"Old lady Liu, the junior just wants you, the incense master, to take a look today, is the fragrance in this legendary thing?"

The other party's face turned dark, his sleeves flicked, and his attitude changed before he said affectionately: "You go, I don't recognize it." ”

Cha Wenbin took a step forward and said, "Do you recognize, how can the spices in this world be hidden from Old Lady Liu." ”

The girl stepped forward and said, "You are so rude, my grandfather said that if you don't recognize it, you don't recognize it, you can go, the old man rests early." ”

Cha Wenbin did not flinch, and continued: "Old man, human life is at stake! Why do you have to hide it any longer, what is more worthy of your maintenance than a doll a few years old who has sinned badly. ”

The old man walked a few steps forward, and when he heard Cha Wenbin's words, he slowly stopped, sighed, and said, "Nizi, you can bring them in......"

Entering the inner hall, there are neatly hung portraits on both sides, these portraits are black and white and colorful, and the clothing and hair accessories can clearly see how history has been passed down from generation to generation in the Liu family.

Old lady Liu took three sticks of incense and dotted them, and there was a largest portrait in the center of the hall, the person was dressed in a long coat of flowing clouds and flying cranes, and a huge turtle was sitting at his feet looking back at the moon.

Needless to say, the person in this portrait must be the ancestor of the Liu family, and this fragrance is a little bit different Cha Wenbin really feels different.

Ordinary incense will spread when it rises to about half a meter, but this willow incense is actually a thin pillar that goes straight to the roof, and then rolls down and scatters after encountering the tiles.

The color is also a little different, with a hint of red in the gray, and I don't know what kind of secret recipe has been added, but the smell is indeed refreshing.

Cha Wenbin hugged his fists and said: "This willow fragrance is really worthy of its reputation. ”

The girl pouted and said, "The sycophants are very smooth, my grandfather has not made incense for many years, this is the incense burned by my grandfather a hundred years ago." If you see Chen Xiang for 300 years, wouldn't it be addictive? ”

Cha Wenbin was dumbfounded, he only knew that the older the wine, the better, but he had never heard that this fragrance was also the older the better.

In fact, the core is that there are many raw materials that used to be available, but now they are difficult to find or extremely expensive, such as the most indispensable willow incense, Suhexiang, a resin secreted by the Suhexiang tree, which is a semi-fluid, thick liquid, and the provocation is continuous.

This thing sinks when it enters the water, and can only be sealed and stored in an iron container containing dew from the sky, otherwise it will lose its fragrance after a long time.

Through a side door, and through a dim passageway, I came to the backyard of this house, and there was a row of four or five houses, which were stacked with many tools, and the fragrance here was also the strongest in the whole house, which should be the location of the incense-making workshop.

Opening one of the rooms, the girl handed over a kerosene lamp from outside, Cha Wenbin wondered what age this was, why didn't he use electric lights?

The girl smiled: "Everything here is caught in the fire, and no one is allowed to come at night on weekdays, grandpa really made an exception for you today." ”

While holding the old lady Liu, she carefully stepped over the pile covered with cloth on the ground, and there was a cabinet in the corner, and the girl took the key to open the cabinet, and it turned out to be empty.

At this time, the old lady Liu picked up an ornament hanging on her chest and pounded it in the cabinet, and suddenly "clicked"

With a bang, the inner panel of the cabinet actually separated and a secret door flashed.

The girl handed over the kerosene lamp to Old Man Liu and stood aside respectfully, and Cha Wenbin asked, "You don't go in?" ”

The girl shook her head and said: "The Liu family has rules, men can't enter women in this place, you are really lucky, it seems that as far as I know, this spice hall is the first time in thousands of years that outsiders have come in, but the Red Guards didn't find it back then......"

It turned out to be a warehouse where spices were stacked, and as soon as the wooden door opened, Cha Wenbin really smelled a pungent fragrance, it was difficult to describe the composition of these fragrances, which was almost very close to the smell of willow incense that he had smelled outside.

Cha Wenbin bent down and got into the cabinet, and when he looked at each side, there was a charm pasted on each side, and he immediately understood that this fragrance must provoke those unclean things, so a taboo was set up at this entrance.

A section of staircase that spirals down is very narrow, and there is a basement here, but it is unusually dry inside, and when you go down, you will find that the bottom floor is covered with thick shriveled rice husks, which are used to absorb moisture from the air.

This basement is very large, and a whole row of cabinets is full of boxes of various sizes, each with a corresponding name on it, and in the section where he walked, such as Du Heng, Yuelin incense, Jataman, Suhe resting tulip and Luo Lilac and other very valuable spices can be seen everywhere.

Now don't say it's incense, the spices in this warehouse alone are a mountain of gold and silver, no wonder everyone wants to occupy this house, but it's a pity that no one can live in it except the Liu family.

Walking to the end of the warehouse, there was another door, on which hung two copper locks, the old man Liu hung the kerosene lamp on the wall, opened the door and said to Cha Wenbin: "You wait here, wait for me to come out." ”

Cha Wenbin and Ye Qiu looked up and down at the containers here, and Ye Qiu whispered: "All the wooden shelves are small leaf red sandalwood, and they are all fine spices, do you really think that this family has accumulated such a rich family foundation by selling incense every day?" ”

After a while, Mrs. Liu walked out with a wooden box, and when he stepped out of the door, he sighed deeply, as if he was very embarrassed and unwilling, but after a while, he still strode over and said, "The thing you are looking for is here." ”

With that, he patted the box lightly and said, "Open it yourself." ”

Cha Wenbin carefully opened the wooden box, and inside the box was a piece of yellow brocade, which contained a pile of black shards the size of a black fingernail, and a crystal clear jade bottle on the left and right.

As soon as the box was opened, a peculiar fragrance suddenly came to his face, Cha Wenbin was smoked by the incense and confused people seemed to be drunk, he hurriedly covered the box to relieve a little, there is such a strange fragrance in the world, so he was very curious: "Old man, what kind of spice is this thing, how can it have such a smell?" ”

Old Lady Liu sighed again and said, "Okay, I am very close to your master Ma Sufeng, and he also wants to find me for this way of making incense." Our willow incense is divided into many varieties and levels, the top of which is called 'fairy drunk', even if it is a Da Luo Jin Xian, you can't help but stay in the fairy step to sniff it, and the main raw material of this fairy drunk is in this box, you can open the bottle inside and smell it. ”

Cha Wenbin held his breath so as not to be confused by the strange fragrance again, carefully took out the jade bottle, closed the box, gently pulled off the plug and put it under his nose to sniff, and his face suddenly changed.

"Qiu'er, you sniff."

Ye Qiu was also surprised when he took the bottle and smelled it, and he said to the old man Liu: "It seems to be the same flavor as the one in our small bottle?" ”

Old lady Liu leaned against the wall and said: "Sin, sin, this thing is called Misty Immortal Oil, and the small black piece inside is one with it." To tell you the truth, the little black piece is the bones of a six-year-old child, and the bottle contains his corpse oil......"

"This ......"

, Cha Wenbin suddenly felt extremely disgusting with the things he was holding in his hand, he put down the bottle and said: "How can you use such a method to refine incense, it's just too hateful to disregard human life, if the gods want to know that it is made of children's bones, will they smell it again!" ”

Old lady Liu saw that Cha Wenbin was very angry, then he sighed even more, and after a while he said: "I thought about it for a long time before I took you down and was ready to be scolded, the formation of this thing is very special, my Liu family does not know how to make it, the things in this box are obtained by an ancestor of the Liu family five hundred years ago, and the mysterious fairy oil and the boy essence developed the 'fairy drunk', it is said that at that time, this incense was used to ask for rain to test the wind and a hundred spirits. But the ancestors also felt that this thing was too sinful, and after making the first batch of twelve incense sticks, they sealed the recipe and raw materials of the immortal drunkenness, and no one in my Liu family has ever used this thing in the future generations. ”

Cha Wenbin pointed to the box and said, "You mean that this thing is made by someone else?" ”

Old lady Liu nodded and said: "The Liu family's incense is also in contact with some Jianghu warlocks like you, but it is to sell some common incense seeds, it is said that there was a foreign Taoist five hundred years ago, and he mysteriously handed over this spice to my ancestor and did not take a penny, but he asked the ancestor to use this flavor to prepare a long incense for him." The ancestors were obsessed with making incense and matching incense, but they didn't know the origin of this thing, and later the finished product was already shocking. When the man came to fetch the incense as agreed, the ancestor asked what the raw material was, and the man told him that it was the bones and corpse oil of a child who had been refined. The ancestor asked the man to take back this thing but the man refused, and asked the ancestor to continue to make incense according to the recipe, and agreed to come back after half a month. Coincidentally, the man hadn't been here since he left, and the thing had been sealed in this warehouse for hundreds of years. Today you come with that bottle and ask, I will not hide it from you, the ancestors told that if someone comes to ask for this thing in the future, give it to him, and now you come and take it away. ”

As soon as Cha Wenbin heard that this was the case, he felt that the old man Liu thought of himself as the descendant of the person who gave this thing five hundred years ago, and he didn't expect that his Liu family was so trustworthy, Cha Wenbin also said: "Then I will also say it bluntly, there is a four- or five-year-old doll in Hong Village who was hanged bizarrely half a year ago, and the murderer is still missing, the child's body suddenly changed a few days ago, I saw this layer of grease under the freezer where he was lying, and it smelled fragrant, I thought that you are a top expert in spices, Can you help see if there is a way in this, I didn't expect that I would get such a big opportunity today, Old Man Liu, since this is the case, I can't take this thing, where should I put it or where to put it......"