Chapter 152 (1/2)
Cui mengzhang watched his wife and maid hurried back. After the chat, she didn't know which wife the other party was.
”Excuse me, but is it Mrs. Hou, Mrs. Pei?”
Cui mengzhang turned around and talked to a girl who was as rich and graceful as a lotus in water. She was a servant woman with a bun and a pomegranate flower hairpin. Behind her, she followed two women and led a little girl who was about the age of a dancing spoon. She was carved like powder and jade, with a little cinnabar in the center of her eyebrows, like the jade girl in front of Guanyin.
”I am, you are...”
Woman: ”my husband is Wu Yue, the Minister of Dali temple, and his mother's family hedongliu. It seems that my family has some distant relationship with your elders. It's just that my little sister and I often pray in the nunnery. We don't know much. If we don't dislike calling me to clear the pool, this is my sister Chengxin.”
When she mentioned her name and surname, Cui mengzhang remembered that the Boling Cui family and the Qinghe Cui family were indeed related by marriage. It is said that Liu Qingchi and Liu Chengxin were both born with lotus blossoming in front of the Buddha, and were ordered by a Taoist monk from the capital. They were named after ”rubble peeping at the hue of a lonely cloud, Qingchi Haoyue shining on the Zen Mind”. Qingchi Haoyue said that the Zen mind was clear and empty, so they also adopted this name, The two sisters were very smart since childhood. Later, they were sent to the nunnery to practice with their hair. They were not able to leave until Liu Qingchi grew up.
Later, Liu Qingchi married the current Secretary of Dali temple. It is said that Lord Wu will be promoted soon.
This is not the reason why Liu Qingchi came here. The key is that father-in-law seems to have said
Liu Chengxin has an engagement with Pei Shuo!
It was the late one who married the Liu family.
Thinking of Pei Shuo, Cui mengzhang was uncomfortable again. ”Qingchi, let's talk as we walk.”
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Sun Changxin goes another way to meet princess Chang. Princess Chang asks her to come and sit down. Everyone in the garden can be seen in the small hall here.
The eldest princess took out the glass bottle and shook her wrist. The clear liquid swirled in the glass bottle, and the bottle reflected light. Sun Changxin looked at the eldest princess curiously, and saw that she handed the bottle to her hand: ”this is the rose dew made by a servant girl in my family. It is said that the roses were cooked together with boiled mountain spring water. During this time, you can't use makeup powder, so you can use the dew to pat your face every morning.”
”How can this work?” Sun Changxin subconsciously pushed back: ”it's too valuable.”
The eldest princess: ”you are the niece and daughter-in-law of the palace, and you are also the old friend of the palace. You are more valuable than rose dew. Take it.”
However, sun Changxin had to accept it. She looked at Princess Chang shyly and opened the rose dew with her nod. Suddenly, a rose fragrance rushed out of the bottle. She could smell the sweet fragrance without getting close, and her mood suddenly became better.
”Zhuang Xuan, thank you.” She tightened the gilt silver cover and put it in her sachet. She was afraid of spilling it on the road, and put it into her sleeve together with the sachet.
”You're welcome. This rose dew can be drunk. The servant girl in the palace made three rose dew, which can be eaten. If one is used together with the filtered rouge, and then cooked in a pot, the rouge will have the fragrance of roses. Another is to take only a few drops and wipe them off the wrist, collar and back of the ear, which can replace the sachet and lavender. ” The long princess said, speaking of this, looking at the ladies in the garden, she was ready to move:
”How can the palace show off to them?” The eldest princess wanted to show off for the first time in her life, but she didn't know how to start
Sun Changxin couldn't laugh or cry. Holding this flower feast together is to show off that his servant girls can make rose dew. On second thought, rose dew is a rare commodity in the capital. In the past winter, flowers are in full bloom in spring, which is the best time to make fragrant dew. If you successfully make rose dew, jasmine dew, Magnolia dew came into being, and lotus dew in summer Orange leaf dew, sweet clover dew in autumn, sour orange dew in winter and plum blossom dew can have topics all year round.
”Eh, did the sour orange dew you sent by Zhuang Xuan and the rose dew be made by the same servant girl?” Sun Changxin asked, ”that's simple. Invite some ladies to drink rose clear dew. They will be curious when they smell the fragrance.”
”That's the reason.” The eldest princess smiled, so she waved and sent a servant girl to invite the familiar ladies to sit down.
Without her speaking, the ladies first praised the long princess's flowers. The servant girls brought some rose honey. The white porcelain was filled with clear plum red soup. There was a dense fog. There was no need to get close. The fragrant aroma had told the guests what it was.