How I Tamed My Wolfish Husband Back in 80s-Chapter 450 - 452: Entering the County Town_1

"How could that be? It’s not that cold right now, maybe we could..." Qin Jin’s words suddenly became flirtatious.

Li Qiao saw through his intention and cut him off mid-sentence with a refusal, "Don’t." With the weather being so cold, she wasn’t afraid that she would freeze.

"Come on."

Li Qiao pushed him, and just then, Qin Baby opened his eyes and was spotted by Qin Jin, who immediately moved away from her.

Qin Baby coughed dryly, glanced at him, turned his head to the side, and gestured for Qin Jin to sleep next to him instead of disturbing his beautiful mom.

Qin Jin said, "You’re a big kid now; you shouldn’t be sleeping in my arms."

Qin Baby coughed even louder.

Li Qiao chuckled secretly, "He’s calling you over. If you don’t go, are you living up to his calling you ’Dad’?"

Qin Jin: "....."

Reluctantly, Qin Jin returned to lie down beside the child, who then continued sleeping.

Early the next day, relatives of Li Jiaoyang and Li Jiaojiao started arriving one after another.

Some brought white sugar, others brought eggs.

Old Mrs. Qin didn’t accept them, "Let’s talk after they pass the medical check-up."

"Our health is all good, why the need for a check-up?"

Old Mrs. Qin then shared the incident she encountered during recruitment, "Once bitten, twice shy. Now it’s like this before entering the factory."

"How can our big group go for a check-up?"

Qin Jin said, "I’ll take you in a minibus."

Li Qiao said, "Jin, I’m planning to visit my old colleagues in the city, and also take a stroll around Gorge Mountain Temple." Whether she goes or not is another matter; she must fulfill her vow and thank Lord for the good match given to her.

A flicker of anxiety crossed Qin Jin’s chest. Into the temple?

Would she disappear from his sight?

Should he take care of the child, or should she?

Qin Jin felt an inner panic and confusion, torn between the fear of longing if he was left to care for the child, and the thought of missing her if she took the child away.

If he lost both mother and child at once, what would his future days be like?

Old Mrs. Qin picked up the child’s bag of belongings and told Qin Jin, "Jin, what are you standing there dazed for? Hold the baby."

Qin Jin snapped out of it and took the child from Li Qiao’s arms.

Li Qiao then took the bag from Old Mrs. Qin’s hand, and the group headed grandly toward the village entrance, everyone asking Qin Jin about the work.

Qin Jin was distracted, holding the baby and trudging along with his head down.

Li Qiao answered for him, "We work on an assembly line; the cutting team focuses on cutting, the sewing team on sewing; there’s also trimming off thread ends, checking product quality, and more."

"I’ve also heard that inspecting quality is pretty easy, isn’t it?"

Li Qiao replied, "It’s relatively easy compared to other tasks, but it’s still done by long-standing workers. Our factory is now preparing to take on foreign trade orders, which have very high quality requirements. Anyway, all the jobs are tough, and sometimes overtime is required."

"How does it compare to farming? Is there extra pay for overtime?"

"I think it’s much easier than farming." The hardest work in the world must be manual farming. "Overtime pay is double, and there are also allowances for night shifts. You’ll understand once you’re taken to Beijing to sit down." The benefits are even better than decades later.

Before she traveled through time, she often saw netizens on the news complaining about long work hours, with bosses not caring about their workers.

Yet now in the factory, the workers’ status and salaries are much higher than those of the highly educated. And the fixed working hours during the day are generally from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with an hour and a half for lunch break.

They only work half a day on Saturdays.

The workers have weekends off to spend time with their children.

During holidays, those who want to take leave can take it; those who don’t can work at the factory for double wages.

Decades later, she didn’t know how it turned into the 996 or 007 culture.

Clearly, the previous generations had already fought for these benefits for everyone.

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After entering the city, Li Qiao, with the child and Qin Jin’s party, separated and headed straight to the criminal police team. Colleagues walking in the yard recognized Li Qiao and greeted her with surprise and delight, "Wow, Li Qiao, no, I should call you Consultant Li now. What brought you here today? Is this your child? He’s really good-looking."

"You flatter too much, he’s just an ordinary kid."

"Not ordinary at all; look at that face shape, ’heaven’s circle and earth’s square.’

Li Qiao: "Don’t all kids have this kind of face?"

"Not the same, his face is well-shaped, and his features are handsome, just not like you."

Li Qiao listened with a smile, exchanged a few pleasantries, and then the colleague said they had to leave for some work.

"You’re busy." Li Qiao entered the forensic department.

Ma Ling, Xu Feng, and another colleague whose face Li Qiao didn’t recognize were discussing a case.

"Ma Ling, Xu Feng," Li Qiao called out.

Both of them turned around simultaneously.

Ma Ling was startled then exclaimed, "What are you doing here?!" She rushed forward, wanting to hold the child.

The child still looked uninterested in interacting.

Xu Feng: "Look at me." He said to the child, "Baby, your mom and I used to be colleagues. We caught a lot of bad guys together. Do you want to hear stories about your mom? If you do, come to my arms."

The child’s eyes visibly lit up and he reached out to Xu Feng.

Xu Feng smoothly took the child. "Quite heavy, how many pounds?"

Li Qiao: "Dressed, he’s eighteen pounds; I reckon without the clothes, probably less than seventeen." Clothes do have their own weight.

Ma Ling was impressed: "You really have a way; you actually managed to hold the child like this." She also talked to the child about Li Qiao, and then the child agreed to let her hold him.

Ma Ling rubbed her face against the child’s: "The child’s face is so smooth. Why is ours rough?"

Xu Feng: "Because your face is old, his is new."

Ma Ling: "Get lost~ A dog’s mouth can’t spit out ivory."

"Show me how to roll, and I’ll learn to do it," Xu Feng said.

Watching the two of them bicker, Li Qiao commented, "Looking at the two of you like this, you really do match."

Ma Ling blushed: "Who matches with him."

Xu Feng didn’t retort this time, and after giving Ma Ling a look, he turned to Li Qiao and said, "Your timing is perfect today. I actually have a case and I would really like to hear your thoughts." He handed the files to Li Qiao.

Li Qiao casually found an empty seat to sit down and browse through the files.

Before the New Year, the team received a homicide case.

In the suburbs, on a low mountain, bones resembling those of a human were found.

Upon examination, the deceased was determined to be an adult female, 165 centimeters tall, aged between 25 and 31.

The cause of death was homicide.

The time of death was over five years ago.

At the scene, they found a pair of women’s sandals and a silver ring.

The team matched the remains against reports of missing persons but didn’t find any corresponding individuals. They published notices and announcements to no avail and suspected that she was not a local, having already sent out notifications to surrounding areas.

The higher-ups are now demanding the case be solved within a month.

Xu Feng said, "The team next door is really stressed out. There was talk during the meeting a couple of days ago about asking Director Xun to come back and see if any clues could be found on the bones."

Li Luo: "Although I haven’t seen the bones, I think this is already very detailed. With cases like these, based on my experience and speculation, whenever we can’t find a local match, it’s definitely not as simple as just being from another place. I can’t speak for other villages, but in our village, there was a bride who was sold from far away. She tried to run away several times and was caught each time until she was accidentally killed during one recapture and buried in a random hole."

Ma Ling: "I don’t understand why someone would buy a bride. And afterward, what happened to the man’s family?"

They got lucky," Li Qiao said. "Moreover, the child that woman left behind was taught by the elders to hate their mother. They’re told, ’Your mother despised the poverty at home and didn’t want you, so she ran away.’ They’re raised from a young age to resent their mother."

When Old Mrs. Qin told her the story, she could hardly believe that such malicious people existed in the world.

Weren’t they afraid of retribution?