Mu Jinnian: "We're here to buy Skin Like Snow. I've heard that face powder is really good."

Xiao Jia: "Okay, please come with me."

Xiao Jia led the two to a table and sat them down. She then handed Mu Jinnian a piece of paper and a calligraphy brush.

"Please write down your name, age, and home address, and we will have someone deliver Ji Ru Xue to your home within three days."

Mu Jinnian asked in confusion, "Can't we just take it now?"

Xiao Jia maintained her smile.

"cannot."

"Why do I have to write down my information when I buy things?" Mu Jinnian put down his brush. He had never seen this rule before.

Xiao Jia: "This is the rule of our Ziyangtang."

Mu Jinnian: "I won't write anything. I'll just pay you directly, and you'll give me the goods directly. Isn't that how business should be done?"

Xiao Jia's smile vanished, and his face instantly darkened.

"You two may leave now."

She directly ordered them to leave, leaving no room for negotiation.

Mu Jinnian flipped the table over with one hand and said arrogantly, "Call your boss here!"

Xiao Jia was startled by Mu Jinnian's actions. Her body trembled a few times, but her tone remained firm.

"We at Ziyangtang will not be entertaining you any longer. Please leave."

After saying that, Xiao Jia and his companions all wanted to leave.

Mu Jinnian, however, reached out and grabbed her.

"Trying to leave? No way!"

"Quickly, tell me, where is your boss?"

They collect customer information by selling products.

This operation has made Mu Jinnian somewhat suspicious that the owner of Ziyangtang might be a spy from an enemy country, here to gather information about the population of the capital.

Xiao Jia's arm was twisted behind his back by Mu Jinnian, and he frowned in pain.

"I...I don't know..."

The little dumpling didn't understand what she meant and asked, "What do you mean you don't know?"

Xiao Jia: "I don't know who the boss is!"

Huh? The little dumpling was puzzled.

"You work here, how could you not know who the boss is?"

Mu Jinnian exerted a little force, and Xiao Jia howled in pain.

“I don’t know, I really don’t know! I’ve never met the boss in person. He always comes to the shop at midnight and puts Ji Ruxue in the room on the second floor. He writes down any other things he needs to tell me on a piece of paper and puts it in the room on the second floor as well. Every morning before I open the shop, I go to the room on the second floor and take out the paper that the boss wrote.”

Xiao Jia finished explaining in one breath and pleaded:

That's all. I really don't know anything else!

Although she didn't know who these two people were or what their purpose was, Xiao Jia's arm was about to be broken, so she had no choice but to tell them everything she knew.

Mu Jinnian then released Xiao Jia's arm.

The little dumpling is now extremely curious about who the owner of Ziyangtang is.

Skin Like Snow became a sensation in Beijing, but the boss behind it is a mysterious figure, which makes people extremely curious.

Not only that, the little dumpling also discovered that, apart from Xiao Jia, there was no one else in this huge Ziyangtang.

The little dumpling thought of a question and couldn't help but ask Xiao Jia, "Are you the only one in the shop?"

Xiao Jia nodded: "Yes!"

The little dumpling asked, "Who gave you those snow-white skin?"

Little Tuanzi remembered what Xiao Jia had just said: the skin as white as snow is not handed to the guests in person, but is delivered to their homes within three days after the guests register.

If Ziyangtang only had one servant, Xiaojia, then who gave her skin as white as snow?

Xiao Jia shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Mu Jinnian grabbed Xiao Jia and said fiercely:

Are you kidding us?!

Xiao Jia's tears, which she had just wiped away, started flowing again.

"I don't know, I really don't know. I was only in charge of registration. The boss was in charge of delivering the skin-like snow. But since I came to the shop, I haven't seen any other servants except for the two maids who greeted guests at the door."

The little dumpling saw Xiao Jia's frightened look and knew she wasn't lying.

Mu Jinnian continued to interrogate Xiao Jia, while Xiao Tuanzi curiously went to explore other parts of Ziyangtang.

The little dumpling walked to the stairs and looked at the stairs leading to the second floor. Her eyes were drawn to the sculpture on the stair railing.

On the stair railing, there is a bronze sculpture every three steps.

The sculpture has a very strange shape; it has the head of a goat and the body of a bird.

The little girl curiously went closer. The statue was a size larger than her fist. She wondered who had made it, but the statue was incredibly lifelike.

A sheep's head with a bird's body.

That's quite a strange design.

As the little dumpling watched, a strange image suddenly flashed through its mind.

A sheep's head was blinking, and it spread its bird wings and flew in mid-air.

The little girl was slightly startled, and she quickly shook her head to dispel the strange image from her mind.

The little dumpling looked at the statues on the stair railing again and had a bold idea in her mind—could these statues actually be alive?