In the eyes of the villagers, Jin Xiaoye is not bad looking, but she is not a beauty.
People have fixed ideas. Jin Xiaoye ran around the village since she was little. She was dark, thin and would fight with boys. Naturally, no one thought she was pretty.
What's more, there has always been Jin Moli by her side for comparison.
The two girls are the same age, but they are completely opposite.
Jin Xiaoye cut her hair short, went barefoot to cut grass in the fields, went to the river to catch snails, and looked rough and coarse. But what about Jin Moli? She wore a brightly colored skirt and her hair was tied into a small braid with a bright red headband.
When Jin Moli was little, both the elders and the boys in the village thought she was the most beautiful girl in Miaoqian Village.
Girl, when she grows up, she will naturally feel the same way.
But in Li Qingzhi's opinion, judging from facial features alone, Jin Xiaoye is prettier than Jin Moli. It's just that Jin Moli has fair skin and is good at dressing up. As for Jin Xiaoye...
When she was busy a few days ago, she was too lazy to wash her face in the morning!
Speaking of which... the original owner came to Miaoqian Village and wanted to settle down here and marry a girl from Miaoqian Village. At that time, he fell in love with Jin Xiaoye at first sight because Jin Xiaoye's appearance was considered good among all the village girls.
Of course, that was only considered good among the village girls. The original owner's mother was a great beauty, even more beautiful than Jinniang. The original owner's elder sister and younger sister were also beauties since childhood. Compared with them, Jin Xiaoye was nothing.
However, in Li Qingzhi's eyes, Jin Xiaoye was the most beautiful. Her vigorous vitality made him unable to take his eyes off her.
"Xiao Ye, didn't Sister Wang give you rouge and powder? Let me do your makeup?" Li Qingzhi suggested.
At the end of the year, Jin Xiaoye distributed the money to the women in the embroidery workshop.
Sister Wang and her daughter worked together, and with the rent for the house, they earned the most money.
She was a little reluctant to let Jin Xiaoye move to another place, but it was not a big deal if their house was always occupied by fabrics... Her daughter was about to start looking for an in-law!
Sister Wang finally put the matter aside and when she bought rouge and powder for her daughter, she also bought some for Jin Xiaoye.
It is said that Qu Yunqing strongly supported this matter and even paid for it. He even picked the best rouge and powder for Jin Xiaoye.
Nowadays, there are many kinds of powders that women use for makeup. Some are made of grain starch, and some are made of lead. The latter will cause problems for the face if used for a long time, so people mostly use powder made from the former.
The box that Sister Wang gave me, the locals call it pearl powder, one box costs one hundred wen.
Of course, there are no pearls in it. The rouge shops in the city purchase river clam shells all year round. Li Qingzhi thinks that this should be made by grinding the clam shells into powder and adding rice flour, spices and the like.
After Sister Wang gave the powder to Li Qingzhi, he opened it and smelled a faint fragrance.
There was no mirror in their house, so Jin Xiaoye didn't know what kind of hairstyle Li Qingzhi had given her. She was groping for it on her head, and when she heard what Li Qingzhi said, she said, "Forget it. I have dark skin, and putting makeup on would look scary."
Jin Xiaoye had never bought rouge or powder before, except on her wedding day, when Aunt Jin scooped out some of her own rouge and applied it on her lips.