After the prosperous Tang Dynasty

Princess Xinchang came and went quickly, but the scroll she left behind was firmly held by Mrs. Pei.

What is drawn in the picture is the villain who hurt her precious daughter who was on the cusp of her heart, and whom she loved so much but couldn't feel enough?

"Ah?" Xiao Hua held Pei's hand gently with one hand. Compared with women, men's fingertips are always wider and warmer. Such a familiar temperature made Pei's heart move slightly, slightly She looked back at him in a daze.

Xiao Hua stood beside Pei, and the husband and wife went back together. After entering the house together, they found that the three children had put down their bowls and chopsticks. What are you three doing?"

As the elder brother, Xiao Heng looked calm, and while motioning for his younger siblings to sit down, he replied with a smile: "I just didn't expect that Princess Xinchang would come and go in such a hurry."

Xiao Yansui's eyes fell on the scroll in Mrs. Pei's hand, and she didn't know what was inside. Mrs. Pei's onion-like fingers were firmly stuck to it, and even the outside of the scroll was covered She made two fingerprints.

"Aniang, what's the matter?" Xiao Yansui asked.

Xiao Hua helped Mrs. Pei to sit down, and then said: "Ah, give the picture scroll to Sanlang!"

Even so, Xiao Hua didn't mean to hide it from Xiao Wu and Xiao Yansui, but continued to say to Xiao Heng: "In the market, there are often brokers with many connections and communication with all kinds of religions."

Xiao Heng immediately understood the points in Xiao Hua's words.

——If you want to find a few people from the market place, it will take more effort than sending out your own troops. It is better to be in the market place. Naturally, there are "ordinary people" who specialize in this job and can do this kind of thing well.

With a move in his heart, Xiao Heng immediately nodded and said yes, showing a faint smile, "Don't worry, Aye."

Mrs. Pei pursed her lips lightly, and a maidservant stepped forward, wanting to reach out to take the scroll in her hand and hand it to Saburo, but Mrs. Pei did not let go, and in the next second, she directly opened the scroll, and The appearance of the three vicious gangsters in the painting can be fully seen, their eyes are as sharp as hooks, as if they can tear their flesh off the picture scroll.

Xiao Hua saw it, but she still didn't know, it was because of her daughter's injury.

Gently patted the back of his wife's hand to comfort him, and said softly: "Although these three people have been silenced by the mastermind behind the scenes, but we have to investigate carefully, maybe we can find some clues , and then be able to find out who is behind them."

As soon as Xiao Hua's words came out, Xiao Heng and Xiao Yansui, who had vaguely expected just now, were fine, but the other maids and servants in the room suddenly changed their expressions, and took a breath of air-conditioning silently. It's because I haven't seen the picture scroll, how can I not know the content of this picture scroll?

Xiao Yansui's focus was different from everyone else's. Compared to the fact that everyone was gnashing their teeth at the three villains who kidnapped her, Xiao Yansui's first thought was the source of this picture scroll.

"Is the scroll a gift from Princess Xinchang?" Xiao Yansui blinked in confusion and asked directly.Although she knew it was definitely not.

Mrs. Pei was stunned for a moment before replying: "Princess said it was a gift from Princess Li Wenning of the Crown Prince's East Palace."

Xiao Hua didn't say much, and carefully looked at the contents of the picture scroll. This kind of brushstrokes are already quite strong, and when they are written and finished, they are quite handsome. Judging from Xiao Hua's eyes, [-]% of them are from men It doesn't look like it was written by the princess.

The fingers of Xiao Hua's left hand lightly tapped the wrist of his right hand, and after thinking about it for a while, he felt that the origin of this painting was probably not just the work of Li Wenning, the princess.

Goodwill from the Prince of Donggong?

With a slight smirk, Xiao Hua didn't express the guessing in his heart, but he just planned to tell his father Xiao Song all the things that happened this morning later.

Xiao Yansui thought for a while before remembering that in Ximing Temple that day, they did meet Li Chu, Li Wenning and Li Tan, the eldest sons of the crown prince who had just finished their vegetarian dishes not long ago - and one of them had been staring at him. Looking at the mosquito bag on her face, she is quite focused and curious =_=

Moreover, Zhang Dai, Jiulang of Duke Yan, also said that he met three cousins ​​and dealt with a few thugs in the market. The group of rascals I just met.

But, then again, from being kidnapped to escaping and meeting Zhang Dai, this time is actually not too short, and the three kidnappers should have met Zhang Dai first on the way out after tying themselves up. , and was silenced...

Xiao Yansui thought about it, and it was not enough to smooth out the situation of that day in her mind. She just wanted to take out a pen and draw a simple map around Ximing Temple, and then according to the The location changes are well marked, and combined with the uncertain time and the speed of your own pace, you can roughly calculate the path of the three street rogues. However, on this basis, the area where the murderer is located , is also delineated.

Xiao Yansui has always been a quick-doer, after making up her mind, she raised her head and glanced at Xiao Heng.

Noticing the look in his sister's hand, Xiao Heng was puzzled, but he hid it well, and didn't tell his father and mother that after the second half of the breakfast, which had become quite tasteless because of their own concerns, was over. Afterwards, Xiao Heng took the scroll from his mother, but walked with his younger sister Xiao Yansui, and said with a smile, "I'll send Liu Niang back to the hospital to rest first."

Xiao Wu couldn't help but yelled again: "Then what about me?"

"Brother, you go to study." Xiao Yansui said lazily, and replied crisply.

"Goro, go study." Almost in unison with his sister, Xiao Heng also said with a smile.

Xiao Wu opened his mouth, and at that moment, even his lips seemed to tremble slightly.

He understands the truth, but why is life so difficult QAQ

After leaving Pei's house, Xiao Heng handed over the scroll to Axiu for the time being, but he picked up his younger sister and carried her all the way back to the courtyard before he asked with a smile: "Six Mother is looking for brother, but what do you want to say?"

"Brother, can you find the map around Ximing Temple?" Xiao Yansui patted him on the shoulder lightly, signaling Xiao Heng to put himself down, and the little girl's voice was clear and sweet, like an oriole out of the valley.

Xiao Heng thought for a moment, then smiled indifferently and said, "What's so difficult about it?"

Xiao Yansui thought he had a ready-made map in his hand, but Xiao Heng simply sat in front of the desk in Xiao Yansui's study, took a pair of white jade paperweights on the desk, and took the whole map After laying out the paper on the table, he casually took a brush with a well-proportioned barrel from the pen holder.

However, there are two pen holders on Xiao Yansui's table, one is full of normal writing brushes, some are thick and some are thin, and the other is filled with the ones she used to write chemical equations and draw equipment manufacturing diagrams. quill or charcoal.

Just as Xiao Heng took the pen in his hand, he felt that the weight was not right. He carefully looked at the strange-shaped pens at his sister's place. He found it interesting, so he simply took the quill pen and dipped it in ink, and it was still flowing like flowing water. On the paper, half the outline of Ximing Temple and the surrounding topographical map were drawn.

Xiao Yansui looked in amazement at Xiao Heng's writing like a divine help, some of the buildings in Ximing Temple were so clearly born from his hands, for a moment, there was only one thought - it's a pity that this brother can't study civil engineering... …

Undoubtedly, the parts Xiao Heng drew were all the parts he had walked in Ximing Temple, and the misty blank space was naturally a place he had never set foot on. However, just like this, for Xiao Yansui to think In terms of things to do, it is actually more than enough.

Xiao Yansui himself has only a little knowledge of civil construction, at most, because he has a better understanding of engineering mechanics, so he has a little understanding of architectural knowledge.

She does know that the most basic measure of land and simple drawing in the civil engineering major is actually to use her own steps to measure. It is simple and easy, but it is also difficult to say that it is difficult, especially when Xiao Heng was not prepared at all before. Xiao Yansui can't help but sigh to himself that he can write so simply and thoughtfully.

When Xiao Heng put away the pen, he couldn't help but look at the quill pen in his hand again. The ink is well-proportioned, which saves the effort of writing and dipping the ink. He couldn't help laughing: "Liu Niang This one is really interesting."

Xiao Yansui stretched out her hand, and the little hand wrapped into a white steamed bun picked up the pen in Xiao Heng's hand quite smoothly, and threw it directly into the clear water pool next to it.

For a moment, unused ink overflowed from the tip of the quill pen, because the particles in the ink made Brownian motion in the water, and the clear water in the pool soon seemed to be surrounded by a layer of faint mist.

"Brother, do you like it? Then I'll give you a few!" Xiao Yansui said lightly, and motioned to Axiu, and Axiu took more than a foot from the treasure shelf standing in front of one wall of the study. The long wooden box comes out.

Axiu originally wanted to open the box and take out a few quills from inside to give to Xiao Heng, but Xiao Yansui was quite generous and said directly: "Don't choose."

Axiu was slightly taken aback, and then recalled, she placed all the pens in this box next to the scroll that Xiao Heng had brought over before—this is to give all the pens in this box to Xiao Heng Meaning.

"..." Axiu didn't take it anymore, but Xiao Heng felt a bit ridiculous. He stretched out his hand and opened the wooden box quite casually, and saw that there were many pens neatly arranged inside, and almost every The roots are exactly the same as the one in Xiao Yansui's pen holder, presumably from the same craftsman.

"Sister is really generous..." Xiao Heng's exclamation was absolutely sincere.

Xiao Yansui didn't take it seriously, anyway, goose feathers are easy to find, and they are readily available in the kitchen. For those carpenters who are proficient in fine craftsmanship, it really doesn't take much effort to make some pen holders that only need to be polished smooth and not pricked. Yan Sui said he wanted it in the morning, and it took him half a day to get a lot of it in the afternoon.

"Do you want a charcoal pencil? I have it here too!" Xiao Yansui glanced at her pen holder, and casually took out a Tang Dynasty copycat pencil from it.

Especially after pushing Xiao Heng, who was still looking at the quill pen, away from the table, Xiao Yansui sat here directly, holding a pencil, and began to write marks on the map that Xiao Heng had just drawn.

——At noon, Lu met three people in the Prince's East Palace.

——Two quarters after noon, Yunxiu and I went to rest in the Zen courtyard in the backyard of Ximing Temple. After a short sleep, we became unconscious.

——At some point in the afternoon, I woke up from the abandoned house of the Orion on the top of the mountain, and the shadow cast by the sun outside the window was less than an inch.

——At some point in the afternoon, after breaking free from the rope, he came out of the Orion's house, and the length of his own shadow was about one-third of his height.

In the back, Xiao Yansui naturally couldn't tell the time, so Xiao Yansui left empty time slots in the afternoon and didn't fill them in. However, she still clearly remembered the windows, trees, and even the time points at each time point. The length of her own shadow.

With these evidences, if you want to know the time at that time, it is actually possible to use the height of the sun to calculate it directly. If you want to be simpler, just wait until this afternoon, when the length of the shadow is about the same, look at the current time, and it is the same .

In just two or three days, although the altitude of the sun will change, but based on this rough calculation, the time change that can be affected can be said to be insignificant.

In this way, when Xiao Yansui clearly marked the time and people of each place on this map, it would be the simplest and straightforward itinerary question.

Although many figures need to be estimated, combined with the conclusions drawn by Wu Zuo's autopsy and the experience of Zhang Dai and others, it is entirely possible to use operations research to plan a part of the path of the murderer, and then reverse the murderer's path. The path of the murderer was inserted into the itinerary map, with the place where the three street thugs were killed as the center of the circle, and some buildings that might be involved in the Ximing Temple were circled.

"There are many monks in Ximing Temple, even if there are more uncertain clues, in the end, the clues that can be used have become much richer." Xiao Yansui murmured almost to himself.

In her view, the whole process is like solving a system of linear equations in N variables.

There are many unknowns, but there are also many interrelationships between the unknowns. What she needs to do now is to unravel the cocoon and eliminate the large number of unknowns one by one. In the end, only the one she wants is left, and then come up with the answer.

Of course, because the words on this picture were added in front of Xiao Heng, Xiao Yansui certainly would not write out the calculation process involving distance, displacement, time, speed, etc. It is enough to come up with the value, and then it falls on the paper, which is similar to the guessing process of "from the foot of the mountain to the tea shop, about a stick of incense time".

Xiao Hengchu was still a little puzzled at the beginning. After Xiao Yansui had marked the path of the people, the location of the murder and the time difference between each incident on the simple map he had just hand-drawn, and then based on the walking Speed, and then calculate the location and duration of another event, what else does Xiao Heng not understand?

Seeing that Xiao Yansui finally drew a dotted line with a pencil to delineate a part of the Ximing Temple complex, Xiao Heng recalled the layout of the Ximing Temple meditation room in his mind, and he knew it well, and he meditated secretly.

After Xiao Yansui finished the work, he was going to hand over this map to Xiao Heng. However, Xiao Heng flicked the tip of his sister's nose lightly and didn't take it over. After scanning the map for a while, he smiled confidently and even a bit conceitedly: "The content marked in the map has been memorized by my brother. If this map has no other uses, Liu Niang would be a good person." Might as well destroy it."

After hearing this, Xiao Yansui had no doubts about what Xiao Heng said, and her movements were straightforward enough, she directly pulled the picture out from under the paperweight, and said without looking back: "The brazier?"

Axiu, who was completely stunned, paused for a moment, then hurriedly turned around to fetch the brazier.

Xiao Yansui didn't feel bad at all, just casually rolled up the piece of paper that both brothers and sisters had put a lot of effort into just now, crumpled it into a ball of waste paper, and threw it into the brazier. A piece of paper filled with Linglong's thoughts, only a piece of paper ashes remained, which seemed to be no different from the burned paper ashes at the bottom of the basin.

Xiao Heng's gaze flashed past the ashes and confetti left in the brazier, he reached out with a smile, rubbed his sister's head lightly, and said in his mouth: "Don't worry, Liu Niang, brother will take care of himself." Investigate this matter."

However, under the tenderness of brotherhood, a curious and puzzling thought flew past Xiao Heng's mind.Except for today, Liuniang, a quirky little girl, burnt something that might be interesting or shocking every day?

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After Xiao Heng left with the box of pens and the scroll sent by Princess Xinchang, Xiao Yansui also turned around and said to Axiu: "Go to the kitchen to see if there are any ready-made ice cubes, and then go get some ice cubes." A few bottles of soju."

Ah Xiu understands that this is the distilling of shochu again.

"Just keep an eye on it, isn't it a problem?" Xiao Yansui took out another piece of paper from under the stack of papers while talking, looking at the process of making soap that she wrote on it last night, a little picky eyebrow.

Axiu nodded immediately, "My servant understands."

After a pause, seeing Xiao Yansui's gaze was still lingering on the "caustic soda", Axiu said again: "My servant has sent people to buy caustic soda. If I want to come, I will be back before noon."

Xiao Yansui nodded, Axiu's remarks were consistent with what she said yesterday.

The so-called saponification reaction, in simple terms, is generally to mix sodium hydroxide and oil, and then generate higher fatty acid sodium and glycerin.Among them, higher fatty acid sodium is the main component of soap; as for glycerin, it can be mixed with water in any proportion and has good moisturizing properties.Speaking of which, glycerin is the most common ingredient in many skin care products.

As for Xiao Yansui, she wanted soap, in fact, for the purpose of washing, what's more, sodium fatty acid itself is alkaline, while the pH value of the surface of human skin is in the weakly acidic range, although the skin itself has the ability to regulate Recovery ability, but if you encounter people with sensitive skin, the soap itself can easily cause allergies.

Regardless of whether it was useful or not, Xiao Yansui thought about it for a while, then withdrew his thoughts, and continued to focus on his own piece of paper.

In fact, her thoughts are similar to Xiao Heng's. Some things are more reliable in her own mind. If they are recorded on paper, they will inevitably be seen by others. Although it may not cause trouble, it is still an uncertainty after all. hidden dangers.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yansui glanced at the brazier next to her - yesterday's distillation device blueprint had already been burned, but the entire copycat version of the distillation device was still placed in her study.It's just that those experimental equipment are too rough, unless they are seen by people who are proficient in this way, otherwise, in the eyes of most people, they will only be regarded as toys that are whimsical for children.

Axiu just went out, and after ordering two maids to go to the kitchen to fetch ice cubes and other things, she had already started to set up the distillation device again. With a piece of paper in her hand, Xiao Yansui still watched with relish as they were not carelessly proficient. The movement - this reminded her of the scene in the laboratory. Although it has spanned a thousand years, it is actually quite interesting if you look at it this way.

Near noon, the sun was shining brightly outside the window, and the cicadas were chirping.

At this time, through the distillation device that Axiu had been staring at all morning, two more bottles had been collected, and it was unclear whether it should be called alcohol or purified shochu.

The bottle was still wax-sealed immediately after bottling to prevent the alcohol inside from volatilizing and absorbing water. Xiao Yansui shook the bottle of "alcohol" in his hand, somewhat dumbfounded.

——Originally, it was because of an injury to her finger, and she thought that she could not delay any longer, and wanted to get some disinfectant alcohol to use as soon as possible, but it turned out to be fine now, the wound on her hand was almost scabbed and healed, and the alcohol turned into The best baijiu was used as a gift by my grandfather and maternal grandfather.

In Xiao Yansui's previous life, he was never fond of good wine. As for this life, he was only five years old, and the time was too short to make a direct conclusion. However, because of his memory bonus and his mature mind, Xiao Yansui felt that he probably still wouldn't I am interested in wine.

It just so happened that all the distillation equipment was about to be packed here, and Axiu sent out some servants to buy some caustic soda, and they had already bought the things and sent them back.

Xiao Yansui immediately became interested, and her mood also became excited.

"Axiu, what about the other things I want, lard, spices, and copper pots?"

Axiu looked at the caustic soda stored in the porcelain jars, and because she was worried that Xiao Yansui would be injured accidentally, she couldn't help but tremble with fear, and felt her heart pounding, almost jumping out of her throat.

After a pause, A Xiucai said with difficulty: "I told the kitchen in the morning that the water drops on the lid of the pot have already been collected. The servant girl will go to the kitchen to get them back."

"Okay." Xiao Yansui said briskly.

Axiu took a few quick steps outside, but couldn't help turning her head around, and saw Xiao Yansui still looking at the pot of caustic soda with great interest, and even made some movements to identify it carefully. Immediately, she was frightened out of her wits, and said in a trembling voice, "Liu, Liu Niang!"

"Hey?" Xiao Yansui raised her head, wondering why Axiu didn't leave, "Do you have anything else to do?"

Axiu took a deep breath, almost crying out of anxiety, she ran back a few steps suddenly, pulled Xiao Yansui, separated her from the caustic soda in the ceramic pot by several steps, and then got busy He opened his mouth and said: "Caustic soda is dangerous, what Liu Niang wants to do, just tell the servant girl, don't come near it yourself..."

When Xiao Yansui thought about it, she could understand it.

Not to mention it is now, even in the laboratories of later generations, things like strong acid and strong alkali have always been classified as dangerous goods, especially since her current body is really just a child, Axiu couldn't help but worry. , is also human nature.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yansui didn't make things difficult for her, and simply nodded: "Okay, you can go get the things first! I just don't want to intervene later."

Receiving Xiao Yansui's promise, Axiu breathed a sigh of relief, and finally showed a smiling face, and her pace became three points lighter, "Liu Niang wait a moment, the servant girl will go right away."

Sodium hydroxide is the most common necessary chemical in chemical laboratories. Pure sodium hydroxide should be a colorless and transparent crystal with a density of 2.13 grams per cubic centimeter.But now, the can of sodium hydroxide placed in front of Xiao Yansui was in the form of lumps visible to the naked eye, slightly dark in color, and contained some impurities.What's more, because of the industrial conditions of the Tang Dynasty, it was doomed that caustic soda cannot be completely sealed and stored, which naturally caused the surface of the caustic soda block to inevitably react with water and carbon dioxide in the air.

After a while, Axiu came back with several maidservants carrying distilled water, lard, and copper pots and spoons.

Xiao Yansui pointed to the board-foot table on the ground, and after putting down all the things, several maidservants stepped back, Xiao Yansui stood by the side and circled around the board-foot table twice, his eyes seemed to be shining brightly, looking Only after Axiu felt thrilled, she said with a smile in her tender and soft voice, "Take out some caustic soda, put it in a beaker—well, just put it in a copper pot, and then slowly add distilled water To dissolve, use the copper spoon to dissolve slowly while stirring gently."

A bold and careful servant listened, picked up the copper spoon, scooped a large spoonful of caustic soda and put it in the pot.

Seeing this, Xiao Yansui opened her eyes slightly, and hurriedly added: "Don't directly touch the water with your caustic soda-stained spoon, slowly add distilled water along the side of the pot little by little, and then Stir slowly, being careful not to burn it or splash caustic soda on your hands."

The servants agreed one by one, Xiao Yansui was so cautious, other people's movements also became cautious, because of nervousness, Axiu looked at it without blinking, and even the rapid heartbeats of the people around her followed. become extraordinarily clear.

The exact same act of adding water and stirring slowly, as if going on forever.Because caustic soda heats up when it meets water, some bubbles also appeared during the period, and the bottom of the copper pot also became hotter.

Xiao Yansui waited until the sodium hydroxide aqueous solution in the copper pot became clear and transparent, and then said again: "Stir for a while, and when the water temperature cools down, it will be almost done."

The servant nodded, stretched out his hand slightly, and touched the copper pot through his sleeve. After confirming that the current temperature would not burn his hands, he breathed a sigh of relief and directly touched the outer wall of the copper pot with his fingers. After the outer layer gradually cooled down, she told Xiao Yansui: "Liu Niang, this pot has already cooled down."

Xiao Yansui nodded, "That's it. Slowly add lard, then heat it in a water bath, and cook slowly on low heat!"

The servant nodded repeatedly and said, "And then?"

"Then?" Xiao Yansui blinked, "Wait until the fat in the pot is completely gone, by the way, cook first, wait until the lard is gone, and then add the spices in."

In the process of making soap, the fragrance actually acts as an ingredient equivalent to impurities, and these fragrances themselves do not participate in the saponification reaction.

In addition, the ingredients of spices are actually very complicated, and Xiao Yansui couldn't be sure for a while whether sodium hydroxide would destroy the ingredients of spices, so it's better to wait until the caustic soda and oil are exhausted before putting the spices in up.

Higher fatty acid sodium and glycerol, which are the products of saponification, are relatively stable, and are far less destructive than strong alkalis.

Time passed by every minute, and the servant who picked up the copper spoon first took every step according to Xiao Yansui's instructions, being cautious and careful.

At some point, the shadows of the trees in the courtyard began to slant eastward.

Axiu looked at the sky and suddenly realized that it was already afternoon.

Her heart skipped a beat suddenly. The people in this room, the most important one was Xiao Yansui, didn't even eat lunch.

Axiu's lips trembled, and then she pulled herself together and said softly to Xiao Yansui: "Liu Niang, it's past noon, and you haven't had lunch yet."

"Huh?" Xiao Yansui was stunned for a moment. Although she didn't operate it herself, caustic soda is dangerous after all. Even if Xiao Yansui just stared at it, he was also engrossed in it. How could he care about whether he had lunch or not? .

It was only after Axiu reminded Xiao Yansui that he came back to his senses. All of a sudden, he really felt a little hungry in his stomach.

Xiao Yansui glanced at the copper spoon in the servant's hand, and the copper pot in front of him where no obvious oil stains could be seen now. Xiao Yansui's index finger was bent, and it was gently pressed against his chin, showing a rare expression. There was some hesitation.

A child's body can't help being hungry, but when he just thought about it, he didn't feel it. Now that Axiu mentioned it, Xiao Yansui really felt that his stomach was rumbling, and he wanted to eat The impulsiveness of things has also become particularly obvious.

But here, since the saponification reaction is basically over, it seems that it won't take much time, and there will be a salting-out process later, and what will appear next is basically the finished product of soap...

Xiao Yansui was already pondering the feasibility of asking Axiu to bring her lunch and eat here, but Axiu, who was worried about Xiao Yansui's health, was also anxious, and said softly with worry: "Liu Niang, Over there in the kitchen, if the lady asks casually, she will know—”

Xiao Yansui, who was stabbed to death all of a sudden, squinted her mouth, and immediately stood up from the moon bench holding Axiu's hand.

Whether she eats or not, the kitchen will definitely not hide it from Mrs. Pei. It's okay if Mrs. Pei doesn't ask, just like what Axiu said, as long as Mrs. Pei mentions it casually, someone will naturally tell Mrs. Pei everything about today Shi, when the time comes, Pei Shi doesn't know how to worry.

What's more, she does feel hungry now.Xiao Yansui, who finally made up his mind, turned around and said simply: "Stop here for a while, let's all go eat."

Several servants and maidservants also nodded in agreement, but, having said that, things were not done this way.

After Xiao Yansui and Axiu left the study room, some of the servants and servants would go to eat first, and then they would switch back and forth after a while. Fortunately, the saponification reaction progressed to the end, basically adding water Stir slowly, maintain a fixed temperature and cook in a water bath, but there is not much to be careful about.

On this day, alcohol was distilled first in the morning, followed by saponification near noon. Xiao Yansui's study room was filled with a strong aroma of wine, and then the fragrance that almost made people lose their sense of smell caused by too strong spices. up.

As soon as he left the study room, Xiao Yansui took a deep breath while standing in the courtyard that was also smelling of wine, and felt that the air smelled so rare and fresh.

To put it more elegantly, it is "entering the orchid room and not smelling its fragrance for a long time", but to put it bluntly, it is actually the olfactory fatigue in Sumner's theory.

Xiao Yansui had no doubts that if a bottle of alcohol was placed in front of her now, she might feel that the taste was much weaker.

"Change to eat at a place that doesn't smell of alcohol," Xiao Yansui waved her hand casually. If it was still early, she would have gone directly to Pei's for dinner. Unfortunately, it's a bit late now. If it's over now, Still had to explain why it was late.

Axiu hesitated for a while, and then suggested: "How about staying in the courtyard?"

"Yes!" Xiao Yansui nodded, walked out of her yard, walked around the corridor, climbed up the steps, walked through the corridor on a lotus pond, and walked to the hexagonal pavilion on the water. Looking around, the view is wide and full of eyes There are lotus leaves connecting to the sky and emerald green, a few lotus flower buds protrude out beautifully, the surrounding is quiet, there is the sound of water gurgling, and the lotus leaves are fragrant.

"Just here!" Xiao Yansui stood in the gazebo, the other side of the lotus pond was facing the yard where Xiao Heng and Xiao Wu lived together.

However, Xiao Yansui felt that Xiao Heng should not be in the Xiao Mansion right now. As for Xiao Wu, if he went to the academy to study, there would be a room for him to rest there, and he wouldn't come back at noon.

Xiao Yansui stood here for a while, looking at the open lotus pond, and beyond the Xiao mansion, and even in the depths of the green hills outside Chang'an City, she casually thought about something.

The experience of her almost being plotted by someone two days ago, although her grandfather Xiao Song directly reported to Xuanzong, Gao Lishi went out in person, and even thoroughly investigated Ximing Temple, now, her brother Xiao Heng has always taken this matter to heart, She must investigate the identities of those rascals in the market. The members of the Xiao family are cherished by her with the utmost care.

However, Xiao Yansui had been thinking about several doubts from the day of the accident until now, but he still couldn't understand them.

One is the purpose of the people behind the scenes.

Although it is true that Xiao Yansui is the daughter of a direct relative of Duke Xu's mansion, her elder brother Xiao Heng is the eldest son of the eldest son. He can easily kill people, but why did he choose to target her, who is relatively unimportant, instead of the young man of the Xiao family?

The second is whether the opponent's arrangement in Ximing Temple has been going on for a long time, or is it just for that day.

Every three or two months, Mrs. Pei would go to Ximing Temple to offer incense and pray for blessings. In the long run, it was quite regular, but the specific time was decided a few days in advance of the month.If the Zen room in Ximing Temple that was tampered with has always existed, it can be speculated that what happened to the people behind the scenes in Ximing Temple. It is a pity that the status of Ximing Temple was hindered on the day of the incident. Even the Xiao family could only restrain their hands and feet, and in the end, all the clues to the Zen room of Ximing Temple were swept away by the insider...

Soon, Axiu came back again, and the maid behind her brought the still hot food and put it on the stone table. Axiu carefully took a cushion and put it on the stone bench, and then let Xiao Yansui sit down .

Xiao Yansui withdrew her wandering thoughts and sat on the stone bench. At this moment, as a hungry person, facing such a table of delicious delicacies, she unconsciously showed a satisfied smile !

Her eyebrows and eyes are delicate, only five years old, her cheeks are fair and soft, so tender that water can almost drip.Even the terrible encounter at Ximing Temple the day before yesterday did not make her be haunted by nightmares. Even though she was full of doubts, at least on the surface, Xiao Yansui had always looked innocent and innocent, without any worries.

Axiu has always known her taste preferences, and the meals prepared in the kitchen are naturally according to her preferences.

Xiao Yansui took a mandala-shaped pancake, sandwiched long sheepskin filaments in it, and slowly rolled it up before serving it with other dishes and soup, revealing a mouthful of small white teeth like rice grains, and slowly rolled it up. Bite down.

——Before the teeth change, let’s eat a few more mouthfuls first. After a year or so, when the children start to change their teeth and their mouths are full of wind, they don’t want to talk, and the food doesn’t seem to be so delicious.

Not far away, there was a bird chirping softly, Xiao Yansui casually turned her head, followed the sound