Strange Life of a Cat

When I left the community, there was only a little boy. The little girl lived here, and now she is going home.

Zheng Tan followed the little boy not far away. After leaving the lakeside villa area, he walked along the avenue and turned a corner. There was a community built ten years ago, and the child's family lived here.

Zheng Tan was here for the first time. Compared with some communities on the old street, this place is not much different. Maybe the communities built at that time are similar.

The child lived on the second floor, and before entering the building, he could see a yellow and white cat squatting on the window sill on the second floor. This should be the twelve-year-old cat. Compared with Ah Huang and the sheriff, the emotions revealed in the cat's eyes are calmer. I don't know if it's because of its age or its own personality.

The child looked at the cat on the second floor, smiled and waved, and then entered the building. In the past, his cat could easily climb down from the second floor, and it couldn't be closed, but now it can't. He spends a lot of time staying at home honestly, at most lying on the window sill to bask in the sun and look outside.

Zheng Tan didn't follow. Seeing that the cat on the second floor returned to the house from the window sill after the child entered the building, Zheng Tan decided to go directly to the second floor to have a look. Anyway, he is just a cat now, and he is not a human being, so he should not be caught. People are like thieves.

This kind of old housing community is easy to find, not to mention that many residents like to install a shelter on the window to block the rain and the air-conditioning drainage of the upstairs residents.

After reaching the window sill on the second floor, Zheng Tan didn't go in, but squatted on the window sill.

The size of this house is not big, and it is about the same as Jiao's house. However, it has two bedrooms and one living room. It seems that the old community houses like to design the bedroom to be larger, so the living room looks much smaller.

This room does not have a balcony. Looking at the photo on the bedside table, it should be the room of the child's parents. The door was not closed, Zheng Tan could see the situation beyond the door from the window sill.

The old cat was squatting half a step away from the door. When it heard the familiar footsteps, it slowly swayed its tail and looked at the gap under the door.

After the sound of the security door opening, there was no sound of opening the wooden door immediately. And a long turquoise grass protruded from the crack of the door below. This was what the kid was talking about in a flower bed in the community when he came back. Just now Zheng Tan looked at it and was puzzled, what is this kid doing talking about grass? Zheng Tan just thought it was a child of this age who was in debt, always wanting to talk about something for fun, but now it seems that this is not the case. Moreover, looking at the interaction between the two, this situation should have happened more than once, and it may have lasted for several years.

The old cat looked at the swinging grass and stretched out its paws to grab it.

If it was Ah Huang and the others, they would have already started tossing around like crazy, jumping left and right, scratching and scratching, and started tossing like discovering a new world with a little movement.

The cat didn't hop up and down, and maybe, as the boy said, it can't hop now, not like a young cat.

Although it didn't jump much, the speed of claws was relatively fast. After pulling the grass into the house, the old cat bit the grass twice and then ignored the grass nailed to its claws, and continued to stare at the door. This time, he didn't stare at the crack of the door, but at the lock.

The sound of the wooden door opening sounded, and the child walked into the room, threw the bowl in his hand aside, picked up the old cat and smoothed its fur, and then put it down.

Parents are not at home, the child's grandmother is resting in the room, the big room is divided into two, one for the child's grandmother to sleep, and one for the child.

On the dining table in the living room are cooked dishes, still warm, and the rice is in the rice cooker.

Without thinking about eating, the child first took out the braided red string from his pocket and put it on his cat.

After the quilt was covered with a braided ring, the old cat was not used to it, and rubbed against the corner of the table twice, but soon compromised under the comfort of the child, and stopped rubbing for the time being.

While scratching the old cat's chin, the child whispered, Don't run around, don't fall like last time, it won't be good if you fall when you are old, you are not young anymore, you know? Know?

As for the red rope, he didn't intend to tell the truth to his family, if asked, he would say that he bought it for two yuan. If his family found out that he spent fifty yuan on something that didn't even have a stone accessory for a cat, he would definitely be scolded and the pocket money, which was not much, would be deducted.

He didn't know much about the year of birth. He only decided to buy one when he heard Nini mentioned that people in their neighborhood bought red ropes, and thought about the older cat upstairs. He may not believe in those things in his heart, perhaps, he is just looking for psychological comfort.

When the child was eating, the old cat seemed to want to jump on the high stool next to the child. After walking to the high stool, he looked at the high stool, as if he was looking at the height of the stool, and he jumped with energy. , not as agile as Ah Huang and the others. People may not be able to see anything, but Zheng Tan has a better understanding of cat movements, so he can see the difference.

The child picked up a piece of chicken and rolled it in the bowl to remove the oil and strong sauce on the outside of the chicken before giving it to the cat on the stool next to it.

Looking at the way the cat was eating meat, Zheng Tan felt that although the cat looked old, it would not decline soon, but he didn't know how many years it could live. After all, most cats The lifespan is only ten or so years, and some are even shorter.

When he turned his head, the child found that there was a black cat on the window sill of his parents' room, but when he walked over, the black cat had already jumped off the window sill.

After Zheng Tan landed, he looked at the window on the second floor, went to the flower bed next to the building and squatted, he planned to stay here for a while.

After taking a nap, when he woke up, it was about 1:30 in the afternoon. Zheng Tan woke up after hearing the voices of the two children.

It should be children from the same community. They came to find the kid on the second floor to go to school with.

Hey, Wang Xing, your cat saw you off on the window sill again. A child said, By the way, how is the cat upstairs in your house?

The situation is not very good. I heard from my dad that the cat upstairs is seventeen years old, five years older than my cat. Last month, it convulsed and fell to the ground while playing with fur balls, and its legs and feet were also a little stiff. …A cat that was so fat before, now only has two or three catties left. When I went upstairs yesterday, I saw the upstairs aunt was feeding it water with a needle, and I couldn’t even drink the water by itself... Not quite Wanting to say more, Wang Xing turned around and said, Are you still going there this week?

The other two children obviously knew the meaning of over there in Wang Xing's words, and nodded, Of course, you want to go there too?

Well, call me when you come over.

Okay, but don't tell your family.

Of course, I'm afraid my parents will know.

After leaving the community, Zheng Tan didn't follow the three children anymore. He was hungry and decided to go home and eat something first.

Zheng Tan saw the child named Wang Xing again on Saturday.

In the morning, I went out with Jiao's father, Jiao's father went to the courtyard, and Zheng Tan ran around the school. Exercise is a must.

When they saw the three children, they were holding a snakeskin bag in their hands, which already contained some empty bottles, including plastic bottles and aluminum cans.

The over there they mentioned turned out to be Chuhua University.

Students in universities consume a lot, and there are a lot of empty bottles. Even if the weather is still cool, there are still a lot of bottles.

Zheng Tan followed them not far away, watching them pick out empty bottles from the trash can or dump.

While picking it up, the three children over there were talking.

The kid named Wang Xing should be doing this for the first time, and the other two kids are still telling him about their experiences. In addition to mineral water beverage bottles, there are also those cans, which are aluminum and which are iron, which are accepted and which are not, which are expensive and which are cheap. It seems that these two children do this kind of thing a lot.

Wang Xing was dragging the bag. This bag was used by his grandma as a mattress. It had several holes in it, but he was reluctant to throw it away. It had been placed in the corner of the sundries. It's all dust, probably forgotten by grandma long ago. It doesn't matter if there are holes. Although there are many holes, they are not big. It is enough for him to hold bottles.

They can pick up a lot in half a day in the morning, and then drag them to the waste collection place in the school to sell.

A full bag and various bottles can be sold for about four yuan after sorting and calculating the price.

After buying it?

The two kids went to the Internet cafe with their money, and decided to stay there for two or three hours in the afternoon. Zheng Tan was speechless for a while, dare to pick up the bottle just for this? But this is also self-reliance.

Wang Xing didn't go, although he wanted to play computer games with him, but he was still in debt, so he made an appointment with those two, and then picked up the bags by himself.

Zheng Tan had nothing to do today, so he followed the child to see how much he would pick up.

Walking and walking, we came to the back of the School of Life Sciences, where a large trash can was placed one by one.

Wang Xing saw a few bottles in there, and planned to go over there to look through them, but when he was about to touch them, his arm was pushed, and he turned his head to look over, and saw a black cat.

Black cat again?

Wang Xing frowned, didn't intend to pay attention, raised his hand to get the bottle again, this time he was not stopped by the cat, but by someone.

An auntie who is in charge of cleaning the place told Wang Xing that the things inside are dangerous and cannot be picked up with bare hands. The garbage here must be treated specially afterward, and will not be piled with ordinary domestic garbage.

This Zheng Tan also knew, because of this, he stopped Wang Xing when he went to pick up the bottle.

After the cleaner left, Wang Xing looked at the large trash cans, turned around and sighed to Zheng, Thank you. Now he somewhat understood what the black cat did just now.

At the back door there was a man in a white lab coat dragging a large trash can out. Wang Xing planned to leave first. Since the bottles here are more dangerous, let’s change to another place. It’s better not to get injured by picking up the bottles. .

Heitan!

Wang Xing paused when he heard the voice over there. He didn't know who the person was calling, but he always felt a little guilty when he picked up the bottle at someone's place, and planned to leave quickly, but the person over there really wanted to shouted towards him.

Zheng Tan looked at the people and sighed in his heart, there was no way, he could meet acquaintances everywhere.

The one who came out dragging the trash can was Papa Jiao's student, the big guy Su Qu, who is now a Ph.D. 2, and after Yi Xin graduated and went abroad this year, he will be promoted to a senior brother, but he still has the same temperament and hasn't changed much. Their personalities won't change much after a few years of master's and doctorate years. Compared with people of the same age who have entered the society early, their temperament is still much simpler.

Hey, who is this kid? Su Qu approached and looked at the kid next to Zheng Tan and asked.

Wang Xing blushed with embarrassment. It was the first time he did this, and his skin was not as thick as his two classmates. He hesitated to answer directly, I'm a passerby who came to pick up scraps?