Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn Chapter 445 - 9: Mei Family Ancestral Hall (Part 2)

Otherwise, rely relying on the good skills of "Bai Juyi" could never truly bring several acres of Bulgarian Roses to life.

Early this morning, Sister-in-law Hua was first loudly hollering that the ice cellar in the village could be used again. After the people of the village had gathered at the fruit cellar, Xiao Xian then led them to the rose fields.

Xiao Xian spotted i Nian standing on the outermost edge of the crowd, the very person she was waiting for.

"Stop just standing around, everyone. Trim the branches and leaves in the flower beds just as she did earlier," i Nian had already inspected the flowers in the field. The clusters, neglected for months, had unexpectedly regained so vitality, and those that were trimd displayed even stronger life force.

"Now you can’t co to to settle debts anymore. By the way, I’m returning the item that i Xiang left behind to you," Xiao Xian raised her hand, and a bottle-shaped object flew into i Nian’s hands.

i Nian caught it abruptly. It was a crude canning jar holding a watery liquid. She opened the bottle cap cluelessly, and a long-lasting, deep fragrance of rose floated out.

"Rose perfu?" i Nian was stunned. The clear liquid in her hand was a bottle of rose perfu, and in her mind, a natural scene slowly unfolded. The white roses of July, on the most beautiful moonlit night, quietly blood at their most enchanting mont, harvested together with the dew.

A rose has different fragrances at different stages. Just like a woman, from a girl with a hint of green to a mature young wife, the woman’s fragrance becos smoother.

This bottle of rose perfu initially carried the astringent scent of a young girl, then quietly transford into the sweet aroma of a young woman, and finally the charming allure of a young wife. The fragrance, at tis soft and at tis rich, teased every olfactory nerve in the nose.

"This perfu?" i Nian’s fingers, holding the bottle, trembled with excitent, and as the liquid inside collided, the fragrance beca even denser.

"It seems like i Xiang used the Biological Extraction thod and put the rose buds in alcohol, quickly making them go through the stages from bud to bloom to full flourish. It sounds quite cruel, but the scents of the three stages are completely locked in this bottle, and a bottle of perfu can only use one rose. I can’t yet achieve what i Xiang did, but in the near future, I will definitely grasp the Biological Extraction thod, don’t worry," Xiao Xian said spiritedly, confidently swearing.

The Biological Extraction thod used to produce rose essential oil is a secret not shared with the world. i Nian had no idea that i Xiang had discovered such a thod, and Xiao Xian dared to confidently assure her that she would surely grasp this thod in the future.

"The rose fields have been tidied up. Next year, when the roses bloom again, I will try hard to master the Biological Extraction thod to repay your losses. That eyesore of a Vincetoxicum fern has been removed too," Xiao Xian deliberately concealed the whereabouts of the Vincetoxicum fern; it seems to be a treasure.

Worried that i Nian would pursue the issue further, Xiao Xian quickly continued: "My body has also recovered." After last night’s activities, her skill with the Spiritual Rhinoceros Scissors improved greatly, and even if Xu Changfu really ca knocking, she should be able to save her own life.

i Nian, unusually, did not retort but fixed her gaze on the perfu in her hand.

i Nian suddenly said: "Co with ."

The place i Nian took Xiao Xian to was the Divine Temple of the i Family.

The Divine Temple in ijia Village, occupying the largest area in the village, was built by a renowned Feng Shui Master from the late Qing Dynasty.

The architecture of the Divine Temple mimics the old style of the Late Qing. Upon entering, a lucky mural of a Qilin spitting out books adorn the main wall.

Below the mural, there are stair-like, tiered Han white jade tables. On them are the ranked ancestral tablets of the i family and a smoking incense burner.

A few steps further stood freshly lacquered pillars, and in the middle hung a sacred box with the i family genealogy.

Beyond the main hall and into the side halls, sowhat smaller, were tables and chairs used for discussing important family matters. The wall behind the chairs was engraved with a list of notable mbers of the i family, giving the entire Divine Temple a solemn and respectful air.

"Isn’t it inappropriate for an outsider like to enter the i Family’s Divine Temple?" Xiao Xian’s understanding of divine temples stemd from Yunteng Sect. Yunteng Sect had no family temple, but had a so-called Divine Temple, where the tablets of past Sect Leaders and revered disciples who had ascended were honored. Generally, only a few highly respected Yunteng Female Masters and favored disciples were allowed entry. Mortal world temples were even more strict, prohibiting won from entering; could it be that the i Family did not follow such tradition?

Xiao Xian’s doubts were t with a scoff from i Nian, cold and scornful.

"Outsider? Woman? If even I, a woman, am forbidden to enter, then there would be no one left to worship and offer incense to our ancestors inside," i Nian’s tone was sowhat desolate. There was a ti when her grandfather also forbade them, sisters, from entering the temple, but unfortunately, the i family had dwindled, almost to the point of extinction, and the Divine Temple was rely a na with no substance left.

After hearing this, Xiao Xian had no choice but to follow i Nian across the threshold of the Divine Temple.

"Kneel down," i Nian knelt down first, not in the direction of the ancestral tablets, but on the other side, where the column that should hold the i family genealogy stood.

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Today I went to work without my glasses, and it was excruciating to type out this Chapter as a half-blind person with a degree of four hundred.

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