How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s-Chapter 418 - 420: Ba-Ba_1

Li Qiao laughed, "Have you never been out to play? There are quite a few photo studios near the Ancient City. When they’re not doing business, the photographers will go outside and wander around. If tourists need them, wouldn’t they call out to any photographer they see with a camera?"

"Look at my memory. I’ll arrange it right away," Mao Yawen said.

Li Qiao searched the dormitory again and found nothing suspicious, and then she left the factory with Mao Yawen.

They walked to the road and waited for a bus.

Li Qiao raised her wrist, pushed up her sleeve to check the time.

It was not even one o’clock yet, early enough to make it back to school for class.

"Where did you buy your watch? It looks pretty nice. Look at mine, the dial is so big, it’s hideously ugly."

Li Qiao’s gaze shifted, "It’s okay, not ugly. I got mine when I was helping some educated youth in the village with tutoring; they pooled money to buy it as a gift for me." Later, Qin Jin also gave her a watch, which was even more exquisite and beautiful. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

But she still liked her first watch the best.

Other than not wearing it during the summer when she sweated, she wore it all the time.

"Did those educated youths get into university later on?"

"Of course, all five of them got in. They are now all good students at the school," Li Qiao said proudly.

"Awesome, with so many university students from your village going on to higher education, your village must have become famous, right?"

Li Qiao nodded, "The nearby villages think our village has good feng shui, and they’re willing to marry their daughters into it, and our village girls have a good selection of suitors too."

This was also thanks to Qin Jin.

In the past couple of years, he had led many people in the village to earn money.

Girls from outside the village thought they could get close to him by moving in, so much so that now the men in the village were in high demand.

As long as they were not too lazy, too old, too picky,

even if they were a bit ugly or short, they could still find wives.

.......

Li Qiao and Mao Yawen chatted idly with each other until they got off the bus.

By the time they stepped into the school, it was already two o’clock.

Li Qiao first went to the teacher to report her return, then took her books back to the classroom to attend the afternoon classes. After class, she rushed home, eager to hear her child call her "mom." As soon as she entered the courtyard, she heard Qin Jin teaching the child to say "dad."

The little one chattered away, "Ba... ba... ba..."

"What ’ba’? It’s ’dad’."

"Ba... ba, baba."

"That’s not right," Qin Jin said, dissatisfied.

Old Mrs. Qin couldn’t stand it, "You’re being too hard on the child. In the morning, someone forced him to say ’mom’ to prove he’s not dumb, and now you’re forcing him to say ’ba’."

Li Qiao joined in, "He doesn’t say ’mom’ very clearly either. To get him to speak clearly will take at least five or six months."

Qin Jin said, "Five or six months, he should be able to speak by then, right?"

Li Qiao: "...."

Old Mrs. Qin said, "I think you don’t want to stay in this house anymore."

Qin Jin: "...."

Li Qiao reached out her hand to the child, "Dad’s expectations are too high, how about a hug from mom?"

Qin Baby stretched out both arms.

Qin Jin said, "I just picked him up, and now you’re competing with me."

Li Qiao said, "I gave birth to him."

Qin Jin: "....."

Li Qiao successfully picked up the child, "Want to know exactly what mommy did when she went out?"

Qin Baby replied with an "Mhm."

Li Qiao was excited, he was willing to listen to her ramble on. She told him about the case she worked on.

The little guy listened with wide eyes, very attentively.

Qin Jin laughed, "Look at his expression, as if he could help you crack the case."

Li Qiao couldn’t help but chuckle, "My son is too adorable. Mwah."

The little one giggled after being kissed.

Qin Jin was shocked, "He can actually giggle." He kissed the child too.

The smile disappeared from the child’s face, and he shrank his neck, not moving.

Li Qiao, seeing this, laughed until his stomach hurt.

Qin Jin frowned and reached out to touch his chin; he had shaved today.

After having his fill of laughter, Li Qiao said, "Children under three are the smartest, with super memory. It’s the best time to develop their thinking. When he is able to sit up, I will go and find some intelligence-developing toys for him to play with."

Old Mrs. Qin said, "Get the bigger ones, so other kids who come over to visit can play with them too. Today, Daxue’s kid was stuffing our child’s toys into their mouth." He got directly stuck, but thankfully, Mrs. Tao, who brought many kids with her, knew a bit of first aid.

Otherwise, there would have been an accident today.

She had reminded them when the child took them.

Mrs. Feng wouldn’t believe in superstitions.

Jin Daxue also said, "If your kid can play with it, surely ours will be fine."

In the end, they blamed her toys for being too small.

That really made her angry.

Li Qiao said, "I’ll buy a big one separately for other babies to play with when they come over, I won’t let others play with our own. Little kids touch here, touch there, it’s easy to cross-contaminate with bacteria."

Old Mrs. Qin agreed, "You are more careful."

The family talked about the child’s matter until it got dark before stopping.

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After dinner, Li Qiao took the child to wash up and go to bed.

He went to school as usual the next day, and in the afternoon, Mao Yawen found him; the case was solved.

Li Qiao was happy for them, and he also admired their speed, "You guys are so efficient."

"It’s also thanks to your reminder. We investigated according to your direction, found the photographer, and the photographer provided a clue. At that time, there was a girl with them, who didn’t keep up in the end..." Mao Yawen explained the details.

The girl was found to be an employee of a small workshop, named Jiang Dongli.

She was from the same village as one of the victims, and her home situation was poor.

Her parents were ill and needed medication, and Jiang Dongli, having worked in Beijing for less than three months, sent all her wages home as soon as she received them.

The victims ridiculed her behind her back for being poor.

That alone would have been fine, but they found a well-known local loser to deliberately approach Jiang Dongli.

According to Jiang Dongli’s confession, she thought she could climb up the social ladder in Beijing, and without hesitation, she let him into her life.

Soon after, she became pregnant, and the deadbeat did not want to take responsibility. She approached the victim from her village to come up with a plan.

Unexpectedly, at the door of the dormitory, she overheard the victim boasting about her affair with the loser.

Jiang Dongli, unable to accept it in the moment and habitually too timid to confront them, invited the victim out to eat.

She originally only wanted revenge on one, but an entire dormitory of people went.

And they did not hesitate to order a table full of dishes.

Jiang Dongli, in a moment of desperation, allowed them to drink all the juice that she had poisoned.

The few of them developed symptoms and died two days later.

After hearing this, Li Qiao said, "Why is it another case where the victims seemingly had it coming?" He began to doubt whether what he was doing was even right.

Find a loser to deceive an inexperienced girl.

Were they intending to destroy a life from the start?

It was too wicked.

"No matter what, you can’t just kill people," Mao Yawen said.

Li Qiao said, "As soon as I heard your story, I wanted to poison them myself." Being abandoned was miserable enough, and then to have them collectively gossip—it was like the straw that broke the camel’s back. How evil can human nature be?

Mao Yawen cleared her throat, "Don’t talk nonsense."

Li Qiao asked, "What’s the name of that loser, where does he live?"

Mao Yawen said, "What for? You want to teach him a lesson face-to-face? We’ve already arrested him for hooliganism. A couple of years ago, for what he did, he would have been executed; now, it’s more lenient, but he still has to serve several years."

Li Qiao felt slightly comforted: "That’s still letting him off easy."

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