Xu Jie was sorting goods and didn't notice him. After being punched, he staggered and almost fell.

"You bastard, what do you mean by giving those photos to Huo Xiao?"

Because of those photos, Huo Xiao and his wife even had a fight. "How could someone like you be on my renovation team!"

Gao Baoliang questioned loudly.

When Xue Mei brought the goods over, she saw him from afar and thought it was about counterfeit goods, so she hid to the side and didn't dare to get close.

Xu Jie wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and smiled:

"Really? Huo Xiao's reputation is ruined too, haha~ I feel so good to see him get his comeuppance."

Gao Baoliang was furious at his shameless behavior and pointed at him, saying, "You wait, I'll call the police and let them handle this."

Xu Jie watched his departing figure with a sneer: "Call the police. Without evidence, the police can't do anything to him."

When Xue Mei returned and saw him like this, she asked him what Gao Baoliang wanted to see him about. Could it be because of the counterfeit goods?

Xu Jie: "It's nothing. I suddenly resigned, and he wanted me to come back to work."

"But I heard him say that Huo Xiao and his wife had a fight?"

Gao Baoliang said those words very loudly, and since they involved Huo Xiao, she heard them.

Xu Jie's eyes darkened. "You're not going to go see Huo Xiao again, are you?"

Xue Mei chuckled without saying anything, simply laid out the clothes she had brought in at the stall and began selling them.

She kept thinking about Huo Xiao and his wife arguing, and the next day, as if possessed, she went to the textile factory to find Huo Xiao again.

It was during working hours, and a group of employees filed in through the entrance.

Someone recognized Xue Mei standing at the door.

"Isn't that the person in the photo? I almost didn't recognize him with clothes on!"

"My God, how can there be such a shameless woman who takes off her clothes and lets people take pictures of her!"

"She's not even that good-looking. How could Director Huo possibly be interested in her? She's nowhere near as good-looking as his wife!"

......

As various sounds flooded her ears, Xue Mei felt dizzy and disoriented.

She suddenly remembered that Gao Baoliang had beaten Xu Jie up yesterday and had also mentioned some photos.

Could it be...?

Not daring to think any further, she fled the textile factory as if escaping.

Even after returning home, she remained uneasy.

When Xu Jie came to find her, she suppressed her anger and asked:

"Have you contacted Huo Xiao?"

Xu Jie raised an eyebrow slightly. "He contacted you?"

Xue Mei's face darkened. He had indeed contacted Huo Xiao and given him some photos.

Before she could ask further, Xu Jie angrily said:

"Why did I do this? It's all because you ignored me! I'm the one who's by your side, so why are you siding with him!"

"Because of this, you're going to take pictures of me without clothes? Xu Jie, I really misjudged you! Get out of here!"

Xue Mei kicked him out.

The next day, she went to set up her stall again, and when she was transporting a batch of clothes from a counterfeit goods factory to the school gate, she ran into Xu Jie, who came to help her.

Neither of them spoke, but they worked together seamlessly to sell the goods.

After a day, seeing that Xu Jie sincerely apologized to her, Xue Mei stopped holding it against her.

At this point, Gao Baoliang brought up the matter of calling the police, suggesting that they should hand the photos over to the police.

Jiang Ning, however, felt that with the photos in Huo Xiao's hands, there was no way to clarify the matter.

However, she noticed something: Xu Jie was also selling clothes at a stall.

"Isn't Xue Mei also running a stall? It seems the two of them already know each other. I'll take care of this."

In the following days, Jiang Ning found time to wait for Xue Mei at the university gate, and sure enough, she saw the two of them chatting and laughing as they sold clothes together.

She also discovered that the clothes they were selling were from the Yansha brand, but the fabric and workmanship were very different from genuine Yansha clothes.

"Gao Baoliang said there were counterfeit goods on the market, so it turns out they were the ones selling them!"

Last time, Gao Baoliang's attention was all on Xu Jie, and he didn't even notice this.

In order to find out the source of the counterfeit goods, Jiang Ning followed them and found a very hidden garment manufacturing den.

Here, all the clothing styles are imitations of Yansha, and they even have Yansha's logo on them.

Counterfeits were still rare in this era, and some people who had never worn genuine Yansha clothing were easily deceived by appearances and bought fakes.

When Jiang Ning returned to the company, Xu Yan came to see her and reported on the decline in the performance of Yansha Garment Factory.

"Do you know why?" Jiang Ning asked deliberately.

Xu Yan: "We are also investigating, and the number of orders from our company has decreased significantly. Apart from export business, which is unaffected, domestic business has decreased by 30%."

Jiang Ning leaned back in her chair, twirling a pen.

"You'll understand if you look into this factory."

She gave Xu Yan the address of the counterfeit operation she had found.

Xu Yan led her men, disguised as small stall owners picking up goods, into the factory, where they indeed saw their counterfeit clothing.

Their shipments are quite large because the products are cheap, and they are not only sold in the city, but also sourced from suburban counties.

"No wonder it had such a big impact on Yansha Apparel!"

Xu Yan wrote her findings into a report and handed it to Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning handed the report directly to the police.

Under the police's meticulous planning, not only was the counterfeit factory raided, but several small vendors who sourced the counterfeit goods were also arrested.

Xu Jie was one of them.

Intentionally selling counterfeit or substandard goods also incurs legal liability.

Xu Jie was fined 2,000 yuan, or he would have been detained for 15 days.

Xu Jie's family didn't have two thousand yuan, so he had to ask Xue Mei for it.

Previously, Xu's mother had made things difficult for Xue Mei in every way, but now, faced with her request, Xue Mei simply chuckled and said:

"I'm sorry, I have no relation to your son, so I can't pay for this. Anyway, it's only for fifteen days. While he's inside, it's like saving more than a hundred yuan a day, which is a good deal."

When Xu Jie heard what his mother relayed, he was so angry he almost fainted.

He had been helping her with purchasing and shipping goods all this time, and this was the end result.

It's absolutely infuriating.

The thought that Xue Mei, who was just an outsider, could bully him, a local, like this made him chuckle to himself.

At this moment, everyone sat together in the courtyard, talking about the counterfeit den being raided, and they all laughed.

I never expected that Xue Mei's photos would lead to so many things, and even eradicate the hidden dangers affecting the sales of Yansha Garment Factory.

After dinner, Jiang Ning suggested to Huo Xiao,

"Now that the matter is over and you two have reconciled, you should still get rid of Xue Mei's photos."

Huo Xiao thought that made sense, so he took out the photo and prepared to put it on the stove to burn it.

Unexpectedly, Ji Min happened to see the half-burned photo, immediately rushed over, and snatched it away.

She stared at the photo, which only showed her upper body and back, and let out a series of screams.

Following the direction of her finger, everyone saw a birthmark faintly visible under her hair on the back of Xue Mei's neck.