The fable of the master's cat:
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a family named Shu in Weiguo, who especially liked keeping cats. There are black cats, white cats, yellow cats, flower cats and so on. There are more than 100 cats, which can really be called the top, and everything is available.
It would be more than enough to hold a cat fair or a cat exhibition hall. As the saying goes, everything has its vanquisher. Cats' instinct is to catch mice. Since the owner got a cat, the mice in the house have been wiped out. Not only that, but even the mice in the neighbor's house were almost caught. Without mice, cats have nothing to eat. They often scream with hunger.
When the owner saw their scrawny appearance and heard their shrill cries, he felt very uncomfortable, so he went to the market every day to buy meat to feed the cats. Big cats have kittens, and kittens have kittens when they grow up. Children and grandchildren continue to multiply, and old cats gradually die out. The descendants of the remaining cats lost the instinct to catch mice and ate meat instead, even without knowing that there were mice in the world.
Howl when you are hungry, and you can give your master meat when you howl. They are full, some go to bask in the sun, some go to bake the stove, and some lie on the warm kang, all of which are lazy and comfortable. Knowing that their owners had natural enemies, the mice all told each other and ran away. They fled to the south of the city and settled there. So every family in the south of the city was plagued by rats.
The food bag was bitten, the clothes were bitten, the dishes in the kitchen were in a mess, and many mouse holes were dug out in the house and corner. Outside the cave, there are rat droppings everywhere. At a scholar's house, rats ran out in droves. A mouse fell into a big urn, which was small, bright and slippery. When the mouse couldn't climb out, it squeaked.
The scholar learned that his master had a lot of cats, so he borrowed a cat from his master and put it in a big urn to catch mice. The cat has never seen a mouse. It saw the strange appearance of the mouse and heard its squeaking. It thinks the mouse is a monster. It walked slowly along the mouth of the urn, afraid to jump down and catch it.
In a rage, the scholar pushed it into the urn. The cat was scared and shouted at the mouse. After a long time, the mouse guessed that the cat had no other skills, so it bit the cat's foot to see how the cat reacted. Who knows that the cat actually used all its strength to jump out of the urn and ran away with its tail between its legs.