Strange Life of a Cat

Entering January, the wall calendar in the living room has been replaced with a new one.

Calculated according to the Gregorian calendar, a year has passed, and in the past year, Zheng Tan has experienced too much, met many people, and his mood has been ups and downs, but counting it down, most of them were naps, No way, who made him a cat now.

Yawning and stretching, Zheng Tan jumped off the tree.

Another year of winter vacation, some primary and middle school students had already returned home, Xiaoyouzi was doing homework for the winter vacation at home, and Jiao Yuan went out to play. This year, I went back to Jiao’s father, Jiao’s mother, and their hometown for the Chinese New Year. Last year, because of Jiao’s mother’s injury, I stayed in Chuhua City to celebrate the New Year. What is it like to have a new year, and I look forward to driving to that small town when the time comes, to spend what Jiao Yuan calls a more year-like year.

The little guy who was rescued from the traffickers didn't know what he looked like. Tsk, forget it, it's better not to meet, a brat is a brat.

While thinking about it, Zheng Tan looked around the compound. Fatty was taken away to relatives. Ah Huang and the sheriff were staring at a hoopoe. A gray magpie was trampling not far away. I don't care, I think the hoopoe is relatively rare, so I shifted my target to this bird with a long beak. As for the gray magpie, I don't know how many people have caught it all year round. Many birds on the campus are harmed by them.

Zheng Tan wasn't interested in catching birds, so after thinking about it, he decided to take a walk around the construction site as a walk after lunch. Originally, we could take a shortcut and take another side door, which is the side we walked with Peanut Candy back then, but after thinking about it, Zheng Tan decided to take the road of Jiao Yuan’s school. Although it took a long way, Zheng Tan was going to go Look at how that kid Zhong Yan is doing now.

During this period, Zheng Tan often went there too, but he had never met Zhong Yan. Their third year of high school had a tight schedule, and apart from the monthly leave stipulated by their school, they would leave home early in the morning and return home after evening self-study. During these two periods, Zheng Tan stayed at Jiao's house and did not go out, so it was difficult to meet him. But now the kid should be on vacation.

I don't know if it's because the weather has been cold and there's not much sunshine recently, there are fewer cats coming out, Zheng Tan didn't see a few cats walking on the fence, Jiao Yuan's school is much deserted.

After passing the junior high school, Zheng Tan came to Zhong Yan's community, looked at the place where the boy lived, there seemed to be no one in the house, and he didn't hear any noise.

Forget it, if you can't touch it, you can't touch it.

After Zheng Tan left the community, he walked along the alley to the construction site.

In two or three weeks, this area has undergone obvious changes. Although the building has not yet been built, it is not as full of "demolition" characters and brick and tile ruins as before, and the blue construction baffles have also been erected. stand up.

Zheng Tan looked at the promotional billboards standing next to him, and there was Ye Hao's company name on it, but Zheng Tan's main purpose was not to see the company name, he wanted to find a place suitable for viewing from a distance, but see I didn't find a satisfactory observation point after a round. A suitable billboard was moved last time, and today I couldn't find a replacement point for a while.

The construction site is definitely not a safe place for cats, maybe they will be caught drinking by those workers, but Zheng Tan doesn't have too many scruples, if someone who doesn't have eyesight comes over, Zheng Tan doesn't mind making a fuss Bigger, anyway, Ye Hao will only punish the worker if he wants to punish him. Zheng Tan dared to come to the construction site so blatantly because he knew he had a backing.

Of course, Zheng Tan didn't want to cause trouble, he just wanted to see with his own eyes how this place developed step by step, just like Dad Jiao said, seeing new things often can make memories more meaningful, and time will "slow down" ". What's more, this place has been designated by Zheng Tan as his own place for strolling, anyway, he has nothing to do when he is free, so he comes here to have a look from time to time.

Just as he was thinking about finding a place to observe the progress of the construction site, Zheng Tan suddenly heard someone shouting "Zhong Yan", with a foreign dialect accent, Zheng Tan was not very sure, but decided to go and have a look, thinking about it, at this time Zhong Yan would come to the construction site to work if he had a holiday after the exam.

Next to the blue construction baffle was a large truck pulling rocks and soil. Zheng Tan jumped on the roof and looked in the direction where the sound came from. There is a temporary rest house built over there, and several people are eating with boxed lunches, Zhong Yan among them.

The kid was wearing the same overalls as the others, wearing a hard hat, and was all dirty. He sat on a rock and quickly picked up a lunch box. He occasionally talked to the people next to him. Take care, other people will not bully Zhong Yan, a newcomer.

Zhong Yan's mouth was full of food, and the taste was not very good. If you look closely, there is still some dust in the food. It's like this on the construction site. No matter how clean the food is, it will be covered with dust after a while. Some are big, and this situation is even more serious. There are suspended particles everywhere in the rest center, which is worse than outside, which is why they all sit outside to eat.

Of course, when you are hungry, everything is delicacies from mountains and seas. Today, I rushed to work, and the time for eating was delayed. Now everyone is very hungry, and no one cares about the dust in the meal.

Zhong Yan found Zheng Tan when he was grilling the rice. The truck outside was taller, higher than the construction baffle there, so Zhong Yan could see the black cat looking at him.

After seeing Zheng Tan, Zhong Yan quickly took a few mouthfuls, wiped his mouth, threw the empty lunch box aside, spoke to Brother Ning, and walked over to Zheng Tan.

The truck outside was about to leave, Zheng Tan was going to take a look and leave, but he didn't expect to see Zhong Yan, and this kid was walking towards this side, so Zheng Tan jumped directly from the top of the truck into the construction site.

Now the construction site has not yet built the upstairs, so it feels rather monotonous.

"Hey, why are you here?" Zhong Yan recognized the black cat in front of him. Although he had seen more than one black cat, this one left the deepest impression on him. Later, because he stayed at school most of the time , and never saw the cat again.

"Hey, is this cat here again?" Brother Ning walked over and said.

"Again?" Zhong Yan was puzzled.

"Yeah, this cat has been here several times this month. The billboard in the south has not been demolished a few days ago, and this cat is squatting on it and staring at the construction site, like a supervisor." Brother Ning said with a smile. Several times at night when they were having dinner and drinking at the residence on the construction site, some people suggested that the cat be caught for drinks. Anyway, no one knew, but he recognized the cat, so that the people below should not think about it.

"But this cat is too conspicuous to stay on the construction site like this, and it is prone to accidents. You also know that some people who work here do this kind of thing a lot. Fortunately, this cat is on the side where I am in charge, otherwise the other place would have been killed. It's time for people to drink." Ning Ge said.

Zheng Tan glanced at Brother Ning and continued to observe the construction site.

Brother Ning was still talking and laughing, but after being glanced at by the black cat in front of him, he always felt a little uncomfortable. What was the cat's eyes just now? Do you despise? Cats have eyes like this?

Shaking his head, Brother Ning felt that he must have been too tired recently, and it must have been a hallucination just now, wasn't it just a cat.

There were a few cars outside dragging things in, and there was a lot of dust everywhere. There was still some rest time, after Zhong Yan talked to Brother Ning, he took Zheng Tan to the temporary rest place, poured a glass of water and put it in front of Zheng Tan.

Zheng Tan looked at the disposable plastic cup, then at the water dispenser, it was still clean, after running so far, he was indeed thirsty.

Stretching his head into the plastic cup to drink some water, Zheng Tan observed the arrangement of this temporary resting place, there is nothing special about it, but the air around here is really bad, everywhere is gray.

"Hey, isn't this the overseer-like cat?" Several people sitting in the room said after seeing Zheng Tan. Although Zhong Yan felt that pouring the water from the water dispenser to a cat was a waste, but Zhong Yan was covered by Brother Ning, so they wouldn't say anything, these were trivial matters, there was no need to worry about them.

The person who hadn't finished eating threw a fish tail in the bowl over, but Zheng Tan didn't even look at the fish tail.

"Hey, this cat doesn't even eat fish?"

"It must be petted by people. It will eat after a few meals. It is a prodigal to raise such a cat." A person next to him interjected.

"Xiao Zhong, does this cat belong to your family?" Someone asked.

"No, it's from my neighbor's." Zhong Yan didn't say much, and he actually didn't know where the cat came from.

Just as he was talking, a man came in from the outside, holding a big plastic pot in his hand, but the words printed on the overalls were different from Zhong Yan and the others.

"Li Gong, we don't have a lot of water here, and the water will be delivered in the afternoon. You can only pick up one-third of it at most." Brother Ning accompanied him in and said.

This Li Gong was about forty years old, he was not in the same area as Zhong Yan and the others, and he was not in charge of Brother Ning, and that person was not afraid of Brother Ning.

As soon as Li Gong entered the door, he saw Zhong Yan holding a disposable plastic cup filled with water to drink water for a cat, and immediately started talking.

"You give a broken cat to drink pure water from the water dispenser? Didn't you say that the water is almost finished and there is a shortage of water? I see that you have a lot of stock. If this is the case, I will not be polite. Also, this cat Is it reserved for drinking? Just in time, a few of us over there have started to be greedy again recently, remember to tell me when you kill the cat, and those who see it will have a share."

Speaking of which, Li Gong came to the water dispenser and started to fetch water, as if he wanted to fill up the big kettle. If this was true, everyone here would be thirsty later. Brother Ning hurried over to stop him.

"What's the matter? Li Gong, I'm not as good as a cat? You just treat me like a beggar with just a little water? Xiao Ning, I didn't say you..."

This Li Gong kept talking more and more vigorously, scolding him in front of so many people in Ning Ge's area of ​​responsibility, which obviously did not give Ning Ge any face.

However, Brother Ning is not the hot-blooded brat who could charge forward with a steel pipe regardless of the situation. He stopped Zhong Yan, who was about to explain, and a few other people who were about to speak angrily. He knew Li Gong. Zhong Yan said that if they open their mouths, it will definitely have the opposite effect.

Brother Ning took a deep breath and prepared to defend himself. There is no way, the bastard has someone above him, even though he has someone above him, otherwise he would not be the person in charge of this area, but if the situation is not serious, there is no need to go to the top .

Before Brother Ning could speak, someone outside called Brother Ning's name.

Hearing this man's voice, Brother Ning and Li Gong's expressions changed. Li Gong didn't even take the water. He immediately put the kettle aside, tidied up his clothes, patted the dust off his body, and greeted him with a respectful smile. out.

Brother Ning made a gesture for a few people before going out. Some of the people who followed Brother Ning in this area were old acquaintances. They knew the meaning of Brother Ning's gesture, and they were angrily just now, as if they would rush over to fight the next moment. It also changed instantly.

Zhong Yan, who had only been working here for a few days, was a little dazed, and the people next to him whispered to him that someone important was coming, so he should restrain himself.

"Xiao Zhong, cat!" Someone reminded in a low voice.

Could it be the "boss" Brother Ning mentioned?

Thinking of Brother Ning's words, Xiao Zhong became anxious and was about to stuff the cat into a cardboard box in the corner.

Zheng Tan avoided Zhong Yan's outstretched hand, and came behind the square table made of wood in the middle.

Zhong Yan wanted to go again, but it was too late, someone from outside walked in.

The first person to come in was also in his forties. He said a few words to the person next to him and asked about the latest progress here. Listening to the voice, it was this person calling Brother Ning's name just now.

This is the big shot?

Seeing that he should be more talkative, Xiao Zhong was a little nervous. He knew that people should not look at the surface, and the first impression could not explain the problem. He only hoped that this person would leave quickly after taking a look.

It's a pity that things were different from what Xiao Zhong thought. People from outside came in. Brother Ning lost the strength he had here before, and Li Gong also put away his dragging appearance, and they were all respectful and careful.

And the one surrounded by people in the middle was the "boss" Ning Ge had told Zhong Yan about.

Zhong Yan's first feeling when he saw this "boss" was that he was not easy to deal with. Although he smiled lightly and looked gentle, Zhong Yan had an intuition that this person was a stubborn one.

what to do?

Zhong Yan stood on the side with his head down, trying to block the cat behind the table as much as possible. Unfortunately, Zheng Tan didn't cooperate with him and jumped onto the table directly.

Zheng Tan heard the voice outside just now, although Long Qi only said a word, Zheng Tan still recognized him. Long Qi has always been avoiding cats, but Zheng Tan knows that even if this person is taboo, he will not do anything to him.

Seeing the black cat jumping onto the table in the middle, not only Zhong Yan, but Ning Ge and several other construction site workers wanted to spit out a mouthful of blood.

Nima, this cat is too good at causing trouble!

Brother Ning regretted allowing Zhong Yan to bring the cat in just now.

At this time, Li Gong seized the opportunity to run on Brother Ning, and said in a strange way: "Oh, there is a black cat here, by the way, just now I saw people here feeding it with pure water from the water dispenser. You say, this is not a waste."

Long Qi, who had just stepped through the door with a faint smile on his face, cracked his face when he saw the black cat squatting on the table.

Looking at each other without words, only a thousand lines of tears. This sentence is somewhat appropriate. It's not moved, it's angry, it's regret.

Sure enough, it is not appropriate to go out today! Long Qi tried his best not to show a distorted look on his face. After all, there are so many people here, no matter what he can't let his glorious image be ruined here.