Little rich farm girl

Liu Yuanyuan looked at Wen Zhihui's firm eyes and felt that it was not a good thing to be born in the house of princes and generals. It was good to have good clothes and food all his life, but more of them were helpless that they could not even control their own destiny.

After seeing Wen Zhihui off, Liu Yuanyuan sat at the table and thought about how to make bright and moist lipstick. Lipstick in this era is mainly made of flower juice dyed red paper. It is easy to use, but the color looks thin and the lips look dry.

If you want to make a lipstick with moisturizing texture and beautiful color, you must use three basic elements: wax, oil and pigment.

Liu Yuanyuan looked at the flowers he had recently picked, but they had a lot of colors. Liu Yuanyuan took some of each kind of flower, carefully put the delicate petals in a small pottery pot, and then slightly drop a few drops of water, carefully beat the petals with a pestle to make the juice, and then filter the mashed flower juice with gauze to make a clean colored juice. It becomes a natural flower pigment. With several pigments of the basic color, more colors can be made by blending proportions with each other.

Liu Yuanyuan doesn't love lipstick in modern times, but love the Fruit Lip Balm, and the lip balm with all kinds of sweet fruit flavors. He licks his lips and feels that his mood is lit up. Liu Yuanyuan is holding his trial mind. He also takes fresh watermelon, oranges, honey peaches and grapes in his yard, and takes juice separately in the bowl.

Liu Yuanyuan thought about the lipstick oil. He thought it was easier to use almond oil. Fresh almonds can be bought everywhere in the city, and there are oil grinding stones in his backyard. Liu Yuanyuan asked third brother Jiang and Li Fei to buy several bags of fresh almonds. Then, these almonds were finely squeezed out with a stone mill, and the fragrant almond oil was put in the shade for preparation.

The pigment and almond oil are ready. It's already sunset and red clouds all over the sky. Liu Yuanyuan rubbed his body with backache and collapsed on the chair in the front hall.

Third brother Jiang loves Liu Yuanyuan and stands behind Liu Yuanyuan, kneading his shoulders for Liu Yuanyuan. Liu Yuanyuan has been busy all day. The muscles in his shoulders and neck are tight and hard. Brother Jiang has enough strength to help Liu Yuanyuan knead a few times. Liu Yuanyuan feels much more relaxed.

"Why is Yuanyuan in such a hurry to develop new Rouge? This kind of thing doesn't delay day by day. Don't wear yourself out for business." third brother Jiang looks at Liu Yuanyuan, who is tired. He is worried that Liu Yuanyuan is too anxious for success, but he wears himself out first. Good words persuade Liu Yuanyuan to put his body first.

"I can afford to wait. Miss Wen can't afford to wait. I succeeded one day earlier and told her one day earlier." Liu Yuanyuan sighed. Wen Zhihui's awe inspiring appeal to Liu Yuanyuan has made Liu Yuanyuan love this seemingly weak girl.

"But Miss Wen of Wenjiang army's house?" asked brother Jiang suspiciously.

Liu Yuanyuan patted third brother Jiang's hand, motioned that third brother Jiang didn't have to pinch his shoulder anymore, and sat down beside Liu Yuanyuan to chat with her for a while.

"It is general Wen's only daughter. Although general Wen has been stationed in the bitter and cold places of the border for many years and is loved by the people, there are crafty and villains in the court who slander the emperor that general Wen has the intention of rebellion. In order to control general Wen, the Emperor issued a decree to let Miss Wen enter the palace and be sealed as your imperial concubine. On the surface, it is to reward general Wen for his meritorious service in guarding the border, but in fact, it is just a pledge." Liu Yuanyuan told third brother Jiang about what he knew.

"What does that have to do with Yuanyuan's development of rouge?" asked brother Jiang.

"That Miss Wen is really a unique girl. In general, girls encounter this kind of thing, most of them are in tears at home, sighing the fate of injustice, but Miss Wen frankly accepted all of this. She came to me to say that she went into the palace and tried to win the favor of the emperor, so as to adjust the relationship between the general and the emperor." Liu Yuanyuan mentioned Wen Xin Hui's face with admiration. "If Miss Wen is a born man, she must be a pillar of the imperial court."

Brother Jiang bowed his head for a moment and said solemnly to Liu Yuanyuan, "Yuanyuan, you make rouge, but you compete for favor for Miss Wen?"

Liu Yuan nodded, "that's nature. There are many beautiful women in the palace. If you want to stand out, you should highlight all aspects of nature. If I can make rouge, I can also help Miss Wen lead other concubines in makeup."

"If you succeed in helping Miss Wen get the favor of the emperor, you will hurt her rather than help her. The palace is deceiving each other. If you are loved by the emperor, everyone in the back palace will be the target of public criticism." third brother Jiang frowned and said in a very serious tone.

"Instead of worrying every day during the struggle in the palace, perhaps ordinary old age is more suitable for Miss Wen. Although it is sad, at least her life is plain." the third brother Jiang lowered his head as if thinking.

"I don't agree with the third brother's idea. Living in the world is far better than spending ordinary and miserable life. I appreciate Miss Wen's idea very much, so this time I will do my best to help Miss Wen get a foothold in the palace." Liu Yuanyuan feels that compared with being a white headed maid, even if it's only a short brilliant life, At least he left his footprints.

Seeing Liu Yuanyuan's insistence, brother Jiang knew that he could not shake Liu Yuanyuan's idea anyway. He could only choose to silently help Liu Yuanyuan grind the flowers that had not been ground into pigment into juice. Liu Yuanyuan felt tired after a busy day. After saying goodbye to brother Jiang, he went back to his room to have a rest.

Liu Yuanyuan thought about the coagulant for lipstick. The wax hadn't landed yet. Just before dawn, he got up from bed and thought.

Brother Jiang saw Liu Yuanyuan get up early in the morning and was in a daze in the yard. He knew that Liu Yuanyuan was thinking hard to make rouge. So he went to the kitchen to make a cup of warm honey water and brought it to Liu Yuanyuan's table.

"Yuanyuan drinks a cup of honey water first." the third brother of Jiang calls Liu Yuanyuan, who is still stunned.

Liu Yuanyuan thanked third brother Jiang with a smile. He took two mouthfuls of honey water and suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Since there is honey, there are beekeepers who are specialized in beekeeping. The beeswax often added in lipstick is extracted from the bee's hive. Liu Yuanyuan thought of this and excitedly took brother Jiang's hand. "Brother Jiang, you have helped me a lot this time."

Liu Yuanyuan was excited. Brother Jiang didn't know what was going on. He looked at Liu Yuanyuan blankly. "Third brother, is there a beekeeper nearby?" Liu Yuanyuan asked.

Brother Jiang recalled carefully that there should be a beekeeping farmer dozens of miles away from the city. "There's probably one outside the city."