Floating Perfume Shop

"The quality is noble, the integrity is commendable, and it's touching. It's just stupid." Xiao Chongyun criticized the kid, "Your parents gave you life, and the knowledge taught you by school has made you so far. Is it worth throwing away a recipe?"

During the few minutes when Wu Qi called the doctor, Xiao Chongyun kept talking beside Zhang Song, and when Wu Qi hung up the phone, he stopped and stood up: "Master Wu, Mr. Zhang is willing."

Wu Qi raised his eyebrows: "Why are you willing again?"

"Move him with emotion, understand him with reason, and lure him with profit." Xiao Chongyun pulled Zhang Song up, "I just told him that I had sold the cycle incense, and his life is worthless now. Instead of being dragged away To fill the river, it’s better to help Master Wu do a good job and get more rewards.”

He glanced at the little ghost: "Mr. Zhang, do you think so?"

Zhang Song nodded.

The doctor quickly came over with the suitcase and checked it up and down.Wu Qi beat people very hard, the welts were thick and red, shocking, if you look carefully, unfortunately they are all flesh trauma.However, in such a tropical country, it is also a serious matter if the skin and flesh are infected.The doctor is an acquaintance, and he is used to this kind of scene, so he disinfected it with iodine before saying anything.During the disinfection, the kid stood with his upper body naked, hissed in pain, and didn't speak, just looked at Xiao Chongyun.

Xiao Chongyun walked over and asked, "What's wrong? Does it hurt?"

Zhang Song hesitated for a moment, then slowly stretched out his hand, touching Xiao Chongyun's face.

He withdrew his hand again, pinched his arm, and still didn't speak.

It wasn't until he returned to the room that the little ghost finally spoke, his voice was so low that he couldn't hear it: "Teacher, you are really here."

"That dungeon is very dark. I dreamed of you several times. You came to take me home. As soon as I touched you, your whole body disappeared, and I knew it was a dream." He looked at Xiao Chongyun intently, "Teacher, are you really here? If I make a loud voice, will I wake up from the dream?"

When Xiao Chongyun heard it, he felt sad.

He reached out and touched the kid's messy hair, and said with a smile: "I'm really here, I'm here to take you home."

Zhang Song asked: "Did they arrest you too?"

"I came here by myself, and I took a gamble." Xiao Chongyun said with a smile, "Good luck, I made the right bet, you are indeed here."

He briefly talked about the flowery underpants, he also said that he had impersonated his identity, and gave the little devil a few words.The moonlight was like water, falling on the young man's bandaged young body.The little ghost was covered in scars, and the ninja sat on a small round stool obediently and listened carefully without yelling a word of pain.

He asked: "Teacher, what exactly is the cycle incense? Why do you know?"

Xiao Chongyun didn't know what to say for a moment, and thought for a long time.

"A long time ago, there was a figure like the godfather of the perfume industry who proposed the concept of 'circular fragrance scale', which allowed the three fragrances that should be released sequentially to be released in a circular manner. At that time, this concept was only proposed to test the ability of students. Let the most talented disciple inherit the mantle. More than 20 years ago, there was a time when almost all perfumers were studying this topic, some of them were purely academically curious, and some were simply showing off their skills..."

"So did anyone succeed in the end?"

"Yes." Xiao Chongyun said, "My mother."

He still remembers that when he was young, his mother often sat alone in the fragrance room of the small villa for a whole day.The seasons in that small room are cyclical. At first, it is a warm and sweet floral fragrance, which becomes hotter and stronger as time goes on, and then turns dry, turns cold and cool, and the cycle repeats.

He asked his mother what perfume it was, and his mother touched his head and said it was "Four Seasons".

Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the cycle goes on and on.

Xiao Chongyun asked: "Then why is the fragrance in spring the shortest and the fragrance in winter the longest?"

My mother was stunned by this question for a long time before telling him, because the fragrance of spring is the top note, of course the shortest, while the fragrance of winter is the base note, the soul of a perfume, so it is the longest.

At that time, Xiao Chongyun thought, it turns out that the mother's soul is always in winter.

Xiao Chongyun glanced at the little ghost, and found that he wanted to ask but didn't ask, so he smiled: "Actually, there is no big secret about 'Circular Fragrance', except that the fixative is complicated. Damn, my mother was lucky. Later, she became the apprentice of the perfume master in his later years. After the master passed away, he originally wanted to return to China to start a business, but was stopped by my father and brought back to Nanyang—”

The story ends abruptly here.

Xiao Chongyun didn't say any more, and Zhang Song didn't ask any more.The two of them took off their clothes and went to bed silently. Under Xiao Chongyun's insistence, he slept on the sofa, and the wounded kid slept on the bed alone.When I woke up in the middle of the night, I always felt uncomfortable. When I opened my eyes, I found that the little ghost had crawled out of the bed at some point, shyly squeezed him into half the position, and was still sleeping soundly.In fact, strictly speaking, the kid is no longer a kid, but a grown-up youth.Although the sofa is quite big, it is not suitable for sleeping two adults. Half of Zhang Song's body is hanging outside, with one leg dragging to the ground, which is pitiful.

The next morning, someone knocked on the door and said that Master Wu would be invited after breakfast.

The small building has an inner courtyard, and the room facing the flower shelf in the courtyard is the reception room. The air conditioner is always open, and the colorful plants outside can be seen through the glass windows.Wu Qi was reading a book on a rocking chair with a teacup in his hand. When he saw Xiao Chongyun coming in, he handed over the teacup and said softly, "Pour me a glass of water."

There was a whole set of tea sets on the table, so Xiao Chongyun brewed a cup of Tieguanyin again, and Wu Qi watched from the side: "Mr. Zhang, the person in charge of the safe makes tea very professionally."

"I don't know." Zhang Song remained expressionless, "I've never brewed it for me before."

"Oh, then what did you recruit him to see?"

"Cooking is delicious." Zhang Song said, "Stir-frying and cooking."

Wu Qi was amazed: "I heard that your company is small, and the warehouse management is also in charge of logistics?"

Xiao Chongyun always felt that since Da entered this room, Wu Qi's eyes had been on him, never leaving him for a moment.He raised his eyes and felt that this person was doing other things, such as drinking tea, such as talking to Zhang Song to ease the relationship, such as ordering his subordinates to do things in a foreign language he didn't understand.Finally, the water was hot, the cup was washed, and the tea was ready. He handed it over, and Wu Qi took it and asked, "Mr. Zhou, do you know that Yashe launched a perfume called 'Summerday' 15 years ago?"

Xiao Chongyun remembered, but he shook his head.

Wu Qi was quite surprised: "I thought that with your level, Mr. Zhou, you should have heard at least a little bit. After all, you were the third runner-up in the Perfume Awards that year, and you used to be in the limelight."

It was the perfume that my father concocted. The Chinese name is "Eternal Summer".In my memory, my father once gave it to my mother as a birthday present, but I never saw my mother use it.

Wu Qi handed over the information, Xiao Chongyun turned a page: "What does Lord Wu want?"

"Actually, my boss is not interested in how the circular fragrance is made." Wu Qi said with a smile, "He just wants a special perfume——Summerday's fragrance cycle version."

The same perfume, the top note is early summer, the middle note is small heat, and the base note is midsummer, the cycle goes on and on, never ending.

The real eternal summer.

"Yes." Xiao Chongyun said, "But this kind of complicated perfume requires a lot of things. I will make a list later, and I will trouble Master Wu to buy it."

Xiao Chongyun went back and made a three-page list, densely filled with all kinds of precious spices and raw materials he wanted with a pen, and handed it to Hua Pants.Then take the underpants outside, find a knowledgeable person, and buy them one by one.

The raw materials were delivered one by one, and Xiao Chongyun stood in front of the fragrance counter, holding his breath and silently blending the fragrance.Sometimes he asks Zhang Song to help identify the aroma, and more often he looks at the list of ingredients without saying a word, and calculates a bunch of invisible chemical equations in his mind.

Zhang Song was the first to see it: "We don't need scopolamine."

He singled out two more: "We also don't get lost in incense and piperonal. Piperonal is the base of herbal perfumes, and summerday is a floral note."

Xiao Chongyun nodded and praised: "Yes. Therefore, I have to write a lot of messy things to let these things get mixed in."

In fact, he is not sure whether this plan is feasible, but other than that, there is no other way.He is unarmed and under house arrest. All he can use is the accumulation of his life and the thick skin based on these accumulations.As long as he can fool Wu Qi, as long as he can fool Wu Qi...

However, Wu Qi was quite free in those few days, and loved to run to the studio every day to watch him mix fragrances.

He especially liked to strike up a conversation with little ghosts, and asked Xiao Chongyun what he did before his company, how much his monthly salary was, and how about spending twice as much to dig him over.That's right, he sold your formula to me, so he should have been fired, doesn't it seem that he doesn't need to dig it out?

The little ghost had no expression on his face, and concentrated on looking at the spice rack.

Wu Qi asked Xiao Chongyun: "Your boss is not smart and doesn't give you much money. Why do you work for him?"

Xiao Chongyun thought for a while: "It's a kindness to know you."

He laughed in a low voice, walked behind Xiao Chongyun, and asked in a low voice: "Zhiyu, you have to 'know' before you can 'encounter'. If I give you more money, will you do things for me?"

Xiao Chongyun was quite strange: "You also make perfume?"

"No." Wu Qi said, "We only occasionally smuggle spices."

"I'm not good at that business, and I don't know much, either. Nose is such a pain in the ass."

He shook his head: "You just follow me, just help me palm my eyes."

Once, Wu Qi ran out of tea and was gloomy, as if he was not in a good mood.Xiao Chongyun Fangxiang encountered a bottleneck, so he was so absorbed that he didn't notice how long he sat on the old sofa.He suddenly said: "Mr. Zhou, do you know why I asked you to imitate the eternal summer? Actually, there is a story, I don't know if you like it or not, I really want to tell it today."

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Chongyun shook his hand, and the distilled spices fell to the ground, covered with glass shards.Without even thinking about it, he reached out and covered Zhang Song's ears: "He didn't listen."

Wu Qi deliberately raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong?"

"You said before," Xiao Chongyun said, "If you want to live, don't listen. My boss is still young, and he still has a company to support, so don't listen if you can."

Wu Qi smiled.The smile was very shallow, hanging on his lips, as if it was about to disappear at any moment.He stood up, walked behind Xiao Chongyun, put his hands on the incense table over him, almost against his back, and whispered softly: "Then I will only tell you."

Xiao Chongyun's mind was running fast, thinking about his words and deeds in the past few days, whether he had lost or gained nothing: "Master Wu, can you still live after listening?"

"Recently, I find you more and more interesting," Wu Qidao, "If you are willing to help me, you can live."

"Did you know there used to be a Xiao family in Nanyang? Oh, there is no more now. His eldest son changed his surname to Zhang, which means he broke the family and became self-reliant. It is said that when the second son of the Xiao family inherited the inheritance, two dragons took over the heir, and his elder brother who was ruthless Locked up, the spirit is still not normal, and I can't see anyone again. Mr. Zhou, this story is not terrible, why are your hands shaking?" He pressed his hand on the back of Xiao Chongyun's hand, and his voice was so close that he almost bit Ear, "The Xiao family was really a big family at that time. Even our professor had to go to say hello to Mr. Xiao when we did something. How do you say here before, it is half of the Xiao family's property."

Xiao Chongyun knew that he had seen this address in the family address book.

"In our business, reputation is the most important thing. Tell me, what is it that can make people break their promises and be ungrateful?"

Xiao Chongyun didn't speak.

"Money." Wu Qi told him, "A lot of money. If you imitate the incense well, I will give you so much money that you can't imagine."

When the man let go of him, Xiao Chongyun was covered in cold sweat.

Fortunately, what he wanted, that night, finally succeeded.

In the evening, Xiao Chongyun took an excuse to take a walk, walked around the garden, and even went to the gate of the office building to have a look.Although this building has an independent small courtyard and a lot of privacy, from the outside, it looks like an office building with a lot of security.Every day, people will come to the door to handle some loan-like businesses, and there will also be people who don’t know their identities and send money in various ways.Xiao Chongyun summed it up, this is a gangster den in a foreign country.

When he came back from his walk, he stood in front of the window, looking at the fiery red sunset in the sky.

Zhang Song asked him, "Can we really go home?"

Xiao Chongyun stretched out his hands to pinch the kid's face: "If I say I will take you home, I will definitely take you home."

"Your hands are shaking."

Xiao Chongyun then withdrew his hand and smiled.

Finally the sun set, the moon darkened, and the courtyard was full of insects chirping late at night.Xiao Chongyun opened the window, picked up two sheets, and led the kid down to the inner courtyard.

His room was on the third floor, and the sheets only reached the second floor.From the second floor to the first floor, it is sliding down an old water pipe. Every step is like stepping on a steel wire, for fear that it will break if you don't pay attention.

The security guard downstairs is patrolling elsewhere.

The security guard in the hallway fell asleep.

The gate was open, and the security guard at the gate was asleep.

In the past few days, Xiao Chongyun did not concoct "summerday", but another perfume.This perfume has no name. Fangzi heard it from his father when he was a child. It is very complicated and it is a sleeping fragrance.This perfume uses a large amount of scopolamine, which has a narcotic effect, and pepper is used in the production of certain illegal drugs.These two are safe daily chemical raw materials, but they have different effects in different ways of use.

Using Zhang Song's nose, Xiao Chongyun did not imitate the floral fragrance of "Eternal Summer", but imitated the strange fragrance mixed with plants in the small courtyard downstairs.He sprinkled this perfume in every corner of the small building in the name of taking a walk.As time goes by and the sun recedes, the top and middle notes of this layer of cover will gradually dissipate, and the keynote that really has the effect of anesthesia and sleep will appear in the middle of the night.

The guards didn't notice anything, they just felt that today's evening wind was more smoky than usual, making people sleepy abnormally.

This kind of sleepiness is getting heavier and heavier, and finally it is difficult to resist.

In fact, except for anesthetic gas, there is no fragrance that can really make people fall asleep [-]%, and some are just sleep-aiding effects.Xiao Chongyun also gambled on his luck.It was already good luck for him to find the little ghost, and it would be even better if he could bring it back safely.

The steps at the door were still warm from the day, Xiao Chongyun dragged the little ghost, and walked on them barefoot without making a sound.At last he crossed the hall, out into the sloppy street, and took a breath of free air.The next step is probably to block a rough car, drive to the consulate, and seek a chance to return home.

As soon as he took a step, he heard someone calling him: "Mr. Zhou, you left so quickly without saying hello?"

Xiao Chongyun almost froze in place, turned around, and saw a black gun pointed at him.

Wu Qi sat on the corner of the steps, taking a good rest, and seemed to have been waiting for a long time: "When I tortured your boss Zhang before, what did he tell me? He said his teacher would definitely come to rescue him."

"At that time, I was very curious about what kind of person his teacher was." Wu Qidao, "Now I think it's really good. He looks good, and he can fool my subordinates, find a way to come here, and even think of a way to lure the students. Take it out. Oh, the tea you make is quite delicious."

"By the way, I'm actually quite curious. Mr. Zhou, what's your real name?" He took out a mobile phone from his pocket, which was handed in by Xiao Chongyun when he came here, and lightly tossed it up and down twice, "I Find someone to turn on your mobile phone, and found that someone has been calling you lately. Your broken mobile phone can last for nine hours on a single charge, and this lunatic can keep ringing until the phone is dead. The name you gave him a note The surname is Zhou, and the name is Tianhao, what a coincidence, it is exactly the same as the name you told me."

"Mistake." Xiao Chongyun said, "I shouldn't have given you the phone."

"It's not because of this." Wu Qi shook his finger, with a regretful expression on his face, "It was because one day I asked you to make tea for me on purpose. For a moment, Mr. Zhang next to you rushed to take the teacup in front of you. This person It looks like you are doing things for you, and if you are used to helping, how could it be your boss."

Zhang Song suddenly let go of Xiao Chongyun's hand, took a step forward, and stood in front of Xiao Chongyun and the black gun.He whispered: "Teacher, you go, I will stay."

The meaning of this sentence is obvious, Xiao Chongyun remained motionless.

"Mr. Zhou, go back." Wu Qi gently persuaded, "Taste the fragrance well. For your sake, I will let you and your students go back alive."

Seeing that Xiao Chongyun didn't move, Zhang Song pushed him suddenly. Xiao Chongyun couldn't stand still, so he rolled down two steps along the quite high steps.He rolled all the way to the bottom of the steps and was about to stand up when suddenly a dazzling headlight hit him directly in the face.

In the dead of night, a black car drove up from the darkness and parked quietly downstairs in the office.

The window was rolled down, and the driver poked his head out: "The professor asked, did someone run away in the middle of the night?"

The headlights made Xiao Chongyun unable to open his eyes for a long time.He only heard hurried footsteps, Wu Qi let go of his voice and scolded the doorman, and the sound of the car door opening and closing.When he had a better look, he found Wu Qi standing next to him, bending over to report to the people in the car: "Professor, you've worked hard, and you still worry about it so late."

He stood in a clever position, right between Xiao Chongyun and the car light, hiding Xiao Chongyun's face in the darkness.

"No, it was just a small matter. I had a friend who wanted to go out to buy cigarettes secretly in the middle of the night, and I educated him. This person has quit smoking for a long time, but he just can't control his mouth."

"Really?"

"Really not." Wu Qi stretched out his hand, pulled Xiao Chongyun up, patted him on the shoulder and pushed him into the small building, "Okay, go back, don't stand here and obstruct the professor's eyes, be careful of catching a cold."

Xiao Chongyun turned around slowly, looking for the little ghost, only to find that the little ghost had disappeared after the fall and push just now.

An old voice from inside the car asked, "Young man, turn around and let me take a look."

Two bodyguards had already got out of the car. Hearing this, they strode up and grabbed him from left to right.One of the bodyguards broke his face and turned back in the direction of the car, and a headlight hit him in the face again.

Xiao Chongyun narrowed his eyes.

There was silence for a second, and the old voice sounded again: "Second Young Master Xiao? What kind of luck did I have to get the Second Young Master to come to help out in person?"