In the steaming bath, Zhu Qiaoqiao was half-lying with her eyes slightly closed, letting two girls in chest-length clothes behind her wash her long hair.

In the lattice shower room all around, the maids are also washing their hair in the early morning, and everyone is surrounded by all-natural toiletries developed by Momiji Perfume, which are dazzling and have all kinds of uses.

The hygienic habit of bathing frequently has been practiced in the Xu family for many years, and those who have a habit of cleanliness even take a bath eight times a day, most of them are twice in the morning and evening, and when it is hot, they take a shower every half an hour, and no one cares if they soak in the pool all day.

Affected by this, not only the clothes are becoming more and more simple and easy to wear, the requirements for the bun are not so particular, the natural flowing shawl long hair is becoming more and more sought after, if you want to change the mood, you can tie a knot at will, hang down a few locks of hair or stay in the sea, which is not only lazy and cute, but also suitable for everyone's face shape and personality.

The grate and head oil have basically disappeared in the inner house, and most of them are used by elderly women in the Xu family.

Zhu Qiaoqiao opened his eyes and saw the musk moonlight slipping down from the bath, looking a little unhappy, so he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Musk Yueyin and Zhu Qiaoqiao can be called close comrades-in-arms on the bed, so they have no privacy for the eldest grandmother, and said worriedly: "What else can I do?" My stepmother went out all day long, my sister asked her what vegetables to buy today, she said what to eat, the girl's family should not learn to be greedy and lazy, there is a bowl of rice to eat, no vegetables to make tea. The household is used to buy new clothes and jewelry, rouge and gouache.

Not only that, she was slightly dissatisfied and smashed the dishes and bowls, and my father didn't say anything about her, which made my sister swallow her anger and suffer in her heart, and she didn't dare to tell my father, so she could only secretly complain to me. ”

Zhu Qiaoqiao sneered: "I've never seen your sister look like this, don't say anything else, anyway, sooner or later she will marry out." When faced with scolding, it is enough to get married and die and never get along. She dares to make a move as a stepmother? A step-family born from a concubine, still dares to be rampant? ”

Musk Yue smiled bitterly: "No matter how you say it, it's all stepmother, I'm thinking if I should take my sister over to be a girl for two years, and then find a good family." In the past, I used to raise her as a young lady, but since my life was uncomfortable, there was no need to keep her at home. ”

"That's a good idea." Zhu Qiaoqiao pointed out: "If you want to have a good reputation, put it in the old lady's house, and send it to Cuiliu at ease." If you want to make money without men. You might as well leave it to me for a few years. ”

"Well, let me think again." Musk Moon smiled, leaning over to soak her hair.

At this time, the eldest girl came over in a clog, squatted down and whispered: "Zhu Gao asked if you want to help the Gui family, now Mrs. Gui's mother and son are under house arrest and are not allowed to go out, and the family is panicking." ”

A sneer rolled at the corner of Zhu Qiaoqiao's mouth, "You tell him, what does the Gui family's life or death have to do with me?" My mother has been sold to the palace since she was a child, and I have never received the favor of the Gui family in my life. My relatives are all over the world, do you come here to help? ”

"Yes." Xiqing was a little confused, and he didn't dare to ask more, so he got up and hurried out.

Zhu Gao, who was outside the hanging flower door, slapped his palm. smiled at Sang Xinshan: "Okay! Grandma doesn't care about the Gui family's bad things, so we don't need to scruple about it, we have to hurry up and ask for the deed. ”

Sang Xinshan was not interested in Zhu Gao and the Mu family partnering to release official accounts, and he had no part in it. is concerned about Xiuchun, "Uncle, Xiuchun's girl hasn't been here for a few days." In case I beg my grandmother to match someone else, then I want to die. ”

"You're just a worthless thing." Zhu Gao hates that iron does not become steel, "Where in the world is there no fragrant grass?" What beauty can't be bought with silver? After speaking, he licked his lips covetously and said with a smile: "But Xiuchun's girl is really good, she has a good temperament and is handsome, if you want to let Uncle Wei also get clean, I have a way to help you." ”

Sang Xinshan hurriedly said: "What I didn't say, our family doesn't talk about it." ”

"Good nephew." Zhu Gao smiled heartily, hugged him and said with a smile: "I will take you to meet the White Lady today, the water snake waist is not much worse than the white snake spirit." is thirty years like a wolf, every time I have to work together with Bai Lao Er to satisfy her, otherwise I can't even get out of bed the next day with backache and leg pain. ”

At the same time, Liu Zhi's house at the corner of the street, Xu Cuiyun has no habit of washing his hair frequently since he entered the palace, and got up early in the morning and sent Liu Zhi to the shop.

Cleaned his face on the dressing table, grated his head with a grate, and was really itchy without washing for three days, and applied some good hair flower oil, and combed the hair with a shiny oil, and he could smell the rich fragrance from afar, covering up other peculiar smells.

Today she was going to Gui's house to get back the things of the marriage, and chose a pair of gilt and jadeite Danfeng Chaoyang golden hairpins from the jewelry box, which was given by Xu Hao when she got married, and was regarded as the most beloved treasure; I wore a few small hairpins and emerald rings, and a pair of large red gold earrings hung on my earlobes.

There are three pairs of ringing bracelets with the character of Fu Shou on the wrist, and a pair of ringing anklets of the same style on the legs, which will make a pleasant sound when walking, just like some girls like to wear bells and jade rings.

Taking off all her clothes, Xu Cuiyun looked at the mirror with self-pity, admiring her delicate body, and suddenly frowned and pinched her slightly loose abdomen, which was naturally the result of being pampered and not exercising.

"There's no need to appreciate something that doesn't understand."

Xu Cuiyun made an excuse for herself, put on a big red pocket under the service of Yahuan, and wore a white silk gown, and a big red full-breasted skirt. Due to the recent popularity of retro style in Beijing, the style before the Tang and Song dynasties was changeable, and the gorgeous skirt was quietly popular.

The skirt can be said to be a real Hanfu, there are many types and are not limited to one style, among which the high-waisted skirt can be imagined as the traditional women's clothing of the Korean nation, and the waist-length skirt is very similar to the Japanese kimono, which is due to the influence of the Tang Dynasty.

The full-breasted skirt showed the openness and unrestraint that was characteristic of the Tang Dynasty, and this kind of bold clothing could only be compared with that worn by women in the modern period of the West.

There are also men's skirts, but Xu Hao doesn't like it very much, although it is from China, but it is too similar to Japanese men's kimonos, it always feels weird to wear, and then put on clogs, it is clearly a wave.

The Ming Dynasty prevailed in the jacket skirt, the Han Dynasty tops were mostly called "undergarments", and from the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Tang and Song dynasties, they were gradually replaced by "jackets" or "shirts", which was a long evolutionary process, and the most obvious feature was that the pipa sleeves were changed from wide sleeves to pipa sleeves with cuffs. The blouse is not tucked into the skirt, but hangs out generously, and the length of the placket can be changed at will.

It seems to be related to the increasingly conservative social atmosphere, loose and good-looking coats will not make women's upper and waist circumference too obvious, and it is more elegant and colorful, in line with the cultural characteristics of the Song Dynasty advocating nature, and most of the modern Hanfu were born from the jacket skirt of the Ming Dynasty.

The unrestrained Tang Dynasty made the colors of the clothing extremely gorgeous, while the Song Dynasty reversed the gorgeous style and popularized the elegant and quiet light colors, and the Yuan Dynasty followed the Song Dynasty. However, the color tends to be more gray, reflecting the depressed mentality of the Han people at that time.

In the Ming Dynasty, the use of color was divided into two extremes, either red and green, and the texture embroidery was very exquisite; Either it is plain white, and only embroider a lace one or two inches below the skirt as a presser foot.

The skirt width was originally six, that is, the famous skirt dragged six Xiangjiang water, and now there are more women with eight pieces. There are also ten pieces; There are many fine pleats around the waist, and each pleat has a color, and the breeze blows, the color is like the moon. Therefore, it is called "Yuehua skirt".

Because it was winter, Xu Cuiyun added a jade-colored western silk jacket with a small lambskin, a pair of women's pants under the waist, and a pine-green pleated long skirt.

Made the carriage out. People are busy decorating lanterns everywhere, and the smell of the New Year is still strong, and after the fourth day of the new year, women are sick. There was a surge of people visiting relatives and friends.

After arriving at Gui's house for a long time, the two gates were tightly closed, and the two subordinates sat on the stone steps outside the gate, listless.

The housekeeper of the Liu family went over to report his name, and the next person hurriedly led the carriage to the side door, and Xu Cuiyun sat in the car and faintly heard the crying at home.

Several women and mothers-in-law ran out to meet her from inside, and after the carriage stopped, the coachman moved over the stool, and the maid got out of the car first, and then helped Xu Cuiyun out slowly.

Suddenly, Xu Cuiyun heard a fierce quarrel inside, and someone shouted: "It is natural to repay debts, what do you want to repay the money borrowed by your master?" ”

Xu Cuiyun was curious and entered the moon gate to take a look, Gui Tang said with a red face: "My family has nowhere to go, so I gave you the deed, where will the family live?" You're too a bully, aren't you? ”

The woman who quarreled with him was about thirty years old, and the beautiful young woman who still had charm was dressed very decently, not much worse than Xu Cuiyun, and sneered: "Then I can't care about it, take advantage of the fact that the principal and interest are exactly three thousand taels now, and hurry up to pay off the debt with the house, otherwise I will have to sell my son and daughter in a few days." ”

Xu Cuiyun asked curiously, "What's going on?" ”

The woman of the Gui family smiled bitterly: "It's not that the lord borrowed the money from Yinzi, seeing that my family is in ruins, the creditor rushed to the door to force the debt, and I really want to force people to death." ”

"Oh!" Xu Cuiyun stopped, and originally wanted to explain the reason on behalf of Mrs. Gui and ask Mrs. Gui for her understanding, but now that she saw that the Gui family was about to be homeless, she was too lazy to go in, so she said lightly: "I don't see your wife either, I bother you to go in and report it, return Zhucui to her, and transfer Mrs. Xia to Mrs. Xia, I don't need to say what I mean, right?" ”

The woman lowered her head and went in, and Mrs. Gui, who was hiding in the house, looked haggard, and gave the jade pendant to the woman weakly. Thinking that she was bent on clinging to the Xu family back then, but now that her family has fallen to such a point, she feels shameless and has nothing to say, and she acts happily and neatly.

Xu Cuiyun took over her jade pendant, she was very satisfied with Mrs. Gui's knowledge, she didn't look at the two people who were still arguing, turned around and left.

Later, the Sun family of the Mu family also came out satisfied, Guitang was young and impulsive, and she threw out the deed as soon as she squeezed it.

Outside, Xu Cuiyun had a hard time going out, and walked around the street with the maid with great interest. Sun sat directly in the carriage, she was instructed by Mrs. Mu to come out to buy things, and by the way, she went to the Gui family to force debts, and there were seven or eight Mu generals waiting at the door.

As soon as the carriage stepped together, a small guy from the Gui family in the crowd viciously threw over a cannonball, bang! The animal was frightened and went forward, and the groom couldn't hold back, and the car ran to the mouth of the alley.

It just so happened that a carriage inside also rushed out, and the chariots on both sides couldn't stop shouting, and the two carts collided, and the wheels were stuck together. The horses grew more and more frightened, and their front hooves raised and kicked and jumped.

With a click, the axle of the car on which Sun was sitting broke, and the whole car fell to one side, and the cattle jumped higher.

The people were so frightened that they scattered in all directions, and the whole road was blocked, and the coachman was so anxious that four or five people could not pull the cattle on both sides.

There was also a man sitting in the car opposite, who didn't move across the wheel, and the Mu Fu family general was suddenly annoyed, and he stepped forward with a whip and beat him, and he ran away with a bastard who had no eyesight.

Xu Cuiyun watched the excitement from afar, and in a short period of time, there were thousands of people around the street, and the maid hurriedly said: "It's too chaotic for fear of bad people, let's go into the building to avoid it." ”

Xu Cuiyun looked up and saw that the nearest two-story building was a jewelry shop, and walked in directly with a smile.

There was a teenage girl sitting in the car here, crying anxiously, and Sun was carried out of the car by the anxious family, looked at the people around, and said angrily: "Tie up the one who drove the car, I don't have time to accompany him, hurry up and repair the car and go back." ”

The general tied the driver to a pillar and unloaded the axle and one wheel of his cart.

While waiting, Sun asked casually, "Who is sitting in the car?" ”

The leader said, "It's a big girl, crying in the car." There was a man in his thirties who was like a thief, and he was beaten with a whip and got out, and he didn't even want anyone. ”

Sun said: "This is not a car, it has nothing to do with the car, leaving that girl here is not a matter, help people to sit in our car, take them back to the house, naturally someone will come to take her." Do your best, but don't frighten people. (To be continued......)