Chapter 30 (1/2)

The biology department had recently hired a few professors who caher than ever Therefore, the department had to reallocate resources Papa Jiao's office had been given to three young lecturers He had been given a new office that was inal office

The departinally worried that Professor Jiao would object, but he was very understanding and moved to his new office the very next day The departher of Professor Jiao

Of course, the reason that Papa Jiao agreed to the move was not that he understood the departht he could guess what Papa Jiao was thinking Since the departements, as a faculty member, it would be best if he just accepted

However, Papa Jiao gladly agreed to move to his new office because of its location The new office had afacing south, which guaranteed lots of light in the winter More importantly, it was a corner office Outside the as a parasol tree, and it's The tree branches extended to the officeZheng Tan could now clih the hen he came to visit

Often, when Zheng Tan was tired or grew bored, he would come over and jump on Papa Jiao'ssill Papa Jiao never locked his hen he was in his office The as a sliding ; Zheng Tan could easily open it

Next to Papa Jiao's desk was a s Tan would use the chair to nap Like yesterday, Zheng Tan walked Jiao Yuan and Gu Youzi to school after their nap, then came over to Papa Jiao's office and slept on the chair In the afternoon, the sun was shi+ning directly on the chair It was the perfect spot

He slept until five in the afternoon Zheng Tan yawned Papa Jiao was probably not having dinner at hoht He was too busy these days and usually had his students bring him food from the cafeteria

He now had three students working with hirads doing their dissertation Papa Jiao norht

Though Papa Jiao had been planning to get a fewto lower his standards Quite a few professors now hadin their labs Papa Jiao still only had Yi Xin

Most students frorad school this year orth teaching, were either planning to study abroad or already reserved for the heads of the department The rest ith professors who had more projects and more money The others were not up to standards, so Papa Jiao didn't want any of theood from other schools

Besides working on his projects, he had Yuan Zhiyi's company to worry about

The coy' 'Tian' was a word in Professor Yuan's name, and 'yuan' obviously came from Yuan

Zheng Tan had heard Papa Jiao and Yuan Zhiyi say that they were planning to set up a research departh employees at the moment Most people with talent did not want to come work at a small start-up, so Papa Jiao and Yuan Zhiyi had their work cut out for them

Papa Jiao bought h this company He was able to buy the same equipment with less money with the support of Yuan Zhiyi If his project ell, Papa Jiao would have an easier ti professor

Professor Jiao sometimes recommended the company to teachers anted to save research funds He never mentioned his part in the company, but rather only hinted towards it in conversations with his colleagues Most professors had plenty of projects They had funds in theto use these funds on just research Both Professor Jiao and Yuan Zhiyi understood the kinds of shady dealings that went on in acades

Around six, Zheng Tan jumped onto the tree and closed theHe went hoer was being kept home Sheriff and Fatty were still the saht

Because of the weather, other than a few students outside walking to class, ot in their way

Once in a while, they would run into young couples getting it on So Tan would watch a little and reminisce of the days when he was still human When he just entered university, he had done siht about it, he should have checked his surroundings for cats He never would have thought anything of theh,

Zheng Tan and co came to the little forest where he used to cli in this area recently with soed to school employees while others cae of campus, so cats from the outside came inside to play too

Fights were unavoidable with this ht, while Fatty was his usual self He ignored other cats unless they chose to fight him first

Zheng Tan had gotten into a fight once, because of a female cat

He swore he did not like that cat He still thought of hi to start a relationshi+p with a cat He would rather watch the young couples However, the female cat had approached him and that made some other cat envious

So he got into a fight It wasn't really a fight He slapped the cat, and it was knocked away He couldn't control his force, so he ht have slapped the cat harder than he intended

Other cats who saw the scene left Zheng Tan alone froot slapped disappeared for quite some time

Cats were clear when showing their feelings, though they could be hard to understand so each other's fur onenext ht, they would start licking again