After a little consideration, he had made up his mind, so he asked tentatively, "Shi Gongzi, I happened to be out today and I have nothing else to do, there is a workshop in the backyard of the shop that specializes in rouge, why don't you watch me make it yourself?" If the production process is just written on paper, although it is certainly not difficult to make it with the wisdom of the child, it is inevitable to take some detours, and the literary style of Layue is limited, and I am afraid that the writing will not be understood, and the time of the child will be missed. ”

The woman in front of her was very good at talking and thinking about others, but for some reason, she was so careful to make some flattering friends, which made Shi Yunqing a little uncomfortable.

She thought of what the famous prostitute Ziyue girl had said, "If you marry the wrong man, the woman will be sensible, which makes people feel distressed." ”

Although she was not distressed, Ziyue may not be right, but the woman in front of her is very consistent with this sentence.

It seems that since I have known her until now, I have never seen her really smile from the heart, and her demeanor is too moderate, with ten percent caution and caution, and there is always some tiredness and heavy defensiveness in those bright and intelligent eyes.

"I happen to be free today, so I'll trouble Mrs. Xing." Shi Yunqing turned around and explained a few words to the servants around him, and then went to the backyard with Layue.

A few guys cleaned up the inside, Layue asked the shopkeeper Gao to take all kinds of flowers, silk sheets, fine gauze and other materials, turned back and pointed to the pen and ink on the desk and smiled, "Shi Gongzi might as well look at it and write it yourself, ask me if you don't understand what you read." ”

Shi Yunqing replied with a smile: "Okay." Seeing that the woman was busy, she kept telling in her mouth, "I added gardenias, rouge flowers, and white peony and white peony stamens to the rouge I used for my own use, and generally did not put white flowers, but I loved the dark fragrance of white peony flowers, so I pondered and added a little, purely personal like, in fact, seriously speaking, it is not good to add white peony peony, rouge must have a good color of red flowers to produce bright color, white is added, the color is light, Shi Gongzi will consider the increase and decrease by himself when the time comes. ”

Shi Yunqing picked up the pen and wrote, seeing that she rolled up her sleeves and tied her hair, and there was a pomegranate flower golden hairpin in her jewelry shop, and she was throwing all kinds of flowers into the bluestone mortar and pounding it gently. Suddenly, he said, "If it is fragrant, white jasmine should have a stronger taste, and besides, jasmine itself can reduce eye swelling and pain, wouldn't it be better to use it?" Also, Mrs. Xing's hairpin is really good. ”

"This was given to me by my mother-in-law." Layue touched the hairpin and didn't care, tilted her head and thought about it, "I mainly like white peonies to add some in, anyway, I use it myself, just to be happy, Childe said this, I think it makes sense, but this time it's a sample for you, and I'll try to make a batch of jasmine tomorrow." ”

"No, let's put it away now, maybe we can work out a new variety together."

"This ......" Layue was a little moved, she was a person who loved to try, especially the rouge that she loved to study the most, "Is this good?" If it goes bad, it will delay your time. ”

Shi Yunqing raised his eyebrows, "I'm a person, I'm still busy, I can still be my own master, if I can't do it in one day, then two days, if ten days and eight days are not enough, then Shi will study this thing in this life." ”

Listening to his joke, Layue also chuckled, while calling someone to bring in some fresh jasmine, plucking the flower stalks and adding some to pound together.

Seeing a layer of fine beads of sweat on her forehead, Shi Yunqing suddenly said, "I saw that there is that kind of big mortar in the yard just now, and it is still hanging with a rope and wooden pole, which is more labor-saving and time-saving to use, why don't you use that?" ”

"Well," Layue looked at the clay in the mortar, and never raised her head, "I tried, I don't know if it's an illusion, that one doesn't taste as good as the one made by the small mortar," she laughed to herself, "Maybe I thought too much." ”

Shi Yunqing quickly wrote it down on the paper after listening, and saw that she smashed the flowers of three or four bamboo plaques, and then came out with a small pot of ouhua mud, reached out and grabbed the towel on the shelf next to her and handed it to her, and couldn't help but sigh, "This is the first process is already so tiring, and it is not easy to do anything well." ”

Layue thanked him and dipped his forehead, his tired face flushed, but his eyes became brighter and brighter, "Shi Gongzi's words are reasonable, generally this mud is made by male guys, but it is really individual work, and the amount of one time must be done in one go, if it stops for a long time, the rouge made will be dark," she said and grabbed a handful of gardenias and put them in, "But fortunately, I was raised by my father on his own farm since I was a child, and my skin is rough and thick, so I can support myself to do this work." ”

This woman, the appearance at this time is what a normal woman in her twenties should look like, talking about her favorite rouge, the guard in her eyes was removed a little, Shi Yunqing seemed to see the cheerful and sincere smiling faces of the unmarried girls in the Xingji Rouge shop at this time, and she would definitely win a lot of repeat customers.

"Shi Gongzi, Shi Gongzi?" Seeing him in a daze, Layue shouted several times before the person who shouted came back to his senses.

"How?" He saw that Layue's black and white eyes showed a little worry?

"Why didn't you write it? Tired? Why don't you take a sip of tea and take a break? I've got about half an hour to finish this process here, and it's the same as the previous one, so you can take a sip of tea and take a break. ”

A little sunlight penetrated through the rhombic window, hitting Layue's face, the beads of sweat on her pink and crimson cheeks were shining, and Shi Yunqing suddenly thought of the poem "Sweat beads are dotted, and the hair is messy and green." ”

A servant came in with tea and put it on the wooden tea table of the old boat next to it.

"I'll do it myself." He stopped the servant from coming to serve the tea, "I like to pour myself and have more fun." ”

The servant retreated, and Layue continued to work.

The tea table in front of him is quite elegant, and the six gentlemen of the tea table are placed to a degree, and the master is also an excellent one.

"What kind of tea does Mrs. Xing usually drink?"

He lifted the lid of the clay offering spring pot, and what was placed inside was the best montacostite flower.

He smiled, "Mrs. Xing likes to drink this tea?" At the last flower party, the moonlight white taste of Yun'er was mixed. ”

Layue poured the last bamboo plaque into the mortar, and then turned around and smiled, "Well, but this tea is cold, and I don't drink it much, I usually drink more lychee Zhengshan tea." The two of them had already finished pounding the last bit of flowers during the gossip, poured the flower mud into the porcelain pot and cleaned it up, and then gently fanned the wind with his hand and smiled, "The moonlight white of the flower festival that day, Xiaoyun probably put the tea and fat powder together, and the tea loves to absorb the taste, so the taste is mixed." ”

Shi Yunqing smiled and hung the boiling water, "Madam, please sit down and see how Shi's brewing skills are." I haven't tasted such a superb monttop stone flower for a long time, today Shi has a good mouth, and there is this good tea to tease him, and I am afraid that I will come to rub the tea every day in the future. ”

"Haha, Shi Gongzi said jokingly, what kind of family are you, although this tea is precious, it is not a rare thing," she took out two Dehua white porcelain tea cups from the rosewood Bogu shelf next to her and put them on the tea table, lifted the kettle and scalded it, and said with a smile, "It's a pity, I don't have good water to brew, the water quality in Yecheng is hard, if you can get the Yangtze River heart water to brew, I don't know what it tastes like." ”