Beauty is poisonous

Chapter 19 Beauty Cream

"Oops! You killed me! That little hoof with no eyes is so blind!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Sister Lotus, it's me, I'm Luqiao."

"Lvqiao?" Tao Hanrui's eldest maid, He Hua, stared at Luqiao and said, "What are you doing in such a hurry, little hoof? Are you rushing to reincarnate?"

"Hehe, look at what my sister said, I didn't mean to bump into my sister, I can't wait for you to accompany me, I have something important to do, so I'll go first!"

"Wait, come back to me, why are you so busy?"

"Uh...it's nothing!" Her green eyes flickered slightly, and she quickly denied it.

"Nothing?" He Hua became even more suspicious, pulled Lu Qiao, and turned around Lu Qiao a few times, turning around until Lu Qiao was flustered, and forced a smile: "Sister He Hua, can you stop turning around like this? , it makes me dizzy!"

"Hmph, I think you're guilty of being a thief, right? Tell me, did you steal something good from some master and go to hide it?"

"Oh, sister, I don't dare to say this nonsense. If it gets out, will I still live?"

"Then you still don't say why?"

"This..." Luqiao hesitated and said, "Then if I tell my sister, can you not snatch it from me?"

"Ah!" Startled, He Hua lowered her voice and said, "Did you really steal something from the master?"

"How can it be!" Luqiao said with a flushed face, "Am I such a person?"

"Then why are you hiding like this?" He Hua gave her a disdainful look.

"Yes... I lost my things!" Luqiao thought for a while before saying in a low voice.

"Hey, look at your small eyebrows and small eyes, you just lost something like you lost your soul, and you are afraid that I will snatch it, you are really petty, come on, I don't care about you today, you go."

"Yes, yes, thank you, Sister Lotus, for not caring about me so much, I'm leaving now."

After speaking, he ran away in a hurry.

Seeing that Lu Qiao was following faster than the rabbit, He Hua suddenly became more suspicious, and shouted: "Wait, come back to me!"

Luqiao froze, and stammered, "He... Sister Hehua, what's wrong?"

"Tell me, what did you miss?"

"No...nothing!"

"Lvqiao!" Seeing Luqiao's ambiguous expression, Lianhua straightened her face and shouted, "If you keep talking like this, don't blame me for telling the eldest lady about your sneaky behavior! Then find out what's wrong. Tighten your skin yourself."

"Don't mind!" Luqiao said anxiously: "I said, I said it's not enough? I just lost a box of cream powder!"

"Ah bah, who is the little hoof fooling? Although your monthly money is not much, our Houfu has always been considerate to the servants. Every maid will give out a box of cream powder every month. If it is not too wasteful, three I only used two boxes in a month, so how many more boxes will come out after all these years? Can you lose your soul in such a hurry for a box of cream powder?"

"Hey, my good sister, if what I lost was the cream powder issued by the mansion, I would throw it away. Why am I so anxious to get angry? What I lost was beauty cream. I waited all night to get rid of it. I bought it, can you not feel sorry for me if I lose it?"

"Beauty cream? What is it? I've never heard of it!"

"Sister Lotus, look at my face!"

"Your face? What's the... Huh? Why is your face so white? Where are those dark spots that look like fly droppings all over your face?"

Luqiao's face darkened, and she muttered, "Sister, you can't slander people like this. Although I have some dark spots on my face, it's not like my face is full of fly droppings, right?"

"Pfft! Look at you, you're getting angry. Just kidding, tell me why your face is so fair? Tsk tsk, don't tell me, you can't even see the powder on it."

He Hua said and wiped Lu Qiao's face with her hands intentionally, and was surprised to see that the spots were very light after the powder was wiped off.

"This is the effect of the beauty ointment. It took me less than seven days to have this effect. It is estimated that after one or two months of use, the spots will be gone."

"It only took seven days to see such an obvious effect, why did it take a month or two after all of it went?"

"The shopkeeper said that the effect of the beauty ointment is very obvious at the beginning, and the effect will be slower later, just like curing a disease. When a serious illness is taken with the right medicine, it will be relieved immediately, but it will take some time to fully recover. reason."

Lotus laughed and said, "That's the truth."

After finishing speaking, he said: "Don't talk about it, the effect of this beauty ointment is really good, do you think that the blemishes on my face can go away?"

"Yes! Of course I can. Look at the small gray freckles on the bridge of my nose, have they faded a lot?"

"Hey, it's really faded a lot!" Lotus exclaimed, "Tell me, where is the beauty ointment sold?"

"That shop's name is Baizhitang, and it's located on the most prosperous ground in the capital, opposite to the famous palace rouge shop Qianjiaobaimei."

"Hey, this Baizhitang really has the guts to open a rouge shop opposite Qianjiao Baimei? Isn't this lighting a lantern in the toilet... looking for death?"

"Sister Lotus, everyone said that when Baizhitang opened, but it's not like that now! Now, people are queuing up all night to buy beauty cream every day!"

"It's so hot? How much money do you have to make?"

"Fire is indeed fire, but the money is not earned, and it is still being lost. It is said to be a publicity first."

"How can you lose it?"

"A penny and a box of beauty ointment, do you think it will be compensated?"

"So cheap?" He Hua said with a smile: "Luqiao, if you can't find the beauty cream later, I'll give you ten coins, and you can work hard to buy ten boxes and come back. I'll share half of it with you?"

"Not good." Lu Qiao shook her head and said.

"What do you mean?"

"Because I can't buy it! Baizhipu has set a rule. Although it is said that it is a penny and a box, not everyone can buy it. It must be a maid from each prefecture in the capital to buy it, and it can only be bought once. The maids in this mansion are not available to everyone. The number of people that each mansion can buy is determined according to the size of the mansion. For example, our Houfu only supplies ten people, which means that our Houfu can buy up to ten boxes. Ten different people bought it."

"Hey, what kind of business is this, how can there be any reason not to make money?"

"Sister, what do you earn for a penny and a box? If you buy a box, you will lose a box. I heard that the flowers used in this box cost two silver coins! This is not counting the pearl powder added in it." What's the secret recipe."

"A flower of one tael of silver? It's so expensive! The more you sell, the worse the store will be. Is the manager of this store stupid?"

"Sister, you don't understand this again. Didn't you say that you can only buy it from a few maids in each house, and you have to be a second-class or above maid!"

"Why is that?"

"The ones below the second class are either sweepers or the outer courtyard. How can they have the opportunity to see their own ladies? Even if their own ladies saw them, how would they know that they have become beautiful and ugly? But it is different for those above the second class. The above-mentioned maids can get close to the ladies in their mansion, so that it will be easier for the ladies to find that the maids around them have become more beautiful, and thus attract the attention of the ladies. This is the original intention of the store's promotion. To put it bluntly, this beauty cream is finally for the ladies. What we use is not what we can afford, so, I can't do what my sister said!"

After hearing this, He Hua suddenly said: "Then you have lost ten taels of silver? It's strange that you are in such a hurry. How about this? The princesses of the left and right are chatting with the wife. I'm fine, so let's help you find it together."

"Okay, thank you Sister Lotus."

The lotus eyes flashed: "Thank you, look for it quickly, by the way, when did you lose it?"

(End of this chapter)