Chapter 1 The daughter of the Shen family

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Shen Muqing smelled the fragrance of the hosta flower and opened his eyes in a daze.

The small sheep's horn palace lamp on the black lacquered pestle outside the goose-yellow shark silk tent emitted a dim yellow light, reflecting the bright red Luo tent like a sunset.

Shen Muqing was greedy for the soft warmth between the futons, turned over, and closed his eyes again.

Someone was calling out to her softly: "Girl, it's time to get up!" ”

Shen Muqing just ignored it and covered his head with the quilt.

The person who called her was not reluctant, and stood quietly by the bed.

Shen Muqing lay down for a while, and finally felt weak, lifted the quilt and sat up, and said coquettishly: "Luomei, why are you as punctual as a bell!" ”

The silk tent had been hung up with silver hooks, and in front of the bed stood a girl in a blue-green silk cotton armor. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, with a white face and thin curved eyebrows, although it is not very beautiful, its expression is very gentle, which makes people look very comfortable. She is the big girl Luomei in Shen Muqing's house.

Hearing Shen Muqing's complaint, she pursed her lips and smiled, turned around and went to pick up the big red Luo tent.

Bright lights poured in like mercury at once, illuminating the spacious eight-step bed of black lacquer.

The two little maids who did not have a head came in with a white silk jacket, a white Hangzhou silk skirt, and a narrow sleeved gown with white magnolia flowers sprinkled on a silver and red background.

Luo Mei smiled: "Girl, I will serve you to dress." ”

"No, no." Shen Muqing hurriedly shook his head, "I'll just come by myself." ”

Luo Mei served by her side for seven years and knew her habits well. Hearing her say this, he took the two little maids and curtsied her with a smile and bowed, and retreated.

The big red tent hung down again, and the dim light returned to the eight-step bed.

Shen Muqing sighed and got up, stumbling and changing his clothes.

In the mercury dressing mirror of the tall purple purlin wood carved seat at the corner of the bed, a little girl was reflected in the picture.

Shen Muqing looked at the little girl in the dressing mirror, hesitated to stretch out his finger, and gently nodded at her.

The villain in the mirror also stretched out his finger and nodded at Shen Muqing.

Shen Muqing smiled.

Who will believe it?

Seven years ago, she was just a city girl who lamented the cruelty of the workplace and kept climbing up under the drive of lucrative interests. A car accident turned her into the five-year-old daughter of Shen Zhen, a scholar of the Great Zhou Dynasty and a scholar of the Jinshen Palace, wearing a three-girl bun and a brocade jacket and a threaded skirt in the inner courtyard of the deep house......

Thinking of this, Shen Muqing couldn't help but sigh.

She thought that she would always remember the drunken and hazy face of the driver, who knows, but only seven years, not only did she not remember the face of the perpetrator, but the appearance of her parents, which gradually blurred in the long river of time, leaving only a warm feeling.

"Man is probably the most adaptable creature in the world!" Shen Muqing muttered to himself, looked at the person in the mirror and showed a sweet smile, and then shouted Luomei.

Da Hongluo's tent was immediately lifted, and the blue-green curly grass pattern ceiling was hung with red spikes and octagonal glazed palace lamps, illuminating her world brightly.

Shen Muqing smiled and entered the clean room behind the bed.

A second-class maid named Ying Fan in her room was pulling her sleeves and using her elbows to test the temperature of the water. Seeing Shen Muqing come in, Ying Fan smiled and shouted "girl" and said, "The water temperature is just right!" ”

Shen Muqing smiled and nodded at her.

Ying Fan took the two little maids who fetched water and bowed and retreated, leaving the space to Shen Muqing.

The clean room was arranged according to Shen Muqing's wishes.

Several floor-to-ceiling screens were used to divide the room into several parts, with toilets in some places, washbasins in some places, and bathtubs in other places.

Shen Muqing brushed his teeth with a toothbrush made of bristles dipped in tooth powder, then washed his face with soap scented with osmanthus flowers, came out and sat down in front of the black carved lacquered mirror next to the bed, found a palm-sized cloisonnΓ© enamel peach box from the dazzling jars and jars, and picked a soybean-sized apricot paste with his fingertips, spread it on his hand, and applied it to his face.

The room immediately filled the room with a faint scent of jasmine.

This is the "thistle balm" processed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the purple stem leaves of Lingnan Shanggong and used by the concubines. The little eunuch stole it out and sold it quietly in the gouache shop, and a box would cost two taels of silver, if it flowed to the market, it would be sold for five taels of silver, and it could only be used for a month at most, and the current price of rice in the Great Zhou Dynasty was only nine cents of silver and one stone...... Speaking of which, her life is a bit extravagant.

Shen Muqing smiled, and saw Luomei call Mingxia in the mirror.

Mingxia is a maid who specializes in combing Shen Muqing's hair. He was short and chubby, and he was a little wooden when he spoke, but his hands were very skillful, and he was fiddling with a good hand, so he went to Shen Muqing's house and received the monthly example of a third-class maid.

She walked in with two little maids who didn't have a head, and after greeting Shen Muqing with a smile, she took the big white silk scarf held by the little maid and put it around Shen Muqing's shoulder, and then opened the makeup box on the combing table, picked out a boxwood carved comb, and began to comb Shen Muqing's hair.

Before tying her hair, Mingxia would comb Shen Muqing's hair a thousand times with a boxwood comb, and then massage her scalp for a quarter of an hour, something her current mother, Li had repeatedly explained, and it was said that this would make her hair look jet black......

Shen Muqing couldn't help but look at the snow-white melon seed face in the mirror.

Her current father's name is Shen Zhen, the word Shiming, a native of Taicang, Jiangsu, and a Jinshi in Yongde for ten years. Mother Li, a native of Xiangshan, Zhejiang. The father of the two was in the same year, and they were officials in Guangxi together, and they married proud in-laws. Shen's father went early, and Shen Zhen was able to study thanks to the help of his parents-in-law, and the relationship between husband and wife was very good. It's just that Shen Zhen's official luck was not good when he was young, three ups and downs, the Li family followed him around, and the four sons and three daughters did not stand, until the fifteenth year of Qing'an, when Shen Zhen served as the political secretary of Shandong, he got another daughter. Because he was born on the ninth day and was weak and sickly, he sent his name to Guanyin Bodhisattva and took the name "Sister Ji". When she was five years old, Sister Ji slipped on the snow, fell on the back of her head, and slept for seven days and seven nights before waking up...... As for the scientific name "Mu Qing", when she was enlightened at the age of eight, Shen Zhen specially invited Liu Yu, a bachelor of Hanlin Academy, to help take it, which comes from the sentence "Ji Fu recites, Mu is like a clear breeze" from the Book of Poetry.

"Girl, girl!" Mingxia took the target mirror and shook it left and right behind Shen Muqing, and chose the angle to reflect the hairstyle behind her head into the mirror of the mirror platform, so that she could see clearly: "Can you see it?" ”

I'm done combing my hair!

Shen Muqing came back to his senses and looked at it carefully.

Comb neatly and tie tightly.

She nodded and smiled, "It's good!" ”

Zhu Ji, another big girl in Shen Muqing's house, took a box painted with gold and faded light to pick out jewelry for Shen Muqing.

The exquisite beads are neatly packed with chests, or inlaid with rare diamonds, or inlaid with precious rubies, lapis lazuli, opals, crows, and so on, and there are countless beeswax crystal pearls, coral coral hawksbill turtles, and so on. These jade stones shimmer in the light with a dazzling streamer, which is a sight to behold.

Like this box, Shen Muqing still has more than a dozen, and there are some hairpins, step shake earrings, rings, flowers and emeralds and the like. It's all given by the Li family today and tomorrow. In fact, she is still young, and she can only comb her hair three times, these things are rarely used, but the Li family loves her daughter.

Shen Muqing smiled and waved his hand, and said, "It's not like going out to be a guest, at home, you don't have to be so troublesome." ”

In fact, the most important thing is that these jewelry are very valuable, and if you wear them, the maids around her must always pay attention to them, so as not to lose them somewhere, which makes everyone very nervous.

Although she had known Shen Muqing's answer, when she heard this, Zhu Ji still smiled, and her beautiful face was a little immature, not like her usual - too dignified and steady, not at all like a little girl who was only sixteen years old.

"Girl, the east wind blew overnight yesterday, and the north wind rose this morning. I'll take out your big red Sihe Ruyi carved silk cloak, you can see it! ”

Shen Muqing has to go to his mother Li Province every morning and evening, and Shengjing in September has a faint shadow of winter, if the weather is not abnormal, it will snow in mid-October.

"That's it!" Shen Muqing smiled and nodded, "You care about my clothes and jewelry, naturally you have the final say." ”

Zhuji smiled and said, "If you really listen to me, the girl can wear two little chicks on her head......"

Shen Muqing hurriedly interrupted her: "Don't, don't, don't, you don't want me to wear flowers, it's really vulgar......"

Modern people, who will tie a head with flowers - this is a question of aesthetic concepts.

"Girl......" Zhuji shouted helplessly, "Now the nobles in the inner court also wear flowers, and the fat mill also specially uses the greenhouse to grow magnolia and begonia peonies and send them to the palace to tie flower crowns......

"If you like it, wear it yourself, but don't spoil me!"

Everyone laughed.

Although the rules of the Shen Mansion are strict, Shen Muqing usually treats people easily, and there is no elderly mother in the house, and a few maids will also watch and say a few innocuous jokes to Shen Muqing.

Zhuji had to shake her head, and went to get the cloak and came out to drape Shen Muqing.

Luo Mei smiled and called out to Jinxiu, another big girl in Shen Muqing's house-Shen Muqing was served by the two of them on weekdays.

Sisters, meet again! Don't forget to vote. (*^__^*) hee hee ......

A normal update chapter in the evening!

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