Chapter 9 (2/2)

The pickup truck suddenly ca Tan, as then lost in thought, to knock his head against the backboard of the trunk with a “bonk”

Zheng Tan lifted his furry claws and brushed at the fur on his head

Hearing voices outside, Zheng Tan could tell that the pickup truck driver had arrived at home He stood up and shook the dust off fro of biscuits, and ju Tan decided to first look for a place to sleep, he would then wait until h he was a cat, he still preferred to take walks during the daytime

While Zheng Tan was searching for a place to stay the night, a certain phone rang in the research student dormitory at Chu Hua University

The person as closest to the phone responded and politely spoke a feords, and then said, “May I trouble you to wait a et him” He set the phone aside on the table and went to the bed diagonally opposite him

The person on the bed was in deep sleep, and he gnawed his teeth while s startled earlier, were now all apathetic

The person who picked the phone gave the sleeping person as grinding his teeth on the bed a couple nudges and whispered, “Yi Xin, your boss is calling! I said you were in the shower earlier, so don’t mess up the story”

Just fro “your boss” those tords, the man as muddleheaded from his sleep instantly became clear-headed, scrambled off his bed, and ran to the bathroom to rinse his throat since people who just woke up tended to have a somewhat hoarse voice Yi Xin didn’t want his acade the priht Wouldn’t that ruin his boss’s e of him?

“Professor Jiao! Sorry I was having a shower before, is anything thewasn’t bad

In order to coordinate with hi the keyboard and was even putting on an act of discussing the scientific question on why you can only get nutrition when eating arlic

On the other side of the phone, Papa Jiao paused then said, “Pardonyour sleep”

Yi Xin: “…” The fuck are your ears !

Fortunately for Yi Xin, associate Professor Jiao did not continue to pursue this ht now?”

“I do!” Yi Xin hurriedly responded Even if he didn’t, he would still have squeezed the time out

Twenty minutes later, with the keys he found in associate Professor Jiao’s office cabinet, Yi Xin stood in the Jiao fa room

This was Yi Xin’s second ti to the Jiao family house The first time was in the earlier half of this year after the results of his PhD exa associate Professor Jiao’s first student, he also had an intrinsic talent, so associate Professor Jiao valued him a lot and invited him to dinner at his home

Yi Xin had neverTan went to the life sciences department, apart from members of the Jiao family, nobody else knew about it As such, Yi Xin had no idea that the cat his PhD advisor kept at holy unusual

After searching around for awhile without seeing any trace of a cat, Yi Xin went to the bedrooive associate Professor Jiao a call

“Professor Jiao, I didn’t see any cat, did your cat run away froive himself a slap Who let your mouth run off!

“Is the air con’s plug unplugged?” asked Papa Jiao on the phone

“It’s unplugged! The electrical outlet in the kitchen has also been switched off!” Yi Xin spoke in a rush, describing the situation inside the home

“Mr Jiao, should I go buy a bag of cat food and leave it here?” asked Yi Xin

“No need As long as there are snacks on the sofa and in the fridge it’ll be fine”

Yi Xin: “…” Is there this way of raising a cat?

“Go to my place every day and take a look, you can use the phone at my place to report to me As for your work summary, there will be no need to report for this week”

At hearing that he didn’t need to report on the progress of experih of relief These two days the progress of the experiment wasn’t too smooth, there wasn’t much to report

“Okay, please rest assured, at this time every day I’ll come over to take a look”

On the train, after he finished giving his orders, Papa Jiao placed the cell phone back into his pocket, then looked at the night outside the

That little brat had run away, just as he expected!

Footnotes:

[1]The Type-28 Bicycle was a type of bike that was extremely common in the 60’s and 70’s in China Everyone had one in the era The “28” comes from the dimensions of the wheel, which were 28 inches (71 cm)

[2]Many Chinese cities have a highway that loop around the city Since 16 and I are both froh the urban part of cities like Shanghai and Beijing… the ring roads are still pretty urban The third ring road is pretty far out though, I think