What the?

An Lan was stunned for a moment, and raised her face a little dazedly.

The evening breeze passed through the forest, the flowers fell outside the pavilion like rain, and the golden glow of the setting sun outlined the outline of his face.

It's that face, yes, but it seems to be ...... She carefully looked at the person in front of her, seven years of time, without leaving the slightest trace on his face, it was indeed exactly the same face as in her memory. However, if you look closely, the person in front of you has a smile on his eyebrows and eyes, and his temperament is gentle, and he can't help but feel intimate at first sight.

And the person in my memory is lonely and cold, untouchable, like a star in the sky, too beautiful to be real, as far away as a dream.

Few people dared to stare at him so directly, and his expression was so stupid, Jing Yan couldn't help but smile, and then said, "Get up, don't you feel cold when you kneel on the ground like this." ”

Isn't it really Bai Guanghan's great incense master? Can...... Looks exactly the same!?

An Lan became more and more puzzled in her heart, although she wanted to ask him who he was, but she still held back when the words were about to come out.

Not to mention the other party's style, just because he can monopolize the Yixin Garden to taste tea and enjoy the flowers, you know that his identity must not be simple. Although she is only a fragrant slave of Yuanxiang Courtyard, she also knows that the identities of some nobles are not something that they can inquire about.

After getting up, An Lan lowered her eyes and said uneasily: "I don't know if the son called the slave and maid over, what did he order?" ”

Jing Yan glanced at her: "What's your name?" ”

An Lan replied: "The slave maid is called An Lan. ”

"An Lan." Jing Yan tasted the name for a moment, and then motioned for her to sit down opposite her, "Do you know how to make tea?"

An Lan shook her head hesitantly, but Jing Yan had already placed the feather fan in front of her: "Looking at the fire, this is already the second boiling." ”

It's a very gentle tone, but with an unquestionable meaning.

An Lan looked at the feather fan placed in front of her, and couldn't help thinking in her heart, Chen Lu should have brought Ma Guixian to the north gate at this time, and now that she is gone, it is tantamount to throwing herself into the net, so it is better to wait here for a while. And the person in front of her, she had too many puzzles and doubts, so she hesitated for a moment, then bowed slightly and confessed, and then sat down opposite.

Burning incense, cooking tea, cooking wine, and appreciating flowers are all elegant things, and the incense of the Changxiang Hall has its own strengths, and the king of the Yuanxiang Yuan is also a person who loves tea. Every spring and summer, the palace will bring new tea to Wang Zhangshi, so although she is not proficient, she is not completely incompetent.

This is...... Dipterocarp!

The fragrance of tea was fragrant, An Lan was a little nervous in her heart, the price of borneol was more expensive than gold, and the tea that could be made from borneol would not be ordinary, she had never cooked such a precious fragrant tea, for fear of being spoiled by herself, so she raised her eyes and glanced at Jing Yan hesitantly. But seeing that the other party didn't mean to let her stop, she didn't dare to say more, so she had to pick up the tea set next to her.

Jing Yan's eyes were a little scrutinized, and after a while, she knew that she was telling the truth, she was really not good at tea ceremony, she was wrong a few times, and her movements were not in place, but the fragrance of tea that came out of her hand was just right.

Do you have a natural sensitivity to fragrance?

Jing Yan picked up the cup of fragrant tea placed in front of him, took a sip, tasted its fragrance, and asked after a while: "Does the girl know what kind of tea this is?" ”

An Lan replied: "Dipterocarp tea, silverquill." "The silver quill was often drunk by the king, and he also gave some to the cinnamon branch, so she recognized it.

Jing Yan nodded: "Do you know what kind of borneol is used to smoke this tea?" ”

An Lan glanced at him puzzled, and was silent for a while before saying, "Plum blossom borneol." ”

Plum blossom dipterocarp is produced in the country of Three Buddhas, born in the deep mountains and valleys of the thousand-year-old shirt tree, the wood heart of the tree without damage to the branches can produce this strange fragrance, the large piece is a holy product, called plum blossom dipterocarp, the price is more than gold, it is a tribute in the court, and the folk have a priceless market.

In addition to the palace, only the Changxiang Hall can gather the world's strange incense, and every time there is a big ceremony, the Changxiang Hall is indispensable to burn incense and sacrifice. It is not uncommon for the people in the hall to smell this incense, but according to the grade, there are more than a dozen kinds of borneol, except for the great incense master and the waiter who has been concocting the dipterocarp for many years, it is extremely difficult for the rest of the people to determine what kind of dipterocarp is smoked just by smelling the fragrance of tea. What's more, the tea he took today was not strong in dipteroscope, and it did not dominate.

Jing Yan put down the teacup in his hand and asked again: "The girl is the incense envoy in the sleeping forest?" Or the incense attendant in the incense hall? ”

An Lan was slightly stunned, and then remembered that before she came out today, she deliberately turned out the Japanese clothes that her mother sewed for her and changed them on, and asked Lychee to borrow a blue-background entwined branch lotus pattern armor. This kind of clothing is almost the same as the incense envoy's usual dress, except that there is less vermilion on his hair.

"The slave maid is the incense slave of the Yuanxiang Temple." An Lan was silent, but still honestly revealed her identity.

"Shannu!" Jing Yan was a little surprised in his heart, but he only smiled slightly, "So, the girl is here on an errand today?" ”

An Lan nodded: "The slave is here to deliver incense." ”

Jing Yan looked at the sky and said, "It's not early, it seems that it's delaying your time to go back." ”

An Lan raised her eyes, looked at the face in front of her that was exactly the same as in her memory, and stopped talking.

Jing Yan seemed to know what she was thinking, so she asked, "Does the girl know Bai Guanghan?" ”

An Lan hurriedly shook her head: "No, the slave maid is just fortunate to have met the Great Incense Master." ”

Jing Yan raised his eyebrows slightly: "Oh, when and where did you see it?" ”

"It was seven years ago, when the slave maid went to Pinxiang Yuan on an errand." An Lan looked at that face, and only felt that this question and answer was indescribably strange.

"Seven years ago, that's been a long time." Jing Yan's eyebrows and eyes were lowered, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, like the wind passing through the lake, and the blue water rippled slightly. It's not a perfect facial feature, but because of his expression, that face looks extremely handsome, obviously with a little carelessness, but it seems to know everything.

An Lan was slightly embarrassed, and wanted to ask him what the relationship was with Bai Guanghan Daxiangshi, but suddenly she couldn't ask, and felt that it was really not early, and if she didn't go back, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to go back. Coming out today is an adventure, so it's better not to make any more extraneous branches, so after hesitating for a while, he put away the doubts in his heart and stood up, and said on his knees: "If the son has no other instructions, let the slave and maid retire." ”

"It's really not early." Jing Yan also stood up, raised his eyes and looked out for a while, "I will give the girl a ride, and it should be to make up for the delay in the girl's time." After he finished speaking, he didn't wait for her to answer, and walked out of the pavilion by himself.

An Lan was stunned for a moment, and then her heart lit up and she hurriedly followed.

If you go out with the nobleman, you must go to the south gate, which really saves her a lot of trouble.

After getting into the carriage, An Lan quietly lifted the corner of the curtain and looked out, less than two feet away from the carriage, Ma Guixian and Chen Lu were walking side by side, and the two seemed to be discussing something.

Just a little bit away, she met Ma Guixian head-on, which was really lucky......

The carriage went all the way out of the south gate and stopped at the intersection of the alley in front of Yuanxiangyuan, and An Lan was really relieved.

"Thank you, Childe!" After getting out of the carriage, she blessed the carriage again.

Jing Yan lifted the curtains: "Can you go back in time?" ”

"Thanks to the son's send-off, I was in time." An Lan nodded, glanced at that face again, and finally couldn't help but ask, "The slave maid thinks that Gongzi and Bai Guanghan Daxiangshi really look alike, I don't know, I don't know how to call Gongzi?" ”

"Despicable surname Jing." Looking at An Lan's stunned expression, the corners of Jing Yan's mouth rose up, and he said, "I'm just a businessman, if I have a chance to see you again in the future, the girl doesn't need to be restrained." ”

"I don't know if Gongzi can recognize ......" An Lan was about to ask, but Jing Yan just smiled, put down the curtains, made her words stop in her mouth, and watched the carriage leave in a daze.

After watching it for a while, An Lan didn't dare to delay any longer, put away the more and more questions in her heart, turned around and trotted towards the Yuanxiang Courtyard, just in time for the courtyard gate to close the incense card that went out before closing it. The doorkeeper looked her up and down, sarcastically said a few words, then handed back the incense card and let her in.

The corner lights of the Yuanxiang Courtyard have been lit, under the candle flame, the flowers and plants in the courtyard are more and more verdant, the path in the courtyard is more deep and secluded, and the end of the corridor on both sides, because the candlelight cannot shine, so it looks like a black hole, like a big mouth that devours people.

An Lan secretly shook the incense card in her hand, and went to Lu Xiang to make a deal, in order to be able to go out today, she and Plantagenet spent a whole year's savings.

"I'm not coming back yet." Picking up the incense card he sent out, Lu Yunxian snorted and glanced at An Lan, "I'm fascinated by that." ”

An Lan lowered her face humbly: "It's all Sister Tuolu's blessing." ”

There are many incense slaves who are favored by the guests because they go out on errands, so they get out of slavery. There are also many incense envoys who are favored by nobles, so as to enter the high-ranking families and enjoy the wealth and glory...... This kind of situation has attracted many people in Yuanxiang Courtyard to follow suit, so going out on an errand has become a fragrant bun, and many little girls who are not familiar with the world would rather stick silver upside down, but also compete to go out and show their faces. In fact, one step to the sky, turning over and doing the master's thing, where can it be so light, but no one has to stop such behavior, because this is one of the financial routes of many incense envoys.

After handing over the errand, as soon as he came out of Lu Yunxian, before he could return to his own residence, he was grabbed by the wrist of the golden finch that came out from the side, An Lan was startled, and almost knocked out Chen Lu's incense card.

"You-" Goldfinch looked at her, her eyes reddening slightly.

"Let's talk about it when we go back to the house." An Lan glanced to both sides, saw Gui Zhi's figure, and hurriedly gestured over there. The goldfinch immediately turned his head to look there, then rolled his eyes, and then turned his head, and pulled An Lan out of there.

Gui Zhi was angry with the attitude of the golden finch, since she recognized Wang Zhangshi as her godfather, even if the people in Xiangyuan Curie did not come to scold her, they would not show her face in person. Only this goldfinch, every look in his eyes, is like a provocation. There is also that An Lan, who is silent on weekdays, but that attitude makes her even more uncomfortable.

The incense slave who has no foundation dares to be so reckless, and he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead!

Gui Zhi gritted his teeth and walked out from behind the pillars, thought for a while with a calm face, and then turned to leave there and walked towards the place where the king lived.

"I thought you wouldn't be back in time!" On the way, the goldfinch said while paying attention to the surroundings, "Mama is a little suspicious that something is wrong." ”

An Lan hurriedly asked, "You said it!" ”

"How dare I say it!" "But I'm ready, and if you don't come back in time, I'll find an opportunity to burn down the gatehouse." ”

Before going out, the two had agreed that if there was a case, only the goldfinch would risk a fire inside, and only in this way could she have a chance to come back. In the incense house next to the corner lamp in front of the doorman, there are two loads of dried lavender, which is not difficult to start.

An Lan breathed a sigh of relief and said in a low voice, "Fortunately, I was in time." ”

"How? Did you get it back? After entering the room and closing the door, the goldfinch grabbed An Lan and asked.

In addition to her and the Golden Finch, there were two little champs in this room, but because the two of them were sick, they had temporarily moved elsewhere. Therefore, this house is now occupied by the two of them, but An Lan still scanned the room vigilantly, and then took out the Guanyin paper from her sleeve: "Is this it?" ”

The goldfinch hurriedly took a look, and then nodded: "This is it." ”

An Lan said: "Put it away quickly, or it will be burned now, so as not to be discovered in the future, it will be another disaster." ”

This incense recipe was stolen by the golden finch from the king's master, and she really didn't expect that the golden finch would steal it when she said it. It's just that the room they live in, whether it is the door or the cage in the house, is not allowed to be locked, and Guizhi still comes to their house from time to time to inspect on weekdays. There is no place to hide such a hot thing, and then the golden finch thought of hiding it in an empty incense box and making plans in the future, but he didn't want the incense box to be used by Lu Yunxian today!

Lu Yunxian and Ma Guixian are cousins, the incense box is out of the hands of the golden finch, as long as it is discovered, it will definitely be found on the golden finch's side in the end, and then she and the golden finch will definitely die, and the grandmother will also be implicated.

So, no matter how much risk she had to take today, she had to get it back.

The golden finch let out a long breath, and then put the incense recipe in An Lan's hand: "You can't burn it, this is what I left for you." ”

An Lan looked at the goldfinch in silence.

The Plantagenet said firmly: "With it, you can become an incense messenger!"