Strange Life of a Cat

I heard that if you do similar things with the same routine every day, time will pass very quickly.

Zheng Tan thought so too.

Eat, sleep, take a walk, occasionally watch some fun and eavesdrop on some gossip, and when I look at the wall calendar, I find that, oh, the days have passed inadvertently.

Zheng Tan lay on top of a tall sycamore tree on the main road of the campus, the dense leaves blocked the sunlight above. Not hot, breezy, drowsy.

From the Chinese New Year to the beginning of school, and now the upcoming summer vacation, half a year seems to have passed in the blink of an eye.

Speaking of which, many things have happened in the past six months. Ermao and Gong Qin Fengzi got married, and although they bought another house in Chuhua City, they still lived in the compound most of the time. Heimi has been taken with her all the time. Even if many people in Ermao's family object, Gong Qin and Ermao don't mind. Wherever Ermao and his wife are now, Heimi will live there. In the house in the courtyard or in the house that Ermao bought separately, they are still used to it, and there is no noise.

Xiaoyouzi participated in the preliminary competition of the Hope Cup in mid-March, and then entered the final in April, and won the first prize. The medal and certificate were all put in a drawer by Xiaoyuzi, and he did not show it off. There are many children who have won similar awards in the compound. Even if it is not the Hope Cup, there are other cups and other competitions. Jiao Yuan and the others also won awards in some competitions, but not in mathematics.

There are students from the fourth grade to the sixth grade participating in similar competitions. The fourth grade is mainly to exercise and prepare for other exams in the future. The goal of the fifth grade students is slightly higher. As for the sixth graders like Xiaoyouzi Most of the students participating in the competition are combined with the "Small Enrollment" exam. In the enrollment of some key middle schools, the medals of the Hope Cup and other events are important "stepping stones". have a great advantage. It is precisely because of this that many parents start to enroll in various remedial classes when their children are in the second and third grades, regardless of whether the children like it or not.

Jiao's father and Jiao's mother don't usually go out of their way to teach their children, whether it's Jiao Yuan or Xiaoyuzi, but both children are very good. After Jiao Yuan won the award, some schools called to pull people. Jiao Yuan felt that those schools were too far away. Far, too troublesome, not much freedom, and Su An and the others all chose the nearest school. This time the little grapefruit is also.

When it comes to Xiaoyouzi's promotion to junior high school, it must be said that Jiao Yuan's promotion to junior high school. In the blink of an eye, the two children who were still in elementary school when Zheng Tan came here have become middle school students. Jiao Yuan and the others had no doubts that they would send their friends to the High School Affiliated to Chuhua University, but they would have to live in the school in the future, and the high school was a bit far away from here. At that time, Zheng Tan will not often hear the voices of Jiao Yuan and the others during their several voice-changing periods.

For Xiaoyouzi and Jiao Yuan, this is a turning point in the summer vacation, and Jiao's father has already made arrangements for this summer vacation.

One night, Zheng Tan overheard Papa Jiao and Mama Jiao talking about their summer vacation arrangements. During this vacation, they would take Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyouzi to Nanhua City and Nancheng in the south.

Yuan Zhiyi has been flying back and forth between Nanhua City and Chuhua City since the second half of last year. He decided to open a branch company in Nanhua City. The established network of contacts and branch offices is not too difficult, but it is hard to run around. After Yuan Zhiyi came to the door after the year, Zheng Tan found that Yuan Zhiyi lost a lot of weight and darkened a lot, but she was very energetic and full of fighting spirit. After the new year, every time I fly to Nanhua City, I will go to various colleges and universities to hold presentations to recruit talents. I heard that many good seedlings have been signed in this year's graduation season.

This time Dad Jiao went to Nanhua City, in addition to looking at the situation of the branch office, running a few cooperation projects with Yuan Zhiyi, and visiting some teachers from the past. Over the years, Dad Jiao just sent emails or called on the Internet. However, I didn’t go to visit. This time I also stopped by to visit those teachers. They are all better friends than Yuan Zhiyi’s father. They were old professors who took good care of Jiao’s father and Yuan Zhiyi back then. Of course, there are some classmates who haven't seen each other for a few years, and they all have to move around.

When Zheng Tan knew that he was going to Nanhua City and Nancheng, his heart was very complicated. He thought he would never go to that place again, but he didn't expect to have the opportunity to go there again.

At the beginning, I was completely passive when I went there, wandering around in various crises, and almost got chopped up and stewed, but this time it was different, and the Jiao family used to be purely for fun, and my mood was much more relaxed. Thinking about it, Zheng Tan was still looking forward to it.

Jumping off the tree and running towards the courtyard, Zheng Tan saw that in the shade of the courtyard, several children gathered around a middle-aged teacher asking what happened. Among the standing children were Xiaoyouzi and her classmates. Yue Lisha, Xie Xin and others are probably discussing the problems they encountered during the competition.

That teacher, Zheng Tan, knows him. He teaches mathematics and likes to give lectures to the children in the compound. Sometimes he will discuss with some middle school students the various solutions to a certain competition problem in the compound. Many of them are ordinary thinking. Unexpectedly, those children gained a lot of insight. However, when many children in the compound were asked whether they would choose to major in mathematics in the future, they would basically say "no", because the Nobel Prize does not have an award for mathematics.

Zheng Tan once heard those children talk about the reason. The Nobel Prize has established awards in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, but there is no award for the important subject of mathematics. There are several rumors and explanations. When those children talked about it, they were more inclined to the first one, that is, Nobel was poached by a mathematician, so that Nobel's love was frustrated. Although this kind of explanation is considered to be unreliable, it will be mentioned first every time it is said. Everyone has a gossip heart.

Seeing Zheng Tan, Xiao Youzi greeted the others and went home with Zheng Tan.

Now many schools are on vacation, and they haven't set off for Nanhua City, the main reason is Papa Jiao's side. To be away for a month, Papa Jiao had to arrange things here first. There were more and more graduate students and doctoral students under him, and the projects and tasks at hand were assigned to them.

Graduate students in many departments do not have summer vacation, but Father Jiao is not very strict. As long as the efficiency is high, the schedule is reasonable, and the tasks are completed in time, those who want to have vacations can still have vacations. However, in the summer, more students still like to stay in the study room with air conditioning, go to the laboratory to do an experiment, and then go to the study room of their research group to blow the air conditioner and surf the Internet in their spare time, and then throw it into the ice machine A watermelon or something waiting to eat iced watermelon, Yi Xin and the others are just like that.

Before Zheng Tan left with Jiao's family, he met Zhuo Kitten. That little kid was taken to play around every holiday. This summer, he followed Buddha and others to the north to escape the summer heat. Buddha brought a few The students went to a research institute in the north to exchange projects, and Zhuo Kitty was purely playing with the past.

In mid-July, Dad Jiao arranged the things at hand, and then drove to Nanhua City with his family.

Zheng sighed and moved his neck. He wasn't used to wearing cat tags all day long, but in Nanhua City and other places, he should pay more attention. He had already seen several cat and dog restaurants on the way. Not only Zheng Tan, but other members of the Jiao family also told Zheng Tan several times. Wherever I went before, I told Zheng Tan not to cause trouble, but this time I told Zheng Tan not to run around.

Yuan Zhiyi has a house in Nanhua City, which is still a duplex. However, he rented out the house after he went to Chuhua City for development. He came back last year to redecorate the house and kept it for himself. After opening a branch here, he will definitely run away Deqin, so there is also a place to stay.

"There are a lot of vacant rooms, so you can just watch and live." Yuan Zhiyi gave Father Jiao a bunch of keys, and his wife and children didn't come with him. Living alone still felt quite empty and lonely, but now it's better, and there are so many people.

When Yuan Zhiyi and Jiao's father went to discuss the matter of the branch here, and when Jiao's mother took Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyouzi to tidy up the room, Zheng Tan walked around the house and found that where the statue of the God of Wealth should have been placed, there was a Black cat like. What's really stupid is that there is a cat card hanging around the cat's neck, and the word "Heitan" is engraved on the cat card.

Every time Yuan Zhiyi went to Jiao's house to see Zheng Tan, she had to pay respects. At the beginning, Zheng Tan threw up his face and lost his temper, wanting to go up and kick his feet, but after too many times, he became numb, and directly ignored Yuan Zhiyi's actions. Just thinking of Yuan Zhiyi burning incense and offering sacrifices to this kind of cat statue, Zheng Tan felt uncomfortable, and could only sigh with emotion, how funny it is.

After dinner, Yuan Zhiyi and Jiao's father drove to Nanhua University. Today, they made an appointment with two classmates from back then, and now they are all teachers at Nanhua University.

After the sun went down, there was a road next to Nanhua University and next to the river, and many people were active here in the evening.

Many universities give people a feeling of being hidden in the city, Chuhua University is like this, and Nanhua University is also like this. The campus is very quiet, but when you come out, you can see the bustling city night scene.

Father Jiao and his classmates chatted together, expressing their feelings about being a teacher over the years, and asked Yuan Zhiyi to talk about what it was like to be a boss.

"Now school teachers are under increasing pressure. Research funding and teaching work are the sword of Damocles hanging over each teacher's head. The pressure of survival makes ordinary grassroots teachers like us rush to survive all day long. Grabbing class time and competing for projects , writing papers, and guarding against some people’s tricks behind their backs, it’s no wonder that people say that when you are a student, you can concentrate on doing your own experiments, and when you become a teacher, you have a rare opportunity..." Father Jiao The classmate said.

Zheng Tan stayed with Jiao Ma and the others not far away, blowing the river breeze, looking at the surrounding night scene, he could hear Jiao Pa and the others talking. It seems that the two classmates of Jiao's father are only associate professors now, and they have made a lot of achievements, but it is a pity that they failed to apply for professors several times. One also lamented that if Mr. Yuan was still alive, maybe they would have been able to ascend.

It's not easy for anyone, and everyone has unspeakable suffering. In contrast, Dad Jiao and Yuan Zhiyi are doing well. One is promoted to a professor and the project is progressing smoothly. The other started a company and became a big boss and made a lot of money.

Just as he was thinking, Zheng Tan suddenly felt his head was hit by something, it didn't hurt, it was just a soft spherical toy. Zheng Tan looked around, and his gaze stayed on a five or six-year-old boy. The child had a bag in his hand, which contained several egg-sized spherical toys with various animation characters printed on them, similar to the ball that Zheng Tan smashed just now.

The child kept staring at Zheng Tan, and then, under Zheng Tan's gaze, he took a ball from the bag and threw it towards Zheng Tan.