Reality was always crueler than ideal. After a whole day, he only sold two bottles of Ruyi Dew. If it wasn't for Li Yi decisively giving a 50% discount when he saw that the young woman who entered the shop later was tempted but was obviously hesitant about the price, he would only be able to make one sale today.
This time, the god of luck didn't seem to be on his side.
In both of his lives, he didn't do much business. He had read a lot of books on marketing, but when it came to real use, he still couldn't figure it out.
In the afternoon, he thought of a problem. There were only three words "Ruyi Workshop" hanging there. People didn't know what this shop was doing. So, he found a wooden board and erected it at the door. He clearly marked the effects and price of Ruyi Dew.
After that, more people came into the shop. But when they heard that it would cost one tael of silver to buy such a small bottle of mosquito repellent medicine, they immediately lost interest.
For most of the ordinary people in the city, if they were bitten by mosquitoes, they would just spit and wipe it. One tael of silver could buy a lot of food. Wasn't it crazy to spend it on this?
But there were a few people who asked Li Yi if he would sell the board at the door. It seemed that he admired the calligraphy on it and even offered a price of ten taels of silver.
Of course, Li Yi didn't agree. Could it be that he could only rely on his talent to make a living?
After a while, when he went out to take a look, the board was actually gone!
After a while, he could only curse at the damn thief. Tomorrow, he would have to find a new board and nail it on the door …
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Inside the shop, the young servant girl held her chin with one hand and looked at the people coming and going outside. After a long time, a strange sound came from her stomach. Her pretty face slightly blushed. She turned her head to look at Li Yi and said softly, "Young master, I'm hungry …"
He hadn't eaten since morning. Even Li Yi felt a little hungry. He rubbed the young servant girl's head and said, "Okay, let's go out to eat first."
Although the room at the back of the shop had been tidied up and there was a small kitchen, Li Yi was not in the mood to cook for himself. He closed the shop door and ate his stomach with Xiao Huan at the noodle stall outside.
Originally, he wanted to take the little maidservant to a high-class restaurant to eat something good, but the little maidservant was still thinking about the noodle stall on the street. In the end, the two of them only spent a few copper coins.
After the meal, he didn't go back to the shop. There were some things that Li Yi had to think about at home.
Every profession had its own unique way of doing things. Previously, he had taken it for granted.
In the Willow Leaf Stockade, while Li Yi was lying on his bed, digesting more books on business theory and sales knowledge, in a courtyard with high walls in Qing 'an Prefecture, a charming young woman walked to the door of a room after taking a bath with a bowl of ginseng soup she had personally cooked.
"Second Madam." The two servants at the door greeted respectfully.
"Is Master asleep?" the woman asked softly.
"No, Master hasn't come back yet. He just sent someone to send in a new batch of official documents. They are still in the study," one of the servants replied in a low voice.
The woman nodded, took the ginseng soup and walked in a certain direction.
In the study, the middle-aged man finished reading a file. He closed his eyes and rubbed the space between his eyebrows. There was a trace of exhaustion between his eyebrows. After a moment, he opened his eyes again and took another document. Before he opened it, the door of the study was pushed open.
Hearing the sound, the middle-aged man frowned. What he hated the most when he was working was to be disturbed. If the servants didn't get his orders, they wouldn't dare to come in at this time. After reading the documents for a whole night, he felt dizzy and annoyed. He was about to scold them, but when he looked up and saw the person coming, his expression eased.
"Madam, why aren't you resting?" He put down the document in his hand, walked over, took the tray from her hand, put it on the table, and said softly.
His first wife died when he was young, so this was the only concubine left in the family. Normally, he was busy with official business, so this second madam always took care of everything in an orderly manner. She never caused him any trouble, so she could be considered a good wife.
"Master, you are busy with official business, but you still need to take care of your health. I made some ginseng soup for master. Master, drink it while it's hot. It won't be too late to read the documents later." The woman helped him straighten his collar and said with a smile.
"Thank you for your hard work, Madam." The middle-aged man held her hand and patted it. When he smelled the strange smell coming from her body, he couldn't help but feel shocked, but he didn't care. He drank a bowl of ginseng soup and said, "I still need some time to finish reading these documents. Madam, go rest first."
The woman smiled and said, "I'm not tired. I'll stay here with master."
The middle-aged man didn't say anything else. He picked up the document on the table again and began to seriously read it.
The woman slowly walked to his back, stretched out her lily-white hands, and slowly massaged his shoulders.
From time to time, he smelled a faint fragrance. The middle-aged man felt his spirit gradually rise, and the trace of tiredness from before was swept away. He couldn't help but speed up as he flipped through the documents. When he reached out his hand again, there were no more documents to take.
The night watchman's voice came from outside the study. Only then did he discover that the document that usually took him two hours to read had actually taken him less than an hour.
When he turned his head, he found that the woman had fallen asleep on the desk at some point in time.
Quietly looking at her slightly tired brows, the middle-aged man's heart suddenly surged with a faint trace of guilt.
Wasn't he neglecting her a little by devoting himself to his official duties?
He took a thin blanket from the bed in the study and was about to cover her when the woman slowly opened her eyes. She got up and looked at him. She asked, "Master, have you finished reading the document?"
"Madam, it's been hard on you all these years." The middle-aged man held her hand and sighed. He pulled her into his arms.
"Master …" She had never seen such a gentle side to him. The woman felt a lump in her throat and tears almost fell.
The husband and wife exchanged words of love for a while. The woman lay in the middle-aged man's arms and felt some changes in his body. Her pretty face suddenly became red. She said in a small voice, "Master, this is the study …"
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A moment later, the middle-aged man held the woman in his arms behind the curtains of the study. He took a whiff of her scent and asked doubtfully, "What other perfume did Madam use tonight? After smelling it, your husband felt exceptionally spirited. Even the speed at which I dealt with the documents has increased."
"Fragrance?"
The woman was lying in his arms with a satisfied expression. She was stunned when she heard this. She said, "I didn't use any fragrance …"
Before she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered that when she was bathing at night, she had dropped a few drops of the "Ruyi Dew" that she had bought on the street into the bathtub.
Could it be because of this?
Yes, that handsome shopkeeper seemed to have said that this Ruyi Dew had the effect of refreshing the mind …
Could it be that the master's unprecedented interest tonight was also because of this Ruyi Dew?
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