Chapter 175, the first time I saw Jiang Ge Lao (I)
The final place of the tea ceremony sword meeting is set to be held in the Jiuzhou wind and rain pavilion outside the imperial city Suzaku gate, the Jiuzhou wind and rain pavilion was built in the last years of Taizong, covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters, about 12 meters high, a total of three floors, the house structure is magnificent, the carved beams and painted buildings, the eaves cliffs, the curved ruler Duolou, the Zhulan color threshold, it is magnificent, the momentum is extraordinary, many informal banquets in the palace are held here. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Early the next morning, Xiao Nan and Song Qiuyi walked into the Jiuzhou Wind and Rain Pavilion together, and when they entered, they were stopped by the soldiers guarding the door, and they were not put in until they got the admission card issued yesterday, and the owner of Ouyang Village of Luyang Village also came, but this time he was no longer a participant, but a guest of the game.
The competition hall is located on the second floor, the left hand side of the entrance of the competition hall is the tasting table, the area of the tasting table is full of 1560 square meters, about 30 meters long, more than 5 meters wide, it is arc-shaped, the other parts of the larger hall are more than one meter higher, there are five rosewood chairs on the left and right sides of the tasting table, each chair is about 70cm wide, there is a gap of 80cm on the left and right, a vacancy of about three meters wide is left in the middle, the top of the chair is a long arc-shaped wooden platform of the same color as the chair, the width of the table is about one meter, The difference between the height and the chair is about 0.30 meters, which is the most matching distance between the table and the chair after the person sits down.
There are more than 100 chairs under the tasting table in an elliptical shape, the most conspicuous seats are the ten chairs directly opposite the tasting table, which are only about seven or eight meters away from the tasting table.
Xiao Nan's seat is the eighth seat number, this position only has a chair and a small table, for this reason, she can only sit alone, although Song Qiuyi is the boss of the Hongyuan Chamber of Commerce, but he is not directly responsible for the person in charge of the tea, for this reason, he can only sit aside as a guest when he enters.
There are only 160 chairs in the guest seats at the scene, and there are a total of 130 tea merchants who come to participate in the tea party, except for the ten tea merchants who have been promoted, there are 120 guest seats that belong to the tea merchants, and the remaining 40 chairs belong to the nobles and heroes in Kyoto.
Xiao Nan entered the venue no later or early, when she arrived at her designated seat, six of the ten tea merchants had come, she just sat down, and saw a young man in an azure silk brocade robe walk into the seat next to her and sit down, Xiao Nan subconsciously glanced at his seat, his position was No. 9, No. 9 seat, Xiao Nan quickly thought in his mind, No. 9 seat should be Longjing, and last year's champion happened to be Hangzhou Longjing.
When her mind fell here, she couldn't help but raise her eyes to look at this man, but seeing that this person was quite young, he looked like he was only twenty-five or sixteen years old, his appearance was very outstanding, and his temperament was quite extraordinary. "There are only ten tea merchants who have advanced to the finals, and it is no secret that the list of finalists has long been a no-brainer, and it is not surprising that this person can call out Xiao Nan's name in one mouthful.
"Jiang Jialang is good." Xiao Nan nodded at him slightly, and then looked away, this person smiled slightly when he saw this, and did not mean to continue talking, after this little episode passed, several other tea merchants soon came over.
After the participating tea merchants arrived, it took about a pillar of incense, and the one hundred and sixty guest seats were all filled, the tea merchants and guests were all present, and the tea tasters in the tasting table also returned to their places one after another, and there were a total of ten seats on the tasting table, that is to say, each variety of tea that was promoted had a corresponding tea tasting master, yes, those who could sit in this seat were real tea masters.
Of course, these people are very unfamiliar to Xiao Nan, she doesn't know any of them, but Xiao Nan can judge according to the faces of the guests and tea merchants in the audience, the people sitting on it are probably not just simple tea masters, it is estimated that most people have a rather extraordinary second social identity.
Nine of the ten tea tasters soon entered, and the last one did not appear after a pillar of incense, he did not appear alone, but with another person, one of them was about his early fifties, and the other was only in his forties, and the man in his forties was dressed in a bright yellow brocade robe, with outstanding appearance and majestic bearing, and at first glance he was a person who had been in a high position for a long time, but his face was slightly pale, and his body did not seem to be particularly good.
The older old man is dressed in a dark robe, and his appearance is extraordinary, especially the temperament, which is obviously introverted, but the calmness and leisure revealed in the bones are like white clouds fluttering in the sky, which makes people feel relaxed and happy, Xiao Nan asked himself that he had seen a lot of outstanding people in his two lives combined, but the temperament was comparable to the old man in front of her, she couldn't find any of them, as soon as this person appeared in the hall, Xiao Nan only felt that all the brilliance of the entire competition area was gathered on him alone.
This is not the point, the point is that as soon as these two people walked into the hall, except for Xiao Nan, all the guests and tea merchants on the scene had stunned looks on their faces, and then everyone stood up in unison, and bowed to the two of them: "Official, elder." Xiao Nan is a person who practices martial arts, and she reacts quickly enough, although she doesn't know these two people, but she stood up very alertly the moment everyone got up, and she didn't look different.
Only when I heard everyone's voices, I was really surprised, Ge Lao? Official? In other words, one of these two people is Song Zhenzong, and the other is the famous Jiang Ge Lao? Xiao Nan forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart, and couldn't help but quietly glance at this fellow who had been listening to his legends since he came to this world.
After looking at it, I had to praise it from the bottom of my heart: He is worthy of being a legendary figure of this era, just because of his bearing, he pressed down Song Zhenzong who was standing next to him.
"You don't have to be polite, today we only talk about the tea ceremony, regardless of the monarch and minister, sit." Song Zhenzong raised his hand slightly, opened his mouth, and then walked to the pale gold chair that had been moved to the middle by someone at some point and sat down, and the old Jiang Pavilion sat on his right side very naturally.
After the guests and tea merchants sat down, their hearts were still in a trance, the tea ceremony on the sword meeting, although the final result was determined by the sage, but this is just a statement, except for the three sessions that opened at the beginning of the year, Taizong did come to the scene, and the first session of today's official family came to the scene, other times, most of the princes came to watch the game instead of the Son of Heaven. (To be continued.) )