Ke Xue: Xiaolan delivers goods to your door at the beginning

Yoshino Chie smiled and waved her hand, subtly revealing the demeanor of a married woman: "By the way, you must be thirsty and tired after coming all this way. Come in first, I'll go prepare some juice..."

Yoshinoya's land area is very large. In addition to the two-story villas that are cut in half, there is also a garden next to it. The garden is filled with various flowers and trees, giving it a cozy botanical garden feel.

"It's so beautiful!"

Mary and Ran couldn't help but exclaim, "Miss Chie, your home is so beautifully decorated!"

"Thank you for the compliment!"

Chie Yoshino was mixing juice in the open kitchen of the living room. "To be honest, this house was actually built a month and a half ago. The decoration style is the latest, so it is really nicely decorated."

"So this is ah……"

Xiaolan looked at the brand-new furniture around her, then slowly walked back to the sofa and sat down: "No wonder all this furniture looks so new."

"In other words, this is truly a new home."

Mary followed behind, glancing around as well: "It's really nice, a new house and all that..."

"However, although the house is beautiful, there is still a loan of 40 million to be repaid."

Chie Yoshino brought the sofa out of the kitchen, saying, "The pressure is quite considerable."

"Does this house cost forty million?"

Lin Xiaofeng glanced around upon hearing this.

"Yes, that is indeed a considerable sum."

As Chie placed the juice on the coffee table, a faint smile of happiness appeared on her face: "However, if the couple works together, these loans should be able to be paid off in ten years."

"You two must have had a really tough time."

Lin Xiaofeng nodded, understanding the plight of a corporate slave burdened by a mortgage. Real estate in the Tokyo metropolitan area is incredibly expensive, but not hopeless. With careful budgeting and hard work for ten or twenty years, ordinary people can still potentially build a home there.

"By the way, Ms. Chie, I've always felt a bit curious."

Xiaolan suddenly asked, "By the way, why do you go so far away to work in Shizuoka, going there in the morning and coming back at night?"

"To be honest, it's all because of the loan..."

Chie didn't hide anything from Ran's curiosity: "To be honest, I used to teach at a flower arrangement school in the city. Not long ago, through my husband's friend's introduction, I found a school in Shizuoka, mainly because the salary is much higher than before."

Ran hesitated and said, "Miss Chie, aren't you very tired? You have to drive so far every day."

Mary nodded in agreement: "If we take the tram, we can even sleep on it."

"Actually, I've always enjoyed driving. It's not far from here to the highway, and I usually need to carry some teaching materials and luggage, so driving makes it more convenient."

Chie Yoshino smiled gently: "Besides, my husband is already working very hard to support the family. If I don't work harder, all the pressure will fall on him. I have to share some of the burden."

"By the way, do you guys have insurance?"

However, she paused halfway through her sentence, then awkwardly covered her mouth and smiled, saying somewhat embarrassedly, "I'm so sorry, actually it's like this, because my husband works for an insurance company... I often help him with sales to boost his business, and it just slipped out without my knowledge."

"So this is ah……"

Mary smiled and said, "Ms. Chie, you really are a great helpmate."

Lin Xiaofeng nodded in agreement. To be honest, it was indeed quite enviable.

"Hehe, it's nothing."

Chie Yoshino clearly took Mary's praise to heart. "However, if I just talk the talk but don't walk the walk, it won't be very convincing. I just took out an accident insurance policy worth 100 million yen a while ago."

"One hundred million yen?!"

Xiaolan and Mary were both surprised.

Makoto also narrowed her eyes and realized that something was wrong.

Lin Xiaofeng, on the other hand, scratched his chin, feeling that it was now a done deal.

The suspect has been basically identified, so what was the method of the crime...?

In the dim light, Lin Xiaofeng's thoughts suddenly shifted, and Lin Lingguang (in a flash, he had already realized the truth of the matter: this was an attempt to kill his wife for insurance money...)

492. The ideal wife of the Yamato Nadeshiko type

Wouldn't a wife who is honest, virtuous, and beautiful be better? Why did he have to kill her for insurance money, and end up getting himself arrested...?

Lin Xiaofeng couldn't help but mentally complain.

"Actually, my husband asked me to do this. Anyway, paying for the insurance didn't waste much money, and the insurance company will refund it when the term expires."

Chie didn't seem to care too much about the others' surprise. She simply explained, "After all, my husband is the salesman. If I can help him with some business, it's a sure-fire way to make money."

"Ok!"

Mary nodded: "She's practically the epitome of a Yamato Nadeshiko (ideal Japanese woman) wife."

"hey-hey."

Chie Yoshino smiled and said, "You found out."

"Speaking of Chie-nee-nee!"

Suddenly, Zhenchun asked in a childlike manner, "When did your headaches start?"

"It probably started about a month ago..."

Chie Yoshino rested her chin on her hand and thought for a moment: "I had just transferred to a school in Shizuoka at that time, so I remember it very clearly."

A month ago?

Zhenchun pondered for a moment upon hearing this.

If it started a month ago, then it would be about two weeks after the house was completed.

Thinking about this, he guessed, "Could it be the so-called Sickhouse Syndrome 17?"

Xiaolan thought for a moment after hearing this: "So it's Sickhouse syndrome..."

"what is that?"

Mary seemed a little naive, resting her chin on her hand as she pondered, "Four bitters and eight bitters, could it be some kind of code?"

I meant Sickhouse syndrome!

Makoto glanced at Mary speechlessly. "It's a symptom that causes discomfort to the body when building a house. You haven't heard of it, have you, Mary?"

Lin Xiaofeng quietly added from the side, "Actually, it's just that the formaldehyde level is too high."

"So it was formaldehyde exceeding the standard... I've heard about this kind of thing more or less."

Mary was speechless for a moment, then looked at Zhenchun: "Zhenchun, just say the formaldehyde is too high, why make it so complicated?"

"Mary, you're British!"

"Who told you that the British can understand all sorts of nonsensical English words!"

Chie listened silently to everyone's speculations and explained, "The construction company that helped us build this house is one that my husband knows. They specifically instructed us not to use any materials that might cause health problems."

"But that doesn't mean..."

Xiaolan wanted to say something more, but Lin Xiaofeng interrupted her: "I also think it shouldn't be a formaldehyde issue. If it were formaldehyde poisoning, it should be detectable at the hospital. Even if it's just excessive intolerance, it shouldn't be just Ms. Qianhui showing symptoms."

"Yes, Mr. Lin Xiaofeng is right."

Chie Yoshino agreed with this statement: "If the formaldehyde levels were really too high, I wouldn't be experiencing dizziness from time to time, and my husband should also be showing some symptoms."

At this point, she chuckled softly, "I still feel the same way Mr. Lin Xiaofeng said, it's probably because of the stress I've been under lately. Now that I've already bought the herbs, I'll try brewing them tonight."

"But what if it was the construction team's negligence... that they accidentally... in the kitchen and in your bedroom, Ms. Chie..."

Xiaolan didn't dare to bring the matter up directly.

I can only vaguely mention this matter.

After all, the young couple seemed very much in love, and it would be a terrible sin if her suspicions caused a rift in their relationship.

But we can't just leave this matter as it is...

"I think this is most likely not a renovation issue."

Lin Xiaofeng glanced at Xiaolan and naturally knew what she wanted to say.

She just hadn't grasped the key point yet.

"It's not a renovation issue?"

Xiao Lan asked in confusion, and judging from Lin Xiaofeng's tone, "Then... Senior Lin Xiaofeng, do you already know what the problem is?"

"I do have some ideas."

Lin Xiaofeng asked Yoshino Chie, "You mentioned before that your dizziness doesn't occur when the weather is cool or during school holidays, right?"

Yoshino Chie recalled for a moment: "Yes, that's how it is..."

"Car air conditioning."

Lin Xiaofeng crossed his arms and said in a deep voice, "If there are no problems on rest days or when I'm at home, I only feel dizzy when I go to Shizuoka, and I don't feel dizzy when it's cool. In other words, on days when I don't have symptoms, I don't need to turn on the air conditioner. Therefore, the problem may be with the car's air conditioner."

Upon hearing this, Zhen Chun pondered for a moment and suddenly realized what was going on.

No wonder he felt something was off; it was the air conditioner!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but nod, thinking to himself, "Why didn't I think of this?"

"Thinking about it carefully, it seems like every time I feel dizzy, I've had the air conditioning on."

Upon considering this guess, Yoshino Chie pondered for a moment, then became somewhat puzzled: "But why would it be a problem with the car's air conditioning...? That car has never had any problems before, could it be because it hasn't been cleaned?"

“You’ll find out if you go and see it.”

……

The group arrived at Yoshinoya's garage.

Chie Yoshino took out her car keys and unlocked the car.

Lin Xiaofeng sat in the driver's seat and looked at the air conditioner in the center of the control panel.

He paused for a moment, then brought his nose close to the air conditioner vent.

He had just taken a sniff when he detected a strange smell.

Immediately afterwards, I felt dizzy.

Sensing something was wrong, he immediately covered his nose with his sleeve and then moved away.

Lin Xiaofeng got out of the car and said in a deep voice, "Someone has drugged the air conditioner..."

"Drug..."

Although Masumi and Ran had expected this, they were still taken aback when their suspicions were confirmed.

Mary and Chie, on the other hand, seemed somewhat at a loss.

"Who is it...?"

Mary was about to say something, but remembering what Lin Xiaofeng, Xiaolan, and Zhenchun had said yesterday, she didn't continue.

At this moment, Chie took two steps back, a look of confusion flashing in her eyes, and stood there stunned.

"Miss Chie, judging from the current situation, it seems someone is trying to murder you..."

Lin Xiaoling turned around in a daze, took out her phone, and said, "Shan, I came to see the neighbor alone. This smell of medicine is probably pesticide... You don't mind if I call the police and have them come and test it, right?"

"what……?"

At this moment, Chie finally came to her senses: "Then I'll tell my husband first..."

"It's better not to tell anyone."

"Until it is determined whether this is a harmful substance or who put it, anyone is a suspect."

Lin Xiaofeng knew that under the current circumstances, the only person with a motive for committing the crime was Chie's husband, Yoshino Akio.

Even though he knew the truth, he didn't say it aloud.

He didn't want to be the villain who exposed the truth.

Let's leave this to the facts.

"All right……"

Chie nodded and didn't ask anything more.