Floating Perfume Shop

Xiao Chongyun watched the live video of the rookie show on the middle-aged desktop computer in the store.He clicked the mouse, and it happened to freeze at the moment when Zhou Tianhao returned to the judges' seat after the midfield.Zhou Tianhao turned his head slightly to the audience, as if he was looking for something, then looked away for a moment, and continued to chat and laugh with the hostess.

The hostess asked: "Did you vote for contestant No. [-] because she is a beautiful woman?"

Zhou Tianhao smiled: "Because of all the 'Love Songs', her top notes and base notes are the most perfect. A good fragrance is like a woman's gauze, which needs to be taken off layer by layer. Of course, beauty is also a bonus one of the points."

He turned to the center of the studio, still smiling: "In comparison, the mistake made by contestant No. 16 was too straightforward. He took off all his clothes at once in front of the audience."

Zhang Song is the number 16 of streaking.Xiao Chongyun was laughing in front of the computer. After laughing, he felt something was wrong. When he turned around, he saw the little ghost standing silently behind him.

Boss Xiao pretended that he didn't smile just now, and said seriously: "Congratulations on the promotion."

The kid stayed put.

Boss Xiao finished his congratulations, turned back to the screen, and continued to click the start button.Just came to Zhang Wenshan to comment.In his capacity as the chairman of Yashe, he gave advice to the newcomers in a calm and slightly low voice.The hair on the forehead hangs down to cover the eyes, looking low-key and calm.Xiao Chongyun knew that although these suggestions sounded good, they were actually just casual perfunctory.This man never cared about anything.Everything in life is like floating clouds and flowing water to him, including the women who have been with him for so many years.

But if he didn't have this kind of character, he wouldn't have hit him so hard at the beginning.

Xiao Chongyun wanted to go back and listen to Zhang Wenshan's comments again, but the computer screen suddenly went black.

The kid stood behind him holding the power plug: "It's so sad to watch, why do you still watch it?"

Xiao Chongyun touched his bearded face and didn't answer, the kid asked: "You said you watched my game at the coffee shop outside."

"Sorry, I came back suddenly because of something urgent. I carefully re-read the parts you missed. Did you read it three times?"

The kid was still stubborn and said: "You said you would wait for me at the coffee shop outside."

Xiao Chongyun was at a loss, he always felt that he had overlooked something, and suddenly he was enlightened.He self-reflected and reached out to rub the top of the little devil's head: "Okay, I remembered, reward! Tomorrow is a paid vacation, don't come to the store to help, relax and prepare for the top 16! Don't thank me."

The little ghost turned his head and left, and soon heard the sound of closing the shop door.Xiao Chongyun rubbed his nose, feeling that he had raised a white-eyed wolf apprentice, no matter how coaxed he was unhappy.

Zhang Song really didn't come the next day, but he saw Zhou Tianhao when he opened the shop early in the morning.In the winter of December, Mr. Zhou smiled like a spring breeze: "Morning Senior Xiao. Didn't you see that puppy you raised today?"

"I gave him a holiday." Xiao Chongyun asked, "Is it really okay for the judges to come to the contestants during the competition?"

"I dismissed what the reporter said, and I was the only one who voted against Zhang Song in the last game—don't look at me like that, your pet's one less vote won't affect your promotion."

Zhou Tianhao complained that there was no heating in the store, and then went around each shelf, tried to smell the samples, and returned to Xiao Chongyun: "It's a step back."

"To what extent?"

He shook his head: "At least at the level of a third-rate perfumer."

"Excessive rough aroma, delicate ratio of raw materials, insufficient alcohol aging time..." Zhou Tianhao shook the glass bottle in his finger: "Is this made by Zhang Song?"

Xiao Chongyun corrected: "This is my work."

Zhou Tianhao laughed: "Senior Xiao is really getting more and more humorous. It's not a good habit to make fun of your own strength. I look forward to when the senior will make a work seriously, and we will have a showdown on the leaderboard."

Xiao Chongyun didn't know how to explain it.Does it mean that all the works in the store are carefully prepared, or does it mean that his sense of smell is no longer suitable for being a perfumer?He didn't say anything in the end, just turned his head to look at the sunlight falling on the window sill in winter.It was a warm honey color, but without any warmth.It just has the color of summer, but the temperature has long been cooled by the north wind.

There are not many Chinese students studying in Glass, but Xiao Chongyun can't remember what Zhou Tianhao was like back then.Sure enough, as Zhou Tianhao said, back then he was so arrogant that he could only see the people in front of him.For the eternal second, of course he doesn't need to remember what the other person looks like.A genius is only ever covered by the light of another genius.

Zhou Tianhao lay on the glass counter and asked, "Have you thought about the proposal I gave you yesterday? Join Lotus and work with me. I just received a project here, and only seniors can be competent. You know that Yashe is imitating Guerlain's melancholy (L'Heure Bleue)?"

Xiao Chongyun remembers "Melancholy", a work concocted in 1911 by Jacques Guerlain, the third generation descendant of the Guerlain family.It is said that it expresses the momentary scenery at the juncture of day and night at sunset—the earth and sky are covered with a layer of melancholy light blue, the world is open, and everything is silent.Three years later, the world war broke out. Looking back, this perfume actually expresses people's nostalgia for a peaceful and peaceful life when the war is imminent.

This is one of my mother's favorite perfume creations.When I was very young, my mother always liked to sit alone in front of the window, with a piece of perfume-dyed test paper on the low table in front of her, and there was always a cloudy sky outside the window.And "melancholy" is the taste that accompanied my mother for the longest time.Even when he grew up and was sent to study abroad in Grasse, the capital of perfume surrounded by lavender, whenever he thought of his mother, this quiet, calm, gorgeous, and complex fragrance would naturally appear in the air, as if it contained the aroma of old age stories.

Xiao Chongsheng shook his head: "I know about melancholy, but I don't know that Asher is imitating it. This is Guerlain, and every perfume has a top-secret Guerlain formula—could it be so easily imitated?"

Zhou Tianhao nodded: "Our Lotus imitation fragrance team failed, but I think you can imitate it successfully." He smiled and stretched out his hand: "I remember you five years ago, as long as you smelled a perfume, you could tell it on the spot ingredients. Senior, do you want to try it this time?"

Xiao Chongyun felt a little pain somewhere in his heart.He clearly knows that he is no longer suitable to be a perfumer, but he still stubbornly guards his small perfume shop.He spent all his money on fragrance equipment, but what he bought was still not at the same level as what he used back then.He can write down the precise formula of each prepared perfume from his memory, but before Zhang Song came here, he was not even sure whether the prepared perfumes smelled the same as the aroma imagined in his brain.Just like now, he clearly knows that he has lost the ability to imitate incense, but still, he can't help but want to hold Zhou Tianhao's extended hand.

He knew that he was just unwilling to leave the familiar world.

The dream of the early years went deep into the bone marrow, and the fragrance that was emitted could not be washed away even by time.

A verbal agreement was quickly reached.

"I took over this project alone as a partner. You will provide the raw materials. If necessary, I will borrow Lotus's laboratory. Zhang Song and I will take over together. Xiao Gui's imitation technology needs to be tempered."

"can."

Xiao Chongyun asked casually: "If it is imitation incense, how do you solve the patent problem? Even if the imitation is successful, it is impossible to sell it on the market."

Zhou Tianhao shook his finger and said with a smile: "It's not 'you' how to solve the patent problem, it's 'us'—we have reached a cooperation agreement just now."

"It will not be put on the market, it is just a publicity show, which proves that Lotus has perfect imitation fragrance ability. We didn't want to fight at first, but Yashe's publicity is too high-profile, saying that we have the best perfumer team in China, We've only fought once."

In other words, this project is not very important compared to other work of Lotus.

Zhou Tianhao kept laughing while explaining, and finally became serious when he laughed, "Although this is just a show, if we lose ugly, I will not be able to explain it to the company."

Xiao Chongyun suddenly thought of a question: "Then why don't you go to battle yourself?"

"Because I've been busy recently!"

Mr. Zhou, who has been very busy recently, proposed: "To celebrate that we haven't seen each other for many years, how about having a drink outside?"

The car that Zhou Tianhao borrowed from a friend was parked outside the store.Zhou Tianhao had a drink by himself, and told Boss Xiao that he could order Moutai as he wanted.In the past few years, Xiao Chongyun had almost no restraint. The two drank from afternoon to night, and Xiao Chongyun didn't remember at all how they got out of the hotel in the end.He was sure that he vomited. As for whether it was on the hotel carpet or on Zhou Tianhao's clothes, he didn't know at all.

When he woke up again, he was facing a pair of black and white eyes.

Boss Xiao was so frightened that he almost fell asleep again.

Zhou Tianhao was dressed like a dog in a shirt and tie, squatting on the edge of the bed and staring at his face.Seeing that someone woke up, he straightened up slightly, with a straight face: "You drank too much yesterday."

Zhou Tianhao didn't have the key to Xiao Chongyun's shop, and he didn't know where he lived, and he couldn't take the contestant's teacher back to the room that the organizing committee had arranged for the judges in Marriott, so he had to take him to find a hotel nearby.

Mr. Zhou summed it up happily: "Anyway, we had a room together last night."

"Your coat is a mess, I've sent it to be washed. These are the spare clothes I went back to pick up, you put them on first." He threw a few clothes on Xiao Chongyun, suddenly remembered something, and said lightly: "Yesterday you I vomited all over my face, and I shaved your beard while I was washing your face. You don’t need to thank me, it’s okay. Come and get dressed, handsome Xiao~”

Mr. Zhou walked away refreshed, but Xiao Chongyun still felt his head was heavy.He reluctantly tidied it up, and before going out, he looked at another bed next to him that had obviously slept in someone, and finally found a sense of incongruity: "Nimma, this guy actually booked a double bed room!"

When Boss Xiao returned to the store, the little ghost had already returned and was silently wiping the unused perfume bottle on the counter.Seeing the boss come back, the kid raised his eyelids to show he knew.

Halfway through the lift, it suddenly seemed to be struck by lightning.

"How did you play yesterday?" Xiao Chongyun was stunned for a moment, rubbing his chin: "Oh, I shaved. Is there a mirror? See the effect..."

Of course, the perfume shop has mirrors, and there is a display rack made up of mirrors at the entrance.Xiao Chongyun stood over, and the image was reflected into countless fragments from different angles.Each fragment is of a man in a black wool coat with his hands in his pockets.The coat was left open, revealing a brown vintage-style V-neck cardigan underneath.

The bangs are shorter than before, and the stubble of the beard can't be seen on the face, and the whole face is completely exposed.

The outline is clear, the facial features are deep, restrained and low-key.

This is a face that is not inferior even if it is placed in a fashion magazine.

This is the Xiao of the East.

Not only the beard, but even the hairstyle has changed!Xiao Chongyun took out his mobile phone and called Zhou Tianhao, wanting to inquire about the crime, but the line was busy.

Zhou Tianhao is calling Su Lan: "Well, I found Xiao Chongyun. He smokes and drinks too much. By the way, can you help me find out, is there any result?"

Comrade Su Lan, a free labor force, grimaced on the other end of the phone: "It seems that someone secretly paid a hush money. About what happened to Mr. Xiao Er back then, apart from what we know, we can't ask a single word."