Chapter 3 Birthmarks
Pei Baoer didn't believe in gods and ghosts, but the fact that she crossed through was too mysterious, so she had to believe it.
When she crossed over, she was lonely, but fortunately there was a kind-hearted Mrs. Wang to help. This time, his son was abducted, and he happened to meet a noble person who seemed to have a lot of background. It can only be said that there are gods and Buddhas in the underworld.
She recited the name Qi San several times in her heart, and naturally she didn't believe that this was her real name, and eighty percent of it was made up by that man. The surname Qi is not wrong, Qi San, maybe that noble person is the third in the family. Anyway, the noble man has a posture of giving grace and not hoping to repay it, and she only needs to use this name to set up an immortal card and feel at ease.
The black-faced man drove his horse all the way out of the city, and sure enough, he caught up with the slow-walking team a few miles outside the city.
He respectfully approached the carriage and reported, "Master, the baby has been sent home." ”
There was a barely audible "En" from the carriage, and nothing else. The black-faced man obediently stepped back and returned to the position of the guard.
Although the people in the carriage did not say anything more, the entire convoy moved as if it had received an invisible command, and the speed was obviously more than twice as fast as before.
There are more than a dozen people in this line, it looks like a hurry, although the style of the carriage is simple and inconspicuous, only there is a faint black mark on the side of the car, like an animal totem with a sheep body and human face, although the lines are simple, but it reveals a coercion that people should not approach.
The man sitting crookedly in the car was slightly pale, holding a scroll in his hand. He narrowed his narrow phoenix eyes, and he didn't turn the next page for a long time, and he didn't know if he was thinking about this futile search, or the strange child he met on the side of the road and called him father.
He tugged at the corners of his mouth, frowned as soon as he smiled, and a violent cough sounded in his chest, but he tried to suppress it, and even his originally pale face had a trace of abnormal flushing.
"Master, are you alright? But do you want to stay in Licheng for a day and find a doctor? ”
The coughing suddenly disappeared, and he replied firmly: "No need, go back to Beijing directly." ”
At this moment, there was a faint chill between the man's eyebrows, and a faint coercion exuded from his body, although the man outside the carriage was worried, he didn't dare to speak again.
The man took out an old handkerchief from his chest, but he paused when he raised it in front of him, looked at the crooked patterns on it for a long time, and then stuffed it back in the same way, and took the handkerchief from the small grid on the car wall, and slowly wiped away a trace of blood from the corner of his mouth. Then he threw it aside with an expressionless face, his anger was weak and heavi, and he simply leaned against the wall of the car and closed his eyes to recuperate.
However, the chatter outside the carriage still more or less entered his ears.
"The baby I saved today is a ghost, a little big person, who speaks fluently, was abducted by a kidnapper, and he dared to ask us for help......"
- Presumably because you think that we are either rich or expensive, and disdain child trafficking?
"That baby still called the master's father, haha, don't say it, his eyes really look a little like the master, when I left, he still pulled his throat and asked me to say hello to the master, and called the master's beautiful uncle......"
- Every time that baby calls the master a beautiful uncle, the master's face will be darker, hehe~
"The family was also careless, the little lady cried so much that her makeup was smuddy, her face was yellow and white, and the birthmarks were exposed, tsk......"
- You didn't take the opportunity to flirt with other people's little ladies, did you?
The man in the car snapped his eyes open and quickly closed them again, a self-deprecating smile on the corner of his mouth.
Osmanthus Lane, Liu's house.
After watching the lively neighbors and officials leave, Sister-in-law Chen made a gesture to kneel down for Pei Baoer, but the latter hurriedly helped her up.
"Big sister, it's all my ...... today"
Pei Bao'er sighed deeply, "Fortunately, Yan'er has been recovered, if it can't be found, what's the use of blaming you?" I haven't thanked you for taking care of him for me......"
The two of them were polite, and agreed to choose an auspicious day outside the city to add sesame oil to the Yunyin Temple outside the city in two days, and give the Engong Changsheng tablet named Qi San. Sister-in-law Chen also said that she wanted to pay half of the money, but Pei Baoer politely refused.
"Sister-in-law, why should you be so polite, it's not easy for you to be busy alone, I'm very grateful to be able to accompany me on a trip."
After entering the house, Pei Baoer looked at Liu Yan's child who started riding a wooden horse like no one else, and couldn't wait to hold his ears for a child safety education.
Liu Yan raised the conversation first: "Mother! Uncle Beauty! ”
Pei Bao'er snorted and nodded the tip of his nose: "Do you know what a beauty is?" ”
Liu Yan held up his small chest and said: "My mother is a beauty!" ”
At this time, Liu Yun also returned, and he had already learned what had happened from the neighbors.
The round face that was as young as a teenager was a little more worried. If you only look at the appearance, most people will think that he and Pei Baoer are more like sisters and brothers, after all, the two have very similar almond eyes. But as soon as he spoke, his low and hoarse voice showed his identity as an adult man, but his appearance and age did not match much. They call themselves husband and wife, but not many people are suspicious of anything.
"Sister, if I don't do the work, there won't be much money over there anyway. Every day when you go to work, I'll take the inkstone at home. He was a little scared.
Pei Baoer disagreed, her fat powder shop could only be opened in the Year of the Monkey, and it was impossible for the part-time job of the makeup lady to collect money every day, and they had no land, both of them had to go out to work every day to make money, how could they casually cut off one of the regular sources of income.
"Don't be stupid, you don't go to be an accountant, and go out to copy letters for people? Or painting? Not to mention that you can't make a lot of money, you have to tear up the kitchen when you cook, and if I let you two stay together, it will definitely be a big mess! ”
Liu Yun hesitated and said: "But the Chen family ......"
Pei Bao'er waved her hand, "Today is also an accident, and Sister-in-law Chen didn't mean it." It's just that if this happens, we can't let the family help take care of the children every day. We have to find a way to ......"
Both were lost in thought.
Liu Yun's real name is Liuyun, an orphan, no father or mother, and he doesn't even know his surname. This seemingly elegant name was given by the turtle in the small pavilion. Because of his delicate face, coupled with his proficiency in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, especially his ability to paint well, Liuyun is very popular with those dignitaries and nobles who love to raise male pets, and was even bought back to his house by a big man. It's just that the big man is an elegant on the outside and tyrannical on the inside, Liuyun was tortured in his mansion to lose half his life, and his throat was ruined, and finally escaped desperately with the help of others, and he ended up in the small place of Baishui Town.
When Pei Baoer saw Liuyun for the first time, her eyes were red, because Liuyun was born like a little brother in the orphanage where she grew up, seven or eight years younger than her. After she went to college, she often went back to visit them, but because the age difference was too far, she and the little brother didn't say many heart-to-heart words. Now that he has met such a similar person in this different time and space, it is really not a coincidence that can be explained.
This Liuyun is younger than her, and she really regards him as a younger brother, and she privately recognized her godfather, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, she simply declared that the two were husband and wife, so as to block those ill-intentioned eyes. Pei Baoer remembered that the little brother in her impression was surnamed Liu, and she happened to be right with the name Shangliuyun, so she discussed asking him to change his surname to Liu.
She didn't hide her secrets, she directly took out the red envelope on her body and shook it in front of his eyes.
"What is this?" As soon as Liu Yun opened it, he was pleasantly surprised to find that there were one or two pieces of silver inside. "The Su family is so generous?"
Pei Baoer talked about her performance in the Su family today, and sincerely thanked him for teaching her the good skill of combing hair at the bottom of the box.
Liu Yun smiled faintly, "This kind of craftsmanship is useless in my hands, it's a shame to say it, isn't it right for you?" ”
Pei Bao'er knew that he probably remembered the unbearable days when he was pampered again, and he was in a sad mood, so he quickly changed the topic: "Mrs. Su is generous, and she is kind when she looks at people. You said, it would be nice if someone married a daughter every day, and it would be better if someone was idle and had nothing to do and asked me to come over and put on makeup every day. "But I can only think about it, these days, the rich wife's own maidservants are very versatile, and it is impossible for ordinary women's daughters to be so losers.
In the past year, Pei Baoer and Liu Yun have worked hard and cut down on food and clothing, and they have only saved nearly one or two silver in total. Plus today's "tip", it will only be two taels, and Ming'er will go to Yunyin Temple for a trip, and a small half will have to be removed. It seems that she is still far away from her goal of opening a shop with a hundred taels of principal!
Speaking of the establishment of the Changsheng card, Liu Yun listened to what she said about "Qi San", and his face was a little frightened. Qi Naiguo's surname, according to Pei Bao'er, the eighty percent who helped today was a noble person who passed by here, and I don't know if this noble person has any connection with the demon who bought him back before.
Pei Baoer didn't pay attention to the change in his expression, and went straight into the house to remove his makeup.
An old bronze mirror shows a blurred woman's face. The complexion is fair, a pair of almond eyes are always smiling, and the lips are not dotted, if it weren't for the red mark on the left side of the face, it can be said that she is a beauty.
The face was almost identical to her previous face, with the only difference being that the dark red birthmark on her forehead had been replaced by the left cheek.
Pei Bao'er sighed softly in the mirror.
Because of that birthmark, she was abandoned by her parents at birth and raised in an orphanage, and the only thing left by the cruel parents was a thin swaddling cloth and a note with her name written on it. It's also ironic to say that he gave his daughter the name of Bao'er, but turned around and abandoned her.
Since she was sensible, she has been extremely inferior because of the birthmark the size of half a palm, otherwise she would not have fallen into the pit of cosmetics, and even college majors and jobs are related to this aspect. After work, she used laser treatment to remove the birthmark, and the area was greatly reduced and shalved. The doctor said that a few more courses of treatment would be cured. Unexpectedly, she didn't have time to give herself a flawless face, so she wore it here.
The only thing that was fortunate was that the birthmark on the face of the woman she was wearing was not as large as it was when she was born, only the size of a thumb cap, about the size of the birthmark on her forehead before she crossed it.
Perhaps, this is the fate in the underworld, Liuyun, and this woman, maybe this is their past life?
Today, when she went to Su's house to be a makeup lady, she specially put on makeup, and the most important thing was to cover the red mark, so as not to hinder the eyes of the main family. Secondly, she used her makeup skills to make herself a little less beautiful without the red mark, and it was always difficult to compete with the bride.
Unexpectedly, today's makeup removal reminded her that she must consider enhancing the waterproof properties of the foundation.
Pei Baoer has a new goal and a new motivation.
After going to Yunyin Temple the next day, in addition to going to the shop to work every day, I stayed up late at night to engage in product research and development, and I was so busy that I didn't even go through Qixi Festival. Anyway, in her cognition, she is a married woman with an oil bottle, and Tanabata is a day for little girls to find fun.
Unexpectedly, a new commission came to her door a few days later, and it was her current employer and benefactor. However, this time the commission is quite "alternative".
Pei Baoer couldn't believe her ears: "Huh? What did you just say? I don't seem to hear ......."
Mrs. Wang was idle, and her waist was just a little better, so she came out to inspect the shop with her old waist, of course, mainly for the request of the He family.
"You heard it right, it's the eldest girl of the county magistrate's family, it seems that she is preparing to discuss marriage recently, and I want to invite you to come over and design a suitable makeup for her, so that she can see each other easily. Well, it's the kind that looks like you can lose more than a dozen pounds. ”
Seeing that Pei Baoer was still dumbfounded, she explained: "Although I didn't see the makeup you put on Miss Su that day, I just heard Mrs. Su talk about it later, and it was full of praise." I've known you for a long time, so I naturally know what you're capable of. Because Mrs. Su was familiar with Mrs. He, she mentioned this, and Mrs. He was heartbroken, and asked her to invite you. She knew that you and I knew each other, and she came to me as a lobbyist. Look at this ......."
Pei Baoer rubbed her temples and suddenly had a little headache.
She has superb makeup skills, and she can help girls with average or even not very good backgrounds to change their old looks, which is also true. However, no matter how much shadow she plays, she can't help that He Qianjin put on makeup to make her look more than ten pounds thinner!
Because, Miss He is very famous, even a foreigner like Pei Baoer has heard it several times in the gossip of others.
Miss He is very famous in Taixing County, but the way she is famous is a little disgraceful. She is not the most talented, nor the most beautiful, but the fattest daughter in the county......