Chapter Seventy-Two: The Fat Shopkeeper's Confession
The fat shopkeeper of the pharmacy was now annoyed.
As the only pharmacy in the town, he has always kept the business in the shop very good. Although the small medical hall in Langzhong also sells some medicines, it is only a small fight, and the variety is extremely limited, so it cannot affect his business here in the slightest.
For the residents of the town, you can have a variety of hobbies, maybe you don't like the bewitching beauties of Chunhualou, maybe you don't like to go to the gambling house to spend a lot of money, maybe you don't like to go to the restaurant to eat and drink, but as a person, eating grains and giving rise to all kinds of diseases, you can't guarantee that your body will not be sick all the time.
Therefore, no matter who you are, you can always be inseparable from the pharmacy, even if you are Langzhong, you still have to come here to buy medicine.
As a result, his performance has always been the most stable of all the shopkeepers, and he will not be like the shopkeepers of other shops, whose monthly turnover always fluctuates greatly and fluctuates with the days when wages are paid in the nearby private mines.
This is something he has always been proud of, and it is why he has always been trusted in front of his boss.
But now, the boss actually told him to leave.
At noon, after a busy morning in the store, he was facing his favorite bowl of braised pork at home, and was about to feast, when someone actually sent an order from the boss to leave the town in the afternoon, and immediately, immediately!
He couldn't figure it out.
Did you do something wrong and make your boss angry?
Apparently not.
Moreover, the order seemed to be very hasty, completely out of line with the boss's usual calm style, as if some kind of danger was imminent, and he had to make a hasty decision.
The boss owns all the shops in this town, and he can cover the sky here, what else can threaten him?
The fat shopkeeper doesn't know.
He touched the twenty taels of gold rewarded by the boss in his arms, which was indeed not less, but it was still far from enough for his dedication to the shop and the town in the past ten years.
When he first arrived in this remote town, it was nothing more than a dilapidated, old, desolate and withered town, sparsely populated and lifeless.
He saw first-hand how the place had been transformed under the leadership of the boss, and now it has become a lively town full of people and guests at night.
He also put a lot of effort into this.
So he is not reconciled, unwilling to give up everything here, and let others pick this ready-made fruit to take over like a peach.
But this was the boss's order, and he didn't dare to disobey it.
He knows the boss's methods, and he has been against him all these years, and even as long as the people who get in his way, they have all disappeared inexplicably, or there has been an incredible accident, and he has died.
The fat shopkeeper didn't want to end up like this.
So despite his hesitation, he could only go.
He sighed, picked up his baggage, and walked out of the house.
More than ten years ago, when he came here, he was also carrying an old burden, here for more than ten years, he did not start a family, did not buy a property, because this is the rule set by the boss, all the shopkeepers here are the same, all can not have a family property here, as if they are ready to change people at any time.
Unexpectedly, when he left here, he also only had such a cloth burden, although the various rewards of the boss over the years had made him a lot of money.
Walking out of the town, the fat shopkeeper finally looked back at the town again, and when he turned around, he saw a person standing in front of him.
The fat shopkeeper is very fat, he loves meat like life, and every meal is inseparable from meat, especially the most beloved braised pork, plus he always sits in the store and lacks exercise, so his body is obese, and everyone calls him the fat shopkeeper.
However, the person in front of him, although he is not old
big, but it looks fatter than himself, with a round head, a round waist, a round belly, and the whole person looks like a blown ball of meat, almost rolling away.
Now, the meat ball stood in front of him with a smile, as if staring at himself with malicious intent.
The gaze, like a wild beast looking at its prey, was creepy.
The fat shopkeeper shuddered coldly, turned his head to avoid the chubby stranger, and walked on the other side, only to find that there was also a person standing here.
This man also looked quite young, but he was in his early twenties, dressed in a simple long robe, and when he smiled, he seemed to feel very sunny and warm, and he was also smiling at himself.
The fat shopkeeper was shocked, it seemed that these two people were obviously coming for him, and the comers were not good.
He turned around and wanted to run to the town, even robbers would not dare to rob so blatantly in broad daylight and in full view of everyone.
But before he could take two steps, a flower appeared in front of him, and the fat man who was standing behind him suddenly appeared in front of him again, blocking his way.
The fat shopkeeper's heart was cold, he was a smart man, of course he saw that this little fat man who was not amazing was obviously armed with martial arts, and he couldn't escape it now.
Who were they, were they robbers, and were they coming for the gold and silver in their bosoms?
Or are they someone sent by the boss to kill them?
Thinking of this, his whole body trembled involuntarily, and his whole body felt like falling into an ice cave.
Gritting his teeth, he turned to face the young man with a sunny smile and asked sharply: "Who are you? What do you want to do? This Lang Lang Qiankun wants to rob? Aren't you afraid of this Ming king's law?"
The young man smiled, saluted him, and said politely: "Sir, don't panic, we are not robbers, Xiao Ke Ye Feng, I just want to ask Mr. to answer a few questions to solve the doubts in my heart." ”
The fat shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, it turned out that he was not a robber, and he didn't look like a person sent by the boss, so his heart was a little settled.
He has been in this town for more than ten years, and he has never left half a step, so he has not heard all kinds of rumors about Ye Feng, and naturally he doesn't know who he is.
Now that he knew that the other party was just here to ask a few questions, he asked for it, a big stone fell to the ground in his heart, and he looked back at the smile of the little fat man behind him, but he didn't have the same ill intentions as before.
When you worry about a person in one thing, the more you think about it, the more you think about it, the more you feel that this person is the same as you imagined. The so-called suspect stealing the axe is what it means.
The fat shopkeeper cleared his throat and asked, "What do you want to ask?"
Ye Feng smiled: "The shopkeeper left in such a hurry, was it on the orders of the boss behind you?"
Boss? They even know the boss?
The fat shopkeeper was secretly taken aback.
The boss has always been a mysterious existence in the eyes of the fat shopkeeper.
Although he owned all the shops and businesses in this town, he never showed up, and the shopkeepers of these shops ran their own business, and then went to the small building in the open space behind the Chunhua Building every month to report to him.
Speaking of which, he has worked for his boss for more than ten years, and he has won the trust of his boss, but even he has never seen the true face of his boss.
Because every time the boss sees them, he is dressed in black, covered with a black scarf, and the boss's light skills are very good, he flies around every time, and there is no way to know his identity.
But the boss knows everything about every move of each of their shopkeepers, who made false accounts, who embezzled silver taels, and even who secretly said that the boss was bad behind his back
He actually knew it all.
Therefore, the fat shopkeeper always felt that he must be the person who lived in the town, and even the person around him, so he secretly observed for a long time, but he never had a clue.
Now the kid in front of him actually said the boss as soon as he opened his mouth, where did he know about it?
The fat shopkeeper squinted his eyes and looked at Ye Feng carefully, and made sure that his eyes were very raw, and he must not be from this town, so he said leisurely: "The two of you are from other places, right? I'm the boss of that pharmacy, where are the other bosses?"
Seeing that the fat shopkeeper denied it, Ye Feng hadn't spoken yet, but the fat man on the side sneered.
He leaned over and picked up a stone from the ground, and with a hey, broke it in half with his bare hands, threw it away, and said, "I advise you to tell the truth, and lying is not a good habit." ”
The fat shopkeeper watched him break the stone in half, and his bones seemed to be broken with a click, and thin beads of sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead.
This is a threat, with their martial arts to deal with their powerless self, isn't it the same as hand-to-hand, playing?
Ye Feng looked at Zhang Fatzi's threat coldly, and said, "All the shops in your town are actually behind this boss, and all your shopkeepers are all under his orders, aren't they?"
The hero doesn't eat the immediate loss, seeing that the other party already knows everything, and there is no point in continuing to deny it, the fat shopkeeper has no choice but to nod.
Seeing him nod, Ye Feng smiled and asked, "Where is the boss?"
The fat shopkeeper's head was like a rattle, and he hurriedly said: "I really don't know this, he covers his face every time we meet, and all our shopkeepers just listen to him, and have never seen his true face." ”
This is the truth, and the expression of the fat shopkeeper already speaks for itself.
Ye Feng blinked, changed the topic and asked, "Is there a medicinal herb like Blood Acetabia in your store?"
The fat shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Ye Feng to suddenly ask such a question.
After thinking about it, he replied: "In the past, I bought a batch of goods, but the medicinal materials were too rare and highly toxic, so the amount was not large, and now there are no more." ”
While answering, I secretly wondered in my heart, how would they know?
It was that Langzhong, it must be that Langzhong! The fat shopkeeper was almost immediately determined.
Ordinary people don't even recognize such a rare medicinal material as the blood-red cantharid, how could they know that his pharmacy had ever entered such a thing?
Only the Lang Zhong in the town, once when he came to the store to dispense medicine, he happened to be in stock, he accidentally saw this medicinal material, and asked a few words casually.
It must be him! This talkative Lang Zhong looks back and sees how the boss cleans him up!
Ye Feng continued to ask, "Who have you sold it to?"
The fat shopkeeper didn't dare to lie, and said honestly: "I haven't sold it, such medicinal materials are highly toxic, and extreme caution is required when used in medicine, and ordinary prescriptions can't be used at all, so they have never been sold." ”
Ye Feng was a little strange: "Since it was not sold, then where did all the medicinal materials go, and why did you want to enter this medicinal material?"
The fat shopkeeper replied: "What is this called blood-red cantharid, it is not an ordinary medicinal herb in the first place, it was all ordered by the boss, I took a lot of effort to get some, and all of them were handed over to the boss, and they were never sold to the outside world at all." ”
"It's all given to the boss?" Ye Feng nodded, Lang Zhong said that this blood red cantharid is an indispensable medicinal material for refining the poison in the poisonous snake, and this boss had to ask the fat shopkeeper to buy a batch of this medicinal material and took it all, maybe it was used to refine the poison.
It seems that the poisonous snake poisoning must have something to do with this mysterious boss.