bookcurios Chapter 189 A Gentleman Loves Beauty
Chapter 189 A Gentleman Loves Beauty
The long-lost attention to dressing up, selecting jewelry and makeup made Zhang Zhiwei dream back to the Chuxiu Palace.
Although it is spring, the weather in Nanjing is already hot.
The sun is shining brightly today. In the early morning when there is a little fog, the perceived temperature is 19 degrees. By the time we pay our respects, the temperature may reach a maximum of 24.3 degrees when the sun is shining brightly.
If you wear too much, you will suffer.
After all, it would be very inappropriate to hold an umbrella and blow an ice cream while paying respects to your mother-in-law, offering her tea and listening to her blessings and admonitions.
Wearing a green top with a pattern of flying wild geese and eight auspicious clouds embroidered on the waist, which looked like a modern halter top, Zhang Zhiwei turned three times in front of the full-length bronze mirror.
The figure is plump and thin, and you can faintly see the depression caused by squeezing.
Not good...I need to add a chest binder.
My plumpness is usually not noticeable, but now that I’m wearing summer clothes, I have to be careful. If I’m not careful, it will be inappropriate.
The Ming Dynasty was a time of enlightenment. If you waited until the year of the crooked tree, you would probably be thrown into a pig cage if you wore a waist belt.
Just when she was "changing her appearance", she looked in the mirror and found that Zhu Gaochi had smiled like Zhu Bajie and quietly stuck half of his body out from behind the screen.
There was a subtle feeling that seemed like he was hiding intentionally, but also seemed not to be, which made Zhang Zhiwei smile.
"Master, why are you so sneaky?"
"A gentleman loves beauty and sees it in a proper way."
In response to his serious nonsense, Zhang Zhiwei shyly covered her mouth and smiled.
With curved eyebrows and eyes, like a white fox with a natural smile on its face, Zhu Gaochi also started to laugh foolishly.
"You were dressed up nicely just now, why are you doing it again?"
"The size of the clothes is a little inappropriate and not well thought out."
It was a decent answer, but Zhang Zhiwei's ears turned red.
The beauty is shy and delicate like a newly opened crabapple. She has always thought that she is unrestrained at heart and actually loves Guo Qing's unrestrained and uninhibited Zhu Gaochi. But now she finds that she actually loves this kind of implicit and reserved classical beauty.
Men are so fickle.
Even Zhu Gaochi himself couldn't help but sigh at his impermanence.
After binding the chest, it will be much more appropriate if matched with the main waist.
She put on a dark blue horse-faced skirt embroidered with auspicious and harmonious colorful clouds with gold and silver threads, and a bright red gauze shirt on the outside, and then she was ready.
The gauze shirt is made of jacquard silk dyed with yam juice, and this kind of fabric is named Xiangyunsha.
Xiangyunsha is light, thin, does not fade, is flexible and skin-friendly, and is the best choice for summer fabrics.
Due to its texture, Xiangyunsha is most suitable for dark colors, and the red it stains is the most genuine.
It has both a thick black background and bright colors.
As the gauze shirt is not transparent, it is solemn and festive.
The gauze shirt is embroidered with a picture of flying geese, which echoes the pattern embroidered on the main waist. The faintly visible heavy embroidery adds a sense of solemnity to this light and cool combination.
Visuals also have weight.
The combination of green, blue and red, three dark colors, interspersed with gold and silver to reduce the weight, and matched with thin materials, is not too thin to wear in spring, nor will it make people feel stuffy.
Her hair is styled in a layered bun, accessorized with pearls, flowers, and a large gold hairpin with colorful gemstone tassels.
In order to match the status of the Yanwang Mansion, the accessories are separated into layers by hair. It is not crowded or heavy, but has a sense of picture as graceful as a water lily emerging from the water.
Dressing up has always been connected with painting.
Layering, artistic conception, association, weight, white space... and so on are all very important.
Such a grand combination may be acceptable with plain makeup, but it is not perfect.
Pearls have their own highlights to brighten the eyes, and gold powder and rouge are used to draw crabapple petals between the eyebrows and the end of the eyes. Then the lips are trimmed down to the cherry mouth that is popular nowadays...
As Zhang Zhiwei put down the tiny wolf-hair brush, he heard applause from Zhu Gaochi, who had already finished dressing up.
“I never thought that dressing up could be such a science.
Zhiwei is well versed in this, and I am afraid he is already comparable to the national masters."
When flattering words come out of the mouth of Maitreya Buddha, they feel like the final conclusion of the fact.
"You are praising me like this, I really don't know what to do."
Zhang Zhiwei spoke modestly, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.
Zhu Gaochi loved his wife who was very straightforward.
The word "tsundere" was a bit too advanced for Zhu Gaochi. He only knew that this tone and personality made him unable to stop.
"Zhiwei, please don't be so polite in private. Just call me 'Nangong', okay?"
Zhang Zhiwei tilted his head slightly, looking puzzled.
"Nangong? But it means August?"
Legend has it that Chang'e's residence on the moon is called "Nangong", and the Mid-Autumn Festival in August is a good month for eating moon cakes and appreciating the moon, so August is also called "Nangong".
Zhu Gaochi was born in August, but I have never heard that he had a name or a pseudonym?
Zhang Zhiwei's confusion increased rapidly, but Zhu Gaochi was still delighted that he understood Zhang Zhiwei so quickly.
He nodded wildly.
“Exactly!!
This is the name I chose for myself in advance, and I plan to tell everyone about it after the coming-of-age ceremony."
Oh~ I chose it myself, and I will give you all a 'surprise' after I come of age.
No wonder.
Zhu Yuanzhang passed away four years later, and he was destined not to share this surprise with others.
"Zhiwei is honored to be the first person to know?"
"Ok!"
"In that case, thank you very much, Brother Nangong, for your preference~"
After saying this soft "Brother~", Zhang Zhiwei quickly covered her face with a round fan in her hand and ran out in her three-inch high-heeled embroidered shoes.
In the room, Zhu Gaochi smelled the fragrance in the air as he walked, and after three or four seconds, he laughed again.
He hurriedly chased after her, and did not tease Zhang Zhiwei, who was hiding behind the fan like a quail, as if she was being blinded by a leaf. Instead, he took her hand and walked towards the front hall.
The intimacy between the young couple was naturally seen by all the servants and maids passing by.
Blessings, lock it in, good luck, and other thoughts spread in the hearts of the loyal servants along the way.
The waiters who were Guo Qing's spies all stared straight ahead, staring silently at the shoe room in the shadows, thinking about their own future.
"The daughter-in-law pays respects to father and mother."
While performing the ceremony, they presented the dates and millets that they had prepared.
Zhu Di and Xu had long heard that the young couple walked over holding hands. Zhu Di had a stern face and was not smiling, but Xu's eyes were already smiling with joy.
As a mother, she had always favored her eldest son, who had been in poor health since childhood and grew up to be chubby and worrying.
Now that he has married a virtuous wife, and the couple lives in harmony and has no conflicts, she is very happy.
And when she took a closer look at how little Zhang was dressed today, she knew that her choice was right.
This little Zhang has a good sense of propriety in her mind. She knows what to do and when and to what extent. She knows how to advance and retreat, has a good sense of the overall situation, can stand on her own feet and carry herself. She can become a great wife.