After seeing off Mr. Wang, Wang Xiaolan was in a very low mood. As soon as she and Zhao Lihan entered the village, they ran into Wang Xiaolin, the team leader's wife.
As soon as she saw Wang Xiaolan, she said, "Sister-in-law, you're back! Something big has happened!"
Wang Xiaolan looked at her with wide eyes and asked, "What's the matter?"
"All the pickles and seasonings we sold this time were returned by the supply and marketing cooperatives and state-owned restaurants. The loss was enormous, and we lost all the money we had earned."
"Why?"
“They said our pickles in this batch aren’t as delicious as the previous ones.”
Wang Xiaolan asked Zhao Lihan to go back first, and then she went to the pickle processing factory with Wang Xiaolin. Looking at the pickles piled in the middle of the warehouse, she felt very sad. This was all money!
She took out a bottle from the middle, tasted it, and frowned.
"This tastes really bad. Who made this batch of ingredients?"
Wang Xiaolin checked the records and said, "It's Sun Fenglin."
Sun Fenglin was a distant relative of Shi Bulian's. She was thirty years old and quiet, but the villagers had a decent impression of her, saying she was diligent and conscientious. Although her family and the Shi family lived in the same village, they hadn't interacted in years, rumored to be a feud between their elders.
Wang Xiaolan, with a gloomy expression, said, "Call her over."
Sun Fenglin came up to Wang Xiaolan and asked timidly, "Doctor Wang, are you looking for me?"
Wang Xiaolan held a bottle of pickles in her hand and asked, "Did you mix this batch of pickles?"
She took it and looked at it, then said, "I mixed it. Is there something wrong with it?"
Wang Xiaolin, who was standing by, said angrily, "This is a very serious problem."
Sun Fenglin asked with a puzzled look on his face, "I'm just a vegetable mixer. I got the ingredient packets from you, and these semi-finished pickles were also from the warehouse. Does this have anything to do with me?"
Wang Xiaolan said, "We have checked the previous steps, and the problem is with your process."
"No way! I'm following the procedures, there won't be any problems here. Unless there's something wrong with your seasoning."
When she said this, her face paused, as if she remembered something.
Wang Xiaolin took over and said, "Yes, it's a problem with the seasoning."
"You can't wrongly accuse me. You gave me the seasoning. You're the one who should be blamed."
Wang Xiaolan said seriously, "We're asking you because we're giving you a chance. If you don't cherish it, you can't blame us. We wouldn't have come to you directly if we weren't sure."
At this moment, Sun Fenglin started to panic when he heard this.
She remembered Shi Bulian's threat that if she didn't do as he said, her two sons would die. She had no choice but to agree and secretly changed the seasoning, thinking she could hide it, but who knew it would be discovered so quickly.
She cursed inwardly, "Damn Shi Bulian, you've ruined me. I fought so hard to get this job..."
When she thought of this, she broke out in a cold sweat.
Wang Xiaolan stared at her with gloomy eyes. She felt weak as a frightened bird, and her mouth trembled as if she had the hiccups. She wanted to say something, but something was stuck in her throat, and she stopped herself from speaking.
"You'd better tell the truth!"
Sun Fenglin saw that the truth had been revealed, so she had to tell him how Shi Bulian asked her to replace the ingredients Wang Xiaolan had prepared.
Sun Fenglin: "I had no choice. I was forced to do it. Otherwise, our whole family's lives would be in danger."
Wang Xiaolin said angrily, "Sun Fenglin, do you know the consequences of doing this?"
Wang Xiaolan said, "You are causing trouble. You will go to jail. Do you understand?"
When Sun Fenglin heard that she was going to jail, she thought of the village widow Li, who was also imprisoned because of something at the factory. Thinking of this, she was so frightened that her legs went weak and she sat on the ground.
"As long as you let me go, I will tell you everything."
…
Shi Bu is a martial artist.
Shi Bulian bought the seasonings from Sun Fenglin at a low price, and sold them to his friends at a high price, making a lot of money. He was counting the money at home with Shi Yaomei.
He originally thought that he could conceal his actions and no one would know about it. He was secretly delighted and even began to plan to make a fortune easily in this way.
At this moment, he was leisurely sitting with his legs crossed, imagining that a beautiful life in the future was right in front of him. It seemed as if he had seen countless banknotes waving to him, expressing recognition and praise for his intelligence and talent.
Just then there were several knocks on the door.
Pull him back from fantasy to reality.
He then ordered Wang Yaomei to open the door, and then a scream was heard.
Shi Bulian was startled by the unusual sound and rushed out. Unexpectedly, before he had taken two steps, Wang Xiaolan and Wang Xiaolin stood before him like ghosts. This sudden scene frightened him so much that his legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground like a deflated ball.
He cursed inwardly: "This stinky woman, no matter what I do, I can't escape her control, she is simply my nemesis."
He had to tell the truth.
…
It turned out that his shady and idle friends came to his door and told him mysteriously that there was an opportunity to make a fortune - to steal the exclusive secret recipe of seasoning from the village pickle factory!
The temptation was too great. Although he knew that this was not a glorious thing, he could not resist the temptation of money and decided to take the risk.
After nightfall, when everything was quiet, he quietly sneaked into the mixing workshop of the factory like a ghost. However, to his surprise, although he searched everywhere, he still found nothing.
The next day, his shady friends came to his house. Because they didn't have the specific recipe, they even thought of stealing the seasoning.
They secretly planned how to sneak into the place where the seasoning was stored and steal it, thinking that they could replicate the same delicious food.
What they didn't expect was that after entering the warehouse, they found nothing.
Wang Xiaolin treated the seasonings Wang Xiaolan had given her like treasures. She valued these precious ingredients more than her own life. She didn't dare store them in the factory safe, choosing instead to hide them at home to prevent others from coveting or harboring malicious intent.
Every morning, she would personally take out the amount needed for the day and carefully keep the remaining to ensure that nothing would go wrong.
This highly protective and cherishing attitude stems from her deep understanding of the importance of these seasonings to the taste and quality of the products. She is unwilling to allow any accidents to affect the taste and quality of the final product. Therefore, she would rather take extra care than risk leaving all the seasonings in the factory.
Shi Bulian, this cunning guy, had tried to steal several times, but all ended in failure. However, he did not give up, but racked his brains to find new opportunities.
Finally, he turned his gaze to Sun Fenglin.
I thought: Sun Fenglin is timid, and her husband died of illness a few years ago, and she owes a lot of foreign debts. As long as I scare her and force her to pay back the money...
Thinking of this, a sly smile appeared on his face and he walked towards Sun Fenglin's house.
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