"Madam, please stop laughing. Help me find the reason first. Am I sick?" Zhen'an Hou said with a depressed look on his face. Thinking of the fruit yesterday, he immediately said,
"It must be because I ate too much of that shampoo fruit yesterday! The scent on me is very similar to that fruit!"
"Really?" When the marquis's wife heard his words, her eyes suddenly lit up. She didn't know what she was thinking of, but she immediately moved closer to her husband and smelled him carefully.
"It really looks like it!" The Marquis's wife was extremely surprised and ordered the maid, "Bring me the two champagne fruits that were left over from yesterday."
The shampoo fruit was brought over. She sniffed the fragrance of the fruit carefully, and then sniffed the body of the Marquis of Zhen'an. The more she sniffed, the bigger the smile on her face became: "I think I know what's going on with the fragrance on you..."
"You must have eaten the shampoo fruit to have this fruity fragrance on your body! Doesn't the name clearly tell you? It's great... Just by eating the fruit, you have a natural body fragrance on your body. This is what many women dream of..."
The marquis's wife was beaming with joy, and looked at the fruit in her hand as if it were some precious treasure, cherishing it very much.
The Marquis of Zhen'an was very depressed: "Madam, you women have dreamed of this, but it is a nightmare for a grown man like me. I am a mighty and majestic general, not a pretty boy with rouge and powder. This fragrance on my body is like rouge on my lips, neither male nor female, making me uncomfortable. Please help me think of a way to get rid of this fragrance."
"Why are you in such a hurry? This is the fragrance that comes from eating the fruit. It's not poison. You really don't know how lucky you are. Good fragrance is always better than bad smell, right?" The marquis's wife rolled her eyes at her husband.
Then she suddenly seemed to remember something and said excitedly, "You can only get it after you eat the fruit? I ate a lot of this fruit yesterday!"
After saying that, she sniffed herself carefully, but she was not sweating and she was wearing a sachet, so she could not smell any fruity fragrance at all. Only when she sniffed again and again on the back of her hand could she vaguely smell a little.
She covered her mouth with her palm, blew a breath into her palm, and then smelled it. Sure enough, she found that her breath was full of fruity scent!
The Marquis's face flushed with excitement. She pulled her husband over and blew a breath on his face. Then she looked at him with sparkling eyes and asked, "How is it? Does my breath smell good?"
The Marquis of Zhen'an did not dislike his wife's action. He actually smelled it obediently and nodded, saying, "It is really fragrant, just like the smell of shampoo fruit."
"Is this the true meaning of 'breathing like orchids'? I never thought that this legend would come true one day..." The Marquis's wife was so happy that she didn't care about her husband anymore and excitedly ordered the maid:
"Go and give Madam Luo a note. I want to ask her about this fruit."
When the Marquis of Zhen'an heard this, he quickly said, "Madam, please ask Madam Luo if there is any way to get rid of this scent. I don't want to carry this woman's scent with me for the rest of my life."
"Okay, okay! I'll ask for you." The Marquis's wife's mind had already flown to the Prime Minister's Mansion. She just agreed to her husband casually, and then enthusiastically asked people to prepare gifts so that she could ask Xu Shichu for more champagne fruit.
Xu Shichu received a note from the wife of the Marquis of Zhen'an. He didn't know why she suddenly came to see him again, but considering that they got along well last time, he agreed to her visit in the afternoon.
After receiving the reply, Lady Zhen'an Marquis's wife didn't even eat much of her lunch, and went to the Prime Minister's residence to find Xu Shichu in great excitement.
As soon as she sat down, Madam Hou approached Xu Shichu and asked mysteriously, "Madam Luo, do you know the secret of the Champagne Fruit?"
When Xu Shichu heard her words, his eyes flickered, and he suddenly smiled and said, "What secret?"
The Marquis's wife looked at her expression carefully and saw that she was not unfaithful and there was no vigilance or alertness in her eyes, so she breathed a sigh of relief and said calmly: "It is the secret of the fragrance of the breath and sweat after eating the champagne fruit."
Xu Shichu blinked at her and said innocently, "It's not a secret. It's just a little fragrance. It's harmless to the human body. Madam, you don't have to worry."
"Oh, what do I have to worry about? I hope this natural fragrance can last forever... Madam Luo, don't tell me that I don't know what this means - a fruit that can give people natural body fragrance is a treasure that many women dream of.
Just think about it, the breath you exhale, the burps you burp, and the sweat you sweat all smell sweet, making you instantly feel elegant and noble, like a god!"
The wife of the Marquis of Zhen'an praised it endlessly, "I wonder how many women would want such a good thing. No, even men who pay attention to their personal appearance would want it. Of course, except for my big and strong Marquis!"
Xu Shichu couldn't help laughing when he heard the Marquis's expression of disdain for her husband, and asked jokingly, "Does the Marquis dislike this scent?"
The Marquis's face froze, and then she exposed her husband's shortcomings as if she had risked everything: "I'll be honest with you, Madam. If this fragrance appeared on someone else, he probably wouldn't hate it. But the problem is that this fragrance appeared on him, and he disliked it because it was too feminine and damaged his manliness, so he racked his brains to get rid of it."
"Appeared on the Marquis?" Xu Shichu covered his mouth with a handkerchief to prevent himself from laughing too loudly.
Seeing this, the Marquis's wife couldn't help laughing. Thinking of her husband's "miserable condition", she laughed and said, "Isn't it? He sweated while training with the soldiers in the barracks, and everyone smelled it. He found out, and he was too embarrassed to go to the barracks again... He was thinking at home about how to get rid of the smell."
Xu Shichu smiled with her eyebrows curved. She imagined the shock of the Marquis of Zhen'an when the soldiers found him sweating profusely. She was so happy that she couldn't help laughing. After she had laughed enough, she said to the Marquis's wife, "Tell the Marquis not to worry. The fragrance will only last for two or three days at most. After that, as long as he stops eating the fruit, the fragrance will naturally disappear."
"That's good." The Marquis's wife breathed a sigh of relief. She also sympathized with her husband for being laughed at by others.
"By the way, where does this champagne fruit come from? I also want to plant a few myself, I wonder if it's possible?" The Marquis's wife asked embarrassedly.
Xu Shichu didn't mind revealing this, so he replied: "This fruit tree originated from a small foreign country called Java, which is quite far from here. It takes half a year to a year to go back and forth between the two countries.
My caravan spent a lot of effort to get five trees, but unfortunately, due to the incompatibility of the climate and soil, several trees were damaged on the way. This one in my yard is the only one that survived, and it took me a lot of effort and time, and it only borne fruit this year for the first time. "
"That's really precious." The Marquis's wife exclaimed.