How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s-Chapter 217 - 219: Visionary_1

Old Mrs. Qin focused her gaze, "Frostbite cream, huh? How thoughtful of you." But this year, she probably won’t need it, as getting frostbite is from not wearing warm clothes, and this year her daughter-in-law bought two heavy cotton-padded jackets for her.

With heating inside the house during winter, she can cook and do laundry in the kitchen without getting cold.

Nevertheless, she carefully pocketed it and kept it on her.

...

It was quiet inside the house.

Li Qiao concentrated on her translation work; it had gotten dark without her noticing, and Old Mrs. Qin called her to eat.

She closed her notebook and stretched languidly.

After dinner, she prepared to mix water for washing up before going to bed.

As soon as she picked up the basin, Qin Jin came back. "Qiaoqiao, there’s stilt-walking and flower boat playing in the West Street District. Want to join the fun?"

Li Qiao said, "It’s far, by the time we get there they’ll probably have finished."

"I heard they’ll perform on the streets until half-past nine," Qin Jin said.

Li Qiao glanced at the hanging clock; it wasn’t even seven yet. "Okay. I bought you a sweater, you should try it on." She opened the wardrobe and took out the sweater.

One was black, the other red.

The black one made him look refined and sharp.

The red one brightened his complexion and skin; he looked much fairer wearing it, with an unrestrained look in his eyes and full of youthful vigor.

With a scarf added, he appeared much gentler.

"Handsome! So good-looking!"

Li Qiao’s eyes brimmed with admiration. Heaven had chosen her partner well.

Looks, ability, top-notch in every aspect.

Qin Jin’s lips curled into a slight smile: "Good taste."

Li Qiao: "..." What a narcissist!

...

After speaking with Old Mrs. Qin, Qin Jin drove with Li Qiao towards West Street District.

The night was cold.

Li Qiao sat in the front, hugging Qin Jin from the side to keep warm. Her nose touched the clothes on his chest, and she detected a peculiarly strong fragrance. "There’s a strong scent on you, it’s making me feel dizzy."

Qin Jin explained what happened: "Today, I bumped into a woman on the street. She fell into my arms, and I pushed her away immediately, but after that, I kept smelling this weird scent. Made me feel dizzy as well. I thought it might be powder."

Li Qiao said, "It’s not the smell of powder. It’s making my head spin. Can you change your clothes when we get back?"

She hadn’t noticed it earlier, but now it was noticeably strong.

She looked up and saw sweat on the tip of Qin Jin’s nose.

Could it be the smell gets stronger with the sweat?

Qin Jin considered for a second: "Alright." He couldn’t let his wife be uncomfortable. He turned the car around to go home and change his jacket.

Half an hour later, they arrived at their destination.

The street was packed with people.

Qin Jin and Li Qiao were on the outer edge, only able to see the stilt walkers.

They couldn’t see what was happening inside.

Qin Jin propped up the bike and helped Li Qiao stand on the rear seat to watch.

What Li Qiao originally thought were flower boats turned out to be things resembling flower boat lanterns.

They were actually made of bamboo strips shaped into large boats.

Green silk enclosed the sides, and the inside and out were pasted with colored paper, decorated with various patterns and looking quite lively.

In the middle of the boat, the actor strapped the boat to himself with a rope, swaying and singing.

The area was noisy, and Li Qiao couldn’t make out the song.

They watched for a while.

A young man stuffed lard candies into the hands of Li Qiao and Qin Jin, saying it was a treat from the performers.

People nearby stretched out their hands for some when they saw this.

Seeing others eat, Li Qiao also prepared to try one.

Qin Jin snatched it and pocketed it.

Li Qiao was startled: "Jin, what are you doing? If you want to eat it, you can have it." He was acting like a child snatching her candy.

Qin Jin asked, "Do you want to keep watching?"

Li Qiao said, "Let’s not. It’s just the same two performers going back and forth from west to east. The novelty wears off after a while. Not as stimulating as translating a few more lines in an article." She got on the back seat of Qin Jin’s bike and, as they were leaving, she caught a glimpse out of the corner of her eye of a young man leaning against a wall watching her, seemingly the one who had been handing out candy.

But when she looked directly at him, he turned his head away.

Li Qiao didn’t think much of it. As they moved away from the street with fewer streetlights, the figure disappeared from her sight.

She said to Qin Jin, "Jin, why did you snatch my candy just now?"

Qin Jin took the candy out of his pocket and threw it into the roadside ditch, "First, he gave us two candies, then others, there must be something fishy, maybe it’s poisoned."

"That can’t be, right?" Li Qiao couldn’t believe it.

Qin Jin said, "What can’t be? I’ve seen it before. But the target of the trickery was children."

Li Qiao broke out in a cold sweat, she had also encountered similar cases before: "But what could they do to us with drugs?"

"Sell you off, and throw me into a dark coal pit to mine coal," Qin Jin said with a grave tone.

How much money could his wife’s appearance fetch?

Li Qiao said, "They didn’t succeed in drugging us, could there still be others in danger?"

"I can’t be responsible for that. Besides, this is just my guess," Qin Jin said.

Li Qiao had no reply.

....

At bedtime.

Li Qiao faced the window, where the clothing of Qin Jin under the eaves was swinging back and forth in the wind, the clothes had an odor, making her feel dizzy from the smell.

Someone else had offered candies under the guise of an actor.

Could it be targeting her?

The more she thought about it, the more uneasy she felt.

The next morning, she smelled Qin Jin’s clothes up close, and they still had a faint odor. She collected the clothes and went back to where they had thrown away the candy the night before to look for it.

The candy was still there.

She picked it up and took it back to school.

She found Counselor Xiang and explained that she wanted a forensic science student from Peking University to analyze the composition of the candy to identify the substance on the clothing.

Counselor Xiang smiled and said, "You sure know whom to find, I happen to know two forensic science students."

"That’s great."

Counselor Xiang led Li Qiao to the affiliated university and explained the purpose after finding acquaintances.

The two parties introduced themselves to each other.

The other party took a sniff at the clothing Li Qiao brought, "This smells like the anesthetic used on kids to abduct them."

Li Qiao asked, "What is ’hitting the kid-snatching’?"

"It’s a kind of knockout drug used by kidnappers to abduct children, where did you pick this up?"

Li Qiao explained.

The two medical students were relieved, "Luckily you both are adults; the dosage was not enough to bring you down."

They couldn’t tell from the candy itself, but an analysis confirmed it was laced with rat poison.

Li Qiao was scared half to death, "Last night, many people ate this candy."

"If it were a mass poisoning, there would have been some noise about it. You guys are out of the loop, but our school would have received a notification to arrange for student assistance—fear not, only your candy was poisoned."

Li Qiao was secretly relieved, fortunately, Jin had been extra cautious.

If it were only her, seeing others eating, how could she have been on guard?

Who had she offended?

Why target her?

.....

Li Qiao went home and told Qin Jin about the situation.

Qin Jin was angry, "I was wondering where my clothes had gone, I thought they’d been stolen. Grandma said you went back to school to study, and you actually ran back to pick up candy, how dangerous is that?"

"With people coming and going on the road during the daytime, what’s the danger?" Li Qiao said nonchalantly.

She can’t shout for him to join her in every action, can she?

Things she can solve herself, she still needs to handle on her own.

If she relies on others all the time, won’t that eventually lead to laziness?

What if one day, he doesn’t let her rely on him anymore, what will she do then?

She said, "That young man who was handing out candy, do you still remember what he looked like? Why don’t you look into it these next few days? Do you know how to investigate?"

Qin Jin said somberly, "How could I not remember? How could I not know how to investigate? He said it was a treat from the actors, give me a sketch, and I’ll first confirm with the actors; if they don’t recognize him, then since it’s targeted at you and me, there will definitely be a next time."

Li Qiao nodded, "Good analysis."

Qin Jin snorted, having read all types of case-related books following her. What didn’t he understand?

If he were to investigate now, he could come up with a hypothesis or two.

Not like her, a fool!