On the day when Xiao Lin, the general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, became famous, he used a piece of paper to divorce his wife Shen Zhiyi, who had been quiet for three years.
He thought she was just a boring incense-making woman whose dowry consisted of seventy-two boxes of "broken books and jars."
He doesn't know——
The calming sachets she donated to the Salesian Bureau every month secretly saved countless children from convulsions.
The moth-eaten paintings in his study and the ancestral battle armor were all restored to their original state, stitch by stitch.
The "talent" that Bai Yueguang and Lin Wan'er were proud of was a fake that she forged using her nanny's niece.
He didn't even know that she had his flesh and blood in her belly when she left. However, her keen sense of smell during pregnancy allowed her to decipher the lost palace fragrance of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
When Shen Zhiyi held the ancient urn that had been incense for three years and spread out the three-year labor ledger at the celebration banquet;
When Lin Wan'er's "Yun Brocade" faded due to alcohol, and her "handmade" embroidery was exposed in public and her needlework was rebellious;
When Xiao Lin was in severe pain from an old injury and couldn't sleep, she found that only her ex-wife's incense could save her, and she whispered: "This incense needs to be extracted from the pregnant body, and it is difficult to reproduce it."——
He realized later:
What he lost was not a docile wife, but half of the living history of Xiangdao.
The Queen Mother said: "General Xiao, what you are abandoning is the future Xiang Dianzheng of the Great Zhou Dynasty."
And Shen Zhiyi, holding her increasingly pregnant belly, quietly restored the eternal fragrance that had been lost in the flames of war in the self-established "Zhiyi Hall".
The child's surname is Shen and his given name is Chengxiang.
As for the general?
She stroked her slightly swollen belly and smiled at the emissary who came to deliver the angustifolia flowers:
"Tell General Xiao that Xiang Dao should guard his heart and not serve the powerful."
"If he really wants to atone for his sins - first go to my incense shop and sweep the snow for three years."
