Chapter 7: Hailstorm

Because of Miss He's greedy mouth caused diarrhea, weight loss training could only be temporarily suspended for two days, so that she could drink some decoction to recover, and replenish her vitality by the way.

However, this accident also reminded Pei Baoer that if she continued to eat like this for a long time, she was afraid that she would spoil Miss He, and if she had to return to her normal diet after a year, it would take a month or two to get used to it. I have to think of a way to make Miss He's stomach less hungry and thirsty on the premise of controlling my calorie intake.

It's just that in these years, the social productivity is not developed enough, the ingredients are not rich enough, and she can't get any low-calorie meal replacement snacks such as cellulose bars and protein bars, what should she do?

Pei Baoer thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with a way when she went to Kang's house to comb her hair part-time the next day.

Because the Kang family is just an ordinary farmer, living in Dali Village, ten miles outside the city, Pei Baoer saw a cow when she went to the Kang family's yard. It is a big bull on the farmland, oily and slippery.

She had a flash of inspiration and that drinking skim milk seemed to help with the recovery of diarrhea symptoms, both to supplement high-quality protein and ensure nutritional intake, and to prevent excessive fat intake. Although there is no such thing as skimming in this era, Pei Baoer knows that she only needs to heat and scrape off the thin film on the surface of the milk and repeat it several times.

She was eager to try, and she wanted to go to Hefu to submit her latest "plan", but the work at hand was not over, so she could only patiently compliment today's bride Zikang girl.

Pei Baoer also met an acquaintance in the bride's boudoir, who was the Su lady she had decorated with two months ago.

Su Niangzi smiled at her, and she also smiled back. Pei Baoer has always been a person who knows how to repay kindness, Su Niangzi helped her with her hands, although she has nothing to repay her for the time being, but it is always right to have a little more kindness. At the very least, dressing up this Kang girl beautifully out of the house should be regarded as a way to repay.

It's just that after half a pillar of incense, Pei Baoer began to feel that today's happy money is not easy to get.

Miss Kang first disliked that the bun she designed couldn't bring out her "peerless appearance"-

"What kind of bun is this? It's weird, you dismantle it for me, comb a peony hair! ”

Then began to pick and choose the contents of Pei Baoer's own makeup box-

"Is this the gouache of the Pin Xiang Pavilion? No, then I don't want to use it, just use my own...... Those brushes make your face itchy, or don't ......"

Looking at Miss Kang's arrogant round face, Pei Baoer's face was almost green.

The ancients wrote a poem: "I heard that the south of the Yangtze River is one foot high, and the six palaces compete for the peony head." This peony head is once a popular hairstyle, the sideburns are fluffy and the bun is smooth, and the tail of the bun is double-locked, according to the skillful brother Liu Yun, the highest bun can be combed seven inches high, and the flying bun is also inseparable, it can be said that it is a very rich and graceful hairstyle, but it is not very popular now.

I don't know if this Kang girl is advocating retro, or if she is deliberately going against her, Pei Baoer's euphemistic persuasion has no effect at all, she is very persistent.

The peony head must be filled with a large number of wigs, and because of its large volume, the jewelry inserted must be indispensable. The most important thing is that the Huasheng in the middle must be able to calm the field. In the vernacular, it's big enough and cool enough. This is also why most of the people who comb this kind of hair bun are aristocratic women, at least the kind of rich ladies who wear a few sets of jewelry when the family does not have to worry about money and spending.

Pei Baoer glanced at the jewelry in the bride's makeup box, well, it looked golden, but she weighed it, and most of it was gold-clad copper. And those headdresses are almost all thin hairpins or beaded hairpins, she can't always use these indiscriminate to fill the number, it's no problem to plug in the front, but the side and back may be exposed in minutes.

The look of embarrassment on her face was so obvious that half of the ladies in the room could see it.

Mrs. Kang was not very happy, she felt that since Mrs. Qiu was robbed by the domineering Lin family, it seemed that nothing was going well. This Pei Niangzi doesn't look at it at all, her own girl's good life, she has to do it with them everywhere. If she hadn't been able to find anyone else temporarily, she wouldn't have bothered to deal with Pei Baoer.

"Cough, Pei Niangzi, the auspicious time is coming, the girl wants to comb the peony hair, you just follow her. You can't let the groom wait in the courtyard! The last sentence was a little heavier.

Pei Baoer's cheek muscles twitched slightly, so she had to start combing her hair.

That's it, it's really not good to use a few strings of beads to make up the numbers, who makes this Kang family like to slap a swollen face and become fat?

In view of Miss Kang's disdain for her new cosmetics, and arrogantly believing that products other than Pinxiang Pavilion could not be painted on her delicate face, Pei Bao'er could only use local materials and use the set of rouge water that she privately felt was likely to contain lead powder to apply makeup to Miss Kang.

When the makeup was finally completed, Miss Kang looked left and right in the mirror, and muttered, "It's not that powerful, it's just a little better than my own makeup." ”

Mrs. Kang also muttered to a woman behind her back, "This skill is really average, and I don't know how my niece and daughter-in-law respect her so much, and I am embarrassed not to give her this face, alas." ”

The woman nodded in agreement, who said no, after all, this niece and daughter-in-law is married to a good man, and his brother is a county lord in the county, so he doesn't know where he can go in the future. Although he is a junior, he always has to give a little more face. This makeup lady is really not powerful, and she has lived up to Su Niangzi's expectations for her. And so on.

For the first time, Pei Baoer realized what it meant to be "a good woman is difficult to cook without rice", and what was even more annoying was that there was rice next to her, so she was not allowed to use it, and finally said that she didn't cook well!

When she left the Kang family with the thin red envelope, she was so angry that she almost couldn't even hold back her smirk. If it weren't for Mrs. Wang's good heart, she would have been allowed to take a half-day off from time to time, and her salary would not be deducted. Otherwise, this bit of happy money may not be enough to deduct. You can imagine how stingy this Kang family is!

Not long after walking out of the small courtyard, he was softly stopped: "Pei Niangzi, please stay." When I looked back, it was the Su lady.

Su Shi came with his mother-in-law today, and it was not good to leave for too long, so he hurriedly said no to Pei Bao'er, and said a few more polite words before turning back.

The person was recommended by her, and the Su family who was in the Kang family today also saw it in their eyes and was ashamed in their hearts.

She doesn't look down on her cousin's family's style, she is clearly just an ordinary villager, she has to go up to the sky with her tail up, and show off the style of Miss Pei in front of Pei Niangzi, as if she can elevate her image by stepping on Pei Niangzi. Hmph, isn't it the courage that only my father-in-law and husband have?

It's nothing, which big family doesn't have a poor relative, and it's just a gesture to help one or two, but she has never seen her nose in the face like this. Su Shi shook his head, thinking in his heart that he would go home another day to ask his eldest sister-in-law for advice.

Although Pei Bao'er is a little angry, but if she is angry, forget it, who hasn't touched a few strange things, at least this Kang family didn't pick it out and didn't give her happy money.

When she got home, she complained to Liu Yun, who deliberately asked for leave to watch the child at home, and Liu Yun also smiled: "According to what you said, that Kang girl, oh no, Kang Niangzi was born with a round face like a silver plate, but she still has to comb her hair like this, and I don't know how the groom felt when he lifted his hijab." ”

Left and right are just a flatbread on a lace plate!

Pei Baoer pursed her lips, "She doesn't look down on my belongings, but she also saves me costs." Today's trip is not a loss. ”

She easily poured the dozens of copper plates in the red envelope into the jar of money at home, but she was a little worried that the effect would be average today, and she was afraid that no one would invite her to be a makeup lady in the future, so she was sad and stunned.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in the capital, the regent's palace.

As one of the most important personal guards around the prince, Lei Ming has also felt very sad recently.

Since returning to Beijing last month, he has been thinking about marrying a daughter-in-law, and he has also obtained the permission of the prince, which probably means that the unmarried girls in the whole palace are chosen by him, and it can be said that he is very considerate of his subordinates.

But I don't know who spread the news, and for a while, he became a sweetheart. The little maids in the house looked at him differently, some were curious, some were cautious, and some were hot and straightforward. Even the two masters of the West Courtyard intentionally or unintentionally let their maidservants come to the front yard to send this and that, just to "meet" him by chance. This flattered him.

Because he was born with dark skin, rough appearance, and old age, he has never had much peach blossom luck. Last year, I entrusted the blessing of my eldest brother Lei Chang to work as a personal guard by the prince's side, and he was slowly reused. But when he looked at those girls, they seemed to look similar, and the introverted ones didn't tell if they had a good temperament; Be bold, he thinks that those girls have ghosts in their hearts and can't marry, especially the beautiful maids in Concubine Lin and Aunt Liu's courtyard.

So, he could only avoid those amorous maids by tracking down the theft of the princess's mausoleum, and he wished that he didn't have to go back to the palace every day.

On the night of August 15, he followed the prince to the palace banquet, and wanted to take the opportunity to ask the brother on duty for advice, after all, he married the personal maid of the former princess, and he should be considered experienced. Unexpectedly, the prince only drank two glasses of water and wine and withdrew early, so he could only retreat.

Back at the palace, the master didn't even change his python robe, and went straight to the dusty main courtyard, and asked him to go over with a shovel.

Lei Ming hasn't been to this place yet, he has only been in the palace for a year, and many things are not clear, only that it is the former residence of the deceased princess. Moreover, the prince ordered that no one except the two maidservants who sprinkled the sweep should enter without an order.

Before entering the mansion, his brother Lei Chang warned him to do more things and talk less, especially about the princess, if the prince doesn't ask about it, don't take the initiative to mention it.

Everyone in the capital knows that the regent now has only one son, which is from Concubine Lin, and the prince seems to have no intention of remarrying, so they are wondering if he is going to straighten Concubine Lin. Although the law of Dasheng prohibits the rectification of the side chamber, as the regent above ten thousand people under one person, isn't the law still something that he can change if he wants to?

Therefore, at that time, he was still ignorant to ask which princess it was. Hearing this, Lei Chang's face changed, and he said more solemnly: "You have to remember that our prince has only one princess, and that is Princess Pei, who has passed away. The two in the West Courtyard, although they gave birth to a big man and a big lady, have nothing to do with you, how far away are you on weekdays! ”

Although Lei Ming has a nickname for Lao Hei, he is young and doesn't know much about these twists and turns, so he can only nod obediently.

At this moment, he was a little inexplicable, scratching his head while holding a shovel, following behind his master's buttocks, and there was some pride in his heart that was valued. After all, it was a forbidden place in the palace, and now that the master allowed him to follow him, didn't it mean that he was more trusted?

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the main courtyard, the prince led him to a tree, sat on the stone bench with an expressionless face, and instructed him to dig in a certain position.

Lei Ming's liver fluttered carefully, and he felt as if he had touched the edge of some secret. The rural stories he had heard since he was a child suddenly popped out of his mind, and the cold hairs on his back stood on end, thinking in horror, could it be that Princess Pei was buried underneath!

Fortunately, what he dug up was not a beautiful female corpse or a coffin, but a number of small black porcelain altars the size of his palm.

"Take out one jar, and bury the rest."

He patted open the mud seal at the mouth of the altar, and a quiet and chilling aroma of wine came to his nose, mixed with the sweet smell of osmanthus on the top of his head, which made people particularly intoxicated.

"Alright, you can go down."

Lei Ming was sent away like this, and the next day, when he entered the palace, he mentioned it to his brother, but the other party hated iron and said: "You, you, what I usually say to you is the wind in my ears, right?" The prince has been in poor health for the past two years, and the wind is cold at night, how can you leave him there alone to blow the cold wind and drink cold wine? ”

He shrunk his neck, but the master didn't look different when he got up today, and he wasn't a glass beauty, so he didn't need to be so careful.

Maybe it was God's punishment for his inattentive service to his master, and as soon as the morning court meeting ended, Lei Ming took on a drudgery - escorting Qin to disaster relief!

It is said that it was a sudden hail on the eastern side of Taihang Mountain, and countless people, houses, cattle and sheep were killed and injured. This morning, the prince of his own family made a big fire, removed a large number of official positions, and ordered several adults from the household department and the official department to take a group of newly appointed prefects and county orders to take the lead, and disaster relief materials followed.

Lei Ming had no choice but to feel bitter in his heart and set off with the Qin messengers with a solemn face.

When he was riding on a horse, he suddenly remembered, isn't Taixing County in that area on the way back? I don't know if there's anything wrong with that goblin little baby.