Travel to ancient times to be a fast catcher

Chapter 38

In front of the Yamen that day, Chu Xiaoyun approached the county magistrate for help, asking him to find someone who understands Hu Wen and translate the contents of the two books, maybe there are some clues to 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 that he wanted 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 bloomed 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 shop made the flowerpots into net bags with straw ropes. He tried it, and it was fine, not too much effort.

When Chu Xiaoyun came home, Su Wen was sitting in the yard sewing clothes. Last time I made one for Chu Xiaoyun, half of my own. When Chu Xiaoyun was injured and came back, 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 dotingly and distressedly: "Run slowly, we're all home."

Su Wen smiled embarrassedly, but couldn'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.

" Xiao Yun stopped what he was doing 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, and then took the flower pot away , 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 walked over and picked up the flower pot in Su Wen's hand: "Are both pots roses?"

Su Wen held it up again. Picking up another pot and sniffing it: "Both pots are roses."

"I bought them from 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 roses in their hands

. Flower: "Actually, I think roses and roses look similar. I don't understand why they are still two kinds of flowers. How are they divided?"

Su Wen smiled: "They are really two different words. Look, This rose has few thorns, big thorns, and the thorns are smooth."

Su Wen said, pulling Chu Xiaoyun's sleeves and walking to the flower garden beside them, where they bought them from the village market a few days ago. under the flower seedlings. 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 Rose leaves are shiny, but rose leaves are dull."

Su Wen stood up while speaking: "And roses only bloom in summer, and it must be late April at the earliest, and it is only early April now, and the roses only have a few buds Well, how can it be so gorgeous. Only the rose has a long flowering period, and it blooms in four seasons. Therefore, the rose is called the rose, and the names such as Yueyuehong and periwinkle all indicate that its flowering period is relatively long." Chu

Xiao Yun 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 It looks like a ball."

"Okay." Chu Xiaoyun put the flower pot 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 or not a rose when you smelled it under your nose?"

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 and gouache. There must be raw materials to have this industry. Red The planting of roses and red and blue flowers in Hecun is also very famous in several nearby counties. These flowers are all from Honghe Village in the county seat or surrounding counties." "When I was very young, my mother taught

me Smelling flowers and knowing flowers, my nose seems to be naturally sharp, so many times, you don't need to observe the flowers, but smell the smell to know what flowers are. At that time, my father always laughed at 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 buying flowers in the county. It's hard and tiring to carry them so far."

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

Su Wen happily pointed to a circle of paths in the yard and the yard. Qiang: "In the future, let's plant roses and roses on the side of the road and under the courtyard wall, okay? You can 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 will be busy again today." After spending all the mud in his hand, 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. He said to Su Wen, "Wenwen, help me take out the book in my arms, so that it does not 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?"

Chu Xiaoyun put down the bucket Fetching water, he replied: "The two books that were seized in our case are very important physical evidence. I'll take them back and study them to see if I can find anything." Su Wen flipped through the books: "What's in this book

? There are so many strange characters. How can you understand such strange characters? Who would buy them?" "

Those weird characters are the characters of the barbarian regime in the north." Chu Xiaoyun said, suddenly remembering What, put the rope of the hanging bucket in his hand, "Wenwen, what did you just say?" "

It's just that there are many 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. In terms of public and private, 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 was a little excited for a while. Please forgive me, my wife."

In order to save himself some face, 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 smell of these two books is different."

Chu Xiaoyun remembered that Su Wen said just now that he could recognize flowers by smelling them, The nose is particularly sharp. The 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, such obvious different smells , can't you smell it?"

"Wait a minute." Chu Xiaoyun quickly brought up a bucket of water, washed his hands and wiped his body up and down twice, then took the two books from Su Wen and put them Sniff under the nose. 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 was full of hope

. Looking at Su Wen cautiously.