Chapter 335: Adding Ingredients to the Wine
The neighbors noticed something was wrong right away.
"What's wrong, Lao Feng? Isn't it just a drink? Why are you reacting like this?"
"You were keeping the wine for yourself, but you wanted to give it to us? You didn't want to drink it, did you?"
“Is there really something wrong with this wine?”
The man was speechless when asked. His previous thought was that he could just use the same kind of wine he usually sold to get away with it. No one would notice whether he drank or not in this situation anyway.
But Master Qingyun came to disrupt the situation and forced him to drink the wine in public!
There was no way he could drink that kind of stuff!
Yun Qingqing saw through his thoughts clearly and snorted coldly:
"This wine is seriously problematic! The wine he had taken from the last row of shelves was originally reserved for himself!"
The neighbors didn’t understand:
"Ah? That wine tastes very ordinary, not even as good as the ones sold. How come he tastes worse when he drinks it?"
"He got drunk himself?" Yun Qingqing sneered, "How is that possible?"
"In fact, the wine they keep for themselves and the wine they sell on the last row of shelves are all purchased from the wine shop at the east end of the street!"
The neighbors cried out in surprise and didn't believe it.
"That's impossible, right? How can the wine from the shop at the east end of the street have the aftertaste of Old Feng's?"
"I'm an old wine lover. I can still tell the difference."
"Master Qingyun, you really made a mistake this time, didn't you?"
"To be honest, the wine we drank just now tastes exactly the same as the one at the east end of the street, but it's impossible that the wine that Old Feng's family sells every day is the same as that one!"
Yun Qingqing's cold voice overwhelmed everyone else's voices:
"Please don't rush to speak for them. The wine they sell is indeed mediocre when you buy it. The reason why you think it tastes different is because they added ingredients after you bought it!"
Everyone was silent, and someone couldn't help but ask in a low voice:
"Master, what ingredients did they add?"
The woman from the Feng family suddenly shrieked:
"Why are you talking nonsense? We invited you here to exorcise evil spirits, but you haven't done anything yet. Instead, you keep on holding on to my business. I don't think you are a fake Master Qingyun!"
The man was anxious, and when he heard her shout, he immediately reacted and said angrily:
"I was wondering why I always felt that you were a weird woman, always saying weird and incomprehensible things. Turns out you are another charlatan! We are looking for the real Master Qingyun, not a fake like you!"
When he said this, the neighbors were surprised before Yun Qingqing could say anything:
"Old Feng, there is something wrong with what you said, right? Didn't you say that you finally got into Tianming Pavilion and invited Master Qingyun in with great difficulty? Why are you saying he is fake now?"
"That's right. Everyone in the Imperial Capital knows the location of the Tianming Pavilion, but most people still can't find the gate. But they will definitely not find the wrong gate, right?"
The man's face turned red and then white. He didn't expect that those details he mentioned before just to show off would now serve as evidence to refute him!
Of course he knew that this was the real Master Qingyun.
But who told her not to deal with the evil spirit properly but to expose her own past?
Even if we ignore the evil spirits for now, we can't let them continue to focus on the alcohol issue!
The man gritted his teeth and simply stiffened his neck and lied again:
"Blame my vanity. I made up all those words!"
"We actually met this woman on the street. She called herself Qingyun Zhenren and said she saw something ominous in my house and could help exorcise it. That's why we asked her to come!"
"Who knew this woman was a fake? I now suspect she was hired by someone in the same business as mine to undermine our liquor store!"
When the neighbors heard him say that Tianming Pavilion was full of lies, they showed some contempt, but as a result, they also looked at Yun Qingqing with a little more suspicion.
The woman struck while the iron was hot:
"Since you're just a little girl, we won't make things difficult for you today, and you don't have to apologize. Just leave now before we report it to the police!"
"Oh?" Yun Qingqing looked at the two of them coldly, "If I don't leave, I must have a good talk with you. Do you really dare to report to the police?"
The two of them paused, and the man said with gritted teeth:
"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll have to kick you out first, and then report you to the police for defaming our liquor store!"
"This is your last chance. If you don't leave, don't blame me for being rude!"
Yun Qingqing sneered:
"That's not a big deal. Don't you want to report it to the authorities? I've already found someone from the government for you. You're welcome."
The couple looked stunned:
"What?"
Just as he finished speaking, the sound of rapidly approaching footsteps was heard at the entrance of the compound, and it sounded like there were quite a few people.
Soon, a team of officers came in. The lead constable was handsome, but his skin was a little dark. He scanned the courtyard with his bright eyes, and when he saw Yun Qingqing, he immediately strode towards her.
"Master!" He bowed to Yun Qingqing in a dignified manner, "I just had another case on hand, and it took some time to hand it over to my colleagues. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."
Everyone was shocked when watching this scene.
Someone recognized Yan Haochu's badge and exclaimed in a low voice:
"Hiss... Isn't this the constable from the Six Gates?"
"Ah? Really? The Six Gates are not just any local government offices. How come even they were alarmed?"
"Didn't you hear people say that Master Qingyun had sent for it?"
"I didn't expect that even the Six Gates Constables would be so polite to her. Could she be a fake?"
Yan Haochu was very sharp-eyed and sharp-eared. He immediately looked at everyone with a cold face after hearing these words:
"Who said that Master Qingyun is a fake? Does that mean he's also trying to say that my Six Gates badge is fake?"
He patted his waist, and everyone immediately fell silent.
But everyone turned their attention to the Feng couple, with different looks, some of them looking forward to seeing the show.
Since Master Qingyun is real, then what she just said and the behavior of the Feng couple are very meaningful...
Yan Haochu followed the crowd's gaze and looked at the Feng couple:
"What? You are the ones who slandered the master as an imposter?"
The couple turned pale and said tremblingly:
"No, I don't dare..."
"This, this, this is such a misunderstanding!"
"It's not a misunderstanding." Yun Qingqing slapped him in the face without hesitation and directly opened the scene.
"The two usually do business by hiding their identities and buying wine from an ordinary wine shop at the east end of the street at the price of five and a half coins per jar. After bringing it back, they add something to make the wine have a unique aftertaste, and then sell it at the price of seven coins."
"If the ingredients they added were just a secret recipe, it wouldn't be a big deal. The problem is that what they added to the wine was the shell of a dead man's poppy!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the audience took a breath.
"Dead, dead man?"
"…What is that?"
"Just listening to it, you know it's not a good thing! Master, please tell me what's going on!"
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