Xuanyuan Jue

Chapter 20
But as soon as the front foot was sent out, a cook on a big stove came back.The cook said that someone ordered "Head and Face" in the front hall, but there was no food on the big stove. Seeing that Niu Er brought a piglet over in the morning, he thought about asking for a ready-made one.

This "has a head and a face", to put it bluntly, it is a grilled pork head.Niu Er thought it would be useless to keep the pig's head, so he asked the cook to wait for a while, and went to the small stove to cut it.

But it wasn't until Niu Er chopped off the pig's head from the cavity that he felt that something had really happened.Niu Er has been a cook for many years, so he naturally recognizes the appearance of that pig bone.But right now, this "pig's head" is clearly something strange!
Although Niu Er was flustered, he didn't dare to respond.He lied casually, and sent the cook who wanted the pig's head away, but he closed the door himself, picked up a sharp boning knife, and began to peel the pig's head.

The bloody flesh was peeled off bit by bit, and Niu Er's palm holding the knife trembled more and more.In the end, after the bloody pig's face was torn apart, a rounded top of the skull was revealed.

With a "bang", the sharp knife fell to the ground.Niu Er's eyes burst into blood, and he squatted down on the ground in shock.

That skull is clearly a skull!

This person's skull is very different from other animals, even a doll of a certain age can be distinguished at a glance.

Looking at the skull in front of him, Niu Er was flustered and short of breath, and the padded jacket on his back was drenched in cold sweat.He never imagined that there was a person wrapped in the lean pig that the butcher Hu sent him.

After panting for a long time, Niu Er realized that just now he was cooking the "Huaishan Bone Pot" with this corpse of neither human nor pig, and at this moment, it might have already fallen into the stomach of the diners!

Thinking of this, Niu Er was really anxious.He didn't care whether the diners ate the soup. What he was afraid of was that if the diners recognized those bones, he would face a lawsuit for no reason.After all, the soup came out of his own hands, and if it really made a big fuss, the mouth all over his body would also be responsible.

For a moment, Niu Er panicked and turned around, thinking about it, and decided to take the "pork bone pot" back first while no one was paying attention, and then make plans.So, in a panic, I found the waiter, made up some excuses, and begged him to go to Feng Shen and the others to get soup.Unexpectedly, Feng Shen's sharp eyes had already seen through the bones in the soup, and that's why he ended up like this.

"My lord," Niu Er said hastily after finishing speaking, "everything the villain said is true...it's all because the villain is timid and afraid of getting into trouble...but you never dare to do murder! Besides, the 'strange pig' was already slaughtered when it was delivered... The villain just carves out the bones and cuts the flesh..."

"So, that butcher Hu is the most suspicious?" Feng Shen pursed his lips and said, "Niu Er, do you know where that butcher Hu lives?"

Niu Er hurriedly replied: "I know, I know, the villain knows!"

"Well," Feng Shen nodded, and asked again, "The corpse of the 'pig man' is still in your small kitchen?"

"Still..." Niu Er said with a bitter face, "The villain didn't have time to think about it...he was called here by the official..."

"That's good," Feng Shen said again, "at this time, the officials will arrive at Zuixianlou soon, you two will just wait here, and when the officials arrive, I will go to the small kitchen. Check it out!"

But at this time downstairs, Zha Wuzuo was leading a group of yamen servants to the door.As soon as the servants entered, the diners were dumbfounded.Seeing the menacing officials coming, the guys didn't dare to say anything, and hurried to the back to find the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper of the Zuixian Building heard the letter and rushed out from the back hall in a hurry.As soon as he saw this situation, he knew that the visitor was not good, so he hurried forward and said hello one by one: "I don't know that all the officials are coming, and I am far away to welcome you. If you neglected, please forgive me..."

"There is no need to be too polite," said Zha Wuzuo, waving his hand, "You are the shopkeeper?"

"Xiao Ke is right," the shopkeeper bowed, and said, "If the official has something to say, just order it."

"Old Cha!" At this moment, a big purple-faced man in official uniform and full of beards said suddenly, "Stop chattering around here! Where is the murderer? I led my brothers to surround him !"

"Murderer?" The shopkeeper trembled, and hurriedly asked, "This official...what do you mean by always talking about murderer?"

"Why are you pretending to be confused?" The big purple-faced man rolled his eyes, "There's a murder case in your Zuixian Tower!"

"Huh? A homicide case?"

Upon hearing this, the other diners panicked, chattering and chattering.Many timid people stood up from their seats, trembling and thinking about going outside.

"No one is allowed to run away! Stay here for me!" The big purple-faced man saw this, pulled out his knife with a "cang clang", pointed at those diners who wanted to slip away, and shouted, "If you dare to run, don't blame me Ruthless under the knife! Brothers, put me in prison inside and outside the Drunken Immortal Building! No one is allowed to be released!"

"Yes!" The other yamen servants shouted in unison, and scattered in all directions.

"Lu Bantou, you're so impatient!" Zha Wuzuo couldn't help complaining in a low voice when he saw the big purple-faced man like this, "This commotion...is too loud..."

"Ah... didn't you ask the instructor's name?" The shopkeeper's face turned blue with fright, and he stared blankly at the big purple-faced man.

Seeing this, Zha Wuzuo had no choice but to tell Daoming, the shopkeeper, "This is Lu Guan, Lu Bantou."

"Oh, Lu Bantou..." The shopkeeper hurriedly bowed to each other after hearing this, "I don't know what crime we committed in Zuixianlou... It made Lu Bantou furious..."

"Stop talking nonsense!" Lu Ban shouted again, turned his head and asked Zha Wuzuo, "Old Zha, where are the corpse and the suspect?"

"Upstairs," Zha Wu said, "Master Feng is currently interrogating."

Lu Ban frowned with thick eyebrows: "Which Young Master Feng?"

"Master Feng Shen Feng! He is the son of Mr. Feng, who is the execution seat!" Zha Wuzuo said again.

"It's him?" Lu Ban asked in confusion, "He's not the official of our Shuntian Mansion, how can he interrogate the suspect?"

"You don't know about that," Zha Wu said, "From now on, Young Master Feng has become the experience of our Shuntian Mansion!"

"Oh? Is there such a thing?" Lu Bantou was about to ask again, but Feng Shen's voice came from upstairs.

"Feng Shen later, met Lu Bantou!"

Lu Ban hurriedly looked up, and saw Feng Shen escorting Niu Er and the waiter down the stairs.

As Feng Shen walked away, he said: "Just now I interrogated the cook first, and learned some clues."

"It's still Master Feng after all!" Zha Wu praised, "There are clues so soon?"

Feng Shen nodded at Zha Wuzuo, and then said to Lu Ban: "I think Mr. Zha should have talked to Lu Ban about the specific matter. Now the pot of soup is upstairs, and the soup is made by this man named Niu Er." Cook, please trouble the head of Luban to send this evidence, and the suspect should be temporarily detained."

Seeing Feng Shen issuing orders, the leader of Lu Ban was quite dissatisfied.But in front of everyone, it's not easy to show it clearly.Finally, with a wave of his hand, he asked the two yamen servants to follow Feng Shen's wishes.

According to Niu Er's confession, there were still remaining corpses in the small kitchen.So, after Feng Shen explained, he, Zha Wuzuo and Lu Bantou went to Xiaozao to check it out.

Pushing open the closed door, several people squeezed into the small kitchen.There are a lot of pots and pans piled up inside, and a pot of soup is still boiling on the stove.On the chopping board in the middle, there is a chopped "pig face".On the north wall, there is a large iron frame.The so-called "headless pig man" was being hooked by an iron hook and hanging leisurely on the frame.

Feng Shen let out a "hmm" and started searching in the small stove again.After a while, a bloody skull was found in the firewood basket beside the stove.

There are still a few strands of muscle sticking to the skull, not like that kind of rotten skull of a dead person.Two eyeballs are embedded in the eye sockets, and a section of tongue hangs out. If I have to say it, it looks like a human head that has been stripped of its face.

Seeing this bloody human head, the others couldn't help retching a few times.Feng Shen paused for a while, then took the "fire chopsticks" used to hold charcoal to poke the stove, picked up the other end, and compared it with the rotten pig's face on the chopping board.After a while, Feng Shen walked to the corpse in front of the iron frame and inspected it for a long time, his expression became more and more ugly.

"Master Feng..." Seeing Feng Shen like this, Zha Wuzuo couldn't help asking, "Is... is this a person? Why do I feel... like a monster?"

"Master Zha," Feng Shen said slowly, "generally... I can guess what's going on... But for now, let's transport the suspect and the corpse back to the government office, and then quickly press the second bull. The clues given are to follow the vines!"

"That's all right!" Before Zha Wuzuo could speak, Naluban head said, "Tell me the clues, I'll take the brothers to catch people!"

"No!" Feng Shen waved his hand at Lu Bantou and said, "It's not easy to publicize this matter. If the news gets out, I'm afraid it will startle the snake. Lu Bantou will lead his brothers to seal the news first, and Master Zha and I will go to inquire again. Let's work together. Come to it for an unannounced visit!"

(End of this chapter)