Strange Life of a Cat

The car in front was driving very fast. Although Zheng Tan has a somewhat special physique compared to other cats, he is not a super cat, not a god. Even if he took a shortcut, it only narrowed the distance a little. In a straight line, Zheng Tan continued to be thrown far away.

After chasing so far, my physical strength is close to the limit, and my whole body feels like being burned by fire, which is very uncomfortable.

Zheng Tan saw that the red light was about to turn on at the intersection in front of him, so he calculated that the car in front should be able to hit the red light when it drove there.

Trying to ignore the discomfort in his body, Zheng Tan was chasing, staring at the intersection, and almost ran into people several times. There were a few passers-by on the sidewalk pointing at Zheng Tan's back, I don't know what they were saying What, Zheng Tan didn't pay attention to listen, anyway, it's not a good word.

There was someone leading a pet dog on the sidewalk. The big dog smelled something, maybe it was brewing to urinate, sniffing around near the trash can, and its body was right in front of Zheng Tan.

When Zheng Tan ran over, he jumped up and jumped over the big dog's back.

The big dog was going to look back at its owner, but found that Zheng Tan jumped over its back like a wind, was taken aback for a moment, then pulled the leash and roared in the direction where Zheng Tan was running, as if to vent his dissatisfaction.

Zheng Tanniao didn't even bother to notice it, and kept staring at the monitor at the intersection ahead, watching the countdown, praying in his heart to hurry up to the red light, and to get stuck in that car.

That car overtook several cars one after another, and headed towards the intersection, as if rushing past the red light, and didn't care about the yellow light at all, the countdown displayed there was decreasing, Zheng sighed. I hope it will turn on the red light soon after the countdown is over.

Probably Zheng Tan's prayers had an effect, the familiar car in front was approaching the intersection when the red light turned on.

Zheng Tan was overjoyed, but the next moment, Zheng Tan saw that the familiar car didn't slow down at all, and didn't intend to stop, and rushed over directly. If it weren't for the fact that there were not many vehicles at this intersection at this time, and the pedestrians on both sides of the road hadn't walked a few steps, it might have turned into a tragedy.

At this moment, Zheng Tan's mood was as if he had been hit by a sudden, heavy blow.

I almost forgot what kind of temperament I was back then. Bad temper, self-righteous, stupid, underage driving speeding, running red lights... Looking back now, Zheng Tan can't wait to slap him a few times.

After letting out a sigh of relief, exhaustion and burning pain swept over his body, Zheng Tan had to slow down, turned into a trot, and then walked slowly, moving step by step to the intersection.

Changing traffic lights, all kinds of people, all kinds of popular and luxury cars passing by on the road, high-rise buildings around the intersection, and the vast construction army block the distant scenery.

Standing at the intersection, Zheng Tan watched the familiar car drive away quickly and disappear.

Zheng Tan felt that God was like an old man with a bad taste, every time he was close to the target, he would stretch out his fingers to flick him away, and then continued to watch the fun from the sidelines. It was like this three years ago, and it's like this again this time.

maddening.

Zheng Tan suddenly wanted to roar like a crazy person here, in fact, Zheng Tan did the same thing, raised a cat paw and raised a non-standard middle finger to the sky, and then howled.

I don't know which stupid driver pressed the horn for a long time at almost the same time, and slowly followed the long line of cars that started to drive slowly because the green light was on, completely suppressing Zheng Tan's howling voice.

Pedestrians came and went to drive all kinds of passers-by across the road in a hurry. Someone kicked Zheng Tan, and Zheng Tan didn't have the intention to retaliate. The other party seemed to be in a hurry, probably didn't notice Zheng Tan, even if he did. , Just kick it, it's just a cat, why care about this snake spirit?

There are too many pedestrians here, after Zheng Tan finished howling, he didn't have the energy to howl a second time, walked to a restaurant on the side of the road, there was an open space and a shady place, Zheng Tan felt exhausted now, The mood was also quite depressed, and he walked over listlessly, planning to rest in the shade for a while.

Clap clap!

Water droplets scattered around Zheng Tan, covering his head and body.

Zheng Tan looked up slowly with a blank expression—someone on the second floor of the store was watering a few potted plants on the railing.

Yeah, there's a cat down here, go. The man stood up the watering can and waved Zheng Tan to move it away.

Zheng Tan scolded in his heart: Fuck this bad luck. He got up and walked to a nearby tree, jumped onto a wooden bench under the tree, lay down on it, looked at the world tilted at ninety degrees, and remained motionless. He was too lazy to move.

A sparrow flew from nowhere and landed on the tree above. Zheng Tan squinted and watched as it jumped a couple of times on the tree and then flew away, disappearing around the corner.

Lying on the wooden bench, Zheng Tan felt more and more tired and dizzy. He didn't know whether it was because he was not used to seeing the world from this angle or due to excessive energy consumption. After waking up, he will solve it, other than that, he doesn't want to do anything now.

With his eyes closed, Zheng Tan listened to the movement of vehicles and pedestrians around him.

Just when Zheng Tan was about to fall asleep, he heard footsteps approaching this way. It didn't look like an adult, and the other party should have no malicious intentions. In this case, Zheng Tan didn't bother to open his eyes and continued to sleep.

The footsteps stopped nearby, with a sweet smell of strawberries, and then Zheng Tan felt someone sitting on a wooden stool.

A pair of hands with the sweet scent of strawberries placed on Zheng Tan's head and touched it lightly.

Zheng Tan opened his eyes and looked over.

A little girl about four years old was sitting on the same wooden bench, half a palm away from Zheng Tan's head. At this time, the little girl was holding a strawberry ice cream cone in one hand, and placed the other hand on Zheng Tan's head, biting the ice cream in her mouth, and looking at Zheng Tan curiously.

The little hand placed on Zheng Tan's head had some melted pink ice cream liquid sticking to it, and it was wiped on Zheng Tan's body with the movement of that hand.

Zheng Tan shook his beard, took a deep breath, forget it, since the child's eyes were innocent and playful, and it wasn't intentional, he didn't care.

Just when Zheng Tan was about to ignore the child and continue to sleep with his eyes closed, his nose was touched.

Opening his eyes, the half-melted ice cream was placed in front of Zheng Tan.

Eat or not? said the little girl.

He used the familiar Nancheng dialect, a native of Nancheng.

Kind, but at the same time feel a little strange. Probably because I got used to Mandarin and the dialect of Chuhua City in Chuhua City, most of the people I met after coming to Nanhua and Nancheng this time also spoke Mandarin.

Seeing Zheng Tan staring at the ice cream, the little girl offered the ice cream in front of Zheng Tan again, the melted ice cream liquid almost touched Zheng Tan's nose, causing Zheng Tan to back away a bit.

Seeing Zheng Tan's evasive action, the little girl was puzzled, This is delicious.

Zheng Tan looked at the little girl, then at the ice cream that had been bitten off several times and had half-melted and turned sticky. After thinking for a while, he bit the sharp corner under the ice cream cone.

When it was first made, the bottom of the cone could not touch the ice cream, but at this time the ice cream was half-melted, and the melted liquid flowed to the bottom of the cone, and Zheng Tan ate some of it when he bit into it.

Cold and sweet with strawberries.

I heard that cats can’t taste sweetness. I heard that the colors in cat’s eyes are not so rich. Zheng Tan doesn’t know why he can taste sweetness and see colorful colors. He thinks this is God’s compensation for him. Well, I turned into a cat for no reason, and I have to make up for it.

The little girl laughed a few times, and took a bite of the ice cream. She ate it, and then handed the ice cream to Zheng Tan, who gnawed on the bottom of the cone.

This one person and one cat are here, you eat and I eat, Zheng Tan's depressed mood just now has also dissipated.

The little girl's mouth was covered with ice cream, and Zheng Tan was not much better. A few bites, the melted liquid dripped onto the bridge of his nose or where the tongue couldn't touch the mouth, sticking the surrounding hair to his mouth. Together.

While eating, the parents of the little girl over there came out of the store and called her over, they were about to leave.

The little girl got off the stool, reluctantly glanced at the unfinished ice cream in her hand, and handed it to Zheng Tan, I'll eat it for you.

Zheng Tan pushed her hand away, got up and jumped onto the tree.

The parents of the little girl over there urged again, the little girl looked up at Zheng Tan, stretched out her hand and shook, Goodbye.

Zheng Tan also raised his hand in a goodbye gesture, but he was on the tree, blocked by leaves, and no one else could see him except the children under the tree.

After the little girl left, Zheng Tan picked up a leaf and wiped his mouth casually with the leaf. Although he couldn't wipe off the ice cream that was sticking to his body and was about to dry out, it was better to wipe it off, and it didn't look so embarrassing.

After eating some ice cream, Zheng Tan felt better and his throat didn't hurt so much. After looking at the intersection not far away, he jumped off the tree and walked back.

When walking back, Zheng Tan saw police cars passing by.

Because of the red light, there is some traffic jam ahead, so the few cars are not driving very fast.

Zheng Tan walked back along the sidewalk, not far from the police car in the driveway.

After seeing the police car, Zheng Tan looked over there, just in time to see a familiar person sitting in the back seat of a police car not far from him, who was kicked from behind by him not long ago.

These police cars did indeed come from Guqinshe, and the assailant with a knife was also taken away in handcuffs, and Zheng Tan happened to run into them.

The expressionless person in the car was actually still thinking about the hit on the back when he was in Guqinshe, which directly caused him to be captured. He didn't see it. He only heard people say that the one who kicked it was actually a black cat. He was prepared for people, but if it was a cat that barely made any sound when walking and running, he couldn't help it. . But how do cats have so much strength? Others don't know, but he has the most experience as the person involved.

Just thinking about it, he turned his head and looked out the window, his pupils shrank.

It is said that encountering a black cat represents bad luck. How did you meet the black cat again? !

The man looked at the black cat on the sidewalk outside the car window, and was cursing all the black cats in his heart, when he saw the cat on the sidewalk lift a cat paw, spread it, and then moved the four more obvious toes Gather three, leaving one toe in the middle.

Is that...the middle finger? the man thought. Can a cat's paw be bent into a middle finger? No, why did it point the middle finger at its side?

The man froze for a moment. He wanted to make sure, but the car had already driven away, and he was about to turn his head to look behind him, but was stopped by the police next to him.

Zheng Tan glanced at the police car going away, turned his head, stretched himself, and then trotted up.