National Goddess: The First Spirit Chef in History

Chapter 73 Qinan
It took a while for the store to deliver the goods. Wen Qiao didn't want to wait, fearing that something might happen, he hired a car to come directly. When the two screens were installed, the clerk stood in front of Wen Qiao in embarrassment, pointing Master Mao, who bared his teeth and claws and refused to let people approach the tree pole, said: "Little girl, why don't you take your cat away first, otherwise we won't be able to move the car up for you."

Wen Qiao waved his hand and said that there was no need to take the cat away. After taking the disposable plastic bag from the clerk, he went forward and wrapped the tree trunk thickly to ensure that he would not be covered in black and gray. He directly reached out to pick up the cat and the tree pole, and walked out of the woodware shop with steady steps.

The clerk suddenly looked surprised. They needed two people to carry the tree pole, but the little girl was carried away by herself. They tried their best to carry a tree pole that weighed a hundred catties, but it was not that they couldn’t afford it. Guan Jian It's still the little girl who hugs her without any effort, as easy as holding a bottle of water. Although this girl looks a little fatter, she doesn't feel as strong as them, and she doesn't know how to train her strength. It is enviable.

It was also because they were so surprised that they didn't notice that when Wen Qiao walked out the door with the tree pole in his arms, his footsteps paused for a moment, then he took a deep breath, and the next second his pace accelerated significantly. Quite a few, soon the sound of the car sounded, and all the people and tree poles disappeared in the woodware shop.

The flea market is not far from Changqing Street. They are all in the old city, and it didn't take long to arrive. It was still Wen Qiao who personally carried the tree trunk back to the small building. When the delivery driver and porter moved the screen properly After entering the small building and putting it away, Wen Qiao paid the shipping fee to the driver, and after sending the driver out, the excitement that he had endured along the way finally showed. He closed the door of the store and picked up the tree pole to go up to the second floor.

Then he couldn't wait to clean up the dirt and black ash on it, with a smile on his face, no longer the distressed look when he was paying for the money just now.

Wen Qiao didn't understand wood, and it was all because of Mr. Cat that she bought this wooden tree pole, but it didn't mean she didn't know the goods. Since she started practicing, her five senses have been much stronger than ordinary people's, so Well, just as she picked up the wood, she smelled a cool air and a delicate fragrance from the inside of the tree trunk, which refreshed her mind and cleared her mind.

Then the fragrance changed and turned into an elegant medicinal fragrance with a slight bitter taste and a long aftertaste. Taking a deep breath, a slight sweetness stimulated the taste buds, and the mouth was full of saliva. However, before she could feel it carefully, the fragrance changed again, thick frankincense Erupts in the nose and is extremely silky.

At that time, she knew that the ugly tree trunk was probably not the camphor wood that the clerk introduced.

"Like it, don't worry about money."

Master Cat, who had finally taken a step toward his goal of earning money and raising a wife, squatted down in front of Wen Qiao, his beards on both sides of his mouth trembling, and he looked like he was about to praise me, don't be too embarrassing.

Wen Qiao raised the corners of her mouth, nodded Master Cat's forehead and said, "I should be able to pay back the price, but you have to worry, it's a waste of money, can I not feel sorry for you?"

Master Cat smiled and shook his beard, explaining:
"Timing is fleeting. The deeper the cultivation base, the more accurate the intuition. At that time, I felt that if we delay any longer, this material will not reach our hands, so I urged you."

When Wen Qiao heard this, she became interested, and asked, "Oh, you're also a monk, why don't I have any premonition about this at all?"

"I see that you have your own inheritance, which is different from other people's. I am a demon cultivator myself. I don't know your inheritance. It's really hard to give you advice. But from what I've seen these days, you seem to have been Strengthening the cultivation of the body, but the spiritual consciousness has not increased, so I can't say what's going on, probably the practice is not enough, when your spiritual consciousness also breaks through, you will probably be able to sense it."

Wen Qiao nodded thoughtfully. She herself is in the body training period. Body training naturally means literally, tempering the body. The facial features are also part of the body, so they have been strengthened, but they are definitely not like Master Cat. If you want to be like Master Cat, you have to wait for her to concentrate. There seems to be no other way to do this except to practice hard. It can't be done right now, so Wen Qiao put it to the back of her mind. Looking at the tree trunk that has been cleaned of dirt on the surface, he asked, "What kind of tree is this?"

Master Cat: "The first fragrance is cool, the original fragrance is medicinal, the tail fragrance is frankincense, one tree changes three times, and Qinan is also!"

"It's Qinan?!"

Wen Qiao clicked her tongue, Qinan is a good thing, a kind of agarwood.

Agarwood has a history of more than 3000 years. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "an inch weighs an inch of gold". It is an extremely rare and precious treasure in nature.The auction price of each gram of agarwood ranges from thousands of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan. The highest market price once exceeded tens of thousands of yuan per gram, and it is still rising.Used as a spice, agarwood has been listed as the best in incense since ancient times.

If diamonds are the most important among gold and silver treasures, then Qinan is the treasure among the treasures of agarwood and the diamond among spices.Qinan (also known as Ganan) is divided into black chess, red chess, yellow chess, blue chess, white chess, and green chess. At present, only Erlangba Qinan is the most widely used, which may be caused by differences in production areas and land structures. Different appearance colors are distinguished.

The characteristics of the best Qinan agarwood are generally divided into three types: Bai Qinan, Qing Qinan (some are also called green Qinan), yellow Qinan, and black Qinan. You can understand several aspects of Qinan from the following aspects: commonality.

The hardness is small, and the texture of Qinan is relatively soft, and generally the hardness is not large.Cutting Qinan with a knife has a feeling similar to that of cutting meat skin, and the edge of the knife has obvious flexibility.Other types of Qinan are relatively hard and do not have this flexibility.

Good oiliness, Qinan has a strong sense of oil, especially on the new cut surface. After cutting the best Qinan with a knife, the oil at the cross-section can pull out filaments like a yam drawn from silk. Carefully observe, there is shiny oil on the cross-section of the fracture.

The smell is rich and natural, and the fragrance of Chinanan can be smelled when it is not ignited. The large piece of old Chinanan is like a bonanza of fragrance, which has the feeling of being inexhaustible and inexhaustible.If the fragrance becomes a little weaker, put it in a plastic bag for a period of time, and the fragrance will still be strong after taking it out.

There is a wonderful book called "Natural History".

The book classifies and records exotic things, anecdotes and fairy alchemy, etc., among which the records of incense are very interesting.

Qinanxiang, Zhancheng Qinan, came out of a mountain, and the chiefs prohibited the people from taking it. The offender cut off his hand, and he was also very valuable. Ebony wood and incense wood were used as wages.

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