Carry the long sword! Chapter 56: Boiling Tea!
"Since Brother Lin is here, let's eat before leaving, your sister-in-law has prepared the meal. My granddaughter is also studying at Beijing University, and she will be off tomorrow, so she will come over for dinner tonight, and she happens to meet you, the new elder. If you have time to give lectures, by the way, you can also point out, today's children always don't believe in these things, and it is easy to make taboos!"
Li Shouchang didn't know if he was on the phone for a while, so he regarded Lin Dian as a New Year's handover, and called his granddaughter as he spoke.
The soft-hearted Lin Dian somehow bowed to Li Shouchang's wife, and the two worshipped in a daze.
...
Zhang Xiaojun was taken back to the dormitory by Li Feifei with her arm and dragged her back to the dormitory after school.
"Something is wrong!
"Dorm meeting, hurry back!"
Calling two times in a majestic manner, Li Feifei and Zhang Xiaojun quietly waited for the arrival of the two roommates.
After everyone arrived, Li Feifei walked to the back of the door, pulled the deadbolt, and added a lock because it was not enough.
"Feifei, what's the matter with such a hurry?"
"That's it, the meal has just been cooked. No matter what, you've got to have a dinner treat!"
The two roommates complained.
When Li Feifei came back, she held a copy of Marxist-Leninist thought in her hand, cleared her throat, and said with a serious expression: "In view of the fact that there is already a comrade who has deviated from the strategic policy of my plan for the orphans and widows of the four. Therefore, an emergency meeting is called!"
"Okay, Zhang Xiaojun, you actually secretly took off the order behind our backs?
"That's it, is the man handsome? What are you doing? Is there any money in the family?"
After the two roommates were stunned for a moment, they looked at Zhang Xiaojun, who had a bowed head and confessed their guilt, and screamed loudly.
Friendships between boys come quickly, as do girls.
On the first day of acquaintance, the four of them fell in love, whispering and detailing various scumbag routines, determined not to be embarrassed. This is also the origin of the title of the Lonely Widow Foursome, determined that the four of them will not fall in love during college.
Zhang Xiaojun was quite embarrassed, the other three were all well-off, and she was a little inferior in comparison.
When the widow proposed to announce it, she agreed. After all, the purpose of her school is also to study, and in her opinion, it is impossible for her to fall in love, but Lin Dian's arrival is a little sudden.
Who can stand a girl who can stand a hero who fell from the sky in her desperate moment, especially when she got along, she felt more and more that Lin Dian was excellent, and there was an inexplicable attraction. Even when I dreamed back at midnight, I was a little ashamed when I thought of Lin Dian.
"A dead liar, as for looks... Let's get around!"
Li Feifei's hateful appearance appeared in Lin Dian's mind, and she almost crushed her silver teeth. If it weren't for Zhang Xiaojun, she would have strangled that man.
"Brother Lin is not a liar, Feifei, don't get me wrong. ”
Zhang Xiaojun hurriedly explained.
"It can be regarded as a job in Fei Fei's eyes, the handsome guy is a real hammer!
"If it's a handsome guy, I'd rather let him lie to me!"
Li Feifei saw that the attention of the two comrades-in-arms was a little diverted, and she hated that iron could not become steel.
"Don't be a nymphomaniac, okay! Now it's a certain comrade who has violated our strategic policy!"
Obviously, it is more difficult for girls to get back than boys when they commit nymphomaniac, and smearing Lin Dian is Li Feifei's last stubbornness.
"Xiaojun, you have to see clearly, men can't just look at the surface! Some people chase you with one appearance, and when they chase you, they will become another appearance! It is difficult to draw the skin and bones of a tiger, and you don't know the face but not the heart, don't be deceived, and you won't regret it when the time comes!"
It was originally a criticism meeting, but later it became a trio of people who gave advice to Zhang Xiaojun.
"Men have to hang! You can't be obedient, what you can't get is always the best!"
"Yes, yes, keep him fresh, and let him always be on the way to pursue you!"
Zhang Xiaojun lowered her head the whole time and was silent.
"I'm looking up, above the moon!"
Li Feifei's phone rang and rescued Zhang Xiaojun who was in trouble.
"Grandpa, Third Grandpa, can I have a few classmates with me? Come right away!"
Hanging up the phone and seeing the puzzled eyes of the two roommates, Li Feifei spread her hands helplessly and said, "My grandfather said let me go and meet the third grandfather, and you can also go to have a meal by the way." ”
Zhang Xiaojun stirred his clothes with a pair of small hands: "Isn't this okay?"
The other two roommates didn't care about being embarrassed, and asked, "If I'm not mistaken, Feifei, don't you only have two grandfathers?"
"It may be a distant relative who is coming, let's leave quickly, don't let the elders wait for a long time!"
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Inside the small courtyard
An old man and a young man sat on a stone bench, staring at the stone table in front of them.
Different from the simplicity of making tea now, modern tea making only needs a set of coffee tables and a few bags of tea leaves, which can be arranged clearly.
The tea set on the stone table in front of you must be overwhelmed by the layman's eyes at a glance.
Copper and iron, tripod-shaped wind furnace. Cooked porcelain bowls. The outer layer is bamboo strips, and the inner layer is covered with charcoal of black oiled paper. Tea roasting made from bamboo, water boiling stoves without vents, and mortars for mashing tea leaves.
Tea cakes and water do not need to be mentioned.
The old god Li Shouchang was sitting opposite, and he made it clear that he was going to wait for Lin Dian to make tea for him.
"There is no reason for guests to make tea, so you should come. I'll go to the toilet first!"
His understanding of the tea ceremony existed entirely in books, and he had no practical experience. In order to prevent trouble, Lin Dian talked about the big truth while moving out of the technique of urinating.
I didn't want Li Shouchang to wave his old hand, and said unhappily: "Brother Lin said something, since we are called brothers, my family is your family, and if you refuse, you will look down on me Li." ”
After saying that, his face rose, as if Lin Dian was about to turn his face if he refused again.
A typical duck on the shelf, Lin Dian didn't have a trick, so he could only bite the bullet and say: "Then I'll be ugly?"
"Boiling tea?"
After Li Shouchang bowed slightly, Lin Dian slowly tore open the kraft paper wrapped in the tea cake, carefully took out the tea leaves and pounded them into powder with a pestle and mortar.
It's not that he's paying attention to anything, he's just thinking about what to do next.
Slow, it seems to have a leisurely, calm mood, at least the old man thinks so.
Tasting tea is an artistic conception, which can make people completely relax from the inside out.
"Good tea!"
Lin Dian was unhurried with the pestle in his hand, chatting with Li Shouchang.
Li Shouchang looked at his hand and smiled silently, immersed in the rhythm of his wrist undulating.
It is much easier to distinguish the quality of loose tea leaves than tea cakes.
Tight, even, even the tip of the tea can be seen in the small hairspring, after tearing the package, a rich aroma of stale comes to the nose, this fragrance is completely different from the fake.
The whole tea leaves are in the mortar, turning into powder little by little, and only when they are as tender as pine flowers, they stop.
Li Shouchang grabbed it without being polite, looked closer, sniffed it with his nose, and hurriedly returned it to Lin Dian, signaling him to hurry up and take the next step. The young man in front of him gave him too many surprises.
Lin Dian kept working his hands, and he was already starting to boil the water.
The difference between boiling tea and brewing tea lies in the grinding of tea leaves, and the control of heat.
The most cumbersome modern tea brewing is kung fu tea, which still uses tea leaves or tea cakes, and brews directly after boiling with boiling water.
The requirements for boiling tea are stricter.
Time passed little by little, and as the water heated up, small bubbles began to bubble up.
When the bubbles gradually began to increase, popping up in bunches and about to agitate, the eyes of the two of them lit up at the same time.
It's time!
Lin Dian lifted the stove, poured out some water, and then put in the tea.
A few wisps of tea fragrance floated out along the transparent water vapor, Li Shouchang twitched his nose, and his index finger moved.
He is also a person who understands tea, and knows that it is not the time to use tea, so he presses his mind and continues to wait.
Until the water in the furnace bulged out big bubbles and began to churn, Lin Dian finally poured the water he had just poured back into the furnace and then removed the stove.
Li Shouchang impatiently handed over the teacup, Lin Dian shook his head and smiled, and secretly said luck.
The tea used to make tea is the tea powder, and there is no such thing as washing the tea, but the taste is only five cups of the best.
After dividing the brewed tea into five teacups, pour out the rest.
"Alright, okay, you go to the bathroom!"
Unloading the mill and killing the donkey is nothing more than that, and the excuse just now has become an excuse for Li Shouchang to occupy these five cups of tea and drive people away.
In line with the traditional virtue of respecting the old and loving the young, Lin Dian could only walk into the house quickly. Muttering as he walked, it was a big deal to miss a drink.
Li Shouchang peeked at it and made sure that Lin Dian had really left. Pick up the cup, take a sip, tilt your head and close your eyes, feel the fragrance of the tea flowing between your lips and teeth, and be reluctant to swallow it for a long time.
Just as he was reminiscing, four heads poked out of the courtyard gate. "Grandpa! Grandpa?"