The middle-aged man glanced at the doctor, then at the shopkeeper at the door, and angrily said, "You two have been colluding for a long time. The rash on my hand was caused by this soap. If you don't want to pay, then don't pay. You actually use such a vicious trick to deceive people."

The doctor looked at the middle-aged man and simply smiled faintly. "If my guess is correct, this man has been to Baishan Hall several times because of a rash caused by drinking, and now he's trying to defraud compensation. If you're not convinced, you can ask the doctor at Baishan Hall to come out and verify it."

After hearing this, the middle-aged man finally didn't dare to say anything and stood aside cursing.

The doctor on this side continued to check, and gradually, it was confirmed that the rash on the hands of the people who were causing trouble nearby was not caused by soap. There was even a rash on the hand of one of them that was drawn with red ink, and it was not a rash at all.

At this point, everyone watching sighed.

When they checked on the last old woman, she looked at the manager and said, "I'm not here because of the rash. I was busy buying soap a few days ago, and I fell to the ground in the crowd. I'm old now, and it would be a waste to use such a new gadget. Plus, I fell and injured myself a few days ago, so I came here to ask for an explanation."

The old woman sighed and looked at the manager and said, "If you don't have any money to compensate me now, I'll accept it. After all, all these people are just acting. None of them are real."

Seeing this, the doctor from Baishan Hall went forward to check the wound on the old woman's hand.

The doctor took a look and saw that the old woman's hands were indeed covered with injuries. The doctor looked at the old woman and asked, "Where did you get these injuries from the fall?"

Before the old woman could answer, a woman waiting to buy soap said, "I saw this old woman a few days ago when I came to buy soap. She was squeezed out by the crowd and fell hard at the door."

Seeing this, the owner of the soap shop immediately said, "Since this old woman fell in front of our soap shop, even though it wasn't caused by the soap she was using, she was injured because she was buying something from our shop. So, follow the example just now and give her ten taels of silver as compensation."

After hearing this, the old woman's eyes were filled with tears of excitement and she kept expressing her gratitude.

Now, everyone believed the soap shop's words, and this farce only made the onlookers more convinced of its credibility. Someone in the queue for soap said, "I was wondering, this soap is working just fine for me, why are so many people suddenly showing up to cause trouble? If the owner hadn't planned this all along, then he must have fallen into their trap."

"That's right," the clerk beside him echoed. "How could such a problem arise in the Prime Minister's shop? Other merchants must not have such a good solution, and seeing that this shop is doing well, they resorted to this desperate measure. I saw that the soap shop next door is doing very poorly, and I wonder if this was planned specifically to frame the soap shop."

"Their products are not good at all, yet they are so expensive."

"That's right."

"I know their family. It's the Yan family's shop, the richest man in Beijing. How do you think the richest man made his money? It's because the things in this shop are sold at high prices, which makes their family so rich. Otherwise, where do you think the money comes from?"

"The things in their other shops aren't very useful either. Last time, my mother bought a piece of cloth from their shop, but when she got home she found a hole in it and wanted to exchange it, but the shopkeeper refused to acknowledge it. It's nowhere near as straightforward as the shop in the Prime Minister's Mansion."

"I wonder if there's a cloth shop in the Prime Minister's Mansion. I can go to the cloth shop there to buy fabrics in the future. There's no need to buy fabrics from the Yan family."

"The Fenglai Cloth Shop in the east of the city is owned by the Prime Minister's Mansion. I bought there once and it was really good."

The story of the soap shop spread quickly, and the reputation of the shop in the Prime Minister's Mansion also became famous.

The soap shop that everyone was talking about was naturally one of the Yan family's shops. However, Yan Yuzhi and Guan Surong could never have imagined that they would end up causing disaster to their own shop because they were trying to frame the shop of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and even made things worse for the shop of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Guan Surong was so anxious that blisters appeared on her mouth. Fearing that Yan Yuzhi would blame her, she immediately implemented her second plan. She asked someone to put the blame on the shop in the Prime Minister's Mansion and say that it was their soap that put her in danger.

But before, many people came to cheat money and wrongly accused the soap shop. Now that everyone saw it, how could they believe it?

Song Wanning now pressed the issue, saying that this person had become like this because of using the Yan family's things, and that he had cried in the wrong temple. Who would have thought that this opportunistic mother and son would actually run to the Yan Mansion's shop to cry and make a scene, making it increasingly difficult to stop.

The Yan family's business had not reached this point before, but now it has become even worse.

Guan Surong handled this matter extremely badly. She returned to Yan's house timidly, and as expected, she saw Yan Yuzhi's angry face as soon as she entered the door.

Yan Yuzhi looked at Guan Surong and asked angrily, "You thought of such a good idea, but now our shop is in such a difficult situation. I can see that many shops are losing money now. What on earth did you come up with?"

Seeing that Yan Yuzhi was really angry, Guan Surong didn't dare to talk back. She just looked at Yan Yuzhi timidly and said, "My husband, I didn't expect this situation to happen. I will definitely resolve this situation when I think about it."

"Get lost." Yan Yuzhi was not willing to listen to Guan Surong's explanation. He cursed with a dark face, "Who do you think you are? If it weren't for you helping my business and your relationship with the Duke's Mansion, do you think I would indulge you like this? Look at what a mess you have made of our family's business. You'd better stay in the yard and don't go out to cause trouble, otherwise don't blame me for kicking you out."

When Guan Surong heard Yan Yuzhi say this, she used to think that Yan Yuzhi was at least somewhat sincere towards her, but now it seems that it was all calculation.

Guan Surong didn't give up, and reached out to pull Yan Yuzhi's sleeve, "Husband, please trust me again... Now this time it's just that I haven't thought it through yet. Just wait for me to plan it carefully, and I will definitely be able to solve it quickly."

"Don't call me husband. How can a concubine have the right to call me husband? From now on, when you see me, you must call me master." Yan Yuzhi glared at Guan Surong and strode out the door.