Turning the tide in the Red Chamber

Chapter 138 [138] Investigation

Seeing that there was no one in the handicraft workshop.

Jia Chen was very surprised, where did the people in this handicraft workshop go?

It seems that he absconded in fear of crime.

Through investigations, the government arrested shopkeeper Xu, a vendor who had bought creams here.

Shopkeeper Xu said that when they bought it, they proposed to enter the workshop to see the goods, but they were rejected.

Moreover, none of the people who came to buy had entered the handicraft workshop.

When the government broke into the handicraft workshop, they found that it had been evacuated.

It seems that these criminals have heard the wind and moved away quickly.

Jia Chen and the government analyzed that these criminals must still have stock in their hands, and, in order to make a fortune, they will definitely take risks and continue to produce cream in another place.

Later, Jia Chen learned the contact address of the sales staff of this handicraft workshop from these vendors, and wrote a letter to them, expressing that he wanted to buy cream.

The person who replied claimed to be shopkeeper Xu, and when he saw that Jia Chen wanted to buy cream, he told him that the price of each pack of cream was 1800 taels of silver.

At the same time, Shopkeeper Xu also made an appointment with Jia Chen on the delivery location.

This shopkeeper Xu was as shrewd as a drug dealer, and he changed the trading location many times. Finally, Jia Chen met shopkeeper Xu at the east gate of Shenjing City.

Shopkeeper Xu wrapped himself up tightly, for fear that others would see him like that.

After seeing Jia Chen, he carefully took out a pack of cream wrapped tightly in kraft paper and handed it to Jia Chen.

During this period, shopkeeper Xu kept looking left and right, and left as soon as he got the money.

After getting the item, Jia Chen immediately sent it to his own handicraft workshop for inspection, and it turned out that the composition of the cream was almost the same as his own.

This also proves that the person who leaked the production process is the employee in his own workshop.

In order not to startle the enemy, Jia Chen decided to send someone to continue the investigation.

When the new type of cream was developed, only five people in the entire workshop knew the formula.

After investigation, Jia Chen locked his eyes on Lu Guixiang and Huang Xuefang.

Afterwards, Jia Chen sent someone to secretly follow the two of them, paying attention to any suspicious things in their every move.

After a period of secret tracking, the investigators discovered that both of them had appeared in the handicraft workshop on the mountainside.

Through interviews and investigations, Lu Guixiang once appeared in the nearby Goutoushan.

It turned out that this group of criminals started anew in Goutoushan and rebuilt a black hand workshop.

Now, Jia Chen can be sure that the two of them are the real culprits who leaked the secret of the cream making technique.Immediately afterwards, he immediately reported the situation to the government and asked the government to organize the arrest operation.

Soon, nearly [-] people, consisting of three arresting teams, a search team and a mobile team, drove to the illegal handicraft workshop in Goutoushan immediately.

A large number of government servants surrounded the entire handicraft workshop. Seeing this, two workers hurriedly poured out the unknown liquid in several large buckets nearby.

Jia Chen understood that these were important evidence, and immediately stepped forward and yelled, "Don't move! Hold your head and squat down!"

Then, the search team seized a large number of illegally produced finished and semi-finished creams, as well as raw materials and equipment from the handicraft workshop. …

At the same time, Lu Guixiang was arrested on the spot.

Under Jia Chen's urging, the government did not dare to slack off and speed up the progress of the investigation.

Afterwards, the search team rushed to Lu Guixiang's home and found research records on the cream and a large number of raw materials for making it.

However, Lu Guixiang's husband, Tao Hongshan is still at large.

Another suspect, Huang Xuefang, also fled upon hearing the news and was wanted by the government.

During the interrogation by the government, Lu Guixiang explained her criminal process and confessed to her actions.

Both Lu Guixiang and Huang Xuefang were the core personnel in the development of the cream, and they made great contributions to the success of the research on the cream.

However, after the successful research on the cream, Lu Guixiang's husband, Tao Hongshan, became cautious and kept persuading his wife to produce cream outside.

Lu Guixiang did not agree with her husband's idea at first. She told her husband that although she participated in the research, she did not fully grasp the formula and process.

Another technician, Huang Xuefang, has mastered the craft of making cream.

In this regard, Tao Hongshan said to his wife: "What's the matter, our two families are family friends, so it would be good to bring her here."

Under Tao Hongshan's persuasion and bewitchment, Lu Guixiang finally proposed this idea to Huang Xuefang.

At first, Huang Xuefang did not agree, but Lu Guixiang said: "Sister, you said that we earn a few taels of silver a month at the handicraft workshop. If we sell creams, we can earn more than working in the handicraft workshop. What's more, We are all going to retire soon. Sister, think about it carefully."

Under the trend of money and interests, Huang Xuefang agreed to Lu Guixiang's request and secretly sold cream with her.

However, the core manufacturing process of the cream is not readily available, and it is not easy to secretly produce "new type of cream" outside.

Lu Guixiang and Huang Xuefang respectively mastered the formula and technology of the "new ice cream". They secretly recorded the process and handed it to Liu Ligang, who was a porter in the handicraft workshop, to take it home.

Tao Hongshan buys raw materials according to the records on paper.

After purchasing the raw materials, Lu Guixiang and Huang Xuefang secretly took out the two most important additives from the laboratory of the handicraft workshop for testing.

After finding out the ingredients inside, several people finally made a "new type of cream" that was basically the same as the real product.

Coincidentally, at this time, the reputation of the cream spread far and wide, and the demand was also increasing.

In the name of others, Lu Guixiang and Huang Xuefang opened a handicraft workshop on the mountainside, specializing in the production of creams.

Tao Hongshan and Huang Xuefang fled to Jinmen.

They and their workers continued to produce cream on an uninhabited desert island in the Jinmen Haihe River.

In order to retaliate against the villagers, Tao Hongshan hired two killers to go to the village at the foot of Xishan to investigate who was the first to discover the snow cream that fell at the foot of the mountain.

As a result, they found out Xu Qiang and killed him.

After the murder happened, Jiang Dawei, who also kept the cream in his possession, was terrified, for fear that his family would be killed like Xu Qiang.

In order to sell the pack of cream in the dry well as soon as possible, he went to the market every day to secretly look for sellers.

This matter was known by Tao Hongshan, and also by the government.

Jiang Dawei carried a trolley case with him, and there was a pack of cream in it. He didn't dare to go home and hid.

As a result, Tao Hongshan's subordinates contacted him first, willing to spend money to buy this pack of cream.

The government was one step too late.

Jiang Dawei made an appointment with the other party to meet in a forest in a barren mountain, but was brutally killed and buried under a tree.

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