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Chapter 42 A Puzzling Question

Bingchenzi looked left and right: what do you mean?Listen to him play the flute?

Tan Yushu smiled and said, "Master Miaofa likes the melody, and I heard that Bingchen Zixian's flute is superb, so I came here to learn it."

Chi Li was still the same: "Daoist Master Bingchen, have you figured out what kind of music I like?"

Bing Chenzi smiled and said, "It's not an unintentional hexagram to play all the tricks, but if the Miaofa monk wants to make friends with the flute, the poor way will not disappoint the Miaofa monk and return."

He took the flute and put it on his lips, a string of flute sounds piercing through the sky hit the sky directly.

Chi Li originally wanted to continue to trouble him, but after hearing the sound of the flute, his expression froze.

The flute has always been a clear and melodious musical instrument, but the sound of Bingchenzi's flute is not only as clear as ice, but also has a free and easy meaning, like a crane dancing solo in the ice and snow, free and unrestrained, as if you can smell it in a trance. Bitter ice and snow and rosin in a bitterly cold place.

The lingering rhyme faded away, Bingchenzi put away the flute, and said with a smile, "Miaofa Monk, how are you?"

Pond: ...

Heh, great, I recorded it.

Tan Yushu watched the two confront each other, and smiled knowingly from the side.Turn on the incense burner, pick up a few incense pills, and the bitter fragrance rises again.

Tan Yushu smelled the incense and praised: "Is it the Taoist's new fragrance? I don't know what ingredients are used. It is so clear and fragrant, which makes people feel refreshed."

Bing Chenzi twirled his beard and laughed: "This is the 'Cedar' I made myself. Why, Mr. Tan Xiaolang has taken a fancy to my fragrance again?"

Tan Yushu blinked, and took out another thing from his sleeve: a fourth-order Rubik's cube.

Smiling, he said to Bing Chenzi: "The gameplay of this thing is to bring the chaotic color blocks back together, Brother Chi—"

After speaking, he handed the Rubik's Cube to Chili.

Pond: ...

Where did Tan Yushu hide this thing just now?This will be sugar, flute, Rubik's cube, is he Doraemon?

When I go back, I must figure it out...

But it's strange, Chi Li still took it in silence.

The amount of computation of the fourth-order Rubik's Cube is child's play for Chi Li. After scanning the arrangement of the color blocks, he didn't even bother to look at it. The cube danced around for a few times between his well-articulated fingers, and a well-defined Rubik's cube took shape. Hand it over to Tan Yushu.

Wow!

Tan Yushu was amazed in his heart, he had been studying this thing for a month, and the more he rationalized it, the more chaotic it became, and in the end it was brother Chi.

Pass the Rubik's Cube in front of Bing Chenzi: "A little gadget, give it to the Taoist priest to play with every day."

Bing Chenzi took the Rubik's Cube curiously, and then admired: "Order in chaos, six colors play endlessly, ingenuity! Forget it, just pick up the pen, and I'll copy the recipe for you."

"Thank you, Daoist!"

Tan Yushu waited on the pen and ink with a smile, and added: "Recently, my mother sleeps less at night, and I want to ask the Taoist priest for a good sleep."

"Alright alright."

After asking for the formula, Tan Yushu said again: "The younger generation has heard that the Taoist priest recorded all the hexagrams in his life, and recorded them in a book. The younger generation has always admired the Taoist priest. I wonder if I can borrow one or two to read it?"

Bingchenzi: ...

"Forgive me for speaking bluntly, Mr. Tan Xiaolang didn't seem to be here for one thing today?"

Tan Yushu blinked and smiled and said, "To tell you the truth, the younger generation does have a lot of things to do. For example, I heard an interesting story recently called 'Zhuang Sheng's Dream Butterfly'. Do you want to hear it?"

Bingchenzi: ...

"I'll just borrow it from you for one night, and remember to come back tomorrow. What is that story?"

After listening to the story, Bing Chenzi was still pondering over this exquisite thought, Tan Yushu said again:

"I heard that Dao Chang's painting is also a masterpiece..."

After picking up the wool in this way, Tan Yushu came empty-handed, returned with a full load, and left contentedly.

Bing Chenzi always felt that something was wrong: "Mr. Tan Xiaolang really has nothing else to do here?"

Hearing his question, Tan Yushu stopped and sighed: "There is one thing, but it's not for me, but for a lonely woman."

Bingchenzi: ...

He understands, let him do this for free?General Tan really gave birth to an amazing child.

……

Emperor Jiaming always liked to discuss the Tao with Master Bingchenzi. Suddenly one day, Meiren Lu became seriously ill for no reason.

After looking around, Bingchenzi said to Emperor Jiaming: "The palace is very cloudy, the empress accidentally bumped into it, I'm afraid her life may be in danger."

Emperor Jiaming was shocked, Miss Lu was beautiful and knew how to serve others, and the legendary third son, he really loved Miss Lu, how could he bear this, he immediately asked what could be the solution.

Bing Chenzi pondered for a moment: "I'm afraid that someone close to Madam Lu will bear the evil spirit on her behalf, but the person who suffers from the evil will also lose his lifespan. Even if it is a close relative of flesh and blood, who would be willing?"

When Emperor Jiaming heard this, he immediately felt relieved.

Lu Meiren's parents are still alive, her brothers are complete, and she has a pair of sons, plus two couples of parents-in-law. Can't there be anyone who is willing to suffer for his concubine?

I often hear that Lu Meiren's family is respectful, father is kind and son is filial. They should be very willing, right?

Emperor Jiaming immediately sent someone to notify Lu Meiren's relatives to choose someone.

These days, because of Lu Meiren, the entire Lu family, including the family of the first two in-laws who raised their sons for Lu Meiren, have followed the chickens and dogs to heaven.

In the past, she was a "cheap hoof" to Mei Lu, but now she has changed, and she has been worshiped as a bodhisattva, wishing to burn a golden body for her.

However, after hearing Emperor Jiaming's message, everyone was stunned.

Will it reduce lifespan?The good days are not yet a few days away, who wants to die early!This cheap hoof is too unlucky!

So everyone pushed into a ball, and no one was happy.

Only Lu Meiren's two children, one thirteen and one seven years old, heard that their mother was seriously ill and her life was in danger, so they cried and knelt down and expressed their willingness to suffer on behalf of their mother.

When Lu An came back, he reported the situation in detail, and when he heard that the Lu family ignored his beloved concubine's life and blamed each other, he became furious and immediately ordered to strip all the rewards.

And when he heard that the two sons voluntarily borne the disaster for their mother, Longyan was very happy and made the two children countes.

After Bing Chenzi combined the two children's horoscopes with Lu Meiren's horoscope, Lu Meiren really woke up slowly. After learning the cause and effect, she wept endlessly. She was merciless for her relatives and suffered for her children.

The beauty was crying, Emperor Jiaming's heart was broken, and he quickly comforted her: "You miss them so much, but why did they ever miss you!"

Lu Meiren immediately snuggled into Emperor Jiaming's arms softly: "My family does not hate, after all, the kindness of life, the love of flesh and blood. My family only pities itself. In this world, even close relatives who are connected by blood are ruthless to my family. Only Your Majesty is sincere." Be good to my concubine."

This fragile gesture is particularly pitiful, and Emperor Jia Ming immediately embraced her: "You are my beloved concubine, if I don't treat you well, who will I treat well?"

Lu Meiren burst into laughter immediately, and stayed tenderly with Emperor Jiaming for a moment, then said, "It's just that my two children are really pitiful. I thought, why don't we let them go to the Efa Temple to lead the cultivation practice? Maybe if I show pity once in a while, the evil spirit will be relieved by itself?"

Emperor Jiaming suddenly felt that this statement was very reasonable, and immediately adopted it.

To settle a matter, Emperor Jiaming looked down at Meiren Lu, because she just recovered from a serious illness, it seems that Meiren Lu didn't apply powder today, the skin on her face is as white and delicate as an egg, it makes people feel itchy to look at, holding her face delicately Look, she said in amazement: "My concubine has suffered a serious illness, and she seems to be more beautiful than before."

Lu Meiren turned her face away shyly, and said in her heart: The makeup powder that Mrs. Tan gave is really top quality.

Nestling in the arms of Emperor Jia Ming, after her two sons left those two disgusting families, she no longer had any scruples.

I think she was humiliated and abused in those two in-laws' homes.And the second family not only beat and scolded her every day, but the old bastard of that family also touched her from time to time.

After she endured the humiliation and told her mother-in-law, her mother-in-law accused her of being promiscuous, seducing her father-in-law, and beat her together with her father-in-law every day. Whenever she thought of those hellish days, she would gnash her teeth with hatred.

Lu Meiren, who had been "sick" for a while, but was more beautiful, got up in the morning and looked in the mirror, carefully smoothing the powder that Tan's mother had given her.The powder is as light as nothing, it won't fall off even when soaked in sweat, and the color is natural, just like the skin next to your skin.

Unscrew a tube of lip balm, the whole body of the balm is covered with a circle of auspicious cloud patterns, it is very beautiful, when it is applied on the lips, it is very bright, even cinnabar can't touch such a bright red, and the whole person instantly feels refreshed.

In the end, the ice crystal-like "armor" was glued on, and she raised her hand to caress the cloud temples. Beauty Lu was very satisfied.

Beauty is her greatest weapon, two old bastards, sooner or later I will let you die in my hands.

……

When Chi Li and Tan Yushu returned to Efa Temple from Bingchenzi, Chi Li was immediately shocked by Tan Yushu's ability to "digging three feet into the ground".

Of course, the quality of the recording equipment you carry with you is not as good as professional radio equipment, but it doesn’t matter, the recording is very clear, find a professional tuner to see if it can be saved, it is impossible to imitate it again, in short, it is less expensive than finding someone to design music .

Moreover, this meeting with Bing Chenzi reminded Chi Li that in ancient times, besides poetry and songs, modern people were fascinated, and metaphysics also made modern people full of desire to explore.Although Bing Chenzi is a big fool who can be seen by the naked eye, he might fool the emperor, but this person has his own way.

So I opened those hexagrams and some other books on physiognomy and feng shui, took pictures randomly, and it might be useful to take them back.

Tan Yushu looked at the ingredients given by Bingchenzi, who was quite accomplished in making incense, and the effect of the incense was also very good.

Think about it in modern times, Brother Chi always stays up late to work overtime, and often drinks coffee to refresh himself, and those programmers like to swallow clouds when they are tired. It is said that these are quite harmful to the body, so Tan Yushu is very curious, why not burn some wake-up What about incense?

So Tan Yushu asked for a few prescriptions, and when he had time, he made some incense for Brother Chi, so that he could wake up and sleep peacefully.

All in all, this trip was a fruitful one for the two of them.On the other side, Hu Chunniang also opened her rouge shop and named it Taohua Pavilion.

Every time Hu Chunniang shipped goods from Hyundai in small batches, in order to make money, she directly took the high-end route and set a super high price.

Those foundations are named "Peach Blossom Jade Powder", a box of five taels of silver.

The price of this newly opened shop is actually higher than the best rouge shop in central Beijing. Everyone thinks the owner of this shop is crazy, and it will be closed soon.

As a result, from a certain day, the "Peach Blossom Pavilion" was suddenly full, and the supply of such expensive rouge gouache was actually in short supply every day, and the onlookers were dumbfounded.

This is all thanks to Beauty Lu. Among the aristocratic circles in the capital, concubines in the harem are the fashion vane. Beauty Lu's unique new makeup is deeply loved by the emperor, which naturally arouses the jealousy of other concubines.

Naturally, the origin of such things as cosmetics cannot be hidden from other people. Instead of making people jealous for no reason, it is better to share them openly. After telling a few concubines who have made good friends in the palace, everyone will know the source of these cosmetics , Have asked the family to buy.

Once spread to ten, ten to a hundred, soon the entire circle of noble ladies knew about Taohuage's fans, and even the empresses in the palace rushed to ask for it, so naturally they also made moves one after another.

When they bought it home, the liquid foundation with natural, long-lasting and waterproof modern colors immediately conquered this group of ancient ladies.

Not only that, but when the noble ladies in the capital got together, they discovered that the ugly monster who was always ridiculed by them in the past, now had a large birthmark on his face that was naturally gone!The whole person has become beautiful!

Shocked, I inquired about it, and found out that this is the function of another "Peach Blossom Repairing Powder" of Taohua Pavilion.

It is unbelievable that such a large birthmark can be covered up, and an ugly monster can be turned into a beauty!

The people living in the capital are all top-notch noble ladies, how could they take a mere five taels of silver to heart, and immediately buy it!

And the lipstick that Hu Chunniang brought the most was also out of stock.

The price of lipstick Hu Chunniang has always been one, not only that, but she also did some tricks.

For the color of the lipstick, Chunniang Hu only got one matte bright red for the time being, but she made 12 lipstick themes, namely the four gentlemen of "plum blossom, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum", the four seasons of "spring, summer, autumn and winter", and the four righteous gods of "wind, rain, thunder and lightning".

Modern technology is very easy to produce lipstick tubes or to paint on lipstick tubes. Modern people have seen more and are used to it.

But for the ancients, such a beautiful lipstick tube is good for displaying, and they are reluctant to throw it away!

Collection addiction has existed everywhere since ancient times. Hu Chunniang counted these 12 themes as a set, and a set sold for 10 yuan. The noble girls who have collection addiction bought a set immediately.

And after finding out that it is cheaper to buy in this way, many noble women will come to "make orders". Although it is still more expensive than other lipsticks on average, there is an inexplicable illusion of picking up cheap.

As for the nail stickers, compared with other things, Hu Chunniang sells them not too expensive, but as a "resident service" to attract customers to the door.

Now that she is the imperial wife, it is naturally not good for her to engage in these "cheap arts", so she hired a few little maids in the shop to teach the nail art skills she learned to her personal maids, and then the maids handed them over to these people for future use. manicurist.

Manicures are so profitable in modern times, but they are more profitable in ancient times, and they can also bring a stable flow of customers. Her silk and satin shop is next door to Peach Blossom Pavilion. The business of the shop has been improved~

Not only Hu Chunniang's shop opened, but Miao Dongmei's shop also opened.

In the setting, "Miaofa Monk" has no father and no mother, and is alone, so in ancient times, Chi's father and Chi's mother pretended to have nothing to do with Chi Li, but were poor relatives of Hu Chunniang's natal family, and came to join Hu Chunniang.

After finding out her identity, Miao Dongmei rented a small shop near the street, and finally showed what she brought from modern times: yeast powder.

In terms of eating, the ancients are no worse than modern people, and pasta has long made tricks.

The ancients have figured out for a long time that the noodles will taste better after fermenting, but they don't know the reason.

So very early, it was fermented with natural fungi in the air, and sometimes it would become sour.Until the discovery of lye water, using this to make noodles can neutralize the acidity of noodles, and pasta has taken another step forward.

But now there are so many fermented products, such as baking soda, baking powder, and yeast powder, which are classified into different categories and have all kinds of effects.

What Miao Dongmei brought this time was yeast powder, and she was going to sell steamed buns and steamed buns on the street.

The reason why she wanted to do this was probably because when she was watching TV, Miao Dongmei was not very interested in the protagonist, but she was interested in the character selling big white steamed buns on the roadside!

Now she can also sell steamed buns on the ancient streets!Will there be little beggars or wandering male and female protagonists stealing her steamed buns?Then she will definitely not chase him away viciously like in the TV show, but feed him directly~

The business of the Yong Dynasty was very developed. Every morning, traders came to the city, and those who traveled a long way would just eat something in the city.

Some hawkers from poor families just pick up cheap steamed buns to fill their stomachs.

"Miao Niangzi Noodle Shop" opened a big bargain, all of which were cheap, and small vendors immediately flocked to it.

After eating the buns from this store, I was shocked. I didn't expect such cheap buns to be so delicious!

And not only the steamed buns are delicious, but even the solid steamed buns are soft, and the more you chew, the sweeter they become, as if you put sugar in them, and the dry steamed buns are also delicious!

Steamed buns are cheaper than steamed buns. They are so delicious. If you don’t buy steamed buns in the future, just bring some pickles from home and eat steamed buns. Wouldn’t it be more economical!

In this way, the reputation of Miao Niangzi's noodle shop was spread all at once.

It must be very hard to run a noodle shop from morning to night, so Chi Li asked his mother to spend a little more money to hire a few pastry chefs and waiters.

Miao Dongmei was not afraid of being tired, but she couldn't hold back Chi Li, so on the recommendation of Tan's cook, she hired a family of relatives, a couple and a son and a half, and her daughter went to work in Taohua Pavilion.

So it was said to open a shop, and in the end she became a "landlord woman", and Chi's father, a "landlord", suddenly had nothing to do in ancient times, and took Chi's mother around every day, and the cold weather couldn't stop it.

Father Chi also has short hair, but he wears a curly head every day, so he can't tell it at all.

It doesn't matter if you are found to have short hair, just say you lost the bet and sold your hair.

Although "the body, hair and skin are the parents", but the ancients couldn't live on, and they would actually sell their hair.

Because in ancient times, wigs were a very popular headgear.After all, the ancients did not have much hair, so in order to appear more hair volume, various wigs were developed to improve the appearance, and wigs are very expensive, and they are exclusively used by wealthy families.

In ancient times when the technology was underdeveloped, the most realistic material for making fake buns was of course real hair, so the industrial chain of selling hair came into being.

When the women of the common people can't get rid of the pot, they will secretly sell their hair and become the makeup of the noble ladies.Some of the hair was even taken from the bodies of executed prisoners and shaved prisoners.

Although men usually let their wives sell their hair because they want to save face, but if you say that, it makes sense.

Seeing his father swaggering, Chi Li fell into deep thought, turned to Tan Yushu and said, "Then why did I have to shave my head?"

Tan Yushu: ...

"Brother Chi, you didn't tell me when you shaved..."

Pond: ...

So, blame him?