After the brief disturbance regarding Peace Money, the Duke Mansion's small grocery store resumed its regular business.
However, as the episode of extortion faded, a new whirlwind of trouble was quietly approaching the Duke's little grocery store.
One day, several flamboyantly dressed prostitutes entered the grocery store, bossing the young errand boy around to move things here and there. They inspected almost everything in the store but ended up buying nothing, swaying their hips as they left.
The errand boy couldn't help but complain, but to his shock, after returning home that evening, he began to itch all over, his skin swelling up with little red bumps.
As soon as these red bumps were scratched, they bled, and overnight, the boy's entire body was covered in torn skin, a terrifying, bloody sight.
Hong Yao returned to the shop to find that, at some point, someone had sprinkled a fine Poison Powder all over the merchandise.
