Reborn Cat Sheriff

Chapter 49 The Miraculous Old Woman
The old man's shout startled everyone.

Even the doctors and nurses who rushed over with a stretcher turned pale, thinking that something serious had really happened to the elderly man.

Seeing the old woman's eyes begin to roll back, the young doctor in the white coat straddled her without a word and began emergency treatment. His various manipulations made the old woman very uncomfortable, but she stubbornly endured it, refusing to get up even when she was in excruciating pain, only groaning as the doctor continued his treatment.

Even seasoned mounted police officers had never seen anything like it.

To endure this much for a little money is honestly beyond imagination; the difficulty in dealing with her is beyond imagination. Everyone knows that some diseases cannot be detected, and if the elderly woman continues to tough it out, even doctors will be helpless.

The mounted police officer and Qian Wei exchanged a glance, then looked at the trembling deliveryman on the other side and couldn't help but silently mourn for him.

why?
As the party identified as at fault by the victim, unless the traffic police immediately determine that he is not at fault, he will definitely be harassed relentlessly by this kind of person. Given the old woman's shamelessness, he will most likely end up paying money to avoid further trouble.

In other words, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the delivery driver is bound to suffer this loss.

What's even more frustrating is that if a delivery driver makes even the slightest mistake in the footage, it's very difficult for him to be found not guilty.

Whether he bears primary or secondary responsibility does not affect his ability to pay.

Even traffic police can't do anything about this. After all, the law protects the vulnerable, and this cannot be changed by the will of the traffic police. Nor can the protection of hundreds of millions of vulnerable people be affected by the actions of one or two people.

"Tell me the truth, did you hit her or not?"

Qian Wei and the mounted police officer came to the deliveryman's side together.

"no!"

The young deliveryman was on the verge of tears, stamping his feet repeatedly, saying, "Don't even mention hitting her, I didn't even glide on her! I swear I walked in front of her, and although I panicked for a moment, I controlled the vehicle very well and didn't hit anyone."

The traffic policeman shook his head and asked again, "Did you buy insurance? Generally speaking, your line of work requires mandatory traffic liability insurance, right?"

"I……"

The young man's eyes reddened, and he gritted his teeth, saying, "My insurance expired the day before yesterday! I was planning to take a day off tomorrow to focus on this, but who would have thought that this would happen!"

At this, Qian Wei and the mounted police officer were both speechless.

Without insurance, the person would have to be responsible for this expense themselves. Furthermore, without insurance, there's no way to expect the insurance company to help recover the medical expenses paid by the elderly woman or pursue reimbursement on their behalf if they are found not liable.

This situation is becoming increasingly disadvantageous for this person.

"Call your site manager and have him contact the platform. Explain the situation to him in detail and see if there are any other solutions. As for now... go to the hospital for a check-up first, just in case something serious gets out of control."

The mounted police officer patted the food delivery driver on the shoulder.

The young deliveryman was on the verge of tears, but he understood the situation and could only nod helplessly.

At this moment, Lingo finally moved.

It wasn't that he particularly wanted to meddle, it's just that the place was incredibly sunny. Combined with the heat emanating from the vehicles on both sides, Lin Ge simply couldn't stand it.

Moreover, he genuinely disliked this domineering old man.

why?

the reason is simple.

Traffic police would need to rely on CCTV footage to determine fault, but Lin Ge didn't. Aside from the cat's exceptional dynamic vision allowing him to clearly see the brief moment the delivery driver and the elderly woman made contact, Lin Ge's inability to detect any scent from the old woman on the delivery scooter led him to conclude that she was deliberately faking an accident. Or perhaps she was startled by the passing scooter and fell in her panic.

Lin Ge didn't know if this could be considered a contactless accident, nor did he know whether the deliveryman was responsible or how the responsibility should be divided.

But he knew one thing: this old woman was being incredibly shameless. No matter what, it was her responsibility, so why was she acting like she wanted the delivery driver to stay in the hospital until he was bankrupt?
Lin Ge even suspected that during the time the old woman was throwing a tantrum, she had already decided to rely on this deliveryman for the rest of her life.

Otherwise, why didn't she go to the hospital immediately?
Why not just get a free check-up and have your whole body checked out? Wouldn't that be enough? Why not just insist on paying upfront instead of going to the hospital? What's the point?
That's disgusting!

I longed to be able to return to being a human, but this is what happens when you get old?
What left Lin Ge speechless was that even now, passersby were still advising the delivery guy to let things go and not occupy public resources. It's like he doesn't care that it's not his money, right?
Lin Ge slowly walked up to the old lady.

He seemed to smell something strange, but Lin Ge didn't pay much attention, only peeking out from in front of the old lady. "Hey? Mimi!"

Qian Wei finally remembered that he was Lin Ge's pet owner. He turned around and saw Lin Ge almost climbing on the old lady.

The two were still arguing. The doctor, who felt there was no need for emergency treatment, was quietly advising the old woman to take an ambulance to the hospital first. The old woman, however, insisted that the deliveryman give her the money first, saying that if she didn't see the money, she would just wait there to be hit by a car and die.

“My family is very poor and we don’t have a pension, so we can’t afford medical treatment! If he hits me and doesn’t pay up, what if he runs away after I go to the hospital? I don’t care! If he doesn’t come up with at least 30,000 to 50,000 yuan, I’d rather just get hit and killed here!”

The old lady was extremely arrogant.

"Why don't you call your children and ask for their opinion?"

The nurse next to her whispered a suggestion.

"What, you think you can bully my son just because he's easy to talk to? You bastard..."

The old woman rolled her eyes, about to erupt in anger, when suddenly a pair of large, round eyes appeared before her. She was lying on the ground, and those eyes were so close to her that they instantly stopped her from uttering the curses she was about to say.

The old woman shivered and subtly shrank back.

"Huh? A cat?"

The nurse paused for a moment, looked at Lin Ge, then looked around and said, "Whose cat is this? This is an emergency scene. Please take the cat away and don't let it interfere with our work."

"Hey! Excuse me, this is our police station's cat."

Qian Wei rushed over, "Mimi, what are you doing here? Go wait over there for a bit, I'll take you back after I've sorted this out. Oh dear..."

He reached out to hug Ling Ge, but Ling Ge swung his claws back, almost injuring his hand.

"What a fierce cat!"

The bystanders murmured amongst themselves.

The old lady's face also looked rather pale.

She propped herself up to look at Qian Wei, then at the cat that was still rubbing against her, and frowned angrily, "Get the cat away right now! It's coming over, don't touch me! I'm warning you, if this cat has any diseases or parasites, I'll come after you! Honestly, a policeman like you has time to play with a cat, what kind of service is this! If I didn't have something to do today, I would definitely file a complaint against you!"

"Yes! Yes! I'm sorry!"

Qian Wei smiled and rubbed the back of his hands, saying, "I don't know if it has any diseases or parasites or anything. It won't let me bathe it. Even when I took it to get vaccinated a few days ago, it made a fuss at the hospital and we couldn't get it."

"You didn't get vaccinated? You didn't get the rabies vaccine either, right?"

The old lady glared at him, and the hand that had been meant to shoo Lin Ge away immediately withdrew.

As Lin Ge continued to inch closer to her, her expression shifted repeatedly. She quickly scrambled up, slid onto the mobile stretcher, and then pulled her legs up as well.

"What...harmful creatures! These cats and dogs should all be run over! Rabies has a 100% mortality rate, how can we let these pests roam the streets? And the police station? They're all a menace!"

With a gritted tongue, the old woman looked at the dumbfounded doctors and nurses and the speechless passersby, and lay down on the stretcher as if it were the most natural thing in the world: "Why aren't we going to the hospital? I'm in so much pain! Don't you all have any sense? Oh, and pick up the groceries I bought."

The doctors and nurses could only smile wryly, sigh, and push the stretcher into the ambulance that had been waiting for a long time.

The mounted police officer and Qian Wei exchanged a glance and could only shake their heads.

Seeing that a kind passerby had indeed helped the old woman pick up the potatoes scattered on the ground, the mounted policeman sighed and said, "Old Qian, thank you very much. Leave the rest of this to me, but I'll need you to be a witness for him later. We can't go against our conscience and wrongly accuse someone."

Faced with the deliveryman's expectant eyes and repeated thanks, Qian Wei nodded helplessly.

However, just as the mounted police were about to take the deliveryman on their motorcycle to the hospital, Lin Ge suddenly blocked the deliveryman's way.

Lin Ge's attitude was no longer as lazy as before; he even bared his teeth and wouldn't allow the deliveryman to leave.

(End of this chapter)