Chapter 498: The Tea Ceremony Divergent Path
There is no such thing as love and hate for no reason.
Maybe, but it will never appear in the adult world, when I was a child, my little friend would coldly hand you a piece of candy to eat, and I didn't need you to help him carry his schoolbag, and I didn't need you to write homework for him, the purpose was very simple, just wanted to give you food, wanted to share this simple sweetness with you, and replied to him "It's very sweet", and he was very satisfied.
However, that is a child's world, that is an unpolluted pure land, the child will eventually grow up, and will eventually be rendered colorful by this complex world, and when he grows up and gives you a piece of candy, will he just ask you for a "very sweet" admiration?
The adult world is completely different.
A person you don't know is suddenly a hundred times more enthusiastic about you, but anyone who passes the emotional intelligence can't help but murmur in your heart.
Why did he do it? What was his purpose in doing this? What benefit does he want from me? Could there be some big conspiracy hidden in this?
Completely different ideas, what has changed?
Perhaps, nothing has changed, only the world in the eyes has changed.
Li Su is no longer a child, whether he is vulgar or a philistine, the world in his eyes is no longer innocent after all, when someone treats him well, he is not exempt from vulgarity, and he must always doubt the other party's motives.
After all, a person is very popular, people who hate dogs are inexplicably good to themselves, and they can't wait to put on a posture of burning yellow paper and cutting off the head of a chicken on the spot, if he is completely aimless, Li Su's two lives will be in vain.
"King Qi?" Dongyang's face suddenly became a little solemn: "Qi King Li You? He...... Back to Chang'an? ”
"Yes, we had a feast the day before yesterday."
Dongyang's action of cooking tea stopped, put down the teaspoon in his hand, straightened up and said solemnly: "You must stay away from him!" He's not a good guy! ”
Li Su's eyelids jumped: "Whose child did he throw into the well?" ”
"Don't make a fuss! You really need to stay away from him! "Dongyang is very serious.
Li Su blinked: "Every bad boy has done a few embarrassing bad things, tell me quickly, what bad things he has done." ”
Dongyang sighed. "He has done more than a few bad things, it is not too much to describe it as 'too many bamboos', he is only seventeen years old this year, and four years ago, he was only thirteen years old." He tortured and killed more than ten palace maids in the palace, do you know about 'torture and killing'? Burned alive with fire, scalded alive with a soldering iron, strangled alive with a rope...... He is the son of Concubine Yin, he has been arrogant since he was a child, he has an uncle, named Yin Hongzhi, because of the Xuanwumen Change, he reported the conspiracy of the prince and was relied on by his father. After his father ascended the throne, he appointed Yin Hongzhi as the servant of the ministry, this person was cold and vicious, narrow-minded, and he would repay him, and Li You, the king of Qi, had a lot of dealings with him, and was bewitched by him a lot, and he urinated viciously since he was a child, not only the subordinates in the palace were tortured and killed as livestock at every turn. The same is true for the people outside......"
“…… In the ninth year of Zhenguan, Li You traveled to Jingzhou. Assassin Shi out of the welcome half an hour slowly, he actually ordered the guard of honor to kill the master of Jingzhou on the spot, this incident shocked the government and the opposition, more than a dozen imperial historians of the imperial history platform cried blood, and finally the father was partial, and only punished Li You for thinking about it behind closed doors for more than half a year. As for the evil things such as Li You's **** women and children, fish and flesh people, etc., there are countless people, and there are no less than dozens of Li You's participation in the DPRK and China every year......"
Dongyang stared at Li Su and said solemnly: "Yes to this person." You must be careful, don't get too close to him, this person's notoriety is well known, and even the children of those uncles' families dare not have too deep a relationship with him, because ...... He is simply a cancer in Chang'an City, and no one dares to mess with him. ”
Li Su suddenly understood why those gentlemen kept their distance from Li You the day before yesterday, this person is not just a bastard, he is simply a demon, no one wants to have anything to do with him, and being able to reluctantly share a room with him for a banquet is already amazing.
Li Su was silent for a long time, and said with a smile: "I am so timid, naturally I dare not mess with it, don't worry." ”
Dongyang glared at him and said angrily, "Are you cowardly? You're so daring. ”
"I'm very timid, you see, I want to touch your hand for half an hour, and I don't dare to do it now......" Li Su said and suddenly held her slender hand, Dongyang wanted to withdraw his hand, but Li Su's strength was too great, so he had to give up and glared at him angrily.
"It's all your fault, the tea soup is boiling! The taste is completely bad! After a short period of warmth, Dongyang suddenly realized.
"It's okay, one boil is the same as two boils, anyway, I can't drink the difference......" Li Su didn't care about the authenticity, in fact, it was better not to drink it, he was really not interested in today's so-called tea soup, the taste was too strange.
"How can it be the same? One boiling is not the same as two boiling. "Dongyang is very particular about the tea ceremony, and he can't rub sand in his eyes.
So Dongyang turned around and ordered someone to change the tea soup and prepare a new set of ingredients, this time the two of them didn't speak, and quietly went through the routine of cooking tea again.
When the tea soup was boiling, Dongyang scooped the dark yellow soup into the tea cup with a tea spoon, picked up the tea cup with both hands and raised his eyebrows, and handed it to Li Su.
Li Su looked at the tea soup in front of him that exuded a trace of strange taste, and his face couldn't help but feel bitter.
Mess up everything put in it, drink it down and I'm really worried about whether it will be poisoned, in other words, Sun Simiao Dao is quite far away from himself, I'm afraid he won't be able to save himself if he is poisoned, a Tang Yingjie who can obviously shake the past and the present was poisoned alive by Her Royal Highness the Princess, should the epitaph be engraved with a capital "injustice" word, or a capital "stupid" word?
Dongyang Ping's wrist holding the teacup was already a little sour, and seeing Li Su's facial features tangled, his expression was hesitant, and he looked like he had been given to commit suicide, and couldn't help but say angrily: "Are you afraid that I will harm you?" ”
"Don't be afraid." Li Su smiled dryly, took the tea cup, and the tea soup in it swayed, reflecting the sparkling waves.
Facing Dongyang's expectant gaze, Li Su sighed secretly, medicine is too underdeveloped these days...... Gastric lavage should have been invented.
Closing his eyes, Li Su picked up the teacup and drank it all.
The tea soup enters the stomach, and an indescribable taste gradually spreads in the mouth, with a hint of ginger, grease, slight spiciness, and a hint of bitterness...... It is said that there is a neuropathy that combines the tea ceremony with Confucianism, if this is the case, Qin Shi Huang should have ******** Confucianism.
"Good tea!" Li Su blurted out praise, it's okay not to praise it, this is the convention, no matter how bad it is, you have to shout well. Otherwise, there will be another one......
"Really?" Dongyang was overjoyed.
"Really." Li Su tried to make his expression very sincere.
"One more." Dongyang moved quickly, and the brush was filled again.
Li Su: "............"
Sometimes there is a terrible price to pay!
In the gazebo, there was a long silence.
"Drink......" Dongyang blinked, and the look of expectation was impossible to refuse.
But...... Li Su felt that his stomach was showing signs of rebellion.
"I think you should talk about life when you drink tea." Li Su said solemnly and put down the teacup.
"Tea should be served hot in your mouth. Swallow it slowly, taste the transformation of various different flavors, in order to appreciate the various wonderful meanings of Confucianism, don't be cold. Dongyang professionally rejected Li Su's tricks.
Li Su sighed and said, "Okay, let's talk about a big topic, the so-called tea ceremony in this world has actually gone astray, and I think it should be changed." ”
"Misguided?"
"Yes. Forked road! Li Su showed an arrogant face and said, "Tea, it's not like this." ”
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It's very confusing, the Tang Dynasty has famous poetry, exquisite and delicate porcelain, smooth silk, and ...... Lonely as snow day khan?
However, people in Datang don't know how to drink tea. It's really incomprehensible that this troublesome and earthy way of drinking tea was not broken by a forerunner named Lu Yu until nearly a hundred years later.
Li Su couldn't wait a hundred years. He was very afraid that Dongyang would be addicted to playing the tea ceremony, so he was caught every now and then as a guinea pig to try tea, and the young Yingjie, who was rare in a century, could not die in the hands of tea.
How should I drink tea?
It's complicated.
In his previous life, Li Su drank tea very simply, a five-liter large steel cup, grabbed a handful of tea leaves and threw them in, and drank it as soon as the boiling water was brewed. Drink two large glasses a day, from morning to night, a hundred times more energetic, especially refreshing.
After returning from the Taoist temple in Dongyang, Li Su became interested in drinking tea.
In fact, the main thing is to miss the taste of the past life. In this era, there are not many past lives that can be recovered.
The process of roasting tea is complicated, first of all...... Have tea.
Nowadays, tea is not cultivated on a large scale, and most of it is wild, because tea tasting is a very small demand in the upper circles, the supply is very small, and there are no special tea farmers to grow, and the most urgent thing is still food that can fill the stomach.
Collecting fresh tea is very simple, Taiping Village has, now people do not pay attention to the variety of tea, tea is probably the same, Li Su ordered, idle veterans immediately have a new task, so a group of people went up the mountain to pick tea, a day of hard work to collect a hundred catties, Li Su estimated that this group of veterans has been the wild tea trees on the mountain near Taiping Village to exterminate the family.
The freshly picked tea leaves are spread out in the Li family's compound to dry, a process called "spreading green", the purpose of which is to use sunlight to remove moisture and astringency from fresh tea leaves.
The next thing is to finish, yes, "finishing" is not only a film and television term, it is the earliest term for fried tea, this process requires the tea leaves to be placed in a hot cauldron and kept turning and rubbing, rubbing, rubbing and rubbing, just like a hooligan who met a beautiful woman in the middle of the night......
Until the tea leaves are kneaded into the shape of a wide middle and two pointed ends, and finally stir-fried and baked in the pot, so that the fragrance of the tea itself can be emanated, this process is called "Titian".
The process is not complicated, but Li Su is not professional, some memories are just fragments, and many attempts have been unsuccessful.
In the kitchen of the Li family, the cook was kicked out by Li Su, and he went into the kitchen alone to be busy, carrying baskets of tea leaves, dissatisfied or failed, and throwing out baskets again......
The strange behavior alarmed Dad and Xu Mingzhu, and after Steward Xue's report, Li Daozheng and Xu Mingzhu hurriedly came to the kitchen door, and happened to see a piece of tea that had failed to fly out of the kitchen, and it was sprinkled all over the ground like rain.
"What's wrong?" Li Daozheng frowned, looking a little worried.
Xu Mingzhu was even more anxious, but she couldn't show it in front of Li Daozheng, for fear of being blamed for being undignified, so she could only secretly grit her teeth and be anxious.
"Husband...... The husband is too worried about state affairs, and it doesn't matter if he takes a few tea tree leaves to spill his anger, Ah Weng is not in a hurry. (To be continued.) )