Yu Xiang rested for a while, looked at the faded nails after waking up, and ordered Taohong to make her the Impatiens flower juice, "Put more rose essential oil in it, and the nails will leave a faint fragrance after dyeing. There is an elegant charm in the waving of the sleeves."
Tao Hong agreed, took out a small bowl, put impatiens and alum in it and pounded it carefully.
Liu Lu came in with a huge brocade box and lifted the curtain, and said back, "Miss, the shopkeeper has brought you the spring shirt and the hair mask. Do you want to pick and choose by yourself, or send it to the young lady as it is?"
"Send it to her, she must be stretching her neck to look at the door right now." Yu Xiang leaned halfway against the head of the bed, her thin blouse slipped off her shoulders, revealing half of her snow-white arms, a small tube top outlined her Exquisite figure.
"The weather is chilly in spring, it's warm and cold, miss, you should wear more." Liu Lu put down the brocade box and added a dress for her, then took her smooth black hair out of the skirt, combed it slowly with a comb, and smoothed it out. After tidying up, he ordered the two little girls to carry her to the dressing table and sit down.
Yu Xiang lay lazily on the table, fiddled with the tasseled red string on the brocade box with her fingertips, and said slowly, "I went to Haosheng and told Qiu to watch Yu Siyu. If Yu Siyu dared to act out of line Behavior, it doesn't matter what is wrong with the superior, no distinction is made between superior and inferior, first tie people up and then talk. Even if I beat her brain with a mace, I still can't hear a word, and I still think I can't see her because of jealousy. If she has a wrong heart, she will go all the way to the dark, and she will not cry when she sees the coffin. If she is not afraid that she will make my brother tired, I will care whether she lives or dies, and let her jump into the fire pit."
Liu Lu listened and nodded in agreement, seeing that the master's hair was too smooth to be tied into a bun, so she had to use osmanthus oil to wet the ground, and then fixed it with a few silver hairpins in a butterfly shape.
Yu Xiang looked left and right at the bronze mirror, waved her hands in satisfaction, "Okay, let's go quickly."
Taohong smashed impatiens, poured the flower juice mixed with alum and rose essential oil into a small bowl, and then soaked it in a ball of cotton. Seeing that the lady was quite bored, she picked up a topic and said, "Miss, the Fang family's The young man is so handsome."
"Oh? How handsome?" Yu Xiang turned to look at her.
"The skin is very fair, the eyebrows are very heroic, and the nose..." Tao Hong said while using small tweezers to gather the cotton into a ball the size of a fingernail, carefully placed it on the master's fingertips, and then wrapped it with a cloth towel.
Just as he was talking vigorously, Ah Lu, a big parrot hanging in the corridor, yelled loudly, "Master Hou is here, Master Hou is here!"
Tao Hong hurriedly silenced, but it was already too late, Yu Pinyan walked in with no expression on her face, and said in a deep voice, "No one is allowed to step into the front yard within this month, and those who violate the taboo will go to the housekeeper to get thirty big boards."
Tao Hong agrees with fear.
Yu Xiang pursed her lips and smiled, "Brother, is the young master of the Fang family really that handsome?"
"It's just a little bit." Yu Pinyan's already cold face became more and more displeased. He walked behind his sister, held her shoulders, and interrogated her ear, "Did his mother say something today?"
"Isn't it just that some parents are short-tempered. But looking at her, it seems that she wants Yu Siyu to be her daughter-in-law. You also know that the Fang family is rich and rich, and Yu Siyu is not sure how beautiful she is now." Yu Xiang blew softly After blowing on the impatiens juice on the nails, a unique fragrance spread in the air instantly, making people intoxicated.
Yu Pinyan buried his face into his sister's neck and took a deep breath, then sat down beside her, took the tweezers from Taohong's hand, and dyed her sister's nails very skillfully. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, no one would have imagined that the hussar general who was invincible in all directions on the battlefield had such a soft heart.
"The Fang family looks beautiful now, but in fact, it has long been a raging fire, and time is running out. Yu Siyu, you have to beat and beat, don't let her bring my Yonglehou mansion down. You too, don't listen to people talking about how beautiful you are." I thought..."
Seeing that her brother was about to start chattering endlessly again, Yu Xiang hurriedly hung her free hand around his neck, curled up the corners of her lips, and said flatteringly, "I know, can you be as handsome as my brother? Mo Shangren is like jade, and the son is unparalleled in the world! There is no other man in this world who is as handsome as my brother. And my brother is invincible and invincible. He is the unrivaled hero of my Han Dynasty. I want to marry, You must marry someone like elder brother, those ordinary people can't get into my eyes at all."
She blinked her bright cat eyes, and said with a light smile, "However, there are probably no more men in this world who are better than my brother, so I'm doomed not to marry in this life. Brother, you have to support me."
She leaned closer, and lightly touched the tip of Yu Pinyan's nose with the tip of her nose, her warm and lotus scent was so intoxicating.
Yu Pinyan's eyes were in a trance for a moment, his cold face gradually softened, and he said in a low voice, "You don't need to mention, my brother will naturally support you for a lifetime. What did you eat tonight?"
"Sliced chicken, Ruyi fish rolls, dragon beard and four vegetables, steamed mandarin fish..." Yu Xiang counted them down one by one.
"I only ate these? I thought you drank a big bucket of honey, that's why your little mouth is so sweet." Yu Pinyan rubbed her full lips, a strong and gentle smile appeared in his eyes.
"I didn't eat the honey, but I ate some of this." Yu Xiang picked up the lid of a small tortoise shell box on the table, dipped a finger of the bright red honey-like thing on her lower lip, and stretched out her pink tongue to lick it. I licked it, and said with a smile, "I made this lipstick myself. Add a little beeswax to rose petals and add a little lard to mash it finely. After drying, you can use it. People say, 'smell your mouth before your lips move. Zhixiang', brother, smell it, isn't it very fragrant?"
While smiling lightly, she took another smear of lip balm, first put it on Yu Pinyan's nose for him to sniff, then changed direction and put it on his lips.
Yu Pinyan fought on the battlefield at the age of sixteen, so how could he fail to see through her tricks, but let her mess around, and when she dyed her lips red, she squinted and admired her little face with a brighter smile.
"Brother, isn't it very fragrant and sweet?" She blinked.
Yu Pinyan stretched out the tip of his tongue and licked it, the faint sweetness permeated his mouth, his profound and handsome facial features appeared bewitching because of those dyed red lips.
Yu Xiang stared blankly.
At the same time, Yu Pinyan couldn't take his eyes off his sister's bright and plump red lips, which looked like ripe cherries. He approached slowly, and the scent of roses mixed with lotus blossoms penetrated into his nose, and half of ambiguous poems suddenly appeared in his mind-colorful floating makeup powder, scented and messy lip balm.
There was an unbearable thirst in the mouth, wishing to swallow that delicate and charming diamond-shaped mouth fiercely.
His heart trembled slightly, he hurriedly distanced himself, and pretending nothing happened, he picked up a ball of cotton, put it on his sister's fingertips, wrapped the cloth towel and found an excuse to leave in a hurry.
Yu Xiang didn't realize it, and ordered Taohong to continue to dye her nails.
In Diecuiyuan, Mrs. Pei finally looked forward to returning her half-drunk son, and hurriedly took small steps to meet him and help him.
"Hurry up and wipe your face," she twisted a towel to cover her son's face, and asked earnestly, "Have you made friends with Yong Lehou?"
Fang Zhichen lay on the couch panting for a while, and waited until his head was not so dizzy before he said in discouragement, "He is as cold as the rumors say, and he is very unapproachable. I toasted him, but he directly refused to talk to him. He ignored me and didn't allow me to walk around in the Hou's mansion at will. In order to relieve the embarrassment, I had to pour myself a drink, and accidentally drank too much."
"He's so unreasonable." Mrs. Pei was a little annoyed when she heard this, but she also knew that it was not easy to successfully live in Yu's house. The soldiers with swords and halberds standing outside the door and the patrols with pristine faces frequently walked by, making her heart tremble and her legs and feet go weak.
I thought that my husband's family was rich enough, but compared with the Yu family, I realized that the wealth is just a superficial mirror that can be broken at a poke.
She stuttered for a while, and then remembered to pour sober soup for her son, and warned, "He is the commander, the king of Hades who is the most unprovoked in the whole Han Dynasty, he should have a little temper. Just be patient."
Helping her son up, she continued, "I met the two ladies of the Hou Mansion today, and I want to settle down the eldest daughter, what do you think?"
Fang Zhichen sobered up immediately, and asked, "Why is it the eldest daughter of a concubine? Wait for my high school champion, not to mention the daughter of a wealthy family, even the princess of the dynasty can marry, why do you have to marry a concubine? Mother, you You are humiliating your son!"
"Isn't mother helpless?" Pei's face was bitter, "The emperor is now strictly investigating the national tax treasury, especially the salt administration, and I don't know what kind of turmoil will be caused. Your father has even prepared for the funeral. Counting for miles, all commanders and envoys will be able to save him. Only by getting married will your father survive!"
"Isn't there a prostitute in his family?" Fang Zhichen was still dissatisfied.
"You only know one thing but don't know the other. There is indeed a prostitute in his family, but she is a cripple and not good at acting. If you marry her, who will manage your house and who will go out to socialize for you? Maybe it will be difficult even for an heir. That's why I settled for the next best thing and settled for a concubine."
Pei's expression was pity, but she didn't think about her family's rank in the century-old family in the capital. He was also fascinated by the flashy and hustle and bustle of Yangzhou, and he was a little ecstatic by the salt merchants. After entering Beijing, he still couldn't lower his head to the sky. He always thought that his son was a man of the world. There is no one in a million, and the girls from other families have to be picked by him.
Fang Zhichen thought of the predicament his father was in. Sure enough, only the commander of the capital who was above the third division could save him, so he swallowed his humiliation, nodded and said, "Son, listen to mother. Just one point, let me see you before we get engaged." See this young miss of the Yu family."
Pei patted her son's head happily, and said with a smile, "That's natural. Although this young lady of the Yu family is a concubine, she grew up by her aunt's side since she was a child. She looks good in every way, and you will be satisfied."
The mother and son discussed for a while, and then they settled the marriage. They just waited until they won the first prize after the palace examination, and then they went to the Hou's mansion to propose marriage.