The big teapot is white, with a red portrait of Grandpa Mao printed on it, as well as the four big red characters of "hard work" written by Grandpa Mao.

Niu Chuanqing has reached this age and has three hobbies, drinking tea, smoking, and playing mahjong. Among these three hobbies, the latter two are related, because when he is not playing mahjong, he rarely smokes, a pack of cigarettes can be smoked for several days, and when he plays mahjong, it is another matter, a pack and a half are not fixed.

Playing mahjong is the hobby of his wife Wang Ying is the most opposed, for which he used to often quarrel and scold him, since the righteous brother Ye Shifang came, in the past year, the hobby of playing mahjong is impossible to talk about, so the cigarette is also smoked less, a pack of cigarettes is opened, ten days and a half months have not been smoked. Cultivating knows that grandpa's real hobby, I'm afraid it's drinking tea.

Drinking tea is an indispensable thing for Niu Chuanqing every day, especially in this winter, guarding a stove and boiling water without interruption, this tea can be drunk from morning to dark.

The tea is called 100,000 mountains, which is jasmine tea, which is usually the packaging of kraft paper bags, with four green characters of "100,000 mountains" printed vertically, and four green characters "jasmine tea" in the lower right corner of the big characters. On the left and right sides of the large characters, a sentence is written like a couplet.

"Drink 100,000 camellia often, refresh your mind and open your mind"

There are several small characters printed on the back of the brown paper bag, and when he had just finished learning the "Thousand Character Text", Niu Chuanqing asked him to read this text in order to test his literacy ability. Although he was a little stuttered at the first time, he was able to recite the text aloud after reading it well.

"The '100,000 Mountain' brand tea comes from, located at an altitude of 2,500 meters above sea level (China, Vietnam, Myanmar) at the junction, the production area is cloudy and mist, the rainfall is abundant, and there is no pollution. The unique ecological environment has created the excellent quality of 100,000 camellia. "100,000 Mountains" brand series of jasmine tea is made of Yunnan high-quality large-leaf roasting raw materials, with a special process, refined jasmine flowers in Guangxi cellar, white hao revealed, fragrant and high flavor, soup color yellow and green bright, is a natural health drink. ”

When Niu Chuanqing made tea, he would come to him most of the time, and the moment the brown paper bag he liked to hold tea was opened, he smelled the fragrance of tea wafting up, which was a faint aroma of jasmine mixed with fruit trees, and sometimes it seemed to have a slight smell of burnt smoke, like the smell of dry tobacco leaves.

Niu Chuanqing brewed tea, all grabbed a handful and threw it into the big tea jar, when the water boiled, a stream of boiling hot poured in, and the hot water vapor wrapped in the aroma of jasmine tea wafted in the room. The cultivator would often reach over the large tea pot, letting the bursts of floral-scented water caress his cheeks.

Sometimes when Niu Chuanqing's tea is halfway drunk, the cultivator will bury his face in the mouth of the big tea jar and see himself reflected in the tea from the blurred light.

"Who are you?"

"Hey, I'm you!"

The mouth of the large teapot is almost as big as the face of the cultivator, and he will often play with it tirelessly, and there will always be a circle of marks on his face at the end. Niu Chuanqing let this little grandson play around, he watched quietly, paying attention to the cultivation and not being scalded by the hot water.

"Grandpa, the tea is so bitter to drink, why do you like it so much?"

"Yunyun, after drinking tea for a long time, you will know that it will be sweet after being bitter. ”

"Bitter" is the first impression of the cultivation of tea, but it is such a bitter tea, he found that just like his grandfather Niu Chuanqing said, drinking and drinking, bitter and bitter, after the bitterness, the mouth will be sweet, with a touch of jasmine sweetness.

He didn't have snacks to eat, so he had to save it for two days and go to the temple fair of the Sansheng Temple to eat it again. There will be many stalls selling snacks at the temple fair, which is a good way to make it difficult for adults who are not rich in money to avoid gluttony.

The wolf dog in the yard Xiao Hei barked "Wangwang", the chain on the dog was pulled and jingled, someone came out of the hall, and the voice was that the fourth aunt Niu Xiaoxia and the fourth aunt Yan Zhangfu were going back, father-in-law Ye Shifang, grandmother Wang Ying, and father Niu Yonghou and mother Tian Mengjia all sent each other together.

The wolf dog Xiao Hei didn't know much about the fourth uncle Yan Zhangfu, every time he came, when he entered or went out, Xiao Hei would always rush out and bark "Wangwang", which provoked grandma Wang Ying to always say that this dog was too stupid, and sooner or later he would find someone to sell it.

"Dad, we're going back, you get some rest. ”

Niu Xiaoxia and Yan Zhangfu opened the curtain and stood at the door to say hello, the old man in the house agreed, and wanted to get up to see him off, but listening to the sound of talking in the courtyard, he knew that the people in the hall had come out, so he didn't join in the excitement.

The cultivator got up, his little body came to the door, opened the curtain and looked into the yard for a while, and then came back and continued to sit beside Niu Chuanqing to roast the fire.

"Grandpa, it seems that the snow is falling again. ”

"Let's go, let's go! The heavier the snow, the better, the snow is a good year!"

"Grandpa, this tea has become sweet now. ”

"Silly boy, this cup of tea has been drunk for an afternoon, and the taste is light, so it is naturally sweet. ”

Cultivator nodded, and in the dim light, he saw that the tea in the large teapot reflected his face, clear and blurry.

"Grandpa, you used to say that the tea leaves have been drunk for a long time, and they will slowly become sweet after bitterness, is it also because the taste of the tea is weak?"

Niu Chuanqing sighed, he looked at the fire on the stove, and said quietly for a while: "Yunyun, the tea leaves are drunk and drunk, and the bitter is sweet, sometimes the taste is light, and sometimes we are used to the bitterness!"

Cultivating looked at the fire and pondered something in the seeming understanding, and the call of grandma Wang Ying came from the other side of the hall, asking him to go over and wash his face and feet, and prepare to sleep on the kang. Niu Chuanqing stretched out his big hand that was hot by the fire, held his little face, and kissed it.

"Hurry up, your grandmother called you. ”

Cultivator put down the big teapot in his arms, got up and walked out, and when he walked to the door, he suddenly turned around and said, "Grandpa, your beard is very prickly!"

The Sansheng Temple built by the villagers raised funds to build on the other side of the Jinling River stands up, close to the New Year's Day, standing on the steps of the corridor courtyard in the courtyard, you can see from afar that the temple has erected a circle of apricot yellow pennant, under the northwest cold wind in winter, but see the flag unfurling, adding a bit of color and liveliness to the scene of depression.

The completion of the Sansheng Temple is a major event, the elders of the five villages have spent a lot of money to build the temple, and now that the temple has been built, they no longer care about spending more money, taking advantage of the good day of the New Year's Day of the solar calendar, and they will be lively and lively together. The Taoist people counted the days, the temple fair was set on the New Year's Day of 1989 in the solar calendar year, and continued to the first day of the lunar month in the Wuchen year of the lunar calendar, a total of eight days, and the day of revealing the red to the gods was arranged on the day of the solar term Xiaohan, which was also the main day of the temple building celebration.

The schedule of the temple building ceremony was soon written in black and red posters, and more than a dozen villages in Jinhe Township knew about this grand temple fair. The temple building celebration was very grand, not only to invite the city's Qinqiang troupe, but also to contact the county's film projection team, this is a big drama to sing for eight days during the day, and the movie will also be played for eight nights.

The snow didn't fall at all that night, and the next two days were sunny days, and according to the people who came back from the Sansheng Temple, the stage had been set up on the large field in front of the temple, and the people of the city troupe had settled in the homes of the wealthier villagers in the villages, and the small businessmen from all over the country had taken up positions on both sides of the road to the Sansheng Temple, and set up simple canvas awnings.

On the last night of 1988, the night became extraordinarily quiet, and the location of the Three Holy Temples was lit up all the time, and no one could have imagined that what was once a barren wilderness that everyone feared would now become the center of attention.

Father-in-law Ye Shifang also went there for a walk during the day, and when he came back, he said that this temple of the Three Saints is indeed magnificent, and the statues of the Three Holy Spirits sculpted in the temple are the Three Saints of our family's faith. The holy teacher of Confucianism, the Buddha Shakyamuni, and the Taoist Taishang Laojun are three saints.

He also saw that Taoist priest, and expressed the origin of his beliefs to each other, and it turned out to be from the same sect, and they were all in the same lineage. The Taoist priest's surname is Zhang, and the single name is a Li character, and the Taoist number is true. The two talked about the deed, and they met again if they had time during the temple fair.

Maybe it's looking forward to the next day's temple fair, maybe it's thinking about the snacks that I haven't eaten, or maybe it's drinking too much tea in my grandfather's room during the day. Lying on the kang, he didn't feel sleepy at all, leaning sideways, with his ears against the pillow, and he could hear the sound of his heartbeat.

He was afraid of the dark and quiet night, so he closed his eyes tightly, and memorized in his heart the books he had memorized during the day, so as to fall asleep as soon as possible.

"More vs. less, easy vs. difficult. Tiger against dragon. The dragon boat is against the phoenix, and the white crane is against the Qingluan. The wind is blowing, and the ...... is exposed. ”