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Chapter 78 Come forward
Seeing that the situation was getting worse, Sun Wang knew he couldn't handle it, so he immediately sent someone to the backyard to fetch Chen Gui. Just as Liu Quan was shouting and the situation was getting worse, Chen Gui's voice finally came from behind.

"Everyone be quiet!"

As soon as Chen Gui finished speaking, the shopkeeper who was arguing with Liu Quan about the fake medicine, as well as Sun Wang and others, immediately stopped what they were doing. Liu Quan and the few unfriendly gang members from the Crouching Tiger Gang on the other side also quieted down.

Everyone looked over and saw two people walking from behind. Chen Gui was wearing a brocade robe and walked in front, while Wu Ming was wearing a simple cloth dress and followed behind. Everyone's eyes glanced at Wu Ming and Chen Gui and then focused on Chen Gui.

"what happened?"

Looking at the chaotic situation, Chen Gui asked Sun Wang in a deep voice.

Sun Wang immediately leaned closer and whispered the situation to him.

Upon hearing this, Chen Gui immediately narrowed his eyes, knowing that this must be a scheme secretly plotted by the Crouching Tiger Gang. His Chen family had made a fortune in the medicinal tea business, which had attracted the envy of various forces, all of whom were looking for trouble with them. Such things were commonplace.

"My sir, our Chen's Pharmacy is a century-old brand that has never sold a single counterfeit medicine. You can't just make up a story based on a few words and half a radish that you picked up from who-knows-where."

Chen Gui looked at Liu Quan and said calmly.

then,

Before Liu Quan could respond, Chen Gui turned his gaze to the onlookers outside and said loudly, "Fellow villagers, I'm sure many of you have bought medicine from our Chen's Pharmacy. I want to ask, has anyone ever bought even a single counterfeit medicine?"

Seeing Chen Gui's calm and composed attitude, the group of people who had been stirred up began to whisper among themselves.

"Yes."

"The herbs from Chen's Pharmacy are all of excellent quality, praised by all the doctors. How could there be fake medicine?"

"The liniment for sprains and bruises that I bought here last time worked very well, it's no exaggeration."

Seeing the situation quickly calm down, Liu Quan's eyes flashed with impatience. He immediately waved the half-eaten radish in his hand and roared, "This is the fake ginseng I bought from your house. I'm not lying. If you're so capable, bring out all your old ginseng and let's examine it. There must be fake ginseng in it!"

"That's right. If your pharmacy isn't selling fakes, then show them to us. Let's see what they're really made of."

Several members of the Crouching Tiger Gang also chimed in coldly from the sidelines.

Chen Gui noticed the expressions and actions of the group and frowned. He was certain that there were no counterfeit medicines in his pharmacy, but the group in front of him was obviously up to no good and had planned this all along. Why were they so confident in letting him check the medicine? Could there really be a problem with the medicine?
In the blink of an eye, Chen Gui had already thought of many things, and even began to look at the old shopkeeper in charge of the pharmacy and the few servants who dispensed medicine, and began to have doubts in his heart.

But at this moment, Liu Quan didn't give him any time, shouting, "See! You're scared now! You don't dare let us examine your medicine, so you're selling fakes!"

Seeing this scene,

The crowd, which had quieted down, began to look suspicious again.

Chen Gui's heart sank, but seeing that something was wrong, and knowing that if there really was a problem, he really had to check it carefully before investigating the pharmacy's employees and manager one by one.

Immediately.

He walked to the medicine cabinet and pulled out a drawer containing ginseng from the row of cabinets.

Upon closer inspection, his pupils immediately contracted, because the ginseng inside was clearly problematic; at least half of it had turned into dried radish of unknown origin!

Was it someone working under his wing who secretly switched the medicinal herbs to make money without his knowledge? Or was someone who had taken bribes from outsiders and colluded with others to secretly switch the herbs and deliberately set a trap for him?

Chen Gui's mind raced, and he was about to make a reaction when...

boom.

The drawer in his hand was instantly overturned, and the ginseng and dried radish inside scattered all over the floor.

"Look! Look! I told you so, they sold fake ginseng!"

Liu Quan excitedly picked up one, compared it with the half in his hand, and shouted at the top of his lungs.

Chen Gui's face was also somewhat unpleasant. He swept his gaze over the several pharmacy clerks and said coldly, "Which of you accepted bribes from outside and switched the ginseng? Step forward and explain yourself now, and I may spare you. Otherwise, you know the consequences!"

The men looked at each other in bewilderment.

But one of them had a noticeably evasive look in his eyes.

Just as Chen Gui's expression changed and he was about to reach out and grab the man,

Crash.

More members of the Crouching Tiger Gang squeezed through the crowd, led by a square-faced middle-aged man with a stern expression. He was the leader of the Crouching Tiger Gang, and he blocked Chen Gui's path, sneering, "So this is Chen's Pharmacy, a century-old brand. So this is how you sell counterfeit medicine by switching the goods with fake ones, and you even want the shop assistants to take the blame..."

"Correct!"

"Aren't you bullying honest people?!"

A member of the Crouching Tiger Gang nearby shouted at the top of his lungs, "Zhang Yi, you dare to cause trouble in the shop with outsiders! Sun Wang, take him down!"

Chen Gui ignored the Crouching Tiger Gang and focused on a member who was hiding behind them. He immediately shouted, realizing that the problem lay with this man. He believed that if he could capture him and interrogate him in public, he could clarify the matter.

But at that moment, the leader of the Crouching Tiger Gang stepped forward and shouted:

"Selling fake medicine, and they still dare to be so arrogant! Brothers, smash their shop!"

Hula la.

A dozen or so members of the Crouching Tiger Gang swarmed out, each one robust and full of vigor, all of them being martial artists who had achieved the Blood Coagulation Realm.

On Chen Gui's side, Hu Yong was away on business, and it was broad daylight. Only Sun Wang was in the shop, along with the young master himself. There were only two Blood Condensation Martial Artists, and they were clearly no match for the Crouching Tiger Gang. The situation had taken a sharp turn for the worse.

but.

Just at this time.

A voice suddenly broke through the chaos. It wasn't loud, but it carried a chilling quality. It immediately reached everyone's ears, causing everyone to pause involuntarily.

"quiet!"

Wu Ming spoke indifferently, took a step forward, and lightly stepped on the ground. Instantly, the paving stones under his feet cracked and broke open, releasing a surge of pure blood energy, revealing his second stage of blood coagulation.

The room fell silent instantly, and all eyes turned to Wu Ming.

"You are……"

The leader of the Crouching Tiger Gang frowned. He could tell at a glance that Wu Ming had a high level of martial arts skill and an extraordinary demeanor. However, he did not know Wu Ming, and Wu Ming's sudden appearance to cause trouble was also unexpected.

Wu Ming flipped his right hand, revealing a waist token from the Censorate, and said in a deep voice:
"When the Criminal Investigation Department is handling a case, everyone must remain silent and not cause any disturbance!"

Ministry of Punishment?
When Wu Ming's waist token was revealed, the already suppressed situation in the arena immediately fell silent. Some of the originally fierce-looking members of the Crouching Tiger Gang involuntarily shrank their necks when they saw the waist token, and all of them showed a bit of fear.

In this day and age, for ordinary people, the Censorate was an office that maintained order in the city and was the guarantee for their peaceful life. But for gangs like the Crouching Tiger Gang, the Censorate was the head of all the evil gangs in the entire Jingye City!

Any gang that wants to exist must make good contact with the Censorate, maintain a good relationship, and obediently pay tribute. Otherwise, it won't be long before the Censorate wipes them out completely.

"..."

The leader of the Crouching Tiger Gang also turned pale. Clearly, the sudden appearance of Wu Ming, the inspector of the Censorate, was completely unexpected and caught him off guard.

Although he was also a martial arts master who had achieved secondary blood coagulation and had more than a dozen blood coagulation martial artists under his command, Wu Ming was only one person. He was not afraid at all, but the problem was that there were many people gathered here, and it was broad daylight. If he dared to lead the crowd to besiege a patrolman of the Shenxing Division, his head would probably be displayed at the Meridian Gate in less than an hour!

"call."

When Chen Gui saw that Wu Ming had stabilized the situation as soon as he appeared, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and secretly rejoiced that Wu Ming happened to be here today, otherwise he didn't know how he would have handled the situation.

Seeing that the Crouching Tiger Gang members had lost their previous fierce aura, Chen Gui immediately straightened up, his cold gaze sweeping over the many Crouching Tiger Gang members and looking at Zhang Yi, the pharmacy clerk who was hiding and dodging.

Zhang Yi was sweating profusely at this moment. Seeing that the situation was not good, he wanted to sneak away.

But before he could leave the pharmacy, Sun Wang bypassed the crowd, grabbed him by the collar, and threw him to the ground. This attack left the Crouching Tiger Gang members, including their leader, speechless and no one intervened.

Seeing that the dozen or so members of the Crouching Tiger Gang were all suppressed by Wu Ming alone and dared not make any rash moves, Sun Wang secretly glanced at Wu Ming and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Although he knew that Wu Ming was extraordinary, he never expected that just a year ago he was guarding this pharmacy with him, and a year later he was already an eighth-rank patrolman of the Shenxing Division, wielding power and influence. With just a word, he could stop the menacing Crouching Tiger Gang from acting recklessly.

"Go ahead."

"What's going on here?"

Chen Gui looked coldly at Zhang Yi, who had fallen to the ground, and began his indifferent interrogation.

……

Just as Chen Gui began interrogating Zhang Yi.

Not far from Chen's Pharmacy, across half a street, in a small building, on the second floor, seven or eight figures were gazing in the direction of Chen's Pharmacy. The one in the lead, looking at the scene inside the pharmacy, narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Wu Ming? What's that kid doing here?"

“Brother Wang, now that Wu Ming has revealed his identity in public, the Crouching Tiger Gang probably won’t dare to make any moves.”

"Well, let's go, it's about time for us to go."

Wang Wufeng nodded slightly, a cold smile flashing in his eyes. Someone was eager to be taught a lesson, daring to meddle in the Chen family's affairs and even daring to disrespect him. Today was the perfect opportunity to teach them a lesson and make them remember it!
(End of this chapter)