless and had no energy to do anything. She closed the store before 4 p.m. today.

Black ice walks on the road facing the sunset. At this time, there are fewer pedestrians, and fewer people make a fus about cats with glass bottles around their necks. Hei Bing has been busy during this period of time. It is almost the same as human workers who rush to work every day. It is rare to have such an afternoon to take a leisurely walk in the sun. In the past, it spent a long time sleeping in the sun every day when it was full, but now it is vague, as if it had happened in its previous life.

No, I don't have time to waste sleep now!

Black ice restrained the desire to stretch and strode forward.

When he came to the crossroads, Hei Bing used to look behind him. These days, because it coincided with the time after work of the nearby primary school, he met the child every day. He always wanted to give Black Ice something to eat, but Black Ice never ignored him.

Black Ice has never forgotten that day. In such cold weather, the family tied themselves to a tree and left without looking back. After it became a monster, many of its past lives were almost forgotten, and only that picture was clearly imprinted in its mind.

It doesn't hate that family for a long time.

Humans are always like that, and if they didn't abandon themselves, they can't become monsters now. Instead, they should be grateful to them.

It didn't see the boy when he looked back, and then remembered that he got off work early today, so he patiently waited for the signal to change.

"Oh, black cat." The child's voice sounded, and Hei Bing suddenly turned around and saw him not far behind him. He was holding a man's hand and said, "Uncle, look, this cat looks exactly like our original black ice. I always see it here."

"It's probably a wild cat." The man said with little interest.

"Uncle, wait a minute, I'll give it something to eat." The boy found snacks in his schoolbag to feed Black Ice. Hei Bing stared at him and didn't understand why he appeared outside the school at this time and why he was with a strange man. The boy's parents, Hei Bing, knew him. He had never seen this person.

"You just eat a little, why don't you eat anything? I may not be able to feed you anymore." The boy coaxed it.

The man next to him was a little impatient and urged, "Your father is waiting for us. Leave this wild cat alone."

The boy stood up reluctantly and waved to Hei Bing: "Goodbye, kitten. If you meet our Black Ice, please help me say hello to him."

Hei Bing watched the man lead the child to the roadside to stop the car, and opened his eyes even more. That direction was not the direction the boy usually went home. Wait, who are Huo'er and the nine-tailed fox arresting? Criminal gangs abducting children? Just now, the man was saying something like "Dad is waiting for you", and the child also said that he would never come back... Did he... Black Ice's ears suddenly stood up.

The man stopped a taxi and urged the child to get in.

Black ice stepped over and approached the car that was waiting because of the red light. He saw the child talking and laughing with the man in the carriage, looking very happy. He didn't know he was abducted, did he? Then he will be sold, and I heard that they are all sold to mountain villages, where humans like to buy boys (not to buy them, right?) Humans always sell animals, but they must not like to be sold, right?

However, monsters don't care about human affairs.

Black ice turned around and walked away.

After taking two steps and turning around, do you want to tell them that the fire is in the nine-tailed fox? But when you find them, you don't know where the car has gone, right?

Just as Black Bing was thinking about it, the car started.

Black ice had no time to think about it. At the moment the car drove out, it jumped under the car. Its claws tightly grasped the chassis of the car and stuffed itself into the middle of several unnamed parts.

The car drove faster and faster, and it became more difficult for Black Ice to escape under the car. In addition, it still held a big bottle around its neck and always touched its face. It grabbed the metal object with its claws. As the car vibrated, its nails became more and more painful, and the metal became more slippery and became difficult to grasp.

If the child was not in the car, Black Ice would have used a spell to destroy the tire and stop the car, but it could not guarantee that it would not destroy the car and kill people, so he would not dare to take action easily.

The car has changed direction several times, and there are fewer and fewer other vehicles on the road, and the speed is getting faster and faster. Black ice was dizzy and almost fell from the car several times.

It's a little funny to think that I'm working so hard as if I'm going to save that child.

However, Hei Bing repeatedly reminded himself that he did this for Huo'er and the nine-tailed fox. They are their predecessors and usually take good care of themselves (Huier will also take care of you?) So I should do something for them. It has nothing to do with that boy. When he was still a cat, didn't the owner of that family often say that dogs are loyal, and cats dislike the poor and love the rich? So now I am a monster, and I have no obligation to save that boy.

I don't know what happened in front of me, and the car suddenly braked sharply.

Black ice was unprepared and was suddenly thrown out of the car. It deftly adjusted its posture and stood firmly before landing, but the glass bottle on its neck answered the ground and immediately turned into a flying glass balm. The black ice was too close, and there were wheels behind it. There was no time to dodge at all. Suddenly, it was hit several pieces. Not only did it bleed blood immediately, but its left His eyes were also hit, and now he is bleeding and there is no way to open it.

The people in the car did not notice what was under the car at all, and soon the car started again.

Black Bing gritted his teeth and rushed up again, grabbing the bottom of the car.

When the car went on the road again, the situation of Black Ice was much worse than at the beginning. It was common for it to be injured when it was a wild cat. It didn't care about the minor injury that was pricked by broken glass on its body, but its left eye was painful and could not open it. Its claws slipped several times, and it was always a little close to being thrown under the wheel. In this case, the magic was useless. The agility that was always trained as a wild cat saved its life. Several times, it couldn't help chanting spells to destroy the car, but finally put up with it.

"I want to find the nest of those prisoners, not for that child!" As he said in his heart, he tightened his claws.

The car finally slowed down and finally stopped.

Black ice immediately slipped out of the car and got into the grass on one side.

It looked around and found that it was on the hills on the edge of the city, surrounded by brand-new villas and neat green plants.

"It turns out that the criminal group lives in such a high-end place. No wonder they can't find it." Hei Bing thought about where she and his master lived, and then looked at the villa in front of him, and couldn't help but be shocked. However, criminals get money by improper means, and of course, they spend generously. Unlike themselves and Master, Brother 9, and Elder Zhou, they have to work. It is normal for monsters like Liu Di to live in such a place. They and Master have no hope in their lives. They can only wait until they have achieved success.

It sighed at the inequality of society for a while and found that the man had led the boy into the villa, so it quietly followed.

The other wounds on Black Ice's body have stopped bleeding, but the blood in his eyes is still falling drop by drop. It is useless to wipe it with its claws several times. It seems that it has to go back and ask the master for treatment. Yes, when he saw which house the kidnapper was in, he went back to inform Huoer and Nine-tailed Fox, and other things had nothing to do with him. He came for Huoer's predecessor, not for that child.

Black ice kept muttering like this while tracking.

Along the gravel path, turning around an artificial pond, the man took the child into a three-story building. After the door was closed, Hei Bing jumped on the steps, read the door sign carefully several times, and nodded: "I already know their nest. You can go back and report to the fire." It turned around, raised its tail, and walked out without hesitation.

"Ah..."

A child's scream came from the closed door.

Black ice suddenly jumped over the door, jumped up along the trees next to the house, and then jumped into the house from the open window on the second floor.

The house is very new, and it smells like it has just been painted and decorated, and there are few furniture. Hei Bing carefully stepped up the stairs and heard the voice coming from downstairs, which seemed to be the voices of two adult men. Hei Bing was about to listen to what they said when there was a "bang" below, and then the men shouted, "Don't let him run away!" Tie him up! Hurry up! Catch him."

Black ice shouted and jumped down the stairs.

The two men still ran around the room and clumsily caught their targets. They were shocked by the black ice that jumped down and shouted, "Why is there another one!"

"Black ice, another black ice!" The child who was running happily behind the men also shouted in surprise.

Black Ice found that a cat not far away was trying to get into the sofa, and the black and white-clawed cat looked exactly like herself. It looked up and found that one of the two men who were chasing the cat was the one who brought the child, and the other was a little fatter, less hair, and his clothes were more upscale. Black Ice still recognized that he was his original male owner. He was stunned and didn't understand what had happened.

"Brother-in-law, how many cats have you bought!" The man quietly asked the former owner of the black ice.

How many? This one has found more than half of the city! It's like black ice and an adult cat - there is no pet store that sells such a big cat! It's all your fault. At that time, we agreed that you would pick up the black ice before we were relieved to leave it on the tree. You actually thought of the wrong day and let others steal our black ice! Your sister and I have to make up a lot of lies to deceive the children! Now he is looking for a fake black ice to hide it from him.

"But my brother-in-law, I wasn't at that time..." The man touched his head and smiled bitterly.

"Poor Hei Bing, it's okay to meet a good master, in case you meet a bad person..." The former owner of Hei Bing shook his head and sighed.

"Dad, what are you talking about? What's wrong with Black Ice? The boy blinked puzzledly.

"Ah, Xiaogang, do you think our new home is good? And this can raise small animals. I also helped you pick up Hei Bing from the countryside. Look, you see..." The former owner of Hei Bing coaxed his son, "Your mother has gone shopping. Let's celebrate tonight. Tomorrow, Xiaogang will go to a new school. Shall we start a new life, okay?" Since his business failed a few years ago and he had to sell his house, sell his real estate, and even his beloved pet had to be abandoned, he has spent so much time to work hard. Today, he can finally say this to his son, and his eyes turned red.

"But Dad, who are our black ice?" The boy looked at the two cats and asked.

Black ice looked at the human in front of her, and then looked at the cat who was scared to drill under the sofa and only showed a tail outside.

"Black Ice, are you Black Ice?" The boy came to the black ice first and stretched out his hand to it. "You're hurt."

Black ice jumped back and gestured as an attack, and the boy's father quickly took him away.

"Hey, cat, come out!" Black ice scolded the cat, "Otherwise, I'll go there!"

The cat trembled with fear and climbed out from under the sofa. Hei Bing found that this was a cat that grew up as a pet. It was sprinkled with perfume and even its claws were cut off. Obviously, it lived a good life. Its fur was smooth and fat. Now it is afraid of this strange environment, and it is also afraid that the monster with only the appearance of a cat in front of it suspects that it has robbed its territory and shakes into a ball.

"What's your name?" Black ice asked.

"Xiaohei, I was sold to them, not myself..." The cat huddled up and begged for mercy.

"From today on, you will be called Hei Bing, forgetting those masters who sold you to live here! - They are all good people and will love you well."

"I...you..." The cat looked at the monster and didn't understand why it gave up its territory to itself.

"I'm a monster, I don't need to be raised by human beings." Hei Bing said proudly.

"Black Ice, who is Black Ice?" The boy looked at the two cats repeatedly.

"Past! He is your master now!"

The cat slowly walked to the boy and rubbed him a few times. With the animal's intuition, it knew that the human boy would be a master 100 times better than the original owner. Hei Bing, you finally know me." The boy cheered and held it in his arms.

"What if there is another one? Is it still injured? Why don't you stay and raise it? Anyway, there is no need for a cat in such a big house. The male host enthusiastically suggested.

Black ice turned around and walked to the open window.

"His third uncle, go and close the window and don't let it run away!" The male host rolled up his sleeves and was ready to pounce on the black ice.

Black ice stepped forward and clawed head-on at the man who was about to close the window. When he was scared to retreat, he only heard them shouting: "Catch it back quickly. It's injured and need medicine!"

Hei Bing quietly hid out of the window and listened to the sound of the child playing with the cat. After a while, he heard the sound of the hostess coming back. The child shouted the news of "Black Ice is back" to his mother. Then the house lit up, the smell of food, and the sound of a happy banquet for the family moving to a new house.

Black Ice waited until the room stopped all the noise and turned off the lights before coming out of the hiding place. It has forgotten the days of being a domestic cat. I vaguely remember that at this time, the cat should sleep in the quilt of the little owner, but it is a monster and has a lot of things to do. It has to apologize to Guier and Nanyu for breaking their dry vase and going to take back the work left behind.

It looked back at the house again.

In fact, it's not bad to live with that family. After all, I was a cat at that time, which was a happy cat life. If you don't become a monster, you may work hard for who can stay there with the cat.

The injured eye suddenly became so painful. It looked up at the starry sky, and a tear slipped down from its eyes...

Black ice jumped over the road and ran down the hill.