Strange Life of a Cat

During the three days when the cat card was confiscated, there is no need to worry about breakfast and dinner every day. The Chinese food is delivered by Jiao Wei. I have learned a little bit, and I know that this cat is uncomfortable if it does not run around, and it has to wander around outside every day, no matter how far or near it is.

Zheng Tan has indeed behaved well in the past three days, and has not shown any rebellious emotions or behaviors. This is in sharp contrast to the cat raised by a teacher in the building next door that howls on the balcony all day long.

When I saw the cat in the next building again, the cat was wearing Elizabeth's ring and stopped howling. Zheng Tan guessed what happened to it. For details, refer to Ah Huang back then.

So, in comparison, without mentioning Zheng Tan, the Sheriff and Fatty can be regarded as the second of the few cats in the compound who are not castrated and howling at home. Sure enough, it's better to be sensible.

Zheng Tan lay on the balcony and yawned boredly. Last night, Zheng Tan swayed around in front of Father Jiao a few times to show his sense of presence. It's a pity that Papa Jiao just glanced at Zheng Tan last night without saying a word.

Thinking back on his performance in the past three days, Zheng Tan didn't think there was anything he didn't do well.

Zheng Tan, who thought he would be grounded for the fourth day, found a cat sign hanging on the cat climbing frame when he returned to Xiaoyouzi's room. The sluggish spirit immediately cheered up.

I didn't find it when I got up last night and this morning. It seems that Dad Jiao put it there when he went out, and he put it there quietly.

Jumping up and putting the cat cards that had been separated for three days on his neck again, Zheng Tan unlocked the door and went out.

Sure enough, I haven't moved much for three days, and now I feel much more comfortable running outside.

Zheng Tan didn't go anywhere else, and went directly to the Old Wafang District.

At the beginning of this year, another group of tile-roofed houses in the old Wafang District were marked with high-risk signs, and students who were active there were asked to avoid these buildings. In fact, to Zheng Tan, these few buildings are fine, just like a tile-roofed house that has been marked as high risk for several years has become a gathering place for cats. Enough for those cats toss in it for a long time.

Zheng Tan hadn't heard the news that this piece would be rejected immediately, so, at least within this year, this place could be a good place for Zheng Tan to hide his things. Just beware of those rats and some curious cats who don't know what to do.

At this time, there were not many students working in those tile-roofed houses that were solid enough. Zheng Tan came to a tile-roofed house that had been painted with big crosses and hung a high risk sign, and looked through a broken window. go in.

It has not been used for a long time, there is a stale smell inside, there are some traces of spider activity in the corner, there are still a pile of abandoned wooden tables in the room, and there are some discolored mouse droppings on the table that don't know how long it has been there.

Zheng Tan went over, stopped in front of a table in the back, and opened a drawer there. This drawer is considered to be relatively well preserved among the drawers of these desks.

In the drawer was Zheng Tan's mobile phone, and the unidentified diamond that he brought over that night.

There is nothing missing, and there is no smell of other people or cats or dogs coming in here.

Thinking about the identification method he read in the newspaper that day, Zheng Tan took the bag and jumped onto a table, and carefully fished out a few larger ones.

Without any other tools, we can only use the few simple methods mentioned in the newspaper to make a preliminary identification. In terms of weight, hardness, fineness, grinding, etc., Zheng Tan took a rough look and found that they were all in line with the authenticity mentioned in the newspaper. Diamonds are more similar, but Zheng Tan is still skeptical. Zheng Tan can't make a more accurate identification now. However, I heard that the cost of many man-made diamonds that reach the gem level may not be lower than that of real diamonds. However, Zheng Tan guessed from the words mentioned by a certain professor in the newspaper that there may be some New ways to reduce costs. So many research institutes and companies in the world are researching, and there may not be new methods to create gem-grade artificial diamonds that are fake and genuine, but everyone is sure that others will know about it.

Putting the few colorless diamonds he fished out back into the bag, Zheng Tan stuffed the bag and the phone into the drawer, closed it, and came out of the tile-roofed house. Go over to the woods to see what's going on.

Three days have passed, and I don't know if the two people who hid things came back to look at it again.

There are no people in the grove at this time, but people pass by from time to time on the road from the new student dormitory building to the side gate. Although Zheng Tan can't see the situation on the other side of the road, he can hear the sound and the sound of passing vehicles. can judge.

Zheng Tan didn't run directly over, but walked slowly. At the same time, he also paid attention to whether there was anyone approaching, and carefully identified how many strange breaths there were in the air. I often come here for a walk, Zheng Tan is already very familiar with the smell here, so if there is any strange smell, I will definitely be able to smell it.

During these three days, someone came to the woods, and Zheng Tan smelled something that he hadn't smelled before, but it couldn't be said that it was related to the bag, or it might be the students who came here to fight in the field. The doorman's black back has been peeing and shitting in the woods again, and it's the vomit of a student who didn't know who drank too much.

When they came to the bushes, the strange smell was basically gone. Zheng Tan first observed the surrounding grass, and there was no obvious indentation. Compared with the situation that night, it seemed that there was no change. I went to the bushes and smelled it, but I didn't find any unusual smell.

In this way, it seems that those two people have not come back to see. So relieved? Or... they can't come anymore?

Shaking his head, Zheng Tan didn't think about those things, and ran to the tree hole where he hid his mobile phone before, and looked at it. There was no bird occupying it, and there were no other traces. Except that the mobile phone was not here, it was the same as usual.

Everything is the same.

This disappointed Zheng Tan who was expecting something.

When walking back, Zheng Tan originally planned to go to Jiao's father's office in the Academy of Life Sciences to report a report, but it had been a long time, and then he went to show his presence and tell Jiao's father that he didn't run around. However, while walking, Zheng Tan turned a corner and ran towards the School of Chemistry.

He saw a person, that person he had seen in the newspaper, and the other picture in the report on gem-grade synthetic diamonds was that person, although he felt that the bag in his hand might not be related to the person from the School of Chemistry , but Zheng Tan has nothing else to do now, so he went to observe whether the person has other emotions. If you lost something valuable, no matter how you cover it up, you will be a little anxious, right?

The fifty-year-old professor just came out of the courtyard at this time, and he seemed to be in a good mood, and his smile was sincere, as if he had lost something valuable.

There were two people walking with the professor, a gentlemanly-looking man in his thirties, and a tall beauty with eyes in his mid-twenties who looked a bit mixed. But the woman just walked beside them quietly without interjecting. It was the professor and another man who were talking all the time. Looking at the professor's words and deeds, he was quite polite, which could give some capital to these It is certainly not a simple person that professors of some reputation treat politely.

The three of them separated at the fork in the road, and the professor drove away, while the man and woman continued walking along the road ahead, more like admiring the landscape architecture here.

Zheng Tan didn't follow them anymore, he went to the School of Biological Sciences, wandered around Jiao's father's office and came out again. He was going to sleep there, but someone always went to Jiao's father, so Zheng Tan didn't mind staying there, so he just came out Walk around for a couple of more laps and then go to Jiao Weina's restaurant for dinner.

After walking around for a while, Zheng Tan wandered into a small path, where vehicles were not allowed, and there was only a gravel road through the woods and lawn, and this was also the shortcut that Jiao Wei often took after class. Zheng Tan saw that the time was almost up , decided to wait here for Jiao Wei.

There was a one-meter-long wooden chair there, and Zheng Tan jumped on it and lay down there to sleep. Even if he fell asleep, Jiao Wei would definitely wake Zheng Tan up if he passed by, so don't worry about missing it.

Lying on the chair, Zheng Tan smelled the fragrance of flowers in this season, ignored the noisy birds flying around and chirping, and closed his eyes to prepare for a nap. Not long after he squinted his eyes, Zheng Tan heard someone approaching the wooden chair.

I opened my eyes and looked over there. It was the man and woman I met just now. These two people came here after wandering around the campus. Listening to the conversation between the two, they planned to find a place to rest here. It's just that he didn't expect Zheng Tan to lie here.

The man and the woman found a wooden chair not far away just now and planned to sit and rest for a while. When they approached and changed the angle, they found a black cat lying on the chair, lying horizontally in the middle of the wooden chair, from tail to head. , occupied most of a chair, and the free space was obviously not enough for the two of them to sit.

Originally, the two didn't feel anything when they saw the chair was occupied by a cat. Anyway, the cat would definitely run away when they walked over, but to their surprise, when they got closer, the cat was also lying on the chair safely. Going up, raised his head slightly, looked at them with half-opened eyes, as if I was too lazy to move.

Zheng Tan turned a deaf ear to the gazes of these two people on him, he is hungry now, he has almost digested what he ate after running around in the morning, and he doesn't want to go to other places or sleep on the ground at all.

The two of them stared at each other for about half a minute, and when the half-race beauty was thinking about whether to drive her away, Zheng Tan yawned, then lay down and planned to continue sleeping. He didn't feel much malice from these two people, since there was no threat, he continued to sleep with a cheeky face.

The mixed-race beauty who was about to raise her hand fell on Zheng Tan's pointed teeth when Zheng Tan yawned, paused, then adjusted her glasses on the bridge of her nose, then looked at the person next to her, waiting Let him make up his mind.

The man looked at Zheng Tan, with a cat tag hanging on it, it was obviously a pet cat with an owner, also, how could it be a stray cat if it was raised so well, and looking at this cat, the living conditions of the owner's family should be pretty good. Seeing that the cat on the wooden chair had no intention of giving way, he didn't try to drive it away. He reached into his pocket and took out his mobile phone, which had a charm on it.

Aren't cats interested in this kind of linear dangling thing?

Although Zheng Tan closed his eyes, he listened to the movement of the two people, and felt that someone was approaching. Zheng Tan opened his eyes, and what caught his eyes was a string of beautiful pendants. It is a charm made up of several transparent soybean-sized spherical beads, and between each bead is a...diamond?

really?

There are also similar mobile phone ornaments on the street stall, and there are also things that look like diamonds, but the few on the string of ornaments in front of me are very similar to the few that Zheng Tan took to observe this morning.