and meet

Entering the inn, Xiao Er greeted him graciously: "Do you want to stay at the inn, you two?"

Zhan Zhao said, "Eat something first, then stay in a hotel."

"Hey." Xiaoer agreed, and asked Zhan Zhao and Luo Qingqiu to sit down first, "What would you like to eat?"

"What kind of food do you cook here?"

The waiter in the store talked eloquently: "Mixed with three shreds, stewed tofu, and boiled chicken are all good at our place. If we say that our inn makes the best meat buns, that is the signature of our store. Many customers are It’s for the buns! Our buns have thin skins, big fillings, and fresh and tender meat. One bite will leave your mouth full of fragrance. You must try it!”

"Ma'am, look..." Zhan Zhao asked Luo Qingqiu.

"Buns? What stuffing?" Luo Qingqiu observed that the buns in this inn are indeed a signature, and every table has more or less ordered them.This is normal, but this shop is a black shop. As a modern person, it is inevitable to think of Sun Erniang's "human meat buns". Luo Qingqiu subconsciously asked this.

"Pork." Xiao Er smiled, "How about it? A cage?"

"Then let's get a cage." Zhan Zhao said.

Luo Qingqiu thought for a while, but felt a little uneasy, and blocked him: "Officer, let's forget it, I don't really want to eat steamed stuffed buns."

"Madam doesn't want to eat?" Zhan Zhao looked at Luo Qingqiu and said.

Before Luo Qingqiu opened his mouth, the waiter said: "Madam, our buns are famous far and wide, you don't want to eat them now, you want a basket, smell them, I'm afraid you still can't get enough of them!"

Luo Qingqiu shook his head: "I don't want it anymore, let's have stewed tofu."

"...Okay." The waiter couldn't persuade him anymore, so he had to give up.

Anyway, the drunkard's intention was not to drink, so Zhan Zhao ordered two random dishes, ate some, and went into the room with Luo Qingqiu to rest.

After entering the room and closing the door, Zhan Zhao asked Luo Qingqiu in a low voice: "The bun...?"

Luo Qingqiu shook his head: "It's nothing, I just really don't want to eat buns."

Zhan Zhao nodded, pointed to the bed and said, "If you are tired, rest."

Luo Qingqiu understood that Zhan Zhao should be on guard all night to see if the perpetrator made a move.It's just that danger and Zhan Zhao are around, how can Luo Qingqiu sleep peacefully?So he sat on the bed and watched Zhan Zhao's back sitting at the table.

Luo Qingqiu's eyesight is not good, and the light is dim at night, so she can't see clearly.Just looking at the tall, straight and strong back makes people feel very at ease.

The word Zhan Zhao itself is very reassuring.

Luo Qingqiu felt very strange, why did he like Zhan Zhao?

It is not surprising in the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhan Zhao has a gentle temperament and a handsome appearance, which is easy to like.But in modern times, he only comes from novels and TV dramas.But she just fell in love with it.She also liked characters in novels and TV dramas, but that was different.Those characters, she just said "he is so good" for a few days, and soon she will not care much.She likes Zhan Zhao, and has persisted for six years. Luo Qingqiu has never persisted in one thing for so long, and it is either Zhan Zhao in any of the works, or Zhan Zhao himself.There are so many people who have read the same novel and TV series, why is it her?

Why is it her?

Thinking wildly, it was too late.

Someone knocks on the door.

Zhan Zhao went to open the door with a courteous face.

"Guest officer, do you need to boil water for a bath?"

"No need." Zhan Zhao said coldly, "We are going to rest, don't bother us if we have nothing to do."

"Eh, okay."

After the man went down, and after waiting for a while, Zhan Zhao blew out the lamp.

In order not to worry Zhan Zhao, Luo Qingqiu also lay down on the bed.

In the ears, there is the sound of bells.

The bells are hung outside the store. Is this the boss's ingenuity, or is there some other reason?

When talking about the case with Luo Qingqiu before, she was still thinking, Zhan Zhao's martial arts are so good, why can't he lurk in this inn, not disturbing the people, but also being able to investigate the case.Now I understand that with the sound of the bell, if you don't get close, you can't hear the sound of other people's conversations, and you can't hear other movements.

Perhaps, the innkeeper had planned to do something illegal from the beginning, so he hung up the bell to prevent prying eyes?

Luo Qingqiu didn't know, he became sleepy after thinking about it, and fell asleep lightly.

It was late at night, and the surroundings were very quiet, which made the sound of bells even more contrasting.

Luo Qingqiu woke up, and she saw Zhan Zhao still sitting at the table.

It was very dark, probably the darkest hour of the night.If the perpetrator hadn't done it now, he probably wouldn't have done it tonight.

Soon, there was movement.

The door was gently opened, but Luo Qingqiu did not move.Zhan Zhao had warned him before, not to act rashly.

Someone approached the bed, and then, something was lifted—Luo Qingqiu couldn't see clearly.

But before the thing in his hand could fall, Zhan Zhao got up and pushed the man to the ground. At the same time, with his other hand, he grabbed another person who was about to run away.

"Guest officer, listen to my explanation..." The voice of the man who was pushed down by Zhan Zhao trembled.

"There's no need to explain, you can explain it however you want, and no innkeeper will enter a guest's room with a knife in the middle of the night."

Seeing that the villain had been subdued, Luo Qingqiu hurriedly got out of bed and lit the lamp.

The one who was knocked down was indeed the innkeeper, and the person who was caught was the innkeeper's wife.

If they really met them to commit murder, I don't know if this luck is good or bad.

Hearing Zhan Zhao say: "We are from Kaifeng Mansion, and we are here for the four couples who disappeared in this inn for no reason."

"...how is it possible?" Seeing that Zhan Zhao was an official post, the boss didn't explain any more, just puzzled, "I obviously put medicine in the tea!"

Tea?Luo Qingqiu recalled that before the tea on their table was served, the boss seemed to have indeed disappeared from their sight for a while, and it turned out that he was going to prescribe medicine.

Coincidentally, Luo Qingqiu really did not drink water during this meal.

But Zhan Zhao?

"Zhan has been in the rivers and lakes for many years, and you can taste the most common Mongolian sweat medicine when you touch your lips." Zhan Zhao explained unhurriedly.

"No." The proprietress, who had been silent all this time, said, "Master, today we are foolish and want to steal your money, but the four couples you mentioned have nothing to do with us."

Zhan Zhao sneered, "Whether it matters or not, don't rush to a conclusion right now."

It was later proved that there was a reason for the proprietress' sophistry.

The bodies of the four missing couples were searched throughout the inn, but they were never found.

Is it already buried?But the question is... why, exactly, young couples?

If this is placed in modern times, people will definitely comment on such a mystery on the Internet. It is the misfortune of the marriage between the boss and the boss's wife, which does not show the love between husband and wife.

But obviously, the relationship between the boss and the boss's wife doesn't seem to be particularly bad.

The perpetrator has been caught, and Luo Qingqiu has nothing to do with him.It's just that everyone in the world is curious. After all, Luo Qingqiu already knew the first half of the case, and it still feels uncomfortable not knowing the ending.

The inexplicably missing person has no body.

A shop full of bells, especially delicious buns...

steamed stuffed bun? !

Is it really...

Luo Qingqiu felt his scalp go numb. In reality, does such a thing really happen?

She didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly shared this idea with Zhan Zhao.

"Human flesh... buns?"

"Yeah." Luo Qingqiu nodded solemnly. I don't know if it's true or not. I seem to have heard it in modern times. Human flesh is delicious.If that's the case, it's no wonder that the steamed buns of this store are the signature.

If that was the case, if I ordered a cage back then...

I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep well for the rest of my life.

Without Sun Erniang's foreshadowing, Zhan Zhao obviously still couldn't accept it: "It would be too insane to chop people into meat stuffing and make buns."

"Some people just want to make money, what can't they do? If it weren't for the delicious buns, how could this inn in the suburbs have so many guests?" Luo Qingqiu also observed it before. The inn has a lot of customers. , in addition to the characteristics of the bell, there is also because the buns are special.

After thinking about it, Zhan Zhao felt that it made sense, so he started to investigate.They did find minced meat in the inn kitchen, but with this idea, no one dared to taste it.After thinking about it, I still invite people who have eaten steamed buns in that inn before, and let them talk about the taste.Naturally, they will not be told that it is human flesh.

"It's very fragrant, more chewy than ordinary pork, a bit like beef, more like a mixture of many kinds of meat."

Neither this kind of meat nor that kind of meat, Luo Qingqiu's idea seems to be right.

Although a little creepy, they still had to accept it.

After guessing the truth, I went to question the innkeeper and the proprietress. Although it took a lot of effort, they finally confessed.

Also explained why they are husband and wife.

The couple has been selling human meat buns for a long time, they just haven't been in the same place.If enough people were killed in one place, it would arouse suspicion, so change to another place.After all, those couples are only missing and have not been confirmed dead, so they will not be affected in the short term.

The two of them had always been the only ones who killed, and the shop assistants were all hired locally without knowing it.Every inn they opened was hung with bells, but the main purpose was not to prevent prying eyes, but to cover up the sound of human flesh being picked off human bones and chopped into minced meat in the middle of the night after the murder.

As for human bones, there are only bones left, and feeding them to dogs will not arouse suspicion.

And the victims were all young couples, young people are easy to talk about, but old meat is naturally not tasty.The reason for the husband and wife is that the stuffing of buns needs to be mixed with the meat of men and women to be delicious.Men's meat is firm and thin, and women's meat is soft and fat. When eaten together, the taste is excellent.And since both men and women are to be killed, it is naturally best to be a husband and wife, and it is easy to fight together, and only one family is killed.If someone hears that someone is missing and dare not come, if it is not a couple, they will not be afraid.

The case was solved, and Luo Qingqiu was the number one hero. He not only helped catch the real culprit, but also deduced the motive of the crime.

Luo Qingqiu was able to say the four words "human flesh buns" without changing his face, and everyone else was surprised.Gongsun Ce thought, he really saw the right person, Luo Qingqiu was indeed not an ordinary timid and delicate girl.But even so, I still think she is very bold and daring to think.But Luo Qingqiu is a modern person after all, he has always heard of some murder cases, how could he be so easily scared.Regarding this case, she was just glad that she didn't eat the signature steamed stuffed bun of that inn.

After the matter was over, Luo Qingqiu wrote a letter to Feng Siyu, telling her about the experience.

The author has something to say:

I didn't expect that I would finish the case in one chapter... But this text is mainly about daily life.

ps. Don't take the taste of human flesh buns seriously.