At 7:30 the next morning, Qin Nan was awakened by the alarm clock. What he didn't expect was that Wu Haotian had already gotten up early and seemed to have finished washing up.
Qin Nan called Song Yi, and then told them to go to the Chengnan Garden first, and he would come over later, because Song Yi considered that he was relatively close to the Chengnan Garden, so he asked them to go there first.
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It was already 8:15 when Qin Nan and Wu Haotian arrived at Chengnan Garden. At this time, Chengnan Garden was full of people going to work and school. Since this is a public rental housing complex, the flow of people was particularly large.
At this time, Qin Nan saw a cleaner nearby and hurriedly walked up.
"Uncle, I want to ask you something." Qin Nan asked with a smile.
The uncle looked at Qin Nan and seemed a little reluctant to talk to him.
"What's the matter? Just tell me if you have anything. I'm busy." The uncle replied while scanning.
"When you were cleaning recently, did you pick up any bones or the like, like ribs?" Qin Nan couldn't tell the uncle about human bones.
One is that he is afraid that the uncle will think he is crazy, and the other is that he is afraid of causing panic.
The uncle put the broom on the ground and thought about it carefully for a while, saying that he didn't see it. Then he walked to the other side of the road and swept the ground.
"We are selling steamed buns, super delicious big steamed buns, five yuan for ten, ten yuan for twenty-five!" At this time, the cry of the steamed bun seller came from across the road.
Qin Nan didn't notice at this time. He was thinking about how to launch the investigation next. Wu Haotian looked at him and motioned for him to wait here.
Then he ran across the street and queued up to buy steamed buns.
These buns are really cheap. In their hometown, they cost at least 8 yuan for 10 buns. Unexpectedly, they cost 10 yuan for 25 buns here.
The surroundings were crowded with old men and women, and there were almost no young people in sight. Maybe they felt that the goods were cheap but not good.
But these old men and women didn't care about this, and just swarmed in. Those who should queue up queued up, and those who should jump in line jumped in. Wu Haotian belonged to the former.
Just when Qin Nan was thinking, he found that Wu Haotian was missing. He looked around and found that he was selling buns on the street opposite.
At this time, another cleaning lady came over with a broom, and Qin Nan quickly stepped forward and asked:
"Auntie, when you were cleaning this neighborhood recently, did you find a lot of bones, like ribs, maybe in black plastic bags?"
At this time, the cleaner's aunt frowned, and Qin Nan knew there was something going on.
"I think... I saw it around here a month ago, but I'm also wondering why such a big pile of ribs would not be thrown here in the vegetable market. I think the person who threw it is mentally ill.
Later, a man was going to take the pile of ribs back to make soup, but when he smelled it carefully, he found that the smell was too fishy and a little spoiled. He didn't know whether it was beef bones or mutton bones.
Later, we threw the pile of bones directly on the garbage truck."
The cleaner aunt said.
After Qin Nan thanked him, the cleaner aunt walked over to the uncle who was sweeping the floor, as if she was ready to chat.
Qin Nan couldn't help but frown. The pile of bones they were dealing with was most likely a pile of human bones, but that pile of human bones was definitely not found now.
Just as he was thinking, Wu Haotian not far away had finished buying steamed buns and walked over from across the road.
At the same time, his cell phone rang at this time.
"Hey, Lao Song, what's wrong? Are you here?"
"Well, we are near the Qitian convenience store. I will send you the location. This is the only place where you can park." Song Yi said on the phone.
Qin Nan looked at the location and saw that it was more than two hundred meters away, and then rushed to the Qitian convenience store with Wu Haotian.
"Hey, who is this..." Ma Xiaotao looked at Wu Haotian, who was wearing a somewhat rustic dress and asked.
"This is a relative of mine, and he can be considered my younger brother. His name is Wu Haotian, so you can call him Haotian." Qin Nan said.
At this time, Ma Xiaotao's stomach began to growl, and he couldn't help but swallow when he looked at Wu Haotian's big bag of buns.
Seeing this, Wu Haotian handed the pile of steamed buns to everyone and said, "Everyone should try the steamed buns I just bought on the roadside."
Immediately, Li Bing, Song Yi, and Ma Xiaotao took out the buns from their pockets.
When Ma Xiaotao took her first bite, she thought the texture was pretty good, but when she bit into the meat inside, she felt something was wrong. She frowned.
After passing the fat tendon in my mouth, I felt that the taste was a little strange, as if it was not too fresh, and it was also sour.
In this winter, if fresh steamed buns are kept for so many hours, there will definitely be no problem, but the meat in this steamed bun is really...
Ma Xiaotao then took out a tissue, spit out the piece of meat in her mouth and said:
"Where did you buy this? I asked the food department to check it. There is something wrong with this meat!"
"Indeed, where did Haotian buy this? Show us." Song Yi spat out the buns in his mouth and said.
"At the tourist stall two streets back, there are a lot of people buying a lot. This is the last point. He may have closed the stall." Wu Haotian said.
"No, it shouldn't be stale if there are so many people buying it," Ma Xiaotao said doubtfully.
"Maybe it's because it's cheap. After all, it's only 10 yuan for 25 buns..." Before Wu Haotian could finish his words, Qin Nan and others looked at him with wide eyes.
"10 yuan and 25 pieces?! I finally know why. It's definitely low-quality bloody neck meat! If I know who it is, I won't arrest him!" Ma Xiaotao said angrily.
When Wu Haotian saw Ma Xiaotao and Song Yi put down the buns in their hands, there was a hint of disappointment in their eyes.
Qin Nan took a deep breath, bit off half of the bun and said, "Haotian, thank you anyway, I will only eat this one, I really can't eat any more."
At this time, Li Bing on the side was frowning. She looked at Wu Haotian's large bag of buns, stepped forward, took another one, and cut it in half.
She smelled it again, frowned and said, "This meat... seems to be human flesh..."
As soon as Li Bing said these words, everyone present looked at her with wide eyes. At this time, Qin Nan also stopped chewing.
Haotian frowned, took a bun and cut it in half, put it to his nose and smelled it. In addition to the smell of green onions, there seemed to be other smells,
He bit off a small piece of minced meat, chewed it, then spit it out, frowned, and said slowly:
"This is... human flesh."
[Author's digression]: The incident in this chapter occurred on the morning of December 5