"Look, that's the young mistress from the Lee Clan."

"Wow. I heard that she was a jade beauty, never did I imagine her to be so pretty."

"The one beside her is just as good looking."

"That's young mistress Luo from the Luo Clan."

"The silk dress looks so good on her."

The crowd was abuzz with chatter about who the young mistresses were, marveling at their plump figure and lavish clothing.

The ongoing chatter also made the young mistresses held their heads up high, coming here wasn't so bad after all, they thought.

They had been doubtful of coming to the retail store themselves.

With the gaze from the crowd on them, it fulfilled their vanity.

Stories of how they were being admired today had already filled up their minds, ready to be shared when they met with their sisters and friends later.

Zhang Jie, who had got out of the horse carriage with Sima Long, waved at them and said, "Here we are. We better move fast before the products are snatched empty."

Lin Xuan Qi wanted to greet her, but Zhang Jie gave him an assuring nod.

Gesturing to him that she knows what to do.

This was her stage to shine.

"My wife has everything in control. If only she were gentler..." Sima Long lamented while he shook his head.

Lin Xuan Qi patted on his back and consoled him, "Cheer up. You are going to be a father soon. Maybe with a child, she would become more loving."

"I hope so." Sima Long sighed and nodded his head.

Meanwhile, Lu Ting gave the workers a glance and they attended to the young mistresses individually.

When they were led into the store, they saw the display racks that had wooden boxes on them and some with an item that was wrapped by an intricately designed oil-layered paper.

The wooden boxes had carvings of auspicious symbols like a peach and kids carrying it.

A symbol of longevity and childbirth.

Which was something that all of them longed for.

Who wouldn't want to be alive for as long as they could?

And having kids meant that their influence in the clan would increase if they were able to continue the clan's bloodline.

"So, this is the wonderful product we've been hearing about?" One of the young mistresses held up a silk fan to her face and said.

Lu Ting bowed to her, giving her the biggest smile she could muster, and gestured to a corner in the store that had a few bars of soap, silk towel and gold basin.

"Please feel free to try it out over here."

"It had better be worth my time." The young mistress fanned herself with her silk fan and said.

Lu Ting gave her a smile and led her to the trying out corner.

According to Master Lin's handbook, the first touch was very important.

If you get them to try out the product, it is more or less a close deal.

"Young mistress Lee, if you take a deep breath, I believe you can smell the scent of jasmine flowers in the air." Lu Ting said after she picked up one of the bar of soap.

Young mistress Lee did so, and it smelled fresh with the fragrance of jasmine flowers.

The other young mistresses who were now crowded behind her and Lu Ting also did the same and they were pleasantly surprised by the fragrant smell.

"It smells good."

"Maybe we can carry it around, smelling good so that our husbands would prefer to stay with us."

"I'm not sure about your husband, but I would like to smell good for the sake of it."

Some of the young mistresses covered their mouths and snickered at the joke.

"You don't have to carry the soap around." Lu Ting passed the soap to young mistress Lee and said, "Wash your hands in the water with the soap and you will feel a world of difference."

Young mistress Lee gave her a doubtful look, handed her silk fan to her servant and held onto the bar of soap.

After she dipped her hands into the gold basin and washed her hands with the water inside, a feeling she had never felt before came onto her hands.

It was...squeaky clean.

Young mistress Lee couldn't believe it, took her hands out of the water and rubbed them together.

That feels so good, she thought.

The other young mistress looked on with curiosity, not knowing what Young mistress Lee was feeling.

"So, how is it?"

"Is it as miraculous as what Zhang Jie had said?"

"I don't have a good feeling from the looks of it."

Some of them weren't too confident in the bar of soap.

Young mistress Lee ignored their chatter, raised her hands up to her nose and took a whiff of it.

It smelled great like jasmine flowers.

"You can bathe and clean your body with it." Lu Ting suggested to young mistress Lee and young mistress Lee immediately got what she was getting at.

Her husband would not be going out to the brothels if she bathed with it.

"How much is it for one? Give me as many as you can." Young mistress Lee didn't waste any time and said.

Lu Ting bowed at her and said, "We are selling it for a hundred copper coins for one bar of soap."

"Only one hundred copper coins? That's cheaper than I thought." Young mistress Lee glanced at her servant girl and the servant girl wanted to take out the taels of silver she had in her sleeve pocket.

But Lu Ting stopped her, "I apologize.

"Since it's our opening, our master wants to make sure that everyone will have a chance to buy the soap.

"Each person can only buy a box of soap with five bars of the soap inside.

"And that would cost five hundred copper coins."

Young mistress Lee fumed and glanced at the boxes of soap at the display area.

She wanted to have it all so that the others wouldn't be able to get it.

"Is it that good?"

"Lee, tell us if it's so wonderful?"

"Don't just stand there, tell us what you think."

The other young mistresses were anxious about what young mistress Lee thought about the soap.

Her reaction told them something and they wanted to confirm it.

One hundred copper coins for a bar of soap wasn't much to them.

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