Brilliant Horse

"Big brother, big brother!" A child was running in the courtyard, holding a brush in his hand, his face was stained with ink.

Aomori sat on the fence with Mu Fanhua basking in the sun, before he saw anyone and heard his voice, he hurried over to stop him, saying: "Little ancestor, please be quiet, the master has just fallen asleep, if he is caught Woke up, I won’t give you meat tonight.” Aomori took out a handkerchief and wiped his face, but found that the ink stains couldn’t be wiped off no matter how much he wiped.

"Hush..." The child made a quiet gesture and said softly: "Xiaodou wants to ask big brother, Xiaodou has copied the Three Character Classic, can you teach Xiaodou some kung fu today, hehe..."

"Success, but I want to learn kung fu. I need to master the basic skills well. Let's do a horse stance first. It's time for a stick of incense."

After hearing this, Xiaodou said with a mournful face, "Is it possible to succeed without practicing horse riding?"

"No, then do you want to copy the Three Character Classic or Zamabu again?" Aomori asked.

"Zama step!"

"Success, I'll get you incense."

Strange to say, ever since meeting Xiaodou's mother that day, Mu Fanhua has asked Aomori to teach Xiaodou how to write. Maybe it's out of pity for this lonely child, or it's really like what Mu Fanhua said, he doesn't know a lot of big characters. How to serve a good person.Regardless of the reason, Xiaodou just thinks that the master is really good, and keeps trying to make Mu Fanhua happy, but Mu Fanhua is recuperating, and every day he spends his days in the sun, sleeping, dressing up, and recruiting a new cook.

Just when Xiaodou was in the middle of his stride, Fusheng ran in yelling like Xiaodou just now, "Someone is coming, someone is coming! Here comes a fat head and big ears!"

Aomori wanted to pull him aside, but Mu Fanhua opened his eyes and sat on Luohan's bed, and said slowly: "Take me to have a look."

A few days ago, Mu Fanhua asked Aomori to write a lot of papers and paste them in the streets and alleys, but no one came to apply for the job, so he couldn't help but doubt Hu Qi, but after all, there is a lot of monthly money, and there must be a brave man under the big money. No matter how hard Hu Qi tried to do, he wouldn't be able to stop so many people.

Mu Fanhua went to the front door and took a look, hey, what a guy, he is really fat and big ears, he alone is worth two of himself.The man was carrying a bundle and was dressed in ordinary clothes. He was sitting on a stool drinking tea. When he saw everyone coming out of the backyard with Mu Fanhua in his arms, he quickly stood up, nodded and bowed, and with a grin, a big gold tooth was exposed.

"Are you here to apply for a cook?" Mu Fanhua sat down and asked.

"Yes, yes, I am, the little Li Dun, they all call me Dunzi."

"What will you do?"

"Cooking." Li Dun replied.

"I asked what dishes you would cook!"

"What the son can say, the little one can do."

"Oh?" Mu Fanhua raised his eyebrows in surprise. There are very few cooks who can do everything these days. If they can find a month's money, they can't even afford it. "Can you cook goose? Can you cook fish fillets? "

"Yes, yes, yes."

"Qingsen, take him to the kitchen." Mu Fanhua said, "You don't need to cook the roast goose. I'll give you two sticks of incense time and cook five dishes for me. If I'm satisfied, my son, I'll let you stay." After finishing speaking, He waved his hand and asked Aomori to take him down.

Just as Mu Fanhua was about to get up and go back to sleep in the courtyard, a middle-aged man stood at the counter and asked Huba, "Is the head of Jufu here?"

"I am, what's the matter?" Mu Fanhua approached and asked.

The two children following behind the middle-aged man held the box in both hands and handed it to Mu Fanhua. The man said: "This is the clothes you want."

Fu Sheng took it for Mu Fanhua, and Mu Fanhua stood beside the man, suddenly smelling a strange fragrance, his expression was thoughtful.

He said: "What is this strange fragrance?"

The man was stunned for a while, then patted his forehead and replied: "The master taught me the incense to give to the son, my head." After speaking, he took out two small wooden boxes from his wide sleeve and handed them over.

Mu Fanhua took it, opened one of them, it contained some powder, it smelled like musk, and opened one of them again, it was this...

"This is He Xiang?" Mu Fanhua asked.

The man looked at it and said, "Master Hui, this is Baizhuoxiang."

"Bai Zhuo Xiang?"

"Put clothes and this fragrance together for a long time, and the clothes will be dyed with this fragrance, and the fragrance will never be exhausted."

Mu Fanhua closed the box, looked at the man with a smile on his face, and said: "Could it be that your master has taken a fancy to this young master? Send this to that."

The man looked up for a moment, then lowered his head, and replied: "It's absolutely impossible, my master is a man of high morals and prestige."

Hearing what the man said, it was Mu Fanhua's turn to be stunned, wasn't she?

"Where does this fragrance come from?"

The man replied: "There is no production in the world. It is just a small amount produced by some Fu Guo incense masters living on the streets of Daliang. This incense is more expensive than a thousand gold."

"Oh, that means that your master, a big man, actually gave me such precious incense..." Mu Fanhua joked, "Come on, let's go, it's fine."

After the man left, Aomori walked out from the backyard and asked what happened, Mu Fanhua shook his head and said nothing, and only asked him to take some scraps of silver and go to the street to buy some books.

Fuguo.. ​​Incense making..

"Serve the dishes~" Fu Sheng served five dishes from the kitchen, and everyone sat at the table, sniffing the tempting aroma of the delicacies.

Mu Fanhua glanced at the cheerful Li Dun with his peach blossom eyes, picked up a piece of carp meat for Xiaodou, and said, "Try it, everyone, let's see how it tastes."

He put a piece of chicken in his own bowl, made another bowl of soup, put down the bowl and chopsticks slowly after eating, and said to Li Dun who was standing by: "From now on, you have a place in Jufu." , this dish is well done. Fusheng, take him to find a place to live."

"Alas, alas!" Fusheng spat out the bones in his mouth, wiped the oil on his mouth, got up from the table reluctantly, and took Li Dun to the backyard.

Who the hell is he, trying to get closer to himself.A lot of money and manpower have been invested..

Mu Fanhua looked at the backyard thoughtfully, this cook is... not bad.

In the evening, after Mu Fanhua drank a bowl of tonic, he began to bury himself in the pile of books.I am ashamed to say that I have lived for 18 years without even understanding the customs and habits of this country, so I took the opportunity to make up for it tonight.

After watching it all night, it seems that there is nothing to gain. It's just in Fu Country.. Mu Fanhua plans to go out tomorrow, even if it's not for the fragrance, he will be bored in the backyard of the inn.

The next evening, after dinner.

"Oh, I like this dress..." Mu Fanhua touched the coat on the hanger. Although he had thought about it before, it was still amazing to make it.

The garment is ankle-length, white all over, with golden valley patterns embroidered on the cuffs and neckline. The material is high-quality brocade. There are pairs of crane patterns on the sleeves. The waist belt is fluttering, and it is matched with blue tassels. The waist is carved with bats. Purple jade, a necklace worn on the neck, and a jade crown on the head.

Mu Fanhua picked up the sword, gestured at Aomori, and asked: "Do you think your master's fluttering clothes are more beautiful than girls?"

"Master, are you in a very good mood today?"

"That's right, it's been a long time since I went out for a walk. If you wear new clothes, I'd like it even more!"

Mu Fanhua's purpose today is only one, to go out to attract people's attention, so he wore it for a long time, and matched it with Baizhuoxiang, painted his eyebrows, and had peach blossom eyes, even thousands of women can't match him.

How effective is it? As soon as Mu Fanhua walks to the street, he knows that no matter men, women, young or old, they are all around Mu Fanhua and looking up and down, there are chattering voices, women who are flirting secretly, women with shy and frightened expressions, and... A brothel woman shaking a handkerchief on the street.

Mu Fanhua took Aomori into a very luxurious brothel, looking at their backs, many people's eyes of admiration, envy, and jealousy turned into disgust, contempt, and disappointment, and since then no matchmaker will come to him again up.

Liufang Building..

The moment he stepped into this brothel, many women who were busy entertaining people all looked at Mu Fanhua, and the hall was silent.When he was outside the door just now, he asked about the strong fragrance of Baizhuo. Since he is a woman, of course he can't rule out being in the brothel, but there are so many women in the brothel.I thought that I would go in and smell the fragrance one by one to know people, but only after I went in did I find that it seems that the incense in this shop seems to use Baizhuo incense.

"My lord, you are so handsome. It's a great honor to come to Liufanglou with such a handsome face." A woman in her 30s appeared from a corner, and she must be a procuress.

The old procuress has her face flushed, her mouth is like a red candle, her hair is loosely tied up with a jasper hairpin, and she is wearing a green chest-length skirt. The oiran in the middle.

Seeing that Mu Fanhua was silent, the bustard took Mu Fanhua and Qingsen aside, and said: "They all call me Aunt Man, since they came to Liufanglou, they must be having fun. What do you like, my lord? If they like you Which girl, let me tell Aunt Man, I believe there is no girl who can refuse you, young master." The old bustard pointed at the passing women with a feather fan, like every treasure.

"You." Mu Fanhua stopped and said.

The old bustard thought she heard it wrong, and said, "What? What did you say just now?"

"I said, you come and serve me."

The old bustard suddenly laughed, narrowed his eyes into a straight line, and said: "Hahaha, I never thought that at my age, there are still young sons and gentlemen who would like it. Cheng Chengcheng, I will be me." The old bustard smiled and bent over. , "My lord, please."

The old bustard took Mu Fanhua to his room, and Mu Fanhua asked the old bustard to set up an incense table for Aomori in front of the room, to make a pot of tea, and Aomori sat outside the door drinking tea and waiting.

The old bustard is really a bustard, and the money is so much that the room decoration is particularly extravagant. Gold, silver and jade can be seen everywhere in the room, and the bedroom is separated by bead curtains, and various musical instruments in the room are hung on the wall.

"Sir?"

Mu Fanhua came back to his senses and found a seat to sit down.

"Hehe, you can call me Mandie, young master, what should you call me? Do you want to listen to music, or play with poems and songs?" The old bustard stroked the instrumental music on the wall.

"I just want to ask, where did you get the Baizhuoxiang here?" Mu Fanhua poured himself a glass of water, "I heard that Baizhuoxiang is a famous fragrance, and the output is very small, but your Liufanglou It seems that burning this incense is as common as eating and drinking tea."

When the old bustard heard this, she laughed and replied, "My lord, don't you know? I'm from Fu country, and more than half of our girls are from Fu country."

It's Fu country again... that country that didn't exist long ago.

"Does that mean that Baizhuoxiang is made by you?"

"No, no, if everyone can make Baizhuo incense, then this incense will not be listed as a famous product, and it will not be more expensive than gold."

"Who made that?"

The bustard smiled softly and said, "It's far away in the sky, but it's close in front of you."

"you?"

"Exactly." The old bustard fanned her feather lightly, "Oh, what are you talking about? Come on, what do you want to play, young master? I don't know what to call young master."

"Mu."

"Mu? We have a general in Daliang with the surname Mu. Seeing how handsome you are, is he the son of a general?"

"What, it's just a wild child with no father or mother."

Without Mu Fanhua's consent, the old bustard played the pipa on his own, he didn't understand the babbling lyrics, presumably it was a song from Fu Country, that poor little country, huh.

After hearing this, Mu Fanhua heard that at night, Mu Fanhua got up to leave, and the old bustard also wanted to keep him. Mu Fanhua was just joking about the gold carvings and jade bricks in Liufang Building. If he stayed any longer, he might not be able to afford it. Silver.

In the end, the bustard sent Mu Fanhua out, and when she was going down the stairs, she tripped suddenly and almost fell with Mu Fanhua, but fell into Aomori's arms, knocking Aomori to the ground.

The old bustard stood up, patted his clothes for him, picked up the sword, and said: "Oh, it's really old and useless, it's like this every time you walk."

"No problem." Aomori said.

"If it wasn't for you, my lord, I would have suffered a terrible fall. In view of this and the fact that you are the first time to come to Liufang Building, I will count you as cheaper, 100 taels." The old bustard stretched out his palm. .

100 two!

Mu Fanhua gritted his teeth in his heart, it's still cheaper, it will cost 100 taels!

"Can I get credit?" Mu Fanhua folded the old bustard's palms together, "I didn't plan to come because money is tight, let's see if Aunt Man can be tolerant?"

"Oh? On credit?" The bustard hesitated for a while, "What's your name, and which family?"

"Mu Fanhua, the head of the Jufu Inn on Xiaoqing Street." Mu Fanhua smiled, and that smile was specially squeezed out for the old bustard to see.

"Mu...Fan...Hua..." The old bustard was thoughtful, "Ah~ the Jufu Inn is opposite to the Eight Immortals Building, I know, I will let you credit, remember to bring money next time you come to play, it will cost a month Come on, otherwise don't blame me for being rude." After speaking, the bustard turned and left.

Aomori secretly heaved a sigh of relief, he didn't expect his master to give credit so openly, it would be difficult if the old bustard refused, because he only had 50 taels with him.

When he came out of the brothel, he was so worried about Mu Fanhua, not because of the 100 taels, but because he couldn't find the woman.I have learned a lot in the past two days, but not enough.He had seen Baizhuoxiang once before, that is, on his mother's remains burned by his aunt, a large number of things were gathered together and burned, and even the wisps of black smoke were full of fragrance.

From this, it can be judged that her mother has something to do with Fu country, maybe a nobleman of Fu country, but if she doesn't know her name, how to investigate, and if she doesn't know her identity, how can she find protection in the capital? It's really worrying.

Mu Fanhua was walking on the street, and suddenly felt that kind of gaze behind him. He looked back, only to see the big red lantern of Liufang Building hanging in the air.

That woman must be there..