Go to ancient times to catch fast

In front of the Yamen that day, Chu Xiaoyun approached the county magistrate for help, and asked him to find someone who could understand Hu Wen and translate the contents of the two books. Maybe some clues should be found in the books.The county magistrate listened to his statement and agreed to find someone to translate the two seized books.After being released from the government office, Chu Xiaoyun took the two sealed books home, and there were still some Chinese characters in the two books, which he could understand.

On the way home, I remembered that Su Wen said to practice making rouge, the more expensive the flower, the better the rouge.He deliberately took a detour to the flower market in the county seat.It is said that people don't know what money is, so he walked around the flower market and bought two pots of roses that were blooming brightly and were relatively expensive.Later, I heard that red and blue flowers are the best raw materials for making rouge, so I bought two more pots of red and blue flowers.The flower seller made the flower pot into a net bag with straw rope, and he tried it, and it was fine without much effort.

When Chu Xiaoyun came home, Su Wen was sitting in the yard sewing clothes.The last time I made one for Chu Xiaoyun, half of my own was done. When Chu Xiaoyun came back from injury, he was busy taking care of Chu Xiaoyun, so he put it on hold.Now that Chu Xiaoyun recovered from his injury and went back to Yingmao, he took care of the yard at home, practiced making rouge and gouache once, and then picked up the half-sewn clothes to make.

Seeing him coming back with a bunch of things, Su Wen hurried forward to help.He ran too fast and staggered, almost falling.Chu Xiaoyun supported him fondly and distressedly: "Run slower, we are all home."

Su Wen smiled embarrassingly, but he didn't help, and almost caused Chu Xiaoyun to drop the things in his hand.Chu Xiaoyun held him steady before handing him a net bag in his hand.Su Wen took the net bag and put it on the ground, took two pots of roses from the net bag, put them under his nose and sniffed them: "These two pots of roses are so beautiful."

Chu Xiaoyun, who was untiing another net bag and holding red and blue flowers at the side, stopped his hands and raised his head: "Rose, I bought roses."

A trace of doubt flashed in Su Wen's eyes. He put the flower under his nose and sniffed it. Then he took the flower pot away and observed the plant: "It's a Chinese rose, not a rose."

"Ah? Isn't it roses? But I said I bought roses." Chu Xiaoyun said.

Su Wen said: "Did you buy it from the itinerant hawker Nanli? I'm just fooling you."

Chu Xiaoyun came over and picked up the flower pot in Su Wen's hand: "Are the two pots both roses?"

Su Wen picked up another pot and sniffed it: "Both pots are roses."

"I bought it at a shop, not a roadside vendor. I asked how much these two pots of roses cost, and the boss said ten cents a pot. I thought the price was okay, so I bought it." Chu Xiaoyun was a little aggrieved.

"Pfft——" Su Wen couldn't help laughing, "You said it was a rose, and they must have seen that you wanted it, so they said how much it was, but they didn't say it wasn't a rose."

Chu Xiaoyun looked at the flowers in their hands: "Actually, I think roses and roses look similar this time around. I don't understand why there are still two kinds of flowers. How are they divided?"

Su Wen smiled: "They are really two different words. You see, the thorns on the thorns of this rose are few, the thorns are big, and the thorns are very smooth."

Su Wen said as he pulled Chu Xiaoyun's sleeves and walked to the flower garden beside him, where they planted the flower seedlings they bought from the village market a few days ago.Su Wen pointed to a few clusters of flowers on the side of the road that looked similar to the flower plants in their hands and said: "Then you look again, this is a rose. There are many thorns on the stem, and there are dense hairs. Look at them again The leaves of roses are shiny, and the leaves of roses are dull."

Speaking of which, Su Wen stood up: "Besides, roses only bloom in summer. It must be late April at the earliest. Now it's only early April, and the roses only have a few buds. How can they bloom so beautifully. Only the rose has a long flowering period and four seasons It blooms undefeated. That’s why the Chinese rose is called Chinese rose, as well as names such as Yueyuehong and Periwinkle, all of which indicate that it has a relatively long flowering period.”

Chu Xiaoyun compared the two kinds of flowers over and over again: "I can't tell, I don't think there is any difference."

Su Wen couldn't help laughing: "It's okay, you'll be able to see it when they all bear fruit. Rose fruit is round, like a ball; although rose fruit is also round, it's flat, not that small The look of the ball."

"Okay." Chu Xiaoyun put the flowerpot in his hand on the ground, "Then you didn't see what the flower looked like just now, how did you know it was a rose and not a rose when you put it under your nose and smell it?"

Su Wen covered his mouth and smiled: "Of course there is another difference between these two kinds of flowers, that is, the fragrance of the flowers is different. You forgot that our Honghe Village is a village that makes rouge powder, and there must be raw materials to have this industry. The planting of roses and red and blue flowers in Honghe Village is also very famous in several nearby counties. In the county seat or surrounding counties, these flowers all come from Honghe Village.”

"When I was very young, my mother taught me to smell the fragrance and recognize the flowers. My nose seems to be more sensitive by nature, so many times, I can know the flowers by smelling the flowers without observing the plants. At that time My dad always made fun of me for having a dog's nose."

Su Wen couldn't help being happy when he talked about the interesting things about his childhood, but he couldn't help feeling sad when he thought of his parents who had passed away.He controlled his emotions and raised his smiling face again: "But it doesn't matter, roses and roses are very good. I like everything my husband bought. Let's plant them after dinner. Let's go eat first."

When he pulled Chu Xiaoyun's sleeves and walked to the kitchen, he didn't forget to be a little miser and talk to Chu Xiaoyun: "The flowers in the market in the village are not only fresh, but also cheaper than those in the county. These flowers in the county are also from red The labor, rent, and taxes paid to the government all cost money for transporting from Hecun. It must be much more expensive than the market in the village. If you want to be able to choose, the price is cheaper, and you can buy it directly from the villagers’ homes. I came back from the county to buy flowers. It was hard work and tiring to carry them so far."

Chu Xiaoyun pinched his nose: "We Wenwen really know how to live."

Su Wen happily pointed to the small path and the courtyard wall in the yard: "In the future, let's plant roses on the side of the road and under the courtyard wall, how about Chinese roses? You can also enjoy flowers and make rouge."

How could Chu Xiaoyun say it badly.

Su Wen was so happy that he jumped up and down again.

After dinner, I planted the newly bought flowers in the ground.Su Wen looked at the newly added flowers and said, "Get up tomorrow morning and pick off the fresh petals with dewdrops. The rouge you make will definitely be better."

"That's good, Wen Wenming has to be busy again today." After Chu Xiaoyun planted a hand full of mud, he was going to fetch water to wash his hands. When he bent down, he found that the book in his arms was in danger of falling off. He said to Su Wen, "Wenwen, help me take out the book in my arms, lest it fall into the well."

"Oh." Su Wen walked over, took out two books from Chu Xiaoyun's arms, and flipped through them curiously, "Husband, what kind of books are these?"

While putting down the bucket to fetch water, Chu Xiaoyun responded, "The two books that were seized in our case are very important physical evidence. I'll bring them back and study them to see if I can find anything."

Su Wen flipped through the book: "Why are there so many strange words in this book? How can I understand such strange words? Who would buy them?"

"Those weird characters are the characters of the barbarian regime in the north." Chu Xiaoyun said, suddenly remembered something, and let go of the rope of the bucket in his hand, "Wenwen, what did you just say?"

"It's just that there are a lot of strange characters in the book." Su Wen held the book in doubt and said.

"No, the latter sentence." Chu Xiaoyun said.

"It's just these words, so strange, can anyone understand them? They can't understand them, who would buy them?" Su Wen looked at Chu Xiaoyun strangely, repeated the words, and then shared the two books Put it under your nose and sniff.

"Yes, Wen Wen, you are right. There is a book almost entirely in Hu Wen, with only a few Chinese characters, it is absolutely impossible to be a translation. How many people can understand a Hu Wen book without a translation? But The people from the second team found dozens of books from the warehouse of Zhihe Bookstore. This is too unreasonable." I was preoccupied with other things today, so why didn't I think of this obvious doubt.

Chu Xiaoyun was so excited that he slapped his thigh, completely forgetting that he hadn't washed his muddy hands after planting flowers, so he slapped his leg with a big slap.

Although this suspicious point cannot find out the suspect, it can at least explain that it is unreasonable for the store to sell this kind of book.For public and private purposes, only things that everyone can understand can have the power of dissemination. A book that cannot be understood will not be sold openly in bookstores.

Su Wen put the book down from his nose, and looked at the handprint on Chu Xiaoyun's trousers with disgust.

Seeing Su Wen's action, Chu Xiaoyun smirked twice: "I got a little excited at the moment. My lord, forgive me."

In order to save face for himself, he diverted his attention and said, "What's so good about a book, it's not flowers."

Su Wen put the two books under his nose and sniffed again: "It's nothing, I just found that the paper of these two books smells different."

Chu Xiaoyun remembered that Su Wen said just now that he smells fragrances and knows flowers, and has a particularly good nose.His expression suddenly became serious: "Wenwen, can you smell that these two books are printed on different paper?"

Su Wen put the two books under his nose and sniffed again: "Yes, can't you smell such an obvious difference?"

"Wait." Chu Xiaoyun quickly brought up a bucket of water, washed his hands and wiped his body twice, then took the two books from Su Wen's hands, and put them under his nose to sniff.Except for a smell of ink, I can't smell anything else.

"I can't smell it." Chu Xiaoyun said.He suddenly remembered that Jin Suwen can smell the smell of paper, so can he identify the raw materials for paper production based on the smell of paper?Based on this clue, he finds out the workshop that produces paper, and then finds the workshop that prints books and the printer or buyer of the book?

If in modern society, different components of paper can be analyzed through laboratory tests, science and technology are fully qualified to solve these problems.It's just that this is an ancient society, and these technical problems, which are nothing in modern society, could not be realized in ancient times.

But now that Su Wen can smell the smell of paper, if he can identify the raw material of paper through the smell, wouldn't it fill the gap in modern science and technology?After sorting out his thoughts like this, Chu Xiaoyun was really excited.He pulled Su Wen to the stone table and sat down, squatting in front of Su Wen himself: "Wenwen, can you smell what material the paper of these two books is made of?"

After speaking, Chu Xiaoyun looked at Su Wen hopefully.