I looked at the sun, and it was probably not yet unitary time, so I was allowed to do something first.

Xu Shuyou asked me to go to Tianxianglou immediately, it was inconvenient for him to show up there, but the secret recipe of Yulu Rouge was in the hands of a person named Hua Niang in Tianxianglou.

When the steward of Tianxiang Building saw me entering with two people, he greeted me: "What does the guest officer want to buy?" ”

I hugged Xue Yun and pretended to be frivolous: "I heard that your Yulu Rouge is very famous, I don't know if I like this lady or not?" ”

"Look at what this guest officer said, the rouge of our Tianxianglou is the favorite thing of the nobles in the entire Los Angeles City. Madame must like it. ”

Xue Yun touched her cheek: "Oh? Then I'd like to take a look. ”

The steward brought a white jade box, the same as the one I bought before: "Shopkeeper, your rouge is so good, I don't know how this rouge flower girl is compared to my lady?" ”

The steward restrained his smile: "Since the guest officer knows Hua Niang, then I will call her out." After saying that, he gave his men a look, and the man went to the backyard.

"The guest officer sits first."

After a while, a bewitching and plump woman came out with a smile: "What is the matter with the son's call to the slave family?" ”

"You're not a flower girl, ask the flower girl to come out and see you."

"Yo! Childe still has a big temper, you just bought rouge and called me to do something, but since I came, you didn't want to see it. ”

"But I heard that Hua Niang is a man."

"Where did Childe hear that a woman as beautiful as me is a man?"

I opened the folding fan in my hand, and an old man appeared on the fan. There was nothing special about the fan, but what the old man caught was not a fish, but a blue shrimp.

"Can you believe it now?"

"Childe, please." The woman gestured to take me to the inner court. Xue Yun and Yan Yun also wanted to follow up, but the woman blocked back: "This son and girl can't go in." ”

I gave them a reassuring look, and went with the woman into the inner courtyard.

The backyard was very large, and I followed her up to the second floor, where there was an old man with white beard and white hair, pounding flower petals with a stone pestle.

"This is the flower girl. Does Childe believe it? ”

"There is nothing strange in the world."

When I stepped forward, I saw the old man carefully pounding the flower juice, and did not stop because of me, nor did he even raise his head.

"Everyone in the world says that flower girls love flowers, and I think flower girls are nothing more than that." I stared at the old man.

The old man didn't look up.

"Where does it come from impartiality, I say that the flower girl loves Yueji."

Only then did the old man look at me: "What do you mean, child?" ”

"The flower girl has been planting flowers for decades, but she doesn't know that all beings are equal, and she doesn't know that this beauty is different."

"What's the difference?"

"Beauty is beautiful, beauty is different, beauty is in the skin, beauty is in the bones. All flowers are beautiful, and beauty is different. The peach blossom wins in the thick spring, the moon season wins in the dignified and beautiful, the lotus wins in the elegant and clean, and the peony wins in the graceful national color. And the flower girl can't make the beauty and the flower complement each other, isn't it a pity, isn't it a pity! ”

"Children are ignorant and talk nonsense!"

"All flowers can be used in rouge, why do you have to use the moon season?"

"It's been like this since ancient times."

"Hua Niang is confused, and she doesn't know that everything in the world can change. If Hua Niang can tell me how to make Gyokuro rouge, I will tell Hua Niang that you can make red and blue rouge, rose rouge, ground blue rouge, and peach blossom rouge. ”

"Gyokuro rouge is a secret recipe, how can you know it as a child."

I shook my fan, "It's not Xiao'er, it's your master." Flower girl's fan, can you still recognize it? ”

The old man stopped his movements and carefully examined the fan. Then he took a pen and wrote down the secret recipe.

"Hua Niang is really a cheerful person."

This old man is an interesting man. I put away the rouge recipe and hid it in my bosom.

"Hua Niang, there are thousands of kinds of rouge in this world, such as madder and gardenia. Add the acidified milk. You can also replace the oil with osmanthus and jasmine head oil. The amount of each flower is different, and the suitable beauty is also different. Hua Niang understands? ”

"Hua Niang understands, Hua Niang loves flowers." The old man muttered.

"Ten days later, I will see Hua Niang, and I will also see Rouge."

"Don't worry, child."

When I saw that it was done, I walked out of the inner courtyard. It wasn't early, and I went out of Tianxianglou with Yanyun and Xueyun. said that he and Li Qingru went to buy pen and ink and inkstone, but they couldn't forget.

But I didn't know the scene in the other room of Tianxiang Building.

It was not too early to go home in the evening, and after dinner, Aunt Sun asked me if I needed to buy something. Because it is about to reach the end of the year, Aunt Sun is also the head of the second room, so she has to buy some New Year's goods.

I'm not polite, and I said my request, because there aren't many monthly cases, so I can have more.

The eldest sister also went through the second screening, and as soon as the year passed, she had to be selected last. Emperor Ningguo advocated frugality, but also opposed the dictatorship of his relatives and the formation of factions among courtiers. Therefore, even the Houmen Guifu had to be selected, and more women of appropriate age from poor families were selected. As the saying goes, the cunning rabbit dies, and the lackey cooks. At present, the emperor's external troubles have not been resolved, and it is too late to reach out to these courtiers and cause internal strife.

The eldest aunt said: "Aunt Sun, now you are also in charge of the second room, now I see that Yue'er is almost in time, when do you think her marriage will be decided?" ”

Saying this, I suddenly thought that Song Yue's ceremony would be next month.

"Don't worry, Yue'er is not sensible yet, but wait for our eldest lady's family affairs to be settled. It is impossible for Yue'er to marry earlier than the eldest sister. I think she likes the eldest lady very much, and it's good to let her learn more. ”

"Then it's up to you, but you're Yue'er's aunt."

"Madam, Yao'er is not young anymore, and it should be Yao'er's turn in the future. I thought that when she got married, there would be those dowry shops left to her by her mother, or I would keep them for her first, and when she got married, I would be a dowryman. ”

What is this Aunt Sun's idea, she wants to keep my mother's dowry? Don't let her swallow it.

"There are a number of dowry shops, her mother is still there, and she didn't bring anything when she left, so it's not appropriate for me to keep it. In this way, as soon as the year is over, I will hand it over to you. You have to be careful. ”

"Madame, don't worry."

Aunt Sun is going to take over my dowry. I don't even know what my dowry is. But the eldest aunt is not a person in the second room after all, and she can't interfere, so what can I do now?

I thought about it, and the only way to do this was to find out what my dowry was and how much it was. Then find a way to get it in my name. Also, my maternal grandfather's family and my uncle and aunt didn't mention it to me, so it's time to ask about it.

Mrs. Yun, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly became interested: "The New Year is approaching, and that Xiang'er should also come back." ”

The eldest aunt smiled: "Yes, the Xiang'er you have been looking forward to is back, how can you not be happy." Xiang'er, this kid is used to being likable, and I miss him very much. ”