Chapter 31: The Secret Passage
Mu Ningxuan knew very well that Guo Xiaoniang had a lot of eyeliner in Liu Jutang.
In addition to keeping the eyeliner out of the inner room and backyard, more importantly, she had to find an opportunity to get the eyeliner clean.
Otherwise, her every move in Liu Jutang will fall into Guo Xiaoniang's ears. Especially the matter of making incense in the wine cellar must not be known to Guo Xiaoniang.
For dinner, the small kitchen brought a few delicious home-cooked dishes, but Mu Ningxuan had no appetite.
"County Lord, you didn't eat much in the afternoon, so you can eat two more bites in the evening." Seeing that Mu Ningxuan didn't move her chopsticks much, and she didn't think about tea and dinner, Aunt Su, who was standing on the side, persuaded softly.
Mu Ningxuan said slowly: "Aunt Su, how can I transport the incense out of the Mu Mansion without letting the people of the Mu Mansion know?" ”
Aunt Su thought for a while, and said with a slight embarrassment: "The slave maid has a good method, but it is more time-consuming and costly. ”
Mu Ningxuan's furniture, Aunt Su, still knows about it, and the girl's family doesn't have much money to make. In the palace for so many years, silver has to be used everywhere. Just returned to Houfu, such a large sum of money Mu Ningxuan is really not good to ask her father Mu Houye.
"Tell me about it." Mu Ningxuan put down her chopsticks and looked at Aunt Su intently.
Aunt Su said: "You can make a secret passage from the inner hall of the "Treasure Incense" shop and go directly to the wine cellar in the backyard of Liujutang, so that after the incense is made, it can be transported directly over. ”
"Was the incense in the palace also shipped out like this?" Mu Ningxuan asked curiously.
"Yes, but the secret passage in the palace does not lead directly to the "Treasure Incense", but elsewhere. ”
"How long does it take to make a secret passage?"
"About half a month."
Mu Ningxuan thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Then let's do it, it's just that in two days, we still have to think of transporting a batch of incense out." As for the silver for the secret passage, I will ask Aunt Su to help me give this jade pendant. Mu Ningxuan untied the jade pendant she had been carrying with her from her waist.
Aunt Su hurriedly said: "The county lord can't help it, this jade pendant is your biological mother's thing, how can you take it at will." "The jade pendant on Mu Ningxuan's waist is a good jade, at least as a thousand taels of silver.
Mu Ningxuan waved her hand and said, "It's okay, my mother left me not only this jade pendant, but also other things, this jade pendant is a good thing, first emergency is important, wait for the silver to turn over, and then redeem it." ”
"Yes, the slave will go and finish this matter early tomorrow morning." Aunt Su carefully wrapped the jade pendant and put it on her body.
How to transport the incense out is solved, and now there is only incense left, Mu Ningxuan asked Xiaofu to arrange all the maids and servants in Liu Jutang to the front yard, leaving only Qiu Mo and Yutang in the backyard.
Xiaofu lit the lamp and walked in front, and Aunt Su helped Mu Ningxuan into the wine cellar.
Tonight, Mu Ningxuan didn't plan to sleep, with Aunt Su and Xiaofu by her side to help, it was still very easy for Mu Ningxuan to stay up all night to make half a month's incense.
It's just that Mu Ningxuan doesn't understand, why does the Empress Dowager Xiang in the "Treasure Incense" shop have to make it herself, why don't you train a group of loyal people and let them share it? Why did the incense making technique and the mysterious incense book only pass on to her Mu Ningxuan alone? It's a pity that when the Queen Mother was alive, Mu Ningxuan didn't dare to ask more, and now that she is gone, there is no way to know.