In the second year of the Heavenly Grant, that is, in 691 AD, the Holy Spirit Emperor accepted the honorific title in the Vientiane Shrine, stipulating that the flag should be red as the top, and the god capital Luoyang.

Overnight, Luoyang City, which was already busy with traffic and even bustling, became the focus of the world's attention.

With the wind of the Holy Spirit Emperor moving the capital, many businessmen and wealthy people also came, so that the originally remote corners were full of all kinds of banners to attract investment, and Ruyifang was one of them.

This Ruyi Rouge Shop is different from the wine shop restaurant next to it, this Ruyi Shop is very elegantly decorated, so that people can see that the owner of this shop must be a woman.

The owner claims to be surnamed Xing, nicknamed Ruyi, a native of the countryside in the suburbs of Luoyang, and his father used to be a private school teacher, so he knows some poetry and recognizes some words.

Her mother was a small jasper, and her ancestors often practiced medicine in the mountains and wilderness, so she understood some pharmacology. After the death of her parents, relying on the open wind of the Tang Dynasty, she sold all the rural properties and came to Luoyang City to open such a small Ruyi Fang, taking the meaning of everything as she wishes.

Ruyi Fang, which serves women, only sells trinkets such as rouge gouache. Just after New Year's Day, the workshop welcomed its first customer.

A young woman of about twenty-five or sixteen years of age, dressed modestly and without much embellishment. The only thing that struck people were abrupt was that the young woman's face was covered with a black veil, which did not match the plain clothes.

When they met, the woman only bowed slightly, and a pair of good-looking almond eyes were full of all kinds of unsatisfactory.

"I wonder what Madame needs?" Xing Ruyi looked at the woman's almond eyes, pointed to her own shop, and said, "Don't look at my shop, but the rouge gouache is all of the best quality." The woman glanced at it only slightly, but did not speak.

Xing Ruyi smiled, took a box of rouge, and put it in front of the woman's eyes: "The ones sold in other shops are sold from outside, and it's not easy to say whether they are clean or not, but the rouge here is all I personally picked the whole flower, and then put it in a stone bowl and repeatedly pestle the mallet, and then it was cleaned and steamed with flower dew." Xing Ruyi said, dipping some of her fingers into it: "If Madame wants to moisten her lips, she only needs to pick a little with a fine hairpin and wipe it on her lips." If the lady polishes, melts it with a little water, and wipes it in the palm of her hand, it is enough, and the price is not only home-made, but also negotiable. Xing Ruyi said as she took out the various colors of rouge placed in the counter lattice, including hollyhock flowers, heavy rouge, and high-quality rouge made of various rouge raw materials such as black bean skin, pomegranate, mountain flower and Sufang wood.

All of them are contained in delicate boxes, and when they are opened, they are bright and abnormal, and they are sweet and fragrant. But behold, the woman's eyes only brightened, and then dimmed again.

"Look at Madame's expression, isn't my rouge here not good enough?" Xing Ruyi asked, and took back the open rouge one by one.

"No, no, it's just that I ......" The woman hesitated for a while, and finally as if she had made up her mind, she tore off the black veil that hid her face.

Under the black veil, there is a face with intertwined acne pits, and the acne pits are also covered with black spots.

After tearing off the black veil and pausing for a moment, the woman covered her face with her hands and cried in a low voice: "Last March, after I gave birth to a child, these things have grown more and more on my face. At first, I also bought some rouge gouache to cover up, but the more I used it, the more the acne and dark spots grew. I was uneasy, so I wondered if I could stop the smears and my face would be better. As a result, the acne and dark spots are no longer long, but the face is no longer visible. Now, not to mention my father-in-law, even my child who can't speak sees me as if he has seen a ghost. I walked here by accident today, and saw that the girl had opened a new shop here, so the ghost sent the god to walk in, and I didn't know that the girl was here, but there was a way to cure my face? The woman said, raised her chin slightly, and saw that Xing Ruyi was still smiling as Fang Cai, and there was no trace of disgust in her eyes, so she let go of her hand and eagerly pounced on the other party: "Doesn't the girl have a way?" Isn't it? Xing Ruyi nodded: "There is a way, but this method is a little troublesome, I don't know if you are happy with it." ”

"As long as I can heal my face, I'm not afraid of any trouble." The woman was overjoyed with eagerness: "But ask the girl for a prescription, if my face can be cured, the girl can ask for as much silver as she wants." ”

"My recipe is also simple, only four dollars of winter mulberry leaves, a few cold boiled water, and the winter mulberry leaves are fried with water to remove the slag and extract juice. Then re-boil the filtered juice and put it in a sealed container for later use. I have this winter mulberry leaf here, but I need to boil it myself after my wife goes home, so I say that this method is a little troublesome. ”

"No trouble, no trouble at all." The woman's face was overjoyed, and she said again and again, "I beg the girl to give me this winter mulberry leaf, and if it can really cure these things on my face, I will thank the girl again." ”

"Madame is serious, Ruyi is just a businessman, even if she gives Mrs. Fangzi, she naturally has to collect Mrs. silver taels, Mrs. must not take it to heart, as for the heavy thanks, there is no need." Xing Ruyi said, got up and walked to the back hall, took out a dark brown wooden box, opened it, picked up the leaves with large and fat leaves, and the color was yellow and orange, put them in a pile, wrapped them in paper and handed them to the woman.

Madame remembers that after the winter mulberry leaves are boiled, Madame only needs to pour them into the palm of her hand and rub her face when she washes her face. Within a month, the lady's face can be restored to its original state. ”

"Really?" The woman was pleasantly surprised, and her hand holding the winter mulberry leaf trembled slightly.

"Whether it's true or not, Madame will know when she tries it. If the wishful formula does not work, he should return and exchange the wife with double the silver money. Xing Ruyi was still smiling, but the woman was a little embarrassed.

"Even if the girl's recipe doesn't work, Yu Niang is also grateful." The woman said, pointing out the door, "There is a tofu shop not far ahead, which is my house, and if the girl wants to eat tofu that day, come and get it." My husband's surname is Wang, and the girl can call me Yu Niang. Xing Ruyi nodded, watched the woman leave, turned around and turned back to the counter, saw the black mist in the wooden box containing winter mulberry leaves, shook his head, blew lightly, closed the wooden box, and still sent it back to the back hall.