The Bright Cafe is located in the most prosperous commercial street in the south of the city, and is a favorite place for many petty bourgeois white-collar workers in the city.

At half past ten o'clock in the evening, in the hall on the second floor of the Bright Cafe, Li Changqing, a twenty-four-year-old young detective wearing a windbreaker, held his sparse chin with one hand and gently pulled the coffee in front of him with a spoon in the other.

One, two, three......

I don't know how long it took, until the middle-aged bald fat boss Gao Mingyong on the other side of the table obviously couldn't sit still, so he said lightly: "Boss Gao, whether it is solving the case or fighting a lawsuit, if it is because the employer conceals the facts and brings reputation and economic losses to the detective or lawyer hired, the compensation is very high." ”

"Detective Li, that's all you say! Since Gao has come to you to solve the case, it means that he has complete trust in you, so how can he hide any relevant clues? ”

"Really......"

Li Changqing suddenly stopped pulling the coffee, the chin supported by his right hand went up, the circles under his eyes were black, and the two eyelids were half-together weakly, as if he was about to fall asleep.

The coffee hall, where there was no one else, was even quieter.

After half a ring, Gao Mingyong suddenly sighed, reached out and touched the top of his head, and said with a wry smile: "Li Tan, you are a shrewd person, I'll just say it, in order to save costs, I did adulterate the secondary and tertiary coffee, and about half of the coffee powder is actually three kinds of cheap coffee from Alatan." ”

"But this is the unspoken rule of the entire industry, and I am not alone, Gao dared to pat his chest and assure that in all cafes in the entire south, the proportion of my adulteration is by no means the highest! And in the special grade coffee and even the first grade coffee, Gao has never faked it, which of course includes the cup of ...... in front of you"

"Ahem, cough, cough, ......"

A violent cough abruptly interrupted the other party's explanation, and after a long time, Li Changqing smoothed his breathing, and his already not very good face looked even haggard.

"Detective Li, you ...... It's all right."

"It's okay, it's a problem, thank you Boss Gao for your concern."

Li Changqing took out a plastic white bottle from his arms, shook out a small handful of raw glutinous rice, swallowed the coffee on the table like taking medicine, and after a while, his face was slightly ruddy. Li Changqing then patted his chest and chuckled: "This cup of premium leopard poop coffee tastes really good." ”

Li Changqing didn't pay attention to the other party's strange expression, and immediately took out a document from the briefcase next to him and put it on the fat boss's side, "I've been really busy lately, so I won't waste Boss Gao's time." This is the situation I have investigated since I received the commission, and Boss Gao can take a look at it first. This case is not a simple prank, the woman hair and nails that your guests drank from coffee recently, the culprit is neither your employee nor your competitor, as for who ......"

Speaking of the key point, Li Changqing suddenly stopped his mouth and motioned to the other party to read his report first.

Suddenly he had to know the truth, Rao is Gao Mingyong thought that he was not surprised, but he still couldn't calm down at this time.

Bright Coffee Shop has always been doing a brisk business, but recently, many customers have drunk strange things in their coffee, which has seriously affected the business of the coffee shop.

After investigating the surveillance to no avail, he begins to wonder if it is an insider or a competitor who is causing trouble, so he brings in a detective.

This detective is not well-known in the industry, but he is said to be quite good at handling difficult and miscellaneous cases.

Gao Mingyong picked up the stack of reports on the table, and when he opened it for the first time, his hands holding the reports couldn't help but tremble.

The report prominently displays:

Victim: Chen Haoran, male, 77 years old, place of residence, No. 13, Lao Street, Nanlin City, February 4, 2018, due to diarrhea leading to prolapse of the anus, and then infected with sepsis, the cause is unknown, highly suspected of ingesting psychosedative drugs by mistake.

Victim: Shen Zhu, female, 19 years old, Shen Si'er daughter, a wealthy businessman in Xianglan City, died on November 11, 2019 because she ran a red light for speeding, resulting in a collision into a truck.

Victim......

Li Changqing said calmly: "For most people, factor shell powder will only be addictive and dependent, but if a mentally weak chronic patient takes an overdose at one time, he will show symptoms such as confusion, heart failure, and even immune system collapse." And these victims, before the onset of the disease, without exception, all had the experience of Nanlin City, and they all drank coffee in your store. ”

"In addition, I also have a test report here, which is that I asked a friend from the academy to help test ten different grades of coffee in your store within a week, and five of them contain factor powder, which naturally includes the first-class coffee that Boss Gao just said will never be adulterated."

Speaking of this, Li Changqing's tone suddenly became stern: "Boss Gao, food adulteration, which directly or indirectly causes the death of diners, is a very serious food safety accident. Is factor powder also an unspoken rule of the industry? ”

"Even, if the police characterize the nature of the incident as poisoning...... That's not a problem that can be solved with money alone! ”

Speaking of this, Li Changqing said: "Boss Gao, a fixed price, 50,000 lang yuan, you write a letter of repentance and surrender to the Food Bureau, admit that your coffee is adulterated, and promise never to do it again in the future, I will help you solve this incident." ”

"Five...... 50,000 Lang coins?!! ”

"Detective Li, you are a robbery!"

Gao Mingyong's face was ugly: "My boss Gao is adulterated, but the industry has never heard of the matter of the factor powder drinking the dead!" Your detective's office in Nanlin is also famous, shouldn't you play this trick of blackmailing your clients? If it spreads, it must not be good for your reputation! ”

The other party reacted violently, but Li Changqing seemed to have expected it. Li Changqing stood up unhurriedly, picked up the fedora on the table and patted it, then pulled out the chair and said lightly: "Actually, the most troublesome thing in this matter is not food adulteration...... This time, the woman's hair, teeth and nails appeared in the coffee without traces, and the whole process of the coffee from brewing to serving was monitored and filmed without dead ends, and there was nothing suspicious in the process. So...... The only logic that can be used to explain, Boss Gao, you came out at the age of fifteen, and you must also be a well-informed master......"

After that, Li Changqing put his fedora on his head, picked up the cane leaning against the wall and walked to the stairs, and turned his head to leave the last sentence of the night, "Although the negotiation broke down, Li will still abide by the entrustment agreement, keep the incident confidential for the employer, and hope that Boss Gao will do it for himself in the future." ”

Seeing Li Changqing's figure disappear on the side of the street outside the floor-to-ceiling window, Gao Mingyong sat down dejectedly, his face uncertain.

Bright Coffee Shop has always been doing a brisk business, but recently, many customers have drunk strange things in their coffee, which has seriously affected the business of the coffee shop.

After investigating the surveillance to no avail, he began to suspect that it was either an insider or a competitor who was secretly causing trouble, so he hired a detective. This detective is not well-known in the industry, but he is said to be good at handling difficult cases. But now it seems that this guy didn't go to investigate, but found out his own problem, and actually dared to sit on the ground and raise the price, which made Gao Mingyong very annoyed, and regretted that he shouldn't have been greedy to find a small detective agency based on hearsay.

It was actually blackmailed......

“Duang——Duang——Duang——”

The bell tower sounded far away at midnight, Gao Mingyong came back to his senses, and decided to go to a regular well-known detective agency to investigate the matter again the next day, and after making up his mind, he brought the coffee cup left by the two to the kitchen.

On the quiet kitchen countertop, a cup of freshly brewed coffee is prominently placed.

"Xiao Li?!"

Gao Mingyong looked around, under the incandescent light, the kitchen was silent, and he didn't see Xiao Li, an employee working overtime today.

It shouldn't be Xiao Li, I'll let him go back from work at ten o'clock......

Or is it a prank at the Lombardo black tea shop opposite? The crazy woman used to dump garbage and water down the street in the wee hours of the morning......

Gao Mingyong had a cold face, and walked over with courage to pick up the cup of coffee, the hot air rushing to his face filled his face with the aroma of coffee, and Gao Mingyong almost had the urge to drink it all.

When the cup was brought to his mouth, the fat boss suddenly remembered something, and his face became ugly again.

He slowly lowered the cup and poured the coffee into the sink, and as the brownish liquid slowly flowed out, a number of crimson women's fingernails gradually appeared in the cup, and there were long women's hair wrapped in a small clump underneath.

"Smack-"

Gao Mingyong suddenly trembled, and the cup fell into pieces and splashed open.

"Who-"

"Get out of here!"

Gao Mingyong suddenly became angry for no reason, rushed to the hanging board in a few steps and picked up two kitchen knives, and the whole person was hysterical: "You have the ability to come out and cut Lao Tzu!" What a shady deed to play behind the scenes! ”

"Fuck, you give Lao Tzu a ......"

I don't know how long it took to scream, but the kitchen was quiet again.

Gao Mingyong only felt weak, he put the kitchen knife away stupidly, thought about it, or took one with him, turned around and walked out of the kitchen, and returned to the temporary bedroom of the warehouse on the third floor of the coffee shop.

Turn on the light, throw the kitchen knife on the coffee table, turn on the TV, turn on the sound, Gao Mingyong turned around and went to the bathroom to wash his face, change into a nightgown, drink a cup of tea, watch entertainment programs, and don't turn off the lights, just turn off the TV, and get ready to sleep.

Gao Mingyong, who was preoccupied, lay on the bed and couldn't fall asleep, it was easy to count the sheep before he was sleepy, and suddenly-

"Rustle-"

Gao Mingyong was startled, and when he looked up, the TV was turned on, but the screen was full of snowflakes, and there seemed to be no signal.

"Grass, the TV is also broken? It's bad luck! ”

Gao Mingyong took a sip and was about to reach out to grab the remote control on the bedside, but he heard the rustling sound in the TV gradually becoming irregular.

Gao Mingyong looked back, only to see that some black and white pictures suddenly appeared on the TV, but the pictures and snowflakes flashed, and the signal was obviously not very good.

What the is this show? What age is it, and black and white shows are still shown?!

Gao Mingyong looked at the intermittent picture on the TV in a daze, one moment it was a woman from a few decades ago combing her hair in front of a mirror, another moment it was a screen full of words moving big and small, and another time it was a river, and in the river stood a person with his head covered by a cloth......

After a while, the TV signal gradually stabilized, and the picture finally appeared without interruption, and then ...... It doesn't seem to change anymore.

"What the hell is this show? Gotta go and complain to the TV station tomorrow! ”

Gao Mingyong spat again, and suddenly noticed that the well on the TV seemed to be a little wrong??

And so on –

The wellhead seems to be ......

A pair of hands suddenly stretched out of the well, and then crawled out of a woman in white with long hair covering her entire face?