Chapter 133: Fakes are rampant
However, the woman seemed to be crazy and didn't listen to Gu Songtao's words at all.
Gu Songtao was in a dilemma because he just kept repeating that he wanted to see Mr. Shuer. It was Xiao Yongyan who helped him out. "Sister-in-law, the new batch of admissions exams will be held on the first day of next month. If you want to participate, just come."
"What exam? We can pay twice the tuition fee. Why would we need to take an exam?" The woman was very impatient.
Gu Songtao couldn't stand it any longer. "I've made it very clear. Why do you have to make exceptions? If the test scores are excellent, which teacher would not want to accept me?"
With everyone's joint persuasion, the woman was temporarily persuaded to go back, and everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Xi smiled at Gu Songtao, "It seems that Master Gu is not having a good time either."
Gu Songtao smiled bitterly, "You'll run into all kinds of people. I've seen a lot of them. They think that a child who can recognize a few words is the reincarnation of Wenquxing. Little do they know that recognizing words is just the basics of the basics."
"But it will be easier for you to say it later. Anyway, the time for the new round of exams at Shuer Academy has been set." Lin Xi said.
Xiao Yongyan treated himself as a background board throughout the whole process.
After knowing the exam time, the others finally dispersed from the gate of Song Tao Academy and went home to prepare for the exam.
After leaving Songtao Academy, Lin Xi rushed to Lin Ji.
When Cai Yong saw Lin Xi coming, he thought she was here to check the accounts, so he quickly took out the account book.
Lin Xi waved her hand, "Don't worry, I'm here to ask you to buy some things. Cai Yong, before the first day of next month, go buy two rolls of rice paper and a hundred brushes. The money you need can be directly taken from the account."
Cai Yong nodded, and suddenly seemed to remember something important, and slapped his head, "Boss, Hong Sheng from Jinxiu Building came to see me that day, saying that he had something very important to tell me. I saw that he looked anxious, as if he was in trouble."
Hong Sheng? Lin Xi remembered that he had been expanding the bacon market in Lianggu County during this period. Some time ago, he was still saying that the supply of bacon was insufficient and asked her to produce more.
Jinxiu Building.
The waiter at the door already recognized Lin Xi, and knew that she was the boss's guest. When he saw her coming, he quickly greeted her, "Boss Lin, are you here to see our shopkeeper?"
Lin Xi nodded, and the waiter led his men straight into the inner room.
As soon as Hong Sheng saw Lin Xi, he sighed and frowned, "Boss Lin, do you know that our bacon now has a competitor?"
After hearing the news, Lin Xi didn't think it was a big surprise. Bacon was not a world secret, so it was not surprising that others had figured out how to make it.
"Boss Hong, it's normal to have competition in the business world," Lin Xi said.
"How could I not know this? The key is that they are selling goods under the name of our Linji. If they were selling their own goods, I wouldn't say anything." Hong Sheng had a headache. "Now the market in the county sells both real and fake goods. Many people don't know that they are buying fakes and spread rumors that our Linji bacon tastes bad."
Lin Xi felt that the situation in front of him was becoming more and more familiar. This was a typical case of bad money driving out good money and fake goods squeezing out the living space of genuine goods.
Once a brand develops to a certain level, it is difficult to completely prevent this phenomenon from happening.
"Do you have their goods?" Lin Xi asked.
"I bought a lot, from all over the place." Hong Sheng quickly showed the fake goods to Lin Xi.
Lin Xi said silently in his mind, "Shennong System, help me test the flavor of this piece of bacon?"
【Testing in progress】
【After testing, the flavor score of this meat is 3. 】
Only 3?
Lin Xi thought they were bad, but she didn't expect them to be so bad, even so far away from the passing line.
"What should I do?" Hong Sheng was at a loss.
"Boss Hong, now we know who the counterfeiter is?" Lin Xi asked.
"It's strange. I tried many ways but couldn't find out who's behind this." Hong Sheng said depressedly.
Lin Xi was stunned. It was not easy to do this kind of business without leaving any trace.
Hong Sheng has been in the business world for many years, but he couldn't even find a small person behind the scenes. Could it be that this matter is not as simple as they imagined?
"Not at all?" Lin Xi still didn't give up.
Hong Sheng also knew that this result was somewhat unreasonable, but it was the fact. "Boss Lin, to be honest with you, not to mention that this concerns the interests of Lin Ji, the first to be damaged is my interests. But the strange thing is that I have questioned countless people who bought meat, but no one is willing to reveal who is behind it."
"So strange?" Lin Xi was stunned.
"That's true." said Hong Sheng.
"In that case, I have to go to the county town in person." Lin Xi said lightly.
However, when Xiao Yongyan learned about this, his first reaction was to disagree, and his second reaction was that if Lin Xi insisted, he would go with Lin Xi.
"Your school will start testing next month, and there is a lot of preparation work to do in the early stages. It is not convenient for you to leave at this time." Lin Xi said.
Xiao Yongyan didn't think so. "Inside the county town, it's too close to Hang Qi. You don't know what will happen."
How could he let Lin Xi go alone?
"Of course I know this. I've thought about it. When I go to the county town, I'll just take Boss Hong's car and I'll disguise myself." Lin Xi said.
Although she said so, Xiao Yongyan still disagreed.
But Lin Xi was more energetic and spent a whole night trying to get Xiao Yongyan to agree.
The next day, Hong Sheng set off with Lin Xi.
This time, Lin Xi dressed herself up as a little girl and followed Hong Sheng, feeling like a servant.
According to Hong Sheng, the man selling fake bacon not only did not do anything sneaky, but was brazen instead, not feeling that there was anything wrong with him at all.
Lin Xi walked over and saw a shop on the street with a sign that said Lin’s Bacon, and there were a lot of bacon hanging at the door.
She looked at it carefully and found that the bacon was indeed made by smoking, but perhaps the production method was not perfect and the taste was actually very bad.
Hong Sheng ordered two cups of tea at the teahouse opposite Lin's Bacon, and observed the situation across the street with Lin Xi. "Boss Lin, you also tried the bacon from this shop last time. The taste is not a little worse than ours, but people still buy it. It's puzzling."
Lin Xi also found it strange. Logically speaking, the food tasted so bad, even if it was a fake, it shouldn't have attracted so many customers.
But since Lin’s Bacon opened, there has been a constant stream of customers coming in.
"Since we can't find out who the seller is, let's see what's going on with the buyer." Lin Xi said.
For three days, the two of them had nothing to do but stand at the door and observe and study the people who came to buy meat.
After analyzing all the data, Lin Xi discovered something very strange: most of these people who came to sell meat ran restaurants.
What's even more abnormal is that they don't buy things all at once, but insist that people in the store come to buy them in batches.
It seems that there are many people coming and going, but in fact, it is only people from a few restaurants.
"Boss Hong, please check the situation of these restaurants." Lin Xi said.
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