Ben went into the store and looked around. An elderly Chinese man was waiting behind the counter.
Her wallet in her back pocket, she walked up to the counter, where the old Chinese man was sitting.
Upon seeing Be, he bowed his head downward, raising his right hand in greeting.
"Greetings, young one." He said, giving Ben a wry smile. "What brings you to my shop today?"
"I heard that the ointments you sell here can do AMAZING things!" The Ben said, his voice cracking with puberty. "If you can, I'd like you to sell me some of them!"
"Very well...." The old man said, chuckling. "What kind of ointment would you like?"
"I want to sleep with my teacher."
The man leaned back then he called for Li, his granddaughter or maybe great-granddaughter to translate. Li translated in rapid fire Mandarin almost as if the two males were talking directly.
"You are at the age where you are realizing women are not just beautiful but also you want to impregnate them? Do you realize what that would mean? A father at 12? She is a teacher, her career would be ended and she would go to jail. How would you feel then?"
Ben swallowed, "I have money, you are a business and you sell Ointments that I hear can do what I want. I have heard strange stories from a girl called Erika about some of your Salve."
The owner frowned and looked at the shelves, like a handyman looking for that one widget to fix your DIY problem. Finally he pulled out a old fashion gold perfume sprayer. It had an 8 inch high body, with a bulge at the bottom and a narrow neck at the top. A nozzle made a lower case t cross the top with a hose leading down to a rubber squeeze ball.
"This was used by the Nationalists during the War with Japan. We used it to seduce the Ambassador's wife and turn them into a spy. It is an ancient potion that makes the woman see what she wants in a man. Is is designed to smash their morality and their beliefs by making them see what they want."
The man frowned.
"One woman, a Imperial Minister's concubine, wanted to sleep with General Tojo. Using this Yùwàng...(Ben frowned) "Desire" translated the daughter. I became General Tojo for a week, but only in her eyes. If you use this on her you will be having to fight the age barrier, her position as teacher and yours as student. As well as a boy."
"Meaning?" Ben required.
"Meaning $300 and maybe a week, a month or a year. Spray it into her eyes and it will cloud her mind but what she will see I don't know. She may wish you were a co-worker, her teen sweetheart or the mother of her child. Always remember, she will see you as what she wants but her other sense, hearing, sense of balance and of weight will not be the same. She will see you for what she wants but the others will talk. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing make sure you have an excuse.'
He paused as his daughter got a glass of water, when Li returned he continued.
"They will a boy with a woman in her early 20s. Your lies have to match those of what she is seeing. If she is slapped, confronted by someone powerful she will like someone in a trance slapped across the face."
With the warning he left the store...