perfumer

In addition to making a cool water fragrance, Bai Xin also produced "Summer Tree Green" with woody fragrance as the main tone, which has a long and long smell; The "Gentleman Fragrance" made by Du Heng is warm and refreshing.

Everyone likes the smell of this fragrance, some like strong ones, some like quiet ones, it's hard to say who is good and who is bad, the few incenses made by Bai Xin are better than originality, the sandalwood and agarwood commonly used by others, he likes them very much He used less, but it was the few spices that others used to combine fragrances, which made him create a new scent, which also attracted some guests.

It's impossible for his family to sell spices in Panlou Street. Some other incense shops, seeing the customers being separated, gritted their teeth behind their backs, and some wanted to play tricks. One by one didn't dare to move easily, so they had to say sourly that there was no table in Tianxiangtang, and that his shop was poor and poor, and they didn't even use decent agarwood.

The words of those people quickly reached Bai Xin's ears. He didn't take it seriously. Those people were right. The real good agarwood cost more than ten or twenty thousand dollars. He really couldn't afford it, so he could only use some of the agarwood. , slightly inferior quality, to perfume.

Ruan Silang who came to deliver the goods was accompanied by a smiling face, "Master Bai, take a look at how the cooked incense is shipped this time. This time it was shipped from Chenla. The quality is very good, much better than Champa and Boni."

Bai Xin looked at them one by one. Fortunately, his business is not too big now, so he can see it by himself. He looked carefully, so he picked a piece from it and rubbed it with the belly of his thumb a few times. It felt rough to the touch and slightly tingly. hand, put it between his nose and smell it, there was a faint smell of wood, very faint, if he didn't smell it carefully, he couldn't smell it.

He glanced at Ruan Silang, who could hardly hold back his smile.

Bai Xin didn't speak, and didn't put the incense stick back. Instead, he continued to check and picked out two more, which were not too big. He put the three incense sticks aside.

Ruan Silang opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to speak.

"Okay, the quality is good this time, and the price will be the same as last time."

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Ruan Silang panicked a little bit, hey hey a few times, and settled the money for him.

Da Lang also saw Bai Xin's act of picking incense. As soon as Ruan Silang left, he immediately asked: "Brother San, what happened to these pieces of incense? Why did you pick them out?" After thinking about it, Ruan Silang was usually eloquent. I don’t seem to have much to say today, “Is there something wrong with these incense sticks?”

Bai Xin smelled the aroma on his hands, and smiled wryly, "Those three pieces are not cooked instant incense."

After Dalang heard this, he immediately became a little anxious, his eyes widened. Looking at his posture, he wanted to rush out to retrieve Ruan Silang's theory. He asked loudly, "What? So Ruan Silang sells fake products?"

Bai Xin picked up the three pieces, "This is not cooked instant incense, but temporary incense."

Da Lang looked at it angrily, but he didn't find any difference. He said unwillingly: "Third brother, you know that he has mixed up fakes, why didn't you say anything? Last time, Zhao Laosan, how much did you order?" sentence!"

"The last time Zhao Laosan mixed with imitation benzoin, but this time Ruan Silang mixed the temporary incense with the same tree as the cooked speed incense, but the cooked speed incense is naturally released from the fragrance body, and the temporary incense still has half of the woodiness. You can see that there are gold and stones around the incense. After the traces of carving, you know that the combined wood was deliberately removed with a knife, and the smell is very similar. People who are not careful can't tell or smell it. Shang often does this, the so-called water is clear and there are no fish, if I tell him about it, he will not mix in the incense next time, but he can also change his ways to make more money, maybe the quality of the incense he sells to us The price has dropped, maybe the price has increased. I turn a blind eye and don’t say anything, but let him know, don’t treat me as an idiot, I can tell the difference naturally.”

Dalang's expression seemed to be listening to the heavenly scriptures. Before he finished speaking, he waved his hands, "Why is there no fish when the water is clear? I don't understand. It's really difficult to deal with businessmen like them. You can do whatever you say." .”

This cooked instant incense is also a quality of agarwood. The smell is slightly burnt, but it has the essence of agarwood. Bai Xin blends it with carapace, borneol, thyme, horse nitrate, and honey, and the fragrance is dense and clear.

After he blended this incense, the burnt smell was covered up, some people who didn't know much thought that the raw incense he used, liked his family's fair price, because the quality of raw incense was higher than that of cooked incense.

Tianxiangtang's reputation gradually became better and better. Even with rouge and gouache, everyone knew that his family was good, not to mention that there were endless fragrances, and the business was getting better and better. The Bai family began to be overwhelmed.There are no less than a few hundred pieces of goods supplied to those peddlers every day, and some of those peddlers saw that Zhang Dalang made a fortune, so they also learned a busy area and rented a small stall. They started to set up a stall regularly, but Introduce relatives and friends to peddle along the street. When there was no shop before, the Bai family could barely handle it, but now they are really at a loss.

Today, Bai Xin discussed with his family about buying someone to come back to help. Mrs. Cao didn't agree with it at first, not because of anything else, but because she was worried about spending more money, "Sanlang, why buy someone? Wouldn't it be good to hire two people? If you pay one or two hundred wages per month, if you buy someone, it will cost a lot of money, right?"

"Mother, although it costs a lot of money to buy someone, in the future, we will be our family, and we will be with us forever, and we will be counted on by our family, but the person you hire doesn't know his character or how he communicates outside. If It's been a long time, and he's eager to make money, what should he do behind his back?" Bai Xin said this to scare his mother, he is still used to controlling people by nature, so he wants to buy people.

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Cao realized that this was really the case, and she dared not talk about hiring people anymore, so she followed Bai Xin.

Bai Xin found a dentist, and the next day, the dentist brought eight people, six women and two men, all of them were sallow and emaciated, and their age seemed to be only twelve or thirteen.

Seeing her, Mrs. Cao quietly pulled Bai Xin's clothes, and asked in a low voice, "Sanlang, should we buy a boy or a girl?"

"Girl."

Cao's face was a little weird, and she subconsciously asked: "Why? Let's buy people to work, or boys are more powerful."

Bai Xin said: "Women are determined by nature, and in the future, it will be fine if they don't go out of the door. Men always have ambitions."

Mrs. Cao nodded, turned around and looked at the six girls carefully.

Among the six women, there were also one or two good-looking women. When they heard that they had been sold to work and they had to be strong, their faces were displeased.

The tooth dealer also knew that selling them to Bai Xin would not fetch a very good price, so he brought along one or two good-looking ones for appearance, but actually didn't want Bai Xin to pick them up, so he deliberately pretended not to see them.

Bai Xin didn't buy people as decorations either, those two were the first to be eliminated.

Among the remaining four, there was one who looked bad, but frequently gave Bai Xin winks. Bai Xin was even more displeased and didn't look at her. He looked at the other three carefully. The remaining three girls were slightly younger. They didn't bloom either, they looked like bean sprouts, and they were dressed in rags. Bai Xin looked at the corners of their eyes, and finally chose two that looked dull and introverted.

At this time, Mrs. Cao whispered again, "Sanlang, I think that one is good."

What she said was one of the last three, but Bai Xin didn't like it, because there were tears in her eyes, like a frightened bird.

Cao Shi said again: "It's pitiful to look at her, how thin is she? As soon as she shed tears, I remembered..." After finishing speaking, she hugged Wu Niang tightly.

Bai Xin knew that she was talking about Grandma Bai's attempt to sell Wu Niang. Bai Xin didn't like weak women at all. He had a headache, and he bought people for work, so he didn't have any pickles in his heart. He would rather have the dull ones, so that he can be trained and suppressed in the future.

"Mom, I think the other two are good." After speaking, he pointed.

Mrs. Cao was just making a suggestion, but she didn't say that her son must buy the baby girl. Hearing Bai Xin's words, she turned her attention away and took a good look at the person her son had chosen.

Feeling hesitant, Bai Xin asked the dentist about the backgrounds of the two girls.

Most of the children in the dental dealer's hands were bought in the countryside. The two people were from similar backgrounds. They both had too many daughters in their families and couldn't live on, so they were sold by their families.

The two girls' voices were like mosquitoes, and when they said that they were sold by their family members, they only shed a few tears, while the other weak girl, who was not questioned, burst into tears instead.

Bai Xin asked again, "Then do you remember where you live?"

The two girls looked blank and thought for a while. One said that he remembered a jujube tree in front of the house, and the other said that there was a big river behind the village, but they didn't know the exact location.

Bai Xin was very satisfied after hearing this, and immediately made a decision. The contracts in the tooth dealer's hands were all sealed by the government.

Seeing that they had been bought, the two girls immediately knelt down and kowtowed three times, which shocked Mrs. Cao and hurriedly let them get up.

The dental dealer made a deal and sold two dull and unpleasant ones, so he happily led the rest away.

"I bought the two of you just to follow along and work harder. Naturally, I won't treat you badly."

The two girls didn't know whether the future would be a blessing or a curse, and the chick nodded repeatedly.

"There are a few vacant rooms in my house, you two can live in one."

When the two heard that there was still a house to live in, they couldn't help being overjoyed, and their expressions became more lively.

Bai Xin saw that the two of them were very dirty, and they both smelled sour when they got close, "Sister, take them to the kitchen and ask them to boil some water and wash them."

The aunt didn't have any self-consciousness as a master and servant, and she also felt sorry for the two girls, so she volunteered and said: "They just came to our house and don't know where they are. I'm afraid they are deaf. I'll go and boil water for them, mother, how about you?" Let's set up a room for the two of them."

To say that these two girls are really dull, but Fan Fan has some scruples, at this time, he should rush to show his performance and rush to do things. The two girls only looked at the aunt gratefully, and then they were led upstairs obediently.

The author has something to say: I guess, this chapter will be said again about what happened to the Cao family

God, what he does now is wrong, but if I let him never show up again, it will be no different from a decoration, and it will also look like Bai Xin is singing a one-man show. She, as a mother, or someone who has no experience Village woman, it is inevitable that there will be some different opinions. I think he is very obedient now.