In the room on the side of the west wing, the half-closed window was slammed open, and a black figure jumped in lightly from outside the window.

"Meow……!"

The black cat ran into the house covered in snow. The cold night wind whistled past, making the two open windows creak.

"Meow……"

The black cat smelled the scent, sniffed, and tiptoed towards Hua Shi.

Hua Shi was squatting on the ground, picking up the winter dates in the basket. She also put the wooden basin she used to wash her face on the ground, rinsed the dates with spring water from the spring, and put them back into the basket.

She didn't know how the winter jujubes in the mountains grew, but each one was plump and thick, better than any she had eaten before.

Generally speaking, wild fruits that grow naturally in the mountains will not produce good results if they are not fertilized, watered, or cared for.

But the large jujube forest she saw today had plump, round fruits growing vigorously. It didn't look like it had been neglected at all...

After cleaning the winter dates, I was afraid that mice would be attracted at night and eat the dates, so I moved the wooden box in the corner out, put the basket in it, and closed the wooden lid tightly.

"Meow……"

At some point, while she wasn't paying attention, the black cat lay down on the edge of the wooden basin and drank the spring water that had been used to wash the dates in big gulps.

“Meow…”

The black cat, having drunk enough, walked back and forth in the room with its cat-like steps. It would occasionally look up at her with its round blue cat eyes, as if observing the changes in her expression.

That clever little thing doesn't look like a cat at all, it looks more like a spirit...

When the flower was about to bloom, she picked up the basin of water that was left over from the flower, poured it out of the window, and then put the empty basin back in the corner.

The black cat rubbed against her calf, happily following her steps.

Perhaps because it was exposed, it was still uneasy and kept acting coquettishly towards the flowers...

"Okay, stop rubbing against me. See that box? Keep an eye on it for me at night. The things in that box can't be eaten by mice."

After knowing that it could understand what he said, Hua Shi gave it a direct instruction.

"Meow……?"

The black cat stared at her innocently with its big, round eyes.

"Don't act like you don't know. If the things inside are bitten, don't rub against me and act like a spoiled child."

Hua Shi knew that it was pretending to be confused again and was very cunning, so she spoke with a warning tone.

"Meow."

The black cat called out to her, as if it was saying something to her.

But Hua Shi didn't understand and just washed his face.

It was getting dark again. She blew out the small coal lamp that was lit in front of the bed, got into bed, lay down in the hard, cold quilt with her clothes on, and shivered unconsciously.

She slept on a kang bed, which she could have heated up before sleeping on, but she had burned all the firewood a few days ago.

Moreover, there was no coal. Even if we burned coal in such a cold day, it wouldn't keep the room warm for long, and it would still leak in the second half of the night.

"Meow……"

In the darkness, a short cat meow came from not far from the bed.

Hua Shi ignored it, covered herself with a thin blanket and prepared to sleep.

After a while, the black cat, hearing that there was no movement, jumped lightly and skillfully onto the kang bed, nestling next to Hua Shi's pillow.

In the darkness, the cat's eyes, emitting a faint blue light, stared at the direction of the wooden box without blinking...

When you ask it to watch the flowers, of course it will watch...

Moreover, humans are really strange. They actually like to eat such dry and astringent things.

It didn't even know it, but that stinky fox knew it in advance!

The stinky fox even took Hua Shi to that forest of white dates? Winter dates? It already knew that place! Damn it!

I'm so happy when I see flowers...

It also knows other places, and this... something that looks a bit like a jujube, red and round. I wonder if it will be happy to see it when it blooms...

…

On a winter morning, the sky was gray and a little brighter, and the two rickety window leaves on the window frame were blown open by the whistling cold wind.

The wind carrying broken snow blew in, and the cold air poured in through the thin quilt.

Hua Shi was already not warm enough under the thin quilt, and she was not sleeping well. The cold wind blew in her face, and she was suddenly woken up by the cold.

When she opened her eyes, it was only dimly lit. No matter how she turned over or rubbed her feet, she couldn't warm herself up and she lost her sleepiness.

"Meow!!"

A sharp and shrill cat cry suddenly sounded.

She turned over and saw the black cat that had run onto the box to sleep at some point. Perhaps it was sleeping too deeply, it rolled over a few times and then rolled to the ground.

He scared himself and that's why he screamed so loudly.

"Meow……"

When the black cat met Hua Shi's gaze, it squatted on the ground and licked its paws belatedly. Its dark blue cat eyes were wide open, as if it was a little slow to react.

Hua Shi was awakened by the cold, so she simply crawled out of the quilt and got up slowly. After being blown by the cold wind, she was completely awake.

"Bang!"

Close the two flimsy window flaps again to block out the cold wind that seemed to have a big hole in it, and to keep a little bit of insignificant warmth in the room.

“Meow meow meow…”

The black cat woke up and ran over to rub against Hua Shi's calves, meowing at her non-stop.

I rubbed my face with water and rinsed my mouth before I had time to look at it.

Looking in the direction it arched to the left, you could see bits of blood and bones remaining at the corners of the box.

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