Chapter 41:

On New Year's Eve, Lao Lin's family closed down and stopped doing business.
Regardless of whether it is a tobacco and liquor store or a cat teahouse, the curtains are pulled down and officially closed, preparing for their own New Year.
Because it was going to be closed for several days, Lin Lan moved all the portable cat crawlers and cat bowl cat mats in the teahouse to his new house on the third floor. After all, the kittens need to be on holiday. A spacious place for activities, there is not enough for a dozen cats to play at that point in the living room of the old house.
She wasn't doing this work alone. As the only employee in the shop who didn't go home for the New Year, Xiao Song naturally helped take the hands together.
"Xiao Song, if you don't go back, why not come to my house for the New Year." Lin Lan moved all the things in the new house, Lin Lan said to his employees, "It's too cold for a Chinese New Year, come to my house for a New Year Dinner, can be regarded as a bit of employee welfare in the tea house. "
The landlord and boss take care of themselves this way, and Song Xinmin feels a little embarrassed: "Isn't it going to cause trouble to your manager?"
"No trouble, no trouble." Lin Lan waved her hand, "I have already discussed with my parents, and tomorrow's New Year's Eve dinner at home will not only call you one, but also plan to call Miss Wang. After all, you know , She is also the Chinese New Year. "
"The store manager ..." Song Xinmin was quite moved. "You are such a nice person!" Whether it is a boss or a landlord, it is too humane!
Lin Lan quickly waved her hand and refused: "Don't praise me like that, I never feel that I am a good person." She never set such a high moral standard for herself, "I am an ordinary person, don't think of me so much Noble. I call you the Chinese New Year because you are my employee, and Ms. Wang is the first VIP customer in the store. My two houses that you both rent, and you do n’t go home for the Chinese New Year, it ’s that simple.

Just like she accidentally got golden fingers from Greece, she never thought of saving cats all over the world. She just did what she could to the kittens that she could see and could reach. The distance was praised as a good person. It's so far away.
"It's already very good." Song Xinmin, who has wandered through many places and met many people and experienced many things, smiled. "Personal bosses like the store manager who don't owe wages and have employee benefits from time to time are very good."
The subtext in the discourse can be understood as long as it is mixed with society. After listening to it, Lin Lan can only pat the employee's shoulder with exclamation: "Remember to come over tomorrow night."
"Thank you manager." Comrade Xiao Song agreed with a smile, just to say hello and left, I saw Lin Lan stuffing the bag of cat food and cans into a large backpack, and could not help but stop, "Manager, cats in our store Not all cat food, why did you buy cat food? "
"Oh, this is not for the cats in the store, but for the stray cats outside." Lin Lan explained while packing the bag. The number of wild cats in the cat's boss is huge. Not exhausted.
Song Xinmin knows in seconds: "Is this going to feed those stray cats?" The store manager will go out every few days for half a day just to feed stray cats, and he also knows that this is also a breed of cat in the teahouse The main source.
It seems that there is a subtle consensus between the store manager and the stray cats. She gives them food, and they will let her bring back those beautiful pet cats from time to time.
"Yeah, tomorrow is the New Year's Eve to celebrate the New Year, and give them some past."
Hearing her affirmative answer and the cat food bale that was struggling to carry on her back, Song Xinmin hurried forward: "Why don't I go with the store manager, the two of them can relax easily."
Anyway, he had nothing to do with his holidays. This time he went out with the manager Lin to see the stray cats.
Lin Lan did not take the staff's enthusiastic help, plus the backpack is quite heavy, and finally took him, the two carried half of the cat food to the cat boss's group.
It has been snowing in Xicheng these days. There are no cats on the roof of the abandoned houses, but they can be found in another sheltered shelter.
Song Xinmin followed Lin Lan all the way and stopped in a deserted colony that was not populated by people, and saw one of the broken houses being artificially covered with leaky doors and windows. The head of the store headed towards the room and pushed open the door step by step. In the empty room, rows of trapezoidal foam boxes were placed inside. Each box was pulled out of a round hole for cats to enter and leave. With waste fabrics, from time to time, we can see a stray cat of different colors in some boxes.
Compared with the cold outside, this empty room, which is actually a bit cold, is already quite warm for the cats.
And these cats are already familiar with the manager, almost the moment she just pushed the door in, and many cats have stood at the door around her feet.
"Meow ..." "Meow--" "Ah ..."
The meows of various voices are coming and going, either gentle or rough, and Song Xinmin, who also has some cat experience in the tea house, can see that the cats have straight tails and they can guess that this is asking the store manager for food. Yes.
Of course, the more complicated translation of Meow is only understood by Lin Lan.
(Lan Lan, are you coming to see us again?)
(Lan Lan, did you bring us food again?)
(Lan Lan, you warm our cat litter, it ’s not cold when you get in!)
Stray cats are all around her legs, some meowing, some scratching her legs with their heads, full of coquetry.
"Don't squeeze everyone, you can eat everything!" Lin Lan moved carefully, fearing which one would accidentally step on, "Yes, the cat boss?"
As soon as the cat group heard her mention the boss, she slowly and automatically made a way out.
"Wow ..." The familiar hoarse cat cried, and Lin Lan saw the cat boss sitting there on the top of the highest foam box. (Even if you bring food again, this time there is no cat you want.)
Lin Lan smiled: "I'm here to give food this time. It's almost New Year, and I want you to have a fat year."
Song Xinmin followed the cat food, and after discovering the existence of the cat boss, he was immediately surprised by this raccoon cat.
Not because of appearance, but this cat's lonely temperament.
Having wandered through so many cities, he has never seen or thought that a cat can have such a leader's temperament, almost distinguishing it from other tanuki cats of the same color.
Song Xinmin subconsciously wanted to touch his body, only to feel empty after thinking that his camera was not on his body, it was a pity. If this cat can be photographed now, it is definitely a very good picture.
But soon he did not have time to regret, the store manager was already instructing him to help open the canned food for the kittens.
When rows of cans are arranged in several rows on the open space of the empty house, the stray cats are also neatly buried in their heads to eat. The impact caused by the number is still quite shocking. But apart from the whimpers that these cats make when they eat, they are no different from the cats in the store.
Perhaps it should be said that it is a cat fed by a shopkeeper who trained cats? Meal is very disciplined.
The cats are eating, but the leader-only cat boss has not eaten, and is still talking to the manager one by one cat ... or the manager's tenth-level cat language is playing a magical role again.
"Wow." (Some cats want to join this time, but I drove them away.)
"What are you doing to get rid of?" Lin Lan was surprised.
"Wow." (Food is limited. I can't shelter all cats. It is normal for weak cats to be eliminated in winter.)
Lin Lan is silent. Compared with humans, animals living in the wild have their straightforward and brutal elimination method, competing for more food and more territories, and ... the chance to survive.
"You are the cat boss, you have the final say to your ethnic group." After a while, she returned to the cat boss.
The raccoon cat's golden vertical pupil looked at her and made a long cry: "Wow woo-wow." (I have seen many two-legged beasts, some two-legged beasts like you will often give us the initiative Feeding, but they often suddenly disappear without a trace and never come back. I believe in myself more than putting food dependence on you.)
Lin Lan was speechless.
How ... straightforward answers that I don't know how to describe.
As a beast, a cat does not know how to turn corners, nor does it learn to deceive people. It just uses its own experience and experience to speak its own judgments and practices.
"Sorry." Lin Lan can only say so, "I will guarantee the cats I took back, and I will keep them, but I cannot guarantee you the same."
She asked herself, she couldn't be sure that she could feed the stray cats all her life. There were too many unpredictable variables in the middle.
Cat boss's eyes softened at this time, and also lowered his voice to call her: "Wow." (It doesn't matter. In this world, only your two-legged beasts will be willing to take care of other ethnic groups.)
After the food-feeding operation ended quickly, after helping the stray cats to fix the cat ’s nest and doors and windows again, Lin Lan left the abandoned residential house, but he felt a bit heavy.
All kinds of thoughts in the thoughts are chaotic, and there are some unrealistic impulses, but in the end, they are all pressed by reason.
Sure enough ... she was just a selfish and vulgar person who could not be a savior.
"Manager, are you familiar with this group of wild cats' head cats?" On the way, Song Xinmin's voice made her suddenly look back, and she looked up to see the excitement of this wandering photographer's face, "I want to take a picture of you Say yes? "
It means she wants to help.
"Don't ask me this, you have to ask the cat if he wants to." Lin Lan thinks that the chance is half and half, "It's too early to mention these, wait until after the New Year."
Back in the small building, Comrade Xiao Song went back to his room and took a rest. Lin Lan went up to the third floor and returned to the new house with the teahouse cat.
It was also a series of meows as soon as the door was opened, and the cats with sensitive ears had long recognized from the footsteps outside the door that she was back.
(Lan Lan, are you bringing food back?)
(A lot of other cats smell on your body!)
(It ’s rubbing, rubbing! Mom is mine!)
Just closing the door and standing still, there were already a group of cats around his legs, and one used only his head to give her a scent again. Lin Lan's originally depressed mood suddenly became cheerful again.
"Don't rub it, it's all white work." Reaching out to pick up the most powerful puppet cat, and lightly tapping its little pink nose, "Don't forget, everyone has to take a shower today. . "
No smell will disappear after washing.
In an instant, a group of vigorous cats retreated and ran away several away.