The cat that rang the bell

"Hi! Dear cat, I've come to talk to you." The little Shiba Inu said.

"Well ......" the cat hesitated and nodded her head.

I don't know how many years ago, the cat started ringing the bell for the town, no one asked her to, she volunteered.

The bell tower is dark, empty, any small sound can be easily captured, the life in the bell tower is always monotonous and boring very lonely.

This day, the little guest was welcomed, the cat was a bit overwhelmed, after so many years of ringing the bell, has long forgotten how to get along with people, but this little guest does not need her to worry about, the little Shiba Inu is very warm, a bit familiar, which let the cat a little down.

"Cat, why don't you go live in the town? The town is very lively inside, the residents are very approachable, and there are many fun places, I can take you anywhere." The little Shiba Inu asked.

"I ...... I'm waiting for a bear, I don't want to go anywhere, if the bear comes back, he can find me immediately, it doesn't matter that I've waited so long, but I don't want him to wait." The cat said slowly.

"Ah, so that's how it is, people thought you did not like the town. But it does not matter, you do not want to go out, I can always come to visit you, and will bring you a lot of good food and fun, look! What have I got for you?" The little Shiba Inu tricked out a bottle of rose wine and a big handful of nuts.

The pale golden rose wine swirled in the crystal clear glass bottle and the nuts were scattered on the floor.

"We can eat and talk, drink wine, talk about all the bad things, the mood will be better!" Little Shiba Inu said with a smile.

Rose wine and nuts? The cat narrowed its eyes.

"Tick," the fragrance of rose wine overflowed, filling the cat's surroundings and invading its will, just as it did then.

Just a small sip, the cat compromised.

When the fragrance of roses and sweet slightly sour, no reservations in the cat's mouth, the cat suddenly remembered what the bear said, the cat ah, less alcohol, I am not here, if abducted, it can not be.

You are not in, so still manage so many things, firmly occupy my mind, really a selfish guy.

The cat laughed, as if it were a lifetime ago.

"Hey! Cat - I'm here!" The bear waved his arms and called out to the cat.

The cat darted next to the bear, stood on tiptoe and flicked the bear hard, feigning anger: "Nasty bear, don't shout at me so loudly, it looks silly to you, and ...... so many little animals are looking at us hey, weirdly embarrassing... ..." the cat's voice got smaller and smaller.

"It's okay." The bear was scolded and smiled nervously.

What a silly bear.

At this point, the bear had already set up his drawing board: "Look! Cat, what is this?"

The cat took a look at it and laughed, "Bear, do you think I'm as stupid as you are?

The bear shook his head, added a few more strokes to the painting, and said, "It's not a rose, it's a cat that's even more beautiful and delicate than a rose!"

The cat got shy and gave the bear a little whack: "What a slick-tongued bear, paint your picture!"

I forgot to mention that the bear is a painter and aspires to be the best one.

"Cat? Cat! What's wrong, why don't you say anything?" The little Shiba Inu shook Cat's arm and asked her eagerly.

"Nothing, just remembering some old stories." Cat shook her head, indicating that she was really fine.

"Geez, Cat! Stop drinking and eat some nuts." The young Shiba Inu swept over the rose wine that had already been mostly drunk by the cat and pushed most of the nuts on the floor in front of the cat.

"Click," the cat gently pinched open a nut, revealing the creamy white nuts inside, before all the bear peeled, they do not seem to have touched, but the bear said, can not eat more, or ......

"Ouch! Cat, can you not buy so many nuts, you do not do it yourself, take me as an automatic peeling nuts machine?" The bear was a little angry, but the action of the hands did not slacken at all.

"Oh, dear Mr. Bear, these little nuts are small problems for you, you have to take care of me, a tender little kitty." The cat said while leaning on the bear.

"I can't help you, automatic kernel peeler is automatic kernel peeler, who let me planted in you." The bear was very helpless.

The cat enjoyed the bear's service while lying comfortably on the bear's plush body.

"This almond can not eat more, a maximum of twenty a day, otherwise it will be poisoned, this walnut and chestnut can not eat more, eat too much will be fire, mouth blisters, a touch of pain, but this pistachio can eat a little more, but eat too much, will also be toothache, very uncomfortable ...... "The bear is peeling, while rambling on and on.

Whenever the bear handed over the nuts, the cat opened her mouth and bit into them, she didn't think so much about it, the bear would think about it all for her.

The cat was so comfortable that she suddenly "crunched".

"Bear!" The cat was furious, "How could you secretly switch to stones for me to eat, you hateful bear!"

"I just wanted to test if you were paying attention to what you were eating or not?" The bear laughed so hard that tears came to his eyes.

The cat thought their happy days would go on forever, when suddenly one day there was an unexpected twist.

That day, the bear came home and said to the cat excitedly, "I'm planning a trip to the sea. A painter should always go to see the sea once in his life and paint a picture about it.

The cat hesitated, she was torn, she loved the town, there were roses and delicious nuts that she loved, in comparison, the cat was not as obsessed with the sea as the bear was, on the contrary, the cat was seasick, very seasick, very seasick, and she could not stand the strong smell of fish on the beach, where she would not be able to see the roses and eat the delicious nuts.

"I'm sorry, Bear, I don't really want to go to the beach, I get seasick, you know, and I don't want to ......" the cat doused the bear's enthusiasm and wanted to say something.

The bear pretended to be relaxed and said, "It's okay, I can go there by myself, I will send you many postcards of the sea and will write you letters."

The cat looked gloomy: "I'm sorry, Bear ......"

The bear soon set sail, and he and the cat had a pact.

In the near future, the bear will paint the best sea, then come back here and never leave again, he will spend the rest of his life with the cat.

The cat went to the bell tower to ring the bell, and the bear left the town to set sail.

Before the bear left, he smiled and said, "Don't be snatched away by anyone else until I come back."

Day after day, year after year, the bear never came back, the cat was very disappointed, is forgetting me? Is he never coming back ......

On a very normal day, a sea breeze with the fresh smell of sea salt slowly blew in, bringing news of the bear.

The sea breeze told the cat that the bear often set up a drawing board on the beach, sometimes painting the sea, sometimes painting roses, and countless different paintings all had a common feature: a cat.

When someone asked the bear why he painted the cat, the bear always replied gently, "It's my cat."

On his last voyage, the bear said he would find the cat when he returned, but never returned, and the sea breeze never saw the bear again.

The cat was bewildered.

When spring came, a swallow, flying across the ocean to the cat, said that it had seen the bear's drawing board on a deserted island, soaked white and swollen.

There was a painting on it, the paint was blurred by the water, vaguely discernible, a big red, dark green watercolor intertwined, passionate and sad, with a mass of black ink in the center, blurred and deep, the shape of a cat!

Swallow told the cat this, shook his head and left.

That night, the clock struck twelve at midnight thirteen times, one more for the bear, and for himself.

The cat was a little drunk, his consciousness began to blur, and the whole cat was flooded with sour energy.

Little Shiba Inu is right, some things should be put down after all.

"Bang Bang Bang!" The door rang, the little Shiba Inu staggered over to open the door.

"Huffing ...... Huffing ......" a huge body climbed up.

"Where is the cat?" He was very anxious.

The little Shiba Inu shouted, "Cat! There's a very big bear coming for you, dressed in rags, probably a smelly beggar, shall we chase him away?"