Chapter 366: Suyanfang [Three Updates]
Everyone was very enthusiastic. They got up before dawn and prepared materials with the craftsmen to make rouge and wine. When they were free at noon, they hurried to find someone to customize the plaque.
From beginning to end, Mu Nanjin didn't need to worry about anything.
She only needed to take a walk in the workshop every day and leave.
After the rouge was successfully made, Mu Nanjin went to the palace to meet the Queen Mother on the day when the concubines and the younger generation paid their respects to the Queen Mother.
When the Queen Mother saw Mu Nanjin entering the palace with a box, she smiled and asked, "Mu girl, are you bringing good things to me again?"
Everyone looked at Mu Nanjin when they heard about good things.
Mu Nanjin nodded.
Princess Xueyu came over with her son in her arms: "Mu Nanjin, what's in your box? Open it and let me see."
Mu Nanjin didn't keep it a secret: "It's rouge."
"Rouge?" Princess Xueyu handed the child to the maid next to her and asked: "Is it the rouge brought back from Wucheng?"
"Rouge made in my workshop."
"Your workshop?" Princess Xueyu was surprised: "You opened a workshop?"
"Well, I will not only sell rouge in the future, but also wine and tonic soup. You are welcome to visit my Suyanfang, Zuifang and Tangshenfu often in the future."
Mu Nanjin opened the box and gave a box of rouge to the queen mother, queen, concubines, and princesses.
Due to the short time, the box for rouge was rough, and some concubines and princesses looked down on Mu Nanjin's things.
The Queen Mother was smart and saw Mu Nanjin's intention at a glance. She smiled and said, "The rouge made by Mu girl must be the best rouge."
Princess Xueyu smiled and said, "Mu Nanjin's gifts have never disappointed us."
[Of course, the rouge I make can protect the skin and nourish the face. I guarantee that all the concubines and princesses can't do without it, hehe. 】
When the concubines and princesses heard what Princess Xueyu said, they couldn't help but think of the Jade Face Pill that Mu Nanjin gave to Princess Xueyu a few years ago.
Suddenly, everyone looked at the rouge differently, and even couldn't wait to go back to their own palaces to try the effect of the rouge.
The Imperial Concubine was the first to find an excuse to leave, and the others also left one after another.
After leaving Yongshou Palace, everyone wished they could grow a pair of wings and fly back to their own palaces.
After the Imperial Concubine returned to her palace, she hurriedly said to her maid, "Quick, put the rouge on my face."
"Yes."
The maid opened the rouge box, and a faint fragrance spread from the box to the surroundings.
"Your Highness, the rouge smells so good."
The Imperial Concubine also thought it smelled particularly good: "It is indeed fragrant, and it is a fragrance that I have never smelled before, and it is also a color that I have never seen before. It is really special."
The head maid first removed the makeup for the Imperial Concubine, and then applied the rouge on her face: "Your Highness, how do you feel?"
The Imperial Concubine looked at herself in the bronze mirror again and again: "I don't feel anything. Could it be that I didn't use enough rouge?"
"It's already a lot. If it's more, it won't look good. Speaking of which, this box of pink rouge is particularly suitable for Your Highness. After using it, Your Highness looks particularly young."
"It just makes me look younger, but it doesn't make me really younger."
The Imperial Concubine couldn't be happy.
Whenever she thought of the Queen's younger appearance, she was almost jealous to the point of going crazy.
The most annoying thing is that the Emperor has also become younger, and he has no interest in them, old women, and now he runs to the Queen's Palace every day.
These concubines can't face the young emperor either. Not only are they inferior, but they also don't want to face the emperor with their old faces.
The head maid comforted her: "Madam, let's wait a little longer. Maybe it will work in a few hours."
The imperial concubine could only wait patiently, but there was no change at night. She lay down on the bed with a disappointed look on her face, and gradually fell asleep in the middle of the night.
At the hour of Mao the next day, she opened her sleepy eyes as she was used to getting up early.
The maids hurriedly helped her wash and change clothes. When she sat in front of the dressing table, the head maid looked at her and exclaimed in surprise.
The Imperial Concubine asked listlessly, "Why are you so surprised?"
The maid happily replied, "Your Majesty, I found that your skin has become smoother and your crow's feet have become less."
"Really?"
The Imperial Concubine looked at the mirror half-doubtfully, and then she showed great joy on her face: "Is my eyes not blurry? Not only have the crow's feet become less, but my skin has also become much tenderer."
The maid smiled and said, "No, no."
The Imperial Concubine said happily and anxiously, "Quick, put rouge on my face again."
"Yes."
Not only did the Imperial Concubine become younger, but other concubines in the palace also became older, but some concubines were impatient and smashed their rouge boxes when they could not become younger immediately. Now their rouge has been treated as garbage.
They regretted it very much and wanted to slap themselves a few times. And the eunuchs and maids in their palace searched through all the garbage in the palace but could not find the discarded rouge boxes.
"You useless bunch, you can't even find a rouge box."
The angry voice of Concubine Su came from Liren Palace.
The palace maids and eunuchs knelt on the ground and dared not make a sound.
The rouge box was disposed of yesterday, and the eunuch in charge of collecting garbage had already burned all the garbage yesterday.
The head maid said cautiously: "My queen, don't be angry. Although the rouge box sent by Lord Mu is gone, we can still buy rouge from Lord Mu's shop."
Su Guiren's eyes lit up: "Yes, why didn't I think of buying rouge in the shop, Lvliu, you are still the smartest, then the matter of buying rouge is left to you."
"Yes."
But the maid can't leave the palace immediately after leaving the palace, not to mention that Su Guiren is just a noble lady and has no right to let the maid leave the palace. Therefore, Lvliu needs to report to the general manager and wait for the general manager's consent before leaving the palace.
But Su Guiren was very anxious, so Lvliu had to ask the eunuch in charge of purchasing to help buy rouge.
However, Su Yanfang had just opened, and the eunuch in charge of purchasing had never heard of the store of Su Yanfang. He searched around the street and didn't find Su Yanfang.
The madam in charge of Suyanfang, now known as Shopkeeper Qi, waited in the shop. Three days passed, but no customer came to buy rouge. Even if they went to the street to solicit people, no woman or girl was willing to enter Suyanfang.
It’s not that the rouge in Suyanfang is bad, nor that the decoration of Suyanfang is bad, nor that the service attitude of Suyanfang is bad, but that the predecessor of Suyanfang was a brothel, and the rouge sellers were all prostitutes, and no one wanted to have anything to do with them.
This made Shopkeeper Qi very anxious. She reported this matter to Mu Nanjin, but the other party was not anxious at all, and told them to wait patiently for a few more days.
Shopkeeper Qi had to return to Suyanfang and wait for another six days. Finally, on the tenth day of their opening, they welcomed the first customer.
The other party walked in and asked cautiously: "Excuse me, is this Suyanfang selling rouge?"
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