"Maybe you can come with me to select a box of soap for your purchase." Lu Ting said and gestured for young mistress Lee to follow her.

It was time for the other young mistresses to get their first touch at the soap, so that they would be convinced of it.

The other staff of the retail store had seen how Lu Ting handled young mistress Lee, and they were also eager to put their training into practice.

They were now more than convinced of what Master Lin had written in the handbook.

Young mistress Lee cursed silently to herself, sighed and followed Lu Ting.

With her gone, the other young mistresses quickly clamored for the testing spot.

"Let me go first!"

"I was right behind her."

"Your husband still owes my husband thirty taels of gold, you better let me go first."

They jostled for the spot at the trying out corner, and Lin Xuan Qi, who was standing with Sima Long a distance away, took note of it.

I have to allocate more space for the trying out corner. He thought silently to himself.

It was the first time he was doing this and there were bound to be things that he overlooked.

What mattered to him was constant feedback and improvements.

"We are sorry, but it's best for everyone's buying experience if we took turns to try it out." The staff said and bowed at the young mistresses jostling for the next spot to try out the soap.

"Here's a queue number for everyone.

"Feel free to browse around until you are called for your turn.

"With the queue number, you get a chance to win at the lucky draw." One of the staff said and held a small wooden plaque in her hand.

She pointed at the counter and said, "You can give that lady over there your queue number when you are done for the lucky draw."

"Fine. We will wait for our turn." The young mistresses agreed and said.

The chance of winning something was enough to placate them.

They got up to the staff and took a wooden plaque from her.

Lin Xuan Qi gave a sigh of relief that his contingency plan worked.

And he was glad that the staff handled it well.

"Number 1 for the queue, your turn next." The staff called out after handing out all the wooden plaques.

"Huh. It's my turn next."

One of the young mistresses, mistress Wong, raised her hand and came to the front of the trying out corner.

She had the same reaction as young mistress Lee after trying out the soap.

And she didn't waste any time and said, "Quick, I want one box of these."

She couldn't wait to get back home and have a bath with the soap.

And after that, maybe she can have a good time with her husband.

Her servant girl nodded and proceeded to pick one of the boxes on display.

The servant girl went over to the counter, paid the five hundred copper coins and handed over the wooden plaque to the staff at the counter.

The staff took out a wooden board with a spin wheel on it and said, "Spin the arrow in the middle, you will get the reward where it stops."

Boxes of soap, bars of soap, and other monetary rewards were on it.

"Let me spin it." The young mistress Wong went over to the counter, wanting to try her luck.

She kept mumbling about winning the boxes of soap before she spun the arrow in the middle of the spin wheel.

The arrow spun with her heart in anticipation.

"Box of soap...no....more to the left..." She resigned to her fate that she only won a bar of soap.

"Thanks for the purchase. Please come again." The staff at the counter said with a smile and passed her a bar of soap.

It was better than nothing, and she wanted to keep the bar of soap.

Zhang Jie came up to her and said, "Young mistress Wong, don't keep it first.

"I heard that there might be a surprise hidden in the oil-layered paper.

"Try opening it up and see if you are the lucky one."

Young mistress Wong frowned and said, "Really?"

Zhang Jie gave her a smile and nodded her head, "I'm sure you wouldn't be disappointed."

That got everyone intrigued.

They were already very much hooked by the soap after they saw both of the young mistresses deciding to buy as much as they could when they'd tried out the soap.

It must have been good.

And on top of that, they got a chance to have a lucky draw, and there was a surprise hidden in the oil-layered paper.

"What's this?" Young mistress Wong unwrapped the oil-layered paper carefully and saw that there was another piece of paper hidden inside.

She took out the piece of paper and saw that there was a poem written on it.

"A poem?"

"Read it out loud."

"Could it be?"

The other mistresses had heard of two poems spreading around like wildfire and no one knew who were the ones that had written them.

All they knew was that Zhang Jie's husband knew one of them.

They were guessing that Zhang Jie must know something about the poem hidden among the oil-layered paper.

Young mistress Wong cleared her throat and recited the poem written on the piece of paper.

"The brocaded zither, fifty strings,

"Each string recalls forgotten things;

"Of youth once lost in layered blooms,

"Like morning petals drifting, wings.

"At sea I found the pearl's pure gleam,

"In blue fields saw jade's distant dream;

"Spring grief resembles swan plumes white,

"And moonlit dew on magnolia—seam on seam.

"A startled butterfly strayed too far,

"Midsummer wandering toward the star;

"This longing waits to turn to memory,

"Yet only sorrow knows what lovers are."

The young mistresses were hit by the last two lines of the poem.

"This longing waits to turn to memory,

"Yet only sorrow knows what lovers are."

They couldn't help but feel melancholy and memories of their love lives flooded into their minds.

It was unmistakable.

This poem was written by the mysterious man.

Young mistress Wong, who was holding the piece of paper, trembled uncontrollably.

She realized the weight of the piece of paper she had in her hands.

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