Qi Yao Inn

Peng Yu: "..."

Boss Peng was choked up by Li Yize's words, so he had no choice but to give up the topic completely.The voice of the food stalls is as loud as the crackling of the barbecue, and the freshly baked heat goes straight to the sky, and the unique aroma of seafood overflows, engulfing all the diners.

All the tables are placed in the open air and lined up in a row to form a long street.Overhead is the dark night sky, and the stars in the sky appear and disappear, which are quite similar to the oily light on the plate.

The two were chatting one after another. There were already a lot of crab shells, shrimp shells and oyster shells piled up on the table. Peng Yu lightly sucked the juice from his fingers and raised his arm towards the waiter: "One more dozen beer!"

Immediately afterwards, he burped and said to Li Yize: "Eat, I'll go for a walk for a while, digest and digest, and come back to fight with you."

Li Yize looked at him with the eyes of "human combat ability is really bad", and waved his hands indifferently, signaling him to go quickly.

Peng Yu stood up unsteadily, before taking two steps, his eyes were attracted by something - there was a small shop not far away, and the business seemed to be very hot, and there was already a queue outside the door. There is a long dragon.

He had just drank a lot of wine and was a little bit over the top, but for some reason he turned his feet and went to the store.

That store is very small, so small that there is only one front for selling things, a bit like a low-end "Kaifeng Cai" or "Golden Arch" dessert station.

The queue in front of him was too long, and he couldn't see what the store was selling at all. The signboard on the storefront only had the word "seafood" written on it, and there was nothing else, making it confusing.

So he had no choice but to ask the person in front of him: "Excuse me... what are you selling here?"

The big brother in front was probably a local with a heavy accent. Peng Yu didn't wear a hearing aid, and the sound nearby was noisy, so he couldn't hear it clearly. He could only vaguely hear some kind of "fish".

Peng Yuxin said that he had to queue up to buy fish, and his curiosity was instantly aroused. With the mentality of "trying something new", he lined up at the back in an orderly manner.

Although the line was long, the movement was not slow. After less than 5 minutes, he was already at the top of the line. Taking advantage of the very dim light of the store, he looked in through the window and found that the store was frying something in a pot of hot oil. Things, only four or five yuan at a time, after frying, scald them with a strainer, put them into a small paper box that is not as big as a cupcake holder, sprinkle with cumin and chili noodles, insert a small bamboo stick, and just pass it to the customer.

Peng Yu has never seen fish eaten like this, and thought it was some kind of local snack, thinking of buying some back for his dragon to taste, but saw that one portion was so small, not enough for a certain dragon to choke its teeth I sewed it, and I was about to buy more, when I saw a piece of cardboard next to it, with a few words written crookedly on it: "One person is limited to one."

He said in his heart that this store still has a temper, and then looked at the price: "One hundred yuan a piece."

Peng Yu: "..."

He stared at the only five pieces of meat in the carton for half a minute, then raised his head in disbelief, and asked the shopkeeper, "A hundred servings, are you serious?"

The owner of this store seemed to have a bad temper, so he frowned immediately, threw the carton in front of him, and babbled a lot in dialect, then took a few pieces of meat from the pot and threw them into the carton, very He waved his hand irritably, signaling him to get out of here.

Peng Yu didn't understand the dialect of this place very well, but he probably knew that the other party was expressing the meaning of "don't bother business if you don't have money, if you like to eat or not", he was immediately aroused, He took out all the cash in his pocket, but deliberately refused to give a hundred bills, and saved up a handful of change in front of his face. The largest denomination was ten yuan, the smallest one, and even a few steel coins. Bian, pat the opponent in front of him, pick up the paper box and run away.

There was a burst of cursing from behind, Peng Yu pretended not to hear because he was deaf, and turned a blind eye to the strange eyes of everyone, and returned to Li Yize very naturally, before he sat down, he heard the waiter "tactfully" say: "Sir, Why don't you... settle the bill first? You ordered a little too much, I'm afraid I might miss it, so why don't you check if there's anything wrong? "

Of course Peng Yu heard his voice, and said "tsk" impatiently: "What's the matter with you? You look down on outsiders, right? I just went out to digest food, thinking that I want to eat Bawang meal and not pay the bill?"

He took out his mobile phone while talking: "What are you doing in a daze, don't you want to pay the bill? You don't have enough cash, use it to scan the code."

"...Hey," the waiter hurried to get the QR code, and hurriedly apologized to him, "I'm sorry sir, I didn't mean that, don't mind—this is your list."

Peng Yu paid the money and waved him away, only feeling that he was out of luck today and bumped into walls everywhere.Li Yize actually didn't comfort him, and joked, "It seems that your influence in the South China Sea is not very good."

"You treat me as Papa Ma, everyone recognizes my face," Peng Yu was very depressed, "Our Peng family does very little business along the coast of the South China Sea, and there are only a few sporadic ones, and I don't come here often—— Don’t say I don’t want to stay here, either I feel at home or I’m not happy.”

Li Yize didn't answer his questions, and his eyes fell on the things he brought back: "What is this? You waited in line for a long time, and you just bought this little?"

It’s okay if he didn’t mention this, but Peng Yu became even more unhappy when he mentioned it, and told him about the strange flower shop: “You said that you are sick or not, and you don’t know what it sells. Buy him a piece for 20 yuan. Meat, how much did I burn?"

Li Yize wanted to answer, "Didn't you burn more money?", but seeing his face, he swallowed obediently, tied a piece of meat with a stick, put it in his nose and smelled it, and found that it was not fragrant at all. , except for the strong cumin flavor, there is almost no fresh seafood smell.

"I can't even smell what it is," he said. "It's like something I've never eaten."

He failed to distinguish the nose, so he had no choice but to "test it with his tongue", bit a little bit with his front teeth, and just put it in his mouth, his face suddenly changed.

"What's wrong?" Peng Yu was puzzled, "It's too spicy, but it still tastes bad?"

Li Yize swallowed the little bit of meat with great difficulty, and said in a low voice, "You've hit the right one—this is shark meat."

Peng Yu: "..."

His expression sank in an instant, and he turned his gaze back to the small shop where the business was booming. At the same time, he belatedly remembered that the big brother in front of him should actually be talking about "mermaid meat".

Ordinary people are not so clear about the distinction between "mermaid" and "mermaid". Anyway, they are both human body and mermaid tail, so they are often confused.I don’t know where the legend comes from, saying that eating mermaid meat can make you live forever. Although people generally don’t believe it, if it can prolong life and beautify the skin, it is estimated that quite a few people are willing to spend 100 yuan to try it. .

"This merman is really full of treasures," Peng Yu said with a sneer, "while alive, he can weave merman silk and weave pearls, and when he dies, he can squeeze the oil, and the leftover meat can be sold at a good price. No wonder there are so many people. I am willing to buy it, which makes my heart beat."

He said that he had already sent a location to Doutu, and originally wanted to write "Meet a stall selling shark meat, come quickly", but then he thought that this guy had already worked all day today, and he might not be willing to talk to him, so he sent the message It was changed to "I ordered a table at the food stall, I can't eat it anymore, it's still hot, so hurry up and send it away".

This method really worked, and Dou Tu replied almost instantly: "Okay, wait for me!"

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Only "eating" is the most important thing in the world, whether it is a fairy or a dragon.Dou Tu quickly appeared at the food stall, found them at a glance, leaned over and rubbed his hands excitedly: "Is this reserved for me?"

Li Yize gave him half a gracious push, and beckoned him to sit down: "Is it just you? Don't you bring a few of your seniors?"

Doutu couldn't wait to reach out to peel a shrimp, and successfully pushed himself into Boss Peng's pit of fire: "They're not here, it's just me."

Li Yize let out a long voice, "Oh", and waited for him to swallow the piece of shrimp meat, and then pushed the paper box containing the mermaid meat in front of him: "Come on, try this."

Dou Xianchang simply thought that he was invited to dinner, no doubt about him, stuck a stick into his mouth, and frowned after chewing twice: "What is this? Why does it taste so strange? ?”

Li Yize said unhurriedly, "Shark meat."

Dou Tu: "..."

Poor Dou Xianchang was played by two unkind things like this, his expression twisted instantly, as if he had just eaten a whole lemon.Almost in a panic, he found a stack of napkins from the table, pulled out two hastily, and spat out the meat in his mouth.

Then he let out a long sigh of relief, and opened a bottle of beer to rinse his mouth, only then did he feel that the strange smell was suppressed.

Peng Yu was not ashamed of his behavior at all, patted his arm, and pointed at the small door selling shark meat: "See, I bought it from his house."

That long line of queues was too conspicuous, and Dou Tu didn't care that he had just been tricked by someone. He rolled up his sleeves and was about to go to fight. Peng Yu held him down: "Don't worry, it's useless to seize this store alone. We're going to catch the supplier."

Dou Tu came to his senses in an instant, and retracted the leg he was about to step forward.Peng Yu snatched away a piece of crab meat that Li Yize handed to him: "I just inquired about it. This is the only shop selling shark meat nearby. It only opens after eleven o'clock in the evening. The opening hours are very unstable. Sometimes The interval is three to five days, sometimes ten days and half a month."

"However," Li Yize continued his conversation, "I just heard the store talk to customers, saying that this time the goods are relatively sufficient, and there will be another one tomorrow, and that this kind of goods must be sold on the spot to ensure freshness. From slaughtering, cleaning to pickling and selling, the interval will not exceed one afternoon."

"That is to say..." Dou Tu quickly realized, "He will pick up the goods tomorrow afternoon."

The three exchanged glances with each other, while lowering their heads and continuing to lick the skewers, Peng Yu said, "I thought, the information that He Bang can provide us with is limited, and the buyers who compete with him for business are basically buying jobs. Merman, if the merman dies, they may not necessarily slaughter it themselves, they may directly sell the body to the next family and let the next family handle it, just like a breeding farm and a slaughterhouse, it is a cooperative relationship."

"Makes sense."

Peng Yu: "So there must be a link between these two chains. If we can grasp the head and then the tail, maybe we can catch the middle part."

"Understood," Dou Tu nodded solemnly, "Leave the follow-up and evidence collection to me."