Chapter 164: Incense Ash
Chu Zhaohui only regarded him as a child to teach, and he talked a few words of gossip with Su Duran more kindly, and Su Duran always had a sincere smile on his face and listened very attentively. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
When Mingzhu came in, the girls in the Tongchuan clan came to see each other, and brought the chrysanthemum pillows for Mrs. Anguo and Miss Wan, Su Duran bowed and withdrew.
Walking out of the courtyard where Chu Zhaohui lived, Su Duran changed his honest and shy attitude, and his eyes were full of anger.
He looked back at Chu Zhaohui's yard coldly, tore the post and threw it back, watching the fragments drift into the wind, with a contemptuous smile on his face.
On the afternoon of the second day after Gu Chenxiao left, Murong Wei and the Xia brothers and sisters went down to Qinglian Terrace, and Luan drove back to the palace. Later, escorted by Xiao Luochen, Chu Zhaohui took Su Duhan and Wen Wan, as well as Mingzhu, Tassel and others, accompanied by several clansmen of the Su family, and also returned to the palace.
The tassel came back and kowtowed to Murong Wei, and Murong Wei asked her aunt about her daily life in the past few days, knowing that everything was fine, and deliberately asked Su Duhan a few words, looking very worried.
Tassel pondered Su Duhan's promise to him, and saw that the princess cared about him as before, patiently answered Murong Wei's mind one by one, and relayed Su Duhan's feelings for her, and felt very smart.
Murong Wei lazily listened to a few words, and smiled shyly cooperatively. I saw that she had changed beads in her hair, and she knew that she was weak and didn't break it, so she was sent down to rest.
Wen Wan was in a hurry to pass the news to Murong Wei, and came to Murong Wei's bedroom by sending a newly made chrysanthemum pillow.
The pillows made by Hongfu and others are exquisitely selected and delicately embroidered, and chrysanthemums and cassia seeds of uniform size are selected to fill in. Wen Wan used this kind of chrysanthemum pillow when she was in the old house, and she felt that when she fell asleep, the chrysanthemum fragrance was very comfortable, and she knew that it was a good thing, so she asked for one for Murong Wei and Xia Lanxin.
Thinking of the wild chrysanthemums that Wen Wan drew on the letterhead, and then looking at the newly made chrysanthemum pillows, Murong Wei felt funny. She chose a flower pillow with lake-green moonlight brocade embroidered hosta and white daisy, and ordered Yingluo Haosheng to put it away for herself, and then pillow it when she returned to the palace.
By talking about the Su family's chrysanthemum garden, Wen Wan passed on the meeting between Su Duhan and the tassels that day, the poppies hidden in the garden, and the news of the Su family's affair with the government to Murong Wei one by one.
Opening the purse tied around her waist, Wen Wan showed the remaining half of the seedlings to Murong Wei.
But there was no clue from the appearance, and Murong Wei also pinched a little from the plant and put it in her mouth according to the gentle reminder, and immediately tasted the unique aroma of poppies.
"If Sister Wan doesn't say it, I will be in the chrysanthemum garden, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to distinguish this fragrance", the secrets of the Su family are simply linked together, and Murong Wei is very surprised that the Su family has planted so many poppies.
It's not harmful, it's money.
Xixia is strictly inspected every year, and there are not too many drugs flowing in, Fushou ointment is prohibited whether it is in the palace or outside the palace, and it is a big crime to cut off the head if it is caught, and no one dares to touch it for a while.
But based on the large piece of opium poppy that Wen Wan narrated, it has accumulated year after year, and the amount is quite considerable, it can be seen that the Su family is extremely careful and does not sell it in Xixia.
It can be inferred from this that the Su family's power is not limited to the Cangnan lineage, Yunnan, the former Daruan, and even more places have the Su family's painstaking management.
The Mai mother-in-law who happened to meet in the palace of Canwei once taught the two to make incense and distinguish qi, but Murong Wei's talent was not as good as gentleness, and she only learned the fur, but did not learn the essence.
Wen Wan spent a long time with Mai's mother-in-law, and learned her incense-making skills. Smelling the fragrance and distinguishing the qi, ever-changing, Wen Wan inherited the memory of the previous generation, so that she could be very sensitive to the different breaths in the chrysanthemum garden and discover the great secret of the Su family.
"Speaking of which, I have one more thing to ask Sister Wan", Murong Wei lowered her voice, gently covered Wen Wan's ear, and cautiously mentioned the situation of her making clear pear sandalwood and Baihao incense.
The Qingli sandalwood in Shoukang Palace is deep for a long time, and there is a faint fragrance of sandalwood from the inside to the outside, saying that it is soothing, but there is always a sense of decadence.
Although she no longer uses it now, Murong Wei skillfully obtained the incense ash from the burning embers with a hollow hairpin that day, and also asked Mama Bai for the clear pear sandalwood she made by learning to make incense.
Mama Bai refused on the grounds that there was no residual fragrance in her hands and that the pear sandalwood was mostly loose incense, and then copied the recipe of the pear sandalwood, and also sent her some newly made incense sticks.
Murong Wei has learned how to make incense, and she is not so easy to fool. She burned the incense sticks sent by Mama Bai in her incense making room and compared them with the incense ash retrieved from the Shoukang Palace, but found that the Qingli sandalwood made by Mama Bai was similar in taste and the materials were not the same.
There was a slight difference, Murong Wei couldn't tell what kind of raw material was wrong, but she always knew that there was something else in the clear pear sandalwood incense made by Mama Bai.
The incense ash retrieved was limited, and Murong Wei tossed around in the incense room every day at that time, but she didn't figure it out.
Now that Wen Wan has regained the memories of her previous life, her talent is different, and her ability to distinguish incense can be regarded as a great achievement. With her help, I don't have to worry about finding out whether the emperor's grandmother's seven years of chaos have anything to do with that incense.
Wen Wan listened to Murong Wei's narration and sighed: "Ah Wei, you are really thoughtful, even an old man like Mama Bai refuses to believe it easily. That day, you made that incense room at night, and I was still thinking behind my back that you were fooling around all day long, and your temperament of listening to the wind and rain did not change. Who would have thought that since then, you have been looking for traces of the palace. ”
"I suffered too much in my previous life, and I didn't find out who was hiding behind the palace, who poisoned my father and emperor is unknown, where do I dare to trust others easily?" Murong Wei smiled bitterly, with a little helplessness, and gently put her hand on the gentle soft wattle, and turned into infinite relief: "Fortunately, Sister Wan, you are back, otherwise I would really be alone in the palace." ”
The incense ash was important, Murong Wei didn't dare to stay by her side, so she locked it in the box of the incense making room. asked Hongdou to take care of the incense room, not to allow others to approach, and took the key with him.
The two made an appointment to go back to check the secrets of the incense first, and then exchanged information in detail for the past few days. Murong Wei and Wen Wan whispered, Yingluo knew the secret, she had already been dismissed by her, and she stood guard outside the door curtain by doing needlework, and the bright yellow brocade curtain embroidered with Danfeng Chaoyang was drawn tightly, covering the small words in the room.
At the night banquet, for the sake of Chu Zhaohui's mother and son's filial piety, the small kitchen specially made a vegetarian table with Shanzhen, and placed a few exquisite fruits, which were opened very neatly in the banquet room.
Su Duhan changed into a moon-white robe embroidered with a four-fold ruyi pattern, a jade-colored belt with gold thread patterns, and his hair was curled up with a hosta, making him look more and more upright and detached.
He greeted Murong Wei softly, as if there was no problem between the two. Seeing her aunt sitting, Murong Wei smiled and returned the salute, and sat down next to her aunt. (To be continued.) )