I am a super cop

Chapter 2201 Da Ge
"Boss, have you seen this person?" Gu Chen kept asking the restaurant owners in the business district to check Zhou Xiaotong's photos with his mobile phone.

But most people shook their heads in denial, saying they had never seen it.

After looking around, the restaurants on both sides of the street were almost found, but no one knew Zhou Xiaotong, which made Gu Chen a little puzzled.

"Damn it, didn't this Zhou Xiaotong have dinner with this generation that night? I've searched everywhere I should have looked, why doesn't anyone know me?"

Officer Wang put his hands on his hips, and he was in a hurry.

Lu Weiwei walked over from the shop on the other side, Officer Wang raised his chin, motioning for Lu Weiwei to report the situation.

Lu Weiwei didn't make a sound, but just shrugged and made a helpless expression.

"Ham, it seems that Zhou Xiaotong really didn't come to this business district for dinner that night."

"Maybe." Gu Chen couldn't figure it out now, he looked around, and continued to recall the shop he inspected just now.

In other words, according to my own investigation ideas, it is right to start with restaurants first.

After all, when it was meal time, Zhou Xiaotong had to leave the hotel and go outside to solve the dinner problem.

And they stayed for hours, and didn't return to the hotel room until 10 o'clock in the evening.

Unfortunately, after Gu Chen, Police Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei checked all the food and running water on both sides of the street, they found nothing.

"Junior Brother Gu, could we have made a mistake? Could it be that this Zhou Xiaotong is not here to solve the dinner problem at all?"

"Or, this place, and other restaurants, are located in inconspicuous locations? It's just that we just didn't find it?"

"Perhaps." Gu Chen looked around, but also said with uncertainty:

"It stands to reason that if you are opening a restaurant, it must be on both sides of the street. If you don't open in this location, it will be difficult for customers to know that you are a restaurant."

"Or in other words, there is such a restaurant in an obscure corner, but there are quite a lot of regular customers, so I don't have to worry about the lack of a good location for the store."

"En." Hearing Gu Chen's words, Police Officer Wang nodded slightly.

At this moment, a middle-aged man in overalls and a safety helmet came out from a corner with a toothpick in his mouth.

Not long after, several men in the same clothes came out of the alley in groups.

Many people had cigarettes in their mouths, and some were rubbing their bellies, looking satisfied.

Seeing this scene, Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang became interested immediately.

Lu Weiwei immediately stepped forward, stopped a man in overalls and asked, "Sir, may I ask, is there a restaurant in this alley?"

"That's right." It seemed that Lu Weiwei was not familiar with this area, the man also turned his head and pointed:
"You go into this alley, just turn a corner. There is a fly restaurant there. The owner is a one-eyed man who is in the fast food business."

"It's cheap to eat there. We brothers like to visit there. Why, do you want to eat there too?"

"Oh, we're just asking, thank you." Hearing what the man said, Lu Weiwei immediately felt that everyone's guess was correct.

The fly restaurant that slipped through the net may be the place where Zhou Xiaotong dined.

So everyone looked at each other tacitly, and then walked towards the alley together.

Sure enough, one turned a corner, and one didn't even have a signboard, just a small shop with a wooden sign with "fast food" handwritten on it, and it was just open.

Since it is not time for meal yet, there are not many diners here.

A tall and thin middle-aged man was washing vegetables in the back kitchen.

As soon as Gu Chen walked into the door, he heard a sound of pouring water from the back kitchen.

"Boss." Gu Chen stood at the door and called out.

"Do you want to eat?" The middle-aged man continued to wash the vegetables in his hand without looking back, and asked casually.

Gu Chen didn't answer immediately, but walked behind the man and said, "Boss, have you seen this man?"

Hearing Gu Chen's words, the middle-aged man washing vegetables stopped his work and turned to look at Gu Chen.

And just as the man in work clothes explained, the owner of the fast food restaurant is indeed a one-eyed man.

Maybe it was an unfamiliar face, or a policeman in uniform, or a one-eyed man. Then he quickly put down the vegetables on hand, shook off the water stains on his hands, wiped them on his cuffs, stood up quickly, and squinted.

"Who is this person?" One-eyed boss asked.

"A woman from Haidong City, did she come to your place for dinner a few nights ago?" Lu Weiwei asked.

Boss Cyclops continued to narrow his eyes and think. After a long time, he thought about it: "Eh? This woman seems to have been seen once before. It was a few days ago, right?"

"Yes, it was just a few nights ago." Officer Wang quickly agreed.

"Well, then I may have seen it, but I'm not sure."

"What do you say? Hasn't she come to eat in your restaurant?" Officer Wang was puzzled.

But Boss Cyclops waved his hand: "No, it's just that, here, the business is very good at night."

"When I get busy this time, I don't care too much, just cook."

"Only when the customer pays the bill, I will subconsciously take a look."

"What about when ordering? Don't you watch when ordering?" Lu Weiwei asked.

Boss Cyclops smiled, pointed to some ingredients on the table, and said, "This is a fast food restaurant, basically those dishes."

"Customers who are familiar with my place, every time they come, they will be at the door, yes, the one on your left."

After the words were finished, Boss Cyclops pointed to the area on the left side of Lu Weiwei and said, "See that? There is the plate stacking area over there, and the chopsticks are placed there."

"If you want to come to eat, familiar customers will hold their own plates, and then line up to come here. This is the dish area. I prepare many dishes every day and pour them on this big plate."

"Then, what do you eat? Make it yourself, anyway, there are three vegetables and one soup every time."

"Customers are very conscious, eat as much as they eat, and then consciously come here, that is, the rice area, and eat as much as they eat."

"It all depends on the customer's self-consciousness? Are you not afraid of losing money?" Lu Weiwei couldn't help being puzzled when she heard the boss's business idea.

But Boss Cyclops smiled and put on an indifferent attitude: "Losing money? If you meet that kind of customer who likes to take advantage, you may lose money."

"However, most of the people who come to eat here are ordinary people who work nearby. Everyone bows their heads and doesn't look up. They eat as much as they can, and never waste it."

"Besides, my buffet area is full of vegetables, all vegetarian dishes, no meat."

"So, there is no loss, and it saves me from hiring a cooking aunt myself. I can just concentrate on cooking."

"After the peak dining period, I cleared the plates, washed the vegetables, and cooked the meals by myself, and then waited for the guests in the next stage."

"Running it alone is taking the route of being cheap and close to the people. The price is beautiful, and everyone is willing to come here to eat. Even if you operate flexibly, you can't lose much. You can't make a lot of money."

"Well, from what you've said, it sounds like a good business idea, but the people who come here to eat must be regular customers, right?" Lu Weiwei asked.

The boss of Cyclops smiled, and echoed, "It can be understood in this way, but there are also some new customers. New customers will naturally become old customers after they get used to eating."

"Yes." Gu Chen nodded slightly when he heard such an explanation, and then asked the boss:
"That is to say, a few nights ago, when you were checking out, you saw this woman on my mobile phone, right?"

"Yes." Boss Cyclops nodded: "Anyway, I have a little impression."

"But it's her first time in Jiangnan City, and it's also her first time in the west side of the city. How can she find a restaurant like yours hidden in an alley?" Police Officer Wang still feels elusive about Zhou Xiaotong's situation. through.

Boss Cyclops snorted: "How do I know this? Maybe someone told him."

"That's right." Gu Chen was waiting for this sentence, so he immediately asked: "Who did she sit with that day, do you still have any memory?"

"Uh, this..." Doesn't it feel like Gu Chen is embarrassing himself?Boss Cyclops was also a little speechless.

But considering that the police really needed clues to find someone, after hesitating for a few seconds, Cyclops boss said slowly:

"The impression is not very deep, but the people who come here to eat are all old men. It's quite unusual for a woman, or a young woman, to come here to eat."

"So, the men sitting around will also take a more or less glance, of course, including me here."

Looking up and thinking, Boss Cyclops said again: "I remember at the time, she seemed to be sitting with two men, yes, it was two men."

"A tall and thin man, and a fat man with a medium build. The two of them are sitting opposite to that woman."

"Then do these three people look familiar?" Lu Weiwei asked.

Boss Cyclops shook his head: "I didn't pay attention to this, it feels like I know him?"

"After all, if I don't know each other, how could this little girl come to a place like me? Someone must have brought her here."

"I'm not afraid of your jokes. The reason why I opened the shop here to make a living is because the rent of the shop outside is too expensive, so I have no choice but to rent a small shop here."

"Do some acquaintance business, as long as I can survive starvation, I don't ask too much."

"And over the years, thanks to these old customers and word of mouth, my place has gradually become known to everyone."

Gu Chen recorded these, and then asked the Cyclops boss: "Then these two people, what you said, the thin and the fat, what do they do?"

"Uh, these two people? I know them. They work at the nearby freight station." The boss said.

"What's your name?" Officer Wang asked.

"What's his name? I don't know, but that fat, medium-sized man, I heard people call him Brother Da, but what is his name Da? I don't know, you can go to the freight yard on the other side of the wall and ask." , maybe you can know?"

"Thank you." Gu Chen didn't want to waste too much time here, and after getting the explanation from Boss Cyclops, he immediately set off for the cargo terminal.

In fact, the freight station in Cyclops' mouth is not that big.

A large courtyard with several areas built with mobile canopies.

There are some large and small trucks parked in the open space.

It looks like a temporary freight station, which is used to deliver goods to the merchants here. The canopy is full of various cardboard boxes.

At the entrance of the freight yard, there is an adult German Shepherd tethered.

Seeing the footsteps of strangers outside, Demu subconsciously barked a few times.

But when he saw that Gu Chen and the others were wearing uniforms, Demu seemed to know that those in uniform were not to be offended, so he immediately circled around for two weeks, hiding in a corner and not daring to scream.

Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang arrived at the freight yard smoothly.

At this time, an old man was carrying several large cardboard boxes on a small three-wheeler, preparing to transport them to one of the canopy areas.

Lu Weiwei had quick eyes and quick hands, and immediately stopped the uncle, and hurriedly asked, "Master, I want to ask you something."

"Let's talk." The uncle seemed to be a cheerful person, so he immediately stopped the tricycle and pulled on the handbrake.

"Then what? Is there a man named Da Ge here? He's just...fat, with a medium build." While Lu Weiwei was speaking, she was also gesturing with her hands to outline her body.

"Brother Da?" Hearing the name, the uncle immediately laughed and said, "Go here, go into the duty room over there, and among the group of people playing cards, the one who shouts the loudest is the so-called Brother Da."

"Thank you." After receiving the result, Lu Weiwei thanked her and watched the uncle leave by bicycle.

Afterwards, everyone followed the route guidance and soon came to a duty room.

It is said to be a duty room, but it is actually a temporary accommodation area converted from a container.

At this moment, a group of men in overalls were sitting around to compete in card skills.

"Boom, haha, I'm lucky today, and I can't stop luck when it comes, give me money, hurry up."

At the moment when Lu Weiwei was about to step into the door, Gu Chen pulled Lu Weiwei back.

A few people stood at the door, listening quietly.

At this time, the loud voice is still chattering: "Haha, this laziness is a very strange thing. It makes you think that it is comfort and blessing, but it brings you more boredom and depression."

"It deprives you of the exploration of the unknown, the pursuit of beauty, and even the control of your own life."

"Suffering is not worthy of praise, but hard work is worth it. Wherever your time is spent, there will be harvest."

"Not everyone will be successful and famous. Those of us are destined to find the meaning of life in the bits and pieces of life."

"If you're lucky, you'll have a few good friends."

"They will cry with you, laugh together, live together, grow old together, and walk through this long, humble and shining life together."

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