Chapter 227 Blackmail
"What kind of incense is being burned here, Princess Ronghua?" The Eighth Wise King Zhao De said "Amitabha" and deliberately changed the subject.
People in Nanchu believe in Buddhism, so the easiest thing to buy is Buddhist incense, and the cheapest thing is also Buddhist incense.
Other incense is only to meet the needs of a small number of tourists, so it is naturally sold at a very high price.
Unfortunately, Princess Ronghua Zhu Huaizhen couldn't get used to the smell of various Buddhist incense.
"Leave a fragrance." Zhu Huaizhen murmured.
The ingredients for this lingering fragrance are agarwood, sandalwood, ambergris, styrax, jasmine, lily, and camphor. First, wash the Hainan agarwood and grind it into a fine powder. Next, grind the Indian sandalwood and an appropriate amount of camphor together. Next, crush the dried jasmine and fresh lily flowers into moist flakes, add a small amount of ambergris, and grind them into a fine powder. Then, mix the fine powders of Indian sandalwood and camphor with the fine powders of jasmine, lily, and ambergris in a stone mortar, then shade-dry and oven-dry them until they become a finer powder. Finally, mix the agarwood powder with the fine powdered powder from above and add the pounded fresh lily fragrance paste. Grind the powders together until they are semi-moist and semi-dry, press them into fragrant cakes, dry them in the shade, wrap them in gauze, and shape them into flat, round cakes like chess pieces. After drying, store them in a wardrobe. Or when using, grind it into fine powder again, wrap it in gauze and place it in the closet.
Liuxiang is common in Southern Wu.
After hearing this, Zhao De understood and smiled lightly.
Zhao De now understood that what Zhu Huai really wanted was nothing more than money.
Princess Ronghua lived a life of wealth and glory, and was oblivious to the sufferings of the common people.
"Your Highness, I have purple incense, which works best when paired with a huanghuali covered incense burner." Zhao De bowed deeply and stopped performing the monk's etiquette.
Purple incense is made from agarwood, sandalwood, cloves, frankincense, rosin, plum blossoms, ambergris, and honey. First, the agarwood must be ground into a fine powder from the old roots of Hainan Huanghuali (Huanghuali tree); the sandalwood from Indian old mountain sandalwood must be ground into a fine powder; the cloves from the male Caryophyllum japonicum must be ground into a coarse powder; the frankincense and rosin must be ground into a fine powder; a small amount of pure white ambergris powder is taken and pounded with fresh plum blossoms to form an incense paste. Next, the sandalwood, agarwood, frankincense, and rosin powders are mixed with an appropriate amount of honey to form an incense paste. This paste, combined with the ambergris and fresh plum blossom pastes, is then kneaded into three layers to form an incense cake. Simply put, the top layer is the agarwood paste, the middle layer is the plum blossom paste, and the bottom layer is a mixture of the two pastes. Finally, a two-inch-tall incense tower is formed for burning.
The purple air is fragrant and coming from the east, this is a good sign.
Therefore, purple incense has always been precious.
Zhao De always regarded Zhu Huaizhen as a delicate flower that needed care.
"Your Highness, the fragrance of purple is not enough. Since I gave you a gold hairpin, why don't you return a box of hairpins? You don't have to be restricted to gold or silver, as long as they are luxurious." Zhu Huaizhen held his rosy cheeks and smiled sweetly, his grape eyes clear and transparent.
"Princess Ronghua, you are blackmailing me." Zhao De was indeed good-tempered. Although he was obviously angry inside, he could still hold a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. The look he gave Zhu Huaizhen was like a gentle spring breeze.
"Your Highness, the Wise King, take care. I won't see you off." Zhu Huaizhen waved his hand.
Zhu Huaizhen knew that it was this honorific "Your Highness" that had given Zhao De the illusion that she, Zhu Huaizhen, was easy to bully. Little did she know that she, Zhu Huaizhen, provoked Zhao De just to force her into the game.
The word "forced" fully demonstrates the helplessness of the princess of a fallen country, so as not to arouse suspicion.
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