Just as the Crown Prince of Yu had predicted, even though only Zhou's Cloth Shop in Ruzhou City had cotton-padded clothes left, the common people still felt that the prices were too high compared to the fifty or sixty coins they had paid a few days ago. So, not many people actually bought cotton-padded clothes from Zhou's Cloth Shop.
However, few of the employees at Zhou's Cloth Shop, including Lao Li, were in a hurry. Of course, they didn't have the extra time to be anxious right now.
As per Zhou Ziqiong's request, Zhou Family Fabric Shop will be launching its new product—sanitary napkins—early tomorrow morning. Therefore, the shop assistants in the warehouse are making the most of the last bit of time to produce sanitary napkins, while the shop assistants at the counter are tidying up the counter and preparing for the launch.
Everything is proceeding smoothly.
That noon, two carriages loaded one cart with sanitary napkins and the other with cotton at the entrance of Zhou's cloth shop. Then, under the escort of soldiers arranged by Yu Li, they left Ruzhou City and headed to Jingzhou.
Based on Zhou Family Cloth Workshop's current production rate of 3,000 sanitary napkins per day, by the time the sanitary napkins officially go on sale tomorrow, Zhou Family Cloth Workshop will be able to produce 9,000 sanitary napkins. For a small city like Ruzhou, and especially since it's only just started selling, they certainly won't be able to sell them all.
So Jing Zhe transported three thousand sanitary napkins, a cartload of cotton, and the production method back to Jingzhou, so that the women of Jingzhou could also enjoy this clean and comfortable benefit.
Of course, while he claimed to be working for the benefit of women in Jingzhou, Zhou Ziqiong and the others could guess that he really wanted Zhu Xinning, Su Mochen, and Yu Xiangrong, who were staying in Jingzhou, to be able to use these clean and comfortable sanitary napkins as soon as possible.
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Like the bustling Zhou Family Cloth Shop, the newly opened Wenxiangju and Da'an Newspaper Office were equally busy.
Meanwhile, on the first floor of the Da'an Newspaper Office, the story of the Monkey King causing havoc in the Dragon Palace has been going on for three days. As per Chen Jiannan's assurance, a new story will begin tomorrow, and everyone is looking forward to it.
For two consecutive days, actresses on the stage of the Da'an Newspaper Office had their periods, much to everyone's surprise.
Logically speaking, it's not unusual for women to have their periods. After all, every woman has those few days every month. Especially since there are about twenty actresses at Da'an Newspaper, it's perfectly normal for a few of them to have their periods these days.
Surprisingly, these women suddenly started menstruating during the performance—which is normal, of course. What's abnormal is that they went offstage for less than fifteen minutes and then went back onstage, showing no signs of menstruation whatsoever, jumping around and moving freely.
Many men even became "crotch-watchers," constantly staring at the actresses' private parts, since they were wearing such thin costumes and jumping around like that, so some leakage was inevitable.
But surprisingly, none of them had any side leakage, which is hard to understand. If they didn't leak at this level, they would definitely have to wear many layers of cotton cloth. But everyone can see that these actresses are wearing very thin clothes, so it doesn't look like they have many layers of cloth.
However, people of this era are ultimately conservative; despite their curiosity, no one raised any questions.
Backstage at the newspaper office, Chen Jiannan was in a panic.
"President, nobody's asking any questions! If we don't get any soon, today's show will be over!"
Chen Jiannan pulled his head back and said anxiously.
According to Jing Zhe's plan, they were going to wait for someone in the audience to ask a question before bringing up the topic of sanitary napkins. However, no one in the audience asked a question for a long time, which was quite awkward.
Jing Zhe smiled and said, "You must remember one thing: if you really want to do something, you must overcome difficulties if there are any, and if there are no difficulties, you must create difficulties to overcome."
"..."
"If no one asks questions, can't we ask them ourselves?"
Chen Jiannan was taken aback, but immediately understood.
"President, I'll send someone to arrange it right away!"
"..."
Not long after the commotion in the Dragon Palace on stage ended, someone in the audience suddenly stood up and said, "Miss Fangxiang, I have a question that I'm not sure if I should ask."
The girl called Fangxiang looked down at the audience and realized that the person asking the question was a member of the newspaper.
Surprised, but still proceeding with the original plan, she said softly, "Please speak, young master."
"Miss Fangxiang, while you were filming these past few days, did any of our actresses get their periods?"
Upon hearing this question, everyone in the hall turned their attention to it, secretly thinking that the person asking the question was a real man. They were also very curious, but no one had the courage to do so!
After listening, Miss Fang felt a little embarrassed, but still replied, "This young master's observation is indeed very meticulous... That's true..."
"..."
Everyone thought to themselves: This isn't about his keen observation; it's clearly what you guys said, okay?
At this point, the member continued to ask, "But why is it that even though you've had your period, you're no different from ordinary people? You can still jump around freely and aren't afraid of leakage. Why is that?"
"good!"
This undoubtedly expressed the sentiments of everyone present, and they all cheered, especially some of the women, whose eyes lit up.
Fragrant Girl gestured for everyone to be quiet, then smiled and said, "This young master is clearly a married man. He is so familiar with women's menstrual issues. I believe you must be asking this for your wife's sake, right?"
Upon hearing this, the commune member raised his head and puffed out his chest: "Of course!"
"Young master, you are such a good man! I truly envy your wife!"
Fangxiang bowed slightly and said, "Indeed, as this young master said, when we had our periods before, let alone jumping around like today, we had to be careful even when walking and living normally. After all, the cloth bag is not very useful, and it can easily break if you are not careful... Hmm, judging from your expressions, you must know, especially in the summer when you wear very thin clothes and carry a cloth bag, it is really too uncomfortable!"
"yes!"
Her words immediately resonated with many of the women present. Seeing this, Fangxiang pressed on, saying, "These are all minor issues. After each period, the body doesn't feel very comfortable, and we have to go to the pharmacy to buy Chinese medicine to decoct and soak in. It's not only painful, but the cost of buying Chinese medicine each month is also quite substantial!"
"Miss Fragrance is absolutely right!"
"We're better off, but for women from less well-off families, where would they find the spare money to buy traditional Chinese medicine?"
"Spending money is secondary; the main problem is the discomfort!"
"Absolutely! Being a woman is such a torment!"
"..."
The women who could afford to come to the newspaper office to watch the play were either rich or noble, so it was understandable that they would say such things.
After listening to their discussion, Fangxiang's eyes gradually brightened. She cleared her throat and said in a deep voice, "But from now on, the hard times for us women are about to be over!"
"..."
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