Mirrors are a luxury item for ordinary people who have not yet solved the problem of food and clothing.

But for Xungui, it is a necessity.

Every noble lady in Chang'an City has at least one bronze mirror on her dressing table.

More than 30% of the powder shop's profits every year come from the sale of various mirrors, and this year shopkeeper Cui made a desperate move and put all his treasure on the bronze mirrors from Jiangnan Road.

If before today, someone asked Shopkeeper Cui, which mirror is better?

His answer was absolutely unambiguous, that is, the mirrors sold by the powder shop were the best in Chang'an City.

However, if someone asked him again now, he would probably dare to say that the bronze mirrors of the powder shop are the best in Chang'an City.

"Guest? Guest?" The maid responsible for receiving Shopkeeper Cui saw him staring motionlessly at the glass mirror, and felt panicked.

His face was sometimes red and sometimes white, which made people feel scared.

Anyway, I don’t have to worry about selling my glass mirror. This man looks weird. If he doesn’t want to buy it, let him go.

"What is this glass mirror made of?" Shopkeeper Cui took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

The most urgent task is to find out what the glass mirror in Zhenbao Pavilion is all about, and whether there is any way to save it.

Anyone who is not blind knows that glass mirrors are countless times better than copper mirrors.

"Of course the glass mirror is made of glass?"

Shopkeeper Cui ignored the fact that he was being looked down upon and continued to ask, "Why have I never heard of glass? It looks like this glass looks a bit like crystal?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shopkeeper Cui became depressed again.

What is a crystal?

That thing is many times more expensive than copper.

If a mirror is made of crystal, its sense of quality will definitely be countless times that of a bronze mirror.

How can you sell your own bronze mirrors?

Twelve pieces were sold yesterday. It seems that not only is the waiter not working hard, but it is a very good result.

"Glass and crystal are similar things, so there's nothing wrong with you saying it's crystal."

Li Kuan is probably the only person who really understands glass. He doesn't want to popularize this knowledge of physics and chemistry so early. Therefore, among the people in Zhenbao Pavilion, even Xiang'er has little knowledge of glass as a material.

Anyway, as long as you know that glass is very high-end, difficult to make, and very expensive, that's all.

"How much does this glass mirror cost?"

"A hundred times a day!"

"One hundred guans?" Shopkeeper Cui didn't think it was expensive. On the contrary, he thought it was too cheap.

If a makeup shop had such a glass mirror, I would have to sell it for at least two hundred guan, no, five hundred guan each!

Where is the mirror? It is obviously a treasure!

You know, the latest bronze mirrors from the powder shop cost fifty guan for the best ones.

"Do you have a larger glass mirror?"

Shopkeeper Cui originally thought about whether he could rely on the price advantage to continue selling his bronze mirrors, but if fifty guan versus a hundred guan...

Although the price difference is twice as high, there is absolutely no way to compare.

If someone can afford to spend fifty guan on a bronze mirror, will he still be short of 50 guan?

People only spend fifty guan because a high-quality bronze mirror costs about 50 guan. It does not mean that they can only afford a 50 guan mirror.

This is like two people in later generations who scored 100 points and 99 points. The person who scored 100 points did so because the test paper only had 100 points, while the person who scored 99 points could only take so many tests because of his strength.

A difference of one point may look good, but it may actually be a far cry from it.

The difference between fifty guan and one hundred guan seems to be just double. That’s because people don’t want to sell 500 guan. It’s not that they can’t sell a thousand guan.

"Sorry, we currently only have one size, not a larger one."

After hearing this, Shopkeeper Cui finally felt a little calmer.

The clarity of my own bronze mirror is definitely not comparable to that of glass mirrors, but at least it still has an advantage in terms of size.

The largest bronze mirror can reflect the entire person from head to toe; while the glass mirror in front of you is absolutely clear when cleaned, but the palm-sized mirror can only be used on the dressing table.

"Why isn't this mirror bigger?"

Shopkeeper Cui was afraid that as soon as he left, Zhenbao Pavilion would come out with a bigger glass mirror.

"Glass mirrors are cumbersome to make. Making such a mirror is already an ingenuity. It is very difficult to make a larger one."

"Okay, I understand. Bring me this mirror."

Shopkeeper Cui is going to give the owner a warning tonight, otherwise the bronze mirror will not be easy to sell and he will have to explain it hard.

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Powder shop.

"Sister, what do you think of this bronze mirror? My mother's birthday is next month, and I want to buy a mirror for her."

A pair of young ladies who looked like sisters began to become interested in mirrors after purchasing some rouge and other items in a powder shop.

"Buying a mirror is a good idea, but not this bronze mirror."

"Why isn't it working? I heard that the bronze mirrors in this shop are the best in Chang'an City."

"That was before. Now when buying mirrors, I go to Zhenbao Pavilion to buy glass mirrors."

"Glass mirror? I've seen it a few times, but isn't that one a bit too small and inappropriate to put in the dressing room?"

"But it's clear!"

"A few days ago, Mrs. Zheng's glass mirror fell to the ground and broke into pieces. But the bronze mirror doesn't have this problem at all!"

"But it's clear!"

"My grandpa pays us a fixed amount every month. I heard that the glass mirror is relatively expensive."

"But it's clear!"

The conversation between the two sisters hadn't ended yet, but the waiter next to them was about to get depressed.

In the past few days, the sales volume of bronze mirrors in the powder shop has been declining, and they can't sell even ten mirrors a day.

What’s even more depressing is that people actually started to return the goods!

I just bought it yesterday and I'm going to return it today. I don't think so. Those who can afford their own bronze mirrors are not the children of ordinary families.

I had no choice but to hold my nose and return the product.

After calculation, only five or six items were actually sold in a day, and the trend seems to be going down!

The thousands of mirrors in the warehouse were originally thought to be sold within two or three months at most, but now it seems...

You may not be able to sell it in two or three years, right?

Although the business of the powder shop has not reached the point of being empty, it is still far behind compared with the daily bustle and abnormal situation of the Zhenbao Pavilion opposite.

I heard that shopkeeper Cui visited his boss yesterday. I wonder if there will be any changes?

It stands to reason that this owner is not a fuel saver.

When it comes to an income of tens of thousands of dollars, even the top nobles in Chang'an City cannot just ignore it.
Chapter completed!