Strange Life of a Cat - Chapter 22

[Chapter 17 The Call from the Cat]

When you do the same thing every day, it feels like life goes by so fast.

Zheng Tan runs every morning, climbs stairs, climbs trees, and practices jumping…

The calendar on Jiao’s house has turned to November, and when Zheng Tan sees the calendar on the wall, he realizes that it has been so long since he came here. , it has been five months.

Zheng Tan bent his palm, sharp claws protruding from between his fingers.

These sharp claws look similar to other cats, but Zheng Tan himself understands that the claws are gradually changing, at least they are different from two months ago.

He didn’t deliberately sharpen his claws, nor did he ever cut them. When the claws grow out, they will be rubbed off during training, and then they will grow again, and then they will be sharpened again.

The cat’s paw is indeed a very magical thing, sharp, tough and flexible. Some people say that the cat’s paw is like a multi-functional Swiss Army knife that people carry around.

And Zheng Tan, who has been training all the time, just wants to make his saber sharper and tougher.

Zheng Tan knows that he is actually different from other cats. He heard Dad Jiao say that cats are not sensitive to sweetness, but Zheng Tan can clearly feel it. He can eat many things that cats can’t eat, and it’s pretty good. Good; for another example, people have been arguing about whether cats are colorblind or not. Zheng Tan doesn’t know what other cats are like, at least he can distinguish between colors.

And then there are the claws. Even if other cats have undergone constant training, their strength will not soar like Zheng Tan, nor will their claws undergo qualitative changes.

However, apart from that, Zheng Tan has no other unusual changes. Even if his current strength is close to that of an adult, he has no tendency to become a human being; even if he is trained as a monkey to climb trees and train in the jungle jumping, it will not become a monkey.

Are you going to live like this forever?

While running, Zheng Tan pondered the little Jiujiu in his heart.

Now the speed of running has been improved by a notch, and he can still be distracted and think during the running process. He will not feel exhausted and out of breath.

After running for two laps, I came to a forest on the edge of the school. The area of the forest here is larger than that of the East Family Courtyard, and because it is a little farther from the teaching area, there are fewer people.

Not far from the woods, the school demolished a tile-roofed building with a long history, and is preparing to build a new dormitory area. With the enrollment expansion policy, there are more and more students, and the existing dormitory buildings are no longer enough.

Therefore, except for some construction workers and engineering vehicles, no one else will walk through the side school gate here. The road is full of dust, stones and dirt. Students and faculty members who live outside the school drive private cars. Wouldn’t want to pass this way.

Therefore, Zheng Tan will come here to practice tree climbing after this period of time. The woods are clean, and even if he does something special, he will not be discovered.

Wei Ling helped his senior brother with errands recently. The case wasn’t over yet, so now Zheng Tan is training to run and climb trees by himself. As for the cats in the East family compound, from the first day, Zheng Tan I gave up the plan to call them to exercise together.

After resting for a while after running, Zheng Tan started his daily tree climbing training.

Another advantage of training here is that the trees in this forest are generally thicker and easier to climb.

Zheng Tan nimbly jumped onto a large locust tree, scratched the trunk and moved his claws, then chose a thicker branch that could bear his own weight. The claws and hind paws clawed at the tree trunk so that it would not fall.

Take a deep breath, release the hind legs, hold the trunk with two front claws alone, nail the claws firmly on it,

and then move to the top of the tree little by little, when it is about to end, the body swings, and the limbs hug the branch and turn over and return to the front of the branch .

Looking around, he chose a branch with a reasonable distance and thickness. Zheng Tan prepared to jump, jumped onto the branch, and then started to repeat.

When he first heard Wei Ling talk about this training method, Zheng Tan was still puzzled, he is now a cat, not a monkey, why should he train this?

Wei Ling saw the doubt in Zheng Tan’s eyes at the time, and instead of explaining it directly, he asked: “Do you think it can’t be done? Or do you think no cat can do it? I can tell you for sure that I have seen a cat. , when it runs in the woods, it can be more agile than a monkey, just sprinting on the trees, from branch to branch, jumping from tree to tree, and, since it can climb After the tree, most of the time is on the tree. Sometimes, the tree is the life-saving straw for the cat.”

In this way, Zheng Tan started the monkey-like tree climbing training.

Maybe then he will be able to grab a branch with one paw and move through the woods like a monkey.

After climbing five branches in a row, Zheng Tan jumped onto a tulip tree that was some years old.

The reason why I noticed this tree at first was mainly because of its special leaves.

At that time, when Zheng Tan was resting on the branch, a leaf fell in front of him, looking like a jacket.

Wei Ling said that this tree is called Liriodendron tulipifera, also known as tulip tree. It is a national second-class rare and endangered tree species. In metropolises, except for botanical gardens, it is rare to see such a large tulip tree. It seems to be Chu Hua University has a long history.

The flowers of Liriodendron tulips look a bit like tulips, and its English name is translated as “Tulips of China”, but unfortunately, the flowering period of Liriodendron tulips is in May and June. This year, Zheng Tan will not be able to see it. Next year Call the Jiao family over to have a look.

Zheng Tan was blowing the wind, listening to the sound of the leaves falling around, and looked around.

Now the leaves of many trees have turned yellow, and once the temperature drops, it rains, and there is a strong wind, the deciduous trees in the school will start to become bald faster.

Winter is coming in Chuhua City.

After climbing the tree, Zheng Tan saw that it was still early. The third class of the school did not end until after the fourth get out of class. Zheng Tan returned to Jiao’s house for lunch after the fourth class was over, so that he would not have to wait until he went back early without food.

As usual, if you have more time after training, go to the artificial lake.

Animals that seem to be docile and obedient can easily make people relax, so there are many domestic animals that people talk to. That “Xiao Zhuo” sometimes talks to Zheng Tan, but he didn’t mention a little “Project A” The words are all meaningless words, such as “you are here again today”, “are you hungry” and so on.

Sometimes Xiao Zhuo will talk about things related to her own profession, just like Dad Jiao and the others.

Another time I didn’t know which aspect I saw, Xiao Zhuo suddenly got up, tore off a small corner from a blank note paper sandwiched in the book, and then tore the small corner into pieces.

He closed the notebook, put the torn confetti on it, then took out a rubber-wrapped signature pen from the pen bag, and rubbed it back and forth on Zheng Tan for a few times, then approached the confetti, and the confetti was sucked up. rise.

Xiao Zhuo smiled at Zheng Tan with a pen that had absorbed confetti: “Look, this is called frictional electrification! Then, what is the reason for this? Let me tell you, matter is made of atoms. , and the atomic nucleus inside the atom is composed of positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons…”

Zheng Tan heard the previous sentence “Look, this is called triboelectric electrification” and almost spat out a mouthful of blood, and then heard ” Let me tell you” these four words, the desire to spurt blood is stronger.

You can meet this guy anywhere!

Lying on the bench of the artificial lake until the fourth get out of class was about to end, Zheng Tan went to the attached elementary school to pick up Jiao Yuan and Gu Youzi.

However, after class, Zheng Tan did not wait for the two little figures.

When Lan Tianzhu and the others came out, they saw the black cat squatting on the fence, and said, “Hei Tan, Jiao Yuan has already left, and was picked up by Aunt Ling after the first class.”

Lan Tianzhu Aunt Ling in the mouth is the owner of Ah Huang, and she is also a teacher who teaches in the same junior high school as Jiao Ma.

Not long after Lan Tianzhu spoke, another little girl in the same class as Gu Youzi said the same thing. When the first get out of class was over, Aunt Ling picked up Gu Youzi.

Zheng Tan felt that something was wrong, very wrong, something must have happened, or else the two children would not have been picked up before school for no reason.

Zheng Tan frantically ran back to the East family compound in a state of anxiety. After checking the access control, he rushed to the fifth floor in one breath. He shouted at the door for a long time and no one answered. Then he ran out of the building and retrieved the key from the tree where the key was hidden. to open the door.

The house was very quiet, quiet, similar to when Zheng Tan went out in the morning. The aroma of the food that usually had risen at this time was not at all today.

Zheng Tan turned around from room to room, and he didn’t even have the schoolbags for the two children, which means that Jiao Yuan and the others never came back after they were picked up!

There was no open book on the desk, no small notes posted in the corridor, and no “reminders” and “memos” posted at home…

For a moment, Zheng Tan was at a loss, and irritably turned around in circles.

Although this family is not related to him by blood, if it weren’t for this incredible cat-changing incident, Zheng Tan would not have come into contact with this family at all.

However, it was Jiao’s mother who picked him up from the garbage in the vegetable market. The four members of the Jiao family were very good to him. After five months, Zheng Tan had already developed a sense of belonging to this place that he did not want to admit.

When I was still human, there were several places in the house, but none of them would make me feel this way. I couldn’t tell what the so-called feeling of belonging was like. It was like the hair that blew up outside. The door was suddenly smoothed.

When he was a little dizzy while spinning in circles, Zheng Tan suddenly thought of something, then ran back to the bedroom, jumped on the table where the phone was placed, pressed the speakerphone key, and dialed Jiao Dad’s cell phone.

After a few beeps, it was connected.

“Hello?”

Dad Jiao’s voice was a little hoarse, Zheng Tan felt that he was suppressing his emotions, and this made Zheng Tan even more upset, so he shouted at the top of his voice.

“Ouch—”

Jiao Dad on the other end of the phone said, “…” Only his cat can meow like that.

However, he didn’t expect to receive a call from home at this time. When he first saw the caller ID, he didn’t even think that the caller was his own cat. He knew that his cat was different from other cats, but he really didn’t think about it. Received a call from my cat at this time.

Seeing that there was no response there, Zheng Tan shouted again at a high voice.

This time, Dad Jiao spoke up.

“I’m in the hospital, Jiao Yuan and the others I’ve taken over, something happened to Rong Han. You stay at home first, there are snacks in the refrigerator…”

“Ow-Ow–” Zheng Tan continued to growl. .

Ronghan is Jiao’s mother’s name, and Jiao’s mother’s name is Gu Ronghan.

When he heard that Jiao’s mother had an accident, Zheng Tan couldn’t calm down. He wanted to ask where the hospital was, but he couldn’t speak, so he could only scream.

Because I was too irritable, I saw a stack of books piled next to it, raised my paws, and lifted it!

Hearing the sound of books falling from the phone, Dad Jiao was silent for a while, “Then I’ll let Yi Xin bring you food later?”

“Ow—”

Zheng Tan looked at the table, there was still a little bit of a squeak next to the keyboard. There is a glass cup, which the supplier gave to Jiao Yuan when they ordered milk.

Flick your tail, fall!

Jiao Dad listened to the sound of the glass falling and shattering from the phone, this time the silence was a little longer, and then he said, “I’ll let Yi Xin bring you here, you wait at home, don’t fall again. ”

Zheng Tan: “Ow.”

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