Yang Yi looked through the forum for a while, and didn't find anything interesting, so he got up and walked out of the door, preparing to go to the supermarket on the east side of the street to buy some eggs.

The supermarket is only a few minutes away, and the streets of the town are now equipped with street lights, although they are not very bright, but at least they don't need to carry flashlights when they go out, and there are residents who come out to hang out on the road. When I came to the supermarket, the proprietress saw Yang Yi at a glance, and said with a smile: "Xiaoyi, I'm here to buy eggs again, in the old place, I just entered a batch of mountain eggs today, you see, it's a little more expensive." ”

Yang Yi and the proprietress talked and laughed, the people in the town are very enthusiastic, I have never felt this warmth in the years I have been studying in the provincial capital, I can't say that the big city is bad, I can only say that I am more suitable to be a rural villager.

Came to the container where the eggs were stored, and found that there was a bunch of white-skinned eggs than before, which should be the farmer's own free-range eggs, although the nutritional value of this egg is higher, but the size is very small, not suitable for making tea eggs, but it is good to buy some of your own food, I selected some large red-skinned eggs, and bought some white-skinned eggs for myself, and walked out of the supermarket after settling the account.

Back home,Take out part of the eggs you just bought and put them in the pot to boil,It's going to be nothing to do.,Habitually sat back in front of the computer.,I found that I didn't close the page at the moment There is a station reminder in the lower right corner that is constantly jumping.,Click on the message.,It's a station text message:The last awakening fragrance is running out.,I'm ordering a box.。 The sender is a young man.

This person is also an old station friend, the two have chatted a few times, at first Yang Yi thought that the opposite was a man, but later I found out that it was a girl, a while ago, the other party inadvertently mentioned that he was not in good spirits recently, and always felt groggy, Yang Yi was about to come to the address, and gave the other party a box of awakening incense.

The original intention was to send it, but the other party sent a red envelope, Yang Yi was not hypocritical, he was not too bad to get along with money, the two added WeChat friends to each other, but they didn't know much about each other, Yang Yi only knew that the other party's name was Qiu Xiaonan, a girl, called this very strange name, Yang Yi, like most boys, looked at each other's circle of friends for the first time, and it can be seen from the circle of friends that Qiu Xiaonan is a very delicate little white-collar worker, and there are many selfies of himself in the circle of friends, which is a very refreshing and beautiful girl, which is the type that Yang Yi likes, at least Yang Yi thinks so now, but I don't know how credible the photo can be。

"Okay, tell you before mailing," Yang Yi replied to the other party, there was no movement, but within a few minutes, the mobile phone heard the prompt sound of the red envelope, opened the phone, it was a big red envelope of 200 yuan, Yang Yi shook his head and smiled, clicked to receive, and replied with a big smile, and it didn't take long for the other party to reply with a cute expression.

That's it, I feel that selling incense is also quite profitable, Yang Yi even has a little bit of a plan to give up setting up a stall, but think about it carefully, forget it, the procedure of handmade incense is very cumbersome, and the time is long, just cellaring will take several days, and it does not adhere to the fast-paced sales strategy of the current society at all, so Yang Yi can't open an online store now, and wants to take the road of lofty, Yang Yi doesn't have this means at present, he can only take some private small work, one after another, the niche can't be in the niche, Yang Yi sometimes dreams of meeting a bigwig-level character, ordering his own handmade incense, and then spreading it to himself in their circleBut it's just a dream.

"Tick, tick, tick......"

The wall clock on the wall was like a machine running out of oil, walking reluctantly, Yang Yi looked at the time, it was still early, so he fetched a basin of water and began to wash his hands.

Yang Yi's fingers are very long, and his nails are very neatly trimmed, saying that these hands belong to a mountain peddler, and people who don't know will definitely not believe it. Without using soap, he slowly rubbed it in the water, Yang Yi didn't feel troublesome, and even enjoyed the current feeling a little, eager to clean every inch of skin.

After washing his hands, Yang Yi pushed open the door of the studio, the light turned on, as if illuminating another world, neat, compact, with a hint of mystery, the room is made of good pine shelves on three sides, there are bottles and cans, each of which is labeled with this label, there are hundreds of kinds, people are dazzled, in the middle of the room is a small square table, there are two large boxes in the corner, full of strange tools.

The little man booked the awakening incense, and he had to make it as soon as possible, the awakening incense, as the name suggests, is refreshing and refreshing, and it is a kind of medicinal incense.

The best time to make incense is at night, do not disturb others, and will not disturb others, grandpa said that incense has ten virtues: feeling ghosts and gods, quiet body and mind, can remove filth, can sleep, become friends in silence, steal in the dust, more but not tired, few but content, long hidden immortal, commonly used without obstacles, etc.

Stillness is fundamental.

Yang Yi walked around in front of the shelves, removed a few bottles, and sat down at the table. As soon as he sat down, Yang Yi's whole temperament changed, peaceful and focused.

Now there is a popular saying on the Internet that making incense is to burn money, because almost every kind of agarwood and sandalwood will be used, these two things are expensive and scared to death, and the key is that most of them are fakes.

Yang Yi inherited his grandfather's incense recipes, which seem to have been passed down from a very mysterious faction, and the old man later improved them, and these recipes rarely use agarwood and sandalwood, which are mostly common materials.

Yang Yi laid out the things to be used, except for the cumbersome incense powder concoction in the early stage, and the incense making was divided into five steps: mud mixing, molding, shaping, drying, and cellaring. The inside of the bottle is all the incense powder and sticky powder that Yang Yi has made in advance, so Yang Yi can directly adjust the mud.

Mix the sticky powder with fragrant powder, knead it into a uniform ball like a dough, the sticky powder is generally made of elm bark, the stickiness is very good, and there is no peculiar smell, but it is not easy to put more.

The kind of incense ash is still winding after burning, because there is too much sticky powder, and this kind of incense is inferior.

First take a bowl, put in the prepared powder, add a little water, stir slowly, until a ball of dough is formed, and then repeatedly stack it from all sides to the middle with a spoon to fully mix the mud dough and strengthen the density, these are not very difficult, the following steps are the key step, molding.

If it is to make incense, now people for efficiency, generally stuff the incense mud into the needle, and then squeeze it out one by one, so that although the efficiency is very high, but it is inferior incense, the extruded incense strips are uneven, and the smoke will be relatively large, but it is not excluded that many temples are now pursuing large smoke, and the beautiful name is: the incense is vigorous.

The best way is to rub it out little by little, configure spices and rub incense threads, which is the biggest way of hand-made incense, which is also the reason why the number of handmade incense is scarce.

After Yang Yi sat down, he took a deep breath, and the whole person became more and more calm, pulled out a small piece of incense mud from the bowl, put it on the wooden board, and began to rub it slowly with one finger.

Yang Yi was very focused, and put his whole heart on this finger, not looking, but feeling, feeling this small piece of incense mud slowly extending, thinning, and lengthening...... , as if controlled with one's own mind.

This feeling is very subtle, through the skin of the fingers to perceive the current state of the incense mud, grandpa once told Yang Yi that rubbing incense is to train the heart.

In fact, to sum up, it is two words, quiet and steady.

Time passed bit by bit, the night was already deep, except for a few dog barks in the town, no human voices could be heard, Yang Yi finally got up, exhaled a big breath of turbidity, and spent a long time to make a total of twenty incense, about fifteen centimeters long, only the thickness of a toothpick.

Yang Yi finally cut the incense strips neatly, placed them evenly on the flat paper, and covered them with a few sheets of white paper, so that they would be faster when they dried. Wait until tomorrow, the incense strips will be completely dry, and then put them in the small courtyard of the cellar for cellaring, this process will take half a month, so that the flavor of the spices and the incense mud can be completely integrated with each other, and the smoke and fire will be reduced.

This is only the first batch, you know, Yang Yi is going to prepare to make sixty sticks, so why are there fewer and fewer people making incense by hand, it is too energy-consuming.

After resting for a while, Yang Yi made another twenty sticks, and it was nearly two o'clock when he went to bed, but the next day, Yang Yi still got up on time, hurriedly ate breakfast, and pushed his car out.

This kind of incense pill is harmless to the human body, but snakes, insects, rats and ants are extremely disgusted with it, so every time Yang Yi enters the mountain, he has to bring a few.

"Xiaoyi, why don't you seem to be in good spirits today?" asked the neighbor who went up the mountain together on the road with concern.

"Well, I didn't sleep well last night, but it doesn't matter, the kid is young, his body is great, and he can bear it," Yang Yi also deliberately showed off his biceps brachii, which did not have any muscles, which made the people who entered the mountain laugh together.

In a group of people talking and laughing, more than a dozen tricycles lined up and rode towards Baiyun Mountain.

These are small traders in the town, whose occupations are not fixed, if there is a profitable short-term worker today, they will not go up the mountain, and if there is no work to do tomorrow, they will continue to carry the burden, and the things they sell are also messy, from fake lamb skewers to wholesale cheap souvenirs, to home-grown souvenirs, it can be said that everything can be described as everything.

This kind of livelihood of setting up stalls in the scenic spot, basically by the residents of the town to wrap up, not to say that outsiders, that is, a little farther away from other villages, will also cause this group of people to obstruct, and even there have been several times to smash the stall to pick up people, even the county government is alarmed, but this is not a big deal, can only criticize and educate these rough mountain people, this group of people humbly accept education, that is, life and death should not be, over time, there will be no outsiders to pay attention to this.

Yang Yi walked at the back, listening to the group of people constantly bragging and farting along the way, and soon arrived at the small courtyard of the old king's head at the foot of the mountain, everyone put the cars in an orderly manner, and then each carried their burdens up the mountain and started a day's work.

When going up the mountain, there was still a queue, no one grabbed anyone, they all had their own stalls, and in front of Yang Yi was a man in his forties, who was Xiaoya's father.

"Xiaoyi, I've always been worried about Xiaoya's grades, you are a top student in our town, tell me, can she be admitted to a high school?"

"I've seen the test papers of Xiaoya's mock exam, to be honest, the first high school is estimated to be a bit difficult, but it should be no problem to take the second high school. ”

"Hey, it would be nice if this girl had half of your ability, you read the book back then, the top student in our province's college entrance examination, but now it's a pity, you kid has his own ideas, and I can't say anything about you, your ability, go to the city, and find a job is not better than setting up a stall here?"

Yang Yi shook his head silently, did not discuss this issue, Xiaoya's parents treated Yang Yi as their own child, but they strongly opposed Yang Yi's return back then, but they couldn't stand Yang Yi's temperament, in the words of Xiaoya's father, he had a temper with his grandfather, and the stones in the pit were smelly and hard.

Yang Yi unconsciously brought the topic to Xiaoya's body again, "Uncle, don't worry, isn't there more than a month left until the high school entrance examination, Xiaoya has been working hard this month, and the exam is all about the ...... of on-the-spot performance." ”

What kind of character Yang Yi knows clearly, Yang Yi has no hope at all, it is good to be admitted to the second high school, the first high school is a provincial key high school, and the second high school is much worse, but in this society, as long as you can graduate from college, you can be smart, many things can only be learned out of school, and it is not entirely a diploma, Yang Yi has been comforting this heartbroken father all the way.

The two chatted all the way, and walked for a long time before they reached the halfway point of the mountain, and the people in front of them were completely gone.

As he was walking, Yang Yi suddenly heard a noise in the forest, the two stopped, looked left and right, and Uncle Chen stretched out his hand and pointed: "Over there." ”

Yang Yi looked up, in the woods to his right, a golden-haired monkey was entangled in a bunch of weeds, and was squeaking, and not far in front of the monkey, a green snake with a foot more than one meter long was swimming slowly.