Chapter 34: Tea Tasting (I)

Jing Mingxuan's box is very distinctive, small lattice door, small lattice window, there is a bar made of lattice at the door, the wall is surrounded by antique shelves made of lattice, on which some ceramic clay pots are placed, in the middle of the box, there is a long pear wood square table, around the square table are placed six chairs made of huanghuali, so that the whole room is filled with a Ming and Qing architectural style.

The area in the box is very large, there are seventy or eighty square meters, near the bar at the door, there is also a small living room, a circle of red leather sofa around a glass coffee table in a circle, facing the wall of the sofa, hanging a 70-inch large screen high-definition LCD TV, in each corner of the room is placed an inconspicuous small speaker, set up a bit like a movie theater, but it is well integrated into the room as a whole, this is estimated to be a combination of old and new, Chinese and Western merger.

At the door of the room for Guan Gong's residence, there are three sandalwood sticks lit on it, and the faint smoke fills the entire box, as soon as you enter the room, you can smell the refreshing fragrance, coupled with the sound of the guzheng surrounding the ears, making people feel relaxed and happy.

"Hehe, Xiao Song's box, ordinary people can't get in, just this coffee table chair, to say the least, is worth a million 800,000, usually reluctant to let us sit, this incense is also exquisite, you don't know, this is Xiao Song every year on the first day of the New Year to go to the Big Buddha Temple to ask for the best sandalwood, to order until the fifteenth, can not be interrupted in the middle. ”

After Shopkeeper Song entered the box, he sniffed very happily, and then didn't look at the objects on the antique shelves, but walked to the square table, and carefully rubbed the chairs and square tables that looked inconspicuous in the eyes of Liu Chuan and others with his hands, with a look of love on his face.

Zhuang Rui's heart moved, since the color of the aura in his eyes changed to orange, he could already see through the thickness of about one centimeter of wood, since the shopkeeper Lu advertised these chairs so much, could it be that they are not antiques? Thinking of this, Zhuang Rui also learned from Old Man Lu, and looked carefully at the Huanghuali chair beside him.

Wearing glasses, Zhuang Rui was not afraid of other people's gaze, and at the moment of bowing his head, he released the aura in his eyes, and the aura quickly penetrated from the delicate lines on the surface of the golden chair back, although he failed to penetrate it entirely, but when the aura entered the yellow rosewood, Zhuang Rui still felt that there was an extremely faint trace of aura and aura fused together.

That aura was so weak that it was almost imperceptible, much weaker than the aura absorbed in that Sanhe Liu gourd yesterday, if it weren't for Zhuang Rui's attention, he wouldn't have been able to sense it, and when Zhuang Rui looked at the second yellow rosewood chair, he really felt the amount of aura in his eyes, which had indeed increased slightly.

After this discovery, Zhuang Rui couldn't care about others, pretending to be very interested in these antique chairs, around the square table, looked at all six chairs, and naturally absorbed the aura in it, the aura absorbed in the six Huanghuali chairs was about the same as the amount of aura absorbed in the gourd yesterday, it is obvious that the aura contained in this antique is not in terms of size.

"Old man, don't answer me, no, let's go to your house one day, and let these juniors open their eyes, hey, Brother Zhuang, are you also interested in Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture?" Boss Song was smiling and beckoning everyone to sit down, and when he saw Zhuang Rui circling around the table as soon as he entered the door, he couldn't help but ask.

"I used to hear that Huanghuali antique furniture is valuable, but I have never seen it, and I will sit on hundreds of thousands of dollars when I wait for my buttocks, and now I have to take a good look at it......"

Zhuang Rui raised his head, pretending to be a fan of wealth, causing everyone to laugh, and then he was ready to sit down, and after pushing and conceding, he let Old Man Lu sit on the seat, and Song Jun accompanied him in the main seat, and everyone sat down, but there were still two seats missing.

At that time, a few people who followed them into the teahouse withdrew, and after putting the things in their hands on the square table, they withdrew, but if you count the uninvited Xu Wei and Lei Lei Qin Xuanbing, there are still eight people in the box, and the six chairs of Huanghuali are not enough to sit.

"Lei Lei, let's sit on the sofa there, what is that broken chair for, sit on that thing on a cold day, don't idle your ass......"

Seeing that Qin Xuanbing and that Xu Wei both unceremoniously found a chair to sit down, Liu Chuan pulled Lei Lei to the sofa and sat down, Qingqing and I chatted about the day, these two people were not interested in those antique manuscripts or anything, if Qin Xuanbing had to come, they would not have joined in the fun.

After everyone sat down, Song Jun beckoned to the door, two slender and good-looking waiters walked in, one of them held a tea set in his hand and placed it on the square table, and the other person was holding a small red clay stove, placed on a round wooden pier next to the square table, the red clay small stove was long, about six or seven inches high, the charcoal fire in the furnace had been lit, and the small stove had a lid and a door, which was very exquisitely made.

The tea set is also very elegant, it is the Yixing purple clay pot, the whole pot is about the size of a fist, it is ancient iron chestnut color, there are six small teacups distributed on the four sides, the color is as white as jade, the quality is as thin as paper, Zhuang Rui is very suspicious that when he picks up this thing, if he makes a little more force, he will be able to crush it.

"This is no outsider, to be honest, don't look at me opening a teahouse, in fact, I drink tea with a big teacup, not so particular, just some time ago I found the best Tieguanyin in Anxi, today let's also taste the popular kung fu tea in Guangdong. ”

Boss Song greeted everyone, while signaling the two waiters to boil water to make tea, taste tea and appreciate treasures, naturally they want to taste tea first, except for Zhuang Rui, these people here are all in the society for many years, quite a city people, no one is in a hurry to move the antiques brought by everyone on the square table, they all watched with interest the two waiters make tea, only Zhuang Rui was a little impatient in his heart, but he was immediately attracted by the action of the two waiters making tea.

Although the red clay stove is very small, but the fire is very strong, in an instant, the water is boiling, after the water boils, a waiter picked up a small kettle, and another waiter immediately put a kettle on it, to introduce to everyone: "The water used in our teahouse to make tea is taken from the natural mountain spring water on Yunlong Mountain, Su Dongpo once said, "living water must be cooked by live fire", which means that the mountain spring water in the pot should be boiled with a strong fire. ”

The waiter first took the appropriate amount of tea leaves with a teaspoon and put it in the tea tray, and then gave it to everyone to taste one by one, and introduced the origin of Tieguanyin, after everyone saw a circle, the waiter did not put the tea into the purple clay pot, but lifted the kettle, poured the empty kettle with boiling water, according to the waiter's words, the purpose of this behavior is to warm the body of the pot, that is, the so-called "warm pot", also called Mengchen Linlin.

After the "warm pot", the waiter uses a teaspoon to dial the tea leaves into the purple sand pot, first fine and then thick after the tea stem, this is called oolong into the palace, and then pour water into the pot, the water stops when the mouth of the pot is full, the waiter stretches out two fingers, picks up the lid of the pot and scrapes off the foam of the mouth of the pot, and then covers the lid of the pot, and washes off the top of the pot with boiling water to produce foam, the action is extremely elegant, and it is pleasing to the eye.

According to the waiter, this process is called pouring the pot, and the purpose of pouring the pot is to clean the body of the pot, and the second is to make the pot hot inside and outside, so as to facilitate the play of the tea fragrance.

Zhuang Rui's nose twitched, and he could already smell the rich fragrance of tea at the tip of his nose, thinking, now he can finally drink it, but unexpectedly, the waiter directly poured out all the water in the purple clay pot, saying that this is called tea washing, the purpose is to wash away the floating dust on the surface of the tea leaves, and Zhuang Rui rolled his eyes when he saw it.

When Zhuang Rui was working in the pawn shop, he often made tea with Uncle De, but Uncle De didn't pay so much attention to tea, and the tea set was just a pot or two cups, unlike it, which was almost 20 minutes, and he hadn't drunk it yet.

After pouring boiling water into the purple clay pot again, he scalded the cup with the first cup of tea, and the waiter turned the cup with two fingers, which was called a "warm cup", and naturally it was poured out in the end, and Zhuang Rui still couldn't drink it.

To the second brew, the waiter holds the pot in one hand, and pours tea into each cup in a loop, the mouth of the pot is next to the teacup, this name is called Guan Gong Patrol City, the purpose is to make the tea soup in the cup consistent, and the low pour is to not make the aroma too much lost, and when the tea soup in the pot is about to end, pour the rest of the pot in each cup, these are the essence of the whole pot of tea soup, should be evenly divided bit by bit, so it is nicknamed Han Xin Dianbing.

At this point, the whole process can be regarded as the demonstration has been completed, and under the instruction of Boss Song, the first cup of tea was served to Old Man Lu.

The second cup of tea was given to the lady, Qin Xuanbing was not polite, after taking it generously, she held the rim of the cup with her thumb and index finger, and pressed her middle finger against the bottom of the cup, but did not drink it directly, but first put it to the tip of her nose and smelled it, and then divided it into three sips, and slowly drank it into her mouth.

"Okay, three mouthfuls know the taste, three times before I am tempted, the little girl is also a person in the tea ceremony, but the old man was out of sight yesterday. ”

After the old man Lu saw Qin Xuanbing's actions, he applauded repeatedly, and the original dissatisfaction with Qin Xuanbing disappeared, you know, the tea ceremony is also a traditional Chinese culture, but now not many young people understand, just like Liu Chuan sitting on the sofa, who is holding a bottle of Coke and drinking it happily.

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