Reborn Cat Sheriff

Chapter 132 Love and Family
Nie Guoqiang's home and Zhang Yong's home are two extremes.

Zhang Yong's house is very big!

It has a large area, a grand layout, and a grand decoration. The interior furnishings cost much more than the soft furnishings in an ordinary home.

Nie Guoqiang's home is very small.

The area is very small, and the space is also very cramped. The decoration is very simple, and all the appliances inside are outdated products from several years or even ten years ago.

As soon as he entered, Lin Ge saw that the house was crammed full of all sorts of things, leaving almost no room to stand.

Apart from Nie Xiaopang's small bedroom, all other rooms, including the living room and the toilet, were completely filled.

There was a whole wall of books stacked up in the living room.

It wasn't a bookshelf, but rather stacks of various books laid flat, piled high. Lin Ge glanced at them briefly; they were all books on crime solving, criminal investigation, anatomy, human anatomy, microbiology, and so on—like a chaotic library.

This wall of books takes up a large portion of the living room space, another third is a dining table, and there's also a large jujube wood cabinet with glass doors displaying various medals and certificates. These things alone already fill the living room.

Oh, his family doesn't have a restaurant.

Then, in Nie Guoqiang's bedroom, two bookshelves were also full. There were some exercise equipment piled up in the corner of the room, and a bed took up most of the space, leaving a narrow aisle where one couldn't even spread their legs.

Even these are nothing.

Even in the small bathroom, numerous bottles and jars were placed on an incongruous shelf. They contained snakes, mice, unidentified bones, and various internal organs that probably did not belong to the human body.

Honestly, it's a little scary for cats.

Seriously, can these things even be placed in a toilet?

Lin Ge glanced at it once and dared not look again, choosing to hide in Nie Xiaopang's room.

However, this guy's room was also full and messy.

An ecological ant nest, a physics experiment car, a giant model airplane, a children's potted plant garden, a disassembled radio, and all sorts of other things were piled up everywhere in the room, making it impossible for Lin Ge to find a place to stand.

Helpless, Lin Ge could only lie down on Nie Xiaopang's bed.

"Mimi, wait for me. I'll come play with you after I finish my homework."

Nie Zhuangzhuang waved his pen at Lin Ge, then lowered his head and began writing furiously. Judging by the speed at which he wrote, if he wasn't just scribbling randomly, his mind must be working quite fast.

"Don't underestimate him; after all, he's the son of a policeman and a forensic doctor."

Lin Ge sighed.

This was the first time he had ever seen such a family environment—simple yet brimming with an abundance of intellectual nourishment. Children nurtured in such an environment, even without parental companionship, would undoubtedly be successful and far from mediocre.

Looking back on his student days when he was still human, Lin Ge even felt a little ashamed. Back then, it seemed that all he could think about every day was cartoons and robots.

"Zhuangzhuang, where did your mom put the sesame oil she bought last time?"

Nie Guoqiang called out loudly from the kitchen as he prepared vegetables and cooked.

"The bottle at the very back of the top cabinet, right behind that desert lizard specimen. Don't take the wrong one; the bottle next to it contains king ants."

Nie Zhuangzhuang raised his head and responded loudly.

Lin Ge was dumbfounded.

That's terrifying.

"I am back."

The living room door suddenly opened, and Jiang Yan walked in smiling, carrying large and small bags.

Her voice froze Lingo's attempt to escape.

For some reason, Lin Ge felt a little scared and quickly looked around for a place to hide. Finally, he lowered his head and crawled into the crumpled blankets on the bed.

"Sweet son, have you finished your homework?"

Jiang Yan walked into Nie Zhuangzhuang's room and immediately spotted the large lump on the bed.

However, she didn't say anything, but just smiled at Nie Zhuangzhuang and said, "I'm going to help your dad cook. If you don't understand your homework, go find a reference book first. If you can't find it, then come out and ask. But as usual, you'll lose two yuan of your allowance every time you ask."

"No problem! Nobody can take my pocket money away."

Nie Zhuangzhuang gave an OK sign without turning his head.

Jiang Yan stopped bothering him, only glancing at the conspicuous clump of cat hair on the bed with a headache, shaking her head and turning to leave.

After she changed her clothes and went to the kitchen, Lin Ge finally poked his head out.

He didn't know what he was afraid of, and could only explain that the house was strangely eerie and there were too many animal carcasses. I wonder if Nie Guoqiang and his family have nightmares living in such an environment.

"Mom, when can we have fried scorpions again? Not the kind sold outside, but the kind from your lab."

During dinner that evening, Nie Zhuangzhuang made a surprising remark.

"Then we can only wait until your father gets even sicker, otherwise the leaders won't allow the samples we've worked so hard to cultivate to become food." Jiang Yan said casually, making Lin Ge look directly at Nie Guoqiang's face.

“I remember you said that the idea that scorpions can cure rheumatism is pseudoscience.”

Nie Guoqiang responded calmly and then placed another piece of salted chicken breast on Lin Ge's plate.

He knew that this was what Lingo liked to eat; although it was salty, it was okay to eat it occasionally.

Lin Ge sat on a chair piled high with books, level with the dining table. Nie Guoqiang treated him like an equal, which made Lin Ge both satisfied and somewhat uneasy.

Jiang Yan also picked out a piece of beef for Lin Ge and removed the spiciness from the water glass next to him before turning to Nie Guoqiang and saying, "Eating scorpions can cure rheumatism, which is indeed pseudoscience. But my mentor once said that traditional Chinese medicine is not pseudoscience. Since traditional Chinese medicine says that scorpions can cure wind-evil, there must be a reason for it. It's just that modern medicine hasn't figured it out yet. We should look at the unknown with a dialectical attitude."

"Contradictory".

Nie Guoqiang shook his head and stopped arguing with his wife.

Nie Xiaopang kept his head down and ate his meat heartily, completely ignoring his parents' argument. After all, he had heard it so many times that he was immune to it; what was a better meal than meat?

This family's lifestyle is really different from others, Lin Ge remarked as he tore off a strip of meat.

After they finished eating, Nie Guoqiang began to clear the bowls.

Just as Lin Ge was about to say goodbye, he saw Jiang Yan waving to him.

After Lin Ge walked over, Jiang Yan didn't say anything, but carefully looked at Lin Ge, finally focusing her gaze on the collar around Lin Ge's neck.

"Was this bracelet a gift from that woman?"

Jiang Yan suddenly spoke.

"That woman?"

Lin Ge was stunned for a moment before realizing that Jiang Yan was probably referring to Yang Xiaotong.

"No one else has such good taste except her."

Jiang Yan didn't wait for Lin Ge's reply, or perhaps she didn't expect him to. She snorted coldly and said disdainfully, "A police cat from a dignified police station wearing a collar like a pet, what kind of nonsense is this? Mimi, take it off."

Lin Ge clutched the collar and backed away repeatedly.

Before meeting Chen Zhe, Lin Ge would have definitely agreed to remove the tracking collar. But now that he's discovered there are many capable and extraordinary people in the world, this thing has become a life-saving treasure.

"whispering sound!"

Jiang Yan gave a disgruntled snort.

Hearing the noise, Nie Guoqiang, who was washing dishes in the kitchen, peeked out and shook his head helplessly.

“You’re a useless piece of trash, just like Zhang Yong. No, you’re even more useless than Zhang Yong, at least he can’t even wash dishes at home.”

Lin Ge glared at Nie Guoqiang.

He knew that there was no such thing as a safe banquet, and that the Feast at Hongmen was bound to end badly.

"Alright, stop making that face."

Jiang Yan spoke again, sighing, "Since that woman gave you a gift, I can't be stingy with mine. Mimi, come here, have some candy. It's good for deworming and boosting your immunity. This stuff was passed down from our ancestors, a treasure reserved for the cats of noble families. Old Nie said you don't like injections, so my mentor modified it a bit, and it works well for modern cats too."

Jiang Yan took out a small red brocade box from her pocket.

He opened it to show Lin Ge; inside was a large, oily black pill. The moment it was revealed, it immediately emitted an enticing medicinal aroma.

Lin Ge sniffed, suddenly feeling a bit hungry.

This stuff is definitely for cats; even he couldn't resist the temptation.

only……

Can you take medicine without consulting a doctor?
It's still this inexplicable situation of two women fighting each other from afar.

wrong!

There should be four people!

It's clear that both Jiang Yan's mentor and Yang Xiaotong's mentor were involved in this matter.

So, do you want to eat?
Lin Ge hesitated for a moment.

If he refuses, will Jiang Yan turn him into a specimen?
Nie Guoqiang popped his head out of the kitchen again.

“Mimi, don’t worry, eat it. This is good stuff; the ingredients are almost extinct. I once heard Yan’er’s mentor mention that the value of this stuff is immeasurable. If it weren’t for the scarcity of raw materials, it could at least create a large international enterprise.”

"Eat it if you want, don't eat it if you don't! If it weren't for the professor's refusal to use fake medicine to deceive people, do you think you would have gotten this one and only pill?"

Jiang Yan angrily placed the brocade box on the table.

(End of this chapter)