Chapter 034: Three taels of gold tea cakes
(Next week's classification of small envelopes, thank you!) There is no retribution, only serious injuries do not get out of the line of fire. Although the high fever has pneumonia, the waist is also in acupuncture, and the daily hanging water will be updated, but it is not too much, only two thousand a day, thank you for your collection, the number of the day of the break has risen back, thank you very much! )
"So what's the name of this tea? Tell me about it. Ah Xiu put away his thoughts, slowly drank this one, and then asked. It is called Longfeng Yinghua, also called Xiaolongtuan, and it is a tribute tea in the Great Song Dynasty. Su Xin explained with a smile, "If it weren't for Steward Zhang's love for his wife, and I have the same love as a father and daughter, and my hometown is from Jian'an County, otherwise this small bag of tea alone would have been able to buy several big mansions." Ah Xiu was amazed when he heard it: "It's so unusual, I actually became the emperor today!" At first, I didn't see it clearly, and I thought it was ordinary tea. After speaking, he smiled and handed the cup to Su Xin, and watched her pour out another one.
While carefully tasting the tea, while asking about the origin of this tea, Su Xin carefully explained to her: "This tea was handed down during the Huizong period of the Great Song Dynasty, and the best Xiaolong group must be picked with virgin hands before the sun comes out in the early morning." Because of the legend that when the sun rises and the sun rises, most of the paste of the tea buds will be lost, and the brown color produced is not bright enough. When picking tea, you must quickly pinch it off with your fingernails, and you can't use your skin to touch and pull it too much, otherwise it will damage the color of the tea. Su Xin looked at Ah Xiu, explained seriously, and occasionally used her hand to stick to the gilded boy picking lotus pattern tea basket on the side to test the temperature.
Ah Xiu listened energetically, urging her to continue, Su Xin lifted the teapot in the tea basket, and poured another one for her: "This tea bud is also the most particular, you must choose the most tender tea tip of the new tea, and it must be the fat and lovely, you must not take those thin and short, just because if the tea buds are fat, the final tea will have a refreshing sweet fragrance, and have the viscous and heavy tea soup, so that you will not feel that you have lost the soul of tea." If you are greedy for effortlessness, even if you just mix in a little thin bud, when you can make tea, the tea soul will disperse, even if you brew it carefully, when you pour it into the tea cup, you will already lose your essence. ”
When the talk rose, Su Xin stopped and urged Ah Xiu to drink the tea and listen to it again, so as not to waste the soul of the tea. Seeing that Ah Xiu drank it reverently, he took the teacup with a smile and put it in the tea tray, and continued: "When I drank it for the first time, I only got a small half of a tea cake, which was very precious. When Mrs. went to Hongdu a few days ago, she coincidentally drank it all and never gave it to Mrs. This time, the housekeeper saw that Wen was practicing me, and I was afraid that I was going to leave the house, and it was also a lot of effort to get this bag, there was more than half a catty, let me take it, so as not to taste it in the future, I was afraid of getting damp, and carefully packed a few copies and put it, this is the first time to take it out! ”
Hearing Su Xin say this, Ah Xiu became even more precious, and looked at Su Xin with a good eye; "I'm afraid that this housekeeper's family background is also unusual, otherwise no matter how convenient it is, he will not be able to give away so much tea! I am a blessing to you! Hehe! But that's fine, and I'll listen to you if you go ahead and talk about the tea. Su Xin shook his head humbly, and only after Ah Xiu's repeated urging did he continue to speak:
"Listen to the housekeeper said, when this tea is picked, the tea stalk is not like other teas, it must be left half long, not too short, because the stay is short, the tea soup will be yellow and discolored, and half of the color and taste of this tea are in the stem. That's it, but also to pick the buds: each tea bud removes a few pieces around it, called ooty, and then goes to two more buds, called baihe, because 'ooty baihe, is the great disease of tea'. If this tea does not go to Ooty Baihe, the color and fragrance will not reach the grade, and it will barely become a tea, and it can only be regarded as a defective quality that does not enter the stream. Then wash the remaining wisp of core and use a good tea vessel to fill it with "imperial spring water". When it was as bright and clean as silver thread, it was steamed once. After gently grinding it with a virgin hand for a few times, it is then pressed to remove the paste and baked into such a large tea ball. ”
Su Xin gestured with his hand, and saw that Ah Xiu seemed to have doubts, so he smiled and took a small pottery poppy of purple sand, carefully removed the wood chips and rice paper at the mouth, opened the mouth, and carefully picked out a tea cake with gilded moire silver, and put it into the tea basket of the gilded silver peach, carefully sealed the pottery poppy, and then handed the tea basket to Ah Xiu: "Madam, please see, this small tea cake is generally a dragon pattern or dragon and phoenix pattern, the best small dragon group, there is a small dragon pattern winding on it, it is said that it takes twenty taels of gold to get a pound of such a group of tea, There are only eight tea cakes per catty. The one you drink is 'Dragon and Phoenix Yinghua', which is a dragon and phoenix pattern, and belongs to one of the sixteen colors of the third class in the small dragon group. Although it is not priceless, as the slave said, it is very easy to buy a few large houses. ”
"Good boy! The third-class tea is already as expensive as a few taels of gold per cake, but what about the rest? Ah Xiu carefully looked at this small tea cake, the pattern on it was lifelike, and he couldn't help but exclaim. Su Xin said: "Other slaves and maids don't know much, but I heard the housekeeper say that the two best colors in these three grades, called 'Longtuan Shengxue' and 'White Tea', are not ordinary and cumbersome, because these two are water buds, and they must be steamed first and then picked." It is also to go to Ooty first, and then to Baihe, leaving small buds to make it, called water buds. If the year is good, when the tea is abundant, gather a little more, take it to grind and roast to make the second-class tea, ripe tea is difficult to choose, so the best of this tea is unsurpassed, every time it is down, just the silver money of the tea worker, it will be nearly 30,000! ”
When Ah Xiu heard this, Rao was still surprised that she had also seen modern luxury jewelry red wine and cat coffee: Fortunately, I came back from time travel, and thanks to my husband Zhu Yuanzhang, otherwise who can afford to drink such tea? It's too hard to work and waste money! Thinking of this, he was greedy, and saw that Su Xin received the tea cake into another small tea can, and did not put it back, knowing that he was afraid of getting damp, so he glanced at the tea stove on the table and asked Su Xin: "But is there anything left, reward me with another one." ”
Su Xin was as strict as a greedy child: "Even if there is, where can you drink like this?" No matter how good he is, drinking too much will hurt his stomach, the bed is smoked, and the lady can sleep. I will definitely give all this tea to my wife to eat, the coming day is long, and my wife drank wine again today, so don't be greedy! After speaking, he didn't shy away from hanging up Ah Xiu's nose: "I'll serve Mrs. and sleep!" I saw that my wife was gone, so I gave my wife this to relieve her boredom, and now I have something to say tomorrow, okay? ”
"Good, good! My girl is getting bigger and bigger, hehe. Don't call anyone else to keep vigil tonight, you can sleep with me. Ah Xiu was warmed by Su Xin's words and invited her to sleep together. Su Xin retreated again and again, waited for her to finish grooming, changed her bedclothes, and finally lay down with her.