After making up our minds, we took Li Mingqi's car and drove in the direction of the steamed bun shop.

The bun shop was not too far from the hotel where we were staying, and the car was parked in the parking space on the side of the road after ten minutes.

Li Mingqi turned off the car and pointed through the window to a steamed bun shop diagonally across the road, and said: "This Qingming steamed bun shop is our former rival, originally our store was opened next to their house, and the business was quite good, but later because Yangyang was sick and the steamed bun shop was closed, and now it has been rented by others, as if it has opened a bridge rice noodle." ”

Looking in the direction of Li Mingqi's finger, there is indeed a steamed bun shop across the road, at this time a man and a woman are busy in front of the store, there are seven or eight tables in front of the store, and there are benches next to it, and there are three huge steamers near the store, each steamer has seven or eight layers, at this time there are bursts of heat inside, even if it is across the road, you can still smell the aroma of steamed buns.

"We turned out to be opponents, if you see us, you must know that we asked you to come, so we won't show up, you three should also be careful, don't show your feet." Li Mingqi looked at the three of us and admonished.

After nodding and agreeing, we got out of the car and walked in the direction of the steamed bun shop, it was noon, so the business of Qingming steamed bun shop was quite good, seven or eight tables had sat five or six tables of people, the pair of men and women were also busy working, I glanced at the front of the steamed bun shop, and then found an empty table to sit down, and the man immediately walked to our side after sitting down, and asked: "What do you eat, we have meat and vegetarian stuffing here, porridge and garlic are also free." ”

Following the sound, this man looks like he is about forty years old, about one meter seven, his hair is thin, his appearance is relatively ordinary, he is wearing a white apron, which is stained with oil, after hearing the man's question, Li Hai said directly: "You have three meat-filled buns here, and three bowls of porridge." As soon as Li Hai's voice fell, Chen Xianglin hurriedly interrupted him: "We can just stuff the buns, and we will have twelve vegetarian three fresh, if it is not enough, we will ask for more." ”

"Uncle Chen, this vegetarian bun and meat bun are the same money, don't you suffer a loss for the element bun, and how can the vegetarian bun have the fragrance of meat buns." Li Hai looked at Chen Xianglin and said puzzled.

I saw that Chen Xianglin looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, he must have something to say, but because it was difficult for men to speak here, he said directly: "The vegetarian three fresh ones are not bad, let's buy some vegetarian ones to taste, and come to eat meat next time." Seeing that we had made up our minds, the man turned around and left, and after seeing him leave, Li Hai asked, "Uncle Chen, how fragrant this meat bun is, you really can't think of it." ”

"Li Hai, I know that the meat buns are fragrant, but I never eat meat buns outside, who knows what kind of meat they are made of, in case the meat is not clean, it will definitely get sick, so it is safer to eat vegetarian stuffed buns." Chen Xianglin looked at Li Hai and said.

Li Hai smiled helplessly when he heard this, and said that Chen Xianglin was too cautious, and he had eaten meat buns for so many years, but he didn't continue to talk when he saw that Chen Xianglin didn't pay attention to him, and soon the buns came up and we ate them, but I felt a little difficult to swallow as soon as I took a bite, although the vegetarian buns were not meaty, they should taste more fragrant, but the vegetarian buns made in this shop were tasteless, and I felt that there was very little oil and water, I turned my head and glanced at the table next to me, and found that there were very few people who ate vegetarian buns. Most of the food is meat buns, which is strange, it stands to reason that the taste of a shop will not be too different, why is there such a big difference between this vegetarian bun and meat bun.

After eating two bites, I put the buns on the plate, and Chen Xianglin and Li Hai didn't eat a few bites, it seems that they also think that the taste of this steamed bun is not very good.

"Chen Mo, I said that you should order meat buns, this vegetarian bun is too unpalatable, there is no oil and water at all, and the taste is also very light, I really don't know how this boss does it." Li Hai looked at me and complained.

"I think there is a problem with this shop, the meat buns eaten by other customers seem to be full of oil and water, but the vegetarian buns are not a little oil and water, this is definitely not normal, okay, don't eat this bun first, and ask them about Li Mingqi later, to see how much they know about the Li family." I looked at Li Hai and said.

About ten minutes later, the diners around the meal had basically left, and the man was cleaning up the table on the side, seeing this, I glanced at the man and asked: "Big brother, wasn't it a steamed bun shop next door before, why is it closed now, their steamed buns taste good." ”

When the man heard this, he glanced back at me, and for a moment his face showed a gloomy look, but in a blink of an eye, the corners of his mouth opened slightly, and he said with a smile: "If it really tastes good, can you still close the door, their house is closed because of bad business, then Li Mingqi can't make steamed buns at all, and the taste is far worse than what I made." ”

"Did they close because business was bad, how did I hear that their family seems to have stopped because of their son's illness?" I watched the man deliberately tentatively.

"Who knows, it's probably retribution." The man looked at me and said.

As soon as these words came out, I was stunned and asked, "Retribution? Why did their family suffer retribution? ”

"It's not that some stinky meat and dirty meat are used to make buns, customers who eat it have stomach aches, how can this kind of shop be able to do it for a long time, and their family will definitely be punished for doing so many bad things, and it will be a matter of time before it closes." The man looked at me and said with a smile.

"How do you know if their household meat is not good?" Li Hai asked rhetorically.

The man smiled bitterly after hearing this, saying that their noses are very smart in this business, and the salty filling of this bun can be smelled, not to mention the material of the bun, the bun made by Li Mingqi's family knows that it is not good meat as soon as he smells it, so customers will inevitably have problems when they eat it.

The man's words made me feel a little suspicious, since he could smell the salty filling with his nose, then why did the vegetarian buns made so tasteless, if it weren't for this meat bun in their store, I'm afraid few people would come here to eat, thinking of this, I looked at the boss and said: "Boss, since your household is good meat, then give us a bun, let's taste it, if it's delicious, we'll order more." ”

After hearing this, the man turned around and left, and soon brought us a meat bun, I picked up the meat bun with chopsticks and just wanted to put it in my mouth, at this time Chen Xianglin pressed my hand and said in a low voice: "Don't eat it yet, this bun is not fragrant, you open the bun and take a look." ”

Hearing this, I immediately used chopsticks to open the skin of the bun on the outside of the meat bun, and the moment I opened the bun, a fragrance came to my face, and when I looked down, the inside of the bun was a meatball, which looked full of materials, and I didn't find any problems.

"Uncle Chen, I just said buy meat buns, how fragrant this tastes, we don't need to waste so much if we knew that meat buns were so fragrant." After speaking, Li Hai turned around and was about to ask the man to give us a few more meat buns, but just as he was about to speak, Chen Xianglin suddenly stopped and said: "Don't call him, something is wrong with this meat bun, there is something wrong with the meat here!" ”

"What's the problem, doesn't this smell quite fragrant, it should smell like pork filling." I looked at Chen Xianglin and asked suspiciously.

After hearing this, Chen Xianglin raised his hand and said in a low voice: "This bun is not stuffed with pork, the reason why it is so fragrant must be that some kind of spice has been added, let me tell you something, don't be afraid, according to my guess, this bun is very likely to be stuffed with human flesh!" ”

As soon as this statement came out, I was so frightened that I trembled, and the chopsticks in my hand fell to the ground, the last time I heard that human meat buns were still in the Water Margin, and the dominatrix Sun Erniang in it sold human meat buns, but at that time, the society was backward, how could it be compared with now, you must know that this murder is illegal, and the cost of making adult meat buns is higher than pork, in this case, why did this man do this, thinking of this, I looked at Chen Xianglin and said: "Uncle Chen, don't scare me, this bun shop sells so many buns a day, Where did he go to get so much human flesh, this has to kill a lot of people? ”

"These meats are not only human meat, but also mixed with pork, so the smell of human flesh is very light, and he used some spices to cover it, so normal people can't find out that this is a human meat bun, as for why he does it, I don't know now, but one thing is certain, there is definitely something wrong with this shop!" Chen Xianglin looked at me and cut the railroad to the fore.

Chen Xianglin has a wide range of experience, and he is a disciple of Longhu Mountain, so his judgment should not be wrong, if this is the case, then it is really possible that Li Duanyang's evil matter is related to this steamed bun shop.

I was pondering when suddenly a police car came from not far away, turned my head to look, a police car had stopped in front of the cigarette shop next door, saw the police get out of the car The owner of the cigarette shop immediately walked out, looked at the police and asked, "What's the matter, officer, do you want to buy cigarettes or alcohol?" ”

"Have you ever seen a police officer driving a police car out to buy cigarettes and alcohol, we are here to investigate a matter with you, a few days ago there was another missing case in our city, the missing person is a man in his twenties, named Shen Wanguo, according to the clues, the last time he appeared was on this road, but we have checked the surrounding surveillance, all have varying degrees of damage, so there is no way to investigate the surveillance records, I now want to ask you if you have seen this person, whether you have an impression of him." After the policeman finished speaking, he picked up a photo and handed it to the owner of the cigarette hotel, who took the photo and looked at it carefully, then shook his head and said: "Officer, there are too many passers-by here every day, I really can't remember if I have seen it when I am old, otherwise you will go somewhere else and ask?" ”

The police officer saw that he didn't remember and had to turn around and come to the bun shop, and then asked the man if he had seen the person in the photo, the man shook his head after a glance, and said that he hadn't seen it, and the police couldn't see anything so he drove away.

"Uncle Chen, this man is a bit abnormal, in my opinion, he is very likely to have something to do with the disappearance, otherwise let's come back tonight, and let's see if there are any clues in this store while they are away." I looked at Chen Xianglin and said.