Strange Life of a Cat - Chapter 433

[Chapter 419]

“The end of the world” was just like what Zheng Tan thought, and it just passed. Zheng Tan didn’t go online to make bets with those people, and he wasn’t in the mood to join in the fun and denounce those guys who had vigorously spread doomsday theories before.

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After the end of the apocalyptic year, which was hyped up on the Internet, the atmosphere in the Jiao family became more and more tense

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One is Xiaoyouzi’s college entrance examination, and the other is Zheng Tan’s state.

Xiaoyouzi did not choose Chuhua University’s recommendation. Because of the limited number of places, she gave up her place to Xie Xin, an old classmate in the Western District Courtyard. Xie Xin’s grades were not as stable as her, while Xiaoyouzi’s grades have always been very good, and After Jiao Dad talked, Xiaoyouzi made a decision.

For high school students, time flies faster than anyone else, as if it’s not enough. Fortunately, Xiaoyuzi’s psychological quality is not bad, which makes Jiao’s father and Jiao’s mother a lot relieved.

And Zheng Tan’s problem is still the same as last year. He is always dreaming, and he feels that even if he just squints for a while, he will dream a lot. His thinking is so confusing that Zheng Tan can’t sleep anymore.

If you don’t get enough sleep, your mental state will definitely not be good.

Jiao’s mother also specially took Zheng Tan to the pet center for inspection, and found no major problems, just lack of sleep.

Jiao Yuan has called home a lot more times in the past six months. He asked about Xiaoyouzi’s situation, and Zheng Tan’s. He also said that if the veterinarian here can’t solve it, he will take him to the capital to see it. There are also many authoritative veterinarians over there.

Zheng Tan didn’t want to go, and Jiao’s mother couldn’t help it, thinking that after Xiaoyouzi’s college entrance examination, the family would go to the capital to see Jiao Yuan together, and take Zheng Tan there for inspection by the way.

When Zheng Tan was at home, he faced the desk calendar on Xiaoyouzi’s desk.

Turning around, he recalled the time when he became a cat, which was probably in June, but he couldn’t remember the exact time, it was ten years later, who still remembers, besides, Zheng Tan’s time was always the same. Chaotic days, I don’t remember the date very much, and sometimes I miss school exams.

Stretching out his paw, Zheng Tan made an indistinct trace on the dates from June 1st to the 15th.

Added a few more claws to No. 7 and No. 8.

It was the time for Xiaoyuzi’s college entrance examination.

Every time the grapefruit came back, Zheng Tan pretended to be in good spirits, but when the little grapefruit left, Zheng Tan returned to his usual state of confusion.

Dad Jiao asked Zheng Tan to stay in his office.

Take care of anything.

Zheng Tan couldn’t go, he still felt comfortable at home.

On the morning of June 8, Jiao’s father, Jiao’s mother and Xiaoyouzi went out.

Zheng Tan went out with them, Jiao’s father sent Xiaoyouzi to the examination room, Jiao’s mother was going to the Affiliated High School, Zheng Tan sent them out of the compound, he wanted to take another turn, but he kept yawning and his eyelids were heavy. Decided to go home and sleep.

Jumping on the sofa in the living room, Zheng Tan didn’t bother to shake off the cat circle. He lifted his foot and kicked the remote control that was in the middle of the sofa far away. Then he lay in the middle of the sofa, listening to the small click of the second hand of the wall clock, and closed the door. on the eyes.

After Jiao Ma rode the car out, she suddenly thought that she didn’t have the USB flash drive with her. After copying the data in the morning, she forgot to unplug it, so she rode the car back.

The old lady of the fat house on the first floor was brushing the fat, and after seeing Jiao’s mother, she said, “I saw your black charcoal coming back just now, so I should go home to make up for sleep.”

Hearing the old lady’s words, Jiao’s mother didn’t care. , it is estimated that when I sent Xiaoyuzi out in the morning, I pretended to be too energetic, and now I go home to rest.

Jiao’s mother thought, after today is over, she will take her cat to the capital to find someone to take a look, otherwise no one at home will be at ease.

When she went upstairs, Jiao’s mother’s eyelids kept jumping, she took out the key to open the door, and glanced inside the house.

The room was eerily quiet. There was only a cat card on the sofa, no other movement, no black cat, as if no other creature existed.

Swish—

the screen was blown from the half-open window, and the warm June wind came in from the window.

Outside the window, the sun is shining.

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South City.

A high-rise residence in an elevator room near Nancheng University.

In the bedroom, the sun shines through the windows and through the gaps in the curtains that are not fully drawn.

The harsh light made the person on the bed frown.

His eyelids moved, and Zheng Tan’s eyes opened a slit.

The sun was shining on his face, and when he woke up and saw the sun, he closed his eyes immediately, raised his hand to block it reflexively, and then covered his eyes.

Snapped.

The sound of the slap covering the face was quite clear in the quiet room, and the slight pain was clearly transmitted to the brain.

Three seconds later, Zheng Tan opened his eyes.

Looking at the strange but somewhat familiar decorations, the curtains on the floor-to-ceiling windows were half-closed and not completely covered, and the light came in from there.

In the blink of an eye, Zheng Tan’s mind was still a little confused, the palm covering his face was raised, and the focus of his eyes fell on the palm.

The palm lines are clear, with five long fingers, not black furry cat paws.

“Mah, dreaming again!”

He scolded lowly, Zheng Tan closed his eyes and planned to continue sleeping. After a few seconds of silence, Zheng Tan sat up abruptly, looked at the two palms raised in front of him, and Zheng Tan rubbed vigorously. face and try to make a sound again.

“Cough! Hmm-ah-eh-oh–” The

pronunciation was clear.

When you’re dreaming, you don’t seem to actually speak, do you?

It seems that I haven’t felt this way for a long time.

Still not right.

Did you dream of people when you were a cat, or did you dream of cats when you were a human?

Zheng Tan took off the thin quilt on his body and got out of bed, without shoes on, he stepped directly on the gray wooden floor, walked towards the floor-to-ceiling window, and kicked aside the clothes and pants that were in the way.

This feeling of walking on two legs is slightly unfamiliar, but it feels natural.

Pull back the curtains and open the floor-to-ceiling windows.

A gust of wind was blowing head-on, with the temperature of the sun.

Zheng Tan walked to the balcony, looked at the buildings in the distance, and took a deep breath.

“Ah—”

shouting loudly this kind of pleasure seems to have not been felt for a long time, although the thinking is not too clear now, but Zheng Tan just feels that he is shouting like this.

The mood will be much better.

After shouting, Zheng Tan habitually looked diagonally downward.

On the balcony diagonally below, there was no barbed wire, not a blue-purple parrot with a yellow eye, and there was a six- or seven-year-old child standing there, holding an ice cream in his hand, probably because Zheng Tan suddenly roared like this. , a little frightened, looked up at Zheng Tan, and didn’t even notice that the ice cream melted and dripped onto the ground.

Look back.

Looking into the distance.

Zheng Tan shouted again.

“Ah————” The

roar was longer than the previous one, hysterical.

In the house downstairs, the child standing there was carried into the house by the parents who came out. The parents looked at Zheng Tan as if they were looking at a lunatic.

I don’t care about other people’s eyes.

Ignore the scolding from other residents.

Zheng Tan roared happily and drippingly after a few times.

After entering the house, I took a cold shower, and when I came out, my mind was much clearer.

Checked the date on the phone on the bedside table, June 12, 2013.

Zheng Tan scratched his head.

12th?

There were a series of missed calls on the phone, and the caller’s name was somewhat familiar. Zheng Tan ignored it and looked at the time of the call. The earliest one was called on the 8th.

Ignoring those missed calls, Zheng Tan is still confused, is the cat real or the human being?

If you have a dream, it’s too real. Don’t you all say that after a dream, you forget it when you wake up?

Open the Weibo software on the mobile phone and log in automatically, but it is not the “Zheng Tan” number in memory, log out, log in again, and enter a new account password.

After reacting for a while… boarded!

The head portrait of the dragging black cat was the same as I remembered, and those Weibo, including the school bus game cat incident and the quarrel on the topic of the end of the world, were all posted one by one.

If what is in the dream is true…

Zheng Tan searched for a few more keywords, such as a movie about black cats, a documentary, a pet center, and a professor surnamed Jiao, all of which match his memory. Exactly the same.

On the screen of the mobile phone, which is not too big, there are pictures that are familiar to each other, and the pictures that overlap with the memory make Zheng Tan’s brain hurt.

What the hell happened to this Tamar?

!

Throwing the phone aside, Zheng Tan thought hard, trying to figure out why, but in the end, his stomach couldn’t carry it, so he went downstairs to find the nearest restaurant to eat.

A meal tasted like chewing wax, and he didn’t pay attention to the meal at all. He mechanically took the rice spoon to deliver the meal to his mouth, but looked out the window and thought about other things.

Finally, before the meal on the plate was finished, Zheng Tan made a decision. He couldn’t book the air ticket now, nor the train. He booked an express ticket. The bus at 6 o’clock in the afternoon will be able to arrive at Chuhua at 6 o’clock in the morning. city.

Since you can’t figure it out, go look for the answer.

When walking back out of the restaurant, he passed a small barber shop, Zheng Tan grabbed the yellow hair on his head and walked in.

When he came out again, the yellow hair on one head turned black, and it was also cut short.

He went back and changed into simpler sportswear, took his mobile phone, bank card, ID card…

Looking at the headshot and name on the ID card, Zheng Tan flicked the person on the card and put the card in his wallet , took some change, packed it lightly and headed to the station.

At six o’clock the next morning, Zheng Tan walked out of the station. Instead of calling for a taxi, he walked to the bus station and looked at the stop signs outside the station and the driving routes of various vehicles. There were many familiar station names.

After waiting for the bus, I found a seat by the window and sat down, watching the streets and buildings outside as the bus drove.

Just after the Dragon Boat Festival, the billboards about the Dragon Boat Festival in many shops have not been removed. There are many people going to work at this time, and there are long lines of private cars and buses at the intersections that are prone to traffic jams.

The temperature outside was a little high, and the horns of cars and people’s shouts filled the street.

This kind of weather and the things he encounters make people easily irritable, but Zheng Tan’s mind is not on this.

The mobile phone of a middle-aged passenger in the car rang, and the song had the feeling of the golden years of the 1990s.

Zheng Tan had heard this song, not from the Internet or with the help of other electronic devices, but from a bird.

Zheng Tan seemed to see the cheap bird with yellow eyes, shaking his head and singing again.

Some songs that were once dismissed are like treasures when recalled many years later. The time point of this song, the people, things, and things involved, and the emotions aroused, always make people reminisce for a long time.

Go with this bus and stop at the other bus at the intersection, by the window.

A young man was sitting with a bag on his back, holding a bag of buns in his hand and chewing.

Noticing that Zheng Tan was looking at him, he also looked this way.

Across the two-story car window, there is still reflection, and the expression of the other party is not real.

The sign to turn right ahead lights up, and the car where Zheng Tan is going goes first.

As the car drove, for a moment, Zheng Tan could clearly see the other party’s expression and the doubts in his eyes, but soon, the two cars gradually drifted away.

When the street scene becomes familiar.

Zheng Tan’s mood became more complicated.

Some apprehensive, some happy.

There was a young policeman on the side of the street who had just caught a thief and leaned in handcuffs.

Say something on the walkie-talkie.

There was a trailer for the movie on the big screen in the commercial plaza.

Director Kong Han.

The actors were Wei Wen, Xue Ding, Tao Qi…

When there were two stops left from the original destination station, Zheng Tan got off the bus.

I walked along the familiar road in my memory and passed the outside of the lakeside villa area.

A three-legged tortoiseshell cat ran from across the street with a mouse in its mouth, glanced at Zheng Tan, and quickly turned over from the fence into the villa area.

Along the road along the lake, a dark gray cat with black patterns, noticeably larger than the others, was grinding its claws on a willow tree.

Without saying a word, Zheng Tan continued to walk forward.

When passing the affiliated hospital and a small grocery store, Zheng Tan looked over.

The store manager with a mean face was sitting behind the counter, biting a cigarette and instructing the clerk to move the goods. A white cat squatted on the shelf and looked sharply at the passers-by.

Entering from the side door on the edge of the Chuhua University campus, Zheng Tan walked in along the surrounding wall.

Next to a tall tree, on the inconspicuous fence wall, the lines of crooked handwriting written in pencil came into view.

“Zheng Heitan is here for a visit, December 12, 2009.”

“September 9, 2010.”

“February 28, 2011.” There is an abstract sun behind it.

…

Zheng Tan raised his finger and touched the word, and it was stained with some black pencil.

Twisting his fingers, Zheng Tan walked along the side path, walked through the small woods area, passed old tile houses, familiar houses, familiar lawns, paths that you could know with closed eyes, and that The

compound…

The uncle of the doorman of the compound in the east district has poisonous eyes, and at a glance, he can see Zheng Tan’s raw face from the people entering and leaving the compound.

“Hey who, who are you looking for?” The uncle guard reached out the window of the guard room, pointed at Zheng Tan and shouted.

“I’m looking for Professor Jiao who lives on the fifth floor of Building B.” Zheng Tan walked over and said.

“Oh, Mr. Jiao’s house, he’s not here, he should be in the Institute of Biological Sciences now, but their cat was lost a few days ago, and the family is going crazy looking for him, boy, do you know what his cat is? The clue? The cat that has always been pure black, so big, it’s called Heitan, have you seen it?” The uncle guard asked eagerly.

“I’ve seen it before.” After a while, Zheng Tan added: “A very handsome cat.”

Hearing Zheng Tan’s answer, the light of hope in the uncle guard’s eyes dimmed again. He said no more and waved his hand. Indicates that Zheng Tan can go in.

Taking a deep breath, Zheng Tan lifted his foot and went in.

The aunt who came in and out with a vegetable basket glanced at Zheng Tan, guessing the origin of Zheng Tan in her heart.

On a bench under the shade of a tree near the gate of the courtyard, Old Man Li and Old Man Yan were sitting there chatting with Xiao Hua and Niu Zhuangzhuang.

The two old men just glanced at Zheng Tan and didn’t look again, but Xiaohua and Niu Zhuangzhuang followed Zheng Tan’s gaze.

In Niu Zhuangzhuang’s small triangular eyes, it is rare that he is not as fierce as usual.

Ruan Ying took Sahara out, and when he passed Zheng Tan, Sahara took a bite at Zheng Tan’s foot with lightning speed, and the speed was completely different from his usual debilitated appearance.

The force is not too strong, and it won’t bite the foot, but it is not light, because it left a few deep tooth marks and a shoe of saliva on Zheng Tan’s sneakers.

Ruan Ying didn’t expect that Sahara, who usually doesn’t bite people, would suddenly come here, so she quickly apologized to Zheng Tan and said compensation.

Zheng Tan smiled and refused.

When Ruan Ying reprimanded Sahara to leave, Sahara looked back at Zheng Tan, her eyes slightly provocative, and her tail twitched like a jerk.

Zheng Tan stared, Sahara, wait, I promise not to kill you!

When he came to the downstairs of Building B, Zheng Tan’s heart beat a little faster, thinking about whether to press the house number on the access control directly, or to call someone.

At this time, the old lady on the first floor walked to the balcony with the civet cat, and when she saw Zheng Tan, the old lady asked Zheng Tan who he was looking for, and also asked Zheng Tan if he had seen a black cat.

After Zheng Tan answered.

The old lady also had a look of regret and pity, “His family is not at home, you can go to the Institute of Biological Sciences to find Teacher Jiao, you should be there too… It’s a pity that the Jiao family is crying. That kid Jiao Yuan came back and left last night, Xiao Gu’s eyes were still red when he went to work today, alas, what’s this called.” The

old lady regretted.

Shredded chatter.

But the fat man next to him stared at Zheng Tan.

Zheng Tan stretched out his hand towards it, and after the fat man glanced at the old lady, he walked over.

“Huh?” The old lady was surprised, “Young man, have you been here before? My fat family doesn’t get close to strangers.” The old lady didn’t say a word.

Not just not being close to strangers.

Even people you know are fat and don’t give face.

But the old lady didn’t expect Big Fat to be so familiar.

Zheng Tan made a “hmm” sound.

He didn’t know how to answer, so he scratched his chin for Big Fatty, then got up and said to the old lady, “Then I’ll go to Mr. Jiao. You’ll be busy first.”

Although he was puzzled, the old lady didn’t ask any further questions.

However, after Zheng Tan left, Big Fat also followed.

In the large yard, under the trees that are neither dense nor tall, a cat with black and white flowers is playing with bugs in the grass, and a yellow cat is holding the tree and pouting its butt to grind its claws.

Zheng Tan walked over and lifted Ah Huang, who was grinding his claws, “You second-hand!” After ten years of holding back, he finally said it.

The sheriff who heard the movement stopped playing with bugs and came over.

Zheng Tan sat down on a long wooden bench nearby, and the fat man who came over jumped onto the bench and squatted beside him. Seeing this, Ah Huang and the sheriff also jumped up and squatted there in turn.

As always.

On summer mornings, the temperature rises as the sun rises.

There was a gust of wind blowing the leaves.

People who go to work, go to school, or buy groceries in the compound will glance at the benches when they pass by. They used to see four cats squatting side by side. It’s strange to sit there with one person and three cats. When did these three cats become so familiar with the same person?

After sitting on the bench for a while and his mood calmed down, Zheng Tan patted the three cats, “Let’s go first, I’ll come back to play with you later.” He

got up and left the compound and walked to the intersection along the road. When a school bus passed by, Zheng Tan quickly waved.

The driver is the bald one, wearing a hat for image.

It was class time now, and there was no one in the car, so the bald driver spoke to Zheng Tan, who was sitting in the passenger seat.

“Young man, are you from our school?” the bald driver asked.

“No, but I used to come here a lot, and I know it very well, and I have ridden in your car several times.” Zheng Tan replied.

Taking advantage of the neutral gear when someone got off the car, the bald driver looked at Zheng Tan, shook his head, and affirmed: “Impossible, if you come here often and ride in my car, I definitely have an impression.”

“Oh, that may be my memory .

Now, take another master’s car.” Zheng Tan didn’t bother about this issue.

The bald driver gave Zheng Tan a pitying look: “My memory is not as good as mine at a young age. Go back and ask your mother to give you more fish heads, walnuts, etc. to make up your brain.”

Zheng Tan: “…hehe.”

“Don’t take it seriously, I’ll tell you…”

“Master, I’ll get off!” The

bald driver told him all the way, and when he finally got there, Zheng Tan couldn’t wait to get out of the car, looked at the familiar academy gate, and walked in .

The uncle of the guard who was sitting on the side of the courtyard gate saw Zheng Tan walking so confidently, and after thinking about it, he still didn’t stop this raw face.

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Where is Dad Jiao’s office, Zheng Tan is very familiar.

When he came to the front of the office, Yi Xin happened to come out from inside, and the voices of Xiaoyouzi and Jiao Dad came from inside, which were not loud. As Yi Xin closed the door, the voices were also cut off.

Yi Xin looked at the person in front of him strangely, thinking it was an undergraduate student in the school, and left after asking casually who he was looking for.

Zheng Tan stood at the door and closed the door.

“Come in.” A voice came from inside.

Zheng Tan twisted the door lock and opened the door.

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(End of this article) (To be continued..)

ps: It’s finally over!

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The postscript will be posted later.

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