Chapter 17: A Call from a Cat
When you do the same thing every day, you feel like the days go by.
Zheng Si runs every morning, climbs stairs, climbs trees, and practices jumping......
The wall calendar on the wall of Jiao's house has been turned to November, and Zheng Si saw the wall calendar on the wall and realized that it had been so long, and it had been five months since he came here.
Zheng Si bent his palm, and his sharp claws peeked out from between his fingers. These claws look similar to those of other cats, but Zheng Si understands that the claws have gradually changed, at least not the same as they were two months ago. He didn't deliberately grind his claws, nor did he cut them, and when the claws grew a little, they would be sharpened off in training, and then they would grow and grind again.
A cat's claw is indeed an amazing thing, sharp, tough and flexible, and some people say that a cat's claw is like a versatile Swiss army knife that people carry with them. And Zheng Si, who has been training, wants to make his saber sharper and tougher.
Zheng Si knew that he was actually different from other cats, he had heard Jiao's father say that cats were not sensitive to sweetness, but Zheng Si himself could clearly feel that he could eat many things that cats couldn't eat, and it was good to eat; For example, people have been debating whether cats are colorblind or not, and Zheng Si doesn't know what other cats are like, at least he can distinguish between colors.
And then there are the claws, even if other cats have undergone continuous training, they will not have the same strength as Zheng Si, and their claws will not have a qualitative mutation. However, in addition, Zheng Si has no other alternative changes, even if his current strength is close to his original adult state, he has no tendency to become a human; Even if you are trained as a monkey to climb trees and jump in the bushes, you will not become a monkey.
Do you want to live like this forever?
Zheng Si was running while pondering the little Jiujiu in his heart. Now the speed of running has been raised to a higher level, and he can still be distracted during the running, he will not feel tired and out of breath, at most he is a little tired, just rest for a while after running.
After running two laps, I came to a forest on the edge of the school, which was larger than the East Family Compound, and because it was a little far away from the teaching area, there were fewer people. Not far from the woods, the school has torn down a "too old" red brick building to build a new dormitory, and with the expansion policy, more and more students are increasing, and the existing dormitory building is no longer enough.
Therefore, except for some construction workers and construction vehicles, no one else in this area will walk through the partial school gate on this side, and the road is full of dust, stone and soil, and students and teachers and staff who live outside the school and drive private cars will not want to pass this side.
So Zheng Si will come here to practice climbing trees after running during this time, the woods are clean, and even if he does something special, he will not be discovered.
Wei Ling has been helping his senior brother recently, and the case has not yet ended, so now many times Zheng Si is running and climbing trees by himself, as for the cats in the East Family Compound, since the first day, Zheng Si has given up the plan to call them to exercise together.
After running and resting for a while, Zheng Si began to climb trees every day. Another advantage of this training is that the trees in this forest are generally thicker, which is easier to climb.
Zheng Si flexibly jumped on a big locust tree, scratched the trunk and moved his paws, and then chose a relatively thick branch that could bear his weight, tilted his body, slid from the branch to the back, and grabbed the trunk tightly with his front and back paws to prevent it from falling.
Take a deep breath, let go of your hind legs, hold the trunk with your two front paws alone, and then pin your claws tightly to it, then move little by little towards the treetops, and when you are almost at the end, your body will shake, and you will turn over and return to the front of the branch with your limbs in your arms.
Looking around, he selected a branch with a reasonable distance and a decent thickness, Zheng Si made a jump preparation, jumped onto the branch, and then began to repeat.
When he first heard Wei Ling say this training method, Zheng Si was still puzzled, he is now a cat, not a monkey, why should he train this?
Wei Ling saw the confusion in Zheng Si's eyes at that time, and did not explain directly, but asked, "Do you think you can't do it?" Or do you think no cat can do it? I can tell you for sure that I have seen a cat that was more agile than a monkey when it ran through the woods, and it scurried up and down the trees, from branch to branch, from tree to tree, and was in the tree most of the time since it was beaten. Sometimes, trees are a lifesaver for cats. ”
In this way, Zheng Si began monkey-like tree climbing training. Maybe he will be able to grasp a branch with one paw and walk through the woods like a monkey.
After climbing five branches in a row, Zheng Si jumped onto a tulipwood tree of some years. The main reason why I noticed this tree was because of its special leaves. At that time, when Zheng Si was resting on the branch, a leaf fell in front of him, looking like a horse coat.
Wei Ling said that this tree is called tulipwood, also called horsetail wood, is a national second-class rare and endangered protected tree species, in the metropolis, in addition to the botanical garden, it is rare to see such a large tulipwood, it seems that Chuhua University has a long history.
The tulip flowers look a little like tulips, and its English name is translated as "Chinese tulips", but unfortunately, the flowering period of tulip trees is in May and June.
Zheng sighed in the wind, listened to the sound of falling leaves around him, and looked around. Now that the leaves of many trees have turned yellow, the deciduous trees in the school will start to turn bald at an accelerated rate when the temperature drops, the rain and the wind blow.
Winter in Chuhua City is coming.
After climbing the tree, Zheng Si saw that the time was still early, and the third class of the school was not over, and Zheng Sian did not go back to Jiao's house for lunch until the fourth class was over, so as not to have to wait for the early return without food.
As usual, if you have time to spare after training, you will go to the artificial lake.
It seems that docile and obedient animals are easy to relax their guard, so there are many domestic animals that will become the object of people's confiding, and that "Xiao Zhuo" sometimes talks to Zheng Si, but does not mention the word "Project A", all of which are words that do not make much sense, such as "You are here again today", "Hungry or not" and so on.
Sometimes Xiao Zhuo will say something related to her own profession like Jiao's father. Another time, I didn't know what it was related to, Xiao Zhuo suddenly got up, tore a small corner of a blank note paper sandwiched in the notebook, and then tore this small corner into more pieces. Closed the notebook, put the torn confetti on it, and then took out a signature pen with a rubber-wrapped shell from the pencil case, grinded it back and forth on Zheng Si a few times, and then approached the confetti, and the confetti was sucked up.
Xiao Zhuo took the signature pen with confetti and sighed to Zheng with a smile: "Look, this is called friction electricity!" So, what is the reason for this? Let me tell you, matter is made up of atoms, and the nuclei inside atoms are made up of positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons......"
Zheng Si almost spurted out a mouthful of blood when he heard the previous sentence "Look, this is called friction electricity", and when he heard the words "I'll tell you", his desire to spew blood became even stronger.
You can meet this kind of person anywhere!
Lying on the bench of the artificial lake to the point where the fourth class was about to end, Zheng Si went to attach Jiao Yuan and Gu Youzi.
However, after class, Zheng Si didn't wait for the two little figures.
When Lan Tianzhu and the others came out, they saw the black cat squatting on the wall, and said loudly: "Black charcoal, Jiao Yuan has already left, and he was picked up by Aunt Ling after the first class." ”
The Aunt Ling in Lan Tianzhu's mouth is Ah Huang's owner, and she is also a teacher who teaches in the same junior high school as Jiao's mother.
Not long after Lan Tianzhu spoke, another little girl in the same class as Gu Youzi also said the same thing, and when the first class ended, Aunt Ling picked up Gu Youzi.
Zheng Si felt that something was wrong, very wrong, something must have happened, otherwise he wouldn't have picked up the two children before school for no reason. Zheng Si ran back to the East Family Compound uneasily, and after brushing the access control, he rushed straight to the fifth floor in one breath, shouted loudly at the door for a long time and no one answered, and then ran out of the building to get the key back from the tree where the key was hidden to open the door.
The house is very quiet, quiet, or similar to when Zheng Si went out in the morning, and the food that has been rising at this time is not at all today. Zheng Si went around from room to room, and he didn't even have the schoolbags of the two children, that is to say, Jiao Yuan and they never came back after they were picked up!
There are no notebooks spread out on the desk, there are no small notes in the corridor, and there are no "tips" and "memos" at home......
For a moment, Zheng sighed at a loss, and spun around in place irritably.
Although this family is not related to him, if it weren't for this incredible cat-changing incident, Zheng Si would not have come into contact with this family at all. However, it was Jiao's mother who picked herself up from the garbage heap in the vegetable market, and the four members of the Jiao family were very good to themselves, and after five months, Zheng Si had a sense of belonging to this place that he didn't want to admit. When I was still a human being, there were a few houses, but none of them would make me feel this way, and I couldn't tell what the so-called belonging felt was in the end, just like the hair that exploded outside, as soon as I stepped into this door, I was suddenly smoothed out.
When he turned around in a circle and felt a little dizzy, Zheng Si suddenly thought of something, then ran back to the bedroom, jumped on the table where the phone was placed, pressed the hands-free button, and dialed Jiao's father's mobile phone.
It took several rings to connect.
"Hello?"
The voice of Jiao's father was a little hoarse, and Zheng Si could feel that he was suppressing his emotions, and this made Zheng Si even more upset, and he opened his voice and roared.
"Whew-"
Jiao's father on the other end of the phone: "......" is only his cat that can bark like this. However, he didn't expect to receive a call from home at this time, and when he first saw the caller ID, he didn't think that the caller would be his own cat, he knew that his cat was different from other cats, but he really didn't expect to receive a call from his cat at this time.
Seeing that there was no response, Zheng Si shouted again at the top of his voice.
This time, Jiao's father spoke up.
"I'm in the hospital, Jiao Yuan and I took them over, something happened to Rong Han. You stay at home first, there are snacks in the fridge......"
"Woo-woo-woo-" Zheng Si continued to shout at the top of his voice. Rong Han is Jiao's mother's name, and Jiao's mother's name is Gu Ronghan. As soon as he heard that it was Jiao's mother who had an accident, Zheng Si couldn't calm down, he wanted to ask where the hospital was, but he couldn't speak, so he could only shout.
Because I was too irritable, I saw a stack of books piled up next to me, raised my paws, and lifted!
Listening to the sound of books falling on the phone, Jiao's father was silent for a while, "Then I'll let Yi Xin bring you food later?" ”
"Whew-"
Zheng Si looked at the desktop, and there was a glass cup next to the keyboard, which was given to Jiao Yuan when they ordered milk.
Flick your tail and fall!
Dad Jiao listened to the sound of the glass falling to the ground and breaking on the phone, this time he was silent for a little longer, and then said, "I'll let Yi Xin bring you over later, you wait at home, don't fall again." ”
Zheng sighed: "Whew. ”