For Cai Hongming, Qingyun Langyuan is really like a Taoist temple.

In addition to the red wall and gold tile, carved beams and painted buildings, the hall is also painted with various colors of fairy patterns, some places are also written with the word "Dao", and engraved with Tai Chi Bagua map.

But it is not like a Taoist temple, because it does not worship idols, does not add fuel tanks, and does not have incense burners for people to burn incense and worship. But no matter what, a woman in a Taoist robe is leading the way, making it difficult for people not to think that this is a Taoist temple.

However, it is also relieved to think about it.

When he was in southern Fujian, he once saw a McDonald's that changed the ancestral hall where the ancestors had been dedicated to the tablets of their ancestors for generations into a storefront, and it was not so strange that this temple had become a restaurant. It's just that he has always had a question, that is, that McDonald's sells things in the ancestral hall, isn't he afraid that the ancestors of other people will come out to eat at night???

There is also a heavy hall behind the main hall, and Qingyun did not stay here, but passed through a circular arch behind the main hall.

Behind is a foothill, the grass is verdant, the green trees are faint, the cool breeze is blowing, looking from afar, only to see a pentagonal stone pavilion hidden in the grass and trees.

The group walked to the stone pavilion, Cai Hongming raised his eyes and found that the stone pavilion was all made of stone, and the top of the pavilion was carved with the pattern of five fairies flying in the sky, which was simple and abnormal, not like it was newly built.

Xin Jinrou saw Cai Hongming's look all the way in her eyes, and at this time, he was still full of doubts, so she said with a smile: "Don't look at it, this is really not a Taoist temple." But there used to be a small Taoist temple here, but unfortunately it was red. The guards were pushed down, and later bought by Qingyun to build this business. The only thing that hasn't changed here is this stone pavilion, which used to be like this, but it was only slightly renovated later. But speaking of which, in addition to worship, there is no difference between it and the Taoist temple, because it focuses on the Taoist concept of the unity of nature and man. Therefore, it can also be said to be a Taoist temple, a place of cultivation. ”

Cai Hongming listened and nodded knowingly.

After Xin Jinrou finished speaking, she said to Qingyun again: "Qingyun, you ask someone to bring a tea set and some spring water, and I will let you taste the good tea I brought today." You certainly haven't drunk it. ”

"Ho, I haven't drunk it? It's hard. Still, she took out a walkie-talkie from her pocket and asked someone below to bring a tea set and spring water.

There was electricity in the pavilion, and people were waiting to bring things up, set up tea sets, and boil water in a kettle. Xin Jinrou took out a round small box from her pocket, and then took out a tea pill from it and put it in the tea cup. Cai Hongming looked at the tea pills she took out, and his eyes suddenly widened. It's not

Xin Jinrou couldn't help but smile when she saw him like this.

"This tea pill smells good."

Nowadays, people pursue individuality, and they insist on making tea leaves into various shapes, such as triangles, squares, cones, ovals, circles, etc., and so on. Qingyun has never seen anything, but she really has met tea balls with such a fragrant taste.

Xin Jinrou also ignored her. Put in the tea balls and brew. An even richer aroma wafted out of the teacup.

Fermented tea does not need to go through all the complicated procedures like fried green tea, and it can be drunk by washing it off quickly.

When she poured the tea into the celadon cup, Qingyun couldn't wait to pick it up. When you smell it, the aroma of tea rushes into your nose, and it seems that there is more than just tea in the aroma. It seems that there is a hint of something else, but when it is mixed together, it is like a match made in heaven; Take a sip, disturb the tongue lightly, and swallow it into the abdomen. Like an elixir, there is a feeling of fragrance all over the body, and the whole person is comfortable and energetic.

"Good tea." Qingyun couldn't help but praise, I have to say, she really hasn't drunk this kind of tea.

"The water is good." Cai Hongming said after drinking tea.

The tea pill is the worm tea pulled out by the little fat worm, of course he has drunk it, but this water is different, even a little better than the well water on his side.

He didn't know that this water was no ordinary water.

The ancients made tea, paying great attention to the use of water, and more demanding requirements for water quality to be clean, alive and light.

The so-called "clear" means that it looks clear, quiet, clear, and dirt-free, and it is not turbid. Because the water is not clean, the tea soup will be turbid. Only when the water is clean and free of impurities, transparent and colorless, can the true color of tea be revealed; The so-called "living" refers to the water that flows from the source, rather than still water, such as the flow of pond water and pool water. Still water is easily contaminated by foreign matter, breeding bacteria, viruses and insect pests, so it is not suitable for drinking to avoid getting sick; The so-called "light" is the good water that has a light texture and floats on it; Inferior water has a heavy texture and sinks underneath, which is what we now call soft water and hard water.

Modern science believes that those that contain more than eight milligrams of magnesium-ionized calcium per liter of water are called hard water, and vice versa.

In nature, only snow water, rainwater, and dew are pure soft water, and the ancients have always liked to use this water to make tea, and now it seems that there is really a little scientific truth.

After practice, soft water is used to make tea, and the color, aroma and taste of the tea soup are good; When tea is brewed with hard water, the tea soup will change color, and the color, fragrance and taste of the tea will be greatly reduced. The weight of the water should also include the amount of other minerals contained in the water. For example, iron salt solution, alkaline solution, etc. can increase the weight of water, and make tea with water containing too much iron and alkali substances, and the tea soup will also float up a layer of "rust oil". Because the tea contains tea polyphenols, the tea soup will turn black brown when it encounters an iron salt solution in the water.

The people of the Qing Dynasty also paid attention to distinguishing the quality of water by the weight of the water, and assessed the grade of water by its weight.

According to the Qing Dynasty Lu Yiyan's "Lenglu Miscellaneous Knowledge" record: Qianlong for the quality of the country's water, make a silver bucket of precision spring water, to the quality of the water to divide the high and low, the result of "the water of the Jingshi Yuquan Mountain, the bucket weighs one or two, the same is true of the water plugged on the Yixun, the rest of the water: Jinan Pearl Spring weighs more than two cents, the Yangtze River Jinshan Xialing weighs more than three cents, Huishan, Tiger Run weighs more than four cents, Pingshan weighs more than six cents, Qingliang Mountain, Baisha, Tiger Hill and Biyun Temple of Xishan each weigh more than one cent. Then the jade spring water was determined to be the first spring in the world, and the "first spring of the jade spring water in the world" was made. And measure the snow water, three centimeters lighter than the jade spring, in case of good snow, it will be collected. However, the snow falls from the air, not from the ground, so it is not included in the ranking of Pinquan. The water quality of the cover is different, and the specific gravity is different.

Qianlong distinguished the quality of spring water by the quality of water, which is an originality, and it also shows that the Qing royal family paid attention to the water used for drinking tea.

In addition to the water quality of the ancients' tea boiling, it also required the water to be sweet and cold (cold).

The sweetness of the water flavor is also called sweet and cold, sweet and fragrant.

The ancients called the spring water sweet spring with beautiful taste, and the fragrant air called the fragrant spring. If you are unwilling, you will lose the taste of tea; If the water is not cold, it tastes astringent. Therefore, the water quality of sencha is required to be cool and sweet. The ancients liked to use snow water to sencha, which is to take its sweet and cold meaning. When it comes to the coldness of water, the ancients first recommended "ice water". Qin Wangjia of the Jin Dynasty said in "Collecting Memories": "Penglai Mountain ice water, drinkers are thousands of years old." ”

In addition to "clear, lively, light, sweet and cold", water can be divided into two categories according to the source: one is called the heavenly spring, and the other is called the earth spring.

Heavenly Spring, as the name suggests, is a spring from the sky, which can be divided into rain, snow, and dew.

The literati of the Ming Dynasty paid attention to the use of heavenly springs, and they had different evaluations of the rainwater of heavenly springs in spring, summer, autumn and winter. These people believe that the rain in autumn is the best for cooking tea, followed by the rain in the rainy season, and then the spring rain, and in the summer, there are many heavy rains, and the water quality is the worst, so they do not advocate using it for tea.

They also believe that rainwater must be collected with a clean white cloth and received in the middle of the patio. As for the rainwater that flows from the eaves, it cannot be used.

And snow water, because of the saying of Rui Xue's abundant year, is based on the ancients believed that snow water is the essence of the five grains, and it is the most elegant to cook tea. The Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi has a poem: "Chant frost hair sentences, taste snow water tea".

Dew, also known as "heavenly wine", was the drink of the ancient gods. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" wrote: "The dew of the fairy hill descends, and the immortals often drink it." Nowadays, people often often use the food clouds and clouds to drink the morning dew as a metaphor for the gods who do not eat fireworks. Among the Chinese emperors, Qianlong paid the most attention to drinking dew. He often goes to Chengde Summer Resort in summer to escape the heat, and likes to collect the dew on the lotus leaves in Taiping Lake to make tea, which is better than the jade spring water of the first spring in the world.

Although rain, snow and dew have all these wonderful things, in today's air pollution, unless it is deep in the mountains and old forests or far away from the city factories and people, it is not advisable to drink this kind of water.

The heavenly spring is the water of the sky, and the spring of the earth is naturally the underground water.

Lu Yu recorded in the "Book of Tea" that the mountains and rivers, the rivers and the wells are underwater.

Just for the water of making tea, Qingyun Langyuan is very painstaking, not only ask people to take water from all over the spring for testing, but also specially ask the master to make tea with water to see which kind of water is the best to make tea, and the final result is not the water taken from the famous springs in various places, but the groundwater in an underground karst cave in Shennongjia and the snow water from the Kunlun Snow Peak.

The water is taken on the same day and brought here by special plane on the same day for cooking, making tea and cooking.

Not to mention, the tea and things brewed with this water taste really better, and it has a rare sweetness. Not only the water, but also the vegetables, meat, and rice used for cooking in Qingyun Langyuan are all grown in their own places, without adding any chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and they are all pure natural things, so the price is naturally high.

Here, a few hundred yuan per brew of tea is the lowest level of consumption.

Therefore, Lai Hengchang will cry and mourn when he sees Xin Jinrou coming here, because eating here for 100,000 is nothing at all, and you may go bankrupt if you eat. Fifty-year-old wine, 100-year-old Moutai, and 200-year-old rice wine, which are rare to see outside, are all available here, not only these, but also pure natural and pollution-free wild vegetables, shrimp and crabs, wild mushrooms, and fresh fish and shrimp caught in the deep sea. The master of cooking is the descendant of the one who gave Cixi the spoon back then, and the master of fresh cuisine is also a veteran who has been passed down from generation to generation.

Because the materials are exquisite, the master cooks, and the master cooks, the price of the things sold is naturally high, which is a matter of course. (To be continued......)