Lighting Incense Chapter 4 Boring and tedious incense making

"It's a bit messy that the house is not cleaned, I'm sorry."

Shi Manxiang, who was in the elevator, was extremely embarrassed, and in order to break the embarrassment, she casually asked him if he wanted to go to her house to eat instant noodles.

Who doesn't have instant noodles? Shi Manxiang was also polite.

But unexpectedly, Yunyi gladly accepted it and followed her off the elevator.

No man has ever been to this house except her father.

Yunyi is the first.

"Senior sister, you have a lot of awards." Yunyi stood in front of the shelf dedicated to awards.

Shi Manxiang poked her head out of the kitchen: "Oh, that's all before." ”

"This award, I remember, is very difficult to win, it can be regarded as the most difficult award in the industry."

Yun Yi picked up the trophy in the center.

Shi Manxiang looked back at the fire, walked to Yun Yi's side and took the trophy: "This is the last trophy I won." ”

After speaking, she put the trophy back untouched: "You still know a lot, and you know the gold content of these awards." ”

Yun Yi looked around in her living room, and then stood in front of the TV: "I also know that this thangka must be very valuable." ”

Shi Manxiang walked quickly to his side: "Will you watch Thangka?" ”

"My family likes it."

Shi Manxiang nodded and pointed to the thangka: "This thangka is said to have been made by my great-grandmother, and then my father left it to me." ”

"The process of making thangkas is very complicated, and there is also a devout faith, and your great-grandmother put a lot of thought into it."

Shi Manxiang didn't expect Yun Yi to have such attainments at such a young age: "My father should like you very much." ”

"So your ancestral home is Tibetan?"

Shi Manxiang ran to the kitchen to prepare instant noodles: "My grandmother is in Tibet now, but I haven't been back for a long time." ”

Brought out a pot of instant noodles and put it on the dining table, facing Yunyi, who was still looking at Thangka,

"Let's eat."

Shi Manxiang likes to eat instant noodles boiled, she thinks it is softer and more flavorful.

"I have a feeling from the conversation you just had that you should have been studying this industry for a while."

Yunyi picked up: "It's okay, my mother likes it, so I know a little bit." ”

Shi Manxiang saw him mention his mother, and swallowed the note: "What kind of incense do you want to make for your mother?" ”

Yun Yi's hand paused, and he raised his eyes to look at her.

This glance made Shi Manxiang a little overwhelmed, as if it contained many stories.

"A one-of-a-kind incense, I want to give it to her with my own hands." Yun Yi's eyes were extremely firm, as if he had made some decision at this moment.

Shi Manxiang hadn't seen such a look for a long time, and nodded: "Don't worry, as long as you study hard, you will definitely be able to!" ”

Yunyi wiped his mouth and took out his phone.

"Knock ......"

Shi Manxiang's mobile phone sounded, and she looked at it with a puzzled face and found that Yunyi had transferred the account to herself.

"Tuition."

"Huh?" Shi Manxiang didn't think of this stubble at all, their family doesn't charge money for teaching except for selling incense, and no one necessarily learns the free inheritance of intangible cultural heritage in these years, who dares to charge money to teach people.

"It's... I'm glad to have someone learn how to make Tibetan incense, and it's free for all of us. ”

Shi Manxiang wanted to return the transfer: "And you are still a student." ”

"No, I must give this money, it's just a deposit."

So much for the deposit?

Shi Manxiang also wanted to explain.

Yun Yi wiped his mouth and got up: "I'll come to you tomorrow, thank you for the instant noodles, I should leave." ”

Confused, she got up and sent him to the door.

"Cell phone." Yun Yi, who was standing at the door, stretched out his hand to her.

Shi Manxiang didn't understand what he meant, and only found out after a while that he wanted his own mobile phone.

"You're calling?"

Shi Manxiang unlocked the phone and handed it over.

"Boom."

It was the news of collecting money, and Yunyi was afraid that she would not collect money, so he helped her collect it.

Receiving money and saying goodbye to the mobile phone, this series of actions went smoothly, and she stood at the door for a long time before she realized what had just happened.

Shi Manxiang looked at the payment indescribably, turned around and stood in front of the thangka with her hands folded: "Mola, this is really not what I took the initiative to ask!" Someone else has to give it! I have absolutely no disgrace to my family, Tashi Delek. ”

When Manxiang woke up hazy and was woken up by a knock on the door, she was in a dream and had a deep communication with the master of incense.

"Who is so early...

When she opened the door, Manxiang was frightened by Yun Yi, who was neatly dressed and meticulous in front of her.

Look at yourself again, suspender nightdress, messy hair, and wake up with a shiny face.

"You close the door!"

This is what Shi Manxiang said before running into the bedroom.

Shi Manxiang was in the bedroom while grooming herself, rolling her eyes and complaining about Yunyi.

Don't these young people sleep? So early?

When she freshened up and came to the living room again, she found that Yun Yi was still looking at her thangka.

"You seem to really like this thangka."

"Just take a look."

Although Yun Yi said this, his eyes never left the thangka.

"Why are you so early?" Shi Manxiang yawned and asked the radiant Yunyi beside her.

"It's not early."

This must not be a normal young man.

Shi Manxiang complained: "Then you should be considerate of me." ”

"Why?" Yun Yi didn't understand what she meant.

"I'm twenty-six years old, and now I can't sleep or get up except if I want to be a corpse."

Shi Manxiang summed up her life simply.

Soon the two of them were in the shop, and she hadn't arrived before her father in a long time.

"Outside these are all incense for guests, I will take you to the place where the incense is made, there are some special incense made by me and my father."

Shi Manxiang took Yunyi through a path and came to a separate room.

When you open it, you can smell a lot of old smells, and if you look closely, you can smell a variety of flavors.

"This is the cypress needed to make Tibetan incense, this is the most basic material, and the rest is the materials and Tibetan medicine that need to be added to different Tibetan incense." Shi Manxiang opened the inner room, full of cypress stumps.

In Shi Manxiang's commentary, Yun Yi wandered around the room.

"In fact, one of the most important processes of Tibetan incense is to squeeze it out of the horns, which is a test of the craftsmanship of the incense maker, and it must be a straight line, and the hands are not shaking."

Shi Manxiang came to him with the horns, squatted down and put the mixed mud into the horns.

She pinched the horns of the ox, and from left to right, a straight line and a soft incense stick was ready.

Shi Manxiang got up and gave him the horns: "Try it." ”

Yunyi took the horns and followed her example.

"Poof."

Shi Manxiang couldn't help laughing when she looked at the crooked and unformed lines.

"It's okay, everyone has a first time, and they will learn."

Yun Yi frowned, put down the horns and looked at him: "Are you too?" ”

Shi Manxiang shook his head: "I Mo said that I am a person born for incense, the first time I picked up the horn, there was a very complete Tibetan incense, and the incense was framed by my father and displayed in my living room." ”

She crouched down and put away the horns and the sticks of incense she had squeezed out.

"Every time there are many people in the family during the Chinese New Year, I am proud of it and take it out to talk about it."

Shi Manxiang seemed to think of some funny scene, and then her smile faded: "But I rarely say it in the past two years." ”

Shi Manxiang got up and said to Yun Yi,

"I'll take you to see the waterwheel, it's a key tool, you have to learn how to use it."