Early the next morning, Yan Xiaoyue got into the carriage with a set of Yuehua brocade piping collared Confucian skirts, purple belts, and light purple gauze scarves.

Liuchun view is located in the northeast direction of the imperial city, is the mansion of a prince of the previous dynasty, covers a huge area, to from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty will be handed over to the government to take care of, for the children of the nobles to play and gather, there are six small gardens inside, a large garden comparable to half of the imperial garden, in particular, there is also a horse farm, the facilities are extremely complete.

In the imperial city, if you don't want to go out to play, then Liuchunguan has become a place where the children of the nobility compete to come and go, but the cost is not low, a small garden is rented for one hundred taels a day, and the food is still calculated separately.

Inquiring about these made Yan Xiaoyue sigh, in the past, when I was in Qinghua Town, my expenses were all in the unit of money, when I first came to the Imperial City, it was in the unit of two, and when I returned to the Imperial City for the second time, it was in the unit of ten taels, and now it is in the unit of one hundred taels, is this change considered an improvement in the standard of living? And can you be considered to have entered the upper class of this era?

When the time difference is a moment, Yan Xiaoyue and Xiaoxiao have arrived at the Liuchun Temple, the reason why it is called the view, is really because there is a Taoist temple here, on a steep mountain in the innermost part of the garden, the main view is a Taoist aunt, the Taoist name Zixia, will have some medical skills, especially for gynecological problems quite means, optimistic about many infertile women in the imperial city, but also to many noble women to take over the birth, often walk in the backyard of some mansions in the imperial city, the prestige is very high, and occasionally receive distinguished guests to live in the Taoist temple.

Yan Xiaoyue set the Cuizhu Courtyard, the environment is quiet, and it is a good place to make friends and talk about it. Besides, people outside know that Yan Xiaoyue is allergic to pollen, so the entire Liuchun Temple can only come to Cuizhu Courtyard to worry.

Let Jin Ling take two cooks and two maids to prepare lunch and dinner, the diet of the Zhou Dynasty does not have high requirements for lunch, and sometimes even uses pastries instead, which may be related to their men's Shangya hours, Shangya does not return to the house at noon, then the house naturally needs to be prepared well for dinner, over time, it has become a custom of not paying attention to lunch and dinner, the rich people in the folk family can eat three meals, the poor at home, like Yan Xiaoyue's predecessor's family, only when the farm is busy, there are three meals to eat, even if you eat three meals, lunch is very casual.

Today, Yan Xiaoyue was very well prepared, bringing two sets of tea sets, musical instruments such as the qin, zheng, and dixiao, as well as Go. When the tea set was just set, Jin Qiao came in to report that someone had entered the courtyard.

Yan Xiaoyue got up and greeted Xiaoxiao together, the Jiang family, the Zhu family brothers and sisters and Tang Haifeng all came, everyone greeted each other, and sat down around the long case.

Yan Xiaoyue took out the tea leaves, divided them in the teacup, filled half a kettle of Lingquan and put it on the Wanghuo stove, and when the kettle began to bubble, she opened the lid, and when she saw the bubbles rising for a while, she poured the water into the teacup and handed it to everyone one by one, "Come, how about tasting my tea?" ”

Xiaoyue herself picked up a cup and smelled it first, well, yes, the tea is fragrant and the color is bright.

"Sister Yue, I see that the water didn't boil when you boiled it just now, it's okay to drink this kind of water, right?" Jiang Siyao asked.

Yan Xiao held the teacup and explained: "This water is taken from the mountain spring water of Xiangguo Temple, and there are skills in not boiling the water." You see this tea is very tender, it is this year's tea before the rain, only to see the buds without seeing the leaves, and the more tender and green the tea leaves, the lower the brewing water temperature, so that the tea soup is tender and green and bright, the taste is fresh, if under the high temperature, the tea soup is easy to turn yellow, the taste is bitter, as daily speaking, the water temperature is high, the tea is hot, but it is not a waste of such a good tea. ”

"No wonder the color of this tea soup is so green, and it is refreshing to drink, I haven't drunk such tea, I think it's because people don't know how to brew, and the good tea leaves are wasted, or Yueniang, you have the ability." Zhu Yan said without raising her head, as if she said it casually, but it sounds very interesting, she is a subordinate and a teamaker.

"Yanyan, this tea can't be bought anywhere else, it is produced by Sister Yue in Mengjin's tea house, and it is only two catties a year, which is extremely rare." Xiaoxiao felt that something was wrong in her heart when she heard this, and she added.

Zhu Yan was surprised: "Oh, is it? I'm going to buy some when I get home. ”

Yan Xiaoyue continued to brew for the second time, and also replied casually: "Most of this year's good tea has been given away, my father-in-law is a person who loves tea very much, and he often says that it is better to have no meat than without tea, but it is a pity that good tea is not easy to get, and a good tea ceremony is even more difficult to find. If Yan Niangzi likes this tea before the rain, she must learn how to make tea. I'll keep two taels of this tea this year, and I'll give you some when the new tea comes down next year. ”

Jiang Siyao nudged Zhu Yan, "Yanyan was moved as soon as she tasted something good." Hehe, Sister Yue, that's okay, I'll leave some for me next year. ”

Yan Xiaoyue looked at Zhu Yantong's red face, this little girl is the youngest, but she has a lot of eyes, but she doesn't understand why she always fights for herself. The previous concessions didn't give her an inch.

smiled at Jiang Siyao and said, "You are here to meet the opportunity, okay, I will give you two taels when the time comes." ”

"It's only two?"

Yan Xiaoyue scolded with a smile: "Are you still not satisfied? I only get two catties a year for the entire tea garden, one catty should be left for my father-in-law, and half a catty for my stepmother, how much do you think I can have left? Besides, I haven't seen how much you like this pre-rain tea. ”

Jiang Siyao smiled: "Look at my brother, this teacup has bottomed out, didn't I ask for it for him?" ”

Yan Xiaoyue's eyes swept away, but no, Jiang Siyan's teacup was almost bottoming out.

Jiang Minyan saw Yan Xiaoyue looking over, so he drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, put down the cup and said with a smile: "Let everyone laugh, I tasted this tea once at my husband's place, but the tea color was slightly yellow, and the tea soup was slightly bitter, so I didn't pay much attention to it at that time." It's really a blessing to be able to eat such fragrant tea today. ”

This Jiang Siyan is a character, he did not change his color at all under everyone's attention, but he was calm, and his father-in-law was able to take out this tea before the rain to entertain him, he must have a very good impression of him.

Yan Xiaoyue explained: "My father-in-law likes to taste tea, but this tea art is not flattering, most of them are usually made by my stepmother, but recently my stepmother is tired, and I think my father-in-law hasn't eaten good tea for a long time." ”

Xiaoxiao said suddenly: "I'll just say, why did my father stay for tea after dinner and then go to the study, and the feeling is that no one brought him tea." ”

Yan Xiaoyue smiled and quipped: "What else do you say, isn't this our unfilial piety?" ”

Xiaoxiao immediately replied: "Sister, then I will deliver the tea after you make it?" ”

"You can make a good cup of tea." When he saw that the water on the stove was about to boil, he gave Jiang Siyan, Zhu Bin and Tang Haifeng a refill. "The second brew of tea before the rain tastes more fragrant, try it."

After speaking, Yan Xiaoyue got up and took out another set of white porcelain tea sets, re-filled the kettle and boiled it, and said to Yang Xiao'er: "Come, Xiaoxiao will make us a pot of flower tea to drink." ”

Xiaoxiao hesitated, "This...... I can't! ”

Yan Xiaoyue smiled and affirmed to Xiaoxiao: "Why not, didn't my father-in-law say that the flower tea you brewed is very tasty?" Besides, you're going to have to give me a break, too. ”

Hearing this, Yang Xiao'er nodded and said, "Well, okay, I'll make flower tea, sister, you rest first." ”

After speaking, he sat down in Yan Xiaoyue's position, took out the jasmine tea and poured it into the teapot, then scalded the cup, poured it into the teapot when the water boiled until the pot was full of bubbles, simmered for a while, took out the teacup and stored the tea one by one.