Chapter 144: Jin Ran and Lu, dressed up
"Miss, Madame is waiting outside." Li Ying hurried in. She held a set of clothes that she had just brought from the embroidery room in her arms, and shouted to a few little maids who were applying makeup to Jinran: "Hurry up, hurry up, quickly apply the lipstick to the young lady." β
Li Ying put her skirt on the bed, and came over and took out a peach blossom from the makeup box, which was slightly darker in color, a kind of pink that lined people's color. Li Ying carefully lifted Jin Ran's face and pasted the flower on Jin Ran's forehead. After pasting, Li Ying cleaned her hands again, and she used a small wool brush to gently smear twice from the small porcelain bowl containing the lipstick, outlining a full lip shape on Jinran's lips, which were extraordinarily pale due to some white pearl cream.
Today's Jinran's lip makeup is different from the past, the inner part of the lips is made of peach lipstick, the more you go to the outer halo, the lighter the color, and finally a light pink. Li Ying looked at Jin Ran for a long time, and finally gently traced two bright red origins between Jin Ran's lips and cheeks. The dots are small and dark, and the skin looks better than snow.
The eyebrows are willow leaf-shaped, unlike the heroic distant mountain eyebrows that are popular in Kyoto today, and such eyebrows have a bit of girl's gentleness and elegance. Jin Ran looked at himself in the mirror, his eyebrows crooked.
The bun, jewelry, and makeup were all ready, and Jin Ran stood up, stretched out her arms, and let the little girls dress herself. The set Jin Ran is wearing today is a cardigan skirt. The pink skirt has a faint auspicious cloud pattern pattern, in which the outer layer is added a single piece of gold silk soft smoke, this gold silk soft smoke is very light, the bottom is as thin as a fetal hair of various colors of pink silk thread mixed with gold and silver silk embroidered into a bamboo oleander. The skirt is hung with large and small beige pearls, the gold and silver filigree are brilliant, the pearls are smooth, and the two complement each other, which is extraordinarily luxurious.
A fireworks loose flower skirt is a lotus-colored bandeau on the chest, and the bandeau is not monotonous pink, and the girls use a pink and white snow splinter to wear a few circles on the chest, and finally tie it into an auspicious cloud knot.
Jin Ran inserted a half-moon-shaped pink and silver filigree hollow pearl into his hair bun.
On the arm, he held a honey-colored brocade light gauze shawl that dragged to the ground, hazy, and the floral ornamentation lined the waist of the brocade slender, not holding it.
Jin Ran walked out slowly, the weight of her clothes was not light, and the hairpin ring on her head hurt her neck, but Jin Ran didn't want to be like usual, she didn't complain at all today. Jin Ran just walked in the rules, this is the gift of the girl once in her life, even if Jin Ran doesn't like to dress up too much on weekdays, today she has to dress up carefully.
Jinran's mother Zhang had been waiting at the door of Jinran's courtyard for a long time, she looked at her daughter who was walking slowly towards her, and a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes, Jinran has not dressed up carefully on weekdays, but there is no time to be more outstanding than today's dress, the girl is not very old, just a teenager, this pink is also an extremely tender color. Jin Ran is wearing light pink, and she is also white, so she is very pressed to hold this outfit, although she is gorgeous, but these costumes do not dominate, but make her more beautiful.
"Tell me how beautiful you should be to dress up like this for a while. Don't be lazy in the future. Zhang didn't know how many times she said this kind of thing, but she couldn't help but say it again today. Zhang added the final step to Jinran's outfit today, and put a budding peach blossom on her hairpin. The peach blossoms are still with buds, and the shy and timid ones are not released, but they are very much like the girls who have just passed the hair.
Although it is not yet ripe, the flowering season has already arrived, and it is time to slowly bloom and show its beauty to the people of the world.
"Today, the emperor and Concubine Fang have also arrived." Zhang took Jinran's hand and reminded slowly.
"What? Fang Guifei? Jin Ran was so surprised that her eyes widened, as if she couldn't believe what she had just heard. The emperor was not surprised when she arrived, firstly, she was the daughter of the Sheng family, and the emperor always had to sell her family a face, and secondly, Jinran was also a small average, and she was also a member of the royal family, and there was nothing unruly about the emperor
Since ancient times, palace concubines are not allowed to leave the palace except for the time limit agreed by the emperor to return to their parents' homes. Today, it is not that the saint has not allowed the palace concubines to leave the palace, but there are only Fang Tianji and her left in Fang Guifei's house, and there are only two people in total, even if Fang Guifei is out of the palace, she has no family to get together.
On weekdays, when Concubine Fang misses her younger brother, she also summons Fang Tianji to her Yikun Palace, where can she use trouble to save her relatives? Therefore, Concubine Fang has not been in the palace once. Especially today, Jin Ran remembered that today is not the day for the palace concubines to save their relatives? And this concubine Fang also wants to go back to Fangfu, how did she get to their Sheng family?
Jin Ran was puzzled, and hurriedly asked his mother: "Is only Concubine Fang here?" Is the queen and other palace concubines here? β
Zhang shook his head: "Only Fang Guifei arrived alone today. The queen didn't know what was going on, she didn't arrive, I just heard from where your father heard from the emperor that the emperor was sympathetic to the queen's busy palace affairs, and he was worried that the queen didn't know how much time it would take to deal with official affairs when she came out, so she simply brought Concubine Fang out. β
The queen deals with palace affairs? Jin Ran almost didn't laugh out loud, which can be seen to be very funny. The queen was deprived of the right to manage the six palaces by the emperor as early as the palace banquet, and the power of the entire harem fell into the hands of Fang Guifei, the queen did not have any actual power, although all the palace concubines went to the queen's palace on the first and fifteenth days of each month, but this was just a false courtesy. The frugality in the palace, the palace concubine's moon worship, how to divide and distribute the charcoal respect, and the ice respect all need to be decided by Fang Guifei. The queen is just a mascot placed on the queen's throne, and sometimes, this concubine treasure seal is even more useful than the queen's treasure seal.
The queen is almost sick in the palace, what can she do every day? If the emperor doesn't go to her palace, she can't do anything, where can she be busy? The queen said that she was sympathetic to the queen, but the real reason was clear to everyone, this was just a reason to bring Concubine Fang out, to block the mouths of those courtiers.
Jin Ran was a little happy, she thought that it would be good if she had the opportunity to ask Fang Guifei to see her gift, but she just thought about it in her heart and didn't dare to say it, after all, there was no precedent for the palace concubine to work, who knew that her wish would come true today?
"Princess Jinrui has arrivedβ" The little eunuch given by the Internal Affairs Office shouted with all his strength, and the hall was quiet for a while.
With her hands in her sleeves and to her chest, she slowly walked up the steps, step by step, slowly towards the stage. She could clearly see the emperor and Concubine Fang sitting in the center. Concubine Fang covered her mouth with a silk handkerchief, her eyes seemed to be full of tears, and she was about to cry. And the emperor sat upright on the main seat, comforting the crying Concubine Fang from time to time.
On the emperor's side sat his parents and Fang Tianji. He's here too? Jin Ran was a little surprised in his heart, but then he laughed at the confusion of his brain, Fang Tianji must be here today, after all, ....... after all, this is his own gift.
Standing in the center of the platform = is the concierge and praiser of the day. Most of the protocols are served by older female elders, and Jin Ran invited Fang Tianji's aunt today. This lady can almost be regarded as the only relative of Fang Guifei and Fang Tianji, she helped Fang Tianji a lot when he was young, and the Zhang family simply asked her to be the protocol for his daughter and the ceremony.
This lady's husband is just a casual waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and even her rank is not very high, but Jin Ran doesn't mind, this lady's willingness to come means that she recognizes herself, and Fang Tianji's respected elders can recognize herself It already makes Jin Ran very happy.
And the praiser must be Jinran's friend Princess Ming'an. Princess Ming'an is very low-key today, she seems not to steal the limelight from her friends, she gave up the dazzling red dress that Su Ri always wears, and changed into a light gray gauze skirt, her skirt is pendant with a few butterflies made of silk satin of the same color, fluttering, but not monotonous The whole gray dress.
Princess Ming'an walked to Jin Ran's side, she looked at Jin Ran, who seemed to be a little nervous, and couldn't help but hook the corners of her mouth slightly, she whispered: "Don't be afraid, I practiced my hair combing technique hard yesterday, and I won't remove a single hair of yours." β
Jin Ran's original nervousness disappeared in Princess Ming'an's eyebrows, she smiled embarrassedly, and whispered back: "Then I want to see your skills." β
One of the most important links in the gift of the and the flute is to re-tie the hair of the girl of the curtain, and then tie up a bun for her that belongs to the girl after the curtain, such a bun will generally be more mature and stable, Princess Ming'an has been a servant since she was a child, where do you know how to comb people's hair? But for the sake of Jinran, Princess Ming'an can only bite the bullet. Why don't you let Jin Ran go through the whole gift with a mess?
The comb that Zhang prepared for Jinran is a chanterelle-yellow yellow jade comb, which, as the name suggests, refers to the oily and shiny jadeite that is as yellow as an egg yolk. The jade material used for Jinran's jade comb is excellent, not only the color is a rare colorful jade, but even the water is almost glassy, and there is a bit of luster in the water. The comb body is also engraved with this fine auspicious cloud pattern, and the first half of the hollow comb body is tied with a red silk rope with a flower knot.
Such a delicate comb in the tray is very eye-catching, and even Princess Ming'an, who has already seen this comb, can't help but look at it again and again.