How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s-Chapter 343 - 345: Coincidence_1

Qin Jin put himself in the mindset and thought it over, "The thrill or maybe the money isn’t enough? Recently, there’ve been more robberies than before, especially in the market. Everyone flashes bundles of cash like it’s free money. It’s easy to attract attention when you have a lot."

That’s why he now always takes two brothers with him every time he collects payment for goods.

The last thing he wanted was to slip up and get robbed.

Li Qiao’s eyes widened slightly, "Bundles of cash? I kind of don’t want to go to school anymore. I want to count money with you."

Qin Jin laughed heartily, "Don’t even think about it! Isn’t studying and pursuing scholarship more respectable?" Trading was still looked down upon by people.

Even he sometimes despised it.

Arguing red-faced and neck-swelling over a bit of money was not suitable for her. He would handle it himself.

....

At bedtime, Li Qiao lay down and reorganized her thoughts on the case.

She thought Qin Jin’s analysis made sense.

Not robbing pedestrians because the money was too little.

A thought flashed through her mind.

A bold speculation: the criminals tested their shooting skills on pedestrians, then attacked armed personnel with the goal of stealing the guns?!

According to Nan Chuyi’s testimony, if the criminals had a hunting rifle, it couldn’t hit anybody at a long range. If they wanted to rob more money, they’d need to get a better gun. Once they had the gun, they’d likely start looking for targets to rob.

Having realized this, she broke into a cold sweat and immediately rushed to the Xue family’s house.

Planning to contact the squad through the Xue family’s phone.

To share her findings.

She jumped out of bed and ran to the Xue family’s place.

Qin Jin was stunned. Just as Li Qiao reached the door, he snapped back to reality, "Qiaoqiao, where are you going?"

"To Professor Xue’s house, I’ll be right back."

Qin Jin quickly followed after. It was a dark and windy night, very dangerous if they ran into criminals?

Wait, that’s not right!

She ran out in her nightgown, bare-chested!

This woman!

He took a coat and chased after her.

They bumped into each other at the door.

Li Qiao let out a muffled groan and covered her nose, "Ouch, what are you doing?"

"I brought you clothes. Where does it hurt?"

"My nose, but never mind." Li Qiao had also come to grab clothes, only remembering she was in her nightgown after she had run out.

After she draped on the coat, Qin Jin locked up the door and the two of them walked to the family compound in front and knocked on the Xue family’s front door.

After knocking twice, there was no response.

Li Qiao was about to go back.

Qin Jin said, "We’re here now, knock one more time." He raised his hand to knock on the door, not too gently nor too forcefully.

The door opened.

Qin Jin’s hand froze in mid-air.

Xue Lingqing glanced at the two, "What is it?"

Li Qiao succinctly explained the purpose of their visit.

"Use this."

Li Qiao dialed the criminal investigation team’s on-duty room and shared her thoughts; the person on the other end was the one who had sat beside her in the office that day.

"You’re overthinking it. Who would dare cause trouble near a sentry post?" The other person hung up the phone.

Li Qiao was somewhat annoyed. Sometimes her imagination did run wild, and she had investigated in the wrong direction numerous times. But back in the county town, no one would overlook anything a colleague suggested. Why was it so difficult here?

Moreover, they were the ones who invited her to assist with the investigation. She had already conveyed her thoughts, and yet they were impatient with her.

Qin Jin noticed Li Qiao was annoyed and suggested soothingly, "If they don’t listen here, how about calling back home?"

"I don’t care anymore!" Li Qiao said, though her hands were still dialing the number, trying to call her hometown’s county town.

She got through to Liao Fan, briefly summarized the situation in a few words, and he said, "Director Xun seems to be on duty today, I’ll inform him right away, and then I’ll try to contact someone over at your place."

"Okay." Li Qiao immediately felt a lot more relief; she stood up and thanked Xue Lingqing, "Thank you for the trouble."

"No problem at all." Xue Lingqing took the opportunity to inquire about the case.

Li Qiao: "We still don’t know who the culprit is, so don’t go out at night these days, and don’t go to crowded places, or places with few people either."

.....

Li Qiao left the Xue Family, went back to the courtyard, took off her coat, and went to sleep.

She was hazily awakened by the sound of knocking at the door.

Qin Jin went out first and upon his return, told Li Qiao, as she had expected, a sentry at the outpost had been seriously injured, and his service pistol stolen; the team was being called for an emergency meeting that night.

Li Qiao was startled; it was exactly as she had anticipated.

She dressed and left with her team.

"Fortunately, you reminded us in time; we issued a warning, and everyone was on their guard, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable."

Li Qiao: "Did you catch the person?"

"It was too dark, we lost him."

Li Qiao felt a pang of regret; they were prepared, and the culprit would have been prepared as well.

Having missed this time, it would be difficult to catch him next time.

After returning to the team, the others no longer looked down on Li Qiao as they had at the beginning, and they took her questions much more seriously.

Confirming the approximate direction the culprit had taken, they began to analyze his specific identity.

Some said a local bully, others a small vendor, and still others a vagrant...

"Li Qiao, do you have something to say?"

Li Qiao had no clue but offered an analysis on her teammates’ suggestions: "I think that the local bully and the vagrant are possible, lazy and wanting to make quick money, so they took the risk. Vendors are industrious and can endure hardship; as long as they can earn a living, they wouldn’t do bad things. Unless his goods were confiscated, prompting him to seek revenge. But now, as long as they don’t obstruct traffic, they shouldn’t have any issues."

"Makes some sense."

Suddenly, Li Qiao was struck with an idea: "There’s another kind of person, just released from the detention house, without a household registration, without work, discriminated against by those around him. Under such multiple psychological pressures, it’s very easy for them to stray again." She had later learned that someone who was sent to the detention house would have their registration canceled.

They would only be re-registered after a year without a criminal record.

She continued, "We can check to see who has recently been released in the surrounding area, after all, this incident happened suddenly."

The superior gave an order: "Song, you take care of this matter."

"Yes, sir."

......

When daylight broke, Li Qiao followed her teammates back to the scene of the incident at the outpost.

The bloodstains on the ground had not yet been cleaned up.

Footprints were scattered all around, most of them from their own people.

Li Qiao surveyed the surroundings and noticed nothing out of the ordinary, then examined the area with her teammates; unwittingly, they had left the range of the outpost.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Li Qiao instinctively turned around; a few meters away from her, two armed service members stopped a passerby for questioning.

Li Qiao didn’t think much of it initially, but when she heard him say he lived at No. 39 Hu Family Alley and was visiting relatives, going for a walk since he had nothing better to do, she immediately became alert. Turning to look at the man again, she noticed his silhouette closely resembled the head-wrapped figure from the crime scene.

The examining officers, believing there was no issue, let him go.

She quickly interjected, "Wait a minute, I live in Hu Family Alley, I know the people at No. 39..."

Before Li Qiao could finish, the man broke into a run.

The examining officers, catching on, gave chase and fired warning shots after giving a caution, but the man ignored them.

Soon, after hearing the shots, her comrades arrived and joined the chase.

Not long after, the man was caught and adorned with silver bracelets.

Li Qiao then returned to her team with her teammates.

"Li Qiao, pretty impressive, solving a case on your first day here."