In the early morning, the autumn wind in Xining has been mixed with cold air, blowing on the face, there is already a trace of cold, and the pedestrians on the street have long taken off their thin summer clothes and changed into a layer of jackets.

On Beimen Street, in front of a shop on the street, a faint fragrance suddenly wafted out, and the fragrance became stronger and stronger, and was blown farther and farther away by the cold wind, finally attracting the attention of passers-by.

The pedestrians who stopped were talking, this strange fragrance, they had never seen and heard, could it be that there was a new thing in the Muhammad firm?

"What kind of sesame oil is this? Why is it so smelly? ”

"It's not like sesame oil, it's like the scent of some kind of flower!"

"Is M Moser Comptoir producing essential oils again?"

……

Pedestrians gather more and more, those who don't know each other, and there are many discussions for a while, and the "onlookers" of the Han people have a long tradition, which can be seen in today's Xining North Street.

After a short time, two young men walked out of the Muhammad firm, each holding a small white bottle less than five inches in their hands, and walked towards everyone with a smile on their faces.

The crowd automatically split into two halves, giving way in the middle, and when the young people entered the core, they swirled and wrapped them again.

"What do they have in their hands?"

"The bottle is small, but it's transparent, what kind of material is it?"

"Don't worry, don't worry, you'll get back in a while!"

……

The two young men first glanced around, then slowly opened the cap of the bottle, waved their hands to everyone, and suddenly a strange fragrance rushed to their nostrils, "Ladies and gentlemen, we are not from the Mu firm, in fact, we are from Xiningwei, and we are just borrowing the treasure of the Mu firm...... What is strong in the bottle is perfume......"

"Perfume?"

"What the hell is it? Why is it so wonderful? ”

"Is it incense in the water? What's the use? ”

The two young men, the first of which was Li Zicheng's pro-soldier chief flag officer He Xiaomi, who was entrusted by Li Zicheng to come to the market in Xining to sell perfumes, because Mu Qingshan and Li Zicheng had a good relationship, so they borrowed the shop of Musel's firm.

He Xiaoxiao called a little woman standing in the front row, beckoned her to come closer, carefully poured two drops of liquid into his palm, let her rub it in her palm, and then smeared it on her face, "This sister-in-law, your pretty face is guaranteed to be fragrant until noon, if your man smells it, ......"

The little woman knew that He Mi was laughing, her face turned red, but she was not angry, she lowered her head and said shyly: "Really fake? Can it last that long? ”

"Of course, this is the most expensive perfume!" He Xiaoxiao raised the glass bottle in his hand, "Just this bottle, small and transparent, have you ever seen it?" But it's worth a lot of silver......"

The little woman no longer replied shyly, but she cast her eyes greedily on the bottle in He Xiaomi's hand, He Xiaomi bared her teeth, and the adult said, this kind of perfume is quite expensive, "This sister-in-law, this bottle of perfume is worth dozens of taels of silver, and I really don't dare to give it away!" ”

"Huh?" The little woman suddenly opened her mouth wide, and she couldn't close it for a long time, so she had to cover it with her left hand, but her eyes were rolling on He Xiaomi's face, and seeing that He Xiaomi didn't have the slightest pity for the jade, she put her hands in front of her nose and sniffed, although she was reluctant to give up, she finally stomped her feet and got into the crowd.

He Xiaomi let go of his voice, "Everyone, everyone, this is an extremely precious perfume, just one drop, can ensure that the face and hands are fragrant for half a day, so it is also called 'half-day fragrance', once it is sold, each bottle will be at least dozens of taels, hundreds of taels ......"

"Half a day? Is it really that peculiar? Someone in the crowd asked loudly.

"In order to make you believe, starting from today, for three consecutive days, as long as the eldest sister and sister-in-law come here, you can get a drop of free perfume, everyone just needs to line up, line up, ......" For the man, He Xiaomi ignored it directly, and the adult said that the man is not the main potential customer.

There was a commotion in the crowd, but He Xiaomi held the glass bottle tightly in his hand and did not distribute it, helplessly, one by one the women had to obediently go to the queue, and the men were still chaotic because they did not have the right to receive it, and even protested against He Xiaomi's gender discrimination.

He Xiaomi, how could he have the heart to care about the men, he started with the women who hit the head, regardless of age, everyone would drop one or two drops on their hands until they rubbed them in the palms of their hands, and then spat evenly on their faces.

The fragrance emanating from the women's bodies reflects each other, and the entire North Gate Street is filled with the smell of perfume, almost becoming a perfume manufacturing workshop, attracting more pedestrians to stop, resulting in a rare traffic jam on North Gate Street.

"This official, is this perfume for sale? How much silver is a bottle? A richly dressed lady finally squeezed in front of He Xiaomi, her face was sweaty for a while, her wet hair was close to her pretty face, and she was followed by two pretty girls, obviously the daughters of a large family.

"I'm sorry, this lady, in the past three days, I have only given it away but not for sale, maybe it can be sold in the future, but the price is not cheap," He Xiaoxiao paused, and said: "Such a small bottle will cost at least dozens of taels of silver, maybe a hundred taels of silver." ”

"So expensive?" The woman was stunned for a moment, her eyes were blank, her eyes were empty, and after a long time, she gritted her teeth, "May I ask this official, where can I buy it?" ”

"This lady, I really can't buy it for the time being, I can only wait, if it is sold in the future, the Mu family will definitely send a message!" Without Li Zicheng's order, how could He Xiaomi dare to sell it privately? Even if the woman seemed so desperate, he couldn't help it.

The woman shook her head, sighed, and slowly left with the maids, and the men who were watching were still thinking about buying a bottle for their mother-in-law and bringing it back.

The women still want to get perfume, even if it is a small drop, but He Xiaomi's iron face is selfless, and if it is distributed, he refuses to give a little more, saying that it is a waste, if he wants, he will come to line up early tomorrow.

The crowd was disappointed and gradually dispersed.

And almost at the same time, at the downtown entrance of Dongmen Street, Ren Erxi was also doing the same distribution activities.

On the second day, Li Zicheng was teaching in the school, and his soldiers came to report: "My lord, the proprietor of Jin asks to see you!" ”

Kim Yixin? You're finally out! Li Zicheng was secretly happy in his heart, but he didn't leave the school immediately, but just asked his soldiers to temporarily bring him into the study to serve tea, and he finished the first Chinese class before leaving the girls' school and coming to the study of the Zhongya.

"Caomin Jin Yixin, knock to see the adult!" Jin Yixin was drinking tea in the study, and when he saw Li Zicheng, he hurriedly bowed to the ground.

"Haha, the proprietor of Jin is a rare guest!" Li Zicheng laughed, and while letting Jin Yixin get up and sit down, he also sat on the main seat.

"Thank you, sir! The grass people are bothering the adults! Half of Kim's ass fell on the seat, unable to balance, and his body arched like a prawn.

Li Zicheng was very satisfied with Jin Yixin's humble attitude, and when he glanced at the corner of his eye, he saw that Jin Yixin's body was unstable, and he didn't break it, and said with a smile: "Jin Dongzhu is the leader of the Xining business community, how can he have time to sit in the official office now?" ”

"My lord," Jin Yixin left his seat, and it was more refreshing to stand than to sit down with half his buttocks, "The grass people have long wanted to visit the adults, but they are entangled in mundane affairs, and there is no meeting ceremony...... Yesterday, the grass people got a genuine painting of Tang Yin in the south of the Yangtze River, and they were specially sent to taste with adults! He took out a picture scroll from his bosom and handed it over.

Li Zicheng took the scroll and said with a smile: "Tang Yin? But the one in folklore who dots autumn incense? ”

"It's this Tang Yin!" Jin Yixin was originally worried that Li Zicheng was illiterate, but when he heard this, he laughed and his face was relieved, "Tang Yin is the first of the four great talents in Wuzhong, and he is a ...... Some are uninhibited, but the calligraphy and painting are good, and the people in Jiangnan are all proud to get Tang Yin's authentic works! ”

Li Zicheng smiled silently, unfolded the picture scroll and took a look, it turned out to be a landscape painting: a low thatched house, hidden in a peach blossom forest, only three corners were exposed, a Shizi with a crown and a Bo belt was drunk and lying in the peach blossoms, Shizi's face could not be seen clearly, only the blue-gray robe and the ribbon on the turban could be seen.

In the upper right corner of the scroll, there are four columns of cursive script:

Peach blossom nunnery in Peach Blossom Dock, peach blossom fairy under Peach Blossom Nunnery.

The peach blossom fairy planted peach trees and picked peach blossoms for wine money.

When you wake up, you only sit in front of the flowers, and when you are drunk, you come to sleep with the flowers.

Drunk and sober up day after day, flowers bloom and fall year after year.

"There is a Zen feeling in both paintings and poems, and they should be paintings after the imperial examination was blocked," Li Zicheng pointed to the person in the painting and said: "Eguan Bo Belt, there should still be nostalgia and desire for the official career, it should be an early production, and Tang Yin had not completely sunk ...... at that time."

Suddenly, I thought of the two most popular sentences, wasn't this poem written at one time? Then he said: "Lord Jin, why is there no two sentences on the picture scroll: 'Others laugh at me for being crazy, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through'?" ”

"This ......" Jin Yixin was shocked, he thought that Li Zicheng was just a reckless, but he never thought that Li Zicheng would have such a study of Tang Yin, a down-and-out genius in the south of the Yangtze River, this Li Zicheng ...... Just from the fragments in the painting, you can peek into Tang Yin's mentality, could it be that Li Zicheng is also a person from Shilin?

Even everyone in Shilin is not interested in studying Tang Yin!

Jin Yixin's face did not change, but cold sweat broke out in his heart. However, he had seen Li Zicheng's writing, crooked and twisted like a seven-year-old child's writing, how could he write such a bad text if it really had to be soaked in ink for decades? The text is the face of the reader, which reader of the Ming Shilin does not start from the text, and the writing is tangible? This Li Zicheng is really like what Tang Yin's poem says, which makes people "can't see through"!

"This painting is given to adults, and the grass people are making a coincidence," Jin Yixin took a long time, "the grass people thought it was ......"

"I thought Lord Ben was a mud leg, haha......" Li Zicheng laughed, "Actually, it's about the same, it's just that Tang Yin's experience is too bumpy, he is famous, and the world has a lot of regrets, so there are more rumors in the market, whether Tang Yin really ordered autumn incense, I'm afraid no one can say, the world is just using it to place a good wish......"

"My lord, the grass people dare not ......"

Li Zicheng waved his hand, interrupted Jin Yixin's apology, and then put away the scroll, "Tang Yin's authentic handwritings, except for the pictures of ladies, were mostly used by him to exchange wine, and they have now been collected, and they are not widely circulated, and it is even more rare to be able to pass on to Xining, if I don't accept it, it will inevitably be the kindness of the proprietor Jin, if I accept it, such a big favor, but it is not good to ......return it."

"My lord, this is the grass people's mind, as long as the adults can see it, they really don't have to mind!" Jin Yixin secretly looked at Li Zicheng, and saw that there was neither anger nor greed on his face, and he couldn't guess his original intention for a while.

Li Zicheng said with a smile: "The sudden arrival of the proprietor Jin to the official office is not just for Lord Ben to appreciate a true painting of Tang Yin, right?" ”