Chapter 124124 Coal Mine Guesthouse
Tu Lanxun simply didn't know what to say. The chopped green onions and tomatoes burst into a sizzling sour aroma in the wok. N sprinkled in fine salt, and the red and green chunks quickly overflowed with the soup, turning it into a pot of red soup that was not too thick.
"Tomato beef noodles, okay?" Tu Lanxun couldn't help but take a deep breath, trying to stop his saliva from affecting his speech. He said seriously, "I don't believe you'd blow up a toilet just because of the bad smell."
"Sure." N turned and pulled a box of steak from the freezer, placing it on a thawing tray. The tomato soup in the pot was already boiling hot and thick, and it would only get richer the longer it simmered. He took two steps sideways and used a pair of tongs to sort the noodles. Then he said to Tu Lanxun, "There are so many things you don't believe. Do you want an omelet or a soup?"
"Fried eggs."
Silence permeated the two splatters of the frying pan. The eggs simmered in the thin oil, pulsing and developing a narrow, charred edge while the tender core remained moist and golden. N used a spatula to transfer them both to a plate.
Tu Lanxun didn't understand why N was blinking and not saying anything. To be able to blow up the toilet, either a fierce battle had taken place or he was extremely emotionally out of control.
The fried minced beef exudes the aroma of both tallow and butter, a mixture of the two clear and turbid fats, and is poured into the crispy red thick tomato soup. The sour, sweet and meaty aroma explodes like fireworks. Tu Lanxun KanN drips cooked corn oil into the bowl of alkaline water noodles, and with his long fingers wearing two layers of gloves, he stirs with long chopsticks to prevent sticking. His movements are as skillful as a conductor directing an orchestra.
The back of her wearing an apron is really tall and majestic, with two straight waistlines like the diagonal cut of an oil brush, and two pointed elbows with white forearms extending from the rolled-up sleeves, which reminds people of "virtuous" and all the words that are similar to it, but they are only 98% accurate in describing N at this moment.
"Nanxishan, where's this cuisine from?" Tu Lanxun tilted his head on the stool, his eyes following N's hand as tomato and scallion beef soup was poured into the alkaline noodle bowl. "Tomato pasta, but scallion alkaline noodles?"
N brought a bowl to the table with one hand, chopsticks clasped on the edge of the bowl, not forgetting to give Tu Lanxun a sidelong glance, without arguing, but with a surprisingly gentle tone, "Come and eat."
It's really delicious. Tu Lanxun puffed her cheeks. The noodles were crispy, like biting into the world's most delicious cherry tomato. The sweet and sour broth hit her tongue like bullets. The crisp noodles mixed with the soft ground beef. She couldn't help but chew seven or eight times in a row, repeatedly enjoying the pleasure of breaking the noodles with her teeth.
N also ate quietly, but not slowly. When Tu Lanxun finished half of his bowl and remembered to pick up the fried egg, he saw N eating as nimbly and quickly as a cat. Most of the bowl was empty, but the edge of the bowl and the upper half of the chopsticks were clean, without a drop of soup on them.
She couldn't help but say, "You can cook, you love cleanliness, and you can destroy things. You can't be a cat, right? Many people wish for their cats to turn into humans, like a snail boy or girl."
N raised his head slightly, "Have you ever had a cat?"
Tu Lanxun shook his head. "I've never raised a cat before. I'm already living under someone else's roof, so how can I burden a cat?"
N sighed, "Ms. Tu Penglai is your mother."
Tu Lanxun didn't care, "You are still my 'best friend', and you won't tell me the truth."
N's noodles finally snapped, and his figure faltered as the greasy soup splattered towards him, allowing the red juice to seep through his soul and onto the back of the chair. Tu Lanxun stared in amazement, then mechanically handed over a napkin. "Here."
After dinner, he spent a hasty night. As soon as Tu Lanxun woke up in the morning, he received a call from Li Ao.
"What? Okay, I'll be there right away." Tu Lanxun rushed into the bathroom to wash up. When he came out, he saw N cooking wontons. "Give them to Suoniya and the others. We have to leave quickly. We've found Adan's whereabouts."
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Driving from the convenience store into the city, when we arrived at the Lucheng South Branch, a group of police cars were already parked in the yard. Li Ao was giving the officers instructions when he saw Tu Lanxun coming over with a piece of bread and said, "Let's go now."
Tu Lanxun Gai and Li Ao were sitting in the same car, with N squeezing next to her. Xiao Zhang was puzzled: "Why are you squeezing me?"
Tu Lanxun said casually: "I twisted my foot and need a place to put it."
Li Ao turned back from the co-pilot seat and said, "There will be an arrest operation later. The people who are waiting are already in place. Why don't you stay on the periphery?"
Tu Lanxun said, "No need. It's just a gentle twist. It will be fine after a while. Where are we going?"
"Micheng," Xiao Zhang replied. "Early this morning, an informant from the Micheng police reported that Ah Dan was active at a barbecue stall in eastern Micheng."
Tu Lanxun breathed a sigh of relief, but his heart was still in his throat. "Has Morning Glory still not shown up?"
Li Ao said, "No. My previous guess was correct. They acted separately."
It took several hours to reach Micheng. The Micheng police were already waiting at the contact point. Li Ao went up to greet them. An officer with the same rank said, "We've narrowed down the scope of our investigation and ultimately focused on a street in the eastern part of Datian District in our city."
When we got to that street, we realized it was a mix of a bathhouse and a KTV. Micheng's economic development wasn't as rapid as Lucheng's, but it had the advantage of being a city with coal resources, so it had a considerable cultural heritage.
Tu Lanxun looked at the not-so-new but still majestic buildings on the roadside, and felt like he was walking into a prosperous old city in an old movie.
Ah Dan was in a building at the end of the street. According to the surveillance cameras, he must have entered an adjacent business karaoke bar or a luxury spa. The cameras in that area happened to be broken, and the cameras in the lobby didn't detect anything either.
"Didn't find anything?" Li Ao asked.
The police officer on the other side said, "Yes, according to the stored footage, after Ah Dan walked to this section, the data transmission from the cameras of these two stores was interrupted for two minutes and forty seconds. Therefore, we can't definitively determine where he went, and his information was not found in the guest registration."
These kinds of shops rarely take IDs. The male manager who was summoned had a grim expression on his face, forcing a smile. It looked like they were about to be shut down for restructuring.
Seeing the KTV and SPA being secretly surrounded by police, the other police officer said, "The experts are here. Can we take action now?"
expert?
Li Ao and Xiao Zhang's eyes turned to Tu Lanxun, and she realized that they were talking about her.
She quickly said, "Oh, sure."
Tu Lanxun was surrounded by several invisible figures: N, Lu Jiasui, Mikhail, Liu Maosheng, Xianyu Qingyun, and even Bai Chao and the potato cake cat ghost. The computer ghost stayed at the convenience store on standby duty, but Sonia had no interest in this matter, so she naturally didn't come if she didn't want to.
The ghosts automatically dispersed around the task force, and the police filed in. However, after about ten minutes of simultaneously breaking into the two stores, a voice suddenly came from Li Ao's switchboard, "Report, no one."
There was no sign of Adan anywhere.
They surrounded this place completely, could he possibly fly or hide in the ground?
Everyone's face changed. Since they had missed, would this silent big movement disturb Adan?
Tu Lanxun stood aside with his eyes closed. Li Ao walked over and asked with concern, "Advisor, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Tu Lanxun held the pocket watch tightly in her pocket. She had just had a sudden inspiration and discovered something incredible.
The black fog ghost that we tracked before is also in Mi City!
And that candlelight was very close to them, no more than 200 meters away. Which direction was...
"It's over there!" Tu Lanxun pointed in the direction of the street corner.
They had all overlooked the fact that, apart from the two shop doors at the end of the street, there was another place where people could pass. There was a gap between a fire hydrant and a trash can, and on the other side were junk boxes stacked up from another shop. As long as they didn't mind the dirt, they could easily crawl through without being monitored by the cameras.
The grocery store where the glove box was placed was a fruit and vegetable shop, and next to it was a small grocery store. The signboards were completely different, but upon entering, I realized they were two businesses with one owner, and the dividing wall between them had been broken down. The small store had a narrow back door and a narrow courtyard, illegally constructed, that led to a third store around the corner. Neither had any surveillance cameras.
Coal Mine Guesthouse.
Micheng was originally a mining city. The continuous coal veins fed the people of Micheng and also supported the institutions and systems at all levels. The accompanying guesthouse and mining hotel are the unique business culture of Micheng.
Although they are now privately owned and outshined by new star-rated hotel chains, their square, plain plaques and facades still evoke their former glory. Compared to the surrounding glitz and glamour, they are completely unattractive, like an old, bare corn planted by mistake in a flower garden.
No one expected that Adan would live in the coal mine guesthouse.
It was obviously too late to stake out any further, so Li Ao made a quick decision. After a simple map layout, he divided his men into three groups. The first two groups would break in through the front and back doors respectively, while the third group would maintain security around the perimeter.
The receptionist at the Guest House pulled out the surveillance footage, and coincidentally, it was exactly that time in the early morning, with the camera malfunctioning for a few minutes. However, regular hotels record ID information, and based on the time of day, they found that only one person had checked in at that early hour, but the ID clearly wasn't A-Dan's.
The name and photo were wrong. The receptionist was terrified and said quickly, "I'm really not in cahoots with the bad guys. I remember... I remember..."
His expression became confused, and then he said, "I remember the other person was a man, middle-aged, quite handsome, tall and big. He scanned his ID and face and left."
The computer system showed that the ID card information entered in the early morning was a □□—it existed in the national database but was not held by a real person. It was a relic of an identity forgery case in the west a few years ago.
The video footage from the facial recognition verification system also shows that the person who stood in front of the camera for three seconds was not Adan, but a cold and upright middle-aged man.
His face was painted blue.
Nan Shaochen’s stepfather in childhood, the man who took a photo with them and their mother.
The man who looks very much like N.
Tu Lanxun suppressed the turmoil in her heart for the moment and followed him upstairs. Xianyu Qingyun slid down the stairs. Although her legs had recovered, she was still used to maintaining the fish-like movements. "She ran away!"
The police above also reported: "The suspect just jumped out of the window of the second-floor room, and the team members blocking the backyard were almost injured."
Tu Lanxun rushed over.
Xiao Zhang had just run down from upstairs and almost bumped into Li Ao. "That Ah Dan won't run away, will he?"
Li Ao glanced at Tu Lanxun's wind-like back and said, "It's okay, he can't run away."
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