Chapter 284: The Six Gentlemen of the Tea Ceremony (I)

The words of Li Xiaobao, Wu Di and others just now naturally sounded Matsuda Keio clearly.

Seeing Lu Yu ask at this moment, the sanitary beard on his mouth moved slightly, and then nodded and said, "Very good! I hope you Huaxia people are the ones who say it!"

Lu Yu laughed: "We Chinese people have always spoken loudly, but you Dongying people are used to going back on your word!"

Keio Matsuda snorted coldly, turned his head and explained to Kamiyagawa beside him, then took a step and sat cross-legged on the ground.

"Mr. Lu Yu, the tea ceremony is not as good as the tongue, we can start. ”

Lu Yu lifted the corners of his mouth and sat opposite Keio Matsuda.

Although Matsuda Keio is arrogant, he is also very religious about tea, and Lu Yu dares to compete with such a big bet, which is enough to attract his great attention. So at this time, there is absolutely no slackness in my heart.

After a moment of silence, Keio Matsuda asked, "The tea ceremony is complicated, Mr. Lu doesn't know which aspect to compete in?"

Lu Yu pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "At this moment, if there is a handful of tea in the autumn mountains and bright moons, it is bound to increase the elegance of the wind steeply...... Why don't you and I each make a pot of black tea? ”

Brewing black tea?!

Matsuda Keio was slightly stunned, and the essence in his eyes flickered.

Dongying tea people are very proficient in green tea, especially matcha, but the way of black tea is rare.

And not only Dongying, but even in the world, even in the United Kingdom, where black tea is the most popular, there is no way to respond to black tea.

The so-called tea ceremony is the way of tea.

On top of the specific performance, it can be expressed by words, by actions, and by taste...... and so on.

As for Lu Yu's proposal just now, brewing a pot of tea is to express the tea style and tea rhyme with the technique of brewing tea, and show the way of tea between the pure water of fragrant tea.

Of course, since it is a tea ceremony, it is not just a matter of making tea with actions, and the "Tao" contained in each step also needs to be explained.

Keio Matsuda was good at black tea, and he also thought about inventing a tea ceremony based on black tea.

But the formation of a tea ceremony was by no means an overnight thing, and he hesitated.

Lu Yu smiled slightly: "Mr. Matsuda, do you think it's inappropriate?"

"Hmph, what's wrong!" Matsuda Keio snorted coldly under Lu Yu's gaze, and said, "I've been studying black tea for so many years, I don't believe that I will lose to you Huaxia people?" Since you have brought humiliation on yourself, then I will let you see my tea ceremony!"

Lu Yu lifted the corners of his mouth and nodded: "Okay! Then please ask Mr. Matsuda to start preparing! If there is no tea set......

Keio Matsuda waved his hand and said proudly: "How can a tea man not have a tea set by his side?

As he spoke, he pulled out a rectangular box directly from his package.

After opening the box, everyone found that it contained a complete set of portable porcelain tea sets, and even a gas stove specially used for heating fires.

This set of porcelain tea sets is very exquisite, whether it is the delicacy of the porcelain or the fine brushwork depicted on it, it is extremely exquisite, and it is a rare and valuable product at a glance.

Tea people are opposite to tea all day long, and they are naturally very particular about tea utensils.

Lu Yu also nodded and said sincerely: "Good tea set." ”

Keio Matsuda said proudly: "This is just a set of tea sets that I brought with me when I went out to find tea. ”

Lu Yu smiled and shook his head, "It's a pity that although the tea set is good, it is too ordinary." And no matter how good the tea set is, if it doesn't understand the application, it doesn't make any sense at all. ”

Hearing this, Keio Matsuda said angrily: "Arrogant! Take out your tea set and take a look!"

Lu Yu laughed: "That's what I mean!"

After that, he looked left and right, pointed to a big stone under the tree not far away, and said, "Brother Benhu, please bring that stone here." ”

Zhao Benhu immediately nodded: "Okay! You wait!"

The weight of this stone is really not light, but fortunately, Zhao Benhu's strength is really not small, and he moved the stone in front of Lu Yu after dividing it by two.

The top of the boulder is relatively flat, and the size is just right, and it can be used as a tea table in front of Lu Yu.

Lu Yu wanted to come with some clean water to wash the dust on the surface of the boulder, and then he turned around and opened his package and took out the contents in the same way.

He first took out a small bamboo tube, and all kinds of bamboo sticks were inserted upside down in the bamboo tube.

These are all made by Lu Yu when he was idle in Bincheng, including bamboo small tweezers, small spoons and other bamboo products. Although it was not exquisitely made, he knew that these things should be almost unique in the current world!

Unexpectedly, after Matsuda Keio saw it, he immediately laughed: "Lu Yu! Don't tell me that this is your so-called tea set! It's just as ridiculous and naΓ―ve as a child's house!" Hahaha......

Lu Yu's movements paused slightly, and he smiled lightly: "What you said is right, this is my tea ceremony." And these things that you disdain are my six gentlemen of the tea ceremony. ”

Six gentlemen?

Keio Matsuda was slightly stunned.

The rest of the people also looked at the small bamboo tube suspiciously, originally they and Matsuda Keio thought about it similarly, and felt that the bamboo tube that Lu Yu took out was really a little shabby. But he didn't expect Lu Yu to give the things in the bamboo tube such an elegant name.

Seeing this, Lu Yu simply stopped his movements and took out the things in the bamboo tube one by one.

"Since everyone has doubts, then I will introduce these six gentlemen to you. ”

As he spoke, he picked up the tip of the small spoon-shaped utensil and said, "This name is called a teaspoon, also known as a tea pluck, a tea chop." ”

"Its main use is to dig up the brewed tea, the tea leaves in the pot. The tea leaves can also be dialed into the pot from the tea lotus, so it is also called a tea dial. ”

"After the tea is brewed, it is often tightly stuffed with the teapot, and the mouth of the teapot is not large, so it is not convenient and hygienic to dig out the tea leaves by hand, so this teaspoon is used. ”

"Of course, you can also call it a tea residue spoon, because after all, it is used to remove tea residues. ”

Everyone nodded suddenly when they heard this, although this kind of tool is similar in this world, it is definitely not as clear as Lu Yu's division of labor, and no one even gave it this name.

Putting down the teaspoon, Lu Yu picked up another utensil that looked like a spoon but looked more straight.

This is the tea rule, can also be called a tea spoon according to its image, for the purpose of holding tea into the pot, measuring the amount of tea, to ensure that the appropriate amount of tea. ”

Putting down the tea, Lu Yu picked up the bamboo tweezers, or the tong, and said: "This is called a tea clip, or a tea chopstick, the function of the tea clip is the same as that of the tea rule and the teaspoon, which can be used to carry the tea residue out of the pot, or to carry the tea into the pot, but it is usually used to wash the cup with the teacup, which can be scald-proof and more hygienic." ”

Saying that, Lu Yu glanced at the tea set in front of Keio Matsuda, and said with a smile: "Mr. Matsuda's tea ceremony utensils don't seem to have this kind of tea clip, doesn't Mr. Matsuda always use his hands to clean the teacups?"