Perfumer of the Republic of China

Wenda was speechless.

Wen Huo raised his hand and made a gesture of invitation, letting Liu Yanhuan behind the curtain.

Wen Da jumped up all of a sudden: "It's you? What are you doing here?!"

Wen Rulan hadn't seen Liu Yanhuan for a long time. He stared at Liu Yanhuan for a long time before asking in a trembling voice, "Is it... Yanhuan?"

"Grandpa!" Liu Yan smiled happily and bowed to Wen Rulan. "

A gleam of joy appeared on Wen Rulan's face, but she quickly calmed down and returned to a cold face.

"What are you here for?"

"I'm here to wish grandpa a new year."

"Your performance just now..." Wen Rulan was full of doubts.

But the topic was something he thought of randomly, and it was absolutely impossible for Liu Yanhuan to prepare in advance.

Realizing that Liu Yanhuan had really worked hard on Xiangdao, Wen Rulan was very pleased: "Don't be proud, and don't memorize the prescriptions by rote. Although the things of the predecessors can stand scrutiny, they can easily block your way of progress."

"Yes." Liu Yanhuan responded obediently, and finally raised a sweet smile, "Grandpa, I am very interested in the Tao of incense, and I want to practice with Grandpa."

Wen Rulan was fascinated by the smile on his face.

This smile is very similar to Wen Xi, the daughter of Wen's parents. Wen Rulan seemed to see her most beloved daughter, raised a bright little face, and said playfully: "Father, you are biased, I also want to learn the way of incense."

He still remembered that after Wen Xi got married, the servants sorted out three thick stacks of incense letters from her room.What Wen Rulan said in those years was recorded bit by bit by her, and Wen Rulan couldn't help but burst into tears.

Among the sons and daughters of the Wen family, Wen Xi is definitely the most talented.

Wen Rulan sighed more than once: "Xi'er, it would be great if you were a man."

Now, Liu Yanhuan's Wen Xi-like face overlapped with her daughter's face, and Wen Rulan heard the nightmare-like words again: "I want to practice the way of incense."

"I'm very strict." Wen Rulan frowned.

"Strict teachers produce high-quality apprentices, I will study hard."

Wen Rulan was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "You can borrow the books in Wen's house, and you can ask questions when you encounter problems."

"Thank you, Grandpa."

With Wen Rulan's promise, Liu Yan was relieved.

When he returned home, he found that the atmosphere in the Liu Mansion was a bit delicate.

Chen Guifang was covering her face and sobbing softly, while Liu Yanlin comforted her softly at the side.Liu Mingchong sat aside, with a somewhat embarrassed expression on his face.

Seeing Liu Yanhuan coming in, Liu Mingchong's face darkened suddenly: "Where did you go, you have been doing nothing all day long, when will you be able to look serious."

Liu Yanhuan softened her voice: "What's wrong?"

Liu Yanlin said with a bitter face: "Recently, there are funeral affairs at home, and the old lady mainly welcomes the fifth room aunt for my father."

Liu Mingchong sighed: "Guifang, this is what mother means. I know that you have paid a lot for this family these years, and I always like you."

Being coaxed by such gentle voices, Chen Guifang felt a little better, and with red eyes, she snarled twice, knowing that there was no room for maneuver in this matter.

On this day, it was written in the almanac that it was appropriate to marry, and the fifth aunt was carried in the door.

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Yanhuan met a modest young woman at the dinner table.

Liu Mingchong was newlywed, obviously very happy, pointing to a dish of bean curd soup on the table and said with a smile: "Come and taste your fifth aunt's cooking."

Liu Yanhuan tasted half a bowl, and the bean curd skin tasted like meat at first taste.

Liu Yanjun praised: "Auntie's Luo Han Zhai is very good, it tastes good."

Chen Guifang tapped the back of his hand with a chopstick: "It's delicious, but it's too petty. Can our Liu family afford meat?"

Liu Yanjun was knocked in pain, and howled at the top of her throat, and Fifth Yiniang also lowered her head amidst the howling.

Liu Mingchong slapped his chopsticks on the table, and said in a deep voice, "Could you stop early in the morning for a while, it's Kefang's first time cooking, Guifang, please take care of me."

Chen Guifang was scolded, staring at Cheng Kefang with a faint hatred in her eyes, she sat through breakfast without eating, and when she returned to her room, Chen Guifang smashed her favorite blue vase.

Nanny Liu looked at the broken porcelain on the floor distressedly: "Ma'am, why are you angry with such a small person? Turning around hurts your body."

"You didn't see her delicate white lotus appearance. She bowed her head and pouted her lips after I said a few words, and she was just pretending to show the master. Everything soft and easy to handle is all pretending. And she That name, what’s wrong with it, it’s Kefang, Kefang Kefang, and it’s just aimed at me.”

There was a trace of worry on Liu Mama's face: "Ma'am, there is nothing else besides, but the name of the fifth concubine is indeed unlucky. I heard people say that if such names conflict with each other, it is best to go to the temple to ask for help." A talisman to destroy those evil spirits aimed at you."

"To the temple?"

"That's right, it's the third lady's funeral. If I go to the Xiangrui Temple, I can do a water and land ceremony."

Chen Guifang thought for a moment, then nodded: "You are right."

Liu Yanhuan was reading a book borrowed by Wen's family in the Huxin Pavilion, when she suddenly saw Wu Yiniang walking towards the Huxin Pavilion with her maidservants, she got up and saluted.

Cheng Kefang smiled back and said, "The young master is too polite."

Liu Yanhuan carefully looked at Cheng Kefang's attire. She was wearing an improved blue gown and fat cotton trousers, with a thin layer of white makeup powder on her face, and a faint melancholy between her brows.

Seeing her staring at the swimming fish in the pond, Liu Yanhuan smiled and said, "The fish in the pond are all human, so Auntie can feed them some bread crumbs."

The maid behind her handed over a small bag of steamed bread crumbs at the right time, and Cheng Kefang happily took it, and fed the fish with some crumbs with her fingers.

Seeing the gathered fish eating happily, Cheng Kefang handed the fish food to Liu Yanhuan: "Try it."

Liu Yanhuan squeezed and sprinkled the fish food into the pond: "When my third sister is around, she always likes to come here to feed the fish."

Cheng Kefang sighed softly: "It's good. I used to be very hungry, so I climbed to the tree to pick fruits and eat them. I didn't have any extra food to feed the fish."

Liu Yanhuan glanced at Cheng Kefang with some surprise: "Auntie can climb trees? I see Auntie's demeanor, and I think you come from a scholarly family."

"Young Master, it's absurd. In the past, chopping firewood and sharpening knives, and lighting a fire to cook are what I often do. I don't know anything about poetry, books, and musical instruments."

While the two were talking, someone sent by Chen Guifang arrived.

"The young master, the fifth wife, and the second wife said that on the fifteenth day, we should all go to Xiangrui Temple to pray for blessings, and by the way, do a water and land ceremony for the third lady."

Cheng Kefang's handkerchief accidentally dropped on the ground, Liu Yanhuan bent down and picked it up: "Okay, we got it, you go back to your wife."

The maid walked away, and Liu Yanhuan returned the handkerchief to Cheng Kefang: "My aunt's face is a little pale, but she's not feeling well?"

"It's not a problem, maybe it's because the wind is strong here, and it blows a little hard."

Liu Yanhuan nodded, and went back to pack her things first.

On the day of departure, Chen Guifang led the women and men to Xiangrui Temple, and the monks in the temple rushed out to greet them.

Chen Guifang looked around, wondering, "Why don't you see Master Shikong?"

"The abbot went to meet a distinguished guest, and specifically asked me to wait here for everyone."

Liu Yanhuan was stunned inwardly, the Liu family was considered a respectable family in Ningcheng, and today there is even a more distinguished guest than the Liu family.

After a group of people had dinner in the Zhaitang, the monk led the members of the Liu family to visit the layout of the Buddhist temple.The dojo for water and land rituals has been set up, and next to it is Liu Jingzhi's virtual mourning hall.The actual coffin has been buried, and now it is just a clothes tomb.

There was an endless stream of pilgrims in the main hall, and Chen Guifang led them to offer incense in front of the hall.Cheng Kefang opened the cabinet of the desk, took out incense sticks from inside and distributed them to everyone.After the incense was over, Chen Guifang went to the side hall to find monks to eliminate evil and evil spirits.

The side hall is more like a monk's private residence. If it is said that the front of the hall is full of flowers and brocade, and the fire cooks oil, then the side hall has completely changed its appearance.When Liu Yanhuan stepped into this place, the first feeling was silence.

The voices of the people in the main hall were isolated from the door, and the furnishings in the room were simple, with only two or three futons, a desk and a few boxes, and a young-looking monk was copying something in front of the desk.

When Liu Yanhuan and his party entered the door, the monk looked up at them, and after finishing the last stroke, he clasped his palms together and said, "Amitabha." Chen Guifang knelt down on the futon very enthusiastically, and looked at the monk earnestly.

"I don't know what the master's name is?"

"The poor monk's Dharma name is Shihuai, he is just an ordinary monk in the temple, and the benefactor praises him a lot."

Liu Yanhuan looked at Shi Hua carefully, and saw that he had delicate features and calm demeanor, although he was young, his words were quite convincing.

"The benefactor came here today, what is he asking?"

Chen Guifang sighed softly: "I want to ask about the future of the family."

Shi Huai took out the rice paper from the cabinet and handed it to Chen Guifang: "Please also write a word on the paper."

Chen Guifang thought about it for a while, and finally wrote the word "Ke" on the paper.

Shi Huai stared at the word for a long while, then picked up a pen and wrote a six-character explanation on the paper: "The princes and generals have no kind, and a bright future can be expected. The cattail grass looks weak, but in fact it is dignified and strong. There are both wealth and heirs, only sigh There is a time to gather and disperse."

Chen Guifang couldn't understand what was next to her, only the two sentences "I can look forward to a bright future" and "I have both wealth and children" made her extremely happy.He happily accepted Jieyu, and added a lot of incense money to the sesame oil barrel beside him.

After Chen Guifang, a group of people either asked for a lottery or tested their characters to predict good or bad luck.When it was Liu Yanhuan's turn, Shi Huai frowned.

"The fate of the benefactor...is rare to see. It was already exhausted earlier, but it was continued for some reason, and there is a good omen of good luck. This is not like a natural fate, but like someone Pushed behind her..." Shi Huai's voice became softer and softer, Liu Yanhuan couldn't hear clearly, and asked: "What's wrong? But what's the phenomenon?"

"There is no vision, and the donor is a blessed person, good, good."