Chapter 3 Barbecue (1)
What else is there for summer food memories besides watermelon, air conditioning, and ice cola? of course, barbecue, beer, and crayfish!
On hot days, people always like to gather in groups of three or five at some barbecue stalls, which seems to increase the distance between friends more than high-end restaurants, and the thick white fog gradually blurs the fat boss's face in the light, and the sizzling sound of barbecue and intoxicating aromas surround the diners wantonly.
After eating three skewers of meat in a row, a student turned around and shouted to the boss, "Boss, your mutton skewers are so delicious, there is no smell at all, and there are ten more skewers!" The boss laughed hehehe, and responded loudly proudly, "That's it, my brother is a person who knows the goods, my meat is all good meat, the one I choose is fat and thin, bite down, the aroma of fat fills the mouth, the lean meat neutralizes the fat, can it not be fragrant when grilled?"
This sentence aroused the appetite of the diners, and many people said that they would add a few more skewers, and the boss moved his clumsy body, but his hands nimbly turned the skewers on the shelf, adding seasoning at the right time.
In the middle of the night, people touched their bellies and left satisfied, and the boss was busy in front of a few small tables, he looked at the basket of meat skewers that had been sold, with an incomprehensible expression on his face, and spit out a sentence faintly: "It's out of stock, I have to get some." ”
At night, the streets don't seem to be so hot, and you can still feel the occasional breeze, and even though it's early in the morning, there are still people running around the streets, whether it's office workers in a hurry, or hawkers who haven't closed their stalls yet, and there are convenience stores that are open 24 hours a day. Lin Mu rubbed his sore neck and felt the hunger in his stomach, only to realize that he hadn't eaten dinner yet.
Looking around, there is also a noodle shop that has not closed yet, it may be that the business is not good, the arrival of Lin Mu made the proprietress very enthusiastic, and from time to time she had to say a few words, "Recently, there have been a lot fewer homeless people, I don't see people asking for food everywhere, and I don't know what is wrong with the world, homeless people can find food to eat, and our business is not good at all." ”
Lin Mu took a sip and frowned. Bad business may not be due to the world, this indescribable taste is really difficult to accept. Lin Mu took two more bites, put down his chopsticks, and left after checking out.
The boss looked at the remaining noodles, his face was full of doubts, and he said angrily, "Today's young people don't know the preciousness of rice noodles, and they don't eat them after two bites, and they have to waste it. After saying that, he emptied the noodles into the trash can and continued to sit at the door, looking for possible customers.
Lin Mu continued to walk forward, passing by a barbecue stall and found that people had packed up their things, and when he was about to leave, he saw a homeless man next to the stall gulping fried rice in his hand, and the boss looked at him with a smile next to him, "Eat slowly, don't choke." ”
Lin Mu looked at this scene and smiled bitterly, "The boss is really right, homeless people can also have food, but I haven't eaten enough, forget it, I can deal with two bites when I go home and eat some instant noodles." Thinking about it, he quickened his pace, and soon arrived home.
When Lin Mu woke up again, it was already morning, he was woken up by the harsh ringing of the phone, Lin Mu looked at the caller ID on his phone, and connected the phone, "Hey?" "Team Lin is coming, human bones have been found on the river beach on the outskirts of the city!"
The outskirts of the city have not been developed, everywhere you go is just a desolate scene, the old man on the river beach was frightened and trembled, and his voice was full of fear: "I came to fish last night, spread the fish nest, I thought that the harvest could be a lot, the fish were caught a few, in the morning I just wanted to leave and saw a white thing not far away, and when I walked in, I found that it was a bone! Such a big bone, oh yo, my heart!" Seeing this, the policeman who was making the record hurriedly comforted, "Don't be afraid, uncle, you go over there to rest first, and you will go back with us to make a record, okay?" Hey, good...... Okay" A policewoman helped the old man to sit down in the distance, and kept comforting him, and the old man was better, and kept repeating what he had just said to the policewoman.
Lin Mu walked to the forensic doctor, looked at the pile of bones of different sizes and asked, "Forensic Doctor Zhen, have you found anything?" The male forensic doctor pointed to one of the larger bones, "It's a human bone that hasn't run away, this is a tibia, one of the two bones of a human calf, the incision is flat, like a saw cut, and the rest of the bones have to be brought back for careful examination." After hearing this, Lin Mu turned around again and asked Zheng Wei, "Is there any surveillance nearby?"
"Big brother, who will be safe in this barren mountain and wilderness here, this place is biased, and there is only hope for eyewitnesses. ”
Lin Mu looked at the surrounding environment, it was empty, only a few houses were bustling in the distance, although they were next to the road, but no cars had passed by for a long time, "Are there any footprints?" ”
Lin Mu touched his chin and looked at the old man not far away, and walked over, "Uncle often fishes here?"
"Yes, I still have a few old brothers who often ask to fish here, but yesterday they said that the weather was bad and they didn't come, and they knew that I wouldn't come either. ”
"Have you seen anyone else, or have you ever been here before that you didn't know?"
"Who's here, who's not here to fish, but it seems that there are often homeless people sleeping there. ”
Looking in the direction pointed by the old man, there were some large oil drums that had fallen down and lay flat, which should have been discarded by people, but were used by the homeless people as their own dwelling. Lin Mu listened to the old man's words, and there seemed to be a lot of threads winding around in his mind, but he couldn't untie them.
The business of the barbecue stall on the side of the road is still booming, and there is a steady stream of customers, and some people keep urging, "Boss, is my meat skewer ready, I've been waiting for a long time!" "Boss, your meat skewers are getting better and better, the materials are fresh, the meat is delicate, it's good!" "Big brother knows the goods!" The boss's mouth opened even more, "This is fresh meat, just killed, and it will be skewered." The young man was stunned. Seeing this, the boss hurriedly explained, "The sheep that was just killed, hehe" The young man breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Boss, don't say anything, it's scared to death!" The surrounding diners were amused and laughed, laughing while stroking the meat skewers, the meat burst out in their mouths with a heavy feeling of fat, which made them satisfied.
Wei Zhifan just came out of the shower and saw her roommate Bu Yao beckoning to her with a large string of barbecue, "Xiaofan, come on, I finally found a barbecue stall, but many people said it was delicious, come and eat!" Wei Zhifan looked at the large handful of meat skewers in the bag and shook his head with a smile, "You eat it, I don't like to eat this." ”
Bu Yao smiled and said, "Don't regret if you don't eat it, this is a meat skewer with zero bad reviews, I'll eat it!" Wei Zhifan climbed onto the bed on the top bunk and joked to Bu Yao below, "Eat, after eating, you will gain ten pounds!" Bu Yao stuck out her tongue and began to feast.
When was the last time she ate barbecue? It seems that her father took her to eat once in elementary school, and then she had diarrhea and diarrhea, and since then she has resisted barbecue. But at that time, my father was still very young, and he could easily lift himself on his shoulders. Wei Zhifan thought about it, his eyelids fought, and he fell asleep deeply.