Madam Sun looked at the wrinkles on her face in the mirror and frowned. She didn't like the mirror very much. "It's too clear. I can even see the fine lines at the corners of my eyes."
Bai Wanyi smiled and said, "That's right. The bronze mirrors we use nowadays look a bit yellow. I can't see clearly when I'm putting on makeup, where the powder is thicker and where it's thinner. I can't even tell if the rouge I used today is a little redder."
"We look at ourselves in the mirror and see that our makeup looks great, but when we go out, people will laugh at us."
Madam Sun thought about herself. Every time she put on makeup, the maids always had different opinions from her. Now it seems that it was because of the mirror.
Madam Sun immediately pointed to a round mirror about a foot long and asked, "How much is this mirror? I want one too."
Bai Wanyi knew that Madam Sun had come to show her support today, so he naturally didn't introduce the small mirror to her. Instead, he took this opportunity to introduce all the products to everyone: "The mirror wall in front of you is a glass crystal mirror that is five feet wide and three feet high. The price is eight thousand eight hundred taels."
"So expensive!" Mrs. Sun was shocked.
Is it expensive?
Bai Wanyi's eyes flashed with disdain. She even thought it was too cheap. She smiled again and introduced the mirror next to her: "There's another one like this over here, a dressing mirror that's three feet high and one foot wide, and it costs one thousand eight hundred taels of silver..."
Bai Wanyi introduced them one by one. The mirrors came in different sizes and the prices ranged from nearly ten thousand taels of silver to dozens of taels of silver.
In short, to put it simply, all mirrors can be summed up in one word: expensive!
The ladies who came to support the event originally came with a mission, and they had to buy something to take back. The prices of these things were so high that they always felt that they were being taken advantage of and became a little unhappy.
How can I be happy?
Although everyone is powerful, not everyone has a wealthy family.
Most families only have twenty taels of silver as their monthly allowance. It would be painful for them to buy a mirror that costs thousands of taels of silver, even if it costs dozens of taels of silver.
Even the cheapest, palm-sized glass or crystal mirror costs five or six taels of silver, which is simply unaffordable for ordinary people.
Mrs. Sun remembered her husband's instructions, and even though she felt sorry for the money, she still gritted her teeth and asked someone to buy one. The one she had just pointed at and asked the price for cost three hundred taels of silver.
Although Mrs. Sun felt pain in her heart, she felt satisfied when she held the mirror in her hand and saw the clear figure in the mirror.
With Madam Sun taking the lead, all the ladies and young ladies also took out their money to buy a mirror. They did not buy expensive ones, but bought cheap ones so that they could report to their superiors when they returned.
Just then, someone in the street shouted:
"There's a Liuhuaju restaurant next door! They have a glass mirror there, too, the size of a palm. It only costs five hundred coins!"
This shout immediately stopped everyone's actions.
In Flowers in the Mirror, a palm-sized mirror costs five taels of silver!
The price next door is only 500 Wen!
Just when everyone was shocked, someone outside said:
"That mirror, as tall as a person, is so big! It only costs one hundred and eighty taels!"
!!!
Wouldn’t the one that’s as tall as a person be bigger than the one in Mirror of Flowers and Moon that’s three feet tall?
Everyone's eyes fell on the mirror beside them. This one is selling for eight hundred taels!
Madam Sun was so reluctant to spend money on the mirror that she wondered how much it cost at Liuhuaju?
But it's certainly not expensive, right?
Bai Wanyi was so angry that her lungs were about to explode. What was this Liuhuaju? Could the mirror be better than hers?
She tilted her head slightly to glance at Chu Yun, then watched her quietly leave. Holding back her anger, she smiled and said to Madam Sun, "Today is a great day for our grand opening, and since you've come specially to show your support, I'll give you a discount. This mirror will only cost fifty taels of silver."
After all, she still couldn't bear to give it away for free. Why should she give it away for free? After all this time and tens of thousands of taels of silver, she now relied on this shop to make back her money.
I make hundreds of coins a day from those milk tea shops. When will I be able to make a profit?
Glass and mirrors are still the ones with huge profits.
The price was reduced from three hundred taels to fifty taels. Although Mrs. Sun still felt that the price next door might be cheaper, she was willing to give Bai Wanyi face and asked someone to pay the silver and accept the mirror.
A young lady from an unknown family said sarcastically, "When have we ever paid cash for anything?"
"Yes, they all have it delivered to the mansion for payment, or they pay at the end of the month."
Bai Wanyi's face was slightly stiff. There was a sign hanging at the door of her shop that said "No Credit".
Because she knew best that some debts were difficult to collect, so it would be better not to let them buy on credit in the first place.
But now, seeing that the crowd outside had dispersed somewhat, Bai Wanyi became a little anxious. While ordering people to take down the sign that said no credit, he said, "Of course, this is according to the rules. No one would carry so much money when they go out. I'll have someone go to your house to get it later."
Bai Wanyi was still cautious after all.
Those who bought silver and glass mirrors were asked to sign the bill. Fortunately, all the people who came were powerful and wealthy, and there was no illiterate person.
As for the two voices shouting outside, except for those who came for the face of the Fourth Prince and the Pingyang Marquis' Mansion, the rest of the people left.
Those who stayed knew that the prices here were high, and everyone was grumbling about it, so those who stayed were not happy.
Chu Yun went and came back soon, shaking his head slightly at Bai Wanyi.
Bai Wanyi knew that the mirror in Liuhuaju was probably the same as the one in his own shop.
She frowned. She knew who owned Liuhuaju without asking. Qin Wan was clearly going against her!
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