Why are mice and cats enemies?

A long time ago, in the big forest, cats and mice were good friends. Cats are brothers and mice are brothers.

At that time, mice were as beautiful and lovely as cats. They are very diligent. They get up early every day, go to the Woods to find food together, and only eat pests that bite trees. All the animal friends in the forest praised them as a pair of little heroes who hurt others and themselves.

Soon, a young man came to the foot of the mountain. He built a thatched cottage with branches and mud and lived here. The young man cultivated land, and the land here is particularly fertile, and all the crops planted by the young man have been harvested. His life is very nourishing.

One day, the young man met a cat and a mouse at the foot of the mountain. They were busy catching bugs. The young man said to them: you are little heroes who specialize in catching pests! I've heard a lot about you. What a fate to meet today!

The mouse and cat answered modestly; Okay, okay, that's what we should do. Otherwise, the forest will be destroyed by those pests.

Seeing how cute they are, the young man said to them, I live alone in a big hut now. Don't live in a cave anymore, come down and be my companion!

The cat and mouse quickly said, thank you for your kindness! But how to do this? It's too much trouble for you. Besides, we live comfortably in a cave.

The young man said: my family is not afraid of wind and rain. Warm in winter and cool in summer are many times better than in caves. You're welcome. Come and live with me. A good rest is good for your health. Only when you are strong can you catch more pests. The cat and mouse listened to the young man and agreed to move down to keep the young man company. In this way, the three of them lived happily together in the hut. As long as it's not windy and rainy, the young man will work hard in the fields every day, and cats and mice will still go up the mountain to catch pests every day.

Autumn has arrived, and crops such as rice planted by young people have begun to harvest again. There was no room in the hut, so the young man built a new hut and dug a cellar to store food. Many grains and vegetables are stored in the cellar, but cats and mice never steal them.

With the coming of winter and the colder the weather, there are fewer and fewer pests on the mountain. When it began to snow, the young people said to them, you have been busy for a year, and now you should have a rest. Anyway, we have enough food, and we will wait until next spring to make plans. In this way, the cat and mouse finally have a warm home in this cold winter. They eat with young people every day, and the delicious white rice makes them white and fat. Soon, the cat said to the mouse, brother, can you catch pests next year if you eat like this? You'd better eat less, or you'll be too fat to climb the mountain. But the mouse didn't take the cat's warning seriously and ate and drank as usual every day.

Winter passed and spring came again.

The cat asked the mouse to go up the mountain with him to catch bugs, but the mouse didn't want to. He said that after eating white rice all winter, the more he ate, the sweeter he felt. The taste of worms is really not good compared with white rice. Reluctantly, he took the cat up the hill. When his fat body finally moved up the mountain, he was so tired that he fell asleep. Cats have no choice but to catch pests by themselves. The mouse spent several days like this, and the cat stopped asking him to go up the mountain. The mouse is very happy. It does nothing all day long, just eating and sleeping, just enjoying it. Since then, he has never gone up the mountain with cats to catch pests.

Summer has passed and autumn has come again. Due to more and more pests and this year's drought, the rice planted by this young man has hardly been harvested. Fortunately, the surplus grain stored last year barely survived the cold winter. But the mouse's appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and the more it eats, the more fierce it becomes. Seeing that there is not much surplus food and winter is coming soon, they only eat half a full meal in order to save food. But mice are used to eating and drinking, and feel hungry all day. When I can't stand hunger, I often sneak into the cellar at night to steal glistening rice. After a long time, he thinks rice is more delicious than white rice.

One day, the young man found that the rice in the cellar was much less for no reason. He guessed that it must be a bad thing done by mice. He had to seal the mouth of the cellar firmly with wood. But mice always sneak into the cellar at night, gnaw a hole in the wood with their mouths, and then climb into the cellar. Before long, almost all the rice seeds left in the cellar for the coming year were eaten up. After the young man found out, he discussed with the cat and decided to drive the unrepentant mouse out of the hut.

After the rat's petty theft spread in the big forest, the animals felt that the original little hero had become a lazy and unrepentant thief, and everyone hated him. But the mouse still goes its own way and never repents.

In spring, several families moved to the foot of the mountain. Because the land here is so fertile, many farmers want to move here to settle down. In autumn, a small village is formed at the foot of the mountain. Rats are getting worse and worse. They steal this rice today, eat that food tomorrow, and bite the bark, roots and branches of all kinds of trees. The animals on the mountain will never let him live in the cave again. He became a homeless tramp. The mouse had no choice but to learn to dig holes everywhere and hide. But as soon as the farmers saw him, everyone chased him and shouted.

Although the mouse has become a bad person, every time the cat meets him, he always earnestly advises him to turn over a new leaf. But the mouse was hopeless and turned away when he saw the cat. Because the mouse has done so many bad things, the cat already hates him very much.

Because rats are willing to plant trees and dig holes in the ground for a long time, their beautiful mouths like cats have become longer and sharper; Originally smooth and beautiful hair gradually became gray and dark, dull; Beautiful claws are getting ugly. Especially those big bright and clear eyes, gradually turned into a pair of ugly little eyes full of resentment, greed and treachery (that's why the idiom "stealing eyebrows and playing tricks on mice" came into being). He is no longer the handsome little hero, but an ugly little man who is hated, dirty and unscrupulous by everyone.

This autumn, the weather is very dry. The farmers have just finished harvesting rice, and they are all smiling. Rats see it in their eyes and hate it in their hearts. One dark night, after everyone in the family fell asleep, he grabbed a handful of hay, climbed into the young man's stove and put it on the unburned charcoal fire in the kitchen hall. Soon, the fire spread gradually. When people wake up, they can't put it out The raging fire soon destroyed the whole small village. When the mouse saw the farmer's tearless face, he danced with joy. He got carried away and shouted to the fireman, this is the punishment you deserve for hating me! People chased after him, but the villain was so cunning that he quickly ran away.

The people in the village are determined to eliminate the pest of mice. From then on, mice often only dare to stay in the cave in broad daylight and dare to come out to do evil at night. In order to get back at people and animals who hate him, he not only eats food and eats vegetables, but also often eats seeds, barks, roots and branches of various trees in the forest. The cat thinks that what the mouse has done is really outrageous and sinful. He not only harms people, but also destroys the forest like a pest. So, he handed the task of catching pests to birds. In order to safeguard justice, he provoked the heavy responsibility of killing rats and pests for the people!

Since then, cats have devoted themselves to catching mice. He exercised every day and practiced kung fu hard, and finally learned a trick of catching mice. So even today, the children and grandchildren of cats are still the bane of mice, because the children and grandchildren of mice have not changed their ways until now.