Strange Life of a Cat - Chapter 239

[Chapter 228 4 Tone Cuckoo]

Although this person is disgusted by one cat and two, but “Liu Ba” generally does not take care of other things before completing the task at hand. , the matter at hand matters.

Therefore, for the next period of time, Zheng Tan’s life remained peaceful.

Sometimes he would go to the residential area by the lake for a walk. If the afternoon passed, he could have afternoon tea to fill his stomach temporarily, and all Zheng Tan had to do was to listen to the old lady.

The old lady’s son often visits her. Even if she can’t go, she will call to greet her. She has hired a nanny to take care of the old lady. For the old lady, except for going out for a walk, eating, drinking and sleeping at home, it is boring. Very, can not travel far, because the body has not fully recovered.

Thus, Zheng Tan became a good listener.

From the old lady’s words, Zheng Tan knew that the “Xiao Gao” had come twice again, but Zheng Tan had not encountered it.

The old lady said that she had a good time talking with “Xiao Gao”. Zheng Tan knew when he heard this comment that the old lady must have been lied to. Generally speaking, she does not have much vigilance and precaution when talking happily. Think about that face Hou’s acting skills are superb and “Xiao Gao” is full of twists and turns. If you look at the old lady again, you can imagine what kind of “talking” scene would have been when there was no Zheng Tan’s destruction. “Xiao Gao” “Probably overjoyed.

However, in recent days, “Xiao Gao” has not appeared again.

Without “Xiao Gao” chatting with the old lady, occasionally when Zheng Tan came over, he would hear the old lady’s emotions and the things she recalled because of Xiao Gao that were hidden in her memory.

said the old lady.

When I was young, I also had a relationship, which almost came to fruition. Unfortunately, they separated for some reasons. Although the two sides still communicated through letters for a few years, another accident happened. After that, the old lady moved Came to Chuhua City, and the other party has no news.

Zheng Tan felt that the old lady should be quite lonely now.

Although her son always misses her, it is also because of the busyness of affairs.

The old lady felt sorry for her son.

He didn’t ask him to come over, and he asked his daughter-in-law to take more care of him. She only needs to hire a nanny. As for the grandson.

It has now been sent to study abroad.

No one is seen all year round.

Occasionally make a cross-ocean call.

Zheng Tan has heard from the old men and women in the compound that people nowadays like to send their old parents to the nursing home.

It’s easy, but these old men and women don’t want to go to the nursing home because of their old age.

Zheng Tan didn’t know what a nursing home was like, but when he often listened to people in the compound chatting, he knew that many elderly people rejected it.

The place is not as good as the newspapers say. Some old people can only sit in front of the window every day and look out the window silently. Maybe they also hope that their relatives can visit them often, but most of the time they should be disappointed. of.

There are also some elderly people whose memory declines as they grow older. After staying in a nursing home for a long time, they don’t even know their relatives. After a while, their own sons and daughters may forget.

Families with conditions,

such as the old lady’s family, have a son who is a well-known entrepreneur in Chuhua City, and are filial enough. Although they can’t come here often, they can’t wait to hire ten or eight babysitters for the old lady.

In front of her son and daughter-in-law, the old lady must be all good, but she is actually quite lonely. The nanny is not a relative after all.

“Little black cat, do you think I should have a pet like a cat or dog? But at my age, I don’t know how long I can live. What if I can’t take care of it at that time?” the old lady looked Zheng sighed.

Zheng Tan avoided the old lady’s hand that was reaching out to touch the cat’s head, thinking to herself, “Where is Lao Tzu so young?”

Zheng Tan has actually seen a lot of situations like this old lady. In the compound, there are also many elderly people whose wives go early and whose sons and daughters are not around, such as the old lady of Dafa’s family.

However, although the old lady of Big Fatty lives in a smaller place than here, and the accommodation conditions are not as good as here, the old lady lives quite comfortably. She is accompanied by Big Fatty at home, and there are various old men in the compound outside. The wife chatting, singing and telling jokes is really much better than the one in front of her.

It’s no wonder that the old lady of Big Fatty’s family is only willing to stay in the compound and refuses to allow her son to move out.

On this day, Zheng Tan walked to the residential area again, and when he got in through the iron fence to visit the old lady and listen to her nagging, he found that the house was very lively today.

There are several cars parked outside the house, all of them are high-end cars with millions of dollars. Looking at the license plates, there are two cars that are not local, the license plates of Nancheng.

There were a few people sitting in the room, Zheng Tan only knew the old lady, her son and daughter-in-law, and no one else.

The old lady’s daughter-in-law, the middle-aged woman who always finds Zheng Tan unpleasant, has a bright smile on her face at this moment, showing a rare sense of intimacy, and the two middle-aged men also have smiles on their faces , a few of them were talking, but the voices were not loud or noisy.

But what about the old lady?

Zheng Tan stuck his head out at the door and looked inside, the old lady and his son saw this and greeted Zheng Tan to go in.

The unpleasantness in the middle-aged woman’s eyes flashed. She felt that it was not good to let such a black cat in when there were distinguished guests, but she was also not good at refuting her husband’s face.

Zheng Tan thought about it for a while, but walked in under the watchful eyes of everyone, looked around, but didn’t see the old lady.

“Your cat?” the unfamiliar middle-aged man asked.

“No, I don’t know whose family it belongs, but my mother said that she had a relationship with this cat. When she was in the hospital…” The old lady and his son briefly explained the matter, which surprised the two.

“Although it doesn’t look like a famous cat, it doesn’t look like a stray cat. It’s so strong and it’s not afraid of people. It looks really spiritual.” The stranger laughed.

Zheng Tan listened to these two words, and was not in a hurry to find the old lady. He saw that there was a closed room on the first floor, where the old lady usually took her lunch break, and now it is estimated that it is inside.

From the conversations of these people, Zheng Tan also got a piece of information-in addition to the old lady, there is a little old man in the room?

!

Zheng Tan’s heart of gossip suddenly ignited. Two days ago, he heard the old lady lamenting the past, but now there is an old man. This is the rhythm of finding a wife for the old lady.

but.

The more I listened to these people talking, the more Zheng Tan felt that something was wrong.

Dare Qing, this old man is the one that the old lady always sighed with emotion some time ago. I heard that these two old people were engaged when they were young, but then they went their separate ways. It has been almost 60 years since they separated. According to a few people in the living room From the conversation, it means to let the two old people who are single now go together again.

In fact, what surprised Zheng Tan the most was not that the two old people got back together after nearly 60 years, but what the strange middle-aged man and the old lady and her son said when they talked about “Xiao Gao”.

The middle-aged man said that “Xiao Gao” was the manager of a department in his company, and he had a business relationship with the old lady’s son some time ago.

Now being transferred elsewhere.

Therefore, he is no longer in charge of some business in Chuhua City, and new people will come to contact this side soon.

Hearing what the other party said, the old lady and his son didn’t ask any more questions, and praised “Xiao Gao” as a very good and capable young man.

Zheng Tan carefully observed the strange middle-aged man.

The other party did not talk much about the meaning of “Xiao Gao”.

After a while, it was over.

Zheng Tan thought about some things from before.

Listening to the conversations of the few people here, it is speculated that the strange middle-aged man was looking for someone because of his father, so he contacted “Xiao Gao”.

As for the transaction between “Xiao Gao” and the other party, how the title of “department manager” was mixed up, and how did he find it here, Zheng Tan doesn’t know, and he doesn’t need to figure it out, let alone believe that the stranger What the middle-aged man said about “the two old people recognize each other” is a coincidence, and he can only look at the current results.

In any case, regardless of whether the “two old people recognize each other” was planned by the other party, now that the two old people recognize each other and come together again, it is a good thing for the old people on both sides, and the business cooperation between these two successful people is expected to go further. , it’s a good thing no matter what.

Zheng Tan left without staying here any longer. It is estimated that the two old people who met again after nearly 60 years will definitely talk more.

For Zheng Tan, the old lady’s family is just a passer-by in life, he doesn’t need to spend too much energy and too much affection on those people, even if their family is rich and famous.

What really matters is the Jiao family.

At night, the three Jiao family and a cat were sitting on the sofa watching a martial arts drama on TV. Zheng Tan was drowsy and yawned, and suddenly heard the little grapefruit next to him say, “The sound inside is wrong. !”

Zheng Tan looked at the pictures on the TV and listened with his ears. The pictures on the TV showed the protagonist in a deep mountain, and the background sound was birds chirping. There were also a few pictures specially displayed. It’s those birds.

Zheng Tan took a closer look, but didn’t feel that there was anything wrong with the bird and the sound.

Jiao Yuan pondered, “You mean that the bird inside is supposed to be a big cuckoo, but the four cuckoo calls are playing on the TV?”

“Yeah!” Xiaoyouzi nodded.

“Hey, you can see this, it’s really careful, I haven’t found it yet!” Jiao Yuan patted his thigh excitedly, then ran to the master bedroom and took out a book from Dad Jiao’s bookcase and flipped through it. I started to discuss with Xiaoyouzi the difference between several species of Rhododendron and which is the “cuckoo”.

Jiao’s mother didn’t understand these things, but she didn’t object to the behavior of the two children. Sometimes being truthful is also an advantage. It’s also good to occasionally find a bug while watching TV, at least it can help them learn more.

As for Zheng Tan, he had seen these kinds of birds in school, and he had heard them chirping, the one with four tones once, which is what Xiaoyouzi called the four-sounded cuckoo.

Zheng Tan was thinking about taking a closer look at the cuckoos that were always hopping around the compound when he was walking outside tomorrow, when he heard Jiao Yuan read: “The cuckoo and the swallow are both symbols of male roots. Rural villages sacrificed it during the Spring Festival to pray for fertility…” Before

Jiao Yuan finished reading, Jiao’s mother slapped her with a slap and forcibly pulled out the book in Jiao Yuan’s hand and placed it on the top shelf of the bookshelf.

“Watch TV well, UU read www.sonicmtl.com take a bath and go to bed without reading!”

Seeing Jiao’s mother speaking, Jiao Yuan pouted and came to the living room to sit down, but Xiaoyouzi didn’t say much, she didn’t really understand Jiao Yuan just now The words he read, but looking at Jiao’s mother’s helpless face, she still didn’t ask Jiao Yuan.

Zheng Tan tugged at his ears, it’s not a worry for a child to be too serious.

The next day, Zheng Tan didn’t run to the residential area by the lake today. He didn’t want to disturb the old lady to reminisce, so he began to wander around looking for the four-sounding cuckoo that the two children said last night. I’ve been looking for that kind of bird for a long time today and haven’t seen a single one.

Zheng Tan planned to change the path and continue to look for it, but suddenly he stopped and looked diagonally forward.

At a distance of more than ten meters, there was a man. I heard yesterday that this man was transferred to another place. I saw him here today.

It was “Xiao Gao” who was standing there. At this moment, this person was no longer dressed in elite clothes. Although he was wearing glasses, he was not the gold-rimmed glasses before, but black-rimmed acetate glasses. He was wearing a casual sweatshirt. Carrying a ten-dollar bag, with no hairspray, he looked like a student from Chuhua University.

(To be continued..)

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