Chapter 4: The Truth
Shopkeeper Du raised his eyes and glanced at Lu Yunxi in front of him, was shocked, and asked rhetorically: "Miss!
"What's the crime, don't you know what's in your rouge!" Lu Yunxi's tone gradually became ruthless.
"That's it, it's just something in ordinary rouge!" Du's words were no longer clear.
Lu Yunxi picked up a box of rouge on the table, opened it and smelled it, sure enough, like the box in Su Zhilan's hand, Lu Yunxi glanced at a maid behind the shopkeeper Du and said, "You, bring me the account book." ”
The maid had never seen such a frightening young lady who was weak and incompetent, so she hastened to do it.
took a look at the account book, and sure enough, the sales of rouge were bleak, and in the past month, only three boxes were sold, and one box was bought by Su Zhilan.
"Heh, shoddy and cost-effective, am I right?" Lu Yunxi stared at the eyes of the shopkeeper Du, making his scalp tingle for a while, "Rouge paste is made of wax as the base and dyed with pigments available to the skin, good rouge paste generally uses beeswax, medium generally uses mutton fat wax, but what you put here is ground wax!"
"Ground wax?" a few of the boys bowed their heads and discussed.
"Miss, I don't know what you mean!" Shopkeeper Du still wanted to quibble, but he had heard that Miss Lu was stupid and weak, so he was not afraid.
"I don't know what I mean, okay, then I'll show you what I mean!" As he spoke, Lu Yunxi picked up a candle on the counter and burned the paste in the rouge box, and after a while, the paste condensed into oil and dripped down, leaving a pungent smell and forming a pool of solid wax on the ground.
"If it's beeswax or mutton fat wax, there will be no pungent smell, and it should be white on the ground after burning, but the ground wax is gray, what color do you see on the ground?"
Shopkeeper Du's hands had already begun to tremble, and his eyes were already blood-red: "Business in the shop is not good! How can I have capital? If I hadn't made it shoddy, this shop would have been closed long ago!"
"The customers are not stupid! You also saw it today, that Su Zhilan is allergic to ozokerite, and the remaining two have a more serious reaction, what if they die because of this?!!" Lu Yunxi stared at the shopkeeper Du, her eyes were tenacious, and she seemed to be on fire.
Shopkeeper Du finally stopped struggling, and knelt on the ground weakly: "Miss, it's not easy to do business in this world, there is no treachery or business, why do you care?"
"Heh, Dyeing Xi is a shop left to me by my mother, I am precious, I can't smash the Yun family's signboard because of a little profit. With that, Lu Yunxi turned his back and looked at Qing'er, "Qing'er, arrest and send the official." ”
"Miss, why are you so ruthless—Miss—" A few of the guys in the store pulled the shopkeeper out.
"From today on, I will temporarily replace the shopkeeper of this shop, I can't let my mother's hard work be ruined!" Lu Yunxi left the shop and went home after leaving a sentence.
On the way, Lu Yunxi had a headache.
What if you waste an afternoon today, and you only have two days left to wake up?
The shop is coming, but how to earn this hundred taels?
"Qing'er, I see that the price of our shop rouge is mostly one or two today, is this price high?" Lu Yunxi asked.
"Count, ordinary rouge is only a few hundred wen, and our rouge is one or two silver, even in the capital, it is considered high. Qing'er was blunt.
Damn, such a price should have sold consumers a better product, but the shopkeeper of Nadu was shoddy, which is really infuriating!
Lu Fu.
"What??,??,," Song Lan said through gritted teeth.
"I heard that the eldest lady found out, and now Du Er has been sent to the official. The maid whispered.
"Damn!" Song Lan slapped the table and shouted angrily.
"I heard that the eldest lady is going to be the shopkeeper of the rouge shop from tomorrow, madam, this is ......"
Song Lan frowned, this series of actions by Lu Yunxi was really unusual, not at all like her in the past.
"Is the master back?" asked Song Lan.
"I'm back, I'm in the study. ”
"Okay, let's go and see the master. With that, Song Lan walked out of the yard with the support of the maid.
When Lu Yunxi returned home, the house was quiet, had he rested so early? Lu Yunxi secretly said that the work and rest of the ancients were really healthy, and he hadn't taken two steps yet, but he heard a majestic voice in the front hall.
"Do you still know how to go home?" Lu Yunxi looked at it, and there was a middle-aged man in an official uniform sitting on the Taishi chair in the front hall, no need to think about it, it should be Lu Ziyou, the father of the original owner.
"My daughter has just recovered from a serious illness and went out to breathe. Lu Yunxi hurriedly replied.
"Hmph, breathe, how did you get into the rouge shop? Isn't it embarrassing enough!" Lu Ziyou slapped the table beside him vigorously, and Song Lan, who was standing on the side, quickly stroked Lu Ziyou's chest and said to dissipate his breath.
"Shame on you, why is your daughter ashamed? I also asked my father for advice. Lu Yunxi looked at Lu Ziyou's eyes and said.
"You-you are the one who was divorced, the city is full of wind and rain in the capital, you will not raise it at home, you will avoid outsiders, you can do it, you still go to the street, and even claim to be the owner of the rouge shop, what's the matter?
Lu Yunxi glanced at Song Lan and understood that all this that Lu Ziyou knew should be Song Lan's words, and there must be an ingredient in adding oil and vinegar.
"Father, my mother died less than three years ago, it stands to reason that I should keep filial piety for three years, I can't get married, I am the daughter of a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, naturally I have to be polite, do I want to learn from the people on the street who are not clean, and the relatives have to do happy things before the bones are cold?!"
Less than three months after Lu Yunxi's mother died, Song Lan helped her from a concubine to her wife, and also held a banquet in Shilang's Mansion.
As soon as he said this, Song Lan and Lu Ziyou's faces were ugly.
"You...... I didn't see you observing the courtesy, but I actually talked about the rules here!" Lu Ziyou's hands trembled a little, and his confidence was a little lacking.
"It's okay to be on the side, it's about the mother, and the daughter is better to be careful. Saying that, Lu Yunxi blessed his body, "Father should rest early and take care of his body." ”
"You are not allowed to go to the rouge shop again! or I will break your legs!" Lu Ziyou said sharply, and he became angry.
Lu Yunxi turned around and looked at Lu Ziyou with a pair of disdainful eyes, "I don't want to go either, but the New Year Festival is coming, dare to ask my father's official money if it is enough to deal with it?"