How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s-Chapter 147 - 149: Experience_1

"Why did Du Xinxin get hers so quickly? Do we have ours yet?" Wang Nannan anxiously asked.

Li Qiao: "Each school has a different time for sending out admission notices. For now, only Du Xinxin’s has arrived."

Everyone felt very disappointed for not receiving admission notices yet, and at the same time, they envied Du Xinxin.

Only with the admission notice in hand could one truly feel at ease.

Du Xinxin was extremely excited, tearing open the express package to reveal the bright red admission notice.

Everyone eagerly passed it around to see.

Du Xinxin was admitted to the medical college in the provincial capital of our province, just over 300 kilometers from Feng Family Village, to study anesthesiology.

The villagers didn’t understand what anesthesiology was.

Li Qiao followed up with an explanation.

"After graduation, you’ll have to work in a big hospital, right? If we get sick in the future, you’ll have to help us out," they said.

Du Xinxin readily replied, "No problem." Worried she might damage it, she carefully put the admission notice back into the envelope.

Liu Jing said, "Now that you’ve received your notice, you can go back to your hometown, right?"

Du Xinxin’s expression dimmed slightly; she didn’t want to return home.

After her scores were corrected, she wrote to her parents to share the joy of her university admission. However, in their reply, her father wrote that her sister was in poor health, her husband was incompetent, and her future life was definitely not secure. He asked her to give her university spot to her sister, suggesting she could retake the exam next year under her sister’s name.

After reading the letter, she cried all night, unable to understand why her father was so biased.

It was his idea for her sister to go to the countryside, and yet, he wanted her to give up the hard-earned university spot.

Her sister had completed high school and was also eligible to apply for university. If she wanted to attend, why didn’t she just take the exam herself?

Her grades weren’t standout like Li Qiao’s. What if she gave up her spot and couldn’t get in next year?

She had already secretly planned to go directly to the school from here when it started, to avoid her father pressuring her to give up the university spot. She made an excuse: "I want to earn some more grain to bring back home."

"How will you bring it?"

"The team leader said that the village accounts will be settled by Li Qiao from now on. Is it okay to exchange them for grain tickets later?" Du Xinxin asked Li Qiao.

"Why not? Leave it to me. It’s getting late; I need to go home for dinner. Keep chatting," said Li Qiao as he left the youth meeting point and headed home, running into Cai Hechuan on the way.

Cai Hechuan’s gaze fixated.

An eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl in a red knee-length dress, her long hair tied up at the top of her head, making her neck look slender and youthful.

Li Jinhua said she was not Qiaoqiao.

The temperament indeed seemed different.

Qiaoqiao tended to slouch with a hunched back, but the girl in front of him stood straight-backed, her well-developed figure was unmistakable.

He couldn’t take his eyes off her and took the initiative to say, "I heard you went to the city to become a forensic scientist?"

Li Qiao ignored him.

Cai Hechuan went on, "You know that Jinhua was beaten by Li Jianguo, right?"

Only then did Li Qiao respond, "I knew that a long time ago. Li Jianguo wouldn’t hit someone for no reason." If a man beat his wife, surely the man was to blame, but if Li Jinhua got hit, she definitely brought it on herself.

Cai Hechuan hinted, "You’ve changed."

Li Qiao snorted coldly. Hadn’t Li Jinhua told him all about her changes? Such pointless chatter! Trying to trap her, right? She was sure he wouldn’t dare to spread the ghost stories, and so, she walked past him with long strides.

Cai Hechuan turned his head, meeting Qin Jin’s cold gaze, shuddering inexplicably before hurrying away.

Qin Jin cursed inwardly: Damn it!

He’s trying to hit on his wife behind his back again.

Li Qiao took the initiative to clarify, "Just now on the road, he told me that Jinhua was beaten by Li Jianguo. He must be headed to Mrs. Niu’s place," as Feng Dafa’s mother, who used to be known as Feng Guanggun, had some familial ties with Cai Hechuan’s family.

Qin Jin scoffed, "Who asked you? What’s with all the explanations, just eat!"

Li Qiao: "..." What’s that supposed to mean? Implying she’s guilty? Wasn’t she just worried he would get the wrong idea?

See! He’s jealous, isn’t he?

What a jealous pot!

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That Saturday.

Xun Dong brought a piece of good news as soon as the workday began: the case of the female corpse found in the cornfield of Yaojia Village had been cracked.

The murderer was her own husband.

Last night, on the seventh day after the victim’s death, her husband Jiang Yueguang was caught red-handed while burning paper at the site of the crime. He was interrogated overnight by the team.

According to Jiang Yueguang’s confession, his adopted sister Jiang Qiuyu had become pregnant, and he was the father. The victim had discovered this, and threatened to make it public. Fearful of ruining his reputation, he promised to marry Jiang Qiuyu off and sever ties with her from then on.

After Jiang Qiuyu began going on arranged dates.

Feeling relieved, Cao Daping went back to her parents’ home that day. She asked him to pick her up, but he arrived late. On the way, he encountered Cao Daping, who cursed him thoroughly. They happened to pass by the cornfield when it was dark and deserted, which is when he got the murderous urge and lured her into the field to commit the crime.

He had just gotten home when a torrential rain started, thinking it would be an undetected crime.

But as the saying goes, the net of heaven has large meshes, but it lets nothing through.

Ma Ling conceded wholeheartedly, "I didn’t expect Li Qiao’s speculation to be completely correct."

Li Qiao smiled, "I simply put myself in the victim’s perspective to speculate." Mainly because she too had some experience with cornfields.

What reputable woman would sneak into a cornfield with a man other than her husband?

This matter had just been wrapped up.

The boys from the police station notified her of a new assignment.

In a cellar well at a villager’s home in Yan Village Commune, a pile of bodies was discovered.

However, this time there was no need for an investigation, nor for her to go there.

Xun Dong asked her to stay behind and write a summary report on the Yaojia Village female corpse case: "Some colleagues from next door will come to fetch it soon, so hurry up," he said.

Li Qiao was naturally happy to comply, finishing the report and checking it over within an hour.

Soon after, a colleague from the adjacent police department, Liao Fan, came to collect the report, and mentioned Qin Jin: "Didn’t Loser Qin trick you?"

Li Qiao found it amusing, how many times did she have to say it? "No, don’t worry! It’s not the kind of deceit or coercion you’re thinking of."

"He used to hang around here as if it were his own backyard quite often, and he was a bad person. You’re Top Scholar, and you’re pretty too. Why not choose someone better?" Liao Fan said earnestly.

Li Qiao: "I don’t care about his past."

Seeing he couldn’t persuade her, Liao Fan left with a stomp of his foot.

Li Qiao also stomped her foot in response; she was slighty annoyed as she said, "Why don’t you believe me! Do I have to say I love him to death and can’t live without him?"

Liao Fan: "..." Next time Loser Qin comes in, he’ll have to personally interrogate him to see if he knows how to cast a spell on women. It’s unbelievable how he’s charmed such a beauty.

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During the lunch break, Li Qiao laid her head on the desk to sleep.

A commotion woke her up.

Xun Dong and two others had returned.

Ma Ling and Xu Feng both looked pale, while Xun Dong’s eyes were slightly red.

Li Qiao sat up quickly: "You haven’t had lunch yet, have you? Shall I serve you some?"

Ma Ling retched.

Xu Feng seemed to be affected too and began to gag as well.

"What’s wrong?"

Ma Ling: "I feel nauseous! I’m not going to eat." It was too horrifying; people were piled on top of each other, she had never seen anything so terrifying in her life. She still felt weak in the limbs, thankful that Director Xun hadn’t called Li Qiao along; otherwise, she surely wouldn’t come in tomorrow.

Xu Feng just lay down on the table.

Xun Dong went into his own office.

Li Qiao poured a glass of water for each of them, and another for Xun Dong, and took it into his office.

"Thanks," Xun Dong said hoarsely.

Li Qiao guessed that this time the bodies must have been infested with maggots; even the previous case with Cao Daping showed some signs, and the smell was especially strong. Even now, going back to that place left an after-scent that made her scalp tingle. The work of an autopsy was truly not for the faint-hearted.

Shouldn’t they see a psychologist every once in a while?

In those days, there probably weren’t psychologists around, which made it all the harder.

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