Although Ah Kui usually wields swords and guns, she learns things very quickly from Yun Wanwan. She already remembers the effects and uses of the ointments and facial creams made by Yun Wanwan very clearly.
A Kui was also careful. After writing down the prices, he prepared a lot of paper so that people who came to buy goods could record them at any time, making it convenient to settle the bill after the transaction.
Because of the hasty preparations, and the fact that no Western Zhou residents in Daxing City were willing to take on the Beichen people's business, their shop didn't even have a plaque. Yun Wanwan had no other choice but to write large characters on a large piece of white paper and affix them to the plaque above the shop: "Yihua Pavilion." Those three large characters.
However, the name "Yihua Pavilion" is also strange. It took Yun Wanwan three seconds to come up with this name. Because she was afraid, she continued to struggle, so she decided on this name in almost one second, although she regretted it the first second after the white paper was hung up.
Oh my god, her handwriting is so ugly!
If she saw such an ugly sign while shopping, she wouldn't want to go in and buy anything, no matter how good the goods were. Because of her feelings, Yun Wanwan finally found Rong Chengxuan to rewrite the words and pasted them on the sign.
After another morning of tidying up, Yihua Pavilion announced its grand opening just after noon. There wasn't much fanfare, not even a single person showed up to show their support. It opened quietly, even more peaceful than Yun Wanwan's shop in the capital.
At least on the first day of opening, the fortune-telling shop she opened attracted many dignitaries and officials because of Rong Chengxuan. Yun Wanwan also took advantage of this opportunity to attract a large number of people to pay attention to her fortune-telling shop.
But after moving to another place, Rong Chengxuan's "living signboard" was completely useless. Many people who passed by didn't even understand what the shop was doing. They only knew that it had inexplicably changed from a jewelry shop to some other shop.
However, soon someone discovered the secret, because when passing by the shop, they could always smell a faint fragrance, lingering in front of the door. It was not pungent, but fragrant and alluring. It left a deep impression on people after they smelled it, and they kept thinking about it even after they walked home. Ever since they smelled that scent, they have been thinking about it in their hearts.
No one came to the shop on the first day, but quite a few people stood at the door, sniffing the food. This was within Yun Wanwan's expectations. The next day, she wrote a large poster detailing the main categories of goods sold at Yihua Pavilion and posted it on the shop's exterior wall. It was exactly the same as the one next door.
But the neighboring owner wasn't afraid. After all, the shop was run by someone from Beichen, and the people of Daxing City had long since reached a consensus: not only would merchants not sell anything from Beichen people, but ordinary people wouldn't buy anything from them either. The young owner even pulled up a chair and sat by the door, waiting to see Yihua Pavilion's taunts. Seeing no one come in the entire morning, he was so happy he almost hired a drum and music band.
Still wanting to challenge him? What a joke, one of the funniest jokes he'd heard in years. Ever since Yun Wanwan mentioned that someone could surpass him in spices and creams, he'd already guessed it was her. So, the young master went knocking on every door that night, asking them to come to an understanding with him.
Not only can they not sell things to Beichen people, they can't even buy things that Beichen people offer to sell. They must let Beichen people see the determination of the Xizhou people.
However, what you see isn't always what's there. No one entered the main gate of Yihua Pavilion, but the back door was nearly broken down. Those entering were all servants and maids from wealthy families, drawn to the odor emanating from the entrance.
Everyone in the Western Zhou Dynasty knew that the royal family of the Western Zhou Dynasty could make a kind of spice called fragrant flower water. What Liu Xueyan showed off to Yun Wanwan was the fragrant flower water. This was a priceless fragrant flower water, specially provided for the royal family to use. Even if people like them had a lot of silver in their hands, they could not buy it.
That's why Liu Xueyan came to show off to her excitedly after receiving the gift from Ji Moyi. However, she was rejected by Yun Wanwan because of her low rank.
These past two days, I smelled the fragrance coming from the door of Yihua Pavilion and saw the instructions posted on the wall at the door. I knew that this was something similar to fragrant flower water, but it was countless times better than fragrant flower water. Even the seventh princess of the Western Zhou Dynasty took the Baixiang perfume to the Beichen Palace to show off, but was instantly defeated by this perfume.
As a result, the ladies of the wealthy families could no longer sit still and sent their maids and servants to Yihua Pavilion to inquire about the situation. However, due to their status as common people in Daxing City, they could not enter directly through the main gate and could only quietly go through the back door.
Yun Wanwan had already prepared herself mentally for this. After all, they had made an agreement. If she openly violated the agreement, she would be trying to please Beichen and "betraying" Xi Zhou.
Yun Wanwan also had a way to deal with it. Compared with facial cream, Yun Wanwan made more perfume. She imitated the method of perfume samples in later generations and packaged some of the perfume in small bottles as samples, which she sold to those who came to buy at a very high price.
But the amount of ointment was too small, only enough for four or five uses. The young ladies, having received this novelty, would surely have quickly used it up. However, someone came to buy it, but it came in through the back door, which was not the result Yun Wanwan had intended.
So she also announced that the back door of Yihua Pavilion would only be open for one day and would never be opened again after that day. Anyone who wanted to come and buy things could only come in through the main door.
Yun Wanwan's one-day time design was also very clever. During the day, people who came to buy perfume were excited and compared their own spices with them, comparing prices from three different stores. But Yun Wanwan didn't need to compare prices from three different stores, she only needed to compare two.
Then, after they have used the ointment once, spread the news that the back door of Yihua Pavilion is only open for one day, and that if you buy once today, you cannot buy it a second time.
This way, her attitude is made clear to the young ladies of Xizhou: if you want to buy good things, don't think about being loyal to Xizhou; don't buy things secretly, just go through the main door openly. If you want to continue to be a good citizen of Xizhou and abide by your ridiculous rules, then don't come to Yihua Pavilion to buy things.
For a city, the right to speak lies in the hands of the ruler of the city, and the rich families are definitely second to it.
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