After the rebirth, the princess became the richest man

Chapter 66 To eat or to die?
"It's okay, if you think about it and scold me, maybe someone else is muttering about me."

Lin Qingyue was very bored in this palace, and she couldn't go out for a stroll, lest those people outside would think of some sinister moves to deal with her when they saw her.

Everything has advantages and disadvantages, and the disadvantage is that Lin Qingyue is almost growing mushrooms in this side hall now.

Xiao Tao gave a helpless chuckle, and put the cloth bag in her hand in front of Lin Qingyue.

"Xiaotao knows that it's inconvenient for the girl to go out and it's uncomfortable to stay in this hall, so she specially found these things to relieve the girl's boredom."

Lin Qingyue looked at the cloth bag in front of her, her eyes lit up.

While quickly opening the cloth bag, he eagerly asked Xiaotao, "Did you bring me something good?"

Xiaotao sat next to Lin Qingyue with an unfathomable face, and chuckled lightly.

"Don't tell Xiaotao, won't there be no sense of mystery if you say it?"

Lin Qingyue raised her forehead, Xiao Tao had been with her for so long, her skills hadn't improved much, and her words were slipping away.

He opened the bundle in two or three strokes, and a pile of bottles and cans were spread out on the table along with the four-corner cloth bag.

"This is... rouge?"

Xiaotao nodded vigorously, and said with a proud face: "I saw that you are bored staying in this room, girl, thinking that the rouge in this palace should be much better than the one outside, so I found the maid who is in charge of sweeping the house on weekdays. They got the rouge that these empresses usually use half or only a little."

Lin Qingyue randomly picked out a bottle from the pile of rouge bottles, because of Lin Qingyue's concept of hunger marketing, the rouge she made did not affect the general direction of the rouge industry.

Most of the rouge on the market is still the original color, the color of this box of rouge that Lin Qingyue opened is still that bright bright red color, but the texture is very different from the rouge outside.

Lin Qingyue repeatedly took a small amount of rouge and rubbed it between her fingertips twice, her brows furrowed slightly.

"There's something wrong with this rouge."

Xiaotao was bragging about how she got these rouges from those maids, when she suddenly heard Lin Qingyue say that there was something wrong with these rouges, she didn't realize it for a while, and asked cautiously after a while: "This rouge... ...what's wrong?"

Lin Qingyue took out a silk handkerchief from her cuff, and wiped off the rouge between her fingertips with some tea.

"The texture of this rouge is too soft. The things in the palace are good, but the fixed ingredients for making rouge remain unchanged. It is precisely because of this that no matter how good the materials are, the softness and hardness of the rouge after curing The difference is not much. The texture of these rouges is obviously too soft, and there may be something bad added in it."

"Oh my God!" Xiaotao exclaimed, and immediately went to check the windows and the door, making sure that the windows and the door were closed tightly, and no one overheard their conversation before returning to Lin Qing Yue whispered beside her: "These are all things used in the empress's palace, who has the guts to attack the empress?"

Lin Qingyue's eyes drooped slightly, and an obscure light flashed in her eyes.

"No one has the guts to attack the queen, so couldn't it be the queen herself?"

Xiao Tao's eyes widened suddenly, and she stretched out her hands nervously to grab Lin Qingyue's clothes.

"Girl, be careful what you say, if others hear this, they will be beheaded!"

Lin Qingyue smiled suddenly, patted Xiao Tao's hand and said with a smile: "Don't worry, even if I make the world fall, my father and uncle will stand up for it. No one will dare to chop off your young lady's head."

Xiaotao murmured: "Yes", and slowly loosened Lin Qingyue's clothes.

She looked at the pile of exquisite small bottles on the table with some taboo, her eyebrows furrowed together.

"I originally wanted to find something to relieve you, girl, but I didn't expect to get these things. Xiaotao is going to throw these things out now, so as not to stain the girl's eyes."

"Hey! Don't move yet."

Lin Qingyue reached out her hand to stop Xiaotao's movements.

"The ingredients in this rouge are unknown. Since the empress dares to use it, it means that the content in it is harmless to her. I would like to study what she added to this rouge."

Xiao Tao's movements froze, and she put the cloth bag back on the table.

"Since the girl said so, then stay."

Lin Qingyue chuckled lightly, and sent Xiaotao to find some handy tools for her.

The tools she used to blend the rouge were custom-made by her, and she didn't carry them with her when she went out this time.

Xiaotao went out for a while, and only found a slightly thicker silver needle.

Lin Qingyue is not limited to these, as long as it can be used to dig rouge.

She picked out some rouge and put it on the veil, and studied it under the sun for a while, but she didn't find out why.

There were no chemical instruments in this era, so Lin Qingyue could not do sampling and testing, and could only distinguish with the naked eye.

But the naked eye is not an instrument after all, and cannot accurately analyze the ingredients inside.

Just when Lin Qingyue was about to give up, Xiao Linze suddenly said at the right time: "You put the rouge close to your nose and smell it."

"smell?"

Lin Qingyue has always paid attention to the soft texture of rouge, but neglected the taste.

Put the rouge in front of the nose and shake it slowly, the fragrance of the rouge faintly wafts out.

Lin Qingyue brought the tip of her nose closer and sniffed carefully.

Ordinary rouge will be mixed with some fragrance, and most of the body fragrance of women comes from this.

Lin Qingyue frowned slightly as the aroma entered her nostrils.

"How?" Feeling Lin Qingyue's strangeness, Xiao Linze asked softly.

Lin Qingyue sniffed it carefully again, and said with a solemn expression: "The spices added in this rouge are several times the normal spices. Women sometimes ask artisans to add more fragrances in it to increase body fragrance, but this is not the case. The face powder is obviously too heavy, and..."

Lin Qingyue hesitated for a moment, and said with some uncertainty: "And I seem to smell some... bloody smell in this rouge."

Lin Qingyue put the box of rouge on the table, her face turned slightly pale.

At this moment, when she looked at the rouge in the rouge pot, she could only feel that the rouge was oozing red, which made people shudder...

Beauty is what women strive for all their lives.

Which woman doesn't want her youth to stay forever, but it's a pity that the years are rushing, but she never takes pity on beauties.

The youth is fleeting, and the beauties are old and late. Seeing that what I once thought was easy to get, has become the sand in the hands of the moon in the water.

Some women are able to face this 'loss' head on and some women are not.

In order to keep their youth forever, they even take the lives of others as the price.

Lin Qingyue once heard that in the Middle Ages, there was a lady who soaked and bathed in the blood of a young girl in order to maintain her youth forever.

Thinking of the queen's girlish face and the smell of blood concealed by spices in the rouge box, Lin Qingyue suddenly felt her scalp go numb, and a chill quickly spread to her limbs and bones.

Lin Qingyue felt inexplicably terrified when she thought that there was a bloodthirsty face hidden behind that smiling Yanyan face.

She didn't tell Xiaotao about her conjecture. If Xiaotao had the guts to know that there was something wrong with the rouge, she might show her flaws in front of the queen and others.

Lin Qingyue only told Xiaotao that the soft texture of these rouges was caused by keeping them for too long, and asked her to take them out and throw them away carefully.

(End of this chapter)