Dressed like a loser and went to raise a baby

Chapter 64
The Queen Mother's birthday banquet was prepared by Concubine Li. She had to check it carefully to make sure there were no mistakes. If there were any mistakes, it would be her responsibility.Not only would he make the Queen Mother unhappy, but he would also be embarrassed in front of the ministers and wives, and would be laughed at by the concubines in the harem.

After leaving the imperial dining room, Concubine Li went to the imperial garden where the stage was built and asked someone to carefully check whether the stage was firmly set up.

After noon, the royal family members and wives will enter the palace to watch the play with the Queen Mother.This birthday banquet was a dinner party. Knowing that the Queen Mother liked to listen to operas, Concubine Li specially invited the opera troupe to the palace.

There are few women in the harem. If only the women in the harem were allowed to watch the theater with the Queen Mother in the afternoon, it would naturally not be lively.Therefore, Concubine Li asked her concubine and the royal family members to go into the palace after noon to watch the play with the Queen Mother.

The Empress Dowager's birthday banquet can only be attended by the wives of ministers of the fourth rank or above and relatives of the emperor, and they can bring one or two legitimate children to the palace for the banquet.

After checking everywhere, Concubine Li was still uneasy and asked a few trustworthy nuns around her to keep a closer eye.

Yunxiang Palace.

After breakfast in the morning, the Queen Mother dressed up.

She is wearing a pure red phoenix-clad peony palace dress, a peony bun in the middle, and a nine-tailed phoenix hairpin with a ruby ​​on its mouth and small ruby ​​tassels.The tassel of small rubies falls to the center of the eyebrows.On both sides of the bun, there are two golden tassels with ruby ​​egg tassels hanging down on each side.

She wears a necklace of excellent East Pearls around her neck, ruby ​​earrings on her ears, and a pair of green bracelets on her hands.

She has long eyebrows on her temples, her face is smeared with powder that can cover her white face, a three-petal lotus flower is placed between her eyebrows, and her small cherry mouth is smeared with red lipstick.

The whole person looks graceful and elegant. Even though she is 43 years old, she is still gorgeous and unparalleled when she is well-maintained and dressed like this.

The Queen Mother stood in front of a bronze mirror that was as tall as herself, swaying her body, looking at herself in the mirror, touching her hair on the temples, and sighed: "The Ai family is really old..."

It's incomparable to before, the fine lines under the eyes have also appeared, and even powder can't cover them.Fortunately, there is no gray hair on this head yet, otherwise it would make him look even older.

Aunt Cui knelt on the ground and adjusted the hem of the Queen Mother's floor-length skirt. She looked at the Queen Mother in the bronze mirror and said, "Your Majesty, you are not old. Your appearance has not changed and you are still as beautiful as before."

Naturally, this slave wants to tell what his master likes to hear.

"Ha..." The Queen Mother smiled, and the man in the bronze mirror also smiled, "You know how to say nice things to make the Ai family happy."

After finishing her skirt, Aunt Cui stood up and stood behind the Queen Mother and said: "Old slave, this is not just to make the Queen Mother happy. The Queen Mother is indeed as beautiful as before. Don't say that the women in the late emperor's harem are not as good as you, the Queen Mother. , even these women in the Emperor's harem are no match for you, the Queen Mother."

Hearing what Aunt Cui said, the Queen Mother was very happy and proud, but she said: "These women in Han'er's harem are much younger than the Ai family, how can they not be able to compare with the Ai family?"

Every morning, when she saw the concubines who came to greet her and looked at their smooth and white faces, she felt envious in her heart.

"Although they are said to be younger than you, the Queen Mother, their appearance and manners are not as good as yours."

Aunt Cui said very confidently: "If you don't believe me, look at the Queen Mother during the dinner. There are definitely more men looking at you than those young concubines."

The Queen Mother straightened her chest, looked at her still plump figure in the mirror, and thought to herself: Ai Jia's figure is still good, and has not yet deformed.Unlike those older women whose figures are out of shape.Just as he was about to show a confident smile, he suddenly realized that his breast line seemed to be drooping a lot.

She immediately frowned, looked down at her breasts, and found that they were hanging down to her waist, and then her expression changed drastically.Aunt Cui noticed that the Queen Mother's expression changed, and she immediately lowered her head and stopped talking.

The Queen Mother said angrily: "Get up quickly and find a wider girdle for the Ai family."

If the girdle is wider, the sagging breasts can be lifted up.

Aunt Cui understood immediately and hurriedly found a girdle of the same color but wider.The girdle is bunched up. Although the breasts still hang down from the girdle, they are also pushed up a lot by the wide girdle.

Although the new girdle looked much better than before, the Queen Mother's good mood was completely ruined.

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"Crackling..."

Shopkeeper Feng, who was greeting customers in the shop, suddenly heard a burst of firecrackers. After the customers left, she took out her shop and stood outside the door to look around.I saw a group of people outside the corner shop. It looked like a new shop had opened.

She remembered that the shop used to be a shoe seller, but it closed after a short time.Before selling shoes, I was buying jewelry, and before buying jewelry, I was selling cloth. Moreover, the business did not last long, and they were all closed within half a year.

To say that their street is the busiest in the imperial city, the flow of people is not small. Even if the shop is at the end of the street, the business will not fail.People who do business on this street say that the feng shui of that shop is not good, no business can be done, and whoever rents it will be unlucky.

Now that another unlucky one has come, she guesses that this business will not last long.

At this time, Shopkeeper Wen from the tea shop next door came out. When he saw Shopkeeper Feng, he clasped his hands and called out, "Shopkeeper Feng."

Speaking of their street, the most profitable one now is Shopkeeper Feng's shop.A beautiful rabbit doll is produced in her shop every month. Now it is popular in Kyoto and has become a sought-after item among noble ladies.

It was also sold for 20 taels of silver each. At such an expensive price, only the noble ladies of Kyoto were willing to spend money to buy it.Not only did she buy one, but she also bought them every month, just to collect seven different colors and exchange them for the human-sized rabbits in her shop.I don’t know how Shopkeeper Feng came up with this method of selling things. It’s really very high-end.

"Shopkeeper Wen." Shopkeeper Feng nodded, pointed to the shop at the end of the street and asked, "Does shopkeeper Wen know what that shop sells?"

Shopkeeper Wen shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, but when I passed by the day before yesterday, I saw someone cleaning the shop. The shop has been renovated and made very special. It is also very bright and fresh. This is the first time I have seen it. People dress up their shops like that.”

When Shopkeeper Feng heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "Hey, you haven't bothered to re-decorate it! Wouldn't that mean you have to pay more."

"Not necessarily." Shopkeeper Wen thought of the decoration of the shop again and muttered: "I think that shop should be open for a long time."

That kind of decoration is so novel that the nobles in this imperial city should be attracted to it.

"Come on! That shop has bad feng shui and will be closed down within half a year." Shopkeeper Feng said very confidently.

(End of this chapter)