Article from WeChat public account:Real Story Project (ID:zhenshigushi1), author: Liu Yan, head Figure from: vision China
The cats in the rental house witnessed the young people’s ambitions and ambitions for the city and brought them the intimacy they had dreamed of. At the same time, the cat accompanied the loneliness of young people and became their only relative in the super city.
Story time: 2017~2019
Story Location: Beijing
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At three in the morning, Xiao Ai was awakened by a crazy scream, and it was a meatball. Her heart was tight, and she suspected that the meatballs had urinated again, reaching out to touch the quilt and praying that “the hope is dry.” As a result, the quilt was soaked.
Throwing the quilt or washing the quilt, Xiao Ai faces the Hamlet-style choice. She was not willing to throw it when she thought of herself poor. The washing machine can’t hold a huge quilt. She can only wash it by hand. First use a watering can to wet the quilt and add a baking soda. After an hour of tossing, she finally can sleep.
There is no replacement quilt, and Xiao Ai wrapped a down jacket and covered the summer blanket. Just lying down, remembering to forget the ball, she climbed again.
The ball is a small white cat with two colors, like David Bowie, a blue, a brown, clear and depressed.
Author Map | The Differences of Meatballs
In the late autumn of 2017, I accompanied Xiaoai to Miyun to take the meatballs back to the home of the North Fifth Ring. At that time, we were colleagues. Xiao Ai, I am 2 years old, come to Beijing a year earlier than me. The first time I saw Xiao Ai, she had red short hair, a white dress and a pair of golden earrings. It looked very delicate.
One day, Xiao Ai spit in the office and said that she got up in the bathroom in the morning. When she opened the door, she saw the male roommate wearing a pair of red underwear and mopping the bedroom door. At the time, she rented a bedroom with a girl, slept on the bunk, and the room was small and worn, but it took only ten minutes to walk to the company.
I thought Xiaoai was a cool girl with a good family. I didn’t expect to live worse than I just came to Beijing. The salary is limited, and you want to save your commute time and you can only sacrifice your accommodation. She really couldn’t stand the unrestrained male roommate, found a house for half a month, and finally finalized a second bedroom rent of 1,800 yuan, 500 meters away from my home.
Xiao Ai’s roommate raised only Labrador, and the smell was extremely stinky. The moving master just stepped into the door and quickly quit, turned and retched, then looked at Xiao Ai with a pitiful look: Why do you want to move? Your previous house is a little small, broken, at least not tasteful.”
The day of the move was the Mid-Autumn Festival. Many people burned paper on the road. Xiao Ai stood downstairs and smoked. He felt like a soul without a home. He wandered in the city for two years.
A strong sense of drift invaded Xiao Ai. She had the idea of raising a cat. She felt that the cat could comfort the lonely life and let her have a companion in a big city. But she is back with a bedwetting. When I first arrived, the meatballs were still in the urine for half a month. Xiaoai bought a new quilt almost every day. The happy life of the cat and dog in the fantasy is also quickly shattered. The Labrador is not only delicious, but also often breaks the door of her bedroom, steals the cat food, and runs into the litter box to pee.
The cat with incontinence has become the biggest worry of Xiao Ai. The bed quilts in the house were all dyed by the meatballs. In the end, she really had no money to buy a new quilt. She could only choose to wash the quilt, but the taste could not be completely removed. It was winter, the tap water was cold like ice, she cried when she washed and washed, and when she cried, she sent a message to the original owner asking if she could send the cat back.
The meatballs ran over and looked innocent. Like the worms, they stretched their claws and caught the tears hanging on Xiao Ai’s face. In the end, Xiao Ai left it and bought it from the Internet.The water is covered by a hood and sheets, and I want to give it another chance. After that, the meatballs really didn’t wet the bed again, like the compassion of the owner.
Author Map | The first day of the arrival of Maruko to Xiao Ai
Don’t be covered by the child, Xiao Ai often comes to my house. Because of the cat’s sake, we began to get close.
When that winter, we left the company from the company and introduced each other to their boyfriends who were not suitable for them. They each fell into sadomasochism. I went to a long-awaited company. After a short break at home, Xiao Ai decided to take a postgraduate degree to improve his professional ability and then choose a career.
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Xiao Ai and her boyfriend rented a one-bedroom apartment. Because only a boyfriend is working alone, so although living in a 5,000-story house, life is not as comfortable as before. In order to save money, she will detour to go to the supermarket to buy yogurt, pick the temporary bread, and pick up a lot of noodles and quick-frozen dumplings.
Afterwards, Xiao Ai’s boyfriend traveled for a long time and only went home once a few months. The online communication was also more and more indifferent, and love was negligible. The last time I went home, my boyfriend took all the luggage.
After her boyfriend left, Xiao Ai officially opened the life of a debt-raising cat. She tried not to go out, almost zero social, and I rarely met. The man came and went, only the cat has been there, the days when the cats are dependent, the impatient Xiaoai has become patient. The meatball suffers from horsetail disease, and Xiao Ai wipes it twice a day for three months until the meatballs heal. She made cat rice according to the online recipe, checked the shape and color of the meatballs daily, and observed its health. With the cat accompanying, the hard days of preparing for the test also seem less bitter.
Author Map | Just Restore Healthy Meatballs
During the eleventh event, Xiaoai sent several bargaining links every day, asking me to help the meatballs cut a can of a special canned cat, and added several bargaining groups.
At the time, my work was bottlenecked and I had the idea of resigning. Xiaoai said, let’s resign, then you have to cut things at home every day like me. The radical method worked very well. I only took a day off and went back to work.
The date of the postgraduate study is near, the meatballs are suddenly ill, and they don’t eat or drink for three days. Xiao Ai took it to the hospital for blood tests, and the doctor suspected it was leukemia.
Xiao Ai had to withdraw the hotel near the test center and use the money to infuse the cat. I have a school girl living near the examination room, and I introduced the school girl to her. During the exam, she can go to school to live in the school. We have built a small group of intercommunication, named “North drift girl mutual aid group.”
At the end of the exam, Xiao Ai sent a message saying that she was afraid of getting out of the examination room and receiving the news of the death of the cat. When she wrote the answer, she shed tears and filled her head with cats. She didn’t know what she had written.
On the fourth day of infusion, the meatballs finally began to eat and resume the appearance of a lively jump. The doctor said that it may just be malnourished. Xiao Ai happily bought a bottle of wine to celebrate, Although, in order to treat the cat, she added thousands of debt bills.
At the end of the year, my boyfriend is determined to end the five-year North drift and return to his hometown. He felt that he had been drained of nutrients in Beijing, his work was not exhaustive, and his play was not enjoyable. I understand his feelings, but I don’t want to go home with him. I have been in Beijing for just one year. This city has room for delusion for me. Several discussions failed, and I watched him move out of the cohabitation room.
The house of Xiaoai is almost over, and we decided to share a two-bedroom apartment. At that time, Beijing’s rent was too expensive, and within a reasonable budget, we could only find a house in Tongzhou.
After reading the house is more than 10 o’clock in the evening, the two people’s mobile phones are out of power, can’t take a taxi, and can’t find the nearest subway. It is said that Tongzhou is full of people who struggle, but we have not seen one, and it is black.Construction site. In my mind, there were news of countless young girls who had suffered unexpected events. I took Xiao Aihu and ran around. I finally found a convenience store around the corner, charging the phone and calling the car home.
In the car, we were shocked and we were tired of this turbulent, unreserved life for the first time. Back to Xiao Ai’s home, I haven’t opened the door yet, I heard the ball screaming in the house. I have some envy. Perhaps, the cat is the happiest animal in the city, and it will always be carefree and safe.
After the New Year’s Day, we rented a two-bedroom apartment outside the Fourth Ring Road. The rent is far above the budget, but the rent can be paid monthly and the community is safe. On the first night of the new home, we found the defect of the house, the heating almost did not work, the air conditioning was useless, and the bedroom was cold like a hail.
The room in Xiao Ai is not air-conditioned, and I am sleeping with me for a while. That night, I haven’t slept for a long time. I heard Xiao Ai lying on the side of her body sobbing softly. I don’t know if it is cold.
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In the Spring Festival of 2019, neither I nor Xiao Ai went home. I didn’t buy the ticket. Xiaoai was afraid to face the family’s inquiry. She didn’t tell the family to resign, and she also said that she was at work.
After the New Year, many northern drifting cats stayed in Beijing. Xiao Ai found a part-time job to feed the cat. He went out at 7 o’clock every day and wore a helmet equipped with a camera. When the cat was photographed, the cat owner could watch it on the platform in real time.
Little Ai goes to 6 households to feed cats every day. There is a cat owner who has eight Garfields. There are many music teaching assistants in the room. Xiao Ai guesses that he is a music teacher. The first time I went, the cats lived in a clean environment, and the next day, the cockroaches had already filled the floor and sheets. It’s hard to imagine how terrible it would be if the owner didn’t ask someone to feed the cat.
One more time, Xiao Ai found that a kitten was languid and unwilling to eat and drink. Thinking of the morbidity before the ball, Xiao Ai quickly sent a video report to the cat owner. The cat owner has been busy on weekdays and has not been home for a long time. He has just arrived home for less than two days. He heard that the cat was sick and decided to fly back to Beijing that night. Cats let the North drift youth have a tie in this indifferent city, and sometimes it is a sweet burden.
In mid-February, the postgraduate examination scores, Xiao Ai did not cross the line. For this result, she had long expected and accepted calmly. The following month, she found a short-term job in the crew and needed to live in the suburbs.
I started living independently with cats. In the first few days, the cats were in harmony. After Xiao Ai left home, the meatballs were very sticky. Before, every time I wanted to hold it, it screamed and fled. Now I will sleep on my pillow, write a manuscript at home until the early morning, and stay on the table.
Author Map | The favorite corner of the ball in the North Float House
I thought that I had established a good relationship with the meatballs, and I proudly gave Xiao Ai a cat piece every day. Until I woke up one morning, I smelled the smell of the bed and the cat was in bed.
The meatballs arrived at the estrus period, but Xiao Ai did not take it for sterilization. The following week, the meatballs urinated five times, and the quilt at home was covered, but still couldn’t keep up with the speed of its bedwetting. Finally, I could only sleep with my coat. At five in the morning, I was awake, and I just got up and wrote the manuscript. I wrote it at seven o’clock. I just wanted to lie down and take a break. I turned around and desperately found that the meatballs were still peeing.
I consciously wait for the meatballs to be good, work overtime, and tireless, and add food to it. Seeing the two beaches of urine stains on the bed, I was wronged to cry and felt that the whole world was bullying me. Xiao Ai called and said that he would send the meatballs to the experienced friends of the cats for education. I was absent-minded and said, and I really cried.
Xiao Ai heard my crying and desperately comforted on the phone: “Cats are like children, stupid. Don’t you hate it because you hate it. Just hang up the quilt.” Hang up the phone. Xiao Ai quickly bought me a bed quilt and a new four-piece suit. She was worried that my mood swings affected the writing, and I was afraid that I would hate the cat. In order to alleviate my burden, she also spent huge sums of money to buy an automatic feeder.
I am a little embarrassed, Xiao Ai’s debt has not been paid off, and he has added several expenses, not only because of cats, but also because of me. I proposed to bring my own meatballs to sterilization, but Xiaoai didn’t want to bother me. I said that after cat sterilization, I need to take care of a few days, which will affect my work.
In order to facilitate the cat, Xiaoai directed me to install a monitor at home. The monitor can transmit sound. She often talks to me and the ball through the monitor. When I am not at home, she stillWill give the ball to the ball.
Author Map | Wake up every day, the meatballs sleep on the pillow
With the end of the group, Xiao Ai took the meatballs and went to sterilization. She firmly believes that the ball is crazy because she is separated from anxiety, she is dissatisfied with her long-term departure from home, or she misses her. When she was looking for a job, she deliberately chose a position that did not need to be followed frequently.
The salary has not risen too much, but the cat food has become more expensive. A friend feels that Xiao Ai is crazy, and he can’t bear the money he has given to the cat. Xiao Ai disapproves of it. When people have experienced hardships, it is inevitable that they will be mourned afterwards. Therefore, she insisted on the cat at the beginning. Rich, not enjoyable, let the cat get good.
After the sterilization of the meatballs, it only briefly stopped for two months and started to wet the bed again. Xiao Ai suffers from cat bedwetting PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), and the clinical manifestation is that there is a sense of urine in the smell. For a while, the meatballs were keen to jump into my dirty clothes. Xiao Ai saw that he would quickly pick up the meatballs and pick up my dirty socks from the dirty clothes at any cost. It was confirmed that only the socks were smelly, and only one was thrown back.
The thing that the cat wets the bed makes a friend of mine puzzled. He doesn’t understand why the two big living people have to be like this because of a cat. This is something that people who don’t have cats can’t understand. For anyone who doesn’t want to touch and retract the hand, but for the cat, probably the cat is a PUA master, even if the ball is repeatedly used to wet the bed, I still have feelings for it.
In the days of living alone, I can especially feel the importance of cats. It requires me to shovel, add cat food, change water, and feed snacks. As the only creature in the city waiting for me to go home, this need is equivalent to concern.
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