After leaving Xiaoyue, Sun Miaoqing duly took a flower petal bath for an hour.
After washing herself fragrantly, she put on a light blue dress embroidered with wintersweet flowers, with a plush hair ornament on her head, and happily moved into the main hall of Chuxiu Palace.
The earth dragon started to burn two days in advance. The heat that hit his face as soon as he entered the door made Sun Miaoqing quickly take off his cloak.
The furnishings inside are exquisite and smart, and her belongings have been arranged and placed in her usual position.
Sun Miaoqing looked carefully and found that the gauze tents used in the main hall were woven from the finest silk produced in Suzhou.
It is so light and thin that the breeze carried by people when walking can make it float with it, carrying a few wisps of fairy spirit.
The kang by the window is covered with cushions with Su embroidery and auspicious cloud patterns, and a huanghuali high-waisted carved kang table is placed in the middle. The four corners and legs of the tabletop are also carved with auspicious cloud patterns.
On the shelf next to it, there are enamel vase ornaments, and on the table opposite, there is a bouquet of fresh peach blossoms.
There is also a red sandalwood full-length mirror that is two people wide and eight feet high...
Sun Miaoqing touched it here and there, and said with satisfaction,
"The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put a lot of thought into it, and these things are all valuable."
Liuli said, "The emperor personally ordered it, and they dare not not pay attention."
"My dear, look at this dressing table made of golden nanmu. It looks very impressive."
Sun Miaoqing walked over curiously, looked at the dressing table, and couldn't help but touch the lines on it.
In her previous life, she hesitated for a long time, and finally became cruel and sold a gold nanmu bracelet. However, it was later exposed that the store had been selling a mixture of genuine and fake bracelets.
10% true and 90% false, her string of lies couldn’t be more false...
Unexpectedly, she would one day use a whole piece of golden nanmu to make a dressing table.
Sun Miaoqing said, "It is unusual. It is different from other wood at first glance. The lines on it are radiant and colorful. It is obviously wood, but it shines with the light of gold. No wonder it is called golden nanmu."
(I saw a video of cutting golden nanmu to make a tea table on Station B. I can only say that there is a reason why this thing is so expensive and famous.)
Suzuran said, "Our queen was born to be rich and noble, so of course we must use the best things."
"Not to mention a dressing table, if you want a golden nanmu bed, the emperor will also have it built for you."
Sun Miaoqing recalled that when she was at Sun's house, she slept on a five-inch Qiangong Babu bed.
The area of the bed alone is almost forty or fifty square meters, which is equivalent to the area of a future one-bedroom and one-living room.
Looking at the rooms in the palace, because it is located in the north, in order to gather energy and keep warm, not even half of the Babu bed can be accommodated.
Even if Big Fat Orange is willing to give it away, he can't demolish the Chuxiu Palace and rebuild it just for this, right?
Sun Miaoqing said, "It's such a big place that we can't even put it down once it's built."
"Being small has its advantages. At least it's warm when you sleep."
Sun Miaoqing sat on the bed and tried the softness and hardness of the bed.
"What kind of material is this made of? It feels comfortable, but it doesn't look like cotton or silk?"
Qiangwei said, "Reporting to your Majesty, people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs said that the sheets and the back are made of 80% silk and 20% cotton."
"The cloth woven in this way not only has the luster and smoothness of silk, but is also easier to smudge, has bright colors and is not easy to fade. It is also more comfortable to cover the body or make into clothes than ordinary silk and muslin."
"It's just that the craftsmanship is more complicated than simple silk and cotton, so the output is not large."
"In addition, this material is suitable for dyeing some old-fashioned colors, so it is mostly used by elderly ladies."
"This is the first time I have seen such a bright and tender color on the bed."
It turns out that at this time, silk and cotton blended clothing materials were already available...
Sun Miaoqing asked, "Since cotton and silk can be blended, are there any other blending materials?"
"Like hemp?"
"Or wool, rabbit fur or something like that?"
Suzuran shook her head, "I have never heard of it."
"Branded robes and cloaks made of rabbit fur are common, but they are all made of rabbit skins that are tanned and then spliced together. The skin is padded with thick silk, and the fur is exposed on the outside or lined on the inside."
"I've never heard of anyone spinning rabbit hair alone to weave cloth. As for wool, it smells too strong."
"Only the Mongolians and ordinary people would kill the sheep and then nitrate the sheep's skin and sew it into clothes or quilts to keep out the cold."
"And this thing will harden when it comes into contact with water. It needs to be re-tanned every time it is washed. Not only is it troublesome, but it is also prone to breakage and deformation."
"If you don't clean it, it will smell bad after a period of time. No one with a lot of money is willing to use this."
So if you want to use wool, you have to recall chemistry and physics first?
Sun Miaoqing had a headache. Although her grades in physics and chemistry were pretty good back then, she was a liberal arts student through and through...
The kind who haven't studied advanced mathematics in four years of college...
Forget it, let’s get the toffee business done first, and don’t take too big a step.
She understands the principle of biting off more than she can chew~
Sun Miaoqing said, "That's right. If it were so easy to get it out, I wouldn't be able to see even a shadow until now."
"Let's not talk about this anymore. I haven't left my house in the past forty days. I don't know many things in the palace clearly."
"Whose brand has the emperor turned over the most these days?"
"Do Concubine Hua and Guiren Shen get along well?"
She has a good relationship with Shen Meizhuang and Nian Shilan, and they both know it well.
Every time I come to visit her, I always say nice things and don't mention anything else at all.
They didn't take the initiative to mention this matter, and it was hard for Sun Miaoqing to ask in person, otherwise he would have ignored their good intentions.
But I also knew in my heart that with Nian Shilan's temperament, it was impossible to give Shen Meizhuang a good look.
Even if it weren't for Big Fat Orange, she wouldn't tolerate anyone diluting the power in her hands.
Liu Li said, "In the first half month of my concubine's recovery, the emperor's injuries were not completely healed, so he spent all his time cultivating himself in the Yangxin Hall alone."
"After my legs and feet are healed, Concubine Hua and Guiren Shen each went to the palace once."
"On the contrary, after I met An Ansheng by chance a few days ago, I went to Ansheng's place twice in a row."
"I heard that Concubine Hua was very unhappy about this. She said that Gui Shen and An agreed to compete for favors with the group in mind and deliberately made trouble with her."
