As soon as Yu Jin said this, there was immediate laughter.
Amidst the laughter, the young woman's face flushed red and she stammered, "Is it not okay to spill some of it?"
Yu Jin smiled faintly, his eyes were deep, and he chuckled and said, "Of course, what do you think?"
"Yes——" the onlookers shouted in unison.
By this time, everyone realized that something was wrong.
Judging from the woman's dress, she should be from a moderately wealthy family, not the wife of a wealthy family. It would be too extravagant to spend twenty taels of silver on a bottle of perfume.
The female customers who often came to buy powder and perfume shook their heads slightly.
Using a little bit of this rose water will not only give off a fragrant scent, but also make your face fair and moisturized. How can you use so much at one time? It would be even more unreliable to say that you spilled it.
It's not just a few ounces of silver per bottle, so you have to take good care of it when you use it. Can you just throw it away?
Yu Jian calmly asked a few questions, which immediately calmed the onlookers.
It looks like he is trying to cheat people out of money.
Is this woman so poor that she would rather ruin her own reputation than not get money?
Without beauty, what is the use of money? Many women thought silently while stroking their faces.
"I also use this perfume frequently. Let me see it." Jiang Si stretched out his hand.
Yu Jin handed the fragrant dew to Jiang Si.
Jiang Si took the glass bottle and shook it gently, causing ripples to appear in the light pink liquid inside.
Open the bottle and take a sniff.
The scent is familiar. It is a fragrance she blended herself, but it has a hint of strangeness in it.
Jiang frowned and sniffed again.
It was a barely perceptible stench. To call it a stench was a bit of an exaggeration because it was masked by the fragrance of the perfume itself and was difficult for ordinary people to notice. But to Jiang Si, the smell was very obvious.
Jiang Si raised the corners of his lips slightly, with coldness condensing in his eyes.
"Is there anything unusual?" Yu Jin asked.
Jiang Si looked at Yu Jin, then glanced at the faces of the many people who were watching the excitement, and said loudly, "Yes."
One word immediately aroused people's curiosity.
Cui Mingyue, standing in the crowd, looked increasingly unsightly.
That jerk named Jiang could detect something unusual in the perfume just by sniffing it?
impossible!
She pinched the arm of the maid beside her hard.
Through the thin clothes, the maid's eyes were filled with tears due to the pain, but she dared not scream out.
Jiang Si took two steps forward and raised the bottle of perfume in his hand.
"I smell rudbeckia in this bottle of rose water."
Ruyi grass, also known as five-color embroidery ball, can bloom almost all year round. It mainly grows in the south and is often used to repel mosquitoes.
Of course, it is also planted in the north.
"Has anyone heard of the Ruyi Grass?"
Many people shook their heads.
Most of the people watching the excitement are ordinary people. They work hard to make a living all year round and have no time to pay attention to flowers and plants.
However, a female voice was heard: "I know."
Jiang Si looked where he heard the voice and saw that the person who spoke was a girl of about 28 years old. Although she was wearing a cotton skirt with thorns, she was quite pretty.
"Girl, tell me what you are talking about." Jiang Si's tone was gentle and encouraging.
Everyone looked at the girl.
Although the girl was nervous, she spoke eloquently: "I am a flower seller. I grow Ruyi grass in my yard. Although it looks pretty, it smells bad. This flower can repel mosquitoes."
"Girl, smell this perfume and see if you can smell it." Jiang Si handed over the bottle of perfume.
The girl hesitated for a moment, reached out to take it, and put it to her nose and sniffed it hard.
Everyone held their breath, waiting for the girl's answer.
After a while, the girl returned the bottle of perfume to Jiang Si and nodded affirmatively: "Although the smell is very faint, I can still smell it after taking care of those flowers and plants all day long."
Jiang Si nodded in thanks, his expression turned cold: "I'd like to teach you all that although this Ruyi grass can repel mosquitoes, it is poisonous. If you mix it with perfume and apply it on your face, you will end up like this sister-in-law, with a face that is too horrible to look at..."
She pointed at the young woman, immediately drawing all eyes to her.
The young woman took two steps back in panic and insisted, "What is Ruyi Grass? I've never heard of it before. Do you think it's just what you say?"
Yu Jin sneered: "Are you saying that the princess wronged you?"
The young woman's face suddenly turned pale, and she remembered that the person speaking in front of her was not an ordinary person, but a princess.
Jiang Si passed the woman and handed the bottle of perfume to Lady Xiu: "Shopkeeper, please smell it and see if the smell of this bottle of rose perfume is different from the others."
Lady Xiu took it and sniffed it carefully, her eyes lit up: "It's different, really different!"
Jiang Si's appearance seemed to give Miss Xiu a reassurance, allowing her to return to her usual shrewdness.
Lady Xiu held the bottle of perfume and scanned it, then immediately came to a female guest and asked, "Madam, please smell it. Is this bottle of perfume different from the one you usually use?"
Under normal circumstances, if the party was lively, the female guest would certainly not want to be involved, but now the prince and princess were watching, and apart from anything else, it would be nice to leave a good impression on them.
The female guest cooperated and took the perfume and smelled it.
It seems no different, but also a little different...
She only gritted her teeth and bought one bottle of rose perfume at twenty taels of silver, and she really couldn't smell it much.
But under the urging gazes of the crowd, the female guest still nodded and said affirmatively: "It's different."
Since the flower girl smells different, the shopkeeper smells different, and more importantly, the princess smells different, then of course it is different.
Hearing the female guest say this, a hint of pride flashed across Lady Xiu's eyes.
She knew that at this point, if she asked anyone, they would definitely say something different.
How could a pretty woman who raised her daughter in the village alone not have some cleverness?
This is a little cleverness that the lowest class of people use to struggle to survive, and it is not shameful.
Lady Xiu straightened her back and held up the rose water in her hand: "Everyone, neighbors, you have heard, this bottle of rose water tastes different from the one in our shop, it has Ruyi grass added to it! I don't even know what Ruyi grass is, and I have never seen it before. It is impossible for someone to mix Ruyi grass into the rose water. This person is just trying to cheat you out of money!"
As Madam Xiu continued to speak, the young woman's face became paler.
"Bah, you evil-hearted thief!" Lady Xiu spat and tugged at the leading officer's sleeve, "Officers, aren't you here to arrest someone? Take this thief away!"
When the leading officer saw that Lady Xiu had the support of Prince Yan, he resisted the urge to push her away and looked at Yu Jian.
"Don't look at me. This woman can harm people with poisonous flowers. It's not just fraud. According to the law, she should be sentenced to at least the punishment of stabbing a needle. Take her away and deal with her according to the law."
Needle-insertion punishment involves inserting long needles into the gaps between the fingernails. It is a torture commonly used on female prisoners.
Upon hearing this, the young woman was so frightened that she collapsed to the ground and kowtowed desperately, saying, "Your Majesty, please spare my life. I have been deceived, deceived!"