Chapter 93 Cat Town (14)

My landlord was a minister.The envoy had been dead for several years, and besides having been to foreign countries, the envoy's wife had another characteristic—"We don't eat lost leaves", she said this sentence at least a hundred times a day.No matter who the landlord is, I have achieved the purpose of climbing the wall.I am as proud as a kitten practicing going to the house for the first time. After all, I can see how the four-square house is arranged. Halfway through the climb, I felt a little bit of a drum in my heart.If I say that the wall is shaking, I am lying; it is absolutely true that it falls to the ground with the touch of hands and feet.I thought to myself: Maybe this crisp wall has another function.When I climbed to the top of the wall, if it wasn't for my dizziness, then the wall must be shaking.

The house turned out to be roofless.What if it rains?I can't think of it, so I prefer to live here for a while.Five feet deep from the top of the wall, there is a layer of boards with a big hole in the middle. The minister's wife is poking her head out of this hole to entertain me.The minister's wife has a big face and sharp eyes, but that doesn't scare me; the white powder on her face is thick, but the fine gray hairs are still exposed, like an old wax gourd with hard thorns and thick eyes, Makes me a little scared. "Put any luggage on the board. The top is yours to use, don't come down below. Eat at dawn and eat at dark, don't miss it. We don't eat lost leaves! Bring the rent!" Mrs. Minister He really knows how to do diplomacy.

I paid the rent.I have the five hundred national souls that Daxie gave me in my trouser pocket. This saves trouble: I am the luggage myself, and since I have a place to live, I don't have to worry about anything.As for the house, there is only one floor and four walls, and there is no need to move tables and chairs to make trouble.As long as I don't accidentally fall out of the hole in my heart, the world will probably be considered peaceful.The mud on the board was at least two inches thick, and the smell from the mud was not at all like what the envoy's house should have.The top was drying in the sun, and the bottom was stinky mud, so I had to go to the street.I can see why cat people spend their days on the streets.

Before I even started, I crawled out of the hole: the envoy's wife, a woman with eight wax gourd faces.The eight women climbed out of the wall first, and none of them dared to look me in the eye.In the end, the minister's wife was outside the wall, and she put her head on the wall and said: "Let's go outside, see you at night! There is no way, the minister is dead, and the responsibility rests on me. I have to look after these eight things for him. No money, no man, I have to watch these eight young goblins all day long! We don’t eat fan leaves! The husband is a minister, and the wife of the minister has been to foreign countries. A little she-cat!"

I hope the wife of the minister will go down quickly, otherwise these eight women may become nothing in her mouth!The envoy's wife was very interesting, and suddenly disappeared. I fell into the ecstasy again.What's the matter?Eight daughters?Eight sisters?Eight concubines?By the way, eight concubines.Daxie didn't allow me to go to his house, probably because of this.Under the board, there is no light, no air, a cat person, with a group of female cats - to quote the official words of the minister's wife - smelly, messy, lewd, ugly... I regret it, it doesn't matter whether this kind of family sees it or not.But the rent has been paid, and besides, I must try to get down there, no matter how embarrassing.

They're all out, should I go down and see now?No, the envoy's wife told me not to go down. It's not fair to spy secretly.While hesitating like this, the head of the minister's wife on the wall came back again: "Get out quickly, don't look down privately, it's not decent!" I quickly climbed down.Who should I go to?Only Xiaoxie can talk, although he is so pessimistic.But where to find him?He certainly wouldn't be at home; looking for someone on the street was about as hopeless as looking for a needle in a sea of ​​water.I squeezed my way out of the crowd and watched the street from a distance.I can see clearly: the middle of the city is the residence of nobles and government offices, because the houses are much higher than those on the left and right.The lower and more dilapidated the more you go to the two sides, it must be the residences and small shops of the poor.If you remember this clearly, you probably know Cat City.

At this moment, more than a dozen women were squeezed out from the crowd.The one with the white face must be a woman, and I can recognize it from a distance.They came towards me.I felt a little uncomfortable: from the impression given to me by the envoy's wife and Daxie, I thought the women in this place must be extremely obedient, honest, and not free.Running around casually, like these dozen or so women, will definitely not have rules.I'm new here, don't let people underestimate me, I have to be careful.When I thought of this, I started to run. "Start the work of observation?" Xiaoxie's voice.

I took a closer look, and it turned out that he was wrapped up among the group of girls. I don't have to run.In a blink of an eye, Xiao Xie and I were surrounded by the middle. "One?" Xiaoxie said with a smile.My eyes turned around: "This is a flower, this is a fan, and this is a fan, which is more fanciful than a fan of leaves, this is a star..." He told me their names, but I couldn't remember them all. Mi came over and winked at me, and I shivered.I don't know what to do: what these girls are for, I don't know.If they are all bad people, I shouldn't care less about my reputation when I first came here; if they are all good people, I shouldn't offend them.To be honest, although I am not a person who hates women, I never seem to have a good impression of women.I always feel that a woman's fondness for powdering is a kind of hypocrisy.Of course, I have also seen women who don't wear powder, but they are not necessarily less hypocritical than other women.This mentality does not make me less respectful to women, it is my attitude towards women to keep a respectful distance.So I don't want to offend these girls.

Xiaoxie seemed to see my dilemma.He pushed them playfully, "Go! Go! If the two philosophers meet, they won't want you anymore." They chirped and laughed for a while, and squeezed into the crowd knowingly.I was still in a daze. "Old characters often marry concubines, and new characters marry more wives. I, who hates the old and hates the new, neither marry nor take concubines. I just play games with women casually. Perfunctory, or perfunctory. Who dare not perfunctory women?" ?” "These women seem to be—" I didn't know how to put it. "They? It seems—" Xiaoxie took it: "It seems—— it's women. It doesn't matter if you suppress them, love them, respect them, fall in love with them, or feed them; it's just up to the man's thoughts. The difference is that women themselves never change. My great-grandmother powdered, my grandmother powdered, my mother powdered, my sister powdered, these women powdered, and the granddaughters of these women powdered. They have to be powdered when they are locked in the house, and they have to be powdered when they are left on the street." "Pessimism is here again!" I said.

"This is not pessimism, this is exalting women, respecting women, men are fooling around all day long, useless, sometimes become saints, sometimes become beasts; only women, only women, are always pure, always women, always fighting : I always feel that my face is not good at birth, so I have to put some white powder on it. If men also feel that the faces of saints and beasts are not fair enough, of course they will not be so shameless. They must first care about face, and then go blind Nonsense." This joke-like argument made me meditate again. Xiao Xie continued proudly: "The group of women just now are all 'so-called' New School women. They are the enemies of my father and the minister's wife. This does not mean that they want to fight with my father; it is that my father hates my father. They, for he couldn't sell them as fangirls, if they were his daughters, or lock them up in the house, if they were his wives. Not that they were any more than my mother or ministers They are more powerful, more capable, but they are more like women, less able to do things, less able to think - but very good at putting powder on their faces. They are all very cute, even I who don't love everything often have to Perfuse them."

"Are they all newly educated?" I asked. Xiaoxie was so happy that she was speechless for a long time. "Education? Oh, education, education, education!" Xiaoxie seemed a little crazy: "Except for the 'no' education in the school, the rest of the cat country is 'education'! Grandpa's swearing, education; father's selling fans, education ;The envoy's wife supervises eight live dead female cats, education; the stinking ditch in the street, education; soldiers beat drums on people's heads, education; Eat ten fanciful leaves, otherwise, you will have to vomit!" "Are there many schools here?" "A lot. You haven't gone down the street to see it yet?" "No." "You should take a look. There are cultural institutions all over the street." Xiaoxie smiled again. "Does the cultural institution have anything to do with culture? You don't have to ask. The institution is indeed there." He looked up at the sky: "No, it's going to rain!" There were no thick clouds in the sky, but a gust of east wind blew very cool. "Hurry up and go home!" Xiaoxie seemed very afraid of the rain. "See you here on a sunny day." The crowd met the storm and rolled towards the house with all their strength.I also ran, although I knew I was still drenched when I got home, the house was not covered.It's also interesting to watch people climb up the wall like crazy. I have seen a few people do obstacle races, but I have never seen the whole city climb up the wall together. The east wind came again, and it suddenly became dark.A sky-high red flash, forming a big triangle with the row of houses.Raindrops the size of eggs slapped down with a thunder.There was a rustling sound in the distance, the raindrops were few and far between, the lower part of the sky was gray and shiny, there was a gust of cool wind, and there was another big flash, no single raindrop could be heard, and a whole row of raindrops fell from the sky.The sky is out of sight.Everything is out of sight.Only the flash is stronger.The high part of the rain channel suddenly cut across, and a startled snake quickly cut a piece of the black sky, and after two tremblings, it disappeared; everything was completely black.When I ran to the bottom of the wall, I was completely wet. Which is the room of the minister's wife?Can't see clearly.I took a few steps back and waited to take a look at the flash.There was another big one, bright and white, like the biggest black ghost occasionally opening its eyes in the sky, and blinking very quickly a few times.No, I still can't see clearly.I'm in a hurry, whoever's house it is, let's climb up; we'll talk after climbing up.When I got halfway up, I found out that this was the room of the Minister's wife, because the wall was shaking. There was a big flash, and after waiting for what seemed centuries, there was a loud thunder that sounded like the whole sky was falling.Both me and the wall have changed from straight to slanted.I closed my eyes, there was another sound, where did I go?Who knows!