The Perfumer Who Wears the Book

Chapter 28

Ed obviously didn't expect that the first sentence Su Xu said after returning to the space was about his vision outside the space, he got stuck, and then said in a daze: "What I can see is probably what you can see." Come on..."

Su Xu followed up and asked again: "Then you see what's going on outside through my eyes, don't you?"

Ed shook his head, thought for a while, and said, "My line of sight should probably be above your head, it's as if I'm in a fully transparent ball, and there are no dead ends in the entire three-dimensional space. No cover."

"The top of my head..." Su Xu repeated, and then said with a black face, "That means, when you lower your head, what you see is the top of my head."

Ed looked at him blankly, and said, "That's right. Fortunately, your head is not big, and you don't have that kind of afro perm, otherwise my field of vision would definitely be blocked by your hair."

A picture instantly appeared in Su Xu's brain: a snow globe was placed on top of his head, and an Afghan hound was sitting in the glass ball, looking left and right to look at the world around him...

Su Xu's complexion couldn't help getting darker and darker, and he couldn't help blurting out "Fuck" who never swears.

It's no wonder that Su Xu was a little fussed about Ed's new authority.When I first saw this reward for Ed from "Master of Perfumery", Su Xu didn't quite understand the content of this reward, and Ed never took the initiative to contact himself when he left the space , so it is only an abstract understanding that Ed's line of sight is no longer limited to space.

He didn't react until now.If Ed could see everything, wouldn't he have no privacy at all?Ed could clearly see what he did, said, met, and even did secret things every minute of every day.Thinking of this, he couldn't help but rejoice. Fortunately, since he completed the first-level task, he has not solved his physical problems by himself. Otherwise, if Ed saw such a thing, he would rather give up the space and never want to face Ed again for the rest of his life. Virtue.

Ed seemed to have thought of this too, with an embarrassing and slightly obscene smile on his face, he raised his paw awkwardly and swiped in the air, saying: "Don't think so obscenely about me, I'm sorry for you! I'm not interested! I'm interested in sexy muscular guys with eight pack abs!"

Su Xu snorted and said, "I thought it was a shiny golden retriever or a tall and burly Tibetan mastiff."

Ed sneezed proudly, lifted his chin, and said, "Don't think my taste is so vulgar, I'm not interested in animals that are stupider than you." Thinking of something again, he said, "But the words Shen Jiarui, the pillar of the world, is pretty good-looking and smart, almost as good as me. But his personality is really bad."

Su Xu took it for granted, and said, "It's a little too shy, too insecure, and a little weak. But it's getting better now, and I already know that I have to work hard to get along with my classmates."

Ed swallowed what he almost blurted out.As a space guide, he can take advantage of loopholes to help Su Xu complete tasks, but he can't interfere with the life of Shen Jiarui, the pillar of the world.Shen Jiarui is destined to grow into that kind of person, no matter how much I remind Su Xu to be more vigilant, he will eventually become what he has already decided.And ignorant people are the happiest, in this case, it is better to let Su Xu continue to misunderstand, it will be beneficial to everyone.

When talking about Shen Jiarui, Su Xu, like all parents who are proud of their children, can't control the chatterbox.But today, I found out that my son is not only a "girl killer", but also has a tendency to grow into a "boy killer". The pride and worry in my heart can't be expressed.

Ed listened to every sentence, and checked the situation outside the space from time to time, until he found Shen Jiarui approaching the bedroom again, and hurriedly reminded Su Xu to leave, then he freed himself from the bombardment of "How excellent Jiarui is" come out.

Shen Jiarui was really frightened by Su Xu's "sickness" appearance today, he completely regarded Su Xu as a glass man, and wouldn't let him get out of bed.He brought the dinner to the bedroom and asked Su Xu to lie on the bed to eat. He didn't even want Su Xu to bring the bowl by himself, and planned to feed Su Xu directly.

Su Xu was dumbfounded by his situation, not to mention that he was not sick, even if he was sick, as long as he was not so weak that he couldn't even lift his hands, he couldn't accept others to feed him.However, under Shen Jiarui's strong insistence, Su Xu still asked him to give him two symbolic mouthfuls of porridge, and finally snatched the bowl from Shen Jiarui's hand forcefully.Eating in bed like a seriously ill patient is already his limit, and being fed by his son is completely incompetent.

Shen Jiarui watched Su Xu snatch the bowl away, and then picked up his own bowl and started to eat under his urging, feeling very regretful in his heart.Feed my dad, although I only fed two mouthfuls, but I feel pretty good. Of course, it would be even better if I could finish feeding myself.

Shen Jiarui was quite frightened today, and after relaxing, he soon felt tired and sleepy.Seeing that he couldn't open his eyes, Su Xu hurriedly urged him to wash up and go to bed.But after Shen Jiarui lay down next to Su Xu, Su Xu found that he refused to close his eyes and stared at him firmly.

"Why don't you sleep? You can't even open your eyes." Su Xu tapped his nose with his fingertips, stroked his hair lightly, and said with a smile, "Hurry up and go to sleep tomorrow. It's time for class, don't be too late to get out of bed."

Shen Jiarui shook his head, sat up and pressed Su Xu's shoulder to make him lie down, and said, "I'll keep watch for Dad, in case I fall asleep..."

Shen Jiarui's words stopped after only talking, but Su Xu just thought about it for a while, and understood what the child was thinking in his heart, and he was so touched that he couldn't help leaning over to press a kiss on his face, making him The lips stayed on his cheek for a few seconds before raising his head and saying: "Thanks for your hard work, Jia Rui. But Dad is fine. Dad is fine, really, not sick at all. My own body knows it, and I am also very Unfortunately, if I am sick, I will definitely go to the hospital for a proper examination."

Shen Jiarui's eyes sparkled under the dimly lit wall lamp, he looked deeply at Su Xu, and said softly: "Then why did you suddenly become like that in the supermarket today?"

Su Xu opened his mouth, finally sighed a little dejectedly, stretched out his hand to hold the boy in his arms, patted his back one after another, and then turned his head gently down on his hairline for a brief moment. kiss, and said: "Dad... Dad will tell you later, okay? Go to sleep. Don't worry, Dad is very healthy, and there is no discomfort at all. "

Shen Jiarui silently reached out and hugged Su Xu's waist, and after a while he whispered, "That's settled, Dad must tell me the reason in the future, and you can't lie to me."

Su Xu patted him on the back like coaxing a child, and then slowly comforted him along his back from top to bottom.But a few minutes later, Shen Jiarui's breathing became heavy and long.He carefully retracted his arm under Shen Jiarui's head, arranged his sleeping position, and then lay back.After a whole night in the hospital today, Su Xu also felt exhausted and just wanted to sleep right away.

However, he listened to Ed's suggestion and did not wrap his nose with the air in the space.But in this way, all kinds of disgusting smells in the air made him unable to sleep.

"Relax, don't think about how bad those smells are." Ed's voice sounded in his mind at the right time, "Don't care about your breathing, don't care about the smell you smell, put your attention on other places, You can think of anything, you can think of your secondary task, you can think of a new formula, you can choose any perfume for Shen Jiarui, you can choose any perfume for Mrs. Zhao."

"People can't suffocate themselves by holding their breath, because the inherent survival instinct of people as creatures is strong and uncontrollable." Ed's voice became soft and slow, "You don't need to do it yourself. Too much intervention, leaving everything to instinct, when your body finds that there is no way out, it will start to adjust itself to adapt to the environment. All you have to do is grasp the direction, and then learn how to use your body’s compromise.”

Ed's voice was soft and graceful, and when he murmured in a low voice, it seemed like a slow and long requiem flowing from a harp with a hazy wooden luster.Su Xu tried her best to focus her attention on Ed's voice, and Ed seemed to have the same intention, talking non-stop, talking about interesting things about her childhood, and when she was learning how to mix perfume. Little jokes, lessons learned.

Su Xu listened to Ed's voice floating in his brain, and gradually, the unpleasant smell in his nose seemed to fade a lot, and after another half an hour, his consciousness gradually collapsed, and finally fell into sleep .

In the space, Ed breathed a sigh of relief, withdrew his consciousness from outside the space, stood up and found some water to drink to moisten his throat.Thinking of Su Xu's expression as if struck by lightning when he knew that he could see everything, a light flashed in his mind, he laughed, and began to use this to put pressure on Su Xu, let him finish the second exam quickly. High-level tasks, let yourself out of space as soon as possible.He has carefully observed the world these few days, and is very interested in the roast chicken shop at the entrance of the big supermarket opposite the community. Not only can he see the outside world, but his sense of hearing and smell can also extend outside the space. The roast chicken in that roast chicken shop is so fragrant that even at home, he can still smell the fat.Ed swallowed a big mouthful of saliva, turned on the tablet computer sadly, and then watched TV dramas to pass the time.

The next morning, Shen Jiarui's biological clock made him wake up before the alarm started to ring. The first thing he did when he opened his eyes was to turn off the alarm, so as not to wake up Su Xu.It took Su Xu a long time to fall asleep last night, and now she is naturally still in a deep sleep, she didn't feel Shen Jiarui's movements at all, she just unconsciously brought Shen Jiarui into her arms.After sharing the same bed with her son for so long, Su Xu also unconsciously developed this little trick.

Shen Jiarui obediently lay back in Su Xu's arms, gently pressed his face against Su Xu's chest, breathed hard, and smelled his scent.As a perfumer, in order to avoid being disturbed by the sense of smell, I usually don't let myself have any smell on my body, and I don't use perfume or scented laundry detergent to wash my clothes.Su Xu is still unable to customize daily chemical products without any smell for himself, so he can only choose laundry detergent with a mild smell as much as possible.Shen Jiarui buried his face in Su Xu's arms, and in the end he only smelled a faint fragrance of orchids, accompanied by the warmth of his body.

Shen Jiarui closed his eyes, relaxed his body, let himself be completely immersed in the smell of Su Xu, lazily decided not to go to class today, and stay with Su Xu at home.Then I remembered that I had just registered the family contact number when the class meeting was held yesterday, so I hurriedly got up and sent a text message asking for leave to the head teacher on Su Xu's mobile phone, then turned off the phone, and disconnected the phone line , and then returned to the bed, hugged Su Xu and continued to sleep.

Su Xu didn't sleep very well this time, half of his consciousness fell into a deep sleep because of the exhaustion of his brain, while the other half of his consciousness was obsessed with the real world because of the smell he smelled.He felt that he was barely asleep, and that the jumble of thoughts in his head was nothing but a weary nightmare.When Su Xu finally struggled out of this entangled state, he only felt as if he had just run around the earth, his brain was heavy and his whole body was sore.

He opened his eyes and looked at the round bedroom lamp on the ceiling that the original owner of the house chose to engrave and paint light blue butterflies. Shen Jiarui was in school, and the bright sunlight outside the window was trying hard to penetrate into the room from around the curtains sewn with blackout cloth. Although there was only such a slit of light, it was already recognizable that it appeared at about nine o'clock in the morning.

Su Xu was taken aback, sat up suddenly and woke Shen Jiarui up: "I'm late! Get up quickly! Dad will take you to school!"

Shen Jiarui rubbed his eyes, yawned, and said: "I asked the teacher for leave, and I will stay at home with you today. Are you hungry? I'll make breakfast."

Su Xu blinked, and saw that Shen Jiarui had already got out of bed, and then realized that she hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Go and wash up, I'll make breakfast." Seeing that Shen Jiarui wanted to say something else, he smiled softly She patted the back of his head and said, "Your father, I'm not too sick to take care of myself."

Su Xu thought that Shen Jiarui had really asked the teacher for leave, but when he turned on his phone, he found a pile of text messages from the class teacher in his inbox, and there were more than a dozen missed calls.Su Xu dialed back, and only then did he know how Shen Jiarui asked for this leave.Even though he knew that Shen Jiarui was a genius, the head teacher was still so annoyed by his irresponsible attitude of skipping class, he complained on the phone.

Su Xun listened to the head teacher's complaints, and glared at Shen Jiarui, who was sitting across from him and eating fried eggs leisurely, but there was a deep smile in his eyes, and finally said: "Teacher, don't worry, I will definitely Teach him a good lesson." Then he hung up the phone, then stretched out his hand and scratched Shen Jiarui's nose heavily, and scolded with a smile: "Stinky boy, you didn't tell me earlier, so I was scolded by the teacher."

Shen Jiarui touched the slightly sore bridge of his nose, half complaining and half coquettishly saying: "I'm worried about Dad."

Regarding this, Su Xu just peeled off her boiled eggs and put them into Shen Jiarui's bowl.

Ed suggested to Su Xu that if you want your body to compromise as soon as possible, it is best to leave the room, go for a walk outside, and get in touch with various smells as much as possible.Without a nose that can be used normally, the perfumer can't work, so training the sense of smell is more urgent than anything else. Su Xu plans to suspend the work of making perfume and put all his energy on controlling his nose. Smell.So after breakfast, Su Xu decided to go out and go to the supermarket again. There were a lot of products and complex smells. For Su Xu, it was both a test and an excellent exercise.

As soon as I went out, the strong smell of car exhaust came to my face, as if I had sucked in a handful of sand, and the rough gravel made my lungs ache.But Su Xu's pain is just a phantom limb pain similar to the disgusting smell, and it doesn't really exist.He silently carried all kinds of perfume molecules in his heart, allowing himself to breathe in a gentle rhythm.When he reached the gate of the community, he finally felt that he was not in so much pain, as if the sand stuffed in the alveoli had finally been rounded by his own flesh and blood. Although it was still there, it didn't make people feel sharp pain.

effective!Su Xu cheered in his mind, couldn't help showing a big smile, and his steps became faster.

When they arrived at the supermarket, the two returned to the vegetable section where they had just been yesterday.Here, the air is filled with the refreshing smell of all kinds of vegetables and fruits, as well as the sour and bitter smell of some unearned and sold food, mixed with the smell of sweat from people, the smell of armpits, etc. , also intertwined with dozens of high-end or low-quality perfume flavors.

Su Xu stood on the strawberry shelf, picked up a box of creamy strawberries that arrived this morning, put it under his nose and took a deep breath.The soft and sweet smell of fresh strawberries poured into his nostrils, and he threw away other distracting thoughts and completely immersed himself in this aroma.The aroma of strawberries is like a box of ice cream that has been stored outdoors for a long time. It is in a slightly melting state, neither as cold and hard as it was when it was just taken out of the refrigerator, refusing to be tasted by diners, nor like after it has completely melted The blandness of greasy cream floating on a box of sugar water is disappointing.It was just in a good state, and a piece could be cut off with a little effort with a spoon.

Su Xu closed his eyes.He turned his sense of smell into a sharp knife, cutting this piece of aroma bit by bit, chopping it into pieces, until only the aroma molecules were left one by one, and finally cut these small pieces Bit by bit, it becomes a complete piece again.

Then he opened his eyes, and the miscellaneous smells in the air that he had just ignored rushed into his windpipe, brutally dragging the scent of strawberries away from his body.Su Xu coughed and swallowed with some difficulty, suppressing the urge to vomit, he couldn't adapt to this sudden change.

"It works," Ed said in his head. "At least you can start to focus on a smell you want to smell. If you exercise for a while, your body will remember this action, so that you can smell it. You discover all kinds of wonderful aromas without being disturbed by smells you hate."

Su Xu nodded, handed the box of strawberries to Shen Jiarui, and said, "Do you like this kind of strawberries?"

Shen Jiarui asked back: "Dad, do you like it?"

Su Xu said: "I don't care. But don't ask me if I like it or not. This is your perfume. The point is what you like. It's up to you to decide what kind of smell you want."

"However, when I use this perfume on my body, it's not only me who smells it, but other people as well." Shen Jiarui said in a low voice, "I don't want me to have a smell that you don't like."

"Tsk tsk." Before Su Xu could answer, Ed slapped his mouth exaggeratedly and said, "What a good boy who thinks about you wholeheartedly. A Xu, do you know where you were just now?" How long have you been standing with a box of strawberries? Half an hour! This child has been standing beside you, staring at your face, for fear that you will suddenly fall ill like yesterday."

Su Xu was startled, and took out his phone to check the time. He thought he had only smelled it for half a minute at most, but he didn't expect that more than half an hour had passed.He touched Shen Jiarui's face apologetically, and said, "I'm sorry, Dad didn't expect it to take so long. You can pick out whatever scent you like. Don't worry, Dad made the perfume, and Dad doesn't know how to mix it himself." Fragrances that I don't even like."

Shen Jiarui hesitated for a moment, then nodded, and said, "I think this box is pretty good."

Su Xu was still a little skeptical, so he picked out several other varieties of strawberries, and finally selected three boxes with the best smell and handed them to Shen Jiarui for him to choose.Shen Jiarui hesitated for a long time, and finally chose the one with the most refreshing smell among the three boxes. It smelled like an ice cream, with a bit of comforting coldness, sweet and flamboyant but not overbearing, reminding people of a cheerful and hot ice cream. summer.

Su Xu started to sniff the box of strawberries again.After having an experience, Su Xu's speed is much faster, and he is no longer too immersed and forgets the surrounding things like the first time.After waiting for 10 minutes, when he felt that he had completely remembered the taste, he took Shen Jiarui out of the vegetable selling area, and went to find the pastry counter he opened inside the supermarket.