"Don't! Don't kill my sister. ”

"Don't be afraid! I'm here. ”

When Ah Ji opened her eyes, Qiu Youzi Jing was holding her. While soothing her gentle words, he patted her on the back. The frightened girl kept twitching in Qiu Youzijing's arms, and her breathing was unusually short.

When she realized it was just a nightmare, Aji held her breath. The abdomen begins to contract and relax rhythmically. Abdominal breathing adjusts the state of restlessness at the moment. As a martial artist, she easily found the state of her heart.

"I... I had a terrible dream that I dreamed of... Dreaming..."

After talking for a while, I suddenly realized that there was no need to tell the woman next to me about the nightmare. After all, she and her husband have lived together since childhood, and she knows each other's temperament best. How could the husband kill his sister? If it is, it will be a joke.

Aji blinked and twisted.

"What time is it?"

"Chenshi."

She hurriedly broke free from Qiu Youzijing's hand.

"Oh no! I haven't prepared a meal yet. Your Excellency, he..."

"Madame, don't worry. The servant is ready. ”

"Oh. Thank you. Can... Why don't you wake me up? ”

The girl was very entangled. It is her job to prepare morning and evening meals for her husband on time. If she had to do it for someone else, she would feel useless. After all, the sewing and mending at home are all done by Wang Xu.

"Lord Fang came over, and saw that Madame had not yet gotten up. You are not good at drinking, and your servant must not wake up your wife. After having breakfast, the adults went to Dongcheng first. Be... Get a good spot ahead of time. ”

Maybe I had a few more drinks last night. Aji nodded, and then asked suspiciously:

"Taking a seat?"

"Hmmm! Madame could not have forgotten. Today is the Spring Festival. ”

"Na! How did I forget. Get up, too. ”

Aji patted his head reproachfully, then straightened up. I saw that Qiu Youzijing on the side of the bed was neatly dressed, as if she had already freshened up. She stared blankly at the woman's skirt, and then, tilting her head, smiled sweetly. Hold the other person's hand and walk towards the window.

Beneath the window is a row of dark red lacquerware wooden boxes. The wooden box was full of Aji's clothes. She bent down and pulled out a peach-colored dress from the middle suitcase. The garment was divided into two layers, silk on the outside and thick cotton on the inside. Ah Ji unfolded his clothes and compared them to Qiu Youzijing's body.

"I want to wear new clothes for the New Year, and this set of clothes will be given to you."

Qiu Youzijing recognized the origin of this dress at a glance. She replied in trepidation:

"The servant didn't dare to take it. This is a bow robe, the official garment of the doctor's wife. The status of the servant is lowly, how dare she transgress the etiquette system. Madame, don't do that. ”

Aji smiled.

"Have you ever seen a crimson (pink) bow? Hey... The adults have beautiful clothes, so they make a few sets with their own hands. I like elegance, so I never wear this crimson garment. Zijing doesn't want to excuse herself, try it. ”

Ju Yi is in the defense of the country, mostly in black color, vermilion, is a symbol of the identity of the official eunuch woman.

Wang Xu actually dared to change the color of the clothes in the style of the official uniform. If it was in the Western Zhou Dynasty, it would definitely be killed. The bow is one of the queen's six clothes, and it is a dress that can only be worn during the spring silkworm ceremony. Now that etiquette is broken, women with status can wear them.

In order to dispel Qiu You Zijing's concerns, Ah Ji took out another pale cyan bow robe from the suitcase. Originally, she gave the clothes made by her husband to others, but she was still hesitant. However, Fang was comforted by Qiu Youzijing, which somewhat moved the girl.

"I didn't have a sister when I was a child. Zijing is two years older than me, if you don't mind. Later... We are sisters. All right? ”

Qiu Youzi burst into tears and bowed his head slightly.

"Good! Aji... Younger sister. ”

The girl in front of her is clearly her own sister... Sub-cloud. She can't wait to recognize her immediately, but Wang Xu knows the identity of her secret spy department. My sister is living happily now, and she doesn't want her intervention to affect the relationship between Ah Ji and Wang Xu. If you recognize Ah Ji, you must first inform Wang Xu, and after Ah Ji's life experience is clarified and confirmed, it is not too late to recognize each other.

"Sister Zijing..."

Happiness came too suddenly. After Qiu Youzijing changed into new clothes, he served Ah Ji to freshen up. She stood behind her sister, silently weeping tears. Stroking the girl's cloud-like hair, she regarded it as a treasure. In the bronze mirror, the pretty faces of the two are reflected.

"Sister! What's wrong with you? ”

"It's fine. My sister is happy. ”

"Don't cry. My sister is beautiful, and she doesn't look good when she cries. ”

Qiu Youzijing lifted the hair on her sister's forehead, tears rolling down her cheeks. She had not slept all night, and she was a little haggard at this time. The comb in his hand moved gently, and strands of long hair fell neatly and softly to one side with the direction of combing.

Aji suddenly reached out and grabbed a strand of hair. The jet-black hair was gently pulled from between the combs to her forehead, and the girl hastily flicked it a few times to cover it on her left forehead. Then, he reluctantly squeezed out a smile and looked at Qiu Youzijing in the bronze mirror.

"There's a scar here, so let's cover it up. Otherwise... Strange ugly. ”

The girl's smile made her feel a little heartache.

"You don't need to cover up, my sister will teach you."

Qiu Youzijing put down the wooden comb and hurriedly turned to leave. She hurried into the kitchen to get some things, and then went to Wang Xu's study. After a while, the woman spread the brush, flour, corn flour, dansha and other things on the dresser in front of the bronze mirror.

Aji watched dumbfounded, as the other party skillfully mixed these things together. Then the two pottery bowls were placed in Zheng, one pottery bowl was reddish powder, and the other pottery bowl was snow-white powder.

Qiu Youzijing picked up Wang Xu's baby wolf hair and put on makeup for Ah Ji.

The barrel of that brush is made of jade, which is very valuable. Wang Xu can't put it down on weekdays, but he just uses it to play and appreciate, and he is reluctant to use it to dip it into dansha to write.

At this moment, this brush was actually dipped in flour by Qiu Youzi and smeared on Ah Ji's forehead.

"Today, let's do it first. When the spring festival is over, my sister will take you to buy Hu powder and incense powder. Women's makeup and dressing, these two things are indispensable. ”

Hu flour is made by grinding rice flour and is now replaced by flour. The incense powder is made by adding spices and colored ore powder after grinding corn. Qiu Youzijing is well-informed, so he naturally knows that there will be dansha in Wang Xu's study. These two kinds of makeup powders were commonly used by aristocratic women in the Great Zhou Dynasty, just like the foundations of later generations.

Under Qiu Youzijing's ghostly whitewash, a flawless and beautiful face surprised Ah Ji. Aji didn't know how to wear makeup, and he didn't have the opportunity to ask the ladies of the noble family for tips on this. Ever since the girl took off her mask, she would always play with some messy hair in front of her left forehead to cover it. She hadn't finished yet, and even if she didn't wear her hair in a bun, no one would find it strange. The messy appearance on the forehead gives people the image of a hard-working housewife. At this moment, she opened her mouth wide in shock, unable to believe that the person in the mirror could actually be herself. After a while, she looked at Qiu Youzijing, her eyes rolling.

No wonder Qiu Youzijing is beautiful after putting on makeup. It turned out to be a highly skilled makeup artist. Thinking like this, Aji's eyes became complicated. She stretched out her hand and pinched the other person's face. Then, rubbing his fingers slightly, as if trying to find something.

This upright girl immediately made Qiu Youzijing tremble. She pinched Aji's face dotingly. Said with a proud face:

"Hehe... My sister doesn't need makeup, otherwise she wouldn't have been chosen to be a dancing girl. ”

The friendship between women is so simple to establish. Aji felt that this sister didn't know a loss. The appearance is a must, the singing and dancing is a must, and the makeup is a must.

After the two of them were in the room for nearly an hour, they rushed out of the door. At this time, Wang Xu also waited for an hour in the cold wind.

"Ah Qiu! What the hell, don't look at it. Go home... Go home..."

The flow of the festival was discussed in Nozaifu. Wang Xu also knows the timing of each step. Sacrifice at the time of the day, song and dance performances at the time of the day, and meat at noon.

He came over early in the morning and deliberately chose the best place to watch the performance on the city wall of the eastern city. For this reason, Mo Zhai, Yu Huali, Li Cang and Fengjiao were also invited to watch together. The castle wall was built under the supervision of Nozaifu, and although it is far from the stage, it has an excellent view. The most important thing is that no one is disturbed, and no one else can come up.

I wanted to abuse my power well. But I don't want to, this winter, standing on the three-zhang high city wall, really freezing to death. Nearly 10,000 people below are crowded together to look warm.

Wang Xu was so cold that he shivered. Seeing this, Mo Zhai took out two hard-boiled eggs from his sleeve and handed them over.

"Warm your hands. There will be dancing music for a while. It's rare to see it, how can Brother Xu leave? ”

Wang Xu took the egg with residual warmth and put it in his hand for a while. Take one out and knock it on the battlement, and wait until the eggshell is peeled off. I felt a chill down my spine, and a pair of resentful eyes were shooting from behind.

"Uh... Slippery, didn't you have breakfast? ”

The bird nodded like pounded garlic. Mo Zhai on the side couldn't stand it, so he reprimanded:

"You've eaten twenty of them, don't you have a dry mouth?"

"If you give it to Brother Xu, you won't give it a slippery, I won't accept it."

Feelings, this is jealousy? Wang Xu laughed and said:

"Take it! Take it! I'm not going to fight with you. ”

Li Cang and Fengjiao around couldn't help but laugh. Li Cang took out a plate of salted meat from the food box. The salted meat is steamed and fatty. It may have been prepared by Aunt Li for her husband and two children.

"It's a blessing to be able to eat. The slippery hole is powerful, and it will not be difficult to kill the enemy and win the knighthood in the future when he joins the army. Come, take it. ”

Li Cang, Mo Zhai, and Yu Huali are all gentlemen in the school. Students are to be given some bacon as a gift. Li Cang's family has so much salted meat that he can open a butcher shop. However, Mo Zhai's family had no inventory, and they were all swept away by the foodie Bird Slippery.

"Yes! Plum makes sense. A burly man like Slippery Li, if he joins the army, he will be a little and two longs. Come! Eat some hot cakes. ”

Fengjiao took two baked cakes and handed them over. While taking the food given by the old man, Yu Huali smiled shamelessly:

"Hehe, I'm going to be a general in the future."

Wang Xu rolled his eyes. Ji Lan's subordinate Wei Dai has the power to do it. It's just a long name, this guy really dares. It is estimated that after enlisting in the army, he must be a soldier, or the kind of person who rushes first and dies first.

He looked into the distance, and suddenly a familiar figure appeared below the high platform. The acting master Jiang Mou was holding a pig's head and followed behind the uncle of the cousin Baisi Mansion. He shook step by step, his steps stiffened, so nervous that he couldn't even walk. Wang Xu giggled and looked up the procession of offerings, where two men stood above the altar. One person was thin and wore a dark court robe. The other was a little bloated, dressed in a scarlet dress, which was really eye-catching.

"What the hell? Human sacrifice? ”

Terrible thoughts rose in my heart. The prayer will be read soon. Obviously, the person in the dark clothes is Ji Lan, but what is the woman in red next to her? Could it be that the sheep's head and the pig's head are not domineering enough, so they take a living person to make up the number? Wang Xu couldn't help but shudder.

Over there, the woman in red on the altar was muttering to the woman in black clothes beside her.

"Sister! Then why didn't the weirdo come and hold the pig's head? ”

"Yuan'er! Hugh is talking nonsense. Sacrifice is the service of the gods, and when the mouth speaks falsely, the heart is full of sores. ”

"Humph! My sister doesn't bluff me. I knew it was so boring, so Yuan'er didn't follow. ”

Ji Yuan came to Yunmeng yesterday. I came to celebrate the festival with my sister. According to the five elements, the Great Zhou is advocating fire virtue, so the noble women who participate in the sacrificial activities can wear red clothes. After Ji Zhang and Zhang Zhou's uncle and nephew sent this ancestor away, not to mention how happy they were, they drank all night. Now Ji Zhou, who is reading the sacrificial text in Qicheng, is still burping. Disrespect for the gods, presumably taught by this brother.

On the city wall, Wang Xu finally looked forward to Aji. The girl's gorgeous appearance made everyone's eyes shine and attracted countless praises.

"Tut-tut! In the future, in addition to heroines and goddess doctors, they will also call beautiful women. ”

The two laughed and teased a few words, and the dance music of the spring festival had begun. Ah Ji saw that everyone was eating and drinking to enjoy the performance, and then he realized that he had come empty-handed. Ashamed, he pulled Wang Xu's sleeve.

"The beloved waits here for a while, and the concubine goes home to get some wine and meat."

"Not necessarily. Madame watched singing and dancing here. I'm going, I'm running fast. By the way, make a pot of tea and show off the treasure given by Uncle Li. ”

As he spoke, Li Cang came over.

"Huh! Respect (tea) can be done at any time. If you miss this "Shao" dance, I'm afraid you will regret it for a year. I didn't know that Shao Dance was the first of the Wen Dance. When Confucius heard this dance, he didn't know the taste of meat for three months. ”

So awesome? Wang Xu looked towards the high platform. I saw a group of dancing girls dressed in colorful costumes, holding long feathers, and walking lightly and gracefully. Sometimes it becomes a circle formation, sometimes it becomes a square formation, and sometimes it becomes a triangular formation. In short, it became dazzling, and the dancing girl kept shuttling in and out of the center of the stage and walked around without a point. He wondered if the dance would end and suddenly change the words "Happy New Year" to appear?

It's boring to think about, Wang Xu turned his head. Li Cang knew that he didn't understand, and continued to explain.

"Shao" is a dance that praises the merits of Emperor Shun. This dance implies a change of yin and yang. Dance with eight hundreds. The dancing girl wears a nine-colored dance dress, and changes the law of the overlapping five elements of yin and yang in the world with a dance position. What a pity! This dance book is based on Hetu and Luoshu. Born gods, saints are born. I am not a saint, and I don't know what Confucius saw. ”

Later generations were prejudiced against Confucius who heard the Shao dance and did not know the taste of meat in March. It was from Shao Wu that he saw the changes in the five elements, so he wrote "Ten Wings". If Li Cang knew that the fragment that Wang Xu stole from him was the real "River Map", I don't know what kind of expression it would be.

However, at this time, Mo Zhai, who was standing behind the two of them and listening to them discuss Shao Wu. In the near future, he would use Shao Wu to allude to the extravagance and corruption of the aristocracy, so as to attack Confucius's Confucianism.

"Hey, hey... I'm a layman. I don't understand it. I want to eat meat right now. ”

Li Cang shook his head helplessly, and then looked intently at the stage in the distance. After Ah Ji heard the conversation between the two Rao, he was quite interested in Shao Wu.

But if you forget to bring wine and food, it is always a little inappropriate to let your husband pick it up. After all, so many people who know it well are watching. Aji Shi walked and looked at the stage with reluctance.

"Madame! You stay, and the servant goes and gets it. ”

"Hey! Do you know where the tea is? Ay! Never mind. Let's go together. ”