I m worse than a cat raised by my mother

 8:31am, 20 November 2025
. One time, my mother was mending socks, and the socks fell under the eaves. The mother sat on the straw mat and couldn't get up. The kitten quickly jumped down and handed the socks to the mother. The mother was grateful for the static electricity generated while combing the kitten's back hair. The kitten received the greatest reward from its owner and became even more adorable. Mother goes to work in the vegetable garden, and the old cat and kitten are inseparable. In an empty-nest village, the cats my mother raised made the stray cats jealous (envious) to death.

Although the village is usually not popular, once someone has a wedding or wedding, and the housing in the city is small, they will go to their hometown to buy a banquet to entertain relatives and friends. Perhaps the noisy New Year in the city has returned and it has become a fashion to celebrate the New Year in one's hometown in the countryside. Wisps of smoke emitted from the long-lost smoke tunnel, suddenly restoring vitality to the deserted village.

Sometimes an old man in the village dies, or someone’s son or daughter gets married, and the children and grandchildren are far away and unable to drive them back, so the mother goes to the market. The mother would always pick up a large plastic bag of leftover chicken and fish at the table and take it back to feed her old cats and kittens. Before the mother reached the door of the house, the greedy old cat and kitten couldn't smell the fishy smell, so they ran halfway down the road to greet the delicious food that the mother brought them.

Mother has a unique skill in raising cats. As long as a kitten is fed three times in one to three months by crawling on the leftover chicken and fish on the table, the kitten will become fat and strong and grow into an adult cat. The cats fed by my mother are all energetic and loved by everyone.

Sometimes the mother wants to do more work, but the meal is late, and the old cats and kittens are crying and crying. The mother can't put down the work she is rushing to do, so she will take out the snacks that her children and grandchildren buy for her in normal times and give them a "space" (let these "hungry wolves" eat some cushions first). Mothers who are foodies such as "Haochidian" and "Deluxe" are reluctant to eat and drink, so they let the old cats and kittens eat and drink.

Once I went back to my hometown from the city to visit my mother. I saw my mother putting the leftover chicken and fish that she had brought to the cat from the mat the day before yesterday in the cat bowl. But at that time, the three kittens went out for a walk, and the old cat stayed in front of the delicious food without moving, calling to the kittens. When the three kittens heard the old cat's call, they filed in and ran to the old cat. When they saw the bowl full of chicken and fish, they devoured it all, while the old cat lay in front of them without taking a bite. It can be said that the old cat calls the kitten home, the old cat wins the skinny kitten and the kitten gets fat.

Seeing the old cat protecting its calf made me shed tears. It is true: the tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop, the child wants to be raised but cannot be kissed. The old mother of the Zang Dynasty is in her old age, but she lives alone in the countryside with the cats she raised. I am a son in vain, but I am not with my mother, and I work hard outside...

It is already two or three o'clock in the morning, and my mother is snoring evenly, but I have no sleep. I think over and over whether I should stay with my mother to accompany her in her old age. Otherwise, my conscience condemns me as worse than a cat raised by my mother.