"Uncle Concubine, how many days will it take to complete the terrace I asked you to build?" Xia Ji made up her mind and asked Uncle Concubine.

According to the memories of the original owner's previous life, Chen Linggong will not come to Zhulin for at least half a year. This time it's so fast, there are a lot of things she hasn't prepared for!

"The terrace can be done in three or four days. But the gravel path to the terrace will take another three or four days. The river rocks had just arrived. Uncle Fei bowed and replied.

River rocks are the pebbles in the river. Uncle Concubine's action was fast enough, and he had prepared all the materials in just a few days. It's just that the plan hasn't changed quickly, and there's no time to run out.

"Put those river stones first, and use them later! Turn the gravel path into a flower path. Using the kind of clay pots I ordered you to make with a hole drilled at the bottom, transplant the primroses, spring cuckoos, begonias, spring orchids, melon leaf chrysanthemums, etc. from the back mountains and the soil on their roots into those clay pots, and place them on both sides of the path leading to the terrace from the vicinity of Sima's Mansion. This should be done in three or four days. Xia Ji stared for a moment, and then came up with a good idea for an alternative.

"Madame Yingming, is it just that this terrace has anything to do with the king's coming to our mansion?" asked Uncle Fei suspiciously. Natsuhime didn't tell him the reason at first, so he didn't quite know why he was rushing to work suddenly.

"Nature is related. You'll know when the time comes. Natsuki didn't want to say too much in front of everyone. After all, except for Fu'er and Uncle, it is difficult to say how reliable the other subordinates are.

"The old slave understands! The old slave will do something. Seeing that Xia Ji didn't want to say more, Uncle Fei didn't ask more, and resigned. As an old servant of Sima Mansion, he still has this tacit understanding with his master.

Xia Ji took Fu'er to the place where Xiao Su lived. Xiao Su is learning dance from a teacher girl. Seeing Xia Ji coming, the two hurriedly curtsied, and said at the same time, "Meet Madame!"

"No need to be polite. Qiu Niang, how is Xiao Su learning?" Xia Ji turned her head and asked the teaching lady.

"Miss Xiao Su is talented, diligent and studious, and learns movements quickly. It's just that dance can't be learned in a few days, and it takes some time to carefully carve it before you can have that taste. Qiu Niang replied.

This is what it means to be tangible and boneless. It's only been half a month's work, and I can only teach this Cheng dù.

Xia Ji nodded and said to Qiu Niang: "Please teach her the whirling dance in the next few days! Although it is a little difficult, I still hope that you can let her learn it in the past three days." ”

The main thing about spinning is to turn in circles, and keep turning in circles. Compared with other dances, its movements are the best to master, and it should be basically able to master in three days.

"This ...... Madame has a problem for the old man. Qiu Niang's face was difficult. If you learn it in two or three days, you won't have to spend all day and night here! Besides, this kind of quick dance can't be seen by outsiders, but people who practice dance can see the difference.

"If it works, how about I reward you with ten taels of gold?" Xia Ji was unimpressed by Qiu Niang's hesitation, and slowly threw out a bait.

"Madam, don't worry, Qiu Niang will definitely complete the task well!" Qiu Niang's eyes straightened when she heard ten taels of gold. She worked as a teacher in the dance and music workshop, and she could only earn dozens of taels of silver a month. Ten taels of gold is enough for her to work for ten years.

Qiu Niang agreed without saying a word, and she couldn't worry about anything else. Obediently, it is to let yourself not eat, drink or meet your eyes for three days, and you have to earn this money in your hands!

"That's good!" Xia Ji said with a smile, turned her head to look at Xiao Yu on the side and said, "You have to study hard with Qiu Niang." Three days later, it's your chance. Whether you can seize the moment or not is up to you. ”

"Three days later......" Xiao Su was excited and scared. What should I do if I'm not ready? Didn't I say half a year later? Why is it so fast! But there is Qiu Niang next to me, and it is not easy for Xiao Su to ask.

"Don't worry, you just have to concentrate on your whirlwind. I have my own arrangements. Natsuhime was confident.

A successful performance doesn't necessarily have to be a skilled dancer. As long as the background, music, and modeling are in place, the performers can get better results without making mistakes.

On the way back to her main courtyard, Yuexin Hall, where Xiao Su was located, Fu'er looked at the fact that there was no one else around, and couldn't help but ask Xia Ji: "Madam, why did you choose Xiao Su? What should I do if she betrays you?"

"Because she's greedy!" Natsuki smiled slightly, "She may betray anyone, but she can't betray herself." Her most loyal object is her **. As long as her ** does not contradict our needs, there is no need for her to betray us. ”

"But Xiao Liu'er betrayed her son......" Fu'er still said uneasily.

"Xiao Liu'er is stupid, and using the way of betraying the old master to please the new master is destined to end nothing. But Xiao Xu is different, she is smarter than Xiao Liu'er, but she is not smart enough to be shrewd. She could see that Xiao Liu'er's road was not a good road, and she turned back in time. And she doesn't have any background, so she won't tear her face with us. ”

Xia Ji and Fu'er analyzed carefully.

"But can she be favored? I think that although Xiao Su is good-looking, she is not better than me and Xiao Liu'er! Her eyebrows are too thick, so they are not as beautiful as my willow eyebrows! In the king's harem, there should be many stunning beauties! Can she compare to them?" Fu'er said worriedly with big bright eyes.

"Yes, yes, you are the best-looking, you are the most beautiful!" Xia Ji stretched out a green onion white jade finger, lightly tapped Fu'er's forehead, and chuckled. A woman is really a creature who loves to compare, and will always unconsciously compare others with herself. Even such an honest girl is no exception.

"Madam, that's not what people mean!" said Fu'er, stomping her feet. Seeing Xia Ji walking a few steps faster, he hurriedly trotted to follow.

"Did I ask you to send someone to collect all the petals?" Xia Ji saw the pink peach blossoms on the road turning into clouds, and suddenly remembered this, put away her smile, and asked seriously.

"I found them all, and as Madame said, I dried them all and ground them into powder. There are also some peach petals that are washed and left to dry. Fuer replied neatly. What Madame explained, how could she not complete it as soon as possible!

"Okay! Tonight, I'm going to teach you a few things that will make you more beautiful. Natsuki smiled mysteriously.

Fu'er watched Xia Ji put the freshly washed peach petals into a white porcelain jar filled with wine, sealed them and put them in boiling water to boil for a stick of incense, and then took them out to cool naturally. The impurities are then filtered out with a spun yarn, and a crystal clear liquid is obtained.

"How about you smell it!" Xia Ji put the liquids in small bottles and handed them to Fu'er.

Fu'er opened one, sniffed it lightly, and immediately showed a surprised expression.

"It's so fragrant!Madam, this is the fragrance of peach blossoms!" Fu'er couldn't help but smell a few more times.

"It's peach blossom dew. In the future, where there are no peach blossoms, you can also have the fragrance of peach blossoms. Have you memorized the process of making zuò just now?" "Xia Ji's main purpose is to teach Fu'er how to make zuò. Later, she can be asked to provide these things to Xiaoxu.

Who knew that Fu'er heard this, but suddenly knelt on the ground, and said with a panicked expression: "Madam, Fu'er doesn't dare to steal the teacher! Fu'er won't remember!"

It looks like he's committed a great sin.

Xia Ji was surprised for a moment, and then realized that this was in ancient times, and the ancients took this kind of thing about "intellectual property" very seriously, and they couldn't let people know it. The selection of apprentices is also very strict, and servants are generally not qualified to learn. Whoever steals from school is a capital offense.

Xia Ji looked at Fu'er on the ground, angry and funny. She really wanted to teach her, how could she be punished?

"You stand up and speak!"

Fu'er shook her head and knelt down.

"If you don't get up again, I'll really condemn you!" Xia Ji raised her good-looking eyebrows and said leisurely.

Fu'er stood up hesitantly.

"Fu'er, you are my personal maid, there are many things I can't trust others, and I have to do it for me. You grew up with me, accompanied me from Zhengguo to come here, and are the people I trust the most. Something like today, don't happen in the future. Xia Ji took Fu'er's hand and said.

In fact, this is not "seeing the outside", it is just the class difference caused by the status of the two. But Natsuhime still chalked it down to "seeing outside". Because what she wants to convey to Fu'er is that this kind of behavior is "the act of seeing outside", if it is a heart, don't be too careful about this kind of thing.

Fu'er nodded as if she didn't understand.

Natsuhime didn't say anything more. In this society with a strong class concept, the change of thinking is not an overnight thing. She is only willing to do this to Fu'er, a girl who will savior herself. For people like Xiao Liu'er and Xiao Su, she still has to use the weapon of class status.

Xia Ji took Fu'er to the inner hall of the Pleasant Heart Hall where she lived, and there were many bottles and jars of all kinds of pollen, petals, and other things on the table.

"Today I'm going to teach you how to make makeup powder, rouge, lipstick, goose yellow and other things. You study hard, and the things I use in the future will come out of you. ”

Han Ruo (also known as Xia Ji) is a well-known Chinese medicine practitioner in modern society, and when he studied ancient Chinese herbal medicine, he also studied all these things of women's makeup and skin care thoroughly. So her technology can be said to be ahead of this era. So she wants to teach Fu'er that she won't need to buy things from outside in the future.

"But......" Fu'er hesitated again. She is a maidservant, how can she let her wife teach herself these things that other people's families can use as ancestral rice bowls!

"Fu'er~" Xia Ji glared at Fu'er, and when she called her name, she had a somewhat angry tone. This girl has just persuaded her to do this again.

"Yes, ma'am, Fu'er will make something that satisfies you!" replied Fu'er quickly and obediently.