Half an hour passed after visiting the three-story building. Xue Changan took Zhao Qi and Su Houyou to his special tea room for tea.

The tea room is on the third floor, occupying half of the attic. It is very large, with a total area of ​​40 square meters. The windows are facing south. Except for the bookshelf on the west wall, which is filled with book scrolls and various antique decorations, there are many famous calligraphy and paintings hanging on the other three walls. An ancient landscape screen in the middle separates the room. A low and wide old tea table is placed behind the screen, with futons on both sides, and various tea sets are neatly placed on the tea table. A young and beautiful tea girl is kneeling beside the stove and boiling water.

"Tsk tsk, Mr. Xue really knows how to enjoy life, and life is too rich and peaceful!"

After entering and scanning his eyes, Zhao Qi felt very moved after seeing the layout and layout of the room.

The new house I originally came from home was completed and I was quite proud recently, but compared with Xue Chang'an's tea room, Zhao Qi felt that his new home could be dug a hole and buried.

Not on the same level at all.

As soon as you walk in, you can feel a strong sense of historical and cultural atmosphere, which is completely different from your new home. When you walk in, you will feel the smell of wood and soil that only the rich man in the countryside has.

Since it is a tea room dedicated to Xue Chang'an, the various things inside are naturally not simple. At least when Zhao Qi entered the door and looked at him, he found that there was a pair of Su Dongpo's calligraphy on the wall. The short, fat and black running regular script characters were as conspicuous as fireflies in the night, completely different from other calligraphers of the Song Dynasty.

Su Houyou also stood in front of the calligraphy works of his ancestors and stared quietly, without blinking.

"Brother Xue, when will you be willing to sell me this word?" Su Houyou turned around quietly after a long time.

"Brother Su, don't think about it. I only have this work by Grand Secretary Dongpo. If you want to see it, you can watch it at any time. Xue also accompanied the tea and drink..." Xue Changan sat down in front of the tea table, grind and sifted tea by himself, and answered with a smile while working.

Zhao Qi also looked closely in the room with his hands behind his back. Each of these calligraphy, paintings and antiques is definitely a fine product. If it were placed in the collection world of later generations, it would start at the level of tens of millions, but there were hundreds of pieces in this room, both of which were large and small.

Unfortunately, none of them belong to me!

Zhao Qi looked as he walked and drooled all over the room.

Zhao Qi and Su Houyou were walking around the tea room next to each other, and Xue Changan didn't urge him. After they saw it, they invited him to sit down and made tea with tea cream. Soon two cups of tea-white fragrant tea were placed in front of them.

"Good tea, strong fragrance and softness, and the teeth and cheeks are fragrant. This should be Beiyuan tea, right?" Su Houyou picked up the teacup and watched it for a moment before taking a sip, smacking her lips and saying in surprise.

"Brother Su is indeed an expert in growing tea and making tea. This is indeed Beiyuan tea, but it is not tribute tea. It is grown and picked by a friend from Fujian. The taste is almost the same as the dragon ball. Xue has to do differently in his life, one is calligraphy and painting, and the other is tea. Therefore, this Baoyu Tower seems to have earned a lot of money, but in fact most of it is spent on these two things!" Xue Changan said with a smile.

"These two hobbies of Mr. Xue are not special. Both the Shilin of the Song Dynasty are good at these two, but there are probably very few who can make hobbies into careers like Mr. Xue. From this point of view, Mr. Xue is considered to be happy and contented in this life!" Zhao Qi said with a smile while tasting tea.

"Haha, Brother Zhao always has unusual opinions on his words, and every word is different. However, Xue also turned his hobbies into a business, so he lived a slight life. Every time he saw an antique calligraphy and painting, he was reluctant to sell it after he took it back at a high price. Two of you looked at my tea room, and it was almost impossible to put it down. Selling it was like killing me..." Xue Changan smiled and shook his head.

"Brother Xue is holding Jinshan and crying for poverty. If you want to be short of money, sell me Mr. Dongpo's word. I will never bargain!" Su Houyou curled her lips.

"If you can't do it, you won't sell this character!" Xue Changan shook his head almost dropped.

Next, the three of them chatted while drinking tea, from antiques, calligraphy and paintings to the trends of the court, to the current situation of Mongolia invasion and the last fundraising and charity sale, the more they chatted, the more the atmosphere became more and more lively. Finally, when talking about some views on the future, Su Houyou and Xue Changan gradually became excited.

"Oh, the court...it's better not to say it!" Xue Changan shook his head and sighed.

Su Houyou also sighed silently, "The court is now controlling Ding Daquan and plundering people's wealth and paste in the name of war. This year, the price of tea has not increased, but the tax has increased by 20%. I am afraid that my tea garden will not be able to continue to open!"

"By the way, how big is Mr. Su's tea garden?" Zhao Qi suddenly remembered another thing.

Nowadays, from the court to the people, I am confused about the future of the Song Dynasty. The people are fine. They just want to eat and wear three meals a day, but the one who feels the deepest is the merchants, because more than half of the financial income of the Song Dynasty was provided by merchants. While the Song Dynasty was well-developed, merchants also under tremendous pressure.

"My tea garden is more than 300 acres, not too big. Why did Brother Zhao suddenly ask about this?" Su Houyou asked in confusion.

"In early June, my family built a new house and several wild tea trees were dug out. I saw that there were some tender leaves on it, and it felt a pity that I lost it, so I picked it and stir-fried it into a pot..."

"Fry a pot?" Su Houyou and Xue Changan put down the teacup with confusion and looked at Zhao Qi together.

"Hehe, why do you two look at me with such eyes?" Zhao Qi shook his head with a smile.

"Brother Zhao, don't blame me. I didn't say you don't understand tea. Since ancient times, I have never heard of tea stir-fried in a pot?" Su Houyou came back to her senses and said with a strange face.

"That is, as we all know, Brother Zhao is a business genius in my Qingyuan Mansion, but this tea making is definitely a technical job. Picking sprouts, cleaning, steaming, pressing, grinding tea, making cakes, and yellowing every step is not careless. It takes several days to make a pound of tea, and it also takes dozens of tea workers to cooperate. It takes a lot of time and effort. How could Brother Zhao think of stir-frying tea? Tea is not vegetables, putting some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar to stir-fry? Haha, I don't know how many bowls of rice can Brother Zhao eat in this plate of tea?" Xue Changan also laughed and said with joy.

Su Houyou also showed a laughing smile on her face, and she shook her head repeatedly to show that Zhao Qi's tea is probably useless.

Zhao Qi put down the teacup without hesitation and said, "Before I finished talking, why did you start to make fun of me? Tea has become a common medicine thing since Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs, and it was passed down to my Song Dynasty. Nowadays, tea is an indispensable thing in people's lives. My Song Dynasty's method of making tea was not from the beginning. Is it not that the method of picking, washing, steaming and pressing was not the experience accumulated by the tea workers? I don't have tea making tools at home, so I naturally cannot make this little old tea step by step according to the process used at present, so I can only find a different way. What's more, the stir-frying tea I mentioned is not like stir-frying, but slow stir-frying on low heat, just slowly stir-frying the water in the tea leaves slowly!"

"Brother Zhao, have you really stir-fry the tea? You must know that the tea leaves are tender leaves, and they will be fried if you accidentally. I am afraid that even if this tea can be brewed, it will definitely have a burnt smell!" Xue Changan was surprised.

"This is true. Because I had no experience in stir-frying for the first time, I did have some batter flavor. I brewed it and tasted bad, so I threw it away. But I fryed it in the second pot. This time I didn't fry it, and I found that it tasted pretty good, with a natural tea fragrance. Perhaps because of the old tea, it was a little bitter, but it was even more refreshing..."

"With these two experiences, I think it's not enough to just stir-fry dry. Some steps in the process of making tea are not unreasonable. For example, squeezing and so on, to remove the bitter taste of the tea leaves. So I found a few tea trees nearby and picked some tender leaves. There was no steamer or squeezing tool at home, so I changed the method of steaming green to stir-frying green. First, heat the iron pot to a hot temperature and stir-fry quickly. After it wilt, it took it out and cooled, and then rubbed it repeatedly with my hands. Fry it repeatedly three times, and at the same time reduce the temperature of the iron pot to a slight temperature. Finally, the tea leaves are slowly fried dry. In this way, the tea leaves are not grinding and rinsing, nor do I need to mix paste. It is brewed directly with boiling water. The tea soup is green and green, with the original fragrance of the tea leaves, and it only has a faint bitter taste. After drinking it, there is still sweetness between the teeth and cheeks. Compared with the complicated tea brewed in front of me, it is more fragrant and fragrant into the throat..."

"Really?" Su Houyou and Xue Changan looked at Zhao Qi in surprise at the same time.
Chapter completed!