Mingmei Café is located in the most prosperous commercial street in Nanlin City and is a favorite place for many young and white-collar workers in the city.

At half past ten o'clock in the evening, in the lobby on the second floor of Mingmei Cafe, Li Changqing, a 24-year-old young detective wearing a windbreaker, held his sparse chin with one hand and gently stroked the coffee in front of him with a spoon in his other hand.

One, two, three...

It took me a long time until the middle-aged bald fat boss Gao Mingyong, opposite the table, could not sit still, and then said lightly: "Boss Gao, whether it is solving a case or filing a lawsuit, if it brings reputation and financial losses to the hired detectives or lawyers because the employer conceals the facts, the compensation will be very high."

"Teacher Li, you're over! Since Gao asked you to solve the case, it means he has full trust in you. How could he hide anything from the relevant clues?"

"Yeah……"

Li Changqing suddenly stopped scratching coffee, and his chin was held up with his right hand, his eyes turned black, and his two eyelids were half-slimming, as if he was about to fall asleep.

The coffee hall, which had no one else, seemed even quieter.

After a while, Gao Mingyong suddenly sighed, reached out and touched the top of his head, and smiled bitterly: "Tan Li, you are a smart person, I will just say it. In order to save costs, I did add fakes to the second- and third-level coffees. About half of the coffee powder is actually three affordable coffees from Altan."

"But this is the unspoken rule of the entire industry, not just me. Gao dares to pat his chest to ensure that the proportion of adulteration in all Nanlin cafes is definitely not the highest! Moreover, in special coffee or even first-class coffee, Gao has never made a fake one, which of course includes the cup in front of you..."

"Cough cough cough cough cough..."

The violent cough suddenly interrupted the other party's explanation. After a long time, Li Changqing breathed smoothly, and his originally bad face looked even more haggard.

"Tan Li, you... are okay?"

"It's okay, it's an old problem. Thank you, Boss Gao for your concern."

Li Changqing took out a small plastic white bottle from his arms, shook out a small handful of raw glutinous rice, and swallowed it bit by bit like taking medicine with the coffee on the table. After a while, his face slightly licked a little rosy. Li Changqing then patted his chest and chuckled: "This cup of extra-grade leopard shit coffee tastes really good."

Li Changqing ignored the other party's strange expression and immediately took out a document from the briefcase next to him and put it on the fat boss's end. "I'm really busy recently, so I won't waste Boss Gao's time. This is the situation I have investigated since I received the commission. Boss Gao can take a look first. This case is not a simple prank. The woman's hair and nails that your guests drank from coffee recently. The prisoner is neither your employee nor your competitor. As for who it is..."

Speaking of the key point, Li Changqing suddenly stopped and signaled the other party to read his report first.

Suddenly I had to know the truth. Even though Gao Mingyong believed that he was not surprised to deal with things, he still couldn't calm down.

The business of Mingmei Coffee Shop has always been booming, but recently, many customers have drunk strange things in their coffee, which has seriously affected the business of the coffee shop.

After the investigation and surveillance failed, he began to wonder if it was an insider or his competitor was making trouble in secret, so he invited a detective.

This detective is not very famous in the industry, but it is said that he is very good at handling difficult and complicated cases.

Gao Mingyong picked up the stack of reports on the table. When he opened it, his hands holding the reports couldn't help but tremble.

The report is clearly displayed:

Victim: Chen Haoran, male, 77 years old, living in No. 13, Lao Street, Nanlin City, February 4, 2018, due to diarrhea, he became infected with sepsis. The cause is unknown, and he is highly suspected of taking mental sedative drugs by mistake.

Victim: Chen Zhenzhu, female, 19 years old, a wealthy businessman Chen Sier, a female, on November 11, 2019, she ran a red light after speeding and died. She had an autopsy afterwards and was highly suspected of driving with a drug.

Victim...

Li Changqing said calmly: "For most people, shell powder will only be addictive and dependent. However, if a chronic patient with weak mental illness overdose is taken at one time, he will show symptoms such as mental disorder, heart failure, and even immune system collapse. These victims, without exception, had experience in Nanlin City before the onset of the disease, and had all drunk coffee in your store."

"In addition, I have a test report here. I asked a friend from the college to help test ten coffees of different grades in your store within a week. Five of them contain the ingredients of factor powder, which naturally includes the first-grade coffee that Boss Gao said just now will never be adulterated."

Speaking of this, Li Changqing's tone suddenly became stern: "Boss Gao, food adulteration, which directly or indirectly causes the death of diners, is a very serious food safety accident. Is factor fans also an unspoken rule in the industry?"

"Even if the police characterize the nature of the incident as poisoning... it will not be a problem that can be solved with just money!"

Speaking of this, Li Changqing said seriously: "Boss Gao, a price of 50,000 yuan, you write a letter of remorse and surrender to the Food Bureau, admitting that you have adulterated coffee, and guarantee that you will never commit it again in the future. I will help you solve this incident."

"Five...50,000 coins?!!"

"Tan Li, you are robbing!"

Gao Mingyong's face looked ugly: "I, Lao Gao, have adulterated, but I have never heard of the fact that a fan of killing people. The industry has never heard of it! The detective is located in Nanlin, and he is also well-known. He shouldn't play this kind of blackmailing client in a false way, right? If it is spread, it must be unfavorable to your reputation!"

The other party responded fiercely, but Li Changqing seemed to have expected it. Li Changqing stood up calmly, picked up the fedora on the table and patted it, then pulled open the chair and said lightly: "Actually, the most troublesome thing about this matter is not food adulteration... This time, the woman's hair, teeth and nails appeared in the coffee. The entire process of coffee from cooking to finishing is monitored and shot without blind spots, and there is nothing suspicious about it. So... the only logic that can be used for explanation is Boss Gao, you came out to break out at the age of fifteen, and you must be a knowledgeable person..."

After saying that, Li Changqing put his fedora on his head, picked up the cane leaning against the wall and walked to the stairs, turning his head to leave the last sentence of the night, "Although the negotiations broke down, Li will still abide by the entrusted agreement and keep the incident confidential for the employer. I hope that Boss Gao will do his own thing in the future."

Watching Li Changqing's figure disappear from the floor-to-ceiling window, Gao Mingyong sat down dejectedly, his face unstable.

The business of Mingmei Coffee Shop has always been booming, but recently, many customers have drunk strange things in their coffee, which has seriously affected the business of the coffee shop.

After investigation of the surveillance failed, he began to suspect that it was either an insider or a competitor who was secretly making trouble, so he invited a detective. The detective is not very famous in the industry, but it is said that he is good at handling difficult and complicated cases. But now it seems that this guy, the criminal, found out his own problems and dared to raise prices. This made Gao Mingyong very upset and regretted that he should not have been greedy for cheap things and heard about it and went to the small detective center.

He was actually blackmailed...

“Duang—Duang—Duang—”

The sound of the bell tower sounded from afar at midnight. Gao Mingyong came to his senses and decided to go to the formal and well-known detective to investigate the matter the next day. After making up his mind, he brought the coffee cups left by the two to the kitchen.

On the quiet kitchen countertop, a cup of freshly brewed coffee was placed.

"Xiao Li?!"

Gao Mingyong looked around. Under the incandescent lamp, the kitchen was silent. He did not see Xiao Li, an employee who was working overtime today.

It shouldn't be Xiao Li, I asked him to get back from get off work at ten o'clock...

Or is it a prank at the Lombardo black tea shop opposite? That crazy woman often pours garbage water into the street in the early morning...

Gao Mingyong had a cold face and plucked up the courage to walk over and pick up the cup of coffee. The heat coming from his face filled with the aroma of coffee. Gao Mingyong almost had the urge to drink it all.

The cup was held to his mouth, and the fat boss suddenly remembered something, and his face became ugly again.

He slowly put down the cup and poured the coffee into the sink. As the brown and yellow liquid slowly flowed out, several dark red women's nails gradually appeared in the cup, and there were also a small ball of long hair wrapped in a small ball of women underneath.

"Ba"

Gao Mingyong suddenly trembled all over, and the cup fell into pieces and splashed.

"Who is it-"

"Get out of here!"

Gao Mingyong suddenly became furious for no reason, rushed to the side of the hanging board for a few steps and picked up two kitchen knives. He was hysterical: "If you have the ability to come out and kill me! What shameful things are you doing behind your back!"

"Damn it, come out for me..."

I don’t know how long it took to roar, but the kitchen became quiet again.

Gao Mingyong felt weak all over. He put the kitchen knife in disappointment. After thinking about it, he took a handful of it with him, turned around and left the kitchen, and returned to the temporary bedroom of the warehouse on the third floor of the coffee shop.

Turn on the light, throw the kitchen knife onto the coffee table, turn on the TV, and turn on the sound to the maximum. Gao Mingyong turned around and went to the bathroom to wash his face, put on his nightgown, drink a cup of tea, watch entertainment programs, and don't turn off the lights, just turn off the TV, and prepare to go to bed.

Gao Mingyong, who was worried, was lying on the bed toss and turned and couldn't sleep. He finally counted the sheep and was sleepy. Suddenly—

"Swishy—"

Gao Ming was startled and looked up. He saw that the TV was turned on, but the screen was full of snowflakes, and there seemed to be no signal.

"The grass, the TV is broken too? It's really a matter of fury that he's going to be unlucky!"

Gao Mingyong spat and was about to reach out to grab the remote control on the head of the bed, but he heard the rustling sound in the TV gradually became irregular.

Gao Mingyong looked back and saw some black and white pictures suddenly appearing on the TV, but flashing between the pictures and snowflakes, and the signal was obviously not very good.

What kind of fucking program is this? What era is it? There are still black and white programs?!

Gao Mingyong stared at the intermittent pictures on TV in a daze. Sometimes a woman from the era decades ago was combing her hair in front of a mirror, sometimes a word full of screen was moving, and sometimes a river was standing in the river, a person covered with a cloth head...

After a while, the TV signal gradually stabilized, and the picture finally appeared continuously, and then... it seemed that it did not change anymore.

"What kind of horror show is this? I have to complain to the TV station tomorrow!"

Gao Mingyong spat again and suddenly noticed that something seemed wrong in the well on the TV?

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That wellhead seems...
Chapter completed!