Strange Life of a Cat

Zheng Tan jumped onto the branch of a sycamore tree, squinted his eyes to see the sunlight leaking through the leaves, plucked his ears with his furry paws, found a comfortable position to lie down, and yawned.

In the afternoon of September, the sun is just right, suitable for a nap.

Zheng Tan is a cat, but he used to be a real person, he didn't understand what happened, he just woke up like this.

A strange city, a strange house, a strange person, a strange and even more desperate new identity, an enlarged world, and the era of going back in time - 2003.

Zheng Tan didn't like cats before, and he even hated this kind of animal. He always thought that cats are creatures of the same level as neuropathy, but now, he himself has become such an animal.

retribution?

Zheng Tan admits that his style is not very good, he has bullied the weak, let go of a few small fires, is idle about his business, and was once extravagant and drunk, but at least he has never killed anyone. Looking at it to comment, there are more people who are assholes than myself, why is it me who is punished?

At a loss? At a loss? Are you angry? Desperate?

In the face of the extremely clear reality, everything seems to be of no avail. Regarding the once indulgent life, Zheng Tan can only comfort himself with the sentence "The wind blows the egg shell, and the wealth goes away to make people happy".

Three months passed, a season, a quarter of a year, and the wheel of nature's reincarnation has turned ninety degrees, which calmed down Zheng Tan's ups and downs when he first came, and gradually became familiar with it from being unaccustomed.

Sometimes it is a rare mentality to muddle along without big ambitions.

This is Chuhua University, a century-old school ranked first in the ranking of universities in central China. The advantage of a century-old school is that it has a large enough area and good greening.

Occasionally, students pass by on the road under the tree, and the atmosphere here is quiet yet energetic.

Zheng Tan squinted for a while in this good atmosphere and was woken up by a barking dog. Moving his ears, he knew which two were making a fuss without looking at Zheng Tan.

A hundred meters away from Zheng Tan, a brown Chihuahua dog was barking at a camphor tree, and at the branch of the camphor tree stood a black and white cat, and at the moment the cat was flirting. Whispering its tail, it yelled down the tree.

Just looking at the appearance, this situation is very common, and it is often encountered by people who have pets. However, the difference in the situation at this moment is that the dog and the cat are all barking "Wow".

The cat is named "Sheriff". It is now eight months old and slightly smaller than Zheng Tan. It is named because its coat color is very similar to that of the black cat Sheriff in the cartoon. At the same time, this cat is also one of Zheng Tan's bad friends after he became a cat.

This cat has two characteristics: one is aggressive, and fights with death; the other is to bark like a dog, and it is full of dog nature.

The first time Zheng Tan saw the "sheriff", that guy squatted on a one-meter-high landscape stone and yelled at the chihuahua. When the "sheriff" found Zheng Tan looking at this side, it slowly changed from "barking" to "meow".

In fact, the police chief's "dog language" was not standardized at that time, and it felt a bit nondescript, but these days have passed, and this "dog language" has become more and more pure.

And when this girl is tired, she will stick out her tongue and pant like a dog, so Zheng Tan often wonders if there is a dog's soul living in this cat?

Not paying attention to that side, Zheng Tan yawned and continued to sleep on his stomach. He didn't worry about the safety of the "sheriff" at all. The "sheriff" and the chihuahua had been fighting since childhood, and they had a lot of experience. If you want to ask why the "sheriff" always has trouble with that Chihuahua, the reason is that that Chihuahua is the smallest among the pet dogs in the family compound in the East District. Pick fresh fish to eat, pick soft persimmons, even cats know this.

Zheng Tan slept until the bell rang for the end of the third period in the university teaching area, then got up, stretched, and slowly slid down from the tall plane tree. Trot along the walkway along the road, and then pass through a peach grove and you will see a fence.

This is an affiliated elementary school located inside Chuhua University. Many children of the staff and family members go to school here. It is convenient for pick-up and drop-off, and parents can rest assured.

Zheng Tan jumped on the fence, looked at the two classrooms on the second and sixth floors, and then walked along the fence towards the school gate.

After Zheng Tan waited on the fence twenty meters away from the school gate for seven or eight minutes, the bell of the attached primary school rang. It's not the sharp sound of jingling bells, but a piece of cheerful and lively music, very humane.

A little girl wearing a small floral dress walked out of the corridor with a helloki    y backpack on her back. As soon as she got out of the stairs, she looked directly towards Zheng Tan. When she saw Zheng Tan squatting on the wall, the little girl's eyes that didn't have much emotion suddenly froze. Light up, run over here.

"Brother Yuan said that they have a quiz in the last class, they may have to wait a little longer..."

Before the little girl finished speaking, Zheng Tan saw a person rushing out of the stairs, dragging a schoolbag in the posture of dragging a sack, and his hair was pulled like a chicken coop, rushing straight towards them, with a smile on his face Desperately, he made a "V"-shaped victory gesture to Zheng Tan and the little girl. It seems that this kid did a good job in the quiz in the last class.

The boy's name is Jiao Yuan. He is a child of the family that adopted Zheng Tan. He is in the sixth grade. That little girl is Gu Youzi, Jiao Yuan's cousin. After her parents divorced, she was brought back from abroad by Jiao's mother for some reason. She lives in Jiao's house and is now studying in the second grade of the primary school attached to Chu University.

Jiao Yuan took the schoolbag from Gu Youzi's body, and the two of them left the school gate and walked towards the family compound in the East District.

"Look, Jiao Yuan's cat is here to pick them up again!" Someone said.

Many people I met on the road are used to this scene. It has been nearly three weeks since the beginning of the school, and it has become an interesting thing for people around me to talk about after dinner.

The family compound is not far from the affiliated school, and it takes less than ten minutes to walk there.

The Jiao family lives on the fifth floor of Building B in the Eastern District Courtyard. The entrances of each building here are controlled. Jiao Yuan touched the keychain to the card reader, and the iron gate opened with a clang.

There is a small round plate on Jiao Yuan's key chain, which is the "key" of access control. Almost everyone who lives in the family building has this. Zheng Tan also has one around his neck, but this one is a bit special. What is Zheng Tan's current profile picture, on the back is the home address and contact number of Jiao's family. The access control card and pet card are combined into one, which is specially made by Jiao's father.

When Zheng Tan entered the building, he looked at the balcony of a family on the first floor, but he didn't find the fat man. He probably was taken away to visit his relatives again.

At this meal time, the door of Jiao's house is always open. After all, it is a family building in the school. There are access control and cameras at the entrance, so the safety factor is much higher than some apartment buildings outside. Mother Jiao was cooking, but there were conversations in the living room.

"Then, Mr. Jiao will be in trouble for the advertisement!"

Zheng Tan paused as he entered the door. He was familiar with this voice. It was the owner of a pet supply store near Chuhua University. His surname was Guo. His brother was a veterinarian. Zheng Tan's vaccine was given by his brother.

Last week, Zheng Tan also heard Jiao's mother say that Xiao Guo wanted Zheng Tan to help shoot a canned cat commercial. So, today is this a special visit to explain the commercial?