Strange Life of a Cat

Moreover, every time that he made the phone call, Zheng Tan would look at the clock. That time the children had probably come home from school, then he would listen to Youzi and Jiao Yuan complain about their day at school.

Although there wasn"t any solid content, when he ended the call Zheng Tan would somehow be in a good mood. He couldn"t say anything when he was listening to the calls, but just listening to the voices on the other end made his heart warm, the tip of his tail slowly curled and swayed.

After hanging up the phone, Zheng Tan threw the phone that was almost out of battery back into the backpack. Just then Fang Shao Kang also removed his rod and asked the driver to help take the fish to the farmers to process.

Where he was bored to the core, Zheng Tan saw a small plant nearby, he lifted his paws and pulled at it. Zheng Tan had seen these type of plants frequently, they were everywhere, almost having no territory restraints.

"So you"re playing with cart-front gra.s.s (Plantains)?" Fang Shao Kang took a bite into the steamed bun while walking over to here. He had gotten hungry from all the fis.h.i.+ng, the dinner wouldn"t be ready anytime soon so he asked the host family for a few buns to fill his stomach.

Pa.s.sing the bitten bun in his hand in front of Zheng Tan, Fang Shao Kang asked: "Want a bite?"

Zheng Tan looked at the missing chunk of the bun and turned away, extremely disgusted.

"Oh, I remember a.s.sistant professor Jiao said you don"t eat stuff that other people had already bitten. Here, I will bite off the areas that I ate," then Fang Shao Kang ate another mouthful from that gap and pa.s.sed it forward to Zheng Tan, "Want to eat?"

Zheng Tan: "…" Are you f*cking insulting my intellectual quotient ?!

"Too bad for you then, the bun is actually quite delicious. They used good quality pork, I can taste it." Fang Shao Kang finished the bun in his hand in a few bites, then he squatted and looked at the plant in front of Zheng Tan.

"Do you know why this gra.s.s is called cart-front gra.s.s?" Fang Shao Kang asked.

Zheng Tan paused his movement of pulling at the plant"s leaves. He really had no idea, maybe it was because it was too ordinary, so common that he stopped paying attention to it.

"In the old days, no matter what cart traveled on this road, be it government cart, private cart, ox cart, horse cart, human cart, marriage cart, criminal cart or battle cart, on the side of the road that the cart traveled on there was bound to be this type of plant. However, why must it be called "cart-front gra.s.s" and not "cart-back gra.s.s" or "cart-side gra.s.s"? Well, that"s another story.

In the Han dynasty, there was a famous general called Ma Wu. He lost the battle, coincidentally a drought occurred, all the crops had died. The army had been routed, retreating into the wilderness where there were no human inhabitants. There were a lot of human and horses that died of thirst, those that didn"t die were all sick, they were urinating blood. One day, a horseman found a few horses no longer urinating blood and were in good spirit, not sickly anymore. After observing that these horses were all eating some sort of weed, he tried it himself, and the symptoms were immediately relieved.

Ma Wu asked him, where did he find this gra.s.s? The horseman said, right in front of the cart. Ma Wu laughed, "What a great cart-front gra.s.s"…"

Zheng Tan listened to Fang Shao Kang telling the story of the cart-front gra.s.s, then raised his paws and pulled at this plant with its wrinkly leaves. He never thought that this gra.s.s would have such a story to it and a medical value. However, judging from Fang Shao Kang"s narration, this person had some sentimental attachment to cart-front gra.s.s.

u000bAfter finish telling the story of Ma Wu and the cart-front gra.s.s, Fang Shao Kang looked into the distance. On the other end of the pond, wisps of smoke wafted from behind the clay-brick courtyard walls covered with ivy and flouris.h.i.+ng with weeds, overflowing the air with an unique aroma of oil that belonged only to the farmhouses.

"My grandfather said he was like this kind of gra.s.s, so lowly that he could be found anywhere, at ease with every environment he was in, but during suitable times he was also able to play his part and s.h.i.+ne, making himself unforgettable to others. Hey, by the way, this plant healed my mumps when I was young, before that I never thought that the gra.s.s I tread on everyday would become my healing medicine.

Walking out of the farmhouse, the driver watched as young master Fang squatted next to that cat and talked to himself. He suddenly understood why everyone else in the Fang family had a helpless look on their face every time they mentioned master Fang.

Sometimes young master Fang looked like a lunatic that could"t be trusted, but at appropriate times he was incisive enough, otherwise how could he bear the role as the CEO of Shao Guang corporation?

People from the Fang family knew that whenever Fang Shao Kang met a low in his career or some decision regarding an important expansion plan for the corporation , he would disappear for a period of time. He would claim to the public that he was out on business trips, but in reality he was out on holiday alone or wandering about, and every time Fang Shao Kang returned, the Shao Guang enterprise would experience a major advancement.

The driver shook his head, this was a way of thinking that ordinary people couldn"t comprehend.

When he finished speaking, Fang Shao Kang stood up and flexed his limbs, then walked towards the farmhouse while humming a tune in his mouth, "Walking on the country lane~ The ox that returns at dusk is my companion~~"

Zheng Tan stretched his back, looked at the darkening sky and began to retrace his steps walking back.

Two days later, Fang Shao Kang finally decided to leave. Before they left they bought some local specialties, especially that farmhouse"s steamed bun, Fang Shao Kang liked them very much and ate them along the way.

They were finally embarking on the returning journey, Zheng Tan couldn"t sleep much the night before and neither could he sleep during the day, mainly because he was way too excited.

From here to Chuhua city would take around three hours on car in they go by the expressway. If they left in the morning, they would arrive at Chuahua city at exactly noon, he could even eat lunch there.

Chuhua city was a large metropolis after all, even if they arrived in the city at noon, they would still need to spend forty minutes to get to Chuhua university. That was under the condition that there was no traffic jam, if there was traffic it would take even longer, so after they arrive at noon, they would need to find a place to have lunch.

During lunch, Fang Shao Kang left for a while, when he reappeared he was in business attire, leather shoes, and his hair was brushed perfectly in place. The impression that the person gave out suddenly changed, there was some elite temperament like a boss, a great attempt to impress people.

The large backpack was nowhere to be found, the phone in Fang Shao Kang changed, a new one with a colored screen, the old one had been hidden somewhere, but the driver knew. To prepare for the next time when a similar event occurred and with the jerk of a nerve young master Fang prepared to leave again, that pack of packed away "kits" would be reemployed.

On the way to Chuhua university, Zheng Tan listened to Fang Shao Kang blab on the phone with other bosses in Chuhua city, then thought of the person that sang the guitar accompanied version of "Traveling around" in the square. No wonder they say clothes make the man, this is extraordinary!

They encountered a red light while pa.s.sing through a crossroad, the car stopped before the pedestrian crossing. Zheng Tan stood up and looked around, a silvery grey private car slowly drove past.

Zheng Tan stared at it, why did it look so familiar?

When that silvery grey car stopped beside the SUV that Zheng Tan and others were on, waiting at the red light, Zheng Tan saw the person in the driver"s seat. At the same time, the person in the pa.s.senger seat, as if sensing something, turned and looked over.

The human eyes meets the cat eyes.

Sh*t! That"s why it looked that familiar, because it was that jerk!

Zheng Tan"s claws tightened, he burrowed from the backseat to the pa.s.senger seat.

On the pa.s.senger seat was a box of local specialties, Zheng Tan stood on top, peering his eyes to see the person behind two layers of car windows.

Inside the silvery grey car was indeed Ren Chong, however, this Professor Ren was no longer the person that pretended to be a gentleman like before. His face was evidently weary with signs of dejection and unwillingness, anyone who was forcefully dismissed would be like this, not to mention the kind of people like Ren Chong who boasted to be superior than everyone else as well as being an overseas returnee elite?

Let"s not debate on whether he had any dignity, just by Ren Chong"s personality of being a sore loser and his use of unscrupulous means to reach his goals, how could his heart remain calm after being suppressed into this situation ? How could he not hate? He ground his teeth, the overwhelming hatred contorting his facial features, he was just thinking of how to pounce again when he turned and saw the black cat outside his car window.

That moment, Ren Chong felt that he had been thrown into a nitrogen tank, one knock and he would shatter into pieces.

The hatred was replaced by fear.

The cat in the car beside him, Ren Chong was hundred percent positive that it was the one owned by a.s.sistant professor Jiao. Although there were many black cats that looked like that, but looking at the expression and squinting eyes, this was that cat with no doubt!

However, hadn"t this cat been kidnapped and disposed of by that cat vendor? Why is it here? Why did it appear again?

Ren Chong didn"t understand and didn"t want to believe in it.

Zheng Tan glared at Ren Chong, he already knew that him being kidnapped was all this guy"s doing, he was the culprit responsible for him almost being turned into a hotpot! Even if Papa Jiao and the others didn"t say it outright, Zheng Tan figured into out by himself.

If it wasn"t for him being locked inside the car and the car window by Ren Chong"s side being closed with two layers of car window between them, Zheng Tan would definitely jump out and beat the sh*t out of this pretentious b.a.s.t.a.r.d!

"How the f*ck did I, a cat, p.i.s.s you off, you even went through all the trouble of hiring a professional cat-kidnapper to capture me. You even used a tranquilizer, if I didn"t have a special physique, I would probably be sedated to death! And that street with cat meat restaurants in the south, it was plain torture to my body and mind! "

Zheng Tan stared murderously at Ren Chong opposite him, he raised his claws and scratched in the air at his neck.

Ren Chong"s face immediately turned pale like a sheet of paper.

Where on earth can have you seen a cat that can murderously make a threatening action at you?

Ren Chong had never seen one, even when he found people to take care of the cat it was all just speculation, but now, he really noticed the oddness of this cat. Then his mind was filled with the action that black cat just made, each detail of the movement was enlarged in his brain. The killing eyes, the sharp claws, and that slash in the air… it was like a slash across his own neck, he suddenly felt cold.

Ren Chong s.h.i.+vered.

Just then, the green light shone, the SUV started up.

Ren Chong"s car on the other hand stayed in the same spot, the cars behind him all began to honk at him to hurry him, but Ren Chong wasn"t aware of all that, his back was wet with cold sweat. The things that had occurred over the past few days had worn him out, he would have nightmares at night, all about that black cat, every time he woke up, he would comfort himself saying that cat had been disposed of, there was no need to worry.

But, he would have never thought to meet that cat here…

Bang bang bang!

The sound of beating car windows called Ren Chong"s mind back.

"F*cking drive, what are you daydreaming about? Did you not bring your brain?! Sh*t red light again!" One car owner walked out of his car during the interval of a red light, hitting the car door and shouted.

When the green light show up again, Ren Chong was still not in a right state. He was supposed to turn left, but he kept driving forward. When he finally reacted, he made a sharp turn in a hurry, lost control and crashed right into the lamp post on the side of the road.

Bang!