After breakfast, Mrs. Xia said to her daughters with a pleasant face: "You go back and change your clothes, and we will go to Dajue Temple to ask for a sign in a while, and then ask for three amulets to send to your eldest sister and two nephews." ”

The three girls were busy and went down to dress up themselves.

This time when they came to Beijing, in order to hurry, the Pei family tried to streamline their staff. Each of the three girls brought only one maid.

Back in his house, Pei Shufen asked the maid Tongyue to take out the green platen button placket jacket with eight Hunan skirts embroidered with green bamboo leaves. Because it was going out in winter, Tongyue took out the blue-gold feather gauze cloak with the Guanyin pocket and prepared to go out to use it.

Pei Shufen looked at the color of the clothes and said to Tong Yue: "Comb me with a double bun." "The double-ringed bun is the best way to comb girls between adults and minors, and it doesn't look as childish as a girl's bun, and it's not as mature as a fallen bun.

Tong Yue's hands were very skillful, she took the jade comb and quickly straightened out Pei Shufen's hair, so she used her fingers to comb her hair and pull it up.

"The fourth lady's hair is black and dense, and she doesn't need a wig bun." Kiritsu smiled and praised Pei Shufen's hair.

Pei Shufen looked in the mirror and just smiled, but did not speak.

When she first wore it, the hair on this body was yellow and thin. She didn't know how many shou wu that grew in the Langjing Cave Heaven to raise her hair. Beauty is a thing, internal and external cultivation is the king, Pei Shufen is a little proud in her heart.

After combing her hair, Tong Yue went to Pei Shufen's jewelry box and found a pair of gilded and silver hairpins with tired silk moire inlaid with tourmaline, and inserted them at the bottom of the ring bun one by one. Natural tourmaline, no two pieces are exactly the same color. The tourmalines on her pair of gilded silver hairpins, one pink green and one pink green, are all of good color, and they are very suitable for the dress she is wearing today.

"Kiritsuki, your vision is getting better and better." Pei Shufen glanced back at Tongyue and praised.

Kiritsu took a few steps back, carefully looked at the combination of the hairpin and the double-ring bun, and went to the jewelry box again, picking out a pair of ivory earrings. The base of silver gilt silk is an oval ivory convex surface with engraved red flowers and birds in the middle.

Pei Shufen glanced at this pair of earrings and said, "That's it." ”

Tong Yue hurriedly leaned over and put it on Pei Shufen.

Pei Shufen looked in the mirror and was very satisfied. There wasn't much jewelry on her head, but it matched her age and skin color. The clothes on his body are even more in winter, bringing out a breath of spring. - It's hard not to pay attention to this dress.

Coming out of her house, Pei Shufen saw the two sisters holding hands and turning from the verandah, so she stood in front of her door and smiled at the two sisters: "Second sister, third sister, your horse face skirt is so beautiful." ”

Pei Shulan wore a loose light cyan bias jacket on her upper body, and the surface of her clothes was clean and clean, without any embroidery trim. There is a horse-faced skirt with alternating blue and white silk silk tied underneath, but the workmanship is exquisite. The horse face in the middle is decorated with moire, and a whole picture of a golden lady hairpin is embroidered on it. Whether it is the clothes on the ladies' bodies, the ornaments on their heads, or the flowers around them, they are all embroidered vividly. The pleats next to the horse's face and the hem of the skirt are tirelessly embroidered with flowers and trees. This skirt can't be embroidered without a year and a half of effort.

Pei Shufen glanced at the skirt with envy, then turned her head to look at Pei Shufang and said, "Third sister, why don't you wear jewelry?" ”

Pei Shufang, like Pei Shulan, is wearing a slanted middle jacket on the upper body and a horse-faced skirt underneath, but the color is different. Her upper body is begonia red, and the horse-faced skirt below is black and red, taking advantage of her extraordinarily delicate and white skin, even if her appearance is worse than that of her second sister Pei Shulan, this color is also supplemented.

Looking at it carefully, the style of the third sister Pei Shufang's top is slightly different from that of the second sister Pei Shulan. Pei Shulan's face is extremely good, with a thin body, flat chest, shaved shoulders, thin waist, narrow buttocks, and a weak appearance. Under the cover of layers of wide clothes, she acts like a weak willow supporting the wind, and she is the appearance of the most standard aristocratic beauty in the world.

Pei Shufang is different, she is slightly inferior to Pei Shulan in appearance, but her figure is concave and convex, so she wears a slanted middle jacket, unlike the second sister Pei Shulan, who is loosely put on her body, but slightly tucked in at the waist, which makes her chest high and waist thin, and her hips and legs are long. Although it is not very suitable for everyone's beautiful eyes, in the eyes of men, it is naturally unique.

Pei Shufen praised while watching, but secretly raised her vigilance in her heart: the two sisters have done enough work, and they can't compare with them in age, appearance and figure for the time being, and if they want to win, they have to find another way.

Pei Shufang also glanced at the fourth sister Pei Shufen, and saw that her green and willow green dress set off her immature but delicate face. It's just that they are going to the temple to pray for incense, not to the big theater to listen to the play, such a dress, a little later, then gently reminded: "The eldest sister is sick, the family is thrifty, more things are better than less, the fourth sister still put the tired tourmaline hairpin on the head, go temporarily." ”

Pei Shufen panicked, she took care of her dress, forgot about the taboo, and hurriedly thanked the third sister Shu Fang sincerely: "Thank you for the reminder, the little sister will go and change." As he spoke, he hurried back to his room, took off the tired tourmaline hairpin on his head, took off the ivory earrings, replaced them with a pair of earplugs with rice grains, and stuffed them in his ears. At first glance, it is not obvious, only a grain of bright pearl light passes through the ears between Gu Pan, and there is a kind of quiet luxury and reserve.

When I came to my mother's house, the two sisters were already waiting there, talking to my mother.

Seeing Pei Shufen come in, Mrs. Xia smiled and beckoned her to come over, sat down on the footstool under her, and asked, "Why did you delay for so long?" He took Pei Shufen's hand and looked at it carefully, and praised: "You are the youngest, but you like to dress up the most, and you have the same temperament as your aunt." Every time I come out, I won't stop if I don't dress up differently from everyone else. ”

Pei Shufen heard her grandmother mention her biological mother, the smile on her face was a little reluctant, and she didn't know how to reply.

Seeing Pei Shufen's stammering appearance, Mrs. Xia sighed secretly in her heart: she is still a child after all, so she hurriedly changed the topic and said: "Your aunt loves to dress up, and it is also human nature. What woman doesn't like to dress up? - Let's just say that your mother and I are old, and I don't wear them every day, and I don't see anyone. After speaking, he took a handkerchief and covered his mouth and smiled.

Pei Shulan and Pei Shufang didn't talk much, and when they saw Mrs. Xia and the fourth sister joking, they also hurriedly joked: "Mother, what are you talking about?" ——At home last month, when my mother tried on clothes, she wore that apricot-colored gown, and even my father said that my mother had not changed for so many years, just like the first time I saw it. ”

Mrs. Xia and Pei Shoufu are harmonious and have a very good relationship. After listening to the words of the two daughters, Mrs. Xia's face was slightly red, and she said angrily: "You just remember these boring words." - I'm so old, if I really haven't changed at all, I won't be an old goblin! ”

The three sisters all laughed. The house is happy, a scene of mother and daughter.

Mrs. Xia remembered that in her life, she married a good man and gave birth to three sons and a daughter. Although the husband took three concubines, two of them were given by the former emperor Longqing, and one was carried by the dowry maid beside him, which was not requested by the husband himself. And after the three concubines had children, the husband never went to their house again, and kept watch over him.

The only thing that didn't go well was probably his eldest daughter. At the beginning, he had set a good family affair, but for the sake of the court, he retired and married to the uneasy place of the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion. Now for the sake of the two children left by the eldest daughter, another concubine will be sent in.

Mrs. Xia looked at the three budding maidens in front of her, and there was a trace of unbearability in her eyes.