The Perfumer Who Wears the Book

Chapter 4

A world can be seen in a grain of sand, not to mention a book.The world that Su Xu traveled through was just a story in his original world, but here it is a real space that exists within reach and is logical.

"However, every world is actually like a palace. It is the most important load-bearing pillars in the palace that support this palace to stand firmly on the ground and will not collapse. As long as one of the load-bearing pillars is destroyed, the world will be destroyed." It is in jeopardy, and it is very likely that it will collapse in the next second."

The gleaming silver Afghan Hound sat gracefully on the ground, and its slender tail, which looked like a small whip, swung.

"You mean to say that I am the pillar of this world?" Su Xu asked back.

"How is it possible?" The Afghan Hound turned his face away with some disgust, "All the people who support the world must be the most shining core of this world! Do you think you are dazzling enough?"

Su Xu understood: "Shen Jiarui."

"Because of some, uh, irreversible malfunction, the original Su Xu's soul in this world has disappeared." The Afghan Hound continued, "Although he is only a supporting role, he is the main character. The important reason for taking him home is that although he treated He Yuanjing mother and son very badly, from an objective point of view, he did protect them from many external dangers. Without Su Xu's protection, Shen Jiarui might not be able to live to adulthood smoothly. , after all, he has such a weak mother, and he has a troublesome face."

Su Xu's thinking ability has gradually recovered. He squinted his eyes and thought about what the dog said just now, and then sneered: "Mr. Hound, can you explain to me what is an irreversible failure?" ?Also, there is a problem in this world, why am I the one who came to fix it?"

The hound blinked its big black almond eyes, paused for a moment, and then showed the still weird smile again, with a much softer voice: "My name is Eddra Hill, you can call me by my nickname Ed, don't call me Mr. Hound."

Su Xu hooked the corners of his mouth, stared into the eyes of the hound named Eddrasil, and didn't intend to give up looking for the answer to the question.

Ed shook his head a little irritably, sneezed in dissatisfaction, and said impatiently: "Okay, ok... I'm very sorry, Mr. Su, you are innocent, it's just a coincidence that you came back to this world, We are looking for a new Su Xu, and you happen to be called Su Xu, and you know enough about this world... All in all, this is just a coincidence with a very low probability, and we just randomly selected one out of trillions of candidates position, and it just so happens that the chosen one is you."

Su Xu nodded coldly, and snorted mockingly: "You guys made a mistake yourself, and you actually want me to bear the consequences."

"...I'm sorry." Ed dodged his gaze, and couldn't help but glance at Su Xu's face. Alexander was frightened by the gloomy expression on his face, and took a step back nervously. Explained, "Actually, we also reshaped a soul! In order to match his original Su Xu to the greatest extent, we reversed the time and sent him to your world to hone, but when extracting him , I don’t know what’s wrong with the system, so I just…”

"What's wrong with me?" Su Xu looked down at Ed, a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said in a drawn-out tone, "Tell me, what's wrong with me?"

"It's not my fault! It has nothing to do with me!" Ed jumped up as if someone had stepped on his tail. Facing Su Xu's murderous gaze, he couldn't help but take two steps back, standing on the ground like a small whip. The tail in the air trembled twice and drooped, and then stood up high in the next second. Unfortunately, the slightly trembling tail tip and the wave-like glossy fur revealed his timidity.

Under Su Xu's powerful murderous aura, Ed's elegant image of an extraterrestrial expert that he created when he just faced Su Xu collapsed in an instant.He's just a poor, frightened puppy right now.

Su Xu knelt down slowly, held Ed's long jaw, and asked softly: "I don't care about this with you anymore, you just need to send me back. This request is not too much."

With a pitiful whine from Ed's throat, he saved his mouth from Su Xu's grasp, and jumped back two steps: "This is beyond the scope of my authority, I can't do this... and !" Seeing that the ferocious expression on Su Xu's face began to darken further, it quickly continued to explain, "If you want to go back, I have to report to the higher authorities first. Those who are in charge of such things don't know that the people below Negligence... And when they read my report, they will go to your world to evaluate again, and feel that it is necessary for you to go back, so they will find out that they will make another soul for Su Xu, and then send you back... But I don't think you need to think about it anymore, they won't send you back... When they read my report and find time to send someone to investigate your world, your body will be turned into ashes..."

Ed's voice trailed off until it was a terrified whimper that died in his throat.

Su Xu had an unpredictable expression and stood there motionless.

Ed observed his expression anxiously, and said in a low voice: "Don't worry about it, just live here. You see, if I don't tell you, you don't know what happened, even if I don't Report it, you don’t know, don’t you? Besides, those above who made mistakes have treated you very well. To them, you are no different from the status of an ant in your heart. They don’t care about life or death. I don’t care, at most I can be another soul, just say that the previous one made a mistake, and no one will pursue it... But they still gave you this space as compensation, and sent me to take care of you..."

Su Xu listened silently to Ed's explanation in a lower and lower voice, and kept staring at Ed until the poor hound finally couldn't lift its tail, and took another step back shyly, with a smile appearing in the beautiful almond eyes After a thin layer of water vapor, he squatted down in front of Ed, patted its head, and then scratched the small piece of skin under its ear gently.Ed narrowed his eyes comfortably, and uncontrollably moved his head towards Su Xu's hand, but there was a struggling expression on his face, as if he felt very ashamed for chasing Su Xu's hand.

"Good dog." Su Xu sighed softly.

It is infuriating to be forced to time travel and be easily determined by others, but since Ed is not the chief culprit of his time travel, there is no need for him to argue too much with a cannon fodder. After all, they will be partners fighting side by side in the future.

"Since we have to stand in the same camp now, let's get along well in the future, Ed." Su Xu touched its long jaw, "Introduce me to the basic situation of this space. By the way, wait Don't forget to report later, even if there is only a glimmer of hope, I don't want to give up."

After Ed's introduction, Su Xu felt that this space might really be created especially for him, to compensate him.

Su Xu is a perfumer. He is not a student who graduated from a professional school. He learned the skills of perfumery from his grandfather who studied perfumery in Grasse, France when he was young.Su Xu's grandfather was a well-known perfume master in China when he was young. Unfortunately, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the domestic environment was not conducive to the development of the perfume industry. In addition, he suffered heavy physical and mental injuries during the turbulent ten years. Su Xu's grandfather no longer had the physical strength and energy to fulfill his youthful ideals. He just opened a small perfume shop in the county where he lived, and bought some spices, silk scarves and gloves.

Su Xu is the only one among all the children of the Su family who is interested in perfumery. His academic performance has been fluctuating on the edge of the passing line all year round since the first grade of elementary school, but he has shown amazing spirituality in perfumery.His talent as a perfumer began to emerge in elementary school, and every time he went to his grandfather's shop, he showed great interest in those flowers, plants, bottles and jars.Grandpa took him with him and taught him how to make and blend incense.Su Xu's parents were reluctant at first, thinking that it would delay their children's studies. Later, when they were transferred to other provinces due to work transfers, they could only keep Su Xu by his grandfather's side under the insistence of the old and the young, and they would never be together again. No one stopped Su Xu from making fragrances, and Su Xu's grades were getting worse and worse. She finally graduated from high school and did not go to college, but devoted herself to the study of fragrances.

Although Su Xu didn't go to college, he has a grandfather who has stayed abroad and can speak three foreign languages.In addition to teaching him how to mix perfume, grandfather usually also pays great attention to Su Xu's cultural upbringing.Su Xu doesn't like to go to school, but that doesn't mean he doesn't like to study. Besides studying perfumery, he also read a lot of books under the guidance of his grandfather. He also speaks English and French very fluently.Therefore, even though his education is very low, he is not illiterate without culture.

Before Su Xu crossed over, he was already a well-known perfumer in the industry in the past [-] years. Although he was not in the same breath as the famous perfumers in the world, there was a shortage of such perfumers in China. In the environment, he can be regarded as the top one in the rankings, and the major daily chemical companies are vying to invite him.

The space he carries now is a combination of a flower garden with unlimited capacity and a fragrance studio.What kind of flowers and plants should be planted in each piece of land in the flower garden has been planned. Each flower must be planted in the piece of land where it should be planted in order to grow, and each piece of land can be planted with [-] flowers.

In order to explain the special ability of the land in the space, Ed took a bag of white rose seeds and asked Su Xu to plant them in the rose garden, so as to experience the special ability of the flower garden in the space.Su Xu lay down on the ground, put the seeds one by one into the well-dug hole with great pains, and finally put all the seeds. The moment he walked out of the flower garden, the ten thousand seeds suddenly Green buds grew, and the growth speed of the flower seedlings was almost visible to the naked eye.

"These roses will all grow in five hours, and you will be able to harvest them by then." Ed shook his tail proudly, leaning his long face to a flower seedling closest to it and gently sniffing After sniffing, he sneezed happily.

"And then?" Su Xu wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Why do I have to work so hard to grow these flowers? If you want to add fragrance, it's better to go to the market and buy ready-made essential oils."

"Can you afford it?" Ed glanced at him contemptuously, "And I haven't finished talking yet. You only need to do the hard process of planting flowers once. After these flowers are harvested, you can plant flowers next time." You can pour the seeds directly into the flowerbed, and they will automatically disperse and fall into the place where they should go."

"Every kind of flower needs this process?" Su Xu asked in surprise.

"When you complete the entry indicators, all the flowers can directly enter the stage of automatic planting, and when they bloom, they can be automatically harvested according to your requirements." Ed took Su Xu back to the huge studio , took him to a tall bookshelf against the wall.In front of a shelf where only a thick and ancient hardcover book lay flat, it stood up, one front paw resting on the edge of the shelf to stabilize its body, the other paw opened the cover of the book, and then turned back Signaled Su Xu to come over.

"Master of Perfumery." Su Xu softly read the four big characters in official script on the title page.

There is no table of contents in this book. After the title page is the first page of the main text, with "Summer Night" written on the top, and the small characters arranged in a table below. Su Xu looked carefully and found that it was a perfume formula.There are not many types of raw materials required for this recipe, but the amount of essential oil of each flower is very clever.As a qualified perfumer, Su Xu has the ability to imagine the taste of the perfume just by looking at the formula.

If there is no mistake, the scent of this perfume called "Summer Night" is a very soft and floral fragrance. The top note is mainly citrus, mixed with green apple, peach and grape. Refreshing but not lost Sweet and fruity, the middle note is mixed with the rich aroma of white rose, lily of the valley, sweet orange blossom and tuberose, exuding a charming and pure atmosphere between a girl and a woman, and the final aftertaste settles In the warm and deep smell of cedar wood with the soft aroma of white amber with a bit of green tea bitterness, it seems that in the midsummer night, when walking among the lush woods, the cool and damp There is a sweet floral fragrance like love in the air, but in the next breath, there is a hint of naughty fruit aroma, which is a plump and full of vitality.

Su Xu was a little excited and wanted to see what perfume formulas were in the back, and found that the pages in the back were all glued together and couldn't be opened at all.

"This is your entry point." Ed pressed his paw on the page and said, "You can only read the following recipes after you have formulated the perfume in this recipe. At that time, you have to pour the perfume on this page, and wait until This book believes that after the perfume you have formulated is qualified, the entry indicators are considered completed. During this period, all raw materials need to be planted, harvested, and the extraction of essential oils is completed. When the entry indicators are completed, except for new formulas and automatic planting of plants Harvest, you can also get a gift."

After finishing speaking, Ed walked to another shelf, stood up and touched a small bottle with his nose. The shape of this small bottle was very strange. The bottleneck is as long as a palm, and the mouth of the bottle is blocked with a ruby ​​as big as a grain of rice.The bottle is filled with something that looks like liquid or gas. It is colorful, like a dense rainbow flowing and rotating inside.

"What is this?" Su Xu praised softly, reaching out to pick up the bottle, "Is this also perfume?"

"Don't touch it!" Ed hurriedly stopped, but Su Xu's hand had already touched the body of the bottle, and immediately after he felt a pain in his fingertips, as if he had been electrocuted.

"You can't touch this bottle until you complete the entry indicators." Ed explained, "I don't know what it is, but there should be a prompt after you complete the entry indicators."

Su Xu nodded regretfully, looked at the bottle of Ambilight, sighed, and said, "Then my task now is to quickly plant flowers."

As he spoke, he suddenly stiffened all over.

"What's the matter?" Ed wagged his tail and sat down, "Any more questions?"

"Ed." Su Xu asked dryly, "Is the time in the space and the time outside the space flowing at the same speed? Also, when I came in, was it just consciousness coming in, or was it accompanied by The body also came in?"

The smile that made Su Xu's teeth sore again appeared on Ed's face: "The flow speed of time in the space and time outside the space is one-fifth. When you come in, your body will naturally stay outside and remain unconscious. However," he said, flicking his tail proudly, "You have been in the space for four hours, and if you count it outside, you have been unconscious for more than half an hour. I remember you When you came in, the hero's mother, Ms. He Yuanjing, seemed to have woken up? Do you think she thought you were sick and planned to call an ambulance?"

So in the past few days, Su Xu devoted all his free time to the barren flower garden in the space.In the starter recipe, only Amber is ready-made.He wants to grow eight kinds of plants, three of which are fruits and one is a tree.The extraction of plant essential oils consumes a lot of materials. Ten thousand white roses sound like a lot, but the distilled essential oils are only a little bit.Fortunately, all the seeds are provided by the space, and there is no need for him to spend money to buy them, and the process of planting and refining is not too hard. Although the machines for extracting essential oils in the space studio look very old, they are very easy to use. The convenience, such as the big distiller, the water used to cook fresh flowers never decreases, and the distilled fresh flowers salvaged only need to be thrown into the grate.

But now, three days have passed, and Su Xu's planting task is only half completed. Before going to sleep, he spent another five hours in the space to plant another batch of flowers, and then process the last batch of harvested flowers. , looked at the time, there were still two hours before the batch of flowers bloomed, so he planned to leave the space, after all, he only needed to wait 10 minutes outside.

Su Xu came out of the space, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he was startled by a figure standing quietly beside the sofa. After he was able to adapt to the darkness in the room, he realized that it was Shen Jiarui.

"Jia Rui, why don't you sleep?" Su Xu got up from the sofa, tentatively stretched out his hand to Shen Jiarui, and seeing that he had nothing to dodge, he gently held his wrist and pulled him to the sofa to sit down, " Did a mosquito bite you?"

Shen Jiarui was silent for a moment, then nodded.

The child is willing to ask him for help, even if it is just to beat mosquitoes, it is a great improvement.The safety of life in the future seemed to be guaranteed. Su Xu touched Shen Jiarui's face in a happy mood, resisted the urge to kiss her, stood up and said, "Sit down for a while, uncle will beat the mosquitoes for you."

Shen Jiarui sat quietly on the sofa, watching Su Xu approach his room with a fly swatter to kill the mosquitoes that had been driven to nowhere by the mosquito coil.

In fact, he didn't wake up in the middle of the night because of mosquitoes biting him.It's just that I can't figure out some things, so I just got out of bed and walked around.

Three days ago, Su Xu kicked him from the aisle of the living room into the bedroom because he blocked his way, but only the next day, he seemed to be a completely different person and stopped beating people. With a pleasant face, polite and polite, he is as gentle and elegant as a gentleman of a big family. Compared with him, Su Xu before is simply a world of difference.The explanation given by Su Xu is split personality, and split personality may indeed produce two completely extreme personalities, which seems completely reasonable.

However, no matter how many personalities a person has, and no matter how big the gap between personalities is, the formation of personality cannot be separated from the surrounding environment. Just like a person, if he has never touched the piano, even if he splits into a hundred personalities There are very different personalities, and none of them can play the piano.As for Su Xu, as far as he knows, he has been living at the bottom of this society. He only has a junior high school education. After graduating from junior high school, he found a job as a cashier in a supermarket. , behaved vulgarly and rudely, and could not even utter a logical sentence without grammatical errors.

But the current Su Xu, although he has only been in contact with him for three days, he is very personable, his speech and behavior all show that he is a social elite who has received a good education and has seen the world. temperament.

Where did Su Xu learn this kind of posture and demeanor in speaking and doing things?This is not something that can be learned by reading a few books and taking pictures of cats, tigers and toddlers in Handan.No matter how you look at it, such an excellent person doesn't seem to be able to be separated from that inferior person.

Shen Jiarui watched Su Xu keep waving the fly swatter in the corner of the room, and the suspicion in his heart grew bigger and bigger.There is such a huge difference in the performance of a person before and after, and there is not even a single similarity. This can no longer be explained by split personality.

Su Xu checked every corner of the bedroom, only to find a dead mosquito under the table.Looking at the time tossing around for a long time, the flowers in the space may have already bloomed.

"Go to bed, the mosquitoes have been driven away." Su Xu waved to Shen Jiarui.

Shen Jiarui climbed onto the bed obediently, and lay down under Su Xu's gaze.

"Good night." Su Xu finally couldn't hold back, bent down and kissed the boy's forehead.He is pure GAY, his grandfather has passed away long ago, and his relationship with his parents and younger siblings is relatively unfamiliar. He has no pressure to get married, and he doesn't want to hurt innocent girls, so he has always been single.Although he doesn't want to get married, Su Xu likes children very much, not being able to have a child of his own has always been his biggest regret.Now facing such a well-behaved, cute and pretty little boy by his side, even though the other party may threaten his life in the future, the long-silent fatherly heart in Su Xu's heart still burst out like a flood that broke a bank .

Shen Jiarui's face was flushed, and Su Xu's whole body was covered in pink bubbles, and he couldn't help but press another kiss on his left and right cheeks.

"Go to sleep, I have to go to school tomorrow." Su Xu was about to stand up and leave.

"I can't sleep..." Shen Jiarui quickly reached out and grabbed Su Xu's clothes, "Uncle..." he said weakly, "I can't sleep, can you..."

Su Xu froze for a moment, and then realized the meaning of his hesitation, couldn't help showing a bright smile, pinched his little nose and said: "It's so big, you need someone to sleep with you." After finishing speaking , but lay down, holding Shen Jiarui in his arms, "Go to sleep, it's too late, I won't be able to get up tomorrow."

Shen Jiarui quietly leaned against Su Xu's arms, and took a deep breath. There was a pleasant smell on that person, like the breath of fresh flower petals soaked in water.The sound of breathing on the top of his head quickly calmed down. He raised his body carefully, looked at Su Xu's peaceful face after falling into sleep, quietly reached out his hand, and poked his cheek. Seeing that the other party didn't respond, he again After touching his nose and chin, he lay down again and fell asleep peacefully.

This is just another trial, Shen Jiarui just wants to know what step this Su Xu can do for himself.Now Su Xu respects his mother a little bit, fearing that she won't be able to avoid her, but she shows pity and love for herself.Maybe the other party just likes children, but Shen Jiarui doesn't care, as long as the other party likes him.

Because of his life experience from childhood to adulthood, Shen Jiarui is actually a child who longs for love.Although He Yuanjing loves him, I'm afraid the root cause is that Shen Jiarui's father Shen Chengxuan is more in love with herself, and she is always immersed in her own world on weekdays, instead of paying attention to Shen Jiarui's growth and feelings.Besides, He Yuanjing is a weak woman, not only can she not protect Shen Jiarui, but more often she needs Shen Jiarui to comfort her.The young Shen Jiarui has never felt the love that can give people a sense of security since he was a child, so he is very persistent about it.

This is also the reason why Shen Jiarui has so many women in the original book and asks them all to dedicate themselves against principles like his mother.After all, whether it was before the age of 12 or after the age of 12 when he struggled to survive the abuse of "Su Xu", the only person in the world who could give Su Xu Wei the warmth and protection was his mother, He Yuanjing, which also led to his growing up. I have a wrong understanding of love, I only know to constantly collect women, and turn them into my mother to love myself, so as to fill the emptiness and helplessness in my heart.

But now, a new Su Xu appeared in the sky.This person treats himself completely differently from the way his mother treats himself. This is a strong and firm feeling that makes people feel safe and reliable. It makes Shen Jiarui have new desires and pursuits, even if it is not only for himself. emotion.

But it doesn't matter, the future is long, and he will always find a way to make Su Xu only like himself.