Elixir Supplier

Chapter 125

In the evening, Wang Yao was at home having dinner when he received a phone call. Not too long after, Wang Mingbao came to his house, looking anxious.

"What's wrong?"

"Uncle and Aunt Wang," Wang Mingbao greeted Wang Yao's parents. "I have something to tell you," he said to Wang Yao.

"What's the matter?"

"Remember the last time I told you about those ginsengs?"

"Yes, I remember. What about it?"

"Earlier this afternoon, I paid a visit to my friend's house. He had already sold half of his stock. You mentioned that the ginsengs have adverse effects; are the effects serious?!" Wang Mingbao exclaimed. "He sold so many of them; will that cause problems with the law?"

"Ordinarily, ginseng cannot be consumed in large quantities. Those ginsengs have eternal ingredients injected into them to encourage growth. The adverse effects are small, so the problem isn't big. The issue is the price that he sold them at. If he sold them at a premium price and passed them off as premium quality ginsengs, he is cheating others. Did he sell them directly to others, or was it through an intermediary distributor?"

"I don't know about that."

"I know!" Wang Yao's eyes suddenly brightened. "Let me ask Li Maoshuang."

He made a phone call. The other person listened and immediately understood.

"I was thinking, how come Lianshan has so many wild ginsengs lately, passing lower quality ginsengs as premium quality ones. Furthermore, the price is not cheap either. This is against the rules," Li Maoshuang commented over the phone. In every industry, there were rules. Money could be earned, but rules could not be broken. When broken, punishment would ensue.

Hearing Li Maoshuang's explanation, Wang Yao knew the crux of the matter. Wang Mingbao's friend had gotten himself into trouble that was not that serious, yet not negligible either. If caught, he could be sent to the police. Passing fake goods as genuine goods would constitute as a criminal offense. Fines and detention would be inevitable.

"You'd better quickly remind your friend that the consequences will be severe," Wang Yao said.

"Okay, I will tell him."

Wang Mingbao had come and left in haste. Evidently, his relationship with that person was quite good. Otherwise, he would not have cared so much.

"I hope your friend will listen to your advice."

Shortly after Wang Mingbao left, Wang Yao received a call from Zhou Xiong.

"What, you're caught? Where?"

After he found out the location, Wang Yao swiftly called Wang Mingbao, drove to pick him up and drove directly to the police station in Lianshan County. While on the way, Wang Mingbao called his connections.

In the police station, Wang Yao saw the detained Zhou Xiong and found out what happened.

Apparently, at night, Zhou Xiong had left the apartment to walk around to move his limbs and buy some stuff. Coincidentally, he saw a young man who was harassing a young woman and hence he went forward to stop him. Unexpectedly, the other party had a knife. Zhou Xiong was unable to control his techniques and ended up hurting a few people.

By right, Zhou Xiong was being righteous. However, the family of one of the men he had beaten up happened to have connections and made a false counter charge. They claimed that Zhou Xiong had deliberately hurt them and had him sent to the police station. Zhou Xiong did not know anyone in Lianshan County—the only person he could think of who could help him was Wang Yao.