The snake lady is a casual and wanton person, acting very simply, sometimes living rough and perfunctory, eating raw meat, chewing muscles and bones, and taking the sky as the cover and the earth does not care at all, but she is delicate, and her life is also extremely exquisite. She could spend years making a scented powder by herself, or travel thousands of miles to collect old spices. You must know that the era when the snake lady was reincarnated as a human did not have these convenient means of transportation now, and trekking was really going over mountains and mountains, wading through rivers and rivers. The amount of time and effort it takes to make something perfect is immeasurable. And the snake lady is a person who is unwilling to compromise, when teaching Ye Nuan these things, it is called a strict.

Legend has it that Sima Guang was as awe-inspiring as an adult at the age of seven, and Ye Nuan was a governor at the age of four. After all, in the eyes of the snake lady, the lifespan of human beings is too short, and she doesn't want Ye Nuan to lose her face early and tend to be an ordinary person. Well, to be honest, the snake lady is a face control, if it wasn't for the addition of the other two ghosts later, the focus of Ye Nuan's life is estimated to have been deviated by the snake lady. At that time, Ye Nuan didn't have any special talent in practicing witchcraft, and the snake lady really only taught her these things the rest of the time, except for teaching her some secret arts.

Seeing the strange tools on the platform with infinite familiarity, Ye Nuan's eyes flashed slightly, and she smelled the faint fragrance of flowers and plants in the air, mixed with the woody fragrance, and before she walked in front of the raw materials, she turned around and walked to the metal cabinet next to her right hand, looking a little hurried.

The fragrance mixed with the fragrance of flowers and herbs is too familiar, it is sandalwood. Or very good quality old sandalwood. The smell was mild from afar, and the closer it got, the clearer the smell became. Floating gentle, elegant and charming, soft and rich aroma gushes in, making people feel refreshed but not tired.

Ye Nuan doesn't know if sandalwood has mutated in the world after a thousand years, but the original sandalwood is different from agarwood, its fragrance is pure and single, and it will not produce a unique taste because of different production areas. However, the older it gets, the stronger its smell becomes, and the best one is the red meat from Mysore, India. If she was not mistaken, the wood incense placed in the metal cabinet was Lao Shan Tan. However, whether it is submerged or not has the quality of submersion must be explored.

Authentic red-fleshed sandalwood is a rare treasure in modern times, as the yield is so small that only the parts close to the center of the tree are counted. It can be said that the price is more than gold. Ye Nuan in the modern era. In order to make incense powder, he also searched all over H Province in the south of Huaxia Province, and finally exchanged it with an ancient incense powder recipe from an old incense person, one of the few five, which had to be saved every time, and was buried by the snake lady several times.

It can be imagined how excited Ye Nuan is to smell this smell again now.

The person in charge surnamed Zheng had previously said that Ye Nuan could use the things in the laboratory at will, so Ye Nuan didn't think much about it. I found something I was interested in, and walked straight to the metal cabinet. I followed the smell to the cabinet door.

The cabinet door was not locked, so Ye Nuan easily took the incense wood strip hidden inside into his hand.

The moment I opened the cabinet door, I was greeted by a rich aroma. Ye Nuan unconsciously raised his head and took a few puffs, like a person who had finally returned to the shore after falling into the water, greedily breathing in this smell with a strange oriental fragrance.

The taste of old sandalwood is mellow and comfortable but not strong, as far as the eye can see, the color of the two ends of the wooden strip is dark and the middle color is slightly lighter, and it is heavier than the general sandalwood in the hand.

Finding this, Ye Nuan's eyes suddenly lit up, and even his heart that had been waveless for a long time rose up with a sense of surprise.

What she has in her hand is the old sandalwood of submerged quality, which has a strong taste, and she guesses that it is the red-fleshed old sandalwood from the Indian production area.

However, there is no such country as India in this future world, the world is the same, coupled with the faint moisture on the sandalwood strips, Ye Nuan feels that this kind of thing does not seem to be loved by future people, at least not valued, otherwise the manager of the laboratory will just place it so casually.

The world thinks that sandalwood can only be used as medicine or as incense, but in fact, it can also be used in incense powder, but the steps are very cumbersome, and the requirements for artists are also very strict. But it was hard to come across such a treasure, and Ye Nuan didn't want to miss it. After thinking about it, she glanced at all kinds of flowers and plants on the platform, and then searched out a beauty secret recipe that used Lao Shan Tan from her mind.

With a rather excited heart, Ye Nuan immediately burned incense and washed her hands, eh, to be precise, she burned incense to wash her hands, because she didn't have incense now. If there is any leftover after making incense powder for a while, it can be made into incense powder, but after glancing at the four old sandalwood with different shapes in his hand, Ye Nuan has a faint regret, the number of old sandalwood is too small, it would be nice if there were more in the laboratory.

Ye Nuan didn't choose a tool on the side, first, she was not familiar with it, and second, the machine had a great loss of spices, and it would also affect the smell of incense powder, so she chose to use witchcraft as the main thing, supplemented by tools.

Sandalwood has relatively high technical requirements, and if it is not enough, the effect is difficult to find, and if it is too much, the taste will be lost. At the same time, there are many things to pay attention to the time of preparation and the texture of the container. Unconcocted raw sandalwood has a lot of fire, and it is not traditionally directly used to match incense, but is first concocted to eliminate its fire and correct its fragrance.

What Ye Nuan is now holding is raw sandalwood, which cannot be directly used in the production of incense powder, so she paused, directly popped out a few small wind blades from her fingertips, and split those small wooden strips about two centimeters long and three millimeters thick, which is more conducive to grinding.

The next step is more elaborate, you need to use a sand ware tea set to soak the fine oolong tea or Yunnan group tea, while turning the sandalwood, while drenching with hot tea. After sprinkling evenly, it is also necessary to cover the mouth of the basin to prevent the aroma of sandalwood from leaking out. This step requires the sandalwood to be soaked for about 72 hours, turned every five hours, and then dried in the shade.

Obviously, today's Ye Nuan doesn't have those things, and he doesn't even know if there is a sand tea set in this world after a thousand years. So she retreated to the next best thing, chose the jade tea set that had been prepared in the space, and put the sandalwood sticks in it. Then I found the jade pot on the other side. With a thought of condensing water, the jade pot filled up in an instant. flipped Ye Nuan's palm under it, and a flash of fire instantly appeared under the jade pot. Start boiling the water. At the same time, Ye Nuan picked a few young branches and leaves of a certain green leafy plant from the planting area of the space and sprinkled them into the jade pot. The plant is Ye Nuan from the unknown planting that Ye Nuan bought from the sky online and finally grows into, it belongs to the mutant species, the plant type and leaf shape are very different from the tea tree, but the leaves have a strong tea fragrance, and the water soaked and drunk completely has the characteristics of the fragrance of tea leaves and cheeks. And because it grows in space, the juice of the leaves is rich in aura, and Ye Nuan usually uses it as a tea. Nowadays, it is simply used to make sandalwood.

Ye Nuan, who stepped into the door of 'witch refining', had many advantages compared to the previous life, such as the fact that it was originally necessary to soak sandalwood for seventy-two hours, but under the operation of magic power, it could be condensed to half an hour. Achieve the same effect as the former. Significant time savings and increased efficiency.

Do you think making hot tea is enough to dry in the shade?

Apparently not.

While waiting for the wooden strips to dry, Ye Nuan walked to the place where the honey was placed in the laboratory. A millennium from now, the world will not have eliminated this industrious creature, and honey will still exist, just as popular and useful. After carefully distinguishing the honey in different glass jars, Ye Nuan finally chose the one with the lightest color and a more tranquil taste. I can't tell what kind of honey leaf is warm. Just choose the one with a light taste that least affects sandalwood. Later, Ye Nuan found the place where the grain wine was placed according to the index of the laboratory. Speaking of this, Ye Nuan had to sigh, 'Although the sparrow is small, it has all the organs'. This laboratory doesn't seem to match, except for the experimental platform, almost everything else is used to place things, but the things placed inside are called a complete one, almost all the finished plants of the entire plantation, whether liquid or solid, everything.

The grain wine dilutes the honey in a certain proportion and pours it into a basin where the sandalwood strips are placed, constantly flipped, and finally all of it is soaked, sealed and left for two hours, turning once an hour. The time used is the time of Ye Nuan, in other words, if ordinary people make it, it will be placed for at least three days.

After it is dried in the shade, it is taken out, and the last process is the frying of sandalwood. Put the dried sandalwood in a pot and fry it, first fry it over high heat for five minutes, then fry it over medium heat for 20 minutes, and finally fry it over low heat for 10 minutes, and wait until the purple gas rises on the pot, which means that the sandalwood has been fried.

Ye Nuan naturally used the tools in the laboratory to complete this step without the help of magic power at all, and honestly completed it exactly as required.

Do you think this can be applied to incense powder?

Naturally, it is not.

Although the wooden strip is small, it cannot be used directly, and it cannot be directly applied to the face.

There is a powder machine on the test bench, and there are knives and pliers on the side, but Ye Nuan doesn't like this kind of scientific and technological powder method, not to mention the time-consuming process, and you still need to pay full attention, and it may be broken if you are not accidentally distracted. This 'bad' doesn't mean that the incense powder can't be used, but according to the requirements of the snake lady, such a powder is a 'dead' powder, which is too ingenious to use and not alive, and the original oil and strong smell of the wooden strip will also be lost.

Fortunately, although Ye Nuan did not officially enter the door of 'witch refining' in the previous life, he still knew how to use simple spells, let alone now.

After skillfully beating the fragrant wood strips into powder, Ye Nuan took the fine pieces of red Xiangguo petals that had been prepared before, mixed the two together in proportion, and added the spiritual liquid extracted from the space spirit plant, and sealed it in the jade bottle.

The pharmacopoeia "New Cultivation of Materia Medica" organized by the government of the Tang Dynasty has mentioned this recipe, and according to legend, it is a beauty secret recipe commonly used by Wu Zetian's favorite daughter, Princess Taiping, which can make people as white as snow, smooth and soft. The original version was made by using the whole herb of motherwort on the fifth day of the fifth month of May to make a powder, and then adding talcum powder and rouge. However, it is a recipe that has been circulated among the people, and the real secret recipe is still in the hands of the court. It is required to pick peach blossoms on the third day of the third lunar month every year, and study them into fine powder, and collect black chicken and chicken blood on the seventh day of July to harmonize and wipe the body. The snake lady didn't like the blood of low-level creatures like black chickens, so she modified it with sandalwood powder, mixed with spring water from deep mountains and forests, or snow that had not fallen on the petals. The snow water is cold and pure, and there is a saying that "if it is not cold, it will be irritable, and the taste will be astringent", which contains fragrance in the ice and is more aura. However, Ye Nuan, who has the space of the 'Divine Seed', is not short of aura, and can directly extract the spiritual liquid from the spiritual plant and mix it with fine powder.

It took nearly three hours for Ye Nuan to come in, which made Song Ya, who was originally waiting patiently, a little worried, mainly because she was afraid that Ye Nuan would have an accident. The so-called concern is chaotic, and the anxious Song Ya has long forgotten the identity of Ye Nuan's cultivator, only thinking that Ye Nuan is a weak Omega, for fear that something will happen to her alone in the laboratory. After all, according to Ye Nuan's statement before, she had learned to make ancient cosmeceuticals, but she lacked materials and did not experiment. When Song Ya studied ancient history, she knew that there was an alchemy in the ancient country of China thousands of years ago, and there were often alchemists who had accidents during alchemy, and the Dan furnace exploded, unconsciously, Song Ya combined the picture of the ancients' alchemy and Ye Nuan's production of incense powder, and the more she thought about it, the more worried she became.

Xiao Ye has been in the laboratory for almost three hours, why hasn't he come out yet?

Song Ya thought so in her heart, and said it on her lips, and Zheng Quinoa next to her muttered for a while when she heard this, and said, "In fact, it takes a long time to make incense powder according to the ancient method, and three hours is not too long, but I estimate that Miss Ye is also tired at this time, and it won't take long for her to come out and drink some nutrient solution to satisfy her stomach." ”

In fact, Zheng Quinoa is not sure in his heart, some people like to stay on the production table when making cosmeceuticals, and even only drink the nutrient solution once a day, observing the data changes of cosmeceuticals all the time. He didn't know what Ye Nuan's habits were, and he wouldn't say anything until he thoroughly understood Ye Nuan's identity and background, just waiting for Song Ya to think about it herself.

Just when Song Ya was very entangled in her heart and thinking about whether to go and see Ye Nuan, Ye Nuan herself walked out of the laboratory with an oval stone box the size of half a palm in her hand. The stone box was in the laboratory, Ye Nuan was rescued by Song Ya before, and Song Ya knew everything on her body, she couldn't have come up with a jade bottle out of thin air to expose her secrets, so she naturally used the box in the laboratory. The texture and sealing effect are not as good as the jade box in her space, but they are not bad, after all, they are used by the royal family.

"I'm done."

Taking out the box in his hand, Ye Nuan smiled at Song Ya and the others, and said.

A look of surprise appeared on Song Ya's face, "So fast? ”

She said as she walked towards Ye Nuan. At this time, Ye Nuan also complied with Song Ya's wishes and opened the lid of the box.

In an instant, Song Ya was attracted by the long and restrained aroma in the box. (To be continued.) )

PS: Yesterday the author was busy with his studies, after all-night homework, today he continued to spend the whole day in the homework and exams, I am very sorry for yesterday's lack of more, ten thousand deaths, ten thousand arrows, ten thousand eyes, ten thousand horses galloping...... I'm sorry for 10,000 capitals.,Forgive the author ~\(≧▽≦)/~.