Strange Life of a Cat

Zheng Tan felt like he was being watched these two days.

Not sure exactly who was watching, but the feeling was strong.

Because of Jiao's father's instructions, in order to avoid the one surnamed Ren, Zheng Tan didn't go to the Shengke Building recently. Not only that, he rarely left the compound at night, and only went out for a walk during the day when he couldn't hold back.

Usually, they wait for the two children at the gate of the attached primary school after five o'clock in the afternoon, and then go home together. Even if I go out at night, I just take a walk in the compound, and I will not run out of the compound, let alone go to the alleys in the old building area.

There are many people during the day, and the campus is full of people. After all, it is not a closed school, and the inspection of people entering and leaving the school will not be so strict. However, without finding out the reason for the feeling of being watched, Zheng Tan couldn't let go.

On this day, Zheng Tan found a big sycamore tree not far from the Dong family compound, climbed it, and took a nap on the branch. Sure enough, the high place is more reassuring, and the vision is still wide.

Yawning, Zheng Tan thought too much last night and didn't sleep well, so he had to catch up on sleep during the day.

Jiao Ma recently had a teaching project to cooperate with several colleagues. Jiao Yuan will enter junior high school in a few months, and Jiao's mother should show her presence among the junior high school teachers, so that Jiao Yuan can benefit more from school.

Others have old people or children who have not yet gone to kindergarten, and it is inconvenient to go to their homes, so they finally settled on Jiao's house. Therefore, Zheng Tan wandered outside every day during the day, and when he was tired from walking, he found a tree and climbed to sleep. If it's raining, I'll run to Big Fatty's house, anyway Zheng Tan won't stay at home to face those middle school teachers.

Zheng Tan was dozing off in a daze, when suddenly the feeling of being watched came again. After moving his ears, Zheng Tan didn't hear any strange sounds. There were students coming and going around him. A sanitation worker was sweeping the floor not far away. Vehicles drove by from time to time. There was a sports field not far from here. , Occasionally there will be some cheering shouts over there.

These are very common voices, and Zheng Tan is already used to them, but the feeling of being watched makes Zheng Tan restless. So Zheng Tan opened his eyes and looked around under the tree.

Still didn't find anyone suspicious, but Zheng Tan was careful this time, trying to remember people walking slowly around or sitting on those benches and grass, as well as those who didn't move fast. If the other party wants to keep monitoring, they will definitely not move quickly.

After getting down from the tree, Zheng Tan came to a cafeteria near the teaching area of ​​the school, took a look, then found a big tree around the north corner of the cafeteria, jumped on it, turned his back to the road, and continued to sleep on his stomach.

After a while, when the feeling of being watched rose again, Zheng Tan narrowed his eyes and looked at the cafeteria opposite.

The reason why he chose this cafeteria and the tree in the north corner was that Zheng Tan took a fancy to the SLR glass in the corner of the second floor in the north. Because there is an office in the corner of the second floor, SLR glass was used for decoration, and the outside can only be seen from the inside. If you look from the outside of the cafeteria, it can be used as a mirror.

Zheng Tan looked at the picture reflected on the glass, observed the people inside, and compared it with the people he remembered just now. In the end, Zheng Tan's eyes fell on a seemingly ordinary student.

The student was carrying a bag and holding a book in his hand. He walked slowly towards the cafeteria. In the process, he took two steps to see where Zheng Tan was. Finally, he came to the grass in front of the cafeteria. Sit down and spread out the book.

When Zheng Tan didn't come over just now, this person was reading a book on the grass not far from the sycamore tree where Zheng Tan stayed. There were many students reading on the grass like this, and when Zheng Tan opened his eyes and glanced over, he also lowered his head, so Zheng Tan didn't notice him.

After thinking for a while, Zheng Tan stood up and stretched, then looked around in a circle seemingly unintentionally. That person really lowered his head again.

Zheng Tan lay down and continued to sleep facing the Shitang, but his eyes were on the SLR glass in the cafeteria. Just as Zheng Tan guessed, the man raised his head to look in Zheng Tan's direction again, and looked this way every few seconds.

Zheng Tan was puzzled, who the hell is this? Why spy on yourself?

Moreover, even if it is surveillance, the target is only a cat, so why be so cautious?

Zheng Tan couldn't figure it out.

Could it be that he was too famous for making commercials, and then someone took a fancy to him and wanted to arrest him? It's like that on TV. Otherwise, is a cat of no value worthy of such surveillance?

Now that he found the suspect, Zheng Tan went up against him.

Zheng Tan was very regular every day. He went out with the children in the morning, wandered around, came to sleep on the tree north of the cafeteria, and kept an eye on that person by the way. Go home to eat at noon, take a nap, come out with the two children in the afternoon, jump on the same tree, and continue anti-surveillance.

Sometimes for fear of being discovered, Zheng Tan would change places. Some supermarkets and snack shops in the school also have such anti-single glass. It wasn't that Zheng Tan was overly cautious, it was the other party's behavior of carefully monitoring the cats that made Zheng Tan feel uncertain.

Anyway, it's better to be careful.

A week later, Zheng Tan found that the person had disappeared, and the feeling of being watched disappeared.

Stop monitoring?

Or is there a next step?

Zheng Tan's doubts only lasted for a day.

The next night, after dinner, Zheng Tan went out with Jiao Ma, Jiao Ma went to find friends to dance and exercise, Zheng Tan took a walk in the courtyard, and sometimes he would go to tease the dogs in the courtyard when he was bored.

Ah Huang and the sheriff are both locked up at home. Ah Huang has been castrated, so he may be quieter, but the sheriff is restless, and he kept calling when he was locked up at home. However, there are people at home to play with him , and then gradually stopped barking, and occasionally let it out to play during the day, and it was absolutely not allowed to go out at night.

So if Zheng Tan wants to find a cat for a walk, he can only look for Fatty, but this fat man who has become rich again only squats on his balcony every time, and rarely comes out for a walk.

After teasing the bulldog, Zheng Tan walked around the compound boredly.

It was nearly 8:30, Jiao's mother and the others didn't come back from the dance until 9:00, Jiao's father was at home today, Jiao Yuan's homework had dictation questions, and Jiao's father had to sign after the dictation, so Jiao's father didn't go out at night. Therefore, Zheng Tan planned to wait for Jiao Ma to come back and follow her directly upstairs.

While walking, Zheng Tan suddenly heard the sound of flapping wings.

Moving his ears, Zheng Tan looked towards the place where the sound came from, it was already close to the courtyard wall, and it was considered a remote place in the compound. There are some sweet-scented osmanthus trees and wintersweet trees planted there to beautify and decorate the environment in the compound.

But Zheng Tan and the others don't often play here, after all, there are too few trees here, and the trunks are thin, so it's not fun to sharpen your claws and climb trees. Compared with the grove next to the family compound, this place is much boring, so Zheng Tan and Ah Huang prefer to take a few steps to play in the grove outside the compound.

but……

Zheng Tan looked at the side where the sound of flapping wings came from, a little strange, is it a bird?

If it was another cat, it would definitely go there when it encountered this situation. Cats do not hunt for food, it is their nature to hunt, and they will definitely pass when they hear a bird.

But Zheng Tan is different, Zheng Tan has no interest in catching birds.

Turning around, he was about to leave, and walked two steps back, Zheng Tan heard a small movement again, like a sigh after being frustrated, although he deliberately lowered his voice, Zheng Tan could still hear it.

When Zheng Tan was walking around, he pretended to be playing with branches, and glanced at the courtyard wall from the corner of his eye.

The street lamp is more than ten meters away from here, and it can only illuminate the road, and it is still very dark on the side of the tree, but Zheng Tan still noticed the head protruding from the courtyard wall with the advantage of a cat.

has a problem!

After Zheng Tan pretended to scratch the branch twice, he heard the cage thumping a few more times, and Zheng Tan also took this opportunity to go over to see what it was.

Curiosity is curiosity, Zheng Tan still pays attention to the movement around him, he doesn't want to be sap for no reason.

The trees here are all three or four meters high. Although there are not many, they are relatively dense. From the surroundings, it is impossible to see what is going on under the trees. And the sound of thumping was under those osmanthus trees.

When approaching those osmanthus trees, Zheng Tan smelled the smell of birds and other smells.

There was a slight sound of metal bumping in the flapping of wings, just like when Zheng Tan saw the mouse cage at Xiao Qu's house across the street, it was close to this sound when Xiao Qu patted the mouse cage.

cage?

Cat catcher?

To catch cats, or just to catch yourself?

Zheng Tan was full of doubts.

It stands to reason that there should be fewer cat catchers at this time, not to mention that this is the family compound inside the university, these people are so courageous?

Zheng Tan had already walked under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, approached slowly, and saw the cage. There are some leaves on the cage as a cover, and one side is open, that is the opening of the cage.

The cage was about 60 centimeters long and 20 centimeters wide. Inside, a sparrow fluttered from time to time. Perhaps it sensed Zheng Tan's approach, and the sparrow fluttered even more violently, but it was tied inside and couldn't get out at all. Come on, I can only flap my wings inside the cage. Sometimes the struggle is too violent, and when the shaking is too hard, the wings will touch the top of the cage and slap the cage. Sensing the "predator" getting closer, it also uttered a few yells in horror.

When Zheng Tan approached this cage, the big fat man who was squatting on the balcony on the first floor of the family building on the first floor moved his ears, opened his eyes suddenly, and looked at the person in the room who was wearing reading glasses and was buttoning buttons. The old lady made a low "meowing" sound, which was like the warning sound of other cats when they were threatened, but it was a little different.

When the old lady heard this, she paused in buttoning the button, and immediately put down what she was holding.

"What's wrong?" The old lady looked at Fatty.

"Meow--"

The old lady frowned, then picked up the phone and called the guard. When she looked up again, Fatty had disappeared.

"What's going on?" the old lady whispered, immediately put on her coat, took the electric baton, and was ready to find out. If he just encountered a thief like last time, Big Fatty would not run out by himself, but this time...

Zheng Tan stood one meter in front of the cage, didn't get any closer, just stood there looking at the cage, and at the same time paid attention to the person lying on the courtyard wall looking at this side. However, because the trees here are too dense, with too many branches and luxuriant branches and leaves, there is a row of rhododendrons planted near the road, which can be regarded as blocking the view from above and to the side.

However, Zheng Tan couldn't see that person, and that person certainly couldn't see Zheng Tan.

Therefore, Zheng Tan was going to spend his time to see when that person couldn't help but climb over the wall.

Just as he was thinking, Zheng Tan heard a "meow", it was a big fat guy, and this guy was still running this way.

Whoosh!

Big Fatty had already jumped over the row of rhododendrons and came under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree. Seeing Zheng Tan standing in front of the cage, he rushed over and slapped Zheng Tan.

Zheng Tan also reacted quickly, taking two steps back to avoid the big fat claws.

Big Fatty arched his back, the hair on his back was blown up, his ears were lowered, he growled twice at Zheng Tan, and then at the cage.

Zheng Tan knew that Big Fatty was warning him to stay away from the cage,

Zheng Tan flicked his tail and walked over, ignoring Big Fatty's appearance of imminent disaster, raised his paw and gently patted its head, then walked to the back of the cage, not facing the opening of the cage.

Big Fatty was still yelling "Meow" and was about to come over. Zheng Tan flicked his tail, stretched out his claws, grabbed the body of the cage, lifted the cage up and dropped it twice.

Fatty tugged at his ears, apparently not expecting Zheng Tan to have such a reaction. After all, Big Fatty is not a human being. Even though he is relatively smart, his thinking is still inferior to that of a human being. If he was a human being, he would definitely be stunned by Zheng Tan's reaction. It is not something a cat can do to directly lift up the cage and drop it.

After falling twice, Zheng Tan looked at the cage, the door of the cage was not closed yet, it seemed that the mechanisms inside had not been touched, the design was quite rigorous.

Looking around, Zheng Tan hooked a twig with his claws bent, and then stretched the twig into it, touching a place inside the cage.

Snapped!

With the cage door closed, there is almost no time for the cat to react. If a cat is playing sparrows inside, it will certainly not react before the cage door is closed.

Big Fatty tugged his ears again, hooked his tail and shook it, looking a bit puzzled, but he didn't look like he was in a catastrophe just now.

After the cage was closed, Zheng Tan's attention was on the people at the courtyard wall. However, the man seemed more cautious and did not climb over the wall immediately.

Zheng Tan knew in his heart that in connection with the events of the previous few days, these people had been under surveillance for so long, and even put the cage here, probably because they had figured out the rules of their actions, and the target was most likely themselves!

"Wow——" Zheng Tan opened his voice and roared twice. I don't believe that you can hold back before yelling out the people in the courtyard!

Hearing Zheng Tan's roar, Big Fatty also yelled "meow".

In the family building, many people may not hear clearly, but pets can hear clearly.

Ah Huang and the sheriff both heard the cries of their two companions and followed suit.

And several other dogs barked joyously, especially the strong bulldog, who scratched the iron gate vigorously while barking.

For a while, cats and dogs barked constantly in the courtyard.

The last time this kind of thing happened was the time when the thief was caught. Obviously, after that experience, the first thought of the people in the compound was: Someone is stealing again!

Old man Yan threw down the newspaper in his hand and hurried downstairs to open the door for Niu Zhuangzhuang, "Quick, catch the thief!"

Before the door was fully opened, Niu Zhuangzhuang couldn't wait to squeeze out, spread his feet and ran towards Zheng Tan and the others.

Old man Li didn't tie his big dog either. Seeing old man Yan and Zhuangzhuang running out, old man Li took off the dog chain around Xiaohua's neck and watched his dog run away with Niu Zhuangzhuang. St. Bernards are so big, but they have to perform at critical moments, and they can't just do nothing because of their size!

Apart from these two, Sahara was also released by his master. This guy seemed like a chicken blood, he didn't care what his master said behind him, he kept running in the direction of Zheng Tan and Big Fatty.

As for small dogs such as Chihuahuas, Pekingese, and Corgis in other people's homes, they were not released. Regardless of whether the thief can be caught or not, even if it can be caught, with those two big dogs and Niu Zhuangzhuang, the "ruthless" leader, a few small dogs will probably be accidentally injured if they go there.

And here, the person who had been watching the movement of the cat trap at the courtyard wall almost spit out blood after hearing the two cats roaring.

Paralyzed, why is this cat barking so loudly all of a sudden!

Nothing like this has ever happened to a cat before!