"This is a custom in the Western Regions. If you don't expose your navel, people will suspect that you are from the Central Plains." Haitang smiled. The thin layer was really difficult for a conservative girl like Lamei.
"But why are your clothes not exposed..." Lamei looked at Haitang's clothes.
"Mine has been modified. Where can I hide the props when I don't meet the emperor and perform magic tricks?" Haitang said with a smile.
"Ha, I see. Sister Haitang is really becoming more and more cunning. Let me, a girl, expose her navel in public to attract everyone's attention, and you can perform unexpectedly." Lamei said.
"You don't have pork belly on your belly. What are you afraid of? Isn't it a pity that you have such a good figure wrapped up in clothes every day? It's rare to show your face in front of everyone, but they are all dignitaries and princes from the Western Regions. I heard the young prince say that the Western Regions
The prince is very handsome..." Haitang induced him earnestly.
Hearing what she said, Lamei felt that this was also the case. She had not suffered any loss. I, Lamei, should also have three swords and five sides. I can't always appear with one appearance.
"This is for you." Haitang handed Wintersweet a layer of black gauze, "Put this on the outside so that people can't see it too clearly, and it's not completely invisible. It's a good deal."
"I know you're good to me, let's change it now." The two of them changed into clothes from the Western Regions in the carriage, with semi-transparent gauze scarves wrapped around their cheeks, making them look vaguely hidden.
Seeing each other's faces through the bronze mirror, Haitang always felt that something was missing, not like the real girl from the Western Regions in the portrait given by the young prince.
It’s hair and makeup!
Opening the small package next to it, there were all the unique ethnic hair accessories and rouge and gouache from the Western Regions. Haitang smiled, yes, that's all that was missing. The young prince was quite thoughtful.
The rouge gouache and wintersweet here are very different from those in the Central Plains. I don’t know how to use them anyway. If you touch this rich color, wouldn’t you become a vixen!
Lamei looked at it timidly. Those hair accessories were quite beautiful. They were shiny and shiny. If they were inserted in the hair, they would definitely attract people's attention.
"Here, let me give you a little smoky eye first." Haitang experimented with wintersweet.
This and that dot were painted with heavy colors, and bright red lips were added. Finally, the headdress was put on appropriately, and matched with the clothes of Wintersweet, a woman from the Western Regions appeared in front of Haitang.
"Sister Haitang, is this still me?" Even Lamei couldn't believe that the woman in the mirror was herself. She had never seen herself like this before, just like an artistic photo.
Haitang also put on makeup and a headdress.
The two beautiful girls from the Western Regions were sitting in the carriage like this. Coupled with waist bags of various sizes unique to the Western Regions, Haitang put all the props she had prepared overnight into the ethnic-style waist bags from the Western Regions, and everything was ready.
The carriage jolted, and after a long, long time, the curtain was opened, and there was yellow sand and grass outside, with the north wind blowing across the ground, and the scenery of the northern part of the Great Wall.
"The solitary smoke is straight in the desert, and the sun is setting in the long river." Haitang blurted out. She has not had the opportunity to experience the scenery of the northern part of the country, but today she has seen it. The sight is desolate and empty, and even the air is mixed with a sense of vicissitudes of life.
Soon, the carriage stopped, and the sun was setting over the long river.
The young prince has already made arrangements to wait here for the carriage of the envoy from the Western Regions, and then go to Beijing together.