Strange Life of a Cat

The reason why Zhong Yan likes cats can be traced back to when he first moved here.

A single-parent family forms a new home with another single-parent family, but Zhong Yan doesn't have any sense of belonging to this new home. That age was a rebellious period when "metaphysical" psychological activities and "metaphysical" physiological activities coexisted.

Zheng Tan didn't know what kind of things Zhong Yan had encountered. Every family had their own hard-to-recite scriptures, and Zhong Yan didn't go into details, but Zheng Tan could guess from Zhong Yan's words and expressions that it would definitely not be a Good memories.

At that time, Zhong Yan, who had just quarreled with his mother, ran out of the building and stayed in the corner of the fence of the community to weed out weeds. The slanting sunlight caused the wall to cast a black shadow on the ground. The place where the sun shines is only one step away, but he is still unwilling to take half a step.

The more he thought about it, the more aggrieved Zhong Yan wiped his red eyes, and suddenly found a silhouette of a cat on the shadow of the fence projected on the ground. Turning his head to look over, the glare of the backlight made Zhong Yan feel dazed for a moment.

The tabby cat standing on the narrow fence looked down at the people under the fence with the casualness of strolling in the yard, as if nothing could disturb its mood.

Raising his hand to cover the sun, Zhong Yan backed away from the wall and looked at it from another angle. Without the glare of the sun, Zhong Yan saw the cat looking at him. After two seconds of staring at him, the cat He narrowed his eyes, then turned his head and continued walking forward.

The moment the cat standing in the sun squinted its eyes, Zhong Yan felt a pleasant warmth surrounding him, as if the whole world was smiling. He just stood there, watching the cat go further and further in the sunlight.

Zhong Yan always seemed to be wearing a mask when he was in his community, and only when he was teasing the cat did he show his true nature. In contrast, Zheng Tan could see Zhong Yan's perfunctory attitude when facing his mother and brother.

People around always like to compare Zhong Yan with that half-brother, but to sum it up in one word, it would be "dwarfed by comparison", and feel that Zhong Yan is inferior to his brother in everything.

"People's hearts are too complicated. You cats don't understand...Actually, I don't understand either. It's just helpless. You say, they break off every time I grow wings, but they still think I can't fly high or not. Yuan, why is this? Kitten, you can understand that I worked hard to prove my ability, and when I got the high school entrance examination report card and showed them happily, I was told that I was not allowed to go to the Chuhua High School but had to talk to the so-called Do you feel like you are studying in another ordinary high school together with your older brother? When I was divided into arts and sciences, I originally wanted to choose liberal arts, but the man said that his studies were not good. So I was a 'science student'. So, I thought later, why do I have to prove myself in such a hurry? Why let myself fall to the ground. Sometimes it is not necessarily a good thing to perform too well."

While talking, Zhong Yan picked up a small stone next to him, looked at Zheng Tan, and asked, "Do you know the speed of the universe?"

Zheng Tan: "..." Cosmic speed? What is that? It sounds so profound, but it sounds familiar.

Zhong Yan threw the stone in his hand up at random, and the stone drew a parabola in the air and fell to the ground.

"This speed can only allow it to make this kind of movement. Intercontinental missiles can travel thousands to tens of thousands of kilometers and land in another place, while artificial earth satellites that reach the first cosmic speed can break away from the ground and orbit the earth. When it reaches the second cosmic speed, it can get rid of the shackles of the earth's gravitational force; when it reaches the third cosmic speed, it can get rid of the shackles of the sun's gravitational force; , you can get rid of the gravitational bondage of the Milky Way and fly out of the Milky Way. However, before leaving, you must also consider aerodynamic heating and atmospheric resistance, etc., and consider all other factors that may affect the result to reduce the risk..."

Zhong Yan talked to himself, but Zheng Tan was a little panicked when he heard it. And talking about the speed of the universe to a cat, Zheng Tan felt that the child in front of him was quite like Father Jiao and the others. And these words obviously imply other meanings, but I don't know who this guy is alluding to.

At the same time, Zheng Tan can also know from these words that Zhong Yan is definitely not a pure and harmless boy!

This kid is very likely to be hiding, and he has been hiding for three years!

I really can't hold back. Zheng Tan couldn't imagine such a teenage boy hiding his clumsiness from the first day of high school.

There are many things that Zhong Yan can't let other people know, even Brother Ning, who has helped him many times, doesn't know, but if there are too many things, he will become crazy if he holds back his heart for a long time, not to mention that Zhong Yan is only a teenage student , not the old foxes who have experienced the vicissitudes of life, so he had to find someone to confide in, so the cats around him entered the role of listening. Zheng Tan was just a coincidence and became one of them.

Chatting with a cat must be a bit neurotic in the eyes of others. No wonder the people around that neighborhood look at Zhong Yan with weird eyes. No wonder his mother is always hostile to cats.

Zhong Yan obviously held back for a long time, and Zheng Tan didn't run away or fall asleep after listening to it like other cats, so Zhong Yan talked more and more, from escape speed to future plans, from the golden mean , It is appropriate according to the situation, talking about the refreshing feeling of a dark horse overwhelming the audience during the college entrance examination.

"Don't talk about the three years of high school, after reading these years of books, don't care how much you put in, isn't the final evaluation the result of the college entrance examination? If you do well in the exam, you will work hard, if you are smart, you will be mastered in the future, and if you fail the exam, you will be a failure... I have to thank them that they don’t like to add a subject when they talk to me, so I just pretended that I didn’t hear those harsh words, anyway, I didn’t add a subject, and I didn’t name me…”

Zheng Tan tugged at his ears, and the subject-verb-object set-up, etc., all the content taught by the teacher back then, now Zheng Tan can understand the general meaning of the "subject" and understand a little bit of words The words to express the feelings.

As for Zhong Yan, it sounds good. When he is wearing the "golden mean", this guy still finds opportunities to step on people, just like Zhong Yan just talked about using hydrogen peroxide, potassium iodide and cleaning and finishing. His half-brother was stunned in the end because no one put the suspect on him.

This guy is mean, thick-skinned, and shameless enough, perhaps because of his past experience, Zhong Yan has become his current temperament.

This kid obviously wants to leave his current family. What about after the college entrance examination? How is the back road? It is estimated that he has his own arrangements, regardless of whether the plan is mature or not, Zheng Tan just admires this kid's endurance. Such a person is always dreadful, and when he grows up, he doesn't know what he will become.

After nagging and sharing his secret, Zhong Yan picked up the stone at his feet and threw it far away. The stone left Zhong Yan's hand, drew a long parabola in the air, and then landed behind a temporary workshop.

"Fuck, who the hell threw it?!"

Zhong Yan turned around and ran when he heard the voice, stopped after two steps and looked at Zheng Tan, "Run!"

Zheng Tan only listened to the yelling over there, and seeing Zhong Yan's nervous look, he knew that he probably hit someone not easy to mess with, so he got up and followed Zhong Yan out of the alley.

I really don't know if this kid's luck is good or bad, just like this, he can hit a bad-tempered person in charge on the construction site.

After running out of the alley, Zhong Yan leaned on a telegraph pole to pant, looked at the black cat looking left and right, and said, "That man has a bad temper, I heard that he was famous in the road back then, hey, he was really lucky, I didn't expect to hit that guy. Fortunately, I was not caught, otherwise the plan to come to work during the winter vacation would be ruined."

After a while, Zhong Yan patted the dust off his clothes, looked at the sky, and walked towards the community where his family lived.

Zheng Tan jumped on the fence, it was time to go home for dinner.

"I really envy your cats." Zhong Yan moved slowly, expressing his reluctance to go home.

Is it okay to be a cat?

If Zheng Tan could speak, he would definitely tell Zhong Yan his personal experience. People always think that cats can entertain themselves. They can play with their tails and paws for half a day like schizophrenia. They always seem to be carefree. But many people don’t know that cats also have troubles, and cats can also be anxious and anxious. , It's just that many people can't see it.

After dinner at night, Papa Jiao answered the phone, then sighed to Zheng who was lying on the sofa watching TV: "Heitan, come here, Mr. Fang has something to tell you."

Zheng Tan was watching a soap opera with Jiao's mother, and today's talk happened to be about two single-parent families, so it was rare for him not to fall asleep. The child on the TV was crying hysterically because of being reprimanded, and the snot was almost flowing to the mouth, and he spit out a bubble when he cried just now. Zheng Tan wondered if that kid Zhong Yan was like this back then, when he heard Papa Jiao calling.

Mr. Fang?

Why are you calling at this time?

Since seeing Tong Qing last time, Zheng Tan hasn't heard from Fang Shaokang for a while.

Papa Jiao pressed the hands-free button, Zheng Tan jumped onto the table, squatted next to the phone, raised his paw and patted it, and made a little noise, telling the other party that he was already listening.

"Heitan, I've been busy these days, so I didn't take care of you. I'll surprise you later, but you have to do me a favor. Well, just the day before the new year. You should make some preparations then. .”

Fang Sanye said half of what he said to Zheng Tan, and half to Jiao's father. The so-called preparation is to inform the Jiao family, so that it will not be too abrupt.

Zheng Tan's attention was attracted by Fang Shaokang's "surprise". With Fang San's temperament, this surprise would definitely not be ordinary.

Before Zheng Tan and Papa Jiao could react, they hung up the phone in a hurry. It seems that Fang Sanye is really busy recently.

Going back to the living room and lying down on the sofa, Zheng Tan wondered what Fang San said about the "surprise", but also wondered what "help me" meant, and what Fang San was planning?