Chapter 925: Successful Experience

Jiang Yuan left Xie Wenyuan and the others to Meng Chengbiao for on-site interrogation, and took a few people to roughly search the second, third, and fourth floors.

So many people climbing up and down was somewhat destructive to the scene, but the scene inside the guesthouse wasn't the most important thing at this moment.

The expected guns were not found, but in the kitchen on the second floor, Jiang Yuan found more mushrooms, as well as small knives used for cutting mushrooms. Besides that, some ground mushroom powder was clearly used for tea and coffee, and perhaps could also be used for soup. In addition, some small pancakes, as well as gray powdery substances mixed in jam and Lao Gan Ma, also looked like mushroom powder.

If it hadn't already been determined that the mushrooms were used for hallucinations, even if it were Jiang Yuan's first search, he might have thought these were just local specialties. Just like places that produce fish have full-fish banquets, places that produce wild vegetables have wild vegetable feasts, and places that produce nothing have full-duck banquets. For a place like Jia Li Zhai with special mushrooms, eating mushrooms as a specialty from beginning to end seemed like a normal choice.

It's just that the side effects of the hallucinogenic attribute were truly too great.

Immediately after, Jiang Yuan found a basket of crude account books made by Xie Wenyuan himself in a compartment on the fourth floor.

On the account books, various sales records of mushrooms were clearly written.

With this, the basic evidence was already there.

Jiang Yuan took the account books downstairs and saw that the Village Director had also been placed alone in a room.

Jiang Yuan glanced at him, went to find Xie Wenyuan next door first, showed him the account books, and said: "Your mushrooms sell very expensively, and the price has gone up. A tael used to be a few yuan, but now I see... 80 grams costs 20 yuan. Mushrooms at 100 yuan a jin?"

Xie Wenyuan had been interrogated by Meng Chengbiao and had become much more sensible. At this time, he answered obediently: "Jianshouqing also sells for over 100 a jin."

"So, the effect of your mushrooms is even better than Jianshouqing, right?"

"We haven't compared, but our mushrooms are also quite special and worth this price."

Jiang Yuan curled his lips: "People buy Jianshouqing to eat."

"Who knows." Xie Wenyuan raised his head: "Our mushrooms can also be eaten."

Jiang Yuan looked at Xie Wenyuan unexpectedly. From the previous conversation, it could be heard that Xie Wenyuan's cultural level wasn't high, but these few sentences had a bit of cultural polishing in them.

In other words, the few sentences Xie Wenyuan just said were higher than his own cultural level. From the perspective of textual analysis (LV3), these sentences were either heard by Xie Wenyuan from others, or Xie Wenyuan himself had a very high level of cognition in this area and had thought deeply about it, or perhaps, similar conversations had already been conducted by Xie Wenyuan, and he might have even completed similar conversations many times.

More likely, it was a combination of all three.

Jiang Yuan tapped the account book lightly with his fingers, turned to the page with the label, and continued to ask: "You wrote here: 'See Little People, 80g, 5, 100', explain it."

Xie Wenyuan hesitated, not knowing whether he should say it.

Meng Chengbiao was on the side, deliberately showing a bit of impatience, and said: "The logic has already been explained to you just now. If you cooperate well with our leader's investigation, we'll just talk about the mushrooms. If you insist on taking responsibility, we'll treat it as drug trafficking. In the 'Catalog of Psychotropic Drugs' of the Ministry of Health, psilocybin and psilocin are Class I psychotropic drugs. The Anti-Drug Law explicitly stipulates that the abuse of narcotic drugs and psychotropic drugs regulated by our country is an act of drug abuse..."

"Seeing Little People means that after eating this mushroom, you can see little people. 80 grams, 5 portions, 100 yuan." Xie Wenyuan couldn't hold out and could only spit it out, adding: "Isn't Jianshouqing also for seeing little people? It's the same."

Jiang Yuan didn't dwell on it. The first question he asked was originally a very obvious question. Since they were already talking about hallucinogenic mushrooms, looking at the three words "See Little People", it was impossible to hide it.

"Ocean, 80g, 2, 50?" Jiang Yuan asked next.

"That's the kind that makes it easy to see the ocean after eating it. People swimming in the sea, and you can see reefs in the sea, big fish, etc. 80 grams per portion, someone wanted 2 portions, 50 yuan." Xie Wenyuan said one, and felt there was no need to cover up.

Jiang Yuan nodded: "This kind is 25 yuan for 80 grams? 5 yuan more expensive? Are the mushrooms different?"

"Yes. There's a bit of a difference. The edge of the cap of this kind of mushroom is a bit yellow, and the stem is white like cream." Xie Wenyuan described the mushroom quite clearly.

Jiang Yuan: "Van Gogh, 40g, 4, 160. This kind is more expensive?"

"En, this kind has gray feet, and the cap is also a bit gray, not very easy to distinguish. This kind is 40 grams per portion, sold four portions, 160 yuan."

"What does Van Gogh mean?"

"There's a painting, Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'. It's said that Van Gogh painted it after smoking that stuff, and eating this mushroom to look at the starry sky, it's possible to see 'Starry Night' like in the painting."

"Who told you this?" Jiang Yuan suddenly asked this. Given Xie Wenyuan's cultural level, even if he knew Van Gogh and knew Starry Night, he usually wouldn't name a mushroom "Van Gogh".

Xie Wenyuan was stunned by the question and couldn't help but look at Village Director Chen Jifeng.

Jiang Yuan and Meng Chengbiao looked at each other and smiled, lifted their legs and went out, and landed in front of Village Director Chen Jifeng.

Village Director Chen Jifeng gave a dry laugh: "We just wanted to sell some specialties, nothing else."

Before Jiang Yuan and the others could speak, a string of information Meng Chengbiao had just read flashed through his mind, and then he opened his mouth and said: "Your son is a liberal arts major, and he returned to the village to start a business after graduation? He's so young, running back to Jia Li Zhai, what business can he start?"

"It has nothing to do with him..." Chen Jifeng was truly panicked, and his speech was extremely difficult.

"We don't want to expand the scope either." Meng Chengbiao lied without any burden, deceiving Chen Jifeng: "You tell us what we want to know properly, and we won't have to ask your son, okay?"

Chen Jifeng had no choice. Even if he didn't quite believe Meng Chengbiao, in this kind of matter, he could only nod repeatedly. At this moment, he was like a shrewd person being swindled by a deadbeat, even if what the deadbeat said was unbelievable, he couldn't make a decision to stop the loss. Because the loss was too great.

"So, you are systematically providing mushrooms to guests? You even evaluated and assessed the hallucinogenic properties of the mushrooms and gave different price tags?" Meng Chengbiao asked Chen Jifeng, and the opening was a difficult question.

Village Director Chen Jifeng remained silent timidly.

"Old Chen..." Meng Chengbiao crushed him with a direct hit: "It doesn't matter if you waste my time, but wasting Team Leader Jiang's time won't do you any good. While Team Leader Jiang is here, you better perform well. Later, I'll be able to put in a good word for you."

Chen Jifeng finally couldn't bear it, swallowed his saliva, sighed, and said: "Li Jiang has marijuana, we have mushrooms. We also want to get rich!"

"Li Jiang?"

"Li Jiang is famous, nothing more than because there is marijuana growing in the wild. Our mushrooms are no worse than theirs, that's what I mean." Chen Jifeng said it in one breath, and couldn't help but straighten his waist.

He didn't feel he had done anything wrong.

Li Jiang rose to fame in the country with the reputation of "Capital of Romantic Encounters". The official explanation is that the local ethnic minorities have the custom of snatching marriages, etc. In fact, there are more places in the country with the custom of snatching marriages than just Li Jiang. Why is it Li Jiang?

Only because wild marijuana is all over the place around Li Jiang. The nearby ethnic minorities do have special customs, but the special custom that made them rise wasn't snatching marriages, but generations of planting marijuana. Local marriages had long since abandoned the old custom of snatching marriages, but it wouldn't do to marry without hemp clothes. Besides that, hemp seeds, which are hemp kernels, are also commonly used cooking oil in the local area.

However, the locals in Li Jiang didn't have the tradition of smoking marijuana, until hippies came to the local area and found that marijuana at $25 a roll was growing on the side of the road like it didn't cost money...

It really didn't cost money.

Tens of thousands of hippies lived there ever since, and called friends and companions during the marijuana harvest season every year, and then formed the Capital of Romantic Encounters with their bold style.

Most people looking for romantic encounters are looking for handsome men and beautiful women, but most people are not handsome men and beautiful women, which makes the romantic encounter system unable to operate. Only hippies, only hippies who have smoked enough leaves, accept every man and woman looking for romantic encounters in a friendly way, which established the status of the Capital of Romantic Encounters.

"So, you want to use mushrooms to engage in tourism?" Meng Chengbiao looked at the Village Director in surprise.

The Village Director didn't take it, but retorted: "We didn't do anything, it's just that some guests are willing to eat mushrooms, so we get mushrooms. We didn't promote it, and we didn't organize it, we just sell some local specialties from the mountains."

Meng Chengbiao had plenty of words to refute the Village Director, but he was engaged in interrogation, not debate. Thinking of the danger behind this topic, he simply turned and asked: "Did you ask Xie Wenyuan to tail Team Leader Jiang?"

"No. Old Xie is an idiot!" Chen Jifeng said to this point, and said angrily: "They were the first in the village to do this, their brains have problems, they thought they were smart, saying they wanted to see what you were here for..."

"Xie Wenyuan decided to tail the police? Of the few of them, who drove the car? Who else was in the car?"

"Xie Wenyuan decided. The three of them, maybe, I'm not too sure, maybe Xie Wenhua from the back village."

Meng Chengbiao gave a look, and Wang Chuanxing immediately began to arrange manpower to make arrests.

Meng Chengbiao smiled again, made a record in his notebook, and prepared to ask Xie Wenyuan to verify it later.

After clarifying the tailing problem in a few sentences, Meng Chengbiao looked Chen Jifeng up and down again and asked: "Where did the missing people go?"

"Went into the mountains." Chen Jifeng exhaled and said: "They are planting mushrooms in the Qishan Village in the mountains. Qishan Village is the old village from before, people have all moved out, mushrooms grow just by planting them inside, it's just that the road is hard to walk."

"They plant mushrooms, where do other supplies come from?"

"Bought from our village, some people specialize in this business, and some specialize in delivering goods, and they also make a lot of money."

Meng Chengbiao frowned: "Sounds nice. If they went to live in the old village, how could there be no news at all? Forget about the phone not going through, is there no internet?"

"Newcomers might not be that free." Chen Jifeng raised his head, his voice lowered a bit, and said: "As far as I know, people who just went over might have to plant mushrooms for a period of time." ===== CHAPTER 926 =====