Transmigrating into a 90’s Cat, I Want to Work for My Home Country

According to legends, when monkeys stored fruits for winter, they would choose the most suitable tree hole to put in all kinds of fruits.

If the monkeys forgot about the fruits that were hidden in a certain tree hole, after a long time, the fruits would naturally rot and ferment into wine.

The monkey wine in folklore had such a good flavor that it lingered in people’s memories, there were also some who exaggerated and said that monkey wine had miraculous medicinal effects.

However, no one had heard or seen the real monkey wine. The so-called monkey wine that was on the market, were all fake merchandise that deceived people with a good name[1].

Bai Xia Xia’s white whiskers trembled from excitement, her two paws hugged the dried fruit husk, and she drank in big gulps.

Unfortunately, the husk was not big, the wine filled in it was not much.

It was soon drunk empty by Bai Xia Xia, faintly, the face under the fur was burning.

“The try this year, it’s the most successful one.” When the old monkey was young, it brewed once by chance. After tasting it, every year it would pick more fruits with all the monkeys.

By brewing monkey wine every year, each became purer than the previous one, until this year, the monkey wine that was brewed was green and clear, the slight spiciness and the mix of all kinds of fruits were extremely special, making people have a lingering memory of it.

The old monkey started to show off again: “Little kitty, you’ve never drunk fruit juice that’s as delicious as this, right?”

Bai Xia Xia smacked her mouth; her tongue was a bit numb from the burning.

But it was indeed very delicious, it was different from the fruit wine that she had drunk in her past life.

The monkey wine had a distinctive flavor, it seemed that because it was stored in tree holes for fermentation and brewing, there was a bit of a difference from the wine that was brewed by humans.

Bai Xia Xia was not a sommelier; in her past life, she had bought some wine for herself when she was in the mood. She did not know what flavor those superior quality wine that were very expensive tasted like, but Bai Xia Xia could guarantee, monkey wine was not worse than those wines.

The monkey wine’s novel flavor, it was very special.

If you were to say that the monkey wine’s flavor surpassed the wine brewed by humans by far, that was impossible.

Wine culture was profoundly long, generations upon generations of people improved their techniques, improved the recipes, and all kinds of wine emerged one after another.

Compared the monkeys’ rough technique, humanity’s constantly improving skill was unparalleled.

Monkey wine was superior in that it was natural and had a distinctive flavor, the fresh and natural taste in its mellow fragrance, it was something that did not exist in wine.

This monkey is underestimating Cat!

It’s showing off again!

Bai Xia Xia’s eyes turned around, she intentionally put on an act of disdain: “It’s so-so.”

The old snub-nosed monkey was not happy, Bai Xia Xia smiled reservedly and proudly: “I’ve drunk many wines brewed by humans, they have many good things…”

“The fruit juice brewed by you is called wine by them. They have numerous types of wines, too many to count. Some are sweet, some are spicy, some are bitter, and some are mellow. Your wine is indeed good; however, the humans’ wine isn’t worse than yours.”

…hehehe, Bai Xia Xia rubbed her paws excitedly: The big favor is going to be resolved, not only that, but I can also see the picture of the poop shovel officer waving his hands at me.

Very wonderful, very wonderful.

Guo Chao Ming led the people to carefully pick an open and flat surface to rest and reorganize, now that everybody came to their senses, they instead became even more excited.

It was supposed to be to rest and reorganize, but everybody was not tired at all. Walking that bit of mountain roads was nothing for them, and even Professor Wen was panting a bit only.

Everybody was excitingly discussing, wanting to immediately run back to share with their comrades the encounter that they had today, to properly show off.

“The monkeys helped us a lot, otherwise we would’ve circled around in confusion in Cuilian Mountain like headless flies, and in the end ah, it would’ve all been useless.”

“But, how did they know that we wanted to find the box? And they even found it in advance!” There was a team member that believed that the two monkeys looked like they had an objective, and that they had purposefully ran in front of them to throw the box at them: “I wanted to say this before, do you believe, that these monkeys were really waiting, to give the box to us?”

The other team members shook their heads: “You’re exaggerating! If they were that smart, they would not be monkeys, but monkey spirits!”

“You got that feeling too?” Xiao Fang nodded his head like pounding garlic, he hugged the box the whole way without daring to let go, being so excited that his face was even red: “I also felt that! Especially when they threw the box at me, it was definitely like that!”

Xiao Fang covered his chest: “At that time, I had a shocked feeling as if I had been struck by lightning, it was extremely astonishing.”

The team members were divided into two sides arguing, one side felt that it was a coincidence, another side felt that it was the monkeys who gave it to them intentionally: “Sigh, it would’ve been great if we could understand their cries.”

No matter what they thought, all the team members were grateful to that group of monkeys: “It’s just a bit of a pity, after we return, we won’t be able to come out again, otherwise we should really bring some gifts as thanks!”

“Please, you don’t need to worry about this.”

That team member nodded his head and did not keep being conflicted. Outside of the safety net was very dangerous, every time they came out of it, they bore the risk of sacrificing themselves, to run a round just to gift something, it was not worth it.

There were three to four team members that were still debating about whether the snub-nosed monkeys had been waiting there on purpose, so they asked Professor Wen.

“Professor Wen?”

“Professor Wen?”

Professor Wen held his own notes, flipping through it while writing things, shua shua[2], his mouth was mumbling, talking to himself: “That’s not right, not right ah…”

“Did I meet false monkeys?”

“Should I observe better the snub-nosed monkeys in Cuilian Mountain?”

They must be fake snub-nosed monkeys, not real snub-nosed monkeys!

Ever since Professor Wen had come out of that dense forest, he had started to wear a dull expression again, with an appearance of someone whose soul had left their body.

When the people called him, Professor Wen’s reaction was late, giving no response. The team members did not cue[3] Professor Wen anymore, they all thought that it was because of the thrill.

Professor Wen was an animal expert, it was definitely because of what happened today, he had been overly stimulated.

“Why did those monkeys deliver back the box?” Just why! Professor Wen did not believe that it was a lucky coincidence at all!

Translator’s comments:

Professor Wen is in denial.

Translator’s notes:

[1] Idiomatic expression ‘挂羊头卖狗肉 (guà yáng tóu mài gǒu ròu)’: lit. translation: ‘hanging sheep head to sell dog meat’. It means ‘to use a good name as a cover to do bad things’.

[2] The sound of writing.

[3] Cue was originally written in English in the raws.