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

The man with the goatee, the two surviving followers, and the witch doctor Gama squatted in the corner with their heads in their hands, watching Zhou Jing tremblingly as they inspected the potions one by one.

Because Zhou Jing was present and frightened by the fighting power of the exotic beast hunters, they did not dare to resist or escape.

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

"It turns out you have saved a lot of potions. Half a year ago you lied that you didn't have any potions, so you deliberately ignored my brother's death."

"No!" Gama quickly explained: "This is a new potion I made during this period. I really ran out of potion at that time. I..."

Facing Zhou Jing's look of "keep making it up", his defensive voice became smaller and smaller, until he was speechless.

Zhou Jing snorted coldly: "When my brother met you for the first time, you didn't treat him because he was an outsider... 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 and just do some tricks within your duties. It's too simple, right? Not many people would care."

Gama lowered her head and did not dare to answer.

Zhou Jing fiddled with the potions and asked casually: "How much profit did you make from reselling the potions? What price did these potions sell for?"

"Usually four bottles and one silver coin..." Gama replied tremblingly.

So cheap? Much lower than the cost price of purchasing normal medicines in a pharmacy.

Zhou Jing did the math and was a little surprised: "Then these boxes of medicines you only sold for more than 30 silver coins? Your pharmacist's income is not that low, right?"

Are you taking risks because of this small amount of money?

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

It's just that there aren't many goods this time. In the past, a batch could be sold for fifty or sixty silver coins... Jia Ma thought so in his heart, but didn't have the courage to say it out.

"How did you get in touch with this person?" Zhou Jing glanced at the two of them, took out his dagger and started playing with it.

Gama's heart trembled, and she turned to look at the man with the goatee. Suddenly her heart changed, and she revealed all her cooperation with this man.

A skilled pharmacist can make huge profits, but he is always just a bad pharmacist.

A few years ago, Gama wandered to White Plains City and wanted to cooperate with the White Plains City Pharmacy. However, because his skills were too low, he was turned away when he came to sell potions door-to-door. The potions could not be sold at all, and his money could not be spent.

It’s almost gone, and I can barely even afford the raw materials for the medicine.

At that time, it was this man with a goatee who quietly stopped him and showed him a way to work as a village doctor in a surrounding village. So Gama came to Shuangmu Village and stayed here.

After staying in Frostwood Village for several years, a team of hunters collected raw materials for him for free, and making potions became a cost-effective business.

But with his level of craftsmanship, most of what he produced were defective products. And this man with a goatee always came under the cover of the grain collection team, secretly purchased batches of his defective potions, and brought them back to White Plains City.

As for what to do with it, Gama didn't know and didn't care.

Although the price is very low, it is good for Gama. After all, the potions he makes are usually difficult to sell.

So over the years, he used the excuse that potion production was easy to fail and used most of the materials brought by the hunter team to waste. Only a small part of the potions produced were enough to meet the needs of the village, and the rest was for private gain.

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

The goatee man nodded subconsciously.

When he saw Zhou Jing just now, he felt that he looked familiar. He squatted aside and thought silently for a while, and then vaguely remembered 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 him as soon as I found him in the morning, otherwise I might have alerted him and made others wary. If I did nothing tonight, I wouldn't be in trouble with this kind of thing.

It may not be a good thing to contact someone hastily before the right time. After all, there is no golden exclamation mark on someone's head, and events cannot be triggered by just one interaction.

"Then tell me, it's impossible to kill my friend just because of the thirty silver coin business, right? How do you make a profit by purchasing these defective potions? You must make more than this amount of money, right?"

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

The cold light of the dagger flashed in Goatee's eyes. He swallowed and spoke carefully:

"I am a small manager of the White Plains City Pharmacy. I purchased these pharmaceuticals to secretly exchange the pharmacy's inventory..."

After listening to a few words, Zhou Jing understood.

This goatee purchased defective medicines made by village doctors in nearby villages at low cost, and then took advantage of his position to pass them off as good ones, using these defective medicines to replace high-quality medicines in the pharmacy warehouse.

In this way, batches of the pharmacy's inventory were quietly replaced without anyone noticing.

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

Using public goods to make personal profits, and slowly emptying the apothecary store, Goatee has made thousands of Terra silver coins in this way.

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 the buyer is the only one who suffers in the end... But there is only one pharmacy in the city, and no one else has.

You have to choose, no need to pay attention at all.

Although the effect of the defective medicine is very poor, it will not kill anyone, and the final right of interpretation still belongs to them.

'Hey, old grain is replaced with new grain. I didn't expect this kind of operation to be done here.'

Zhou Jing was happy.

It seems that no matter which world we are in, those who take advantage of loopholes always have a vision that transcends 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 will sell the good potion you replaced?"

"Sell them privately to passing merchants, or send them to other towns to be sold..." Goatee laughed sarcastically.

"Are you so arrogant? Are you not afraid of being discovered by other directors of the pharmacy? Aren't you afraid of being inspected by a cooperating pharmacist? Aren't you afraid of being discovered by the lord?"

Zhou Jing raised his eyebrows and raised his goatee's chin with the back of the knife.

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

"It's best to appease those pharmacists. They will have no time to buy back the medicines that have been sold to us. Even if they find them, it is enough for us to say that these are some substandard medicines. No other supervisor will check the medicines.

Well, there are even people doing the same business as me.

...As for the lord, as long as the pharmacy provides tax revenue, Lord Root will not notice anything unusual. If the lord wants to use medicine, we will definitely provide the best products."

Zhou Jing clicked his tongue.

This man's little life was too judgmental.

He originally thought it was just simple reselling, but he accidentally exposed the inside story of Baiyuan City Pharmacy and involved a gray chain of interests.

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

He quietly opened the panel and spent 10 astral points to check the attributes of the goatee. It was just the level of ordinary people, nothing unusual.

Zhou Jing smacked his lips, turned around and looked at the potions again, and said, "What kind of potions are mainly the defective products you purchased?"

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

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

Goatee turned his head and glared angrily.

Gama didn't dare to look at him, waved his hands to Zhou Jing, and said hurriedly: "Jason, I don't know anything about these things. If I had known that they were using my potion to do this, I wouldn't have dared to say anything..."

"Shut up."

Gama immediately covered her mouth, not daring to speak.

Zhou Jing was too lazy to pay attention to this man and squinted at the goatee: "There are defective hunter potions? You guys are really capable of committing suicide."

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

You are simply digging your own grave!

At this moment, the door to the pharmacist's cabin was pushed open, and Baron strode in, followed by Ross. After subduing these people, Zhou Jing asked Ross to quietly pull Baron over.

"What's going on?"

Balon looked at the situation on the field and was confused.

He was sleeping late at night when he suddenly woke up and found a figure standing next to his bed. He was so frightened that he almost struck him with an axe.

Finally, when he found out that Ross was standing next to his bed, Balon breathed a sigh of relief, and then wondered how Ross could enter his house quietly.

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

Ross couldn't speak and couldn't explain clearly what happened. He dragged and dragged Baron to the apothecary hut.

Although Balon 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's big horse Jin Dao was sitting on the only chair in the room, the witch doctor Gama and three different people.

A man I knew was squatting in the corner.

Zhou Jing kicked Gama and asked him to explain.

Gama didn't dare to hide it, so she had to tell the situation cautiously.

Soon, Balon also understood what happened.

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

Balon was furious, grabbed Gama's neck and lifted him up.

"Cough cough cough..." Gama coughed repeatedly and couldn't breathe.
To be continued...