Chapter 1282 Willing to be an ugly girl 9
Anyway, she will not enter the palace this time. Whoever wants to be the queen of the middle palace can be her!
The most important thing right now is to eat. After eating so many things, they are actually just small pieces, which will not last long.
Su only had three pieces and finished eating.
Xining put the bowl down and said, "Where's the cake I just asked to get?"
This made A Ling's eyes widen: "Miss, you still want to eat!"
Afraid that she would accumulate food, Aling said she would ask the wet nurse and Mrs. Akiko, and if they agreed, she would go and get it.
In order to calm the trouble, Xi Ning stopped eating. Anyway, at four o'clock in the afternoon, there would be dinner.
Looking at the things on the low table, there were several pots and plates. They were a small bowl of seven-vegetable porridge, which was what Mrs. Akiko ordered. There is also a plate of pickled radish slices, a plate of natto, two grilled tuna, and a rice ball. This rice ball should be a pickled vegetable rice ball, about the size of a siomai.
When dinner was delivered, A-ling took credit and said, "My servant has asked the kitchen to prepare more. Is Miss Zunzi satisfied with it?"
I'm satisfied with the hammer, even this chicken can't be fed. The pickled vegetable rice balls, which are about the size of an egg, are what I want to "get more of."
Xining felt that the nobles of this period were really powerful. Wearing clothes that weigh more than ten or twenty pounds, with such ugly makeup, I eat this twice a day. I really don’t know what’s good about living like this. It’s really better to be a monk or nun.
Xining picked up the bowl and finished the vegetable porridge in a few bites, and the pickled rice balls in just two bites.
He directly picked up the grilled tuna with his fingers and gnawed: "Go to the kitchen and get some more vegetable porridge, and a basin. If it's a bowl like this, if you don't mind the trouble, bring four or five bowls."
The three maids were stunned.
After a long while, Aling said: "Miss, are you okay?"
"It's okay, why don't I eat more?" Xining asked, remembering that he had seen the cook eat meat, so he said: "Go to the kitchen and get a piece of meat. It can be grilled, roasted or boiled. Just boiled meat." Cut it into slices and get some dipping sauce.”
"Eat meat?!" These maids almost jumped up, looking horrified.
A Ling clasped her hands together, recited Amitabha, and said: "Miss, the internal organs of meat are eaten by the lower class. How can you think of eating meat?"
Natsuki next to him whispered softly: "Why don't you report it to Mrs. Akiko, and then ask Master Jiping..."
If you invite an onmyoji to come over, what else can you do? Of course, it's to drive away evil spirits.
Xi Ning covered her forehead, just wanting to eat enough, so she was possessed by evil spirits. By the way, nobles in this world don’t eat meat!
It would be better not to be a noble but to be a middle-class lady, preferably the daughter of a restaurant or butcher shop owner.
In order not to trouble her parents, Xi Ning had no choice but to give up the invitation.
How pitiful, two tuna fish, almost even the bones were eaten.
Although there was no salt and no cumin seasoning on the grilled fish, she still sucked her fingers with great interest. Watching the maid put it away, the next meal will not be eaten until ten o'clock tomorrow morning.
She thought for a while and said: "There are wagashi and candied fruits, go get some more."
Although it is said to be candied fruit, it is actually dried fruit. Sugar is used as medicine at this time and is very expensive. It is impossible to pickle it with sugar, dry it in the sun or add vinegar, it will still have the taste of the original fruit.
A-ling hesitated for a moment, then got up and went to get it herself. After a while, she brought a cup of fruit and a cup of preserves and placed them in front of her: "Miss Zun, that's all."
There are just four fruits as big as jujubes and a few slices that look like dried peaches: "That's it?"
"Yes, the rest was eaten by the lady." A Ling replied. Tears, is this the life of a noble lady in the Heian era? She was also the daughter of Michizhang Fujiwara, who was about to reach the peak of his power. As a result, her food was not as good as that of ordinary people in other places.
Thinking of fried gluten, crystal goose, stuffed crabs, baked pop tarts, fried squab, pan-fried river dumplings, bad anchovies... my mouth is watering.
Even if you have braised chicken, roasted goose, and marinated pork belly, it will still be delicious.
Moreover, women of this era were proud of eating less, and only by holding chopsticks slightly could they appear to be otherworldly and extremely elegant.
Go away, if you continue to eat like this, no wonder everyone is malnourished and as thin as a stick. Both men and women will faint at every turn and get sick easily.
Aristocrats often suffer from beriberi. The so-called beriberi is a feeling of discomfort in the soles of the feet at the beginning, and then the numbness slowly extends to the calves and knees, and it is hopeless when it reaches the knees. In fact, it is vitamin B1 deficiency syndrome caused by eating less. Many nobles died in their early twenties.
There is also tuberculosis. If they die young, one-fifth die from beriberi and half from tuberculosis. Many women die after giving birth.
This is all Xining can eat.
After eating, nothing happened. I feel itchy all over my body and my hair is itchy. I want to take a shower and wash my hair... No, I can't.
The Fujiwara family naturally has someone to take care of them. But they wash their hair like other nobles and royal families, once a year.
It is washed once a year. Yes, that’s right, wash it once a year. This will make your hair oilier and look shinier and clingier.
Brush a layer of rice bran water on your hair every ten days and a half. After combing it smooth, apply the water soaked in spices.
The same is true for taking a bath. I usually only take a bath after a month. If the smell on my body and hair becomes strong, I use incense. Because taking a bath will open the pores and allow evil spirits to invade. If you want to take a bath, you have to ask an onmyoji to do a hexagram, and then only do it when you can wash it.
This is comparable to that in medieval Europe, so many nobles died in their twenties and thirties. In addition to lung diseases and beriberi, there were also skin diseases, which ranked among the top three causes of death.
Thousands of years later, this country has become one of the countries that loves bathing most. It's really a turn of events.
I'm really drunk. Can I not be this noble lady?
However, the lives of ordinary people in this matter are not good, and they live a life worse than a pig or a dog. Exploited by landlords and nobles, they worked all day long and died of exhaustion.
Forget it, let's stay and be a lady.
When I was starving and thinking of a reason to take a shower and wash my hair, someone came to report the news.
It's Mrs. Akiko's maid. It was said by the Taoist priest that in the next two days Miss Xi and Miss Zun will dress up and dye their teeth together.
Thunder is rolling, it’s over! Dressing up means shaving eyebrows and dyeing teeth black.
Xizi will enter the palace next month. According to custom, he needs to shave or pluck his eyebrows and dye his teeth black.
In this era, a fair face, dark eyebrows, and black teeth are considered beautiful.
It is beautiful, so beautiful that it is shocking and terrifying. If you are a modern person, if you see it in the middle of the night, you will be scared to death.
Nozomi Fujiwara felt that he was indebted, and in order to show that he was treating everyone equally, the body owner would also dress up like this. But at that time, everyone thought that the body owner who had transformed into a human being and a ghost was more beautiful than before, even more beautiful than Xizi.
It also made Mrs. Akiko secretly sad and weeping, feeling that her daughter's position was taken over by Xizi.
Thinking that she would become someone who could scare people to death if she came out in the middle of the night, she decided not to do it!
He threw the last remaining peach into his mouth and began to think about how to refuse.
(End of chapter)