The palace people brought this year's new rouge gouache from outside, as well as a few simple jade ornaments, and gently placed them on the desk in front of Bai Ling.

After doing these things, the palace people consciously withdrew from the room and closed the door.

In the second half of the eyebrow trimming, Bao Yuan rarely spoke, but held his breath and made the final fine-tuning of Bai Ling's eyebrows.

From time to time, she looked closer, then took a few steps back to look at it from afar.

"It's almost done, you can change your clothes," Bao Yuan smiled and packed up his things, "After changing clothes, we will comb our hair and makeup again, and it will take more than an hour." ”

Bai Ling looked over, "So now Sister Baoyuan is still supporting the family?" ”

Bao Yuan smiled and sighed softly, "If there is no one who reads at home, you really can't imagine how it costs so much to read a book...... All these bits and pieces of money add up to each other, if it weren't for the fact that I followed my mother by mistake, I really don't know what to do. ”

Bai Ling listened in silence.

"Speaking of which, I have never asked, what is Sister Baoyuan's surname?" Bai Ling suddenly asked thoughtlessly.

Bao Yuan's movements were obviously stagnant, his eyes flickered slightly, and he said with a smile, "Why are you asking this?" ”

"Well, it's just ......curiosity," Bai Ling said softly, "The name Bao Yuan shouldn't be his real name." ”

"What else is my real name, I've been calling this name for more than ten years." Bao Yuan numbled his mouth, "My name is Bao Yuan, this name was given by Niangniang, I like it." ”

Since Bao Yuan didn't want to say, Bai Ling didn't ask again.

But she hadn't heard anything like that before.

In the Great Zhou, if you are a slave, then three generations from the same generation to the next generation are not allowed to participate in the scientific examination.

It is not known what kind of considerations this law was formulated, but many families could not survive in the famine years, and in order not to involve the career of their clan relatives, they would sell their children in different ways.

For example, walking to another unknown township to find a buyer, both sides in line with the tacit understanding of one hand to pay the money and the other hand, from then on the road to the sky to go to the side, after returning to the hometown, only to report to the family that the girl in the family on the way to visit relatives contracted a bad disease and died, buried on the spot.

No one knows what the daughter of this family has done, but because she doesn't know, she won't be involved anymore.

However, when the maid does Zheng Shu and Bao Yuan's part, the general master will help them redeem their slave origin and give them the title of their own distant relatives, so that they can have an identity that can live outside in the future...... The development of the story after that is basically indispensable is "the abandoned girl returned to her hometown, re-recognized her parents and brothers, cried into tears with each other, and asked each other for peace, joy and happiness for the rest of her life".

But as for what it tastes like, probably only the women themselves know.

Bao Yuan had already turned and gone to the bed on the back side, where the clothes that Bai Ling was going to wear at night were still neatly stacked.

"Come on, the clothes I prepared for you today are two-piece full-breasted skirts, which are particular to wear." Bao Yuan's voice came, waking Bai Ling from his memories.

"Okay." Bai Ling nodded, jumped down from her chair, and the ice sac in her hand had changed from its previous hard texture to softness, and she placed them on the table, and suddenly grabbed the ice bag back in her hand as if she remembered something.

The ice has melted, but the tip is not leaking?

And it doesn't feel hard to the touch, the outside is completely brocade material, and the inside can't feel the texture of pigskin cowhide.

How can there be waterproof materials here, and they can't be plastic bags......

Bai Ling tried to unwrap the rope on the bag, but found that the rope was only for decoration, and the mouth of the bag had been sewn up.

This piqued Bai Ling's curiosity.

"Boling?" Bao Yuan's side is already urging.

“…… Ah, wait a minute. ”

Bai Ling had already grabbed the scissors on the table and cut the mouth of the bag directly—and in that moment, all the water was pouring out.

When Bao Yuan's voice was heard, he also turned back to look.

"Oh, what are you doing with this!" Bao Yuan walked a few steps, picked up the rag on the side and covered the water stains on the floor, "This thing has to be thrown away after using it once, it's dirty." ”

Bai Ling responded, but his hands quickly pulled out the contents of the bag.

First, there was a lump of cotton that had been soaked with water, and after wiping it off, there was a dark yellow oiled paper bag underneath, and one end had been cut out by himself.

Without waiting for Bao Yuan to stop him, Bai Ling had already torn the oil paper apart.

"Whew—" Birling let out a disgusted voice.

"I said, don't dismantle it, this thing is dirty......" Bao Yuan said amusefully and angrily.

Bai Ling's left hand was drooping with a washed almost white film, and she barely suppressed the nausea in her heart, and gently frustrated the thing with her fingertips, feeling its feel seriously.

It's a little rubber, it's a little like casing...... It seems that this thing was wrapped in ice just now, so that it did not seep water.

"What is this?" Bai Ling asked, looking back.

"Sheep intestines." Bao Yuan glanced at Bai Ling gloatingly, and shouted at the gate, "Qinglian! Fetch another basin of water and wash the girl's hands! ”

……

Bao Yuan's previous statement was indeed not wrong, and the flush on Bai Ling's face caused by the opening of the face disappeared in about an hour.

Bai Ling had already changed his clothes at this time, and was sitting in front of the mirror to let Bao Yuan comb his hair.

"This dress fits perfectly." Bai Ling raised a hand, and when he twisted the joint, his shoulders and elbows did not have the slightest discomfort, "It can't be made for me, right?" ”

"Do you like it?" Bao Yuan's eyes narrowed with a smile.

"yes, I like it." Bai Ling replied softly.

Bao Yuan was not very satisfied with Bai Ling's reaction - this is not what a little girl should look like when she puts on beautiful clothes.

Bao Yuan didn't speak, just looked in the mirror.

She really didn't expect that this dress would have such a dusty effect on Bai Ling.

In the mirror, Bai Ling's white-clothed Shengxue is quite a bit of Feng Xu's wind, and his independent and chic appearance.

After taking off the ordinary palace clothes of the medicine, Bai Ling seemed to be a different person.

The only thing that remained unchanged was Zhong Ling's beautiful eyes, and Bao Yuan suddenly realized that every time she was quietly watched by Bai Ling, she always seemed to have some kind of comfort in her heart for no reason.

When those eyes look at you gently, it's like the whole world is silent.

The entanglement of distractions, the complications of sending ushers, or the gloomy old things that have never been mentioned...... It's like a drop of ink falling into the middle of a calm lake.

Or maybe this young girl was originally a piece of jade that had not been polished, and a frustration inadvertently gave it such a luster.

Bao Yuan sighed for a moment and pressed Bai Ling's shoulder.

Bai Ling raised his eyes slightly and looked at the treasure duck in the mirror.

"It's not a new dress, it was changed by me and Granny Shu last night," Bao Yuan lowered her voice, "I changed it from a set of regular clothes that Niangniang made in the past but never wore, and a few of us know about it, don't tell others, you know?" ”