Strange Life of a Cat

After shouting, the woman poured out a cup of cold tea and closed the window vigorously.

Zheng Tan turned his eyes back to the student who was criticized as "the IQ is almost like a cat". Looking at him, he seemed to be immune to such words. After hearing it, there was no change on his face. Not much volatility, apparently this has happened more than once.

The man pulled a straw pole from the corner and came over to tease the cat, Zheng Tan didn't intend to pay attention to him, he lifted his feet and continued to walk forward, looking at the surrounding terrain and buildings.

Turning a few corners and walking, Zheng Tan moved his ears, he heard the sound of construction on the construction site, and looked in the direction of the sound, Zheng Tan could only see the building located between the two buildings. The crane arm in the distance, there are too many buildings and people around here, Zheng Tan couldn't find a good observation point for a while.

Why do you feel that the place is familiar?

He couldn't remember exactly where it was for a while, Zheng Tan was walking in a new area, his sense of direction was a bit blurred, and he didn't think deeply, and returned along the road when he was almost done walking.

When walking back, Zheng Tan passed the neighborhood again, and the student wearing a certain high school uniform was talking with another person.

I didn't know what they were talking about before, and the beeping of the surrounding car horns was too disturbing to the hearing. When the car horn stopped and Zheng Tan approached, he heard a disgusted "hum" from that person and a mocking tone of "a bird knows the ambition of a great swan".

The man in the school uniform smiled indifferently, "That's a big mistake, how does the swan know the joy of a sparrow?"

Zheng Tan just squatted on the fence and listened to the two people discussing the issue of "chicken" and "swan". How can I bear it?" The dead look.

Listening to the conversation between these two people, Zheng Tan also learned that the man in front of the man in school uniform is the "brother" in "Learn from your brother" that the woman said before. The provincial key Chuhua High School is just an ordinary high school relatively close to here.

Leaving aside who is right and who is wrong between these two people, and who is in the wrong, after hearing their conversation, Zheng Tan can only sigh with emotion. The three idioms made Zheng Tan, a scumbag, very hard to listen to.

Within a few minutes, the "brother" left impatiently. The man in school uniform stood there for a while, and when he turned his head to look outside the community, he saw Zheng Tan squatting on the fence.

"Hey, are you here again?!"

The person who had a calm expression just now smiled immediately, picked up the withered straw that was thrown aside just now, and prepared to come over to tease the cat again. It's a pity that Zheng Tan didn't plan to play with him. Lift your feet and go home.

Everything in Chuhua University is still the same, and it doesn't look like there is any change. However, when Zheng Tan returned, he heard a middle-aged couple in a shop outside the campus talking about the abandoned project to rebuild a commercial plaza.

Compared with those large commercial plazas such as the central plaza, this new plaza must be smaller, but there are many schools around it. Apart from Chuhua University, there are some other schools. Students earn more money. Some vendors We have already started discussing countermeasures. In addition, it seems that housing buildings will be built, etc. The couple didn't know much about it, so Zheng Tan could only get a general idea from what they said.

No wonder I felt familiar with the construction site before. It turned out to be that site. I heard Wei Leng mention it some time ago, and I guess it was Ye Hao who achieved his goal.

It's good to build it, there is an extra place to play, but I don't know how many years it will take to build it, I hope Ye Hao and the others can be more efficient.

The next day, Zheng Tan still walked on the same road he walked yesterday. When he came to the neighborhood, he saw the man in school uniform from yesterday again. This guy seemed to be going out. In a hurry, didn't say much.

The man in the school uniform didn’t wear his school uniform today, he changed into casual and cheap sportswear, and when he was walking out of the community, the woman yelled at the window a few more times, nothing more than reprimanding the man in the school uniform for “not doing his job all day long” I only know how to play", seeing Zheng Tan again, the woman despised the cat's IQ again by the way.

As soon as he walked out of the gate of the community, the man in the school uniform ran into an acquaintance, who should be a neighbor.

"Zhong Yan, is the monthly leave? How is the monthly exam?" the man asked.

"That's it." Zhong Yan said helplessly.

"Hey, you really have to learn from your brother. Yesterday I heard that your brother didn't go to sleep until eleven o'clock in the evening when he did the test questions. This monthly test is probably another top ten in the class..."

The man talked a lot, Zhong Yan's expression didn't change, and after listening halfway through, he left with an excuse.

When he was leaving, Zheng Tan saw the man shaking his head at Zhong Yan's back, sighing like "the child is really unteachable".

Zheng Tan looked at the boy named Zhong Yan who was walking away, he moved the tip of his tail, thought for a while, and followed. He just wanted to see where the kid was going to play.

When passing by an alley, Zhong Yan bought wine from a shop at the entrance of the alley, and walked into the alley.

The alley is relatively old. Zheng Tan saw it when he passed by yesterday, but didn't go in to take a closer look. Now he walked through the alley with Zhong Yan and found that the buildings on the other side of the alley had been demolished. Standing at the exit of the alley, Zheng Tan could see the construction site not far away. It is not a place of abandoned projects, but an old building area that has just been demolished. It seems that the scope of this work is quite large. It's a big project, no wonder Ye Hao made so many preparations before.

After Zhong Yan exited the alley, he looked around, and then walked in one direction.

The building baffles in this area were not fenced off, and Zhong Yan's destination was a temporary duty room, where several people gathered and was filled with smoke. Smoking is prohibited on the construction site, and this duty room is one of the tentative smoking places.

Many of the smokers in the duty room knew Zhong Yan, and their smile deepened when they saw the wine in Zhong Yan's hand. Although they can't drink alcohol now, it would be nice to have a few sips at dinner.

It wasn't long before Zhong Yan entered the duty room, so he walked out of the construction site with a middle-aged man wearing a hard hat.

Zheng Tan stood at the entrance of the alley and looked over there. After the man in the hard hat scanned the surroundings, he pointed to Zheng Tan's side, and came with Zhong Yan.

Jumping up to an undemolished low house next to it, Zheng Tan watched the two walk over here.

"Is this cat following you here?" The man took off the helmet on his head, pointed at Zheng Tan and said to Zhong Yan.

"Hey, Brother Ning, if you don't tell me, I really didn't pay attention. I saw this cat for the first time yesterday. I don't know who it belongs to. It's quite courageous and not afraid of people." Zhong Yan looked at the cat on the low room. said the black cat.

That Brother Ning just shook his head with a smile, and didn't bother with this question any more, but asked, "How is your monthly exam?"

"It's okay." Zhong Yan replied.

Compared with the previous resident of the community, Zhong Yan seemed to be much more sincere when answering.

"What do you want to do this time?" Brother Ning asked.

"I really can't hide anything from you." Zhong Yan scratched his hair and said, "Winter vacation is only a month away. Anyway, I have nothing to do. I want to find some work to earn some living expenses. Ning Brother, will there be a shortage of people at the construction site here?"

Hearing Zhong Yan's words, Brother Ning frowned, "Why do you want to come to work? Your mother won't give you living expenses? You don't want to be partial like this. You don't want to see your own son, but go to please other people's children."

Zhong Yan rubbed his palms again, but remained silent.

"Okay, you kid should focus more on your studies now, and get into a good university next year. Don't act like us. As for the construction site, during the Chinese New Year, some people must go home. There are still some people here. You can’t stop working, if you are not afraid of hardship, you can try it, it’s all simple coolies, I don’t have the ability to arrange other things.”

"Then thank you Brother Ning!" Zhong Yan was very happy.

"Thank you, don't worry about the construction site, there must be work to do, but the most important thing for you is to go to college. It's too late for junior high school educated people like us to envy you."

"Brother Ning, aren't you doing well now? After working for the past two years, you have bought a house and a car, and your wife and children are hot on the bed."

Although Ning Ge and the others have little knowledge, technology is not necessarily something that can be learned well from books. Ning Ge and the others have been in this industry for several years, and the novice has become a proficient one, and they have made some money.

"You don't understand, even if you have money, the eyes of those people in the society look at us with contempt, don't look at how polite they are in front of us, maybe how they belittle us in their hearts, 'vulgar', 'superficial', 'earthy' ', I've heard words like 'upstart', I used to be able to tell myself that those people are jealous, but there are too many people like this, we can't deceive ourselves..."

While talking, Brother Ning found that Zhong Yan was hanging his head. He felt that he might be putting too much pressure on the child. He changed his words and said, "But our boss told us before that some people are only smarter than books, but some people are smarter than others. They are smart but can permeate into the society. Who will survive better in the future? It is uncertain now. Everyone has his own evaluation criteria, so we can live our own life. The times are advancing, and we who are uneducated are better than those who are not educated. Intellectuals are satisfied with a good life. Xiao Zhong, even if you don’t study well, you have a good head, and you will definitely be better than us in the future.”

Zhong Yan didn't refute or explain anything, but asked: "Brother Ning, do your bosses have any taboos? I'll pay more attention then."

"Taboo? It should be nothing. You know the people who have been on the road... Oh, I remembered. I heard that the boss doesn't like cats, especially black ones. But our boss doesn't come here often, and you can't either It should be fine to bring the cat into the construction site, as long as you know it."

After talking for a while, Brother Ning stood up, patted the dust on his pants, and walked towards the construction site.

Watching Brother Ning leave, Zhong Yan said to the black cat lying there: "Oh, I really envy your cats, you don't have to worry about anything after eating and sleeping."

Zheng Tan didn't quite agree with Zhong Yan's words. Being a cat for more than a year, he took the main part when he was bored, so he didn't have to worry about eating, drinking, and messing around. What he thought most about all day was how to have fun to pass the time.

That, I'm really too embarrassed to delay until now. Yesterday I also said that I would prepare more. The debt owed will continue to be repaid every year.

The sound of firecrackers has been non-stop since the New Year's Eve dinner, and after zero o'clock, there will be another round of firecrackers. It is estimated that it will continue until the morning. It should be quieter in big cities. I don't know what will happen to the smog tomorrow.

I wish you all the best in the Year of the Horse, riches, good health and good luck in everything.

Here's a New Year's greetings to all of you!