"Customer, take a look at this beaver musk. It was recently shipped from the Immortal Spring, dried, and then personally blended by Master Hu. It is extremely pure. Diluting it to mix into fragrance essences is most appropriate."
"Mm-mm, I'll take it."
"And this Taishi Incense, which grows on the eastern cliffs of supreme mountain peaks, swallows clouds and drinks mists, and is irradiated by the very first beam of purple qi coming from the east every day. It's completely natural..."
"I'll take it."
"This Flowing Flower Dew..."
"I'll take it!"
The customer and the shop clerk barged back and forth there, adding to their purchasing intentions one by one, while the shopkeeper smiled from ear to ear behind the counter. The spices desired by this ferocious-looking customer were all quite common and profitable, making him precisely the kind of worry-free patron shopkeepers liked best.
Both the shopkeeper and the clerk were connoisseurs. Just by looking at the spices the customer selected, they knew there was a method to it. Any single one taken out wasn't unusual, but four of them could be mixed and processed with other spices, producing many variations. The clever shop clerk smoothly introduced some matching goods, which duly suited the customer's wishes, and a simple retail sale was growing larger by the moment.
Such lavish-spending casual customers were truly becoming fewer and fewer nowadays.
The shopkeeper was also secretly guessing at the customer's use for purchasing these spices. These aromatics couldn't be used to make particularly precious blended incense, but the related products were mostly very practical and could be used when traveling through the world on ordinary days. It seemed this customer was indeed an experienced hand. However, observing his fierce aura, he didn't seem like those perfumers who made a living researching and