There was only a little boy when he left the community. The little girl had lived here and now she has gone home. Zheng Tan followed the little boy not far behind. After leaving the lakeside villa area, he walked along the avenue and turned a corner. There was a community built ten years ago, and the child's family lived here. ¡°This is Zheng Tan¡¯s first time here. Compared with some communities on the old street, this place is not much different. Perhaps the communities built at that time were all similar. This child¡¯s family lives on the second floor. Before entering the building, you can see a yellow and white cat squatting on the window sill on the second floor. This must be the twelve-year-old cat. Compared to Ah Huang and the Sheriff, the emotion revealed in this cat's eyes is calmer. I don't know if it's a matter of age or its own personality. The child looked at the cat on the second floor, smiled and waved, and then entered the building. In the past, his cat could easily climb down from the second floor and couldn't be locked up, but now it can't. It mostly stays at home. At most, it lies on the window sill to bask in the sun and look outside. Zheng Tan did not follow. Seeing that the cat on the second floor returned to the house from the window sill after the child entered the building, Zheng Tan decided to go directly to the second floor to have a look. Anyway, he was just a cat now, not a human, so he should not be People are treated as thieves. Old housing communities like this are easy to renovate, not to mention that many residents like to install a shelter on the window to block rainwater and block the air conditioning and drainage of the residents upstairs. After climbing to the window sill on the second floor, Zheng Tan squatted on the window sill without going in. The area of ????this house is not large, and it is almost the same as the Jiao family. However, this is two bedrooms and one living room. Probably old community houses like to design the bedroom area to be larger, while the living room seems much smaller. This room does not have a balcony. Looking at the photo on the bedside table, it should be the room of the child's parents. The door was open, and Zheng Tan could see what was happening on the other side of the door from the window sill. The old cat was squatting half a step away from the door. When he heard the familiar footsteps, his tail slowly swayed and he looked at the gap under the door. After the sound of the security door opening. There was no sound of the wooden door opening immediately. And a long green grass sticks out from the crack of the door below. This was what the child was pulling in a flower bed in the community when he came back. Just now Zheng Tan looked at it and was still confused. What was this kid doing? Zheng Tan just thought it was a child of his age who always wanted to talk about something for fun, but now it seems that this is not the case. Moreover, watching the interaction between the two. This situation should have happened more than once, perhaps for several years. The old cat looked at the swinging grass and stretched out his claws to grab it. "If it were Ah Huang and the others, they would have started jumping around and scratching like crazy. The slightest movement would make them feel like they were discovering a new world. This cat is not jumping around, maybe it is like the child said. It can't jump now, and it doesn't jump as much as younger cats. Although it didn¡¯t jump much, the claws were still relatively fast. After pulling the grass into the house, the old cat bit it twice and ignored the piece of grass nailed to its claws. Keep staring at the door. This time he didn't look at the crack in the door, but at the lock. The sound of the wooden door opening sounded. The child walked into the house, threw the bowl he was carrying aside, picked up the old cat and smoothed its fur before putting it down. The parents are not at home, and the child's grandmother is resting in the room. The larger room is divided into two, one for the child's grandmother to sleep in, and the other for the child. There are cooked dishes on the dining table in the living room, which are still warm, and the rice is in the rice cooker. Without bothering to eat, the child took out the red rope braid from his pocket and put it on his cat. After the knitted ring was put on the quilt, the old cat was a little uncomfortable and rubbed against the corner of the table twice. However, he quickly gave in under the comfort of the child and stopped rubbing again for the time being. While scratching the old cat's chin, the child whispered, "Don't run around. Don't fall like last time. It won't be good if you fall again when you get older. You're not young anymore, you know?" "You know?" As for the red rope, he had no intention of telling the truth to his family. If asked, he would say that he bought it for two yuan. If his family knew that he spent fifty yuan to buy a cat something that didn't even have a stone accessory, he would definitely be scolded and his small pocket money would be deducted. He didn¡¯t know much about the animal year. He just heard Nini mention that people in their community bought red ropes, and thought about the older cat upstairs, so he temporarily decided to buy one. He may not believe those things in his heart, maybe he is just seeking psychological comfort. When the child was eating, the old cat seemed to want to jump onto the high stool next to the child. After walking to the high stool, he looked at the high stool, as if he was sizing up the height of the stool, and then he jumped after gathering energy. , not as neat as Ah Huang and the others. Maybe people don't?I can't see anything, but Zheng Tan knows the cat's movements better and can see a little difference. The child picked up a piece of chicken, rolled it in the bowl, and removed the oil and strong sauce from the outside of the chicken, then gave it to the cat on the stool next to him. Looking at the cat eating meat, Zheng Tan felt that although the cat looked old, it would not decline soon. He just didn't know how many years it could live. After all, most cats The lifespan is only about ten years, some are shorter. When he turned his head, the child discovered that there was a black cat on the window sill of his parents' room. But when he walked over, the black cat had already jumped off the window sill. After Zheng Tan landed, he looked at the window on the second floor, walked to the flower bed next to the building and squatted there. He planned to stay here for a while. He took a nap, and when he woke up, it was about 1:30 in the afternoon. Zheng Tan woke up after hearing the voices of the two children. They should be children from the same community. They came to find the child on the second floor and go to school together. "Hey, Wang Xing, your cat sent you off on the window sill again." A child said, "By the way, how is your cat upstairs?" "The situation is not good. Listen to my dad, The cat upstairs is seventeen years old, five years older than my cat. Last month when he was playing with a fur ball, he twitched and fell to the ground. His legs and feet were also a little stiff A cat that used to be so fat is now There are only two or three kilograms left. When I went upstairs yesterday, I saw the aunt upstairs feeding it water with a syringe, and it couldn't even drink water by itself" I don't want to say more about this. Wang Xing turned around and asked, "Are you going over there this week?" The other two children obviously knew what Wang Xing meant by "over there" and nodded, "Of course, you want to go there too?" "Well, there we go. Call me when you come over." "Okay, but don't tell your family." "Of course, I'm afraid my parents will know." After leaving the community, Zheng Tan stopped following the three children. . He was hungry and decided to go home and eat something first. Zheng Tan saw the child named Wang Xing again on Saturday. In the morning, I followed Dad Jiao out. Dad Jiao went to the courtyard, while Zheng Tan ran around the school. Exercise is a must. When I saw the three children, they all held a snakeskin bag in their hands. The bag already contained some empty bottles, including plastic bottles. There are aluminum cans etc. The ¡°over there¡± they were talking about turned out to be Chuhua University. Students in the university consume a lot and have a lot of empty bottles. Even though the weather is still cool now, there are still a lot of bottles. Zheng Tan followed them not far away, watching them pick out empty bottles one by one from the trash can or garbage pile. Picking it up. The three children over there were talking. The child named Wang Xing must have done this for the first time, and the other two children also talked to him about their experiences. In addition to mineral water beverage bottles, there are also those cans, which ones are aluminum and which are iron, which ones are accepted and which ones are not. Which ones are expensive and which ones are cheap? It seems that these two children do this kind of thing a lot. Wang Xing dragged the bag. This bag was used by his grandmother to store mattresses. Later, it had several holes, but she didn't want to throw it away. It has been placed in the corner where the debris was piled for two or three years. When he took it out, the bag was covered with dust. It must have been early. Grandma forgot about it. It doesn't matter if there are holes. Although there are many holes, they are not big. They are enough for him to hold bottles. They were able to pick up a lot of them in a short time in the morning, and then dragged them to the school's waste collection area to sell them. A full bag can be sold for about four yuan after the various bottles are classified and priced. What happens after you buy it? The two kids rushed to the Internet cafe with their money, and decided to stay there for two or three hours in the afternoon. Zheng Tan was speechless for a while. Is this why he dared to pick up the bottle? But this also belongs to self-reliance. Wang Xing didn¡¯t go. Although he wanted to play computer games with him, he was still in debt. He made an appointment with the two people and picked up the bag himself. Zheng Tan had nothing to do today, so he just followed the kid to see how many he would pick up. As we walked, we came to the back of the Institute of Biological Sciences, where there were a line of large trash cans. Wang Xing saw a few bottles there and planned to go over and look through them. But when he encountered them, his arm was pushed. He turned his head and looked over, only to see a black cat. It¡¯s the black cat again? Wang Xing frowned and ignored it. He raised his hand to get the bottle again. This time, he was not stopped by the cat but by someone drinking. An aunt who is responsible for cleaning here told Wang Xing that the things inside are very dangerous and cannot be taken with bare hands. The garbage here must be specially treated and will not be piled with ordinary domestic garbage. Zheng Tan also knows this,?Because of this, he stopped Wang Xing when he went to pick up the bottle. After the cleaner left, Wang Xing looked at the large trash cans, turned back to Zheng and sighed, "Thank you." He now somewhat understood what the black cat had just done. There was a person in a white lab coat dragging a large trash can out from the back door over there. Wang Xing planned to leave first. Since the bottles here are more dangerous, let's move to another place. It would be better to avoid getting hurt trying to pick up the bottles. . "Black charcoal!" Wang Xing paused when he heard the voice over there. He didn't know who the person was calling, but he felt a little guilty when he was picking up bottles at someone else's place, and planned to leave quickly, but, over there, The person really thought he was shouting in his direction. Zheng Tan looked at the people and sighed in his heart, there was nothing he could do, he could meet acquaintances everywhere. The person dragging the trash can was none other than Father Jiao¡¯s student, Su Qu, a big boy. Now he is a second-year student. After Yi Xin graduates and goes abroad this year, he will be promoted to senior brother, but he still has the same temperament and has not changed much. Their personalities will not change much after they have master's degrees and PhDs in a few years. Compared with people of the same age who have entered society early, their temperaments are still much simpler. "Hey, who is this kid?" Su Qu asked as he approached and looked at the kid next to Zheng Tan. Wang Xing's face turned red with embarrassment. It was his first time doing this, and he was not as thick-skinned as his two classmates. He hesitated to answer directly, "I'm just a passerby who's here to pick up scraps."