CHAPTER 50: CHAPTER 50: WHY DOES THIS OIL SMELL LIKE CORPSE OIL?

"Who is he, is he very famous?"

Zhang Feng’s nonchalant tone made Officer Ma feel utterly baffled!

He looked at Zhang Feng with a strange expression and said:

"No way, Zhang Feng, you don’t know who Shen Hanshan is? You must be joking with your old buddy, right?"

Zhang Feng also started to look perplexed.

Seeing Officer Ma’s reaction, it seemed like this Shen Hanshan really was someone special.

But Zhang Feng truly didn’t know him!

He could only shake his head at Officer Ma with resignation and say:

"I...really don’t know him..."

Hearing this, Officer Ma couldn’t help but twitch slightly at the corner of his eye.

His instinctive reaction was to introduce Shen Hanshan to Zhang Feng.

But just as he was about to speak, a peculiar gleam appeared in his eyes, and then he said:

"Never mind, if you don’t know him, you don’t. It’s no big deal."

"You’ll meet him eventually, you can ask him yourself then."

Hearing that, it was Zhang Feng’s turn to be surprised:

"He’s going to meet me?"

Officer Ma nodded:

"Of course, you saved his daughter, as a father, he will surely come to see you."

"However, the earliest flight won’t arrive until tomorrow, so you can rest up today."

"He’s even flying over?"

This made Zhang Feng’s expression turn odd.

He wondered who this Shen Hanshan was after all.

Why did Officer Ma react so strongly when I said I didn’t know him?

However, before Zhang Feng could figure it out, Officer Ma spoke directly to him:

"We’ve been busy for two days, and now that it’s dawn, let’s go have breakfast, and I’ll take you back to the guesthouse for some rest. We’ll discuss everything else after you’re rested!"

Of course, Zhang Feng didn’t refuse Officer Ma’s hospitality.

From last night till now, he hadn’t even taken a sip of water, let alone eaten!

Officer Ma personally drove, with Officer Hu in the passenger seat, and Lin Rui and Zhang Feng sitting in the back.

As he drove, Officer Ma enthusiastically said:

"I’ll take you to the breakfast stall under my apartment. It’s been there for over twenty years, and the quality and taste are unbeatable!"

Officer Hu chimed in with a hint of sarcasm:

"Wow, we came all the way from B City to D City, and after Zhang Feng helped you so much, you’re treating us to breakfast?"

Officer Ma laughed and said:

"The banquet is for after the case is solved. We’ve all worked hard, so let’s have breakfast and rest early!"

You could tell.

The big case weighing on Officer Ma’s mind finally had a breakthrough, and he seemed quite relaxed!

For Officer Ma, this wasn’t just a month-long headless corpse case but the unraveling of Cheng Bing’s crimes over the past twenty years!

How could Officer Ma not be overjoyed?

The breakfast stall under his apartment was indeed very popular.

The group arrived early and managed to find a seat.

But before their breakfast even arrived, a long line had formed outside.

Dumplings, pancakes, soy milk, and fried dough sticks formed the typical breakfast fare.

Such popularity was surely due to years of a stellar reputation.

"Quick, try their tofu pudding with this gravy, and dip it with fried dough sticks, it’s absolutely delicious!"

Zhang Feng took a spoonful and put it in his mouth.

He had to admit, it tasted quite good!

So, which is better, salty tofu pudding or sweet tofu pudding?

He didn’t know, as long as it filled him up.

Just as Zhang Feng was reaching for the fried dough sticks on the table,

his right hand trembled slightly, his eyebrows furrowed, and a cold glint appeared in his eyes.

He lightly touched a bit of oil stain on the fried dough sticks with his finger, quickly pulled back his hand, and placed it by the table.

That characteristic calculation method appeared once again.

This scene did not escape Lin Rui’s eyes.

Lin Rui paused for a moment, withdrew her chopsticks, and leaned in closer to quietly ask Zhang Feng:

"Zhang Feng, what’s wrong? Is there something wrong?"

Meanwhile, Officer Ma and Officer Hu seemed truly hungry.

They were stuffing their mouths with dumplings and fried dough sticks.

Seeing Zhang Feng and Lin Rui sitting still, Officer Ma asked:

"What’s going on?"

"Uh-oh~"

"Not to your liking?"

"No..." Zhang Feng gently shook his head, then looked at Officer Ma and Officer Hu who were eating heartily and said:

"Don’t you find there’s something off about the taste of these fried dough sticks?"

Officer Ma and Officer Hu paused, exchanged glances, and shook their heads.

Officer Hu also asked:

"I think it’s fine, is there something wrong?"

Zhang Feng looked at Officer Hu and said hauntingly:

"Then why do I smell the scent of corpse oil?"

"What?!" Lin Rui’s face went pale upon hearing this.

"Plonk," she dropped her chopsticks.

And both Officer Ma and Officer Hu, who had eaten quite a bit, froze instantly.

It was visibly apparent that their pupils were slowly dilating.

The next second.

"Ugh!!!!"

They frantically spat the remnants of food in their mouths back into the bowls in front of them.

"Cough cough cough——"

They seemed to choke from their extreme actions.

Their eyes welled up from coughing.

They instantly pushed their bowls to the middle of the table.

Officer Ma, pale, spoke to Zhang Feng:

"Forensic Doctor Zhang, please!"

"You can eat casually, but don’t speak carelessly!"

"You’re a forensic doctor, someone who knows about this stuff well. When you say things, we take them seriously!"

"Ugh!"

As he spoke, he couldn’t help but retch again.

Officer Hu, looking despondent, also said:

"It’s over, we won’t get corpse poisoning, will we?"

"Wait a minute!"

Suddenly, Officer Hu realized there were many other customers around!

"Oh crap!"

Saying this, Officer Hu was about to stand up and stop the other patrons, and immediately control the breakfast stall’s owner!

But Zhang Feng stopped Officer Hu, saying:

"Officer Hu, hold your horses, there’s no need to make a scene."

"I only said it smelled like corpse oil, I didn’t say the oil for frying these dough sticks is corpse oil! The food here is still fine, and corpse poisoning is out of the question!"

After hearing this, Officer Hu paused slightly, then slowly sat back down.

Obviously, with so many people coming and going at this breakfast stall, if he made a fuss, wouldn’t the patrons go mad?

Imagine the consequences.

As long as there’s no impact on the patrons, this truly shouldn’t be made public.

Meanwhile, Officer Ma was also wiping his mouth and in a low voice, asked Zhang Feng:

"Forensic Doctor Zhang, so what you mean is..."

Zhang Feng leaned slightly forward.

He said to Officer Hu and Officer Ma:

"This oil is indeed not corpse oil, just regular cooking oil, but it is tainted with a corpse scent...."

"This scent might have contaminated the oil during transport, or it could have been during storage."

"I suggest...we first secretly control the owner here, and investigate the source of this cooking oil before taking further action."

After Zhang Feng spoke, Officer Ma and Officer Hu exchanged a glance and then rose simultaneously.

Officer Hu went straight out to get the car while Officer Ma headed towards the kitchen with a smile on his face:

"Boss!"

"Come, come, I have something I need to tell you in private!"

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