At noon, when the sun was at its strongest, Qingcheng had been kneeling outside Fengyi Hall for an hour. Stars were already appearing before her eyes. Suddenly, she felt a splitting headache. Countless strange scenes flashed before her eyes, and then... She seemed to be trapped in a bone-chilling lake, unable to breathe. She yelled and then fell unconscious.
When Queen Ling saw her yelling at first, she thought she was pretending to be sick. Then she saw that she had really fainted. Then she remembered that she had an old disease, and she suddenly became frightened and hurriedly called for a doctor.
After hearing that Princess Qingcheng had a headache and fainted, Zuo Qingming, the chief of the Imperial Medical Department, looked solemn and immediately asked his imperial doctors to notify King Beilin.
When the imperial physician found King Beilin in the Qinzheng Palace, Shen Changge happened to be patrolling outside the palace and heard everything clearly. It turned out that Princess Qingcheng had an old disease and would suffer from headaches and faint when she was stimulated. Shen Changge Inexplicably, he felt that his heart was clogged and he was in a daze all day long. It was not until he heard that the princess had woken up in the evening that he breathed a sigh of relief.
This time Qingcheng fainted again, so King Beilin had to face up to Qingcheng's illness again. That day, he talked with Zuo Qingming for a long time. It wasn't until the moon rose on the branches that Zuo Qingming left the Qinzheng Palace worriedly. When King Beilin came to Changping Palace again, Qingcheng had fallen asleep, and she frowned. , his face was full of pain, and he murmured about his father in his dream. King Beilin was heartbroken, and he felt that he owed too much to his daughter.
Queen Ling took the initiative to apologize to King Beilin for this matter, and personally took care of Qingcheng for a day and night in Changping Palace. Therefore, King Beilin did not blame her too much, but only told her to be more tolerant to Qingcheng in the future.
Three days later, Qingcheng's body gradually recovered. King Beilin understood that she had just recovered from a serious illness and that she did not need to copy any female rules or rules. She immediately returned to her previous cheerful temperament.
Lvzhu and the others have not recovered from their battle wounds. Qingcheng is a little distressed. Bihe, the palace maid who has been serving her these past two days, really doesn't like her, so she pestered King Beilin and asked for Hongyu from the junk shop. return.
When Hongyu returned to Changping Palace, she was immediately grateful to Qingcheng and took better care of her. She often played with strange and cunning things, which made Qingcheng smile. Therefore, their master-servant relationship was also better than before. Much more affectionate.
In the past two days, Shen Changge always patrolled the gates of various palaces. He would always stand close to Changping Palace for a while intentionally or unintentionally, but he never saw Qingcheng again, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed.
He had thought a lot in the past two days, and there was one thing he wanted to confirm as soon as possible, so today he stood at the sentry post not far from Changping Palace and waited for half a day without saying a word. The imperial guards at the sentry post were already sweating. , I don’t know why the newly appointed captain likes to patrol their place so much. Could it be that he has doubts about the loyalty of one of their guards.
After waiting for three days, Shen Changge finally saw Qingcheng and her personal maid walking towards the imperial garden. He quickly followed them and appeared at a slightly hidden rockery, pretending to meet by chance.
Qingcheng is an optimist and doesn't care about the past. In addition, she has a good impression of Shen Changge, so she was very happy to meet Shen Changge by chance. Seeing that he cared about her condition, she took the initiative to After chatting with him a lot, Shen Changge saw that she seemed to be in a good mood, so he wanted to take the opportunity to verify the doubts he had been having in the past two days.
So he folded his hands on top of his head, bowed to Princess Qingcheng and said, "Princess, I have an uninvited invitation. I wonder if the princess can agree?"
This question had been pressing in his heart for several days, and he never knew how to ask it. Now that he was finally asked, he felt even more uneasy.
"What are you talking about? This princess will never refuse if she can do it!" Qingcheng said boldly.
"Weichen, Weichen, I want to... take a look at the princess's left arm!" Shen Changge stuttered!
Before Qingcheng could say anything, Hongyu was already furious upon hearing this.
"Captain Shen is so presumptuous. Who do you think our princess is? Do you, a male servant like you, just want to see the princess's jade arms?"
Shen Changge suddenly blushed, but still maintained the gesture of bowing his head just now and remained silent.
Qingcheng felt that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, and she also felt that Hongyu was making a bit of a fuss, so she directly rolled up her wide sleeves of palace clothes, revealing her jade lotus-like arms, and stretched them directly in front of Shen Changge.
"Wufang, just take a look!" Qingcheng said with a smile.
Shen Changge was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly discovered that her arms were white and smooth without any scars.
He clearly remembered that there were twelve stab wounds on Qingxuan's left arm. The skin and flesh were flying and the bones were visible. It was impossible not to leave any scars. He was immediately disappointed.
"She is really not Qingxuan!" He said to himself in his heart.
Qingcheng saw that after he glanced at her arm, the expression on his face changed rapidly, and then he seemed to suddenly become cold and distant towards her. She didn't know why and looked at him doubtfully.
Shen Changge just let out a long sigh, then looked at Qingcheng and said: "Princess Qingcheng, Weichen suddenly remembered that Weichen still has some urgent business to deal with, Weichen resigned!"
After saying that, he immediately turned around and left, leaving only the master and servant Qingcheng who looked puzzled.
After a long time, Qingcheng asked Hongyu in confusion: "Hongyu, tell me, is it because I have tanned recently and my arms are not white enough, so Shen Changge doesn't like it?"
Hongyu looked left and right, and compared it with her own arm. Finally, she shook her head blankly and said, "No!"
"Forget it, you're not a man, how do you know what men like?" Qingcheng thought thoughtfully.
"Then the princess knows what men like?" Hongyu whispered.
"Of course I know. Look at which of my father's favorite concubines has skin that is as smooth as silk and can be broken by a blow. It must be Shen Changge who thinks my skin is not white enough or tender enough!" Qingcheng said with determination.
After returning to Changping Palace, Qingcheng immediately summoned all the palace people and asked them how to make people's skin white and tender in the shortest time.
A palace maid suggested drying motherwort in the sun, grinding it into fine powder, sifting it, adding a small amount of talcum powder and rouge, mixing it thoroughly, and using it to wash your face and bathe. It will make you fair and tender in about three months.
"Three months is too long, think again!" Qingcheng said dissatisfied.
Another palace maid suggested peeling and grinding soaked almonds into fine powder, mixing them with an appropriate amount of light powder, talcum powder, etc., steaming them for a while, then mixing them evenly with an appropriate amount of borneol and musk, and making a paste with egg whites. If you apply it on your face every morning after cleansing, your skin will be better than snow within a month.
As a result, Luzhu scolded her.
"Both the borneol and the musk are not good for a woman to get pregnant in the future. Do you want to harm the princess?"
The palace man suddenly turned pale with fright, kowtowed as if he was pounding garlic, and kept crying, saying that she had no intention of harming the princess, but was just following the ancient advice. Qingcheng felt that she was upset by her crying, so she kicked her out.
After that, other people in the palace did not dare to give random suggestions. In the end, Luzhu suggested using the palace's old recipe, bathing in milk and grinding pearls into fine powder to apply on the face.
Qingcheng thought it was feasible, so she started taking milk baths three times a day and applying pearl powder masks three times a day.
One day Qingcheng was taking a bath again, with Luzhu waiting beside her. She saw Qingcheng holding her arms up to look at her, and kept muttering: "Why aren't they fair and tender enough?"
She was really curious, so she asked Qingcheng: "Why is the princess suddenly so concerned about skin whitening?"
"It doesn't matter to me, it's just because Shen Changge likes it!" Qingcheng answered casually while fiddling with the milk in the tub.
"Ah! Where did the princess hear such untrue words? Captain Shen will definitely not be such a superficial person." Lv Zhu affirmed.
Qingcheng glared at her after hearing this, and then said: "Do you know him very well? Which man doesn't love fair and tender women? Besides, I saw it with my own eyes. He just dislikes that my arms are not fair enough."
"Why did the princess say this?" Luzhu asked doubtfully.
"The last time he wanted to see my arm, I showed it to him. Who knew that he just took one look and left in disgust." Qingcheng recalled.
Luzhu was shocked.
"Captain Shen wanted to see the princess's arm, so the princess showed it to him?"
"Well! What's all this fuss about!" Qingcheng said nonchalantly.
Luzhu thought to himself, it's over, it's over, Captain Shen dared to take advantage of the princess. So she asked carefully: "Did Captain Shen also ask to see other parts of the princess?"
Qingcheng immediately sensed that something was wrong with her words, so he patted her on the head and said, "What are you thinking about? Besides looking at my arms, where else would I show him?"
Luzhu nodded quickly and thought to himself: "Oh oh oh, it's okay, it's not a big loss, but how come Captain Shen, a person like him, has such a strange hobby, good women's arms! It's really surprising!"
Qingcheng insisted on taking three milk baths and applying pearl powder three times a day for half a month. Her skin was originally good, but after taking care of it, her skin was as good as snow, and her skin was as smooth as ice. She was very proud of it. Early in the morning, he excitedly ran to the sentry outside Wumen to wait for Shen Changge.
When Princess Yonghe's personal maid heard about this, she immediately reported it to Princess Yonghe. Yonghe felt that Qingcheng was extremely ridiculous, so he summoned a group of concubines and princesses who had always been friends with her and rushed to Wumen to see it. Allure jokes.
Shen Changge was in charge of the night yesterday. After going to the Imperial Guard Mansion to hand over the token early in the morning, he was preparing to go home and rest. When he passed by Wumen, he saw Princess Qingcheng in a vermilion palace dress.
Because Qingcheng felt that the vermilion military leopard patchwork dress worn by Shen Changge was really beautiful, in order to wear the same color as him, she asked Lvzhu and Hongyu to make this temporary vermilion palace dress for her. If it weren't for Lvzhu She firmly opposed it. Qingcheng also wanted to add some kind of animal pattern to her clothes. Even if she couldn't add a leopard, she could add a skylark, a bird or something like that! But Luzhu refused to do it, saying it was against the rules, so she had no choice but to give up.
Shen Changge saw Princess Qingcheng all the way away. He saw that she was wearing eye-catching clothes and had hairpins all over her head. He really didn't want to talk to her, so he was about to leave secretly through another door. Unexpectedly, he saw Princess Yonghe and his entourage strutting around. After walking there, he had no choice but to return to Wumen.