Chapter 34: Sauces
The house of the owner of the roast chicken stall was some distance from the small supermarket, and the three of them drove for more than an hour in Pan Hua's police car to reach the door
It seems to be a rural village in the city, and there are usually many bankers planted everywhere, and most of the houses here are bungalows, but this kind of bungalows are definitely much more comfortable and reassuring to live in than those high-rise buildings
'Knock knock'
Lin Yi stood in front of the door and knocked hard, perhaps because it was getting late now, and the family had already slept, so it took a long time to hear the voice of inquiry coming from inside
"Who is knocking on the door so late"
"That's right, we are from the police station, and we want to come over to find out the situation," Pan Hua politely replied to the questions of the people inside
I heard that it was the owner of the police station who came out and opened the door with confidence, after all, no one in this world dared to pretend to be someone from the police station
After a few more minutes, I heard footsteps in the courtyard, and then the closed door was slowly opened, and the person who opened the door was the owner of the roast chicken stall
After the owner of the roast chicken stall opened the door, he saw the drowsiness on Li Yuanba's face at first glance, and disappeared in an instant, and he quickly took a few steps back, and fell to the ground without standing firmly
However, when the stall owner looked at Lin Yi, his expression was even richer, from horror to shock, as if he didn't understand why Lin Yi was still alive
First, after reading the two, the stall owner turned his attention to Pan Hua, who was dressed in a police uniform, and hurriedly waved his hand at Pan Hua and said: "This police comrade, the fight between the two of them during the day has nothing to do with me at all, I am a businessman, there is a debtor, don't come to me if there is anything."
Hearing this, Lin Yi instantly cried and laughed, it turned out that the stall owner thought that they came to him because of their fight with Li Yuanba during the day
Pan Hua was also very helpless and said: "We didn't come to ask you about this matter this time, don't be nervous, they have reconciled now."
After listening to Pan Hua's words, the stall owner found that Lin Yi and Li Yuanba had a very harmonious atmosphere, although he didn't understand what kind of person Lin Yi was, he could actually make friends with Li Yuanba, but he didn't dare to ask more, he was relieved to get up from the ground, his legs were still a little weak, and said: "A few come in with me."
When the stall owner walked into their house, he found that the small bungalow was filled with all kinds of vats except for some simple furniture, and from those vats there were constant bursts of tempting fragrance
Smelling this smell, Lin Yi instantly remembered the fragrance of roast chicken he smelled during the day today, and unconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and Li Yuanba directly ignored the stall owner's feelings, and stepped forward to open the lid of the vat to see what was inside
The stall owner was very jealous of Li Yuanba, and did not stop Li Yuanba from opening the lid smoothly, and everyone stepped forward to take a look, and found that these jars were not the roast chicken they imagined, but the sauce used to prepare the roast chicken one by one
At the moment when the jar was opened, Lin Yi opened the star eye, carefully observing the liquid sauce in the jar, wanting to see if there were some 'strange' substances in it, and Li Yuanba couldn't care about it so much, although it was just sauce, but the taste was too fragrant, Li Yuanba couldn't help but grab it with his hand and eat it, and praised it while eating
In contrast, Pan Hua's reaction was much more normal, and when he saw that Lin Yi's eyes were already glowing with sky-blue, he quietly walked behind Lin Yi and asked, "Officer Lin, did you see anything?"
After a long while, the light in Lin Yi's eyes gradually disappeared, and he shook his head in disappointment and said, "No, there is nothing else in it, it's just a vat of simple and delicious sauce."
After saying this, Lin Yi and Pan Hua turned their heads to look at the stall owner at the same time, only to see the stall owner with a distressed expression on his face, timidly persuading Li Yuanba not to eat, no matter how you look at it, he is just an ordinary person who does business honestly
"It looks like it shouldn't be him, let's find other clues," Lin Yi said to Pan Hua with emotion
Li Yuanba ate half a jar of sauce before he wiped his mouth with satisfaction and stopped: "This thing is really delicious, old man, you go with me to the northern city to make roast chicken for me to eat every day, I promise to give you a satisfactory reward."
Hearing Li Yuanba say this, the stall owner hurriedly laughed dryly, waved his hand and said, "I'm afraid this won't work."
After hearing this, Li Yuanba suddenly said angrily: "Why do you look down on me?"
"No, no, how dare I look down on you, how did you feel when you ate the sauce I made just now?"
Li Yuanba carefully tasted it and said: "The taste is very refreshing, not greasy or salty, the taste is just right."
The stall owner carefully closed the lid on the jar and said: "The secret of my cooking of roast chicken is completely this sauce, and this sauce is made by my father many times with many herbs and spices, many of which are only available in this eastern city, so even if I go to the northern city with you, I can't make the same flavor of roast chicken."
Hearing this, Li Yuanba was instantly disappointed, after all, he still had no way to do it for such force majeure reasons
At this time, Lin Yi suddenly stepped forward and lightly dipped his fingers in some sauce and put it in his mouth, and in an instant, an indescribable delicacy spread throughout his body, and even opened the pores on his body
"This thing is so delicious, I'm afraid no one in this world can make such a delicious roast chicken, I'm afraid this taste is that the evil ghosts in the Nine Shadows Underground will go crazy about it."
In the face of Lin Yi's praise, the stall owner was a little embarrassed, smiled slightly, and said: "Of course, every jar of sauce is made by me little by little, and the things made with my heart are of course the most delicious, of course, what this young man said is a little exaggerated, how can I know what the evil ghosts in the Nine Shadows Underground taste?"
As the saying goes, when a person wakes up in a dream and hears the stall owner's words, the clues in Lin Yi's mind seem to be tightly connected by this sentence, and a vague guess and truth gradually emerge
"So that's the case, I thought that we were wrong from the beginning, this case is actually not that complicated," Lin Yi figured it all out, stood up excitedly and said loudly
Pan Hua and Li Yuanba looked dazed, thinking that there were no obvious clues just now, what did Lin Yi think
Lin Yi took out the case report that recorded the nineteen missing people, looked at it again, confirmed the thoughts in his heart, and turned around and walked towards the door
Pan Hua hurriedly asked, "Officer Lin, where are you going?"
Lin Yi looked back confidently and smiled: "Of course it's to catch the real murderer."