Chapter 200 The Great Sugar Merchant
As the police officer spoke, he showed Jiang Ning the verification video that the group members had sent to Ma Fuxiang to join the group.
Those guests were basically skinny and had dark complexions. Their expressions were even more obvious when they were eating candy. Netizens in the live broadcast room were all calling Ma Fuxiang a pest.
After Jiang Ning watched these videos and looked at the chat records, the meaning was very simple and easy to understand.
But Ma Fuxiang in the chat records seemed very cautious. No matter how the customer asked questions like "I understand", Ma Fuxiang firmly said that he was just selling rock sugar, and attached a rock sugar identification report.
This report made the police and netizens say that the rock sugar is hard, and Ma Fuxiang's umbrella is even more amazing.
After displaying these evidences, it was time to take the rock sugar for testing. Seeing the expert carefully taking the rock sugar out of the carton for testing, Jiang Ning suggested a method that would make it easier to identify it.
"Is there a cafeteria here? We can use the kitchen to fry some sugar color to see if this rock sugar is real or fake."
Jiang Ning's words stunned everyone inside and outside the live broadcast room.
"Comrade Jiang Ning, what did you say? Stirring up sugar color?"
If the officials at the scene had not confirmed Jiang Ning's identity, they would have suspected that she was an accomplice of Ma Fuxiang. She actually made such an outrageous statement at this time.
"That's right, it's about making sugar color." Jiang Ning nodded helplessly.
She had been specifically taught by her teacher that a host must be able to create suspense. In addition, the authorities also said that they should not release all the information about the suspects at once, but should release them one by one according to the progress of the investigation. Therefore, Jiang Ning was not in a hurry to eat the melons.
But Ma Fuxiang's case was truly an outrageous case that could not be found anywhere else in the country. Seeing that the expert had to bring a bag of real rock sugar for inspection, Jiang Ning couldn't help but speak up.
When communicating with customers, why was Ma Fuxiang so adamant that he was selling rock sugar and so bold as to send it by courier? It wasn't because he had some powerful backers or was mentally strong, it was simply because he was selling real rock sugar!
[Well, now I'll take one out and taste it. It's the sweet kind of rock candy.]
When his inner voice was heard, Ma Fuxiang looked as if he had been vindicated.
The police were unbelievable.
"How could it really be rock sugar? Those customers bought so much, how could they not taste it? And they would even help him advertise it in the group?"
[They tasted the sweetness, but what could they do? They were doing something forbidden, and they didn't dare call the police. They could only uphold the principle that I couldn't be the only one deceived, and dragged more people into the group to be deceived.]
[So it's true that true knowledge comes from experience. Ma Fuxiang has been scammed before, and he understands the minds of those scammed, which is why he has been able to run his rock sugar business so successfully.]
The policemen listened with tense faces, feeling that something awkward was going to happen today. After calming down for a moment, they actually listened to Jiang Ning's instructions and went to the kitchen with rock sugar.
The camera follows, and under everyone's gaze, rock sugar is poured into the pot. As the temperature rises, the rock sugar gradually melts and becomes the familiar sugar color.
The scene was silent.
The policeman's solemn face, ears and neck were slowly turning red.
Sometimes when I’m investigating a case, I really want to call the police.
The authenticity of the rock sugar was confirmed. The atmosphere on the scene was a bit awkward, but no one made any tough decisions, which was a little comforting to the officials.
During the interrogation, the police asked Ma Fuxiang why he defrauded the buyers.
Ma Fuxiang said with a sense of grievance and righteousness: "I am helping them quit smoking. This is a great merit. If they really buy that thing, it would be an immoral thing. I won't do it."
"As for the fraud, I told the buyer clearly from the beginning that I was buying rock sugar. They misunderstood me. What can I do?"
Jiang Ning, who was listening, glanced at the melon-eating system and said.
"So rock sugar can be sold for a hundred times the price, and the buyer is forcing you to pay? And in the past month, you haven't just bought rock sugar, you've bought a mixture of rock sugar and alum at a ratio of 1:8, right?"
Ma Fuxiang could not refute this. He really felt that rock sugar was too expensive, so he switched to alum, which was cheaper.
Ma Fuxiang could be charged with fraud for using alum to impersonate rock sugar, but the problem was that he controlled every sale, and the amount of money did not reach the standard for fraud.
While the police were having a headache, several buyers who had watched the live broadcast unexpectedly came over and glared at Ma Fuxiang with hatred.
"Comrade police officer, the rock candy we bought has already reached the standard for fraud. If we are to be locked up today, we must also let that filthy liar Ma Fuxiang go with us!"
Several buyers were depressed. They didn't have much money to begin with, but it seemed that the brothers in the group praised Ma Fuxiang's rock sugar to the sky. In addition, the rock sugar sold by Ma Fuxiang was cheap, so they spent all their savings to buy it. Unexpectedly, those brothers came to tear their umbrellas for them.
When they got the rock sugar, they were so excited that they wanted to eat it. When they tasted the sweetness, they were stunned. Then they realized that Ma Fuxiang was not lying. What he was selling was real rock sugar!
Thinking of the pain they had suffered recently, several buyers looked at Ma Fuxiang with even more ferocious eyes. If the police had not been present, Ma Fuxiang would have been beaten.
Based on their report, Ma Fuxiang was sentenced to 11 months in prison and fined 3,500 yuan for fraud.
Before Ma Fuxiang was taken away, he selected the next person to be investigated by the official.
Ma Fuxiang wrote down a person's name: Yan Peng.
"I admit that I'm a bit greedy, but I would never do anything that crosses the line. But this person is different."
After saying this, Ma Fuxiang's face showed a look of pain and hatred, which made some netizens wonder whether he wrote this name out of revenge.
After Ma Fuxiang and several buyers were taken away, Jiang Ning conducted some official anti-fraud publicity, and after that, this episode ended.
The live broadcast room was closed. After the reversal of the Ma Fuxiang case today, netizens, still unsatisfied, turned to other places to discuss. The hot search #马福祥绝世大糖枭# was also pushed to the top, and the netizens below were all dumbfounded by the development of the case.
[Hahaha, Jiang Ning is so funny, let's make some sugar color to check.]
[This trending search term is even funnier. Who came up with it? They're so talented.]
Ma Fuxiang's case tells us that you can't make money by doing hard business. The methods of making money are all written here [Criminal Law Encyclopedia.jpg].
[Honest, law-abiding citizens should just work hard and not learn this kind of behavior.]
[Who is Yan Peng, the person Ma Fuxiang wrote about at the end? Has anyone found out? Is he someone who had a grudge against Ma Fuxiang as netizens say? Has he really committed a crime?]
[I'm from Ma Fuxiang's local area. Let me be clear: I don't know him and I abhor all criminal activity. But Yan Peng is different. There are a few things that are genuinely connected to him, but I'm worried I can't reveal the details. You can research Yan Peng. He works for a construction regulatory agency. You'll find out if you check the local news.]
Now everyone is enjoying the melon-eating, and when netizens saw this comment, relying on their years of experience in eating melons in the melon field, they did not say anything, but searched for Yan Peng's name and Ma Fuxiang's local news.
After searching the news, everyone discovered that they had seen several of these incidents before, but they disappeared too quickly and did not attract much attention. Netizens' attention was soon drawn to the gossips about celebrities, leaving only the victims' families struggling to hold on and seek justice.
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