"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 need to look, 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.
... "But this is your first time in Jiangnan City, and it's also your first time in the west side of the city. How did you find his restaurant hidden outside the alley?" Police Officer Wang still feels that Gu Chentong's situation Uncertainty is transparent.
"What is this? Is there anyone named Da Ge out there? It's just...fat, with a medium build." While Lu Weiwei was speaking, she was also gesturing with her body outline with her hands.
"What's your name?" Officer Wang asked.
"Are you eating?" The middle-aged woman turned her head back, continued to wash the vegetables outside her hands, and asked casually.
"Who is that person?" The one-eyed boss asked.
A few people stood at the door, listening quietly.
"It all depends on the customer's self-consciousness? Is he afraid of losing money?" Lu Weiwei was puzzled when she heard the boss's business idea.
In fact, the freight station in the mouth of Cyclops is not considered small.
Sure enough, one turned the corner, and the other didn't even have a signboard, just a big shop with a wooden sign with "Slow Food" handwritten on it at the door, and it was open just like that.
Zhou Xiao uploaded those records, and then asked the Cyclops boss: "These two people are not what he said, thin and fat, what do we do?"
"We will cry with him, laugh together, live together, grow old together, and walk through that long, great, humble, and shining life together."
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.
"He wants to come to eat. Strange customers will hold the plate by themselves, and then queue up and walk outside. That is the dish area. You will spoil a lot of dishes every day and pour them on the small plate."
"Boom, haha, today's luck is wrong, if luck comes, you can block it, give it money, hurry up."
"When you get busy, you just don't care too much, just cook."
"That's right." Zhou Xiao didn't wait for that sentence, so he immediately asked: "Who are you sitting with today, doesn't he have any memory yet?"
At this moment, a group of women in overalls are sitting around to compete in card skills.
"Running it alone is a cheap and friendly way. The price is ugly, and everyone is willing to come there to eat. It's not a flexible operation. Where do you lose and lose? What kind of small money is it when you earn and earn."
Boss Cyclops snorted: "Then how do you know? Maybe someone told me."
"Well, you may have seen this, and you are sure."
"I'm also afraid that they will make fun of them. The reason why you opened the store outside to make a living is because the rent of the store inside is too expensive. Therefore, there is a way to rent a big store outside there."
There are many people with cigarettes dangling from their mouths, and some of them are rubbing their bellies, looking satisfied.
"Only when there is no customer paying the bill, you will subconsciously take a look."
Boss Cyclops shook his head: "That's paying attention, I think it should be acquaintance?"
At the entrance of the freight yard, there is an adult German Shepherd tethered.
After all, when it was meal time, Zhou Xiaotong had to leave the hotel and go outside to solve the dinner problem.
"Yes." Boss Cyclops nodded: "Anyway, I don't have any impression."
"If he's lucky, he won't have many bad friends."
Since it is still time for meal, there are still not many diners outside.
"What's your name? You are Taihanhu, but this fat, medium-sized woman, you hear people call me Da Ge, but what is it called Da? You know, they can't go to the freight yard on the other side of the wall to ask Ask, can you know if you are sure?"
"Or, there is no other restaurant in that place, but it's in a prominent location? It's just that you just happened to find it?"
"They retreated from that alley, just turned a corner. There is no fly restaurant outside. The owner is a one-eyed man who is in the slow food business."
There are small and large trucks parked in the open space.
Zhou Xiao, Wen Tingling and Police Officer Wang arrived at the small yard of the freight yard smoothly.
After Lu Weiwei walked down immediately, she stopped a woman in overalls and asked, "Sir, please come up, is there no restaurant outside that alley?"
"Let's talk." The young master seemed to be a cheerful person, so he immediately stopped the eight-wheeler and pulled on the brakes.
But Boss Cyclops smiled and put on a so-called attitude: "Losing money? I'm sure I'll lose money when I meet such kind-hearted customers who like to take advantage of it."
"After the off-peak dining period, you clean up the plates, wash the vegetables, and cook by yourself, and then wait for the guests from the previous stage."
Boss Cyclops smiled, pointed to some ingredients under the table, and said, "Your place is a slow food restaurant, and you can basically order these dishes."
And they stayed for hours, and didn't return to the hotel room until 10 o'clock in the evening.
However, considering that the police really needed clues to find someone, the Cyclops boss said hastily before being firm for a few seconds:
"How do you say? Have you ever eaten outside his shop?" Police Officer Wang felt relieved.
"So, it's a good thing. It saves you to hire a cooking aunt yourself, and you can just concentrate on cooking."
Just when Wen Tingling was about to step out of the check-out door, Zhou Xiao pulled Lu Weiwei back.
After a while, there were not many women who wore the same clothes, and they walked out of this alley in groups.
A thin, middle-aged woman is washing vegetables in the front kitchen.
"Brother Da?" Hearing the name, the young master suddenly smiled and said, "They went out there, and retreated to the duty room here. Out of the group of people playing cards, the one who shouted the least was not the so-called Brother Da." .”
A small courtyard, several areas built with mobile canopies.
"Do those eight people know each other?" Lu Weiwei asked.
"A man who came from Haidong City, a few nights later, did you come to eat at his place?" Lu Weiwei asked.
But Boss Cyclops waved his hand: "That's right, it's just that, when you leave late at night, business usually goes bad."
"However, those who come to your place to eat, Xiao Shao are all special people who work in Taoism. Xiao Jia's high-ranking man sees him, and he can eat as much as he can, so it's never a waste."
Maybe it was a familiar face, or it was a policeman in uniform, a one-eyed woman, then quickly put the vegetables on hand, shook off the water stains under his hands, wiped them on his cuffs, stood up quickly, and squinted.
At this time, an old man was carrying a few small cardboard boxes on big eight wheels, preparing to transport them to one of the canopy areas.
"Oh, you are just asking, thank you." Hearing what the woman said, Lu Weiwei immediately felt that Xiaojia's guess was not correct.
"Customers are very self-conscious. They eat as much as they eat and eat as much as they eat. Then they will consciously go outside. It's not the rice area. They also eat as much as they eat."
"Well, listening to what he said, it feels like a wrong business idea, but the people who come to eat there should be regular customers, right?" Wen Tingling asked.
"Boss." Zhou Xiao stood at the door and called out.
"En." Hearing Zhou Xiao's remarks, Police Officer Wang nodded slightly.
"I have a deep impression, but the people who come to eat there are all young men. It's quite unusual for a man, even a young man, to eat there."
At this time, the small voice was still chattering: "Haha, that Taoism is a very strange thing. It makes him think that it is comfort and blessing, but it brings him less fatigue and depression."
"Thank you." After receiving the result, Lu Weiwei thanked her, and watched the young master ride away by bicycle.
Looking up and thinking, Boss Cyclops said again: "You remember that you seemed to be sitting with two women, yes, it was two women."
"Besides, in your buffet area, there are all vegetables. They are all vegetarian dishes. Is there any meat?"
At this moment, a middle-aged woman in overalls and a dangerous helmet came out from a corner with a toothpick in her mouth.
"And in those years, thanks to those old customers, word of mouth passed on, and that's why your watch is gradually known to everyone."
"Yes, it's not the night after a few days." Officer Wang quickly agreed.
Hearing Zhou Xiao's speech, the middle-aged woman who washed vegetables stopped working and turned to look at Zhou Xiao.
And just as the woman in overalls explained, the owner of the slow food restaurant is indeed a one-eyed dragon.
It is said to be a duty room, but it is actually a temporary accommodation area converted from a container.
"Uh, those two people? I know them, and they work at the cargo terminal far away." The boss said.
As soon as Zhou Xiao walked back through the small door, he heard a sound of pouring water from the front kitchen.
"After all, it's acquaintance. How could this big girl find a place like yours? If no one brought you here."
"Maybe." Wen Ting said with certainty after visiting for seven weeks:
"It deprived him of the exploration of the unknown, the pursuit of good and bad, and even control over his own life."
"Or in other words, there is not such a restaurant that opens in a prominent corner location, but there are very few regular customers, so I worry about whether the store has a bad location."
Seeing no familiar footsteps inside, Demu barked subconsciously a few times.
So Xiaojiaxin looked at each other in the same way, and then walked towards the street together.
It looks like a temporary freight station, which is used to deliver goods to the merchants over there. Outside the canopy, there are piles of various cardboard boxes.
As soon as the words fell, Boss Cyclops pointed to the area on the right side of Lu Weiwei, and said, "See? Here are the dinner plates stacked, and all the fast food is placed outside here."
"What about when ordering? Did he look at it when ordering?" Wen Tingling asked.
"It doesn't mean that he only saw the man on your phone when he checked out a few days later, right?"
"Do some acquaintance business. If you can starve to death, you can do it yourself. It's too little to ask for."
"One is low and thin, and the other is fat, with a medium build. The two of them are sitting opposite this man."
Before that, Xiaojia also slowly came to a duty room according to the route guidance.
"Then, what does he eat? Make it yourself, put eight vegetables and one soup each time."
Wen Ting, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang, who saw that scene, immediately became interested.
The boss of Cyclops smiled, and echoed, "I can't understand it that way, but there are not many new customers. New customers will naturally become old customers after they get used to eating."
"It's also true that everyone will be successful and famous. You people are destined to find the meaning of life in the bits and pieces of life."
But when he saw that Zhou Xiao and the others were wearing uniforms, Demu seemed to know that those in uniforms were causing trouble, so he immediately circled around for two weeks, shrank in a corner and screamed.
"Thank you." Zhou Xiao didn't want to waste too little time there, and immediately set off for the cargo terminal before getting an explanation from the Cyclops boss.
"That's right." It seemed that Lu Weiwei was familiar with that area, and the woman also turned her head and pointed:
"Uh, then..." Does it feel like Zhou Xiao is embarrassing himself? Boss Cyclops was also speechless.
Wen Ting did not answer immediately, but walked up to the woman and said, "Boss, has he seen that person?"
"So, the women sitting around will also take a few glances less or less. Of course, that includes you outside."
This fly restaurant that slipped through the net may not be where Gu Chentong dined.
"Accordingly, it must be a restaurant. It must be opened on both sides of the street. It must be opened in that location. It is difficult for customers to know that it is a restaurant."
"This place is cheap to eat, and your brothers hate going here, why, do they want to eat too?"
"En." Wen Ting nodded slightly when she heard that explanation, and then asked the boss:
Boss Cyclops continued to squint his eyes and think. A long time ago, I didn't think about it: "Eh? That man, it seems that I saw him once. It was a few days later, right?"
"Customers who are unfamiliar with you, every time they come, they will be at the door, yes, not the position on his right."
Lu Weiwei had sharp eyesight and slow hands, immediately stopped the young master, and hurriedly asked, "Young master, ask him something."
"Junior Brother Gu, could it be that we made a mistake? Could it be that Zhou Xiaotong was just solving the dinner problem there?"
"Suffering is worthy of praise, but hard work is worthwhile. Wherever his time is spent, there will be harvest."
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