How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s-Chapter 121: False Accusation_1

"Don’t forget how people treated you during those few days when you were mourning the wrong death," Qin Jin reminded Old Mrs. Qin, choosing to listen to Li Qiao’s advice.

Old Mrs. Qin realized that was true; at the time, she felt utterly hopeless and almost wished to die with her grandson.

Instead of offering comfort, Yu Feng kicked her when she was down, enticing those who were working to ask her for their wages. Her daughter-in-law was all alone, managing the household affairs, wildly busy, and yet had to settle accounts for everyone.

...

In the end, people helped carry Feng Bing onto a flatbed cart, but in the middle of the night, Yu Feng began kicking the doors of the house.

Shouting that Feng Bing had woken up, she told everyone that it was Qin Jin who had stabbed him.

Qin Jin naturally refused to take the blame for something he hadn’t done: "Bullshit! I didn’t even see him when I came back last night. If you say I did it, then show me the evidence."

"My eldest son said it himself, what other evidence do you need?" Yu Feng demanded Qin Jin pay for medical and nutritional expenses.

"In your dreams!"

Yu Feng threatened, "Then you wait for me to get the police to settle this."

Old Mrs. Qin feared officer types the most: "Sister-in-law, in the dead of night, could Ah Bing have seen wrongly?"

"The moon was bright last night, how could he have seen wrongly?" Yu Feng insisted that it was Qin Jin’s doing.

Because during the daytime, Qin Jin had barged in looking for her son and even left a mark on her neck from strangling her, which she showed to Old Mrs. Qin.

After listening for a long time and finding that neither party got to the point, Li Qiao said to Yu Feng, "Your eldest son was lying at the doorway around ten o’clock, but my Jin came home just after nine and was with me. If he’d stabbed your eldest son in the nearly one hour in between, considering Feng Dafa was still bleeding at the time, wouldn’t he have bled out already? If you want to take this up with someone, go ahead, but don’t spread panic here. We have nothing to fear if we’ve done nothing wrong. Not even if God himself were to come, we can’t be falsely accused if it wasn’t our doing."

Li Qiao shut Yu Feng up with just a few words, and she couldn’t make a sound for a while.

"Just because you say your loser came home at a certain time, does that make it true? Maybe you’re just covering for him. Not admitting it, huh? Just you wait!" With that, Yu Feng filed a report.

Dawn had just broken when Qin Jin was taken away by the local authorities for investigation.

Old Mrs. Qin, having lost her pillar of support, was frantic with worry.

Li Qiao comforted her briefly, then prepared to head to the city to find Xun Dong.

Just as she was leaving, the educated youths arrived. They had also heard about the incident and came to ask if there was anything they could help with.

"Stay with my grandma; I can handle everything else," Li Qiao responded before boarding a minibus to the city on her own. While waiting for the bus, she ran into Li Jinhua.

She kept her guard up against her, not for any other reason but because there were rumors that Li Jinhua had gone mad. She was worried that Li Jinhua might do something drastic and hurt someone, then use her illness to avoid punishment.

"Where are you going?" Li Jinhua initiated the conversation.

Li Qiao didn’t respond, and about five minutes later, the minibus arrived. She quickly boarded, finding a seat by the window since the bus wasn’t crowded. Li Jinhua ended up heading towards Feng Family Village. Li Qiao hoped she wouldn’t cause trouble for her grandmother.

She was a bit worried.

The next second, she reassured herself that with the educated youths accompanying her grandmother, Li Jinhua wouldn’t be able to cause any trouble.

Unbeknownst to Li Qiao, Li Jinhua was returning to the scene of the crime to look for a button. But during the day, with people constantly going back and forth on the road to weed their fields, she couldn’t act freely. On the road, she overheard villagers discussing Feng Bing’s injury and Qin Jin’s being taken away by the police.

Emboldened by the fact that the man hadn’t ratted her out, she was relieved. She doubted he would dare to speak out! Because he was behaving indecently, if it got out, his whole family would be disgraced. As for Qin Jin, she would be happy to see him locked up for a few years. It would make it easier for Li Qiao to divorce him.

With that thought, she left with ease.

....

Li Qiao found Xun Dong and recounted the entire situation to him.

"You’re not lying, are you?" Xun Dong asked to confirm.

Li Qiao’s eyes widened, "You don’t believe me?"

Xun Dong hesitated to deny it, not that he distrusted Li Qiao, but he distrusted Qin Jin. "If the other party insists and you guys can’t produce substantial evidence..."

Li Qiao turned and walked away. Just because someone says so, does that make it the truth, without allowing them to defend themselves?

"Hey, don’t go." Xun Dong reached out and pulled on her shoulder.

Li Qiao said sternly, "Just because he had a bad reputation in the past, whatever people say counts? That person has been stalking me every day, I suspect they have nefarious intentions and are using this injury to deliberately frame Jin. I don’t have evidence for this either, but I have a mouth, can that work?" Li Jinhua could also prove the time when Qin Jin came home, but that woman is too wicked and will definitely not tell the truth.

Xun Dong was surprised, "There’s more to this?"

"If you don’t believe it, screw it!" Li Qiao blurted out Qin Jin’s catchphrase in her anger. She planned to think of another way. If it came to it, she wouldn’t go to Peking University to study science; as soon as her exam results came in, she’d fill in her preferences to study law, get to know the big shots in the legal circle, and overturn Qin Jin’s case. By then, those who fall are likely to be a sizable group.

"Don’t panic! What I just mentioned is the worst-case scenario. The case will definitely continue with further investigation. Where is he? I’ll get him out first, then I’ll go back with you to the village to check."

Only then did Li Qiao’s expression go from stormy to partly cloudy. He should have said so earlier, making her imagine becoming a law mogul to save her husband. "Thank you. The local chief is in now."

Xun Dong took his credentials, found another colleague, and went down to the countryside with Li Qiao. Xun Dong’s colleague knew the local officer, and after negotiating a few words with him, Xun Dong was allowed to review Feng Bing’s statement and found two loopholes.

"Here, the victim said he covered Qin Jin’s mouth. How tall is the victim? How tall is Qin Jin? Is that easy to do?"

"And here, the victim claimed Qin Jin was tackled by him and stabbed with scissors. Qin Jin is not new to fighting; he’s notoriously tough. How could he possibly be tackled head-on by someone?" fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓

With this, Xun Dong managed to bail out Qin Jin.

Li Qiao looked at the young man who seemed in good spirits and approached him. "Jin, have you been treated okay?"

"I haven’t."

Li Qiao breathed a silent sigh of relief, "That’s good, damned Feng Bing, just you wait! There’s no such thing as a perfect lie or a perfect crime scene. Allow me to find evidence, and we’ll counter-sue him for defamation. As soon as I start university, I’ll immediately make connections with alumni to sue him, and he’ll rot in jail."

Xun Dong shivered. There’s a saying that you shouldn’t offend a woman, and it seemed to be true.

Qin Jin felt a bit guilty, "I’ve dragged you into this again."

"Had I known what would happen today, I wouldn’t have done it in the past."

It was then that Qin Jin noticed Xun Dong and his colleague. He greeted them and stressed, "I really didn’t do this. I wouldn’t need scissors to hit him."

The four of them returned to the village to discuss the case, knowing it would be difficult to find out who actually injured her if Feng Bing didn’t tell the truth.

"Every debt has its debtor, every crime its culprit. If I were stabbed by someone, I’d definitely go after the person who stabbed me," Qin Jin said.

"But they say it was you."

Qin Jin: "..."

Mulling it over, Li Qiao said, "Feng Bing’s wife remarried, turning him into a bachelor. Maybe he tried to molest someone and got stabbed. If I were him, I’d be too embarrassed to admit it."

Everyone thought it made sense. The man’s description of his injuries on the statement also seemed like he got stabbed while trying to molest a woman, but finding the woman who was molested seemed even harder.

After all, no woman wants to get involved in such things and tarnish her reputation, even if it meant suffering in silence.

Li Qiao had spotted some bloodstains in the village earlier in the morning, but by the time she went back to the village, they had been trodden on until they were nearly gone.

"How can we possibly find evidence now?" said Xun Dong’s colleague.

Li Qiao didn’t lose heart. She sent Qin Jin home to reassure his family, then began a thorough search with Xun Dong, starting from the bloodstains on the grass by the roadside.

As people gathered around to watch, another colleague stepped forward to drive them away.

"Hey, there’s a button." At last, Li Qiao made a new discovery.