How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s-Chapter 162 - 164: Partner_1

The team took it very seriously and immediately assigned someone to question.

Liu Er also made a written record, and when he left, Li Qiao gave him some subsidiary food tickets that the team had just issued.

Oil gluten, dried bean curd sticks, and vermicelli, each three market pounds.

Liu Er dodged Li Qiao’s hand: "How can I take this? You take it home and eat it yourself."

Li Qiao: "My family has some." Back when the results had first been released, officials from the county had visited her home, seen the cooking area made of a shed, lifted the rice bin lid, and there was only a bit of cornflour.

How could the Top Scholar go without meals?

They immediately arranged to send supplies.

The villagers watched as bags of rice and flour were delivered to her home, their eyes red with envy. Yu Feng, in particular, spoke ironically, saying her family used ration cards from the supply and marketing cooperative to do small business, so they weren’t short of money or grain.

Because they knew the officials were coming, they had hidden all the good stuff in advance.

In actuality, the rice and flour at home had just run out, and it was impossible to procure grain tickets on short notice, so they bought cornflour, which didn’t require a ticket. Before that, the family had been drinking corn mash for two days straight.

As for the woven goods business, the grandmother had given the aunts a break because there were too many guests at home, and they got in the way sitting at the doorway; it wasn’t an intentional show.

She stuffed the tickets into Liu Er’s hand.

With a simple smile, Liu Er said, "Well then, I won’t be polite."

Li Qiao also smiled, "Turn right when you go out, and that’s the subsidiary food store. Exchange it with the ticket, and take care on your way out."

"Ah."

After Liu Er left, Li Qiao returned to the main hall to organize files. After an indeterminate amount of time, she heard a burst of crying; it was the three people Liu Er had brought in confirming the identity of the body. It was indeed their eldest son who had been missing for over a month.

With a specific identity, the case became much clearer.

The forensic department had not received any new cases, so they were assigned to follow up on the case and investigate people who knew the deceased.

Li Qiao and Ma Ling were in one group, Xu Feng and Liao Fan from the police force were in another.

"Such a big sun, such hot weather, and they still instruct us to look for clues. Aren’t they afraid we’ll suffer heatstroke?" Ma Ling complained, soaked with sweat.

Li Qiao: "There’s a shady spot ahead, let’s rest there awhile."

"Okay."

The two girls stopped the bike and rested on the spot.

Li Qiao looked around and caught sight of a middle-aged man on the opposite side of the road following a young girl in a skirt, sneaking up to brush against her unexpectedly. The young girl turned her head, revealing a look of confusion, while the man walked away as if nothing had happened.

Li Qiao felt disgusted, and immediately rebuked, "Old lecher! What are you doing? Stand still if you dare!"

The middle-aged man looked back and, realizing his actions had been spotted, hurried away.

Ma Ling didn’t know what had happened, but once she found out, she became so angry she leapt up: "Old lecher! If it weren’t for being on duty, I’d chase him down and have him locked up. A pervert."

A thought flashed through Li Qiao’s mind.

Suddenly, she remembered the middle-aged uncle who had been giving candy to the children in Mulberry Tree Village at the Peony Commune yesterday.

Could it be that the uncle had done something similar to a young girl and murdered the witness to cover his tracks?

She needed to go back and check.

Villagers who do heavy work year-round are very strong; if she and Ma Ling, both girls, went there, they might not be able to handle any unsavory situation.

A man was needed!

She said to Ma Ling, "Let’s go find Xu Feng and Liao Fan, and switch partners. Work doesn’t tire you when men and women partner up."

Ma Ling doubled over laughing: "The way you think of things is like dreaming. Aren’t you afraid your partner will be jealous if he finds out?"

Li Qiao raised an eyebrow: "Doesn’t he not know?"

Ma Ling: "I must tell him when I see him."

Li Qiao confidently said: "He won’t believe you." She pedaled off first.

Following behind, Ma Ling caught up with Xu Feng and Liao Fan, and Li Qiao explained about switching partners.

Ma Ling: "I’m not pairing up with Xu Feng." Seeing him all day was enough to kill her.

Xu Feng: "As if anyone’s eager to be in a group with you. I’d much rather be paired up with Li Qiao, a big beauty—it’s refreshing to look at her."

Li Qiao snickered. She was not air conditioning; what was refreshing about her? "Can we stop bickering? Let’s hurry up and get moving separately, so we can make it back in time to clock off."

....

They exchanged partners and departed.

Xu Feng was reluctant to go to Mulberry Tree Village; he believed it was just a body-dumping site and was certain everyone had checked thoroughly, so there shouldn’t be any mistakes.

Li Qiao was determined to go, and he couldn’t argue with her.

This time Li Qiao had a clear objective. She hid her car in the haystack at the entrance of the village and gestured for Xu Feng to enter quietly with her.

She pricked up her ears to listen to the noises in the village and followed the sound of children bickering.

Indeed, she found the middle-aged uncle she had seen that day.

This time, he wasn’t handing out candy to the children but simply watching them play. Li Qiao monitored his gaze, which was fixed on one of the pretty little girls, causing the hairs on her neck to stand up. She hoped her suspicion was wrong.

"Li Qiao, what are we doing?" Xu Feng whispered, acting all mysterious. Were they there to watch the kids jump rope? freёwebnoѵel.com

Li Qiao hushed him.

Xu Feng closed his mouth.

After about half an hour, her arms were covered in mosquito bites, and her neck was suffering the same fate.

Just when she was about to reach her limit,

The children scattered.

The middle-aged man followed the little girl at the back, pulling out candy from his pocket.

The girl saw it, smiled broadly, and reached out to take some.

The uncle quickly retracted his hand, taking the opportunity to say, "Follow me home, and you can have all this candy."

The child naturally agreed and obediently followed the middle-aged man.

Li Qiao and Xu Feng followed quietly, reaching the man’s doorstep. When they heard the child crying to go home, Xu Feng immediately understood.

The child had encountered a creep, and he rushed into the house to snatch the child away from the man.

The middle-aged man was startled, not expecting the young people from yesterday to come again and even follow him home. Resigning himself to his fate, he grabbed for a stool.

Li Qiao knocked the stool out of his hands with a farm tool while Xu Feng took the chance to run out with the child, instructing her to call for adults.

Together, they subdued the middle-aged man.

At this point, the adults arrived upon hearing the commotion. Li Qiao quickly explained the man’s actions to the villagers.

The villagers were filled with righteous indignation, and the little girl’s parents clenched their fists, ready to punch him.

Xu Feng immediately stopped them: "This man needs to be taken back to the police station for thorough interrogation. Please notify the police at the commune."

"Alright."

Soon after, people from the commune arrived and took the middle-aged man away.

Li Qiao and Xu Feng went with them to explain the situation and completed the paperwork, asking the commune to send the man to the county.

The middle-aged man, named Cheng Yinjiu, quickly confessed to the crime during the interrogation. That evening, he had stopped a little girl at the village entrance. The victim passed by and saw what was happening, leading to an argument. Fearing that the victim would reveal what happened, he waited for the child to walk away, then chased her down, strangled her, put her in a sack, and submerged it in the pond.

Giving candy to the children was partly to keep them quiet and partly to gain their trust.

"So exactly how many children have you harmed?"

"I didn’t harm anyone. The first time someone caught me, and after killing that person, I was scared too. It took a few days to recover, and just as I was about to act, your officers arrived," Cheng Yinjiu said shamefully, confessing honestly.

"....."

......

The case came to a close, and everyone had one less thing to worry about.

Li Qiao was asked to write a report, and she didn’t finish her duties until nine that night.

With no minibuses running, she had intended to stay at the courtyard house, but worried about her grandmother, she took her flashlight and cycled home.