Chapter 44: The Incense Room
"What's the matter?"
Immediately, there was a very magnetic, old-sounding voice in the room.
The voice was full of confidence, and it seemed to carry resentment.
Mu Tianxiang knew that this person was the oldest of these perfumers, called Zhao Dekui, and now he is respected by the people in the shop as Master Zhao.
Master Zhao was when her great-grandmother first inherited the Mufu family, and by chance, the great-grandmother saw that he had a unique talent for incense.
The great-grandmother saw that he did his duty, low-key and unassuming, so she privately instructed him on some simple perfume methods.
But I didn't expect that this Master Zhao was a talented and intelligent person, although he only learned some simple perfume blending methods from his great-grandmother, he was able to draw inferences from one another, and he began to study it himself, and he was able to take charge of himself without taking a long time.
Seeing this, the great-grandmother made an exception and promoted him from a young man who dried incense to a perfumer.
Thinking about this Master Zhao, he can be regarded as a grateful retribution, and he has been doing it in her shop for more than 40 years, and he never thought of saying that he would go out with Fangzi.
Counting today, Master Zhao is also gradually entering the age of sixties, this person, when he is older, there will be some changes in some behaviors and mentality.
Especially this temper.
Although it can't be said that he will rely on his old age and the important person in Mufu to rely on the old and sell the old, but occasionally he will be irritable, and it is common for him to jump and scold the juniors, making the chickens and dogs jump.
But in general, this person is still thinking about the Mu family, and he always maintains the Mu family unconsciously.
Mu Tianxiang thought that when he checked the shop with his mother a few days ago, he and his mother quarreled because of the use of spices on the new recipe, and there were some disagreements, and he looked like he was blowing his beard and staring, and he immediately wanted to laugh.
Pei Zongze heard Mu Tianxiang chuckling on the side, shrugged his shoulders for some reason, and responded loudly to the room: "Master Zhao, it's me, I'll bring the eldest lady over to take a look." ”
After speaking, they listened to the room for a long time without movement, and after a moment they heard the sound of a latch being removed from the door, and then footsteps came in their direction.
The door opened only a gap wide of one person, and a man in his thirties, looking out of the door, glanced at the two of them before opening the door.
"The eldest lady is early!
The man stood in the doorway and saluted them.
"Master Zhang is early!" Pei Zongze glanced at the inside of the room and took the lead in speaking: "I'll bring the eldest lady over to take a look, I don't know if it's convenient to go in now?"
"I'm really sorry to disturb the masters, Tianxiang just wants to get a few perfume tools, and I hope Master Zhang will be accommodating. Mu Tianxiang heard him point to himself, and immediately took a small step forward, and said to Master Zhang.
Master Zhang looked at Mu Tianxiang and Pei Zongze, but he didn't know what to do for a while.
"Let them in. "Right here, Master Zhao's voice came from the room.
When Master Zhang heard this, he nodded at the two, and then moved his body to the side and made way for the two to enter the house.
There were two doors in the room, and the sound of the scar latch was heard just now, and it was the inner ones, less than five feet away from the outer door.
Mu Tianxiang knew that there were two reasons for the layout of the two doors in the house.
One is the house in the house, the aroma of the fragrance is not easy to seep into the outside and contaminate other spices.
These two come, as a livelihood by knowing incense and making incense, the method of perfume mixing in the hands of the master is an extremely private craft, with these two doors, it is also to avoid someone suddenly breaking into the house and taking a look at the craft.
After passing the second gate, there is a hole in this room.
Mu Tianxiang followed Master Zhang to the inner room, and quietly looked at the layout of the room by the way.
The room is spacious, the size of a normal five rooms that are combined after being opened.
And in the direction of the main entrance of the house, there is a large incense burner more than one meter high, which is burning at this time, and the green smoke curls up, exuding a faint fragrance.
Mu Tianxiang took a deep breath, and the wings of her nose were filled with a light and fragrant fragrance, which was the rosemary herb that had the effect of refreshing and refreshing the mind.
This incense is made of the kind of rosemary she took from the shop guy, probably to make the refreshing effect of the aroma more effective, the incense is mixed with some mint, so the taste smells cool, with a hint of sweetness.
Bypassing the big incense burner, Mu Tianxiang saw three rows of long tables in front of him, about three meters long.
On each long table are the necessary tools for making incense.
It's just that these tools are big and small.
For example, on the table in the middle, there are four or five incense sieves, the largest of which can be one meter square, and the smallest is only the size of a palm.
And this long table is also different from the others, the table top is paved with marble, and the surface is extremely round and smooth, which can be seen that this is specially used for living incense noodles.
On the long tables on both sides, the incense utensils are a little more complicated.
There are stone grinding mortars for grinding spices, knives for cutting incense slices, and pots and pots for living incense noodles. Incense scales, baskets, incense tubes, incense sticks, including some fine sand, puhuang powder and other accessories.
Then there are two large iron pots for stir-frying spices around the long table, one of which has a steaming drawer.
Looking at all the tools, Mu Tianxiang could probably think that the general incense-making process in this incense room was indeed the same as the ancient perfume method she had seen when she used to read books, and the process seemed simple, nothing more than the most basic processes of repairing, concocting, grinding, synthesizing, pressing and drying.
Mu Tianxiang used to play with high-tech equipment, and she didn't care about this ancient perfume method, and always felt that the chief laborer was moving the crowd and spending time and time on drudgery.
But she still knows that perfumery is different from others, and the details are really the most important.
Details determine success or failure, and a good incense preparation depends on the bits and pieces in the project, whether it is meticulous.
Especially this kind of handicraft work, it is more necessary to keep improving, and there is no room for sloppiness.
As the saying goes: if it is not enough, the effect is difficult to find, and if it is too much, the sexual taste will be lost.
A slight difference in cuò means that the impact is not small.
Mu Tianxiang searched the entire incense room, but she couldn't find an incense-making tool that she could use, which was close to the modern language equipment and technology, which made her disappointed.
This simple and ordinary incense-making tool cannot create the incense idea that has gradually taken shape in her heart.
That's a good thing.
Sure enough, none of them she could use.
She sighed faintly, and just when she felt lost, a strong voice suddenly came from her ear: "The eldest lady seems to have something unspeakable, if it is related to incense, why don't you let the old man share the burden for the eldest lady?"