After pushing the two of them out of the door, Tu Ling walked back in and lowered her head to carefully select.
"Why are your rouge and powder so much more expensive here than elsewhere?" Tu Ling picked up a tube of lip balm in front of her. "Also, why are yours in this shape?"
She held the tube of lip balm in front of her eyes and shook it gently. "This is square and airtight. How do I open it?"
There was a hint of questioning in his tone.
Konoha crossed his hands and placed them flat in front of his abdomen, with a perfect smile on his lips.
She took a step forward, bowed her head slightly, and said, "Sir, this is how you use it."
She reached forward and picked up another one, gently twisting it around the base with her fingertips.
Immediately afterwards, a tube of paste slowly emerged from the top.
Muye pointed to the paste at the top and explained, "You can smell it to see how it tastes."
Tu Ling moved closer with some doubt and sniffed lightly.
"It does smell good, but everyone has this smell, so why are you selling it for so much?"
Muye had a smile on his face the whole time. "It's like this, dear guest. All the lip balms in our store are made from raw materials. The cost is unmatched by others. I can assure you that the stuff you see before your eyes is not available anywhere else."
Tu Ling curled her lips and said, "It's just a small amount, but it costs ten taels of silver. Why don't you just go and rob it?"
Muye lowered his head slightly and explained patiently, "This is a new product from Qiuzhuangxie. It's usually more expensive when it's first released, so the quantity is relatively small, usually only about twenty. If you feel this one doesn't meet your requirements, you can also try this one."
She pointed to the area next to her.
Tu Ling glanced at the price.
All this only costs five taels of silver.
Tu Ling paused, a hint of embarrassment between her eyebrows.
She turned to look at Konoha, "What do you mean? Do you think I can't afford it?"
Muye waved his hand, "I definitely don't mean that. It's just that everyone knows that everything in Qiuzhuang Xie has different prices, and the raw materials and costs used are completely different."
"Our boss said this at the very beginning." Muye paused, "Every guest who enters Qiuzhuangxie is a distinguished guest to us, so there will absolutely be no such thing as looking down on others in Qiuzhuangxie."
"If you are not satisfied with my service, I can replace you with someone else to continue serving you. What do you think?"
Tu Ling's eyes fell on another bottle of perfume. She bent down slightly and picked it up gently. "No need. You'll do it. I think you're quite eloquent."
"You can try it." Muye picked up a small bottle specially for trial and handed it to Tu Ling.
Tu Ling didn't even look at her. She just lowered her head and opened the large bottle of perfume in her hand. "I'll buy whatever I want. If you give me that thing to try and I'm satisfied, I can buy another bottle. What if I don't like the taste of the other one?"
Muye raised his right hand slightly, "My dear guest, since you have opened it, you must buy this bottle."
Tu Ling glanced calmly at the price written on the perfume.
One hundred taels!
"It's just such a small bottle, and you want one hundred taels?" Tu Ling's eyes suddenly widened.
Muye suppressed his temper and continued, "You are holding our store's most valuable treasure, which is also the most expensive. Ordinary perfumed dew costs between ten and fifty taels of silver."
"Then why is this bottle in my hand so expensive?" Tu Ling's voice suddenly rose. "Are you bullying me? I'm a newcomer to Shengjing and I'm an outsider. I don't know the rules here."
The smile on Muye's face faded a lot. "Before you opened this big bottle, I discussed with you and asked you to use the small sample bottle first. This is our special sample bottle. The taste inside this bottle will determine what the full bottle will taste like when you buy it."
Tu Ling put the perfume in her hand back abruptly. "What do you mean by trial size or regular size? I don't understand."
Her eyes casually swept forward, not knowing what she saw. She crossed her arms and snorted coldly, "You just said you had twenty new products, how come there are only less than five in front of me?"
Muye raised his eyes slightly and looked at Tu Ling.
Why does this person in front of me look familiar?
She coughed lightly. "Although it's a new product, the Empress in the palace pre-ordered ten, so they were delivered to the palace right after the new product came out. The remaining five were also pre-ordered by other wives of officials. Only five are actually sold in the store. One was just sold before you came in, so there are four left now."
A hint of doubt flashed across Tu Ling's face. It was just a tube of lip balm, how could it really sell so well?
She silently picked up the lip balm she had put down earlier.
This tubular shape is truly unheard of and unseen.
"Do you want it or not? If not, just give it to me. Why have you been talking here for so long?"
Suddenly, the lip balm in Tu Ling's hand was snatched away by someone next to her.
Tu Ling looked up and saw a noble lady covered in jewels.
The gold hairpins in her hair all revealed her identity.
Tu Ling was unsure for a moment, so she looked at the person in front of her calmly.
The lady glanced at Tu Ling with disdain and said, "If you want to buy, buy it. If you don't want to buy, don't buy it. If you don't want to buy, there are people lining up to buy. Don't waste your time here."
"Come, look at the plaque outside. Do you know who wrote it?" The lady pointed outside the house.
Then, she turned around and pointed forward, "And this, do you know who wrote this line of words?"
Tu Ling looked puzzled and subconsciously asked, "Who is it?"
The lady circled around Tu Ling twice and shook her head. "From your appearance, you are definitely not from here. Otherwise, how could you not know about Qiu Zhuang Xie?"
"Listen carefully. I won't scare you to death if I tell you this. The words on the plaque outside the door were written by the emperor himself, and these large characters in front of you were personally delivered by the eunuch sent by the current emperor. This is a great honor." The lady snorted disdainfully.
"Then according to what you said, could it be that the boss behind this is a member of the royal family?" Tu Ling asked tentatively.
The noble lady waved her hand and said, "I advise you not to ask about these things. This owner is a very open-minded person. Not only did he open Qiuzhuang Xie, he also allowed women all over the world to try their hand at doing business openly."
The noble lady reached out and touched the golden hairpin on her hair. "Not to mention, her things are just good to use. Otherwise, why would all the ladies and concubines in the palace be vying for them?"
"Girl, I think you look pretty good. At most, you're just a little shabby in your clothes. We can be poor in spirit even if we are poor, right?"
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