Strange Life of a Cat - Chapter 211

[Chapter 220 The cat is playing with her]

Zheng Tan walked slowly around the wild pond. There were some trees along the edge. Although they were not very big, they could provide some shade under the sun at this time.

There were many wild plants nearby, Zheng Tan looked familiar, but couldn’t name them.

In the wild pond, there were some frogs or toads standing on some floating branches in the wild pond and croaking. When they sensed Zheng Tan’s approach, they immediately jumped into the water.

Sometimes you can see some small fish swimming under the surface of the water. It is indeed a place for aquaculture. You can see fish everywhere. It may not be someone who deliberately left it here, or it may come over by accident during the flood season. of.

Zhizhi on the tree was also arguing, and it seemed to be louder than anyone else’s.

If it is in other places, there will definitely be some summer children around the wild pond to fish and fish, but this place is estimated that children have played a lot since childhood, which is not uncommon, but they prefer to go to those big fish ponds. Watching the excitement around, occasionally picking up a few big fish for nothing.

I heard that some college students of related majors have recently come to a nearby aquaculture base for internships, and some are doing scientific research experiments. , even if there is, I don’t like the pay, but children are different. For them, indoor work not only has rewards but also free air conditioners.

So when Zheng Tan and the others came to Yetang, they basically didn’t see any children in the village.

Just thinking about it, Zheng Tan’s ears moved, and he heard a sudden movement in front of him.

anyone?

In Zheng Tan’s impression, those little children didn’t even shout loudly.

He will occasionally chat and laugh in a low voice, and sometimes in groups of three or five, it will never be so quiet, and it will not suddenly make a noise now.

Zheng Tan walked over lightly, and the movement over there suddenly became louder.

There were some plants growing on the edge of the wild pond, blocking Zheng Tan’s sight, and at the same time acting as a cover, and it was not easy for people across the wild pond to find Zheng Tan.

The further you go, the narrower the wild pond becomes, and the end is almost here.

There is a little girl about the size of Xiaoyuzi.

The clothes on you are not only old.

And also with rough patches.

Although this child looks about the same age as Xiaoyouzi, unlike Xiaoyouzi, this little girl looks rather thin and pale.

Because it’s already tanned.

Skinny is real.

The little face doesn’t seem to have any flesh, unlike the little grapefruit, which is white and tender with baby fat.

The exposed small arms and calves also seemed to be covered with only a layer of skin, and there was no sensuality.

The shoulder-length short hair is probably cut by myself.

It doesn’t look very coordinated.

When Zheng Tan looked over, the child was closing the pole, no wonder the movement suddenly became louder, otherwise Zheng Tan would not have found out that someone was here so quickly.

The child was also fishing for shrimp, and there was a canned bottle beside him. The bottle contained half a can of earthworms. Zheng Tan could clearly see the earthworms squirming inside.

It is estimated that he is an experienced person. The child dropped three poles in three places not far from each other. It is estimated that the earthworms on one pole will die. After catching a shrimp, the little girl grabs a few from the canning bottle and re-creates it. put on.

Earthworm fishing for shrimp is not the most ideal bait, but it is easy to catch, but it has to be replaced with new live earthworms every now and then.

After changing the fresh earthworms, the little girl sat on the side, rested for two minutes, got up and walked lightly between the three poles to see which pole moved.

Zheng Tan walked over and took a look. There was a broken plastic bucket that was cracked and fastened with a rope. There were already some crayfish in the bucket. It seemed that the child had a good harvest.

Among them, there are some green shrimps. There are many farmers in this place, and there are also green shrimps. It is not surprising to see green shrimps here.

As for crayfish, this thing is an invasive alien species, with strong adaptability and wide distribution, or how to say it is an “invasive species”.

There was also a broken sickle beside the barrel. This kind of sickle is very common among farmers. However, Zheng Tan felt strange when such a small girl used a sickle.

Just thinking about something, Zheng Tan looked up and met the little girl’s eyes.

Zheng Tan rarely sees such ruthless eyes in a child’s eyes, even some children with gloomy temperament, because this child still has a strong killing intent in his eyes, Zheng Tan has no doubt that if If that child had a scythe in his hand, he would definitely slash at him.

However, this child does not have a sickle now.

Zheng Tan really wasn’t afraid of this child, instead he had some teasing thoughts.

Afraid of making trouble for yourself?

Bad for these shrimp?

I’m still going to mess up.

Zheng Tan stretched out his claws and quickly patted the few shrimps with their teeth and claws in the bucket.

I have to say that this guy Zheng Tan is just so idle sometimes that he doesn’t feel happy if he doesn’t die.

A clod was thrown over.

Zheng Tan reacted quickly and avoided it. However, the clod rubbed the edge of the bucket containing the shrimp, and the place where the bucket was originally was not flat.

The little girl didn’t care about Zheng Tan, she ran over quickly, grabbed the shrimps and threw them back into the bucket before they escaped. When she looked up again, she saw the black cat half-hiding in the grass, revealing a Cat head, look here, when she got up, the black cat hid in the grass, the grass swished a few times, and when it stopped, the cat had already run away.

The little girl standing in the same place looked at the grass and frowned.

She always felt that the cat was playing tricks on her, but when the cat was half-hidden in the grass and looked at this side just now, there was something wrong in his eyes.

Many elderly people in the village said that black cats are more evil. Some people say they are spiritual things, and some people say they are evil things. She didn’t agree with them before. Isn’t it a cat, it’s just to frighten herself.

But after what happened just now, she was somewhat convinced.

Zheng Tan was walking in the grass, his heart was not very smooth, not because the little girl threw clods at him, but the scene he saw just now.

When the little girl leaned over to catch the shrimp and threw it back into the plastic bucket, she lifted up her already short clothes to reveal a section of her back.

Zheng Tan could see clearly that the girl had scars on her back, like marks drawn from bamboo poles or other objects.

Originally, there were some on the girl’s arms and legs, but the marks were lighter.

Zheng Tan didn’t care. He heard Mr. Gu say that it was common for some children in the village to fight, and there was no difference between men and women, and it was not surprising that they were injured a little.

But now it doesn’t look like it.

Those wounds on his back were new ones, and Zheng Tan felt pain when he looked at the traces, not to mention a little girl as big as a little grapefruit.

abuse?

domestic violence?

Zheng Tan flicked his tail, Jiao Ma and Xiaoyouzi asked him not to cause trouble, and he didn’t plan to meddle in those nostalgic things, let’s talk about it.

I can’t even manage it.

Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. There are many such families, not to mention the urban and rural areas, and there is no shortage of parents who beat their children.

so.

After walking around for a while.

I caught a frog that jumped out of nowhere and played with it.

Zheng Tan felt that he was in a good mood, feeling better, let’s take a look at the sky.

Run back to where Xiaoyouzi and the others were fishing for shrimp.

When Zheng Tan returned, Jiao Yuan showed off an older looking shrimp. The two big clips of the shrimp were red and red. Jiao’s mother liked to eat these big clips, the meat inside was tender.

Little grapefruit was changing the bait to tie earthworms. Old man Gu caught four fat earthworms and put them on the rope. Little grapefruit only needed to tie the rope.

Next to it were two dead ones, and one of them was pinched by a shrimp.

The number of earthworms that Mr. Gu tied to Xiaoyouzi each time was no less than three. It is estimated that one of them was directly caught by the shrimp, or the earthworms escaped without binding them.

After more than half an hour of fishing, Mr. Gu told the two children to close the rod and prepare to go home.

Seeing that Xiaoyouzi was a little unfinished, he smiled and said, “You can continue tomorrow, you are still growing in your summer vacation.”

Zheng Tan looked at the iron bucket that contained the shrimp. It was half a bucket, and it was definitely enough for a dish.

The dinner was very rich, and Zheng Tan also had a full meal.

After night fell, people in the village would take a shower in the shade of their gatehouse, gossip about all kinds of news around them, and talk about interesting events of the day.

Mr. Gu moved the bamboo bed out of the house and put a mosquito net on it. Xiaoyouzi stayed inside and listened to Mr. Jiao next to him about “thinking about the past”.

As for Jiao Yuan, he is a restless man and has gone to catch fireflies with the children from the next door.

Mosquito coils were lit beside him, but Zheng Tan could still clearly hear the buzzing of mosquitoes around him.

The guy with the second tube opened his mouth and stuck his tongue out for breath, and after a while, he changed to a cooler place and continued to lie down.

When eating, it provokes Zheng Tan. After being slapped by Zheng Tan, it becomes much more honest. Where Zheng Tan is stunned, it must be at least one meter away from it, and it must not lie close to it.

At night in the village, the breeze is breezy, and the temperature is much lower than that in the city.

Originally, Zheng Tan stayed beside the bamboo bed, listening to Old Man Gu’s bragging with Xiaoyouzi, and his ears moved.

Not far away, Jiao’s mother, the old lady, and a few women in the surrounding neighborhood were sitting and chatting.

“Sold another one? How could he bear it?” Jiao Ma sighed.

“I can’t bear it, I’ve already sold five of them before. It’s not less than this one. I’ll see. The remaining three will be sold sooner or later,” said the aunt who lived next door.

“If you stay at home, you will be killed by him sooner or later.” The old lady sighed.

Zheng Tan listened to their conversation, talking about a family in a neighboring village. The male owner wanted a son, but he gave birth to nine daughters in a row. In addition, this man was a gambler and felt that it was useless to keep a daughter. .sonicmtl.

com has done things like selling his daughter one after another, and often beat his children at home.

Now that she has finally given birth to a son, the remaining three daughters don’t care whether they eat or drink.

Although it is said that in family planning, boys and girls are the same, but thousands of years of thinking cannot be reversed in such a short period of 20 to 30 years.

And many people are rogues at all, it’s useless for you to talk to them, and the people around here don’t have the heart to care about this kind of thing.

Listening to these women and old people chatting, Zheng Tan suddenly remembered the little girl he saw today, and wondered if that child was one of them.

Zheng Tan was sighing in his heart, lying on a bamboo chair and looking at the road not far ahead, there were some vegetable gardens on the other side of the road, and no matter how far away, there were fields.

Originally watching Jiao Yuan and the others catching fireflies on the other side of the road, Zheng Tan suddenly noticed a few people passing by on the road, and one of them sounded familiar.

Zheng Tan concentrates to pay attention, there are a few people blocking it, and there are a few strangers walking by this side, Zheng Tan doesn’t know it at all, but Zheng Tan catches the voice.

Thinking back, Zheng Tan stood up abruptly, wasn’t he the one who was pushed into the artificial lake by himself at Chuhua University some time ago?

(To be continued..)

ps: (4.3)

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