"Antiques can still be used to make tea?" Yan Xiwen was surprised.

"No, I mean, do you want to play with the tea set collection or just use it for your own drinking?" Qi Mingwei replied with a smile, these two must be clear first, so as not to be bragged and coaxed by the shopkeeper to forget his purpose and buy a bunch of things that he doesn't need.

Yan Xiwen thought about it, he really didn't have any interest in collecting antiques, and if he wanted to collect, he should also collect some jade and porcelain.

Yan Xiwen nodded and said, "I'll buy it and drink tea by myself, don't collect it, do you have any good places to introduce it, or recommend one to me directly?"

"Price is not an issue. After speaking, Yan Xiwen hurriedly added.

"Heh, let's not talk about money or not. Brother, let me ask you, do you know what kind of tea set is the best to use for drinking tea?" Qi Mingwei smiled, changed the topic and asked Yan Xiwen about his understanding of tea sets.

Yan Xiwen had only heard of the purple sand pot before, and he was not sure about it: "It should be purple sand, made of purple sand." ”

Qi Mingwei disagreed, and said softly: "Now the tea we use has porcelain, pottery, glass, and plastic, among which pottery mainly refers to the purple sand ware you said. ”

After a pause, Qi Mingwei picked up the teacup, blew on it, took a beautiful sip, and then said: "Huh, I personally prefer to drink flower tea, green tea and oolong tea. Xiao Yan, if you have 3 kinds of tea sets in front of you now, which are glass, purple sand and porcelain, do you know what kind of tea these 3 kinds of tea sets are used for?"

Yan Xi's text came to listen with relish, he had never been exposed to tea utensils before, and he didn't expect that there were so many doorways inside. Qi Mingwei threw him another question, he was a little in a hurry, and he didn't know how to answer, so he had to say embarrassedly: "Brother Qi, where do I know what kind of tea to drink and what material to use for tea sets, if I knew it, would I come to you to help choose a set?"

Qi Mingwei looked at him and smiled without saying a word.

Yan Xiwen urged: "Brother, don't sell it, tell me quickly." ”

Everyone has their own independent interests and hobbies, and it is not easy to catch a voluntary listener, or a high-quality listener of the same level or even higher than his own level, which satisfies a certain feeling in Qi Mingwei's heart.

After satisfying his appetite, Qi Mingwei coughed lightly twice, and said again: "I will choose pottery when brewing oolong, because from the perspective of tea tasting, porcelain and pottery are the best, with good heat preservation, and tea can obtain good color and fragrance, and the shape is beautiful, and it has the value of art appreciation." ”

Yan Xiwen snorted when he heard this, he couldn't appreciate the artistic value, and he couldn't understand what artistic appreciation value he could have when drinking tea, he bought a good tea set just to enjoy his appetite. Yan Xiwen felt that he could only find it from the carving or classical relics, or from the modern landscape scenery, perfect carving, classical architecture, and modern magnificent and beautiful landscapes are the things that really have artistic appreciation value in Yan Xiwen's heart.

Qi Mingwei didn't care about Yan Xiwen's faint snort, and continued: "It's best to use a purple sand tea set to drink oolong tea." After the purple sand tea set is bought, it should be placed in the pot, added a handful of coarse tea leaves, and boiled for half an hour, the purpose is to remove the wax and impurities on the surface of the teapot, so that it feels more comfortable. If you want to drink oolong tea, I suggest that you better use the purple sand tea set produced in Yixing. When brewing oolong tea, the water temperature must be high, above 95 °C, preferably freshly boiled water. Because if you use hot water to make oolong tea, you can quickly let the aroma of the tea waft out and make the color of the tea soup rich. Taste tea and tea, the color and fragrance are complete, and the shade and saltiness are the best. ”

Qi Mingwei took a sip and continued: "But to brew green tea, especially Biluochun and Yinzhen, I generally use a glass tea set, which can see the beauty of the light mist drifting, clarifying the turquoise and blossoming tea buds in the cup. As for enamel and plastic tea sets, although they are lightweight and durable, they are generally used temporarily to quench thirst. ”

Qi Mingwei said in a soft tone, the description was fascinating, and he even picked up the teacup and put it in front of his nose, closed his eyes, shook the teacup gently, and smelled the faint fragrance of tea, as if he could really see the green shoots floating in the air through the darkness.

Yan Xiwen listened a little attentively, and looked at Qi Mingwei with envy with a look of enjoyment.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm distracted, forgive me. After a while, Qi Mingwei woke up like a dream and opened his eyes to apologize to Yan Xiwen, but looking at the crow's feet around the corners of his eyes, how happy he was, how embarrassed he was.

Yan Xiwen is not good at interrupting the other party at this time, immersed in a certain atmosphere and being woken up by a basin of cold water, just like interrupting other people's enlightenment in the novel of cultivating immortals, it is like getting up gas, and it is the wake up gas that has not closed his eyes for three days and three nights, and he was called up by someone after lying down for less than 1 hour.

"It's okay, Brother Qi, keep going, I haven't finished yet. Is it enough to drink green tea with a glass tea set?" Yan Xiwen asked generously.

Qi Mingwei didn't continue to sell Guanzi, looked at Yan Xiwen and said with a smile: "There are two points to pay attention to when making green tea, the first is to use a glass without a lid to brew, and the second is to pay attention to the water temperature." The water temperature of brewing green tea should not be too high, about 80°C is fine. ”

After speaking, Qi Mingwei stopped talking and asked Yan Xiwen to think about why.

Yan Xiwen thought for a while, and didn't immediately ask, he knew that most of the green tea was picked before the rain in the valley or before the Qingming Festival, and this was still instilled in him when Wang Xiaoming gave tea to his father-in-law when he was in RFY Company. Since it is a young leaf, it must not be soaked at high temperature, otherwise it will be soaked, and the heat will not be emitted when you cover a lid, and it is easy to soak bad.

Yan Xiwen immediately said his thoughts, and Qi Mingwei praised: "Xiao Yan, you still have a little research on green tea." What you said is not wrong, the young leaves are afraid of high temperatures and are easy to brew the tea, if you choose a tea set with a lid, it is not easy to dissipate heat, and after a long time, the tea leaves are soaked, and the tea soup has become very turbid and very unsightly. ”

Taking a breath, Qi Mingwei sighed and continued: "And when drinking flower tea, it is best to use a gaiwan to brew, the effect is better." Why? Mainly to retain the aroma of tea. The water temperature of bubble tea can be slightly higher than that of brewing green tea, about 90 °C ~ 95 °C is better. After the water is brewed, the tea lid is closed, and then it is allowed to simmer for two or three minutes before drinking. ”

Yan Xiwen had already understood Lao Qi's intentions, and the other party used to introduce several tea brewing methods to tell him that there is no best tea set, only the most suitable tea set. To drink a particular type of tea, there may be tea utensils made of the best materials, but there are few universal ones.

Yan Xiwen asked: "Then if I want to buy a tea set, I have to see what kind of tea I drink first, Brother Qi, is that so?"

Qi Mingwei said with a teachable expression: "Yes, that's what it means." There is no kind of tea set that makes all tea leaves the best, you tell me what kind of tea you usually drink, and I can decide what kind of tea set to take you to buy. ”

Yan Xiwen thought about the tea he had drunk before, Biluochun, Tieguanyin, wild tea, Da Hong Pao, of course, the Da Hong Pao he bought was so bad to drink, it was still a gift of 400 yuan a pound of Tieguanyin, it must be fake. Tieguanyin Yan Xiwen has liked to drink since high school, but it did not prevent him from being interested in the other party's tea after listening to Qi Mingwei's chatter for a long time. Biluochun was bought online after Yan Xiwen picked up the black card, and it feels good to drink it occasionally at home.

After being silent for a while, Yan Xiwen decided to buy a set of all the materials and put them away, just prepared. At the moment, he said to Qi Mingwei: "Brother Qi, I used to only drink green tea, but maybe I will drink other kinds of tea in the future, just buy a set of porcelain, pottery and glass." ”