Strange Life of a Cat

Shaking the water on his body, he picked up a stone to drive away the noisy parrot, Zheng Tan put the things back on his neck on the tree where the key and access card were hidden, slid down the tree, and went to Jiao's house. Lou trotted over.

Jumped up and swiped the access control card, and ran all the way to the fifth floor.

Because it is an old building, many residents keep grille anti-theft doors. The same is true for Jiao’s house. However, the metal grille anti-theft door lock of Jiao’s house is broken, and the security of the family building is relatively high. Generally, no one comes up to the building, so it has not been repaired, and wooden doors are enough.

The grilled anti-theft door is wide open against the wall, so as not to block people from entering and exiting, because it has been rusted for many years.

Zheng Tan jumped onto the metal grille door, hooked the upper grille near the door lock, clung to it, and then raised his legs to exert force against the wall. The grille door brought Zheng Tan closer to the door, the rusty door shaft made a sharp creaking sound.

Just as Zheng Tan was about to insert the key as he approached the lock, the door opened from the inside.

Last night, Yi Xin borrowed Associate Professor Jiao's computer to write his thesis and fell asleep on the sofa until dawn. He was woken up by urination and went to the bathroom. He just lay down on the sofa in a daze, when he heard a call at the door. There was a movement, there was a bang, and I didn't have time to put on my shoes and ran to the door to open it. Boss Jiao said that the grille door would ring when his cat came back.

Yi Xin never understood the connection between Boss Jiao's cat coming back and the rattling of the grille door, but when he opened the door, he knew it and stood there in a daze. In front of him, a black cat hooked its legs and paws to the metal bars on the grille, with a key in its mouth, and approached the door lock with the creaking sound of the grille door hinge.

Zheng Tan obviously didn't expect anyone at home, and he looked a little familiar.

Zheng Tan was thinking about who the person in front of him was, while Yi Xin was in a daze, staring at each other for a moment.

In the end, it was Zheng Tan who first remembered the identity of the person in front of him. When Zheng Tan was secretly taken to Father Jiao's office by Jiao Yuan and the others, Father Jiao had told him about Yi Xin. At that time, Yi Xin was leading undergraduates to conduct experiments. , with a few other graduate students carrying samples to the public laboratory, Father Jiao stood at the window and told Zheng Tan.

Now that the identity of the person in front of him was confirmed, Zheng Tan didn't care about it any more. Being able to come in must have got the approval of Papa Jiao, and it must be trustworthy to be able to get the approval of Papa Jiao.

Zheng Tan jumped off the grille door and went straight to the sofa.

In order to facilitate sleeping, Yi Xin put all the snacks piled on the sofa on the chair next to him.

Zheng Tan looked at the snacks that had been displaced, counted them, and there were not too many, and he felt satisfied immediately.

Yi Xin was still standing there in a daze. Although he had recovered from the scene at the door, he was shocked by the situation on the other side of the chair. When I called Boss Jiao yesterday, Boss Jiao told him not to eat the snacks on the sofa, and to eat the ones stored in the second compartment of the refrigerator if he wanted to, but not to eat any of the ones that were originally on the sofa.

Yi Xin didn't understand when he was on the phone, but now, he understands, the cat stared at the snacks on the chair and nodded its chin, it was actually counting, right? !

Zheng Tan ignored Yi Xin who was in a daze, he was very hungry now, he bit off the plastic wrapping on the pudding, and started to eat.

Yi Xin looked at the black cat lying on the sofa and eating pudding, his face twitched, then he moved to the bedroom and called Boss Jiao.

Zheng Tan listened to the phone calls from the bedroom.

Yi Xin held the phone and said "oh, oh" twice, then turned on the speakerphone, and Jiao's father's voice came from the phone: "Heitan, answer."

Zheng Tan raised his head: "Wow——"

Yi Xin: "..." The cry was a bit special.

"It sounds like you're in good spirits," Papa Jiao said, and then asked Yi Xin to turn off the speakerphone, and there were still some things to tell Yi Xin.

Yi Xin held the phone and responded respectfully, but with a helpless expression on his face. After finishing, he hung up the phone, went to the kitchen to boil water, dragged out a white plastic basin from the basin stand, and washed it.

Before Yi Xin went to graduate school, he heard people say that the best way to choose a tutor is to choose the kind of child who is enough for everyone to have no pets, so as to save time to help take care of the pets with the children. At that time, Yi Xin thought that everyone was just joking. , Unexpectedly, now it's really my turn. Children don't need to bring it, but this pet...

While adjusting the water temperature, Yi Xin thought, won't he be sent over often to take care of pets in the future? When Boss Jiao comes back, he must apply for a salary increase!

When Zheng Tan walked into the bathroom, he looked at the water in the basin, raised his palm to touch the outside of the plastic basin to test the temperature, it was just right if it was neither hot nor cold, as expected of a researcher, the grasp of the temperature is accurate. Zheng Tan looked at the special shower gel next to the plastic basin, the towels stacked on the low stool, and the hair dryer placed there. Satisfied, he jumped into the plastic basin, pulled the hair on his head with the squeegee, and then moved his chin Put it on the edge of the basin, squint your eyes and start to take a bath.

Standing at the door, the ten thousand alpacas in Yi Xin's heart have galloped a hundred times a hundred times. He has seen a relative who owns a cat get his hands bloody from being scratched while bathing the cat. This is the first time he has seen such a thing. A squinting cat enjoying a bath.

As expected... Boss Jiao's cat.

When Zheng Tan felt that the water was getting colder, he was about to get up to wipe his hair, but when he turned his head, he found a sesame seed-sized bug floating on the water, and his legs were still moving.

Against the backdrop of the white plastic basin, this little bug is quite eye-catching.

Yi Xin at the door was counting the time, and he could estimate the temperature of the water in the basin without a thermometer. He was also wondering why the cat inside hadn’t come out yet, so he took a peek and saw the black cat staring at him like a diamond. With plastic bath tub.

What's wrong with this? Yi Xin recalled Boss Jiao's words and felt that he hadn't missed anything, but he was still worried and walked over cautiously. Soon, Yi Xin's eyes fell on the worm on the water surface. As Yi Xin was a good picker of bacterial colonies, a small worm couldn't escape his eyes.

Nima, fleas!

What to do if you have fleas?

kill!

Then what?

have no idea.

Yi Xin couldn't decide, so he ran to the bedroom and called Boss Jiao. Five minutes later, Yi Xin came to a cabinet and opened the door. There were some household chemicals in it. There were two bottles of insecticide, one bottle A relatively well-known pyrethroid insecticide, the other bottle has no name. What Yi Xin was looking for was this unnamed one. It was probably one of the results of a research project on insecticides that the Department of Biological Sciences and the Institute of Chemical Engineering cooperated with. At this stage, only some insiders have the right to use it.

According to Boss Jiao's instructions, Yi Xin sprayed some on several places in the house. As for Zheng Tan's side, they changed the water and soaked it again.

The most annoying thing is the fleas, and there are also fleas in the grass around the family area, but during this time Zheng Tan often played there and never got into trouble. I didn’t expect that this time I really got into trouble when I went out, it must be in the suburbs In the thick grass over there.

Every time Zheng Tan found a flea in the water, he wiped it out with his paws, even those that were suspected to have drowned, Zheng Tan would not let them go, so Zheng Tan repeatedly soaked for two hours before coming out, rolling on the towel.

Yi Xin took the hair dryer to help blow the hair, "Heitan, Teacher Jiao said, the insecticide is almost gone, let you... find someone to get it yourself, and get some medicine to apply on the way."

Yi Xin didn't know why Boss Jiao said that, he just asked him to follow the cat when the time came.

Yi Xin shed a tear in his heart, serving pets is more troublesome than writing papers.

After the hair on his body was basically dried, Zheng Tan shook his hair, walked to the door, and looked back at Yi Xin.

Yi Xin remembered Boss Jiao's words, quickly put down the hair dryer in his hand and followed, took the key, and opened the door.

Zheng Tan led the way, and Yi Xin followed.

Yi Xin was full of doubts in his heart, but it was obviously useless to ask a cat, and it was equally uncomfortable to hold it in his heart.

Zheng Tan went down two floors and stopped in front of a house on the third floor.

"Here? Let me ask..."

Before Yi Xin finished his psychological training, Zheng Tan jumped up and slammed a volleyball on the grille security door of this family.

"Boom!"

Yi Xin's hair was almost standing on end. Although he didn't know who actually lived here, he also knew that most of the people living in the Dong family area were seniors. He couldn't afford to offend him. A list appeared in Yi Xin's mind. Now Yi Xin only hopes that the people here must not be any of these people!

Zheng Tan didn't care what Yi Xin was thinking about now, he took two shots in succession, louder each time.

After the third filming, someone inside finally responded.

"Here it comes! Knock it three more times, do you think I'm deaf?"

The voice is that of an old man. It seems that this voice is familiar? Yi Xin was nervous.

The door inside opened, and the lock of the grille door was pushed open, revealing a sullen old face.

Seeing this person, Yi Xin felt chills in his heart.

"Lan... Professor Lan Lanlan!"

Looking at the serious old man in front of him, Yi Xin had the urge to turn around and run away.

It's a pity that Zheng Tan didn't pay attention to Yi Xin at all, and walked in. He was not afraid of this old man, who owed him favors.

The interior of the house was plainly furnished, with water stains on the floor.

Although Zheng Tan just took a shower and blow-dried his fur, the fur on his feet was not completely dry, it was covered with some dust when he went downstairs, and now he stepped on the floor with muddy footprints.

"Little bastard! I just mopped the floor!" Professor Lan scolded.

Zheng Tan tugged at his ears, ignored it, and went straight in.

Professor Lan stared at the back of the person who swaggered in, then looked at the cat's footprints on the floor, turned to Yi Xin and said, "You'll wipe the floor later!"

Yi Xin: "..."

Paralyzed people hate bringing pets, especially cats!