Chapter 52: Makeup
When Qin Hanzhen came to the study, he saw his grandfather Qin Bai sitting at the desk, frowning slightly, as if he was in a daze. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
It looks like it's really annoying.
She smiled and ran over and asked, "Grandfather, what's wrong with you?
Qin Bai came to his senses, smiled, looked at his granddaughter a few times, and saw that she was wearing a goose yellow narrow-sleeved jacket, white velvet armor, a bean-blue skirt, a black hair curled into a pair of mustaches, only two small silk flowers on the side of the hairpin, and her clever appearance was no different from the girls of any clan in the village, so she knew that she must have gone out to play with her sisters again today.
He smiled and said, "Hanzhen went to hide and seek with his sisters again today, but he went to the opera garden again?" When Qin Hanzhen came back from outside two days ago, he mentioned it to him, so he guessed it as soon as he guessed.
Qin Hanzhen smiled and nodded: "I went to the opera garden, but I didn't play hide and seek." We're just chatting around the brazier today. Some of my sisters told me something. She told her about the suspected theft of furniture, and then said, "I told my grandmother about it, but my grandmother felt that Aunt Keyong didn't need to steal the furniture, but the elders of each room asked the sisters to tell me about it, and there must be a reason." That's why I came to ask my grandfather, what should I do about this?"
Qin Bai frowned, a little angry: "If there is such a big mistake in the sect, how can we not reflect on and rectify it?!
He really felt very unlucky. I haven't been back to my hometown for decades, and when I came back, I thought I would see a thriving family, who knew that first the children of the clan were not taken seriously in studying, and then there was a problem with the son and the woman, and the woman was a woman with a bad heart, and now there was a theft case. If outsiders know about these things, can the reputation of the Qin family still be saved?!
Qin Song has an arrogant temperament and can say that he doesn't care about the affairs of the family, but Qin Bai can't be so cold. In the past, when his mother, Mrs. Ye, was alive, she was very concerned about the affairs of the clan and was very enthusiastic about promoting outstanding children. He still remembered that his mother once taught him that a single tree cannot make a forest, if only one person in a family can get ahead, after all, he is weak, no matter how outstanding a person is, he also needs arms, and talents are endless, which is the foundation of a family's continuity.
Seeing that the family had fallen to the current situation, Qin Bai felt unspeakably uncomfortable in his heart, and it was even more difficult to understand his eldest brother. Some things only need Qin Song to stretch out his hand, and he doesn't have to make much effort to do it, why does he just refuse to stretch out his hand? How confused is it to be so indifferent to his clansmen, but he goes to great lengths to curry favor with outsiders in order to keep his wealth and glory!
Qin Hanzhen watched the expression on Qin Bai's face change, he was sad for a while, angry for a while, and a little resentful for a while, he couldn't guess what was wrong with him, so he could only call him in a whisper: "Grandfather?"
Qin Bai came to his senses, took a deep breath, and said, "I know about this, I will go to the sect to discuss it with the patriarch when I go back." If there are really people in the clan who have unclean hands and feet, they will naturally have to deal with it! The reputation of the Qin family cannot be ruined by ignorant villains like this!"
Qin Hanzhen successfully dumped this matter to his grandfather, and he was completely fine, so he smiled and chatted with Qin Bai about gossip: "Just talking about Aunt Keyong of the sect, grandmother thought that she seemed to be quite honest these days, and she was not like her previous temperament, so she was worried that she was suffocating, so she asked Mama Hu to inquire about what she has been doing recently." Mama Hu said that she heard the mother-in-law on the other side of the sect talking about it, saying that there were two mothers-in-law today, who claimed to be from a relative's family, and came to ask Aunt Keyong to say goodbye, and even the grandmother and aunt of the Zongfang did not go to see her, and left after talking to Aunt Keyong, and I don't know which family came from. But the carriage these two mothers-in-law are sitting in is very magnificent, and the clothes on their bodies are also extraordinary, and they are definitely not from ordinary people!"
Speaking of this, Qin Hanzhen lowered his voice: "Grandfather, do you think they will come from the Xue family?"
Qin Bai frowned again: "What's the matter with the Xue family?"
Qin Hanzhen reminded him: "That girl Huang Yiqiu, her biological mother, Grandma Huang, seems to be the daughter of the Xue family, right?"
Qin Bai snorted coldly, he didn't want to pay attention to these things, but he thought that there were also people in the Xue family who lived in the capital for a long time, and there were often people in Beijing on weekdays looking for a second room, and I didn't know if anyone had seen the prince. The prince is now in a nearby town, and everything must be careful and not make mistakes.
He took a piece of letter paper from his hand, took the pen and wrote half a piece of paper on it, then made a movement in his hand, hesitantly looked at the letter pressed under the paperweight on the side of the desk, slowly put down the brush, and sighed.
Qin Hanzhen asked suspiciously, "Grandfather, what's wrong with you?" She glanced at the letter, and could vaguely recognize what words were hidden under the paperweight, "This is the letter that Lord Huang wrote to you? What did he say in the letter that made you so embarrassed? Could it be that Miss Huang Yiqiu is out of the moth again?"
Qin Bai laughed out loud when he heard this, and said to his granddaughter while shaking his head: "It's okay, it's just that Lord Huang complained to me a few words." He paused, "That yellow girl is indeed born a little like the queen mother." In the past, it was just a reversal, but now it is more and more like wearing gorgeous clothes, wearing jewelry, and applying fat powder. Lord Huang felt a little nervous in his heart. ”
Is it because Huang Yiqiu is too much like Empress Qin?
Qin Hanzhen said: "I think this kind of thing...... It may be difficult to make a person look like another person as much as possible, but it should be easy to make this person not look like another person, right? Unless Huang Yiqiu and the queen are really like ten out of ten, they only need to do a little bit of makeup skills, and there is still a chance that the five or six points will become three or four points, right? If you meet a highly skilled person, you can still turn into two or three points. That is, at first glance, it looks a little similar, but if you look closely, there is a lot of difference, what is there to do? I see that my uncle and grandfather are also a little similar between your eyebrows and eyes. After all, it's normal to look like each other. ”
Qin Bai was stunned when he heard this: "This ...... How could this be done? Women dress themselves up to add beauty, right?"
Qin Hanzhen smiled and said, "Well, it depends on the occasion and the need." Don't underestimate a girl's makeup skills. If the tools are complete, a girl can have two faces before and after makeup, and outsiders will not recognize them at all!"
Qin Bai still couldn't imagine: "This is impossible!"
Qin Hanzhen gave him an example: "For example, if the eyebrows are drawn a little thicker, thinner, bent and longer, it will give people a different feeling; for example, if you move a little bit of hands and feet on the makeup powder, you can make a person's face look bigger; you can also put a slightly darker foundation on both sides of the cheeks to make people's faces look smaller; draw the lips a little bigger, a little smaller, a few small moles, redraw the demarcation line of the hair, change the hairstyle, and so on, you can change the impression of a person's face to outsiders, there are many ways." I can't elaborate with you, you just think so, the makeup that was popular in Beijing thirty years ago is definitely very different from what is popular now. If you ask someone to dress up Miss Huang in a different way, it will definitely make her look beautiful, but it is not so similar to the queen's mother. ”
Qin Bai thought thoughtfully: "So...... There is some truth to this. He smiled at his granddaughter, "You kid, where did you learn all this nonsense?"
Qin Hanzhen blinked and laughed dryly: "This...... I always listen to other people's stories. On the way south, Brother Lobby also bought a lot of fat powder for the second sister as a gift. The customs of the Hou Mansion in the capital are very different from when we were in Mizhi, where popular girls began to wear makeup at a young age. ”
Qin Bai seemed to believe it when he heard it: "I see. "It's right to think about it, when my sister was not out of the cabinet in the past, she began to use fat powder around the age of ten, and before the age of ten, if she encountered an important occasion, she also had to use fat powder makeup, otherwise her skin would look gray and yellow. The girls in the circle of the noble emperor in the capital are all like this.
Qin Bai didn't dwell on this matter anymore, and continued to finish writing the letter. Qin Hanzhen couldn't see what he wrote when he was far away, but he only knew that he finally wrote four pieces of paper, and carefully sealed the envelope with an envelope, wrote Huang Jincheng's name on the envelope, added the word "pro-enlightenment", then got up and walked to the door, called Hu Yong, who was waiting outside, and ordered him to send the letter to Huang Jincheng as soon as possible.
The letter was sent, and Qin Bai seemed to be in a much lighter mood. He turned around and said to Qin Hanzhen with a smile: "Hanzhen, I have already picked one of the two houses I took you to before, and Ming'er will ask someone to go into the city to buy it and rearrange it so that I can move in with your grandmother." How to decorate this new house, you can help you to read it in detail, okay? Your grandmother is not in good health, so let her worry less. Let's just surprise her. ”
Qin Hanzhen was pleasantly surprised: "Really, which one did my grandfather buy? But the house near Huaiqing Bridge?!"
Qin Bai paused: "No, I took a fancy to the one near the Confucius Temple." It was a quiet place, the house was new, and there was a lot of furniture, which made it easier to furnish. Otherwise, just tidying up the house, we can tidy up for a month or two, what else are we going to live in?"
Qin Hanzhen was a little disappointed in his heart, but think about it, as long as it is a new house, where can it not work? The house on the other side of the Confucius Temple is also excellent, but it is only slightly worse than the one on Huaiqing Bridge.
She was happy again: "Grandfather, don't worry, it's all wrapped up in me! I will definitely decorate the new house well!"
Qin Hanzhen was busy with a new errand, and also brought Qin Jian and Zhao Mo to be staff officers, but he didn't know that the letter sent by Qin Bai was delivered to Huang Jincheng not long after.
After Huang Jincheng finished reading the letter, he thought of the two mothers-in-law who claimed to be sent by Xiao Huang to see his niece who were waiting in the front yard at this time, and suddenly felt blessed in his heart and figured out what was going on.
He put away the letter, sneered, and calmly instructed the people around him: "Go to the secret guard to find a mother-in-law who is good at makeup and disguise." I told her to do something. ”