Chapter 5: Picking Up Bargains
"Comrade policeman, I really don't know what human flesh is, I picked it up, and it has nothing to do with me!"
As soon as my eyes met the man's, the man explained to me with snot and tears.
The owner of a steamed bun shop, whose steamed buns were selling well, suddenly a group of policemen rushed into the house and arrested him, saying that his steamed buns were filled with human flesh, and no one could accept them for a while.
In the interrogation room of the police station, I sat opposite the owner of the bun shop.
His name is Wang Lu, a local, who started a restaurant business in Nanhuai Town, closed his doors due to food hygiene problems, and later opened a steamed bun shop in Beihuai Town, which is a typical mom-and-pop shop.
The two got up early and worked in the dark, Wang Lu went to the market to buy the ingredients they needed, and his wife made noodles and noodles in the store. Both of them are very honest, honesty is not a virtue, and in the same way, honest people have disadvantages.
Wang Lu's shortcoming is that he is greedy for small gains, if it weren't for his character, these latter things would not have happened.
Early in the morning, before dawn, Wang Lu drove a small mountain wheel and came to the wholesale market to buy the ingredients he needed. Under the soft grinding and hard bubble of his dead skin, he asked the boss for more than a pound of pork leftovers, he has been selling meat here for a long time, and even the boss who sells meat knows his character of greedy for small gains.
He loaded all his goods into the car and prepared to go home.
On the way home, Wang Lu had an urgent need to urinate, which was convenient on the side of the road. He saw a black plastic bag in the grass on the side of the road, and there was no one in the vicinity, and no one would throw bags of garbage here.
He kicked the black plastic bag, which looked heavy and looked heavy, and he opened it to find that it was full of mahjong-sized pieces of minced meat, and it was bloodshot.
At three o'clock, before dawn, he checked the meat in the bag by the headlight, and couldn't tell what kind of meat it was, there were no bones, it seemed to be pork belly, and pork belly was not cheap. He sniffed it closer, and there was no strange smell other than the smell of blood, presumably some of the shopkeepers had come to sell the meat. He mentioned that this bag of meat was estimated to be more than a dozen catties, which saved a lot of money, and he didn't think much about it, threw the meat into the car and drove home.
Wang Lu's wife, like him, is very honest, but his wife never covets cheapness, and does her duty, if Wang Lu tells his wife about picking up meat, his wife will not allow him to use this kind of meat from unknown sources to make buns under any circumstances. So he didn't tell his wife, and secretly threw the pork he bought into the meat grinder along with the meat he had picked up.
When the two were making steamed buns, his wife was still curious to ask, why did they buy more meat today than usual? Wang Lu said that today, the owner of the butcher shop gave him a lot of leftovers as an excuse to prevaricate. His wife smiled and asked him to bring some steamed buns to the butcher shop owner when he went to buy meat tomorrow and thanked him.
Everything was as usual, and after dawn the two began to sell steamed buns, until in the evening, the police broke into the steamed bun shop, arrested Wang Lu, and confiscated the remaining steamed buns.
"What you say is true?!" I asked him seriously.
Wang Lu nodded vigorously and affirmed: "What I said is true!" ”
"I'm telling you, you're suspected of murder now, and if you confess now, you can still get leniency. If you hide something, it will only add to your sin! Do you know?! Director Zheng hadn't closed his eyes for a few days for this case, and he was in a very irritable mood now, pointing at Wang Lu and yelling loudly.
Wang Lu was frightened by Director Zheng's stern voice, and then said with a face full of grievances: "What I said is true, why don't you believe it?" The meat was really picked up by me, I don't know what human flesh is, and I still don't know why you caught me in! ”
Director Zheng was already a little dizzy, but now he is even more dizzy.
According to the procedure when arresting people, the parties should be informed of the reason, and now that the serious crime team is around, doesn't Wang Lu's remarks constitute his own dereliction of duty?
Director Zheng took a few deep breaths, tried to calm down, and said to him seriously: "Someone reported that your bun filling is human flesh. ”
Before Director Zheng could finish speaking, Wang Lu immediately defended: "Human flesh? No way! I bought the pork foreleg and pork belly! This is a frame-up! It's slander! It must be the dog's day in the sheep soup restaurant next door, that old boy has a bad stomach, and he must not have held back his fart, he is the one who framed me! I had already figured out something was wrong with him! Comrade policeman, I also reported that he did not use mutton, it was adulterated, and there was a lot of duck meat in it! ”
Director Zheng was a little helpless, rubbed his face vigorously, calmed his mind, and said slowly: "We will investigate his adulteration, and now it's your business!" What kind of pork front leg and pig belly, we have been tested, it is human flesh! ”
"I ...... That meat was really picked up by me......" Wang Lu couldn't argue, he didn't explain anything, he just insisted that he didn't know anything about human flesh.
"We will investigate and confirm what you said, and we need to detain you until you are completely cleared of suspicions." Director Zheng said solemnly.
Wang Lu didn't understand what detention meant, he nodded ignorantly: "Detention is okay, just don't fine money, I can't make a lot of money when I get up early and stay late...... Also, I was able to tell my daughter-in-law no about my detention, telling him that I was fine here, and telling her not to worry about it, and to go back in a few days. ”
Director Zheng, who was seriously sleep-deprived, was blank by Wang Lu's brain, he looked at Wang Lu in a daze, thinking that this person had arranged quite clearly, what it meant to be good here, and he would go back in a few days.
Then, he said helplessly: "We have notified the family, don't worry." ”
Director Zheng really can't stand it, I asked him to rest first, there is a serious crime team in this matter.
"Then I'll catch up on sleep first, my brain is a little inflexible now." After he finished speaking, he yawned and went out.
After Director Zheng left, I looked at Wang Lu and said seriously: "Human meat buns, this is not a small case, the Public Security Bureau has set up a special task force, and I am here to investigate your matter, if you cooperate well, we will not catch a good person by mistake, nor will we let go of a bad person." ”
Wang Lu nodded again and again, and said: "I cooperate, I will cooperate, I believe in the police, I believe in the government, I say everything I know, and I don't talk nonsense if I don't know." ”
I looked at him seriously and continued to ask, "Where did you pick up that bag of meat?" Tell me exactly where I am. ”
"It's on the way back." He replied.
"Exact location." I accentuated my tone and asked again.