Tang Chen's eyes showed a large white aura.

This was the color of the lowest-level magic weapon, but the number was so large that it was enough to be shocking, no wonder Tang Chen was surprised.

If you look closely, it is actually a loose incense candle. To be exact, just incense sticks.

Tang Chen looked up and saw that this small shop selling bulk incense sticks was called "Suzhou-style incense", and there was a striking fluorescent signboard light box next to it, with the words "handmade" and "pure incense" written on it.

"It turned out to be handmade incense, no wonder!" Tang Chen's heart moved, so he walked to the front of the small shop and began to pick and choose.

The boss who was sitting in the store, when he saw that a guest was coming, hurriedly greeted warmly: "Just take a look, it's all good incense!"

Tang Chen asked casually, "Is this handmade by you?"

The boss said proudly: "Of course, you go to Giethoorn Town to inquire, who doesn't know the reputation of my Asu Hexiang? The craftsmanship of this Hexiang has been passed down from my wife and grandfather for two or three hundred years. Not to mention anything else, the head pillar incense made by my Asu, many rich people come here to rush to buy it!"

Touzhu incense is a very thick incense stick, also called high incense. In fact, the production process is not complicated, but a good high incense is very expensive, and it is after the rise of the first pillar incense in recent years that high incense has become popular. The ancients often said, "Burn high incense to ask the Buddha for blessing", it is this kind of high incense with a diameter of more than two centimeters, or even to fifty centimeters. If the diameter is less than two centimeters, it is generally called incense, or bamboo stick incense.

High incense is the best incense stick burned during sacrifices or worship in the old days. Ordinary people should hold incense with their left hand (it is rumored that because the right hand is not pure, ordinary people mostly use their right hand to kill), three burns to pray for themselves, six burns to pray for two generations, and nine burns to pray for three generations. And thirteen is an extreme, and thirteen incense sticks are high incense with complete merits.

Bamboo stick incense is the incense used in the south, because the south is relatively humid, and pure incense sticks are not good to maintain their shape. The incense stick is generally the incense used in the north, although there are also two kinds of wood core and no wood core, but because of the dry weather in the north, it can be stored for a long time without a wood core. And incense sticks have appeared as early as the Song Dynasty. Incense sticks burn for a long time, so they are also called "fairy incense" or "longevity incense", and in ancient times, common temples used the length of incense sticks to time, that is, "a stick of incense" time.

Tang Chen was noncommittal to this Boss Su's words, and just blindly chose Hexiang.

In all fairness, these incense sticks are really good, and the materials are very particular. Tang Chen estimated that after the incense ash was lit, I am afraid that there would not be much incense ash flying everywhere when it landed, because the sticky powder placed in it was just right. Of course, this is someone's unique secret recipe and won't tell you.

"Boss Su, it seems that your Hexiang here has been around for a long time, right?" Tang Chen suddenly said to this Boss Su with a smile.

Boss Su smiled awkwardly: "It's really a good eye, indeed, these are all old incense sticks." But don't worry, the quality is not bad. Alas, my dad is too dead-eyed, and the incense he makes is all real materials, and he would rather lose money than add animal fragrances. Seeing that you are also a person who understands incense, you should also know the price difference between animal spices and plant spices, and the fragrance made of plant spices will taste much fresher and will not have too heavy fragrance......"

Lin Chao, who was bored on the side, was playing with his mobile phone, and when he heard this, he raised his head and asked, "Isn't the fragrance as heavy as possible?"

Boss Su said solemnly: "It's definitely not like this, for example, the common ones are agarwood, sandalwood, etc., which are made of wood or powder, and are mainly used to exert their unique aroma and efficacy, without mixing with other spice ingredients." Agarwood and sandalwood have an elegant smell and remarkable medicinal effects, so their single product fragrance is more popular in the market. If something else is added, it won't be agarwood or sandalwood. ”

Lin Chao nodded, and suddenly said, "So that's the case." ”

Boss Su said a little worriedly: "It's because of this that our Su-style incense is more expensive than others, and the business is not very good......

Lin Chao comforted him and said: "There are too many fakes and defective goods in China now, rest assured, as long as your incense is genuine, there will definitely be a business to do......"

Boss Su sighed and said, "No, we are all in the business of regular customers now, and there are not many individual customers like you." ”

Lin Chao didn't ask Tang Chen why he bought incense, but he also knew that there was a shrine in Tang Chen's shop, dedicated to Zhao Gongming, a god of wealth. Tang Chen had the idea of buying incense, he must have wanted to buy it back to worship the God of Wealth, right? For Chinese, worshipping God is just like foreigners worshiping God and Jesus, it is just a ritual. Offering to the God of Wealth at home also means asking for wealth, and there is no essential difference between believing that God can be liberated. Perhaps the Chinese's faith is more utilitarian, and the foreigner's faith is purer, that's all. Lin Chao came out of the countryside again, and he had to worship God every festival, the god of the land, Mrs. Xian, the Jade Emperor, Guanyin, the Queen Mother, and Emperor Guan Sheng...... If you want to worship, you will not be surprised for a long time.

"Boss, you can tell me a real price, how can these incense pieces be sold?" Tang Chen said casually.

In fact, this Boss Su didn't think that the two young people in front of him would buy Hexiang, after all, "worshipping God" seems to be the custom of the older generation, and young people rarely mix it. He was just bored looking at the shop, and wanted to find someone to chat with and complain.

Hearing Tang Chen's words, he didn't react for a while: "You want to buy it?"

"Of course, what else is the price?" Tang Chen said with a little amusement.

"The Hexiang in the store is better, I'll take you to see ......" Boss Su saw that there was business to do, and he also came to the spirit, ready to introduce the baby at the bottom of his box.

Tang Chen glanced at the Hexiang in the store, and found that there was no aura, but these Hexiang sold in bulk outside, full of aura, shook his head and said, "I think these are quite good, can I make a price?"

Boss Su really didn't expect that a big customer came, and he was afraid of scaring Tang Chen away for a while, so he weighed it again and again, and carefully gave a real price: "How about fifty branches and one hundred yuan?" This is already the real price, no matter how low it is, it will lose money...... Alas, these are all incense made by my father, and they have been backlogged here for 20 years, and I didn't think about selling them, but I can't make money back for the materials......"

Tang Chen smiled and said, "I understand, fifty branches and one hundred yuan, it's not expensive!"

Lin Chao smacked his tongue when he heard this: "This is not expensive? Other Hexiang is only ten or twenty yuan for a large ......."

Boss Su's face was a little gloomy, but seeing that Tang Chen really wanted to buy it, he could only explain depressedly: "We are handmade incense, which is different from their assembly line production......"

"It's not fragrant yet!" Lin Chao said disapprovingly.