The officer walked over without greeting or introducing herself, and asked directly: “Did the Business Association send all of you?”
Several of them responded, “Indeed.”
The officer then looked at each one in turn. The one at the front started to introduce, “Ma’am, this is our new lip rouge from Beauty Image, made from deep mountain…”
Before she could finish, the officer cut her off with a glance, “Did I say you could speak?”
The shopkeeper quickly fell silent.
Nan Feng thought to herself, fortunately she hadn’t had the chance to speak yet.
The officer merely picked up the rouge in front of them, glanced at this one and sniffed that one. It seemed she was choosing based on her personal preference.
After sniffing this one and that, she finally stopped in front of Nan Feng, pointing at the lip rouge from Beauty Plantation on her table, “How much is this one?”
“Two hundred coins each,” Nan Feng responded.
“So expensive, can’t it be any cheaper?” The officer said, “We have a large demand here, hundreds of beauties, at least one for each.”
“Ma’am, since we are here to support the talent selection, we can offer it for one hundred coins each. It can’t be any less,” Nan Feng said.
“Fine, deliver them tomorrow, we can settle the bill then!”
The officer gave the facial cleanser and mask another glance, opened them to take a sniff, “What about this? What is it?”
“This is for washing the face and this is a mask. Apply a little when washing your face daily, it can quickly cleanse the rouge on the face while also providing nourishment and whitening effects. The mask is purely for maintenance, just wash it off after quarter of an hour.”
Seeing the woman seemed disinterested, Nan Feng offered, “Ma’am, why not take one box of each to try? It’s free, a gift for you to try out. If it’s not suitable, you can just throw it away.”
Hearing the items were free, the officer took both the facial cleanser and the mask.
Afterwards, the officer selected an eyebrow pencil from another merchant and negotiated a foundation price before leaving.
The petition ended just like that.
The merchants began wrapping up their products, with Nan Feng and Xiaolun carrying their items back.
…
Spikenard Square.
From afar, Nan Feng noticed a carriage parked at the entrance. She thought customers had e to shop, so she didn’t pay much attention.
When she got to the entrance and was about to go in, she heard a childish voice from the carriage, “Wind girl!”
It was a familiar form of address, only people from the village would call her that. Nan Feng immediately turned her head back.
Other than the coachman, there was no one else around.
After a while, a small figure appeared from the carriage, a very stubborn one.
“Guangguang? How e you’re here?” asked Nan Feng.
Sima Guangguang acted as if he was about to speak, but then seemed to hold back. After some time, he didn’t say a word.
Left with no choice, Nan Feng looked at the coachman, hoping he could give her an explanation. The coachman said, “Miss, the little prodigy child says he has relatives in the provincial city. He kept insisting on ing to find them. After searching half of the provincial city, we finally found you.”
“Little prodigy child? What do you mean?” Nan Feng asked.
“Miss, you don’t know about it. He is our little prodigy child at Hongdu Academy. He performed extraordinarily well in the boy’s examination and was exceptionally admitted by our old teachers. Now he’s the youngest student here, we all call him the little prodigy child!” The coachman chuckled.
But Sima Guangguang refused to say a word.
He didn’t admit that he was homesick, missed his family, and thought of ing to see Nan Feng.
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