As soon as the words fell, a few maids immediately walked up, and greeted everyone slightly, and a maid whispered: "My young lady is dressing up, I'm afraid it will be a while to come out, please drink some tea and soup first, eat some snacks, and wait for you to eat and drink enough, and it will be better to pass the test later, right?"

Everyone listened to her soft tone and was born delicate, and a few sons who wanted to take the opportunity to laugh stopped moving for some reason.

After speaking, the maid bowed and saluted, and several maids behind her had already come out, holding a melon and fruit plate, with oranges, bayberry, loquat, strawberries, pipa, brown plum and some unknown melons and fruits nowadays, which were placed on the table in front of everyone, and a few servants brought a few plates of Wuzhen sister-in-law cakes, Wuzhen silk cotton, plum plums, lotus leaf steamed pork, Bazhen cakes, Yangmiao snow vegetables, Pujiang calligraphy and painting Zhu Wanchang pastry Yuan green bean pastry dim sum.

The man glanced at it a few times, nodded, and drank randomly: "Serve tea and soup to your sons?"

The so-called tea soup is not the tea soup that people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang like to drink, but the tea soup according to the configuration of Changde, this tea soup is generally made of rice, peanuts, sesame, mung beans, salt, tea, litsea cubeba, ginger, etc. as raw materials, mashed into a paste with a bowl, boiled with water and evenly, plus fried rice, fragrant and delicious. When making zuò tea, the beater sits down, holds a pottery bowl between his legs, grabs a handful of green tea and puts it into the bowl, holds a half-meter-long stick, and frequently pounds and rotates. While beating, keep adding sesame seeds, peanut kernels, and herbs (vanilla, goldenrod, fragrant leaves, vine grass, etc.) to the bowl. When the contents of the bowl are mashed into a pulp, the tea is ready. Then, use a scoop to sift the filtered tea, put it into a copper kettle, add water to boil, and the fragrance is full for a while. Tasting tea, its flavor is extraordinarily strong and long. This tea doesn't taste very good, but it has a benefit, it has a detoxifying effect, it can be used for both edible and medicinal purposes, it can quench thirst, and it can satisfy hunger. It's the perfect thing for a banquet like this.

It is said that during the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei and Cao Cao were at war, because of the long drought and heat, resulting in the epidemic of plague, Liu Bei's army ate the tea made by the locals, cured the epidemic and won the battle. Since then, this kind of tea soup has become a popular drink in the army, but this kind of tea soup is only limited to the army, or the locals, these scholars, sons, or like the West Lake Longjing in Zhejiang, the soup is green and clear, the taste is sweet and mellow, and there is the reputation of "not painting but better than appreciating painting, not poetry but better than chanting", such tea soup is more suitable for the identity of literati.

Most of the people on the field took a sip, and they were not used to this mellow taste, so they quickly put it down, but Li Hai took a sip of tea lightly from the cup, tried the taste, first nodded, then shook his head, or raised his head to drink the tea soup in the cup, squinted at the field, and saw that no one stepped forward to fill himself, and was a little annoyed.

He is Taojiang, Hunan, according to the local tea soup, in this cup of tea soup, just put it into a bowl and crush it, then brew it with boiled water, and then put some sugar. After the tea is made, it is thick and sticky, the color is light coffee, the aroma is tangy, and the entrance is smooth and soft, sweet. Not like this tea soup, the tea material is put too much, the taste is mellow, but it is inevitably too miscellaneous, moreover, Hunan people are enthusiastic, whenever there are guests visiting, the hospitable host will handle the bamboo spoon or a wooden spoon, bar da da, serve a big bowl to the guest, and hand it to the guest respectfully. The fragrant heat makes the guests drool. Guests who don't understand the rules of the mountains in the mountains can't wait to drink the first bowl of tea. However, as soon as the guest has drunk a little, the sharp-eyed hostess will pick up a spoon and refill it for you. Therefore, the drink is endless. According to local customs, if you don't want to drink the bowl in your hand after drinking it, then you don't drink the bowl of tea in your hand again, let it stay in the bowl, and when you leave the master's house, drink it in one go, and then take your leave. Now he just drank a cup, and when he didn't see anyone to add tea, he couldn't help but be a little unhappy, and said in his heart: "They all say that people from big families are stingy, but when I see it today, I really don't!"

After drinking tea soup and eating melon and fruit snacks, no one was shouting, each talking to each other, and the bamboo forest seemed lively for a while.

I don't know how long it took, but I heard a crisp gong and drum sound, the sound became more and more harsh in the slightly empty small bamboo forest, everyone came back from the conversation, and looked up, but saw the original middle-aged man, holding a green gong in one hand, holding a mallet in the other, walked on the money, and said loudly to everyone: "You have come from afar, the hospitality is not good, and please include your sons?"

Li Hai did not eat enough after eating a bowl of tea, and saw that there were not many melons and fruits on the table, but there were no Hunan withered shell peanuts, burnt fried sweet potato chips, rolling strong sweet melon seeds, crispy Qiaoguo slices and purple foreign nests...... They are all homemade, appetizing and delicious green foods. I was already dissatisfied, if it weren't for the scruples that this was someone's territory, it would have erupted early in the morning, and I said angrily at this time: "It's not thoughtful, it's thoughtful, I've already eaten this tea soup, melon and fruit snacks, and it's not too early to see that it's not early, so it's better for your young lady to come out early, so that I can wait to hug the beauty early?"

When the middle-aged man heard this, he was not annoyed, and hugged his fist at Li Hai, and said: "What Li Gongzi said is very true, my young lady said, it is a great joy in life for you sons to come here today, but you can't choose a husband and a son-in-law, therefore, this fourth level is divided into two levels, the first level is here, there is a villain to test the sons of the school first, so as to facilitate the selection of really talented sons, into my young lady's small building!"

When Shen Gongzi heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and said in his heart: "If you look at other things, I may not dare to say first, but looking at the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs, I am much higher than everyone else, and there is no doubt that this Miss Li belongs to me?" Thinking of this, he stood up at the moment, hugged his fist at the middle-aged man, and said: "The most important thing for a daughter's family in her life is to find a man she likes, Sister Yan'er does this, it is also human nature, and we will be tested?"

Shen Gongzi is a first-class talent in Hangzhou, and most of the many sons on the field think that he is the first, and when they heard this, they were echoed.

Du Wen snorted coldly, Shen Gongzi's hand not only established a good image of his beautiful son, but also took the opportunity to sell a good favor to the Li family, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, he himself just reacted slowly, and was preempted by Shen Gongzi, and he couldn't help but be a little unhappy.

The middle-aged man hurriedly bowed his hand and said, "It's rare that Shen Gongzi is so enlightened, I thank my young lady first?"

Li Hai had been holding back his dissatisfaction before, but now he listened to the person chatting with Shen Gongzi for a long time, and became more and more dissatisfied, snorted coldly, and said: "Since Miss Li has this meaning, everyone obeys the order, what are you instigating, or should you take out your young lady's test questions earlier?"

The middle-aged man smiled indifferently, nodded and said, "What Li Gongzi said is extremely true, the villain is ready!"

When everyone heard about it, they didn't dare to be careless. Miss Li's name, identity, and status are all here, if she didn't want to come and get Chenglong's quick son-in-law to do it, she wouldn't have to drink this unpalatable tea soup here, so everyone stretched their necks and listened, for fear of missing the test questions?"

The middle-aged man said: "My young lady said, today let all the sons come to this bamboo forest in addition to appreciating the bamboo forest, calligraphy master Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy, the greater purpose is to please "bamboo, book" as the title of a poem, according to the rules of the competition, can sing poetry, you can enter my young lady's small building, accept the young lady's personal test, the last person to enter the customs, is my Li family's dragon fast son-in-law!"

Most of the people on the field are readers who recite the Four Books and Five Classics, and many of them still regard themselves as talented people, making some poems, which is not very difficult.

When Shen Gongzi heard that it was poetry and songs, he became more and more happy, and said in his heart: "Although it is a little difficult to make poems with bamboo, it is not impossible, but you have to express it well later?"

The middle-aged man saw the appearance of everyone, smiled indifferently at the corner of his mouth, and suddenly said loudly: "All the sons and talents are talented and superb people, and the poetry and song are not difficult for you. ”

Everyone was full of joy, and when they heard this, they suddenly fell silent, if they want to say that they want to make a poem and chant a pair, for these sons and talents who have been practicing since childhood, it is indeed not a difficult thing, but the poetry of the predecessors can not be used, and the dictionary must be used in the poem. In this way, this seemingly simple poem is not so easy?"

Shen Gongzi was secretly happy, just now he was still a little complaining, the eldest lady of the Li family only let him make a poem to pass the fourth level, some child's play, now listening to the many requirements of this poem, he was immediately happy, he was conceited to learn people, and he didn't think it was difficult to compose poetry, he only felt that it was getting better and better now, only in this way could he reflect his talent and learn people, and he won the championship in one fell swoop, and entered the eyes of Miss Li's family, so as to hold the beauty!

There are many dissatisfied people in the crowd, but it is difficult to say anything at the moment, and if they say it, it will make people look down on them, so they have to bow their heads and groan.

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