Volume 1: A stone strikes a thousand waves, the world surrounds Li Daosheng Chapter 90: Is this Li Si you mentioned powerful?
At noon, the light outside the window was a little too bright. It passed through the window and shone on the wooden floor in the room. There was a little dust in the beam, floating around.
The weather outside is very good, as if the sky is clear and blue, and the voices are noisy, as if the city is bustling.
The room was very quiet. The tiger girl sat stiffly in front of the dressing table, her hands on her legs, tightly grasping a corner of her clothes, looking at the person in front of her with a barely visible blush on her face.
The man stood very close to her, bending over with his face almost touching hers. He held a box of gouache in his hand and gently rubbed it on her cheek.
Li Si had done makeup for others before. In his previous life, he often did makeup for his wife. She was even lazier than him, so she always asked him to help her . Over time, he became familiar with these things.
There were so many cosmetics in that era, and he could use even those well, let alone the rouge and powder of today.
However, when he was putting makeup on the tiger girl, he gradually became absent-minded.
Shu Hu Nu didn't know if it was her illusion, but she felt that Li Si's movements were becoming more and more gentle, as if he was afraid of hurting her.
She could almost feel the warm breath of the person in front of her, but that person just lowered his eyes, looking at the rouge and powder in his hands, with an expression that she had never seen before.
His fingers would occasionally brush across her cheek, as if he was caressing her gently, but he would stop just enough. This made her body stiffer and even a little restless, her face was hot, and the corners of her clothes were wrinkled together by her grasping.
Fortunately, this makeup can be done very quickly and it doesn’t take much time.
When Li Si moved away from Shuhu Nu, he seemed to come back to his senses, smiled and said.
"Look, it's pretty good, isn't it?"
The tiger girl looked in front of her, and in the bronze mirror on the dressing table, there seemed to be another self.
Li Si didn't use much gouache on her, just to make her skin look a little whiter. He also used some on her neck so that there wouldn't be any difference in color between her cheeks and neck.
Shu Hunu chose the wrong rouge, the color was too red for her, so Li Si wiped it off a little with white paper, making the red look more natural.
Due to the circumstances, Li Si did not draw eyebrows for her or put on black eyebrow for her.
But this also made her look a lot softer, with a little redness on her cheeks, less sharp than a sword, and more like an ordinary woman .
And this is exactly what the tiger girl wants.
She looked at herself in the mirror and raised her hand to touch her face.
She never thought that one day she would be able to put on ordinary makeup like an ordinary woman.
"How is it?" Li Si said jokingly standing behind her, "I think it's pretty. If you say you want to get married now, the people who want to marry you will probably line up along the entire street."
"Nonsense." The tiger girl lowered her head, her face was slightly red, not sure if it was the red of rouge or something else.
But after a while, she said again: "Thank you."
The voice was very soft. Li Si might have heard it clearly, or might not have heard it clearly. He just stood behind her and said with a smile.
"You have your moments of likability, don't you? Why do you have to look so cold all day long?"
Listening to Li Si's words, Shu Hu Nu smiled rarely.
Then, as if she realized that Li Si was still talking about her bad things in her daily life, she pouted her lips, snorted, and stopped talking.
Li Si looked at her, shook his head helplessly, spread his hands and said.
"Then Miss, can we go now? We have to get to Huashan before the end of the month."
The tiger girl then stood up from the dressing table, holding her sword, slightly tilting her neck, and pretending to be indifferent.
"Then, let's go."
Even she herself didn't realize that she was starting to behave like an ordinary woman.
This is not because Li Si changed anything in her, but because she changed herself.
Because no one is born a dead thing.
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Li Si and Shu Hu Nu continued to rush towards Huashan. The difference was that Shu Hu Nu was a little different along the way.
She would take the initiative to ask to go to the temple fair, and would stop for a while if she saw something she had never seen before, and would go into places she had never seen before to take a look.
This led to her going straight into a brothel once, and in the end it was Li Si who brought her out. It was said that she almost chopped a customer to death.
In short, the road to Huashan is not far, but it took them a long time to walk.
When the two arrived at Huashan, it was a cloudy day with drizzling rain.
The two men tied up the horses, and Li Si held an umbrella for Shu Hunu, which made half of his body wet, but he didn't care much.
The stone steps on Mount Hua are winding, but walking on them on rainy days is quite artistic, with green mountains, drizzle, and quiet valleys.
"Why do you people from the Central Plains always like to build your sects in the mountains?"
Shu Hu Nu asked as she walked. She must have noticed that half of Li Si's body was wet, so she walked closer to him.
"Hmm..." Li Si thought for a while, smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"I'm not sure about this either. Maybe it's because this place is far away from the court."
"Court?" The tiger girl seemed even more confused.
"Yes." Li Si replied: "Most of the time, the Jianghu and the imperial court are two very different places, and the relationship between the two is not always very good."
"Is that so?" The tiger girl seemed to have secretly taken note of this sentence.
Li Si didn't know that his unintentional words would later become one of the bases for the Jin Kingdom to make its next major decision.
In front of the mountain gate of Huashan, two gatekeeper disciples were standing by the door, looking worriedly at the rain in the sky.
They didn't know why they were so unlucky. When it was their turn, it started raining.
I don’t know how long the rain will last. There is not even a place to hide from the rain at the mountain gate.
Suddenly they saw two people walking up from the foot of the mountain. They were a man in white clothes and a woman with short hair.
One of the disciples remembered the master's instructions a few days ago, and immediately patted his fellow disciple beside him and said.
"Junior brother, hurry up and inform Master that Li Si is here."
"Li Si?" This junior brother had obviously just entered the mountain gate and didn't know the rules. When he heard the name Li Si, he was stunned for a moment, then widened his eyes and asked stutteringly.
"Master, Senior Brother, this Li Si you are talking about, isn't that the Li Si?"
"Yes, that's the one. Go and inform the master." The disciple who was called senior brother pushed his junior brother who was still standing there with a headache. He watched him run away in panic, then turned around, rubbed his forehead and looked at the man in white who was gradually approaching.
He felt that he was really unlucky today. Not only did it rain during his shift, but he also happened to meet Li Si coming and had to quickly hide the money he had on him.
