Chapter 1344 - 1270: Fresh Corpses
Tianjin Port.
Mao Fugui Bun House.
The steaming hotpot emitted an enticing aroma.
The buns were placed beside the hotpot, taking up a bit of space, but eating one occasionally tasted just fine.
Jiang Yuan mainly ate hotpot.
It’s not that he only liked hotpot, but ever since people heard about his fondness for it, hosts always meticulously prepared various hotpots. Fresh ingredients were basic, and often there would be considerable specialties.
As a result, hotpot really became particularly delicious.
Today’s hotpot featured seafood, with local fish, shrimp, and crabs cleaned and tossed into the pot, all with an extremely fresh taste. Especially the Tianjin specialty, peach blossom octopus, a small octopus; you could lightly slice it into eight parts and then throw them all into the small hotpot. Just a slight boil and it was ready to eat, chewy and springy, arguably a top-notch seafood delicacy.
Around the table were Qiu Jianye from the local municipal bureau, Hang Haichuan from the local customs, Wu Zhisu who flew in from Jianjiang City, Cui Xiaohu from Beijing, and Ni Cha and Zhong Renlong from Dama. They sat in a circle, watching the chef slice the small octopus while chatting about various recent cases. They used, but were not limited to, pads, printed photos, notebooks, and heartfelt discussions with handlers, talking about the ins and outs of the cases, either in minute detail or offering a broad overview or emotional resonance.
Jiang Yuan enjoyed the hotpot while listening to the cases, indeed feeling great satisfaction.
This feeling reached a climax when Ni Cha brought out a dismembered corpse wrapped in plastic.
The fresh corpse, with large dark red chunks of flesh that had a gelatinous "quivering" feel, and wax-yellow fat resembling high-quality beeswax kneaded for ages. But looking at the cut chunks of leg meat, it had a bit of the appearance of market pork legs left out slightly too long, while the remaining parts had fat content far exceeding pork, making it look cloying.