Perfume Alchemist

Chapter 15 The Choice of the Key

It was another sunny morning, after skipping work, even the air seemed extraordinarily fragrant.

Ahao happily took out 2 Canadian dollars, and got on the double-decker steam bus to Nordson Manor.

He walked up to the open-air second floor of the bus, found an empty back row and sat down, enjoying the sunshine.

As a real tourist capital, the double-decker steam bus is the iconic means of transportation in Agadi.

The route Ah Hao took happened to be a tourist route.The last stop of Northam Manor was the summer palace of the Agadi royal family, which is currently only a well-known tourist attraction.

Tsk tsk tsk, looking at it this way, it seems that Wende's family is even richer.

After getting out of the car, Ah Hao came to the Nordson Manor again, but this time he was alone.

Ah Hao found the old man at the gate in the small pavilion next to the elegant iron gate.

This time, Ah Hao noticed that even as a janitor, he was well dressed.

"Who are you?" asked the porter, putting down the newspaper.

It seems that he doesn't remember himself.Ahao said loudly: "I'm Housewhite. I came to see Mrs. Northen a few days ago, and I'm here to visit Mrs. Northon today."

As he said that, Ahao took out the Nightingale badge from his pocket and handed it to the gatekeeper.

"Oh~ I remembered." The janitor took the badge and returned it to Ahao after a cursory look, "But why didn't you ask the servant to notify you a day in advance?"

Ah Hao showed a slightly embarrassed smile.How could he be a servant, and he didn't know that there was a rule of notifying one day in advance.

"Forget it, you go in, you belong to Master Wende. I'll go and inform Aunt Pansy." The gatekeeper waved his hand to let Ahao in, and picked up the wired microphone to say something inside.

"Thank you."

"Well, Aunt Pansy told you to wait in the chapel. You know the way?"

"understand."

Ah Hao once again set foot on the broad road of Northon Manor.

His heart began to feel uneasy again.

He began to read two sentences silently. [Divide the earth and fire, turn a stone into gold] and [Divide the earth and fire, extract the essence from the rough].

This is the "portkey" he thought he had found.

But he wasn't sure if they'd ever be able to open that door, and he wasn't sure if he'd be able to see it again.

While thinking, Ah Hao hurriedly walked to the chapel.

He took a look and found that Mrs. Northam had already arrived, or she had been sitting here all this time.

On the lawn in front of the chapel, there is a table of sumptuous morning tea.

She was sitting there enjoying breakfast leisurely.

"Hey, my little Ahao, have you come to chat with me, an old woman, so early?"

"Uh, Mrs. Northam, did I disturb you?"

"How could it be? Morning tea is only comfortable when you eat and chat with people. Sit down, have you had breakfast yet?"

"Eat." In fact, he hasn't eaten yet.

"Then have a cup of tea." Mrs. Nuo Sen dutifully took out a cup from the set of exquisite tea sets, and poured a cup of hot black tea for Ah Hao.

"With milk and sugar?"

"Yeah, all of them." Ah Hao felt the strong tea fragrance blowing over his face, revealing a fresh and natural taste.

Would it be nice to make a tea-flavored perfume next time?Ah Hao quietly planned a new product direction in his heart.

"Tell me, what's the matter with me this time?"

"Mrs. Northon, it's about the door. I want to see the door again."

"Meet the door? Why do you want to meet the door again so soon? I think you can still prepare."

"After pushing the door last time, I've figured out a few tricks."

After careful consideration, Ahao decided to reveal some information to a limited extent, "I can feel that my door was not opened by pushing, but opened by other methods."

"Oh?" Madam Northon showed an expression of interest, "For example?"

"Open it with a key."

"No other object can touch your door except you."

"Knowledge can also be a key!"

Mrs. Nuo Sen narrowed her eyes and looked at Ahao, "Okay!"

As she spoke, she raised her head and moved her lips silently a few times.

Ah Hao knew that Mrs. Nuo Sen was "strengthening".

"Okay, wait for [Key] to come." Mrs. Northen ate a spoonful of scrambled eggs with bright yellow butter, and then said, "I heard that brat James asked you to fight with Wende yesterday?"

"Hmm." Ahao didn't want to say too much, he wanted to hear Mrs. Nuo Sen's attitude first.

Mrs. Nuo Sen said seemingly unintentionally: "It's normal for young people to be impulsive. I hope you can ease the relationship between my two grandsons in the future."

"Okay, I'll definitely order Wend next time"—but not guaranteed to pull James.

Accompanying Mrs. Nuo Sen to attract the parents, Ah Hao finally got a hearty breakfast.

After a while, Mrs. Northam's personal nurse finally came over, holding a plate covered with a red cloth.

This time Ah Hao found out that it contained a jade key.

Mrs. Northam wiped her mouth, got up and said, "Let's go to the chapel."

Ah Hao and Nanny followed without saying a word.

Came again under the painted window of the church.Mrs. Northon picked up the key and said, "Do you know what this is, Ah Hao."

"I don't know, but I think it seems to be able to knock out my soul."

"Haha, it's not such an exaggeration. This is the emerald key, which allows people to see their true self. Only by penetrating reality can they see the truth. Therefore, some people call it the key of truth."

"Sounds amazing."

"Actually, it's not very powerful. There are several identical keys."

Mammy silently lit a white candle and handed it to Ah Hao.

"Are you ready? It's coming!" Mrs. Nuo Sen raised the key high.

Ah Hao nodded and closed his eyes directly.

Then I felt a slight stabbing pain in my chest.

This time, Ah Hao wanted to abandon vision and find his door directly by smell.

Seeing the truth, why can't it be called "smelling the truth"?

He smelled it again, the fragrance of knowledge.Following the scent, he opened his eyes vigorously when he felt the door.

The towering and indomitable stone gate appeared in front of my eyes again.Only then did Ahao breathe a sigh of relief.

He was very afraid that he would never see this door again. He was "replicating" his operation a few days ago just now, and wanted to make sure that this stone door would appear again.

As long as you can see it, there is hope to open the door.

The lines running on the door condensed into four characters [dividing earth into fire].

very good!Everything is going according to plan.

Ah Hao looked behind the words Divide Earth into Fire, and there was indeed a large suspicious blank.

It's time to decide, which key should be used to open the door.

In fact, he had a premonition long before.He realizes that these two keys, [Tianshichengjin] and [Essence in roughness] may lead him on different paths.

According to his understanding, "Turning Stone into Gold" is more like the fantasy of those alchemists in ancient times.He himself does not have a very strong desire in this regard.

And [Essence in Roughness] is more in line with his idea.Extract the essence to use it.The perfume technique he likes has a lot in common with this concept.

Perfumery is the art of combining various concentrated fragrance essences.

Having made his decision, he stood in front of the door and took a deep breath.

Then he put his hand on the door and said in a deep voice: "Divide the earth from the fire, extract the essence from the rough!"

As his words fell, all the lines on the entire wall began to emit light, and the luminous lines completed all the eight characters while walking.

What he said was engraved on the door.

(End of this chapter)