Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Possible Truth

The soup spring is in the corner of the backyard of the house, and there are indoor soup springs and open-air soup springs. Every grass and tree is ingenious, and it can be seen that the owner of this house is a master who will enjoy it.

Jiang Chengzi chose a semi-open-air room as the soup pool, stretched out his hand to test the water temperature, then turned around and took off his clothes in the dressing room, and slowly walked into the soup spring with a collar lining. In Shuzhong in spring and March, even if the sun is warm and warm, it is still cold in a thin shirt, Jiang Chengzi walked into the soup spring, the warmth of the soup spring wrapped her, the water flow was stirred, and the mist was brought up all around. Jiang Chengzi looked up at the top of his head, above which was a corner of the eaves of Feiyong, hung with copper wind chimes, swaying slightly in the wind, making a slight jingling sound, and in the distance was the high blue sky, and the white clouds were floating in wisps.

Jiang Chengzi felt that this life was extremely comfortable, and Nianqing came with all the money, and there was food in the tray in her hand, because she couldn't see what it was because the lid was covered.

Nianqing lifted her skirt, squatted on the edge of the soup pool, put down the tray on the small stone table by the pool, and said, "Girl, please use pastries." ”

Jiang Chengzi had just eaten for a short time, and she didn't feel hungry, and when she thought of Li Tai's figure, she was under a lot of pressure, so she said, "You put it aside first." ”

"Yes. Nian Qing bowed and retreated.

Jiang Chengzi stretched his limbs and rejuvenated his muscles and bones in the soup spring, only to feel that his limbs were extremely comfortable. She looked around again, and the relief decorations on the walls, the wind chimes on the eaves, and the shape of the soup pool, and the tables and chairs on the edge of the soup pool were all very fond of her.

No, it should be said that this house is my favorite from the location to the layout, from the murals to the arrangement of plants and trees, from the color to the style of furniture.

What kind of person is the owner of this house? Build such an atmospheric and exquisite house, and the most important thing is to have the same aesthetic as yourself. Of course, what made Jiang Chengzi most curious was the architectural style of this house. Although this house is also in the classical gardens of traditional Chinese. No matter what angle you look at, it is a beautiful Chinese landscape painting, and every place will achieve the charm of Chinese landscape painting to the extreme. However, the style of the house garden is very different from the architectural style of the early Tang Dynasty, and the decoration is not customary in the Tang Dynasty.

At first, Jiang Chengzi first entered this house to see the terrain and arrange people. It's all about the house from a military point of view. Therefore, although she thinks that this house is extremely beautiful, she must have spent a lot of silver in vain. sighed that this master must be arrested for corruption, but he didn't find anything wrong with this house.

For her, this house is a model of ancient gardens, which can catch up with the north and south gardens she has ever seen. It is even as large as the Chengde Summer Resort.

But at this moment. She quieted down in this soup pool, looked around, recalled the landscape pattern and some subtle decorations she saw when she came to this house, and suddenly realized that this was not the early Tang Dynasty, or even the garden style of the Tang and Song dynasties, it should be the style of the Ming and Qing dynasties, which is closer to the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

Because Jiang Chengzi is a person from the twenty-first century, so. As long as it's not a reinforced concrete building, for her. All are classical buildings. It was also for this reason that she did not notice the strangeness of this garden at first.

The style of the middle and late Qing Dynasty!

Jiang Chengzi judged this affirmative answer based on his understanding of garden knowledge. She was both delighted and shocked.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the architecture of the mid-to-late Qing Dynasty appeared! This shows that either the owner of this house has traveled through time and space like himself, or the designer of this house is a time-traveler. This traverser was at least after the mid-to-late Qing Dynasty.

If you can find this person, orβ€”

Jiang Chengzi thought of this, extremely excited, and had a feeling of meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign land!

"Girl, do you want juice or tea?" Nianqing opened the floor-to-ceiling door of the soup spring pool, knelt in front of the floor-to-ceiling door, and asked loudly.

Jiang Chengzi was stunned for a moment, searched his memory, and it seemed that history did not say that the Tang Dynasty people began to drink juice, and it was true that there was fruit wine.

"What juice?" Jiang Chengzi asked.

"At this time, there is only ringo juice and pear juice. Nian Qing replied.

Jiang Chengzi knows that Ringo is also known as a bonus, commonly known as a small apple. She had seen her in the mountains when she was in the wild. Tiny apples, brightly colored, sweet and juicy. A glass of this juice is good, but the pear blossoms and peach blossoms outside the house are blooming warmly, and the ringo is also ripe in late autumn, where do the ringo and pears come from this season?

"Are there ringo and pears in this season?" Jiang Chengzi was very puzzled

Nian Qing nodded and said, "Naturally, it's not new, Lin Ye and pears were stored last year." ”

"I see. Jiang Chengzi nodded, and was very puzzled about how the ancient people used to store fruits to keep them fresh. She used to only pay attention to Li Ke, and read a lot about the affairs of the court, and what she understood was the struggle of the early Tang dynasty and the struggle of various families. Therefore, for this period of history, she has always looked at the official history. As for the chronicles of customs, she rarely reads them, so she doesn't know how the people of the Tang Dynasty should eat and play.

"Hmm. The juice of ringo and pear is full and easy to store. Childe likes it very much, so he prepares a lot of them every year. Nian Qing replied slowly, holding up a plate of ringo and pears for Jiang Chengzi to see. Although there was a mist of water from a distance, Jiang Chengzi had excellent eyesight, and he could still see that it was indeed Lin Ye and the local Fengshui pear, which looked bad, but the water was extremely sufficient. And it should be stored very well, and the ringo and pears are alive.

"Your son really enjoys it, it's tiring to travel, and you can bring good things. Jiang Chengzi sighed, and suddenly felt that something was wrong. Yang Chen and Li Tai are both in Chang'an, and they have not stayed in Yizhou before. This time, the reason why the two of them came here was because they were kidnapped by human teeth. Ah Nian and the guards, whether Nian Qing or Nianqing, who came here later, should have come to rescue these two people, how could they bring these luxury goods to come here?

There must be a lie among them!

Jiang Chengzi has always been good at analysis, and after thinking about it for a while, she realized that something was wrong, and then looked at Na Nianqing, her expression froze, and her face was a little unnatural.

Jiang Chengzi reasoned and looked at Nianqing's performance, and immediately judged that she was eccentric. But whether to take her down immediately, or to interrogate. She hesitated.

Just as she hesitated. Nian Qing's expression had returned to normal, and she asked in a low voice, "Girl, do you want juice?"

"Don't worry. Jiang Chengzi waved his hand. He moved his body and swam back and forth in the hot spring before saying, "Tell me how tea is made." ”

"Hui Yu girl, it is specially made by the son. It's not about making tea, so I don't know if the girl likes it. Nian Qing replied slowly.

"It's not boiling tea, how is that done?" Jiang Chengzi asked. Although she rarely reads the Tang Dynasty Chronicles. But she is a passionate tea lover, so she has read a lot of materials related to tea culture and history. She knew that before Lu Yu's "Book of Tea", such as the current Tang Dynasty. When it comes to tea, it is not said "drinking tea", but "eating tea". At that time, tea was for eating, not for drinking. At that time, the tea processing technology and storage technology were very poor. Basically, they are made into tea cakes. When you need to "eat tea". Take a small piece of tea cake and grind it into powder, boil water and put it into tea powder, boil it into a paste, put various seasonings such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, mustard and so on according to personal taste, and pay attention to people will also put on the pigments extracted from plants, so that the tea in the tea bowl has a visual beauty. Much like modern ice cream.

Basically, after the tea is boiled, there is a small bowl for each person. Top with spices and serve with pastries. On the picturesque scenery, eat one bite at a time, and the little maid next to her adds tea to her master without a trace.

This is the highest level of eating tea, and it is also the most popular afternoon tea method for aristocrats before the emergence of tea-making fashion. Of course, there were sencha and boiled tea later, but that's another story. However, as far as Jiang Chengzi knew, in the early Tang Dynasty, there was basically only the kind of tea making method she said. But Nianqing actually said that it wasn't boiling tea, but sencha and cooking tea?

"It's tea. Nian Qing replied.

Jiang Chengzi instantly felt that there was a muffled thunder rolling overhead. If you either meet your peers, or the previous history books are nonsense.

"How to make tea?" Jiang Chengzi asked in a low voice.

Nianqing nodded very politely before saying: "The tea is specially made by my son-in-law, boil the water to boil, brew the tea, filter the first cup, brew it again, and drink the tea." ”

Nianqing said it very simply, but this is basically a modern way to make tea. Moreover, the tea leaves in the tea jar that Nian Qing picked up at this time are like green tea fried with modern technology. Although it seems that the stir-frying technique is very rough, it has begun to show signs of green tea.

Could it be that Yang Chen is not just Li Ke, but also Nima is a traverser?

If so-

Jiang Chengzi only felt that the shock of the past few days was too much, and she almost didn't know what kind of time and space she was in.

"Girl, do you want juice or tea?" Nian Qing returned to the question.

"Tea. Jiang Chengzi replied, only to feel that there seemed to be too many unreasonable places along the way, everything was consistent with his own cognition, but it was very different.

At this time, Jiang Chengzi only felt confused, and couldn't help patting his forehead, reaching out to open the cover of the dim sum next to him. As soon as I opened it, I was dumbfounded when I saw the pastry. She almost suspected that what she had been doing these days was all a dream, and at the moment she was soaking in the hot spring in Jiang Chengyou's mid-level villa, this box was a top cookie sent by Jiang Chengyou's secretary and a freshly baked egg tart from the handsome chef in Jiang Chengyou's private kitchen.

That's right, on the tray was a small plate of cookies and three tarts.

I'll go, if it's not Lao Tzu's dream, there are definitely people in this world. Jiang Chengzi was very surprised by this cognition, and at the same time, he also felt that there were 10,000 divine beasts roaring in his heart.

"Girl, the plum blossom cakes and cakes are taught by my son-in-law. The maid has done it a few times, but the technique is not as authentic as my son-in-law. Nian Qing saw that she had lifted the lid, and then introduced it aloud.

"You said Yang Gongzi taught you?" Jiang Chengzi asked, carefully watching Nian Qing's expression, wanting to observe from her expression whether this woman was lying.

Nian Qing replied very firmly: "Yes." In his spare time, my son-in-law likes to play with flowers and plants, and eat. The food he fiddles with is a rarity that does not exist in the world. ”

"A curiosity indeed. Jiang Chengzi looked at the cookie and muttered to himself, thinking that the classmate Li Ke he met might be a time-traveler from the same period as him, and he felt an indescribable joy in his heart. If it weren't for the situation, she was afraid that she would jump out and pour out a "fellow villager sees a fellow countryman, tears in her eyes" to express the excitement of "meeting old acquaintances in a foreign country".

However, what she is more curious about is that if Li Ke is a traverser, then he must know the tragic fate of Li Ke in history. So, after knowing the fate of Li Ke, how will this person turn things around?

Jiang Chengzi's thoughts were flying, but Nian Qing had already made tea, and carefully brought the thin white porcelain cup held by the bamboo to the small table in front of Jiang Chengzi and put it on the small table. The craftsmanship of the white porcelain cup is very good, and it seems that he has also put a lot of effort into this vessel. Although the tea in the white porcelain cup is not top-notch, the soup color is quite clear, and the original fragrance of the tea is tangy. This should be the green tea produced by the tea trees unique to the Sichuan region, and it should be the tea of the Ming Dynasty.

"This isn't new tea, right?" Jiang Chengzi looked at it and wanted to drink it, but he didn't mean to drink it. Now she still doesn't know whether this Nianqing is friend or foe, and how deep the water is. And she doesn't know her surroundings well, so she can't act rashly.

"The girl has good eyesight. This tea is last year's pre-Ming tea, specially made by the child, and stored in a porcelain jar. Nian Qing replied.

Jiang Chengzi felt that these words were simply insulting to IQ. At this time, the tea leaves have just been drawn from the buds, and even if they can be picked, the process of making real tea is much more complicated. And even if the process is in place, it may not be possible to make tea.

She didn't speak, and Nianqing probably felt that this was inappropriate, so she lowered her eyebrows and lowered her head, and apologized repeatedly: "It's the maid who spoke without consideration, please don't worry about the girl." ”

Jiang Chengzi just waved his hand and said, "You don't have to be so honest, speaking of which, you are older than me, and I will call you sister." ”

"The girl tormented her servant. The servant came from a humble background, how dare she compare with the girl. Nian Qing replied in horror.

Jiang Chengzi ignored it, and only thought about how to test this Nianqing. The two of them fell silent, surrounded only by the crisp and long jingle of wind chimes blowing in the wind.

"Girl, if you don't use it while it's hot, it won't taste good when it's cold. Nian Qing finally couldn't hold back her silence and answered.

Jiang Chengzi let out an "oh" and said casually: "Since you are the son's personal servant, the son suffered a catastrophe this time, and you brought a lot of things." Childe is really a person who can enjoy it. ”

As soon as she said this, Nianqing's expression froze, and she immediately replied: "Back to the girl, the son is quite good at eating." Servant to tell the truth, although I am Childe's personal servant, I left Childe three years ago and did not serve by his side. ”

"Oh, then how are you in Yizhou?" Jiang Chengzi's words were aggressive at this moment, and the sharp stone he had touched in the water earlier was already in his hand.

Nianqing's expression did not change, she only pursed her lips and said, "The maid came to Yizhou three years ago to find tea for the son, so the maid has been in Yizhou. ”

"I see. I've always wondered why I brought so many good things with me when I was always in Chang'an, and this time I wasn't traveling. Jiang Chengzi suddenly realized, but he did not dispel his doubts about this Nianqing in his heart. (To be continued......)