Traveling to ancient times with a sign-in system

Chapter 132 Incense Making Machine

After returning to his room, Gu Tang put the two boxes back into the system backpack. After the family split up, these jewelry and silver could be used to buy land.

After closing the door, Gu Tang took out four spices, namely musk, sandalwood, agarwood and borneol, from his backpack, held them all in his arms, and happily started signing in for today.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing today's sign-in and receiving a 'Coin-Operated All-Purpose Incense Machine'!]

Oh open!

Gu Tang instantly became alert!
Coin-operated all-purpose incense making machine!
This is really what you need!
He put down the spices in his arms and took out the incense maker impatiently, and then he was dumbfounded.

A silver trapezoidal machine fell to the ground. It was about three feet high and two feet wide. There was a round hole on the top and a small door in the middle that could be opened and closed. There was also a small door at the bottom that could be opened and closed, but it was larger.

The entire body is round and smooth, without any protrusions. It looks like a stone pillar and not like an incense machine at all.

Gu Tang looked at it carefully and saw the words "Coin Area" printed next to the round hole on the top of the machine.

Such a big hole doesn't look like it's for throwing coins, it looks like it's for throwing silver.

She took out a silver coin from her backpack, pointed it at the hole, and found it fit perfectly.

Since the hole on the top of the machine is the coin-in area, the two small doors below should be used to put in spices.

Open the small door in the middle and you will find a deep circular groove inside with "Spice Storage Area" written on one side.

The same goes for the small door at the bottom. After opening it, I found that there was also a circular groove inside, about half a finger deep, but with three layers. "Fragrance Output Area" was written on one side.

Although this machine does not come with an instruction manual, you can get a general idea just by looking at these three parts.

It's just that the appearance looks quite impressive, but the inside seems a bit misleading!
Gu Tang had an idea. How about giving it a try?

He took the four spices on the table, took out some of each, mixed them together, and placed them in the "spice placement area". He then stuffed a silver coin into the small hole on the top.

A few breaths after the silver fell in, the machine made a slight buzzing sound, and then the area around the coin slot lit up, like a screen, with options popping up one after another.

Swipe and you will see more options: incense sticks, incense seals, incense coils, incense plates, incense powder, incense cones, incense pills, backflow incense, incense beads, incense ointments, etc. There are all kinds of incense.

It seems that this is the type of fragrance to choose.

Gu Tang picked and chose, and finally chose the option of "Backflow Incense". He clicked it, and a line of tiny words popped up on it: [Yes/No Start making backflow incense?]

Gu Tang nodded “yes”.

Soon, another line of words popped up: [Please select the shape of the backflow incense body.]

Ok? !

Aren't backflow incense sticks usually cone-shaped? Can this be changed in shape?
If the shape is changed, wouldn't it destroy the principle of backflow incense?

Gu Tang was completely confused and expressed his deep incomprehension!
Unfortunately, the incense machine couldn't give her an answer, and only gave her dozens of options: random flower body, specified flower body, random animal body, specified animal body, random building body, specified building body...

Gu Tang rubbed his face. What the hell, flower bodies, animal bodies! This really opened my eyes!

After swiping through the various options, I chose "Random Floral Font".

She wanted to see what the final result would be!

The screen continues to jump: [A small amount of clean water is needed to make backflow incense. Please add water to the "water box."]

A small pull-out box pops out next to the spice storage area, with "Water" written on one side and a water level line engraved on it.

Looking around the room, she saw a kettle on the ground next to the stove. It was brought in by her father when he came in to light the stove. There should be water in it.

Gu Tang walked forward and took off the lid of the pot. Sure enough, it was full of water.

Pick up the kettle and carefully add water to the small box until it reaches the water level line.

Sensing that the "water box" was full, the machine quickly retracted the water box automatically, and the words on the screen were refreshed again: [In production, it will take 30 minutes.]

Thirty minutes is also two quarters of an hour.

In other words, in just two quarters of an hour, she can get the backflow incense in the shape of a "random flower body"?
Gu Tang was looking forward to it.

He moved the stove next to the incense maker, brought a stool over, sat next to the stove, and waited patiently while keeping warm.

Two quarters of an hour was not a long time. Gu Tang stared at the incense machine, listening to the subtle buzzing sound inside the machine, and time passed by unknowingly.

When the time was up, the buzzing sound inside the machine stopped, and the screens around the coin slot lit up again, with a line of words appearing on them:

[Backflow Incense has been made! This time, a total of one ounce of silver was spent. The remaining two ounces of silver can be saved for next use.]

No, wait a minute!
Gu Tang’s eyes widened.

The four kinds of spices she had just placed only weighed a mere two ounces, and for just that little amount of spices processed by the machine, how dare they charge her a mere two ounces of silver?!

Good, good, good! You better really make the backflow incense into a flower!
Otherwise, she would dismantle this money-stealing machine and take back her remaining two taels of silver!

Gu Tang took a deep breath, opened the small door to the incense exit area, lowered his head to take a look inside, and was immediately stunned.

what the hell!

It actually made the backflow incense into a flower?!
In the top groove of the fragrance-producing area, a brown five-petal flower about the size of a broad bean lies quietly inside. As the fragrance comes, it seems like a real flower.

If she hadn't known it was incense, she would have thought it was a flower carved from wood.

Gu Tang reached his hand in tremblingly, his hand was as gentle as if he was holding a goose-feather snowflake, afraid that the petals would be broken if he used a little force.

But when she really held it in her hand, the hard texture told her that this fragrance was not as fragile as it looked on the surface. Unless she was very rough, the petals would not be broken if she handled it normally.

Holding it in the palm of his hand, Gu Tang felt that it was more and more exquisite the more he looked at it. Even the stamens in the middle of the petals were made to look lifelike!

The five petals surrounding the pistil look very much like real petals in terms of texture and curvature.

If this color were changed to pink and placed on a peach branch in March, it would be difficult to tell the real peach blossoms from the fake ones!
It may look good, but if the backflow incense is made like this, will the smoke still flow downwards after it is lit?
Gu Tang was deeply skeptical.

She placed the "flower" in her palm on the edge of the table, with half of the bottom of the "flower" hanging in the air. Then she lit it with an oil lamp to see if the smoke would still go down.

The white smoke first floated around for a moment, then gathered together and moved down, tilting down from the table, like a waterfall of smoke, very amazing!
Good, good! This ounce of silver is worth it! It's totally worth it!

One ounce of silver for one incense stick, right? Okay! Tomorrow she'll start mixing incense sticks, and she'll sell each one for ten times the price! Looking at the straight waterfall of smoke, Gu Tang couldn't stop smiling. It took a while before she extinguished the incense sticks, and she kissed the incense machine beside her several times!

After kissing enough fragrances, carefully put the machine into the system backpack for storage, then take out a pen and paper, write down the missing spices on the paper, and go to the spice shop tomorrow to buy them all at once!

Of course, just a few taels of each will do. She can't afford more than that. So she will first make a batch of "flower body" backflow incense and sell it. After she makes some money, she can expand and become stronger!

However, since it is a "floral body", I wonder if it is possible to find some plants such as carmine, turmeric, sappan wood, madder, indigo, and indigo to dye the backflow incense.

Gu Tang thought about it for a while and thought it was worth a try.

She found another piece of paper and wrote down the plants that could be used for dyeing.

Some of these plants used for dyeing are medicinal herbs, some are spices, and some are just inconspicuous weeds.

It may be a bit difficult to collect all of them. You can only go to the clinic and spice shop to ask and try to buy all of them.

If it really doesn't work, she will just make do with it for now, and when spring comes and flowers bloom, she will go into the mountains to look for it.

Gu Tang lay on the table and wrote down all the plants he knew that could be used for dyeing. He wrote on more than ten pages and did not finish until the end of the hour of Hai.

This is the first time I’ve stayed up so late since I traveled through time.

When I was writing just now, my mind was working actively and I didn't feel sleepy. But now that I stopped to think, I felt sleepy all of a sudden and could hardly open my eyes.

While yawning, Gu Tang insisted on putting the paper covered with words into the system backpack.

After doing these things, she drowsily took off her clothes and got into bed. After just a few breaths, she fell into a deep sleep.

But the oil lamp on the table was forgotten to be extinguished, and it continued to burn quietly until the oil was burned out and then gradually went out.

……

Go to bed late and wake up late.

As no one urged him, Gu Tang slept until the beginning of the next day.

Gu Lianshan and Gu Ping'an, father and son, did not get up early. Anyway, they were not in a hurry to go back today. Feng had hired a maid to take care of them, so they did not need to do anything themselves. They could get up whenever they wanted.

The father and son sighed in unison, a rare moment. There was no life that could be more comfortable than this.

The father and son, who got up earlier than Gu Tang, did not eat first, but waited until Gu Tang got up before starting to cook.

Gu Lianshan fulfilled his promise last night and fried several omelets for Gu Tang.

After washing up, Gu Tang sat at the table waiting for dinner. She looked at the omelet her father brought out and was very curious: "I've never seen you make omelets at home. Where did you learn this skill?"

"I learned it from your grandma." Gu Lianshan picked up an omelet for Gu Tang and asked her to taste it.

Gu Tang blew on it, took a few bites, chewed and swallowed, his inky eyes sparkling. He took a few more big bites, not bothering to speak, just nodded his head to indicate that it was delicious.

Seeing her like this, Gu Lianshan smiled with nostalgia on his face: "When you were three or four years old, Dad would secretly fry omelets outside, then secretly bring them back, chop them up, and add them to the paste to feed you. You had never seen what a boiled egg looked like, so Dad lied to you and said they were pancakes, and you actually believed it at that time."

Gu Tang paused, and the omelet in his mouth lost its delicious taste.

The original owner had hardly had proper milk since she was born. Zhang refused to feed her and even took medicine secretly, so her milk, which was already limited, was eventually lost.

Her father took the original owner on a stroll, and whenever he saw anyone feeding cows, sheep, or pigs, he would shamelessly ask them if they had given birth. If they had, he would shamelessly capture the cows, sheep, or pigs, squeeze out some milk, and feed it to the original owner.

The original owner was able to survive the alternating pattern of eating one meal and starving the next, but he became thin and small.

In order to provide the original owner with nutrition, her father often tricked her into feeding her good food.

The reason for the lie was mainly because he was afraid that the child didn't know Tibetan language and would just say whatever he wanted. Most of the food her father got was stolen from Feng's.

Especially eggs. When the original owner and Gu Ping'an were young, whenever Feng raised chickens, the hens would lay eggs ten times, but five out of ten times they would be nowhere to be found!
This made Feng think that the hens she raised were of poor quality and laid fewer eggs every year than other people's hens.

"From now on, you don't have to make omelets outside secretly. Grandma won't dare to interfere with our family anymore!" Gu Tang continued to eat the omelet and made a promise to her father.

Gu Lianshan thought that what Gu Tang meant was that they were about to separate and Feng would have to live with them in the future. In order to let the second house take good care of her, he naturally did not dare to point fingers at the second house anymore.

He smiled and nodded: "We have to separate! We have to separate! Only by dividing the family can we live a good life."

These words touched Gu Tang's heart.

Since everyone wants to split up quickly, let's not dawdle any longer. Let's eat quickly and then go to the inn to see Feng.

By the way, I also gave the two old women some instructions, asking them to take good care of Feng and make sure she finished every meal.

I also have to tell the innkeeper to give Feng Shi big bowls of fatty meat twice a day. After all, her family is not around, so she has to eat and drink well.

After seeing Mrs. Feng, she would have to spend the rest of the time visiting clinics and spice shops one by one. She had worked hard to write so much last night, so she had to buy everything today.

After dinner, Gu Lianshan and his son Gu Ping'an followed Gu Tang's instructions and took Gu Tang to the inn in an ox cart.

Feng had already woken up. General Gu Tang led the father and son to the door of Feng's room, and heard Feng cursing in the room with full force.

"You rude idiots! How can you serve others like this? You don't know any etiquette at all!"

"I told you to give me a foot massage, what the hell did you two idiots do? You took off my shoes and started massaging them!"

"Didn't I tell you before? You should first boil some hot water for me to soak and wash my feet, then massage them slowly with a foot massager, and then massage them with your hands!"

"I reminded you once, and I thought you remembered it! I didn't expect you to turn a deaf ear to it..."

……

Listen, listen, there's scolding and yelling. If you don't know, you'd think it's some rich family scolding their servants.

Gu Tang sighed in admiration, saying that Feng Shi was brainless and was flattering her. How could a useless person lying in bed dare to insult two old women who hadn't even signed a contract.

Although they came here to work, they were not those lowly servants who had signed indentures to sell their bodies. If they were to get angry, Feng would be the one who would suffer.

"Dad, let me make a bet with you." Gu Tang suddenly whispered.

Gu Lianshan looked puzzled and asked her in a low voice, "Why are you betting on something like that?"

Gu Tang pointed inside the house and said, "Let's go in later. Grandma will definitely ask us to buy her two maids and servants."