Strange Life of a Cat

When Zheng Tan came, the man was working, and there were a few books spread out on the desk, basically the same as last time.

After placing a cup of warm milk in front of Zheng Tan, the man sat back at the desk and started working again.

Zheng Tan looked at the paper cup containing milk in front of him, it was freshly taken out of the packaging bag, this is one of the reasons why Zheng Tan had a good impression of this person - that person never used a dirty cup to hold milk, even though Zheng Tan Now it's just an ordinary looking cat.

After drinking the milk, Zheng Tan walked around the room without disturbing the man.

Compared with the last time, there is one more painting on the bookcase in the room. It is a pencil drawing with no color. It is a painting of several children surrounded by wintersweet flowers. There is a date in the lower right corner of the painting, which is from the day before yesterday.

Zheng Tan was watching when the doorbell rang.

The one who came was a boy about Jiao Yuan's age, holding a paper box filled with small cakes, and the paper box was full of wintersweet flowers.

"Uncle Lamei, here, these are picked from the branches that the kid broke off today." When the kid said "kid", he didn't seem to notice that he was not old at all.

Uncle Lamei? This title made Zheng Tan curious, could it be because this person likes to drink wintersweet flower tea? Or is this guy called Lamei? It's too much for a man named Lamei.

The boy took the bag of lollipops that Uncle Lamei handed over as a reward, scratched his head in embarrassment, thanked him, and left.

The "Uncle Lamei" in the little boy's mouth took the box containing the wintersweet flowers into the room and put it aside. Seeing Zheng Tan staring at the box, he smiled and said: "Many children in the community like to climb and break branches, especially now For the wintersweet flowers that are still blooming, I told them that if the branches are accidentally broken, they can pick off the wintersweet flowers on them and give them to me.”

Zheng sighed, no wonder there were so many wintersweet flowers in Uncle Wintersweet's room. It is estimated that the group of children deliberately folded some to exchange for lollipops. This man should understand it in his heart, but he didn't point it out.

"That picture was drawn by me when they came over the day before yesterday." Uncle Lamei pointed to the pencil drawing that Zheng Tan saw just now, and said.

Zheng Tan is actually even more strange. Although this Uncle Lamei seems to be very gentle towards people and is closer to children, he talks less to people every time, but he can talk so much to a cat.

Another strange person.

Sure enough, pets such as cats and dogs can always make people relax their psychological guard.

While talking, Uncle Lamei took the paper and pen again, and watched Zheng Tan start to draw.

The technique is very skillful, Zheng Tan watched the painting outlined by the black lines on the white paper take shape rapidly. However, Zheng Tan suddenly noticed...

This guy is actually drawing with his left hand! !

left handed?

If Zheng Tan remembers correctly, Uncle Lamei used his right hand when writing!

The last time Zheng Tan saw Uncle Lamei writing when he was squatting on the desk, Zheng Tan was still thinking about how he could write "English cursive script" like ghostly symbols on the small notes and sticky notes pasted on the drawing board. ? As a result, the handwriting was quite normal, and Zheng Tan didn't pay much attention afterwards.

Now, considering the situation at this moment, this guy may be left-handed, but he may not be a pure left-hander. Among Zheng Tan's acquaintances, this is the first person who is as proficient in using his left hand as his right hand, and there is no slight awkwardness when he moves his hands.

The room was very warm because the air conditioner was on, Zheng Tan squatted there feeling a little drowsy, and squinted for a while.

Ten minutes later, a simple pencil drawing was completed. Zheng Tan yawned, stretched, and looked over.

There is a black cat in the painting, squatting next to the cake box filled with wintersweet flowers, with its head slightly tilted, and its eyes seem to have some doubts.

Uncle Lamei stared at the painting in his hand for a while, then looked at Zheng Tan, "I heard that many animals have spirits, are you one of them?"

Zheng Tan didn't answer, and couldn't answer.

Uncle Lamei didn't even want to find out the answer from a cat's mouth. He himself just asked after seeing the cat's eyes and suddenly felt a strong sense of weirdness. After asking, he thought that he was just a cat in front of him. That's all, let alone speak, so he just smiled.

Zheng Tan was a little baffled, and it was not uncommon for him to be insane when he asked and answered a cat.

Putting the painting in his hand and the painting of the child into a folder, Uncle Lamei walked out of the room.

When Zheng Tan came last time, two rooms in the house were closed, and Uncle Lamei opened one of them this time. Zheng Tan walked over to have a look, the room is not big, it should have been specially decorated for sound insulation, the layout inside is very simple, the most obvious is the upright piano inside.

I didn't expect this person to be a musician.

Zheng Tan jumped onto a stool next to him, since this guy was going to play a song, he didn't mind being a guest in the audience.

After listening to the beginning, Zheng Tan knew the name of the piece played by Uncle Lamei.

"For Alice", although Zheng Tan doesn't listen to those so-called world famous songs very much, he still knows this one. It is so famous that many children like to play this song.

only……

Zheng Tan doesn't know much about piano, he only knows that the version played by this player is different from the version he has heard before, it is a bit slower, but it is far different from those slow playing techniques taught to children, and there is something else in it what factor.

The melody of the piano piece "Dedicated to Alice" that Zheng Tan listened to before was fresher, with a brisk and comfortable rhythm. Some people say that the piano piece makes people feel relaxed and happy. But now, Zheng Tan didn't feel the slightest bit of refreshment, but felt a little inexplicably depressed, and even felt a chill down his spine.

Could it be that the version played by the person in front of me is wrong?

After the song was played, Uncle Lamei sat there without moving, as if he was thinking about something. Zheng Tan craned his neck to have a look.

What the hell!

Playing a song dedicated to Alice can also bring tears to my eyes?

Zheng Tan expressed that he could not understand.

Feeling that the atmosphere was not quite right, Zheng Tan decided to go home.

When I returned to Chuhua University, the attached primary school hadn’t finished school yet, and Zheng Tan was not in a hurry. He went around the corner to the university teaching building for a walk. He happened to hear a debate contest being held in the lecture theater on the first floor. So, Zheng Tan climbed up a tree next to the lecture theater, squatted on the tree and listened.

It's freshmen in medical school who are debating whether lefties are geniuses or underdogs.

"The left and right hemispheres of the human brain have their own division of labor. The left hemisphere of the brain is mainly responsible for reasoning, logic and language, while the right hemisphere of the brain pays attention to the feeling of geometry, emotion, imagination and spatial distance, and has the function of directly judging visual signals... ..."

The affirmative argues that left-handed people are stronger. Many left-handed people in life are intelligent and quick-witted people. Especially in some occupations that require imagination and a sense of space, left-handed people are often the best among them. For example Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach in the field of music, Caesar and Napoleon in the field of politics and military affairs, and Einstein and Newton in the field of science. In addition, they also used the example of "seeing things" to illustrate, comparing the neural response route of right-handed "right hemisphere of brain-left hemisphere of brain-right hand" with the neural response route of left-handed "right hemisphere of brain-left hand" , that left-handers have an advantage in agility over right-handers.

The opposing side argues that left-handed people are the weak in life, otherwise they would not be a minority in the huge human group. As for the distinction between left-handed and left-handed historical celebrities, it is still controversial and not convincing enough.

At the same time, the negative debate also cited a new hypothesis proposed by the Swiss scientist Dr. Erwin.

"Irwin believes that in ancient times, human ancestors had the same probability of using left and right hands as other animals, but because they did not know the surrounding plants, they ate the poisonous parts by mistake. Left-handed people are more sensitive to plant toxins. People who are right-handed have weak tolerance, and eventually it is difficult to continue to survive due to the serious impact of plant toxins on the central nervous system; while right-handed people finally gain the ability to survive in nature because of their tenacious tolerance.

In addition, some foreign scientists have also used experiments to prove that many left-handed people have poor autoimmune systems, and even among autistic patients, 65% are left-handed..."

Zheng Tan squatted on the tree and watched those students arguing with red faces, a little funny, if this continues, it will probably be the same as arguing on the street.

After all, they are only freshman students, and most of them have never participated in a formal debate competition before. At the beginning of this debate, there were some rules of the debate competition, but the debate became a little chaotic later, but the teacher on the podium did not stop the debate. , with a smile on the contrary, the reason why she held this classroom debate competition was to arouse the interest of the students. Apart from the interest, the rules became secondary. After all, it was not a formal big debate occasion.

Finally, the teacher on the podium gave everyone a summary: "In the biological world, only humans and apes have left-handedness, and only human beings can discuss which one is better. In fact, so far, there have been Many studies have been done on the differences between left-handers and right-handers in terms of intelligence, immunity, longevity, and even the prevalence of mental illness, but the results are still inconclusive..."

The second half of the teacher's sentence is the summary of the whole debate.

Zheng Tan has always felt that debates are quarrels that are refined and sharp, and the topics of the quarrels are so far without absolute answers.

What a pain in the ass.

While despising those students, Zheng Tan looked down at his two front paws, raised them and bent them, and Zheng Tan felt a little frustrated. As the teacher said, apart from humans and apes, other animals seem to have no distinction between left and right, including Zheng Tan himself.

When I was a human, I was used to using my right hand, but now... it seems that there is not much difference! If it wasn't for listening to these students debate today, Zheng Tan would not have noticed this change in himself.

After thinking about his own changes, Zheng Tan thought about seeing Uncle Lamei painting today. Is that guy left-handed? Well, pay more attention when you go for a walk there next time.

Originally, Zheng Tan planned to go to Uncle Lamei's place for a stroll on Saturday, but Wei Leng came to find Zheng Tan and took him to play in the night building.

I heard that Ye Hao had his birthday a few days ago, but at that time there were a lot of things at hand, Ye Hao himself didn't care about this kind of birthday, and didn't spend it much. Ye Hao, Long Qi, and Leopard went to the night building a lot less since the projects at hand started. Saturday was just an excuse for everyone to go to the night building to relax.

(Supplement 2.5)

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