Chapter Ninety-Three: The Gap
"Is that easy?" Wu Mingshun felt that his brain was running out of ideas, and this tea powder alone took more than ten minutes to make, which is still called simple. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, Deng Yin spoke up, and he said: "That's true. There are a series of regulations on this tea method, from the texture of charcoal to the strength and frequency of pushing the stone mill, which have many restrictions. This Mr. Su is really a connoisseur of tea, and I am willing to bow down. ”
Deng Yin, a well-educated family, has had a great interest in some lost crafts since he was a child. When he knew that the Song Dynasty had a method of ordering tea, he devoted himself to studying it for more than ten years, which could be regarded as lifting its mystery.
When he heard that Su Zhongkang also knew a little about ordering tea, he was excited in his heart. Because, it means that there is one more like-minded partner on this path.
Therefore, when he watched Su Zhongkang prepare for some tea with joy, he just watched silently from the sidelines. He is verifying whether this Su Zhongkang really knows a thing or two.
Su Zhongkang's follow-up actions and explanations were like an initiation, revealing the things that he didn't know much about directly like piercing window paper.
Then, he verified them one by one with the records in the ancient books, and found that Su Zhongkang really didn't just know a little bit about it. If Su Zhongkang still knows a little bit about this, then he can only be regarded as a layman.
Deng Yin put away the shock in his heart and continued to observe the next steps with a learning mentality.
Su Zhongkang took the soup bottle handed over by Cao Lei, which was already filled with six or seven points of mineral water.
He placed the soup bottle directly on the tea stove, which was also specially made, and it fit very well with the opposite seam of the soup bottle.
The charcoal fire in the tea stove is extremely lively, as if it has life. The charcoal fire is very strong, and the silver soup bottle has good thermal conductivity, so after a while, there is a sound of different sizes in the soup bottle.
"Is this tea boiling?" Wu Mingshun asked, because he found that the water was stuffed in the soup bottle, and he couldn't see whether the tea was boiling at all. In normal times, you can tell how much water is boiling by looking at the size of the droplets when it boils, but this trick doesn't work at this point.
As we all know, the best tea can only be brewed if you know the proper heat of the soup. This is even more important for the tea ordering method, but this soup bottle makes it difficult for the tea orderer to master the heat.
Everyone was looking at Su Zhongkang nervously. As they progressed, they found that this tea ordering method was really extremely difficult, and they had to overcome all kinds of difficulties in both preparation and starting to order tea.
Su Zhongkang was not in a hurry, he picked out some tea powder from the teabox with a teaspoon and placed it in the teacup.
These tea cups have a rough texture, and they are not black tires, so they feel like they are used by ordinary people.
However, this is a special time, and there is no need to pay attention to these. If it was in the Song Dynasty, it was better to use the black kiln tea cup in Jianzhou or Jizhou.
The water in the soup bottle was suddenly ringing, Su Zhongkang picked up the soup bottle at a certain moment, then put it aside and paused for a while, and when the boiling of the water in the bottle completely stopped, he first poured a small amount of boiling water into the teacup.
"This step is called balm." Su Zhongkang picked up the tea whisk and mixed the soup and tea powder in the tea cup into a very uniform tea paste.
Then, he picked up the soup bottle in one hand and filled it with water, while whisking it with a tea whisk.
When he was pouring water, he poured it from the tea surface, returned to the first line, and stopped urgently, while his other hand first stirred the tea paste with the tea whisk, and gradually increased the intensity of the blow, the hand was light and heavy, and the fingers were rotated around the wrist.
When the soup was almost six-tenths of the way to the wall of the bowl, Su Zhongkang stopped filling the water, then put down the soup bottle, and turned to hold down the teapot, and the other hand continued to move, continuing to blow, but the action of the blow was sometimes fast and slow, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, and so on.
After a while, there were more and more white foam in the tea cup, and the foam layer slowly overflowed, and when the foam condensed and did not move, Su Zhongkang put away the tea whisk, put the bowl of tea cup on the tea luo, served it to Wu Mingshun, and said: "You are a guest from afar, please taste this bowl of tea soup." ”
At this time, the tea soup in the tea cup is yellow-white, the tea foam on the tea soup is slowly fading, and water marks appear on the bowl wall.
Wu Mingshun stretched out his hands and took the teacup, but he felt that he couldn't speak.
"Just drink it." Su Zhongkang raised his head and said, and then continued to bury his head to order the second bowl of tea soup.
Wu Mingshun carefully sniffed the white smoke steaming from the tea soup, and a rich tea fragrance went straight to the bottom of his heart from the tip of the pen.
He took a sip after a reminiscence, and at the entrance, the tea soup was fragrant and silky, with a silky softness, but when he felt it again, he could feel that there were fine particles in the tea soup, which ruined the taste a little.
However, the taste of this bowl of tea soup is still good, it is different from the various teas he has drunk before, and it is also different from the matcha he drank in Fuso.
When he took two or three more sips, he found that he fell in love with this extremely delicate tea soup, and he could directly feel the various flavors in the tea soup, whether it was sweet, refreshing, or even bitter, they each had their own needs, but they could be combined in pairs, in short, a bowl of tea soup gave him a thousand feelings.
"This tea soup is amazing!" Wu Mingshun was so excited that he couldn't speak, and he found that he couldn't describe this feeling.
Wu Mingshun's reaction appeared in the eyes of the other two at a glance. There was a look of wonder in their eyes, too.
In fact, they had drunk the tea soup ordered by this method before.
After drinking, I feel that this tea soup is more fragrant than the ordinary brewed tea soup, and the taste is good, but the taste is slightly worse, after all, there are some tea particles in it.
Therefore, they felt incredible for Wu Mingshun's excited expression.
Looking at his expression, it doesn't seem to be a fake, could it be that the tea soup ordered by Su Zhongkang will be very different?
When they thought about it, they were full of anticipation for the tea soup they were going to drink next.
The steps of ordering tea seemed cumbersome, but Su Zhongkang's movements were also very fast, and within a while, Cao Lei and the others each got a bowl of tea soup.
When they couldn't wait to take a sip, the performance of the two was not more restrained than Wu Mingshun's, on the contrary, the direct reaction of the two of them was more exaggerated.
How is this tea soup so different from the tea soup they ordered before!
They looked at each other, and they both saw surprise in each other's eyes.
The same step actually led to two completely different results.
Are they too stupid or is Su Zhongkang too strong?
At this time, Su Zhongkang gradually grew taller in their eyes. It is only after comparison that they know how big the gap is.
When their hearts were filled with Su Zhongkang's tall and mighty image, Su Zhongkang finally freed up his hand to order a bowl of tea soup for himself.
Speaking of which, it was the first time he had really drunk the tea soup ordered by this method of ordering tea.