"He told us that since the other party always takes out a large amount of Galleons to buy materials, he must first go to Gringotts to withdraw money. Maybe we can find some clues through Gringotts."
"So we gave Bogorod some gifts, and he let us look at the transaction records of those days. We found that two people took out a large number of Galleons on the day of buying potion materials. One was named Stephen Cumberbatch and the other was Murphy Darkholm."
"After our investigation, we found that Cumberbatch was a fake name. There is no such person in the wizarding world. That Stephen Finn Cumberbatch is Murphy Darkholme!"
"Then we had someone draw a portrait of Murphy Darkholme and showed it to Slug, proving that he was the Peter Parker!"
"Darkholme..." Lucius thought for a while, and suddenly remembered the last name, "Sanders, Natalie... Murphy..."
"It turned out to be him!" Lucius understood, and at the same time had a new doubt in his mind, "Where did he get so much money?"
Before the two talented people, Sanders and Natalie, went in, they borrowed hundreds of Galleons from me!
Where did their son get tens of thousands of Galleons?
"That's what I'm going to say next." The short wizard said, "Murphy Darkholme's money is all exchanged for gold. He claims that he dug out the gold buried by his ancestors in his old house."
"But we all know that's a lie. The Darkholme family has been in decline for hundreds of years. There is no way there is any gold! Later we thought of the Muggle farm. Paped said that he saw a Muggle vehicle delivering a lot of medicinal materials to the barn that day. I asked him to draw the logo on the vehicle. It looks like this."
The short wizard said, taking out a piece of parchment, and saw a pattern of an open umbrella drawn on it.
"Our people took a lot of effort to trace the meaning of this logo. This is a Muggle company called Umbrella. They are very famous in the Muggle world recently because they sell a potion that can heal wounds immediately to Muggles..."
"Potion that can heal wounds immediately, what does this remind you of?" asked the short wizard.
"You mean? Potions?"
"Yes! Dittany essence!"
"And guess what is the material Murphy Darkholme bought the most in our store? Dittany!"
"Everything is clear, sir!" The short wizard said excitedly: "That Murphy, he is selling potions to Muggles! He made countless pounds, and then exchanged them for gold to buy so many of our materials! We used truth serum on a guy in a Muggle pharmacy, and he said that Umbrella Company can make at least one million pounds a month, which is equivalent to 200,000 Galleons!"
"Hiss..."
Lucius took a breath.
200,000 Galleons!
One month!
His Malfoy family, all the industries added up, can't make tens of thousands of Galleons a month!
A poor boy whose parents died, why? !
And he dared not to play with me!
"Dare to sell potions to Muggles, openly defying the Statute of Wizarding Secrecy!" Lucius' pale face twisted, "What a courage! What a courage!"
This was the glorious path of his Malfoy family. It was not until the implementation of the Statute of Wizarding Secrecy became more and more stringent that they withdrew their business in the Muggle world, and as a result, their profits plummeted.
Now, someone actually wants to bypass his Malfoy family and go this route by themselves?
Unforgivable!
Unforgivable!
"Have you found the evidence!?" Lucius asked anxiously.
"We found their factory. All the potions sold to Muggles are produced in that factory. Those Muggle workers and the potions in production are all evidence!"
"Good! Good!" Lucius stood up, "Go and catch them for me!"
"No! I'll go myself! I'll send that bastard to Azkaban myself!"
"Also! Tell Bogorod about this and freeze his account!"
…
"Dicum, Flobberworm, Hokklap fruit, unicorn horn powder, dry Billywig worm, wolfsbane aconite..."
In Knockturn Alley, in the backyard of Siren Song, there were a pile of bags in front of Murphy.
He opened each bag and checked the materials inside, then ticked the list in his hand.
After half an hour, Murphy finally finished checking all the potion materials.
He then took out a small cloth bag from his waist and threw it to Lisandro who was already waiting impatiently. "Although the quantity is less than I thought, it is enough. Here is the price. Please count it."
While Lisandro was counting the money, Murphy put all the bags of herbs into a traceless stretch box. He bought this box from Borgin and Burke. It was said to be an heirloom of an ancient family and was priced at 3,000 Galleons.
Murphy would not believe a word of what Borgin and Burke said, but the box was really good. Although the space inside was far less than that of Newt Scamander's "little cave", it was enough for a warehouse, enough for him to transport various materials.
So Murphy still patiently bargained for a long time and bought it back for 500 Galleons.
After packing the things, Lisandro counted the money and the two shook hands.
"Happy cooperation." Murphy said.
"I wish you bad luck, old swindler." Lisandro said sarcastically.
Why is this old man still thinking about cheating?
He raised his eyebrows, "Be open-minded, brother, you made a lot of Galleons today."
…
After Apparating from Knockturn Alley, Murphy came to a new warehouse he had just rented and dumped all the herbs. He was considering whether to rent a place nearby for Alex to work in the warehouse, when his mobile phone rang.
Murphy answered the call and heard Patrick's anxious voice: "Where have you been? Come to the factory quickly, something big has happened!"
"What's wrong? What happened?"
"The factory was bombed and the workers were kidnapped. It might be a terrorist attack. Come quickly!"
Murphy was stunned for a moment. He didn't dare to delay. He hung up the phone and Apparated directly to the factory.
Walking into the factory gate, Murphy frowned. He saw that the original iron arch seemed to be twisted by some force, and it was twisted into a twist. The factory was filled with smoke, and half of the factory building collapsed.
It really looked like a terrorist attack.
Murphy found Patrick, who was directing some workers to move the rubble and clean up the factory.
"What's going on?"
Patrick glanced at Murphy, and seemed a little surprised that he came so quickly, but he quickly said: "Someone attacked the factory just now, and the security guards were confused. They said that someone used magic to blow up the wall of the factory, and then arrested several of our workers and disappeared. I have called the police, and they will be here soon."
"How many people did they take away?" Murphy asked.
"Five people, they were off work, and there were only a few people left in the factory. In addition, they seemed to have taken away a lot of materials and packaged medicines. I suspect it was the pharmaceutical companies! They are really lawless! You must be careful, they can even attack the factory, and they may also harm you!"
Murphy's face was gloomy, "I know, you deal with the police, I'll ask the security guard."
Murphy found the poor black uncle, and after driving everyone else out of the room, he directly used Legilimency on him, and then gave him a forgetfulness spell, making him fall asleep.
From the security guard's memory, he had already seen the appearance of the attacker.
The long light golden hair and the elegant but arrogant posture made Murphy recognize the other party immediately even though he had never seen him before.
"Lucius."
(End of this chapter)