Strange Life of a Cat

Father Jiao didn't come back one night after leaving his instructions. I heard that he seemed to be being dragged into discussions by the leaders and seniors. The species of the red-haired rat has not yet been completely identified, but now it seems to be being discussed by researchers in related fields. He was regarded as a treasure, and Father Jiao, the "first person to discover the red-haired rat", should have the right to speak. He was dragged there and couldn't move away, and he didn't sleep well all night.

Although those people go to bed early and get up early on weekdays to live a regular life, they become excited once they encounter something they are interested in. It was common for them to stay up all night in the laboratory when they were young. Now that they are older, they can't stand it anymore. But this Once, they made an exception. Therefore, if they don't leave, they won't rest, and Father Jiao won't even be able to rest.

Zheng Tan got up with the three members of the Jiao family in the early morning. Jiao's mother bought breakfast for the two children and Zheng Tan. While they were eating, a man in his twenties came in.

"Hello, Teacher Gu!" the man said with a smile. His eyes quickly glanced around the room, lingering on Zheng Tan for a while, and then moved away, as if he was looking for something.

"It's Xiao Li, I guess. I already know that. That one is in the bathroom." Mother Jiao led the man to the bathroom.

Zheng Tan was chewing eggs. When he saw the man wearing gloves and walking to the bathroom, he knew what his goal was. It's early in the morning and everyone is having dinner, but that man comes running in to move shit. How impatient it is! Scientists are indeed a peculiar race of people.

The one asked Xiao Li to put on his gloves, and when he walked out with the box, he saw Jiao Yuan and Xiao Youzi looking at him, looking a little embarrassed. He also knew that he came at the wrong time, but he had no choice. The higher-ups had spoken, and he can only be executed. I said at the beginning that I would dedicate myself to science, so what if I lose a little face?

"Mom, let's take Heitan to the veterinarian after breakfast. I heard that there are many parasites in the wild. If he eats something bad..." Jiao Yuan said.

However, before Jiao Yuan could finish his words, he was interrupted by Mother Jiao: "Eat your food, you don't have to worry about this. After eating, go and do your summer homework." After a pause, Mother Jiao added, "Can the black charcoal come out?" Go, we have to wait until your dad comes back."

Jiao's mother wanted to take Zheng Tan out to see the veterinarian, but Jiao's father had already told her that the people over there were thinking about Heitan and they couldn't take him out at all.

Looking at the cat nibbling eggs on the chair, Mother Jiao sighed inwardly. Raising a cat is more worrying than raising a child! How could he cause trouble so much? ! She was not interested in any reddish species or new genetic discoveries, but she would rather hope that the cat could live in peace, but it's a pity... alas!

It was almost noon when Father Jiao finally came back. With Father Jiao were several people in their forties or fifties and two old men. Zheng Tan knew a few of them, and the first one was the dean of the Chuhua Academy of Sciences. In the past, this person didn't react at all when seeing Zheng Tan around the Institute of Biological Sciences. He didn't dislike him or say he was friendly, and he didn't seem to be a cat lover. But now, the smile on this person's face cannot be concealed, and he has been smiling since he walked in. Staring at Zheng Tan, he nodded and said, "What a good cat! This is a good cat!"

Zheng Tan: "..." He was really not happy about this compliment. It would be okay if "cat" was replaced by "human". Being dealt a good person card is better than being dealt a good cat card.

I have to say that Father Jiao is very accurate in predicting things.

These people came here just to let Father Jiao take Zheng Tan out to see if they could find the red-haired rat's territory through Zheng Tan and find more red-haired rats. One was not enough.

Some people also wanted to put Zheng Tan in a noose or put him in a cage and take him out, but Father Jiao refused.

Zheng Tan followed them out. Many of the people accompanying him were experts in a certain research field in the circle. However, Zheng Tan didn't feel the slightest sense of honor and didn't have time to see other people. He was thinking about how to pretend later. Silly, how can it be more natural and more in line with a normal cat pretending to be stupid.

A group of people can also turn heads while walking. Some young teachers in the base or researchers working here rarely see one of them on weekdays. As a result, now there are a lot of them when they see them, and they are all called by their names when they stand there. But when I came, I couldn't speak because I was nervous. But now these experts are not in the mood to talk to these teachers and researchers, they are all staring at the cat in front.

When he came to the end of the road, Zheng Tan stopped. If he went further, there would be no road. It was all woods and grass.

"Hey, why don't you leave?"

"Teacher Jiao, why did your cat stop?"

A few impatient people spoke up.

So, Father Jiao started working with Zheng Tan in front of everyone and asked him to lead the way.

Zheng Tan yawned and thought about how Ah Huang dealt with him when he made a mistake in the courtyard. Then, according to Ah Huang's appearance in his memory, he tilted his head, tilted his body, fell to the ground, and then began to lie on the ground as if nothing had happened. Rolling on the ground.

Dad Jiao: "..."

Everyone: "..."

Father Jiao was lamenting that Zheng Tan was very good at pretending to be stupid. He must have done it often.

Others felt a sense of disappointment. Although they did not have high expectations, there was hope after all. Now that they saw this, they felt that hope was even slimmer. They didn't know that this man and the cat were actually acting in front of them. Of course, no one would believe it.

Zheng Tan now understood that he was just a cat. A cat could behave openly and act foolishly, and no one would doubt it. This was his first time rolling around in public. Anyway, he was thick-skinned and not afraid of being laughed at. He would never have been able to do it before, but rolling around now was better than being targeted in the future.

Someone over there couldn't help it anymore and asked Father Jiao to continue to "give orders" to Zheng Tan to find the mouse. Even if he couldn't find it now, he could just give him a direction. They wanted to know if the cat remembered it and knew where it was. Where did you catch that red-haired rat?

Since these people want to follow, then let's follow. Zheng Tan decided to help them.

After rolling, he stood up, shook his fur, and continued walking forward as if nothing had happened. Along the way, he played with birds and insects. While he was still outside, he could play a little longer. He would be grounded when he returned. He was fine, but he was suffering from the pain of the people following him. After walking around, these people were all out of breath. Some of the older ones had already been supported by others. They also knew that their physical strength was definitely not good, but they just wanted to see it with their own eyes. Which direction is it? Follow it a few more steps. If you can't hold on any longer, ask your subordinates to follow you. Even if you can't find it this time, when people who take the field test go out, they can still have people look for it in that direction. Otherwise, in the mountainous forest area The scope is so large, so much manpower, material and financial resources are consumed every year, but there are not many new discoveries. What can you find by running around like a headless fly, and you may lose your life in it.

Father Jiao was still advising them not to count on Zheng Tan and to go back, but each of these people was more stubborn than the last. until……

"This road seems to have been taken when I took the students out to collect specimens." Dad Jiao said. He didn't know where Zheng Tan was leading the way just now, but now he finally understood that this cat just wanted to torment these people. If he walked a little further, he would find that he was going to go back.

"...It's true!" There were people inside who knew the area better. They felt something was wrong just now, but they didn't say anything.

Some people were still taking chances, but when Zheng Tan took them to a place near the highway again, they finally became discouraged.

Also, can you expect a cat to do what you want? If cats were so powerful, they would have been used for training by people in certain industries. Why bother training dogs? Maybe this cat really happened by chance.

"This is life!" An old man sitting on a stone gasping for breath slapped his legs and sighed. He didn't have much regret or unwillingness. He had lived for such a long time and had seen a lot of things. I had seen a lot of things in this place back then. The albino bear, albino mole, etc. that caused a sensation have also gone into the mountains with an internationally organized field expedition team and brought back many "living fossil" specimens. Now a suspected reddish mouse can be seen. It's time to be content.

How many people who went in for money never came out? But many times people who discover some new species or some endangered animals do so by accident. Just like the old man said with emotion, this is life.

A group of people were so exhausted that even taking the road up the mountain to return to the base was tiring, so they finally called a car to pick them up.

After Jiao's father went back, he talked to the leaders, and then took Zheng Tan out to see the veterinarian. After disappearing for a few days, it would be reassuring to have a check-up.

The place where he saw the veterinarian was not far from the infirmary. Zheng Tan also saw the young man who helped catch the red-haired rat. He heard that yesterday was very dangerous. Fortunately, he survived the treatment in time. He didn't expect that he could be full of energy now. Chat with girls.

The young man was talking to some girls in the infirmary about catching mice, which shocked several female students. Now he also knows that the mouse he caught yesterday is a rare thing, and he shows it off to everyone. That mouse He caught it, and the lunch box is also his. What, don’t believe it? If you don’t believe me, look at my wounds! Is it normal for a mouse bite to swell like this? !

As expected, the scar healed and the pain was forgotten, Zheng Tan despised it.

After the examination, the veterinarian determined that Zheng Tan was in good health and prescribed some anthelmintics for Zheng Tan.

After coming out of the veterinarian, Zheng Tan saw that this place was relatively close to the place where he climbed over the wall last time. After thinking about it, he went over there. He still remembered the amber thing. It would be a pity to lose it.

Father Jiao didn't say much and followed him outside.

There is a bush over there, and Zheng Tan crossed over there yesterday to take a shortcut.

Zheng Tan dug into the bushes and followed the route he took yesterday. Suddenly he heard a swishing sound in the bushes. He looked over there and found that there was another cat in the bushes, a domestic cat. I don’t know who raised it. .

At this moment, the domestic cat was playing with something with its paws bent. Zheng Tan took a closer look and saw that it was the amber he had thrown away. !

Zheng Tan rushed over and slapped the cat twice. The cat arched its back and meowed twice, but felt it was not strong enough to fight and ran away quickly when Zheng Tan was about to slap the third time.

Zheng Tan looked at the amber carefully. Fortunately, it was wrapped in vines, otherwise it would have been scratched and scratched.

Pushing the amber wrapped in vines away, Zheng Tan decided to give it to Dad Jiao first, since he couldn't take it either.

"Teacher Jiao, what is your cat doing?" A security guard looked over and asked.

Father Jiao took the thing that Zheng Tan pulled out and put it into his hands at an angle where others were not paying attention. Then he stood up and said to the security guard over there: "It just had a fight. This guy likes to bully other cats."

The security guard had obviously seen the cat that had just escaped from the bushes, and he had no doubts about Jiao's father's words. Someone asked him to pay attention to the teacher named Jiao and the black cat early this morning, but he couldn't. He didn't find anything unusual. Isn't it just a cat? Why are those people watching so closely?

Seemingly casually, Dad Jiao changed his handbag and put the amber wrapped in vines into the bag with the repellent medicine.

Zheng Tan sighed in his heart: A burnt fox!

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