A piece of Japanese incense

My name is Zhi Yihe and today is my 13th birthday.

It has been 8 years since I traveled to this world. I originally thought it was just a dream, but I didn’t expect that I would stay in this world like this...

A lot of things happened in these 8 years:

My mother was depressed after she had an unexpected miscarriage, and she never saw my father again after she divorced him. (I think she must have seen through the nature of the scumbag and turned back in time.)

As for my father, he has been promoted gradually in the past few years. From a reader in the Imperial Academy to a junior official in the Imperial Secretariat, and then to a bachelor in the Imperial Academy, he is now a Grand Secretary in the Imperial Cabinet. As he becomes busier and busier, we used to see each other once every few days, then once a month, and now we see each other only a few times a year. (I think he is probably a corrupt official. Otherwise, he would not have been promoted so quickly.)

Brother Yu Nian was very ambitious. Although he was only 18 years old, he had already passed the imperial examination. However, his father was very strict with him and he had a heavy workload, so he didn't come home often. (He obeyed his father's orders, and I often sneered at him.)

Aunt Hong's health is so good that she looks radiant and smiles every day. Her clear and cheerful laughter can be heard throughout the yard before she even gets home. The "Sanshengtang" run by Aunt Hong and her mother is now the largest chain of pharmacies in Dongli; (Of course, this is also due to my contribution. The smearable facial mask I invented has been leading in sales for many years!)

My grandmother is old now. She used to be able to sit in the clinic for an entire afternoon, but now she only sees two or three patients a day.

My grandfather had petitioned His Majesty many times to retire and return home, but the emperor had been ill from his early years of fighting in the wars, and his health had always been poor. My grandfather had to go to the palace every month to check his pulse, but he didn't have to be on duty; (In fact, he was addicted to playing Landlord, and whenever he had time, he wanted to find someone to play with him, haha.)

Fuguier has also grown from a small puppy to a big puppy that is taller than me when he stands up! When brother Yu Nian is not around, Fuguier is the one who sticks to me the most, haha~

As for me, after being persuaded to quit by the academy and several private schools, I stayed at home every day to read books, learn to write, and play with Fuguier. Most of the time, I studied medicine and incense. My mother also found various masters for me, some taught needlework, some taught chess, some taught poetry, some taught painting, and some taught piano. However, with my brain, I learned this and forgot that. Every day, I made my mother angry, and then Aunt Hong persuaded her, and then I continued to change masters and continued to be scolded...

I don't plan to stay in this world for too long, so I try to spend as much time as possible every day to be happy. There is no other way. I can persist in things I like, but I can't last long in things I don't like.

I think I will definitely go back.

At first, I used wind, rain, thunder and lightning or forced myself to use my brain to return to reality, but after so many years, it was useless.

As a time traveler, I originally wanted to open a cheat code and reach the pinnacle of life. However, in the first 18 years of my life, I really didn’t know how to do anything except go to school or on the way to school… I kept playing badly…

After eight years, I really feel like I am about to become Koreeda Iwa. She is the apple of everyone's eye. Her family gives her a strong sense of security and stability, and gives her enough confidence, which I have never experienced when I was doing Nanyin. I often forget my determination to return to reality, and often wonder if the days of doing Nanyin are just a dream of mine.

But when it’s hot, I want to eat ice cream and use the air conditioner; when it’s cold, I want the heater and hot pot; when others kneel down to me and I kneel down to others, I know that everyone should be equal; I can’t leave the house at will, and even brother Yu Nian can’t meet privately at will; especially when I accompany my grandmother, I miss her even more, my grandmother still has a daughter and a husband. What about my poor grandmother, can she only watch over her granddaughter lying in the hospital bed who doesn’t know when she will wake up?

Whenever I think of my grandma, my scattered thoughts merge into a galaxy, and my heart is tormented. I will silently make up my mind: "I must go back!"

Through the smell of incense in my memory, I have been trying to recreate the so-called long-lost "Heyue incense". I have collected many exotic flowers and herbs, but the fragrance is always missing something. I have searched through my grandfather's collection of books, but I haven't found any suitable spices to add.

However, relying on his photographic memory, he read a lot of medical books, learned a lot of medical skills from his grandparents, and expanded his brain through acupuncture.

My brain capacity used to be only as big as a bedroom, but in recent years I found that I could add another study room, hahaha.

My camera memory, what I memorized in one night, I might forget after a day at first, but now I can remember it after a month. I repeatedly studied and consulted books on spices, trying to find the formula, or develop it myself, maybe I can go back.

"My dear lady, I have called you eight hundred times, why are you still sleeping?"

"The old lady clearly reminded me yesterday that I had to celebrate my birthday today, wear flowers, make flower cakes, enjoy the red flowers, and go to the market in the evening, but I didn't listen. I didn't go to bed until after midnight last night!"

I had already turned a blind eye to Yutuan and Yuyi's loud complaints, and covered myself with the quilt to continue sleeping.

My birthday is February 15th, which happens to coincide with the annual Flower Festival. Every year on this day, I am very busy. I don’t know what I am busy with, but I am very busy anyway…

"Yutuan! Is the young lady awake? Young Master Nian has been here for half an incense stick and has already drunk three cups of tea. Someone has also come to ask about the old lady!"

Hearing Yuzhu's urging, Yutuan yelled, "I'm washing up!"

Hearing Yu Tuan's impatient voice, I felt a sense of crisis... As expected, the deafening sound of the cymbals crashed in my ears, and I felt like I had gone deaf...

I don't know where she got this pair of cymbals, but they became her ultimate weapon to wake me up. I'm really impressed.

While I was brushing my teeth with my homemade toothbrush, Yuyi had already put on the clothes that she had made and sent to me yesterday: a crescent-white cross-collared middle shirt, a white plum-blossom front-breasted cotton silk jacket, a peach-pink plain brocade shirt, and a bright red camellia butterfly brocade jacket on the outside, and a pearly white crepe skirt.

After finally getting dressed, she hurried to the dressing table to put on makeup. She lightly tied up her waist-length hair with a wide pearly white silk ribbon, applied powder, rouge, drew eyebrows, and lipstick. Finally, Yuyi also painted a peach blossom hairpin on her forehead.

"Wow! Yuyi, you are getting more and more awesome!" I looked at myself in the mirror. I am tall and graceful, with picturesque features, two bright eyes as clear as autumn water, curved eyebrows, red lips, white teeth, and cheeks as rosy as flowers. I said, "You make me look like a fairy who has descended to the earth~".

Yuyi lowered her head shyly, "Let's go, everyone is waiting anxiously!"

I was pushed out of the door and saw Yu Nian standing in the yard playing with Fuguier. I hadn't seen him for a few months and he seemed to have lost some weight. He was wearing a dark blue cotton gown, with soft hair hanging down his face. He held a book in his hands and had long, slender eyebrows. When he saw me coming out, he smiled slightly, and the luster in his eyes was like the slight sheen on a jade. He said softly, "It's been a long time since we last met. Why are you still like a sleepy little lazy cat?"

"Long time no see, you are still a nerd who only knows how to read!" I replied.

I habitually wanted to put my arm around Yu Nian, and found that he was much taller than me. He was already 18 years old. In this dynasty, people of his age would have married and had children.

Yu Nian looked at me, brushed his sleeves towards me, and said with a smile: "Let's go."

I grabbed one of his clothes and talked as we walked.

"My mother told me that you drove away another teacher last month? I'm afraid no one in Dongli Country dares to be your teacher."

"They can't teach me, and I can't do anything about it~"

"But I heard from Yuzhu that you are now good enough to see patients in the clinic!"

"He's talking nonsense. I can only make incense and read storybooks~"

"You are so amazing! I don't know how to make incense, and I haven't even read the storybook."

"Let me tell you, I read a book recently, the heroine is in love, it's so annoying..."