Ling Ruo waited for a while, but never saw Shui Xiu agree, looking sideways, only to see her hesitant, twisting her fingers and secretly looking at Shui Yue, who was also embarrassed.

Ling Ruo was keenly aware that there was a problem, and frowned and asked, "What's wrong?" Is there anything that this palace doesn't know? ”

The two glanced at each other, and finally Shui Yue said the answer with a bitter face, "Master, Liuhe Zhai was gone a few months ago. ”

"What?" Ling Ruo's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he firmly grabbed Shui Yue and the others: "What is going on, explain it carefully to this palace." ”

Liuhe Zhai is under her support to open up, she is very clear about the situation of Liuhe Zhai, before he left the palace, the Mao brothers and others have been Liuhe Zhai prosperous, opened several branches in Beijing, business is prosperous, quite popular with the beautiful women in Beijing, ten years ago when they bought a dowry for Yilan, Liuhe Zhai has been able to take out a few hundred taels of silver, after ten years of development, it is among the first-class stores in Beijing, and a lot of silver can be earned every month, how can it be said that there is no gone.

Through Shui Yue's narration, Ling Ruofang realized that not long after he left the palace and went to Tongzhou, there was a problem in Liuhe Zhai, which was originally doing well, first the surrounding fat powder shops joined forces to suppress it, and then the recipe in the store was leaked.

It is not the first time that they have been suppressed by their peers, but the Mao brothers have never seen them act so crazy, and anything, no matter how much Liuhezhai sells, they sell it at a price two percent lower than Liuhezhai. You must know that although the profit of this thing is not thin, it can't withstand such an uncontrolled blow, and at the end of the year, Liuhe Zhai was forced to sell at a cost, but the other party is still suppressing, and it is still two percent lower. The Mao brothers have calculated that they are selling at a loss, and doing business is to seek money, how can anyone be willing to lose money, even if it is okay for a day or two, but if it goes on like this for a long time, it will always hurt the muscles and bones. Generally speaking, if it were not for the time of life and death, no one would use this kind of trick to injure the enemy by 1,000 and damage 300 by himself. But when the other party used it, the Mao brothers had to continue, gritting their teeth and selling at a loss, so as not to lose business and customers.

However, Liuhezhai is a rookie after all, and the accumulation of more than ten years is not as good as those famous stores that have been around for a hundred years, and those stores don't seem to care about the loss of money at all, and the price is unbelievable. The Mao brothers can't sit still, and if this continues, there will be problems with the flow of funds in Liuhezhai, and it will be a losing game from the beginning to fight against several big stores with one strength.

In order to avoid years of hard work being ruined, they held a banquet in the famous Sanyuan Building in Beijing, and invited the owners of several major fat powder shops to the banquet, showing sincerity, wanting to resolve this danger.

The Mao brothers waited in Sanyuanlou for a day without seeing anyone go to the banquet, and only one servant came with a sentence: There is no need for peace talks, and Liuhezhai must disappear from the capital.

Such a resolute attitude made the Mao brothers at a loss, they wanted to send a letter into the palace, but they learned that Ling Ruo was not in the palace, and his whereabouts were unknown, so their biggest backer was gone, and they could only rely on themselves for life and death.

After discussing with Fu Congzhi and Ah Yi, they decided to continue to persevere, not for anything else, just because Liuhezhai is everyone's hard work and the trust entrusted by the master, and they must not let Liuhezhai be ruined.

As for the leakage of the formula, it was also found out afterwards, it was the perfumer who disappeared after the matter was revealed. The so-called house leak happened to rain overnight, and the business was already in jeopardy, and the perfumer rebelled and fled, and even the supply of goods was a problem for a while, and what to fight with others.

After a month of hard work, Liuhe Zhai finally couldn't escape the end of bankruptcy, all the shops were closed, but this is not over, several people went to the government to sue the Mao brothers and others, saying that after using the rouge they sold, the whole face was rotten, and after the Lord Yin found out that the complaint was true, he sentenced the Mao brothers to 30 canes each, and compensated each victim with 200 taels of silver.

Although the Mao brothers originally ended Liuhe Zhai, they were not ready to really give up, and left some money to prepare to regroup in the future, but as soon as this incident came out, all their calculations were disrupted. Not to mention the loss of all the silver, even the house was sold, and only two blue brick houses were left to live in, and they were beaten to the point that they couldn't even get the money to ask the doctor, so they could only rely on Ah Yi to go into the mountains to collect herbs with hemostatic effects to compress. After lying down for more than a month, although he survived, Mao Er was disabled and walked with a limp.

It is said that it is miserable enough to fall to this point, but from time to time there are ruffians and hooligans to make trouble, making their lives miserable, if it weren't for Mao Da's still a little bit of kung fu and fierce spirit, those people would have deceived them so much that they couldn't survive.

After listening to it all, Ling Ruo's face was already pale, and his hands in his sleeves trembled slightly because he was too hard, and he shouted: "There is such a big thing, why don't you tell this palace?" If it weren't for the palace, would you be prepared to hide it from the palace for the rest of your life?! ”

"Master forgiveness!" Shui Xiu and the two of them saw that Ling Ruo was really angry, and hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, "It's not that the slaves and maids deliberately hide from their masters, but the Mao brothers feel sorry for their masters and embarrass their masters, so they insisted on not letting the slaves and maids say after the masters came back, and they said that they would wait for the reopening of Liuhe Zhai in the future, and then they would accept the master's punishment." ”

"You two foolish things." Ling Ruo was both moved and heartbroken, but he still scolded angrily on his face: "They let you hide it, are they the masters or the master of this palace?" Hmph, people are going to kill them all, with their own, no one wants money, no money, and it is simply a fool's dream to reopen Liuhe Zhai, and before they can open it, people will smash it. Needless to say, those ruffians must have been hired by the owners of those fat powder shops. ”

It was the first time that Shui Xiu and the two of them were scolded like this by Ling Ruo, and they knelt on the ground and didn't even dare to come out, until Ling Ruo sat down in the chair angrily, and then they knelt forward, kowtowed, and said: "Please forgive the slave and maid this time, and I won't dare to do it again." ”

"In the future, you two won't have to wait around the palace." Ling Ruo was hated by others for concealing it, although Shui Xiu was out of kindness, it still made her unhappy.

Shui Xiu and Shui Yue breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the master had forgiven them for saying this, and only after kowtowing again did they stand up tremblingly.

"Now the Mao brothers and Ah Yi, how are they?" Ling Ruoyu's anger did not subside, and this tone was naturally not good.

Shui Yue didn't dare to hide it this time, and said truthfully: "The slave maid received a letter from Ah Yi a few days ago, and their life is not very easy, and the slave and maid have dragged people out of the house with some silver, hoping that they can live better." ”