Chapter 17 Knowing the Flavors
The Queen Mother stood up and called Aunt Su in.
I saw Aunt Su walk in with an oil lamp, and closed the originally open door behind her, after Aunt Su closed the door, she walked to the bookshelf in three steps and two steps, and put down a standing book.
Just listening to the sound of "squeak~", the wall next to Aunt Su actually turned, and in the blink of an eye, the wall turned into a large gap, revealing the passage to the secret room.
Mu Ningxuan was not in a hurry to be surprised, Aunt Su took the lead in the front, the Queen Mother signaled Mu Ningxuan to follow behind, and the three of them entered the secret room together.
After only a few steps inside, Mu Ningxuan smelled a faint fragrance, feeling that the fragrance was sweet and smelling very good, and slowly the fragrance became stronger and stronger, and after walking about ten or so steps, Aunt Su and the Queen Mother stopped, and Aunt Su turned on the lights around them in turn.
What greeted Mu Ningxuan's eyes was an extremely simple secret room, in which there were no precious items of gold, silver, and wealth, only bottles and jars of various shapes, each of which was labeled with the name of various incense.
Mu Ningxuan couldn't help but smell the bottle closest to her, the name on the bottle was Jingxin incense, as soon as the pure fragrance entered Mu Ningxuan's snort, Mu Ningxuan instantly felt warm and sweet in her heart, and the nerves that were still a little nervous suddenly relaxed completely.
"It smells so good!" Mu Ningxuan admired from the bottom of her heart.
The Queen Mother smiled and took out a somewhat worn book from the bookshelf in the secret room and handed it to Mu Ningxuan, and told Mu Ningxuan that the incense in these bottles and jars in the secret room was something she had to learn during this time, and the incense recipe in the incense book was something she could study in the future.
Mu Ningxuan was a little confused, she couldn't have imagined that today's most noble queen mother was actually good at making incense, and secretly opened a shop to sell finished incense in order to have enough treasury.
What made Mu Ningxuan even more puzzled was that the queen mother, an orphan girl, did not have the help of her mother's family, and finally ascended to the throne by virtue of her beauty and wisdom.
But the Queen Mother is already strict and is not allowed to trace back to the source, of course Mu Ningxuan will not use her life to make a fool.
For a month in a row, Mu Ningxuan spent time in the secret room of Cining Palace.
The most important thing in the so-called incense maker is the sense of smell of the incense maker, who must be able to identify all kinds of flavors. But Mu Ningxuan has never been in contact with these spices, not to mention knowing all kinds of spices with her nose, even the most basic spice varieties Mu Ningxuan doesn't know much, and all the spice knowledge must be familiar one by one.
In order to let Mu Ningxuan get acquainted with every spice and incense as soon as possible, the Queen Mother only let Mu Ningxuan sleep for two hours a day, and the rest of the time she had to stay in the secret room to study.
Mu Ningxuan's memory has become excellent after her rebirth this time, and she almost never forgets it, for the book that the Queen Mother asked her to read, Mu Ningxuan only needs to read it once to be able to understand it in her heart, and the retelling is word-for-word, and the Queen Mother is very pleased with this.
But in addition to being able to endorse, you must also be able to identify the taste, so the Queen Mother asked Mu Ningxuan to take a bath every day, and the bath water is a combination of a variety of fragrances mixed together by the Queen Mother herself. Mu Ningxuan closed her eyes and meditated while taking a bath, and Aunt Su took dozens of spices to let Mu Ningxuan, who was in various aromas, identify various fragrances.
After a period of training, Mu Ningxuan's nose became more and more sensitive, and Mu Ningxuan found that the Queen Mother's body seemed to have a vague fragrance, which Mu Ningxuan thought was because of the Ningshen incense of Cining Palace.
In the past few days in the secret room, Mu Ningxuan has determined that this fragrance is not a tranquility fragrance but a unique fragrance from the queen mother's body, which seems to be innate.
And her own body is also invisibly contaminated with some incense, probably because of the incense blended by the Queen Mother herself, the fragrance is not vulgar, and it smells very good.