Strange Life of a Cat

There are many four-leaf grasses, but it is not so easy to find wood sorrel that is mutated from three leaves. Most of the grasses sold on the market are not four-leaf wood sorrel.

As Xiao Zhuo said, the chances of encountering this kind of four-leaf wood sorrel are really small, otherwise there would be no other grasses on the market to replace it.

only……

Seeing the clump of wood sorrel with four leaves mostly in front of him, Zheng Tan was in a complicated mood.

Zheng Tan felt that if the students outside knew about this, they would definitely come over and finish this mess. No wonder there are not many things planted here, but the door of the flower shed is still tightly closed. Apart from the reason of the flower shed itself, old man Lan must also know about these wood sorrel.

Zheng Tan raised his paw and moved the wood sorrel, cursing inwardly, when he suddenly noticed a special individual.

It was a bit smaller than the surrounding leaves, but Zheng Tan noticed it mainly because there was something wrong with its leaves.

one two three four five six seven eight nine! !

Zheng Tan counted again, it was indeed nine leaves, could it be that three plants grow side by side?

Looking at this grass, the stems of the other branches are quite ordinary, but the stem with nine alternate leaves is indeed thicker than the others. However, although the stem is thick, the nine leaves are very small. The largest leaf is only two-thirds of the other plants, and the small leaf is only a little bit, and it can barely be seen that it grows on it.

However, even if its leaves are small, the nine leaves are alternate!

Nine leaves!

How can this happen? The incidental product when mutagenizing other plants before?

Zheng Tan didn't understand.

However, if you don’t understand, then you don’t understand, Zheng Tan is too lazy to struggle.

I also looked at the leaves of other branches on this plant, all of which have three leaves, but only this branch has nine leaves.

Zheng Tan was going to tear up the whole plant, including the leaves of other branches, but he couldn't control the strength and it was torn off, which made Zheng Tan very depressed. Sure enough, the cat's claws are not easy to use with fingers.

Regardless of the other branches, Zheng Tan picked up the branch with nine leaves and walked outside.

"Hey, Heitan, what are you holding in your mouth?" Old Lan said when he came out from the flower shed and saw Zheng Tan with something in his mouth.

Zheng Tan glanced at the old man, then at the flower shed.

"Yo, I was discovered by you! I kept that specially..." Old Lan showed off his achievements habitually, but his voice stopped abruptly when he saw the grass in Zheng Tan's mouth.

Zheng Tan ignored him, jumped directly from the box onto the roof of the flower shed, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Old man Lan still stayed where he was, recalling the scene he had just seen. Heitan is holding it in its mouth...it seems to be more than four leaves! At least six or even seven leaves!

However, Old Man Lan was only stunned for a while. What he cared most about were not those wood sorrels. Those were just for fun. In the entire flower garden, what he cared most about was his orchids, so he quickly put them away. Zheng Tan forgot about the wood sorrel he found.

Coming out of old man Lan's small flower garden, Zheng Tan went directly to the family compound in the west area.

Every time Zheng Tan came out, it was during class and work time, so there were still not many people. There were still some people on campus, but there were fewer people in the family compound.

When entering the West District compound, a cat rushed over, growling threateningly, Zheng Tanli ignored it, and ran directly towards the small high-rise building where Xiao Zhuo lived.

There is a gate control downstairs, Zheng Tan waited for a while, and when someone came out, Zheng Tan took advantage of the gap and ran in.

The person who came out happened to be Xiao Zhuo's nanny who went downstairs to throw out the garbage. When Zheng Tan rushed in from her feet, the nanny was so frightened that she almost threw the garbage bag in her hand out. She hates black cats the most! And just now, the black cat passed by her feet, although she didn't touch it, she still felt hairy all over her body.

After thinking about it, the nanny decided to take a stroll downstairs before going up. She didn't want to go back upstairs to face the black cat. She always felt that the black cat was very evil. If Xiao Zhuo and Professor Ye hadn't let it go, she would have patted the cat with a frying pan.

Throwing the rubbish in her hand into the trash can, the middle-aged nanny shook her head, really wondering what Xiao Zhuo and Professor Ye were thinking. Are you not afraid that there will be problems with the child you give birth to?

Although the nanny has not been here for a long time, she also chats with some family members of the teaching staff in the compound when she is bored, and knows something.

I heard that the health of the child in Xiaozhuo's stomach is not guaranteed. Even if no deformities have been found in the examination up to now, who knows, many people say that even if there is no deformity, the IQ of the child born is very likely to be comparable to that of ordinary children. It's different, there have been such examples before, and now the children are in their teens, and their IQs are not as good as those in kindergarten.

It is not without reason. These people's guesses are also well-founded. After all, judging from the time, Xiao Zhuo was following up on a project of "Buddha" during the period of her unexpected pregnancy. That project came into contact with some radioactive elements. Even if there are protective measures, but... …

Even the doctors in the affiliated hospital were not very optimistic.

In order to avoid getting into trouble after being bumped into by others in the elevator, Zheng Tan still chose to climb the stairs. It's only six floors, Zheng Tan climbs the fifth floor every day, this height is nothing to Zheng Tan.

When he came to Room 606, Zheng Tan jumped up and rang the doorbell.

The nanny should still be downstairs and it's not convenient for Xiao Zhuo to move around at home alone, so Zheng Tan squatted in front of the door and waited after pressing the button twice.

After waiting for a while, the door opened.

At first, Xiao Zhuo thought that the nanny didn't bring the key, and when he opened the door, he didn't see anyone. He looked down and saw Zheng Tan squatting at the door.

Before Xiao Zhuo could see what Zheng Tan was holding in his mouth, Zheng Tan had already run in the door, jumped onto the moon chair in Xiao Zhuo's room and lay on his stomach, panting.

Xiao Zhuo took the small cup that Zheng Tan used to drink water when he came here before, took some water from the water dispenser, tested the temperature of the water, and put it on the desk.

Zheng Tan jumped on the desk and drank some water. In fact, he was not very thirsty, so he stopped licking after two sips. Zheng Tan was not used to this way of drinking water before, but gradually, he also got used to this non-human licking and drinking method.

Xiao Zhuo was really happy to see Zheng Tan, she didn't expect the black cat to come in the morning and come in the afternoon. Xiao Zhuo knew the meaning of the eyes of the people around him, so Xiao Zhuo was reluctant to go out to face those people in many cases, and occasionally went for a walk when there were few people.

There are always those people who seem to care, but every word they say pokes into your heart. However, Xiao Zhuo always feels very relaxed every time he stays with this cat.

So Xiao Zhuo has already made up his mind that if he can come back in the future, he will also raise a cat at home.

After Zheng Tan finished drinking the water, he saw that Xiao Zhuo was still looking at him, not paying attention to the grass left on the moon chair, so he nodded towards the moon chair with his chin.

Seeing this, Xiao Zhuo looked over to the moon chair.

"Huh?"

Xiao Zhuo picked up the grass on the chair, and after seeing it clearly, his face was full of disbelief. Look at Zheng Tan, then look at the grass in the palm of your hand.

Nine leaves, like the petals of a flower, are layered together. The smallest leaf in the center is only a little bit bigger, but it is indeed nine leaves!

Xiao Zhuo heard from the transfer student who gave the four-leaf clover that the extra leaf of the clover represents luck. And the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and, ninth leaf all have their meanings.

What does the ninth leaf represent?

It represents the good luck of narrow escape and phoenix nirvana.

Nine deaths, Phoenix Nirvana...

Although it is just a legend, it is just something for people to comfort themselves, but when people are at a low point, when they are almost desperate, there will always be something that keeps them going, or belief, or someone, something, something obsession.

After knowing she was pregnant, for so many days, although Xiao Zhuo has not shown much on the face, she has never let go of her worries. She hopes that her child is healthy, not too smart, as long as she is healthy. It's just that the word "health" is a luxury for people in Xiao Zhuo's situation.

The eyes of the people around and the words behind his back made Xiao Zhuo breathless.

But now, the clover with nine leaves in the palm of his hand made Xiao Zhuo suddenly have the urge to cry loudly.

The small nine-leaf clover in his hand was always thought to be just the legendary nine leaves, as if Xiao Zhuo saw a shining star in the darkness of despair, and the star pointed to the direction of hope.

Zheng Tan was standing on the desk, while Xiao Zhuo was sitting on the recliner looking down at the grass in his hand, so Zheng Tan couldn't see the expression on Xiao Zhuo's face at the moment, but seeing the drops of water falling down, Zheng Tan was also at a loss .

Cried? No way?

It's just a broken grass, as for it? !

Pregnant women are sentimental!

Shaking his beard, Zheng Tan really didn't know how to react now.

After a while, Xiao Zhuo sniffed and said, "It's not easy to find four-leaf wood sorrel. Many people can't find one after searching for a long time. I didn't expect you to be able to find this..."

Zheng Tan really wanted to say, this kind of four-leaf clover is actually not too difficult to find, really, there are a lot of them hidden in Old Lan's flower shed!

"Son, even if mother can't come back and accompany you in the future, but Brother Hei will accompany you..." Xiao Zhuo whispered.

Zheng Tan tugged at his ears, recalling in his mind the scene where a kid from Ahuang's family grabbed Ahuang's tail and put it in his mouth.

Then, Zheng Tan was horrified again.

Paralyze me, don't bring children! ! Calling Brother Hei is useless, even calling him Dad!

I'm just a cat now, they will scratch my tail, pull my ears, and cry at me for no reason!

Zheng Tan was a little dazed by Xiao Zhuo's reaction, Xiao Zhuo also said to thank Zheng Tan, but looking at Xiao Zhuo's appearance, Zheng Tan was afraid of causing trouble, he was so pregnant and so sentimental, is it really okay?

Fortunately, when the nanny came back, Zheng Tan took the opportunity to run out.

Not long after, when Zheng Tan ran into Xiao Zhuo who was taking a walk outside to bask in the sun accompanied by the nanny again, Xiao Zhuo showed Zheng Tan the pendant hanging around his neck.

The pendant is a little bigger than the longan, and inside is the nine-leaf clover that Zheng Tan found. The grass is wrapped in an unknown material, neither plastic nor glass.

The material is transparent, but the pendant appears to be a vibrant green because of the plant inside.

The nanny was sitting on another chair ten meters away, a little far away from Xiao Zhuo and Zheng Tan, and she couldn't see what Xiao Zhuo was hanging on. She wasn't interested either, and now her attention was on Zheng Tan. , for fear that Zheng Tan would run over. If it wasn't for Xiao Zhuo being here, the nanny probably would have run away the moment she saw Zheng Tan.

Zheng Tan feels that Xiao Zhuo is a little different today. Compared with Xiao Zhuo before this, he always feels a little more lively and angry, unlike before, even when he smiles, there is a hint of depression.

Yawning, Zheng Tan shook his hair, watching Xiao Zhuo and the nanny walk away, Zheng Tan also continued to walk forward. He was going to sleep in Papa Jiao's office. Recently, some of Jiao Ma's colleagues often go to play at home, so Zheng Tan doesn't want to stay at home with those unfamiliar people.

When he came to the Health Department Building, Zheng Tan didn't go to Papa Jiao's office immediately. He saw a group of people dissecting mice in the public laboratory on the first floor. He didn't see Yi Xin, but Zheng Tan saw an acquaintance.

Why is this not that beef!

Zheng Tan didn't remember Su Qu's name, but he remembered his Inner Mongolia beef jerky.

Su Qu's size is very eye-catching among those people. He is still wearing a sweater and a white lab coat outside. After a winter vacation, he is a little fat and looks like a polar bear.

On a whim, Zheng Tan squatted on a camphor tree outside the window of the public laboratory on the first floor and looked over there. The windows of the laboratory were not all closed, so Zheng Tan could hear the conversations of those inside.

At the beginning of March, the scores of the preliminary examination for postgraduate examinations were announced, and the scores for the re-examination, as Chuhua University is an independent institution, the score lines were issued first by the national line. In mid-March, all departments announced the score lines one after another.

When Zheng Tan was at home, he heard Papa Jiao say that the big guy didn't seem to exceed the grade line by much, but he passed the line anyway.

It stands to reason that the time for the re-examination will be two weeks later, and the re-examination will still be based on the ratio of 1:1.2, and the group of people who pass the line will have to brush down. However, when the first test scores were announced, many people with relatively high scores had already started contacting the teachers in the school. As for those with relatively low scores, they had already started looking for relationships.

After all, the teacher who decides whether you can stay or not is still the teacher who has a place for graduate students. If he decides on you, you will pass, regardless of the score. Therefore, many people have already finalized their plans before the re-examination, and coming to the re-examination when the time comes is just a formality.

This is a semi-public internal rule, and many colleges and universities are like this. Zheng Tan only found out when he heard Jiao's father and Jiao's mother talking about it.

As for this beef jerky boy, Papa Jiao seems to have already made a decision, otherwise he wouldn't have let him come over to familiarize himself with the laboratory.

At this moment, the big man was laughing and talking with other people, but the operation in his hands was unambiguous at all, with very sharp knife skills. After the dissection, the tweezers could accurately find the part to be sampled.

Su Qu's initial test score is not high. Under normal circumstances, such a person is more likely to be rejected during the retest, but now Su Qu is studying in the laboratory under the instruction of Associate Professor Jiao, that is to say , this person has already been appointed by default, and he will officially become a member of the courtyard in September. The other senior graduate students in the college also understood the significance of this, so they were still very willing to accept this prospective junior.

After two days, the hunky junior brother often helped some senior sisters in the courtyard move things, and helped the senior brothers take samples, so the popularity was pretty good.

As for grades.

hehe.

So what if you come first in the retest?

Anyone who has been here knows that after they really come in, they still read the published articles and the impact factors of the articles, and everything else is bullshit.

After studying so many classes, if you skip the class, as long as you do experiments in the laboratory during the skipping time, the respective tutors will be happy, and some tutors who are more talkative will help cover up, approve leave slips, etc.

Yi Xin didn't even rank in the top ten when he first came in, but what about now? Now mentioning this year's celebrities, who would dare to ignore such a person?

Yi Xin's name is still on the academy's annual honor list. As for the top ten of the original test scores, how many people are still remembered now?

When people asked about Su Qu, once they heard that he was Yi Xin's younger brother and a member of Associate Professor Jiao's subordinates, his attitude became much better, at least on the surface.

"Brother, the kidney has been removed." Su Qu shouted.

The senior called by Su Qu is not Yi Xin. The other senior members in the academy are all seniors. The difference is that Yi Xin is Su Qu's direct senior and belongs to the same mentor. However, when they are usually called, they are called in the same way, and there is no distinction between direct and collateral.

The brother who wanted to take the sample was talking to someone at the moment, and the person next to him heard it and said with a smile, "Oh, your kidney has been taken!"

Several other people who were taking samples also booed with Su Qu, "Brother, your kidney!"

The senior pointed at Su Qu, the biggest one, with tweezers, and said, "Again, I'll cut you and take yours off!"

Su Qu was obviously familiar with them, and said cheaply: "Come on... come on, senior brother, take it, take it from me!"

At this time, Yi Xin was about to enter the door with the materials in his hand. He was accompanied by a few elementary school girls who were undergraduate students. That expression is quite subtle.

Yi Xin wanted to cover his face. Boss Jiao, can we return the product?

Zheng Tan squatted on the tree outside and laughed, this Su Qu is really a bastard.

Just as he was enjoying himself, Zheng Tan sensed the malicious gaze and turned his head to look over. A man in a camel coat was standing not far away looking at him.