After the candle was lit, Cheng Fengchun first sniffed the original one, and then sniffed the new one. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The average person can't smell the difference, but for his nose, who has been in the spice business for many years, the smell of the two candles can still smell the subtle difference.

However, considering that Zuo Zai is purely grasping spices by hand, without the help of any measuring tools, it already makes Cheng Fengchun feel a little unbelievable that he can do this. The reason why Cheng Fengchun is in the spice business is because his deceased wife is a flavorist (perfumer), to be precise, his wife should be a perfumer (perfumer), that is, she specializes in perfume for people.

The profession of perfumer may not be well known in China, but it is actually a profession with a long history.

In the monarchy period, the emperors and princes and nobles of Europe had their own special perfumers, and the perfumers of this period could already mix perfumes according to specific themes.

With the decline of European emperors and aristocrats, many of the royal perfumers began to be used by merchants. It is also thanks to the vigorous promotion of businessmen that perfume has entered the dressing table of countless beauty-loving women today.

The origin of Cheng Fengchun's wife as a perfumer was in 1986, when the couple read a novel together, Perfume: AStoryofMurderer ("Perfume: A Killer's Story"), there is a sentence in the book that says:

"People can close their eyes before greatness, before fear, before beauty, they can not listen to beautiful melodies or seductive words, but they cannot escape the taste, because the taste and the breath are together, and when the person breathes, the taste penetrates at the same time, and if the person wants to live, he cannot refuse the taste, and the taste penetrates directly into the human heart, and clearly determines the habits of man, the things that he despises and dislikes, and determines desire, love, and hate. He who dominates the taste dominates the heart. ”

Taste is a very special existence for human beings, and no matter how rich the imagination is, it is impossible for people to imagine a taste out of thin air. Even if it's the same smell, everyone smells it differently.

Cheng Fengchun recalled that in the 80s, when his wife was still alive, he discussed with him what was the most important taste in memory:

"What do you think hometown tastes like?" Madame asked Cheng Fengchun.

"I don't know, I feel that what smells and smells familiar when I go back, I can't tell what it is, but I just know that it's the smell of home." Cheng Fengchun replied.

"And do you have any particularly impressive flavors?" Madame then asked.

"When I was a child, my family was poor, and my mother would make a plate of braised brook fish during the New Year's holidays, and when I was a child, I looked forward to the New Year's festival every day, and I could eat the brook fish made by my mother, and I felt very happy at that time." Cheng Fengchun thought about the fish made by his mother and smiled like a child.

"Why didn't I eat when I went to your house?" Madame looked at Cheng Fengchun with a smile.

"The brook fish is very small, and it is rare for us to return to China, and my mother may think that the brook fish will not be on the table." Cheng Fengchun explained that despite being married for many years, the two couples are still in love.

"The last time I went to your house, I remembered the smell of burning straw in the wheat field, and I choked on tears, but you were taking a deep breath." Madame was a little dissatisfied.

"yes, that should be one of the unforgettable hometown flavors." Cheng Fengchun sighed.

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Cheng Fengchun worked hard to bring back his thoughts that had drifted away, and after working as a perfumer for many years, Mrs. Cheng could often burst into inspiration and concoct some memories of the flavor. A few years ago, when his wife died, no one could make the taste of Cheng Fengchun's memory.

Cheng Fengchun tried hard to calm down his mood, and then said to Zuo:

"If you have time in the future, you can come to the showroom, and you can use the spices in it as you like." After speaking, Cheng Fengchun also gave Zuo Zai a large set of keys, which were the keys to the cabinets of precious spices in the showroom.

Cheng Fengchun's eyes that stared at Zuo Zai at the beginning had begun to become a little hollow, as if he had seen something through Zuo Zai.

Cheng Fengchun's two sons did not inherit their mother's talent for perfumery.

The eldest son was arranged by him to study chemical engineering, dealing with various food additives all day long, he can analyze the various chemical elements in the existing taste, but he has no way to use natural flavors to blend the desired taste.

The second son, Cheng Yan, did not study chemical engineering at all, and studied art and management in college. Mrs. Cheng is because she has many years of experience as a perfumer, so she can occasionally concoct some flavors in her memory.

But as soon as Zuo Zai entered the showroom, she was able to make the smell of cat poop that had just impressed her.

Xiao Nai said this, Cheng Fengchun didn't believe it at first, so he asked Zuo to make another one. Zuo Zaixin's speed of making candles made him have to believe that the little girl in front of him was born with her perfume skills.

Cheng Fengchun gave the key to Zuo and then went back to the room by himself. Zuo could no longer tell whether he was happy or angry, which made Zuo Zai, who originally thought he had caused a big disaster, confused.

But at least, Cheng Fengchun didn't let her take the cat candle to her room to light it, and the situation shouldn't be as bad as she thought.

Although Zuo Zai took the key, she wanted to go up the next day, but she didn't dare to go up again in such a hurry, she hadn't figured out the situation yet, and she was afraid that she would really make some trouble when she turned back.

This can make Xiao Nai anxious, he has poured all the spices in the showroom, but the precious spices in the cabinet, he has not had a chance to ravage before.

Now that he finally has a chance, Zuo Zai doesn't take him up. Xiao Nai felt that Zuo Zai was really too much.

After the language school resumed, Zuo went back to class. She took a twelve-week beginner language course. Under normal circumstances, if you want to take the entrance exam for middle school in the United States, students with no prior knowledge need to take 12 weeks of beginner courses, complete the exam, and then take 12 weeks of intermediate and then advanced levels, all of which need to pass the exam.

But Zuo Zai has been in the beginner class for a month, and her English is not at the same level as the other students in the class, whether it is speaking or writing, and her teacher thinks that Zuo Zai should be able to go directly to the advanced class for the exam, and Zuo Zai will really go.

In the end, those students in the senior class did not score as well as her. So, on Friday, September 21, 2001, Zuo Zai graduated directly from the language school.

On September 24, Zuo went to Trinity School, the aristocratic ------school that Cheng Fengchun had contacted her, to take the entrance exam.

When it comes to aristocratic schools, there are really no aristocratic schools in New York. It's the kind of thing that you can get in as long as you have good grades and your family is very rich.

Unlike a few aristocratic secondary schools in the UK, you may not be able to get into it even if you have money.

But there is one thing that schools all over the world are similar, that is, good grades, if your dad is Bill Gates or the president of the United States or something, you don't need to think about it.

The school's tuition is $30,000 a year, which is affordable for middle-class families in the United States. The reason why the school is famous is not because of the high tuition fees, but because half of the graduates are able to get into the top universities in the United States (Ivy League, Stanford, and MIT).

At this time in 2001, Zuo Jian's family was put in the United States, and Kenneng was not even considered a middle class, but Wenzhou businessmen basically did not care about the cost in order to educate their children.

On September 24, Zuo Zai passed the entrance exam very smoothly.

A school like Trinity is basically a spell for dad in the United States, and if your dad is not bad, you will sign you up as soon as you are born, and then start studying in kindergarten at Trinity, all the way to high school graduation, and there is no entrance exam in between.

Like Zuo Zai, there are a few people who want to transfer to the sixth or seventh grade, such people, the school is to arrange an exam, and there is no time arrangement problem for Zuo Zai to accidentally read the language class too quickly.

Of course, if you are a transfer student in the United States, you only need to provide your previous grades plus an application letter.

Left re-in domestic results Trinity is not recognized, so an exam is required. But anyway, the problems that can be solved by the exam are not problems for Zuo Zai.

Based on the test results, the school felt that Zuo Zai could start the sixth grade directly.

At the beginning of September, when the domestic school opened, Zuo never came back, and Xiang Min realized that Zuo Jianshe was fooling himself by saying that he would let his daughter come back to learn English during the summer vacation.

Originally, she saw that her daughter was not unsuitable in the United States, and she learned the language very quickly. But as soon as 911 came out, Xiang Min felt that the United States was really not a safe place, so he hoped that his daughter could come back.

Xiang Min went to Zuo Zai's original school to ask, because it had been less than a month since the start of school, and there was no problem with Zuo Zai's grades not being able to keep up, so the school agreed to register Zuo Zai.

Xiang Min originally planned to let Zuo come back as soon as he finished registering. But at the beginning, she didn't have the courage to let her daughter fly after 911, so she kept dragging it.

Zuo Jianshe heard that his daughter was admitted to a prestigious school, so he planned to continue to work for Xiang Min. Xiang Min was frightened by the 911 plane crashing into the building before, and he never warmed up, so he left a sentence, either go back to China or divorce.

In addition to being a daughter slave, Zuo Jianshe is also a wife slave, and he has been married for more than 20 years, and Xiang Min has never said the word divorce. In this way, at the end of September, Zuo, who had been admitted to a prestigious school, went around again and went back.

Of course, Zuo Jianshe has to pay 10,000 US dollars for another semester for Zuo, who has promised to be keen on making money before, and 60,000 US dollars for three years of junior high school before his daughter agrees to come back.

But at this time, Zuo Zai found that she had no feeling for the $60,000 at all, not because she had earned more than one million a day before, but because the smell of cat feces candles and spices in Cheng Fengchun's showroom was always in her mind.