10: All a Set-Up?
Author: Orchard Minn
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56

The next morning, Adam headed to the Hundred Herb Mall early enough to begin inspection of all the herbs.

They decided to take out tome to clean the mall of fake herbs, re-stock quality and audit all the accounts.

Midway through, they discovered that more than half of the herbs in the shop were fake. The shop-keeper got a steady supply of fake herbs that he even forgot to take care of the original ones.

Checking the accounts, they saw that he received the fake herbs from certain farmers who claimed to come from Ireland.

Adam could already guess that the farmers IDs were fake.

"Do you perhaps have any photos of the men that supplied these herbs?" He asked Eunice and Jude.

"No, boss. The shop-keeper always made sure we stay back while they offloaded the herbs into the store room, we could only get a glimpse of them, but one thing is sure, they were tall and muscular and didn't look a bit like farmers."

"Of course." Adam didn't expect them to be farmers. They were probably just thu
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