Astral Apostle Chapter 38: Corruption

In the room, several wooden boxes were placed on the ground, which contained bottles of colorful medicines. There were no labels on the bottles, and the medicines were very cloudy and seemed to be of poor quality.

The man with the goatee, the two surviving attendants, and the witch doctor Jia Ma crouched in the corner with their heads in their arms, watching Zhou Jing check the potions one by one with trepidation.

Because of Zhou Jing's presence, they were frightened by the fighting power of the beast hunters, and they didn't dare to resist or run away.

Zhou Jing looked at the potion once, then turned his head and looked at Jia Ma.

"It turns out that you have saved a lot of potions. Half a year ago, you lied that you didn't have any potions, and you deliberately refused to save my brother."

"No!" Gama hurriedly explained: "This is a potion I made recently. I really ran out of potion. I..."

Facing Zhou Jing's "you continue to make up" eyes, his voice of defense became smaller and smaller, and he remained speechless.

Zhou Jing snorted coldly: "My brother met you for the first time, because he is an outsider, so you left him alone... I don't know why you think my brother is a threat to your business.

But if I hadn't come, you'd have succeeded. It's too simple to do some tricks within your duties, right? Not many people would care. "

Jia Ma lowered her head, not daring to answer.

Zhou Jing fiddled with the potions, and asked casually, "How much profit do you get from reselling the potions? What are the prices for these potions?"

"Generally four bottles for one silver coin..." Jia Ma replied tremblingly.

so cheap? It is much lower than the cost price of purchasing normal medicines in pharmacies.

Zhou Jing made the calculations and was a little surprised: "Then you only sell these few boxes of medicines for more than 30 silver coins? Are your pharmacists' incomes so low?"

Taking risks because of this little money?

I thought it was at least a few hundred silver coins.

It's just that there aren't many of them this time. In the past, a batch could sell for fifty or sixty silver coins... Jia Ma thought so in her heart, but she didn't have the guts to say it out.

"How did you get online with this person?" Zhou Jing glanced at the two of them, then drew out his dagger and began to play with it.

Jia Ma's heart trembled, she turned her head to look at the man with the goatee, and then she suddenly broke her heart and confessed her cooperation with this man.

A high-level pharmacist is a huge profit, but he has always been a poor pharmacist.

A few years ago, Jia Ma wandered to Baiyuan City and wanted to cooperate with the pharmacy in Baiyuan City, but because his level was too low, he was turned away from selling medicine at the door, and the medicine could not be sold at all, and his money It's almost too expensive, and I can't even afford the raw materials for the medicine.

At that time, it was this man with the goatee who stopped him quietly and showed him a way to work as a village doctor in a surrounding village. That's why Jia Ma came to Shuangmu Village and stayed here.

After staying in Shuangmu Village for several years, there is a team of hunters here to collect raw materials for him for free, and making potions has become a business with no capital and no profit.

It's just that with his level of craftsmanship, the products he made are basically defective products. And this goatee man came with the cover of the grain collection team every time, secretly bought his defective medicine in batches, and brought them back to Baiyuan City.

As for what to bring back, Jia Ma doesn't know, and doesn't care.

Although the price is very low, it is not bad for Jia Ma, after all, the potions he made are usually difficult to sell.

Therefore, over the years, he used the pretext that potion production is prone to failure, and greedy most of the materials brought by the hunter team. Only a small part of the potion produced is enough to meet the needs of the village, and the rest is for private income. .

After listening to Jia Ma's explanation, Zhou Jing looked at the man with the goatee, raised his eyebrows and said, "You are from the pharmacy, right? We met once, remember?"

The man with the goatee nodded subconsciously.

When he saw Zhou Jing just now, he felt familiar. He squatted aside and thought silently for a while before he vaguely remembered the brief meeting between the two three months ago.

Hearing this, Zhou Jing touched his chin.

It's a good thing that I didn't go up to talk to this person as soon as I found this person in the morning, otherwise I might startle the snake and cause people to be on guard. If I don't do anything tonight, I won't encounter such a thing.

Before the right time, it may not be a good thing to contact rashly. After all, there is no golden exclamation mark on someone's head, and an event cannot be triggered by an interaction.

"Then tell me, it's impossible to kill my friend just because of the thirty silver coins business, right? How do you make a profit from buying these defective medicines? Surely you've earned more than that?"

Zhou Jing played with the dagger and stared at the man with the goatee.

The cold light of the dagger flashed in the eyes of the goatee, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and spoke cautiously:

"I am a small supervisor of the pharmacy in Baiyuan City. I bought these pharmacies to secretly exchange the inventory of the pharmacy..."

After listening to a few words, Zhou Jing understood.

This goatee bought defective medicines made by village doctors at a low cost in nearby villages, and then took advantage of his position to replace the high-quality medicines in the pharmacy warehouse with these defective medicines.

In this way, without anyone noticing, they quietly replaced batch after batch of pharmacy stocks.

It will not let the quantity of medicines in stock fail to match the books, but also seek personal gain by reselling the good medicines in stock.

Using public property to earn personal profit, and slowly emptying the pharmacy, with this method, the goatee has already made a profit of several thousand tera silver coins.

However, the defective medicines are mixed with normal medicines, put on the shelves together, and sold at the price of normal medicines, the income of the pharmacy is still guaranteed, and it is the buyer who suffers in the end... But there is only one pharmacy in the city , others have no choice, so there is no need to talk about it.

Although the effect of the defective potion is very poor, it can't kill anyone, and the final right of interpretation still belongs to them.

‘Hey, exchange old food for new food, I didn’t expect this kind of operation to happen here. ’

Zhou Jing was delighted.

It seems that no matter which world you are in, those who take advantage of loopholes can always see beyond the times.

In the eyes of some people in the main world, maybe this is a "smart person" who knows how to make money and has rich social experience.

"Then who do you sell the good potion you exchanged for?"

"Sell it privately to passing merchants, or send it to other towns to sell..." Goatee sneered.

"If you are so rampant, you are not afraid of being discovered by other managers of the pharmacy? Are you not afraid of the cooperative pharmacist's inspection? Are you not afraid of the lord's detection?"

Zhou Jing raised his eyebrows, and raised his goateed chin with the back of his knife.

Feeling the coldness of the chin, the goatee's Adam's apple twitched, and hurriedly said:

"Those pharmacists had better be appeased. How could they rush to buy back the medicines that have been sold to us? Check the quality of the medicine, and there are even people who do the same business as me.

... As for the lord, as long as the pharmacy provides tax, Lord Root will not notice the abnormality. If the lord wants to use medicine, we must give the best goods. "

Zhou Jing clicked his tongue.

This man's little life is too good.

He originally thought it was just a simple reselling, but he did not expect to accidentally expose the inside story of the Baiyuan City Pharmacy, which involved a gray chain of interests.

...It seems that where there are people, there is corruption. Even in this relatively primitive world, there are such problems.

He quietly opened the panel, and spent 10 star points to look at the attributes of the goatee. It was only at the level of ordinary people, and there was nothing unusual about it.

Zhou Jing smacked his lips, turned his head and glanced at the potion again, and said, "What kind of potion are the defective products you bought mainly?"

"Healing potions, all kinds of disease potions... nothing else." Goatee whispered.

At this time, Jia Ma added: "There are still some hunter potions."

Goatee turned his head and glared.

Jia Ma didn't dare to look at him, waved his hands repeatedly at Zhou Jing, and said hastily, "Jason, I don't know anything about these things. If I knew that they used my medicine to do this kind of thing, I wouldn't dare to say anything." ..."

"Shut up."

Jia Ma immediately covered her mouth, not daring to speak.

Zhou Jing didn't bother to pay attention to this man, and squinted at the goatee: "There are also defective hunter potions? You are really capable of killing yourself."

The alien beast hunter protects Baiyuan City from the threat of alien beasts, and someone dares to provide the alien beast hunter with defective products for personal gain... and the price is so expensive!

You are digging your own grave!

At this moment, the door of the pharmacist's hut was pushed open, and Baron strode in, followed by Ross—after subduing these people, Zhou Jing asked Ross to quietly pull Baron away. come over.

"What's going on?"

Baron looked at the situation on the field and was at a loss.

He was sleeping at night when he woke up suddenly and found a figure standing beside the bed. He was so frightened that his soul went out of his body, and he almost chopped it with an axe.

After finally finding that it was Rose standing beside his bed, Baron breathed a sigh of relief, and then wondered how Rose had quietly entered his room.

If there was a night attack, wouldn't he be in trouble?

Rose couldn't speak, so he couldn't explain what happened clearly, so he dragged and dragged, beckoning Baron to go to the pharmacist's cabin.

Although Baron was surprised, he quickly put on his equipment and came here at a trot. The moment he entered the door, he saw the scene at this moment. Zhou Jing Da Ma Jindao sat on the only chair in the room, and witch doctor Jia Ma squatted in the corner with three men he didn't know.

Zhou Jing kicked Jia Ma, motioning for him to explain.

Jia Ma didn't dare to hide anything, so she had to explain the situation tremblingly.

Soon, Balon also understood what happened.

"What?! Did you deliberately not save Will?"

In a rage, Balon grabbed Gamma by the neck and lifted him up.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Gamma coughed again and again, unable to breathe.

Seeing this, Baron let go of his hand and let him fall to the ground.

"You are really good, you have been deceiving our village...and you, a person from the pharmacy, dare to sell defective hunter potions..."

Baron's chest rose and fell violently, and he was so angry that he wished he could split their heads in slow motion with his left and right hands.

Several people shivered and huddled together.

On the side, Zhou Jing said, "I called you here just to discuss it. How should I deal with this matter?"

The main world has a whole set of laws dealing with official corruption, but when he encountered this kind of problem here, he didn't know much about the process, so he asked Baron to ask.

Balon calmed down.

After pondering for a while, he leaned close to Zhou Jing's ear and said in a low voice:

"We have to report this kind of bad behavior to the lord. They are important witnesses. Only by handing them over to the lord can the corruption in the pharmacy be thoroughly investigated, and no hunters will buy defective products. The potion of high-quality goods... Lute must hate someone who deceives and harms his interests, he will not let these two guys go, most likely they will be hanged."

"Alright."

Zhou Jing nodded, thinking secretly.

There is no profit in directly killing people, and if this kind of corruption is reported to the lord, the lord will express it to some extent, right?

Although I don't care much about the money in the world of alien beasts, but by solving this incident, I may get more astral points or information state particles when returning to settlement.

By the way, there are also Jia Ma's profits over the years...

Thinking of this incident, Zhou Jing searched the house thoroughly, finally found a few hidden compartments, and took out two bulging money bags from them.

After a little inventory, there are about seven or eight hundred Terra silver coins.

Jia Ma's face was ashen. These were the savings he had managed to save by reselling medicines.

Even for a high-income alien hunter, it is a lot of money, and it takes several hunts to earn it.

"What to do with the money?" Zhou Jing asked.

"What do you think?" Baron asked back.

Zhou Jing thought for a while, then shrugged and said, "You and I will take some ~IndoMTL.com~ and give some to the hunter team, and the rest will be handed over to the village. Anyway, part of it includes the labor of the villagers."

"I thought you would stay by yourself." Baron was a little surprised.

"I'm not interested in money."

Zhou Jing waved his hand.

At least in the world of alien beasts, this is the truth.

At this moment, Jia Ma couldn't help but pleaded:

"I've been treating the villagers for so many years, so I should be credited, and if I didn't resell the medicine, I wouldn't have this money at all... Can you leave some for me."

Niubi, this man can really open his mouth.

Zhou Jing raised his eyebrows and snapped his fingers.

Rose approached Gamma immediately, and slowly drew out the dagger.

"I don't want it! I don't want it!" Jia Ma yelled in horror.

"It's too late."

Zhou Jing waved his hand and asked Ross to take out a cloth strip and gag the mouths of several people.

Baron ignored Gamma, paced around the room for a while, and said in a deep voice:

"Jason, you can set off tonight and take these two people to Baiyuan City. There are guards on the grain collection team. If you run into them during the daytime, it will be troublesome to explain, and it is easy for them to misunderstand you. Kidnapped the food collection team."

"Okay, then I'll leave later." Zhou Jing nodded: "What about you?"

"I'm dealing with the grain collection team in the village, so you don't have to worry about things here." Baron responded.

Hearing this, Zhou Jing didn't delay, and went home quickly to pack his things.

Then he borrowed a pack animal from his fellow villager, loaded it with the boxes of defective potions, put on the night, and together with Rose led the goatee man and Gamma on the road.

Ba Long stood at the entrance of the village and looked out, watching the figures of Zhou Jing and his party get further and further away, disappearing into the night.