On the eighth day of October, the old lady of the Pei family, a wealthy businessman in Wucheng, celebrated her seventieth birthday.

Speaking of the Pei family, everyone in Wucheng knows everything. The Pei family was originally an official in the capital, but when it came to the old lady's generation, due to the turbulence of the times, and no interest in being an official, the family moved back to their ancestral hometown of Wucheng, went to the sea to do business, and started a cloth business. Unexpectedly, he became the leading wealthy businessman in Wucheng, and the Pei family's shops were all over the world.

This time, on the old lady's birthday, Master Pei not only donated 1,000 taels of sesame oil money to the Jade Buddha Temple, set 10,000 catties of wedding cakes for three days, but also set up a stage for her, and invited the most famous Kunjiaoer team from the capital to sing in Wucheng.

Zheng Qingyun sat in front of the dresser behind the stage, quietly listening to her sister adding fuel and vinegar to the story she inquired about, while waiting for her to add eyebrows and makeup to herself.

"Sister Qingyun, you are so beautiful!" While combing Zheng Qingyun's braids, the younger sister looked at the mirror and praised it sincerely - Zheng Qingyun in the mirror, distant mountain eyebrows, peach rouge, a pair of phoenix eyes like two black agates embedded in mutton fat jade, crystal clear,

"Especially these eyes, they are so beautiful!"

Zheng Qingyun should have been happy when she heard her sister's appreciation, but because of the anxiety in her heart in the past few days, her spirit was a little trance, and she looked at the vague figure in the bronze mirror in front of her, and turned into a young girl. The girl was in rags, her smart phoenix eyes were full of tears, and she looked at the woman beside her pitifully, the woman looked fierce and vicious, raised the rattan in her hand and scolded viciously: "Don't look at me with your fox eyes, I will be angry when I look at it!" ”

After speaking, the rattan in his hand flew towards her quickly, the afterimage kept shaking in front of her eyes, and it seemed that there was a "crackling" sound made by the skin being whipped lingering in her ears, Zheng Qingyun's eyes flashed slightly, and the mirror image in front of her changed again, still the appearance of the girl, nesting on a carved boxwood bed, tightly grasping the thin quilt embroidered with the mandarin duck pattern, and the phoenix eyes were full of desperate water......

"Ah, Sister Qingyun, did I hurt you?" The younger sister who was combing Qingyun's hair exclaimed, hurriedly threw away the comb, pulled the handkerchief on her chest, carefully wiped the corners of her eyes for Zheng Qingyun, and carefully checked her makeup to make sure that it was not spent, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

Zheng Qingyun blinked, covered her somewhat stuffy heart, and smiled slightly apologetically at her sister: "I'm sorry, I took the makeup you worked so hard to make......" Seeing that her sister was full of worry, she had to make up a reason, "I didn't sleep well last night, my eyes are a little uncomfortable, can I get it later?" ”

The younger sister nodded and just wanted to speak, when a hearty laugh came in through the heavy red silk curtain - "Qingyun, today is your debut in Wucheng, I can point to the lot of money you have earned for me!" ”

Listening to the familiar voice, Zheng Qingyun hurriedly dispersed the dark clouds in his heart, suppressed his boredom, pulled out a smile, and quietly waited for the speaker to come in.

The silk curtain was lifted, and the graceful Feng Siniang leaned her head in, wearing a well-fitting waist-pinching and flower-sprinkled buckle pipa shirt with a rouge pomegranate skirt, her hair was pulled into a veneer snake bun, and her makeup was delicate and charming.

Seeing the person coming, Zheng Qingyun's smile that couldn't be hidden poured out, like the moonlight at the time of the full moon, pure and gentle, "Who doesn't know that the owner of our Fengling Pavilion is a noble sister with a gold ingot, if you wait for me to earn money to support the family, wouldn't you have to starve to death?" ”

Both of them grinned, Feng Siniang slanted the corner of her eyes and looked at Zheng Qingyun, who was sitting in a precarious position, and couldn't help but praise: "Rao has known you for many years, and every time you change your makeup, I can't help but be shock......ed."

A sense of relief that my family has a girl who has just grown up.

Zheng Qingyun smiled, and quipped: "As far as your mouth is sweet, tell me quickly, did you steal something sweet and greasy just now?" ”

Feng Siniang pinched the back of Zheng Qingyun's snow-white hand and smiled: "You girl, you don't believe you when you say you're beautiful, whether it's beautiful or not, we all know it in our hearts!" ”

The younger sister who was scraping for Zheng Qingyun nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "That's it, if Sister Qingyun is not beautiful, she can't find a beauty!" ”

Zheng Qingyun couldn't help but stroke his forehead, these guys are all good at this, they like to make fun of her, fortunately, the people in the troupe have long been surprised, if it falls into the ears of others, I'm afraid it will be a different thought......

Sure enough, a delicate voice suddenly came from the curtain, "It's just a play, and you dare to call yourself a beauty?" ”

Immediately after that, three gorgeously dressed girls came in, and the first woman was full of disdain, and when she first caught a glimpse of Zheng Qingyun, a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes - Zheng Qingyun was wearing a slanted collar colored cloud gauze beaded shirt with bell pants of the same color, and there were many silver bells on her wrists.

Because of this, Zheng Qingyun's beautiful face and slender curves are even more obvious - the woman couldn't help but curse "charming" at first, and then she still made a look of disdain on her face.

She is still young, and she is also pretty, but unfortunately she looks like a commanding man, which makes people look annoying - it is Pei Yuying, the pearl of Master Pei's palm.

Pei Yuying is the daughter of the third aunt of the Pei family, and she has always been very favored by Master Pei, so she is arrogant and arrogant by nature.

This time, she listened to the people in the house talk about the Fengling class, and she was curious about the first Kunjiao children's opera troupe in this dynasty - the opera has been despised since ancient times, and has been reduced to one of the lower nine streams, and it is still not valued, but with the influence of Western culture, the new dynasty gradually began to attach importance to the opera culture, and many talented women have emerged into the opera world.

Although there are still many people who don't understand, this does not affect the famous Kunjiaoer class composed of women. One of the most famous is the first Fengling class to eat crabs that year.

So when she learned that Fengling's class was invited by her father to sing, Pei Yuying pulled her sister Pei Yuling and Tang Muyan, a cousin who lived in Pei's house, into the backstage out of curiosity, wanting to find out, and in the future, she would have the capital to show off with her classmates in the foreign school.

Who knew that hearing the words of Feng Siniang and her sister making fun of Zheng Qingyun made Pei Yuying, who had always been very self-confident and competitive, unconvinced.

Zheng Qingyun didn't want to have a conflict with Pei Yuying, and planned to calm things down, so she had to laugh and say: "What Miss said is that I am not a beauty, this is just a joke between sisters!" ”

Seeing that Zheng Qingyun was soft, Pei Yuying did not give up, pinched the handkerchief and looked at Qingyun with a look of disdain: "What do you think a popular drama looks like?" Rolled her eyes, pulled Tang Muyan's sleeve, and sneered: "Look at the thick oil paint on her face, can it be like white paint on the wall?" ”