The business at Chu's Restaurant remained lukewarm.
To avoid wastage, Xin Lin instructed Ma Jingtian and others to reduce the daily supply of buns from five hundred to one hundred, with fifty cabbage pork buns and fifty cabbage buns each. Unsold ones were given to nearby merchants.
This back and forth helped maintain good relations with the surrounding merchants.
The gang members who were detained were ordered by Xin Lin not to eat Spiritual Longevity Peach Buns. That very night, they reacted abnormally, causing a commotion in the room, clamoring for the buns.
Ma Jingtian went in to appease them and was almost bitten.
It was then that Ma Jingtian believed what Xin Lin had said earlier, that there was something wrong with the Spiritual Longevity Peach Buns from Taoyao Pavilion.
The two were detained for three days and given only clean water, gradually calming down.
This further confirmed to Xin Lin that the buns indeed contained opium ingredients.
