Ji Ling's mother and daughter, who had dressed up strictly in accordance with Fourth Master's aesthetic taste, heard people from Jiuzhou Qingyan outside coming to pick up the concubine and the third princess in the evening.
Ji Ling looked in the mirror and applied some more lipstick.
After all, the third princess was a little baby. Ji Ling did not dare to put any cosmetics on her face, not even putting a red dot on her forehead. However, the third princess watched her mother put on makeup without blinking, she was very serious.
Ji Ling painted a tearful eye makeup today. She used glutinous rice juice to stick a few shiny beads on the lower eyelids. She didn’t even apply blush on the entire makeup. The focus of her eye makeup was on the smudge of the lower eyeshadow - except for the eye sockets.
shading, nothing else, just carefully combing out the hair on the eyebrows.
In order to neutralize the delicate feeling caused by the tearful eye makeup, Ji Ling also raised the eyebrows slightly upward to deepen the resonance with the pupils.
Finally, when Ji Ling put down the lipstick and was about to put it away, the third princess became anxious in her wet nurse's arms, waving her hands, saying "Hmm", and reaching out to desperately want the box of lipstick.
Wipe it for me!
Ji Ling took the silk toy next to her and pushed it into the arms of the third princess.
The third princess spat, hit the little chubby hand, and pushed the silk toy to the ground.
Ji Ling was both angry and funny: "Hey! You little fat girl, you have a bad temper!"
As soon as the third princess's toy fell down, Qilin rushed forward and picked it up - it thought the little master was playing a game with it, and was very excited.
Evian was nearby, touched Qilin's back, and asked Qilin to give her the toy. Qilin shook his head and refused to pay attention to her.
As a result, Bixue came over and patted Qilin on the head, and Qilin immediately handed over the toy honestly.
"If the toy falls on the floor, ask the cleaner to wash it twice with soap locust, and then boil it in boiling water. Only after boiling can you bring it in for the princess to play with." Ji Ling warned.
Bixue smiled quickly and said: "Yes, Master."
She handed the toy to Evian and whispered: "Master, did you hear all the instructions clearly?"
Evian knelt down and said to the concubine: "Master, don't worry, this slave knows." After saying that, he went out with the toy in his arms.
The third princess lay glumly in her wet nurse's arms, her furry little head tilted to one side, her eyes still staring at the box of lipstick.
"Let's go." Ji Ling stood up holding on to the edge of the dressing table. The people from Jiuzhou Qingyan were still waiting outside. It was hard to keep the emperor waiting for a long time.
A group of people cheered in front of them, and the concubines came out. Ji Ling smiled when he saw that the person leading the way was Xiao Chenzi.
Xiao Chenzi also came forward and greeted Ji Ling neatly: "Slave Chenzi from the Yangxin Palace, I would like to say hello to the concubine, may the concubine be blessed!"
Ji Ling said loudly: "Get up."
After that, Xiao Chenzi stood up, bowed and lowered his head with a smile, and said: "Your Majesty, I have been running around Qingyan in Jiuzhou for a while, and I haven't paid my respects to you, my concubine, for a while."
Ji Ling smiled and said: "This is a good thing. You are smart, and you have to work harder on the imperial affairs."
Although Xiao Chenzi followed Su Peisheng and became a little fritter, he was still young after all. After hearing the words of Concubine Chen, his eyes lit up and his chest puffed up.
He pressed the handrails of the shoulder carriage, and when Ji Ling came forward and sat firmly, he saw that the wet nurse had followed him and walked to the side of the carriage of the Concubine Chen, and then he raised his hand and said commandingly: "Concubine the Concubine—
—Get on the road!”
The shoulder carriage was lifted.
Ji Ling was slightly afraid of heights when he first sat on the chariot. But as he sat more often, he found that he gradually got used to it - used to seeing the Forbidden City, the Old Summer Palace, and all living things from this perspective.
state.
People are like this, nothing can escape the word "habit".
On the way, Xiao Chenzi whispered to Ji Ling - it turns out that the foreign painter, in addition to painting portraits for the emperor and the empress, Ji Ling and the third princess were the third and fourth ones to be painted.
After getting on the Ruyi Bridge and passing the Peony Terrace, I saw Xi Bin coming from the opposite side from a distance. Looking in that direction, she seemed to be coming out of Qingyan, Jiuzhou.
Seeing Ji Ling, Concubine Xi raised her hand and signaled Jianyu to go to the side of the road and give way.
Just in time, Ji Ling also ordered to stop for a moment and let Xi's concubine pass first on the path.
As a result, I got out of the way both times.
Xibin exchanged some polite words with her and insisted on letting Ji Ling go first. Seeing her acting like this, Ji Ling stopped insisting - it would be ugly if she insisted any longer.
She ordered Jianyu to go first.
When they arrived at Jiuzhou Qingyan, before they even came near, several young eunuchs had already come to greet him. Ji Lingren was still on the carriage. The young eunuchs all knelt down to pay their respects to the concubine.
Su Peisheng came out from the front hall. Seeing this situation, he squinted his eyes, flicked his whisk, and walked over calmly to say hello. He also said that the emperor was already waiting for the empress inside, and he also asked the concubine to come in quickly.
While being supported by Qixi, Ji Ling got off the carriage and looked back at the wet nurse.
The wet nurse understood and hurriedly came forward with the third princess in her arms.
Qixi was still behind Ji Ling and gently pulled the pleats of her clothes at the back. Ji Ling held her hand and said, "It doesn't matter the pleats at the back. You won't be able to see them when we take the portrait later."
A group of people surrounded Ji Ling and went up the steps of Jiuzhou Qingyan's front hall.
The emperor's residence was an extremely deep and spacious palace with high beams and cornices. Although Ji Ling had been here many times, he still felt a chill as soon as he entered the door. He couldn't help but shrink his shoulders and squeezed Qixi.
Su Peisheng, who was standing next to him, smiled and said, "This is the main hall. The space is big and there are plenty of ice buckets. If the empress feels cold, I will ask them to remove a few of them." He said, waved his hand, and there were young eunuchs immediately there.
He came forward and carried two ice buckets down.
When Ji Ling walked to the door of Nuan Pavilion, the palace attendants on both sides saw Su Peisheng leading the concubines over, and immediately opened the curtains and knelt down to pay their respects.
Ji Ling raised her hand to signal the palace people to get up. When she saw the Fourth Master still buried in his desk, he stepped forward and knelt down to say hello: "Concubine, please say hello to the Emperor. May the Emperor be blessed!" The wet nurse knelt down behind her.
Come down, take the third princess's little hand and salute her, the Emperor.
Yinzhen raised his head and saw Ji Ling and his daughter coming, and his frown immediately relaxed.
He put down his pen, stood up, walked around from behind the desk, bent down and helped Ji Ling up with his own hands, and said, "It's only been a while, but I didn't expect that Xiao Chenzi's movements are quite agile."
Ji Ling smiled, hooked his finger, and whispered to him coquettishly: "He has been waiting for me for a long time. If I hadn't dragged my feet before going out, I could have done it faster!"
The crystal tear eye makeup she wore made her eyes look forward to the moment, and her eyes sparkled slightly.
Yinzhen stared at it intently. He raised his head after a long while and looked at the jade rabbit diamond on Ji Ling's head. He took a step back slightly, looked at her body up and down, and said with a smile: "It's very good for you to dress up like this.
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As he spoke, he stared at her with burning eyes, brought her hand to his lips and kissed her, then he kept holding Ji Ling's soft hand in his palm and never let go.
The slaves next to me had already buried their heads in their chests.
Yinzhen raised his chin and ordered Su Peisheng: "Let Lang Shining come in."
Not long after, Su Peisheng indeed brought in a foreigner dressed as a painter. Ji Ling saw that this famous foreigner painter from the Qing Dynasty in history had a high nose and deep eyes, with benevolent eyebrows and a gentle and joyful expression.
Seeing the emperor, Lang Shining immediately and naturally knelt down with his sleeves up, and said fluently and respectfully: "My lord, Lang Shining, wishes to greet the emperor. May the emperor be blessed with peace and prosperity!"
After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, missionaries were despised. Only the priests serving in the court received special treatment. Ji Ling listened to Lang Shining's greetings and spoke eloquently, without any pause in each sentence, naturally and fluently. In the end, he also brought
A little Beijing accent - from this alone, you can tell that this famous court painter has said this sentence countless times.
The difference is that I used to say it to Emperor Kangxi, but now I say it to Emperor Yongzheng.
