On the day of the prince's birthday, before dawn, Zhuo Zhaojie was woken up by Ah Xing, Ah Li held the hot water soaked in the rose 'flower' petals, waited to clean his hands and face, got up and put on the lotus root 'color' fine silk shirt selected by the eldest lady and You's together, in early autumn and the beginning of autumn, seven or eight lamps were lit to illuminate the inner room, Ah Xing and Ah Li took care of Zhuo Zhaojie's makeup, and the sound of talking came from the courtyard below.

Not long after, the neatly dressed You clan came up with someone, and when he saw that Zhuo Zhaojie had already gotten up, he nodded, and said, "Put on makeup first, and you will come." ”

Hearing this, Ah Xing and Ah Li hurriedly stepped aside.

Aunt Mao first asked someone to re-enter the water to make noodles for Zhuo Zhaojie again, and then ordered the people who followed You's to take out a 'jade' bowl, gently uncover it, and 'dew' out the 'color' red clotted fat, exuding a faint fragrance, Aunt Mao put the 'jade' bowl on the table, wiped her fingers with a snow-white towel, and then picked a round-headed 'jade' hairpin from Zhuo Zhaojie's makeup, dipped the hairpin in the red fat, and gently dotted it on Zhuo Zhaojie's face.

Zhuo Zhaojie rarely wears strict makeup, and is not very good at these fat powders, and was asked by Mao Gu to sit in front of the mirror and not move, and caught a glimpse of the 'jade' bowl in the corner of his eye, which was slightly reflected by the candle flame, and said that it was rouge, and the secret in his heart was different from the order of makeup before, so he whispered: "Don't you use rouge directly without powder?" ”

Mao Gu and the others laughed when they heard this, You's face was embarrassed, and he reprimanded: "This is Taizhen red 'jade' paste, extremely moisturizing, don't look at it as a red 'color', if you apply it, there will be no 'color', and the purple snow you use every day is face fat, not fat powder...... This thing is a royal gift in the palace, you can't buy it anywhere else, it's about moisturizing and purple snow, but the fragrance is even worse, the sachet that your aunt chose for you is the one that contains the incense, and I'm afraid of the smell, so I changed to this. ”

Zhuo Zhaojie stuck out his tongue and said with a smile: "I looked at it from the corner of my eye, and I only saw a touch of red, and it was fat powder." ”

Mao Gu smiled and said: "Qi Niang is naturally beautiful, and this thing is just the icing on the cake 'flower', in fact, Qi Niang just goes out like this, who can not praise a sentence like 'flower' like 'jade'?" ”

While speaking, Mao Gu gestured gently to 'rub' the red fat for her, Zhuo Zhaojie peeked in the mirror, and sure enough, after wiping off the fat powder, in addition to the white and tender face, there was no red 'color' of rouge.

Next, Mao Gu took the powder, but just pounced on Zhuo Zhaojie's face a few times, and You Shi next to him shook his head and said, "No, it's too thick, it's too pale." ”

Aunt Mao hurriedly asked someone to take a clean handkerchief to wipe off a little, but she didn't want You to look at it or think it was too much, so she tried it a few times, and Aunt Mao suggested: "Qi Niang's skin is crystal white and beautiful, it's better not to put on powder, but it's too late to apply a layer of too red 'jade' ointment." ”

You asked someone to take the lamp to the vicinity, looked at it carefully, and nodded: "That's it." ”

Removed the part of the powder, Mao Gu discussed a few words with You's, took the various 'color' rouge and compared it a few times on Zhuo Zhaojie's cheeks, and finally chose a kind that was biased towards the face, You thought it was still too red, so he asked people to take the 'dew' between the 'flowers' collected by Shaoxu to melt it, and gently patted it on Zhuo Zhaojie's cheeks and cheeks, You took a few steps back to observe, and said with satisfaction: "Take the snail Dai." ”

After Aunt Mao took it, she also carefully looked at Zhuo Zhaojie's eyebrow shape for a moment before writing, her eyebrow drawing skills are very good, the whole person doesn't even have to move his shoulders, just rely on the wrist lightly, the two beautiful distant mountain eyebrows have been depicted, no need to make up at all, and said with a smile: "The lady's eyebrows are good, just deepen them." ”

After putting away the snail Dai, Ah Xing cleverly held the 'flower' box, You Shi turned over it for a moment, and said: "According to the suggestion of the eldest lady yesterday, use Cuidian, just use this apricot 'flower'." ”

Cui Tian is made of kingfisher feathers, but the apricot "flower" shaped Cui Tian that You said is made of Cui Yu as the "flower" petals, and a gem the size of a grain of rice is the "flower" stamen.

You chose a pair of stars for the 'girl', and Aunt Mao held the stars to her fingertips and said softly: "Qi Niang smiled." ”

Taking advantage of Zhuo Zhaojie's smile, he 'revealed' a pair of pear vortices, Mao Gu's eyes quickly pasted the face, and then asked Ah Li to go down to the study to take an unused Zihao, dipped it in Dan's rouge, and painted a 'gorgeous' begonia behind Zhuo Zhaojie's right eyebrow and in front of his temples.

After painting the right eyebrow, Aunt Mao asked Ah Li to wash the pen and return it, and said: "Now Chang'an is in vogue to only draw one side of the oblique red, what does Madame think?" ”

You Shi looked at it for a long time, nodded and said: "That's it, the 'lip' makeup is injected with 'dew' beads, and the little lady's 'dew' beads at home are the most playful." ”

The so-called 'dew' beads are not to smear rouge all over the lips, but only point a little in the middle, as if there is a little red bead on the 'lips'.

Since it wants to be playful, this rouge chose a bright Dan 'color', which just echoes the begonia in front of the sideburns.

After putting on the makeup so ceremoniously, Aunt Mao asked someone to clean up the things, and combed the hair for Zhuo Zhaojie with a tooth comb, the hairstyle was set by the eldest lady yesterday, and it was a common double snail, and the eldest lady said to You in private: "Although we know what Qi Niang entered the palace for, how to say that we are also 'female' side, originally the eldest princess's beloved grandson, the prince of Yongcheng, this' The door's lintel is slightly higher than our family, and it is in the palace to meet, not dressed up, it is rude, dressed too grandly, it seems that our family is afraid that Qi Niang will not be accepted, in the end there is no face, I see everything according to the rules, more solemn than usual, but can not everywhere its novelty and grandeur, anyway, since the queen only said that Qi Niang entered the palace to congratulate the princess on the prince's birthday, let's just do this, as for the side, the right to know nothing. ”

You Shi very much agrees with the eldest lady's words, so this will be Aunt Mao does not need to ask, so he quickly tied a double screw bun for Zhuo Zhaojie, tied two new strands of colorful silk, and each hairpin was made of pink 'color' gems and decorated with turquoise cherry 'flower' short hairpins, this pair of short hairpins have a look, and there are three strings of turquoise hanging down under the 'flower' calyx of the gem cherry cherry 'flower', which just falls on the ear, if there is action, it will sway, so the earrings use a pair of jade 'jade' cicadas, 'jade'' The color is excellent, it is the thing at the bottom of the box when You got married, but the pendant as big as a nail reflects Zhuo Zhaojie's neck into a forest and blue 'color'.

Aunt Mao took a grate and soaked it in jasmine. Li.'Flower' water, a few strands of broken hair are fine, and a few jasmine. Li. 'Flower' don't go into the bun, so feel its fragrance but don't see its 'flower', and then look at it again, and then ask You's: "Madame can see if you can ask the lady to change her clothes?" ”

You instructed Zhuo Zhaojie: "Get up and take a turn and look with me." ”

Zhuo Zhaojie got up and turned around as he said, You Shi looked at it, then nodded, and ordered Ah Xing and Ah Li: "What about the dress that you asked you to put away yesterday?" ”

Originally, it was cut for Zhuo 'jade' Niang, not as good as the upper body, but this set of 'spring' clothes was a water-'colored' bead tuan's green luan pattern Yue Luo narrow sleeves short undergarment, the sleeves were edged with cyan 'color' Shu brocade, and the clothes were embroidered with the lotus silk entwined with the lotus 'flower', the water 'color', lotus silk, and cyan were all light 'color', and the lower head was set up with a Dan' 'color' skirt that dragged the ground to stay fairy, there was no color embroidery on it, and the bright and bright large Danzhu 'color' was bright and 'glamorous' eye-catching, and people had to open up their moods and fold the branches and lotus' The flower's woven golden purple begonia shawl is on another set of 'spring' shirts on Zhuo Zhaojie, and it has not been used yet.

Three or four messengers followed the command of Mao Gu and You's to put on Zhuo Zhaojie in order, and Ah Xing took the tray again, and there were more than a dozen palace silks in it, and the styles were also different, the 'color' was bright and 'bright', so that You could choose.

You chose a pair of colorful silk beads with 'flowers', tied them for Zhuo Zhaojie with his own hands, and said: "This palace silk is exactly the same as the colorful silk on your head." ”

Then he picked the Yingluo ring, with bracelets, 'jade' wear, sachets, purses, and even the handkerchief was selected and selected, so busy until the day 'color' will be bright, only to stop Zhuo Zhaojie dress, after such a while, Zhuo Zhaojie has felt tired, standing in the center of the room without "fine" style, so that You's, Mao Gu and others looked at it in all directions, there was no bad place, so she was put down for breakfast, and naturally she had to be told not to use soup and water, Ah Xing took the handkerchief and carefully wiped it off for her. The rouge on the lips, waiting for her to eat a small bowl of bijiao rice with side dishes, Ah Li took the rouge box she brought with her and came out to make up her makeup - Aunt Mao nodded beside her and said, "Yes, that's it." ”

"This 'dew' is extremely simple." Ah Li smiled sweetly and said, "If it's the Holy Sandalwood Heart and the Heavenly Palace Skillful Note, the maid won't be very good." ”

You Shi emphasized to Zhuo Zhaojie the places that should be paid attention to when entering the palace, and saw that Chenguang was almost there, so he led her to the upper room.

In the upper room, Shen and Zhuo Fangdian are ready, Shen is wearing a treasure bun, hairpin 'jade' ornamented with emerald, wearing a sandalwood 'color' deep coat, a finger-wide lotus silk shirt on the placket, and an inch-wide mutton fat 'jade' bracelet on her wrist.

Zhuo Fangdian was under her, wearing an ultramarine wide-sleeved cardigan crepe top, the neckline 'exposed' a touch of emerald green embroidered moon satin chessel, a willow green and white 'color' skirt underneath, combed with a flying fairy bun, and a tortoiseshell brilliance in her hair.

You took Zhuo Zhaojie in to see the ceremony, and made amends for Zhuo Zhaojie: "As soon as Xiao Qi Niang entered the palace for the first time, she couldn't help but be nervous, but asked her mother and sister to wait." ”

Shen said with a smile: "Don't worry, it's too late now." ”

Since Zhuo Fangdian was beaten by Zhuo Zhaojie last time, he has changed his previous style of being warm and close to Zhuo Zhaojie, and has been cold, and he will ignore You's and just stand up with Shen's words.

The You family had to entrust a few words with the Shen family, and the Shen family smiled calmly and said: "You can rest assured, the queen has always been merciful, and today is the birthday of His Royal Highness the Prince, and the nobles don't care about such a good day." He also explained, "I was supposed to take Mi Niang or yours, but Mi Niang's family couldn't leave, and you also had to take care of your daughter-in-law." ”

"Mother, this is considerate of us." You Shi smiled on his face, "This time I want my mother to 'worry'." "In his heart, he secretly scolded the Shen family deliberately, although the queen only mentioned that Zhuo Zhaojie entered the palace with the family's order today, but the Shen family is also an old lady, and it is logical to take one or two daughters-in-law and daughter-in-law to take care of them when they enter the palace.

The eldest lady is not the only one who became the Hou Mansion yesterday, and she can't enter the palace overnight, so it's hard to think that this huge Hou Mansion is full of wooden people, and you can't do anything without the eldest lady giving orders? As for You's side, He's temperament has recovered now, and besides, You's went to Juyangbo's Mansion all day long two days ago, and He's wasn't good at that time?

However, the Shen family occupies the identity of the elder, she said this, this thoughtfulness can not be receiving, You secretly pinched the hand of the 'female', and solemnly admonished: "After entering the palace, you must not be 'sexual', everything must be respectful and cautious, you know?" ”

Zhuo Zhaojie said respectfully: "Yes! ”

Note: One of the types of ancient 'lip' makeup, according to the data, there were many 'lip' makeup in the late Tang Dynasty, all of which had names, such as 'Lu' Zhu'er, Tiangong Qiao, and Shengtan Xin, and there were dozens of other kinds, which were used in the text. Actually, I don't know anything about other 'lip' makeup names except for their names, because I've seen the description of 'dew' beads, let me explain them in the vernacular, that is, the 'lips' of the mouth are a little in the middle - the so-called cherry small mouth makeup, called 'dew' beads, yes, you must have seen it in the movie portraits of Japanese (this) art (prostitutes) or something, and there is also a kind of 'lip' makeup called half of the gar, I guess it should only be half of the ...... It should be the upper and lower half, but I don't know which side.