Chapter 114 Amazing Effects
Zhou Feng stepped forward with a smile, "That's right, this is a new blend of incense made by our Zhou family. You can smell it."
After saying that, he brought the lit incense burner to them.
After smelling it, they were all pleasantly surprised. "This fragrance is so unique. It has the scent of spring, like a warm breeze carrying the aroma of fruits, herbs, woods, and flowers. It's refreshing, pleasant, and makes you feel happy."
Zhou Feng lifted the incense burner up a bit. "Miss has a good eye. Our incense just happens to be called 'Springtime Delight'."
The ladies and young women were delighted and asked with smiles, "Alright, shopkeeper, how much is a box of these Springtime Fragrance Pills?"
One box of incense pills contains ten pills.
The price is naturally not cheap, about twenty taels per box.
These fragrant pills at this price are considered quite expensive in the capital.
Upon hearing the price, the ladies and young women began to hesitate. Ordinary incense pills usually cost at most one tael of silver per box.
The prices differ quite a bit.
However, the fragrance was so rare that after some hesitation, the ladies said, "Shopkeeper, give us one box each."
There were four of them in total, and each of them had a box containing eighty taels of silver.
The waiter quickly grabbed an abacus to do the accounting, and then handed them boxes containing the incense balls one by one.
The ladies and young women were overjoyed to receive the incense balls. They opened the boxes one by one, smelled them again and again, and finally went home with smiles on their faces, eager to light the incense as soon as possible.
There's another amazing thing about this incense: if a couple lights it in their tent, their relationship improves.
The gentle spring breeze, wafting around my breath, seemed to bring back the feelings I had when I first fell in love with someone.
Among these ladies and young women was the younger sister of General Han, and the wife of the current Minister Zhong.
Minister Zhong was once a student of Grand Tutor Lu. He was a fairly upright person, and he and General Han's sister were childhood sweethearts.
General Han's sister accompanied him when he was still a scholar, helped him take the imperial examinations, helped him become the top scholar, and helped him enter officialdom.
However, the couple had not conceived for many years after their marriage, and their monotonous married life over the years had caused their relationship to deteriorate.
Madam Zhong was indifferent to Minister Zhong, even though she cared about him deeply, she often spoke coldly to him.
Several months ago, Minister Zhong had taken a liking to a new maid in his household.
This little maid wasn't particularly beautiful.
Rather, she and Madam Zhong bore a resemblance when they were young.
Even after many years of marriage, the monotony of time eventually wears off, and even the deepest feelings will fade away like flowing water.
Madam Zhong told her brother about it.
General Han didn't know how to persuade her.
Later, Han Yan'er told her to have her Zhou family buy some incense to calm her mind.
Actually, I wanted her to calm down and stop causing trouble in the mansion.
Madam Zhong bought the Spring Breeze incense and brought it home, then lit it beside the bed curtains.
Not long after, Minister Zhong arrived.
Although he was older, he was still a handsome man, wearing a brown-red jacket and sporting a slight beard, and was quite dashing.
Madam Zhong lowered her head and asked him coldly, "I said, if you want to take a concubine, you must divorce me first."
Minister Zhong frowned and said with a sorrowful expression, "Madam, you know that I will never divorce you in this lifetime."
Madam Zhong turned to the side and said, "Since you are so heartless to me, why don't we just part ways?"
A wisp of white smoke drifted slowly from beside the bed, its fragrance filling the entire room.
Minister Zhong was stunned by the fragrance, and stood there dumbfounded as if he had lost his soul.
Madam Zhong continued, "If you like that girl, then divorce me and marry her, and don't mention taking a concubine to me again."
When Minister Zhong saw the lady in the plum-red ruqun in front of him, he felt a surge of pity. The love that had been dormant in his heart seemed to be rekindled by the fragrance.
He didn't actually like that girl; he was just reminiscing about a past lover.
"Madam, I will not take a concubine, I will not marry her."
Madam Zhong was startled by these words and looked up at him. For some reason, a fragrance wafted by, and this man, who was gradually losing interest in her, seemed to overlap with the scholar she had first met.
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