i don't want to be emperor

Wang Shizhen is a very special person.

To be honest, this man who became an imperial merchant, almost standing at the top of all merchants, did not actually have a strong business talent.In other words, he was not a businessman at all.

The reason why he was able to make incense that made him become the daughter of a world-famous imperial merchant from an unknown person is because he has a sense of smell and a keen nose, which allows him to smell many things that ordinary people can't smell. .

In Wang Shizhen's world, sunlight has a smell, flames have a smell, and even human emotions have a smell.

When he was a child, he couldn't understand these overly complicated and stimulating feelings, so he could only cry all day and all night, and the approach of his parents would only make him cry more terribly, and he would not stop until he lost the strength to cry .

Finally, Wang Shizhen's parents, who were just two ordinary people, could no longer bear his torment of crying for no reason in their opinion, and abandoned him.

A single old man passing by followed the crying, found Wang Shizhen in the cradle by the side of the road, and brought him home.Perhaps because of living alone for many years, the old man did not dislike Wang Shichen because of his crying, and took care of him patiently.

When Wang Shizhen grew up, he was finally able to bear the impact of the complex tastes around him for a baby, and he stopped crying for this reason.

When he was six or seven years old, he finally discovered his specialness, and the old man who also knew this taught him to hide his specialness, and sent him to a kind teacher nearby Opened the school to go to Kaimeng.

The teacher's name is He Jin, a middle-aged man in his 40s, gentle and polite.His school is for children from poor families who cannot afford private schools. The fees are very low. If the family is really in trouble, there is no need to charge.

Of course, he will only accept children under the age of ten, teach them some of the most basic things, give them enlightenment, and he will not teach the knowledge that can really obtain fame.It's not that he doesn't want to teach, but it's very difficult to learn those knowledge without books, and the cost of books cannot be paid by his students' families.

Moreover, if he only charged such a low fee to teach these knowledge in the school, it would be tantamount to destroying the business of the teachers in the surrounding private schools.At that time, he will not even be able to open this school.

Simply, most of the children from these poor families do not need to learn those things, and after reaching a certain age, they have to go to the fields to help in order to support the family's food and clothing.

The old man who adopted Wang Shizhen was a hunter. Although his physical strength was declining due to his age, his trapping methods and experience allowed him to hunt some small prey from time to time, which not only maintained his and Wang Shizhen’s life, but also If there is spare energy, send him to the school to learn something.

Too keen sense of smell made Wang Shizhen very withdrawn in the school, never with other children, always staying alone in the corner.

His solitary behavior attracted the attention of He Jin's daughter, He Yao. When He Yao approached him, Wang Shichen also noticed that He Yao had a very unique fragrance. It was even able to cover up the smell of other people, making him intoxicated.

It is very easy for Wang Shizhen, who can perceive other people's emotions by smell, to become friends with people.Therefore, in the eyes of others, Wang Shichen and He Yao became a pair of very good friends, they can be said to be standard childhood sweethearts.

He Yao's mother passed away when she was born, and He Jin has always cherished his daughter. If it weren't for the fact that Wang Shitong was a good, studious and polite child in his eyes, he would Nor will they rest assured that the relationship between the two of them will develop naturally.

Ten years later, the old man passed away, and the grown-up Wang Shidan inherited his craft and became a hunter as well.During these ten years, the relationship between him and He Yao has developed very well, almost to the point of discussing marriage.

For Wang Shichen, if he had to spend his whole life with a woman, it would be best if this woman was He Yao.Therefore, when he felt that the time was right, Wang Shizhen went into the deep mountains, hoping to hunt a prey strong enough to propose marriage to He Jin.

As an ordinary person with a relatively strong body, Wang Shizhen's self-confidence comes from his keen sense of smell and the hunting techniques taught to him by the old man.

Just like now, it is obviously the first time that Wang Shizhen has gone so deep into this mountain forest, but Wang Shizhen behaved as if he is very familiar with this place, and soon began to set up his own trap in a suitable place.After setting up the trap, he skillfully followed a beast path to an abandoned cave.

This cave originally belonged to a powerful brown bear, but not long ago this brown bear had a fight with another overlord of this forest, a female tiger, and was driven out of the forest after losing the fight. It was discarded.

As for how Wang Shizhen knew, of course he could smell it.Based on the smell he smelled and the knowledge the old man taught him, it is not difficult to make such an inference.

After a fire was lit in the cave, Wang Shizhen took out the wild fruits he picked on the road and the dry food he brought with him, and was about to finish his dinner when he suddenly noticed something strange.

This cave is not too big, and it can be seen clearly under the reflection of the fire, and there is nothing strange about it.However, Wang Shizhen could smell a smell that did not belong to this cave, and it floated out from a certain corner of the cave.

Wang Shichen followed the direction where the smell came from, and came to the cave wall. After some searching, he accidentally opened a hidden mechanism, and a crack suddenly appeared on the original intact mountain wall. A strange smell drifted out from this crack.

At that time, Wang Shizhen didn't think too much, and directly reached out and took out a tightly wrapped book from the gap.There was nothing on the cover of the book, but after opening the book, Wang Shizhen saw a very frightening picture.

On the screen is the back of a seemingly obese person, who is hung upside down somewhere, with a basin containing something placed under his head, and where his neck meets his back, scratched A hole was opened, as if some kind of liquid flowed out of the hole and fell into the basin below.

And next to this picture, there is also a lit oil lamp, with two large characters written on the top of the oil lamp: Human Candle.

Appearing in front of Wang Shitong together with this picture is the method of making human candles and its effects.

Wang Shizhen closed the book abruptly, wanting to throw it directly into the fire, but hesitated for some reason.

After struggling for a while, he finally opened the book again. This time, what he saw was the method of making daughter incense.

In this hunting, Wang Shizhen found nothing and returned to his home empty-handed.After staying at home for three days, he finally went out and asked He Yao out.

According to the method recorded in the book, Wang Shizhen successfully produced the daughter incense that fascinated him.He buried He Yao's body in the backyard of a nearby rich manor.

This manor is not the place where the rich people live every day. They only come here to escape the heat in the hottest summer, so now there are only a few servants who maintain and clean the villa on a daily basis, and they don’t live in the villa. The movement made is relatively large, and there is no trouble.

After doing this, Wang Shizhen left his hometown and began to wander around.At the very beginning, he didn't have the idea of ​​using his daughter incense for profit, but just used it himself.

However, after he used another girl to make daughter incense again, he discovered a problem.Although the newly made Daughter Fragrance is also very attractive, it does not have the feeling of being intoxicated by him the first time.

After thinking for a long time, Wang Shichen understood that only a girl like He Yao who already had a fragrance that fascinated him could make the kind of daughter fragrance he wanted.

The ones that are made now are just defective products.

Therefore, when a spice merchant discovered the daughter incense he made and proposed the idea of ​​selling it, Wang Shizhen did not refuse.

The cooperation between him and the spice merchant was pretty good. He provided daughter incense, and the spice merchant was in charge of sales.

Until the businessman began to spy on the method of making daughter incense and sent people to follow him, Wang Shizhen, who didn't want anyone to discover his secret, had no choice but to kill the businessman first and stood in front of the stage by himself.

Simply, Wang Shizhen was a very smart person, and the dead spice merchant had almost paved the way, so in the second year of Wang Shizhen's becoming a merchant, he became a businessman and was called The imperial merchant that all merchants envy.

It's just that Wang Shizhen still feels dissatisfied.

Ordinary daughter fragrances can't satisfy him. What he wants has always been the fragrance that he made for the first time that year, which fascinates him.

For many years, Wang Shizhen, who has been subconsciously avoiding him, finally decided to return to the place where he grew up, the place where he left, his hometown: Ningcheng in the fifth year of becoming an imperial merchant.

The author has something to say: I have just started, and smart readers have already guessed what I am going to write. You make me very embarrassed (laughing and crying)