Emperor Shunde was speechless, and resisted the urge to get angry and said:

"The Queen's hair looks great today, and the weather is beautiful. My dear, please go shopping by yourself! I have important matters to attend to, so I can't accompany you."

He was talking about hair, not hair color.

He said it was good, not beautiful.

Emperor Shunde: [I have said this already, the Empress should be able to understand the hidden meaning! ]

But in the queen's heart, she only heard, the hair is nice.

Your Majesty didn't say it's ugly, which means there is no objection.

Queen: [Well, we'll continue tomorrow. I must let Your Majesty experience a different kind of charm here.]

At the same time, rumors spread among the aristocratic circles that the emperor loved black hair and said that black hair was a unique color.

There was a smart young lady from an official family who dyed her hair black as soon as possible.

Fashion trends always spread quickly. In less than half a day, the trend of dyeing hair black spread throughout the entire capital. Whether it was the wives of officials, daughters of wealthy merchants, or common women, almost all of them dyed their hair black.

So much so that during the morning court session the next day, all the civil and military officials looked at Emperor Shunde with resentful eyes.

[Are these ministers sick today? Why are they all looking at me with such eyes? ]

Emperor Shunde turned around and asked quietly, "Ming Dequan, what's wrong with these people? Why do they all look like resentful women?"

Ming Dequan's thoughts raced. He also noticed that these ministers glanced at His Majesty from time to time, but he couldn't figure out why. He could only say in panic:

"Your Majesty, I don't know either."

[System, are these people in a bad mood? They seem to dislike everyone.]

[Host, I know this. Actually, it's all because of you. To be more precise, it's because of your hair.]

Jun Shutong was puzzled: [What does their bad mood have to do with my hair?]

[Do you remember yesterday when the emperor praised your hair?]

【Remember, what happened? 】

Yesterday at the morning court, the Emperor praised your beautiful black hair. Then, while strolling in the Imperial Gardens, he noticed that all the concubines in the harem had dyed their hair black. The Emperor was so frightened that he hid in his study.

What about these ministers?

The system said happily: [The women in their family heard that black hair was popular in the capital, so they followed the example of the ladies in the palace and dyed their hair black.]

[Just dye it. I think black hair looks good. Why are these ministers so angry?]

They were not angry because the women in their families dyed their hair, but because those women who dyed their hair did not take good care of it. When they slept at night, the dye got all over their faces, bodies, and even pillows and quilts.

[So much so that their husbands woke up thinking they had seen a ghost, and in some cases they fainted from fright.]

Didn't you see that the Minister of Rites, Master Zhang, didn't come to court today? His wife fell asleep and accidentally smeared the dye all over her face, which not only frightened Master Zhang to faint, but also made her sick.

"So that's how it is! Master Zhang is so useless, even such a beautiful hair color can scare them. However, they do have good taste. Our Chinese aesthetic, which has been around for 5,000 years, is always welcome everywhere."

Emperor Shunde: [It was a close call. Fortunately, I didn't go to the harem last night, otherwise I would be the one making a fool of myself today.]

Did the dynasty called Huaxia really last for five thousand years?

Emperor Shunde was shocked. He couldn't imagine how many generations it would take to build such a civilization.

Ministers:

【Luckily, my wife sent me to the study to sleep last night.】

[Oh no, I forgot to look in the bronze mirror. I wonder if there is anything on my face?]

[Luckily, my wife doesn't like black, otherwise I'd be embarrassed too. . . ]

[It turns out that thing on my wife's pillow was dye. I thought my wife's hair was fading. I was so scared.]

[No wonder my wife avoided me this morning and buried her head under the quilt.]

In the hall, the court officials all had their own thoughts, and Jun Shutong was not idle either, continuing to chat about gossip with the system.

[System, you said that Lord Zhang was ill and didn't attend court, but the emperor wasn't angry. Why does Fujiwara Haoji have such a dead look on his face, as if someone dug up his family's ancestral graves?]

[Could it be possible that his wife also dyed her hair?]

[Yes, host. Both Consort Fujiwara and the Empress dyed their hair. They even tried to seduce the Emperor in the Imperial Garden, but were unsuccessful.]

Fujiwara Koji was so sad because his beloved youngest son had gone missing. He had mobilized all the family's resources but had only found a few clues.

"Why did his son disappear?" Jun Shutong asked hurriedly, grabbing a handful of sunflower seeds from his pocket and eating them.

Everyone pricked up their ears quickly, and even Fujiwara Haoji himself leaned towards Jun Shutong.

The system pretended to be mysterious and said, "It seems his son was kidnapped by orcs, but I can't find out where he was taken."

[Although the average life expectancy on the Tianxing Continent is around 200 years old, old Fujiwara is almost 80 years old. His youngest son should be around 40 or 50 years old, right?]

"Pooh," she spat out the melon seed shells and put them into another pocket.

[Why would the orcs kidnap an old man?]

[Oh, host, you don't know this! His youngest son was born out of wedlock and is only eighteen years old. He's been committing all sorts of evil all day, even killing orcs indiscriminately in the Colosseum.]

[I guess the orcs kidnapped him out of revenge.]

Jun Shutong was furious: "Orcs are also human beings, and they are living beings. Kidnapping them is too easy for them. It would be better to kidnap them to be my son-in-law and have a dozen or twenty little orcs."

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