Chapter 21:Acupuncture
"Gege, do you want to be smart?" Nangong
Yue looked at Nangong Xin for a moment and asked seriously.
Nangong Xin nodded vigorously. He naturally knew that since
he fell at the age of five, he had become different from others. Others smiled
at him on the surface, but actually looked down on him.
He looked at the silver needle in Nangong Yue's hand and unconsciously
shrunk his body. His eyes misty and asked, "will you become smart if you
prick a needle?"
"Yes!" Nangong Yue firmly responded,
"Although it may take a few months, or even longer. But Gege, you
will be more and more intelligent!”
Nangong Xin believes in his sister very much, but he is also
afraid of pain. He looked at the silver needle again, swallowed his saliva and
asked, "Will it hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt." Nangong Yue said.
Nangong Xin hesitated for a while, gesture with an index
finger, "just a needle?"
Nangong Yue shook her head, "It takes more than a dozen
needles!" She knew that if she continued this way, her elder brother might
be able to grind the it for a long time, so she decisively pierced the
needle on her head, "Is this good? I prick a needle, and you also prick a
needle?”
"Meimei!" Nangong Xin exclaimed excitedly
and waved his hands again and again, "Don't! Pull it out!" With
that, the little pitiful slumps his mouth and compromised, "meimei,
don't pierce yourself, pierce me. Good!" He closed his eyes and craned his
neck with a martyr expression on his face.
Nangong Yue was so touched that she burst into tears. This
is her brother, the brother who loves her most. Even if he suffers, he doesn't
want her to feel a little bit uncomfortable.
Nangong Yue no longer hesitated. She took a silver needle
from the cloth bag and quickly pricked it into Yuzhen acupoint, then Chengling,
Fengfu and Touqiao Yinxue …..a total of 15 acupoints. If
there is someone else at the moment, they can see that her gestures are as
smooth and elegant like flowing water and floating clouds. Just like that a
peerless dancer dancing gracefully. Incredibly beautiful.
After the last stitch, Nangong Yue breathed a sigh of
relief: "Gege, all right, you can open your eyes."
"Okay? So fast?" Nangong Xin opened his eyes in
disbelief, and subconsciously reached out to touch his head, "It doesn't
hurt at all!"
"Don't move!" Nangong Yue quickly pressed his hand
and helped him take the bronze mirror and put it in front of his face.
"Wow!” Nangong Xin couldn't believe to look at himself
in the mirror, "I'm just like a hedgehog! Ha ha, Meimei, you are so
powerful. It really doesn't hurt at all! "
"I didn't lie to you." Nangong Yue said with a
smile, "Prick the needles every ten days. Slowly, Gege, you will
get better and better." She said to herself in her heart that she has to
do something about the drug guiding!
The two brothers and sister were talking happily, time
passed by unconsciously...
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Another two days passed in the blink of an eye, and it was
the day of entering the palace.
The process of entering the palace was cumbersome. She has
to go out at Wu Sheng (3.00-5.00 am). Early in the morning, the sky not
bright yet, Lin Shi took her servants to Nangong Yue's room with a box
of jewelry and a new set of clothes.
Seeing that Nangong Yue still had sleepy eyes, Lin Shi touched
her head affectionately, and smiled: "Good child, this is the first time
you followed your grandmother to enter the palace today. Mother must dress you
beautifully. Look, mother has prepared some jewelry for you. They were all
brought here as mother's dowry at the time. Our Yue Jie’er wearing them
will definitely look good."
Nangong Yue nodded and sat smartly in front of the dressing
mirror. She quietly let Lin Shi dress her up, which took nearly half an
hour.
“Good”
With Lin Shi's satisfied admiration, Nangong Yue
raised her eyes and quietly looked at herself in the mirror.
The little girl in the mirror is nine years old and can't
hide her childishness. Only her pair of calm eyes had maturity beyond
her age. After this period of recuperation, her skin color has become healthy. Take advantage white powder is white like snow, and delicate coagulating makeup. Her 3000
black silk hair is made into a lovely two tuffs bun by Lin Shi, with a pair of
golden thread inlaid with gemstones and sapphire hollow double-luan peony hairpin(see picture below), wears gold earrings inlaid with gems in water chestnut patterns in her ears,
and a pair of gold flower bracelets in her hands. Jade Snow is lovely and
elegant in every gesture. It also shows luxurious style.
Would it be too showy to dress like this? Nangong Yue
frowned hesitantly, but as soon as she saw Lin Shi's face in the mirror
behind her with the ‘my family girl has just grown up’ kind of happy
expression. Her eyebrows are unfolded out again.
If it were in the previous life, Nangong Yue would never use
such a dress to steal the limelight from the TangJie Nangong Zheng, but
in this life... as long as the mother is happy.
Thinking of this, Nangong Yue can’t help but hook up the
corner of her lips, dimple like flowers.
"San Guniang, you are so beautiful today. I
think you are not inferior to the Da Guniang." The maid Yimei
behind her can't help praising.
Hearing this, Lin Shi, who was still smiling, seemed
to think of something, and her smile froze suddenly.
"Of course!" At this time, a familiar voice agreed
naturally, "Of course my meimei is the most beautiful!"
Nangong Xin rubbed his eyes and walked into Nangong Yue's room. He was supposed
to be sleeping at this hour, but thinking that his meimei was going to
enter the palace today. He forced himself to get up and rushed in.
“Xin Ge’er!”
“Gege!”
Lin Shi and Nangong Yue were suddenly distracted.
"Mother," Nangong Xin glanced at Lin Shi
complainingly, "I told you last night to wake me up!" He said panting
angrily and pouted, "You don't mean what you say!"
"It's my mother's fault!" Lin Shi had no
choice but to admit her mistake.
Seeing that her brother was still seething, Nangong Yue
quickly helped to change the topic. She stood up from the stool and said,
"Mother, it's not early. I think that Da Bomu and Da Jiejie should
be ready.”
Accompanied by Lin Shi and Nangong Xin, Nangong Yue
came to Rongantang. It happened that Zhao Shi and Nangong Zheng
had just arrived, and the five of them met.
As soon as she looked at Nangong Yue's dress, Zhao Shi's expression
changed. Unexpectedly, Nangong Yue's dressing up could steal the limelight from
her daughter. She smiled and said without a smile: "Yue Jie’er's dress
is really good..."
"Very beautiful!" Nangong Zheng subtly interrupted
Zhao Shi's words, smiled and stepped forward to hold Nangong Yue's hands, full
of praise, "Yue Jie’er is so beautiful today!" Nangong Zheng
was obviously also well-dressed. Today, she wore a pink dress, her black hair
was pulled up as doubled hair buns matched with golden ginkgo flower beads, her
earrings were set with ruby flower-shaped earrings, and her hands were paired
with red agate bracelets, making her original beautiful face even more
beautiful and flowery. The jewelry she dressed was obviously not as good as
Nangong Yue, but her appearance was three points more beautiful than Nangong
Yue. The 12-year-old girl already had the delicate appearance of a young
maiden, which was graceful and elegant.
In her previous life, Nangong Yue had also envied Nangong Zheng's beauty. But after experience two lives, for her now, her appearance is
nothing but the appearance of external nothingness.
She smiled slightly and said calmly: "da bomu, da
jiejie, Yue'er is fortunate to accompany her grandmother into the palace to
greet the Empress. Naturally, she can't make the Nangong family lose
face."
Zhao Shi wanted to say something, but saw that Su Shi
walked out with the help of Wang Mama, "Okay, since all are
here, then let start off."
"Yes, (mother) grandmother."
translator corner:
here mostly is Ming dynasty style
hairpin
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| peony hair ornament (fen xin) |
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| red agate braclet |
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