Chapter four hundred and ninety-eight tea ceremony divergence
There is no love and hate in the world for no reason.
Maybe, but it will never appear in the adult world. When I was a child, my friend would suddenly hand you a piece of candy for you to eat. He didn’t need you to carry his bag or do his homework. His purpose was very simple, just to eat for you and to share this simple sweetness with you. He said "It’s very sweet" and he was already very satisfied.
However, that is the world of children, it is a pure land that is not polluted. Children will eventually grow up and will eventually be rendered colorful by this complex world. When he grows up, he will give you a piece of candy, will he just ask you for a "very sweet" praise?
The adult world is completely different.
A person you have never met suddenly becomes a hundred times more enthusiastic towards you. If you pass the emotional intelligence, you will not help but make a whisper in your heart.
Why did he do this? What is his purpose? What benefits does he want to get from me? Is there any big conspiracy hidden here?
A completely different idea, what has changed?
Perhaps, nothing has changed, but the world in my eyes has changed.
Li Su is no longer a child. Whether it is vulgar or philanthropist, the world in his eyes is no longer innocent. When someone treats him well, he cannot avoid being vulgar. He always has to doubt the other party’s motives.
After all, a person who is very popular is very poor, and he is disliked by people who are disliked by dogs to be nice to him inexplicably, and he wishes he could act like burning yellow paper to kill the chicken's head on the spot. If he said he was completely aimless, Li Su would have lived in vain for two lifetimes.
"King of Qi?" Dongyang's face suddenly became a little solemn: "King of Qi Li You? Is he Chang'an?"
"Yes, I had a banquet the day before yesterday."
Dongyang stopped cooking tea, put the tea spoon in his hand, stood up and said solemnly: "You must stay away from him! He is not a good person!"
Li Su's eyelids twitched: "Whose child did he throw in the well?"
"Don't make trouble! You really have to stay away from him!" Dongyang said seriously.
Li Su blinked: "Every bad boy has done a few sad things. Tell me quickly what bad things he has done."
Dongyang sighed and said, "There are more than a few bad things he has done, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as 'subs and bamboo'. He is only seventeen years old this year. Four years ago, when he was only thirteen years old, he abused more than a dozen palace maids in the royal palace. Do you know that? He burned to death with fire. He burned to death with a soldering iron and strangled to death with a rope. He is the son of Yin Concubine. He has been domineering since he was a child. He has an uncle named Yin Hongzhi. On the eve of the Xuanwu Gate Incident, he reported that the prince Jiancheng had made a conspiracy and was relied on by his father. After his father ascended the throne, he became Yin Hongzhi as the Minister of Personnel. This person is sinister, narrow-minded, and vindictive. King Li You of Qi had a lot of contact with him and was deceived by him. He has been urinating since childhood. He not only treats the servants in the royal palace as livestock and is often abused to kill the people outside. The same is true for the people outside."
"In the ninth year of Zhenguan, Li You went to Jingzhou. The governor was slow to go out for half an hour. He actually ordered the ceremonial guard to kill the chief clerk of Jingzhou on the spot. This incident shocked the court and the people. More than ten censors from the Censorate reported in tears. In the end, the father favored him and only punished Li You to stay in the door and think about it for half a year. As for later, Li You**** women, children, fish and people, and other evil things, there were countless reports, and there were dozens of reports on Li You every year in the court."
Dongyang stared at Li Su and said in a stern voice: "You must be careful about this person. Don't get too close to him. You know this person's infamous reputation in Chang'an. Even the children of the uncle's family dare not get along with him too deeply, because he is simply a cancer in Chang'an City and no one dares to get involved."
Li Su suddenly realized that she finally understood why the playboys kept a distance from Li You the day before yesterday. This person was no longer just a bastard, but a demon. No one wanted to have anything to do with him. Being able to barely have a banquet with him has been considered as amazing cultivation.
Li Su was silent for a while, Zhan Yan smiled and said, "I am so brave, so naturally I dare not get involved. Don't worry."
Dongyang glared at him and said angrily: "Are you timid? You are just too brave."
"I'm very brave. Look, I've been brewing for half an hour when I want to touch your hand. I don't dare to do it now." Li Su said and suddenly held her slender hand. Dongyang wanted to pull it away, but Li Su was too strong, so he had to give up and glared at him angrily.
"It's all your fault. The tea soup is boiling! The taste is completely bad!" After a brief warmth, Dongyang suddenly realized.
"It's okay, one boil is the same as two boils. Anyway, I can't drink the difference." Li Su said indifferently. In fact, it's best not to drink it. He is really not interested in the so-called tea soup today, and the taste is too strange.
"How can it be the same? One boil and two boils are different." Dongyang was very particular about the tea ceremony and could not rub the sand in his eyes.
So Dongyangtou ordered people to change the tea soup and prepare a new set of ingredients. This time, the two of them stopped talking and quietly followed the routine of making tea again.
When the tea soup boiled, Dongyang used a teaspoon to scoop the dark yellow soup into the tea cup, picked up the tea cup, raised its hands to the eyebrow, and handed it to Li Su.
Li Su looked at the tea soup in front of her with a strange smell, and her face couldn't help but feel bitter.
He put everything in it. He was really worried about whether he would get poisoned after taking a sip. By the way, Master Sun Simiao was quite far away from him. If he was poisoned, he would not be able to save himself. A hero of the Tang Dynasty who could clearly shake the past and present was poisoned to death by His Royal Highness. Should the epitaph be engraved with a capital letter "injustice" or a capital letter "silly"?
Dongyang Ping held up the teacup with his white wrist a little sore. Seeing Li Su's facial features were entangled and hesitant, he looked like he was given suicide, and he couldn't help but say angrily: "Are you afraid I will harm you?"
"Don't be afraid." Li Su smiled dryly, took the tea cup, and the tea soup inside swayed, reflecting the rippling waves.
Facing Dongyang's expectant gaze, Li Su sighed inwardly. Medicine is too inexplicable these days, and it should be a gastric lavage.
Closed his eyes, Li Su picked up the teacup and drank it all.
The tea soup enters the stomach, and an indescribable smell gradually dissipates in the mouth, with a hint of ginger, oily, a slight spicy taste, and a hint of bitter taste. It is said that there are crazy people who combine tea ceremony with Confucianism and Taoism. If this is true, Qin Shihuang should have been the one who burys Confucianism back then.
"Good tea!" Li Su blurted out, it would be okay to not praise it. This is a routine. No matter how bad it is, you must shout good, otherwise you will have another cup next
"Really?" Dongyang was very happy.
"Really." Li Su tried hard to make her expression sincere.
"One more cup." Dongyang moved quickly, and he filled it again after brushing.
Li Su:"
Sometimes a low-mouthed person has to pay a heavy price!
In the pavilion, there was a long silence.
"Drink it" Dongyang blinked, his expectant gaze that was irresistible.
But Li Su felt that there was signs of rebellion in her stomach.
"I think you should talk about life when drinking tea." Li Su said seriously and put down the teacup.
"You should hold the tea in your mouth while it is hot, swallow it slowly, and taste the transformation of various different flavors. Only then can you understand the various wonderful truths of Confucianism, don't be cold." Dongyang professionally rejected Li Su's tricks.
Li Su sighed and said, "Okay, let's talk about a big topic, the so-called tea ceremony in this world. In fact, I have walked into the wrong path, and I think it should be changed."
"Biluo?"
"Yes, Qilu!" Li Su showed her arrogant face and said, "Tea, that's not what it is."
I am very confused. The Tang Dynasty has famous poems and essays that have spread throughout the ages, including exquisite and ingenious porcelain, smooth silk as smooth as grease, and lonely Tian Khan as snow?
However, the people of the Tang Dynasty did not know how to drink tea. It was really hard to understand that this troublesome and rustic way of drinking tea was not broken by a pioneer named 6 Yu nearly a hundred years later.
Li Su couldn't wait for a hundred years. He was afraid that Dongyang would get addicted to playing tea ceremony. He grabbed him every now and then as a teenager who was rarely seen in a century could not die at the hands of tea.
How should tea be drunk?
It's as simple as a whole.
Li Su in his previous life was very simple to drink tea. He grabbed a handful of tea and threw it in. He drank it with boiling water and drank it. He drank two large cups a day, from morning to night. He was a hundred times more energetic.
From the Taoist temple in Dongyang, Li Su became concerned about drinking tea.
In fact, the main thing is to miss the taste of the past life. In this era, there are not many past life that can be found.
The process of stir-frying tea is very complicated, so you need to have tea leaves first.
Today, tea is not grown on a large scale, and most of it is wild, because tea tasting is a very small demand in the upper circle, the supply is very small, and there is no special tea farmers planting. The most urgent thing is still food that can fill your stomach.
It is very simple to collect fresh tea, which is available in Taiping Village. Nowadays, people do not pay attention to the variety of tea. Tea is generally the same. At Li Su's order, the idle veterans immediately had a new task, so they went up the mountain to pick tea in groups, and collected about a hundred kilograms in a day. Li Su estimated that these veterans had searched the wild tea trees on the mountain near Taiping Village to exterminate the clan.
The newly picked tea leaves are spread out in the Li family courtyard and are dry. This process is called "spreading green". The purpose is to use sunlight to remove the moisture and astringent air from fresh tea leaves.
Next is the finalization. Yes, "finishing" is not only a film and television term, but also a term for stir-frying tea. This process requires the tea leaves to be placed in a hot pot and constantly overturned and rubbed, just like a rogue who met a beauty in the middle of the night.
Until the tea leaves are kneaded into a shape with a wide middle and pointed ends, finally put them in the pot and stir-fry and bake them to let the fragrance of the tea leaves itself spread. This process is called "Tixiang".
The process is not complicated, but Li Su is not professional. Some memories are just fragmentary fragments. After many trials, they have not succeeded.
In the kitchen of Li's family, the cook was driven out by Li Su. He got into the kitchen alone and was busy. He carried a basket of tea in. He was not satisfied or failed, and threw it out again.
The strange behavior alarmed my father and Xu Mingzhu. After Mr. Xue’s report, Li Daozheng and Xu Mingzhu hurried outside the kitchen door and happened to see a piece of tea that failed to experiment flying out of the kitchen, sprinkling all over the floor like a rain of flowers.
"What's wrong?" Li Daozheng frowned, looking a little worried.
Xu Mingzhu was even more anxious, but she could not express herself in front of Li Daozheng. She was afraid that she would be blamed for being undescending, so she could only grit her teeth and worry secretly.
"Your husband is too worried about national affairs, so it doesn't matter if you take a few tea leaves to vent your anger. Don't worry." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!