Chapter 248 Tea making
After speaking, Zhao Yunfang and Zhao Ziqiao began to get busy, Zhao Yunfang went to prepare the pot for stir-frying the tea, and Zhao Ziqiao took the tea buds to wash.
Originally, the freshly picked tea buds do not need to be washed, after washing, the tea buds are stained with water droplets, which is easy to make the heat not good, but Zhao Ziqiao and Zhao Yunfang both feel that these tea buds are a little dirty in the leather bag, wash it, take some effort, it is better than not clean.
After Zhao Ziqiao washed the tea shoots and dried them for a while, the water droplets were basically invisible to the naked eye, so he walked to the kitchen with these tea shoots.
Zhao Yunfang saw Zhao Ziqiao coming over with these tea buds, and put the iron pot on the stove, she reached out and grabbed those tea buds, and felt the humidity of these tea buds with her hands.
"It's ok. Zhao Yunfang grabbed a handful, and after finding that there were no obvious water stains on his hands, he said.
When the iron pot on the stove began to slowly emit green smoke, Zhao Yunfang took the tea buds in Zhao Ziqiao's hand and poured them all into the pot in one go.
As soon as these green shoots were put into the already heated iron pot, they immediately began to emit water vapor, Zhao Yunfang saw this situation, and immediately inserted them into these green sprouts with both hands, and used both hands as shovels, and began to grab the green sprouts and turn them.
Zhao Yunfang grabbed a handful of green sprouts, gradually shook them off in the air above the iron pot, and then grabbed a handful from the bottom of the pot and continued to shake them off.
Zhao Yunfang scratched it a few times, Zhao Ziqiao watched it from the side, and said to Zhao Yunfang: "Auntie, I'll try it." ”
Hearing Zhao Ziqiao's request, Zhao Yunfang glanced at him, smiled and moved out of the way, and said, "Pay attention to the evenness of the shake, and you have to grab it from the bottom." ”
Zhao Ziqiao nodded, indicating that he understood, and learned Zhao Yunfang's steps, and grabbed the iron pot directly with both hands.
This looks quite easy, but when Zhao Ziqiao reached out and grabbed the iron pot, he realized that this simple action was actually not very simple.
The iron pot has been heated, the green buds of the tea leaves are covered with a layer, basically in a state of being kept warm, and the green buds on the top are almost in a state of room temperature, but the green buds at the bottom are roasted by the temperature like this, and the water vapor that has not had time to dissipate, it seems a little hot. Especially now that there is no protection on the hands, this feeling is even more intuitive!
Fortunately, Zhao Ziqiao was born in the countryside, and he didn't dare to say that he had rough skin and thick meat, but it was not the kind of thin skin and tender meat.
However, the feeling of hot hands does not mean that you can ignore it if you want to, your body will intuitively tell you everything that happened, and these directly led to the serious deformation of Zhao Ziqiao's movements.
It was almost Zhao Ziqiao who inserted his hand into these green sprouts, and in less than two seconds, he grabbed a handful of green sprouts and quickly retreated, and then on the top of the iron pot, the green sprouts in his hand were sparsely shaken down, compared with Zhao Yunfang's technique, it was like the contrast between a rushing waterfall and a broken stream.
Zhao Yunfang saw Zhao Ziqiao's movements in his eyes, and he was a little funny in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, Zhao Ziqiao is a 'Mr. Reading', and now he can make a little bit of a look according to the gourd painting, which is already good.
After gradually getting used to this temperature, Zhao Ziqiao also began to learn to catch more green shoots, and Zhao Yunfang mentioned a few words on the side, so that Zhao Ziqiao would not be a little swollen.
However, as the green shoots in the pot gradually wilted and deformed, and the temperature in the iron pot gradually rose, Zhao Yunfang saw the green shoots in the pot like this, so he no longer let Zhao Ziqiao continue to operate.
Zhao Ziqiao was 'driven away' by Zhao Yunfang, and he also stood next to him with a somewhat satisfied look, and the follow-up operation was not something he could grasp, so it was better to leave it to the professionals to rest assured.
After Zhao Yunfang took over Zhao Ziqiao's action, after stir-frying a few times, he felt that these green shoots were almost there, so he stopped turning and grabbing them, and changed his hands to rub the green shoots in the iron pot.
Zhao Ziqiao saw Zhao Yunfang grasping the green shoots in the iron pot with both hands and kneading them like kneading dough, and suddenly felt that this scene was a little funny, as if the iron pot was not a tea tree sprout, but a ball of good noodles.
Kneading the green shoots in the iron pot to remove the excess water in the green shoots is a very important process and a place to test one's skills.
If it is light, it will not be able to knead the water in the green shoots, but if it is heavy, it is easy to crush the green shoots that have become soft.
And this kind of process, very test people's physical strength, Zhao Ziqiao this time to get back these green buds, less than three catties, under normal circumstances, fresh tea is almost to four catties or five catties or so, before one pound of tea can come out! You may hear less than three catties, feel that there is not much, the kind of big apples sold in the supermarket are sometimes almost a catty, but this kind of tea is very space-consuming, about three catties of fresh tea, with a basin can be enough to fill a basin more.
With so many fresh tea leaves, it is necessary to subtract two-thirds of the volume, and the hard work in it is naturally not something that can be formed with a few kneading sentences or two.
The most important point is that in the process of rolling, it is a test of time control, after all, the place where you operate is an iron pot that is constantly heating, and the fire in the stove will not follow your ideas, if you fry for a long time, the tea will become bitter, and the hard work will be in vain! But if you don't have enough time, the water in the green sprouts is not completely fried, but if you hold it, it is easy to cause mildew.
Fortunately, Zhao Yunfang is not a novice, the tea drinks at home are all fried by her own hands, and she knows the mastery of the heat, and after frying for a few minutes, she directly moved the tea leaves that had been fried, including the iron pot, directly from the stove, and at this time there was only about one tea leaf the size of the bottom of the pot left in the iron pot.
Zhao Ziqiao saw Zhao Yunfang move the iron pot down, and was about to ask if it was fried, but after seeing Zhao Yunfang holding the iron pot with one hand and continuing to roll in the iron pot with the other hand, the question that Zhao Ziqiao wanted to ask was swallowed back by him.
Almost after the iron pot returned to normal temperature, Zhao Yunfang stopped, and when he saw Zhao Yunfang stop, Zhao Ziqiao immediately handed her the tea he had just poured back into the house.
Seeing Zhao Ziqiao so eye-catching, Zhao Yunfang raised her hand to wipe the sweat beads on her forehead, this time of frying, for her, physical strength is also a lot of consumption, but the sweat beads on her forehead are not all tired and tired, in the countryside, who can't work? The sweat beads on the forehead are hotter!
"Ziqiao, put the tea leaves in the iron pot, don't take them out, just dry them in the shade. After taking a sip of water, Zhao Yunfang began to command Zhao Ziqiao to come, such a simple trivial matter, leaving it to Zhao Ziqiao to do, it is no longer a problem.
For the things Zhao Yunfang ordered, Zhao Ziqiao immediately started to do it, these things are what he wants, naturally he can't let Zhao Yunfang do everything, of course he should do this kind of thing.
Find a bamboo basket at home, Zhao Ziqiao poured all the tea leaves fried in the iron pot into the bamboo basket, put the iron pot beside him, and Zhao Ziqiao prepared to spread the bamboo basket into a mountain of tea leaves.
However, with this move, Zhao Ziqiao found that these tea leaves were different, and he picked up a small handful of tea leaves from it and put it in front of him to take a closer look, Zhao Ziqiao's expression suddenly became a little strange.
Zhao Yunfang saw Zhao Ziqiao's strange look, and couldn't help asking, "What's the matter?"
Zhao Ziqiao shook his head, raised the tea in his hand and said to Zhao Yunfang: "Auntie, are your skills so good?"
"What?" Zhao Yunfang didn't understand what Zhao Ziqiao meant, and walked towards Zhao Ziqiao.
"Well, the tea leaves are fried like sticks by you. As he spoke, Zhao Ziqiao raised the tea in his hand for Zhao Yunfang to see.
The tea leaves in Zhao Ziqiao's hands are almost all rolled in the style of rice rolls, and the roots are clear and clear, as if they were rolled out by a machine.
Zhao Yunfang was also stunned when she saw this, she didn't know what was going on, it stands to reason that her technique was just to fry the tea leaves, as for the shape, most of them should be the kind of strange ones, and now this kind of stick-shaped tea leaves is also the first time she has fried them for most of her life.
"I don't know, but it's not broken. Zhao Yunfang didn't understand what was going on, but as long as the tea was not bad, she didn't care so much, anyway, it was what she drank at home, whether it was stick-like or twisted, it was the same.
Zhao Ziqiao nodded, and he didn't do much in-depth research, and besides, he couldn't find a place to dig deeper.
However, when the tea leaves were spread out in the bamboo basket, Zhao Ziqiao suddenly remembered the knowledge about roasted tea that he had seen in the book before, according to the orthodox steps, roasted tea reached this step, and the back should be shaped and fragrant, shaped, very simple is to make tea cakes or tea bricks and the like, of course, there are also tea leaves that do not need to be made into shapes, just like these tea leaves under his hands.
Wait, thinking of this, Zhao Ziqiao suddenly lowered his head and looked at the bamboo basket, and couldn't help laughing a little, now the tea leaves in the bamboo basket should have been completed, right?
The more I looked at it, the more I felt that it was like this, Zhao Ziqiao shook his head with a wry smile, the shape that the countryside did not pursue was actually made out so inadvertently?
Anyway, do you want to get that Titian out again?
But this thought, Zhao Ziqiao just thinks about it, making shapes, and can still get it out by mistake, Titian, this is something that no one has done at all, even if he wants to do it, it is estimated that no one will know.
Putting away his careful thoughts, Zhao Ziqiao put the laid tea leaves in a ventilated place and waited for them to dry.