Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Xie Shurao woke up in the morning and felt that his back hurt.

Xu got up too early today, and before the waiting maid came, she walked out of the door by herself.

The first rays of the sun shone on her, and she felt rejuvenated, just the rumbling of her stomach reminded her that she needed to warm herself.

I went to bed early last night, and before going to bed, Cuizhu gave her a bowl of sugar water very intimately, which made her much more comfortable.

I want to go up the mountain today, although I am a little reluctant, but Xie Shurao is looking forward to it.

was dazzled by the sun, and when she eased up, she found Xie Shuxian eating breakfast in the courtyard.

So embarrassing! Xie Shurao immediately flashed back to his room, pretending that he didn't see it.

Cuizhu hurriedly came over with the maids to wait.

"Why did Miss get up so early today? I've told the kitchen to prepare some hot food for you, so wait a minute. ”

"I'm in trouble."

Before Cuizhu could bring up all the hot food, Xie Shurao and Shen Congwei had already come out of the room. The three of them gathered at the table to eat together.

Although Xie Shurao felt that he was in a very good mood, because he quarreled with Xie Shuxian yesterday and was still unreasonable, Sun Yi was now panicked in his heart, and he was still a little embarrassed and nervous.

"Sister Shen, let's eat quickly and leave early, because there are still a lot of things to do today, and we can still enjoy the moon in the courtyard at night."

"Okay, it's so hot today, why do you start drinking hot soup in the morning?"

Xie Shurao heard her say this, so he tried her eyes and then touched his belly.

She immediately understood what Xie Shurao meant, and was silent.

"You're going up the mountain in a minute?" Xie Shuxian, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly spoke.

"Yes, I'm going to go out for a walk and go up the hill to pick some cypress branches."

Shen Congwei suddenly felt weird, Xie Shurao was extremely dog-legged on weekdays, basically she would answer Xie Shuxian's words, she didn't speak after waiting for a long time, Shen Congwei once thought that she was going to be cold.

"I have a ready-made one here, and you can use it."

"No, let's go out and have a look."

Shen Congwei hadn't reacted for a while, what did he mean? Instinctively refused.

"Okay, then we can start work after eating, thank you third brother!"

"What? Why are you so cowardly? Before Shen Congwei finished speaking, as soon as he turned his head, he saw Xie Shuxian's cold knife-like gaze, and he was immediately frightened in place, and immediately changed his words, "Third Brother Xie is reasonable, it has just rained on this mountain, and it is still a little wet." If we go up the mountain, it may be dangerous, but the third brother is thoughtful. ”

Xie Shurao never expected that she would only be stiff for thirty seconds, and immediately rolled her eyes to the sky, the most important thing to be friends is to coax together.

That's good, at least at this point, they're just a tacit understanding.

Shen Congwei couldn't wait to arrange for the people around him to put all the materials in the hall.

The amount of each item in preparation for incense making is required to be very precise, so it is indispensable.

When it comes to incense, Xie Shurao has the most contact with sandalwood, as well as the mugwort fragrance in daily life, etc., and the health dog Xie Shurao is inseparable from moxa sticks in the basic 24 solar terms plus dog days and long winter days.

As for the slightly better incense, it is all the talk of the local tyrants, and she has very few opportunities to get in touch with it.

I still remember that "Hu Jiangli and Pi Zhixi, Su Qiulan thinks it is admired", in "Lisao", Qu Yuan brought Bai Zhi, Jiang Li, Mulan, Su Mang ......, and used herbs to reflect the poet's noble feelings and good taste.

It can be seen that the use of vanilla and fragrant wood has been passed down from the ancients.

Shen Congwei wants to teach her to make the cypress today, the cypress in the incense, the herb, the cloves, the woody fragrance, and the angelica are mostly aromatic and damp, warm and healthy Chinese medicine.

People began to use incense to treat diseases and health very early, and learned to understand the medicinal fragrance in order to make the world's lightest medicine, "incense sticks, which can be used in the sores department";

The precipitated rainwater, rootless water, is both an important raw material and a fusion.

Shen Congwei saw that everything was ready, folded his hands, and let Xie Shurao stand aside, and she explained to her one by one.

"Incense herbs, incense, herbs, cloves, wood, angelica, more than a dozen herbs, medicinal properties are mutually reinforcing, is the secret of their harmonious coexistence, is this piece of yeast. That's the key, and I'll tell you at the end. When we make it, the medicinal materials, yeast dosage, and fragrance mixing techniques are also very precise, and if we are not careful, they will be invalid, so we will weigh them first, and then mix all the materials together. ”

"Okay."

Two people took the scale, weighed more than a dozen materials one by one, poured them into the tank, and then took water to mix and knead into mud.

In the end, Shen Congwei very ceremoniously invited a piece of ancestral yeast with a history of 200 years, which was obtained from the Zhao family in Shanghe Village, Qishan County, which is the secret of the harmonious coexistence of herbs with different medicinal properties.

But the most important secret is the state of mind of the incense maker.

Medicinal incense has a soul, and incense making is a practice.

"Do you know how this yeast is preserved?" Shen Congwei said while opening the wooden box.

The herbs in the world are as light as smoke and dust, or as heavy as a rock, or as thin as cicada wings, or as warm as jade, and the medicinal fragrance of the mouth and nose. Although the grass and trees are light, they are heavy in love.

For the world, they are just a grain of sand, but there are always some people who devote their efforts to them, and measure their lives with tireless steps in ordinary corners.

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