Strange Life of a Cat

After returning, Dad Jiao found an excuse to take a rest and took out the things his cat son had picked out in the room to look at them. When he got this, he wasn't sure what it was, and he didn't know if it was a precious item, but past experience told him that the cat always had its reasons for doing this, so just in case, he had to be careful. He hid the things carefully and only took them out to look at when he had time.

Carefully push the vine aside to reveal the amber inside.

He peeled off the vines and put them aside without throwing them away. This plant was found in Flora, and it was indeed something from the mountain forest. Father Jiao was sure that his cat son had indeed been to the mountain forest, but he didn't know there was one. What an adventure.

As for this amber, Dad Jiao doesn’t know much about identification. He has only made artificial amber before. There are also a few natural ones that were given by others. There is also an insect amber that is said to be worth tens of thousands, but that one The integrity of the bugs in the insect amber was only 80%, and the inside was made of plants. He had only seen artificial amber and had never come into contact with natural amber.

Since he was at the base and didn't want to be discovered by others, Dad Jiao could only use the simplest identification method to identify whether the amber was artificial or natural. Amber can fluoresce under ultraviolet light. Of course, counterfeiting technology is getting better and better nowadays. , there are also artificial ones that can fluoresce, so Dad Jiao is only making a preliminary identification.

The identification results showed that the amber fluoresced under ultraviolet light, and the small flower inside was very bright, so blue that it turned purple. Dad Jiao even checked the rare flora newly compiled by some botanists in the past two years, but could not find anything similar to the little flower in it.

If this amber is real, Associate Professor Jiao has a hunch that the little flower in it is probably a plant from tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years ago, a plant that has never been discovered by people. Once identified as true, this is enough to excite those botany and paleontologists. They are not interested in red mice or anything. After all, the research directions are different, but the ancient plants are different. They are still a complete small flower, and the inside Many problems can be seen in the stamens. There may be a second red mouse after the first one. And this amber, which contains a complete small flower and records natural miracles tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years ago, is likely to be Unique in the world. For biologists or geologists, the value of amber lies in its historical evolution. For collectors and investors, amber containing rare organisms or plants can be regarded as a rare and habitable treasure. .

Dad Jiao can definitely take out this amber. When several professors start studying the red-haired rat at the same time, it will definitely be published directly in the magazine Nature. Dad Jiao, as the discoverer, will definitely be named in it. , which will be of great benefit to him in the future for professional title evaluation and project fund application. If this amber is added, it will definitely be the icing on the cake. When a professor from a paleontological institute discovered ancient plants, his research results were published as the first author in the magazine Nature Publish, Jiao’s father can do the same. In Chuhua University, a place where competition is fierce from teachers to students, a teacher of Jiao’s father’s age can publish in either of the world’s top academic journals, Nature and Science. There are not many published papers and results, so you can imagine the benefits that Dad Jiao can get.

The red mouse can be regarded as a shining point in nature, and the insect amber is also a miracle created by nature inadvertently. Nature always creates one miracle after another inadvertently, and those who can discover these miracles always Will be called a person with great opportunities.

A person of great opportunity...

Father Jiao looked at the cat, who was lying on the bed to catch up on his sleep, and rubbed his forehead helplessly. One cat can cause so much trouble!

Zheng Tan has been targeted, and it will be even more troublesome if the Amber incident is revealed again. The red-haired rat thing can be said to be accidental, and it is natural for cats to catch mice, but what about amber? When someone discovered it, Dad Jiao could only say that he had collected it himself. However, Father Jiao had no intention of exposing Amber. He hoped that all those people's attention would now be on the red-haired rat and try to ignore other things.

Heitan, put this amber here with me first. Dad Jiao took out a small box, and inside the box was the amber that Zheng Tan found.

When Zheng Tan heard this, he said, no, this is for little Youzi! He was about to reach out and grab the box.

I'll keep it for you for now and return it to you when I get back, but you have to promise to hide it well and don't throw it away. Dad Jiao said again.

Zheng Tan thought for a moment, and that's fine. He couldn't take it with him now anyway, so it would be safer to leave it with Dad Jiao. Zheng Tan was not stupid. He could sense from Father Jiao's look and words that the amber was not a simple item, at least to some people. Instead of holding it yourself or letting Little Youzi hold it, it's better to let Dad Jiao keep it for you.

Zheng Tan was very calm in the next few days. He also knew that there were many people staring at him. Some of the fools who thought they were hiding had been discovered by Zheng Tan. So Zheng Tan felt that he should listen to Jiao's father Jiao next. Mom, it's better to stay in the room safely. Anyway, the internship time of those students is coming soon, and they will return to Chuhua City in two days. In the past few days, Zheng Tan could still bear it.

Jiao Yuan and Xiao Youzi have been learning how to make specimens from the students these days, including animals, plants and insects. Zheng Tan is not interested in that. He is more inclined to hear about the red-haired rat.

I heard that the red-haired rat caused a sensation. I guess the identification results have come out. It is the reddish species that Dad Jiao mentioned. Yesterday when we were taking pictures, Zheng Tan was called over to join in the fun. This morning, Jiao Yuan showed Zheng Tan a copy of the local newspaper, which reported extensively on the reddened nest rat.

Yes, the red-haired nest rat was identified as a nest rat by some professionals, but unlike the small nest rat, this red-haired nest rat is definitely much larger than an ordinary nest rat when it reaches adulthood.

Zheng Tan didn't care whether it was a red-haired nest rat or a red-haired Mickey Mouse. He just stared at the color photos in the newspaper and the newspaper reports about him.

There are a lot of articles about the red-haired nest rat in the newspaper, but Zheng Tan only had two simple and vague lines about it. He only said that the red-haired nest rat was accidentally caught by a cat owned by associate professor Jiao Mingsheng of the School of Life Sciences of Chuhua University. , and then, there is no more. Zheng Tan looked through the newspaper for a long time, but he didn't see any other words about himself.

In the only photo with Zheng Tan in the newspaper, Zheng Tan was standing next to Jiao's father and a group of people. He was very inconspicuous, and no one would recognize Zheng Tan as the little girl in the cat circle based on this photo. The famous BlackC has a popular face. You can only tell who he is after you tell him his name. Otherwise, there are so many black domestic cats in the country, who would know who you are?

Zheng Tan was really a little frustrated at first. Didn't he say he had made a meritorious service? What is this?

But then I thought about it carefully and realized that this should be what Dad Jiao meant.

Famous or free, after Zheng Tan thought about it, he obviously chose the latter. Just like when he realized that a cat had no rights as a cat and was not protected by the law, he had no choice but to accept his fate if he was killed.

Compared to Zheng Tan's low profile, the red-haired rat spent a lot of time reporting on it, and the photos that looked like they were taken by professionals with a lot of effort attracted everyone's attention.

The tail of the nest rat is very flexible and has the ability to wrap around, especially the photo of it wrapping its tail around the branches above and then hanging down, holding a nut. It looks very smart and cute, and its red hair can also A lot of extra points, but behind the photo, who would have thought that this guy was actually an extremely dangerous guy?

Zheng Tan truly realized the value of this red-haired rat after returning to Chuhua City.

This summer, Chuhua University is destined to not be quiet.

According to past practice, all undergraduate students have gone home, and some graduate students have also applied for leave from their supervisors. Some shops around the school have closed. Coupled with the high temperature in summer, there should be very few people walking around the campus in broad daylight. , but not this year. People's attention to the red-haired rat was beyond Zheng Tan's imagination. If there was no hype factor, Zheng Tan would not believe it to his death. However, this does not prevent him from watching the fun.

Zheng Tan squatted on a sycamore tree and watched the cars with license plates from various provinces driving towards the Institute of Biological Sciences. There were also some people on campus who stayed at the Institute of Biological Sciences to do work-study studies during the summer. At this time, they were also visiting. I went to the guide, wearing a hat with the words Chuhua University College of Science and Technology printed on it. Although the weather was extremely hot, I was still smiling happily when I could open a bottle of mineral water and drink it all.

Why?

You have a long face!

Look at the people who come to the Academy of Biological Sciences in the past few days. They are either leading professors from a certain 985 university or researchers from a certain research institute. There are also some experts and professors from abroad who come here because of their reputation. In the past, our school was very famous, but there were not many. With such attention now, it is the hottest time of the year in Chuhua City!

Moreover, some domestic or foreign research institutions are now purchasing red rat hair, blood and other things from the Chuhua University Academy of Sciences, which makes some students happy. Especially Yi Xin and the others. Zheng Tan had heard Yi Xin complain before that when he purchased cells or strains from abroad for experimental needs, the other party shipped them very quickly, but they were stuck at domestic customs for too long, even if all kinds of cells or strains were purchased in advance. The approval form, license and other relevant materials were all prepared and handed over to the customs declaration company. However, it took too long at the customs and the cell condition deteriorated. When I came back to keep it, it failed and I had to order it again. Yi Xin and the others cried bitterly when they talked about this, but now they thought that people from abroad would also buy things about the red-haired rat from them, and they felt happy.

Zheng Tan heard that the price of a hair from that red-haired rat was as much as a house in Chuhua City.

A report in the Chuhua Evening News jokingly called the red-haired rat a drop of blood is ten thousand taels of gold when talking about this incident.

Zheng Tan also heard that the red-haired rat was raised like a treasure, and even the blood was taken with great care to ensure the health of the red-haired rat.

Dad Jiao came back from the courtyard in the evening.

Today, Dean Xie specially selected two female white mice bred in the hospital. He said that they were put in to cultivate a relationship with the red nest mouse. He probably wanted to breed excellent second-generation mice in the future. Xie The dean is so precious about those little white mice. He spent a lot of money to bring them in and breed them. Usually some teachers in the courtyard would like to buy a few of them, but dean Xie would not let go. This time he was really generous.

Then what? Mother Jiao asked curiously.

Zheng Tan also listened with open ears.

Then, Father Jiao slowly drank the mung bean soup and said, then the two white mice died heroically within a minute of entering.

Zheng Tan: ... This is really a tragic story.

(5.20) I have been busy for a long time because I have to move, so I apologize for updating now.