Chapter 228, Boiling Tea and Talking about the Past and the Past (I)
"There is something to do in Luoyang, I didn't expect it to be so coincidental, I happened to meet Xiao Niangzi to send my brother to school, I originally planned to visit Xiao Niangzi after the matter in Luoyang is over, and now I have met here, I don't know if Xiao Niangzi is willing to appreciate the light, and I am an old man?" Jiang Ge Lao smiled slightly, and looked at Xiao Nan with a kind face. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
"Mr. please, Xiao Nan doesn't dare to refuse." Xiao Nan glanced at Jiang Ge Lao with a slight surprise, then pursed his lips and smiled, and replied.
"Then let's go." Jiang Ge Lao spread his hands, smiled and stretched out his hand to make a gesture of please, and then took the lead, leading the way, Xiao Nan raised his eyes and stared at his back twice, and followed up, one old and one young walked forward unhurriedly, this walk was more than half an hour, until a lake appeared in front of him, Jiang Ge Lao stopped.
"That's it, it's not cold in this season, let's go to the pavilion to make some tea, sit down and have a good chat, isn't this move to follow the ancients and be vassal?" Jiang Ge Lao pointed to a water pavilion not far away, turned around and smiled at Xiao Nan, and said not without humor.
"Haha, there are people like Ge Lao, whether it is a busy city, or a poor country, where you have your footprints, they are all elegant places, you yourself represent the ultimate of elegance, how can you say that you are vassal?" Xiao Nan laughed and slapped a sycophant.
"Hey, Mrs. Xiao, a capable person is a capable person, even if it is a sycophant, it is louder than ordinary people, and it is comfortable." Jiang Ge Lao glanced at Xiao Nan, stroked his beard, shook his head and sighed, Xiao Nan ......
The water pavilion is built on the west side of the lake, with an area of one hundred and fifty or sixty square meters, and the side by the lake is the pavilion, and there are two separate rooms behind the pavilion, one is placed with sundries, and the other is a bedroom, that is to say, this pavilion can be used to boil wine and tea in the lake, and to sing the wind and the moon, but also for people to rest and rest.
Xiao Nan and Jiang Ge Lao had just walked into the pavilion along the stairs, when they saw an old servant carrying a jar of water from the inner room and walking out, after he put the water altar down, he went into the house and took out the alcohol stove, teapot and cup for boiling water, and placed them on the table in the center of the pavilion.
This is an antique wooden table, there is a chair in the north and south directions, and the water altar that has just been moved out is placed next to the chair in the south, in addition, there is no superfluous thing in the pavilion, Jiang Ge Lao opened the chair on the south side, pointed to the chair opposite and said to Xiao Nan: "Xiao Niangzi, please sit." Xiao Nan was not hypocritical, and naturally walked over and sat down.
"Lao Hu, you go down, there is no need to be served here." Jiang Ge turned his eyes to the old servant standing quietly beside him and said a word, the old servant was obviously an extremely taciturn person, and he didn't say a word when he heard the voice, and retreated without squinting.
Seeing this, Xiao Nan hurriedly opened the lid of the kettle on the table and moved the pot to the table, Jiang Ge Lao poured a pot of water into it, put the jar down, covered the mouth of the altar, lit the alcohol stove, put the teapot up, and then went into the house and brought out a box of tea, and then came back and sat down on the chair.
After sitting on the chair, he opened the box of tea, Xiao Nan suddenly felt a familiar fragrance of tea rushing towards him, and a touch of surprise flashed in his eyes, Jiang Ge Lao looked up at Xiao Nan as if he had a sense, and while pouring tea leaves on the two cups, he said with a smile: "You are not mistaken, this is indeed the snow needle you made." ”
After the water boiled, he washed the tea first, then filled the teacup with water, and then raised the cup towards Xiao Nan: "Come, compensate for the tea brewed by me, and see if it tastes the same as your own brewing." ”
"To be honest, it's better than what I brewed, although this tea was made by me, but after I made it, I never had a chance to drink it except for the first taste of whether the taste reached the standard I wanted, as for the time of compensation, it was the water from the well at home, and the old man chose the high-quality spring in the mountains, and there was a big difference between the two." Xiao Nan said calmly.
"Don't you live at the foot of Baiyun Mountain? There should be no shortage of mountain spring water, right? Jiang Ge Lao Qi said.
"There is really no shortage, the problem is that when I taste it, I am not tasting it as a tea taster, but as a businessman in evaluating its value, naturally the water that brews it is not so particular, in fact, the most critical artistic conception lies in the mood, when I evaluate its value as a businessman, the tea I brew is far from being comparable with people who really love tea such as Ge Lao."
"But after drinking Ge Lao's tea today, I decided that I would keep a part of the top snow needles made every year in the future, otherwise, I made tea for a lifetime, and as a result, I didn't have the opportunity to enjoy the best tea I made, and this kind of life is too tragic." Xiao Nan shrugged his shoulders and said with emotion.
"Ouch, phew, didn't I lift a stone to shoot myself in the foot, just such a sentence will halve the amount of tea I can drink in the future, my mouth." Hearing this, Jiang Ge Lao suddenly snorted in annoyance, and reached out to slap his head hard, his face full of remorse.
"Haha, old man, are you ......" Seeing this, Xiao Nan couldn't help laughing out loud anymore.
"Hey, I'm telling the truth, Xiao Niangzi, you don't know, the snow needle you made is indeed my life, oh, no, it's the best hair tip I have ever drunk in my two lifetimes combined, the first time you won the championship at the tea ceremony sword meeting, those two hair tips were divided into half by the official family, and the remaining half, I drank it in less than two months, drank your hair tips, and the others almost couldn't get into the mouth, fortunately, you can make more than a pound of such superb hair tips every year, the ancients said, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, it is really not to deceive me." Jiang Ge Lao said with a sad sigh on his face.
"It's okay, the number of best snow needles is limited, which can't meet the needs of the old man for a whole year, but there are slightly inferior snow needles, although the taste is slightly different from the first one, but not big, I believe that the strong can also meet the requirements of the old man." Xiao Nan took a sip of tea lightly and took a slow sentence.
The relationship between her and Jiang Ge Lao is quite strange, I don't know if both of them know it, they are both from the same time and space, and they have only met twice, one is the old man of the court who leans towards the government and the opposition, and the other is a country girl who has no power and no power, sitting together and drinking tea, there is an indescribable tacit understanding and ease between the two, as if they themselves are close friends who have been friends for many years, this feeling, Xiao Nan himself can't say, in short, it is very strange.
"Mrs. Xiao, your subtext shouldn't be scolding me for being an old guy, just because of his high position, he is so extravagant and picky about even drinking tea, it's really not a thing, right?" Jiang Ge Lao looked at Xiao Nan with a suspicious expression. (To be continued.) )