Chapter 64 Peach Blossom Rouge
Li Tian took a group to the south wing and assigned six maids to serve the girls and were returned to the front yard.
There are five rooms in the south wing, one main four-sided. The main room faces east, warm in winter and cool in summer, and divided into interior and outside. Caidie took a glance at the room. "This main room belongs to me. You can discuss the rest by yourselves."
"Sister Caidie, you think this room is quite spacious. It's a little wasteful for you to live alone. Why don't we live in one room?" He is talking about Sifan in brocade clothes, and his beauty is a little inferior to that of a butterfly. However, that figure is a little thinner than the colorful butterfly.
Caidie smiled and said, "Sister Sifan, you know that I don't like to live in the same room with others. The clothes I use are all high-quality goods. If they are broken one day, it will be unclear.
After listening to Caidie's words, everyone's faces changed slightly, and Si Fan blushed even more angrily, "Sister Caidie, isn't that you are afraid that we will steal your things?" Among the ten concubines, except for Caidie, who is a lady of an official eunuch, the other nine are the daughters of ordinary people.
"Sister Sifan, don't get me wrong, sister, that's what I said. After all, some people will be greedy if they haven't used good things, and it's not possible to take it or not..." In the last sentence, Caidie deliberately lengthened her tone, and her eyes turned to a woman in dark green clothes from time to time.
Everyone also looked at the woman in dark green clothes with the eyes of the color butterfly. The woman saw that everyone looked at her blush. "Sister color butterfly, I really didn't break your rouge..."
It turned out that a few days ago, the concubine's family received an order from the palace and sent their daughter to the palace, and the group lived in the same bedroom. At that time, the colored butterfly brought a box of high-quality peach blossom rouge, which was bought at the Li family shop in Kyoto. The cheapest rouge gouache in Li's shop is also a box of one taels of silver, and the peach rouge is naturally more expensive.
Most of the peach rouge that can be used are rich businessmen and officials. Caidie's father spent 100 taels of silver to buy a box of peach blossom rouge for his daughter in order to win the prince's favor. Caidie got this rouge and was overjoyed to show off every time someone else was there.
That day, everyone received the emperor's decree that a Mother Song would come to teach them the rules. Caidie deliberately wiped the peach rouge and then put it on the desk. Unexpectedly, when she came back later, the peach rouge disappeared.
The color butterfly expected to win the prince's favor by relying on the rouge. The color butterfly was naturally very angry when the rouge disappeared, and called all the maidservants who had entered and out of their house that day, "Say, who touched Miss Ben's peach blossom rouge!"
Several maidservants looked at each other and were a little confused. The one-year-old maid asked, "Miss Caidie, what are you talking about? What color is the rouge box?
"The peach blossom rouge of the Li family in Kyoto, with peach petals printed on the pink box! Whoever took it and handed it over while Miss Ben is not very angry now. If she waits for Miss Ben to find it out, it will not be a matter that can be solved in one or two sentences!"
"Colored butterfly girl..." The younger maid shouted timidly.
"Did you take it? If you hand it over, I won't pursue it with you..."
"It's not taken by the maidservant..." Xiaogong's maid cried as soon as she was anxious. "Miss Caidie, when the maidservant came to clean up the room for the girl, she saw a girl running out of the room in a panic..."
"Can you see the man's appearance?" Since she is not a maidservant, it is one of the nine women who entered the palace with her. Caidie thought about the appearance of those women in her mind but could not find any doubt.
"The girl left with her face covered, and the maidservant couldn't see her appearance... But the girl was wearing a navy blue dress, and she seemed to wear a golden step shake on her bun..." The little maidservant thought about it carefully before saying.
Tibetan clothes? Caidie frowned and thought about it carefully. It seemed that one of the other nine girls was indeed wearing navy blue clothes today. "Do you really see that the man is wearing navy blue clothes?" I was afraid that the maidservant looked at the wrong eye and asked again.
The little maid shook her head to make sure that she saw it was navy blue.
"Oi, you go down. Don't publicize this matter everywhere. Do you hear me?" Caidie was also a little convinced when she saw that the little maidservant was very sure. When she went to learn the rules from Mother Song before, she did leave for a while.
"The maidservant knows that the color butterfly girl can rest well and call the maidservant if she has any orders." After saying that, a group of maidservants were blessed and retreated.
If the ordinary rouge butterfly is taken away, but the peach blossom rouge is worth 100 taels of silver, and the skin on the face is more white and smooth. Caidie originally wanted to wipe some on her face on the day of sex with the prince, so that the prince could fall in love with him at a glance.
After thinking about it, Caidie still decided to ask her and walked out of the room to the gazebo in the yard. At this time, nine other girls were sitting in the pavilion drinking tea and chatting. Seeing Caidie coming over with a bad face, one of the women in pink clothes said, "Sister Caidie, why are you so ugly? Are you catching a cold?"
It's autumn now, but Caidie only wears a single dress to look good, and others think she has a cold.
The color butterfly ignored the pink woman and walked straight to the navy blue woman. "Lvluo, you left for a while when you learned the rules from M Mother before, where did you go?"
The people who were laughing and talking stopped their words and looked at Caidie and Lvluo. They didn't know what had happened.
The woman called Luluo's face became a little unnatural. "Sister Caidie, I went to the hut with abdominal pain, and Mother Song knew..."
"Yes, colorful butterfly." The woman in green sitting on the right side of Lvluo said, "I stood next to Lvluo before. She said that she would ask Mother Song for leave to go to the hut. I know about this. Is there something wrong?"
"My peach rouge is gone, and a maidservant saw a woman in navy blue leave my room in a panic... That would be the time for Lvluo to go to the hut..." Caidie didn't say the following words, but she believed that everyone knew what she meant.
After listening to Caidie's words, everyone looked at Lvluo's eyes one after another. Even the woman in blue who had proved for Lvluo before was full of disbelief. "Cai, do you mean that Lvluo went to your room to get your peach rouge at that time?"
"Is it the best thing in her heart?" Caidie looked at Lvluo with a gloomy face and couldn't wait to stare at a few holes in her face. "Lvluo, if you return the rouge to me, we will still serve the prince together in the future. If you don't want to take it out, I can only tell the steward... You should know that once this matter is known by the steward, you can't escape. The board..."
"Sister Caidie, I... didn't take your rouge..." Lvluo bit her lips tightly, and there was a trace of blush on her tender white face.
"What's on your clothes..." Before the colorful butterfly opened her mouth again, a woman sitting behind Lvluo pointed to the cluster of scarlet marks on the green Luo's clothes and asked. This color looks a bit like the peach blossom rouge of colorful butterflies..."
As soon as everyone heard it, they quickly came over to see the marks on the clothes. The colorful butterfly also looked down and looked carefully and lifted it up under their noses and smelled, "This is indeed peach blossom rouge... What else can you say about the green man's stolen goods!"
"Sister Caidie, I really didn't take your rouge... I... I just envied you for having such a good rouge, so I sneaked in and applied it on the pretext of abdominal pain. But when I left, the rouge was well put on the desk..." Lvluo was the daughter of an ordinary family. She was not very talkative. Most of the two days in the palace, she sat by and listened to others, and she rarely talked to her. This will be caught stealing rouge, but the box of rouge is gone. Lvluo is not good at words, and she can only keep repeating that she didn't take it herself.
"Well, I don't think you suffer a little and don't admit it. I'm going to go to the stewor's Mother..." After saying that, Caidie turned around and walked out of the pavilion to the place where Mami was waiting for Mami. Before Caidie walked out of ten steps, a small maidservant came to face with a small maidservant. It was the one who had seen Lvluo enter the colorful butterfly's house before.
"Miss Caidie, the maidservant is looking for you..." The little maid took a breath before she said, "Miss Caidie, your box of rouge..."
"Miss Ben has found the thief who stole the rouge, but she doesn't want to admit it. I'm going to find the steward's mime..." Caidie only thought that the little maid remembered some details, but now she already knew who took her rouge. Caidie was eager to find the steward and didn't want to talk more with the maid.
"Hey, Miss Caidie..." The little maidservant saw that Caidie was about to stop her. "Miss Caidie, please listen to the maidservant first. Your box of rouge has been found..." The little maidservant was afraid that Caidie could not stop Caidie and hurriedly said what she had explained. "Mame just found the box of rouge under the bench of your room, but the box was a little broken. ..."
When everyone heard that the maidservant said that the rouge had been found, they believed what Lvluo said. Thinking that they had looked at Lvluo with that kind of eyes before, they were a little embarrassed and got up one after another and said that they had left the pavilion. After a while, there were green dills, colorful butterflies, and the little maidservant left in the pavilion.
Caidie turned around and stared at Lvluo, and then turned around and walked to her room. When the little maidservant saw that the words had been taken, she also retreated. Lvluo was the only one left in the empty pavilion. Lvluo looked up and looked around, and tears couldn't help falling.
After Caidie returned to the house, M Mother handed her the box of rouge. Cai Die carefully checked that it was indeed her own box of rouge. "Thank you, M Mother."
"Ok, don't worry if you find it. You are all personally selected by the emperor and gave it to the seventh princes, and you should support each other..." The stewor said a lot and said a lot before leaving the house of colorful butterfly.
The rouge was found, and the stewman said that the colorful butterfly had no choice but to pursue this matter.