Chapter 27 Losing Teeth "Go to the hospital, I need my wages."...
People tend to be very busy when they feel awkward.
Cats too.
Cheng Shiyun licked her left paw and then her right paw, never letting her mouth rest.
It licked its paws until they were wet, then stepped on the boy's arm, leaving a wet, plum blossom-shaped mark with each stomp.
She licked her paws to clean them because she didn't want to get Xie Shijin's clothes dirty, but it seems... they're even dirtier now.
Inside the bus, only the first few rows of lights were on. Xie Shijin sat in the last row; the dim light cast a blurry image of his profile on the window. It was so blurry that his expression was impossible to discern.
The tabby cat was still licking her paws, seemingly not intending to confess, so the boy holding the cat lowered his head and asked casually, "Weren't you so fierce just now? Why aren't you saying anything now?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the little tabby's ears twitched.
Cheng Shiyun felt incredibly guilty, and tucked her dirty hands inside her pockets: "You... you saw it all?"
Xie Shijin hummed a short syllable through his nose: "Mmm."
"Then what are you doing here?"
The answer was obvious, as Xie Shijin also said: "I came here following you."
"..."
Cheng Shiyun had guessed that he had followed her, but she was stunned by his honesty.
But she didn't have a tracking device on her, so even if Xie Shijin woke up and found her missing, how did he manage to find her here so precisely?
Suddenly remembering the figure she had seen by the roadside when she got into the car, Cheng Shiyun realized: "Were you not asleep at all?"
Xie Shijin said, "She's asleep, but sleeping very lightly."
He woke up as soon as the bedroom door opened.
"You, I..." Then what about her rolling around in bed, smelling his scent, licking the corners of his eyes, etc.? Doesn't Xie Shijin know all of that?
How could he do this!
"Oh... so you were pretending to be asleep the moment I came in!" Cheng Shiyun preemptively questioned, "Fine, I didn't realize you were such a good actor, you acted so convincingly." She'd made her look so foolish!
Unfortunately, Xie Shijin didn't take the bait, calmly retorting, "I didn't realize you were so good at changing the subject."
"...Who changed the subject?"
The little tabby cat, exposed, curled up in his arms, burying her head in his arms as if she wanted to disappear into a crack in the ground.
The cat's wildly wagging tail brushed against his chin, tickling him. Xie Shijin pinched the base of the tail and stroked it from bottom to top to the tip.
Cheng Shiyun shuddered. How come she's so sensitive now that she's turned into a cat?
Logically, she should withdraw her tail now, warn Xie Shijin that you can't touch a tiger's tail, and then leave him with a cold and arrogant back view! But it feels so good, so good...
I want to knead my breasts.
She endured and endured, but her tail betrayed her first, hooking onto the boy's finger.
The fur on her tail was also shaved, but she had been applying a hair growth promoter every day, and a ring of fine downy hair had grown out, loosely wrapping around Xie Shijin's fingers.
Cheng Shiyun was disappointed in him.
Damn it, you like him that much!
Unable to bear it any longer, she pulled her tail back and hugged it, her cheeks burning. She timidly shrank into a small ball and seriously scolded her tail.
What's going on? Can't you see we're in a Cold War?
She had just finished reprimanding Weiba when she heard Xie Shijin ask, "Why didn't you tell me about the group fight?"
"Meow???"
What a huge hat!
“How can it be called a gang fight?” Cheng Shiyun wanted to defend herself. “It’s called punishing evil and promoting good.”
Since he had already seen it, Cheng Shiyun simply told him everything.
She wasn't blindly trying to help the cats; she knew her limits, and the cats were very obedient, strictly following her plan.
Tonight is not only to avenge the cats that died at Guo Xuan's hands, but also to avenge herself.
"I didn't tell you because I thought I could handle it myself." Of course, the more important reason was that she was afraid of involving Xie Shijin. Cheng Shiyun said, "As it turns out, I'm quite capable."
They scratched Guo Xuan and even bit off one of his eyes, truly venting their anger.
The little tabby was smug. When it was happy, it wagged its tail joyfully; when it was unhappy, it wagged its tail slowly. Its mood was written all over its tail.
"It's impressive, but if I hadn't come, were you planning not to go home?" Xie Shijin thought of what Ni Jiaqi said about tabby cats having the highest abandonment rate, and pursed his lips. "Would you abandon me?"
The little tabby's expression changed: "Meow! Who said that!"
Abandonment? How could that be!
Xie Shijin has always been the one taking care of her. Even if someone were to abandon her, it would be Xie Shijin who would do so.
Xie Shijin raised an eyebrow and said, "Isn't that right? When the bus came, you turned around and wanted to leave, not wanting to get on at all."
Cheng Shiyun was stunned for a moment, not expecting that he had noticed her little trick. Although she had such thoughts, she still defended herself, saying, "I didn't, it was the high beams that blinded me."
"It's too bright, so bright I can't even open my eyes. Isn't it normal to take two steps back?"
"No need for such excuses." Xie Shijin turned his face away.
"I know."
Cheng Shiyun's cat-like eyes widened: "?"
What?!
I didn't say anything, so what do you know?
“Ni Jiaqi is right. I didn’t ask you if you wanted me to take care of you, and I… am not very good at taking care of cats.” Xie Shijin looked straight ahead, his voice slow and calm. “If you want to leave, you can just tell me. Don’t leave without saying goodbye.”
Perhaps due to the lighting, his eyes were dull and lifeless, like a faded and dusty painting placed in the corner of an art room.
Cheng Shiyun didn't want to see him like this.
"You believe Ni Jiaqi's nonsense?" Cheng Shiyun jumped out of his arms and onto the back of the front seat in a hurry, meowing rapidly, "I'm not without legs. If I didn't want to be taken care of by you, I would have run away long ago."
"and."
With a long face and a defiant attitude, she said, "Besides you, who else would be willing to support me?"
Xie Shijin said calmly, "Ni Jiaqi."
“…He doesn’t count.” Cheng Shiyun’s vision went black, and after a pause, she said, “He wants to support me, but I don’t want him to support me.”
“I’m not someone who will just wave at anyone and go with them.”
"You're willing to let me raise you?" Xie Shijin's breath trembled slightly.
Cheng Shiyun blurted out, "Otherwise?"
Xie Shijin gently squeezed his fingers on his knees and silently nodded.
Cheng Shiyun stared at him, sensing that Xie Shijin still didn't fully believe her. After all, including this time, she now had two prior offenses.
She took a deep breath and continued meowing: "I admit, I was a little reluctant to get on the bus just now, but I really didn't not want to go home."
Xie Shijin treated her very well. He knew everything about what the kitten could and couldn't eat, and he could even cook healthy, nutritious, and delicious kitten food. He was nothing like what he said about not knowing how to raise a cat.
It's hard to go from luxury to frugality. She finally had another home and didn't want to rummage through garbage dumps anymore.
"I just suddenly... suddenly got a little scared." Her voice trailed off.
Xie Shijin lowered his eyes and glanced at her.
A cat weighing two pounds, with a rebellious streak weighing one pound and eight ounces.
"If you're not afraid of fighting, what else are you afraid of?"
The little tabby cat, with its head drooping and a hint of resignation in its expression, said, "I'm afraid of dragging you down with me."
The girl's voice was soft.
The unvarnished and heartfelt words easily touched Xie Shijin's heart.
The curtains in the front seat were flapping loudly in the wind, like his chaotic heart, dancing wildly in the wind.
Xie Shijin's voice was like it was covered with sandpaper, so low and hoarse that the words were indistinguishable: "How have you implicated me?"
She clearly saved him.
After Cheng Shiyun's accident, he couldn't help her at all. He felt so useless, not even worthy of venting his anger like Ni Jiaqi.
After his grandmother died, he was completely left with nothing and had no idea why he was living. He lived in constant fear, as if he were sinking into bottomless water.
It was she who pulled him from drowning and gave him a breath of oxygen.
Whether it was out of guilt or something else, Cheng Shiyun suddenly felt a little uncomfortable when she met his gaze.
"I just wanted to teach Guo Xuan a lesson, I didn't mean to bite his eyes out..."
Whether she actually went blind or not, Cheng Shiyun wasn't sure. But it was definitely going to be a terrible situation, and Guo Renyi and Qian Juan would come to hold her accountable.
You can't hold the cat accountable, but you can hold the cat's owner accountable.
Cheng Shiyun said to Xie Shijin, "Don't you remember when Mr. Zhao held a class meeting for us in the first semester of our first year of high school?"
There are many stray cats both inside and outside the school. The students in his class like to feed them and even bring the stray cats to class. Then, Lao Zhao got scratched by a cat.
After getting his rabies vaccine at the hospital, Lao Zhao came back and held a class meeting to explain some legal knowledge to them.
"If a stray cat injures someone, you can sue the person who regularly feeds it."
"Because the law might recognize this long-term feeding behavior as constituting a foster relationship, and the person feeding the cat would be responsible, my dad usually doesn't let me feed stray cats, because it's hard to explain if problems arise."
If Guo Renyi and Qian Juan want to hold them accountable, Xie Shijin will have to take the blame.
Xie Shijin once said that they were family.
They share the good times, but when it comes to hardship... let her, the little kitten, bear it all alone.
Xie Shijin's eyes softened slightly. So that's how it is: "It's not because you don't trust me?"
Cheng Shiyun stammered, "Who else can I trust besides you? You are... the only person I can trust right now."
The air suddenly became quiet for a moment.
It's a bit awkward.
She truly trusted him completely, but given her two instances of "running away from home," Xie Shijin probably wouldn't secretly deduct points from her credibility in his mind.
Cheng Shiyun slowly raised her eyes and looked at him.
The streetlights brushed against his face, sometimes bright, sometimes hazy, the interplay of light and shadow adding a touch of tenderness that was hard to look away from.
Then, she saw Xie Shijin curl the corners of his lips and smile faintly.
His smile was open and cheerful, like a ray of sunlight finally shining into a deep sea that had been silent for a long time, instantly making the once calm surface shimmer with light.
His smile was beautiful, yet fleeting.
Laugh, laugh, laugh at her again, don't think she didn't see it.
Cheng Shiyun's ears were burning hot.
"How can he be so sure it was my cat that hurt him?" Xie Shijin said. "There are no security cameras in the villa, no security cameras in the park, it was so dark, and he's blind in one eye. How could he not have made a mistake?"
"Without solid evidence, even if he takes it to the Supreme People's Court, no one will recognize it."
Cheng Shiyun understood the道理 (principles/reasoning), and she had comforted herself with the same words, but to little avail. Otherwise, she wouldn't have considered wandering for a while before returning home. But hearing the same words from Xie Shijin's mouth made her feel inexplicably at ease.
The little tabby smacked its lips: "I have something very important to tell you."
Xie Shijin frowned: "Are you hiding something from me?"
Ahead was a traffic light intersection. The driver slammed on the brakes, and the bus's momentum caused Cheng Shiyun to fall into his arms.
Cheng Shiyun's head slammed heavily against Xie Shijin's shoulder, making her dizzy and her nose and eyes wrinkled up like a little bitter gourd.
The boy reached out and put his arm around her, asking gently, "Did you bump your head? Are you alright?"
"Meow, it's nothing." Cheng Shiyun shook her dizzy head. "I have nothing else to hide from you."
"Xie Shijin, look."
The little tabby cat opened her hands and presented them to him: "I lost my tooth!"
"..."
...
It was almost two o'clock when I got home.
Xie Shijin took out her key, opened the door, turned on the living room light, and put the drowsy cat in her arms into the cat bed.
For some reason, Cheng Shiyun has been getting sleepier lately.
She squinted as she watched Xie Shijin go in and out, seemingly looking for something.
Cheng Shiyun was extremely sleepy but reluctant to go to sleep. A minute or two later, Xie Shijin came out of the room, carrying a small pouch. It looked a bit like a glasses case, but much smaller.
Seeing her tilting her head in curiosity, Xie Shijin explained, "It's for holding coins."
Coins are rarely used now, and the coin purse has gradually become unused. He searched for it in his grandmother's room for a long time.
My grandmother's things are all well preserved; they are small and exquisite.
Xie Shijin opened the coin purse, put in two tiny, rice-grain-sized cat teeth, and tied the purse's drawstring.
"Xie Shijin, what are you doing?" Cheng Shiyun's eyes followed his movements.
She saw Xie Shijin pick up the coin purse and place it on the shrine.
"Put your replaced tooth up a little higher," Xie Shijin said.
"That tall?" Cheng Shiyun asked, somewhat surprised. "Couldn't it be placed somewhere else?"
"Put it in the highest place in the house, and your teeth will grow in very well." Xie Shijin placed the coin purse containing the kitten's teeth next to her grandmother's portrait. "This is the highest place."
"Really?" Cheng Shiyun blinked, surprised. "Is there such a saying?"
"Yes, that's what the older generation said."
Grandma's portrait has a blue background, and her coin purse is also blue. Grandma will bless the person he loves.
Cheng Shiyun jokingly asked, "Did you put your baby teeth that high when you were little?"
Xie Shijin paused for a moment and said, "No, no one put it for me."
Cheng Shiyun looked at him in astonishment, then suddenly remembered that Xie Shijin's childhood seemed to be unhappy.
He had never received the affection he had in his childhood, yet he easily gave it to her.
The air was filled with the faint scent of gardenias, but the sweet fragrance now seemed to be wrapped in a thin veil, and upon closer inspection, it had a slightly sour taste.
Xie Shijin said, "Once the kitten loses its teeth, it will grow into a big cat."
Cheng Shiyun smiled and looked at his profile: "You seem very sure that I will grow up."
"Why not?" Xie Shijin turned to look at her.
Cheng Shiyun's gaze slowly roamed across his face, finally settling on his eyes, and she sighed wearily, "Intuition, I guess."
She didn't think she could live for long; the last time she turned into a fish, she only lived for three days.
No matter how you listened to it, her voice sounded sorrowful.
That ominous premonition that Xie Shijin had was like a vine, sprouting and gently wrapping around his heart.
Xie Shijin frowned deeply: "What intuition?"
"Intuition is... a sixth sense."
It's like when you think the teacher is going to call your name in class, and then suddenly they call on you.
Cheng Shiyun had a strong intuition right now, but she was so sleepy that her voice was starting to slur.
"Cheng Shiyun." Xie Shijin's Adam's apple bobbed as he called her name, "What did you feel?"
"Xie Shijin, I'm really sleepy," Cheng Shiyun said. "I want to sleep. You need to take good care of my flowers..."
"If I die, I will turn into a butterfly and come to find you."
The girl's soft voice, piercing through two years, struck the boy's eardrums like an arrow. At the same time, which sent shivers down his spine, he also heard another voice.
...
If I die.
Please live to see next summer.
Every butterfly you saw then.
It's all me.
*
"The kitten's sleepiness may be due to the weather. Hot and humid weather makes them more drowsy. All of your baby's indicators are normal, so don't worry too much."
The vet gave the kitten a full-body checkup and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the kitten's health.
"Is it okay for her to sleep for twenty hours?" Xie Shijin lowered her eyelashes and frowned. "She wasn't like this a few days ago."
The doctor glanced at him and gave him a knowing smile: "First time owning a cat, huh?"
Xie Shijin pursed her lips and said, "Mm."
New pet parents are all like this; they worry about whether their pet is sick at the slightest abnormality. Of course, this kind of worry is definitely good for the pet. The vet said, "A kitten's excessive sleepiness could also be due to boredom. If you have time, spend more time with it during the day and interact with it more."
Fortunately, apart from being sleepy, Cheng Shiyun's physical condition was normal, and the doctor did not prescribe any medication for her, so Xie Shijin carried her home.
Cheng Shiyun's worries came true the following morning.
Around 8 o'clock, Xie Shijin was making pumpkin puree kitten food in the kitchen when he heard a knock on the door. He wiped his hands clean, walked to the front door, and peeked through the peephole.
Two police officers in uniform stood outside the door, one of whom was a policewoman, someone he knew well.
Xie Shijin opened the door and called out, "Officer Yang."
Yang Shengnan showed her identification: "Is this convenient? Let's go in and talk."
Xie Shijin stepped aside to let the two into the room.
Hearing the sound of water boiling in the kitchen, Yang Shengnan casually asked, "Making breakfast?"
"Yes, please make yourselves at home."
Xie Shijin first went to the kitchen to turn off the stove, poured them two glasses of water, and then sat down on the sofa opposite.
Yang Shengnan looked around the living room. Her eyes immediately fell on the gardenias on the balcony; it was rare to see a boy her age who liked growing flowers.
Looking away, she saw the cat food, cat tree, and cat toys in the living room—all for the cat. But the cat bed was empty.
Yang Shengnan asked, "Where's your cat?"
Xie Shijin said, "She is rather shy in the bedroom."
Yang Shengnan nodded and got straight to the point: "We're here today because we need your cooperation in an investigation." She uncapped her pen and asked matter-of-factly, "Where were you last night?"
Xie Shijin said, "At home, I'm sleeping."
"Can anyone prove this?"
"Nobody's here."
Yang Shengnan nodded. She knew that Xie Shijin was now all alone in his family, but this was a routine inquiry that couldn't be skipped.
She took a pen and wrote two notes in her notebook, then asked, "You said you were home last night, but the community's surveillance footage shows you left around 11 p.m.
Yang Shengnan looked at him: "Where did you go out to?"
"I couldn't sleep, so I got up to clear my head," Xie Shijin stated calmly.
Where did your relaxation go?
"Lushan International".
The auxiliary police officer next to him narrowed his eyes and asked, "Lushan International is more than ten kilometers away from your home, why did you go to such a far place?"
Xie Shijin didn't answer his question, but calmly asked in return, "Is it not allowed? Where I go to relax should be my personal freedom."
The auxiliary police officer choked.
Their confident tone made it seem like they were the suspects.
He muttered under his breath, "Going for a walk to such a far place, that's really illogical..."
Yang Shengnan kicked him to warn him to watch his words: "Just because something is illogical doesn't mean it can't be untrue. Any doubts must be based on evidence."
The auxiliary police officer shut his mouth.
"Where's your cat?" Yang Shengnan asked again, holding her pen. "Was it home all night?"
"Yes." Xie Shijin nodded. "It's always been here."
Yang Shengnan raised an eyebrow: "So sure? Won't the cat run out when you open the door?"
"Won't."
Yang Shengnan: "..." She was even more certain.
Xie Shijin: "Any other questions?"
"You're not even going to ask us why we're here to question you?" Yang Shengnan chuckled.
"What good would it do me to ask?" Xie Shijin's expression remained indifferent. "If Officer Yang wanted to tell me, he naturally did."
"Alright, I won't beat around the bush with you anymore." Yang Shengnan sighed and said, "Someone called the police last night. The caller was Guo Renyi, the principal of Yichuan No. 7 Middle School. His son was scratched by a cat in Lushan Park. It wasn't a stray cat, it was your cat."
"Guo Xuan, who is Principal Guo's son, mentioned that yesterday afternoon, when you were tutoring him at his home, you had an argument with him and almost strangled him to death. So he suspects that last night you... instigated your cat to deliberately take revenge on him."
The auxiliary police officer had been observing Xie Shijin's expression. When Yang Shengnan mentioned his cat, Xie Shijin's expression visibly shifted, but quickly returned to normal. It was a fleeting, almost imperceptible movement.
Xie Shijin didn't deny it, but his voice carried a hint of coldness as he looked up and asked, "Do you have any evidence?"
"Of course."
“We checked the surveillance footage near Lushan International and saw that you went to Lushan Park around 1:00 PM.” The auxiliary police officer took out the surveillance video, handed it to him, and pressed him for details, “Why did you walk to the park after getting off the bus at the entrance of Lushan International? Although you didn’t enter the park, you were very close to where Guo Xuan had the accident. Did you hear Guo Xuan’s cries for help?”
Xie Shijin lowered her eyes, glanced at the surveillance video in his hand, then looked at him and slowly said, "Officer, I am hearing impaired."
Auxiliary police officer: "..."
Hearing impairment?
The auxiliary police officer glanced at his ears.
What he's wearing in his ear is... a hearing aid? He thought it was headphones.
The auxiliary police officer awkwardly said sorry.
“Xiao Liu just graduated from university and joined the branch office this month,” Yang Shengnan explained, then looked at Xiao Liu, “Where did you go to university again?”
Xiao Liu touched his nose and said, "Hehai."
“He doesn’t know about the past, please don’t be offended,” Yang Shengnan said to Xie Shijin.
The traffic accident involving a minor that occurred 16 years ago involved a student from a key provincial high school whose parents were teachers. Their high social standing and influence meant the case was widely known throughout Yichuan. Later, in an effort to find the driver, the case was even reported in newspapers and online. However, at that time, short videos were not widely used, and people from other provinces were largely unaware of the case.
Xie Shijin nodded expressionlessly.
Yang Shengnan continued, "You said your cat didn't go out, but when you came back from Lushan International at 1:03 and got on the No. 101 bus, the surveillance camera showed you holding a cat in your arms, which looked very much like your cat."
Xie Shijin frowned, his expression growing even colder: "Just because it looks like it doesn't mean it is."
Yang Shengnan remained silent for two seconds.
The surveillance camera on the bus had Qing Dynasty quality footage and no sound. Xie Shijin was also holding the cat in her arms, which blocked most of the view, making it impossible to see clearly.
They also took a statement from the bus driver, who didn't notice what kind of cat Xie Shijin was holding, only saying that the young man in front of him seemed to have some mental problems.
"Whose cat is that you're holding?"
Xie Shijin didn't even lift his eyelids before saying, "A stray cat, without an owner."
The auxiliary police officer pressed further, "Do you feed that stray cat?"
"I won't feed him."
"...Where is that stray cat?"
Xie Shijin shook his head, his expression calm: "I don't know, they probably ran away."
"..."
It's absolutely flawless.
The auxiliary police officer gasped; things were getting tricky.
Xie Shijin's answer was watertight and without the slightest problem, but perhaps because it was too perfect, Xiao Liu felt that he was hiding something: "You didn't get back until 2:30 last night, and around 3 o'clock, you took your cat to the vet. You can't deny that, can you?"
“People get sick, and so do cats,” Xie Shijin said, frowning. “Is it not allowed for me to take my cat to the vet?”
"It's three in the morning, Guo Xuan went to the hospital, and your cat went to the hospital too. Isn't that too much of a coincidence? And all the timings match up."
Xie Shijin: "So, Officer Liu, you've already concluded that my cat scratched someone?"
Xiao Liu was stunned for a moment: "...I didn't."
If they had solid evidence, they would have come directly today to ask someone to come over.
It was precisely because they lacked concrete evidence that they tried to extract information from Xie Shijin, but his testimony turned out to be flawless.
Yang Shengnan had grasped the basic situation. She closed her notebook and said to Xie Shijin, "Don't overthink it. The other party called the police, and we're just asking questions as usual. But we need to take two photos of your cat and compare them with the surveillance footage."
"Meow?"
The cat came out of the bedroom.
Cheng Shiyun jumped onto Yang Shengnan's lap, rubbed her head against Yang's hand, and purred, clearly liking her very much.
Yang Shengnan was somewhat incredulous. Xie Shijin said, "She recognizes you."
Cheng Shiyun had met this policeman twice. Once was at Songshan Cemetery, when Yang Shengnan was helping her father find Ran Hongyin. The second time was at the back gate of Yichuan No. 7 Middle School, when Yang Shengnan led a group of people to dig up a street of cement road in search of her cell phone.
She has been dead for two years. There were no clues before, and now there are even fewer. But even so, there are still people who have not given up on her.
Yang Shengnan was surprised, and after petting the cat a couple of times, she said, "The little thing has a pretty good memory."
"It's so...so cute!" The auxiliary police officer's eyes widened, overwhelmed by its cuteness, and he wanted to reach out and pet the cat.
"Meow—!" Cheng Shiyun breathed on him.
Auxiliary police officer: "She's cute even when she's angry."
"..." You're a masochist, aren't you?
Cheng Shiyun licked her lips.
Yang Shengnan looked at the kitten's mouth, then suddenly frowned and asked, "Where are its teeth?"
Xie Shijin said, "I'm losing my baby teeth."
Yang Shengnan understood. After taking the photos, they still needed to go back to the police station to organize their work and couldn't stay there to pet the cat: "Okay, we're leaving now. If we need your cooperation in any future investigations, we'll contact you."
"Take care." Xie Shijin saw the two to the door.
"No need to see me off." Yang Shengnan stopped and said in a low voice, "By the way, Xie Pingxue... is about to be released from prison, in the next couple of days. Be careful."
Xie Shijin pursed his lips tightly and said in a muffled voice, "Understood, thank you, Officer Yang."
The two went downstairs, and Xie Shijin stood outside the door, where he could faintly hear their conversation.
"That cat was missing two teeth, how could it possibly bite through a person's eyeball!" Xiao Liu said. "But tabby cats are indeed very fierce."
"Master, what should we do if we find the stray cat that hurt the person?"
"If someone feeds you, seek compensation from them."
"If not, will the cat go to jail?"
He had never heard of stray cats or dogs biting people and being sentenced to prison, so he figured he'd just have to accept his fate.
"..." Yang Shengnan told him to stop being cheeky. "You take the transcript of the conversation back to the bureau. I'm going to Lushan International again."
"Oh." Xiao Liu asked again, "Master, that traffic case from 2016 that you mentioned, hasn't the culprit been caught yet?"
“The murderer is someone who intentionally or negligently commits a harmful act that directly results in the death of another person.” Yang Shengnan raised the notebook in her hand, tapped his head, paused, and said, “The traffic accident case in 2016 was an accident.”
Xiao Liu winced in pain, touching his forehead: "Two years have passed, and we haven't found a single other clue?"
"If clues could be found so easily, there wouldn't be so many unsolved cases in the world."
Yang Shengnan said, "And at that time..."
Thunderstorm, deep night, dark sky, power outage, road repairs.
It possesses all the elements that can conceal criminal behavior.
It seems like it was all preordained...
That girl is doomed.
Xie Shijin closed the door only after she could no longer hear their conversation.
Yang Shengnan raised her head and looked up through the gap in the stairs.
"Master?"
Yang Shengnan shook her head and said helplessly, "It's okay, let's go."
After closing the door, Xie Shijin said, "Cheng Shiyun, let's go to the hospital after dinner."
"Meow? What are we going to the hospital for?" Cheng Shiyun asked, puzzled. "To see Guo Xuan?"
Xie Shijin shook his head: "No, I want my salary."
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Author's Note: The money must be returned! They deserve it! [Lop-eared rabbit head]
The last two days' worth of firewood burned out completely, turning into a puddle that flowed down the drain. [Die][Die]
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