Yahuan brought a pot of spring water, put it and stepped back.

Cui Junxuan opened the pot and sniffed the spring water in the pot, which was the clear spring water sent by the Fuzhong people to go to Zhongnan Mountain, dozens of miles away, early in the morning.

Exclusively for sencha.

Although now because the emperor loves to make tea, the world has gradually changed the style of drinking tea, from sencha to tea, but Cui Junxuan still likes to use the old method of sencha.

The small red clay charcoal stove has been burned, and various sencha seasonings such as ginger, onions, garlic, orange peel, and green salt have also been prepared.

Take out a piece of good group tea, take the tea clip and put it on the fire to roast slightly, and after the tea is fragrant, it is shaped like the back of a shrimp toad, and then wrap it while it is hot, so as not to lose the aroma.

After the tea has cooled naturally, put it in a bowl and gently mash it into fine powder.

Cui Junxuan was not in a hurry and enjoyed the process.

He doesn't need a tea servant for sencha, he does it all by himself.

The small tandoor was filled with silver frost charcoal, and a silver kettle was set up to pour fresh mountain spring water.

Cook slowly on low heat, when the water is boiled until there are fish-like bubbles and a slight sound, this is a boil, Cui Junqiu added appropriate salt to the brine and removed the water film floating on the surface like biotite. This is a crucial step, otherwise it will not taste right.

Then continue to heat and boil, until the edge of the water bubbles like a spring, this is the second boil.

Scoop out a spoonful of water from a silver pot and stir in the boiling water with a bamboo clip to add the pounded tea.

When the tea soup bubbles in the pot are like waves, this is the three boiling, adding the water scooped out at the second boiling point, so that the boiling is suspended to nurture its bloom, and then other ingredients can be put in.

When the water boils again, the tea soup is ready.

Tea should be drunk hot, especially the first bowl of tea soup is the best, it is not timeless, and the later the worse.

Cui Jun drinks tea and doesn't like to be disturbed, this is the rule in the house, everyone knows that if you disturb at this time, you will be punished.

Cui Junqiu's teacup is very beautiful, it is a delicate purple sand teacup, he doesn't like to drink tea like those nouveau riche nouveau riche, holding a white porcelain cup from Xingyao Cave in Hebei or a celadon cup from Jiangnan, that is drinking, how can you drink tea.

If you drink tea, you have purple sand, which is the best grade.

Scoop out the first cup of tea, holding the hot tea in your hand, just about to drink it while it's hot.

But there was a knock on the door.

"Aaron."

Cui Junxuan put down the teacup, his face was ugly.

"What?"

"Ah Lang, something happened to Goro in Shengyefang, the house was raided, and Goro was also taken away."

Cui Jun frowned.

What did he do? Which one of the yamen took him? ”

"It seems that the steward of the Wulang family bought and sold the prescription with a veteran soldier who did business in the West Market, and it was the people of Chang'an Mansion who took Gorou away."

Cui Junxuan took a sip of hot tea.

"A little thing, panic, what kind of system, take my post to Chang'an Mansion and hand it to Changsun Mansion Yin, go to inquire about the situation, and then report it after figuring it out."

Putting down the teacup, Cui Jun couldn't help but think of the past.

At that time, it was the post-Three Kingdoms era, and the Northern Qi, Northern Zhou and Southern Chen were in dispute. At that time, the Qinghe Cui clan was famous, and he was the leader of the northern Shi clan. At that time, the maternal grandfather of Dugu, the wife of Yang Jian, a heavy minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was Cui Yanzhen, and his father was Cui Yanzhen's younger brother Cui Yanmu.

Dugu Xin, one of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, was his cousin-in-law, and Yang Jian, the later prime minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was his niece and son-in-law.

With this relationship, Cui Yanmu was the prince of Dongjun in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and when Zhou Shizong was the general, he entered the hussar general, the Kaifu Yitong three divisions, the governor of Obaian Prefecture, the military of eleven states, and the history of Anzhou Thorn, and became the doctor of Yuzhengzhong.

In the second year of the elephant, Emperor Xuan collapsed, Yang Jian was the prime minister, the three sides raised troops, Cui Yanmu was the head of the march, led the troops and Wang Yi, the governor of Xiangzhou, to discuss Sima to eliminate difficulties, and the army entered Jingzhou, killing Dugu Yongye, the governor of Jingzhou with different aspirations, guarding Jingzhou, and destroying Sima.

Shiping, he was edicted to enter the court, awarded the governor of Xiangzhou, the military of the six states, the history of Xiangzhou assassination, and the general was awarded, and there were 2,000 households.

At that time, his father was famous in the government and the opposition, and Cui Junxuan also joined the army as a soldier of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Yang Jian destroyed Zhou Lisui, the year name Kaihuang, this year his father died of illness, Cui Jun was the duke of Dongjun, and became the prince of Yang Yong's east palace.

Cui Junsui was deeply relied on by the crown prince Yang Yong in the East Palace, but unfortunately in the end Yang Yong was deposed, Yang Guang succeeded in winning the heir, and Cui Junqiu, who was originally the cousin of Queen Dugu, was implicated, and was expelled from the people after being scolded by the cane, and the male members of the family were exiled to Lingnan, and the female dependents were not included in the court.

That was a great blow to the Cui clan of Qinghe, and it can even be said to be another heavy blow to the Cui clan since Cui Hao of the Northern Wei Dynasty was exterminated by the nine clans because of the history of repairing the country.

Fortunately, at that time, Cui Junqiu had a daughter who was favored by Yang Guang in the palace, and the children of the Cui family had to return to the Central Plains, and the female dependents also returned home.

However, this time the blow was still very big, Cui Junqiu not only lost the title of Duke of Dongjun and the official position of the court, but even the children of the family were not allowed to enter the palace for a time, and the family property was only returned less than one ten.

It was also from that time that Cui Junxuan became low-key.

He finally understood that the name of the leader of the northern scholar clan and the touting of the head of the five surnames and seven families was actually vulnerable in front of the emperor.

If the emperor really wants to do it, he can directly uproot the entire Cui family.

In that year, the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty destroyed the nine clans of the Cui family, and Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty almost made the Cui family recover.

After this incident, Cui's kept a lot of low profile.

It is also this low-key that allowed the Cui family to repeatedly escape catastrophes in the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, especially after the founding of the Great Qin, the old nobles of the old scholar clan were dissatisfied with the new dynasty and secretly rebelled.

As a result, the Taiyuan Wang clan was almost wiped out, leaving only Wang Tong and Wang Jue, Xingyang Zheng clan, Boling Cui clan, Fanyang Lu clan, Longxi Li clan, Zhaojun Li clan and many other centuries and thousands of years of scholars, all suffered punishment blows, and many large clans were exiled, but Cui Junqiu's branch was never implicated.

What if you don't have a title, what if you don't have an official position?

Cui Junxuan sees it very clearly, the new dynasty and the old dynasty alternate, and it is always a gentleman and a courtier, which is very normal. As long as Cui's doesn't block the car with his mantis arm, with the family wealth accumulated by Cui's thousands of years, as well as family education, there is always a great chance to come out again.

Isn't the imperial court now engaged in a big imperial examination?

Cui Junxuan thought that this was an opportunity, so he let the children of the clan study and prepare for the exam with peace of mind.

Of course, a child of a side branch of the clan like Cui Shanfu can go out to be an official, and he also supports it, after all, there are people in the court who are good at doing things. And it would be better for a more side-branched concubine like Cui Cong to go out to manage the clan industry.

After all, it costs money to study and prepare for the exam, and it is not enough to rely on the real estate of the land, not to mention that now the imperial court always restricts the land and the officials all pay the grain in one, and the huge expenses in the clan still need to be supported by industrial and commercial operations. The children of the side branch run the industry, and they usually have to pay tribute to the clan every year, and the clan takes a proportional commission, for a patriarch like Cui Junxuan, this is a rule for thousands of years, and it is a matter of course. Since he is a member of the Cui clan, he has to contribute.

Those who study will become officials in the future, and they will take care of their clansmen.

Those who do not study and do business should support their families with money.

Qinghe Cui's family now has eight branches, which have been scattered for thousands of years, isn't it just like this.

Cui Shanfu is Cui Junqiu's nephew, and Cui Shanfu's father is the son of Cui Junxuan's father and concubine, and his status is low. Therefore, Cui Shanfu's status in the Cui clan is not high, even if he joins the army as a Gongcao in Chang'an County now, it will not change much.

As for Cui Cong, he is actually Cui Shanfu's brother, but Cui Cong's mother is a slave in the house, and his status is even lower.

Cui Cong's restaurant is not bad, and he can pay a lot of tribute to the clan every year.

The knock on the door rang again.

Cui Junxuan looked down at the teacup, the tea was already cold, and a good pot of tea was wasted.

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