1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 21 Cat
Everyone is poor these days, but the countryside is poorer by comparison.

The place where the father and son went in the summer may actually be the Fourth Ring Road of Yanjing in later generations, but it is indeed a rural area now, surrounded by cornfields!

We showed a movie in the evening. It was the old movie "Land Mine Warfare". The villagers laughed happily.

Now is the end of the busy harvest season. Our tired bodies need rest and our dry spirits need nourishment.

Although you may have watched "Land Mine Warfare" dozens of times, it can still make many people laugh.

After the movie, when Xia Tian was packing up, he found something approaching him!

A small black coal-like thing, with two eyes emitting faint green light.

It turned out to be a little black cat!

The kitten saw Xia Tian standing there and actually climbed up his trouser leg.

"Hey, what are you doing~"

I picked up a kitten in the summer and found it was so thin, so skinny!
After a while, a kid with a runny nose ran over and said, "This is my kitten."

"Oh." Xia Tian handed the cat to him.

"The movie is really good. Will you come again in the future?" he asked as he took the kitten.

"Come! I will definitely come again in the future to bring you more interesting movies!"

Xia Tian chatted with him for a long time and asked about their situation.

The main reason is poverty, scarcity of supplies, and sometimes even hunger.

In those days, grain was purchased and sold by the government, and food rations were fixed. The brigade earned work points, but work points were worthless.

In many places, the land is barren and one can only earn two or three work points after a day's hard work, but one work point is only converted into a few cents.

There is nothing wrong with the grand strategy of using agriculture to support industry and achieve industrialization.

We are also one of the countries that started the latest and are among the very few that have completed industrialization.

But what about the promise that industry will feed back to agriculture?

We owe farmers so much...

Finally, the child talked about the cat in his arms: "The big cat at home died, I don't know if this little one can survive..."

The kitten had just been weaned, so it was a bit difficult for it to catch mice. But there was no extra food at home to feed it.

Xia Tian thought for a moment and said, "How about this, can you give me the cat?"

The child looked at the cat and handed it to Xia Tian: "Here you go."

Xia Tian smiled and took out two candies from his pocket, "Here, this is for you."

"Candy!" The child's eyes lit up when he saw the red candy wrapper.

He was a little embarrassed, so he took it shyly, opened one, and licked it. "Sweet!"

We can only eat a few pieces during the Chinese New Year throughout the year, and the sweetness is so blissful!

But he quickly spit the candy back into the candy wrapper and wrapped it up.

"What's wrong? Is it not tasty?" Xia Tian asked curiously.

"Take it back for my sister to eat!"

At that moment, Xia Tian really had tears in her eyes.

We need a better life!

We will definitely have a better life!

This movie screening made Xia Tian think more about many things.

Perhaps every step we take is a step that we have to take.

……

The next day, Xia Tian went home and gave the kitten a hot bath.

The kitten was quite well behaved, not making a fuss or scratching anyone. Even when I was bathing, I didn't struggle, I just meowed helplessly.

Sometimes I feel a little nervous...

After taking a shower, the case was solved!
It turns out it’s not a little black cat, but a cow cat!

Before, it was too dirty, and you couldn't even see the white color. No wonder he was so nervous!

In the summer, give it one third of the boiled egg you eat every day to nourish its body, and it will soon become active again.

Meet the Cat

Cats are the most aloof and don't listen to orders. But I didn't expect them to act like a spoiled child the first time I saw them.

I asked, "Are the fish dried?" I scratched it myself! I got up and had fun learning to meow with the cat.

……

In autumn, in addition to some daily fine grains and coarse grains, grain stores also supply some sweet potatoes. One pound of coarse grain coupons can be exchanged for 5 pounds of sweet potatoes.

As long as there is a supply of sweet potatoes, almost every household that buys grain from this grain store will exchange them for coarse grain coupons.

If you don't line up early on this day, you may not be able to buy it.

In order to ensure that as many people as possible could buy the sweet potatoes, the grain store stipulated that each person could only exchange 5 jin of coarse grain tickets for sweet potatoes.

In the summer, my family bought 15 kilograms of sweet potatoes, which are called yam in the north.

In some places in the south, sweet potatoes are called yam or something similar to yam.

I started eating sweet potato rice during this period.

Even Mimi, the name given to the cow cat by Xia Ma, eats sweet potatoes.

Some people in later generations said that cats are unhealthy if they don’t eat cat food. It turns out that this is all nonsense, and it is only for the purpose of selling cat food.

After all, cat food has only been available in China for a few years. Did cats not eat during the thousands of years before cat food came into being?

"Ah! Ah~~~" Xia Tian was writing something in the room when he suddenly heard his mother's scream. He ran out immediately. "Son, look! Mimi caught a mouse!"

Mother Xia was stamping her feet in fear, and pointed excitedly at Mimi who was fighting with a big rat in the corner.

Although Mimi seems a little nervous usually, often struggling with branches, stones, shadows, tails, etc., it seems that her brain is not working well.

But it is also very fierce when catching mice!

The kitten was only a little over a month old, a little bigger than a palm. The big mouse was almost as big as it!
It bit the rat's head and tore at it, its claws digging into its flesh. It was very ferocious.
After fighting for more than five minutes, the big rat was finally killed, and a lot of blood was shed.

"Oh my! Mimi is so awesome! She bit off one of the ears of this big rat!" Mother Xia praised continuously.

And Xia Tian suddenly had many images in his mind - the apocalypse was triggered!

Eh? Isn't this "Black Cat Sheriff"?

Xia Tian suddenly had an idea: What do you think if I don’t write first, how about I draw first?
I have been learning painting for more than two years, and it's time to give it a try.

However, the threshold for painting is higher than that for writing articles. At least drawing paper, brushes and paints are required.

Sure enough, among those who engage in art, writing has the lowest threshold.

So, in mid-October, Xia started her own painting creation based on her own Mimi.

Although there are not many comic books these days, there are still many picture books and comic strips.

Some high-quality picture books are full color!

However, Xia Tian never thought about publishing these things.

It is normal to write something and have it published, but drawing a picture book and publishing it is a bit beyond my knowledge.

It doesn’t matter, just keep drawing, and mainly enjoy the feeling of comfort when a lot of information flows out of your mind.

……

"Son, what are you doing?" Mother Xia asked when she saw Xia Tian repairing a long bamboo pole with a knife.

"Mom, I plan to make a fishing rod and go fishing." Xia Tian said.

This afternoon, Xia Tian and the other four went to play outside the Second Ring Road and happened to see some people fishing by the river.

Hey, you know what, there are quite a lot of fish!

Summer suddenly makes me itchy.

Fishing! I fished on the lonely island for five years!
So, I came back and started making fishing rods.

Mother Xia said worriedly: "You can go fishing, but don't go into the water!"

"Oh, okay, Mom, don't worry." Xia Tian agreed readily. In fact, he could swim.

Nonsense, I’ve lived on a deserted island for five years, how could I not know how to swim?

But there is no need to say this, there is no need to explain it, there is no need to convince, just agree to it.

At the end of autumn, let's go fishing for a treat.

Mimi can also improve the food, how great!
The next day, we came to the river and saw the fish jumping out of the river!

This can't be tolerated! Improve the food~
Xia Tian picked a place, opened a small stool and sat down, and began to organize homemade fish food, lead weights, floats, and the shape of a line shuttle sawed from wood to wind the fishing line...

This place is very nice, a backwater bay with gentle currents. So there was someone else next to us, a man in his fifties.

The old man’s equipment is very good, and it’s obviously genuine stuff. Look at Xia Tian’s homemade equipment, it looks so shabby!

The old man was the same. He couldn't catch any fish himself, so he just made small talk. When he saw Xia Tian making bait, he said, "Hey, man, your equipment is too simple. No! Don't play by the water. It's dangerous."

Xia Tian glanced at him and said, "I'm just bored and have nothing to do. Uncle, go fishing, I won't disturb you."

As he spoke, Xia Tian moved four or five meters away.

Hey, this guy despises me?! The fisherman was also angry.

Then, after just over two minutes, the float moved, and Xia Tian pulled it directly, and a crucian carp as long as a palm jumped out of the water!
There is no such thing as fishing!

There is another thin bamboo pole inserted inside this inconspicuous bamboo pole, and the outside is wrapped with thin hemp rope and painted, which makes it very sturdy.

As for strength, do you still lack strength in summer?

Even if the Dragon King takes the bait today, he has to come out of the water!
In the summer, a fish was caught here. The old man next to him was very unhappy: Hey, this guy got lucky! It’s okay, all beginners have good luck sometimes.

The old man comforted himself by saying that summer was a protection period for novices.

How could he know that Xia Tian had to eat fish for half of the five years he survived on the isolated island?

Don't compare your hobby with my survival skills!

In less than two minutes, another one came up in the summer!
Old man: Hey, the crucian carp is a little stupid today!

Then there was another carp that was more than a foot long. The pole was bent into an arc. The old man cheered in his heart: "Blast the pole! Blast the pole!"
The result disappointed him.

The old man was filled with hatred, looking at himself floating motionlessly on the water, his teeth itching.

I feel that the fish in this river don’t bully the new ones, they bully the familiar ones!

I have been fishing in this river for nearly half a month, but the fish I caught seem to be less than what this guy caught in half an hour!

I hate~~~
Then, summer is another...

Old man: That’s not right. Is there something wrong with his bait?

He started making excuses.

I only fished for an hour. In the summer, I threw all the fish, which were not even as big as a palm, back into the river and left with my small bucket.

Six crucian carps, two carps, one grass carp, and several yellow croakers.

The old man's eyelids twitched when he saw Xia Tian throwing the small fish back into the river.

It's true, the bike you don't want to ride, others stand up and pedal it!
Xia Tian disappeared, and the old man quickly picked up his fishing rod and ran to the fishing spot where Xia Tian had just been.

"It must be a good spot because that guy touched it! Haha, it belongs to me now!" The old man cast the rod happily.

(End of this chapter)