Wash the agarwood and grind it into coarse powder. Then grind Sichuan pepper, borneol, white peony root and cinnamon into fine powder. Grind a small amount of coarse powder of asarum into the powder and mix it into the powder. Grind it into finer powder. Then add white hyacinth juice to make a fragrant cake. Press the coarse agarwood powder on both sides of the cake while it is still wet. Dry it in the shade and then burn it.
Fortunately, there was white hyacinth in the back garden of the mansion. On the second day, Yu Jiao took Jianjia to the back garden to pick a few white hyacinths. After making them into fragrant cakes, they put them away and waited for them to dry in the shade.
Liu Ziqi gave Yu Jiao more than a dozen shop deeds and let her choose. Yu Jiao asked what business these shops were doing now. After discussing with Liu Ziqi, she chose a shop close to the bookstore.
Yu Jiao wrote a letter and asked Li Jing to deliver it to the post station and send it to Qingzhou. In the letter, she told Chen Yu about the matter of fumigating the paper with elegant fragrance. If one just burned incense to fumigate the paper with fragrance, the fragrance would surely not last long. She asked them to think of a way to make the fragrance on the paper last for a long time.
In the evening, Liu Ziqi came back from the Annan Marquis Mansion and told Yu Jiao that Gu Yun was able to turn over, but he still couldn't get out of bed. The wounds on his body had scabbed over, and it looked like there was nothing serious, so he asked Yu Jiao not to worry.
Yu Jiao looked at the medicine the doctor prescribed for Gu Yun that day. They were all top-quality wound medicines. Even if she prepared them, they were just made with those medicinal ingredients. Gu Yun had strong bones, so as long as he took good care of his injury, he would be fine. After Yu Jiao went to the Annan Marquis' Mansion, she was no longer worried about Gu Yun's injury.
In her spare time, she made several kinds of incense pills, including the sweet and charming Yuweixiang, which was mostly liked by women and made use of frankincense banyan juice; there was also the Baohe cake from Baohe Tongxie, which made use of sandalwood and ambergris; and the Xingtanai, which was like bathing in the deep forest, which made use of rosin and cypress leaves.
Because of the incense-testing activity, the scent of fragrance has lingered in Yingyue Pavilion for the past few days. The servants in the mansion who passed by all said it smelled good. The news of the Third Miss making incense also reached the ears of the Old Lady and Liu Ci Fu.
When Liu Ci Fu came to the yard, there was still the lingering fragrance of apricot kernel in the yard. Liu Ci Fu liked the smell very much and asked Yu Jiao for a few fragrant cakes.
When the old lady asked Yu Jiao to have dinner at Baoshou Hall, she also mentioned fragrant cakes. Yu Jiao knew that she loved to burn incense and chant Buddhist scriptures, so she asked Jianjia to send a box of Baohe cakes to the old lady.
The old lady immediately asked Mother Liu to burn a piece of incense in the incense burner. Baohe incense uses sandalwood, and the smell is very clean, elegant and not strong. Yu Jiao used medicinal materials in Baohe incense, not just spices, and it is also good for the body to smell.
It’s just that the old lady has a cough, and the smoke in the house is bad for her throat, so she still reminded the old lady to burn less incense in the house.
The old lady liked the taste of the Baohe incense cake very much. She said that she would take Yu Jiao to Lianxi Temple to burn incense and pray for blessings in three days. She asked Yu Jiao to make two more boxes of Baohe incense and bring them to Master Ji Xin of Lianxi Temple.
Yu Jiao agreed and went back to make some Baohe fragrant cakes.
Liu Yaoyu was thinking about the tea tasting and fragrance smelling agreement she had made with Chen Guan, and was afraid that her mother would follow her grandmother and father's lead and ask Yu Jiao for fragrance pills and cakes. She deliberately said in front of Madam Liu that the fragrance Yu Jiao made was very rare and had other serious uses.
Mrs. Liu did have this idea originally, but after hearing what Liu Yaoyu said, she had to give it up.
That day, after Yu Jiao finished making the Baohe incense cakes, she thought that if incense was burned in temples, people would prefer to use seal incense and stick incense, so she asked Li Jing to go out of the house to buy some perilla, camphor and agarwood, and then find a skilled carpenter to carve a swastika and a cloud-patterned incense seal mold. She planned to make Miao seal incense.
Not long after Li Jing left, a little maid came in and said, "Miss, Miss Yu is here."
Yu Jiao was fiddling with spices on the low couch. She looked up and saw Yu Fuling coming into the room. She smiled and said, "Sister, why are you here? Come and sit down."
Yu Fuling walked to the couch and saw that she had placed a lot of things on the low table. She didn't know what she was going to do, so she didn't dare touch the things on the low table and sat down next to the couch.
Jianjia brought in some tea and snacks and then left again.
Yu Fuling then spoke up, "Master Mu went to Kanjing Hutong. He has something to ask for."
The second master of the Mu family helped Yu Jiao a lot at that time. When Yu Qizhe and his companions went to Qingzhou for the provincial examination, they still lived in the Mu family. Yu Jiao also heard Yu Qizhe mention that the servants in Kanjing Hutong were all arranged by the master of the Mu family.
But if she remembered correctly, the eldest master of the Mu family was the Minister of the Ministry of Rites. As a fourth-rank official in the imperial court, there was no way he would ask Yu Qizhe and others for help.
"Did Mr. Mu say what it was about?" Yu Jiao put down the incense shovel in her hand and asked.
Yu Fuling said hurriedly, "The young lady of the Mu family had a difficult delivery. The master of the Mu family heard from somewhere that you can have a caesarean section, and he actually found you in Kanjing Hutong and wanted to invite you to go to his house to see the young lady. Qizhe couldn't refuse directly, so he asked me to come and tell you."
"How did Master Mu know that I was in the capital?" Yu Jiao poured a cup of tea for Yu Fuling. "Does he know my identity?"
This is not right, because Master Mu has never seen her. Even if he knew that Liu Jiaxin had found a daughter, he should not have known that it was her.
Yu Fuling didn't bother to drink tea, "It seems like he doesn't know. He thought you also lived in Kanjing Hutong and came with me to accompany me to the Spring Examination. Now the master of the Mu family is still waiting in the yard. Qi Zhe sat with him and talked. I just said you were out and came out to look for you."
Yu Jiao put on her shoes, got off the couch, and went to get the medical box.
She knew very well that there were only two possibilities for the Mu family's master to look for her. Either the second master of the Mu family, Mu Yan, had written a letter to the Mu family in Beijing and mentioned that she would have a caesarean section to deliver the fetus, or someone had deliberately spread the news that the third wife of the Wu family had delivered the stillborn fetus.
Mrs. Wu San's fetus died in her womb due to poisoning. This involves the private affairs of the rear house and concerns their reputation. Naturally, the Wu family would not tell everyone about it. So it can only be Wang Min and Lin Fang who are responsible.
After all, the Wu family's initial approach to Chen Wan was their masterpiece.
But no matter what their plan was, with the relationship with Mu Yan, Yu Jiao naturally couldn't just stand by and watch him die. After checking the instruments in the medical box and filling a box of catgut, she handed the medical box to Yu Fuling and went to the next yard.
Liu Ziqi was looking at the account book in the room. After listening to Yu Jiao's story about the young lady of the Mu family having a difficult delivery and her speculation, he closed the account book, stood up, and said, "Go with peace of mind. If they are really behind this, they will not end well."
Yu Jiao felt relieved after hearing what he said. With someone backing her up, she felt more confident and confident about what she could do.
"Then I'll go, big brother." Yu Jiao smiled at him and walked outside with Yu Fuling.
When Yu Jiao left the room, Liu Ziqi called her and said with a warm and steady smile, "Big brother is here for you in everything!"
These words were very heartwarming. In the past, her senior brother Fu Chuan always loved to tell her that no matter what happened, he would be there, and he would always keep his word. When her grandfather passed away, all the funeral arrangements were handled by her senior brother. She was too sad, immersed in the grief of the death of her loved one, and had no time to care about those things. Her senior brother arranged everything properly.
Now, she has another brother who treats her as well as her senior brother Fu Chuan.
Yu Jiao's smile became even brighter. She waved to Liu Ziqi and left with Yu Fuling.
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