"Fragrance is a very marvelous thing. If you're looking to refresh your mind, concentrate, and focus, then I'd highly recommend sandalwood. It can help you calm your mind, enhance your concentration, and dispel anxiety and tension. It's perfectly suited for you..."
"Right, right, right..."
"But sandalwood, it can be very expensive, or very cheap. The cheap ones are often low quality, many are fakes, and they might be mixed with chemical fragrances, which isn't good for your health! The expensive ones, of course, have their reasons for being expensive, like Indian Old Mountain Sandalwood. Its scent is rich but not overpowering, not irritating at all. It's just the price..."
"I don't have any in stock right now, but if you want it, I have connections to help you find it..."
"Okay, okay, okay! Wait for my news!"
Sun Zhijun hung up the phone, picked up a pen, wrote something in the notebook in front of him, and then flipped through his contacts.
He had some previous experience with fragrance, but not much. He couldn't say he had no connections, but finding top-quality ones really gave him a headache.
Sun Zhijun scratched his head, unsure who to contact.
"This is a bit difficult to handle."
He leaned back, silently contemplating in the rocking chair, but for a long time, he found no solution.
He was currently in his small shop. On weekdays, there weren't many people in the shop. His main job was to collect various "treasures," but most of the time, what he received were just junk.
As for the treasures displayed in the shop, no one nearby would buy them; they primarily served as decoration.
Therefore, he was quite leisurely.
Actually, he had thought about closing this shop before, but without a storefront, there were many businesses he couldn't do. Moreover, having a storefront in this industry also meant having security.
Sun Zhijun checked his watch and saw that it was already past six in the afternoon. Feeling a bit hungry, he sat up from the rocking chair.
It was almost time to get off work.
Anyway, no one would come at night.
But just then, a man in white walked in.
This person was wearing a mask and a baseball cap even in summer, and was even dressed in thin long sleeves and long pants, holding two wooden boxes in his arms. This made Sun Zhijun a little puzzled.
Who was this person?
It wasn't that such customers had never come to his shop.
And most of these customers believed that the items they held were rare treasures, afraid that others would snatch them away. Thus, they not only protected the items in their arms but also dressed completely to avoid being recognized.
"This customer, you are..."
Sun Zhijun went to greet him, smiling.
Although the items brought by such people were often junk, there were also some genuine articles.
"I have some good stuff here. I wonder if you're interested."
The man's voice was a bit hoarse, as if he had phlegm stuck in his throat.
"Good stuff? What is it?"
Sun Zhijun became interested, rubbing his hands and leading the man to the counter, where he spread a red cloth on the table, looking expectantly at the wooden boxes in An Chen's hands.
"You haven't seen this thing, and it's impossible for you to have seen it."
Saying that, the man opened the top wooden box, revealing the contents inside.
But when he saw a box filled with stacked leaves, Sun Zhijun's expression became strange.
"You're not kidding me, are you? Who hasn't seen these leaves!"
Sun Zhijun immediately lost interest, even having the thought of telling him to leave.
In his opinion, this person was probably an idiot.
But the man in white said nothing, only took out the top leaf, then closed the wooden box, and then he extended the leaf under Sun Zhijun's nose.
"Smell it."
Sun Zhijun originally wanted to curse, but his nose unconsciously sniffed.
After one sniff, he was speechless.
An Chen quietly watched Sun Zhijun's expression change to a daze, then silently withdrew the leaf and quickly put it back into the wooden box.
"How is it?"
Sun Zhijun thought for a long time, and finally slowly uttered two words from his mouth:
"Miraculous."
He thought of several words, but in the end, he felt none were sufficient to describe it. Only the word "miraculous" could describe it.
He just took a light sniff and felt his entire nasal cavity cool and his whole body energized. The fatigue he had felt from lying on the recliner all afternoon disappeared.
Even his mind became much clearer.
The scent of this thing was very faint, but its effect was extremely strong, far beyond what the sandalwood he had just mentioned could compare to.
"What is this thing!"
Sun Zhijun asked eagerly.
He had never seen this kind of leaf before.
Wait a minute...
Sun Zhijun suddenly thought of a terrifying possibility.
"This wouldn't be poison..."
"No, take a good look yourself. Does it look like it?"
Sun Zhijun leaned closer and took a couple of looks, feeling that it did indeed seem to be the case.
He didn't remember any drug raw material leaves looking like this.
Besides, that kind of thing wouldn't have an effect just by picking it and taking a sniff, would it?"
"So what is this?"
"You can understand it as a raw material for incense. When ground into powder and made into incense, it can refresh the mind, calm the spirit, improve focus, and even increase thinking efficiency. Its effect is better than the so-called Four Famous Incenses."
But Sun Zhijun shook his head firmly.
"Impossible. Although I don't know much about incense, I've never heard of such a thing! If there really was incense with such good effects, why has no one mentioned it before, and why have I never heard of it?"
The man in white chuckled softly.
"Yes, and no."
"You... can you explain it more clearly?"
"You haven't seen it because it's not from this world, and it's certainly not an ordinary raw material for incense."
An Chen put the leaf back into the wooden box.
"Not from this world? Then it's..."
"Jiuzhou, have you heard of it?"
Sun Zhijun was stunned for a moment, then remembered.
Jiuzhou, wasn't that the world many people Transmigrated to?
"You... you are...?"
"That's none of your business."
The man in white reached out and pushed Sun Zhijun.
Sun Zhijun took a step back, not getting angry.
"Jiuzhou is a cultivation world. Naturally, I don't need to explain much about the things from that place, do I?"
If a Mortal got their hands on something from a cultivator, wouldn't there be many benefits?
But Sun Zhijun still had some concerns.
"But recently, there have been quite a few people claiming to possess items from Jiuzhou, but most of them are fakes..."
He had read a lot of online news and was afraid of being deceived.
"I've let you try the item. Whether it's useful or not, you know in your heart."
The man in white glanced at him, picked up the box, and seemed to want to leave.
"Since you don't believe me, then I'll leave. What you don't want, someone else does."
With that, he turned to leave.
"Wait!"
He hadn't walked two steps before Sun Zhijun gritted his teeth and called out to him.
But the man in white did not stop.
"I want what you're holding in your hand. We can discuss the price!"
The man in white smiled slightly.