Chapter 888: Clairvoyant Mirror

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Tang Zhaozong watched his subordinates being slashed and killed by that Tang Zhangwei's men, and that Tang Zhangwei was too powerful.

He used wooden birds from that Tang Dynasty to transport too many artillery.

Although, some local bureaucrats in the Tang Dynasty were dissatisfied with the huge cost of sending guns thousands of miles.

However, the bravest warriors and the huge mastiffs, as soon as the cannon sounded, they turned into a pile of minced meat without any suspense.

These fearsome Zhangxiong warriors, they have never met a real opponent.

When Songtsen Gampo replaced those Zhangxiong warriors, they also used a strategy, but that Tang Zhangwei completely defeated them in a face-to-face battle.

Even, Tang Zhangwei didn't let that Bai Cunxiao collide with them head-on.

The world-famous heavy cavalry of plate armor was not used, and the powerful Zhangxiong army did not stand and collapsed.

The demise of the Xiangxiong Legion made the powerful Tubo Legion have a great fear of Tang Zhangwei.

After all, there is still a huge gap between the soldiers of the Tubo Corps and the Xiangxiong Corps.

Tang Zhangwei smiled with satisfaction after seeing the results of those artillery pieces from the clairvoyant mirror.

Then they are placed in small boxes lined with cotton and taken to the basement to be sealed.

They separated dye wood and orange blossom in April, and roses as many as the sea in May, and the fragrance of roses filled the city with an invisible mist as sweet as cream all month, and Grenouille worked like a horse. He did not bargain, and with almost slave tameness, he did the secondary work assigned to him by Bai Cunxiao. However, when he was in a daze of stirring, scraping, and rinsing large barrels, cleaning the workshop, or carrying firewood, he never left the main part of the work, and was always aware of the changes in the various scents. Grenouille watched closely with his nose as the fragrance of the petals transferred to oil and alcohol until it was filled into a delicate little perfume bottle, more closely than Bai Cunxiao. Long before Bai Cunxiao found out, he could smell when the grease was overheated, when the petals were exhausted, and when the fragrance in the soup was saturated. He sniffed what was going on in the preparation vessel and at what precise moment the distillation process had to end. Sometimes he is also good at making hints, of course, with a cold attitude and does not get rid of the posture of his subordinates. He said he felt the grease might be too hot right now; He thought he would be able to filter it soon; He seemed to feel that the alcohol in the still had now evaporated,...... Bai Cunxiao, although not very smart, is not entirely stupid, and after a long time, he knows that if he makes a choice according to Grenouille's meaning of "thinking" or "seems to feel", he can achieve the best result. Since Grenouille never spoke recklessly, and did not think that saying "think" or "feel" was superior to others, for he never—mainly in the presence of Madame Arnoupy—showed doubts about Bai Cunxiao's authority and his position as the first man, and there was no reason why Bai Cunxiao should not take Grenouille's advice, and as the days went by, he even left him more and more to make decisions.

Later, Grenouille became more and more engaged not only in stirring, but also in adding, lighting fires, and straining, while Bai Cunxiao went to the tavern of the "Heirs to the Four Thrones" to drink wine, or went up to his wife to check that everything was in order. He knew he could trust Grenouille. Although Grenouille did the work of two people alone, he enjoyed the freedom of being alone, perfecting new techniques and occasionally experimenting with small experiments. He secretly happily confirmed that it was made with Bai Cunxiao compared to him. He made a lot of hacksaws in incense by himself. He makes Poe premium essences much more pure.

At the end of July, the season of jasmine begins, and in August, the season of night hyacinth begins. Both flowers have a beautiful aroma and at the same time fragile flowers, which must not only be picked before sunrise, but also processed with special care. Temperatures that are high will reduce their fragrance, and sudden immersion in hot macerated grease will completely lose their fragrance. The most precious of these flowers, they must not be allowed to take away their souls lightly, and must be deceived by sweet words in a suitable way. In a fragrant room, the flowers are sprinkled on a plate coated with cold grease or loosely wrapped in an oil-soaked cloth towel, and must be allowed to die slowly in their sleep. After three or four days, they wither, exhaling all their fragrance and giving it to the adjacent grease and oil, which is then carefully torn off and sprinkled with fresh flowers. This process is repeated ten to twenty times until the balsam absorbs the fragrance and the scented oil is squeezed out of the cloth, which is already September. The resulting finished product is much smaller than if it had been segregated. But the quality of jasmine balm or an anti-lung perfume obtained by the cold grease apple extraction method surpasses that of products made with other perfume techniques in terms of beauty and preservation of the original smell. Jasmine, in particular, is reflected in a greased plate with its sweet and lovely aroma as if in a mirror, and is completely faithful to nature and reflected back – with reservations, of course. Grenouille's nose undoubtedly distinguishes the scent of the flower from the scent it has preserved: the smell of the oil itself, though it is so pure, is like a refined veil over the original structure of the scent, softening it, slowly weakening the obvious parts, and making its beauty even palatable to the common man...... In any case, the cold grease extraction method is the most ingenious and effective means of obtaining a fragile scent. There is no better means. If this method was not enough to convince Grenouille's nose of all doubts, then he knew that it was a thousand times more sufficient to deceive a world with a dull nose.

Soon after, just like in terms of segregation, he also surpassed his teacher Bai Cunxiao in the technique of cold grease apple extraction. He made this clear to him with tried-and-tested, humble and prudent means. Bai Cunxiao was happy to go to the slaughterhouse to buy the most suitable pig fat, wash it, boil it, filter it, and determine the proportion, which was always a very tricky and daunting task for Bai Cunxiao, because a grease that was not clean, obscure, or overly dispersed and smelled of pigs, sheep and cattle would ruin the most valuable balsam. He entrusted him with determining the spacing of the grease pans in the incense room, the time it took to change them, and the saturation of the balsam, and soon entrusted him with all the difficult choices. Similar to Bardini back then, Bai Cunxiao could only make general decisions based on the rules he had learned, while Grenouille made it based on his own nose insight - of course, Bai Cunxiao knew nothing about it.

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