Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

Gu Xunwei waved her hands quickly, "What are you talking about, Manager Liu? I am just a woman in the backyard, and I know very little about incense making. I rely on my father to support me from behind, so how dare I give you any advice?"

As soon as she finished speaking, two more people walked in at the door of Yaxiangzhai. They were also two shop owners who opened incense shops in the capital. Since the stage of Wangyulou's incense tasting competition was not far from the door of his shop, it was very close to Yaxiangzhai, so these shop owners who received the challenge came here in advance and gathered at Yaxiangzhai without any prior arrangement.

Shopkeeper Li naturally knew several of them, so he asked Gu Xunwei to go to the back to rest while he received the visitors.

Shopkeeper Liu looked at Gu Xunwei's leaving back and couldn't help but flash a trace of disdain in his eyes. No wonder the head of the family didn't take the Gu family seriously at all. The next generation was actually a woman. It must be that this would only last for a few decades. After that, there would be no Gu family.

The fragrance-tasting competition was scheduled to start at 9:00 p.m., but everyone arrived at 7:00 p.m., including Qian and Xie Cheng'an.

As the owner of Yaxiangzhai, Gu Xunwei naturally did not go with them, but went to the competition area with the other shop owners.

The eldest son of the Lian family is a boy of about fifteen years old. No wonder Manager Liu asked for some advice just now, it turns out that he is still a minor.

The head of the Lian family actually didn't take such a big competition seriously. Not only did he not come himself, but he also let a half-grown child come.

The key point is that this child has an arrogant look on his face as soon as he appears. It seems that he was raised by Jinzun and Gui. I don’t know if he has learned other things, but he has learned the ability to look down on others.

All the shopkeepers came over to greet him, but he ignored them and sat down in the middle seat without saying a word, which made the shopkeepers in their forties and fifties look embarrassed.

"You, come here." The boy pointed at Gu Xunwei who was standing aside and said in a bad tone.

He saw that everyone came over to greet him, but only one woman was still standing aside calmly, so he let Gu Xunwei go over without saying anything.

"Young Master, this is the owner of Yaxiangzhai. You should call her Sister Gu." Shopkeeper Liu reminded her hastily.

"Oh, you are from the Gu family? No wonder you are so rude. Didn't you come and greet me when you saw me coming?" The boy didn't think much about it and continued with his previous words, accusing her of being slow in greeting him.

Shopkeeper Liu quickly apologized to Gu Xunwei with a smile, asking her not to bother with her young master, since he was just a spoiled child after all.

Gu Xunwei naturally didn't want to argue with him, but Bai Zhi beside her couldn't stand this loss and said angrily, "Master Lian is really talkative. It's fine if he talks nonsense at home, but why did he come to the street and bark?"

"You... you are so bold, how dare you talk to me like that?" Young Master Lian slapped the handle of his chair, a ferocious look on his face, and said to a servant following behind him, "Get her out of here."

The servant nodded and walked forward to take action, but Manager Liu could not bear to watch it any longer and whispered in his young master's ear, "Young master, although this is the daughter of the Gu family, she is also the legitimate wife of the top scholar. You cannot be so unreasonable."

"Is this true? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Young Master Lian's face changed suddenly. Although he was domineering, he was taught since childhood not to make enemies with the government. He calmed down for a while, glared at Bai Zhi fiercely, and waved his hand to let the servant go back.

Shopkeeper Liu was also helpless. He had not expected that as soon as the young master came over, he would come into conflict with Madam Xie.

Before the competition began, Wangyulou's shopkeeper Bai came over to greet all the owners and shopkeepers one by one, and said politely, "Today's competition rules and procedures have been explained to all the shopkeepers. If there is any offense, please forgive me."

He looked to be less than 20 years old, was well-mannered and clean-looking, and spoke very politely, which made it difficult for the shopkeepers, who were full of complaints, to really get angry with him.

As a representative of many incense shop owners, Shopkeeper Liu also stood up and bowed to Shopkeeper Bai, saying, "Shopkeeper Bai, you are too polite. It's almost time for our industry to hold the annual quality conference. We can take this opportunity to taste it together."

"Yes, yes," the shop owners echoed. However, this tasting contest was just a tasting among their shops. It didn't matter if they lost. But this competition put their results directly in front of the public. The losing shops might find it difficult to continue doing business in the capital.

"It would be great if everyone could think this way. As the declaration of war says, the loser will automatically withdraw from the capital. Xiaobai would like to remind you all again, to avoid an embarrassing situation when the result comes out later." Shopkeeper Bai smiled and bowed to everyone again.

But his words made all the owners and shopkeepers uneasy, especially the eldest son of the Lian family, who said bluntly, "What are you talking about, Shopkeeper Bai? Since the Lian family has accepted the letter of challenge, they will not deny it."

"Master Lian is very courageous. I admire you." Shopkeeper Bai raised his hand and asked a pretty maid to present a tray to Master Lian. "This is our welcome gift to you. Please accept it."

There were several jars of ointment neatly placed on the tray. Regardless of how they tasted, even the small jars looked very valuable. They were actually made of extremely rare Jun kiln porcelain.

Jun kiln is famous for its kiln-changed glaze colors, which are "one color going into the kiln and a thousand colors coming out of the kiln". The glaze colors are rich and colorful with infinite variations, and the rose purple, crabapple red and other tones are the most famous.

Moreover, the annual output is the smallest, not to mention the extremely low rate of finished products, and the rate of top-quality products is even lower. Therefore, there has always been a rumor that Jun kiln porcelain is "hard to come by".

And these small jars on the tray are all genuine top-quality Jun kiln products. Wangyulou wants to sell its perfume at a certain price to use such top-quality porcelain to hold the perfume.

Although Young Master Lian was not very old, he had been intentionally trained by his father since he was a child. Naturally, he knew the trick of this small jar. He calmly reached out and took a jar in his hand and opened the lid casually.

The maid continued to hold the tray and asked everyone to take the ointment on it one by one. Gu Xunwei naturally got a bottle as well.

"What kind of crap is this? How come there is no smell at all?" Young Master Lian had a look of disdain on his face. He was about to bring the jar to his nose to smell it, but he found that the ointment did not even have the slightest smell. He could not help but frown and exclaimed.