unfortunate black cat

Chapter 3 Please Don't Leave With Nothing
Xia Zi is about to leave, leaving the city where she has lived all her life.

Leaving this room, which has stored the memories of her half life.

Yes, she's moving out.

After her husband died, her children planned to take her to live in other places.

The reason is that she is an old man staying here alone, and her life may be inconvenient.

Xia Zi didn't refuse, in fact, she couldn't find a reason to refuse.

Especially when she was sitting alone in an empty room, when she was taking care of the sunflowers by the window sill, when she was waiting at the silent dining table alone.

Xia Zi will always understand more clearly that he no longer belongs here.

Unfortunately, she doesn't even know where she belongs now.

The person she loved all her life and who loved her all her life left.

As an old man who no longer wants to disturb the lives of his children, Xia Zi seems to have become a redundant person, a person who is no longer needed.

She is no longer an indispensable part of anyone's world, nor is she the company that no one can let go of.

Yes, as cruel as it may sound, the children already have families of their own.

It is impossible for them to continue to live in the past like her, and they still have to run around for other family members.

She will no longer be everything to anyone, even if it is short, everything in an instant.

Xia Zi's world has been cut off in half, which belongs to her alone and cannot be completed.

So she was about to leave, compromising in the most common and common way for an old man.

Try to obey the arrangements of the children, so as not to cause them trouble.

Although Xia Zi actually doesn't want to leave here, although almost everything she loves is hidden here...

But what can be done then?

When people get old, there are always some things that cannot be avoided.

Slowly closing a photo album with old hands, Xia Zi rubbed the door of the book and sighed, then put it into a cardboard box for packing the whole luggage.

It would be great if time could be turned back. She would like to wait for her husband to get off work again, and see him sitting in the living room, reading the newspaper and disciplining the three little guys.

The eldest is playful, the second is very curious, and the third is timid. Every time the three little ones get into trouble, the husband can't be free.

And at this time, it's time to put on an apron and go to the kitchen to cook.

I thought to myself, let them make trouble.

Yeah, let them make trouble.

But in a blink of an eye, why did the person disappear...

Why did the house disappear in the blink of an eye...

Xia Zi's figure was sitting alone in a room with no lights on.

Next week, her youngest daughter will come to pick her up, and after that, the old house will be put in the agency for consignment.

After that, her relationship with this place should be completely broken.

People may be like this, come empty, go empty, can't take anything away.

It was as if she had spent decades here, but now she could just leave.

……

"Meow~"

Suddenly, a voice broke the silence in the room.

It came from outside the window, a voice that should have been common, but at this moment it seemed sudden.

Cat, did I hear the meow?
Xia Zi first doubted her ears. After all, she was old and her hearing had already declined, not as sharp as young people.

"Meow~meow~"

It wasn't until the second and third cat meows sounded that Xia Zi confirmed his judgment.

So she turned her head in confusion, and looked in the direction of the voice.

Outside the side window with half-closed curtains, a black cat was crouching there.

There was a gray-brown box in its mouth, and its two paws were still pawing at the closed glass, "whimpering" as if it wanted to come in.

Xia Zi lives on the second floor, which is not high, but there has never been a wild cat running on the window sill of her house.

This made Xia Zi stunned for a moment.

But then she came back to her senses, and smiled with her mouth pursed as if she had guessed something.

Are you hungry?

She thought, then stood up.

Seriously, as if preparing to entertain visiting guests.

Walked slowly to the window, and gently opened the window for the other party.

"Wait, please?"

The old lady smiled and reached out to touch the black cat's head.

There is a very soft touch on it, with a little reassuring temperature, and the unique breathing ups and downs of life.

For Jiang Sheng, the old man's hands were dry and steady, with a little stagnation and the slowness of years.

There is no doubt that the black cat standing in front of the old man's window is Jiang Sheng.

It's here to deliver something.

But Xia Zi seemed to have misunderstood what it meant, and didn't even pay much attention to the box it was holding.

Instead, after stroking it twice, he turned and went into the house to prepare for something.

Xia Zi remembered that she still had some unfinished dried fish at home, which could just be used to feed the cat right now.The elders of their time were probably like this, always preparing some pickled or dried food at home, but people seldom have this habit now.

Looking at the back of the old man, Jiang Sheng jumped into the house without hesitation.

Its movements are light and almost silent.

The light in the room was dim, but because the curtains were not drawn tightly, a few beams of sunlight still shone in and fell on the ground, leaving slightly dazzling spots of light.

Jiang Sheng turned his head sideways to think for a moment, then put the jewelry box in his mouth under a beam of sunlight, and opened it.

The golden ring shone silently.

Jiang Sheng sat behind it and licked its paws quietly.

This is obviously not clean, but perhaps because of the cat's nature, Jiang Sheng will always do something similar subconsciously.

Fortunately, it doesn't care too much.

"Awaited."

Speaking in a gentle tone, Xia Zi walked up to Jiang Sheng with a plate of dried fish.

But when she handed the full plate to the black cat, the old man finally noticed the ring brought by Jiang Sheng.

That golden ring was not so conspicuous, but it firmly attracted her attention at this moment.

Because of its style, it was almost exactly the same as Xia Zi's wedding ring.

Then, Xia Zi looked at the iron plate embedded in the brocade box.The incomplete text on it made her bend over in a daze, and slowly knelt down on the ground, and even her voice trembled a bit.

"Is this for me..."

I don't know whether he was asking the black cat or something, the old man was in a trance and said to himself.

"Meow~"

Jiang Sheng lowered his head and ate the dried fish, as if taking the time to respond.

At the same time, Xia Zi also saw clearly the signature on the iron plate.

The name made her figure shudder.

Then the old man's eyes began to moisten unconsciously.

"yes?"

Xia Zi tremblingly stretched out her wrinkled palms.

"That's really, thank you..."

As she spoke, she gently took the ring out of the box and put it on her hand.

"Does it look good?" the old man asked with a smile.

Tears dripped between the fingers one by one, soaking the wrinkles.

For a moment, it seemed that her years were also soaked.

"Meow~"

The black cat is still competing with half a piece of dried fish.

On this day, Xia Zi found something that he could take away from this world.

It was an agreement, an expectation.

A piece of luggage that should be able to be carried in the heart, set foot on the unstoppable train of life, and go to the afterlife.

(End of this chapter)