Chapter 56 Eat Three Bowls of Tea
After about half an hour, Wang Hao and others who were sitting together had a sumptuous lunch that Mrs. Bao Zheng personally cooked. In a blink of an eye, it was the scene of Shenshi in the afternoon.
For many dignitaries, eating tea has almost become a routine job after lunch. Bao Zheng, who served as the prefect of Kaifeng, was no exception.
Now, after the two maids cleaned up the leftovers on the dining table, they brought a green glaze secretly carved soup bottle containing just boiled hot water, six black glaze porcelain bowls, and five green glaze porcelain plates. In these five fist-sized green glaze porcelain plates, there were tea powder, ginger slices, salt, cinnamon and pepper respectively.
Since he traveled through time for more than half a month, Wang Hao has never had the habit of eating tea after eating three meals a day. At most, he only carries a person on his back and rinses his mouth with light salt water to keep his teeth clean to the minimum.
Even before traveling through time and living in modern society, Wang Hao did not have the habit of drinking tea. Instead, he had drunk a lot of bottled drinks of iced black tea, green tea, and jasmine tea.
Wang Hao, who was sitting at the dining table, saw the two maids, and in a short while, they placed these bottles and jars on the clean dining table, which immediately aroused his curiosity.
At first, Wang Hao did not care too much about the bottles and jars placed on the dining table, so he took it for granted that most of the time it was to add a part similar to a dessert after lunch.
After the two maids stepped down, Dong stood up and placed six black-glazed porcelain bowls in front of each of them. He first added a little powdery stuff into it and other things on the green-glazed porcelain plates.
At this moment, driven by curiosity, Wang Hao immediately looked closely and said, "I didn't know if I didn't look at it, and I was shocked when I saw it."
At this time, Wang Hao clearly saw that the powdery thing was tea powder, and the other four green-glazed porcelain plates were ginger slices, salt, cinnamon, and pepper. He immediately sweated coldly.
It was not until this time that Wang Hao understood what was the part of the dessert after meals, but the ancients were eating tea.
Suddenly, Wang Hao was panicked and complained secretly: The way of eating tea in ancient times is very different from that of modern people. Modern people drink tea by using boiling water to brew tea leaves directly, while in ancient times, he had to add various seasonings to the tea. How could he bear it when he was eating tea later? It was so difficult to pretend to be an ancient person!
Just when Wang Hao was panicked, Dong first poured two-thirds of the boiling water into the black-glazed porcelain bowl in front of Zhao Huiruo, and added a little tea, sliced ginger, cinnamon, pepper and salt into it.
After completing the above tea making process, Dong, who was standing next to him, made a "please" gesture and said respectfully to Zhao Huiruo who was sitting on the chair: "Your Highness, please use tea first!"
Zhao Huiruo, sitting on the chair, said politely, "Mrs. Bao, you don't have to be so polite. Sister Qian'er and I are about the same age as my sister Ping'er, and I am not a few years older than sister Ping'er. In private occasions, you can treat me as a junior.
"What do you do to my sister Qian'er and sister Ping'er do to me. This first bowl of tea will be made by Mrs. Lao Jiabao. Wait, if I want to have the second bowl of tea, I can make it myself."
Before she could finish her words, Zhao Huiruo couldn't wait to pick up the bowl of tea brewed in front of her. As soon as she finished speaking, she completely ignored the image of a lady. She immediately let out a "slip" sound, took a big sip of tea, and then looked like she was very enjoyable.
During the whole process of Zhao Huiruo eating tea, Wang Hao, who was sitting diagonally opposite her, kept staring at her intently. Seeing her look of tea as if no one was around, Wang Hao was stunned.
Next, Dong walked to Wang Hao's side. Just like before, he first poured two-thirds of the boiling water into the empty black-glazed porcelain bowl in front of Wang Hao, and pinched a little tea powder and sprinkled it in the boiling water.
Just as Dong was about to put seasonings such as ginger slices into it, Wang Hao was sad and finally begging for mercy and said, "Mrs. Bao, wait. I, Wang, was born in the army and was really a rough man. I never ate tea after dinner, and I couldn't get used to this kind of tea.
"If you put so many seasonings into the tea, you must spit out the food in your stomach. Mrs. Bao, Mrs. Wang has a reluctant invitation. I will eat pure tea in your mansion today. Add tea powder to this hot water, and don't add other seasonings!"
Just as Wang Hao finished speaking the above words, Zhao Huiruo had already drunk the bowl of tea in front of her, without a drop left.
When Zhao Huiruo was about to make her second bowl of tea, she suddenly heard that Wang Hao was extremely afraid of this way of making tea. She frowned and decided to tease Wang Hao, who didn't eat tea. Who asked Wang Hao, the disciple, to expose her identity as a princess in front of the Bao family today, Wang Hao used the skill of eating tea as a punishment.
Thinking of this, Zhao Huiruo immediately shouted at Wang Hao, "Wang Hao, didn't you say that you agreed to my request? I hadn't decided to put it on first and wait until I thought about it.
"Now, I have thought about it. The request I made to you is that you must eat tea with seasonings, but make it for you by myself, and eat at least three bowls. Otherwise, I will cure you."
Wang Hao, who was depressed, was so hoarse that he was a mute manure and temptation to Zhao Huiruo at this moment. He had no choice but to break his teeth and swallow it in his stomach in order not to be punished by Zhao Huiruo.
After a secretly ideological struggle in his heart, Wang Hao contradicted and offended Princess Zhao Huiruo, in front of the Bao family, and he had to swallow his anger and agreed, "Okay, Princess Princess, I, Wang, are you."
The four members of the Bao family here heard Zhao Huiruo say that she made a request to Wang Hao, which was to let Wang Hao drink three bowls of tea she made in person, and immediately cast an envious and jealous look on Wang Hao.
However, what puzzled the Bao family was that Wang Hao should feel extremely honored to let the princess with golden branches and jade leaves make tea by himself. However, Wang Hao continued to feel sad and sad, as if he was not eating tea later, but the crane head was red.
Seeing Wang Hao responding, Zhao Huiruo was afraid that Wang Hao would regret it again, so she immediately stood up and without saying a word, she placed the empty bowl in front of Bao Zheng, Bao Qianqian and Bao Pingping and his daughter, all in front of Wang Hao.
Zhao Huiruo, who was quick-witted and quick-witted, made three bowls of tea in a short while according to Dong's process.
"Wang Sicheng, why are you standing there? I have made three bowls of tea for you. You should eat it quickly!" Zhao Huiruo, who sat back on the original position, urged Wang Hao diagonally opposite her and said.
Faced with Zhao Huiruo's urging, Wang Hao hesitated to pick up one of the bowls of tea, which was difficult to swallow as if he was drinking bitter Chinese medicine. It took half a stick of incense to slowly finish a bowl of tea.
Chapter completed!