Ziyuan took out the things for use one by one from the bag and placed them neatly on the table.

First, unload the pale pink benzoin incense plate in the incense pavilion, then take a plate of brown-red incense sticks and hang them up. Light them with candles. A refreshing smell like mint and borneol fills the room.

Ziyuan then opened a small blue and white porcelain bottle, gently scooped out a spoonful of light blue ointment with a small silver spoon, and gently applied it on Chen Lu's temples with her little fingertips. Then she scooped out a spoonful of white powder from a lacquer box.

Use the little fingernail of the other hand to slowly flick it into Chen Lu's nostril.

After everything was properly arranged, she nodded slightly towards Jin Nian.

I took out the silver needle with all my heart, inserted it into Chenlu Baihui, Yintang, and Shenmen, and kept turning it.

After about a stick of incense, Chen Lu took a deep breath through his nose, and then sneezed like a thunderous sneeze. This sneeze made him sit up, and also knocked out two silver needles in Baihui Yintang.

The top fell to the ground.

Chen Lu stretched his body, turned around and saw Ling Shanggong, Jin Nian and Si Xu standing in front of the bed. He quickly stood up and asked in surprise: "What are you doing in this formation?"

After I finished asking, I realized that there was a girl standing on the side of the curtain. She was as elegant as an orchid. I couldn't help but take a second look.

Chen Lu spoke in Base language, so Ling Shanggong replied: "It almost scared me to death. You slept like a dead pig. You couldn't wake up even if you were beaten or scolded. All I had to do was find a pot of boiling water to pour on you. After all,

What's going on? Haven't you been suffering from insomnia?"

Last night, Chen Lu lay down in a daze while smelling the aroma in the room. It seemed that only a few minutes had passed when he suddenly felt an itch in his nose and woke up with a sneeze. It was already bright outside the window.

He suddenly realized that he had slept deeply all night without having a single dream, and he couldn't help but get excited. "How long did I sleep for?"

"Only 12 hours."

"You said you woke me up?"

"Yeah, I've had some sleep too, and everyone else has gone shopping in the city!"

Jin Nian waited for the two of them to say a few words before interjecting: "The donor must have not had a good night's sleep in half a year, right?"

Ling Shanggong told Chen Lu what had just happened, and Chen Lu bowed deeply to Jin Nian, "Thank you, Master, for your treatment. I have indeed been troubled by sleep problems for a long time!"

Si Xu interjected: "It's also thanks to Sister Ziyuan, don't forget to thank her."

Chen Lu and Ziyuan's eyes met, and they both hurriedly moved away. Chen Lu hurriedly bowed in thanks, while Ziyuan's eyes flashed and she returned the favor.

Jinnian said: "Why can't you sleep well here when you can't sleep well elsewhere?"

Chen Lu was wanting to know the answer and quickly asked for advice.

Jinnian smiled and said, "Miss Ziyuan, it's up to you to do the talking."

Ziyuan's cheeks were pink and she never dared to look at Chen Lu. She just took out a plate of benzoin from her bag and said softly: "This incense is called 'benzoin'. It was made by a master incense maker in our family in the early years."

Then he pointed to the burning incense: "That one is called 'Awakening Incense', and it is also made by the same person. There are two incense, one yin and one yang. Benzoin helps people have good dreams, and Awakening Incense encourages people to be uplifted."

This woman's face is like water, her figure is like wind, her eyes are light and whirling, her movements are gentle and slow, and her voice is soft and kind. It is very useful to listen and watch. One moment, it is like a breeze blowing through the treetops, and the next moment, it is like drizzle falling.

Spring mud.

Chen Lu's heart felt as if it had been gently brushed by down feathers, so light that it was about to fly. Ling Shanggong didn't react at all. In his eyes, Ziyuan was just an ordinary Purple Star woman, but most men were just like Ling Shanggong.

Thoughts.

"What's the 'master of incense making'? Sister Ziyuan still calls her that?" Si Xu looked a little unhappy.

Zi Yuan sighed nonchalantly and did not answer Si Xu. She just continued to introduce. "The power of the awakening fragrance is limited. In order to wake up the guests, I used 'Snow Lotus Cream' and 'Red Coral Powder', both of which are for awakening."

God’s good product.”

Chen Luguang almost fell drunk listening to her words, as if he no longer needed to smell the benzoin, as long as she whispered softly in his ear, he would fall asleep again.

He was a little reserved, so he bowed deeply to Ziyuan and quickly turned around to talk to Jinnian.

Since Chen Lu was fine, Jinnian led the nuns back to Xuanzhou. Si Xu was going to prepare lunch, so Shang Gong pestered her to teach Zi Xingyu. Si Xu was happy to get along with him, so she led him there.

kitchen.

Zi Yuan was going back to the inner courtyard, but Si Xu had just gotten angry with her and was a little embarrassed, so she insisted on leaving her to have lunch with the guests on the island. She wanted to follow her back to the shore in the afternoon.

Now Chen Lu and Ziyuan are the only two people left, and they feel uncomfortable staying in the room. After all, Ziyuan is an old man from Linzhenfang, and looks very good in appearance, so she invites Chen Lu to the island on the pretext of welcoming buyers to the island.

Leisure tour in Zhuzhou.

The two crossed the curved bridge and entered a large sea of ​​yellow flowers, with butterflies and bees swimming leisurely among them. Ziyuan briefly introduced some flowers, plants and trees to Chen Lu, and there was nothing else to say. Chen Lu was quite reserved and couldn't find anything to say.

, brought the topic to benzoin.

"Is this incense made by a girl?"

"It's me and it's not me."

"Oh, girl, what do you say?"

"The incense used by the guests is indeed made by my hands, but the ingredients are created by the incense master."

"The girl seems to be very protective of the incense master, but Miss Si Xu seems to be..."

Ziyuan sighed faintly: "It's not just Sister Si Xu, that person made such a huge mistake. I'm afraid not a single sister doesn't hate her!"

"What about you, I mean do you hate her?"

Ziyuan turned her head and looked at Chen Lu, seeing that he didn't seem to be deliberately making things difficult, so she said: "It doesn't hurt to tell you. After all, the guest is an outsider, so he can have some different comments."

She paused, stopped by a bench, and asked Chen Lu to sit down with her. "I was just a little girl waiting on people. At that time, the incense master was still in our house, so I could prepare different spices in my free time.

.”

"She had the habit of writing down essays, and she left many recipes in them. Later, she had a falling out with our family and ran away, so I kept the essays. I then followed her method to practice making incense and dispensing medicines, and I learned from her that 30% of them are not perfect.

The skills I have acquired now make me worthy of being the perfumer of Wu'an Tingxue."

Chen Lu sighed: "She is so capable. I haven't been able to sleep well for half a year, but last night I had a dreamless sleep. How could I ever have thought that a good night's sleep would be such a luxury!"

Ziyuan smiled faintly: "Her ability to make incense is endless. People's emotions and desires can be adjusted through scent."

"Is there such a thing?" Chen Lu didn't believe it.

Ziyuan took out an oily wooden bottle from the bag: "If your guest doesn't believe it, I'll give you a try. If you can't laugh out loud after ten snaps of your fingers, I'll lose to you..." She blushed,

Suddenly I remembered the dirty jokes the guests often made on the girls.

Chen Lu's score in the emotional control class at the base was a high score of Grade 2A. Hearing what Ziyuan said, he immediately became interested. "You can give me whatever you want. I just don't laugh!"

Ziyuan gently covered the vial with both hands, and Canran asked: "What if the guest loses?"

"I won't lose!" He felt very comfortable getting along with Ziyuan. He hadn't felt so relaxed for a long time. Chen Lu raised his head and said, "If you accidentally lose," he really had nothing to lose. He looked at the fingertips of his left hand.

The multifunctional ring flashed it in front of Zi Yuan's eyes, "I'll lose this to you!"

Ziyuan's pink face turned red, and she turned her head quickly, her eyes sparkling like water. "Guests, please don't joke, this is not allowed!"

Chen Lu didn't know Daning's customs. Betting on a ring requires lifelong responsibility. Seeing Ziyuan turn away, he knew that his joke was wrong. He was about to say, "If it doesn't work, let's stop betting." Suddenly he felt like there was something in his stomach.

The extremely funny loach was swimming around and laughing loudly without any awareness.

For a moment, Ziyuan's face seemed like a clown with rouge painted in colorful colors, the flower field was filled with water and the oil pan was exploding, the butterflies turned into ears and flew, and the bees turned into bubble gum and exploded.

Chen Lu would point at the strange thing and laugh for a while, then laugh again at the funny thing there, and then he would hold his stomach and laugh at his toes that had turned into earthworm heads. He laughed for a full two minutes before finally slowing down.

Slow down.

Laughter is the most contagious. Ziyuan on the side was teased by Chen Lu and covered her mouth with laughter. She finally stopped it. Ziyuan said: "How about it? I only secretly put a drop on your chest. If this bottle goes down..."

"Take it, take it, this bottle must not make the elephant laugh to death!" Chen Lu gave a thumbs up, looking at the multi-functional ring and felt really distressed, but if he said it, he would throw water away, and he would never do it again if he broke his promise.

When he arrived, he was about to reluctantly take off the ring when Ziyuan's cold fingertips pressed on the back of Chen Lu's hand.

"Guests, please don't take it seriously. It's just a joke. Ziyuan doesn't dare accept such a heavy gift."

Chen Lu borrowed the donkey from the slope and said: "If you lose, you lose. If you don't want the ring, I will find something good to give the girl!"

Ziyuan waved her hands repeatedly, and the two were polite for a while, then stood up and walked towards the pier again.

Chen Lu was really curious: "Girl, you said you can control your seven emotions and six desires. Then wouldn't you be able to control ordinary people?"

Zi Yuan felt ashamed and said: "I'm still far behind. I only successfully copied and studied the three emotions of joy, thinking, and fear, and the two emotions of fragrance and taste. The master of incense making only left the four emotions of joy, anger, thinking, and fear in his essay.

In harmony with the four desires of color, sound, smell, and taste, I am not very talented, and I have never understood the remaining two desires. Maybe God forbids me from spying on the art of making incense!"

Chen Lu was thinking about something else. He had always thought that Wu An Ting Xue was a brothel. When Zi Yuan talked about the methods of seven emotions and six desires, he naturally thought of aphrodisiacs, but he always felt awkward.

Ziyuan observed the words and guessed that men would definitely think of this, and added: "The incense making technique I learned does not contain the evil method of infatuation and arousal, not to mention that there is no record in the essay, even if there is, I don't bother to go there

Training, after all... after all, that is why the master of incense making failed!"

Chen Lu couldn't ask any more questions, so the two of them walked silently to the stone stacks on the waterfront. They could already see the figures of their teammates in the boat. Chen Lu waved and greeted, and Nishino Yumei responded in the boat.

Ziyuan stood quietly behind Chen Lu, her heart in confusion.
Chapter completed!