“…… The largest bucket is elm powder, and these two small buckets are fragrant noodles. After distinguishing the first bucket, Mu Wanqiu twisted the second bucket of fragrant noodles with her fingers, put it under her nose and sniffed it, "Hmm...... Sandalwood, thatch, clove skin, herb leaves, tonka ......" closed her eyes, Mu Wanqiu counted the same, and the corners of her mouth raised slightly, "...... Sure enough, it's the same as I've heard before."

Since last month, she has been learning to recognize incense.

Near the water, the first thing she studied was Lin Ji's Guanyin incense, through the continuous smell of the fragrance, she secretly guessed that the main ingredients of Lin Ji Guanyin incense were these, but due to Master Liu's bitterness and precautions, she has not been able to verify it.

Now that the opportunity has come, by identifying the spices one by one, it is exactly the same as her guess, and Mu Wanqiu almost jumped up in surprise.

She had learned to distinguish the incense

Picking up the last small packet of fragrant noodles, Mu Wanqiu's hand trembled slightly, just this pack, the secret of Lin Ji Guanyin incense is all in this bag, if she can recognize it, she can make it.

Covering her nose with a wool cloak, Mu Wanqiu took a few deep breaths, feeling that her nose was sensitive again, she carefully opened the rice paper bag, and a strong fragrance rushed to the door, "...... It's sandalwood," Mu Wanqiu's eyes widened in astonishment, and she took it to the window and gently rummaged through the fragrant noodles in the small bag with her fingers, shaking her head in disbelief, "...... Impossible, how can this bag be sandalwood"

There are two kinds of Guanyin incense in Lin Ji, one is with sandalwood, the other is for Taoism without sandalwood, today is with sandalwood, this kind of incense is based on sandalwood, specially for those Buddhist temples and ordinary people to worship, she just looked, the second barrel, most of the sandalwood noodles.

This bag turned out to be too, how could it be?

The sandalwood spices used to make Guanyin incense are not concocted with wine, but with a tea soup that can nourish the heart and calm the qi, which is the most watery, so Master Liu asked her to first and sandalwood, and then with other fragrant noodles, but this bag let her put it at the end, without a thorough soaking, can the faint tea fragrance be completely released?

Reflecting the daylight, Mu Wanqiu carefully looked at the bag in her hand.

Suddenly, she noticed a faint pink glow on the brown scent.

I see

Mu Wanqiu breathed a long sigh of relief.

This is specially designed by Master Liu, the amount of sandalwood in this bag is very small, even if its tea fragrance cannot be completely released, it will not affect the overall fragrance of the incense, but it can cover up the most critical two spices, making it difficult to distinguish, such as in the clouds......

What a cunning Master Liu

Even if she thought that she was a stupid person who didn't know anything about incense, she was still so guarded, and with a sneer, Mu Wanqiu gently dipped some pink fragrant noodles with her hand and sent it to her nose, a spicy and pungent nose, and her nose was itchy for a while, "...... Yes...... Ah......h

Suddenly, the incense noodles in his hand flew everywhere.

"God, it's over...... It's over......" In a panic, Mu Wanqiu hurriedly used her hands to protect it, not beware of being mixed with a wooden barrel under her feet, she stumbled, and the spices in her hands flew straight out.

Holding the incense case with one hand and standing firmly, Mu Wanqiu's ears were buzzing, and her heart was beating suddenly.

“…… Without this package, this pot of incense will not be able to be made" The sunlight shines directly through the window lattice, Mu Wanqiu clearly saw that the fine powder was tumbling and jumping in the light like dust, forming a beam of bright light in front of her eyes, which was very dazzling, she had always been calm and almost wanted to cry, and when she saw Master Liu's expression in the morning, she wished that she had smashed this pot of incense.

This was exactly what she wanted

It doesn't matter if she is picked up by Sister-in-law Lin, it's just that this pot of spices costs at least twenty or thirty taels of silver, how can she afford it?

After a long time, Mu Wanqiu completely calmed down, bent down to pick up the rice paper that fell to the ground, and looked at the sun for a long time, "...... What is it about incense that has such a pungent smell? Why can't I smell incense at all? ”

Unfortunately, nothing was left on the grass-yellow rice paper.

Mu Wanqiu bent down again and carefully searched for the ground, "If I can find and distinguish what those deep and shallow pink particles are, maybe I can mix this packet and save this pot of incense ......" With a hint of luck, her face almost touched the ground.

It's a pity that the fine flour is sprinkled on the black ground, and Mu Wanqiu can't tell whether it is yellow or powder.

"Ah Qiu...... Ah Qiu ......" was looking for it with a sweat, and Sister-in-law Lin's voice came from afar, and she looked up at the door suddenly, Mu Wanqiu's face turned pale in shock.

Master Liu and noodles never let people approach, came to the door of the incense room, Sister-in-law Lin subconsciously stopped there, did not move for a long time, only knocked on the door and shouted twice, it took a long time to hear Mu Wanqiu respond, "Hey, ......" frowned, Sister-in-law Lin squeaked and pushed the door open, unconsciously, "...... you" Mu Wanqiu stood at the door with a sweaty face, and was about to stretch out her hand to pull the door, "...... What's wrong with you? Sister-in-law Lin walked in suspiciously, her eyes roaming around.

"I'm sifting wood flour ......" Mu Wanqiu stretched out her hand to wipe her sweat, "I'll finish sifting it soon......" Pointing to the bucket of elm flour, "I'll sift it again with this bucket and ...... first" Repeating Master Liu's words as they were, pointing to the rice paper bag on the corner of the table, "...... Finally, add this pack, and after it is cooked and sticky, it can be fragrant. Sister-in-law Chong Lin grinned, "...... Right? ”

Master Liu gave this order before leaving, her eyes patrolled around, and Sister-in-law Lin didn't see anything wrong, and she was only limited to what she listened to in the morning, and she didn't know much more than what Mu Wanqiu had just said.

Looking at her cat-like face, Sister-in-law Lin sighed, "...... Master Liu has been making incense for more than ten years, but I haven't seen you like this, so you can't work carefully? ”

Mu Wanqiu didn't hear it, and looked at the sun at the door, "Sister-in-law Lin, sit down, I'll go sift the wood powder first, it's too late, the wet fragrance shouldn't be able to dry through......" As she spoke, Mu Wanqiu pulled on the silk scarf, covered her mouth and nose tightly, and turned around to pick up the long wooden sieve.

"Wait......" Sister-in-law Lin's eyes were fixed on the wooden powder bucket and stopped Mu Wanqiu, "...... Why did you grind so much? She didn't know about the spices, but she still knew the amount of wood powder, and the barrel of wood powder was a lot less than before.

One look is not enough.

"That's all sawdust...... Mu Wanqiu reached out and took off his scarf.

There are stupid enough

Like swallowing a piece of cotton wool, Sister-in-law Lin blocked her chest in one breath, stared at Mu Wanqiu with horizontal eyes, and it took a long time to pass through, "If you don't have it, you can't deal with it like this, you can go to the library to look carefully, grind some and add it" bent down and pointed to the edge of the barrel, "I have to come here anyway......" paused, and added, "Ming'er, your brother Lin will pull the sawdust back......"

After speaking, Sister-in-law Lin sat on the chair by the door, originally she wanted to come and leave, but Mu Wanqiu was really not at ease when she worked.

"Hey......" Mu Wanqiu pulled the square scarf on, "I'll find it after sifting through these."

Mu Wanqiu never spared no effort in her work, Sister-in-law Lin knew it, but she had never seen a job like this, only a few times of sifting, and the fragrant noodles were flying, and the dust was all over the sky.

No wonder she would get her head and face full of fragrant noodles, she was not stupid, and she knew how to find a square towel to plug her mouth and nose, looking at the layer of fine noodles falling on the ground, Sister-in-law Lin's distressed brows wrinkled and wrinkled, and with a snort, she finally couldn't sit still and stood up, "You sift slowly, ...... carefully"

Stopping the action, Mu Wanqiu was stunned for a moment, and then winked at Sister-in-law Lin, "I have to grind the wood powder again, it's slow, I'm afraid I won't have time to make the incense ......" After speaking, she sifted it up seriously.

Blocked by the square scarf, Sister-in-law Lin didn't hear what she said, and when she was about to ask again, she was choked by the flying fragrant noodles and coughed as soon as she opened her mouth, standing there, glaring at Mu Wanqiu's back fiercely for a long time, Sister-in-law Lin turned her head and walked out.

"I can't help here, just let her toss, just this time, I won't waste much......" muttered secretly in her heart, Sister-in-law Lin stepped down the steps.

Slowing down the movements in her hands, Mu Wanqiu opened her ears and listened carefully, until she heard Sister-in-law Lin's footsteps walking away, she took off her towel and grinned, put down the sieve, got up and lifted the curtain under the incense case, and brought out a small bucket of wood powder.

The reason why half a bucket was hidden was to let Sister-in-law Lin see that there was less wood powder, so that she could grind it again so that she could gain some time.

Spilling the most crucial bag of spices, she needed time to figure it out.

Carrying the small bucket and was about to pour it into the big bucket, Mu Wanqiu's hand suddenly stopped there, "...... Looking at this scene, I'm afraid that I can't find out what Master Liu's last two spices are when it gets dark, so it's better to simply add some cypress powder and make ...... according to Wei's recipe" The thought flashed, and the Guanyin incense formula of Wei's perfumery that was already familiar with the chest was presented in my mind.

Putting down the keg, Mu Wanqiu carefully studied the ingredients of the three barrels from the beginning, and compared them with the recipe of Wei's in her mind, the main ingredients were basically the same, and as for the dosage, she had no bottom in her heart.

Leave her alone, just practice.

If it is smashed, it will be smashed, and she will not have any money to compensate, so it is a big deal that Sister-in-law Lin left her here to do a few years of day work

Holding the idea that the dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, Mu Wanqiu turned her heart sideways, pushed the door and walked out.

She remembered that there were still some cypress trees in the library after Lin Ji, and the most important thing was that she was going to match the most critical material in Wei's secret recipe, and she couldn't enter the Lin Ji big spice library, but fortunately, the amount of material quoted was not large, and she had it in her house.

didn't follow Master Liu's instructions, mixed wood powder and elm powder together with water, Mu Wanqiu first boiled the pot of boiling water to scald the elm powder; Elm powder is the powder ground with elm bark, which is very sticky, and the finer the viscosity, the higher the viscosity, and it is non-toxic, harmless and tasteless, and can bond loose wood powder and spices into incense, which is an indispensable binder for making incense.

The old bark of the elm tree is red, so it is divided into white elm powder and red elm powder, red elm powder is mixed with the powder of the old skin, the old skin is not sticky, the powder quality is not as good as the white elm powder, it is generally used to make red incense, Lin Ji's Guanyin incense is used with the best white elm powder, the incense produced tends to be woody, light yellow and yellowish, very Zen Buddha taste, and the market has been very good in Shuoyang.

That's why Master Liu is so high-flying, although she can only make such a kind of incense.

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