Dressing, washing, combing hair, putting on makeup... Perhaps because she was not living like a young lady in the Lu family, Lu Yunying did everything smoothly. At the last step, she happily took out the novice gift bag The travel package seems to be adapted to the current era. The cosmetics and skin care products in this travel package are extremely antique, exquisite and compact, and other people will not be surprised to see it.
But only by actually using it will you know how much better this thing is than the rouge and gouache that Lu Yunying has access to now.
A sixteen-year-old girl doesn't need any makeup to look pretty, but this is the palace, just like the modern workplace, makeup is considered a kind of workplace etiquette.
After simply tracing her eyebrows and applying lipstick, a girl with a charming and charming face appeared in the mirror in a short while.
Lu Yunying pursed her lips, feeling that the color was too bright and aggressive, so she picked a snow-white and fluffy velvet flower from her jewelry box and put it on her head. Immediately, the girl's temperament in the mirror softened, matching the color on her cheeks. The baby fat that hasn't gone away yet makes her look a bit delicate.
When Lu Yunying looked at her appearance in the mirror carefully, she heard a bang, the copper basin fell to the ground, and Chen Xingyue's complaint followed:
"Mommy is coming soon, but you haven't even prepared water for washing. If I don't dress up enough to make people talk or there are flaws in my makeup, are you deliberately trying to harm me?"
"My little master, I don't dare, this slave..."
"You don't dare. Why don't you dare? You didn't pick me up at the door yesterday, and now you want to harm me on purpose, huh."
Hearing this, Lu Yunying finally understood the reason why Chen Xingyue was so angry and rushed in without seeing her yesterday. This was indeed Xue Li's fault.
But when I came over yesterday and saw that her roommate was her, I'm afraid it also added fuel to the fire in Chen Xingyue's heart, and that's why she is now criticizing Huai.
Seeing that he had packed up alone and Chen Xingyue was still noisy, Lu Yunying had to say:
"Okay, let's go out to fetch water in Sydney."
"It's useless for you to blame her. If you continue, it will also waste your time. What if you are really late?"
Everything for the show girls has been arranged in the palace. They are all uniformly dressed, including one set of goose yellow, one set of cherry pink, and one set of azurite. Today is the first day and all the show girls should have chosen the top outfit. Goose yellow, after all, the order of placing clothes in the palace is also particular.
Now Lu Yunying is wearing a goose-yellow palace dress, which makes her skin white and delicate. I wonder if it is because of the sunflower card, which makes Chen Xingyue, who is very disliked by her, feel some intimacy the moment he sees her, but very soon The intimacy soon dissipated again.
Thinking of what happened last night, Chen Xingyue sneered and said:
"You said it nicely. You think I don't know? You used the water Xue Li fetched."
"She is the palace maid responsible for taking care of us, and the water she fetched is placed on the table in the middle. What's wrong with me taking it?"
"What's more, she has been helping you comb your hair and dress this whole morning. Did I delay her even a little bit? Does Miss Chen have to care about using some water?"
Chen Xingyue was speechless after saying this. She really wanted to respond to Lu Yunying's thoughts, so she had been pestering Xue Li all morning, so that she had no time to care about Lu Yunying's affairs.
But she didn't expect that at this moment, she was neatly dressed in palace clothes, but she had just put on the clothes. Her disheveled hair had not been washed yet, and she looked much sloppy. If she continued to delay, she would only be harmed by herself. She had no choice but to turn around in depression. screen and sat down on the bed.
Lu Yunying, who had won a bit, frowned and was not happy about this. Xiu Nu lived nearby, and she would not have bothered to speak if she wasn't afraid of being laughed at.
What's more, she could smell the pastries. People on both sides of the room were having breakfast, and they were still fussing around in her room. Although she was not the one doing the fussing, Sydney would definitely not have time to pick up the pastries if she continued to be delayed, so she wouldn't have time to pick up the pastries in the morning. What do you want to eat, not to mention the tea on the table is cold now, making it difficult to drink water.
There are two meals a day in the palace. At other times, they can only have snacks to fill their stomachs. But they are beautiful ladies who have come here to learn the rules. How can they have any free time to take snacks to fill their stomachs? If they don't eat now, they will be hungry. All morning.
Sighing, Lu Yunying winked at Xue Li and asked her to go out first. After receiving Xue Li's grateful look, the whole room became quiet.
Not long after, Xue Li came in again with water, and also brought a round-faced little palace maid to follow her with a food box. When she saw Lu Yunying sitting at the table in the middle of the room, she saluted and said:
"Little Master Lu, this is Xueyan, a fellow countryman of this servant. Today, my servant made a mistake on an errand. In order not to delay the two young masters, I asked her to come over and help."
The little palace maid was obviously very young. She was a little frightened when she saw Lu Yunying, but she still said softly:
"Hello, Mr. Lu."
"Um."
"Xue Yan, please put the cakes on the table and bring some hot tea. The young masters must learn the rules immediately. How can we not have some food and water in the morning?"
After saying that, he went around the screen again and vaguely heard Xue Li admitting his mistake to Chen Xingyue, but Lu Yunying paid no attention to it.
Xue Li looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, and Xue Yan was even younger, only eleven or twelve years old in appearance. Lu Yunying would have been embarrassed to ask her to help arrange the dishes, so he immediately reached out to help.
Unexpectedly, seeing her reach out to help, Xue Yan shrank subconsciously and almost dropped the snack in her hand to the ground. Fortunately, Lu Yunying had quick eyes and quick hands to catch her.
"Little Master Lu..."
"It's okay, I scared you by standing up suddenly."
"I'll just set it up. Can you go out and get some tea now, and help get two clean dishes by the way?"
There were three kinds of snacks delivered, red bean cake, yam cake, and slightly more exquisitely made horseshoe cakes. There were six of each of the three kinds. Logically speaking, three or three was no problem, but Lu Yunying was too lazy to confront Chen Xingyue, so she I picked up two of each with clean dishes, turned around and went to my screen and used them.
After half the tea time, I heard beautiful ladies going out one after another. Lu Yunying left without waiting for Chen Xingyue.
As far as Lu Yunying is concerned, being alone does not make her feel embarrassed. On the contrary, it is too embarrassing for her to act like a sister with someone who is not familiar with her at all and is even hostile to her.
When Chen Xingyue didn't come yesterday, Lu Yunying had already asked Xue Li about most of her living conditions in the next two to three months.
The beautiful women will learn the rules in the main hall of Chuxiu Palace, from Chen time to You time, with a half-hour break in between, that is, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with an hour's rest in between. In addition, every ten days they have one day off, and the ladies can go around the palace to relax and unwind.
This schedule is worse than that of many modern office workers, but there is no way. They are now the lowest-level show girls in the palace, so they can only be obedient.
When Lu Yunying arrived at the main hall, it was neither early nor late. Many beautiful ladies had arrived. People they knew sat together in groups and chatted. They looked much more relaxed than yesterday.
In order to learn the rules, thirty or forty tables were placed in the hall, each table could seat two people. According to this calculation, the number of show ladies in this session should be around sixty or seventy. In the past, there were only about 10 or 20 show girls left, which meant that two-thirds of these show girls would be eliminated.
Looking at it this way, the competition is actually quite fierce, especially since the four empresses have good taste. The remaining girls are all beautiful and have good temperament. Hey, Lu Yunying is envious of the emperor's beauty, even though she is the one who wants to. One of the beautiful things to post.
Lu Yunying found an inconspicuous seat and sat down alone, thinking that no one would talk to her until the class started. However, she didn't know if it was related to Xiangyanghua, but someone sat down next to her and spoke quietly:
"I live next door to you."
"I heard you guys arguing in the room last night and this morning. It just so happens that I don't have a good relationship with the guy in my room. How about we sit together?"
A big question mark popped up in Lu Yunying's heart, but before she could speak, the girl who spoke sat down and introduced herself:
"My name is Chu Xiu Niang, and my father is the prefect of Jiangdong."
"What about you, which family are you from?"
Chu Xiu Niang was also selected by the Flower and Bird Envoy, and unfortunately she was the only one selected from their group. She also had a bad relationship with her roommate, otherwise she would not have chosen this time to get close to Lu Yunying.
She came earlier than Lu Yunying. At first, she stood awkwardly listening to the ladies' greetings and chatting, her eyes wandering around. But when Lu Yunying came in, her eyes suddenly lit up. If I could describe it in one word, it would be "I have seen this sister before."
Chu Xiu Niang felt that Lu Yunying was extremely kind, so she took action immediately. Seeing that Lu Yunying was also alone, she thought that she was chosen just like herself, and she spoke with a familiar intimacy.
This kind of familiarity made Lu Yunying a little uncomfortable, but she still said in a good voice:
"I am Lu Yunying, the daughter of Guozi assistant coach Lu Feng."
"Ah, Assistant Guozi, this is an official from the capital, right?"
Lu Yunying smiled and nodded. Chu Xiu Niang was still wondering why she didn't have a companion since she was from the capital, but when Lu Yunying smiled, this matter became unimportant.
"That's it, then even if we know each other, it doesn't matter to you that I sit here."
Lu Yunying shook her head, just curious:
"Chu..."
"I am seventeen this year, what about you?"
"sixteen."
"Then just call me Sister Chu."
Could it be a bit too intimate? Lu Yunying thought so, but she was not very good at dealing with such people. Finally she said:
"Sister Chu."
"Um!"
"Sister Chu, how, uh, did you recognize that I am the person who lives next door to you?"
Chu Xiu Niang came earlier than her, and Lu Yunying didn't remember seeing her yesterday. It was indeed strange that she told her about the situation in her room as soon as she came over today.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. We live nearby, and there are some noises I don't want to hear. As for how I recognized you... When I passed by the door of your room in the morning, I saw you taking the food out of the food box. Go out and get the pastries."
"And your velvet flowers are quite unique. You are indeed an official lady from the Beijing family."
Chu Xiu Niang pointed to the velvet hairpin that Lu Yunying wore to suppress her temperament and said.
Lu Yunying secretly thought that Chu Xiu Palace was more crowded than she thought, and at the same time, she reached out and touched her velvet flower, and then said:
"How can I deserve such praise from my sister? This is not unique to the capital. It is just the leftover material left over from making a cloak in the winter. My maid is so skillful that she made this for me."
"If Sister Chu likes it, I'll give you one when I get back. It's not worth anything."
"May I?"
After getting Lu Yunying's affirmative answer, Chu Xiu Niang smiled even happier:
"Then I'll trouble Sister Lu."
Lu Yunying is so easy to talk to because she feels that Chu Xiu Niang has no ill intentions towards her and has a straightforward personality. She just reciprocates love.
See what she said when we met? A quarrel was heard in her room. If you meet a delicate-minded young lady, you will inevitably think too much after hearing this.
But after such contact, Lu Yunying found that Chu Xiu Niang had such a personality, she was carefree and had a good temper with her.
Girls' friendship is strange and unexpected. After exchanging names and making arrangements to give jewelry, they can chat about the gossip between the little sisters.
Lu Feng was born into a farming family, and Mrs. Hu was the daughter of a merchant from the south of the Yangtze River, so she had no connections in the capital. But Chu Xiu Niang was different. Although her father was a magistrate who had been sent to the outside world, her mother was indeed a noble daughter of the capital and a concubine from an uncle's house. Therefore, she has quite a few sources of information about matters in the capital and the palace.
"I heard that this draft is not easy. There are Concubine Yang and the Queen's sister. Of course, they are not from the most powerful families. Do you know, Marquis Ningyuan?"
Chu Xiu Niang's voice was very low, and then she saw Lu Yunying shaking her head in confusion, and burst out laughing again. She felt that the new sister of the Lu family was indeed cute.
In fact, everyone knew what she said, and it wasn't a big deal. But when it came to other show girls, she deliberately kept her voice low and ignored it. She continued:
"Marquis Ningyuan once taught His Majesty and was regarded as His Majesty's mentor. In addition to General Wu's bravery in the Battle of Qiao Valley three years ago, Marquis Ningyuan also served as a military advisor and provided many strategies for defeating the enemy. , is a very powerful person. This time his daughter Xie Gui is also among the show girls."
"There is also Xu Luhua, the direct daughter of Duke Xianguo. The empress comes from Duke Jingguo's residence, and Duke Jingguo and Duke Xianguo are both founding heroes. If this Miss Xu had been a few years older..."
This was a bit too much. No matter how quiet Chu Xiu Niang spoke, Lu Yunying pulled her sleeves hard to signal her to shut up.
When Chu Xiu Niang realized that she had said the wrong thing, her expression changed, and she became a little embarrassed, but then she felt that Lu Yunying was indeed trustworthy. Not only could she quickly realize that she had said the wrong thing, but she could also stop her in time... Her mother... Having said that, she is not the material to enter the palace at all, and she has no clue. I hope she loses the election and goes home quickly, and the family can choose a husband for her to marry.
Now, I just hope that her mother's expectations will come true.
After what happened just now, Lu Yunying and Chu Xiu Niang no longer dared to talk about anything else, and they only talked about clothes and jewelry and other non-extraordinary topics.
Soon, Lu Yunying saw the young ladies he had just heard about, and these ladies, who seemed to have arrived at the right time, gathered at the entrance of the hall before the grandma quickly entered the main hall.
