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Huaxi got up and lowered his head, and saluted with the other guests, and after King An and the others took their seats, everyone sat down one after another.

As soon as he sat down, Huaxi caught a glimpse of a figure flashing, and someone was already sitting down in the position next to him. When I looked sideways, it was Yin Chengzong.

The young man next to him leaned over to talk to Yin Chengzong, secretly pointed to the first position, and motioned for him to sit on the top, Yin Chengzong shook his head and didn't know what to say, as if he refused, and the remaining three people didn't force it.

Yin Chengzong sat down, turned his head and smiled at Huaxi.

"The king of the county should sit first." Huaxi said in a low voice, who would have thought that Yin Chengzong would play by himself, so who would preside over the incense party? Looking up, Ouyang Zheng was already seated next to the emperor, and on the other side sat a handsome young man in his forties, Huaxi guessed that this person should be the younger brother of the head of the mission, Xiyue, the emperor of the dynasty, King Sukino Shin.

"The Yu family is a southwestern family, a scholarly family, and there have been ten champions from the previous dynasty to the present. Yu Erye is the younger brother of the current patriarch, and he doesn't like his career, but he is a master of incense. The remaining two are Yao Yongnian, the owner of Yao Kee, the largest incense store in the north and south, and Feng Wu, the owner of Feng Kee. Although I am the king of the county, I am not an insider, so I dare not live in the first seat. ”

Yin Chengzong leaned in and whispered to Huaxi to explain, and then pointed to the opposite side under the table, "The five over there also sat down." The top is Mohan King Mohan of Xiyue, next to Ha Yi is his wife Gu Lizhu, and the next one is Song Zan and Fang Xing, which is quite similar to Dahua's Nanyao and Beifeng, and the last one is Fang Xing's nephew Fang Liu. ”

Huaxi turned his head to look at the opposite side, the fifth person in the front row of the Xiyue Mission was a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old young man on the far right, with long fiery red hair tied up with a silver hairband, and the rest was draped over his shoulders, his pupils were light brown, his facial features were angular, tough and straight, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like a gentleman who could sit quietly and taste incense indoors, and the breath exuded from his body gave people the feeling of being like a sweaty BMW galloping on the grassland. This person is none other than Khoyi.

Next to Ha Yi is a woman, a standard Western beauty. Xiyue's national style is developed, so the woman is not masked, blonde hair and blue eyes, pretty nose and red lips, delicate figure, a well-fitting royal blue riding suit highlights her forward and backward tilt, sitting next to Han Yi is very matched.

Praise squinted, with brown hair tied in a ponytail and flung behind his head, and a short and fat body, sitting there round like a ball. But Fang Xing is a thin young man, and he doesn't look like a Xiyue person, but a big Chinese person.

"Fang Xing is not from Xiyue?" Huaxi asked Yin Chengzong in a low voice.

Yin Chengzong responded: "Fang Xingzu is a native of Dongci and has always settled in Xiyue, and now he is also a native of Xiyue. ”

Huaxi nodded, and then turned around to bump into a pair of smiling peach blossom eyes that were looking at her curiously, it was the baby-faced Fang Liu.

Huaxi looked back generously, but Fang Liu was a little overwhelmed, his white face was dyed a thin red, with a little shame, and he shyly bowed his head towards Huaxi. Huaxi was stunned for a moment, smiled slightly, and nodded politely in response.

Xu is Dahua is only one woman in Huaxi, and an unintentional eye contact between her and Fang Liu attracted the attention of Fang Xing and the others, but it was just a quick glance, and the first Susukino letter had already signaled Ouyang Zheng to start.

The doors of the temple were closed, and the first incense tasting began.

When tasting incense, the incense room pays attention to ventilation and is not ventilated, and the door is closed, and the apse is a little stuffy.

After Ouyang Zheng announced that the first test would be conducted by Xiyue, a waiter carried a case and placed it in the center of the palace. Fang Xing stood up and bowed, signaling the attendants behind him to put the incense utensils prepared in advance on top of the table.

Huaxi watched as the attendant took out silver, silver clips, incense spoons, feather brooms, and fire chopsticks from the gilded boxes and inserted them into the plum bamboo celadon incense bottles, and then put the incense burner on the table, and the other person placed the spare charcoal box next to the table.

Huaxi saw that the silver used in Xiyue was a mica sheet with gold edges, and knew that the other party would also have incense ash and charcoal. Although it is known that this incense ash charcoal method is not common in Dahua, it does not mean that no one will use it at this time. Huaxi carefully looked at the utensils on the case, especially looked at the fire chopstick, which is copper, and it should be known that the fire chopstick is better than copper, and white copper can also be used. Huaxi said secretly in her heart, the host of this incense trial should be an expert in each other.

Huaxi saw Fang Xing commanding everyone to set up the utensils, and thought that he would preside over the first scene, but he didn't expect that as soon as the incense utensils were put away, it was Fang Liu who came out.

Fang Liu walked to the central level, and after saluting the three kings and Susukino Shin, he said loudly: "The first incense test is all incense. In the next will choose a kind of base incense, with three kinds of incense with the test of incense, take three copies of each of these three incense, add a new one has not participated in the trial of incense incense, ten groups of incense to disrupt the order, respectively, respectively, you smell it in turn, to see what kind of incense belongs to the incense test, to record the first few times the fragrance type is the same, why the main tone is used as the basis, and finally choose the right seven times can be passed. In order to show fairness, in addition to the bottom incense, the remaining three kinds of incense please choose one of the three princes, and when the order is disrupted, you can choose one person from the scene, and then light it after a certain replacement. ”

Those who have a good fragrance at the bottom can naturally hear that the topic of Fang Liu sounds simple, but it is actually very difficult. The sound of squirting and gasping made the corners of Fang Liu's lips unconsciously raised, and his eyes swept over Dahua's side, seeing that everyone had changed, and the smile on the baby's face was even worse, but when his gaze swept over Huaxi, he paused, and his eyebrows moved almost inscruibly.

Fang Liuxin was surprised. Those bright eyes looked at herself quietly, but her eyes seemed to be ancient without waves, without half a wave, as if what she had just said did not cause her any trouble.

But he said that at this time, although Huaxi's face was as heavy as water, it was far from being as calm as Fang Liu thought. Her brain was racing, Fang Liu's fragrance test was not simple, and she originally thought that she could choose and smell it from more than a dozen spices. Unexpectedly, Fang Liu tried this time, but he changed a trick, and the simple base fragrance with three spices became a combined fragrance, which changed a lot of sexual taste. Fang Liuding chooses easy-to-change spices as the base fragrance, and agarwood is very suitable. The top notes, blends and base notes of the same agarwood are different, and the smell can be floral, milky, cool, bitter, burnt and so on. If a single kind of agarwood or mixed with different agarwood is used as the base incense, if the time is well managed, the aroma that the person will take turns to smell will be different, so the variables will be greater.

Even if the base incense does not use agarwood, then there is no incense mixed with agarwood in the more than ten spices he prepared earlier? There must be. It sounds fair to let the emperor choose to try incense, but as long as all the incense tests have spices with unstable sexual taste, then this competition must be more powerful than Dahua for Xiyue. Because of the random selection, the people of Xiyue will not know which one they choose, but they know the recipe of the incense in advance, and the number of choices must be higher.

This time, the "permutation and combination question" is not easy to do, Huaxi thought secretly, turned his head and asked Yin Chengzong in a low voice: "Can you say that the trial incense and the bottom incense are single incense or combined incense?" ”

Yin Chengzong shook his head, "I didn't mention it." This time I was negligent. When the emperor responded to the request of the lower Susukino Shin, I was not present, and no one understood. It is impossible to ask the emperor to take back his order afterwards. I didn't expect Xiyue to have such a problem as soon as she came up. ”

The emperor accepted King Ping's words before approving Xiyue's request, and it was too late for him to know. Yin Chengzong's gaze swept over King Ping, but he saw that his gaze was glancing at Gu Lizhu, smiled mockingly, and turned his head to look at Huaxi.

The veil covered most of his face, his brown eyes quietly stared at Yang's case, the thick and upturned eyelashes trembled slightly like a small fan, the wings of his nose fluttered, and the light veil on his face moved lightly, unconsciously making people want to reach out and lift the veil to see the face.

Suddenly, Huaxi lowered her eyelids, not knowing what to think.

Yin Chengzong said: "Needless to say, Second Master Yu will definitely be able to pass this level, but Yao and Feng may not be able to do it." I can try, I don't know if you ......"

"Do your best. I used to think that I would just burn incense separately to distinguish them, so that I could distinguish them clearly even if I didn't remove the veil, but now if I mix incense, I am afraid that if I don't remove the veil, I will miss the subtleties. ”

Huaxi glanced at Fang Liu, and said secretly, people can't look like this Fang Liu is not just an expert, he must be a master of playing incense, a big expert.

"If you don't want to...... There is Yu Erye in the back. Yin Chengzong was conflicted, he didn't want Huaxi to take off the veil, but Yu Erye alone was not safe.

"It's okay, it's only three breaths to taste the fragrance, I lower my head, and it's over in one go." Huaxi should inherit it, naturally know the importance of this matter, the first time he passed the veil, if he is not taken off and brushed down, it will leave a handle, who knows if there will be hidden dangers, so this veil now seems to have to be removed.

Yin Chengzong glanced at Huaxi worriedly and stopped talking.

"If there are no objections, shall we begin?" As soon as Han Yi's loud voice came out, the discussion in the arena suddenly stopped.

Second Master Yu felt a little annoyed by Han Yi's arrogant attitude, and replied, "No." ”

King Shangshou Tai came back to his senses and coughed twice: "That Fang Gong, please"

Fang Liu blindfolded and randomly selected one as the last ten groups of incense non-test incense, and then asked the waiter to place the porcelain incense box containing more than ten kinds of incense on a wooden plate and present it to the three emperors. The King of Thailand, King An, and King Ping chose a kind of incense. The waiter wrote down the names and numbers of the three incense samples and the non-samples selected by Fang Liu, removed all the incense products, and took enough of the three incense samples to be filled into the other three incense boxes before returning them to Fang Liu.

Fang Liu nodded, knelt down, got up the ashes, poured the incense ashes into the incense burner, used the fire chopsticks to dig out a hole in the ashes, took out the burned incense charcoal from the charcoal box, the incense charcoal was level with the ashes, held the incense burner in his left hand, turned the fire chopstick, buried the carbon with ashes, and then used the ash and the fire chopsticks to sort out the incense ashes, flattened, and then opened the fire window, took a fire chopstick and inserted it from the top of the ash mountain, went in about half an inch and stopped, pulled it out, revealing a small hole, and then used a silver clip to pick up the silver cover on the top of the ash mountain.

Yin Chengzong couldn't help but nod his head and muttered to himself: "Raising carbon with ash can reduce fireworks, Fang Liu is right with this method, he can smell the fragrance better, but this process seems to be more complicated than the usual ones......

Huaxi also secretly praised Fang Liu's ability, his movements were like flowing water, and in general, he had mastered the skills and essence of this method. There are only minor flaws in the area, such as the control of the ash height, the looseness of the ash pile...... If it is improved, the carbon fire can last longer.

Today's incense tasting is mainly ten of them, and after they smell it, it will be passed to the back guest seats. Because the Chufang Hall is not large, there are not many guest seats, except for the Xiyue Mission, the rest are first-class ministers and royals. The time of this charcoal fire can last for about half an hour, enough to sustain the time for a dozen or so of them and the guests behind them to enjoy the incense.

Finally, spice up.

Fang Liu took a small spoon from each of the three incense boxes, put it in the stone bowl, added the base incense he set, stirred well, scooped a spoonful and put it on the silver, the aroma slowly escaped, and Fang Liu buckled the lid of the stove.

"The first one is from Xiyue, so please Dahua everyone to evaluate it first. Three sucks per person, one for another. ”

After Fang Liu reminded him, the waiter presented the incense burner to Yu Erye.

There was silence in the room.

Yu Erye held the incense burner horizontally with his left hand, covered the lid of the loose hole stove with his right hand, sniffed it three times in front of his nose, and then passed it to Yao Yongnian, pondered for a while, and took the pen to record on the incense note on the table. Then Yao Yongnian, Feng Wu, and Yin Chengzong heard about this method in turn, and then passed it to Huaxi's hand.

Huaxi took the incense burner and placed it horizontally in her left hand, rotated it counterclockwise, lowered her head, raised her right hand slightly, lifted the corner of the veil, and then covered the incense burner, approached her nose, and sniffed it three times between her thumb and index finger. With his right hand, he quickly tugged at the corner of the veil and inserted it into the sideburns of his ear, raised his head and handed the incense burner to the waiter.

Huaxi could feel that the moment she looked up, a few lines of sight shot over, she didn't have the heart to explore, closed her eyes, closed her eyes and pondered, thinking about what kind of fragrance she smelled in the three breaths just now.

The top notes are wildflowery, sweet and delicate, mellow and round, with a faint milky fragrance, revealing warmth, and the tail fragrance has a spicy aftertaste, with a touch of coldness, agarwood and cloves have a floral and fruity scent, and where the floral and fruity fragrance comes from, it is difficult to determine. And sandalwood, the old mountain sandalwood mellow and warm, most of the rest of the sandalwood tail incense will be slightly spicy and fishy, from this point of view, his mixed incense agarwood, cloves, sandalwood are possible, and the same species and different types exist at the same time.

Are they all incense? Huaxi carefully recalled every smell she smelled, and only by distinguishing all the details could she ensure that the group of incense selected by Fang Liu was excluded in the fragrance test.

Fang Liu was in the hall, and compared to the others in Xiyue, he was the closest to Huaxi. was stunned for a moment when Huaxi lifted the veil, but she didn't expect that she still looked a little "young", and her appearance was ...... Very beautiful, with the softness of the big Chinese people and the charm of the Xiyue people, who is she? How high can the awareness of incense be at such an age? After he could see her subtle movements and gestures when she smelled the fragrance clearly, Fang Liu's eyes looked at Huaxi's eyes changed slightly, faded away from contempt, and became a little more dignified, he denied the idea just now in his heart, this purple-clothed girl sitting in the last seat was probably the most powerful of the five.

Huaxi carefully recorded the characteristics of the aroma he had just smelled on the incense note, put down his pen and looked up, the five people on the opposite side had already smelled it, and the incense burner was passed to Ouyang Zheng and the three emperors. Ouyang Zheng took the incense burner from King Ping's hand and sniffed it symbolically, then handed it to the waiter and passed it back to Fang Liu, and only after Fang Liu smelled it did he hand it to the guest seat behind.

Fang Liu took a flower and grass pattern incense burner again, and after the ash, charcoal, ash, and fire window were completed, they put one of the ten groups of incense prepared in the incense burner, smoked incense through the fire, and covered it to pass it in the order just now.

This went back and forth ten times, and it took an hour to finish tasting all the spices.

Because the base incense and the non-test incense may have the same composition, it is necessary to subdivide the aroma ten times, and distinguish the components of the three fragrance samples from the feeling and the frequency of the occurrence of various spices.

On the incense note in front of Huaxi, the tone, intensity, and smoke shape of each aroma are recorded...... Relying on the sensitivity to the aroma, when she smelled the last incense, she already knew the three kinds of incense test, in order not to be too abrupt, she looked down and took the incense note again, and then took another pen to write down the ingredients of the three kinds of incense, which appeared in the first few times.

After everyone had finished writing, the waiter took the incense note and counted it later.

Yin Chengzong leaned over and asked, "How?" ”

Huaxi shook her head, "I don't know." ”

Fang Liu had already sat back in place, and his gaze couldn't help but fall on the purple-clothed girl opposite.

Fang Xing on the side looked at Fang Liu's gaze and asked, "I heard that the woman's surname is Mu, she is the distant niece of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and she has a good reputation in the circle of noblewomen in Shangjing. In terms of figure, it doesn't seem to be very old? Maybe she'll be the one who loses in a while. ”

When they smell the incense, they each write down their feelings, not to make a judgment, so the people on Xiyue's side don't care what the other party does, and in most cases, they retract their gaze after a glance. Fang Xing naturally didn't notice Huaxi's face just now, and only then did he say something when he saw Fang Liu paying attention to the girl opposite.

Hearing his uncle's question, Fang Liu shook his head and frowned, "Not necessarily...... You'll find out later. If she passes this level, she will be a fierce enemy. ”

Fang Xing was stunned, Fang Liu was talented and intelligent, and he was particularly sensitive to aroma, and he was one of the best fragrance tasting masters in the family. If he says that a man is a great enemy, then that person must be superior. Fang Xing couldn't help but glance at Huaxi a few more times, the light veil was masked, and he couldn't see any difference. It was King Chengjun who seemed to have been talking to her, but she sat with her head half-bowed, ignoring her.

Don't make any excuses about the prince of the county, maybe this girl is really a little different, right? Fang Xing thought.

The waiter recorded the order of the willow cloth incense just now and the number of times the ten people present answered correctly on a plain note.

After the King of Thailand, King An, King Ping, and Susukino Shin read it, Susukino Shin's face showed a smile, King Tai and King An had a bad complexion, and King Ping had no expression and could not see joy or anger.

The King of Thailand handed over the result to Ouyang Zheng, "Xuan, you can announce it." ”

Ouyang Zheng took a look, nodded, stood up and announced: "The first incense test, the three kinds of incense tests are wildflower incense, plum calyx incense, and snow spring letter, and the order is ......."

In the end, Dahua eliminated Yao and Feng, Yu Erye and Yin Chengzong both said eight times, Huaxi did not do much or no less just seven times, and on the Xiyue side, Gu Lizhu was out.

Fang Xing heard the result and said in a low voice: "It's okay to pass, but it's not enough." ”

Fang Liu remembered the last time he saw Huaxi's calm and confident eyes, and said thoughtfully: "If she did it on purpose, it would be ten times ......."

Fang Xing didn't care, "Let's see later"

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