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Chapter 59 The Negative Cat (2)
I was drowsy in the afternoon class, and my mind was full of thoughts about the room in the morning, my uncle's words, the cat in the wheat field, and Teacher Zhou's dry smile.

The sky was so heavy that it looked like it was going to rain.After class, I didn’t go back to the dormitory with my roommates, but came to the school gate with my schoolbag on my back. Teacher Zhou was waiting for me with a plastic bag, and when he saw me coming, he threw the unfinished cigarette on the ground: " let's go."

The ticket was paid by the teacher, and I sat next to him in the car.The car cannot enter the village, and it takes half an hour to get out of the car.At this time, it was almost completely dark, and my teacher and I walked side by side on the path, with no other living things.Facing the cold wind, I sneezed, and when I turned my head, I saw two green lamps shaking in the distance.

No, those are a pair of eyes, feline eyes.There are no tigers here, let alone lions, and bobcats and lynxes are only found in the mountains and forests.But can a cat's eyes be that big?I couldn't see the cat's body, but felt that pair of eyes were always staring at us, following closely behind.

"Teacher Zhou..." I was a little scared, my voice trembling.

"I saw it, don't pay attention to it, go forward, and you will reach the village soon." Teacher Zhou suddenly grabbed my hand, and walked more hurriedly.I was almost dragged up by him, and when I turned around, the thing was still shaking with us, and seemed to start running.

This kind of pursuit continued, but the distance gradually increased, and the pair of eyes gradually became smaller and farther away until they disappeared. When we ran to the entrance of the village and could vaguely see lights not far away, we stopped, covered in sweat. Soggy.

When entering the village, many people greeted Mr. Zhou, and he nodded and answered one by one.Teacher Zhou came out of this village, not only the whole village, but also the first college student in the whole county.He and his fourth uncle were raised as children, but the fourth uncle went home to farm the fields when he was in high school, and he continued to study in university.

The villagers were lighting a fire to cook, and the road was filled with the smell of rice and spicy peppers. The children were chasing and playing on the stone road, and the men squatted together chatting and playing cards.I like these scenes very much, and I never get tired of hearing and seeing them.

"Chunsheng?" The back of my neck was suddenly grabbed by a pair of big hands, and I turned around to see that it was my fourth uncle.

Teacher Zhou also turned around, looked at the fourth uncle but put away his smile and didn't speak.

"Oh, Zhou Yue, you're here too." The fourth uncle called him by his first name.I was very upset, everyone called him Mr. Zhou, only the fourth uncle called him by his name.

"Yeah." Teacher Zhou reluctantly responded.

"Let's go to my brother's house and have a meal by the way. I didn't eat it either." The fourth uncle patted my shoulder, and the three of them walked home.

The fourth uncle was married, but divorced three years ago. When his father scolded him, he just laughed; when his grandma wanted to beat him, he hid.The fourth uncle is not my father's real brother, but a cousin, but my uncle died early because of the war, and my grandmother raised him up, and my father taught him how to behave and watched him start a family.

"Why are you here?" Walking into the yard, Dad put on his coat and looked at Fourth Uncle, and then seeing Teacher Zhou, he hurried over and held Teacher Zhou's hand.The two exchanged a few pleasantries, and my father asked me to go in to help, and the three elders sat in the yard and chatted.

I suddenly felt something was wrong.Seeing that my mother was busy in the kitchen, she had already served several dishes, either fish or meat, and the worst thing was scrambled eggs with leeks.I can also smell the aroma of old Shaoxing wine, but there are two bottles on the table, they are dark, and there are red letters on the waist of the bottles.

what 's wrong?
"Master is here." Mother said to me while cooking.

"Master?" I wondered.

"Well, please come, chat in your nursery, you go and have a look! It's not much older than you, I really don't know if it's okay." Niang sighed, it seemed that she was very dissatisfied.

I became curious, put down my work and ran outside the door of grandma's room.The door was ajar, I gently opened a crack and peeked.There is no electric light in Grandma's room. She said that it was too bright and it would hurt her eyes, so we kept the kerosene lamp on.

Under the oil lamp, I saw a young man sitting on a small bamboo chair, with his hands on his knees and looking up at his grandma. The grandma seemed to be muttering something, but unfortunately I never understood it, and my father and mother could only listen to it. It's a general idea, but this person seems to listen with gusto.

I could only vaguely see the profile of the man, but I couldn't see anything clearly because the light was too dim.I felt a little bored, and when I got up to leave, grandma suddenly raised her head and looked at me.

The yellow light shone on her old face, and the shadow part almost covered her shriveled head. On the contrary, her eyes lit up with green light shining out.I was startled, and quickly got out and ran back to the kitchen.Mother said that my complexion was not good-looking, but I didn't dare to answer, I just thought it was because the light was dim and my eyes were dazzled.

The meal was ready, and my mother asked everyone to sit together, and asked me to bring a bowl of badly cooked food to my grandmother first, because she had a bad tooth.I walked to the room with the bowl, when the door of the nurse's room opened and the young man walked out of the room.The room was much clearer, so I could see clearly—he was wearing a white shirt, gray trousers, and a satchel on his back, simple but comfortable, with a clean face, looking like a girl.

"Let me do it!" He suddenly reached out to take my bowl, and I passed it over without knowing why.When I took it, I saw his fingers, which didn't look like they had done farm work at all. Sure enough, as others said, he came from outside the city.

Teacher Zhou and Fourth Uncle also came over and sat down around the table. The young man was invited by his mother to sit at the head of the table.The people at the table were suddenly relatively silent, but the young man kept squinting his eyes and smiling, and kept saying that the food was delicious.

"When did Master come to our village?" Fourth Uncle finally put down his glass and asked.

"20 years ago." He suddenly stretched out two long fingers and shook them at fourth uncle.

We thought we had heard it wrong, and we all looked at him and waited for him to correct him, but he actually ate his food by himself.

"You look like you are in your early 20s, maybe two years ago?" Teacher Zhou said.

"No, 20 years ago." He put down his chopsticks and still insisted.Teacher Zhou was a little displeased, the fourth uncle just lowered his head, father was drinking, but mother looked at him without saying a word.

"I came here only yesterday, but your troubles were caused 20 years ago."

"What's your surname, Master?" Fourth Uncle asked.

"Call me Negative Cat." He opened his eyes suddenly, and a faint green light shot out. I didn't dare to look directly into his eyes, so I quickly lowered my head.

Everyone at the table was stunned.

"Just kidding, in fact, I came here to find a cat, which strayed into your village. In the end, I was grabbed by this aunt, and she asked me if I would deal with the cat monster. I just came here because I was hungry and had no place to stay. .” He rubbed the back of his head and laughed, and I saw that my mother’s face was very ugly.

"It's rare to be so straightforward in cheating on eating and drinking." Teacher Zhou snorted.

Dad looked up at his mother, with some complaints in his eyes, his mother glared at him, and he immediately lowered his head and continued to drink.

"I think this master is good." The mother firmly defended her dignity.

(End of this chapter)