Chapter 13 Huaxia Tea
Li Deming rambled a lot, and Lu Yu finally understood.
The so-called tea discussion is a way of communication and exchange between tea people.
Just like the "martial arts friends" between warriors, tea people also like to meet friends with tea.
In some cases, this can also be a challenge.
Just like now, it is obviously Zheng Xi who challenged Master Chen!
Zheng Xi will take out a domestic tea for Master Chen to taste, and if Master Chen can't tell the story of this tea after watching and tasting, then he will be considered a loser.
Of course, all this is when Master Chen admits that Zheng Xi's tea is a good tea.
If Zheng Xi's tea can't enter Master Chen's mouth at all, then Master Chen doesn't bother to talk about tea at all.
Just when Zheng Xi turned on the electric kettle on the tea table to boil the water, and was about to take out the prepared tea leaves......
Master Chen suddenly asked, "Brother Zheng, can you give me an explanation? They invited you here this time?"
"Them?"
Zheng Xi was slightly stunned, and then shook his head with a smile and said: "Although I have some friendship with Lao He, but now that I am no longer a tea person, what can I help? Don't worry, they didn't invite me, and I don't want to wade into this troubled water!"
Master Chen's face softened slightly when he heard this, "It's not good, Brother Zheng, don't blame me, it's just that I saw my brother in my teahouse at this time, so I have to guess." ”
Zheng Xi laughed and said: "Your Master Chen calls himself Mr. Mingxuan, but who is this Mingxuan Teahouse that is not yours?"
As he spoke, Zheng Xi took out a delicate tea caddy from his bag, took a glass tea lotus in his hand, poured out about five grams of tea leaves in the can, and handed it to Master Chen.
While Master Chen was watching the tea, everyone, including Lu Yu and those officials, stretched their necks......
The leaves of the tea leaves in the tea lotus are very long, fat, and blue-green, and there does not seem to be much fluff covering them.
Because of the distance, Lu Yu could only vaguely see that the tea shape seemed to be green tea, but such a long green tea was rare.
Zhang Yuan muttered: "Is it really the first time I've seen such a strong and fat leaf, green tea?"
Lu Yu smiled and didn't speak, he had seen such a leaf, but it wasn't green tea, and it was impossible for anyone to make it into green tea, right?
However, since it was the tea that Master Zheng took out, he didn't dare to comment rashly, maybe he guessed wrong.
After a while, Master Chen returned the tea lotus he had smelled to Zheng Xi, shook his head and said, "I haven't seen this tea, this is Huaxia tea?"
Zheng Xi smiled: "It's definitely Huaxia tea!"
After that, he opened the lid of the electric kettle, felt the temperature of the water, and then threw the large-leaf green tea in the tea lotus into the glass pot and poured water to make tea!
Seeing this, Lu Yu frowned slightly, the temperature of the water for making tea is so high?
At this time, Master Chen also seemed to see that something was wrong, and couldn't help laughing: "Brother Zheng brews tea with boiling water, does he want to squeeze out all the aroma of the tea? If so, this tea ......?"
After Zheng Xi finished flushing the water, he put down the kettle and said lightly: "Do you think I'm cheating? Then you're wrong, even if I use such a high temperature, the aroma of this tea can last up to five bubbles!"
Five bubbles?!
Not only the people around him, but even Master Chen couldn't help but change his complexion.
The expressiveness of green tea is not as strong as that of black tea, and it generally loses its original aroma after three brews.
And Zheng Xi's green tea can last up to five brews?!
Zheng Xi didn't say much, and directly poured the pale cyan tea soup through the strainer into the fair cup, and then poured a cup for himself and Master Chen.
With the distance of Lu Yu, it is impossible to smell the aroma of tea, let alone taste it with your own mouth.
But when he heard the "five bubbles", he couldn't help but smile and shook his head......
For Zheng Xi's words, Master Chen was also skeptical, picked up the teacup, smelled it, and then slowly drank it.
After drinking "this tea ......", Master Chen's eyes lit up, and he immediately took a second sip!
The wrinkles in the corners of Zheng Xi's eyes bloomed, and he said proudly: "What's the matter?"
Master Chen drank the tea in the cup, stared at the thick green leaves in the glass teapot, and nodded: "The aroma of this tea is strong but not astringent, elegant and fresh, although the aftertaste is slightly insufficient, but if it can be five bubbles of aftertaste, its quality can definitely compete with Dongying crown tea!"
Zheng Xi laughed: "I said that five bubbles are five bubbles!"
As he spoke, he boiled the water again and brought four more clean cups of justice from the table next to him.
After a moment of boiling, he directly brewed tea again!
The second brew of tea is still the same, and it is poured directly into the fair cup in about ten seconds.
Then comes the third bubble!
Still the same!
……
Under Master Chen's slightly surprised gaze, Zheng Xi successively placed five brews of tea on the table in turn.
The color and aroma of the tea soup of the fifth brew are only slightly worse than the first brew!
Seeing this, Master Chen's face changed slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "Brother Zheng, I didn't expect you to really find such a quality Huaxia tea?!"
Zheng Xilang laughed loudly: "Yes! Since I was disqualified as a tea man by those fools of the Huaxia Tea People Federation, I have traveled all over the country and searched for ten years! This is the Huaxia tea I found!"
After that, Zheng Xi looked at Master Chen with blazing eyes: "Old Chen, I think you should have the ability to discriminate, and you know the value of this tea!
Slap in the face......
Except for Lu Yu, everyone's faces changed!
After knowing Zheng Xi's past, everyone knows what kind of identity and status those who "fell into the well" for Zheng Xi!
Zheng Xi clearly wants to use this kind of tea to smoke the face of the entire Huaxia Tea People Federation, and even the World Tea People Federation!
Master Chen was silent for half a minute when he heard this, how could he not see what others could see?
It's just that when Zheng Xi was disqualified as a tea man, Master Chen also spoke out in support!
If he really admits here that Zheng Xi's tea is indeed a good tea, then he is the first to be slapped in the face!
After a moment of silence, Master Chen's eyes rolled, and he silently directly picked up the fifth brew of tea and poured himself a cup, took a small sip, and then slowly closed his eyes......
"It's not good...... Lu Yu frowned slightly when he saw this, and subconsciously muttered.
Hou Li's ears were sharp, and when he heard this, he immediately asked, "What's wrong?"
Lu Yu sighed and said: "The aftertaste of the fifth brew of tea is insufficient, if you taste it carefully, not only will there be no sweetness at all, but there will even be some astringent taste." ”
Hou Li's eyes widened: "You know this?"
Li Deming pouted and said, "He knows an egg! From such a distance, do you think he can drink tea in the air? Don't you see that even Master Chen can't taste it? !
Zhang Yuan also frowned and glanced at Lu Yu, obviously not believing what he said.
But at this moment, Master Chen suddenly opened his eyes, shook his head and sighed: "Brother Zheng, you can't do this tea!"
"Why not?!" Zheng Xi asked with an unconvinced face.
Master Chen smiled slightly, poured a cup of the fifth tea for Zheng Xi, and said lightly: "Why don't you taste it yourself?" ”