Live as the emperor

Chapter 99 Tea tasting
In the gazebo, an exquisite small copper stove had already lit a charcoal fire. Chen Guang scooped up a spoonful of spring water with a long-handled ladle and poured it into the kettle on the copper stove.

This is basically the same as the steps of making tea. After the water is boiled, they will pour in the ground tea leaves. After boiling, it will be black like traditional Chinese medicine. The taste is quite different from the tea in Chen Guang's impression.The tea leaves at this time were somewhat similar to Pu’er, they were all made into tea bricks, and a piece was picked out when using it, but the ancient people still had to mash the picked out lump of tea into powder, which made Chen Guang Very incomprehensible.

By Chen Guang's side, there were not only Min'er and Zhou Zhiruo, but also a few servant girls, and Sun Shangzi, a guest.

It is rare for His Royal Highness King Jin to cook tea himself, but he has never seen His Highness King Jin make tea, would he?

Just when everyone was suspicious, someone noticed a little difference, because Chen Guang didn't put the tea into the boiling kettle, which was really weird, the water was about to boil, and he didn't put in tea, salt and ginger. , orange peel, mint, jujube and other things, when should we wait?It seems that His Highness Prince Jin really doesn't know how to make tea.One of the maids almost couldn't help reminding His Royal Highness Jin Wang, but after thinking about it, forget it, if he offends Jin Wang, it will be terrible.

Not only this maid, Min'er and Zhou Zhiruo also noticed that Chen Guang's tea making was different from usual. Min'er used to make butter tea and milk in her hometown, and she didn't know much about the tea culture of the Central Plains, but this time Zhou Zhiruo But she grew up drinking tea. She saw it in her eyes. The water was already boiling. If she didn't put anything in it, she might not be able to taste it anymore.Although Chen Guang had long heard that this tea was different, he didn't expect that even the order of making the tea was different.

Tea in this era is far from being cultural, or endowed with a certain elegant meaning. In essence, it is nothing more than because rich people generally eat mutton, and these meats are often difficult to digest. You must drink tea to clear the stomach. As for adding orange peel, salt, mint, dates and the like, it is nothing more than according to individual tastes.Although it is also called tea, in essence, it is just soup, soup with tea in it.

When the water boiled, Chen Guang took the teapot that had been made years ago according to the drawings drawn by Sun Shangzi, lifted the lid, and threw some tea leaves made according to Chen Guang's requirements into it.

This is the first time for many people to see Chen Guang's tea. In their understanding, the so-called tea is just a smashed tea ball, sticky, like a small briquette.But what Chen Guang took out was completely different from the tea that everyone knew. They were things like withered and dry twigs, but they were too small to be called twigs. Even if they were smaller than The embroidery needles are not too thick either.

After the boiling water in the pot gradually settled down, Chen Guang put the tea leaves on the tea table and picked up the water to brew.

When he was brewing, his body leaned slightly, the tea came out from the spout, and a tall and thin stream of water slanted out. When the hot water entered the cup, the tea leaves immediately rolled, and white smoke rose up.

Everyone's eyes couldn't help but stare, because of the unmistakable beauty shown by Chen Guang, combined with the intertwining of tea leaves and hot water in the cup, there was an indescribable feeling.

Such elegance and indifference, with the gentle sound of water flowing in the tranquility, is so wonderful.

As if all of a sudden, everyone returned to the countryside in the "Book of Songs", and seemed to feel the leisurely and carefree feeling of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Throughout the dynasties, no matter whether they are celebrities or high-ranking people, what they pursue is not that kind of noise. This is the ethos that has evolved after countless times of tempering from the pre-Qin period to the present.

So there appeared in the "Book of Songs" those doctors who sang in their idle mouths, "The rank is dry, the southern mountain is secluded. It is like a bamboo bud, like a pine." So there is the deep mountain indulgence of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest. After Tao Yuanming's picking chrysanthemums, he went southeast.

This kind of elegance in the bones is unclear, but now... this is the feeling, every move Chen Guang showed, and the clear boiling water quietly falling, the boiling water melted the dry and hard tea leaves, and the tea leaves began to stretch , This kind of quiet change, isn't that the case?

The scene suddenly became quiet, even the wind quieted down, only the sound of water being poured from the kettle into the teapot was heard.

All the people stared at the scene intently, as if admiring an art.

A fragrance came out.

This kind of fragrance is not strong, but it seems to surround the tip of the nose, seemingly absent, but lingering.

This kind of tea fragrance makes people feel as if they are in the mountains and rivers, on the side of the gurgling stream, burning incense and playing the piano, listening to the birdsong, and feeling such a faint fragrance. People are crisp to the bone.

Elegance, it's so elegant, it's hard to describe elegance, but everyone knows that what Chen Guang is doing now is elegant things, the kind of pleasing to the eye, the kind of harmony between mind and heart, is elegance.

The tea leaves are flipping and moving in the boiling water, like dancing elves.

On the table, there are several crystal cups, which are as transparent as modern glasses and are carved from a single piece of transparent crystal.

Chen Guang held the teapot, lifted it up, held the lid of the pot, and tilted me slightly. A stream of tea soup slightly intertwined with light green and blue was poured into the glass cup. When the tea came into contact with the air, it emitted a more intense aroma. Everyone here They couldn't help but take a deep breath.

The fragrance of tea is overflowing, not strong, but this fragrance is unique.

At this moment, many people were already attracted by the fragrance, watching Chen Guang carefully pour the tea in the cup into the cup, leaving the tea dregs in the cup.

This is a clear tea soup, crystal clear and transparent, at first glance, it gives people a comfortable visual enjoyment.

This is also tea.

Many people’s understanding of tea has been shaken.

In this era when tea still needs to be boiled, that kind of turbid strong tea is the tea soup they know, and such an elegant way of making tea, which exudes a delicate fragrance, and this crystal clear liquid, suddenly overturned all their knowledge.

A pot of tea is ready.The previous tea was boiled. To Chen Guang, it was just a bowl of soup with a strange taste. Only the one he brewed today is called tea.

Thinking about how long it has been since he had drunk such tea, Chen Guang couldn't help but look forward to it.Moreover, this tea was made by those workers for the first time, and no one can guarantee how it tastes now, which arouses people's desire to taste it even more.

Chen Guang asked someone to bring a few more small cups, and the servant girls around him also got a cup.For these servants, being able to drink the tea made by the master himself is definitely a blessing.

Zhou Zhiruo picked up a cup.

When the tea came closer, the fragrance of the tea became stronger, but the fragrance was not like incense. Although it was strong, it still had that refreshing fragrance.Zhou Zhiruo put the tip of her nose up to it, took a breath, and immediately felt refreshed. His eyes lit up, and he carefully pressed his lips against the rim of the cup, and took a sip of the tea.

A slight bit of bitterness spread to the tip of her tongue, Zhou Zhiruo frowned slightly, but it was only in an instant.An aftertaste hit her taste buds violently, and a sharp feeling permeated her whole body. The aftertaste began to reverberate as the tea entered her throat.There is a mellow and smooth feeling on the tip of the tongue.

This feeling is indescribable, but there is a faint, faint sweetness, but also some bitterness.There is a fragrance between the mouth and mouth.

It is this kind of inexplicable feeling of partial birth, but it gives people an endless aftertaste.

Zhou Zhiruo continued to drink.

The taste is different at this time because the taste buds have already tasted the bitterness.So the bitter taste has dissipated, and what follows is a strong, mellow and smooth feeling.

It is hard to imagine that a cup of tea can have so many flavors.The previously brewed tea soup is bitter, spicy, sour, and also has a lot of flavors, but so many flavors are all poured into the mouth, without layers, and very confusing.

But today's tea has distinct layers, as if all the flavors are lined up, and the emphasis is on first come, first served, and it is presented in the mouth bit by bit.

This taste can make people fall in love with it at once.

Drinking tea is addictive.

Chen Guang never drank tea before. At that time, he was young, so he would not bother to do this. He either drank plain water, or various cola milk and other beverages.Until one day, a friend of his who was in the tea business gave him a small packet of Lapsang Souchong from Wuyi Mountain. After drinking it once, the taste made him want to stop.Since then, his friend has collected a lot of real gold and silver from him, and he just discovered, what is the difference between this Timo's smuggling of opium and the Qing Dynasty's opium?It's all addictive stuff.

From then on, no matter what, he would spare part of his energy to make tea, drink tea, and taste tea.Afterwards, he tried several kinds of tea, but his favorite was the mellow rotten sweet potato aroma of Lapsang Souchong.

For this reason, he changed his pen name to Wang Zhengshan.The old king next door, Zhengshan Souchong, with two swords combined, is invincible in the world.

Min'er also drank a little, and her eyes immediately brightened. Compared with the previous tea, this tea is completely subversive, completely subversive.

"How is it, does it taste good?" Chen Guang picked up a cup, smelled the taste, and felt the same, knowing that the taste should not be much different, he said.

He also held it, took a sip, and tasted it carefully. The taste was indescribable. It was a little different from other teas he had tasted, but it was still within an acceptable range. Let the tea technician Just practice more.The most important thing is that compared with the tea soup cooked in this era, this tea is definitely at the level of fine nectar and jade dew.

In the future, I don't have to suffer from the torture of making tea, which is really cool.

(End of this chapter)