Chapter 246: Human Heart is Evil
"But Ah Xian, you are really amazing. You actually figured out that someone was hiding in the cashier's cabinet." Xu Hongmian looked at Lin Zhixian with admiration: "I used to think Chang Chunning was the best, but now I think you are the best. I declare that you will be my idol from now on."
Before, she was thinking that the boss must have gotten into trouble with someone’s life, and that person had turned into a wronged spirit to haunt him, trying to disrupt his business to the point where he couldn’t do business anymore. She was still thinking about how to exorcise the evil spirit and catch the ghost, but she didn’t expect that Lin Zhixian caught the “ghost” in less than ten minutes.
The result is so surprising.
Lin Zhixian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but looking at the people staring at him eagerly, he explained to everyone: "Judging from the boss's face, he has been in trouble recently. It is very likely that his career will collapse and he will lose a lot of money."
Li Jinlun nodded. They had also figured this out.
"Then I carefully read his palm and found that this time his misfortune was not caused by evil spirits, but by humans, and there were two people. One of them was his hired servant, and this person was the ringleader, which means he was the first person to swap the ghost coins."
"What Lin the God of Fortune means is that the first person to swap the ghost coins was my employee?" The boss looked at the restaurant employees present with a sharp gaze. Everyone was frightened and expressed their loyalty again and again: "Boss, it wasn't me."
But the boss is now very suspicious and everyone seems to be a suspect, especially the cashiers and tellers who have access to the sales.
"I really didn't do it. If I did, may God strike me." The cashier was so scared that his scalp was numb and he quickly raised his hand to swear.
The same goes for cashiers.
People in Hong Kong are relatively superstitious, and most people would not casually make such a poisonous oath.
The boss was confused. He turned to look at Lin Zhixian and said, "Master Lin, is that them?"
"No." Lin Zhixian shook his head. "Although that person has an employment relationship with you, it is not a stable employment relationship. He should be a temporary worker or a delivery man. His family should be relatively poor. Recently, something happened at home and he was short of money, so he had the idea. Later, he saw that you took this matter seriously and investigated it seriously. He was afraid that if he was exposed, he would be investigated and fired by you, so he didn't dare to do such things again."
The cashier suddenly asked, "Could it be Dadong?"
Lin Zhixian's eyes moved slightly.
When she first watched the video, she heard someone call the man Dadong.
The boss asked Lin Zhixian, but Lin Zhixian didn't answer directly: "Should we ask someone to come over and take a look, we'll know."
The boss immediately said, "Call Dadong over here right now."
Someone will do it immediately.
"As for him, it's just like what you said before. He is a habitual thief. He got injured for some unknown reason, so he sneaked into my restaurant to recuperate. He usually steals food from the restaurant when he's hungry, so we had food stolen from our restaurant before. But because he was small, we didn't notice him hiding in the cupboard, so we never caught him."
The boss said, "Later, there was an incident of ghost money in our restaurant. He heard about it and took it to heart. So the next day he secretly used ghost money to return the money."
"Could it be that he colluded with the boss's competitors from the beginning? If it wasn't him, why didn't he replace everyone's sales?" Xu Hongmian wondered.
"If all of it was replaced at once, the boss would definitely know that someone was playing tricks, but if only a few hundred yuan was replaced, it would be easy for people to think that there was an evil spirit at work, and then people would only focus on finding a master to exorcise the evil spirit, and would not think of calling the police to arrest him, so he would naturally not be in danger. What's more, his purpose was not to steal money from the restaurant, but to get more money from the restaurant's competitors through this incident, so it is even more impossible for him to replace all the money. He only needs to replace a little bit every day to make people suspicious, and then let everyone know that there are dirty things in the restaurant, and no one will dare to come to eat, and this will naturally achieve the goal of bringing down the restaurant." Chang Chunning said.
The boss said sullenly, "Yes, that is their real purpose. Damn it, it is really damned."
"Boss, do you know that it was your competitor who did it?" Xu Hongmian asked.
The boss gritted his teeth and said, "Who else but the Delicacy Restaurant?"
Lin Zhixian nodded: "If the police investigate, it will be clear."
"That's right." Thinking of this, the boss hurriedly held Lin Zhixian's hand and expressed his gratitude: "This time it was really all thanks to Lin the God of Fortune. If it weren't for me, I would have been forced to close down by these people. You saved my restaurant and my life! Thank you, thank you so much."
Lin Zhixian nodded. "Now that the troublemaker has been found, you just need to investigate the matter thoroughly. But your restaurant has been in such a mess these days. Is it because of bad luck? It would be better to perform a ritual to exorcise the evil spirits."
Chang Chunning also said: "Also, the feng shui layout of the restaurant has been destroyed and has started to absorb evil spirits. It must be rearranged."
Lin Zhixian looked at Chang Chunning and said, "Senior Brother Chang knows the most about Feng Shui."
"Then we have Master Luo Lin and Master Chang." The boss said immediately.
Lin Zhixian nodded: "If that's the case, then you should deal with the dwarf's matter first, and then let my senior brother help you to rearrange the Feng Shui, and then choose a good day for me to help you exorcise the evil spirits and reopen the business."
"Okay, let's listen to Master Lin." The boss naturally had no objection.
After all, the reputation of the restaurant has been affected before. Even if the dwarf is caught now, the matter of the ghost money can be clarified, but it is still tainted with bad luck. We must invite a well-known master to perform a ritual in public to break down the psychological barriers of consumers, and the restaurant can return to normal.
After talking to the boss, the police also arrived and were shocked after hearing the truth.
"If the boss and the cashier would leave the counter at the beginning, but later basically stayed at the cashier counter when it was almost time to do the accounting, how did they switch?" The police were puzzled.
Lin Zhixian pointed at the counter and said, "He is a thief himself, and his fingers are very slender and flexible, so he has been hiding in the counter under the cash register for a long time and has never been discovered. As for exchanging the ghost money, he should have exchanged it when no one was around at first. Later, he saw that the boss and the cashier were guarding so closely, so he took advantage of the night when no one was in the restaurant and secretly broke the wooden board under the cash drawer. Coincidentally, there was a counter under the drawer, so he didn't need to come out of the counter at all, and could operate directly in the counter."
When the police checked the drawer, they found that a piece of wood had been pried open and could be disassembled at will.
The police took the dwarf away to file a case. Even if the dwarf refused to speak, as long as the chain of evidence was solid, he could be convicted.
As for Dadong, he was also identified by Lin Zhixian. He also admitted his crime and begged the boss for forgiveness. But if he hadn't started it, how could the restaurant have suffered such a heavy blow? The boss naturally refused to forgive him.
However, the amount of money he was involved in was not large, not even enough to warrant sentencing. He will just lose his job here, and his future life will be even more difficult.