ask incense

After everyone was seated, there were nine people including Pei Ling this time. He and Sai Tianxian shared an incense seat, excluding the left and right hands and the opposite row, there were four people, and there were five people in Pei Ling's row.The two of them sat at the same table, so it was naturally more crowded than the others sitting at the same table.So as before, when he was seated, Pei Ling first helped Sai Tianxian adjust the cushion so that he could sit more comfortably, and he himself sat on the corner of the table in case Sai Tianxian needed it.

As soon as they were seated, someone came up from the trays at the four corners one by one and placed Gebu's trays on the incense seats.The tray was covered with a cloth, and no one knew what it was that was delivered.Some people guessed that because it is incense, the things in this tray must be incense, but the things are right in front of them, but they don't smell the slightest fragrance, and they don't think it has anything to do with fragrance after careful consideration.

When everyone was confused, the butler generously let everyone reveal and check.

Everyone uncovered it, and Pei Ling was later than everyone because he helped Sai Tianxian adjust his sitting posture. When he was about to reveal the contents on the plate, he first heard Zhao Ming from the side, who seemed to be surprised.When Pei Ling opened it, unlike everyone's surprise, he was stunned instead.

Zhao Ming looked at the wooden sign on the plate, he thought that distinguishing fragrance was to distinguish the smell on the wooden sign.In the past, there were also wealthy people who directly carved incense materials into wooden plaques and wore them on their bodies to soak up their fragrance.What is slightly inferior is to mix the face powder and condense it into shape, and make it into a fragrance card to wear on the body.

When he just uncovered the cloth on the plate, Zhao Ming thought it was an incense tablet, but he took out a piece and put it on the tip of his nose to smell it, but there was no smell, it was not an incense tablet, it was purely a wooden tablet.So he gave a strange "Huh", what is the meaning of this ordinary wooden card instead of the incense card?

Zhao Ming held a piece of incense card, rubbed it with his fingertips, turned to look at Pei Ling and the others, and felt that Sai Tianxian might know the intention behind it, but when he turned his head to look, he saw Pei Ling in a daze.

"Gu Ling?" Zhao Ming called out to him.

Because this name was fabricated by Pei Ling, Zhao Ming called him by this name, but Pei Ling always didn't respond in a timely manner.So Zhao Ming yelled twice more quietly, and Pei Ling turned to look at him.

Zhao Ming was very surprised by his reaction, "What's wrong?" Seeing Pei Ling's reaction to the wooden sign, he was a little worried about him, "Do you recognize these wooden signs?"

At this moment, Pei Ling came back to his senses, and shook his head calmly at Zhao Ming, "No, it's just strange. It's strange what people are doing with these wooden signs."

"Oh." Hearing what he said, Zhao Ming felt slightly relieved, "Yeah, I can't figure out what to do."

Pei Ling turned his head back and looked at the wooden cards on the side plate. He involuntarily covered his chest with his hands. Through layers of clothes, he pressed down on the safe cards on his chest, which were no different from the wooden cards in front of him.

Why?He didn't understand why the wooden sign brought up here was so identical to the wooden sign he had been hanging on his chest?It can even be said to be exactly the same.But this wooden plaque that Pei Ling had been hanging on his chest and was usually regarded as a talisman was entrusted to him by Yin Chengyu back then.Why is there such a wooden sign in the Tang family?

Pei Ling couldn't figure it out, if it was because the Tang family had a good relationship with the Yin family, so the Tang family had the same wooden sign as Yin Chengyu, why didn't the enemy family have one?In terms of friendship alone, the enemy family back then was closer to the Yin family. Regardless of the enemy family, even Pei Ling from the Yue family had never seen the same wooden plaque on his chest. Why did the Tang family have one?

Just when Pei Ling couldn't figure it out, the butler spoke up, and everyone looked up at the butler.

"In ancient times, in order to fight incense, in addition to elegant characters, it must also be interesting. When tasting incense, there are often calligraphy and paintings, and there are many imitated songs." After speaking, the housekeeper turned to Shen Xuan, Lin Ming and the two young masters. , "The previous time, the atmosphere was too serious, I think the two young masters were also bored, this time I will make something interesting."

Lin Ming wondered, "How interesting?"

The housekeeper smiled but said nothing, and clapped his hands twice, and a person holding a weapon appeared on the stage, all his eyes were turned to this new person, and when that person walked into the open space surrounded by their incense mat in the hall, Only then did he see clearly that what the man was holding in his arms was a sanxian.

Shen Xuan looked at it, thought that what the butler said was interesting, so he invited someone to come up and play music for fun, and said casually, "Can I order some pop songs?"

"Xuan Shao was joking." Then he turned to the crowd with a smile, "Later on to identify the fragrance, put the wooden plaques of the same flavor horizontally, and put the wooden plaques of different flavors vertically."

The rules sounded very simple, and this time it didn't seem to be covered by a vertical screen like before. If you really don't know what to do, you can get away with just a few glances to the side.

But it would be naive if it were really that simple.Pei Ling always felt that it was not as simple as the butler said, and why did people sit in the middle of the incense seats with the three strings in their arms for no reason?Although Pei Ling didn't understand, his intuition told him that this level was not that easy.

"Is it really that simple?" Pei Ling muttered.Zhao Ming at the next table heard it, and continued with a low smile, "I'm afraid it's not that simple."

Pei Ling was a little worried, and was about to ask Zhao Ming if he had seen one or two intentions of the housekeeper, but before he could ask, the three of them came up one by one holding the stove, and walked around in a circle.

Seeing the three people holding the handle stove, Zhao Ming felt indescribable, because the handle stove held by one of them was a rare item he brought in and handed over.

Pei Ling could also see it, but now is not the time to be sad, it is the time to concentrate and savor carefully, to distinguish whether the incense in the stoves held by the three people is the same.Pei Ling kindly reminded Zhao Ming, Zhao Ming came back to his senses, and began to smell carefully.

After worrying about Zhao Ming, it's time to worry about Sai Tianxian.Just talking with Zhao Ming in a low voice, he didn't have time to ask Sai Tianxian if he saw any clues in the incense meeting.If there is no time to ask Pei Ling now, it is not easy for Pei Ling to ask any more, because Sai Tianxian has obviously entered the state, sitting upright with a calm face, and as soon as the three people holding the stove passed by him, he took three A wooden sign lay flat on the table.

Pei Ling looked at the three wooden cards he had laid flat on the table, and thought to himself, does he mean that the incenses held by the three people just now are all the same?

Isn't this a bit too simple?Pei Ling was skeptical, and wanted to persuade Sai Tianxian to smell it more carefully, but seeing Sai Tianxian's determined expression, Pei Ling finally decided not to speak. He felt that Sai Tianxian must understand Yu Xiang better than a layman like himself. There are many, and since I said I believed him before, then pointing fingers at this moment would be to slap my face on what I said before.

After he gave himself a reassurance, Pei Ling stopped going to see Sai Tianxian so as not to distract him.His eyes fell on the wooden sign on the table again, not to see if Sai Tianxian placed the wooden sign properly, but he was still wondering why this wooden sign was so similar to his own?

Pei Ling couldn't figure it out, and when he couldn't figure it out, he would feel more blocked by looking at things that aroused his doubts, so he simply didn't look at them.

Pei Ling looked up, the three people holding the stove hadn't finished their circle, except for Sai Tianxian who quickly placed his cards, the rest of the people were either frowning and pondering, hesitating, probably like Pei Ling, if they don't believe that the three incenses taste the same So Easy.Some might not be able to tell at all, leaning forward struggling to catch up with the incense that has passed in front of them, their appearance is a little ugly, if Saito is here, that person's demeanor is enough to be eliminated.There were also those who didn't care about the three people at all, and turned their eyes to look at others, tremblingly holding wooden signs and placing them, clearly wanting to eat a ready-made one.

When Saito is not around, there are all kinds of people.Pei Ling had seen enough of these people, and the three furnace holders were about to leave. Pei Ling glanced at it one last time, and remembered that among the three furnaces, one was brought by Zhao Ming. It seems that the Tang family took it from someone else. Those rare objects will not be put on the shelf, but actually used.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help thinking about it again. Pei Ling looked at the wooden plaque on the table, which was exactly the same as the safe plaque he was wearing, indicating that it was received from Yin's family.But regarding the "collection" this time, Pei Ling, who had punched in the black market, didn't have much positive understanding of it. Even if it was handed over by himself like Zhao Ming, it was forced to do it in order to enter the Tang family. out of choice.

Pei Ling had a guess, so could it be that the Yin family's wooden sign was not collected by the Tang family?

"Okay, the round of incense is over."

The butler's voice interrupted Pei Ling's thoughts, and he could only focus on the incense meeting again.

The butler spoke up, and someone came up to inspect how everyone placed the wooden signs. It turned out that everyone placed the same wooden signs, which is also the expected result. Not to mention how simple it is that Sanxiang is the same, if you can't guess it, you can just glance at it , put out wooden signs according to others.

Pei Ling still thought, what was the butler's plan, could it be so easy to pass by?

Naturally, it was not so easy to pass the level. Although Saito was not there, the butler was watching the whole process. He could see who did what little tricks, so when he knew that everyone's wooden cards were placed in the same place, the butler chose When I first discerned the fragrance, I stared at the man at the next table and asked, "What words are you singing?"

As soon as the words came out, everyone looked at me and I looked at you.The one who was asked was even more stupidly "ah".The butler shook his head. After looking around, he probably didn't want to waste time, so he directly asked Sai Tianxian to ask.

Sai Tianxian replied, "Sing <Jiangnan is Good>."

As soon as the words fell, the person sitting in the middle holding the piano, strummed the strings with slender hands, and said in a long and thin voice, "Jiangnan is beautiful, the scenery has been familiar..."

Zhao Ming understood when he heard it, no wonder the butler said at the beginning that the fragrance identification was interesting, but it turned out that he wanted to sing lyrics. In ancient times, the imitation of songs was not just about expressing and writing lyrics.The three furnaces are three rhymes, and the wooden signs are flat rhymes. If someone peeps at others in order to fool them, let him say a word with three flat rhymes.If you can say it, let the actor sing it, if you can't say it...

Zhao Ming took a look at the incense mat of that person just now, someone has come up and covered all the wooden plaques on his table with a cloth, which means that he will not be able to participate in the incense discrimination in the future.

Shen Xuan and Lin Ming also had a general understanding of the rules of the incense fight at this moment. Listening to the lyrics of the people in the hall was really interesting, but it was a bit worth watching compared to the boring incense for the first time. It is a loss that the Tang family can come up with such a trick.The two of them thought about it, but they couldn't help but looked at each other and smiled. In the middle of laughing, they realized that they were in a cold war, and then shook their heads away.

Only now did everyone really understand that those who were lucky in the past had to cheer up and take it seriously now.Except for Pei Ling, who is confused and doesn't understand anything, scratching his head, listening to the song, he even sits a little uncomfortable and flustered. I wanted to clap my hands and give myself a sense of participation, but I just raised my hands, and seeing everyone's serious expressions, I felt that it was really inappropriate to applaud at this moment.

He was about to put his hand down when he heard someone applaud from the high platform.Pei Ling followed the prestige and happened to meet Lin Ming's eyes.

Lin Ming clapped his hands and said, "Okay, good singing." But when he said yes, his eyes clearly looked at Pei Ling.

Before Pei Ling could react to Lin Ming's explicit eyes, Sai Tianxian immediately had an opinion, "Don't look!"

"No, I didn't..."

Pei Ling didn't know how to explain it, and the current atmosphere was not the time to talk too much, so he could only sit aside with his shoulders hunched and silent, and the habit of scratching his head that he usually couldn't help but didn't show up at this moment, because he really had a big head Some can't scratch it.

After people finish singing the words, the second round of fragrance identification will start again.

Another six people holding a stove came up, Pei Ling frowned when he saw it, six people came up at once, can you smell it?

Pei Ling couldn't help looking at Sai Tianxian from the corner of her eye worriedly.Sai Tianxian only had Pei Ling look back at others with an angry face, and now he had to deal with Bianxiang, his face was expressionless, but when the six people holding the stove passed by, he closed his eyes and smiled slightly. Tilt your head and take a deep breath.Pei Ling could hear his breath, and then his thoughts drifted away. He remembered that when he first met him, and at the end of the heart-to-heart conversation on the roof, he seemed to lean forward to smell himself in this way.

Thinking of this, Pei Ling suddenly didn't feel that Xiang would be bored anymore.Pei Ling's mentality is not as tense as it was during the first incense meeting. At the first incense meeting, he was still worried that Sai Tianxian would not be as good as others, so he was worried and did not dare to relax. He kept watching. Now that he has a better understanding of his strength, he is not very worried. When he is not vigilant, and he does not understand the rules of Xiangli, he just feels bored sitting around.But at the moment, Pei Ling doesn't know much about fragrances or lyrics, but fortunately, just looking at Sai Tianxian can relieve boredom.

After all the people holding the furnace passed by, he watched Sai Tianxian go to take the wooden tablet as soon as he opened his eyes. It seemed that he already had the answer in his heart, so he was about to place the wooden tablet. Pei Ling saw that Sai Tianxian moved like this Hurry up, I can't help but secretly praise him in my heart, it's really amazing, I know it so quickly.Looking around at the rest of the undecided people, Pei Ling suddenly felt proud. Our Xian'er is not only outstanding in appearance, but also surpasses ordinary people in skills.I don't know if there are any gods who are good at burning incense?If so, Pei Ling felt that he might still be inferior to Sai Tianxian.After praising Sai Tianxian, he praised himself again. He didn't understand those literary words and songs, but this didn't prevent him from choosing a name. Seeing that the name Sai Tianxian was really not for nothing!

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To explain, this group of incense is distinguished, and no specific information can be found. Later, I found out that the Tale of Genji has such a game of group incense.I combined the rhythm of words on my whim, but I am not proficient in the rhythm of poems, and the writing is simple and rough, and I hope the sea is tolerant.