Chapter 82: The Contest
"Yes, Bai Zhi has to go! But please believe that Bai Zhi will never implicate the palace! Bai Zhi hurriedly explained, "As long as Bai Zhi can enter the arena, it's fine!" ”
"This king believes in Luo Qingyun, and naturally believes in you! But whatever the reason, this king doesn't want anything to happen to you! ”
Xin'er looked at Bai Zhi suspiciously, why did she have to go to the arena? This Long Xuan Yu is real, why don't you ask? But seeing Bai Zhi's grateful look, she didn't want to ask.
"It turns out that this is all because of Brother Luo, but Bai Zhi thanked the princess first!" Under the light veil, Bai Zhi evoked a wry smile, and then took out a bottle of Ning Xiang from his arms and put it in Xin'er's hand, "This is the Drunken Eight Immortals, if you add a little to the peony fragrance, you will definitely win this competition!" ”
Drunken Eight Immortals?! This incense has the effect of intoxicating and hallucinating, and is very rare. It is precisely because of its psychedelic effect that this incense has become a forbidden incense, and many countries have decreed that it cannot be manufactured and sold.
"Sister Bai Zhi, this ......" Looking at the drunken eight immortals in her hand, Xin'er hesitated.
"Bai Zhi knows what this Imperial Fragrance Contest means to the palace, but the peony fragrance dew was taken away by someone, and the secret recipe was leaked, and now this is the only way! The princess has a strange talent for making incense, I believe you can do it well! Just put it on good and no one will find out that you use it! Bai Zhi said softly.
Long Xuanyu took the Drunken Eight Immortals in Xin'er's hand and frowned slightly: "Since it is the only way, we have no choice!" Xin'er, let's take it first! ”
"Long Xuan Imperial ......" Xin'er looked at Long Xuan Imperial in amazement, but she couldn't stop it. Long Xuanyu was also eager to keep the palace. One more way is definitely better to deal with it!
"Then Bai Zhi will leave first, and early the day after tomorrow, Bai Zhi will go to the palace!" Bai Zhi smiled faintly, and her light and delicate figure quickly disappeared into the flow of people.
Xin'er snatched the Drunken Eight Immortals from Long Xuanyu's hand again and put them in her own clothes: "Don't you like spices?" Why do you dare to ask for any spices now? ”
"I believe that Angelica Angelica is a good intention, so naturally I can't refuse. Perhaps, these drunken eight immortals can really help us get through the difficulties! Long Xuanyu's tone was indifferent, and his deep dark eyes looked at the direction Bai Zhi left.
"But it may also push the palace into the abyss of no return!" Seeing his eyes like this, Xin'er's heart was astringent, not a taste. This Angelica dahurica. It's really too similar to my own in my previous life. Not only the appearance, but also the tone of the voice, words and deeds are exactly the same.
"It depends on how you use it?" Long Xuanyu finally looked back at her.
"I think it's a good chance for us to catch the killer behind it, as long as someone competes with my peony gel. It's going to make him reveal his true form! Didn't the emperor say it? The one who steals incense. You have to be full of ......" the last two words Xin'er did not speak. Slaughtered all over the house. Will there be innocent people involved?
Long Xuanyu grabbed her hand, stared at her, and said extremely seriously: "It's best for us to be fully prepared!" ”
"Hmm." Xin'er nodded. pinched the drunken eight immortals in his arms again.
Yunlong Country, the annual incense competition.
All the participating families have gone through layers of screening, and finally after the emperor Long Xuanyuan issued an edict, they can enter this final arena. Naturally, the Royal Championship is an exception.
At the front of the arena, Long Xuanyuan always looked lazy and idle, leaning on a sandalwood carved dragon chair. There are several concubines sitting next to him in turn, and it is estimated that they are all higher concubines or more favored. Further to the sides, there are the important ministers of the court and the master of incense this time.
Xin'er and Long Xuanyu led two palace girls into the arena, one of them was Yanliu, and the other was naturally Bai Zhi in disguise. After Bai Zhi entered the arena, she blended into the crowd and disappeared. They didn't know the purpose of her entry into the arena this time, but they believed that she would definitely not bring any harm to the palace!
Yanliu held a tray covered with brocade cloth in his hand, and in the tray was a bottle of peony incense and condensation made by Yan Xin'er and Bai Zhi together. Originally, the incense dew in the incense shop was poisoned, and the ones that were not poisoned were also taken away by the incense. And the only remaining fragrance was the two bottles of incense and gel that Xin'er gave to Yanliu at that time. At this last moment, it actually came in handy!
The person in charge of presiding over the contest is Aunt Su, who is in charge of the Imperial Incense Courtyard in the palace, and the ultimate goal of this contest is to select another Imperial Incense of the Yunlong Kingdom. This kind of competition is mainly for Yunlong Country's own country, and it is also a domestic matter. Generally, there will be no incense envoys from other countries to participate, otherwise it will be a provocation to Yunlong.
At the beginning of the race, there was no clear rule on the order of Saixiang. Those who are confident in their own incense are the first to go on stage and show their incense to everyone. Immediately afterwards, there will be contestants who take out their own incense, and then compare the incense in front of them.
As soon as the incense is opened, or lit, the whole arena will smell the aroma of incense. Good and bad, you can know it when you smell it, and you can't fake it at all.
Xin'er looked at the fragrant dew in the tray of smoke and willow, but her heart was not without nervousness. The Drunken Eight Immortals have always been on her body, and she has not mixed the Drunken Eight Immortals with the incense. Everyone here is a master of incense, and if something goes wrong, the entire palace will be finished.
She was thinking about whether she should be the first to go on stage and show her fragrance. If the incense took away her incense for this contest, then the one who showed the fragrance first took the lead! If the incense took away her incense, it wasn't for this competition, then the first place in this competition is logical!
"Xin'er, are you sure you can do it?" Long Xuanyu spoke softly, and he couldn't see any expression on his habitually cold handsome face. But she knew what was going on in his heart!
She smiled innocently and harmlessly at him: "Who am I?" I am the eccentric and resourceful Yan Xin'er! ”
She had already made up her mind, either the mastermind behind the scenes would not appear, or she would borrow Long Xuanyuan's hand to let him face the door. Although it sounds a bit ruthless to slash all over the house, she can't help it!
"Smoke Willow!" Whispering a smoke willow signaled that they should be the first to go on stage and show off their fragrance. In this way, the person who wants to compete with her fragrance will know that it will be difficult to retreat, and he will not really be beheaded by the whole house.
Yanliu was slightly stunned, and seemed to ignore her meaning: "Princess......"
She didn't expect that Yan Xin'er would be the first to go on stage. However, in a moment's time, she had lost the opportunity. On the other side, someone walked up to the stage with his own incense!
Yan Mingxu and Yan Mingyang are two brothers!
Yan Mingxu was in front, and Yan Mingyang followed closely with the delicate tray in his hand. Inside the tray is a valuable jade glass bottle, which must be filled with incense for the competition!
Looking at the two brothers, Xin'er thought of the night in the Yan Mansion and overheard the conversation between the two brothers. They were full of confidence in this competition, so they were the first to walk on the stage.
I don't know if these two brothers are too confident, or if there is really something good about it this time. However, she could not wait any longer, at least not let the person who secretly held her incense walk up before her.
"Okay, the first one to show us is the Yan family, a family of incense powder in the capital!" Aunt Su smiled and walked over to the two of them and asked them to turn on the incense.
Everyone was full of curiosity, not knowing what kind of incense the Yan family would bring this time. There are also people who disdain it, and they don't look down on the fragrance of Yanfu at all!
Xin'er opened a pair of big eyes that were watery, and she was equally curious. It's just that in addition to this curiosity, she feels that a pair of eyes have been looking at her. Raising his eyes and looking over, it was Yan Yufang next to Long Xuanyuan.
Yan Yufang looked like a noble person, with a smile on her charming and beautiful face, but her eyes did not look at the two brothers in the stands, but kept looking at her half-sister! What does she mean by looking at her like this?
Xin'er pulled out the corners of her mouth, and a smile also surfaced. It's just that this smiling face, how stiff and stiff it is, even the whole body is unnatural.
Just when she felt extremely unnatural, wisps of familiar fragrance spread into the air, making everyone present in an uproar!
On the field, no one said anything for a while, and they were intoxicated by this rich and natural aroma! Some people also changed their faces, because as soon as this incense came out, no one had to take out their own incense!
"Okay, okay...... It smells so good! After a long while, someone finally exclaimed excitedly.
"Peony incense, the symbol of the royal nobility, the best leader of the royal incense this time!" Once again, there is humanity, even if you compare your own incense, you still have to admire!
Peony incense?! As soon as these three words came out, Xin'er came back to her senses from her stunned stuprence. Yes, this is her fragrance, and she spent more than half a month refining the fragrance with Angelica Angelica! You don't need to light it, just sprinkle a few drops, and the aroma spreads in the air, just like the peony in full bloom, the fragrance is natural and fragrant.
Long Xuanyu's cold face seemed to be completely frozen, just staring at the two brothers of the Yan family. How could I never have thought that the incense dew taken away by Lianxiang actually fell into the hands of the two brothers of the Yan family, so the people behind Lianxiang......
"Princess, this is not our peony ......" Yanliu exclaimed in surprise, Xin'er hurriedly dragged her to stop her from wanting to speak!
How so? No matter how she thought about it, she never thought that it would be the two brothers who would compete with her perfume!
Yan Mingxu and Yan Mingyang participated in the competition, representing Yan Fu naturally. If she reveals this peony incense again, and then confirms that they are the people who stole the incense, wouldn't it be her own family who was beheaded all over the house!
Up and down the Yan Mansion, there were also a hundred and ten people, including her kind and weak mother. How could she leave the Yan Mansion in a catastrophe in order to keep the palace?
Ruthless, really ruthless!
Raising his eyes, he looked at Yan Yufang again. She still looked at her with a smile on her face, as if it had all been expected by her! (To be continued.) )
PS: Thank you for the pink tickets! Shuying hugged and thanked one by one! Next, what will Xin'er do, will the palace escape this catastrophe?