CHAPTER 456: CHAPTER 456: SUCH CONDUCT IS UNACCEPTABLE

At this moment, Shu’er was sitting at the counter reading a book, with a young girl beside her calculating accounts on an abacus.

When she realized someone had come, Shu’er smiled and nodded.

"You’re here?"

Her expression wasn’t surprised, which did surprise Li Shuhua a little.

Li Shuhua smiled and said, "Manager Pei, could we speak privately?"

Shu’er put down her book and then stood up, her tall and slender figure elegant when sitting and composed and dignified when standing.

"Let’s go, follow me to the third floor."

Pei’s Trading House had a parlor on the third floor, making it an ideal place to discuss matters.

Once they reached the third floor, Li Shuhua immediately grabbed Shu’er’s hand, her earlier reserve gone, and spoke with tears in her eyes.

"Manager Pei, thank you. If it weren’t for you, I might have lived my whole life as an unattractive woman."

Seeing her cry so pitifully, Shu’er felt some sympathy and handed her a tissue.

"Here, wipe your tears first."

Shu’er did not console her further. After Li Shuhua finished crying, she looked back at Shu’er and handed over a gift box.

"This is a Thousand-year-old wild ginseng, Manager Pei. I need to ask you for a favor."

Shu’er raised an eyebrow, "What is it?"

Li Shuhua bit her lip, "I want my husband to change his mind, and I want to know who his mistress is and make her and her son suffer."

Over the past few days, she had grown suspicious of her husband and had someone investigate.

She then discovered that her husband, who married into the family, had long since taken over Mrs. Li’s business and even had a child with his mistress.

Now, she must ensure her husband, Sun Wen, sides with her to protect the Li Family’s assets.

Although Shu’er didn’t want to help, she saw an old trick of Lin Shiyao’s in Li Shuhua’s situation.

After all, this specific drug was something she had seen Lin Shiyao use in a previous story.

"When this is done, I want two-tenths of Li’s assets. I don’t need your wild ginseng."

She had plenty in her space.

Hearing this, Li Shuhua’s face changed a bit.

Two-tenths of Mrs. Li’s assets could buy several Thousand-year-old wild ginseng.

But considering her current predicament, she gritted her teeth and nodded.

"As long as that shameless mistress gets the punishment she deserves, I can accept it."

Shu’er nodded, "Alright."

Then, Shu’er began her operations against Baochun Hall.

First, she sent people to investigate if anyone significant was backing Baochun Hall.

She found out that Baochun Hall’s recent rise in fame was entirely due to Lin Shiyao’s involvement.

Not only did she ruin Li Shuhua’s face, but she also provided Baochun Hall with a skincare cream.

She had remembered an imperial skincare formula from her past life and made the cream, which had become popular with wealthy ladies, thus establishing the current Baochun Hall.

However, Baochun Hall’s recovery condition was that Baochun Hall would belong to Lin Shiyao; she didn’t care for the other assets of the Li Family.

All of this was just to compete with Shu’er.

For this, Lin Shiyao even dragged the innocent Li Shuhua into this vortex.

Shu’er somewhat disdained Lin Shiyao’s tactics.

It was truly bottomless to involve innocent bystanders.

However, the current Baochun Hall was undoubtedly a formidable opponent.

She sent people to the Li Family to scout Lin Shiyao’s whereabouts, only to find that Lin Shiyao wasn’t there.

Her movements these past days had been inscrutable.

Surprisingly for Shu’er, before she even acted against Baochun Hall, it opened a branch right next to Pei’s Trading House.

And they drastically cut prices upon arriving; skincare cream that originally cost three taels of silver was now sold for two taels next to Pei’s Trading House.

While Pei’s Trading House’s whitening cream was sold for a hefty five taels of silver, more than double the skincare cream’s price.

The skincare cream also had whitening effects, and though they weren’t as pronounced as the whitening cream’s, they attracted some customers.

Pei’s Trading House’s whitening cream faced some impact.

Fortunately, the whitening cream, initially employing a scarcity marketing strategy, didn’t have its daily sales affected.

Only the time it took to sell out each day was extended a bit.

Seeing that this approach wasn’t working, Baochun Hall had another tactic.

Initially, they merely lured customers away at Pei’s entrance, physically dragging many customers intending to enter Pei’s Trading House over to Baochun Hall.

The steward, a woman dressed in a pink blouse, was Cui’er.

This woman was bold and strikingly attractive, standing there and enticing customers by claiming how great Baochun Hall’s skincare cream was.

While boasting, she didn’t fail to disparage Pei’s Trading House’s whitening cream.

Ziling overheard this, her little face flushed with anger, but being soft-natured, she couldn’t win in a quarrel and could only return angrily to Pei’s Trading House.

Later, Cui’er became even bolder, blatantly coming inside Pei’s Trading House to poach customers.

She brought along the crew from Baochun Hall and those girls employed for customer poaching.

Li Shuhua had been staying at Pei’s Trading House almost daily recently, and seeing Cui’er’s actions, she felt embarrassed.

She sighed immediately, "Cui’er, what you’re doing is really unreasonable, this is Pei’s Trading House? Quickly take your people and leave."

The young woman with an oval face showed no concern.

"Boss, you’re just too soft-hearted. There are many customers here, of course, we come to take them."

No matter how much Li Shuhua tried to persuade, Cui’er wouldn’t listen.

If one didn’t know better, they’d think Cui’er was actually the manager of Baochun Hall.

Later, annoyed by the pestering, Cui’er went directly to other customers.

Ziling was introducing whitening cream to the customers, and they were about to pay.

Cui’er suddenly grabbed the customer’s hand, looked at Ziling challengingly, but spoke to the customer.

"Don’t, don’t buy it. Our skincare cream is better. It not only whitens but also smoothens and softens the skin. If you don’t believe me, come check our store."

"More importantly, it’s cheaper; ours is just two taels of silver, theirs is five taels, it’s like robbery."

Ziling, a 16-year-old girl, felt aggrieved at having her customers blatantly taken away, and she immediately retorted.

"Who are you? This is Pei’s! Running to our store to poach customers and grabbing mine is too much. Brother Lin, get her out."

Lin Yu quickly ran over and realized the neighboring Baochun Hall had gone too far.

"Please leave, miss."

He spoke politely, though his face showed anger.

But Cui’er wouldn’t comply and still held on to the customer’s hand.

"Let’s go, let’s quick go over there. Pei’s Trading House is being rude, even kicking out customers."

Ziling fumed, "What did you say? You’re clearly the one behaving underhandedly, yet you dare to shout in our store, truly disgraceful."

"Besides, I’m not kicking out customers, just you!"

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