Chapter 57: Taste

Tea has been recorded since ancient times, Yu Wuya has also heard people talk about it, medical warlocks sometimes use it to treat some diseases, and the taste is bitter, I have never seen anyone pick and eat it on weekdays, and I have never heard that tea can be treated like this, is it not bitter after frying?

Since it's still bitter, why stir-fry, it's the same to eat it directly!

However, he didn't dare to jump to conclusions about what Chen Xu did.

After all, this young man is not an ordinary person, he has an incredible way of stitching up his wounds, and he also makes his own hemostatic medicine, so that he can be rescued from the ghost gate in a state of almost serious injury and dying, so he must not look at Chen Xu, a young man, with an idle person.

And Chen Jiang is not surprised by the recent changes in her son, and she will occasionally ask at first, but she will do whatever her son says recently, she believes that no matter what happens to her son, it will always be her son, and it will make this family better and better.

In just half a month, their family has become the most envied object of the people in the village, and her status has improved a lot in the village, all the women are willing to talk to her, and everyone welcomes him with a smile when they see him.

No one doesn't like the feeling of being respected.

Chen Jiang's illiterate and ignorant of the big truth, with hard work to pull the two eldest children, but he understands the sophistication of human feelings, the cold and helplessness in the past seem to wake up with his son, everything is gone with the wind, and the life of the family is getting better day by day.

Since her son said that this kind of tea can make a lot of money, she is definitely obedient and supports her son to do it.

"Alright, ready to cook!"

After frying it over and over again for nearly an hour, the tea leaves in the clay pot have dried out, and the appearance has turned dark brown, and the volume has shrunk by more than ten times.

Chen Xu took down the clay pot and put it on the ground, and then continued to turn it with his hands, as the temperature of the clay pot gradually decreased, he finally stopped completely, and then held his wrist and shook it gently.

It seems that frying tea is not an easy job, and after continuous stir-frying for nearly an hour, he feels that his wrists are sore.

"Brother Xu, how should I eat this tea?" Niu Dashi squatted in front of the clay pot and asked with a puzzled face.

"It's not for eating, it's for soaking in water to drink, hurry up and boil a can of boiling water, and you'll know when the time comes!"

"I'm going to get firewood!" Niu Dashi immediately stood up, Xing'er also hurriedly rekindled the fire in the stove, and Chen Jiang turned around and filled a jar of water.

In the process of boiling water, Chen Xu found a dry bamboo tube and filled it with the tea leaves that had become cold.

The tea leaves must be sealed and not left open for too long, otherwise the fragrance will soon be lost.

A group of people were sitting in the courtyard looking at the jug on the stove, full of anticipation and very apprehensive at the same time, only the old god Chen Xu was there.

The tea fried in this way is called green tea in later generations, almost maintaining most of the nutrients of the tea, but it has not been fermented, there will be a green and astringent taste when drinking, but at the same time, it also retains the fragrance of tea to the greatest extent, and has a special effect on preventing aging, preventing cancer and anti-cancer, sterilization and anti-inflammatory.

Tea is also divided into many types according to the different production processes, such as green tea, white tea, black tea, yellow tea, green tea, black tea, etc., these different types of tea have their own representative varieties in later generations, such as Biluochun, Longjing, Maofeng, Tieguanyin, Jin Junmei, Qimen, Pu'er, etc.

But these are the Chinese tea customers after more than 2,000 years of continuous development and inheritance of the slowly formed, many of the production methods Chen Xu does not know, only the rural home-fried green tea slightly understand, and this is also the fastest, most convenient and easiest tea making process, fast and simple.

"The water is boiling, brother, the water is boiling!" Xing'er, who had been guarding the boiling water, excitedly pointed to the jug and shouted.

Chen Xu stood up, put a small handful of freshly fried tea leaves into a large bamboo tube that usually holds water, and then lifted the boiling water jug off the stove, and left it for more than ten seconds to wait for the boiling level to breathe, then poured half a cylinder of water into the bamboo tube, covered it with a lid and simmered for about three minutes, and then opened the lid.

"Hiss~" As the hot air rose into the air, Chen Xu couldn't help but take a deep breath, and a fragrance of tea that seemed to have been lost for thousands of years entered his heart and lungs.

It's still the same familiar taste, but it seems to be more charming, and the fragrance is mixed with a primitive natural greenness, which is refreshing.

There was a row of drinking bamboo cups on the wooden horse, and Chen Xu poured half a cup into each cup.

"Come, let's try it and see what the tea tastes like? Be careful ...... scalding"

Before Chen Xu's hot words could be spoken, Niu Dashi couldn't wait to pick up a cup and take a big sip, then spit it out, covering his mouth and screaming.

Yu Wuya took a cup under his nose and sniffed it gently, then took a small sip, his body shook slightly, his face became very surprised, and then he couldn't wait to take a small sip, and actually closed his eyes and began to taste.

Chen Jiang and Xing'er also took a cup and began to taste it, and Chen Xu was also very excited and apprehensive to pick up a cup.

Blowing gently, and then taking a sip gently, as the tea soup enters the throat, an incomparably familiar rich tea fragrance spreads in the mouth, and after a slight bitterness, it quickly turns into a long sweetness and sweetness.

What kind of tea tree is this, it tastes very strange!

After drinking the first sip, Chen Xu himself was a little stunned, the tea seemed to be fried a little urgently, so there was a slight mushy taste, but this is not the main thing, the main thing is that this tea will soon become very obvious sweetness after drinking, which is different from the green tea he drank in his later life.

Four flavors of green tea: bitter and sweet, but the sweetness is the weakest, generally called sweet, is bitter and sweet, only particularly tender tea will have, it is already summer, it has long passed the season of tea picking, and the older the tea bitter and thicker the sweeter the weaker, but this sip of tea, the whole mouth is filled with a fresh fragrance and sweetness.

In order to verify that his feeling was right, Chen Xu drank all the tea in a few sips, and the sweetness of this tooth and cheek fragrance was even more obvious.

Is it because of the tea plant?

Or is it because of the soil and climate?

Although he was puzzled by this, he quickly put these ideas behind him, and the tea flavor became sweet after the entrance, and the taste of tea was better, and it was more in line with the needs of people in this era, which was an absolute good thing.