Strange Life of a Cat

When Zheng Tan returned to Jiao's house, the outer layer of hair was wet. It stayed in the snow for too long, and when it went out, the snow was quite heavy, so it's no wonder it wasn't wet.

Fortunately, the fur on the body is relatively thick and can keep you warm. But when the cold wind blows outside, Zheng Tan still can't help shivering.

Seeing that Zheng Tan came back, the hair on his body was wet, Xiao Youzi quickly took out the hair dryer and let Zheng Tan blow his hair.

"It's snowing so thick outside, and we didn't see any other cats in the compound, so Heitan went out for a walk." Jiao Yuan said.

"And the Sahara."

Just as he was talking, there was a barking sound coming from downstairs, Zheng Tan could clearly hear it, it was Sahara's call. However, the shouts at this time were obviously lacking in energy, far less fighting spirit than when they went out to have fun before.

Jiao Yuan chuckled, and immediately opened the window of the living room, looking at the building diagonally opposite. Xiaoyouzi also moved a low stool over, took off her slippers and stepped on the low stool to watch the situation outside the window.

Zheng Tan was also a little curious, and jumped on the window sill to look at the side where the dog barking came from.

The barking dog downstairs in the building diagonally opposite is Sahara. At the same time, on the balcony on the second floor of that building, Ruan Ying, the grandson of Academician Ruan, was standing there, leaning against the railing of the balcony, holding a bowl of kelp pork rib soup in his hand and drinking it, smashing it while drinking , said to the dog downstairs licking its mouth and jumping on its feet: "You run, try running again, you don't have a share of the bone soup tonight!"

"Wow woof... woof woof..." There was still a bit of whining in the cry, which was obviously weak, and he wanted to go upstairs to chew on the bones, but he couldn't enter the door.

Sahara's big paw patted the big iron gate at the gate, patted it for a while and then withdrew its paws. It remembered that this big iron gate should not be slapped indiscriminately. Once you slap it once, you will have to be slapped when you go home later.

"Wow" at the end, Sahara squatted in front of the iron gate, and let out a flat whining sound from his nasal cavity, opened his mouth twice to yawn, and licked his mouth twice.

It was not until more than ten minutes later that the owner opened the door to let him in, and then let him sit outside for a longer time to fear that he would get sick.

As soon as he entered the door, Sahara, who had been slumping and chirping, immediately recovered his blood, flicked his big tail vigorously, and the one who went upstairs was still jumping.

Like Jiao Yuan and the others, there were quite a few people watching the theater in the compound. Due to the different orientations of the residents, some watched from their own balconies, and some watched from the side sleepers or the windows of the living room. Sometimes there are people booing. Just now, someone asked Sahara to go to their house to chew on the bones, but Sahara still had a little bit of backbone, so he just moved his buttocks and became unwavering.

Jiao Yuan was talking about the difference between keeping a dog and a cat in the scene just now, when he suddenly heard a sneeze next to him.

Zheng Tan sniffed, and within a few seconds, couldn't help "sneezing" again.

Jiao Yuan and Xiao Youzi stared at Zheng Tan, and after Zheng Tan sneezed twice, Jiao Yuan shouted to Jiao's mother in the bedroom: "Mom, Heitan seems to have caught a cold!!"

"What?! Caught a cold?!" Jiao Ma immediately put down what she was doing and came over with her slippers on.

Zheng Tan also had a bad feeling, did he really have a cold?

"Do you want to take your temperature?" Little Yuzu asked.

Taking temperature?

Zheng Tan thought for a while and saw some pets being inserted into thermometers in the pet center, and trembled all over. Paralyzed, don't insert the back door to measure body temperature! !

Jiao's mother didn't understand this situation, so she thought about it and called Xiao Guo.

"Cold? Is its conjunctiva congested? Are there tears or a lot of mucus in the eyes?" Xiao Guo asked on the other end of the phone.

"These are not."

"How about eating?"

"It's not dinner time yet, I don't know."

"You can take your temperature first, but if you take it yourself at home, you can use the method of measuring the temperature at the base of the hind legs, which is more convenient..."

Zheng Tan jumped onto the desk, listened to the conversation between Jiao Ma and Xiao Guo on the phone, and was relieved to hear that rectal temperature measurement was not needed.

After Jiao Ma made the phone call, she took out the thermometer and shook it, and when she turned her head, she saw Zheng Tan lying on her side, her tail clamped tightly, and one hind leg raised.

Jiao's mother couldn't help laughing. When other people's cats took their body temperature, they had to do some "foreplay" to appease them. Now it's our cat's turn. Needless to say, it has already set its pose.

Zheng Tan's idea is that as long as the rectal temperature measurement method is not used, everything else is fine!

However, it seems that this is also exposed... Forget it, it's not like it hasn't been exposed. Who let himself be a cat now? Don't be too hypocritical, there are plenty of cats wandering around on the road.

Jiao Ma put the prepared thermometer at the joint between Zheng Tan's hind legs and the abdominal wall, and waited for Zheng Tan to maintain the posture of measuring body temperature for about 5 minutes before Jiao Ma took out the thermometer.

"Thirty-nine degrees." Jiao Ma frowned. According to Xiao Guo, it seems to be a little high.

The result of this method of measuring body temperature will be lower, so Xiao Guo gave various range standards for this method. After all, the normal body temperature of cats is higher than that of humans, so the standards are different.

Jiao's mother called Xiao Guo again and talked about the temperature measurement.

"That shouldn't be a big problem. You can give it some children's granules, and we'll have a look tomorrow." On the phone, Xiao Guo also heaved a sigh of relief. There are still some Chinese New Year advertisements behind him waiting for the cat to take over. Otherwise, it is estimated that a lot of food will be wasted just relying on the few in the store.

After getting Xiao Guo's statement, several people felt relieved. Jiao's mother made some children's granules, and there was no need to look for a syringe to feed it, so Zheng Tan went to drink it by himself.

Cats are no better than humans, Zheng Tan doesn't want to make his current self half-dead.

During dinner, several members of Jiao's family paid attention to Zheng Tan's eating, seeing that his appetite was still so large, the people at the dinner table became more at ease.

With such a large appetite, he should not be seriously ill.

At night, Mother Jiao suggested that Zheng Tan should stay on the sofa to sleep. Although I have never heard of cats infecting people with colds, it is always better to take precautions. The SARS in 2003 alerted many people.

It’s not that she dislikes Zheng Tan, Jiao’s mother also feels sorry for Zheng Tan, she laid out the sleeping place on the sofa, besides Xiaoyouzi’s fur cloak, there is also Jiao’s mother’s wool sweater, Zheng Tan Absolutely no freezing.

Zheng Tan himself didn't want to spread the disease to other people, so let's make do on the sofa first. If the cold becomes serious and can be contagious, it's not good to infect others.

After turning off the lights and taking a break, Xiaoyouzi opened the door and whispered to Zheng Tan to come into the room to sleep.

Zheng Tan didn't move, only rolled to make some movement to respond. Everything is just in case, if you really spread the cold to Xiaoyuzi, Zheng Tan must feel that he has committed a serious crime.

Xiaoyouzi yelled a few times, seeing that Zheng Tan had just turned over but was not about to get off the sofa, so Xiaoyouzi walked over gently and put her hands on Zheng Tan, making sure that the cat under her was breathing strongly and steadily, before Go back to the room and sleep.

Not long after Xiaoyouzi entered, Jiao Yuan did the same thing.

On the other side of the bedroom, Jiao's mother put her ear on the door to listen to the movement in the living room.

"Both children have gone back to their room?" Papa Jiao asked softly.

"Yeah. I'm all back... I'll go out and have a look." After talking, Mother Jiao walked out of the room and touched the sofa lightly.

Zheng Tan didn't even bother to open his eyelids this time, he just took a nap, three people came in half an hour.

Early in the morning, Zheng Tan was still sleeping, so Mother Jiao came over to take his temperature. Zheng Tan curled up in a circle when he slept, which is not a good position to measure body temperature.

Seeing that Zheng Tan opened his eyes, Jiao Ma put the thermometer away and patted Zheng Tan's head, "Hey, go on to sleep and take your temperature."

Zheng Tan: "..." I am not a child!

A few minutes later, Jiao Ma looked at the temperature displayed on the thermometer and finally smiled.

"It looks like it should be fine."

In fact, whether the cold is getting better or not, Zheng Tan knew it himself, took some medicine and fell asleep, now he is much more relaxed, and his nose is not as uncomfortable as yesterday.

Stretching, Zheng Tan jumped off the sofa and went to the toilet to take his morning urine.

Seeing Zheng Tan's figure entering the toilet, Jiao's mother said to Jiao's father, "Why doesn't Heitan's tail curl up?"

Other cats would put their tails up when they were in a good mood, but Zheng Tan never.

Zheng Tan usually puts his tail down obliquely, and when it is about to touch the ground, the tip of the tail is turned up a little bit.

There are many black cats in the world, but the people of the Jiao family feel that their black cats are very different from other black cats, and they are easy to recognize when they are put together, because the small movements unique to their own black cats can be distinguished by familiar people at a glance .

"Whatever it is, there is no rule that a cat's tail must be raised. Besides, our Heitan is very sensible... it's just that he has a bad temper occasionally." Papa Jiao said.

After urinating, Zheng Tan didn't feel sleepy for the time being, so he jumped onto the window sill in the living room and looked outside.

The sun came out. I watched TV last night. The weather forecast said that there will be no snow in the next few days. This year is almost over. It is estimated that there will be no such heavy snowfall, and there may even be no snow in the future.

The family compound was still completely white yesterday, but when Zheng Tan looked at it today, he had already cleared aisles, not necessarily the uncle guard or the person in charge of cleaning, many people in the family compound would not be free to come out to sweep the snow.

The Jiao family didn't have so many guests these two days, Zheng Tan stayed at home for two days just in case, and didn't go out. Zheng Tan didn't go out for a walk until the third day, when the Jiao family had another visitor.

I haven't gone out for two days, and I still feel uncomfortable. After coming out, Zheng Tan felt stretched all over.

After climbing down from the tree in the woods, Zheng Tan came out after being active, but he didn't see Ah Huang and the police chief, so he went directly to the school gate.

Zheng Tan still walked towards the place where the kitten was buried. When he went to look, there were human footprints and cats there. It should be the old man and the white female cat.

The female cat is still alive, following the uncle, even if the uncle's conditions are not as good as the family who moved away, at least there are people who care about it, and that's enough.

After the weather cleared, there were more pedestrians and vehicles on the road, making it very lively.

Zheng Tan came to the alley in the old building area along the familiar road, just in time to see the tattooed man wearing a thick down jacket walking out of the alley, bumping into someone and scolding directly, regardless of whether he walked by himself or not The cause of the shape.

Zheng Tan hid at the corner and watched him leave.

The tattooed man also has a job. He helps people watch the scene, works as a younger brother, and there are several shift shifts every week. Today is the only time he does it in a week. It is estimated that after the past, I will still find a corner to lie on my stomach and continue to sleep. Looking at it like that, I know that I must have watched a love action movie last night too late and consumed too much energy.

After the tattooed man left, Zheng Tan climbed over the wall from the backyard of the old building area to enter when no one was around.

The tattooed man lives on the first floor, which has a large area. The tattooed man even used a fence to enclose a piece of land. It was originally used for drying quilts in the public area, but he also occupied it. People around him talked about him, but not only did it not work, but they were intimidated instead.

The doors and windows of the house were closed tightly, but not in the kitchen. There was a broken window in the kitchen that looked old but hadn't been repaired.

Zheng Tan went in through the broken window, being careful not to scratch himself on the broken glass.

After entering, Zheng Tan took a look at the small kitchen. It was not that big, and there were garbage piled up everywhere. It looks narrower. There are many disposable bowls and chopsticks around, and there are instant noodle boxes that have not been thrown away.

There is a layer of smudges on the stove, and a dark layer on the ground, which has solidified, and it is probably not clean if you don't scrape it hard.

There was no gas jar, and the iron pan was rusty. Zheng Tan looked at it, and in the entire kitchen, the microwave oven was the only one that was used the most.

No wonder the kitchen windows were not repaired, and the kitchen was not used much, so it didn't matter whether they were repaired or not.

The kitchen door was closed, Zheng Tan leaned against the door and listened to the movement outside, and once again confirmed that there was no one in the room, he jumped up and turned the doorknob.

The area of ​​each household in the old building area is not large, about sixty to seventy square meters. There are sundries and a motorcycle in the living room. The brightest thing in this room is probably only the motorcycle. It can be seen that the owner often scrubs it. Other than that, the rest of the place is full of all kinds of clutter and rubbish.

The unfinished takeaways on the table have not been cleaned up, and the rice grains on the ground have dried up and are stuck to the floor.

As for the bedroom, some magazines were randomly thrown on the floor of the room, and every magazine cover was a big busty girl in scantily clad clothes. The wall calendar hanging on the wall above the bed is also in this style.

There are many things on the bedside table, the ashtray is full, and there are many cigarette butts on the ground. What is not commensurate with this environment is that there is also a gift box of tea and a purple sand pot on the table.

There is a card on the hardcover gift box with blessings written on it, but it is not the name of the tattooed man. It looks like it was given to an old man. As for why it is with the tattooed man, it is unknown, and it is probably not very popular. means.

After turning around, Zheng Tan didn't touch the things here, went back along the original road, closed the kitchen door, came out through the broken window, and climbed over the wall to leave when no one was around.

There is a small restaurant not far from the alley in the old building area. It is estimated that knowing that the surrounding area will be demolished, the boss also plans to relocate the store, and there are fewer things. However, the business during the Chinese New Year period is still good. Now many people will call a small restaurant to order food and deliver it when they have guests at home, or directly book a private room. The restaurant owner made a lot of money on New Year's Eve.

The kitchen is next to the main building of the restaurant, and there are many people washing and cooking.

"A case of beer in the sixteenth private room!"

"Okay, send it over immediately!"

A waiter wearing a hotel overalls walked into the wine warehouse, but when he moved the wine, he found that there was a bottle missing in a case of beer. There were originally twelve bottles, but now there were only eleven bottles.

Could it be that someone stole the drink? Forget it, don't care about it, even if someone drinks it secretly, he doesn't have anything to do with offending others.

So the waiter picked another full case of twelve bottles of beer and moved it out.

After knowing that the store will be relocated, the management here is not as strict as before. In addition, this year is not over yet, the business in the store is not bad, sometimes it is chaotic, and some people don’t know about it. .

Therefore, when the people who came into the warehouse at the back saw the box that was missing a bottle of beer, they thought the same as the people in front, and no one said it clearly.