For two days straight, many powerful ministers and wealthy merchants secretly went to visit the State Preceptor.
It was unknown what they discussed, but after these people returned home, they immediately had their servants sell off the winter supplies they had gathered.
Although the common folk didn't know what was happening, when they saw the rich and powerful doing this, they quickly followed suit.
In no time, rumors that the blessed girl, Shen Ningning, was a liar began to spread throughout the city.
The State Preceptor's words caused the price of winter supplies in the city to hit rock bottom, even affecting the surrounding towns and prefectures of the Capital City.
Gradually, it got to the point where people were tossing cotton clothes and fabric directly onto the streets, and no one would even bother to pick them up.
Now, you couldn't even give away a pair of cotton shoes for one tael. They were simply left on the street, eventually picked up by beggars.
