Yu Jin calmly interjected: “Ah Si is my wife, so naturally she should be called Princess Consort.”
Lu Chuchu rolled her eyes.
This man was still so petty!
“Shopkeeper Xiu, please have a doctor look at your injury,” Jiang Si said gently.
Xiu Niang Zi looked ashamed: “This humble woman’s injury is not serious. I’m just sorry for embarrassing the Princess Consort today. It’s all because this humble woman didn’t do her job well—”
Jiang Si waved her hand: “Shopkeeper Xiu, there’s no need to take all the blame. As I recall, that rose perfume the woman used today has a monthly sales limit, doesn’t it?”
Xiu Niang Zi nodded quickly: “Only thirty bottles are sold each month.”
When Jiang Si initially opened this shop, making some pocket money was secondary; her main goal was to sympathize with Xiu Niang Zi, who had lost her daughter in middle age, and give her something to do.
Unexpectedly, the perfumes she concocted became very popular, freeing Xiu Niang Zi from financial worries. It was truly an accidental success.
Even so, Jiang Si had no intention of expanding the business.
For her, having enough money was sufficient; she had never lacked funds.
“Most of the buyers of this perfume are regular customers, right?” Jiang Si asked again.
Xiu Niang Zi immediately presented the account book to Jiang Si.
“The vast majority are regulars. For frequent customers, if I learn which family they’re from during casual conversation, I note it down here.”
Jiang Si lowered her head to peruse the account book.
If this were business competition, the person dealing with the woman would generally not be female, so she was more inclined towards the latter possibility: today’s incident was aimed at her, and the mastermind knew of Lu Sheng Xiang’s connection to her.
The person who could set such a trap using perfume worth twenty taels of silver per bottle, instructing a woman to do so, must be extremely wealthy. It certainly wouldn’t be someone who bought this perfume once just to try it, so that person was almost certainly a regular customer.
What surprised Jiang Si was Xiu Niang Zi’s attentiveness.
Her finger glided over name after name, stopping at one place.
There, three characters were recorded: Princess’s Mansion.
Princess’s Mansion?
Jiang Si furrowed her brow and continued reading.
There weren’t too many or too few regular customers, and Xiu Niang Zi couldn’t know everyone’s identity. She quickly scanned through those recorded in the account book.
Jiang Si’s gaze returned to the three characters “Princess’s Mansion,” her finger lightly tapping them as she asked Xiu Niang Zi: “Which princess’s mansion does this customer come from?”
“The regular buyer is a young woman dressed as a maid. That girl is quite arrogant and never chats with this humble woman. Only once, when we were out of stock and she couldn’t buy the perfume, did she lose her temper and mention the Princess’s Mansion. She didn’t say anything more…”
Seeing Jiang Si’s serious expression, Xiu Niang Zi suddenly slapped her forehead, “Oh right, you’ve seen that young woman before!”
Jiang Si’s hand flipped over, pressing down on the account book.
“It was when you first removed your veil in front of this humble woman, then left the shop and returned. At that time, that maid was accompanying her young miss to buy perfume!”