Astral Apostle Chapter 38: Corruption

In the house, several wooden boxes are placed on the ground, containing bottles of colorful medicines. There are no labels on the bottles, and the medicines are very turbid and look of poor quality.

The goatee man, the two surviving attendants, and the witch doctor Jiama, squatted in the corner with their heads folded, watching Zhou Jing check the potions one by one with trepidation.

Because of Zhou Jing's presence, they were intimidated by the fighting power of the alien hunters, and they did not dare to resist or escape.

Zhou Jing looked at the potion, then turned around and looked at Jiama.

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

"No!" Jiama quickly explained: "This is a new potion I made during this time. I really ran out of potions at the time, I..."

Facing Zhou Jing's "keep composing" look in his eyes, his defense became weaker and quieter, and he was speechless.

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

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

Gama buried her head, not daring to answer.

Zhou Jing fiddled with the potions and asked casually, "How about you reselling the potions? What price are these potions selling?"

"Usually four bottles of one silver coin..." Garma replied tremblingly.

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

Zhou Jing did the math, and was a little surprised: "Then you only sell a few boxes of potions for more than thirty silver coins? Your pharmacist's income isn't that low, right?"

Because of this little money, take the risk?

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

It's just that there aren't many goods this time. In the past, a batch could sell for fifty or sixty silver coins... Jiama thought so, but didn't have the guts to say it.

"How did you get on the line with this person?" Zhou Jing glanced at the two, pulled out a dagger and played with it.

Jama trembled, turned her head and glanced at the man with the goatee, and suddenly turned her heart away, revealing her full cooperation with this man.

A highly skilled pharmacist is a huge profit, but he has never been a crappy pharmacist.

A few years ago, Jiama wandered to Baiyuan City and wanted to cooperate with the Baiyuan City Pharmacy, but because of his poor skills, he was turned away from selling potions. He couldn't sell the potions at all, and his money It also cost almost the same, and even the raw materials of the medicine can hardly be bought.

At that time, it was this goatee man who quietly stopped him and showed him a way to go to the surrounding villages as a village doctor, so Jiama came to Shuangmu Village and stayed here.

After staying in Frostwood Village for several years, a team of hunters gathered raw materials for him for free, and making potions became a profitable business.

It's just that with his craftsmanship, most of the products he makes are defective. And this goatee man came with the cover of the grain harvesting team every time, secretly purchased his defective medicines in batches and brought them back to Baiyuan City.

As for what to do with it, Jiama doesn't know and doesn't care.

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

Therefore, he used the pretext that potion production is easy to fail over the years, and greedily used most of the materials brought by the hunter team. Only a small part of the potions he produced were enough to meet the needs of the village, and the rest were private profits. .

After listening to Jiama's explanation, Zhou Jing looked at the goatee man and raised his eyebrows: "You are from the pharmacy, right? We met once, do you remember?"

The goatee man nodded subconsciously.

When he saw Zhou Jing just now, he felt a little familiar. He squatted and thought for a while, before vaguely remembering the brief encounter between the two three months ago.

Hearing this, Zhou Jing touched his chin.

Fortunately, I didn't come up to talk to this person as soon as I found out 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 this kind of thing.

Before the right time, rash contact may not be a good thing. After all, there is no golden exclamation mark on people's heads, and events cannot be triggered by an interaction.

"Then tell me, it's impossible to kill my friend because of the 30-silver business, right? How did you make a profit from buying these defective potions? You must earn more than this amount of money, right?"

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

The cold light of the dagger flashed in the goatee's eyes, he swallowed and opened his mouth carefully:

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

After listening to a few words, Zhou Jing understood.

This goatee purchased the inferior medicines made by the village doctor at a low cost in the nearby village, and then took advantage of his position to recharge the inferior medicines, and use these inferior medicines to replace the high-quality medicines in the pharmacy warehouse.

In this way, unknowingly, he quietly replaced batches of pharmacies' inventory.

Not only will the quantity of the stocked potions not match the account book, but also for personal gain, the good potions in stock will be resold.

Take public things for personal gain, and slowly empty the pharmacy. In this way, the goatee has already made a profit of several thousand tera silver coins.

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, but in the end it is the buyer who suffers... But there is only one pharmacy in the city. , no one else has a choice, so don't pay attention at all.

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

'Hey, Chen Liang is replaced with new food, I didn't expect this kind of operation to happen here. ’

Zhou Jing is happy.

It seems that no matter what world they are in, those who take advantage of the loopholes can always look 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 did you sell the good potion to?"

"Privately peddled to past traders, or sent to other towns to sell..." Goatee smirked.

"You're so arrogant, aren't you afraid of being discovered by other supervisors of the pharmacy? Aren't you afraid of being checked by a cooperating pharmacist? Aren't you afraid of being noticed by the lord?"

Zhou Jing raised his eyebrows and used the back of the knife to raise the goatee's chin.

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

"Those pharmacists had better be appeased, how could they buy back the medicines that have been sold to us in a hurry, and even if they find out, it's enough to say that these are some substandard medicines. And no one else in charge would know that. Check the quality of the medicine, and there are even people doing 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 uses medicine, we will definitely give the best product. "

Zhou Jing clicked his tongue.

This man's life was too juicy.

He thought it was just a simple reselling, but he didn't expect to make a mistake and reveal the inside story of the Baiyuan City pharmacy, which involved a gray chain of interests.

...It seems that corruption exists wherever there are people. Even in this relatively primitive world, there is such a problem.

He quietly opened the panel and spent 10 Astral Points to look at the attributes of this goatee. It was just an ordinary person's level, nothing unusual.

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

"Healing potions, potions of various diseases... nothing else." Goatee whispered.

At this point, Garma added: "There are also some hunter potions."

Goatee turns his head and scowls.

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

"Shut up."

Jama immediately covered her mouth, not daring to speak.

Zhou Jing was too lazy to pay attention to this man, and squinted at the goatee: "The hunter potion also has defective products? You can really kill yourself."

The alien hunter protects Baiyuan City from the threat of alien beasts. Someone dares to provide the alien hunter with defective products for personal gain... and they are still so expensive!

It's like 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. come over.

"What's the matter?"

Baron looked at the situation in the field, confused.

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

Finally found that Ross was standing beside his bed, Baron was relieved, and wondered how Ross had entered his room without a sound.

If this is a night attack, wouldn't it be a disaster for me?

Ross couldn't speak, so he couldn't explain what was going on. He dragged him and motioned Balon to go to the Apothecary's Cabin.

Although Baron was surprised, he quickly put on his equipment and trotted here. As soon as he entered the door, he saw the scene at this moment. Zhou Jing sat on the only chair in the room, with the witch doctor Jiama and three unknown men squatting in the corner.

Zhou Jing kicked Jiama with his foot, motioning him to explain.

Jama didn't dare to hide it, so she had to tell the situation again with trepidation.

Soon, Baron understood what was going on.

"What?! You didn't save Will on purpose?"

Balloon was furious, grabbed Gamar by the neck, and lifted him up.

"Cough, cough..." Jiama 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 pharmacist, dare to sell defective hunter potions..."

Baron's chest rose and fell violently, and he was so angry that he could not wait for a slow motion of his left and right hands to split the small skulls of the two.

Several people shivered and shrank into a ball.

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

The main world has a whole set of laws for dealing with corruption, but when he encounters this kind of problem here, he doesn't quite understand what the process is, so he asks Baron to ask.

Baron calms down.

He pondered for a while before leaning into Zhou Jing's ear and whispering:

"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 at the pharmacy be thoroughly investigated, and there will be no more hunters to buy defective products. The potion of the product... Root definitely hates someone to deceive and harm his interests, he will not let these two guys go, it will probably be hanged."

"Alright."

Zhou Jing nodded, thinking secretly.

There is no profit in killing people directly, and if such corrupt behavior is reported to the lord, how much will the lord express it?

Although I don't care much about the money in the alien world, but to resolve this event, we may be able to get more astral points or information state particles when the return is settled.

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

Zhou Jing remembered this, and did a thorough investigation in the house. Finally, he found a few hidden compartments, and took out two bulging money bags.

After a bit of inventory, there are about seven or eight hundred Tera silver coins.

Jiama's face was ashes. These are the savings he finally saved by selling potions.

Even for high-income alien hunters, it's a lot of money, and it takes several hunts to earn.

"What about the money?" Zhou Jing asked.

"What do you think?" Baron asked rhetorically.

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

"I thought you'd stay on your own." Baron was a little surprised.

"I'm not interested in money."

Zhou Jing waved his hand.

At least in the alien world, that's the truth.

At this time, Jiama couldn't help but plead:

"I've treated the villagers for so many years, so I deserve credit, and if I hadn't re-sold the medicine, I wouldn't have had the money at all... Could you leave some for me?"

Niubi, this person can really open his mouth.

Zhou Jing raised his brows and snapped his fingers.

Ross immediately approached Garma and slowly drew out the dagger.

"No! I don't!" Garma shouted in horror.

"I would have had it earlier."

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

Baron ignored Jiama, paced around the room for a while, and said solemnly:

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

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

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

Hearing this, Zhou Jing did not delay and went home quickly to pack up.

Then he borrowed a pack beast from a fellow villager, loaded the boxes of defective potions, and covered the night, with Ross and the goatee man and Gama on the road.

Baron stood at the entrance of the village and watched, watching the figures of Zhou Jing and his party get farther and farther away, disappearing into the night.