Chapter 169: Ten Kinds of Brocade
Sprinkled with silver and red plum notes are as thin as cicada wings, and the handwriting from Syracuse is as familiar as yesterday. There is a way that words are like people, this man is always gentle like a warm wind, but he writes words more than Shen Han. For this reason, Shen Yuan often felt that there was a fire hidden in Snow City's heart, which she couldn't touch or extinguish.
But it didn't matter, she knew that she liked this man very much, and wanted to be with him for a long timeβand the other party was probably the same, and it was enough.
After not seeing each other for a long time, a handwritten letter is the best greeting, which is worth a thousand words and contains thousands of feelings. In winter, the two storefronts of Syracuse City are busy, and they have to go outside to personally select a batch of green oil canan, and prepare Ruyi He and incense pills for the New Year.
It was a gadget that Shen Yuan had nothing to do, and he chose two coins of solid and heavy Canaan incense, with one penny each of swallow's mouth, rest, borneol, and galangal, five clove seeds, and a handful of sun-dried bright red rose petals, only using a small white porcelain bowl, grinding them into a fine powder together, and storing them in the camellia buds that will not open, sewing them tightly with new silk threads, and sealing them for seven days before taking them.
At that time, cut the flower buds, pick the white ramp to fry the thin juice, soak the clean plum blossom stamen in the cold tea method, mix it in half and filter, mix it with a little refining honey and mix the medicinal powder, rub it into a thumb-sized ball, wrap the fresh tangerine peel into a small red mud stove, and simmer until it is half dry.
A small incense ball color dark red oily, often used hollow small copper sheet pad in the incense burner smoked, at first the smell is thick and depressed, back sweet and slightly astringent, long time smell gradually clear and peaceful, artistic conception accessible, will be as soon as there is occasional cracking, it is like a sudden rise, burst out of a short period of numbness, the aftertaste is light and sweet, lasting fresh.
Shen Yuan has always been picky, adding and decreasing many times before finalizing the recipe for this incense ball, at first he just smoked it and played with it, but by chance he was seen by Syracuse City, and he thought it was very novel and interesting, so he begged to refine it and sell it. The materials in it are all precious, and the taste is indeed good, which suddenly attracted the dignitaries and nobles in Mojing City, and it became a beautiful thing to unintentionally insert willows.
"Actually, it's not hard to find good canaan, but it's hard to find the fresh orange peel, which has to be freshly peeled off and green and tender. Otherwise, take the dried tangerine peel and roast it, and the meatballs will be easy to crack after a while. Shen Yuan smiled, carefully folded the red plum paper, wrapped it with silk threads, and put it in a square gold-painted sandalwood brocade box, and hung a small cloud head copper lock.
When Scarlet Moon heard the sound and remembered the reason, she couldn't help but laugh and echoed: "That's right." The year before last, the girl felt bored and came to the mountain to relax, and happened to see a new big red orange, which was used to smell it. The girl wanted to taste it, but she was so sour that she shed tears......"
"Hehe, the slave also remembers," Scarlet Cloud looked up from the fine porcelain vase of flower arrangement, looking over here to make fun, "That time, the girl ate a lot of small walnut rice candy before she eased up. It's really strange, the orange is obviously green and green, why is it called 'big red'. As he spoke, he put down the small silver scissors, gathered the corners of the broken branches and leaves, and stepped aside as if offering treasures, revealing a few fine white glutinous rice teeth with a smile: "Girl, look at it, is this good?" There are not many flowers in winter, and the slave maid picked ten kinds of brocade, pink goose yellow, and a few green bamboos are also beautiful. β
Shen Yuan and Scarlet Moon looked sideways at the same time, and they both bent their eyes. I saw a white and smooth ice cracked thin neck bottle without a trace of variegation, and a cluster of red and willow green flowers was inserted, and the height was sparse but orderly, but if you look carefully, there is always something wrong.
"Look at your memory, the girl told you at that time that the kind of orange that turns red when it is ripe is called this name." Scarlet Moon only joked about anything else, lowered her head and pursed the corners of her lips, and continued to beat her master's legs.
Shen Yuan waved his hand, asked Scarlet Cloud to bring the vase over, and steadily placed the little ones in front of him: "The flowers and leaves you choose are all beautiful, but the ten brocade flowers are gorgeous in color, blooming like a lamp, and its own leaves are soft and slender, which is already very good for matching." β
The jade white soft wattle flipped its wrist, and the green and green bamboo with dew was singled out, slightly wetting the jujube red thick satin on the tabletop. Shen Yuan wiped his hands and said: "The bamboo branches are also slender, but they always have a strong and heroic spirit, you chose the newborn tender bamboo, which is also suitable at first glance, but it is inevitable that it will not withstand deep scrutiny." β
Scarlet Cloud knelt on the footrest, listening intently, nodding his head, quite embarrassed. Shen Yuan nodded her chin to the side, she looked over, immediately understood, got up and ran to pick up a hosta light green delicate octagonal bottle.
A few green bamboos had a home, and Scarlet Moon was smiling and asking where it was good, but Shen Yuan said that he would not keep it, and let him send it to Qiu Xiao's house.
"Her name is Qiu Xiao, she is a thin little bamboo, and this bottle is just right for her."
Scarlet Cloud nodded. Shen Yuan lowered his eyes and retracted his hand under the snow-white blanket, which was a whole white fox skin, covered with light and warm. The little white cat also shrank inside, and the little snow ball was next to Shen Yuan's hand, very well-behaved.
There was a burning dragon in the room, and there was still a two-eared copper smoker, sprinkled with a handful of sun-crushed orange peels, and the fragrance was fragrant at room temperature, and anyone wanted to squint their eyes so comfortably.
"Girl, don't sleep first, drink a cup of tea and wake up, it's almost lunchtime, eat first, and the slave will serve you to have a good night's sleep."
Seeing that Shen Yuan kept nodding and the peach blossom eyes were becoming more and more dull, Scarlet Yue stopped and poured a cup of strong hot tea, and by the way, she hugged a goose feather cushion so that her master could lean more comfortably.
Shen Yuan was indeed tired: "It's warm here, and there are no worries, so it's naturally sleepy." Either the furnace will be removed and the earth dragon will be burned, which is enough. β
The name of the cold incense pavilion is cold incense, in fact, the room is warm, and it can be compared with the state to come to the mountain villa, which should be high and cold, it is still too much. In previous winters, he lived in the back garden, which was no worse than Zhuangzi, Shen Yuan leaned on the cushion and thought about moving his residence again.
Scarlet Moon should claim: "No wonder Madame also said that Madame wants to stay here for a long time." The girl's illness is most afraid of cold, and this place is warm and clean, but it is the best place to recuperate. β
At the beginning, the daughter of the Shen family in the northwest was exiled and was rescued by Mo Yu Mandarin. As an adoptive mother, Mrs. Mo Zhen naturally knew the friendship between these people best, and also knew that this world was the most suitable for Shen Yuan to recuperate, and never stopped her from coming, but often took the initiative to mention it, saying that if she wanted to, it would not hurt to move to live for a long time.
Shen Yuan always refused, only saying that men and women were seven years old at different tables, not relatives, lonely men and widows, how could they run to other people's houses and live without leaving-not to mention, she is still the Oiran Ah Yan of Lengxiang Pavilion, if she is heard by someone with a heart, and then arranges it randomly, God knows what it will become.