Chapter 26 Chapter 26

I asked Qi Fang to deliver the Jinchan flowers overnight, and asked someone to inquire about Lan Sheng, and I was so anxious that I stayed up all night. In the morning of the second day, I was looking at the account book with red eyes, thinking about how to arrange Pearl to come over in the afternoon. Uncooked clothes, I fell off the ledger and jumped up, rushing out. Standing in front of Meilin Road was a fat and white eunuch, his big round face was painted almost pale, and on his high forehead was Wu Sha Jin Xianguan, the internal servant, who was pinching a fat round orchid and pointing to Wu Rutu, an old acquaintance in Xifengyuan. Talking and laughing, this Shi Qingpei is fifty years away. He is an eunuch who accompanied the Holy Majesty since he was a child. He once saved Xuanyuan of the previous dynasty and Emperor Jia of the current Holy Majesty during the Gengxu Revolution. He can be said to be a great hero in the eunuch world, and he is very low-key. He is not proud of his merits, and always likes to use powdered face to pretend to be a fool to win the favor of the emperor. He is deeply favored by the emperor and treats the people below him kindly. Therefore, he has a deep foundation in the palace. Feibai also mentioned, After he fell off the horse, he was also accepted to take care of him. The supply of Xifengyuan was not interrupted at any rate. When he was under the family law in the dark palace, it was thanks to his timely report to the emperor that he did not die of illness in the dark palace. Therefore, he was also very polite to him. , He also asked me to show my kindness to Shi Qingpei more often in order to repay the kindness of the year.

Coincidentally, before I returned to my original home, there was always a mysterious customer from the Northwest in Guazhou’s Yuzhuanglou and Yurentang, who often spent huge sums of money to buy beautiful clothes, beautiful hairpins and some high-end rouge. Gouache powder, and I especially like the Jinhua lip balm and jasmine powder of Yurentang. At first, I was afraid that it was the dark people of the Yuan family who pretended to shop and inquired about the news. Later, I inquired secretly and found out that it was purchased by the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the time. Shi Qing accompanied him and came to purchase in person.

I wanted to inquire about Feibai through him, so I secretly contacted him, and he became my super big customer. At first, I always thought that he bought these rouge powders for concubines, or Rewarding little eunuchs and little maids, you must know that palace people love beauties. Gradually he let me go, the cosmetics of the high-ranking concubines in the harem are all specially supervised by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the fragrance powder he bought from the Jade Hall is not only for the low-ranking concubines, but also a large part of it is used by the wet nurses in the palace , The milk of these white and fat wet nurses is not only used for drinking, but also used in large quantities for facial cleansing.

There has always been a secret recipe for beauty in the palace of the former dynasty, "daily intake of milk can nourish the five internal organs, make people fat, white and lustrous, nourish qi, cure emaciation, smooth skin, moisturize hair, prolong life...", and it is said that the current emperor fought in the early years On the battlefield, there were a lot of disease roots. An imperial doctor once offered a sea doctor, saying that he must take human milk regularly. The Holy Majesty is worthy of being the Holy Majesty. He also very avant-garde thought: If the wet nurse uses high-quality fragrance powder, the body and mind will be happy, and the output will be better. The milk is also better, and it can improve Qi and beauty.

At that time, I grinned and said to Qi Fang, this is the same reason that in my era, some big farmers hired famous pianists to play moonlight music in the cowshed to increase milk and improve the quality. Shi Qingpei was obsessed with superstitious faith in the Holy Majesty, and secretly raised these wet nurses in a private house outside the palace, so he snatched some of the top-grade rouge and powder ordered by the House of Internal Affairs, and imitated the Holy Majesty, secretly giving him five or six private nurses Mother, come to cheer them up and increase production. I naturally pretended not to know, and when I returned to Yuanshi, I didn't tell the truth. He accepted my silence and often sent some innocuous news. From these seemingly insignificant information, I analyzed what I cared about. people's current situation.

Besides, in this room, I quickly dressed up, rushed to the front hall of Pinyu Hall, and saluted with a smile on my face. Shi Qingpei's seemingly loyal round face was covered with a thick layer of jasmine powder, and he was holding his throat With a long and gentle voice, he said: "The Holy Majesty likes to listen to the lectures of Master Wuyan, and he intends to bestow him as a national teacher, so that he can be cultivated. The Holy Majesty saw that the master seemed like a nostalgic person, so he sent his slaves to come, and asked the princess to find some masters for the slaves. Clothes for daily wear, so that the servants can return to their lives quickly."

I breathed a sigh of relief, at last Sima Yun didn't lie to me, the Holy Majesty really wanted Lan Sheng to go there, the food and drink did no harm, but why did the Holy Majesty save Lan Sheng?Could it be that he wants to subdue him with gentle means, but Lan Sheng is an abandoned disciple of the Nether Sect, and he doesn't know how long he can live, so it's obviously not worth much! ? "Since there is such an adventure, I feel relieved," I asked with a smile, "At any rate, Lan Sheng is from the Prince Jin's residence. My father-in-law has been with the emperor for a long time, so please take good care of him."

"Princess Jin doesn't need to worry," Shi Qingpei waved his orchid finger vigorously, and said with a charming smile, "Master Wuyan's lectures are very incisive, and now the Pufa sect is rampantly using Buddhism to amass wealth. It seems that the emperor wants to reorganize the Zen sect." Pufa sect originated in the last years of Xuanyuan. It divides the history of Buddhism into three levels. It is divided into three categories according to time, place and opportunity. Therefore, it is also called the third level religion. Tibetan charity, first of all, let the poor and low-level people get some small thoughts, so that they feel that the third-level teaching is a teaching of compassion and kindness, and then let them donate money in turn. If they are unwilling to donate money, they will not be fully enlightened, and they will not be worthy of believing in Buddhism. As a result, the Three Tier Sect has accumulated a large amount of property, with a strong material foundation and economic strength. The biggest benefactor and admirer of the Three Tier Sect is Dou Zhou Taizu Dou Yinghua.During the Warring States period, the third-order religion was a branch of Buddhism. During the Xuanyuan Dynasty, relying on its past fame and power, it still unified all Buddhist schools in Xi'an. Deny Yuan's rule.

Since ancient times, rulers have ruled the common people in the name of religion, and they naturally threw out olive branches to religion, and religion also bowed to politics. Sure enough, the emperor wanted to attack Pufa sect with Zen Buddhism, the rival of Pufa sect, and then cultivated Lansheng as the second. A Zen leader Hui Neng? However, I doubt that Shi Qingpei and the emperor can really understand Lan Sheng's Buddhist scriptures, because I discussed Buddhism with Lan Sheng before, and I found that he didn't seem to understand very much himself, and few Buddhist scriptures could be recited.

While thinking wildly, I piled up a professional smile, offered a few ingots of gold, and said a few flattering words, boasting that his face is well-proportioned and white with powder, and pretending to ask him for makeup skills, Shi Qingpei A smile broke out on that pale old face, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes suddenly opened up, "Princess is right, is the so-called woman who pleases herself?" I don’t want him to teach me a few tricks seriously, I couldn’t help listening to it, and painted on my face a few times, it seemed that it was much more detailed and even than my usual “barbaric makeup method”, and I couldn’t help but think to myself, okay? I don't usually apply powder very much, otherwise Feibai must be very painful.

He was happy for a while, so he said a few more words: "This is a reward from the princess to the servant. Remember, it is a commemorative money from Yurentang. There are only ten boxes in the world. Let alone powder, it is those Ru kiln jade hairpin flower box filled with powder, ah! The little things in Yurentang are too exquisite. This box is used up, and the servants keep all of them, why don’t they throw them away? Those little monkeys asked shyly. The slaves want it, but the slaves don’t give it to them.” He was giggling, but took the silk embroidered with Shu from his sleeve and wiped his thick lips painted with vermilion lipstick. He looked around and saw no one, then he approached me and said, "It's a pity that Master cherishes words like gold. Sometimes... ...The servant saw that the Holy One wanted to strike up a conversation with him, and he kept a cold face when he said a few more words. Do you think it is strange? The servant gave a hand to the master when he saw it. Not to blame." He got too close, and the scent of jasmine made me a little dizzy, so I had no choice but to say yes, and then when I said he was leaving, I stuffed a square of out-of-print pearl powder in a gilt lacquer box: "Please accept it, my father-in-law. ... I thought about my father-in-law's skin quality, and specially consulted Dr. Lin, then added cuttlefish bones, asarum, melon wilt, dried ginger, and pepper, soaked in bitter wine for three days, and added angelica, ganoderma, and pinellia , fried together with black beak, and finally mixed with finely ground Hepu pearls, they all said that the face can be whitened after 20 days of application. You can make a few more boxes, just for the thousand-year-olds in the harem, and my father-in-law has done me a big favor, so don't refuse." Shi Qing frowned with a smile, his small eyes were shining brightly, he stared at the small lacquer box closely, rubbed his hands and squeezed it for a while, then quickly put the small lacquer box into the golden embroidered crane pattern sleeve, but said in his mouth : "This, this, this, how dare I accept it." When Shi Qing accompanied me before leaving, he added thoughtfully to me: "This servant is wondering whether Master Wuyan came out of Prince Jin's mansion after all. I think it's better for the princess to persuade me." At this time, Xiaoyu had already packed up Lansheng's clothes, and handed them to Shi Qingpai respectfully. Shi Qingpai looked at Xiaoyu twice, and then praised: "Oh, this girl Xiaoyu is really more and more beautiful the longer she grows. It is said that there are beauties in the southern country, and the servants will think that the daughter of the little fairy has come down to earth." Xiaoyu couldn't help but blushed and smiled, Shi Qingpei called back: "Feng Weicong!?" Seeing that no one answered, he put away his smiling face and shouted several times loudly, and then a young eunuch with delicate features ran over panting like a cow, he looked about fourteen or fifteen years old, and he staggered slightly when he walked. With a look of resentment on his face, when he bent down to take Xiaoyu's burden, he saw Xiaoyu under the sun, with snow-skinned and beautiful appearance, graceful and graceful, just like Yazhixiushu, his eyes froze, his hands trembled, and he was about to give it to Xiaoyu. Lan Sheng's bundle fell to the ground, and Shi Qingpai slapped him hard with his hands. The little eunuch's mouth was bleeding, and he fell to his knees, picked up the bundle, and sobbed softly. Shi Qingpei hurriedly confessed to me again and again.Naturally, I didn't blame him, I helped to persuade a few words, and said with a smile: "Maybe, it's all from my family, Mr. Shi doesn't need to care, this child has a very strange face, he must have just entered the palace." "Princess Jin is right. This child is a distant relative of Laonu in his hometown of Hezhou. His surname is Feng and his name is Weicong. Alas... all eight members of his family died when the epidemic came from the south. A village... disappeared in the blink of an eye, and now only he and a five-year-old clan brother are left in the whole village. He entered the palace and became a father-in-law because of that clan brother. Because the son looked at Miss Chuxi too much, the imperial concubine was not happy. If it wasn't for the sake of the old slave, she would have moved her head a long time ago. Later, she was rewarded with a bunch of boards and knelt by the palace wall for half a night " Shi Qingpei sighed, wiped the slightly wet corners of his eyes, flicked some powder from the gold thread cuffs, and said sadly: "This child is also suffering, tell me, if there is no other way , be a good person, why bother to be an eunuch, I was born as a useless dirty seed, and I don’t have a long memory... Sigh! Nasty things, please hurry up and thank Princess Jin, Princess Jin has a kind heart, so naturally she won’t treat you Sin, you little monkey boy." I hastily persuaded Shi Qing to accompany him again, and watched him limping away with the little eunuch.While sobbing, the little eunuch blushed and looked back at Xiaoyu frequently. Oh!This hairy boy really has six roots! Xiaoyu gave him a hard look, and he was so frightened that he turned around and followed quickly, but bumped into Shi Qingpei, and got hit by a few more chestnuts. We didn't take this matter to heart. Not long after, there was a young and handsome monk attendant by the emperor's side, and he was specially allowed to wear a monk's robe to accompany him. The court listened to the government, and the court and the public were indifferent. Fortunately, Lan Sheng never said a word. After a long time, the courtiers gradually got used to the emperor with a rolling pin with an expressionless face beside him. Some people said that this was the beginning of the emperor's deep belief in Buddhism and the crackdown on the popularization of Dharma sect. Some people privately and frivolously implied that this was the emperor's new favorite, and some said that Lan Sheng was the emperor's overseas orphan. Everyone knows that Taizu Yuan Qingjiang was famous for being a beautiful man in the old court. There were so many romantic love stories. Those beautiful lovers were as many as the carp crossing the river. His most unknown lover was someone who threw silk at him in the market. Pa's village girl, and the most noble lover can even be traced back to the Turkic Empress Dowager. Think about the crazy and silly fourth child who used to be in Yubeizhai. The greatest iron-fisted emperor, who unified the Eastern and Western Turks, who can guarantee that this will not become another great Chinese celebrity? In short, the courtiers dare not belittle me. My people found out that this Lan Sheng is indeed very stubborn. The emperor gave him a bunch of gorgeous silk cassocks, but he still only wears the coarse monk robes I usually prepare for him. , Sometimes when it is worn out, he repairs it himself and wears it on his body. As the saying goes, if the top is good, the bottom must follow. Soon after, a monk wearing a patched cloth became the new standard for the nobles to love the motherland and judge elegance.