Reborn Cat Sheriff

Chapter 707 Extra Chapter 5: Love Is Not a Transaction
Long ago, when Li Siyu was still a child, her uncle discovered that his niece was a beauty.

He repeatedly joked in front of Li Siyu's father that his younger brother wouldn't need to work too hard in his life. He reasoned that as long as he raised his daughter well and married her off to a wealthy man, wouldn't he be able to live a life of ease and comfort?
As usual, Li Siyu's father ignored these words.

He could not, and would never, turn his daughter into a money-making machine; nor would he ever pin his hopes for a better future on the absurd idea of ​​his daughter marrying a rich man and bringing money into the family.

Of course, he was still his own brother, and he would usually just laugh off those harsh words.

He painstakingly raised his daughter, ensuring she had enough to eat and wear and received a proper education. He couldn't provide her with anything more or better; this was the limit of his ability, and the limit the mountains could offer…

Even so, Li Siyu grew up safely and healthily.

Just as her parents had hoped, she grew into a beautiful, graceful, and intelligent girl.

Before she was even of marriageable age, suitors from surrounding towns and villages flocked to her door, and matchmakers practically wore out the doorstep of Li Siyu's family. Although Li Siyu's parents shook their heads and refused to arrange things for their daughter, this situation still made Li Siyu's uncle, who lived next door, extremely jealous.

Both are farmers, so why did the younger brother suddenly become incredibly wealthy?
But who told him he couldn't have such a beautiful daughter?

Bored, Li Siyu's uncle and aunt started calculating which family among all the suitors was the richest and had the best conditions. They didn't care whether the suitors were male or female, fat or thin, old or widower.

They even started to look forward to how much benefit they would receive for helping to entertain and serve Li Siyu when she got married.

until……

A disaster suddenly struck.

The niece, holding the ashes, wept uncontrollably, while her uncle and aunt, who were helping with the funeral arrangements, discovered that they had been given an opportunity.

Since Li Siyu has lost her parents, shouldn't her marriage be decided and decided by him, her uncle? He instructed his wife to spread the word that the suspended marriage selection for his niece could be resumed.

In just a few days, their family received a generous amount of gifts, which made the two of them very happy.

Are you kidding me?!
A wealthy man from the city suddenly got involved. He used a damned trick to make Li Siyu's uncle's family give up their spying on their niece. They were tricked into going to the far northwest and never had the chance to return.

"what!"

Li Siyu was suddenly awakened from her dream by memories of the past.

She stood up reflexively, only to find herself still on night shift at the police station. The position of sleeping slumped over the table made Li Siyu feel uncomfortable, but more importantly, the piercing alarm bells in her ears reminded her that this was not the time to analyze why she had that dream.

"Hello! This is Zhanghe Police Station! What? A child is missing and hasn't returned home yet?"

Li Siyu quickly received the report and was then taken aback.

I looked up at the window beside me; only the streetlights illuminated the pitch-black night. Then I glanced at my phone hanging on its stand; the TV series had finished, and the time in the upper right corner showed 12:22 AM.

In other words, the child went missing until midnight, and only then did the parents think to call the police?
Without wasting any time, Li Siyu quickly packed her things and prepared to go on duty. She also called out to Li Yiduo in the multimedia office not far away, who was doing something else and hadn't even heard the alarm.

"Ah! Sorry, I just fell asleep. My head was a little dizzy from watching the security camera for so long, I don't even know when I fell asleep."

Li Yiduo rushed over, his clothes disheveled and his eyes still sleepy.

Li Siyu quickly helped him straighten his clothes to avoid tarnishing the image of a policeman in front of outsiders. Li Yiduo was excellent in every other aspect, but when it came to personal appearance, he really couldn't do without someone looking after him!
Looking at the girl in front of him, busy with her head down, Li Yiduo smiled very happily.

Unfortunately, the police situation was more urgent. After learning from Li Siyu that it was an important missing person case, he didn't dare waste any time and grabbed Li Siyu's hand, rushing into the yard.

Halfway there, they realized that the two of them weren't enough, so they posted a request for help in the police station's group chat. All the guys still awake at this hour, get up from anywhere and assemble at the police station!

"Roger that!"

"Get up right now!"

"Hopefully nothing too bad happens!"

"I hope the little girl is doing well!"

"Have you notified the cattery?"

After the last sentence was spoken, the group chat suddenly fell silent. Everyone suddenly remembered that Mimi had been missing for many days, and now the police station had lost that incredible police cat who could have brought great convenience to handling police cases.

"Don't worry! You guys go ahead first, the cats will follow shortly!"

At this moment, a slightly unfamiliar name popped up in the group chat.

This guy was a new auxiliary police officer recruited ahead of schedule by Nie Guoqiang and Zheng Mingxing. He'd only been there a short time, but he'd already demonstrated exceptional affability and familiarity with the police station. No one really recognized his face, but judging from his behavior, he seemed like a long-time veteran of the station. He even knew everyone's little secrets and shamelessly used them to threaten them.

Everyone was both annoyed and helpless with this guy, yet they couldn't do anything about him. Sometimes, people even felt that his shamelessness was on par with Mimi's, no wonder he won the favor of Nie Guoqiang and Zheng Mingxing.

Of course, this wasn't the time to consider whether the guy was bragging; the child's safety was more important. So everyone could only trust the newcomer's words and rushed to the police station to do everything they could to find the child.

At this time, Li Siyu and Li Yiduo had arrived at the residential area where the person seeking help was located. The parents of the missing child and the neighbors at the entrance of the residential area had been searching anxiously for a long time.

Upon seeing the police arrive, the two quickly grabbed Li Siyu and began to describe the situation.

"Eighteen years old?"

Upon learning the missing person's age, Li Siyu was taken aback.

At first, she thought it was a 11 or 12-year-old child who didn't understand anything, but she didn't expect it to be a young person with almost full civil capacity. At that age, who could take a child away unless she wanted to?
Of course, the possibility of human traffickers cannot be ruled out, but in any case, compared to the most dangerous scenario we had considered, the current situation is undoubtedly much more reassuring.

until……

Li Siyu suddenly heard the caller's sister criticizing and complaining about the caller's wife.

"What did you say?"

The words touched a nerve in Li Siyu's heart, inexplicably reminding her of the dream she had just had, so she approached the two women with a serious expression.

"No...nothing was said!"

The woman who called the police looked timid and quickly shook her head dismissively. However, her sister-in-law showed her no mercy, pointing at her without hesitation and saying, "This woman wants to sell my Yinyin! So what if she didn't do well on this year's college entrance exam? It's not a big deal! She can just retake it next year, or learn a skill and get a certificate; she can support herself that way! And what does she do? She just wants to marry Yinyin off, treat her like a burden, and only think about getting some dirty money!"

The more she talked, the angrier she became. The sister-in-law grabbed Li Siyu's arm and said, "Officer, please be reasonable! Isn't she utterly immoral? Ever since Yinyin was little, she's been trying to corrupt her, saying things like girls don't need to study, and that marrying well is worse than studying well—she spouts all that nonsense every day! And my brother is such a good-for-nothing, he lets this woman have her way with everything, making Yinyin suffer for years! Luckily, my Yinyin is strong-willed and hasn't been corrupted by her mother into becoming a useless person. It's just that she didn't do well on this exam, what does that matter? This woman is using that as an excuse to force Yinyin to give up university; she's even trying to set Yinyin up with a distant relative..."

The sister-in-law got angrier and angrier as she talked, and in the end she simply pointed at her sister-in-law and gritted her teeth, wishing she could beat her up in front of the police.

"Yes... she didn't do well on the exam, what does that have to do with me? And am I wrong? What's the point of going to a lousy university? It's a waste of money and a waste of life. Why can't she take advantage of her youth and marry a good man?"

The man who called the police's wife responded hesitantly, her gaze towards her sister-in-law seeming murderous. Yet, in front of the police, she lacked the courage to actually do it.

Li Siyu, by this time, also learned what had happened.

In short, this is a tragedy of a mother trying every means to get her daughter married off early. The daughter was unwilling to accept her mother's arrangements, so after an argument at dinner, she angrily chose to run away from home.

"call……"

Li Siyu took a deep breath.

She realized that, apart from persuading others, she seemed to have no other way to deal with this kind of situation.

Although the police do not approve of the mother's behavior, it is ultimately a family matter; moreover, the girl who had the conflict with her mother is already an adult and cannot be subject to the juvenile protection law, which best protects the safety of teenagers. In this situation, unless the mother's actions are particularly excessive, or involve violence or criminal means such as buying and selling, the police can only try to persuade her to understand the wrongness and consequences of her actions.

Of course, the prerequisite is to find that girl as soon as possible!
In the dark, alone, if she were to encounter something while running around outside, or if she were to run into a malicious person while seeking help, it could cause her lifelong suffering and be a tragedy that would leave everyone regretting it.

After signaling to the girl's family to remain calm or continue searching, Li Yiduo called Chu Ting, who had already arrived at the police station, and asked her to help retrieve nearby surveillance footage to see if they could find any trace of the missing girl.

Then he asked the girl's father for a recent photo of her, but the man hesitated and couldn't produce one. The most recent photos of him and his daughter on his phone were of her when she was seven or eight years old.

Seeing the father's embarrassed expression, Li Yiduo didn't know what to say.

It was only after her sister-in-law learned of the situation that she quickly took out her phone, retrieved a photo of her niece with her, and forwarded it to Li Siyu, which allowed the police to know the true appearance of the missing girl.

Li Siyu, as was her habit, asked the family for the girl's belongings, but then remembered that Mimi was no longer there. Seeing her daughter's aunt rushing back to get a teddy bear for her, Li Siyu could only swallow her refusal again.

After that, naturally, came the tense search.

On the way, we encountered a support team from the police station. Almost everyone was on duty, including the two people who were supposed to be on duty for 24 hours tomorrow.

Without saying much, everyone quickly began searching. Chu Ting had already reviewed the surveillance footage and found that the girl was walking alone towards the city center, without any luggage, but constantly making phone calls along the way.

This means the girl is looking for a place to be taken care of, and that she will not commit suicide.

However, this also means that finding the girl will be exponentially more difficult. Unless you know who she was contacting, if she's picked up by someone in a blind spot of surveillance...

Li Yiduo contacted the telecommunications company, trying to obtain the girl's contact information. However, the company took a long time to respond, and stated that the phone number hadn't been used to make any calls recently, meaning she was using internet communication…

WeChat? QQ? Or other chat tools that come bundled with other software?

Finding clues in this way is not only time-consuming and laborious, but also extremely difficult to locate the app and contact its customer service in the middle of the night.

So everyone had to resort to ordinary search methods, relying on manpower and luck, to find the girl.

"Give me this bear!"

The newlyweds, with their exaggerated appearance, carried two cats on their shoulders, held one in each hand, and had seven little tails following behind them, making it look like a long string.

"Why did you bring them all out?"

Li Siyu frowned.

As a former cattery trainer, she believed she loved all the kittens in the cattery dearly. Leaving aside the female tortoiseshell and the money tree, how could she have taken all seven kittens out in the middle of the night?
What if I lose it? Wouldn't that just cause more trouble?

Li Siyu wasn't in a good mood, so she found the new recruit rather unpleasant. Even though she was known as the kindest person in the police station, she felt the new recruit was a bit unreliable.

"Hehe... Our police station has a special skill for searching targets, right? Why make it so complicated? Just locate that troublemaker and then chase after him."

The newlyweds smiled and took the teddy bear, then sniffed it.

"Oh! A doll you're hugging and sleeping with on the bed?"

His words left Li Siyu speechless, and she looked at him with disdain.

You know that, yet you still smell it?

He's acting like a pervert!
You're not a police cat, what's the point of trying to sniff like a cat?

Just as Li Siyu was about to scold him, she saw the newcomer hand the doll to the female tortoiseshell cat and the money tree cat on his shoulder for them to smell. She didn't know why these two big cats were so docile in front of him, squatting on his shoulder so diligently but not leaving.

"Gulu~"

The mother hawksbill turtle turned her head away in disgust, but still held onto the newcomer's shoulder tightly.

The money tree sniffed carefully, but before it could make a judgment, the teddy bear was snatched away by the tortoiseshell and rag dolls that the newlyweds were holding.

Under Li Siyu's speechless gaze, the newcomer squatted down again and handed the teddy bear to each of the seven little ones to sniff. He was actually trying to train these cats' police skills at this time; Li Siyu felt that this guy had absolutely no sense of occasion.

"Have you all sniffed it out? If you're all sniffed it out, let's go! Let's see who finds it first, and the first cat to find it will get a reward!"

The newlyweds returned the teddy bear to Li Siyu and then ran off in one direction.

The female tortoiseshell money tree that jumped off him, along with the little rag doll and baby tortoiseshell that he had put down, led seven long tails and followed the newlyweds without hesitation.

The group of guys, like nocturnal wanderers, quickly disappeared around the corner.

(End of this chapter)