Chapter 14: The Thrush
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Gao Chi had already washed her hair in the morning, and even her long hair was about to dry, and Zhang Zhaohua was still drawing her eyebrows.
"Two eyebrows," Gao Chi took his eyes off the tree, walked behind Zhang Zhaohua and looked at the bronze mirror with her: "What kind of tricks do you want to draw?"
It didn't seem clear in the bronze mirror, Zhang Zhaohua turned his head around, and he was startled: "Heh, what are you painting!" I saw Zhang Zhaohua's two good eyebrows, but now they have become indescribably distorted and crooked, like an earthworm centipede lying on top of the eyelids, indescribably weird.
"Danniang painted my eyebrows," Zhang Zhaohua was full of interest: "I want her to try all the ones she knows how to draw on my face." ”
Danniang smiled and said: "It was painted by the princess, and this is the split eyebrows." ”
The split eyebrows are not divided into two at the tip of the eyebrows, but a little bit of stubble is separated from the eyebrows where one or two are slightly missing, and they are heavily dyed with Daiqing, so that the deficiencies are thickened, which shows a completely different eyebrow from usual, which is indeed very attractive at first glance.
Danniang's craftsmanship really didn't say, she is the mother-in-law of the palace, that is, she is responsible for cleaning up and dressing up the ladies in the house, matching clothes and jewelry, and she also paints her makeup well, but it takes time to paint, and the time is really not short, so everyone is not willing to call her every day to wait motionless and have a sore back and neck to make a good makeup, or to when there is a grand ceremony in the house, it is a pity to toss like this.
"I said how many kinds of eyebrows can be drawn," Zhang Zhaohua looked left and right in the mirror: "She said more than a dozen kinds of hulala, what eight-character eyebrows, small mountain eyebrows, distant mountain eyebrows, Wuyue eyebrows, three-peak eyebrows, but moon eyebrows, Hanyan eyebrows, cloud eyebrows, horizontal smoke eyebrows, dizzy eyebrows, these names are all good, I asked her to paint my face to see, can it stand up to my face." You didn't see it just now, there was a Wuyue eyebrow, the painting is really good, it really drew five small peaks for me!"
"Why do you bother," it is estimated that Gao Chi really can't appreciate this shape of eyebrows, and after looking at it for a long time, he still feels indescribable, so he said: "The appearance of the eyebrows varies from person to person, and there are thousands of differences, some are slender, so they don't need to be modified, and some are born with ugly eyebrows, so they need to be modified - you obviously have sparse eyebrows, and your eyes are also bright, but you draw a black and thick look, how do I think, it's ...... up."
Zhang Zhaohua grabbed him and didn't let go: "It's the same as what?"
"It's like a braised silver thread with vinegar poured on!" Gao Chi laughed.
Zhang Zhaohua gave him a long look and said: "You are not used to this kind of eyebrow makeup, this is imitation of the makeup of the Tang Dynasty, the eyebrows in the Tang Dynasty were thick and broad, and in the Song Dynasty, it was said that the eyebrows were painted long and curved and green, as beautiful and beautiful as the distant mountains." It is said that there is a sister named Ying, who invented nearly 100 kinds of eyebrow shapes in order to change with each passing day, and now there are only a dozen kinds, but I didn't expect Danniang to paint them all, I want to see it all in one go, and I am afraid that I will not have the strength and effort to pick up an eyebrow shape and draw it carefully. ”
"So how many have you tried?" Gao Chi said.
"This is the sixth kind," Zhang Zhaohua said: "I think the cloud eyebrows are suitable for me, the eyebrows are as far away as the clouds, and the eyes are the moon under the clouds." ”
In fact, at this time, the woman has to shave off her original eyebrows before drawing thrushes. But they don't apply their eyebrows immediately after shaving, but first apply makeup powder to their faces. Zhang Zhaohua's eyebrows are thin, Danniang just shaved her slightly, and then pasted it with makeup powder, and repainted the eyebrows that Zhang Zhaohua wanted to see on the powder.
Zhang Zhaohua only learned in the past few days that there is such an existence in the house, such a person is not in Beiping City, after all, it is still a relatively simple city, where is there such a luxurious style as Jiangnan. Danniang is a native of Suzhou, and her husband came to Shutongzhou, so she also came, and also brought Jiangnan fashion.
She has also been in the house for a long time, Zhang Zhaohua heard her name because Yongping was making a fuss about taking her away to the Yibin Mansion, Yongping liked Danniang to put makeup on her the most, and Danniang stayed in her courtyard for the longest time, but she was not a slave who sold herself in the house, she was a good family, and she volunteered to be a Dai Po in the palace, where could she be taken away like a dowry item?
Besides, Danniang didn't want to go with her.
When Zhang Zhaohua saw enough of this eyebrow shape, he stood up and washed it. Han Dong scooped water for her and poured it into the basin, and rolled up her sleeves for her, Zhang Zhaohua took a pinch of water and scrubbed it carefully, and the red gold chiseled square flat bracelet on her wrist was rubbed in the basin, making a crisp sound.
This made Zhang Zhaohua, who was washing his face, couldn't help but stare at the basin, not at her bracelet, but at the water in the basin.
Before he knew that the water was flowing out of Yuquan Mountain, Zhang Zhaohua didn't notice it much, that is, Hanshuang accidentally said a sentence or two about the water in Beiping, and the water quality is sweet. Later, I learned that the drinking water of the palace was all Yuquan Shanshui, which was transported into the palace by a special waterwheel through the Duanli Gate of the west city wall. As soon as the city gate is opened every day, the first person to enter the city is the water truck, each car is placed on four large buckets, covered with a large tarpaulin, there are three large water wheels.
The water of Yuquan Mountain is clear and blue, clear and clean like jade, the taste is delicious and sweet, the house not only uses it to drink tea and make water, but also uses it to irrigate the fields. Moreover, after the winter solstice, it is nine days after the ice layer to form a certain thickness, and it begins to rush to store, store and transport ice cubes for summer use around the clock, and not only the palace hides ice, but also the common people will hide ice in the houses where the jade spring water flows.
Washing his face with the water of Yuquan Mountain, Zhang Zhaohua sighed in his heart This luxury, in his previous life, Yuquan Mountain was a forbidden place, a villa where national leaders lived, and now it is really cheaper for him.
Thinking so, Zhang Zhaohua asked: "In Yuquan Mountain, I heard that the scenery is very good, didn't the house think about building a garden there to enjoy the summer or other places?"
"You would think," Gao Chi came over with Dai Fen: "The geomasters who have explored this place in Beiping have said that the northwest place of Beiping is where the veins of feng shui are located, and the jade spring water is the bucket handle water, and around Beiping, it is the image of the emperor sitting on a golden chariot——"
"Therefore, it is forbidden to dig a cellar in Xishan," Gao Chi coughed slightly: "Yuquan is upstream of the stream, and it is not allowed to break the ground." ”
According to Zhang Zhaohua's remaining professional knowledge in his mind to explain, that is to say, the wind and sand encountered in Beiping are mainly northwest winds, while Beijing has the characteristics of high northwest and low southeast in the topography, the wind and sand invade from the northwest to the southeast, the wind and sand in the north are blocked by mountains, and the south city is not blocked, the water flow flows from the high northwest to the low southeast In fact, the ancient Kanyu master is a modern geographer, and his professional knowledge is also very solid.
"Every day, I bring water from Yuquan Mountain," Zhang Zhaohua sighed, "how much manpower is needed to go back and forth." ”
"It's also because my mother has a cough that is not light or serious," Gao Chi said: "The doctor said that the jade spring water can be good for medicine, and the water in other places does not have this benefit, so my father only carried water into the palace, but in fact, I didn't see any effect, and I still have to make it for a while every spring and summer." ”