Minghui slandered in her heart, people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, since the palace purchased a batch of incense sticks from Hua Qianchang, Hua Qianchang's fame is even greater, look, trouble is coming.

Minghui stretched out her hand and picked up the incense pill, put it on the tip of her nose and smelled it, and put the incense pill back on the porcelain plate, and then said slowly: "Back to the queen, this incense pill is not sold in the courtier's shop. ”

"Oh? Do you just smell and listen to sure? The Queen's eyes were gentle.

Minghui smiled: "Returning to the queen's mother, because this incense pill was made with ambergris, gold is valuable, ambergris is priceless, and the courtier's spice library is not such a rare treasure." ”

"It turns out that this is the ambergris mentioned in the book."

The queen's tone didn't seem to be fake, and she really didn't know before that.

"Can the Ming lady be sure this is ambergris? Could it be that the lady has seen it? The queen asked again.

Minghui felt a pang in her heart, the dignified queen had never seen her, she was a woman who grew up in the Taoist temple, how could He De have seen this incense?

"Don't hide it from the queen, courtiers have liked good smells since they were young."

The corners of the queen's mouth were slightly raised: "Who is not?" ”

Ming Hui smiled and continued: "The courtiers went to Luoyang when they were young, and there is a night market street in Luoyang, where there are not only all kinds of snacks, but also juggling and ventriloquism, a bit like the overpass in the capital. In a small stall, there is a little man in clogs, ugly appearance, obviously shaved head, but there are still a few handfuls, very funny, his stall only has a big box about the same height as him, he said that the box is filled with ambergris, ten dollars to smell once, people who visit the night market think he is a fool, point fingers at him, but no one is willing to pay for it.

The courtier, who was not yet ten years old, was curious about everything, and there was just ten cents in her purse, so she gave it to him.

The man took off a trap from the big box, let the courtiers probe in, and a strange fragrance came to her face, which was a fragrance that the courtiers had never smelled, only that once, remembered for a lifetime. ”

Of course, Minghui was talking nonsense with her eyes open.

She had indeed smelled ambergris, but not when she was ten years old, but in a previous life, from a merchant in the Western Regions.

But the queen obviously believes that this not only has a grandfather who is dedicated to the Tao, but also a father who is dedicated to the Tao, if she hadn't entered the palace to be the queen, eighty percent of them would have become a female crown at this time.

The queen had never been to the night market, and she had not even walked the streets.

No matter how high her status is, she is still a little girl, and she has been attracted by Minghui's adventures at this time: "Ah, is the big box you said taller than that person?" Ah, how short that man must be. ”

"Just as tall and short as a child of six or seven years old, anyway, the courtiers were taller than him at that time, he was not from Middle-earth, and he spoke in a strange way, and the courtiers listened to the people in the night market and said that he was a widow. It wasn't raining that day, but he was wearing a pair of clogs, which was very funny. Minghui explained.

The queen looked at her with a clear expression: "I see, the palace said, how can we people in the Great Jin Dynasty be born so short, it turns out to be a widow." ”

As soon as the words fell, the queen suddenly seemed to remember something and asked, "Ming Shuren, as far as you know, if this ambergris is used for a long time, can it be harmful to the body?" ”

Minghui shook her head: "Returning to the queen's mother, the courtiers are short-sighted, and they are only limited to the records in ancient books, but they ......"

She hesitated for a moment, and then said softly: "However, the spices contained in this incense pill must not only be ambergris, but the aroma of ambergris completely obscures other spices, and the courtiers cannot know. ”

In other words, ambergris is harmless, it does not mean that this incense pill is harmless, if it is mixed with other things, it is difficult to say.

The queen was a little disappointed: "With the ability of a lady, can't you tell the difference?" ”

Minghui felt guilty: "Please forgive the queen for her incompetence." ”

"Well, it's none of your business, it's rare that you can smell ambergris." Although the queen was disappointed, she still called Lady Du and asked her to personally send Minghui out of the palace. Minghui is like this, Xili Lake is painted into the palace, and Xili Lake is painted out of the palace.

When I returned to the house, I didn't wait or late to gather around Nanping, looked her up and down, even Duoduo also looked at her, and saw that the master and servant were all beards and tails, and they put down their hearts after a morning.

Ming Hui returned to the incense shop and looked at the shelves full of incense boxes in a daze.

She remembered the box that the wooden knife had mentioned, the so-called overseas strange fragrance.

There is the Heling country in the South China Sea, and the Heling country has Nanban incense; In the South China Sea, there is also Manraka, where there are agarwood and yellow ripe incense; Aru has an ice brain; The country has a real incense; The country of Srivijaya not only has agarwood and yellow ripe incense, but also produces fast incense; The Dragon Tooth Bodhi Kingdom also has true and agarwood fast incense.

But compared to these, ambergris is something that can be encountered but not sought.

In fact, the incense pill just now, although she didn't burn it, it wasn't as she said to the queen, she couldn't smell the spices other than ambergris, others might not be able to smell it, but she could distinguish one or two.

Among them were agarwood of real wax, as well as hand incense and plum blossom brain, and musk was added to make the incense, and she could tell that there were others, but there should be others.

Minghui didn't say it, not because she wanted to hide it, but because she didn't want to get into trouble.

Could it be that this is the overseas strange fragrance in the mouth of the wooden knife?

Thinking of the wooden broadsword, Minghui's eyes lit up.

She remembered the large box of gold that the palace had given her when she found Sasa.

The gold was new, brand new, without scratches, without stains, not even a finger of sweat.

At that time, when she saw the gold, she seemed to think of something, and there were people in the palace next to her, and she didn't have time to think deeply, so she put the matter down.

Now, thinking of the wooden broadsword, she suddenly knew what was fleeting in her mind at that time.

Silver!

Mu Dadao said that the person who came to buy overseas strange incense every year gave him brand new silver ingots.

He had never seen such a new silver ingot, and at first he was worried that it was fake, and he went to the silver building to let people see it, and he was sure that it was real silver, so he put his mind at ease.

He was not surprised that he received such new silver every year.

And the box of gold ingots she received that day was the latest that Minghui had seen in her two lifetimes, and she had never seen such a new gold ingots before.

And these, from the palace.

Are the brand-new silver ingots that Mu Dadao received also from the palace?

Minghui doesn't understand these rules in the palace, is there a possibility, that is, whether it is gold ingots or silver ingots, the people in the palace only use new ones?

It's just that Huo Yu is not at home, and she has no one to ask.

Minghui circled around the house, I don't know how many times, the light in the room was getting darker and darker, and it was time to hold the lamp.

Huo Yu still hasn't returned.