"Madam Wei, look at that woman, the one surrounded by the crowd. She said she bought rouge from our brand, and after applying it for just one day, her face became rotten." Upon hearing Wei Suxin's question, a middle-aged man in a camel-colored robe replied.

"Uncle Jiang, didn't you invite that woman into the store to resolve the issue?" Wei Suxin asked with a frown.

Uncle Jiang sighed helplessly and said, "I invited her, but she just wouldn't come in. She even yelled even louder."

Wei Suxin walked out, "No matter what, we can't let her continue to make trouble in front of Ruyifang like this."

Uncle Jiang nodded and followed Wei Suxin out.

The crowd outside formed a semicircle, with three layers inside and three layers outside, surrounding the woman and the Ruyifang gate.

"Madam, I heard that you bought rouge from Ruyifang, and it became like this after you applied it for a day?" Wei Suxin asked straight to the point.

"What else? Look at my face now? What should I do now?"

Wei Suxin walked forward a few steps and leaned forward to look at her face.

The woman with pus-filled face in the middle of the crowd glanced at Wei Suxin and said rudely, "Who are you? What are you looking at?! Call your boss over here."

"I am the boss of Ruyifang." Wei Suxin was not afraid at all.

"Oh, you are the black-hearted guy." The woman with pus-filled face put one hand on her waist and pointed at Wei Suxin with the other hand and said, "Tsk tsk, everyone, everyone, look, this is the black-hearted boss of Ruyifang."

The crowd was like a drop of water in a hot oil pan, boiling instantly. "This woman looks pretty, but she turned out to be a troublemaker."

"I was planning to buy this rouge, it looked very delicate, but I didn't expect it would ruin my face after using it."

"This is too scary. Look at what has happened to her face."

"Her rouge isn't cheap, but it's of such quality. How horrible."

People in the crowd were whispering and talking to each other, and more and more people were coming to watch the fun.

The woman with pus-filled face pointed at her own face and said, "My face is so rotten now that I can't go to work at Mr. Wang's house anymore. You have to compensate me for the lost wages, medical expenses, and the money for the rouge."

The woman with pus-filled face rolled her eyes and shouted, "And my face is so rotten! You have to compensate me, you must compensate me!"

As she said this, she turned back and faced the crowd with her face full of pustules. "Look at it, everyone. It's become like this. Is this what a human would do? She is so evil-hearted. Who knows what she added to the rouge."

After saying that, she looked at Wei Suxin arrogantly.

"Mom, please don't be anxious. Let's talk it over." Wei Suxin said with a smile.

"Oh, you are really interesting, girl. It turns out that you are not the one who is disfigured. It's really easy to talk without any pain. Stop talking nonsense and tell me how much money you want to compensate me."

"Mother, if it's our Rouge's problem, we will definitely take responsibility to the end. But if it's not our Rouge's problem, we can't take the blame, right?"

The woman with pus-filled face snorted coldly.

"We need evidence for this matter. We can't just take her words for granted. What do you think, everyone?" Wei Suxin asked the crowd again.

The crowd was chattering, and from time to time a few words popped up, "Yes, yes, yes.", "This is obvious, just pay the money quickly.", "This still requires evidence." Various voices emerged one after another.

"Please take out the box of rouge you use so I can take a look at it in front of everyone." Wei Suxin said calmly.

"Hey." The woman with pus-filled face took out a box of rouge in an unpleasant manner. The style and appearance of the rouge was exactly the same as the best-selling rouge in Ruyifang.

Wei Suxin signaled Uncle Jiang with her eyes, and Uncle Jiang immediately took out a similar rouge from the store.

Wei Suxin ordered again: "Qiandai, go get a basin of clean water."

"Yes." Qiandai took the order and went into the backyard of Ruyifang to fetch water.

After a while, she came out with a basin of water.

The servant from Ruyifang brought a square table from the shop so that everyone could see clearly.

Wei Suxin took two boxes of rouge in her hand and showed them to everyone.

"The one on the right is what I just took from this mother. To be honest, Ruyifang's business has been getting better and better recently." Wei Suxin said generously. "It is said that there are also some imitations on the market. So I'm going to test it in front of everyone."

"Why do you need to quibble? The rouge is obviously all the same!" said the woman with pus-filled face, rolling her eyes.

Wei Suxin ignored her and opened the lids of two boxes of rouge, revealing the powder with embossed patterns inside.

"Look, the box on the left was just picked up by my manager from the store. If you look closely at the pattern, you can see that there is a tiny Chinese character for 'Ruyi' on the pistil. But the box on the right doesn't have it."

Then, Wei Suxin added some alum to the basin of water that Qiandai had brought earlier, stirred it, and then reached out and put two boxes of rouge in.

Soon, she took out two boxes of rouge that had been rinsed with water.

"Everyone can see clearly on the lid of the rouge box just taken out by the store on the left, there are two big blue characters "Wei Shi". But the one given to me by the mother on the right does not have the two blue characters "Wei Shi" on it." Wei Suxin said calmly, "This color change when exposed to water is our Wei Shi's exclusive anti-counterfeiting method. So, I think you all know that the rouge this mother bought is not our Ruyifang rouge at all."

The woman with pus-filled face yelled, "If you say it's not, then it's not. What blue words? It was the same thing before. You must have switched it."

"How could I switch the packages in front of everyone? Can you tell me?" Wei Suxin asked back.

The woman with pus-filled face lay on the ground and started to throw a tantrum. While throwing a tantrum, she shouted, "This Ruyifang just doesn't want to pay the money!"

"Uncle Jiang." Wei Suxin signaled to the middle-aged man in camel-colored clothes with her eyes.

Uncle Jiang winked at the servants nearby, and the two servants grabbed the woman with pus-filled face and held her backhanded.

"Send him to the government office." Wei Suxin ordered calmly.

"Yes." The two servants took the struggling woman with pus-filled face to the yamen.

Wei Suxin also packed up her things and went to the yamen in a carriage.

The white walls and black tiles of the government office in Beijing are solemn. A plaque with the Chinese characters of Kyoto Government Office in black and gold is hung on the gate of the government office. On both sides of the gate are couplets with the words "officials should fulfill their duties, and it is especially important to govern in accordance with the will of the people" in black and gold. There is also a drum for hearing injustice on the left side of the door.

When Wei Suxin arrived, two servants were already waiting at the gate of the government office with the woman whose face was covered with pustules.

Several people entered the government office together.

What comes into view is a screen wall carved from white stone, with a painting of lotus, ruyi and cloud patterns on it.

After walking around the screen wall for a while, I finally entered the government office from the east gate. From afar, I could see the three big characters "Qinmin Hall" hanging high in the lobby of the government office.

The group entered the Qinmin Hall. What caught their eye was a plaque with four large characters on it, with a picture of the rising sun over the sea and a long desk below it. On the desk were the four treasures of the study and red and green-headed inscriptions and other things needed for hearing cases. A man was sitting on the official hat chair in front of the desk. It was naturally the prefect. The prefect had a tuft of beard and a solemn face, looking very majestic.

"What brings you here? Who are you suing?" the prefect asked in a deep voice.

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