Astral Apostle

   Chapter 38 Corruption

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

  The man with the goatee, 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 Zhou Jing was present, they were terrified by the fighting power of the alien hunters, so they did not dare to resist or escape.

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

   "It turns out that you have a lot of potions in stock. 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 voice of defense became smaller and smaller, and he was speechless.

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

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

  Jama buried his head and did not dare to answer.

   Zhou Jing fiddled with the potions and asked casually, "How about you reselling the potions? What price do these potions sell for?"

   "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 pharmacy for more than 30 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 business of at least a few hundred silver coins.

   It’s just that there aren’t many goods this time. In the past, one 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's heart trembled, she 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 makes huge profits, but he has never been a bad pharmacist.

A few years ago, Jiama wandered to Baiyuan City and wanted to cooperate with the Baiyuan City Pharmacy, but because of his poor level, he was turned away from the door to sell potions, the potions could not be sold at all, and his money was spent Almost there, 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.

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

   It’s just that his craftsmanship is basically 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.

   So 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 gains.

   After listening to Jiama's explanation, Zhou Jing looked at the man with the goatee 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 on the side 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 be able to encounter this kind of thing.

   It may not be a good thing to contact rashly without the right time. After all, there is no golden exclamation mark on the head, and it is not a matter of interaction to trigger an event.

   "Then tell me, it's impossible to kill my friend because of the 30-silver business, right? How did you make money from purchasing 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 potions 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 villages, 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.

   So unknowingly, I quietly replaced batches of pharmacies' inventory.

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

   Take the public things to make personal profits, 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, and it is the buyer who suffers in the end... But there is only one pharmacy in the city, and no one else does. You have to choose, it doesn't matter 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 changing to 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 do you sell the good potion you exchanged to?"

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

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

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

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

"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 in charge of the other supervisors will check the medicines. Fineness, 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 judgmental.

   He thought it was just a simple reselling, but he didn't expect to make a mistake and reveal the inside story of the pharmacy in Baiyuan City, 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 the level of an ordinary person, 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... there is nothing else." Goatee whispered.

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

  Goatee turned his head and glared angrily.

  Jama didn't dare to look at him, she waved her hands to Zhou Jing again and again, 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 his mouth and did not dare 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."

   Alien beast hunters protect Baiyuan City from the threat of alien beasts. Some people dare to provide defective products to alien beast hunters for personal gain... and they are so expensive!

   is simply 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 over.

"This is how the same thing?"

  Balon looked at the situation in the field, confused.

   He was sleeping at night when he suddenly woke up and found a figure standing beside the bed. He was 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 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 happened clearly. He dragged and dragged him and motioned Balon to go to the pharmacist's hut.

  Although Baron was surprised, he quickly put on his equipment, trotted to get here, and saw the scene as soon as he entered the door. 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 for him to explain.

  Jama didn't dare to hide it, so he had to tell the situation again tremblingly.

   Soon, Baron understood what was going on.

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

  Balon 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..."

  Balong's chest rose and fell violently, and he was so angry that he wished that his left hand and right hand would make a slow motion to split the small skulls of the two of them.

   Several people shivered and shrank into a ball.

   Zhou Jing then 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 Balon to ask.

  Baron calms down.

   He pondered for a while, then came close to Zhou Jing's ear and whispered:

"We have to report this kind of vile 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 more hunters will buy defective potions. ... Root must hate someone to deceive and 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 is also Jiama’s profit-making over the years…

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

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

  Gama's face was ashes, these were the savings he had finally saved by reselling the potions.

   Even for high-income alien hunters, it is a lot of money, and it can only be earned after several hunting.

   "What about the money?" Zhou Jing asked.

   "What do you think?" Baron asked rhetorically.

   Zhou Jing thought for a while, then shrugged and said, "You and I will take some and give some to the hunters. 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 alien world, this is the truth.

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

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

   Niupi, 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 the cloth strips 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 that you are kidnapped and taken away. People from the food team."

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

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

   Hearing the words, Zhou Jing did not delay and went home to pack his things soon.

   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 Garma on the road.

  Balong 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.

   (end of this chapter)