Chapter 295: Mid-Autumn Festival Night Banquet
The art of disguise, there has always been a saying that "it is easy to change the appearance and difficult to imitate", because each person's facial features, contours and bones are different, even if they are twins, the appearance will gradually change with the change of temperament and environment.
If it is only to change the appearance, then the transfigurant only needs to cover up the facial features of the transfigured person, but if he wants to imitate the appearance of another person, he must not only cover up the original features, but also highlight the characteristics of the imitating person.
Transfiguring Mu Yunyi as her mother was an extremely special task for Su Wu - after all, it was a person who had only seen in portraits and had passed away.
Therefore, Su Wu has been facing the portraits almost day and night in the past few days, studying the characteristics of Qinglan from different angles on each portrait, so that her face has a clearer and more realistic presentation in Su Wu's heart.
After another half an hour, Su Wu made the last stroke on Mu Yunyi's eyebrows.
"It's finished."
Mu Yunyi looked at herself in the mirror, and then turned her head to look at the one-person-tall portrait, although she had never seen her mother, but if you look at the appearance of her mother in this portrait, her face at the moment is enough to be fake.
When Su Wu first saw Qinglan's portrait, she realized that Mu Yunyi and her mother were already seven points similar to her mother's appearance when she was young, but the eyebrows of the first princess Qinglan were full of beauty and grace, gentle and soft, while Mu Yunyi's eyebrows were a little less soft, a little more heroic and sharp.
Therefore, when changing the appearance of Mu Yunyi, in addition to the careful carving of the facial contours and lips and nose, Su Wu deliberately changed her sword eyebrows into sideburns to distant mountain eyebrows, gentle and dignified, and finally added a peach blossom between her eyebrows.
As for the hair, Su Wu completely followed the appearance of the former princess in the portrait, and pulled a simple hanging bun for her, and the rest of the hair was draped off.
Mu Yunyi looked at herself in the bronze mirror and was stunned, and muttered in a low voice: "It turns out that my mother is like this."
Su Wu couldn't help but sigh: "The first princess was born so beautiful, Yun Yi ...... You're so beautiful, too. ”
Since Mu Yunyi hardly uses powder on weekdays, although her skin is originally delicate and silky, but under the makeup at the moment, she is even more exquisite.
Mu Yunyi slowly stood up, "Su Wan, don't go out here." ”
"Yunyi." Seeing that Mu Yunyi was about to leave, Su Wan suddenly stood up and grabbed her hand, "You said you wanted to take me to see the autumn leaves and winter plums in Hyun Yin City, don't break your promise." ”
"Okay, wait until I get back." After that, Mu Yunyi covered her veil and left the idle hall.
When the time was approaching, Mu Yunyi followed Meng Li into the palace as the servant girl of Taqiu Shizi.
The people of this Mid-Autumn Festival night banquet are slightly different from previous years, in addition to the noble officials and their families, they are also the kings with different surnames in the feudal lands and the envoys of the neighboring small countries, so the palace began to prepare a month in advance, and the formation was more grand and grand than before.
Meng Li was crowned the prince of Taqiu by the royal family, and now he is a hot new star in the West Dome, so as soon as Fang took his seat, many powerful people came to greet him.
At this moment, the waiter of the criminal department who was surrounding Meng Li's left hand noticed a trace of discomfort, raised his head and met Mu Yunyi's gaze.
Meng Li also keenly noticed the strangeness of Mu Yunyi's side, so he pulled Mu Yunyi behind him, and said with a smile: "This girl of mine rarely goes out of Taqiu, and it is the first time to enter the palace, so I am a little scared when I think about it." ”
When everyone saw this, they knew that the relationship between this so-called "handmaiden" and the prince was extraordinary, and the waiter of the criminal department thought that he had never seen Taqiu Shizi before, and the servant girl next to him would not have any holiday with him, so it was his own delusion, so he also smiled and stopped exploring deeply.
The man didn't recognize Mu Yunyi, but Mu Yunyi would not forget this person - Zhou Ting, the servant of the Criminal Department, used to be him, so he tried his best to surround his father, and his father saw that he was an insightful and loyal minister, so he promoted him to the Criminal Department.
It's just that at this moment, Mu Yunyi really doesn't have time to deal with him, but ...... This man's good days are coming to an end.
With the eunuch singing, the four suddenly fell silent, the queen mother and the emperor appeared in everyone's field of vision, slowly walked into the first seat of the banquet, everyone bowed and saluted, chanting Jin'an.
"Today's moon and night reunion night, it is a palace banquet and a family banquet, it is the luck of my Mu royal family to have you and other virtuous ministers, I hope that I will be the monarch and minister of the West Dome with one heart, the blessing will be extended, and the eternal prosperity will be long!"
All the subjects under the seat bowed their heads and shouted in unison: "The West Dome is blessed forever, and the country is prosperous!"
"Since it's a family feast, don't be polite, everyone get up."
"Emperor Xie!"
After Mu Yunyi got up silently, his eyes stopped on the body of the Empress Dowager Xi on the right hand side of the little emperor.
Oh, I expected it to be good, although she was "unwell", but when she appeared at the palace banquet, she was as graceful as before, her hair was in a towering bun, and her makeup was even more meticulous, where did she see the slightest sickness.
Only Cai Yin, who was close to Empress Dowager Xi, could see the fine red blood in her eyes, as well as the layers of fat powder on her face.
This is the inevitable suffering of those in power: even if there is supreme power, it will be followed by endless bondage and helplessness, and you can never relax at any time, even the slightest hint of fatigue or clues, and those who stand in the shadows will eat you alive.
The Mid-Autumn Festival night banquet is not much different from the usual palace banquet, it is nothing more than that the silk and bamboo orchestra is mostly related to "reunion", and the poetry and painting performances are mostly based on the theme of "moon", Mu Yunyi is not interested in appreciating this "peaceful" scene.
Until about halfway through the dinner, a palace maid "accidentally" spilled wine on the Queen Mother when pouring wine for the Queen Mother Xi.
"Presumptuous!" Before the Queen Mother could speak, the emperor sitting next to her roared angrily, "Do you want your head?" ”
"The slave should die, the slave should die, the queen mother spares her life, the emperor spares her life!"
Empress Dowager Xi's brows furrowed, she wanted to have a seizure, but she was in poor spirits and it was really difficult to reprimand the palace people loudly, so she couldn't help it after all, and only waved her hand impatiently and said: "Okay, retreat, Caiyin, Zhen'er, go to the side hall with the mourning family to change clothes." Then she nodded to the emperor, and Empress Dowager Xi was helped by Cai Yin to get up and leave.
Entering the side hall, Zhen'er opened her mouth first: "Queen Mother, the slave maid will go and get clean palace clothes for you." Zhen'er is used to playing tricks, she knows that the Queen Mother is in a bad mood at this time, so she grabbed the errand job first and let Cai Yin stay by the Queen Mother's side.
Of course, Cai Yin saw through Zhen'er's intentions at a glance, but Zhen'er didn't know that all of this was actually in Cai Yin's plan......