The host is beautiful in every plane

Chapter 127 Let's Elope 7
Concubine Liang stared at the harmless smile on Gu Qing's face, and secretly clenched her fists: "Your Majesty, how much is this thing?"

"500 taels." Gu Qing raised his hand, made a "five" gesture, and tilted his head slightly to look at Concubine Liang.

"500 taels!" After listening to Gu Qing's words and seeing Gu Qing's actions, Concubine Liang couldn't help being startled, and she couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Yes, 500 taels. What's wrong?" Gu Qing asked Concubine Liang knowingly. The bright smile on her face remained unchanged, and Concubine Liang finally understood the meaning of the smile on Gu Qing's lips.

"Why don't you go grab it?!" Concubine Liang took a step back slightly, looking at Gu Qing warily.

"Presumptuous!" Dong Tao, who was behind Gu Qing, said immediately, "My dear concubine, although you are in the position of concubine, our concubine is a noble concubine and is one level above you."

"Even concubines who are also concubines can't call them by their first names, let alone the good concubine you and our noble concubine!" Dong Tao added, holding her head high.

"I was rude." Concubine Liang coughed lightly, "You're being presumptuous, Your Majesty the Imperial Concubine."

"No problem." Gu Qing shook her hand, then waved Dongtao away, and scolded in a low voice, "Dongtao, don't be rude."

"Yes, empress." Dongtao felt a little aggrieved, but she still obeyed Gu Qing's words and shut her mouth obediently.

"Little Concubine Liang thinks that something that can be remedied in an emergency is expensive?" Gu Qing took a step forward, but approached Concubine Liang who had just taken a step back.

"Can it not be expensive?!" Concubine Liang looked at Gu Qing's calm and breezy appearance, and laughed angrily—"Young Concubine, this is 500 taels, not 50 taels that can be spent casually! "

Concubine Liang looked at Gu Qing and thought to herself—although her family background was considered superior among concubines in the harem, her father treated her extremely harshly, and never mentioned in the letter from home that she wanted to support her with money. Nor did he ask him to use the silver taels issued by the palace to subsidize his family.

What's more, Concubine Liang is different from Gu Qing——

In Prime Minister Gu's Mansion, Gu Yuan and Wei Yao were very affectionate, and Gu Yuan had no concubines. There were only two children, Gu Qing and Gu You, in Prime Minister Gu's Mansion, so the pressure was not great.

Sometimes Gu Yuan and Wei Yao would ask the guards in the palace to bring Gu Qing something.

The mother clan of Liang Fei is different:
The concubine Liang was named Zheng Pian, and Zheng Pian's father, Zheng Zhenguo, was the Duke of the dynasty.

There are many wives and concubines in Zheng Zhenguo's mansion, and there are not only Zheng Pian and Zheng Pian's half-brothers and sisters in the family, but also children born to the wives and concubines.

Although Zheng Zhenguo has a lot of salary, but due to the complicated affairs at home, money is naturally tight.

It all depends on the shop purchased by Mrs. Guo and the property of Mrs. Guo’s mother’s family.

In the harem, Zheng Pian's situation is different from Gu Qing's - Zheng Pian is not like Gu Qing, she doesn't have as many treasures and silver cloth that Jun Heng gave her, nor does Jun Heng deliberately add more silver.

She, Zheng Pian, can only rely on herself.

However, her mother would always send half of the income from those shops to the guards in the palace to Zheng Pian.

Gu Qing saw the troubled look on Zheng Pian's face. She pondered for a while and said - "How about you try the effect first, and then if it works well, come and ask me to buy it?"

Zheng Pian's eyes lit up, she looked at Gu Qing expectantly, and grabbed Gu Qing's arm, then said excitedly, "Is what you said is true?"

"Really." Gu Qing raised her head proudly, "Although I love money, I am not a black-hearted businessman."

After Gu Qing finished speaking, she lowered her head and looked down at her arm that was held by Zheng Pian.

Zheng Pian also lowered her head, following Gu Qing's gaze.

She quickly let go of her hand, blushing all over her face - "Imperial Concubine, I'm sorry."

Gu Qing didn't care, instead he took out a pill from his bosom and stuffed it into Zheng Pian's mouth.

Zheng Pian swallowed obediently.

Gu Qing took out another bottle of powder from her arms, she turned around, grabbed Zheng Pian's hand and walked into the inner hall, then pushed her onto a chair: "Sit obediently and wait for me."

Gu Qing took a small bowl, went to the water tank in the corner of Weiyang Palace to scoop up water, and then turned back to the inner hall.

Gu Qing took out a small bottle from his arms and poured some powder into the wooden bowl filled with water.

The water quickly thickened and turned into a puzzling milky white color. Gu Qing kept stirring with a wooden stick.

Gu Qing walked over with the wooden bowl, without any expression on her face, she said softly to Zheng Pian: "Close your eyes and wait obediently."

Zheng Pian did not dare to disobey Gu Qing, so she had to close her eyes obediently and wait for Gu Qing's next move——

But soon, an icy cold touch stuck to her face.

Gu Qing's movements were very gentle, and she applied the thick milky white liquid that she had stirred to Zheng Pian's face.

After smearing, Gu Qing put down the wooden bowl and the small wooden stick used for smearing, and then sat in front of Zheng Pian—"It will be soon, bear with it, it will take a while for a stick of incense to pass."

Zheng Pian nodded, she didn't open her eyes, she listened to Gu Qing's words for a rare time, and sat there obediently without moving.

After a stick of incense.

"Okay." Gu Qing clapped her hands, helped Zheng Pian take off the milky white mask that had condensed on her face, and then used a moist handkerchief to clean Zheng Pian's face again.

"Concubine Liang, you can open your eyes now." Gu Qing pursed his lips and whispered into Zheng Pian's ear.

Zheng Pian opened her eyes, and was greeted by a mirror brought by Tweety and Gu Qing sitting in front of her - obviously, it was Gu Qing who ordered Tweety to bring the mirror.

However, when Zheng Pian looked at herself in the mirror, she was a little stunned and shocked—"Is this me?"

When Gu Qing gently wiped her face with a wet handkerchief just now, Zheng Pian naturally felt it too: she thought that the pimples that she had covered up with thick powder were covered by clean water. Wiping with a handkerchief will definitely reveal everything.

But when Zheng Pian saw herself in the mirror, it was hard for her to hold back her desire to cry out in excitement——

When I look in the mirror, I don't have those annoying acne. My skin has become much fairer and not as yellow as before.

She touched her face in disbelief—it was smooth and delicate, as white as an egg that had been peeled off its shell.

Looking at Zheng Pian's series of incredible actions, Gu Qing raised the corners of her lips, stood with her arms folded, looking triumphant - "How is it? Sister Liangfei, are you satisfied with these products of this palace?"

"Satisfied, satisfied!!!" Concubine Liang was extremely excited, "Of course I am satisfied! My dear concubine! Sister Gu Gu Qing! You are really my great benefactor!!!"

(End of this chapter)