Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 554 Japanese Beauty (Please Subscribe!)
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In Li Yan's imagination, Japanese beauties should be, with seven-foot black hair as black as ink, gorgeous and gorgeous twelve-piece women's clothing, with red lips and smiling face, just like the princess played by Aragaki Yui in "BALLAD Nameless Love Song" Lian Ji.

But after seeing the hundred Japanese beauties sent by Li Jun, Han Shizhong and others with great anticipation, Li Yan was terrified!
That's right!

Li Yanzhen was frightened by these Japanese beauties!
Bald eyebrows, big black, white face, I'll go, this is just one chaste child after another!

As for the seven-foot blue silk and twelve-single women's clothing that Li Yan was looking forward to.

Have.

All the black hairs are more than seven feet long, and some can even reach one and a half or even two feet long.

In Li Yan's imagination, the twelve single women's dresses should be worn by stacking twelve embroidered singles of different colors, which look colorful, gorgeous, and have a solemn and elegant classical beauty, just like "Youth". Among the anime works of Onmyoji, The Tale of Genji, and Distant Time and Space, those are the most luxurious and colorful costumes that look like burning clouds.

Unexpectedly, these twelve single women's clothing look bloated, the key is that Li Yan feels that these Japanese women are tired.

The clothes they wear, not counting the jewelry and accessories they wear, weigh at least ten to twenty kilograms.

Moreover, in order to stand out, some Japanese women not only wear 26, [-], [-], and [-] chapters, but some of them even wear [-] sheets. The weight must definitely exceed [-] kilograms!

To use a more vivid comparison-the heavy armored infantry of the Liangshan Army carried a load of more than 20 kilograms, at most less than [-] kilograms.

And even those Japanese women who only wear twelve singles, plus all kinds of gold and silver jewelry and jade pendants other than clothes, as well as hairpins and ornaments on their heads, fans and handkerchiefs in their hands, have a total load of more than [-] kilograms It has already exceeded the load of the Liangshan heavy infantry.

Think about it, a woman who is about 1.5 meters long wears such heavy clothes and accessories, wouldn't Li Yan feel tired looking at it?

Forget about the seven-foot black silk and twelve singles, at least they haven't subverted Li Yan's senses.

What Li Yan can't stand the most are bald eyebrows, black teeth, fair face, especially big black teeth, Li Yan really can't associate them with beauty!
Li Yan pointed to these "Japanese beauties" and asked Zhu Neng: "Is this the beauties you want to dedicate to me?"

Seeing Li Yan's expression and hearing Li Yan's tone, Zhu Neng's heart skipped a beat, and he thought: "Your Majesty, don't you like these ghost girls?"

Zhu Neng quickly explained: "They are indeed Japanese beauties."

Fearing that Li Yan would not believe it, Zhu Neng added another sentence: "It is recognized by the Japanese."

Li Yan frowned, and looked at those "Japanese beauties" again, as if he wanted to see where they were so beautiful?
At this time, Yuzao interjected: "They are indeed Japanese beauties."

Li Yan looked at Yuzao and asked, "Where is the beauty of their ghostly appearance?"

Tamamo said: "The marks used by the Japanese nobles to distinguish whether they are adults or married are black teeth, white faces, and bald eyebrows. This is also one of the criteria for Japanese people to judge beautiful women... There are many reasons for this trend. A symbol of noble status, an expression of loyalty to her husband, some people think it is a habit left over from primitive tribes, etc... In fact, I used to be like them."

Li Yan was surprised: "You used to be like this?"

Yuzao smiled and said: "Yes, I'm afraid you won't be able to accept it, my concubine specially wore Han Chinese clothes when I saw you, changed the Han Chinese clothes, and then..."

Speaking of this, Yu Zaoqian glanced at Li Yan flirtatiously, and then said: "Then I have been wearing it until now."

Li Yan understood the meaning of Yuzaoqian's look at him - at that time, Li Yan was fascinated by Yuzaoqian, and then directly dealt with Yuzaoqian.After that, Yuzao has been wearing Hanfu and Han people's clothing.

Yuzao looked at those Japanese women again, and said, "It's actually not easy for them. The clothes they wear are so heavy that they can crush them to death. Let alone the white powder painted on their bodies is lead white powder (lead powder) and light The powder (mercury powder) and the iron paste that stained his teeth black, are poisonous, and many of them will be poisoned by it, and most of them will not live beyond the age of 30."

Can it be poisoned?
Both lead and mercury are highly toxic.

The former will lead to chronic lead poisoning, anemia, vomiting, nerve paralysis and other symptoms.

The latter, mercury poisoning, also known as tribute poisoning, usually directly affects the human nerves. The poisoned person suddenly becomes irritable and violent, and then becomes demented and forgetful. Finally, he cannot take care of himself, and even his actions are affected. Mercury poisoning in the late stage The specific symptom shown is general paralysis.

In fact, there is another kind of rice flour that can also dye white flour.

However, this white powder is too cheap, and its color is not as pure as lead white powder and light powder.

Therefore, those qualified officials and nobles all choose relatively expensive lead white powder and light powder, and only lower-level officials and common people use fire powder.

The black dye called "iron paste" that they paint on their teeth is made by mixing tea, wine, vinegar and other liquids, adding rusty iron filings, sealing and fermenting like wine making, and finally heating and boiling. A viscous liquid.

The liquid smells foul, is mildly toxic, and can seriously damage the gums and lead to oral infections.

In short, as Tamamo said before, these Japanese women are not easy.

Although Li Yan has already felt the difficulty of these "Japanese beauties", Li Yan still can't accept these bald eyebrows, black teeth, and fair faces.

Seeing Li Yan frowned, Zhu Neng hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, there are more to come."

Hearing what Zhu Neng said, Li Yan looked back, and saw more than 20 girls with bald eyebrows, black teeth, and white powder were indeed kneeling behind their faces. Before, Li Yan's eyes were all covered by these bald eyebrows, black teeth , White face attracted, so I didn't notice them.

Zhu Neng winked at a Japanese kneeling beside him.

Seeing this, the Japanese hurriedly whispered to the Japanese girls in Japanese: "All of you raise your heads, and let the King of Liaodong see how you look!"

The seventy or eighty Japanese girls raised their heads at the same time after hearing what the Japanese said.

Li Yan looked around and saw that the seventy or eighty Japanese girls were quite normal.

Even so, Li Yan still frowned.

There is no other reason, these girls are too young, the oldest of them is probably only thirteen or fourteen years old, some may be ten years old, or even less than ten years old.

Just as Zhu Neng wanted to explain, Yuzao said: "Japanese nobles are very short-lived, many die before the age of 20, and few live past the age of 40. Therefore, women usually get married at the age of eleven or twelve. Therefore, They probably couldn't find older unmarried girls."

Zhu Neng hurriedly agreed with Yuzao and said: "Ma'am, you are right. Although we have found a few bigger ones, they are really poor in appearance. Therefore, some generals and adults asked them to pick all the beauties. Come out and present it to your majesty."

Either they look like ghosts, or they are young girls. Li Yan is really disappointed in these "Japanese beauties".

Seeing Li Yan's eyes full of disappointment, Yuzao looked at those bald eyebrows, black teeth, and white faces, and persuaded: "After washing away the lead, they are all beauties." Then she looked at those girls, and persuaded: "They will be beautiful again." In three or two years, they will still be beauties." Finally, he lowered his voice and said, "Besides, no matter how you say it, they are also the wishes of your courtiers, Your Majesty."

What Tamamo said made a lot of sense.

Therefore, Li Yan told Xiaoman, "Pick twenty of them and bring them back to the harem."

Li Yan then said to the servant who passed the decree: "Notify the Ministry of Rites to draw up a list of rewards, and reward the remaining Japanese beauties to ministers and soldiers who have made meritorious service.".

After thinking for a while, Li Yan added another sentence: "They don't need to wear heavy dresses anymore, and don't get bald eyebrows, black teeth, or white faces. Hair up to the waist is fine. This unscrupulous custom must be Put an end to it from now on.”

Historical Records: The emperor was merciful and could not bear Japanese women to be poisoned by evil customs. He abolished heavy clothes, bald eyebrows, black teeth, white face, and long hair, and Japanese women were freed from the morbid elegance and pomp.

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(End of this chapter)