Mu Changqing's friend who is an expert in making incense is indeed a weirdo. He lives on a cliff halfway up the mountain. When Mu Changqing took Shu Shichu to the deserted cliff, he couldn't imagine how he could live in such an environment.
"Is your friend a savage?" She asked Mu Changqing, looking at the unfathomable abyss in front of her. There was a layer of white mist underneath, and she couldn't see how deep the abyss was at the bottom of the cliff.
"No, but it's almost the same." Mu Changqing touched his nose and said. He was carrying several packages on his back, all of which were necessities for his friend, such as fire breakers, salt, and clothes.
"Where is that road?" Shu Shichu looked around.
"There is no way." Mu Changqing showed an awkward smile, then took out his bamboo flute, put it to his mouth and started blowing.
After blowing for about a quarter of an hour, Mu Changqing stopped. Shu Shichu waited for a while, but found no movement, so he looked at him curiously.
"This is the signal I have agreed with Mr. Xiang. When he hears me playing this piece, he will know that I have come to see him." Mu Changqing explained to her.
"Then what? Will he come up to pick you up?" Shu Shichu asked.
"No, he won't come to pick me up." Mu Changqing said with a smile.
"Then what's the use if he knows?" Shu Shichu said angrily.
"If he knows I'm here, he won't go out to look for materials, but will wait for me at home." Mu Changqing said helplessly.
"Then how do we find him now?" Shu Shichu just wanted to learn from the master as soon as possible, and didn't want to waste time looking for him.
"I probably still remember the approximate location of Mr. Xiang's residence. You can follow me and fly down using Qinggong." Mu Changqing said good-naturedly.
"Okay, you can lead the way." Shu Shichu agreed.
So the two of them jumped off the cliff with a light body. Both of them were masters and had excellent light skills. Even when they passed over the bottomless cliff, they were as fast as a swallow and as light as a feather.
I don't know how high the cliff was. Shu Shichu followed Mu Changqing and flew for a while. When he was about on a huge rock protruding from the cliff halfway up the mountain, Mu Changqing stopped and said, "We're here."
"Are we here?" Shu Shichu said in surprise, looking around to see where there was a place where people could live.
Mu Changqing tapped the boulder under his feet and said, "The boulder under our feet now is Mr. Xiang's roof."
Shu Shichu's eyes suddenly widened and he looked at the boulder at his feet. He didn't expect that Mr. Xiang was so creative and used this natural boulder as his roof.
Mu Changqing walked to the edge of the boulder and shouted down: "Master Xiang! Master Xiang! I am Mu Changqing, and I brought a friend to see you..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a hoarse voice that sounded like he hadn't spoken for a long time impatiently shouting: "I heard it, I heard it! Get out of here when you come. Why are you howling? Do you want me to bring firecrackers?" Welcome?"
Mu Changqing didn't care about the rude words of Mr. Xiang, and said to Shu Shichu: "Let's go down." Then he jumped down and entered the cave under the boulder.
Yes, Mr. Xiang’s residence is actually a huge natural cave with twists and turns inside. Probably Mr. Xiang later excavated and decorated it, making it more like a cave dwelling lived in by later generations.
"Master Xiang, this is my friend Miss Zhanrong Zhan. She is also very good at making incense. After hearing about you from me, she wanted to come and visit you. Miss Zhan, this is the incense master I mentioned. ." Mu Changqing introduced the two of them.
Shu Shichu looked at Mr. Xiang in front of him. His hair and beard had not been trimmed for who knows how long. They were messy. His chicken coop-like hair covered his forehead and eyebrows, and his unkempt beard covered the lower half of his face. Therefore, His entire face was almost covered, with only the fairly tall bridge of his nose and half of his eyes exposed, stubbornly proving that he was indeed a human being and not some beast.
He was wearing tattered clothes with no visible color. It would be an exaggeration to call him a beggar, and he did not look like an outsider at all.
"You know how to make incense?" Mr. Xiang is indeed a person whose own name is "Xiang", and he immediately grasped what he was most interested in.
"Yes, senior, do you want to see the incense I mixed?" Shu Shichu asked while already taking out various bottles and jars from his bag.
Mr. Xiang's eyes immediately lit up: "Let's see!" He couldn't wait to open the various spices at the beginning of the bunch. First, he smelled deeply at the mouth of the bottle, then poured a little onto his fingers and observed carefully. …
"Master Xiang, this is the ecstasy incense I specially prepared. It is different from the ordinary ecstasy drugs in the world. My ecstasy incense can make people appear in the state of the living dead. On the surface, he closed his eyes and fainted. , but in fact his mind is very clear. He knows what outsiders say and do, and he can feel all kinds of feelings on his body, but he just can't wake up and react..." Shu Shichu introduced his proud work to Mr. Xiang. .
Xiang Ye was originally obsessed with spices, so naturally he and Shu Shichu had a lively and speculative conversation, and had completely forgotten about Mu Changqing.
Mu Changqing watched an old man and a young man beaming and arguing endlessly about whether a certain spice formula was suitable, whether it could be improved, and whether there were alternatives... Sometimes the opinions were inconsistent, and the quarrel turned red and almost started a fight; but the next time They had been chatting about a certain topic for so long that they hated each other. They were each other's confidants and wished they could join in bloodshed to form an alliance...
In short, while they were frantically arguing about their knowledge in making incense, Mu Changqing, who couldn't say a word, had become their servant, preparing three meals a day for them, and also had to wait and see for them. When they forget about food and sleep, they are forced to stop various experiments and eat and sleep on time.
Such days lasted for almost a month, until Mu Changqing almost thought that he had really become their butler. Only then did the two of them come out of this crazy state.
At that time, Shu Shichu had lost weight due to a month of forgetting sleep and food and devoting herself wholeheartedly and energetically, making her look even more fragile, but her eyes were astonishingly bright.
Seeing Mu Changqing come in with a food box, she expressed her gratitude to him very excitedly: "Master Mu, thank you very much for introducing me to Senior Xiang Yexiang. During this time, he has given me a lot of inspiration and made me There is a new direction and development in incense making... This is all your credit!"
Mu Changqing looked at her, touched her fluffy hair that she had not had time to comb in the past month, and said, "I hope it helps you."
"It helps, of course!" Shu Shichu said hurriedly.
Mr. Xiang also gave Mu Changqing a rare smile and said, "Zhanrong is a really good girl. She is very talented and has novel ideas. I have a lot of inspiration for new fragrances. Mu Changqing, you guy It was a good thing."
