Noon.
Lunchtime.
A food cart with 8 dishes, accompanied by a row of 8 snack carts. The food cart was borrowed from the police station, and the dishes and rice on it were prepared by the head chef of the police station's canteen. The snack carts had been invited, their owners were night market vendors; the police had paid them—more precisely, Xu Taining had someone pay them—to serve at the crime scene, and the officers had to pay the usual price for the snacks, which meant extra income for the vendors.
Of course, the introduction from familiar community police officers and assistants also played a significant role.
There were as many as 5 groups of such food and snack carts along the 110-kilometer route. Each group served an average of just over 200 police officers, as well as civil servants and "volunteers" from certain departments who came to help later on.
