Chapter 117: Using real products to fight counterfeiting?
The sun was hanging in the sky, and in front of everyone, Zhang Sigu slowly immersed the white silk stained with rouge into the water.
The onlookers even held their breath, waiting for something to happen.
Wei and Xiaolian stared at the white silk closely, their faces unable to conceal the excitement that their conspiracy was about to succeed.
However, half a day passed and the color of the rouge on the white silk did not change at all.
Wei pulled Xiaolian and covered her mouth and said, "Am I dazzled? Did you see the color change?"
Xiaolian shook her head somewhat helplessly. This shouldn’t be the case.
"Doctor Li, is your prescription wrong?"
"Nonsense." Doctor Li's beard twitched. "I have been practicing medicine for half my life, how could I have made a mistake in the prescription?"
After saying that, he squinted his eyes and looked carefully at the white silk in the water, and said slowly:
"This rouge, no problem."
"Impossible!" Wei screamed. Her face still hurt!
"This rouge must have been adulterated. My face is ruined like this. You must have made a mistake!"
"Hey, let go, what's the point of pulling and tugging——"
Just as Wei was arguing with Doctor Li, Qin Yuwei's smiling voice finally came.
"How could Doctor Li make such a mistake?"
She walked slowly into the sunlight, her eyes sweeping over Wei with a teasing look, her phoenix eyes looking unfathomable.
Qin Yuwei said to the crowd:
"Everyone, our shop can make a promise to ensure the quality and safety. There will definitely be no toxic substances."
She winked at Zhang Sigu and asked her to take the rouge from Wei's hand.
This time, we can take advantage of the trouble caused by Wei and the public watching to increase the popularity of the brand.
We can also take advantage of the situation to teach people how to identify fake Xianglaier products on the market.
Zhang Sigu understood and snatched the rouge box from Wei's hand. However, as soon as the rouge box was in her hand, Zhang Sigu's smile froze slightly.
She lowered her head and looked at the porcelain box carefully, turning it over and over again, and suddenly looked confused.
"Boss, this... seems to be the real thing." Fourth Aunt Zhang whispered in Qin Yuwei's ear.
It was really strange. She had clearly watched from the dark last night as Wei Xiaolian put more than a dozen bottles of fake rouge into the warehouse. She had also gone to verify it herself. Although the porcelain boxes of those fakes were very realistically imitated, she could still see many problems.
Logically speaking, Wei should have come to cause trouble today with another box of fake rouge.
She and her boss had already discussed that since they had verified in public that the shop did not sell fake rouge, it was obvious that Wei had framed her by bringing a box of fake rouge to her door. They would expose her in public and use this as a warning to customers to buy Xianglaier products from regular channels.
But now this person comes to my house with the real thing to expose the counterfeit. What does that mean?
Even Aunt Zhang can’t do it anymore.
Qin Yuwei was also stunned for a moment, and then observed Wei's guilty expression. She seemed to have no idea that what she was holding in her hand was the real thing.
Could it be that something else happened in between that I didn't know about?
Without bothering to think about all these, Qin Yuwei temporarily changed her strategy and handed the rouge in her hand to Doctor Li.
"Please verify again whether this box of rouge is poisonous."
After checking it, Doctor Li shook his head and said, "No, there is nothing wrong with this box of rouge."
Now it was Wei's turn to be confused.
Qin Yuwei looked at her with a complicated expression, "You said there were fakes in my shop, but it turned out there was no problem, and now even the box of rouge you are using is fine.
So how did your face get to belong to our Xianglaier?"
The onlookers nodded one after another, all thinking that Wei was simply incomprehensible.
Only then did Wei remember the previous collision with the maid, and her facial features were distorted with regret. She must have taken the wrong one!
But now that things have come to this, what else can she do?
"Maybe, maybe I did it accidentally..." Wei stammered and lowered his head, pulling Xiaolian and wanting to leave.
"Stop." Qin Yuwei's voice suddenly turned cold, but she was speaking to the crowd outside.
Zhang Youcai, who was mixed in the crowd, was about to slip away quietly when he saw that his plan had failed. He was frightened when he heard the words and stopped moving. Then he heard footsteps. It turned out to be the constable from the county government.
Qin Yuwei had already sent someone to report the news to the government. Several constables stepped forward and pinned Zhang Youcai to the ground.
"This package of stuff was found in your house. What do you have to say?" A constable took out the remaining pollen found in Zhang Youcai's house. Zhang Youcai was immediately frightened and turned pale.
"Sir, this is a batch of counterfeit goods that appeared in our storehouse last night. Doctor Li will tell you if they match."
Qin Yuwei asked Zhang Sigu to bring up a dozen boxes of rouge. With the permission of the constable, Doctor Li dipped the rouge with white silk and put it into the water again.
Soon, the red on the white silk began to darken rapidly.
Doctor Li smelled the pollen again and knew it was correct. He poured a little into the water in front of everyone. As soon as the powder entered the water, it turned black.
"It's them, they found me!"
Zhang Youcai knew that the truth was revealed, and suddenly pointed at Wei and Xiaolian and started shouting.
He will take two people with him even if he dies!
"You old Deng, you are slandering me!" Wei was shocked and angry, and started cursing.
The three of them were in a mess and were eventually taken back to the county government for trial. The fake rouge was also taken away as evidence.
"Boss, this..." Aunt Zhang looked at the rouge in the shop that had been opened to check for authenticity, and asked Qin Yuwei with her eyes.
For Chanel's customers, these rouges have been opened and even if only a little is used, their value is not as good as brand new ones.
Qin Yuwei gave a few instructions and turned back to the second floor of the shop. Behind her, she heard the enthusiastic greeting from Aunt Zhang:
"My fellow villagers, today we at Xianglaier are giving out red tickets as a reward to our customers. The tickets can be used throughout the store.
In addition, all opened rouges are on sale at 20% off! "
"20% off? That's a great deal. I want one!"
“I want one too!!”
…
In the prefect's residence, a maid, with her hands folded, hurriedly walked through the corridor towards the inner courtyard.
"Sister A-Lu, why did you come back just now? My mother is going to a banquet today and said that she would look better if she put on some rouge, so she has been waiting for you!"
Bi Wenwen appeared out of nowhere and said to her with a smile.
"Got it young master, I'll go right away."
A Lu lowered her head and gently pushed open Gongsun Zhi's door.
"Madam, let me put on makeup for you." A'lu dipped the brush in rouge and applied it on Gongsun Zhi's cheeks little by little.
Gongsun Zhi sat in front of the bronze mirror, looking at the two faint blushes on her cheeks and frowned slightly.
"A-Lu, why does the color of the rouge look a little different to last time?"
"Maybe... the recipe has been changed?"
Gongsun Zhi nodded with a little doubt, always feeling that the color was not as beautiful as before.
She didn't doubt that it was a fake. After all, A-lu had been with her for many years and knew her temper. She would never dare to embezzle money or buy fake goods to fool her.
"Forget it, don't buy rouge from this store anymore."
"Yes, ma'am."
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