"My slave, it's not hot. If Your Highness feels that the weather is hot, I will send someone to bathe and change your clothes!"
Originally, the prince could take a bath every day, but it was just a matter of time. On the first day Xi'er arrived at the East Palace, even if she had not dealt with the matter before, she had to be more concerned because she was the person the prince wanted from the queen. Not only that, Xi'er The son also brought four young maids, who were only fourteen or fifteen years old, to work for him.
“Sweat is dripping down my face, it’s strange that it’s not hot!”
Yao Ji observed very carefully, but only caught the key parts, saving unnecessary time. He glanced at the slightly reserved face and saw the flaw.
On such a hot day, she had to wear so many clothes, and more importantly, she couldn't wipe off her sweat at will. Not only Xi'er, but also the four little maids were like this.
"Go to the court and find the tailor from the Clothes Supervisor. I will make some clothes for you!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Jinchao, the eunuch in charge of the East Palace, agreed and immediately went out to give orders.
Yaoji walked to the desk and began to draw by himself.
The clothing patterns presented on the paper are also very simple, and the tailor can understand them almost at a glance.
Almost a quarter of an hour later, Yang Jinchao came in and reported that all the tailors needed were waiting in front of the door.
"Your Highness, these four are making outerwear, these four are making skirts, and these four are making underwear!"
Yang Jinchao didn't know exactly what kind of clothes the prince wanted, so he simply hired four tailors for each type, so there should be no gaps.
Because of the strict prohibitions in the palace, without exception, these tailors are all women, except for the leader who is a eunuch.
Yaoji walked in front of a group of people with his little hands behind his back like he was inspecting, and then announced grandly: "Well, very good, I plan to make some clothes for Sister Xi'er. The drawings have been drawn and will be distributed soon. Go down. After you measure the size of the target, you will have the tailor made immediately, within half an hour. When the time is up, I will see how your cutting and sewing skills are. If you do well, you will be rewarded. If you do not do well, you will be rewarded. Go and do what you have to do! Anyone who deliberately destroys other people's clothes will be punished as a crime of deceiving the emperor! When the hands of the watch go here, it's time. When you enter the court, you just sit and watch them. I go to the palace. Take a shower!”
After giving everyone some instructions on how to read a clock, but worrying that these "human tailors" wouldn't understand what he meant, Yaoji took a piece of gauze one meter square, measured it on Xi'er, and combined it with what he had drawn The style of clothes, explain to everyone what exactly you mean.
If they still don't understand, these ignorant women can go home immediately. It's so laborious to make T-shirts, skirts, dresses and ball covers, so the clothing supervisor simply cancels them.
Each tailor has only one task and plenty of time. The prince does not require any pattern to be embroidered, just that the size is suitable and the stitching is fine, so the pressure on these high-level tailors is not great.
Yao Ji didn't plan to make clothes that were too complicated right now. It wasn't long before dark, and even if the tailors could stay up all night to work, they would inevitably make mistakes. Today, they mainly tested their basic skills.
The prince waved his hand and left. After Yang Jinchao Gong was sent back, according to His Highness's instructions, he got a chair and didn't have to stand for half an hour.
To Xi'er's dismay, the ten tailors in front of her all took measuring tapes and made gestures on her body. Especially the tailor who made underwear had to carefully measure the hemisphere. It was inevitable that their fingers would touch an extremely sensitive part. …
Xi'er hid but didn't dare to hide, screamed but didn't dare to scream, so she had to try her best to hold her pink mouth open and survive this period of time. Although everyone is female, this kind of thing always makes Xi'er feel very ashamed, and her cheeks can't help but have a seductive flush.
Yang Jinchao was sitting on a chair, drinking tea contentedly. As long as nothing prohibited by the prince's rules happened at the scene, he pretended he didn't see anything.
Although Xi'er is a palace maid, she is someone close to the queen, and the prince asked her to come by name. If any of the chamberlains secretly have evil thoughts when they see someone as beautiful as a flower, then they really think they will live a long life...
"Cut all my fingernails so they are even with your fingertips!"
While taking a bath, especially when washing his hair, Yaoji finally discovered that the purpose of people at this time, especially Confucian scholars, was to keep their nails long, just to scratch their heads!
The length of the fingernails of Confucian scholars is as long as the part covering the first joint, or even longer. This is related to the theory advocated by Confucianism that "the hair and skin of the body are influenced by the parents".
Have you seen the nails of a female anchor? Although the people's face wiping is like a bricklayer's work, most of the long nails are put on with carapace patches, mainly to look good during the live broadcast.
The nails of these Confucian scholars in the Chao Dynasty are so real. I guess showing off the Eagle Claw Skill can scare the piss out of the wild boars that are about to move!
Yaoji secretly took a look at Xue Guoguan's nails in the capital, which was really amazing.
The part outside the fingertips alone is as long as a knuckle, and one claw can scratch the face of an enemy...
There is also this funny hairstyle. When she first wore it, Yaoji almost laughed out loud when she looked in the mirror, because the hairstyles of adults and children were completely different.
Men who are underage, that is, under the age of fifteen, must comb their hair into two knots on the left and right, which are called "knots". This thing is called a "general horn". Even if you are a prince, you are no exception.
So when Yaoji looked in the mirror, he saw that his hairstyle was almost the same as Nezha in the cartoon...
At the age of fifteen, everyone can put their hair into a bun and put a hair net on top to fix it. If the scalp is itchy, use long nails to scratch it.
Don't underestimate this hair net, it was something ordered by Taizu to be spread throughout the country.
Confucius said: If Taizu thinks it is good, then it is really good!
Every gentleman will pay special attention to this small hairnet. Not only the center of the net on the top of the head is decorated with pearls, but also small circles of gold and silver are dotted around it as a weight and fixation.
Because this thing has a particularly good effect in gathering hair, it has the subtle effect of "collecting all the mane and hair". Taking its homonym, the famous name in the world finally became "unifying the mountains and rivers"!
Rich people in the North spend a lot of time taking care of their hair every day. As long as it doesn't fall out naturally, they will never be trimmed artificially...
This also gave up the prince's plan to open a barber shop, but it seems that opening a shampoo room to maintain hair would be more powerful and more profitable!
Coupled with several beautiful ladies wearing hip-length short skirts, how could it be so great!
Ah~hahahaha...
Considering the current sentiments of the gentry, the more Yaoji thinks about this project, the more promising it becomes!
Spending a few taels, or even dozens of taels of silver every month, you can get a head of long, shiny, black and non-itchy hair. What a bargain!
If a thousand gentlemen go to wash their hair, the money for washing their hair alone costs thousands of taels of silver every month, or tens of thousands of taels a year!
It seems that there is no similar professional hair washing room in Beijing, so you can find a few direct relatives to plan one.
Don’t underestimate this project. If you open a chain store and spread it all over the country, it will exceed tens of thousands of taels a year...
The advertisement is tentatively titled - Refreshing Hair, the Choice of Confucian Scholars!
It doesn’t matter if it makes you nauseous or not, as long as you can attract customers into the store and spend money!
"Your Highness, this servant dare not!"
Cutting nails was a serious crime of disrespect, and the two maids who were waiting for the prince to bathe were too frightened to do anything.
"Hmph! Are you brave? Do you dare to disobey orders? If you don't obey, I will send you out of the palace!"
Madan!
Such a little girl dares to resist my order. It's really outrageous. She's going to get spanked!
"Your Highness, please do not let this slave leave the palace!"
The two little maids were so frightened that they hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to the prince.
Their parents borrowed money and asked someone to find a way to get them into the palace. They also borrowed the queen's favor and paid the money they owed others last year.
If you are kicked out of the palace at this time, it will really be all in vain. If you are sent back because of this matter, you will be scolded to death by your parents.
"If you don't want to resist the order, just be obedient. If you offend me, I will send you both back to your place of origin with just one sentence! Get up and trim my nails quickly. They are so long and are in the way!"
The problem of keeping your nails in the way is secondary. The main reason is that when you are doing serious things, you have to worry about your nails splitting. That would be terrible. Not only is it very painful, but it is also easy to break to the base of the joint, making it difficult to grow back in a short time. .
"yes!"
The two little maids had to carefully lift the prince's tender hands and trim them with small scissors. Since the nails that had been soaked in the bath were softer and the children's nails were not hard, they were easy to trim. It took ten minutes, even if You're done.
When the appointed time was almost up, Yaoji finished his bath, changed into dry new clothes, and wrote some more, then he walked calmly to the courtyard to check out the masterpieces of the women's tailors.
The tailors who made T-shirts and skirts were the first to finish the work. It only took them more than half an hour because the clothes they made were not complicated. By the time the prince came over, they were already making minor repairs.
The two tailors who had received the women's shirts looked much more depressed. They were busy sewing buttons on them, as if they were racing against time, fearing that they would be punished by the prince if they exceeded the time limit.
Even more miserable than the two of them were those who made ball covers. They had absolutely no idea about this kind of weird object that seemed to come out of nowhere. Since they couldn't let the model try it on, they just compared it several times to see if it would fit. have no idea.
The most embarrassing thing was that Xi'er was being tossed around like a rag doll by a group of women. She felt that this hour was like torture. Even the most severe punishment from the Queen was far less than this. Her pretty face seemed to be mature from embarrassment. Plum.
"The time has come!"
As soon as the prince arrived, Yang Jinchao immediately stood up and stared at the clock respectfully, not daring to delay for one more minute, temporarily becoming the timekeeper of this competition.
"Write your respective names on a small strip of cloth and sew it on the left hem of the clothes you made. Sew your underwear on the suspenders. I will review it before I reward or punish you!"
