Chapter 515: In-depth Investigation
Huaiyangqing Hotel on Youhao Road.
This is the most famous Huaiyang cuisine restaurant in Haizhou City and the longest-running Huaiyang cuisine restaurant.
This restaurant was open on Youhao Road when Zhang Hui was a child. More than thirty years later, this restaurant is still open.
It can be said that this restaurant is the originator of Huaiyang cuisine in Haizhou City, and its business is also very prosperous.
Their braised pork and puffer fish soup are outstanding.
But over the years, Zhang Hui has only eaten in this restaurant once.
I came here with Lu Chuan last year. It’s not that the food in this restaurant is not delicious. On the contrary, it is very delicious, but it is also very expensive. A puffer fish costs hundreds of yuan, and one person can eat it in just a few mouthfuls. .
For four or five people, it is impossible for a table of meals to cost only one or two thousand yuan. This is not the consumption level of ordinary people, so most of the people who come to this restaurant to eat in Haizhou City are from Huaiyang. People, want to taste the taste of hometown.
“Welcome, boss, how many guests are there?”
The receptionist at the door was very enthusiastic, had a sweet smile, and was thoughtful and generous.
Zhang Hui waved his hand and took out his ID: "We are the police, is your boss here?"
When the police come to your door, most of the time it is nothing good, and at worst it is troublesome.
Most people are like this. When they are in trouble, they wish the police were right next to them and appear immediately.
But when they were not in trouble, when the police came to their door, everyone was frightened.
The face of the young beauty who received the reception changed, but she quickly calmed down: "Comrade police, please go sit in the box first, and I will call the boss over. The other guests are still eating, you see..."
The little girl was very thoughtful and did not ask Zhang Hui and others why they wanted to find the boss. All she cared about was that she was afraid of affecting the business.
Zhang Hui and others came to handle the case, and they were not here to put up signs for others, so they nodded and followed the little girl into a box.
Coincidentally, the last time Lu Chuan and I came to have dinner, we sat in this box.
"Comrade police, please have a cup of tea first. I will call our boss right away."
"Okay, thank you."
A few minutes later, a chubby middle-aged man appeared in the box.
"Hello, comrade policeman, how are you? I'm sorry, I was busy in the kitchen just now."
The man was very polite. Compared to the little girl who was a little nervous just now, the man was more casual. There are too many.
When he opened the door to do business, he knew better than anyone else whether there was something wrong with him. Of course he would be scared when someone looked at the police, but if he had a clear conscience, of course he would treat him warmly.
Zhang Hui did not beat around the bush and directly asked about the source and sale of pufferfish at Huaiyangqing Hotel.
“You’re telling me this, all the pufferfish in our hotel are artificially farmed pufferfish, and they are directly sent from the south.”
“Aren’t there any wild ones?”
The man quickly shook his head: "No, no, none of our puffer fish are wild, they are all farmed."
Zhang Hui frowned: "Boss... you don't seem to be right? I remember Your puffer fish is priced at 499 yuan, and the other is priced at 899 yuan. When the waiter introduced it, he said that the latter was a wild puffer fish.”
The man smiled bitterly: "Officer Zhang, it seems that you have come to have dinner with us."
Zhang Hui has just introduced himself, so the other party knows Zhang Hui's name.
“The pufferfish we sell are indeed artificially farmed pufferfish, but even artificially farmed pufferfish are divided into three, six, and nine grades.”
“The pufferfish tastes delicious, and the older it is, the better the quality of the meat. The tighter it is, the better it tastes.”
“But because the demand for puffer fish has been particularly high in the past two years, the number of artificially bred fish has gradually become tight.”
"So most of the puffer fish we eat now are annual puffer fish. Although the size of this kind of puffer fish is similar to the perennial puffer fish, the meat is not as firm and as delicious as the perennial puffer fish."
< br>"In addition, in the breeding base, the perennial puffer fish breeding method is somewhat similar to free-range breeding. They eat not only artificial feed, but also some food naturally grown in the breeding pond, so they are considered semi-wild." "This is The reason why the cheap one costs 499 and the expensive one costs 899”
“Because it is in a semi-wild state, so when we introduce it, it is said to be wild, but in fact it is strictly speaking. It’s not considered wild, because it grew up in a breeding pond.”
“The other most important point is that our perennial puffer fish is not purely wild because it cannot eat algae containing toxins. There is no way. Synthesizes large amounts of tetrodotoxin in the body”
This was the first time Zhang Hui had heard of this.
“That is to say, your artificially cultured puffer fish definitely does not contain tetrodotoxin, right?”
“I can’t say that there is definitely no tetrodotoxin. In fact, there is still a little bit, but The amount is very, very small, and the way we handle pufferfish when cooking is based on poisonous puffer fish. Even if there is a little bit of toxin, it will not be introduced into the ingredients."
"Then you. Is it possible for this type of puffer fish to poison people?”
The man waved his hands repeatedly: “It’s impossible, impossible, absolutely impossible. The amount of toxins in the body of artificially bred puffer fish is measured in micrograms, which is very high. They are very small, and even eating a dozen or twenty of them will not kill you.”
Zhang Hui thought for a while and then asked: "Boss Sun, you Huaiyangqing have been running the puffer fish business in Haizhou for the longest time."
"Is there any channel to get wild puffer fish?"
"Officer Zhang..."
Zhang Hui waved his hand: "I'm not saying you have wild puffer fish, I'm talking about whether you have any methods and channels to get this wild one."
"This trafficking Wild puffer fish are illegal and highly poisonous, and can kill people if not handled properly, so we never deal with them, but to be honest, there are still ways to get them. ”
After Zhang Hui left Huaiyangqing, he went straight to a Huaiyang restaurant on Huaguang Street.
According to relevant food management regulations, the consumption of puffer fish is strictly restricted.
All puffer fish sellers in Haizhou City must register with the relevant departments.
A Huaiyang Cuisine Hotel on Huaguang Street is not big in appearance, but it is relatively famous for Huaiyang Cuisine in Haizhou City.
Because their pufferfish...is fresher.
Some old diners like to eat their puffer fish.
The reason is very simple. According to the person in charge of Huaiyang Qing Hotel, they speculate that what they sell may be wild puffer fish.
Because the taste of general artificially raised pufferfish is similar, but the poisonous pufferfish is different. An extremely small amount of tetrodotoxin can make pufferfish fresh.
But the price is also more expensive, one such puffer fish costs more than 2,000.
While Zhang Hui was investigating the pufferfish, Sun Jun's investigation also made some progress.
Some time ago, something did happen on the construction site.
"The person who committed suicide was not a safety accident. He jumped off the roof of the building himself."
It turns out that someone died on this construction site a month ago.
A steel worker ran upstairs in the middle of the night and jumped down.
Because it was midnight and the construction site had not started, the other party committed suicide by jumping from the top.
Moreover, the deceased left a suicide note stating that he wanted to commit suicide.
“Pull him down, why did Lao Zhangtou commit suicide? Isn’t it because I didn’t give him the salary arrears, but if I gave him the money, he could commit suicide?”
“Didn’t the boss also say that? Do you want to give it to him? But he has to prove it. Who can he blame if he can’t show it? "Nonsense, who doesn’t know that he works on this construction site? What kind of proof should he give?" The salary is as high as the salary. He doesn’t know a word of Chinese characters, so he needs some damn proof?”
The clues on Sun Jun’s side are not small.
(End of this chapter)