All the incense shop owners stood at the table with their own incense shop name on it, waiting for the game to begin.

Mu Ningxuan didn't remember that there was such an incense-making competition in her previous life, and naturally she didn't remember that she would be the first place, but she came for the first place.

The long square table of the competition is surrounded by a large circle, and in the middle is a circular high platform.

Mrs. Zhen, the big boss of the organizer "Agarwood Workshop", stood on the high platform in the middle of Songhe Restaurant and said something for about half an hour.

The reason why I said it for so long is to take advantage of the large number of people to mention a few more words of "Agarwood Workshop", in order to improve the popularity of "Agarwood Workshop" and attract customers.

Kelaisong and the people in the restaurant are all coming to see the incense-making competition, who wants to listen to an aunt Shao for a long time, the people around him shouted loudly to let Mrs. Zhen come down, Mrs. Zhen was supported by the maid next to her, and slowly walked down from the high platform.

The table of the "Agarwood Workshop" competition was just opposite the "Treasure Incense" table, and Mu Ningxuan could clearly see that Xian Xian and Si Luo often looked at her side.

I don't know why, Mu Ningxuan always felt that Xianxian and Siluo, the two people of Tianjin, had other plans, and saw that they were not always comfortable in their hearts, and originally thought that they would leave after selling the leather last year, but who knew that they actually opened such an "Agarwood Workshop" with the Zhen lady of the Dingguo Marquis Mansion, and also made such a "First Fragrance in Beijing" competition.

If it weren't for her recent lack of silver, she wouldn't have gotten involved in such a competition.

Is it "the first incense in the capital", she has an official family behind her backer, and the official family will never see the business of "treasure incense" fall into the pockets of the people of Tianjin.

In addition to Xianxian and Si Luo, two people from Tianjin, Mu Ningxuan always felt that someone was watching her.

Mu Ningxuan subconsciously looked up at the box in the middle of the second floor.

The little prince was indeed looking at her, and Mu Ningxuan knew that the little prince must have recognized her. Donglin has been in Liujutang for so long, he must have secretly gone to the cellar in the backyard.

In fact, even if the little prince knows, even if everyone knows that she Mu Ningxuan is the boss behind the "Treasure Fragrance", it is not a big deal to know.

It's just that Mu Ningxuan is afraid of trouble, and the new incense that comes out every three months is very rare, because the materials are not easy to come by, if the nobles know that she Mu Ningxuan is the boss of the "Treasure Fragrance" one by one, and ask her for it through the third sister or the eldest brother or the Qin sister-in-law, it will be too troublesome~

Mu Ningxuan ignored the little prince, just looked around, and inadvertently swept his eyes to him.

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There are three formats for this competition.

The first item [Smell and Recognize Fragrance]: It is mainly to examine the identification of spices by the contestants, including their fragrance type, sexual taste, characteristics, etc.

The second item [Incense Making]: After the contestants understand the randomly selected questions, they will make timely incense pills.

The third item [Fragrance Voting]: The nobles present voted for the incense pills made on the spot, and the one with the most votes was the winner.

For Mu Ningxuan, the first item [smelling the fragrance and recognizing the moment] is very easy, after being reborn, Mu Ningxuan's memory has become excellent, the books about spices that the Queen Mother asked her to read before, Mu Ningxuan can still remember it clearly, and she can say the fragrance and sexual taste and characteristics of each spice word for word when she opens her mouth.

What surprised Mu Ningxuan was that the fairy fairy could also answer fluently, but the spice variety fairy who asked about the fairy could also say the fragrance type, sexual taste, and characteristics word for word. Like Mu Ningxuan, her memory is outstanding!

After all, spices are the most basic for incense makers, and if they don't even understand spices, they can't be considered a real fragrance maker!

In the first competition, seven of the 13 contestants have been eliminated.

Those seven families are all a few flavors of incense recipes passed down from generation to generation, so their boss only understands the spices on these flavors of incense, as for the rest, they don't need to know at all, it is enough to spread the incense to support their families.

After the first item [Smell the Fragrance Knowledge], only the participating incense shops are left with "Dark Incense Fang", "Chang Xiang Si", "Tianfu Xiang", "Miao Xiang Zhai", "Agarwood Fang" and "Treasure Fragrance" to win and continue the competition.

The second item [making incense in response to the title] Mu Ningxuan drew a bamboo stick with "auspicious clouds and ruiqi on the nine skies".

Mu Ningxuan quickly thought that there was a kind of incense in the "incense book", and there happened to be a kind of incense with the word Ruihe - "Ruihe incense".

Rui and Xiang's recipe is: Jinsha two coins, sandalwood two coins, cloves two coins, thatch two coins, tonka two coins, frankincense two coins, borneol one coin, Huoxiang one coin.

After the above-mentioned incense materials are crushed, pour them into the bowl and grind them repeatedly, put the herbs and borneol back, and mix them thoroughly. Another piece of jujube meat, after steaming, peel and remove the core, cut into small dices, and then put it in a bowl and grind it evenly.

After all the grinding incense powder is put into the mashing mortar, add the refining honey and pound the pestle repeatedly. After repeated pounding of the pestle, the incense powder and the refined honey are fully bonded into a block, and almost the whole piece can be lifted by hand, and a little incense powder can be twisted into a ball the size of a chicken head and rice to test its viscosity.

If the viscosity is suitable, then you can weigh and cut the clay into pieces, then knead it into strips, cut each strip evenly into equal parts, and then knead them together into small balls, and the incense balls are ready.

Mu Ningxuan began to make "Ruihe Xiang" according to the recipe in the incense book in her memory, but Mu Ningxuan added more "Hexiang" to the recipe than the recipe in the incense book.

In the end, the "Ruihe Xiang" made by Mu Ningxuan has a stronger fragrance and makes people smell a sense of joy.

The second competition was limited to one hour, and two of them were directly out of the competition because they did not make the incense within the specified time.

Next is the third [Fragrance Vote].

At present, among the four remaining incense shops, the name of "treasure incense" is the largest, followed by "Changxiangsi", then "Miao Xiangzhai", and finally "Agarwood Fang".

This time, the "Agarwood Workshop" was able to stay until the end, and everyone present was also surprised, but they didn't expect a small businessman in Tianjin to study spices so thoroughly.

Finally, when it came to the last item [Fragrance Tasting Vote], there were fifteen nobles who came to Songhe Restaurant this time, and each of them had a piece of paper in their hands, and the name of the incense shop they thought made the best incense pills today was written on the paper.

In a short time, the nobles each wrote what they thought was the best smell and the best quality of incense.

Boss Wang of Songhe Restaurant took on the important task of reading out the votes.

One ticket for "Treasure Incense"!

"Agarwood Workshop" one ticket!

One ticket for "Treasure Incense"!

"Chang Xiangsi" one vote!

"Agarwood Workshop" one ticket!

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"Treasure Incense" got six votes, and "Agarwood Fang" also received six votes, and this last vote is particularly crucial at the moment.

Some patriots are already shouting the words "treasure incense", and they don't want the title of "the first incense in the capital" to be taken away by two Tianjin people.

Just listen to Boss Wang's last voice: "Treasure Fragrance" one vote!

Everyone immediately cheered together, even happier than Mu Ningxuan, who won the first place.

Mrs. Zhen's childly face is crooked, just one vote away, just one vote short of her "Agarwood Workshop" is the first place, obviously she has already greeted fifteen nobles, who didn't write "Agarwood Workshop"?

She worked hard to call so many people to come, it took money and effort, and in the end, she made a wedding dress for "Zhenpinxiang", and Mrs. Zhen was not convinced!

Just when the boss of Songhe Restaurant Wang was about to announce that today's "No. 1 incense in Beijing" is a "treasure incense" incense shop.

Mrs. Zhen suddenly stopped Boss Wang's words: "Wait! ”

Everyone present didn't know why, and they all looked in the direction of Mrs. Zhen's mother.

Boss Wang asked with a smile: "What do you think of Mrs. Zhen?" ”

This incense-making competition was organized by Mrs. Zhen, but Mrs. Zhen is one of the bosses of the "Agarwood Workshop", in order to reassure the people in the capital of the fairness and justice of this competition, Mrs. Zhen specially asked the owner of Songhe Restaurant to be the intermediate referee.

But this time the result is obviously not what Mrs. Zhen wants, the nobles upstairs all handed over the news, all said that they voted for "Agarwood Fang", Mrs. Zhen naturally doubted the authenticity of those votes, but she also wondered if those nobles were red-eyed She deliberately did not write "Agarwood Fang".

"Boss Wang, show me the ticket paper just now." Mrs. Zhen said directly.

The boss of Songhe Restaurant Wang shook his head and said loudly: "In order to prevent someone from temporarily tampering with the ticket paper, I won't show it to Mrs. Zhen in private, I have asked Xiao Er to take the ticket paper to the door and post it, if Mrs. Zhen wants to see it, go to the door to post it." ”

"Tampering? What do you mean by that? Mrs. Zhen sank her face.

Boss Wang of Songhe Restaurant said with a smile: "Of course it's not that Mrs. Zhen, Mrs. Zhen does things fairly, this time I specially called a little-known little person to be the intermediate referee of this incense-making competition, and it is fair and just."

It's just that I'm afraid that there will be mistakes in the process of passing this one, not to mention that Xiao Er has gone to the poster at the door of the restaurant to post the ticket paper, and Mrs. Zhen can go to the door to see it by herself or by someone. ”

Nangong Ji (the owner of Songhe Restaurant) smiled secretly in his heart, the fifteen votes of the nobles in this competition, in fact, all they wrote were "Agarwood Fang". This lady Zhen is really a big fool, thinking that after uniting these noble relatives, and then spending some money to let him read the ticket paper, "Agarwood Fang" can win the first place, it is really naïve!

However, it is also thanks to Mrs. Zhen that in order to make it convenient for the nobles, the names of the last few incense shops are replaced by the numbers "one, two, three, and four".

In this way, he can get a few fake ticket papers in the shortest possible time, who told him to stand in line with Mu Ningxuan.

"Okay, in that case, I'll take a look." Mrs. Zhen walked to the post at the entrance of Songhe Hotel in front of everyone.

Sure enough, the names of the four incense shops were pasted on the first line of the posting, and each incense shop had its own ticket paper for the competition.

There are seven "one" ticket papers under "Zhenpin Xiang", a "two" ticket paper is pasted under "Changxiangsi", a "three" ticket paper is pasted under "Miao Xiangzhai", and six "three" ticket papers are pasted under "Agarwood Fang".

Mrs. Zhen regretted that she didn't make the ticket paper real-name, so that she could know who didn't write "Agarwood Fang".

After a while, Mrs. Zhen re-entered with a straight face, didn't say a word, and sat down in her original seat angrily.

The boss of Songhe Restaurant looked at Mrs. Zhen and said, "Mrs. Zhen still has questions?" ”

Seeing that Mrs. Zhen didn't speak, Boss Wang began to loudly announce the first place in the incense jam this time.

This time, the "first incense in Beijing" is a "treasure..."

Xianxian hurriedly glanced at Mrs. Zhen, and Mrs. Zhen immediately understood.

"Wait!" Mrs. Zhen interrupted the words of Boss Wang of Songhe Restaurant again.

Boss Wang of Songhe Restaurant frowned slightly and asked, "What's wrong with Mrs. Zhen?" ”

Mrs. Zhen slowly walked in front of Mu Ningxuan: "This girl, are you really the boss of "Zhenpinxiang"?" ”

"Yes." Mu Ningxuan replied.

Mrs. Zhen looked Mu Ningxuan up and down: "Why don't you wear a hat and don't show your true face?" ”

"Why don't you put a hood on it? There is no rule in this contest that says no hats. Mu Ningxuan retorted.

Mrs. Zhen didn't expect the boss of "Zhen Pin Xiang" to be quite slippery, and she was even more angry: "You are wearing a hat, who knows if you are the boss of "Zhen Pin Xiang"!" ”

"Even if I take the hat off, you still don't know me, I haven't been seen in all these years." Mu Ningxuan's voice was cold, and she didn't flinch at all.

"yes!" The big guys began to talk about it, because it was true that no one had ever seen what the real "Treasure Fragrance" boss looked like.

Mu Ningxuan said: "Mrs. Zhen doesn't want to deliberately call me out of the game by not admitting that I am the boss of "Zhenpinxiang", and then let your "Agarwood Workshop" become the first." ”

Mrs. Zhen was choked and speechless.

Xian Xian hurriedly walked to Mrs. Zhen's side and said to Mu Ningxuan: "Since it is a competition, we are convinced to lose, but as the owner of the incense shop, everyone shows their true faces in front of others, and it doesn't seem appropriate for you to wear a hat all the time." ”

Xian Xian continued: "What's more, everyone also wants to see what the boss of "Treasure Incense" looks like, and what kind of person can make "The First Fragrance in Beijing", don't you say? ”

"Yes!" Everyone present at Songhe Restaurant replied in unison.

This time, everyone didn't respond because Xianxian was from Tianjin, but because they also wanted to know what kind of woman was under this hat, and what kind of person she looked like so that "Zhenpinxiang" could earn millions of taels of silver a year.

"It's not like you're particularly ugly and ashamed to see people."

"If it's particularly ugly, I don't dare to buy the incense pills of "Treasure Incense". ”

Everyone present began to talk in private.

"Ahem." Boss Wang of Songhe Restaurant cleared his throat and said, "Why should you be embarrassed by the boss of "Zhenpinxiang", as long as the fragrance of "Zhenpinxiang" is good." ”

"yes." This time, although everyone also agreed, their voices were significantly quieter.

Although Mrs. Zhen was blocked and had nothing to say, over the years, she had been able to live in the Dingguo Marquis Mansion of Nuoda, how could she not have a few brushes in her hands.