This wine production workshop looks very formal, and it doesn't look like it can produce corpse water red wine. In my cognition, those unscrupulous manufacturers who seek no means for profit generally rent a basement and quietly process and produce in it, and the house is full of black water, dirt on the walls, and a disgusting stench from time to time.

But the address of the manufacturer on the red wine is obviously here, and it seems that this matter has to be investigated in other ways.

Lu You, the deputy manager, offered to have a meal together, but I casually found an excuse to send him away.

As soon as we walked out of the production workshop, we saw a group of people around the entrance of the factory from a distance, holding something shiny in their hands and flashing at us, like the flash of a camera.

Lu You reacted quickly, saw that the situation was not right, and immediately took us back to the production workshop.

"What's going on out there?" In the production workshop, even Yang Xuan, who had been helping Lu You speak, was stunned.

Lu You shook his head helplessly and explained the situation outside to us: "Brother Yang, I don't know what the situation is, recently someone reported that our red wine is an inferior product, and they said that there is a smell in the wine. I really don't know which grandson made the rumor, we must have been maliciously suppressed by our peers. Later, they found various news media, including regular reporters, and many short video creators who wanted to expose us. ”

After listening to him, I gave Li Meng a look.

It seemed that what Lu You said was the same as what we encountered, so I pretended not to know anything and asked, "So is there something wrong with your wine?" ”

Yang Xuan also panicked when he heard this, this was the first time he had heard about it, and hurriedly asked Lu You: "You kid tell me the truth, don't make a big deal when the time comes, we can't control you." ”

Lu You bent over and patted his thigh, and said with a sad face and a tearless face: "Brother Yang, our wine has been sold for almost ten years, if there is a problem, won't there be a problem a long time ago?" Just now, several leaders also inspected our production workshop, and there is indeed no problem, I suspect that all this is malicious suppression among peers! ”

Yang Xuan thought about it, what Lu You said did make some sense, Baiyun Food Company is a large enterprise, and the food it produces is sold all over the country, and if there is a problem, it will be exposed long ago.

Then, Yang Xuan looked at me again.

I am also thinking about this question, this company is indeed large enough, if there is a problem with red wine, consumers will first choose to call the police, or report to the Food Administration, how can they privately find reporters to expose it? There seems to be something else hidden in this.

And the reason why I pretended to accept four bottles of red wine from Lu You as a bribe was that I was going to take them back for testing, if it was really an illegal enterprise that fraudulently used the banner of Baiyun Food Company to produce inferior red wine, it would definitely be found out from these four bottles of red wine. Because the bottles of red wine are marked, there are obvious differences in the bottles of red wine produced by different brands and manufacturers.

Thinking of this, I let out a long sigh and asked him with some anxiety: "I tell you, you have to solve this matter as soon as possible, it really makes a big mess, and there is no way to end it then." ”

"Who's to say it isn't?!" Lu You was very excited when he saw that we were all talking for himself.

He said slowly: "After this happened, I immediately told my boss. Our boss was also stunned when he heard it, and he personally came to the workshop to inspect and did not let go of any detail. Whatever the truth of the matter, our boss immediately ordered us to recover all the same batch of red wine that had been sold and bring it back to the factory for investigation and testing. At the same time, let us do our best to suppress the news, and before the truth is investigated, we must control the reports of reporters and media. ”

"What does it mean to control the coverage of journalists' media?" Li Meng, who was beside him, couldn't help but ask.

"To put it bluntly, it's to give some hush money." Lu You smiled awkwardly.

Li Meng sensed that something was wrong, suddenly frowned, and asked, "If it wasn't for the problems in your factory, why would you give them hush money?" Doesn't that fuel their arrogance? In the long run, more people will come to collect hush money. ”

Lu You looked at us and smiled bitterly: "Alas, this kind of thing is a dumb person who eats Coptis chinensis, and he can't say anything about his suffering." We are now doing wine tracing origin, if it is our problem, we will definitely take responsibility, if it is not our problem, we will go through the judicial process to trace the source of the rumors. But this is a long process, and it may even take a year or two, and if the reporter catches the wind before the truth is found out, the damage caused to our company is very huge. We really have no choice but to choose the lesser of two evils......"

Lu You is telling the truth, if the reporter is allowed to report, the company will definitely suffer a very serious reputational loss, and at this time, the company will not be able to provide evidence to prove its innocence. Even if the evidence is presented after a period of time, the hearts of the people have already imperceptibly denied the brand, so there is only one way out for the brand - bankruptcy.

"A few leaders, it seems that there is no time at noon today, write down this meal first, and after the matter is resolved another day, I will definitely ask a few leaders, let's have a few drinks." Lu You's attitude was very sincere and said seriously.

"That's all good to say, you go and deal with things first, hurry up and check if there is a problem in your factory, if the matter is really big, it won't be us who will check on you." Yang Xuan said with hatred.

"Yes, yes, be sure to find out."

Lu You filled Yang Xuan with four bottles of red wine and some snacks for Li Meng, and after he sent us to the back door of the factory, he hurried back to the main gate to deal with the reporter.

"Officer Qin, we also checked today, and there is indeed no problem with the production workshop." Yang Xuan paused and said to me.

I smiled politely: "It's really hard for the two of you today, and we are also responsible for it, there is no way." ”

Then we made a few more official polite remarks, and they left.

"Is there really a problem with this plant? Could it really be as the deputy manager said, maliciously suppressed by peers? After seeing them go away, Li Meng suddenly asked me.

I smiled and said to her, "What we see is what they want us to see." Didn't you see that Lu You and Yang Xuan were very familiar? They didn't say hello in advance, so I didn't believe it. ”

Li dreamed that this was indeed the case, and she asked me again, "What about now?" We can't get into the factory to investigate. ”

I looked down at the two leather wine crates in my hand and said in a deep voice, "Let's go back and investigate first." ”