Compared with the anxiety in Songzhutang, Shi Jinxiu's mood is very good.

She originally thought that it would take some time for everyone to become familiar with Mu Nianhua, but because of Cai Xiang'er's demonic operation, she believed that Mu Nianhua would soon become popular in the capital.

As a result, she had to change her original plan to make incense by hand, and she needed to find an incense shop to make incense for her.

But as far as Shi Jinxiu knows, those incense-making workshops in the capital are either opened by the Li family, or they are owned by the Li family, and they are controlled by the Li family, and she can't rest assured that they can help make incense.

"Just for this?" After Mrs. Ye learned about this, she smiled with Shi Jinxiu, "Actually, our Ye family also has its own incense-making workshop, but many people have left over the years, and those who have left behind are some elderly craftsmen, if you can trust them, you can give them the work of making incense." ”

Shi Jinxiu then remembered that the Ye family did have a home-made incense workshop, but in her dream, after the Li family took over the Ye family's Xinxiang Pavilion, they disliked the old and slow hands of those craftsmen, and blasted them all out.

"I wonder if you can ask Sister Fuxin to take me to take a look?" Shi Jinxiu asked.

Fuxin is Mrs. Ye's word in the boudoir, and after the two got acquainted, Shi Jinxiu began to call Mrs. Ye Sister Fuxin.

Mrs. Ye was so happy that she called a small oil truck on the street and went to the Ye family's incense shop outside Yongsheng Gate.

The Yongsheng Gate of the capital is a watershed, the inner city is inhabited by the dignitaries who have lived in the capital for a long time, the outer city is outside the door, and most of the people who are placed are the people who moved to the capital later, of course, there is no lack of princes who built new mansions in the outer city, as for the outside of the city, what is gathered are some people who can't even enter the city.

Compared with the orderly order of the inner city, the outer city is much more crowded and messy, many places are makeshift dwellings made of broken wooden boards, the ground is full of dirty stagnant water and silt, and there is no shortage of people of all religions shouting and haunting here. There was a stove in front of the house, and the bare-bottomed children chased after each other, causing the women in the house to scream and curse.

The oil curtain trolley passed between these people, because the uneven road surface made the car always bump left and right.

Mrs. Ye looked at Shi Jinxiu very embarrassedly: "The rent in the inner city is too expensive, so we have to move the incense workshop to the outer city......"

Shi Jinxiu smiled understandingly.

After the car passed through the mixed houses, it stopped in front of a small courtyard with a mound of dirt.

After Mrs. Ye paid the fare, she pushed the door of the small courtyard.

There was no one in the yard, and all kinds of incense-making tools were scattered in the yard at random, one in the east and one in the west, obviously not working for a long time.

"Is anyone there?" Mrs. Ye stood in the courtyard with Shi Jinxiu and shouted towards the black rumbling house.

"Yes! Some! A very hoarse voice answered, and soon came an old man dressed in khaki coarse cloth clothes, with gray hair and beard.

The old man was obviously in a hurry, with shoes on one foot and none on the other, and the shoe he was wearing was still upside down.

"The owner?" Seeing Mrs. Ye, the old man looked very surprised, "Why did you come here today?" ”

In the past two years, the business of Xinxiang Pavilion has been sluggish, and the incense workshop has also stopped working, and those young and strong craftsmen have been poached one after another, leaving a few old and frail people who have nowhere to go, staying here to eat and wait for death.

"This one is Uncle Zheng." Mrs. Ye also introduced Shi Jinxiu, "Since his grandfather's generation, he has been making incense in the Ye family's incense workshop, he is illiterate, but his memory is excellent, and the incense recipe that he has heard once can be remembered in his mind, and as long as he is there, our incense workshop can be reopened at any time no matter how long it is suspended." ”

Shi Jinxiu became interested when she heard this, so she casually reported the incense recipe for making Mu Nianhua: "I don't know the incense recipe I just reported, Uncle Zheng may make incense?" ”

Zheng Laohan frowned, twisted his beard and looked up at the sky, and only after a long time did he say to Shi Jinxiu: "What is the 'ten miles of incense' in the prescription that the girl reported just now?" The old man has grown dozens of years old, and he has never heard of this spice. ”

Shi Jinxiu laughed when he heard this: "You don't have to worry about this old man, I will send someone over when the time comes, and you can say whether this flavor can be made!" ”

"You can give it a try!" Because he thought that the person was brought by the owner, Zheng Laohan thought that the other party was here to make private incense.

"How many days will it take?" Shi Jinxiu asked with a smile.

Zheng Laohan thought about it, and stretched out three fingers very cautiously: "After the raw materials are ready, three days!" ”

"Then I'll have the spices brought in tomorrow!" Shi Jinxiu knew that Zheng Laohan was not a boastful person, but whether it was okay or not, he still had to look at the incense made in the end to know.

After coming out of the Ye family's incense workshop, Shi Jinxiu unexpectedly saw that many houses on the side of the road were closed with red paper posted with "Jiwu for sale/rent", and a street looked particularly depressed.

When she remembered the mixed houses she had passed on the road, she was in a trance.

It doesn't seem to be the case outside the Yongsheng Gate in the dream world.

Because the imperial court did not allow Hu merchants to live in the inner city, so they had to rent and live in the outer city, and this Yongsheng Gate and Tongzhou Wharf gradually became a gathering place for Hu merchants.

But the current scene and the dream are simply two worlds.

Could it be that her dream was wrong?

"These homeowners are also forced to have no choice, the people living around are mixed, they don't feel at ease to live by themselves, and they can't afford to rent to others at a high price!" Mrs. Ye glanced at the direction of Shi Jinxiu, and said with emotion, "As a result, the houses here, those who have money don't want to buy them, and those who want to buy them don't have money, so that the prices of these houses are falling again and again, but no one cares about them." ”

Drop and drop again and no one cares?

Shi Jinxiu became more and more surprised.

This is the boundary of the capital, how can there be a house that can't be sold?

"Don't believe it." Seeing Shi Jinxiu's expression, Mrs. Ye smiled bitterly, "I heard that a second-entry mansion over there has dropped to four hundred taels of silver." ”

So cheap!

No matter in Shi Jinxiu's dream or cognition, it is impossible to buy such a cheap house in the capital.

What went wrong?

Shi Jinxiu felt more and more confused.

But when he thought that he still had to go to Liu Ji Xiangpu to buy spices for making incense, and he didn't have much time to stay here to grind, he said goodbye to Mrs. Ye and called a small oil truck with green drapery to go to the West Market.