19, tea art

Cheng Yuanjia bowed slightly to the emperor and the empress dowager. She walked to the tea room and sat down and said softly, "The blessing of the seventh prince, I found a good spring here. In order not to waste such good water, the little girl specially took out the best tea to share with you. This tea is made by the little girl, and it has not been named so far. Please give this tea a proper name after tasting the tea.

The seventh prince was suddenly refreshed. Among the people present, he tasted Cheng Yuanjia's tea the most, and even the Empress Dowager did not drink as much as he did, so he knew how much Cheng Yuanjia understood tea. Usually, the tea processed by her hand will take its essence to remove its dross and show the perfect side. If it is made by herself, it should be the best of the best.

On several stoves around, the water of a stove opened first. Cheng Yuanjia asked the maid to put a set of light green fine porcelain tea sets on the case. This tea set was customized for her by the seventh prince last year. The teacup is like a small cabbage, and the teapot is more like a cabbage. The whole tea set is unique and exquisite.

Cheng Yuanjia scooped out two teaspoons of tea leaves from the jade bottle in her hand, put them on a small white plate, and let the maid send them to everyone to see the color of the tea first. This tea is different from the green color of ordinary green tea, but with a little white in the green. Although it is really in front of you, it seems to be surrounded by fog and can't see clearly. The leaves of tea are also obviously smaller than ordinary tea, tightly wrinkled into a ball, with small particles.

Taking advantage of everyone's ability to watch the tea, Cheng Yuanjia has completed the process of washing tea sets and hot tea cups. After the tea leaves returned to her hands, she immediately began to brew them. The magical scene happened when the boiling water rushed into the teapot where the tea was placed. Even if Cheng Yuanjia had reminded them in advance, the people present could hardly believe their eyes. As soon as the boiling water entered the teapot, it made a sneer like pouring on the ice. Accompanied by the pleasant fragrance was a large amount of smoke rising from the teapot. The smoke condensed at a height of one foot in the mouth of the teapot. After a while, he returned to the teapot, as if the smoke was just out for ventilation. When it was time to go home, it was still obedient. Go home obediently.

Ordinary tea leaves have to go through the step of washing tea first, but Cheng Yuanjia did not pour out the first pot of tea, but began to divide the tea.

There are six small cups in a set of tea sets. The Empress Dowager, the Emperor, the King of Qi, the King Qian, the Seventh Prince and Zhou Huan each got a cup.

The cup like a small cabbage is held in the hand. The crystal clear porcelain color and the light green tea complement each other. What's more surprising is that there is a faint layer of clouds floating on the tea. The light passes through the clouds and fog, and then through the tea, it shows a rainbow-like seven colors at the bottom of the cup.

"It's so beautiful." The empress dowager stared at the tea in the cup and was reluctant to drink it.

Cheng Yuanjia injected water into the empty teapot again and said slowly, "This tea is produced by two tea trees brought from home. It is usually watered with the spring water for making tea that I didn't use in time. In spring, the first tender leaf under the leaf buds was picked in the two days of Qingming Festival and rain in spring to make a rough blank, and then ninety-eight tea leaves were used. It is made into a tea bag and fumigated around the tea. After seven steaming and seven drying, it becomes tea. The tea tree is not big, and it moved from the south of the Yangtze River to the capital. It took a year just to adapt it to the climate of the capital, so it was picked last year. These tea leaves were picked this spring and made at the end of summer, and there was only such a small bottle.

Cheng Yuanjia's words are true and false. She did move two tea trees from her home and planted them in the yard where she lives. She did make tea in a big way she said, but everything was a cover-up. Those two tea trees are just varieties commonly planted by tea farmers in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is nothing special. As for steaming and drying, the tea that comes out in this way has long been finished. How can it be drunk?

But how did the people in front of her know this? Even the seventh prince only knew that there were indeed two tea trees that she took good care of in Cheng Yuanjia's yard, and there was no doubt that he was there.

You should know that the tea tree that this tea really belongs to grows by the spiritual spring, and the tree species is also selected by Suling thousands of years ago. This tea tree has absorbed the spiritual water in the spiritual spring since childhood and breathes the thick aura in the spiritual veins. If the best tea can't grow in this way, Su Ling would have cut it off and burned it as firewood. Although this tea is not produced much every year, it is still considerable after thousands of years of accumulation. Of course, these tea leaves are warmed in bottles carved from spiritual stone, otherwise they would have turned into ashes long ago.

Then the six people drank all the tea in their cups.

Both the king of Qi and the king of Qian drank the tea in a row, and the emperor waited for the king of Qi and others to start drinking before taking a sip. After a while, he took a few sips. The empress dowager took a sip of praise and finished the tea reluctantly. The seventh prince took a sip first, lowered his head and meditated and took a small sip, then meditated, and then drank it again. In this way, he drank the tea slowly among the people. Of course, the fastest drinker was Zhou Huan. He picked up the teacup, blew it down a little and drank it all, and muttered, "Such a small teacup, just It's gone in one bite. Good taste is good, but it's too little.

"You have tasted the little girl's tea, can you feel the specialness of this tea?" Cheng Yuanjia handed the teapot to the maid and asked the maid to add it to everyone. Even if this is the second pot, it is not much inferior to the first pot.

The empress dowager sighed and said, "This is the best tea that the Ai family has drunk. After drinking this tea, the Ai family knew that the so-called tribute tea is nothing compared with this tea. Yuanjia, how can you drink those tribute tea after you call Aijia?

Cheng Yuanjia still likes the empress dowager who defends herself everywhere. Hearing the words, she hurriedly said, "Although the production of this tea is pitifully small, it can still let my aunt drink it several times. As long as my aunt likes it, Yuanjia will try her best to make more so that her aunt can drink it to the full."

The empress dowager looked at Cheng Yuanjia lovingly and said, "It's still the caret of the Ai family who knows that it hurts people. You have tried your best to make this tea, and it is not easy for the Ai family to take away the love. As long as you soak the Ai family a few times, the Ai family will be satisfied."

He turned his head and looked at the emperor beside him and said, "Your Majesty, what do you think of Yuanjia's tea? What about the tea you often drink?

The emperor sighed and said, "Can the tea I usually drink be called tea? I now seriously suspect that the tea made by the waiter for me is not a tribute tea sent by the state government, or it is not a good tea at all. Otherwise, how can the difference be so big?

"This is the credit of Yuanjia." The empress dowager smiled and said, "Wanjia can make tea beautifully through her interpretation. Before drinking tea, she has already watched a wonderful performance. Moreover, she has a deep understanding of tea. She can make every kind of tea into the best state, and improve the color and fragrance of tea by taking the strengths and complementing the short, making drinking tea an ultimate enjoyment. In the past two years, it was also because of her arrival that the mourning family's mood has been happy, and the pain is almost gone.

The emperor sighed again and stared at Cheng Yuanjia thoughtfully, making the latter's eyebrows frown slightly.

The King of Qi and King Qian looked at each other. King Qian praised and said, "Yuanjia lives in my house. I usually drink the tea she makes. I know that she is extraordinary in this regard, but this tea still opens my eyes. There is such a beautiful and fragrant tea in the world. It's amazing."

The king of Qi touched his nose and said with a wry smile, "It seems that I have missed too many good things over the years. It is the first time I have drunk Junjun's tea, which actually let me taste this unique product in the world. I'm afraid that I will often harass His Highness Junjun in the future. Even if I make some ordinary tea for me, I believe that I can make it through the Junjun's hand. It's a great taste."

Looking at the spontaneously dazed seventh prince, the king of Qi couldn't help elbowing him and said, "When it comes to tea tasting, we should be the seventh brother who has the most say. Even the county magistrate calls him the only confidant. We should all listen to him."