It"s pig year so, “猪”你新年快乐! Happy Chinese New Year! Enjoy chapter 8~
Chapter 8 Ancient times skills
"Even if I don"t let her eat, she still will come look for trouble."
"Sigh. These two days, Yin yiniang had just left us, because those people are afraid of bad luck they don"t come here. It is only Second Miss who is unable to stand it, always coming to look for trouble……" Ning Er looks at Wu SheYue and sighs again. "Luckily, Miss is already better now."
Wu SheYue suddenly thought of a problem. "Do I have a lot of siblings?" She really doesn"t like bothersome things.
Ning Er swallows some saliva. "Miss you have 5 sisters and 3 brothers."
That"s not little ah~ "In a little while, I want to cleanse myself. Bring me back to my room.
"Yes."
"Wu SheYue continues eating. Ning Er sees Wu SheYue in a trance. This whole afternoon, in her heart she has been chanting: Third Miss is not an idiot anymore, Third Miss is not an idiot anymore. However, up to now it still feels like a dream. Not only is Third Miss not an idiot anymore, what"s more important is that it seems like she has forgotten the past, almost like changed into another person.
Wu SheYue suddenly opens her mouth. "Stop looking." Inside has already changed to another person.
Ning Er is startled, retracting her vision.
After Wu SheYue finished eating, Ning Er brought her to her room. Stepping outside of the mourning hall, on the left and right are two side chambers/rooms. The wing room was originally Wu SheYue"s living quarters. Although there are lot of room in this courtyard, but is old and needs to be repaired, is torn and tattered, and the rooms are not furnished. Despite being clean, it still looks gloomy.
Ning Er self-consciously goes to boil water to bring into the room. It"s almost as if there are no other servants in this courtyard, the surrounding is silent to the point of scaring people.
Wu SheYue is in the room looking around. This room has a bed and a desk but no chairs. The wardrobe on the side already has no doors, she turns over the wardrobe, inside there are only a few pieces of folded up old clothing.
Yin QiuMing probably would not put important items close to her idiot daughter. She sees that Ning Er has not come back so she grabs a candle to go to the opposite room.
With one look it can seen that this wing room is a virtuous mother"s room. The room is a little bigger, but furnitures are also worn-out. In the room there are 2 extra chairs, on the bedside there is half done needwork. On the table there is a teacup with cold tea, on the side is a book……before she met with mishap, she probably was like in the past doing a few trivial things.
Wu SheYue"s heart feels a little uncomfortable, that uncomfortableness probably is not her own feeling. She puts the candle on the desk and starts to search around in Yin QiuMing"s room.
As she expected, she found a small wooden box underneath the bed. There is a thin layer of dust covering the top of the box. Carefully opening the box, what she first sees a prosthesis of something shaped like the bridge of a nose.
Wu SheYue"s forehead breaks out in cold sweat, so excited that she"s almost trembling. This unexpectedly cosmetic prosthesis……using her hands to touch it, this texture compared to silica gel is closer to a human"s skin, could it be actual human skin?
"Miss?"
Wu SheYue closes the box with a bang, she turns around, it"s Ning Er with a bucket standing by the entrance way. She probably saw there is no one over there and that there is light over here.
"I came to look at niang"s mementos."
Ning Er lowers her head, the rim of her eyes becoming slightly red. "Ai, Miss, you……don"t be sad. Yin yiniang, she……when she left she probably felt much better."
"I"ll just bathe in this room."
"Okay, Ning Er will bring the water over right this minute."
"Ning Er"s strength is still so little, in the end it was her and Wu SheYue together bringing the water over. NingEr was pushed back by her to keep vigil, in the room is just Wu SheYue slowly washing her body.
She sits in the tub, on top of the chair beside the tub is the small wooden box. She lays on the edge of the tub, reaches out a hand to leaf through the items in the box.
This box had 4 layers, the first containing some prosthesis. Wu SheYue carefully looks at the molds, there are jaws, 6 noses, and a pair of years. There are also 3 face masks.
Wu SheYue sigh with emotion as she opens the second layer, there are a few tools such as tweezers, knives, and brushes. Although the style is a little different compared to the ones from modern times, but is still able to see what they are to be used for.
The third layer is a "rogue" box separated into 4 compartments with various colors of "rouge," kind of looks like this pigment box is used to draw gouache.
The fourth layer is the one that has the thing she needs, there are ten small porcelain bottles that look exactly alike, and on top of the bottle is a serial number, beautiful typeface labelling from Jia to Gui. Wu SheYue feels that glue and cleansing lotion is amongst them, but Yin QiuMing probably purposely didn"t write the name.
From Jia to Gui – 从甲到葵. It"s based off the ten heavenly stems: 甲(Jia)・乙(Yi)・丙(Bing)・丁(Ding)・戊(Wu)・已(Ji)・庚(Geng)・辛(Xin)・壬(Ren)・癸(Gui)
She opens every bottle and sniffs them, the ones that she is not able to sniff out she pours some onto her hand and smears it. It"s a good thing she recognizes all of them. Jia to Bing are three levels of glue, Gui is the cleansing lotion. After she memorizes what is in each bottle, she puts the box back onto the chair and use the cleansing lotion in the Gui bottle.
It could be that she was in a coma these two days and that the prosthesis was on for so long, when she tears it off it hurts a little but still counts as having succeeded. When she has fully taken of the prosthesis, her face feels refreshing like it could breathe again.
Wu SheYue also discovers that when the prosthesis became wet from the cleansing lotion, it began to lose its color. Looks like this birthmark"s color was mixed into the prosthesis. After she washed to prosthesis, she puts it back into the box. She gets out of the tub, wipes herself and changes into dry and comfortable clothing.
This room does not even have a mirror, looks like tomorrow she will have to go grab the mirror from Yin QiuMing"s coffin to look at herself. Thinking this, she lays onto the bed.