The ancient method of making incense taught by Chaoyu is divided into two kinds of incense sticks and pine nut incense, and the incense sticks have an additional process of pressing strips, so it takes more time, and the pine nut incense can be kneaded into a pine nut shape by hand, so Ling Tong decided to make pine nut incense. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The next most important thing is the choice of spices, the use of agarwood, sandalwood, cloves, jatamansi is not uncommon, Chaoyu hates too much oil, then specially added bergamot and bitter orange peel and island boxwood and cypress, with a small amount of Qi Nan agarwood and white sandalwood, called Yaohua dew.

Qinglu helped Ling Tong to pour the incense into the bowl and grind it repeatedly, the small bluestone stone bowl of Chaoyu is very ingenious, obliquely engraved with thin lines like cow hair, and the stone pestle is engraved with twill in the opposite direction, which is not laborious and can be ground evenly like a mist.

"The county lord's bitter orange peel is not as much as Taishi's taste, but more white sandalwood" Qinglu gently picked up some powder with a small fingernail like a half-inch long onion tube, closed his eyes and put it in front of his nose and sniffed deeply.

Suddenly, he smiled and said happily: "The bitterness is not so strong, and the taste is clearer."

Ling Tong passed a Dingyao dipping dish with three fingers, opened a small glass bottle of nectar with flowers, and said lightly: "Taishi is a person of Qing cultivation, and he loves bitterness and Zen more, after all, the queen mother has lived in the prosperous deep palace for a long time, and the bitterness is naturally reduced, and the white sandalwood and Yang and Bai can be more, the color of one incense is lighter, and the other is slightly sweet in the bitter tone, and the aftertaste is more timeless......"

Qinglu smiled: "Speaking of which, the name of the slave and maid still comes from this incense name!" ”

Ling Tong glanced at her with a smile: "There are probably not many more elegant names in this world than the word Qinglu......"

"Qinglu has seen Taishi make incense many times, right?"

"Hmm!" Qinglu nodded.

"Whenever the master is free, he studies the ratio of spices, and the slaves and maids often smell these familiar aromas."

Since entering the palace, she no longer calls herself me, but a slave.

I saw that Ling Tong compared different incense powders and divided them into three different piles of mixed incense powders, and then he was about to start refining honey, and the honey must be refined into a round bead shape when it drips down before it can be used.

Finally, pour in the incense powder, stir evenly in one direction with a rhino horn flat spoon, until viscous like paste, pinch it into shape, and put it in a porcelain bottle to dry and you're done!

In the next ten days, Tiangong also helped very much, every day dry and not rainy, Ling Tong rolled the pine nut incense in the porcelain bottle every day, and Shen Shi took out a random grain and compared it with the fine left by the morning rain, Qinglu was seen to make incense from the morning rain, and finally two days before Guanyin's birthday, she said: "Look at this color, touch this dry pine, the slave feels that it is done!" ”

"Fetch that persimmon gourd"

The swallow responded crisply, took a gourd with a diameter of about two inches and shaped like a persimmon from the Bogu shelf and handed it to Ling Tong.

It was a round gourd, with a regular shape, and a pool of green lotus carved around it, full of business! The top of the gourd is cut off to make a lid, and it is light to open.

Ling Tong opened the lid, put the cured pine nut incense eighty percent full, and then closed the lid.

Concubine Shu, who walked in at this moment, looked at all this and smiled slightly.

Finally, I am willing to pay attention to my future, as long as you are willing, I will do my best to help you! Murong Yuhuan's fierce rival is certainly powerful, mainly because of the support of the Queen Mother Jiang Mi, so let's start infiltrating from the Queen Mother......

On February 19, the day was neither cloudy nor sunny, and there was no wind, and Concubine Shu said Bodhisattva! As on this day, how can mortals see joy and sorrow?

Ling Tong got up early in the morning to wash and comb, because it was not yet time, he asked the swallow to comb a double screw bun, the hair was divided into two strands, combed with boxwood comb dipped in jasmine water, coiled and double-stacked at the top corners, and inserted a circle of silver beads embroidered satin ring, which was very refreshing and beautiful.

Wearing a small jacket with apricot yellow embroidered plain peony, covered with honey-colored cloud brocade trimmed shoulders, and a stone blue woven gold thread acacia eight Hunan skirts on the lower body, the color matching is very sweet and elegant! After packing up and just about to go out, Concubine Shu stopped her again, straightened out the soft silk of her sideburns, stretched out her hand back, and Mama Sun Yi handed over a hairpin from behind, and without waiting for Ling Tong to excuse herself, she chose the right snail and inserted it diagonally.

It is a golden silk town treasure butterfly hairpin, very valuable!

"Miss Murong and Miss Ren are here today, although Tong'er doesn't have to overpower them in jewelry, she can't be too bad! This hairpin is just the right amount."

I put it on and looked at it from a close distance and said, "It's so beautiful!" ”

Sun Yi on the side smiled: "Yes! Noble and unconventional! ”

"Uh-huh!"

As soon as she lowered her head, Dong'er looked up at her in a grass-green brocade robe, and stretched out a small hand with four small meat vortices towards her.

Ling Tong was a little embarrassed, and it was probably inappropriate to take him to this occasion today.

"Mm-hmm" Dong'er stubbornly stretched out her little hand, her brows already furrowed.

"Take him with you!" Concubine Shu finally said.

"Who wouldn't love such a cute child? Guanyin's birthday should have been attended by both boys and girls, so let's go...... Don't worry! ”

Only then did Ling Tong take Dong'er's little hand and walk towards Cining Palace with Qinglu and Yanzi.

Walking out of the palace gate, Ling Tong looked up at the light sky, and said to himself: From today on, you will have to rely on yourself to make a living in the palace, and you can no longer live by relying on nobles......

As soon as I arrived at the gate of the palace, there was already a pair of palace maids waiting, and when I saw Ling Tong, I walked in diligently to spread the word that the lord of Lianjun had arrived!

Ling Tong waited for the guide in a regular manner, only to hear an excited and loud cry that pierced the silence of Cining Palace.

"Guo Lingtong, are you here? I've been waiting for you for a long time! I just felt that a figure in front of me flickered, and an unabashedly happy smiling face appeared!

Who else could it be if it wasn't Jiya?

Her pomp and circumstance are big, with dumplings and persimmons next to her, frog and zhili behind her, five or six meters away, and two guards who are always on guard.

Without waiting for the palace maid to come out, she exclaimed excitedly: "What are you waiting for? I'll just take you inside! I am most familiar with this Cining Palace! As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and dragged Ling Tong in, and when he saw Dong'er led by Ling Tong, Ji Ya also greeted him warmly.

"Hello! My little warrior! …… Oh my! I'm afraid he's about as good-looking as my Rislan when he's grown up! Dong'er understood perfectly, only blinking her eyes wide, her eyelashes smiling.

Cining Palace front and back corridors, yellow glazed tiles heavy eaves rest on the top of the mountain. There are seven wide rooms, five of which each has four double-crossed four-fold rhombic sash doors, and the two ends are brick-built walls, each with four double-crossed four-rwinked rhomboid sash windows.

The front of the hall out of the platform, the front out of the three steps, the left and right each out of one order, on the platform Chen gilt copper incense burner four. The east and west mountains are set up with card walls, each with a hanging flower door, which can lead to the backyard.

Entered the main hall, the gold bricks all over the ground have already been wiped bright by the palace maids, only some water stains remain in the cracks of the remaining sides, the hall is furnished with a solemn atmosphere, and a plaque on the top of the head is written on the four big characters of "Cining Shouchang". (To be continued.) )