Reborn Cat Sheriff

Chapter 242 Teacher Mimi
Yang Xiaotong is a fierce woman.

But Lin Ge could also see that she was all talk and no action! Despite her harsh words, she still obediently went to the pet store and bought a bag of imported cat food, along with two cans of cat food.
Yang Xiaotong retrieved the styrofoam box containing the swimming crabs she had ordered from the coastal area from the express delivery locker at the entrance of the residential compound. It was quite heavy, packed with ice packs, and she was panting as she carried it. She didn't complain to Zhang Yong this time, but silently returned home, unpacking the delivery, washing the crabs, and preparing the vegetables, her feet barely touching the ground as she worked.

Zhang Yining was doing her homework in her room. Occasionally, when she encountered a problem she didn't understand, she would scratch her head and look at it with such difficulty that she felt like she was going to pull out a few strands of hair.

She wanted to ask her mother, but when she looked back at Yang Xiaotong's busy and hardworking appearance, she sighed and decided to tackle the problem herself.

But math is something... if you can't figure it out, you really can't do it!
"Ugh! This is so annoying, the questions are getting harder and harder."

Zhang Yining put down his pen, rested his face on his hands, and sighed.

Her worried expression made Lin Ge feel sorry for her. He jumped onto the table in confusion, wanting to see what kind of question could be so difficult for the genius girl Zhang Yining.

"Look, my brain cells are about to burn out. Mimi, who do you think came up with this kind of question?"

Zhang Yining pointed to the questions she didn't know and showed them to Lin Ge with a pained expression.

I looked down and realized! It's a pattern-finding problem! And it involves finding patterns in fractions, algebra, and powers, up to the 2000th power... My brain is about to explode. Sorry to bother you!

Lin Ge quickly backed down, turned around, jumped off the desk, and slipped out of Zhang Yining's room without looking back.

He's just a cat, don't bother him with things he can't do mentally! I thought he just didn't understand the question or missed something and wanted to give him a hint, but I didn't expect a mere elementary school question to be this difficult. Even if he had forgotten most of what he learned in his past life, it wouldn't be enough for him to solve such a complex problem without writing it down. Okay, Lin Ge admits he's a terrible student!

Seeing the cat rush out of her daughter's room, Yang Xiaotong stopped what she was doing, puzzled. She wiped her hands on her apron and went to Zhang Yining's room. She scribbled a few notes on a piece of scrap paper, quickly found the key to the problem, and wrote down the answer to the power of one thousand.

She didn't continue to help her daughter answer the question; she simply returned the draft paper to Zhang Yining and went back to the kitchen to do her own thing.

Zhang Yining lived up to her reputation as a good student. After studying the simple draft her mother had drawn, she quickly discovered the pattern, smiled, and thanked her mother and Mimi before writing down the correct answer to the question.

"Woo..."

Lin Ge lay on the sofa, holding his head and closing his eyes, feeling ashamed to face anyone.

"Looks like I was overthinking it?"

Yang Xiaotong shook her head, staring at Lin Ge's rear end, and chuckled to herself, realizing she was just overthinking things. How could such a thing happen? It just looked like a slightly special, somewhat unusual, normal cat.

Lin Ge never imagined that his poor academic performance would inadvertently dispel Yang Xiaotong's suspicions.

After brooding in the living room for over ten minutes, Lin Ge put his academic struggles aside. Seeing Yang Xiaotong start steaming crabs and preparing other dishes, he leisurely returned to Zhang Yining's room, jumped onto the desk, and watched her do her homework.

After conquering the difficult problem, no other questions could stump Zhang Yining. He greeted Lin Ge, patted the cat's paws, and quickly finished a math test paper.

She put the test paper aside and started working on other subjects.

Feeling bored, Lin Ge pulled over the test paper and began lazily checking Zhang Yining's homework.

"Tsk tsk! Beautiful handwriting, very few corrections, the little girl's test paper is a pleasure to look at."

Wagging its tail in admiration, Lin Ge mentally solved all the math problems he could for Zhang Yining. He found that this girl was indeed an excellent student; she didn't make a single mistake, leaving Lin Ge no chance to show off his skills.

"Ok?"

He flipped the paper over with his paw, and the subsequent word problems were also neat and correct. However, when he got to the last, more challenging question, Lin Ge suddenly had a doubt: was the answer a little off?
He couldn't help but scratch his fingernail across the test paper, mentally calculating, and finally discovered that Zhang Yining's answer was correct. It was probably just that the question itself was a bit tricky, which led him to mistakenly believe there was something wrong with the answer.

"Perfect score! Well done, Zhang Yining!"

Lingo wagged his tail happily.

"How's it going, Teacher Mimi? Have Ningning's exam results come out yet?"

Suddenly, Yang Xiaotong's voice came from behind.

Lin Ge looked up and realized that Zhang Yining had stopped doing her homework and was instead propping her chin up while watching the cat check her work. Even Yang Xiaotong, who had finished her chores sometime earlier, was leaning against the doorframe watching them.

Yang Xiaotong's smiling eyes startled Lin Ge.

"Ow!"

Looking up and calling out, Lin Ge quickly jumped off the test paper, slipped away from Yang Xiaotong without looking back, and ran to the balcony to look at the night sky and the twinkling stars.

"Mom, Mimi looked so funny just now, she was almost scared to death by you."

Seeing Yang Xiaotong approach, Zhang Yining clutched her stomach and shared her amusement with her mother. She didn't find the cat looking at the test paper strange; after all, it's normal for cats to like playing with paper.

"You can't get distracted when you're doing your homework," Yang Xiaotong tapped Zhang Yining on the head, then picked up her math test paper and slowly looked at it. Like Lin Ge, she was very satisfied with her daughter's neatness and accuracy. Until the last question, when she saw the marks on the blank space, her eyebrows furrowed slightly.

The scratches varied in depth, and calculation marks were faintly visible. But upon closer inspection, Yang Xiaotong realized that she was simply tracing her daughter's work, and there was nothing unique about it.

"You got this question wrong. In this kind of discount question, 'full reduction' and 'discount' seem similar, but you have to consider the remaining amount after the full reduction. It's obvious that the discount is more cost-effective. Your calculation is correct, but your thinking is wrong. The third time you failed to join the group purchase and used the small full reduction, the discount was obviously reduced."

Yang Xiaotong quickly pointed out the hidden trap in this complex question with multiple discount methods, explained it to Zhang Yining, and Zhang Yining suddenly realized the truth.

Zhang Yining stuck out her tongue sheepishly and quickly corrected her mistake. Yang Xiaotong also gave up her suspicions about Lin Ge once again, only shaking her head and thinking that she must have been dizzy from working, which made her think that a cat could grade her daughter's papers.

"Damn! I absolutely can't mess around with this woman next time! Her eyes are too fierce; they always give me the feeling that she's going to drag me into her lab for some serious research."

Lin Ge hid on the balcony, barely daring to breathe, feeling that Yang Xiaotong's gaze was excessively sharp.

However, when Yang Xiaotong put the crabs on the table, called Zhang Yong to ask when he would be home, and called her daughter and Mimi to come and eat first, Lin Ge noticed that Yang Xiaotong's eyes looked perfectly normal, as if it had all been his own hallucination.

Lin Ge ate a crab with trepidation. Zhang Yining peeled the shell for him, and Yang Xiaotong picked out the crab meat for him.

It has to be said, the taste was indeed quite good. This slightly fishy smell was very tempting for a cat. Lin Ge couldn't resist eating two more, and upon counting, realized he'd taken one of Zhang Yong's portions, which made him a little embarrassed.

However, seeing that Zhang Yining was still very interested in feeding the cat, Yang Xiaotong did not stop him. She let her husband suffer and let her daughter use the food that was meant for her husband to feed the cat.

Unfortunately, Lin Ge wasn't that shameless. He jumped off the table, wandered around the room for a while until the two women finished eating, and then decided to say goodbye and leave.

Is Mimi leaving?

Zhang Yining was a little reluctant to leave; she thought Lin Ge would be spending the night there.

"I haven't informed the old lady yet, so it's best to go back. Besides, since Zhang Yong is back today, I won't get in the way here, lest I see something I shouldn't."

Lin Ge insisted on leaving, and Zhang Yining had no choice. Seeing that her mother didn't intend to stop him, she could only reluctantly open the door and let Lin Ge out.

Yang Xiaotong didn't let Zhang Yining go downstairs; instead, she escorted Lin Ge out herself.

"The hospital sent me a message saying that the child you called to save has been successfully resuscitated. It was a stroke; even a few minutes later, it could have caused serious problems. It's unbelievable that such a young child could get a stroke?"

Yang Xiaotong's words relieved Lin Ge; at least his hard work hadn't been in vain.

The thought that Wang Jun had suffered a stroke sent chills down his spine. Once a stroke occurs, the damage to the brain is irreversible. But hopefully the ambulance arrived in time, and nothing serious has happened yet.

Having learned his lesson, let's see if he dares to risk his life by staying up all night every day again!

“If something like this happens again, remember to call me immediately. If you can’t speak, let me do it. With my help, the ambulance will be able to get there a few minutes faster, no matter the cost, and the paramedics will be more cautious.”

Yang Xiaotong spoke casually, walking with the cat along the dimly lit road. She didn't mention the old woman in the next building, and Lin Ge hadn't noticed anything unusual today. The two of them quietly walked to the entrance of the community, and Yang Xiaotong decided not to see them off any further.

Lin Ge didn't care.

That's just how this woman is—tough on the outside but soft on the inside. She's definitely a good person with a kind heart. We were able to save him in time thanks to her help. And although Yang Xiaotong is suspicious, she hasn't done anything bad to Lin Ge; in fact, she's helped him a lot. We should remember her kindness.

After wagging his tail at Yang Xiaotong in farewell, Lin Ge slowly walked onto the road and strolled towards Zhangzhou University.

Yang Xiaotong watched Lin Ge's back until he was completely out of sight before turning back.

After walking for a while and getting tired, Lin Ge decided to hitch a ride on a bus. He's becoming more and more skilled at this, and who knows if rumors will start circulating at the bus company soon that a mysterious cat is hitchhiking on buses.

The bus's stop was at the back gate of Zhangzhou University. Lin Ge passed the alley where the incident had occurred at noon and found it had returned to normal. The internet cafe was open as usual, still bustling with activity, filled with energetic university students. Lin Ge didn't know if they knew what had happened during the day, or if they would continue their all-night internet sessions. But as a cat, that was all he could do, so he lowered his head and walked past.

Back on campus, the environment and atmosphere were completely different from those outside. A sense of youth and vitality permeated the air; even the chatter of the young students was more cheerful than outside, which made Lin Ge feel happy.

Then, he saw a stray cat being fed by younger students.

There weren't any stray cats on campus when I last came. But less than a month later, stray cats have made their home on campus again. And the way one of them is lying there letting the students pet it seems it's completely content.

"Meow!"

Upon suddenly spotting Ringo, the stray cat warily scrambled to its feet. It raised its tail and meowed at Ringo as a threat, seemingly declaring this its territory.

Lin Ge ignored it.

What territory?
The entire Zhangzhou City is Lin Ge's territory. How dare a mere stray cat bark at him? If you dare to be arrogant again, I'll beat you so badly your own mother won't recognize you!
Lin Ge glared fiercely at the wildcat.

(End of this chapter)