Chapter 5 A Very Different Menu
"Hello, please bring me some dishes."
"Hello Ms. Han, may I ask if you still follow the original dish?"
"That's right, just send it according to your habits."
"Okay, please wait, we'll arrange it right away."
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Wang Shen looked at these few simple sentences of dialogue on the paper and slowly fell into deep thought. "Manager Han, do you remember the tone she said when she made this call? I mean, when Han Mo speaks, his tone is rapid or steady? According to the text, Wang Shen can only know what they are talking about, but many times, the tone of a person's speech will tell others a lot of additional information.
"Tone? Well, it's a bit long, I'll have to think about it. Manager Han looked embarrassed. Wang Shen's request is indeed a bit difficult. For restaurants, especially those with good business, it is not known how many customers they have to welcome every day. Asking a restaurant manager to remember the tone in which a customer spoke three years ago is obviously difficult. However, Han Mo is a senior VIP, Manager Han thought about it and finally opened his mouth: "If you want to say that Ms. Han's tone at that time seems to be a little different from when you usually order food." Her voice seemed to tremble a little, a little. ”
"Trembling?" Wang Shen frowned, and quickly wrote down these two words in the notebook at hand.
"Do you know Han Mo's dining habits very well?" As soon as Xu Xiaolin's words were finished, Wang Shen and Manager Han turned their heads to look at her. "Oh, because I saw that you asked if it was the same way it was."
"Suffice it to say, Ms. Han is a regular customer in our store." Manager Han answered Xu Xiaolin's question with a smile.
"Han Mo usually chooses the way you deliver food?" Xu Xiaolin then asked.
"No, sometimes Ms. Han will come to the restaurant to eat in person." After saying this, Manager Han hesitated, looked at Wang Shen again, pursed his mouth slightly, and then said: "Speaking of this, Ms. Han's dining habits are indeed very strange. ”
"Strange?"
"Yes." Manager Han nodded at Wang Shen. "Every time Ms. Han comes to the store, the dishes she orders are completely different from the dishes she asks us to deliver."
"Aren't you a Sichuan restaurant? Shouldn't all kinds of dishes be spicy? Xu Xiaolin stopped the shorthand pen in the notebook, and saw that there was a menu at hand, so she flipped through it.
"As you can see from the menu, Sichuan cuisine is our main cuisine, but we also operate other cuisines, which are now called fusion cuisines. The food in our store will satisfy almost all the discerning taste buds of most customers. Speaking of the dishes in the store, the smile on the corner of Manager Han's mouth became brighter.
"So do you still remember Han Mo's two different menus?" Before she finished speaking, Xu Xiaolin put the paper and pen in her hand in front of Manager Han.
"Yes, I should be able to remember." Manager Han nodded and began to write on the paper again. It didn't take long for the menu that Han Mo had often ordered to complete.
On-site dining menu: sweet and sour pork ribs, squirrel osmanthus fish, eel paste, brown sugar glutinous ba, drunken crab, West Lake beef soup
Takeaway menu: Mao Xuewang, boiled pork slices, back pot meat, mapo tofu, Wanzhou grilled fish
Xu Xiaolin took back her notebook and stared at the menu above, her eyes wandering between the two dishes of sweet and sour pork ribs and Mao Xuewang. The styles of the two menus are very different. After reading it, Xu Xiaolin handed the menu to Wang Shen. An incredible expression also appeared on Wang Shen's face.
"Has Han Mo's dining habits always been like this?" Xu Xiaolin took the notebook from Wang Shen's hand, and continued to ask Manager Han while writing.
"At least that's the case in our store."
"Every time Han Mo comes to the restaurant to eat, is she alone or with friends?"
"It's mostly with friends." Manager Han looked at Xu Xiaolin, thought about it and replied.
"Do you have any friends who appear more frequently?"
"It seems that there is a person who comes with Ms. Han more often."
"Oh? Male or female? Can you describe what he looks like? Xu Xiaolin saw that she had found a breakthrough, and the emotions shown in her words were also a little excited.
"Man, not too tall, wearing a pair of glasses, no beard, oval face ......" Manager Han's expression was a little painful now. No way, every question today seems to be a powerful test of memory.
"Do you see the person you described in these pictures?" Wang Shen, who hadn't spoken for a long time, took out a few photos from his pocket and spread them out in front of Manager Han. Xu Xiaolin glanced at Wang Shen and secretly admired it in her heart.
"It's him, it's him." Manager Han took out one of the photos and put it in front of Wang Shen.
Wang Shen picked up the photo and took a look, the man was not too tall, wearing a pair of glasses, no beard, and an oval face. The level of Manager Han's narration is quite high, and the people in the photo all meet the characteristics described.
"By the way, I still have something here that I want to ask Manager Han for help." Wang Shen put all the photos back in his pocket, and then turned his gaze to Manager Han.
"You're welcome, please."
"I don't know if the employee who went to Han Mo's house to deliver food is still working in your store?"
"Yes, wait a minute, I'll call him over." After speaking, Manager Han withdrew from the private room. It didn't take long for a slightly dark-skinned young man to stand at the door of the private room.
"Two officers, you can ask him any questions you have. I'm not very convenient here, either, if there's nothing going on, I'll go out first. If you have any other commands, feel free to come to me. After Manager Han finished speaking, he smiled and nodded to Wang Shen and Xu Xiaolin respectively, and then exited the private room.
"Are you the delivery person who delivered food to Han Mo three years ago?" Wang Shen asked while motioning for Xu Xiaolin to record some information in the notebook.
"Yes." The young man was a little shy, and only answered softly.
"What do you call it?"
"Xu Cheng, everyone calls me Ah Cheng."
"Ah Cheng, do you remember when you went to Han Mo's house to deliver food three years ago?"
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"You've got a really good memory."
"Because Ms. Han's case was in the news the next day, it was still the headline, and it was difficult to remember it."
Wang Shen nodded and continued to ask, "Can you give us a memory of the scene of the meal delivery that day?" ”
"That day ......" Ah Cheng frowned, it didn't seem to be a very good memory. Still, he tried his best to remember what had happened that day. "To be honest, the community where Ms. Han lives is a bit old, there are not even a few street lights, and it is a bit creepy at night. When I delivered food to her door that night, I knocked on the door many times, but no one came. Later, I called Ms. Han's number, but no one answered. I didn't know how to deal with such a situation, and then I waited in front of Ms. Han's house for half an hour, but I still couldn't find her person. In the end, I had to call Manager Han, and Manager Han asked me to go back to the store first. Ah Cheng told the whole story of the day's food delivery in one breath.
Xu Xiaolin listened while frantically recording in the notebook. Wang Shen nodded while listening, and when Ah Cheng finished describing the food delivery, Wang Shen sat closer to Ah Cheng and asked, "In addition to these, have you encountered any strange situations?" ”
"Strange situation?" Ah Cheng furrowed his eyebrows and glanced at Wang Shen suspiciously. Ah Cheng closed his eyes, then opened them again. "If it's weird, I don't know if those count."
"It's okay, you can just say it." Wang Shen smiled.
"Because I knocked on the door and no one opened it, I called Ms. Han's phone, but the call didn't go through. Strangely, as I was making a call, I heard a cell phone ringing from inside the house. Then I hung up the phone and the ringing stopped. After a while, I tried to call again, and the bell rang again. Then I hung up the phone again, and the ringing stopped again at the same time. So, I think Ms. Han's phone is in the house. But Ms. Han neither opened the door nor answered the phone. ”
After Ah Cheng finished speaking, Wang Shen and Xu Xiaolin glanced at each other. The eyes of both men seemed to say that this was a very useful piece of information.
"There's another strange place."
"Anything else?" Xu Xiaolin was a little excited, but the pen in her hand did not stop for a moment.
"I don't know if this counts." Ah Cheng paused for a few seconds, as if organizing his own language. "After I got the instructions from the store, I took the takeaways downstairs and prepared to go back to the store. Because the corridor was very dark, just as I was climbing to the second floor, a person hit me, and the takeaway lunch box in my hand fell to the ground. Because I ran for nothing, I was not in a very good mood at the time, and I thought that I would have to reason with that person. I called out to the man, and the man turned around, with a scar on his face, and a vicious face, and he didn't look like a good person. Later, I was reprimanded by him. ”
"Do you remember what the man looked like?" Wang Shen looked at Ah Cheng.
"I guess there's still an impression."
"Do you see any of these people that you met?" Wang Shen took out the photos just now from his pocket and spread them out in front of Ah Cheng.
"It's him, I remember the scar on his face." Ah Cheng picked one out of the photo and put it in front of Wang Shen.
Wang Shen put the photo back in his pocket. "Anything else weird?"
"Not anymore." Ah Cheng shook his head.
"Okay, thank you for your cooperation." Wang Shen got up from the chair and shook hands with Ah Cheng, and then Wang Shen and Xu Xiaolin followed Ah Cheng out of the private room.
Manager Han was already waiting at the corner, and when he saw a few of them walking out of the private room, he greeted them with a smile on his face. "Officer Wang, is there anything else we can do to help you?"
"Not for the time being. Thank you very much for your cooperation and help today. If there is anything that needs to trouble you in the future, I hope to continue to get your cooperation. ”
"Officer Wang is polite, polite. If you have any orders in the future, you can speak, this is my business card. Manager Han handed the two business cards to Wang Shen and Xu Xiaolin respectively.
"Go to my office and tell me." After walking out of the café, Wang Shen said to Xu Xiaolin behind him.