The deaths of those two men had not gone entirely unsuspected of Wang Yue. After all, everyone in Jiangning knew that Nie Yunzhu was in business with him.
Nie Yunzhu had also been harassed by Song Xian and Gu Yanzhen. It was entirely possible Wang Yue had killed them in a fit of rage to protect his business.
But no matter what anyone said, they needed evidence. Without it, all they could do was suspect him. After all, Wang Yue had played chess with Old Qin more than once, and every high-ranking official and noble in Jiangning knew it.
Because of these suspicions, no one dared provoke Wang Yue again. Song Xian and Gu Yanzhen had both brought plenty of men with them, after all.
There were only two possible explanations for how Wang Yue had killed both groups without a sound, and Jiangning's officials would rather not offend anyone associated with either possibility.
The first possibility was that Song Xian had been one of Chancellor Qin's enemies, and Wang Yue might have killed him on the chancellor's orders.
The other was that Wang Yue came from Niutou Mountain Taoist Temple and was a man of the jianghu. It was only natural that he knew bandits who robbed and killed.
Ordinary merchants and Jiangning's powerful families had no desire to provoke such people, whose ruthlessness made them dangerous to offend.
For this reason, in the days that followed, Nie Yunzhu's Bamboo House flourished without a hitch, and its profits grew considerably. Merchants from other cities, drawn by the news, flocked there to stock up, bringing in even more revenue.
Wang Yue also seized the opportunity to launch perfume. As a luxury item, it quickly became the latest craze, and Bamboo House's earnings soared. Calling its profits "a fortune every day"