Rabbit and cat

The third wife, who lived in the yard behind us, bought a pair of white rabbits in the summer for the children of Yi.

This pair of white rabbits, seems to be away from mother not long, although different, they can also be seen innocent artless to. But also vertical small red long ears, moving nose, eyes quite a look of suspicion, probably feel unfamiliar, not at home when the peace of mind. These things, if you go out to buy them yourself at the temple fair, would cost no more than two thousand yuan each, but the third wife spent one yuan, because she asked the little angel to buy them in the shop.

Of course the children were very proud, and shouted around them; The adults gathered round to watch; A little dog named S came running, sniffed, sneezed, and retreated a few steps. "S, listen, don't you bite him!" He gave him a blow on the head and S. withdrew and did not bite again.

This pair of rabbits always shut in the rear window behind the small yard more time, I heard that because they like to tear the wallpaper, also often gnawing wood feet. There was a wild mulberry tree in the little yard. They loved to eat the fallen mulberry seeds so much that they did not even eat the spinach they had been fed. When the raven-magpies wanted to step down, they would bow down, leap vigorously on the ground with their hind feet and leap forward with a gallop. As if they had flown off with a mass of snow, the raven-magpies were scared and hurried off. Several times, they did not dare come any closer. The third lady said that the raven-magpie was not in a tight position, and at best it was only a little food. The evil thing was a big black cat, which was always looking at the low wall, which had to be prevented. Fortunately, S and the cat were at odds, or there might not be anything wrong.

Children catch and play with them; They were good-natured, with cocked ears and twitching noses, and stood meekly in the circle of little hands, but slipped away when they had time. Their sleeping place at night was a small wooden box with straw under the eaves of the back window.

After a few months of this, they suddenly began to dig themselves, very fast, with a scratch and a kick, and in half a day they had made a deep hole. Everyone was surprised. When we looked closely, we found that one belly was much bigger than the other. The next day they carried hay and leaves into the cave, and worked for most of the day.

Everyone is happy, said there is a rabbit to see; The third wife put the children under martial law, from now on not to catch. My mother also loved the prosperity of the family and said she would beg for two horses to keep outside her window when the babies were born.

From then on they lived in the cave they had made, and sometimes they came out to eat, but when they disappeared, it was not known whether they had brought food in advance and kept it there or did not eat it at all. After more than ten days, Mrs. Three said to me, the two came out again, about the rabbit is born and died, because the female one milk is very much, but there is no sign of feeding children. There was a lot of anger between her words, but there was no law.

One day, the sun is very warm, there is no wind, the leaves are not moving, I suddenly heard a lot of people there laughing, look for sound, but see a lot of people are leaning on the back window of the third wife to see: originally there is a rabbit, jumping in the yard. It was far smaller than when his parents had bought it, but he could jump with a flick of his hind foot. The children tried to tell me that they had seen a little rabbit poke his head into the hole of the cave, but immediately drew back. It must have been his brother.

The little one also picked up some blades of grass to eat, but the big one seemed not to allow him, so he often grabbed it without eating it himself. The children laughed loudly, and the little one was surprised at last, and hopped into the hole; The elder followed him to the door of the cave and pushed his child's back with his front foot. After that, he crawled away from the earth to seal the hole.

From then on the small yard more lively, the window is always someone prying.

Yet the little and the great were all missing. It was cloudy for days, and the third wife was worried about the great black cat. I said otherwise, it is cold weather, of course, are hiding, the sun out, must come out.

The sun came out, but they were not there. So people forget.

The third wife was the only one who used to feed them spinach, and so often thought of it. Once she went into the little courtyard behind the window, and suddenly she saw another hole in the corner. Looking at the old one, she could still vaguely see many claw marks. If the claw mark is said to be a big rabbit, the claw will not have such a big, I suspect to that often on the wall of the big black cat to go, I can not have to lay down the determination to excavate. I finally came out to take a hoe, dig all the way down, although suspicious, but also hope to see the accident of the white rabbit, but to be in the end, only saw a pile of rotten grass clip some rabbit hair, afraid or lay by the strike, in addition is quiet, there is no trace of what white rabbit, and his brother that a probe not out of the hole.

Anger, disappointment, and desolation made it impossible for Ee to stop digging the new hole in the corner. The big two darted out of the hole first. She thought that they had moved home, very happy, but still digging, waiting to see the bottom, it was also covered with grass and rabbit hair, but above the sleeping seven very small rabbits, covered with red flesh, when a closer look, all eyes did not open.

It was all clear. The third wife's prediction had worked out well. To prevent danger, the seven small are packed in a wooden box, moved into his room, and the big also fell into the box, ordered to breast-feeding.

Mrs. Three from now on not only deeply hate the black cat, and quite not to the big rabbit. It is said that the other two should have died before the other two, because they had one birth and never had only two, but the one who could not compete for food was the first to die in order to nurse unevenly. Which is probably just as well, because now two out of seven are skinny. So three wives have a spare time, they caught the mother rabbit, rabbit one by one in turn on the stomach to drink milk, not allowed to have many.

My mother told me that I had never even heard of such a troublesome method of raising rabbits, and I was afraid that it could be included in the book of Infinite Music.

The white rabbit's family was more prosperous; Everyone was happy again.

But ever since then, I've felt sad. Sitting by the lamp in the middle of the night, I thought that those two little lives had been lost at some time before anyone knew it, without any trace in the biological history, and without a cry. When I got up early in the morning, I saw a scattering of pigeon feathers under the pagoda tree, which had been anointed by an eagle. When the captain came to clean it in the morning, nothing was seen. Who knew that a life had been lost here? I once passed by the Xisi Archway and saw a little dog run over by a carriage. When I came back, nothing was there. It was no longer there. On summer nights, outside the window, I often hear the long squeak of a fly, which must be bitten by a fly tiger. However, I have never been able to tolerate it, and others do not hear it...

If creation can be blamed, then I think he has made life too much and destroyed it too much.

He howled and the two cats started fighting outside the window again.

"Soon! Did you hit the cat there again?"

"No, they bite themselves. He'll call me from there."

My mother, who had always been quite indifferent to my ill-treatment of the cat, suspected that I was going to do something on behalf of the rabbit, and began to inquire. And I was a real enemy in the family. I used to hurt cats, and I often beat them, especially when they cooperate. But the reason I did it was not because they were cooperating, but because they were yelling until they kept me awake, and I thought cooperation was not necessary to yell so loudly.

Moreover, the black cat hurt the rabbit, I was "famous". I think mother is too good, so can't help but say ambiguous almost disapproving reply.

Creation is too wild for me to resist him, though perhaps to help him...

The black cat will not be able to stride on the low wall for long, I decided, and glanced again at the bottle of potassium chlorate which was hidden in the bookcase.