Chapter 42: A Talent for Tea Tasting?

Lin Yuan was unmoved, still looking at me seriously, "Dispel your thoughts, I won't take you as an apprentice." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

I sighed slightly in my heart, could it be that his master-apprentice relationship had hurt him?

"Promise me. He insisted.

"I promise you, I won't call you Master, but I will respect you as a Master, and I will never betray you. "I don't know why I said such an oath, I just feel that the person in front of me is very insecure, he may have been seriously hurt, I must not make him sad, I must make him feel safe.

"Whatever you want. His tone didn't seem very happy, but at least he didn't say anything more.

I think maybe I've brought back bad memories of him.

There must be something about me that resembles something in his memory that reminds him again and again, and perhaps, just as he is to me, I can only recall my past through him.

We miss each other's past, and that's why I'm here, and maybe the only reason he's here for me.

We all know it, but we don't talk about it.

Sometimes I think it's actually painful for us to be together. Because every time he sees me, he is in a trance, he is sad, and I know that he is reminded of the painful past. And I, too, saw his gentle appearance, saw him laugh, saw him make tea, heard his piano sound...... Everything reminds me of that person, the person who can't be loved, who has missed out, and I am also miserable.

But we will still be unable to extricate ourselves from meeting again and again, painful again and again, but willing to eat. This brings me to one word: drink to quench your thirst.

Sometimes people are like this, knowing that they can't go back, remembering the past can only make themselves miserable, but we still can't review and recall it over and over again, and want to absorb a little warmth from it, thinking that the memories will not fade, but in this way, the wound becomes more difficult to heal.

……

He stopped talking about anything else and got to business.

"Do you know why I brought you for tea?"

I shook my head.

"Because in my opinion, playing the piano is as elegant an art as drinking tea. If ordinary people don't know how to taste tea carefully, and only know how to drink it, they will never know the true charm of tea, and in this way, it is impossible to make good tea......"

I listened carefully, nodding my head from time to time.

"Come, drink tea. He took one of the cups in both hands and handed it to me.

I also stretched out my hands and respectfully took it, "Thank you." ”

I didn't hurry to follow the habit I had developed before, look at the color, smell the fragrance, and then sip it gently in three sips, each sipping was a fine sip.

"What's the product?"

"It's the best Tieguanyin, if I'm not mistaken, it's a new tea that has just been picked this year, and," I paused, "and there should be plenty of chrysanthemums around the tea trees." ”

He was a little surprised: "The previous ones are all right, but you have only drunk this kind of tea once, how did you guess that there are chrysanthemums around the tea tree?"

I smiled slightly, "Tieguanyin is a treasure of tea, especially such a good tea I have not drunk many times, but the taste of the same kind of tea, even if there are regional differences, there should not be a completely different taste." And in this cup of tea, there is an obvious chrysanthemum fragrance, this should not be the taste of Tieguanyin itself, you did not add chrysanthemums when you made tea, and the water is the spring of Qingqing, then it should be the reason for tea. I have read in the book "Tea Affairs" that the taste of some tea will be mixed with other flavors due to the long-term cultivation of the surrounding plants, and some tea farmers even seek different flavors of tea from this, which is more delicious than ordinary tea, but more refreshing than flower tea. So think about it. ”

"You're right, Hanyu. There was obvious joy on his face, "I have seen such a statement in similar books, but the taste of chrysanthemums in this tea is not very strong, I have tasted all kinds of teas, and I can't taste the taste, do you think the taste of chrysanthemums in it is obvious?"

As he spoke, he also picked up a cup of tea and finally shook his head.

"Maybe I'm wrong. I said.

"No, Hanyu, there are indeed chrysanthemums around this tea tree, but it's just a little farther away. There should be a taste of chrysanthemum in it, but it depends on whether the person who tastes it can taste it. He continued to say happily, "I can taste a lot of flavors that others can't taste, and you can actually taste the flavors that I can't taste, you have a very keen sense of taste, if you learn tea well, you should be a master of tea tasting." ”

"But what's the use?" Seeing him so happy, I also became happy, in fact, this ability was practiced when I used to learn to taste tea with my father and Bowen, and my father affirmed me because of this, but I don't think there is anything great, drinking tea, I can understand the elegance by myself, and it can't bring me anything else.

He smiled and shook his head and said, "What we need to learn to play the qin is just the tranquility and elegance of tasting tea, and there are no other more demanding requirements." However, your unique sensitivity to tea is enough to make you dominant in the tea industry. Because that means you can accurately taste the tea, observe it to distinguish between good and bad tea, and it will be easier for you to spot subtle differences, speculate on the preferences of guests for tea, and even lead the direction of tea. ”

"Really?" I was amazed.

"That's right," he affirmed, smiling, "but that's not enough, you have to taste all the world's famous teas, and even dabble in all kinds of books about tea, in order to broaden your knowledge of tea." Then carefully observe, comprehend, summarize, and cultivate feelings, if you can do all this, then your attainments in the tea industry are unmatched, because they may be able to work harder than you, but they cannot have the same sensitive taste as you. ”

"Really?" I was overwhelmed by my astonishment, and it turned out that there was something else to be done about me.

"Can't take it?" he looked at me and chuckled.

"But why do you know?"

"I haven't had anything else to do in the past few years, except to play music, just drink tea, or read a book," he sighed as if nothing else, "I know what others don't know, and I have cultivated abilities that others don't have, but in fact, it's just because I don't have anything else to do like others." ”

"Far from it," he smiled a little self-deprecatingly, "In short, I'm not an unknown person in the tea tasting area, you can trust my judgment." ”

I looked at him more and more, and I couldn't come back to my senses for a long time.

"What's wrong?" he amused, "haven't reacted yet?"

Only then did I come back to my senses and look at him very doggedly, "I have met a master." ”

When he heard this, he laughed out loud, "I look bad and surprise you so much? Or is reputation important?"

"No," I shook my head firmly, "to be able to study unswervingly, not for fame and fortune, and devote myself to research, for many years, this is the most rare and respectable thing." ”

"Really?" he didn't seem to expect me to say that, and was stunned for a moment, "if it's just to pass the loneliness, or to miss someone?"