At this time, it was already the beginning of April, and there were only four or five days left before the preliminary round of perfumery, and the 'flower' Mingxuan was already preparing to announce the list of shortlisted perfumers, and there was no name of 'flower' nine in it.

'Hua' Jiu knew the news from Shang Li's mouth, and she only smiled meaningfully and didn't say anything.

On the first day of the preliminary competition, since the incense guild has always been a place where many perfumers gather, whether it is incense or masters, the venue of the preliminary competition is arranged in the huge hall of the incense guild.

When the ninth day of the 'flower' arrived, the perfumers on the list had already 'drawn' their own bamboo sticks.

This preliminary competition is based on the number on the bamboo stick, a group of ten people, and the incense products are also randomly 'drawn'.

Seeing 'Hua' Jiu enter the 'door', the hall that was still noisy just now was quiet in an instant, 'Hua' Mingxuan sat on the second floor, he almost saw the slender figure at a glance, the ice blue 'color' skirt, the tassel of the hairpin red coral on the bun, and the wrist was also tied with the same 'color' red 'color' fine silk, she walked in without hurry, and almost saw the 'flower' Mingxuan at first sight.

There is no need for 'flower' Mingxuan to make his eyes 'color', the person from the president of the self-owned incense guild stepped forward, stopped the action of 'flower' Jiu, and said politely, "This girl, we are here in the incense guild, and we are in the preliminary competition of perfumery, and no one is allowed to enter, please leave!" ”

'Hua' Jiu didn't look at the person who was used as a gunman, and today she came with the Feng family's Feng Mo monk, only to see Feng Mo take a step forward, shook the fan in his hand, and slapped the man on the cheek, "Get out, dare to stand in the way of this son, blind dog." ”

The man staggered, glanced at the president vaguely, and then stood aside with his face covered, not daring to speak.

"Feng Gongzi, what is this going to do?" As Lan Gu, who has been the president of the Xiang Guild for decades, he has never understood what the position of the Feng family is, everyone knows that Feng Lao is the elder of the guild, but this Feng Mo often does things that go against the grain, such as this will.

"Don't do anything," Feng Mo raised the folding fan in his hand, looked up at the people, and looked like he didn't take Lan Gu in his eyes, "It's just to open the way for my seventh sister-in-law who is late." ”

This is not arrogant, and there is no one in the eyes of the extreme.

"Seventh sister-in-law?" When Lan Gu heard this, he smiled, and he glanced at 'Hua' Jiu, who hadn't spoken since he entered the 'door', "Is this the 'Hua' clan of the Xi family?" ”

"Nature." Feng Mo replied, and what he said was quite honorable.

"I'm sorry, the people who can participate in the preliminary competition of perfume today are all the perfumers on the list, can the name of Feng Gongzi's seventh sister-in-law be on the list? If not, then there is no qualification. "Lan Gu was complacent, but he personally filled in the names of all the people on the list, he deliberately looked at it several times, and there was no name of 'Hua' Jiu at all.

"Oh?" The tail of the seal is high, with a sense of schadenfreude.

"I'm not qualified?" 'Hua' Jiu spoke, she looked directly at Lan Gu, and asked lightly, but before he could answer, she raised her voice and said, "I don't know, the qualification of the little 'woman' and 'jade' clan's fragrance descendants is enough!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the audience was in an uproar, and it was silent in an instant, only 'Hua' Mingxuan sat up suddenly, the chair behind him was unstable for a while, and there was a huge banging sound when it landed, which immediately attracted everyone's attention from 'Hua' Jiu to him again.

"Brother Mingxuan, a descendant of the 'Jade' clan, is this qualification enough?" 'Hua' Jiu looked at 'Hua' Mingxuan, and saw that his 'complexion' was becoming more and more 'gloomy' and ugly, but deliberately, she asked again loudly and clearly.

"Enough! Enough! Enough! "'Hua' Mingxuan said a few words in a row, and almost gritted his teeth to answer.

He never thought that 'Hua' Jiu would be so desperate, and the matter of 'Jade's formula was only known to a few people, but now 'Hua' Jiu told the world on his own, just to participate in a small perfume preliminary competition, in fact, as long as she came to him, without saying a word, he could let her directly participate in the final of perfumery.

In the end, she would rather take a big risk, ignore her own life, and even bear the meaningless spirit of being coveted and snatched by everyone, and she has to earn in front of him.

"President Lan, is the 'Hua' clan eligible to participate now?" 'Hua' Jiu turned his head and asked towards Lan Gu with a smile.

Lan Gu glared at 'Hua' Jiu, and there was a deep flame of jealousy in his eyes, "'Jade' clan? Hmph, do you think that a casual sentence of the descendants of the 'jade' clan can convince people? ”

'Flower' Jiu was not annoyed, she only moved lightly to the group of people who were 'wanting' the competition just now, and randomly twisted a thumb-length green sandalwood, the sandalwood has a uniform texture, reflecting different light and different colors, but it is a top-grade spice, "How about the 'jade' 'flower' concoction technique?" Ever heard of it? ”

After she finished speaking, she said to Shang Li, "Bring up the grinding knife." ”

Shang Li responded, it seemed that he had already prepared, and as soon as he turned around, he asked the man to carry the relevant incense utensils.

All the people saw the 'flower' nine twisted sleeves, and the two fingers of the left hand twisted the green sandalwood, which was really very similar to the 'flower' finger that the Buddhists said.

In fact, this 'flower' technique is only a method of concocting incense, which is unique to the 'jade' family, and the spices concocted by this technique are fine and evenly powdered, the amount of spices consumed is very small, and the natural aroma of the spices themselves is retained to the greatest extent.

'Hua' Jiu first held the side knife of crushing the incense slices in his right hand, and the green sandalwood in his left hand was next to it, and everyone only saw that there were spices flying everywhere, and in the blink of an eye, the green sandalwood with the length of the thumb had been neatly stacked into thin slices, and each piece looked carefully, and it was found that whether it was thick or small, it was incomparably different.

That's the magic of this technique.

Only after the spice is cut into slices, the subsequent modulation action can better filter out the aroma of the spice, whether it is grinding or soaking.

This hand opened everyone's eyes, and they no longer dared to doubt the identity of the descendants of the 'jade' clan of 'Hua' Jiu.

Lan Gu's face is ugly, and the face of Huaming Xuan is also ugly.

Only, there was a smile on the face of 'Hua' Jiu Subai, she continued to move, picked up a few pieces of green sandalwood, and began to prepare incense in front of everyone.

At the time of a stick of incense, she made the best use of most of the fragrance techniques on the 'jade's formula, and finally concocted the Baihe incense with green sandalwood as the main spice, which is rich and long-lasting, and smells like the fragrance of a hundred 'flowers', so it takes the meaning of Baihe.

This incense is also the most famous one of the 'jade' clans, and the baihe incense of later generations is either not strong enough, or it is not durable enough, only the baihe incense made at the beginning of the nine hands of the 'flower' can be regarded as the real baihe.

'Flower' Nine gently put down the incense product before saying, "I don't know, with the incense product of 'Flower' Nine, can you enter the May Competition?" ”

Lan Gu didn't 'want' words, and 'flower' Mingxuan didn't know when the person had disappeared on the second floor without a trace, only Feng Lao and Hei Lao, who were obsessed with fragrance, pounced like hungry wolves, and grabbed the Baihe incense in the hand of 'Hua' Jiu at the same time.

"The results will come out in three days, and all the participants will be the same." Feng Lao hurriedly said a sentence, for fear that if he was too late, the incense he ordered would be ignored by Hei Lao.

'Flower' covered his 'lips' and chuckled, "Then 'Hua' will wait for three days." ”

"Go, go," Hei Lao looked at the 'flower' Jiudao, and his face, which had always been unsmiling, couldn't be more kind, "Don't worry, our two old men will keep your incense, and no one will steal it." ”

This is said to be An'hua' Jiuxin, and the meaning of the words is to say to 'Hua' Jiu, with the two of them watching, this time will not give people a chance to do tricks.

'Hua' Jiu naturally understood, and she saluted to the two elders, "There are two elders." ”

After speaking, she left again as when she came, her skirt fluttering, and her sleeves dancing like clouds.

But she had just arrived at the big 'gate' of the incense guild, and as soon as she stepped out of half a foot, Aoyagi hurriedly chased out, "The eldest girl stays, and the son is invited." ”

'Hua' Jiu's eyebrows twitched, and before she could say anything, a hand reached out from the slanted thorn, habitually grabbed her waist, and replied for her, "No." ”

Xi Zixiao didn't know when he would come over, he pulled the 'flower' Jiujiu and left without pausing for a moment, without giving Aoyagi a chance to say another half a word.

'Hua' Jiu's slightly curled 'lips' raised a little, and he didn't refute him, his footsteps automatically followed, and he left behind what he had just done in the incense guild, "Where are you going?" ”

"Dragon and Phoenix Tower." Xi Zixiao replied, he glanced at the two Fengmo monks who didn't follow behind him, and nodded slightly.

Only Aoyagi stood there, a thin figure, looking at the direction of 'Hua' Jiu's departure, her eyes lingered on Xi Zixiao for a while, and finally after collecting all her emotions, she turned around and went back to give 'Hua' Mingxuan a reply.

Or the private room of Longfeng Mansion that opens the window is the private room of Jingzhao Mansion, Xi Zixiao didn't order anything to eat this time, as long as he had a pot of tea, he poured a cup for 'Hua' Jiu, "I'll watch a good show in a while." ”

"Yang Tui's?" The nine fingernails of 'Hua' lightly snapped the tea cup and made a crisp sound.

"Naturally, I want him, and I can't control Zhaozhou anymore." Xi Zixiao also has a strong sense of territory, in his opinion, this place where he was born, although he doesn't like it, but it is his territory after all, Yang Tui 'intervened' five times or three times, and he was going to stomp off that hated hand.

The two of them chatted a few words, and saw that it was still the last time that the yacha came to beat the horse, and they didn't get off the horse when they arrived at the 'gate' of the government, so they rushed in.

So, the government coaxed the 'chaos' into a mess, and a few sticks to kill the 'stick', the man was knocked off the horse, and he was still alive with a few sticks, and then, 'Hua' Jiu sat in the private room and could hear the man shouting, to see Liang Qi.

Liang Qi didn't show his face at all, the guard seemed to have been greeted early, the stick was waved, the man couldn't stand it, and finally was dragged out of the mansion, like a dead dog.

"That person is Yang Qi's subordinate, Liang Qi played, and he was 'private' to carry the incense tax to fill his 'private' pocket, Yang Qi came to Liang Qi and wanted him to change his words." Xi Zixiao explained the matter clearly in a few short sentences.

A slight smile appeared on Hua' Jiu's face, and she reached out and poked the back of his hand, "Liang Qi, a little Jingzhao, can he be qualified to play a ginseng?" What benefits did you promise him, and he was so willing to do such a thing for you that obviously offended the second prince? ”

"Not much," Xi Zixiao's face softened a little along the line, "Yang Yuan's position." ”

'Hua' Jiu pursed the tip of his 'lips' and blew down the tea, "What about Yang Tui?" It's not going to be degraded, is it? ”

Xi Zixiao saw the small action of 'flower' nine in his eyes, the obsidian phoenix eyes darkened, his hand half-propped his head, approached the little 'flower' nine, played with the slender red ribbon between her arms, and lazily replied, "No, the eldest prince is a guarantor, he will not be demoted, but he is ordered to return to Beijing, and there is ......"

Speaking of this, Xi Zixiao paused, "The bureau of Han County is the handiwork of Yang Tui. ”

When the words fell, 'Hua' Jiu's hand holding the tea cup tightened, and she almost didn't spill the tea out to burn her hands, she looked at Xi Zixiao, her eyes sharp, "It seems that he has calculated Zhaozhou and Hanjun at the same time, you and I have calculated all of them, so one kills two birds with one stone, and the heart is inevitably too big, after doing these things, I want to go back to Beijing?" How can there be such an easy way back to Beijing! ”

"That's right," Xi Zixiao praised, "I think so too, I can't let him go back to Beijing." ”

Hearing this, 'Hua' Jiu glanced at him, and smiled crookedly, like a little fox who was 'wanting' to make a mistake, "Anyway, the 'jade' formula is now known to the world, plus Yang Tui, this amount is enough!" ”