Perfume Alchemist

Chapter 9 Dividing Earth into Fire
"Crack!"

The fire in front of Ah Hao was constantly twisting and deforming.

The dead branches and fallen leaves he picked up made a "bibi peeling" sound in the fire.

On this slightly cold night, the burning fire brought him a comfortable temperature.

The fire dispelled the cold, but lack could dispel his doubts.

He picked up a fistful of soil and threw it on the fire.

The flame became much lower all of a sudden, but it was still burning persistently.

Watch out for any changes to occur.

"Oh my god, what the hell am I doing?" Ahao patted his forehead with his palm.

He feels like a fool now.

I can't figure out what it means to divide earth into fire.

Maybe "earth" and "fire" do not simply refer to earth and fire.

Ah Hao resentfully extinguished the fire, and went back to his room to sleep.

the next day.

At 8:59, Ahao rushed to the Zu Nana perfume shop out of breath.

Almost got late.

Just when he was about to take out the key to open the door, he found that the door was already open.

As soon as he entered the store, he saw the store manager standing behind the counter, looking at him with gloomy eyes.

"Ahao! Why didn't you come yesterday? I stood alone in the store all day!"

"Ah, manager! Listen to my quibble, no, listen to my explanation! I caught a cold yesterday."

After the simple criticism and education, the store manager took a sigh of relief and prepared to skip this one.

After all, there are quite a few customers in the store who came for Ah Hao. Losing this face, no, losing this person, will still have a big impact on the business of the store.

He just asked a question that he had been puzzled for a long time, "What happened to the five bottles of perfume wrapped in the counter?"

"It was ordered by Mrs. Fu. She asked me to deliver it to her today. The money has already been paid."

Ahao made a little modification on [Delivery Time].After all, he can't justly tell the truth: I should have given it away the day before yesterday, but I forgot!

"Oh~ it's Mrs. Fu! Then you go out early this afternoon and send her perfume."

The store manager showed a dazed expression, and enthusiastically decided to "sacrifice" Ah Hao in order to continue to generate income for the store.

"Okay!" Ah Hao replied.

After all, I did something wrong, so it would be best to send it over earlier to make up for it.

He was just a little puzzled, didn't Mrs. Fu come to the store to ask about the situation before he waited?

Maybe this is the world of the rich, he doesn't understand.

When Ah Hao was changing his work clothes in the warehouse behind the store, he secretly checked his small perfume warehouse.

There are still 3 bottles of 【Pinazza Coconut】, which are all he has in stock.

Except for these 3 bottles, he still owes Joe Boss 3 bottles of perfume.

I don't know if there are enough materials.

He was thinking silently in his heart.

Today's business is not bad, I sold a bottle of perfume in the morning.

It is the signature of Zu Nana's store - blue bell flower perfume.

Its clean and light floral scent is adored by Agadhi ladies.

Ahao's next bottle of perfume is also considering making a bottle of floral fragrance.

The road of Austria has suffered setbacks, and the road of perfume can no longer stop moving forward!

Lived such a wonderful life and witnessed such a luxurious side as Northam Manor.He has become more and more unwilling to be a small shop assistant in this place.

Selling 4 bottles of perfume to Boss Joe is worth a month's salary!

After a simple lunch, I greeted the store manager, and he was ready to leave early.

In addition to sending the 5 bottles of perfume to Mrs. Fu, he is also going to look for perfume preparation equipment.

He wanted to be ready to leave early and not rely too much on the equipment in the store.

Perfume clerk is not his ultimate goal in life.

Stepping on the streets of Agadi again, Ahao felt that the free air was so beautiful.

Only when I work in a dark corner every day, I know how wonderful it is to see the sunny street in the afternoon.

The weather is very good today, the restaurants next to the commercial street have their doors and windows wide open, and tourists in twos and threes are sitting on the open-air tables and chairs on the street to eat and drink.

Most of Agadi's restaurants adopt a very transparent architectural design. All the doors and walls have floor-to-ceiling windows that can be opened and closed, or mechanical walls that can be raised and lowered.

Ah Hao took out the card given by Mrs. Fu and looked at the address. It was probably in the West Agadhi area, not far from Zu Nana's shop.After all, the shop he works in is located in the central area of ​​Agadi, and it is not far from anywhere.

Ah Hao found his destination all the way.

Unlike what he had imagined, what appeared before him was not a large manor, nor a mansion, nor even a single-family house.

Just an average apartment building.

An apartment building that is no different from his neat row of brothers and sisters on the left and right.

Mrs. Fu lives here?
Ahao's head was full of question marks.

Judging from Mrs. Fu's extravagance, casually expensive jewelry and bulging wallet when she sold it, Mrs. Fu should be really rich.

But how could she live in such a place?

With doubts, Ah Hao knocked on the door.

dong dong.

No one answered.

Ah Hao took out the card given by Mrs. Fu to confirm the address, it was correct.

After knocking on the door many times to no avail, Ah Hao approached the door and sniffed carefully.

No one smells like home.

He turned and left helplessly.

Before Mrs. Fu asked him to come back at night, maybe she was only here at night.

He was going to look at his perfume making equipment first.

"Hello, how much is this set of distillation equipment?"

"3899 Canadian dollars, handsome guy."

"Oh."

Oh what!These bottles of distillation flasks and condenser tubes cost nearly 4000 Canadian dollars? !A black shop, definitely a black shop!

Ahao, who was calm on the surface, already had the urge to escape from the shop.

This is a shop that mainly sells mechanical parts, but also buys glass instruments.

Among them is the sale of distillation equipment used in combination with brass and glass, which can basically meet his needs for extracting spices and essential oils.

But the price was far beyond his imagination.

"Do you want to try it out? There is also a free alcohol lamp when you shop here."

"No need, no need."

But the enthusiastic clerk still lit the alcohol lamp with a match with a [swish].

"Add flower petals to this decanter like this, heat it with an alcohol lamp, assemble the decanter and this curved condenser tube that can pass through water, and you can wait to collect pure dew and essential oils.

"Let me show you a demonstration!"

Ah Hao watched the demonstration by the shop assistant in embarrassment. He didn't know how many times he had used similar devices in the store.

But he was too embarrassed to stop her demonstration, and Ah Hao felt that she seemed to be having a good time by herself.

Looking at it, Ah Hao suddenly frowned.

The flame of the alcohol lamp, the separation of the condensation tube.

The scene in front of him was like an electric current piercing Ahao's mind.

Ah Hao instantly thought of the reminder on the mysterious stone door.

【Divide earth into fire】!
Above the flames, the essence of matter is separated by distillation!

Could this puzzle have something to do with distillation? !
No, Ah Hao felt that there was still something wrong.According to this way of thinking, if there is division, there is fire, but there is no earth.

Ahao couldn't imagine the relationship between flower petals or other liquids to be distilled and soil.

At best, this can only be regarded as dividing water into fire, right?
"How about it, isn't it very convenient? You can also make your own perfume at home after you buy it back! Use it a few times, and it's cheaper than buying perfume outside!"

Ahao waved his hand, rejected the sales promotion, and walked out of the shop while thinking.

He can't afford the distilling kit right now, and he's going to look elsewhere to see if it's cheaper.

But he is not going to go today, his mind is full of puzzles now.

He was going to the Agadhi library, where he felt he had the answer.

If the door contains the wisdom of the ancestors, then the place that also contains the most wisdom of the ancestors is the library!
As for the option of going back to the store to work early, he had long forgotten about it.

(End of this chapter)