Chapter 20: Satin Poisoned
"Brother!"
Outside Fuming Courtyard, Lin Ruqian rushed into the courtyard with a look of anxiety, and was almost tripped by the steps at the door.
"What are you in such a hurry for?" He was seen by Lin Mobai who came to see Lin Zhiyu, and he could not help but scold him sternly, "If others saw it, they would think that this is the etiquette of my Lin Mansion!"
Lin Ruqian was too lazy to snort at him, and quickly said: "The batch of satin that Shangchen Shop brought in from the outside of the Great Wall two days ago had problems. Some people claimed that the finished clothes were poisonous. Many people have come to Shangchen Shop to ask for explanations, and some even brought corpses!"
"What?!" Lin Mobai was shocked.
He didn't expect that someone would die!
At this time, the tightly closed door opened from the inside, and Lin Zhiyu walked out quickly, staring at Lin Ruqian with his eyes, and his tone suddenly sank, "What did you say?"
This was also discovered by Lin Ruqian in the morning, because Shangchen Shop was one of his many shops that was not profitable or loss-making, so he thought of a way to buy the most popular satin in the Western Regions to make ready-made clothes for sale, which would surely be loved by the ladies of the major palaces in Yanjing City.
But after unloading the goods, he was distracted by the recent incident between the Lin Mansion and the Prime Minister's Mansion, and simply threw the subsequent matters to the shopkeeper in the shop to handle.
Who would have thought that something happened during this period.
When he suddenly felt like going to take a look today, he found that many people had gathered at the door of the shop, all of whom were denouncing that the ready-made clothes sold in Shangchen Shop were poisonous. They even placed a purple-faced, unconscious woman at the door of the shop, which was so loud that it attracted many people to watch and almost alarmed the government.
The shopkeeper couldn't make a decision, so he had to come to him.
But this was the first time that Lin Ruqian encountered such a thing, and he couldn't make up his mind in a panic, so he could only come to his elder brother for help.
After hearing this, Lin Zhiyu pondered: "Have all the people in the shop been controlled?"
Lin Ruqian nodded, "Now the shop has been closed by me, and the clerks and the manager inside have been detained there by my men, and have not been interrogated yet."
The first thing that came to mind in this kind of thing was that there was a problem with their own people. Lin Ruqian understood some of the truth under the influence of his father and brother, so even if he was in a panic, he handled some basic matters in an orderly manner and then hurried back to the Lin Mansion.
"Where did you get this silk from?" Lin Mobai inquired, "Is there a problem at the source?"
"It shouldn't be." Lin Ruqian shook his head. "Shangchen Shop's silk has always been imported from a merchant outside the Great Wall. If there was going to be a problem, it would have occurred long ago. Moreover, when I inspected the goods, I checked them carefully and found no problem. If the silk was poisonous, why were only the people who wore the clothes poisoned, and not the people who made the clothes?"
"That makes sense." Lin Mobai sighed. "What should we do now?"
He was not good at business and could not think of a solution for a while.
After a while, Lin Zhiyu pondered and said, "Ruqian, you should first investigate the identities of those who were poisoned, and then check whether the batch of silk is indeed poisonous."
"And Mobai, the matter of interrogating the partners of Shangchenpu is handed over to you. At the same time, check whether there is any problem with the merchant from the outside of the Great Wall. I will report to my parents first and see how to deal with it later."
The two nodded and left separately.
In Shangchun Garden, the drowsy Lin Baoer suddenly heard the sound of the system in her mind.
[Ding~ Temporary task released, guarantee Shangchenpu, and the reward for completing the task is 150 points. Do you want to accept it? ]
This woke her up from her sleepiness.
Shangchenpu? It sounds like the name of a shop, as if Lin Ruqian is in charge? What happened in this shop?
After thinking about it for a while, she chose to accept it. After all, it was 150 points, and fly meat is still meat!
At this moment, Lin Zhiyu rushed in anxiously, "Dad! Mom!"
After a long time, the whole story came out, and Lin Baoer fell silent.
She found that this was the second temporary mission since she came to this world. It seemed to have nothing to do with the main plot. Was it because her arrival produced a butterfly effect?
"You did the right thing. Now send someone to comfort the poisoned person, and then talk about it after the investigation results come out." Lin Qiming said in a deep voice, paused, and said obscurely: "Don't let the trouble go to the Dali Temple at this time, suppress it."
Lin Zhiyu agreed one by one.
[Is it the prime minister's old bastard's doing again? But this approach doesn't seem like it...]
Lin Baoer pondered in her heart.
In fact, based on the original plot, this is more like the third prince's approach.
Because in the original plot, the third prince was not favored since childhood, so he was poor and destitute. Later, after swallowing up part of the Lin family's industry, he had the capital to rebel.
But why didn't this appear in the original plot?
Lin Baoer was puzzled.
But her idea made Lin Qiming pay attention, and he immediately asked people to check in the direction of the prime minister's mansion and the third prince.
Two hours later, the three people who left returned one by one.
Lin Ruqian said: "There are some problems with those poisoned people. Most of them are strangers and don't buy things at Shangchen Shop often. But just when the batch of ready-made satin clothes came out from outside the Great Wall, they went there one after another and bought several pieces of ready-made clothes in a row."
"After further questioning, they claimed that it was just a coincidence and they drove our people out out of anger and shame. They didn't even want money. It seemed that they just wanted to make a big deal out of it. No matter
how hard we looked, we couldn't find any clues about the people behind it." "If this goes on, the government will definitely find out." He worriedly said, feeling very guilty. This was due to his poor management, and he was more or less responsible.
"And... I checked that batch of satin, and it is indeed poisonous."
Lin Ruqian clenched his fists, frowned, and held back a breath of anger in his chest, and said in a daze: "But I also touched it at that time! The material is of high quality, and there is no pungent smell. If it was poisonous, I would have been poisoned and died long ago. Why did it become poisonous after it was made into ready-made clothes?!"
[The poison is not necessarily reflected in the fabric and smell. Perhaps the enchanting color is made to cover it up.]
When Lin Baoer heard Lin Ruqian say that the satins were colorful, she had this thought in her mind.
Shen Xuelan knew that he was uneasy, and touched his head soothingly, "Don't worry, there is a solution to everything."
Lin Qiming did not speak, but just focused his eyes on Lin Mobai.
Lin Mobai said seriously: "There is nothing wrong with those employees and the shopkeeper, but the merchant from the outskirts of the Great Wall, under my questioning, he told another story about satin."
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