Chapter 62: Are you here to laugh at me?
After leaving the director's office, Wang Mingyuan rode his bicycle to Lu Yanping's shop. Along the way, he was thinking about how to solve the next problem.
Being reported was a minor issue; the real concern was that the public security department and customs would actually investigate Lu Yanping for selling smuggled goods. Gu Jianguo and his team had already reported it under their real names, and they also knew the police station director, Zhu Qingjun.
What if Zhu Qingjun, in an effort to gain merit, joined forces with customs to investigate smuggled goods? He might even be charged with harboring a criminal. He now deeply regretted helping Lu Yanping deal with Gu Jianguo and the others.
When he arrived at the door of Lu Yanping's store, he saw Gu Jianguo and Han Deyi who had just returned. He smiled and nodded to them before entering Lu Yanping's store.
Because of the quarrel between Gu Yimin and Gu Erhui, many people knew that the clothes sold by his family were second-hand smuggled goods, and the clothes might have been taken off the dead.
So the store was deserted without a single customer. Seeing Wang Mingyuan coming, Lu Yanping and Tang Shaohui quickly stood up and said, "Brother-in-law, you're here."
Wang Mingyuan hummed grimly, then said, "Close the door!"
"What? Why are you closing the door?" Lu Yanping was confused. Why was the door closed right after she came in? They hadn't had many customers all day, so why were they still looking forward to customers?
"I said close the door!" Wang Mingyuan's voice was impatient and angry. Tang Shaohui hurried to the door and closed it.
Wang Mingyuan usually has a good temper and rarely gets angry, but now that he's suddenly like this, Lu Yanping also became nervous, "Brother-in-law, what's wrong?"
"What's wrong?" Wang Mingyuan pointed at the clothes in the room and asked, "Tell me honestly, where did these clothes come from?"
"How did it come from? I bought it from Shenzhen."
Did Lu Yanping know that these goods were smuggled?
When she purchased the goods, although Duan Xinghua did not say that the goods were smuggled, she picked up the goods at the dock, and the clothes were dirty when they came in, so she had to wash and iron them before she could sell them.
She roughly guessed that these goods were of illegal origin, but later when Gu Jianguo and others reported her, she was certain that these goods were smuggled.
But what's the problem with smuggling? The cost of this roomful of clothes is only a little over 200 yuan, and she has already recovered the cost in the few days since opening the shop, which shows how profitable this business is.
"Lu Yanping, why haven't you told the truth yet?" Wang Mingyuan growled at her. "Do you know that your neighbors have already reported you by real name?"
"So what if I report it? They're just a bunch of peasants, brother-in-law, are you afraid of them?" Lu Yanping didn't take Gu Jianguo and the others seriously at all, otherwise she wouldn't be so careless in doing things.
Wang Mingyuan was almost amused by his sister-in-law. "Lu Yanping, they are peasants, what are you? You two have no jobs and no housing, and you are just relying on your family connections. But when you use your family connections, have you ever thought about your family members?"
You might not have guessed it, but Gu Jianguo and his men know the director of the Dongcheng Police Station, and they're said to have a good relationship. It's very likely that the police station and customs are already preparing to inspect your goods. "I'm telling you, Lu Yanping, if you dare to bring me into this, I won't let you off easily."
"What's going on?" Lu Yanping was so scared that her hands were shaking and she couldn't speak clearly. She didn't expect things to be so serious.
Tang Shaohui remained calm. He looked at Wang Mingyuan and said, "Brother-in-law, what do you think we should do now? How about we apologize to the neighbors? Actually, there's nothing serious going on between us."
"Apologize? You think it's easy. If Zhu Qingjun wants to achieve political achievements, can you stop him?" This is what Wang Mingyuan feared most. Anyone working in a government agency wouldn't want to move up, but promotion requires political achievements. Could Zhu Qingjun miss this opportunity?
"How can it be considered a political achievement to just check the goods in one of our stores?" Lu Yanping recovered from the shock she had just felt and felt that Wang Mingyuan was exaggerating.
"A small shop like yours certainly doesn't count as a political achievement. What if they target your supply channels? What if they use you as a carrot with mud on the back?" Wang Mingyuan looked at the couple like idiots. If they still wanted to do business like this, they would lose everything sooner or later.
Look at those peasants next door. They have only been in Lizhou for a short time, but they have already hooked up with Zhu Qingjun, and their business is booming.
"Then...what should we do?" Lu Yanping was really anxious this time. She paced around the room anxiously. "Now we can only go to my aunt. Only she can help us. We can't let the police station and customs check me."
"My uncle is just a section chief. What use can he be?" Wang Mingyuan said.
"Have you forgotten that your eldest aunt's daughter, Yujiao, is engaged to the son of the Zhang family, the bookkeeper?" Lu Yanping felt that Zhu Yujiao was her savior and added, "I'll go find Jiaojiao right now and ask her to tell Master Zhang about this."
As she spoke, she was about to walk out. Wang Mingyuan also felt that this was the only way out, so he didn't stop her.
Lu Yanping rode her bicycle to the Zhu family's house, which was located in the provincial government compound. Lu Yanping's uncle, Zhu Tianlin, was the head of the provincial government's personnel department.
It was dinner time and the Zhu family was having dinner. When they saw her coming, they asked her to sit down and eat with them.
Lu Yanping sat down, not eating, but wiping away tears. Her aunt Liu Hongyun saw this and hurriedly asked her what was wrong. Lu Yanping wiped her tears and said, "Shao Hui and I are both unemployed, so we thought we could start a business to make a living. But the guy next door who sells bread and butter thinks we're taking his business away, so he reported our goods as smuggled. I don't know if the police or customs will investigate us."
Zhu Tianlin put down his chopsticks after hearing her words and asked, "So are your goods smuggled?"
"I... I don't know either. This is my first time doing business, so how could I know the intricacies involved? Someone told me his clothes were cheap, so I went to buy some."
Zhu Tianlin frowned. He knew from what she said that her goods were smuggled. He didn't want to get involved in the matter. Not only could he not do it, but even if he did, it might get him into trouble.
"I have no connections at the police station or the customs." Zhu Tianlin looked helpless.
Seeing him like this, Lu Yanping became anxious and grabbed Liu Hongyun's hand: "Aunt, you must help me."
Liu Hongyun looked embarrassed. "The people next door are the same. We're doing business fairly and competing fairly. How can they stab us in the back? But we don't have any connections with the police station or customs."
"Isn't Jiaojiao engaged to the son of the Zhang Shuji family? Let Jiaojiao talk to Master Zhang. He will definitely have a solution."
Lu Yanping looked at Zhu Yujiao flatteringly, but Zhu Yujiao slammed her chopsticks on the table after hearing what she said. "Cousin, you are here to laugh at me, right?"
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