The woman who came in was in her fifties. She hurriedly called out to them, "Police! My Dazhuang is missing! Please help me find him!"

Upon hearing this, Li Yi immediately dropped his playful grin and became serious.

Su He's heart tightened as well.

She didn't expect to encounter a case so soon, especially a missing person case. Could it be a case of human traffickers or human trafficking?

Thinking of this, she cheered up.

Meanwhile, Li Hongjun had already taken out his register and started asking questions and taking notes.

"Name, where do you live?"

"My name is Li Cuie, and I live in the alley ahead called Guaigun Hutong."

Li Hongjun nodded, taking notes as he asked, "Who is the missing person? How old are they? When were they discovered to be missing?"

"Huh? Who is it? No one's missing!"

Li Hongjun was taken aback, his hand holding the pen paused, then he looked up at her and asked, "Didn't you just say someone went missing?"

"No one's missing! It's my Dazhuang who's gone! Dazhuang isn't a person, he's my big white goose!"

Li Hongjun: "..."

Li Yi: "..."

Su He: "..."

...

Okay, the group immediately relaxed.

At this point, Aunt Li recounted what had happened.

It turns out that this goose was a gosling she brought back from her parents' home in the countryside in the spring. She brought back more than one goose at the time, and later, when the goose grew up, she would occasionally kill one for her family to eat.

I've raised it until now, and this is the only one left. I originally planned to keep it for the Chinese New Year, but when I woke up from my nap at noon, the goose was gone.

She searched the neighborhood for a while but couldn't find it, so she came to report it to the police.

...

Since a report had been filed, they couldn't just ignore it. Although the group felt speechless, a goose was a considerable asset in this day and age, so they still had to help look for it.

Since Su He had just arrived, Li Yi didn't let her go. It wasn't a big deal, so he went by himself.

Then I was back in less than an hour.

"So, did you find Dazhuang?"

Upon hearing the name, Li Yi subconsciously twitched his lips. Giving such a human-like name to a goose about to be killed and eaten—he wondered if he would even be able to bring himself to eat it later.

"Found it! You'd never guess where we found it!"

"Where?" Su He knew there must be a story behind his words, so she quickly leaned over to listen out of curiosity.

Seeing her like this, Li Yi laughed and didn't hide anything, directly stating the result: "At the neighbor's house... at the dinner table!"

"Huh? So the neighbor stole the goose and ate it?"

"It's not exactly stealing. I looked into it, and her geese are quite famous in the neighborhood because very few people in the city keep livestock. First, there's not enough space, and second, they eat a lot and are dirty."

Unfortunately, after she raised these geese, she didn't have any food to feed them. In addition, many families lived together in the courtyard, so the geese would often go to the neighbors' houses to freeload.

Not only that, they also ate all the grass that grew from the flowers planted by the neighborhood committee for beautification along the roadside, and then they left their droppings everywhere.

Most importantly, these geese will bite people when they grow up, and the bites are extremely painful. They also make noise every night, keeping people awake.

It's fair to say that the people in that alley had nothing but complaints about those geese.

Aunt Li kept a close watch on the geese, almost never letting them out of her sight, so the geese have been kept in the alley for so long without being stolen.

In addition, she has a bad personality. Whenever someone tells her not to raise geese, she says they are being nosy and even thinks that others are jealous of her. If anyone looks at her for too long, she says that they are trying to steal geese, which makes people avoid geese like the plague.

This time, the goose went to the neighbor's house to freeload while Aunt Li was taking a nap, and even bit the neighbor's child. In a fit of anger, the neighbor killed the goose and stewed it!