At night, the wind blew and the wind bell rang gently.
Gu Yunxi and her Brother sat on the wooden porch in front of the building and talked all night.
"All right, your hair is done. Look! Am I as good at it as Huanan He is?"
Yu Xuanji put down the horn comb and said with a relaxed breath.
Gu Yunxi sat on the low stool, raised the bronze mirror, looked at herself inside, turned around in surprise, and asked,
"Brother, I'm going to bed soon. Others are taking off their makeup. Why are you combing my hair?"
Yu Xuanji smiled silently and touched the girl's smooth and soft cheek with his fingers. He was gentle, with strong care and reluctance,
"I've never done anything for you before. Let me comb your hair before I leave tomorrow morning."
"What?"
The girl was surprised and her eyelashes agitated, "Why are you leaving? No, I won't allow you to leave!"
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In the loud sounds of instruments, laughter and smiles flowed into the loft.Inside the loft, the people who were just looking at each other immediately appeared amazed in their eyes. Then they all ran outside to have a look.In the yard, there stood a lot of people.A group of servants rushed and ran, trying to carry several carts of treasure outside the yard to the porch.Princess Anhe dressed in a suit of Da Yi. She wore a scarlet garment embroidered with begonias, birds, and clouds, with a golden-brown sleeved over-dress as the coat.Her thick hair was bombed to a high bun, in the middle of which there was a hairpin shaped in golden phoenix. Besides, there were also some jade hair clasps. On the whole, she looked so elegant and beautiful.On the side of Princess Anhe, scores of guards of Udan stood. Besides, there were many familiar people."Master!"Cheng Wanli first r
It was on the border between western tribes and Udan.When the rite was finished, in the bustling sounds, Leng Qingtang tidied his hat up. Then he smiled and walked close to Gu Yunxi.Their wedding ceremony was a combination with the customs of the Central Plain and western tribes.In the morning, the chaperon walked to comb hairs and make up for Gu Yunxi. When the blessing time came, the new couple performed formal bows.All those processes were strictly in accordance with the customs of Da Yi.After they finished bowing, the wedding ceremony would process in accordance with the customs of western tribes.In Udan, when a girl got married, her head would not be covered by a red cloth. Instead, the girl would wear a coral-made mask with crystal fringes, covering the lower half of her face.Besides, in the banquet, the bride could not only take a seat together with the bridegroom but also
It was quiet in the bedroom for a while and Gu Yunxi was not accustomed to it. She poked her head out of the quilt, opened one eye naughtily, and looked around.On the corner table, there was only half of the candle and the wax dripped down.On the soft blanket in extremely good fortune on the ground, there were some hazelnuts, peanuts, cinnamon, and lotus seeds that rolled down from the bed.Indoor furnishings didn't change. Red window paper, red curtains, five-color incense packages, and other items added warmth and sweetness to the wedding room to the limit."Master... Darling..."Gu Yunxi was wrapped in brocade with only two snow-white delicate shoulders outside. She called to the outside of the door sweetly.No one responded.She saw the marks on her body when lowering her head. They were silently reminding her that something had changed.Thinking of Leng Qingtang's ma
Opening the door into the kitchen, Huanan Jiyan was the first to shout out with surprise,"Wow, it smells good! What kind of soup is it?"Gu Yunxi was carrying a small pot with two ears from the stove, which contained some thick paste mixed with malt sugar, rock sugar, and brown sugar.Beside her was a wooden case with a variety of washed seasonal fresh vegetables, sliced cold tofu that were frozen like honeycombs in the ice cellar, bean starch sheets, minced fish and shrimp, and other ingredients.Seeing Huanan Jiyan come, Gu Yunxi smiled,"You come when I'm thinking about you and Hua'er."Today was the third day of Leng Qingtang and her marriage, so Lu Qiange and Huanan Jiyan came to visit them.Huanan Jiyan observed the customs of the place. She wore her hair in braids and wore a rose-red pleated flared skirt.Just looking at above the hundred kinds of the diamond-shaped
It was October in the late autumn when there was more frost and dew.The wind in the early morning felt a little cool as it blew the branches of the flowers, making them shake and fall down to the ground as if the winding path had been covered with scattered broken gold.The royal Autumn Hunting Convention of Udan used to start off on the seventh day of the Shengtu Festival, which happened at the closest place to the royal palace ― the royal paddock on the west of the Eagle Eye Mountain.Every year, the officers in the paddock would let out all kinds of living beasts in the cages before King Solo's arrival, so that the King and his officers could kill the beasts to their hearts' content.Then, they would regard the amount of the hunted animals as the gist of the fortune of their development in the next year.Before nine in the morning, flags of five colors had been set up in the paddock. The baldachin was set so
"Uncle―"Lu Qiange and Huanan Jiyan rushed all the way to finally catch up with Leng Qingtang and his wife at the riverbank of Eagle Eye Mountain."Uncle, Tulia is just a savage. Please don't take his words seriously."Lu Qiange held his rein to stop the couple from going away as he hastily explained before his horse stopped. His glittering purple eyes fixed on Lu Qiange's face, dying for Lu's forgiveness and understanding.The horse puffed heavily as the sad man rotated two rounds."You may find a little offensive that my Father directly asked you to serve our country, but he just appreciates your talent so much that his words become too blunt. Hope you don't mind.""It's alright. You don't have to worry about me. I just thought that it was getting dark and everybody got tired, so I just wanted to go home early to have a rest."Leng Qingtang's features were cool and calm. One couldn't
Gu Yunxi woke up early and carried her big dark-green sack filled with necessities, and then she went out on horse with Leng Qingtang.The way to the border of western tribes from Ping Mount wasn't short. When they reached the business street, it was noon.Gu Yunxi secretly got happy as it was the perfect timing.The business street they were at was the largest concentration of trade on the border of Central Plains and the western tribes. It covered wide and took the main street as the central axis, extending for thousands of miles around, among which were thousands of lanes radiating in all directions. And the lanes were full of shops and stores. People from the Central Plains and the western tribes, as well as camel and horse teams always gathered here to sell all kinds of hard-to-get goods.Walking half a day from here to the east, one would arrive at Baishui Gate.Gu Yunxi and Leng Qingtang got off their hor
"What else do you want, manager?"Gu Yunxi smiled as she saw the light in Manager Jiao's eyes as if he had wanted to say something but stopped. After exchanging a quick look with Leng Qingtang, she got clear about the following business negotiation.Manager Jiao bowed again as his features got squeezed together on his face so much that nobody could recognize him,"Well, please wait up. I've ordered the servants to prepare selected fragrant tea for you two in the private room. I've got a huge good deal to discuss with you."Gu Yunxi and Leng Qingtang were both observant as they had experienced big scenes.Seeing the manager's hospitality, Gu Yunxi didn't reject as she smilingly swiveled to Leng Qingtang, saying,"Darling, anyway, we've sold out all our goods. I don't think we could get through the border controls today. So, why not go to enjoy the selected tea with the manager?"Seeing a
Terra Nova's ninth year of the Daedalic Years, early spring.Kamakawa Yusui is shocked and annoyed when he receives news of a coup at the Imperial Palace and the imminent ascension of Prince Fuchi Yasutaka to the throne as the next Emperor.Since the Kunhuang Island and Huananhe lost a battle, Kamachi sailors suffered a heavy blow, Kamakawa was forced to take the remaining troops retreated to the south of Kunhuang Island, Tsuneoshima stationed.Unexpectedly, just when he was trying to avoid the previous shame and had been intensifying the study of the new combat program, the country had a great turnaround.Can't think too much, Kamakawa by water immediately point all 10,000 Ying army, lead five Anzai ship and a number of ships, with enough artillery Furlong machine fire speed back to Ying, swore to fight with and Shigeru cuts a high and low winners and losers.One night, as Kamakawa's fleet secretly approached Mizumura Harbor in Kyoto, a thick fog sudde
In the banquet hall of the palace, the fire and candles were bright, four dancing girls lined up, green silk buns, colorful makeup, silk sleeves fluttering and swaying, dancing in a slow and rhythmic dance.Two or three male musicians are not far from them, playing strings, flute, drums, each person's face is calm and solemn, but in the eyes of God duh, seems to have the essence of the aura of a hidden flash.The dinner was organized to celebrate the fifteenth birthday of Emperor Fuchi Masaharu, but due to the defeat of the Terra Nova army in Weihai, many of the entertainments were temporarily canceled, and only the traditional Yehime songs and dances were retained.Profound Ya Qing was the main character of tonight's banquet, at this time he was wearing brand new scarlet damask silk clothes kneeling above the chief belonging to him, looking quiet and enjoying the songs and dances.On the seats to his left were the former Emperor's side consort, Daiji, with h
Terra Nova, Kyoto.As night falls, in a short house in the civilian area, the blind man is anxiously waiting for his mother-in-law to return home from work.She hadn't been back for a day and a night, and that definitely hadn't happened in the past.Could it be that the Ninth Princess has encountered something on her end?Rustling footsteps stopped unexpectedly at the door.The blind man's sense of hearing is much more sensitive than normal people, his eyebrows slightly gathered, and without moving, he got up and lightly rubbed his steps to the wooden cabinet, and touched a sharp dagger from the top of the cabinet and quietly hid it in the sleeve of his coat.The door of the room opened, and by the sound of the footsteps coming in there should be two of them."You're Suigo Show's man, aren't you?"The one who asked the question in Terra Nova was a young man.The blind man turned his head sideways, carefully recognizing the source
A cold wind cut through the long, narrow corridor, and the lights flickered dimly.The man's ragged gasps continued to spill out of the closed wooden lattice barricade door, accompanied by the occasional few hushed cries of pain from the woman."Haru, come on, I'll accompany you to your room."Looking at Yuan Ya Qing's stagnant and godless clear face, Yun Shi's heart seized more than just pain as she tugged on one of his arms.The commotion in the room was in no way suitable for a teenager to be listening in.The teenager's eyes were lax as he took two steps with her, speaking quietly in Chinese: ."...Master, you have to trust me as well...it wasn't Mother and I's idea to march into Da Yi."Yun Shi suddenly became miserable inside, opened and closed his nose and said."I believed you, never had a doubt, and it was for that reason that I traveled across the river and across the sea to meet you in person in Terra Nova."The two co
"Yue Xilou, you traitor shall not die!"Qi and blood surged, and a strong hatred that had never been felt before invaded Yun Shi's consciousness.She jumped up with her eyes heavy with red and lunged at her enemy with all her might, reaching for his neck.Yue Xilou laughed scornfully and kicked her backwards with a flying leg.Yun Shi fell out onto the hard floor a few feet away, choking on blood and letting out a pained _groan_.Wamochi stretched his neck to look at it, grinning imploringly.Tsukishiro looks at the samurai on either side :)"Don't just stand there, take her down and keep her under good guard, she'll be of great use in the future.""Slow down ......"Yun Shi forced to endure the pain of bones about to break trembling climbed up, far away from looking at the abyss Ya Qing, the expression of desolate:"Your Majesty, I have something to say to you, please send the counselor."Empress Yuanya immediately s
The fact that the mute applicant, Yun, who was originally scrubbed out of the test, has been recognized by the Emperor as the Imperial Chef, shocks the entire Grand Cookhouse early the next morning.The cooks and handymen who had looked down on her earlier were now gathered in front of the stove in the cooking room, watching intently as she operated it herself.Even in the past days always rigid board a big white face of apricot leaf female master, this time all people before and after chasing after Yun Shi everywhere running, flattery, mouth like a river, all do their best to please. At sunrise, Yunshi was wearing a green coat and pants, put on a large apron to the stove to do the work.With white flour rolled out and crabmeat and shrimp mince and red fish roe in the filling, the meat buns are pinched out with absolutely thirty-three folds.Chicken breast, corn and green beans are sauteed in oil, thickened with soy sauce and pan-fried wine, and wrapped in so
He is, after all, the Emperor!Following the direction of Master Apricot Leaf's kneeling, Yun Shi looked at the teenager, his eyes filled with astonishment.The standing tasseled crown and the yellow coat are indeed the symbols of the imperial nobility of Terra Nova.But, this young man, he is actually the Emperor."Mute, why don't you kneel down!"The apricot leaf matron raised her eyes to the unresponsive Gu Yunshi and chided."Eh, forget it, forget it ...... Master Chief, you get up too."Meeting Yun Shi's eyes, the teenager's face flushed red and blushed as he explained: ."Granny, I don't mean to deceive you ...... I, I didn't eat well in the evening meal, and I was really hungry just now."Yun Shi's complexion returned to normal, pursed her lips and waved her hand, indicating that she didn't mind.Heh, how could she mind?She was begging for it!The hostess rises obsequiously and comes up to nod at the tee
The night fell slowly, blotting out the last rays of red light in the sky.The entire Western Garden was silent.Cloudseeker stood in the tiny compound under the endless sky, raising his head to look up at the dark inky colors of the night sky.In the field of vision, that heavy darkness seems to carry some kind of adsorption magic, only teaching people to look at a glance, want to look through.She failed the test to become a chef and lost her chance to enter the palace and meet the Emperor.Such a result directly disrupted all her latter plans.After losing her temper for a while, she thought of Hua Nanhe, who is still fighting in the battlefield, Yingyu, who is trapped in the palace of Dayi, and brother Mu Xiu, who is waiting for them to return home.Yun Shi's eyes burned as she quickly regained her fighting spirit.Now is not the time to be discouraged, since one way does not work, then find another way.The hour was already
Terra Nova, outside the Abyssinian Palace, West Court.The large cooking room was busy with players in white shirts and blue pants around wooden cases and stoves.In five days, Emperor Fuchiya's fifteenth birthday will be celebrated, and not only will there be a large-scale celebration dinner at the palace, but an all-day parade and festival will be organized throughout Kyoto."Faster, faster, the hour for the king to pass the meal is almost here, and later on your handmade delicacies will be the basis for whether or not you can stay as a loose cook."The woman in charge, Apricot Leaf, is in her thirties, with a purple shirt and pants, wandering around every corner of the cooking room with a stern look, urging the contestants with her mouth, and repeatedly scrutinizing their cooking techniques with her cold and warm gaze.The twenty casual chef applicants came from Terra Nova folk, both men and women, and most of their referrals were cooks and assistant