Five-year-old little girl: Mom has thousands of acres of material space

Chapter 283 Send him to see the official

The shopkeeper looked at Jiang Xiaoxiao's plain clothes with disgust on his face.

Yu'er, who was standing next to him, couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward and said, "Boss, how can you do this? The girl just wanted to take a look at the powder you sell, how can you talk to her like that?"

"What's my attitude?" The shopkeeper said unconvincedly, "Not everyone can enter my Beauty House. Any box of powder in there starts at five taels of silver. Can she afford to pay for it if it's damaged? She's a country girl. I'm generous enough to let her in to take a look."

"Hmph, a store like yours is nothing special. We won't buy anything from it!" Yu'er was so angry that she pulled Jiang Xiaoxiao away and said, "Xiaoxiao, let's go. We won't bother with this kind of people. Let's go to other stores."

Yu Ying'er, who was standing beside them, looked at them smugly with a gloating smile on her face: "Yu'er, this is where you are wrong. This Meirenzhai is the most famous powder and rouge shop on the Central Imperial Street. The powder inside is extremely precious and naturally not something that any random person can touch casually."

There was so much disparagement in her words that the shopkeeper beside her raised his chin even more arrogantly.

Jiang Xiaoxiao laughed out of anger.

Yu Ying'er is really the same kind of bird as this shopkeeper who looks down on others. She is disgusting.

"Anyone?" Jiang Wei's cold voice sounded.

"I didn't know that when I went back to my own shop, I would be laughed at by the shop owner and customers."

When these words were spoken, several people in the shop were stunned.

What does this mean?
What own shop?

Jiang Wei ignored the looks everyone was giving him, and walked straight up to Jiang Xiaoxiao, took her hand, handed the store deed in his hand to her, and said clearly word by word:
"Xiaoxiao, I will leave the Meirenzhai shop to you from now on. You can keep whatever you like, and if you don't like something, just kick it out like a cat or a dog."

"Okay, Mom." Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded her head and a sweet smile appeared on her little face.

Hearing Jiang Wei's words, the shopkeeper next to him showed a look of shock.

He suddenly remembered something. Not long ago, he received news that the owner of this Meirenzhai had been imprisoned and the owner of the store had been replaced by someone else.

Could it be...

His eyes fell on the deed with the official seal, and the shock on his face gradually turned into horror.

Yu'er next to him didn't understand yet: "What do you mean?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the shopkeeper, with a dark face, asked with a hint of luck in his tone: "May I ask who are you two——"

"Yes, just as you thought." Jiang Xiaoxiao puffed out her chest and showed him the deed in full view. "I am the owner of this Meirenzhai."

The glimmer of hope in my heart was instantly extinguished.

The shopkeeper's legs went weak and he almost fell to his knees.

"Why don't you take another look? There is a seal stamped by the governor himself on it." Jiang Xiaoxiao shook the extremely clear words on the deed and sneered.

“No, no…”

The shopkeeper's voice was trembling as he spoke, with beads of sweat already oozing out of his forehead. He shook his head in panic, and said in a trembling voice: "I don't know if I haven't received the young master well today. I hope you can forgive me..."

He finished his sentence haltingly, and the way he addressed Jiang Xiaoxiao had changed.

When Yu Ying'er heard the voice of "Little Boss", she froze in place for a moment.

The smug look on her face had not yet faded, and it looked funny and ridiculous with the shocked expression.

But Yu'er next to her said in surprise and delight: "Xiaoxiao, is this Meirenzhai yours?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded proudly: "Yes, the purpose of my mother and I coming to Xuzhou this time is to see how these shops are doing and what their conditions are." Jiang Wei raised his hand and knocked on her head, pointing to the shopkeeper next to him, "Let's get down to business."

Jiang Xiaoxiao then stopped chatting with Yu'er and turned to the shopkeeper and said, "Can I see the powder inside now?"

"Yes, yes! Of course!" The shopkeeper crawled to the back of the cupboard, picked out the largest box of face powder, and handed it to Jiang Xiaoxiao in a flattering manner.

Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't take it, but just opened the lid, pinched a little of the white paste powder with her fingers, and put it in front of her nose and sniffed it gently.

It was indeed white lead.

And the content is huge.

The makeup powder used by ancient people was mostly new powder made from new rice, mixed with some fine lead powder. This way, when applied on the face, the skin would appear whiter. Although a small amount would cause damage, it would not be life-threatening.

But this box of face powder turns white lead into a paste-like facial cream, absorbs moisture, and grinds it into powder. It has an excellent whitening effect, but if used frequently, your face will be disfigured within two months!

Her face darkened, and her voice was a little cold: "You use this white lead to fool customers?"

The shopkeeper didn't want her to find the white lead in it as soon as she smelled it, so he hurriedly explained: "I, we also purchased it through the original channels, and we didn't know there was so much white lead in it..."

"From now on, cosmetics containing white lead are not allowed to appear in Meirenzhai!" Jiang Wei said directly.

She looked at the only two little girls in the store and said, "Bring the account book from the store."

The two little girls were handymen in the shop, responsible for cleaning the shop. They usually did the dirtiest and most tiring work, but their daily wages were only a few cents.

When he heard that the real owner of the store wanted to check the account book, he went to get it promptly.

The shopkeeper next to him began to tremble.

Ever since he heard that the original owner of the shop was imprisoned, he had some inappropriate thoughts and started to falsify accounts and secretly embezzled a lot of money. If he was caught...

Jiang Wei looked through the account book, her brows furrowed more and more. She simply pointed at the box of powder and asked, "How much does this box of powder cost in the store?"

The two little girls answered obediently: "The shopkeeper sells a box to the customer for thirty taels of silver."

"What about this box of powder?"

"15 taels of silver a box."

"Lipstick paper?"

"Fifty taels of silver..."

The more Jiang Wei asked, the tighter his brows furrowed.

By the end of the questioning, she had lost her patience, put the account book down, and said coldly: "Send it to the official, none of the accounts match."

The shopkeeper was so frightened that he fell to his knees and cried out that he was innocent.

Mr. Bai, who had not said a word since he entered the door, couldn't stand it anymore. He stepped forward and kicked the shopkeeper in the chest, causing him to roll twice on the ground.

In the past, he was cheated by his business partners who falsified accounts. Now he hates such people the most.

"Madam Jiang, don't waste your time talking to this kind of person. Just send him to the government office and let him get beaten up with a few sticks, and he'll behave himself!"

"I was wrong! I won't dare to do it again..."

Seeing that the men were really going to take him to see the officials, the shopkeeper finally got scared and hurriedly reported all the proceeds he had embezzled in the past few months.