How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s
Chapter 252 - 254: Don’t Disdain_1

Chapter 252: Chapter 254: Don’t Disdain_1

Li Qiao and Qin Jin arrived at the temple fair in the city.

They happened to come across various performances, including operas, stilt walking, and acrobatics.

Li Qiao watched with relish, and there were quite a few people stealthily selling snacks along the way.

Li Qiao wanted to buy a candied hawthorn stick, but Qin Jin wouldn’t allow it, "During the New Year, with so many people around, be careful of bad people drugging the food."

Li Qiao, "Don’t scare me."

"Don’t believe me? Eat and see. If you get drugged and do something outrageous, I won’t take care of it," Qin Jin said.

Li Qiao became scared, "I won’t eat it then."

Qin Jin’s lips lifted almost imperceptibly, glad that he had taken the advice.

After watching the program, Qin Jin said, "There’s a movie tonight, let’s stay here for the day."

"Is it okay to leave Grandma alone at home? That Feng Bing keeps saying you’ve kidnapped him, what if he takes his anger out on Grandma?" Li Qiao was quite worried.

Qin Jin, "He wouldn’t dare."

The two left the temple fair and continued to stroll down the main street, and later that evening, they joined the crowd to watch an open-air movie.

They didn’t return to the courtyard until nine-thirty.

Qin Jin started a fire to boil hot water, while Li Qiao cleaned and laid out the bedding, she smelled a faint musty odor, "Jin, the blankets in the house need to be aired out."

"We’ll air them out tomorrow."

"It’s uncomfortable to sleep under them with that smell, maybe we should just go back to the old house," Li Qiao said.

Qin Jin was reluctant to go back, "It’s cold on the road."

Li Qiao grumbled, "But sleeping with musty blankets can make you sick easily."

Unable to resist her nagging, Qin Jin surrendered, "Pack up the water and we’ll go back."

Only then did Li Qiao give up, entered the room to take the quilt cover off, planning to come back the next day to wash it.

The two locked the door and returned to the village.

Old Mrs. Qin had already gone to bed.

As Li Qiao tidied up and prepared for her foot bath, she habitually opened the drawer, taking out a book to read.

She flipped through it and discovered the ticket she had placed there was gone.

"Jin, have you seen my meat ticket and side dish ticket?"

"I haven’t seen them," he replied.

Li Qiao shook the book vigorously, looked deep into the drawer, "Did I remember wrong?" She hastily wiped her feet, put on slippers, and opened the drawer under the desk.

After searching everywhere, not a trace of the tickets could be found.

Qin Jin said, "No one but Old Mrs. Qin has been in our room, it might be that she took them, let’s ask tomorrow."

Li Qiao, "Impossible." Grandma never went through her things without permission.

She broke into a sweat from the urgency of not finding them.

That was ten jin of meat tickets, which she had been saving to give to the teacher.

Qin Jin, "How much did you lose? I’ll find someone to exchange them for you tomorrow."

Li Qiao glimpsed a box of protective measures, and the two thumbprints on it caught her attention, "It looks like we’ve definitely had a thief."

"Grandma has been at home the whole time, she would have known if a thief had come," Qin Jin said.

"Grandma takes naps, and she doesn’t have the habit of locking the main door. She wouldn’t know if someone came in at that time," Li Qiao shook the metal box in her hand, "Look, this has fingerprints, it’s been opened, maybe the thief thought money was inside."

Qin Jin frowned.

Li Qiao continued, "But that’s not right, Grandma doesn’t lock the main door, but she does lock our room door. How could the thief get in without a key? And since the chests in our room are locked, if the thief could open the room door, why not open the chests?"

Qin Jin, "Li Jinhua has a master key."

Li Qiao was puzzled.

Why would Li Jinhua be opening boxed protection? Without needing to use it? How would she know about it in their house?

She suddenly remembered visiting relatives today and Dong Lamei’s ridiculous statement.

Could it be she poked holes in the contraceptives to get her pregnant?

She immediately filled them with water.

As expected, they leaked.

Qin Jin also understood. Li Jinhua wanted his wife to get pregnant and drop out of school, so she could take her place, how wonderful that would be for her! "I’ll go find her." Having just stolen something, she would definitely be too excited to sleep, and if he went over now, he might catch her with the stolen items.

Li Qiao: "She won’t admit it."

"I have my ways," Qin Jin left.

Li Qiao: "Don’t hit anyone, okay?"

"Got it."

....

At this hour, most people in the village were asleep.

Qin Jin scaled the wall into the Feng Family’s courtyard, which was pitch dark.

He groped his way into Feng Hu’s room.

Pulling out his flashlight, he casually started rummaging through the cabinets.

Feng Hu was a light sleeper and awoke to see an extra person in his room. He let out a frightened "oh" before Qin Jin backhanded him into unconsciousness, waking Li Jinhua up in the process.

Qin Jin whispered fiercely, "Try screaming, I dare you."

It took a long moment for Li Jinhua to gather her wits: "What, what are you doing in my house?"

"Looking for my wife’s stolen meat and food tickets. Hand them over quick, and I won’t deal with you."

Li Jinhua: "..."

Qin Jin lost his patience and began to tighten his grip on Li Jinhua’s throat, making it hard for her to breathe: "I, I don’t understand what you’re saying."

"Three, two..." Qin Jin counted down coldly.

Li Jinhua, now terrified, knew Qin Jin was a thug and could genuinely kill her. She pointed at her pillow.

As soon as Qin Jin released her, he flipped over the pillow and sure enough found the meat and food tickets, along with two one-yuan notes, which he pocketed and left.

Li Jinhua urgently said, "That’s my saved-up money."

Qin Jin responded, "For the trouble you caused at my place, I should be compensated." She had taken so long to collect those items, and she had the audacity to burst them all in his house – disgusting.

Li Jinhua turned pale: "How, how did you find out?"

An eyebrow twitched on Qin Jin’s face: "Of course it was Qiaoqiao who cracked the case."

Li Jinhua immediately regretted her actions. She had forgotten Li Qiao had worked in forensic science and knew how to investigate.

Qin Jin returned with the meat tickets.

Li Qiao was stunned: "You’re amazing!" She couldn’t believe he had managed to retrieve everything intact from Li Jinhua’s grasp; she looked at him with shining eyes of admiration.

Qin Jin smiled: "Of course." There was no need to reason with the likes of Li Jinhua; it was best to just take action.

Li Qiao lay on the side of the bed: "I warmed up the bedding for you."

"I’m going to wash up."

"I don’t mind," Li Qiao said.

Qin Jin: "..." Who was complaining about not washing feet? Just earlier someone complained about the city’s blankets being musty, and now she could tolerate it? He still decided to clean up before getting into bed.

Li Qiao snuggled up to him.

Qin Jin thought back to his own savings, wishing they hadn’t been destroyed by Li Jinhua.

Damn Li Jinhua, he should’ve beaten her up before leaving.

......

Fearing Li Jinhua might sneak in again, Li Qiao tidied up the house the next day and locked any slightly valuable items away.

As Qin Jin had been called away by Feng Fugui,

she went to town by herself to air out the blankets, wash the quilts, and clean the house.

Busy until noon, she finished cleaning the house and grabbed a casual lunch outside.

Then, carrying a bag of pastries, she headed to the Criminal Police team.

Ma Ling turned into a screeching hen: "Ahhh! Li Qiao, when did you get back?"

"The twenty-sixth of the last lunar month."

"Goodness, university life really changes you. Look at the way you’re dressed; you even have more grace than a city girl," Ma Ling appraised Li Qiao from head to toe – dressed in red, with rosy cheeks and white teeth, stunningly beautiful.

Li Qiao smiled modestly: "You flatter me too much." She looked around and asked, "Why are you here alone?"

"It’s the holidays, and I’m on duty. If I knew you’d come today, I would’ve asked Xu Feng to be on duty with me so we could have gone to the temple fair together," said Ma Ling.

Li Qiao laughed, "I went to the fair with my partner yesterday. It wasn’t that fun."

"When do you start school? Come hang out here before the term begins. Director Xun has been talking about you a lot. Oh, and he received a call from Beijing a while ago, said to be from your teacher, who was asking about your family situation. Director Xun thought it was a scammer and made up some story," Ma Ling continued.

Li Qiao: "...." There shouldn’t be scam calls around this time; it was probably Mr. Che. "Indeed, a teacher did call because I was wrongfully accused by a classmate of stealing things..." She recounted the incident.