Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Lead Powder Incident

After the young master left, the Taishi and the prison guard also retired, leaving the space to the mother and son. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info It's been a long time since I've had a good conversation with the queen mother, and Zhou Bian suddenly found that the queen mother, who felt a little strange when she just crossed over, was a lot closer at this time. I still remember the last time I stayed with my mother, or I came back from the Gou family after recovering from my illness, and the last time I discussed with my mother when I changed the law in three chapters, and then I was called back from Luoyang by my mother during the Spring Festival, and then before I went to Luoyang, there were only a few times in the past six months, and it seems that there is really less communication with my mother. If you think about it carefully, it is a pity that it is like this in both the past life and the present life!

Thinking of this, Zhou Bian naturally wants to talk to the queen mother more, not to mention anything else, just the skillful political methods shown by the queen mother today are worth asking Zhou Bian for, although the identities are different, the ways are different, but there is always reference value. Sure enough, the queen mother is careful to answer one by one, and the young master and Tsukasa Zai, Si Kou and Sikong and other old ministers described it all, the original young master is sleek, but he loves the son very much, Tsukasa Zai is pedantic, generally does not care much about the government, Si Kou is upright, but forced to have no power, so he has no choice but to turn a blind eye to the city of scholars, as long as he does not disturb the king, and Sikong is also a person who does not care about the government, but acts in a proper manner, and has nothing to do at home, so he only cares about his own house construction, often commanded the servants at home to build some small pavilions or something to relieve boredom. What the Queen Mother said was much more detailed than what she had heard before, and when she thought of using these people in the future, Zhou Bian remembered them one by one.

Talking and talking about Bai Gui who had just left, just like the princess, the Queen Mother was not very optimistic about Bai Gui, in their opinion, Bai Gui was just a businessman, who could help the royal family make more money, where would they do more, but after Zhou Bian told Bai Gui to persuade the Tu family and seize Luoyang's plan, the Queen Mother was also silent, and said for a long time, if this is the case, then the Bai family can worship the prime minister.

However, it is rare to be with the child, even the house of the Son of Heaven can not only talk about political affairs, so soon the Queen Mother will diverge from the conversation, seeing that the Queen Mother's face is about to show displeasure if she continues to talk about what she just said, and the flexible Zhou Bian naturally knows to follow the Queen Mother's meaning to change the topic, and the mother and son talk about some family affairs, such as covering less quilts at night in summer, preventing mosquito bites, how about the new clothes of the maids in the palace, and the new maids around the king are not good looking, etc., Speaking of these, the Queen Mother is in a much happier mood. After a long time, she found that it was past noon and her stomach was empty, so the queen mother ordered her attendants to bring the lunch that had been prepared and eat with her favorite prince.

When the members of the royal family eat, especially with the Queen Mother, they naturally pay tribute to the ancestors in accordance with Zhou Li, and then move the dishes and chopsticks, Zhou Bian is not the first time to eat with the Queen Mother, so he naturally knows the rules, and honestly follows the Queen Mother to worship in the west first, and then sits down to eat again. Even if Confucius didn't say anything, if it wasn't a banquet, there was generally no one to speak in the royal family. So the meal was eaten quietly, fortunately, Zhou Bian had long been used to it.

After eating, the queen mother felt very sleepy, so she asked the maid to help her go back to take a nap. After sending off the Queen Mother, Zhou Bian felt that it was boring to stay alone, and even yawned a few times, so he also called the guards and maids and walked to his courtyard.

The sun hangs high at noon in summer, and even in ancient China, where there was no greenhouse effect 2,000 years ago, it was still very hot to walk under the scorching sun. It's a pity that in this era when the umbrella has not been invented, there is naturally no maid to hold an umbrella to block the sun, and even the chariot commonly used by the emperor in later generations is not, while thinking about whether to invent the umbrella or simply save the chariot for walking, Zhou Bian is a little nostalgic for the cottage on Songshan Mountain, the cottage design is surrounded by corridors, and the rain does not shine in the sun, it is really a blessed land for health, but it was discarded, and I don't know if it is now occupied by another group of bandits. It was a Jedi, far from being a strategic place, otherwise Zhou Bian would really be reluctant to give up.

But it's useless to think more, it's better to speed up your pace and get to the destination quickly, so the group doesn't need anyone to urge, they all lift their spirits, and their feet are hurried, and sure enough, they walked to the king's courtyard after a while. Wiping the beads of sweat from his forehead, Zhou Bian strode into the room, and as soon as he entered the door, he was greeted with coolness, which made people can't help but exclaim.

The room is dim, after waiting for a while for his eyes to adapt, Zhou Bian walked to the inner room, the king's master bedroom is divided into several rooms, just walked into the front hall of the guests, and the inner room inside is divided into two rooms, the outside was originally slept by the maid, but now it is occupied by Liu Qing, and the inner room is Zhou Bian's bedroom, so if you want to go back to your nest, you have to pass Liu Qing's bed first. It was precisely because there was someone in the inner room that the accompanying maid stopped at the door of the inner room, and Zhou Bian walked in alone.

The outside is where Liu Qing lives, so you can often smell some fragrance, but at this time, unlike usual, as soon as you walked in, you didn't see Liu Qing come out, and Zhou Bian was puzzled when she found a woman sitting in front of the bronze mirror, and the slender figure knew that it was Liu Qing at a glance, and suddenly her childlike heart rose, Zhou Bian wanted to tease this Qing sister, so she carefully stood on tiptoe and walked softly behind Liu Qing, I thought I was very careful, but I just approached and was discovered by Liu Qing, only to see Liu Qing turn around violently, but the face was white and expressionless, Immediately frightened Zhou Bian, took two steps back and sat on the ground, so shocked that he couldn't help but shout, "There are ghosts!" ā€

In fact, Zhou Bian had long been ready to be discovered, and naturally he would not be frightened because Liu Qing suddenly turned around, but he was not mentally prepared, and suddenly found that Liu Qing had changed his appearance, and a strange white face suddenly appeared in front of him, which startled Zhou Bian. Immediately, Zhou Bian relieved himself, and couldn't help laughing at himself, they are all people who have killed people, why are they so daring, in fact, anyone who changes will be scared without knowing it.

But the cry had already come out, and the panicked Liu Qing hurriedly crawled over, taking advantage of Liu Qing to climb closer, Zhou Bian took a closer look, only to find that Liu Qing's face was smeared with a thick layer of white powder, but it was not that his face had turned white, so he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and said with a little reproach, "What are you doing, I scared this king." ā€

Originally, he dressed up carefully, wanting to surprise the king, but unexpectedly scared the king, Liu Qing was naturally frightened, and had already stretched out his hand to support Zhou Bian, but when he heard the king's blame, he hurriedly retracted his hands and knelt down with his knees together and kowtowed, and shouted, "The slave family disturbed the king, and I hope the king will be punished?" As soon as he kowtowed, he saw the white powder sparsely sprinkled on the ground.

The maid guarding the door was also alarmed by the cry just now, and when she heard the king's scream, the two little girls endured it for a while, and then they had the courage to walk in, but they saw the king sitting on the ground and trying to stand up with his hands, and in front of him was kneeling Liu Qing and begging for mercy, thinking that Liu Qing had collided with the king. However, the two well-trained maids still knew the importance of the matter, and hurriedly stepped forward to help the king up, but saw the king wave his hand and said, "It's okay here, you can go out." After receiving the king's order, and seeing that the king did not look like something was wrong, although he was curious about why the king screamed just now, the two maids still obediently withdrew.

Until the maid withdrew from the door, Liu Qing did not look up. Zhou Bian still had a certain affection for this Liu Qing, and knew that he didn't mean to scare himself, so after he recovered himself, he reached out and helped him up. Liu Qing's body is still as soft as before, and when she gets closer, she can still smell a girl's fragrance, but she doesn't dare to compliment on this face, it is too white. Although he didn't understand why Liu Qing did this, Zhou Bian still couldn't get used to it, and couldn't help but blame again, "This is such a good face, why did you make it like this?" ā€

Liu Qing's body stiffened when he heard this, "Doesn't the king like the slave family dressed like this?" ā€

The white ones are the same as the ghosts, and the ghosts like them! Zhou Bian couldn't help pouting.

Although I didn't see the king speak, but looking at his expression, he knew that the king didn't like his appearance very much, Liu Qing was carefully prepared, but he didn't like the king, after all, he was still a girl, and he cried out for a while. I saw two lines of tears rolling down, rushing out of two ditches in the thick white coating, which made the whole face even more miserable. Zhou Bian couldn't help but get tired of it, but he still said softly, "Sister Qing, let's go out and wash your face and talk to this king again, you really can't get used to this king like this, please forgive me." Don't use this white makeup anymore in the future. ā€

Seeing that the king was polite, Liu Qing couldn't help crying even more happily, and covered her face with her sleeves and retreated. After a while, he walked in again, his face was washed at this time, but he was still listless, and even there were tears in the corners of his eyes, a little panicked, but in Zhou Bian's opinion, it looked much better than just now, and a pear tree with rain also had a different flavor.

"Why is Sister Qing dressed like that?" After ordering Liu Qing to sit down in front of him, Zhou Bian couldn't help but ask.

"The king, it's the ignorance of the slaves! In the early years, the slave family heard that there were singers in the wine shop in Luoyang City who were painted with lead powder, and their faces were much more delicate, and some people said that lead powder could make people's complexion whiter, and the slave family had long been envious. And when I thought that the slave family was eight years old, when the king was older, he was only afraid that the slave family would be old and would not please the king, so the slave family was worried every day and night. Thinking that this miraculous recipe can make people stay young forever, the slave family naturally wants to do everything possible to get it, but the palace has not been rich, until some time ago, thanks to the blessing of the king, the slave family's monthly money was more, and there was a surplus, so the guards around the king brought some back from Luoyang. Unexpectedly, not only did he not please the king, but he also collided with the king, which is really the sin of the slave family, please punish the king! ā€

It turned out that Liu Qing faced the king with a smile every day, but she knew that she only existed to serve the king and inherit the royal family, so she was thinking about it so much every day. As she spoke, Liu Qing shed tears again, at this time there was no thick white cover, and the tears rolled on the slightly reddened jade skin, but they were as delicate as the lotus flowers after the rain.

After a while, Zhou Bian realized that the beauty in front of him was crying sadly, and realized that he had made Sister Qing, who had a good temper, cry, Zhou Bian hurriedly stretched out his sleeves to lift Liu Qing to wipe her tears, and coaxed for a while, Liu Qing stopped her tears, and looked at Zhou Bian with big tearful eyes.

Deeply feeling the friendship of the beauty, Zhou Bian suddenly felt unbearable, and he couldn't wait to grow up immediately. "Sister Qing's intentions are known to the king, but Sister Qing is only less than twenty, and in another ten years, this king will grow up, and Sister Qing will be less than thirty, twenty-eight or nine is the best time to give birth and raise, this king is listening to what Doctor Qin said, well, it is said by Doctor Qin who cured this king with a single medicine."

"Really?" Liu Qing's eyes couldn't help but light up.