Chapter five hundred and eightieth IX things outside the palace
Ling Ruo waited for a while, but still didn't see Shui Xiu agreeing. Looking sideways, she saw a hesitant look on her face, wringing her fingers and secretly looking at Shui Yue, who also had a troubled look on her face.
Ling Ruo was keenly aware of something wrong, frowned and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something I don't know about?"
The two looked at each other, and finally Shuiyue said the answer with a bitter look on his face, "Master, **Zhai disappeared a few months ago."
"What?" Ling Ruo's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he firmly grasped Shui Yue and said: "What exactly is going on, please explain to me carefully."
It was with her support that **Zhai was opened. She knew the situation of **Zhai very well. Before she left the palace, the Mao brothers and others had already made **Zhai prosperous and opened several branches in Beijing.
, business is booming, and he is popular among ladies in the capital.
The beauty is so popular that when he bought Yilan's dowry ten years ago, **Zhai could already spend hundreds of taels of silver. After ten years of development, it has become one of the first-class famous stores in the capital and can earn a lot of money every month.
, how could it be possible to just say it’s gone?
Through Shui Yue's narration, Ling Ruo just found out that not long after he left the palace and went to Tongzhou, a problem arose in **Zhai, which was doing well. First, the surrounding powder shops united to suppress it, and then the formula in the shop was changed.
Give way.
This is not the first time that they have been suppressed by their peers, but the Mao brothers have never seen such crazy behavior. No matter how much **Zhai sells anything, they sell it 20% lower than **Zhai. You know this
Although the profit was not thin, the goods could not withstand such an uncontrolled attack. In the end, **Zhai was forced to sell at cost, but the other party was still suppressing it, and it was still 20% lower. The Mao brothers calculated
, they are selling at a loss. They are doing business to make money. No one is willing to lose money. Even if it is fine for a day or two, if it continues like this for a long time, it will always hurt the bones. Generally speaking, unless it is a matter of life and death,
No one would use this trick of injuring the enemy by one thousand and losing three hundred to himself. But if the other party used it, the Mao brothers had to continue and sell at a loss to avoid losing business and customers.
However, **Zhai is a rookie after all, and its accumulation of more than ten years cannot compare with those famous stores that are often a century old. Moreover, those stores don't seem to care about the financial losses at all, and the prices are unbelievable. Mao's
The brothers can't sit still. If this continues, there will be problems with the capital flow of **Zhai. If you fight against several big stores with your own strength, you will lose from the beginning.
In order to prevent years of hard work from being ruined, they held a banquet at the famous Sanyuan Building in Beijing and invited the owners of several major cosmetics stores to the banquet. They showed their sincerity and wanted to resolve this danger.
The Mao brothers waited in Sanyuan Tower for a whole day and saw no one attending the banquet. Only one servant came over with a message: There is no need for peace talks, and **Zhai must disappear from the capital.
Such a resolute attitude left the Mao brothers at a loss. They wanted to send a message to the palace, but they learned that Ling Ruo was not in the palace and his whereabouts were unknown. As a result, their biggest supporter was gone, and they had to rely on themselves for survival.
After discussing with Fu Congzhi and Ayi, they decided to continue to persevere, for no other reason than because **Zhai is everyone's hard work and the trust entrusted to them by the master. They must not let **Zhai be destroyed in one day.
As for the leakage of the formula, it was later found out that it was the perfumer who disappeared after the incident was exposed. The so-called house leak happened to rain all night, and the business was already in jeopardy. The perfumer rebelled and ran away.
If there is even a problem with the supply of goods, how can we compete with others?
After struggling for a month, **Zhai finally couldn't escape the fate of bankruptcy. All the shops were closed. But it was not over yet. Several people went to the government office to sue the Mao brothers and others, claiming that they had used the goods they sold.
After applying rouge, his whole face was rotten. After Lord Fu Yin found out that the complaint was true, he sentenced the Mao brothers to thirty canes each and compensated each victim two hundred taels of silver.
Although the Mao brothers had ended their fast, they were not ready to give up. They kept some money to prepare for regrouping in the future. However, as soon as this incident came out, all their plans were disrupted. All the money was lost.
Not to mention all the losses, even the house was sold, leaving only
They lived in two blue brick huts. They were beaten to pieces and could not even pay for a doctor. They had to rely on Ayi to go into the mountains to collect herbs with hemostatic effect for application. After lying there for more than a month, although they could not survive
came over, but Mao Er became disabled and walked with a limp.
Ordinarily, it is miserable enough to be in this situation, but from time to time, local gangsters come to cause trouble, making their lives miserable. If it weren't for Mao Da's skill and fierceness, those people would have bullied them beyond their ability to survive.
day.
After listening to everything, Ling Ruo's face was ashen, and the hands in his sleeves were trembling slightly from exerting too much force. He shouted sternly: "Such a big thing happened, why didn't you tell me? If I hadn't mentioned it, would you have
Are you going to hide this from me for the rest of your life?!"
"Master, forgive me!" Shui Xiu and the others saw that Ling Ruo was rarely really angry, and they quickly knelt down to apologize, "It's not that the slaves deliberately hid the secret from the master, but the Mao brothers felt that they had failed the master and brought shame to the master, so they
When the master came back, he insisted not to let the slaves talk. They said that they would wait until the fasting is reopened in the future before they can punish the master on their own."
"You two stupid things." Ling Ruo was moved and heartbroken, but she still shouted angrily: "They told you to hide it, so you can hide it. Are they the master or am I the master? Well, if they make it clear, they will kill them all.
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On their own, they had no one to ask for but no money. It was just a fool's errand to reopen the store. Before they could open it, they were smashed. No need to ask, those gangsters must be the owners of those makeup stores.
Hired."
This was the first time Shuixiu and the two had been scolded like this by Ling Ruo. They knelt on the ground and did not even dare to express their anger. It was not until Ling Ruo sat down in the chair angrily that they knelt forward and kowtowed: "Please forgive me, master."
This time, I will never dare to do it again."
"From now on, you two don't have to wait around me anymore." Ling Ruo hated being concealed by others. Even though Shuixiu and the others had good intentions, she was still filled with displeasure.
Shui Xiu and Shui Yue breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that their master had forgiven them by saying this, and kowtowed again before standing up tremblingly.
"How are the Mao brothers and Ayi now?" Ling Ruoyu was still angry, so her tone was naturally not good.
Shui Yue did not dare to hide anything this time and said truthfully: "I received a letter from A Yi a few days ago. They are not having a good life. I have already dragged people out with some money. I hope they can live a better life."