Chapter 208 New Troubles
However, when he returned home, a beautiful woman exuding the fragrance of gardenias thoughtfully poured him a cup of hot tea.

The scholar was so drunk that he didn't recognize that it was his own wife. He just smelled the delicate fragrance of gardenia on her body. He knew she was the top prostitute in some brothel, and he was immediately tempted to buy her.

As a result, the yellow-faced woman who had not had sex for half a year was completely satisfied.

However, the next day when the scholar woke up, he found that the person lying next to him was his wife, not a top prostitute. He felt annoyed at first, but when he looked carefully at his wife's face which had suddenly become fair and tender, and her body emitting the faint fragrance of gardenia, he suddenly remembered that when his wife got married to him, she was also a pretty and elegant little girl.

Guilt kept welling up in my heart, but there was also more pity.

When his wife saw the scholar get up, a satisfied smile appeared on her face, and she got up to boil water and cook.

However, the scholar was indeed unusually gentle. He held his wife down, breathing wildly on her neck, and his hands and feet began to become dishonest.

The wife blushed and said with a smile, "It's broad daylight. Let's talk about it in the evening."

However, the scholar was unyielding. He undressed and sniffed his wife's scent, saying, "My lady, why do you look so fresh?"

The wife chuckled and said shyly, "Damn it, it's because I took a bath with the soap you gave me yesterday!"

The scholar suddenly realized that Sister Yao, who sold him the soap, seemed to have introduced it as the scent of peony flowers.

But at that time, his mind was completely focused on the ravine on Sister Yao's chest, so he didn't remember so much.

Now looking at his wife who has made a new look, it seems that she is even more beautiful than that prostitute.

Yes, my wife was also a beautiful girl at first, but after marrying me, she was exposed to the mundane world and lost her spirit.

But I never thought that after bathing with Wangji soap, my wife's true nature would be restored.

The scholar was suddenly excited and secretly decided to find a restaurant to eat in order to earn some extra tuition so that he could buy more soap and moisturizing glycerin for his wife.

If soap is so magical, then moisturizing glycerin shouldn't be much worse.

…………

Such situations happen everywhere. Many men who indulge in other women and despise their own ugly wives accidentally discover that their wives, after using soap, have regained their girlish innocence.

After bathing, not only will her skin become fair, but it will even emit the unique floral fragrance of a young girl, which makes these old perverts feel like they have achieved a small success.

In a short time, Wangji soap became famous and became a popular item among the upper class circles in Beijing.

No matter whether it is a married woman or an unmarried girl, when meeting each other, it is necessary to ask each other what kind of scented soap they use. It is really so smelling!

At this time, we used peony, and the other one said he liked orchids, so we agreed to buy some and try them.

If scented soap has become popular among the wealthy families in the capital, then the relatively high-quality and low-priced soap has also conquered the small households in the capital.

Ordinary families could not afford a soap that cost five cents of silver, but in order to follow the trend, they would grit their teeth and spend one cent of silver to buy three ordinary soaps.

At first, people still regarded soap as a magic tool for washing clothes according to the classification of Wangji Chemical Flagship Store. Because everyone found that clothes washed with soap could be cleaned in one wash, no matter if it was a jacket that had not been washed for a year or even two years, or a sleeve robe stained with oil.

And by the way, I found that my hands were also extremely clean after washing clothes.

So some smart people started using soap to wash their bodies when bathing, and found that the cleaning effect was equally amazing. After washing, the whole body felt refreshed, and all the dirt accumulated over years was swept away.

It’s just that compared to soap, the appearance of soap is not pleasing and it doesn’t come with any fragrance.

However, this was not a disadvantage for ordinary people who could only afford soap. On the contrary, it became a major advantage because of the relatively affordable price. Its sales volume quickly surpassed that of soap and became Wang An's flagship product.

Gradually, wealthy families also discovered the usefulness of soap, so they bought some soap and asked the laundry women to wash their clothes with soap. As expected, just as the rumors spread among the lower class people, the clothes were washed clean and well. So they used soap for bathing and for washing clothes.

This caused Wang An's soap sales to surge again, and made Wang An feel both sad and happy.

Because he found that the production capacity of the chemical plant was gradually failing to keep up with sales.

Although the capital has a population of one million, only a few people can eat meat every day.

Moreover, many wealthy families buy their own pigs and slaughter them. The extra pig offal and lard are either kept for their own consumption or simply thrown away. They are never sold outside.

This resulted in the amount of animal fats and oils that Wang An was able to purchase always remaining at a relatively balanced point, which in turn limited the production capacity of the chemical plant.

In addition, some smart people discovered that Wang An’s chemical factory was purchasing a large amount of animal fats and smelled a business opportunity.

He began to offer higher prices than Wang An's and bought lard and pork offal from butchers. After stockpiling them, he took the initiative to find Ergou, the purchasing director, and asked him to sell them at a high price.

Ergou told Wang An about the situation, but Wang An had no idea what to do.

After all, these are all market behaviors. Although he has the title of royal merchant, he has no right to force the butchers to sell things to him.

In desperation, Wang An could only raise the purchase price and engage in price competition with those speculators.

The price of pork fat was once driven up to 100 wen per pound. Even pig offal, which was rarely bought, was sold at the price of pork.

Wang An couldn't swallow this humiliation and directly reduced production capacity.

He would also give a guiding purchase price, and would purchase the products as long as the price was not too high. However, if someone wanted to hoard the products, Wang An would rather reduce production capacity and let the pig offal and lard purchased by the other party rot in his home.

Anyway, this thing has no other use except for poor people who buy it to eat and satisfy their cravings.

Gradually the market gradually stabilized, but some smart person realized the business opportunity here and actually united all the butchers in the city to raise the prices of pork offal and lard, but not too much, just a little higher than Wang An's suggested price.

If Wang An wants to prevent the other party from succeeding, he has no choice but to surrender, unless he stops production for a period of time.

However, the sales of Wangji Chemical flagship store, soap, moisturizing glycerin and other products are rising rapidly, and it is also a period when they urgently need to maintain stable sales and market reputation. It is certainly impossible to stop production.

(End of this chapter)