You're supposed to be a security officer, what case are you solving?

Chapter 146 The Sorrow of the Criminal Investigation Team!

The cat asked, "Are you looking for a restaurant that serves fish?"

Yang Jinwen nodded: "Yes."

“I was thinking, should we go find the murderer? Everyone else is looking for the murderer, but we're only investigating the scraps. That's not fair. Oh, right, I've come up with a clue.”

As Yang Jinwen drove, he asked, "What do you want to say?"

Maozi sat up straight: "Find a car! This group of people killed and robbed people, and they also poured gasoline and set fires. Didn't Director Ma say at the meeting that at least ten liters of gasoline were poured at the scene? This group must have a vehicle."

"clever!"

The cat raised its head: "Right?"

Yang Jinwen glanced at him and said, "Do you think your master and my master wouldn't think of this? They must have already sent people to investigate. We have our own mission, so let's not investigate duplicate clues."

Cat retorted, "If that's the case, then all three of our branch offices would have to do plagiarism checks?"

"That's different. Whether it's our North City Branch, or the South City Branch, or Jiaxing Branch, they all investigate within their own jurisdiction."

Director Yang gave them the position of deputy branch officer so that the three of them would fight it out and solve the case as soon as possible. I'm guessing these thugs are going to get a severe beating.

Cat chuckled and said, "If my master gets promoted to deputy detachment leader, he'll be really arrogant."

Cat continued, "My master got promoted, and your master will have to get promoted too. Then the deputy position in our brigade will be vacant, right? Do you think it will be Captain Jiang or Captain Xu who takes over?"

Yang Jinwen squinted and shook his head: "I don't know."

Cat sighed, "It's just that we're too inexperienced and joined the police force late. If it were any other veteran, they would have been promoted to captain long ago for those cases you led the way in solving. We're just suffering from being too young."

Yang Jinwen replied with deep feeling, "Being young is better than anything else."

"Tell me, where do you want to check?"

Yang Jinwen squinted and asked, "Where is the vegetable market near the train station?"

"Why are you thinking of going to the farmers' market again? Shouldn't we be looking for a restaurant first?"

"Just give me directions."

"Okay." The cat shrugged.

Half an hour later, at the farmers' market one kilometer away from the train station.

Yang Jinwen parked the car on the side of the road outside, got out, and followed Maozi through the entrance.

It's morning now, and the farmers' market is full of people doing business. They sell all sorts of things: vegetables, fruits, meat, pots and pans, ginger, vinegar, tea, as well as meteorites from outer space, bronze tripods from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, swords from the Warring States period, and bronze mirrors from the Han dynasty.

Of course, there are also vendors selling the Imperial Seal of the State and meteorites from outer space, but none of them do as well as those selling aluminum pots.

Yang Jinwen and Maozi wandered through the crowd and saw a stall selling aluminum pots. The owner was making so much money that his hands were sore from taking it all. The old men and women who bought these things would put the aluminum pots on their heads and start receiving cosmic signals.

Cat was stunned for a moment, then whispered in Yang Jinwen's ear, "I've heard about this before, but this is the first time I've seen it. Does this thing work?"

Yang Jinwen laughed and said, "Why don't you try one on and see?"

“I’m afraid of being struck by lightning. There’s an old man in our village who stood in the yard with an aluminum pot on his back on a rainy day, and lightning struck him directly, burning him to a crisp.”

"do you died?"

The cat nodded: "Dead."

"Let's go." Yang Jinwen didn't want to talk about this anymore.

At the far end of the farmers' market, there was a row of low buildings with roofs only a little over two meters high. Yang Jinwen could reach out and touch the roof tiles. This was where fish were sold.

There are several types of fish commonly found on dining tables in An'nan City: crucian carp, common carp, and grass carp. Most people can't afford the more expensive fish.

Yang Jinwen walked to a place selling aquatic products, looked at the fish in the tank, and asked the owner who was scaling the fish, "Boss, can I ask you something?"

The boss was wearing rubber boots, the backs of which were covered with fallen fish scales.

He looked up and smiled, "What kind of fish do you want to buy?"

Yang Jinwen nodded: "How about a grass carp?"

"Okay, but you'll have to wait a moment while I prepare this fish."

Yang Jinwen pointed to an unfamiliar fish in the pool and asked, "Boss, what kind of fish is this?"

"Tilapia? It's an invasive species. We don't have any in An'nan City. Would you like one?"

Yang Jinwen shook his head: "I'll come another day. Boss, I want to ask, what kind of fish has the smallest bones? They're so small that they're barely visible to the naked eye, and the length is about 1 millimeter, no more than 1.5 millimeters."

This question immediately stumped the shopkeeper. He scraped the fish slower and slower, then stopped and looked at Yang Jinwen: "How would I know? If you want to buy boneless fish, I don't have any here."

Yang Jinwen nodded and looked at the other shops selling aquatic products.

At this moment, an old man waiting to get his fish looked at Yang Jinwen and laughed, "Don't you eat fish often? Are you a researcher?"

Yang Jinwen smiled and said, "You could say that."

The old man gestured with his chin toward the end of the shop: "You need to find a seafood shop that sells good fish. The farmers' market here often sells two types of cartilaginous fish with very short bones, similar to what you described."

Which two categories?

"Skewer and basa fish."

Yang Jinwen's eyes lit up: "Where can I buy them?"

"It's that one inside, Hu's Seafood Shop. They used to supply state-run restaurants. You can go and ask them." "Thank you." Yang Jinwen nodded and left with the cat.

The shop owner glared at the old man and shouted at Yang Jinwen, "No, you don't want the fish anymore?"

"I'll come back to pick it up in a bit."

Yang Jinwen ran to Hu's seafood shop and saw that the pond was different from other seafood shops, with a variety of species, including not only common grass carp and common carp, but also other fish.

The seafood vendors were a family of three: parents and daughter. All three were wearing leather aprons and were busy working.

"Boss, do you have any fish with very short bones here? Like rays or basa?"

The girl who was weighing fish for a customer smiled when she saw Yang Jinwen's appearance: "These two kinds of fish are very expensive, we don't sell them outside. Do you want them?"

Yang Jinwen nodded: "I want fish with bones that are only 1 millimeter long."

"It's those two kinds of fish you mentioned." The girl said, handing the weighed carp to the customer. After taking the money, she waved to Yang Jinwen: "Come in, I'll show you."

Yang Jinwen and Maozi walked into the shop, which was filled with a pungent fishy smell. There was a large pool against the right wall, with white tiles inside and out.

The pool was divided into several sections, and two rays swam in one of the smaller sections.

Rays, also known as devil ray, have bodies that resemble a blanket. The two in the pool are both over a meter long.

Its eyes bulge out like a frog's, and there is a crescent-shaped slit on its belly, which is its mouth.

Cat had never seen a fish like this before. He gasped, "My God, this fish actually looks like this?"

The girl smiled and said, "Scared, isn't it? This is also called a manta ray. This fish is very expensive. Ordinary people like us can't afford it. We supply it to restaurants. Restaurants sell one serving, not a whole fish. One serving costs 128 yuan."

When she said this, she didn't look at the cat at all, but kept staring at Yang Jinwen's profile.

Besides the rays, there were also several basa fish in another pool.

This fish looks more normal, but just by looking at its skin color and shape, you can tell that it's priced differently from ordinary edible fish.

The girl continued, "These fish are all transported from the docks of other provinces. We have very few here, and even fewer that can be transported alive. So if you want them, I can give you a discount."

Yang Jinwen looked at her and honestly replied, "We're not buying..."

"What's so special about you if you're not going to buy anything?" The busy shop owner walked past them and glared at Yang Jinwen.

The girl rolled her eyes at her dad: "What's wrong with people looking? We didn't lose anything."

After criticizing her father, she looked at Yang Jinwen and smiled, "Don't be angry, it's okay if you don't buy it."

The cat watched intently, blinking repeatedly. Damn, being handsome has its advantages. Seeing the girl's smiling face, it was clear he wanted to get the short end of the stick.

The cat touched the water in the pool, wet it, and then wiped the hair on its temples with its palms, making itself look more energetic.

Yang Jinwen clicked his tongue: "Okay, I'll buy a fish, a grass carp. But I have a question for you."

The girl's smile became even more beautiful, and she nodded: "Go ahead."

Which restaurants do you supply?

Seeing the girl frown, she probably thought Yang Jinwen was also selling fish and wanted to steal her customers.

Yang Jinwen took out his identification from his pocket and showed it to her: "We are police officers, here to investigate a case."

The girl's smile faded, and her father started laughing instead.

The girl's father quickly put down what he was doing, hurriedly pulled out a cigarette from his pocket, and said with a fawning expression, "Officer, I haven't done anything wrong, have I?"

"Don't take it personally. We're just here to ask, it has nothing to do with you. Just tell the truth."

A moment later, Yang Jinwen and Maozi each carried a fish, one a grass carp and the other a grass carp, both with grass ropes threaded through their gills and carried by hand.

Both fish weighed five or six pounds each. Cat looked worried: "Sigh, I have to pay for everything myself when investigating a case. It hurts."

It's almost noon. Let's go back to the branch office first, give these two fish to Lao Fan, and then go investigate after we've had lunch.

Yang Jinwen nodded: "That works too."

Half an hour later.

As soon as Yang Jinwen and Maozi returned to their workplace, they saw that He Jinbo's hair, which he had never styled in years, had been cut short and was now covered in mousse, making it shiny and smooth, and he looked very energetic.

Maozi asked Yang Jinwen, "Did my master go to investigate the hair salon?"

Yang Jinwen nodded: "Probably, they couldn't resist the shampoo girl's enthusiasm."

When the two men looked at Jiang Jianbing and Xu Guoliang, they saw that the two guys were carrying gasoline cans and looked sullen.

Cat continued, "Captain Jiang and Captain Xu are really good. We spend money, they generate revenue."

Zheng Kang leaned over and cursed, "Bullshit! These two guys went to the gas station and got ripped off, buying two big barrels of substandard gasoline."

Yang Jinwen and Maozi looked at Zheng Kang, who was holding a bottle of tiger bone wine.

Maozi asked, "No, Uncle Zheng, what is this...?"

Zheng Kang sighed: "The little girl selling medicinal wine at the train station was so pitiful. I couldn't bear to see her like that, so I bought a bottle. It wasn't expensive."

After he finished speaking, he noticed the two fish that Yang Jinwen and Maozi were carrying.

"What's going on with you two? You went to the river to catch such a big fish?"

(End of this chapter)