In April, Shezhou City, see tea, hear tea, smell tea, tea is everywhere, if Xuanzhou "Xie Weilou" flew down ten bricks to hit nine is a poet, then from Shezhou City "Taibai Building" down to smash bricks smashed into ten ** is a tea merchant. (Eye to the book)

  The tea merchants of the Song Kingdom, the Southern Han Dynasty, and Wu Yue were almost dressed in the same costume as the Tang Kingdom, and the tea merchants from the Liao Kingdom, Tubo, Dangxiang, and Dali were dressed in strange clothes, some had their heads entangled, some had their hair, some had braids, and some had their capes, with gold rings in their ears, scimitars at their waists, nostrils facing the sky, and they laughed toothily.

  Zhou Xuan and his entourage entered the city from the south gate of Shezhou City, heard the noise of gongs and drums, and a group of strange-shaped dancers danced in front of them, all wearing big masks, fierce and treacherous, exaggerated and gorgeous, from the dancers' body shape, there are men and women, the male is naked, the upper body is decorated with vine leaves, the lower body is covered with animal skin, and the dance posture is clumsy and rough; The woman is wrapped in animal skin, hanging dill, dancing softly and slenderly-

  Fairy Jingyi was already a little in a trance, but when she suddenly saw these hideous masks, she was taken aback, and the "black rose" under her crotch was also frightened and stopped, and Fairy Jingyi planted it from the horse.

  Zhou Xuan followed on the side, naturally cheaper Zhou Xuan, nephrite warm fragrance hugged him, wow, Sister Daoyun's body is so fragrant, the fragrance of Phalaenopsis, and, through the two layers of clothes, you can also feel the tenderness of Sister Daoyun's skin-

  Lin Hanyun hurriedly took her sister's slender feet in sheepskin boots out of the horse pedal and carried her legs to the ground.

  Fairy Jingyi's heart was pounding, and she gently pushed Zhou Xuan away to stand firm, and said, "Brother Xuan, I won't ride a horse anymore." It's scary. ”

  Zhou Xuan comforted: "Sister is not such a fearful person, it's okay, don't you have me to protect you." I won't let my sister fall to the ground. ”

  Fairy Jingyi thought about Brother Xuan's hug just now, and her face flushed: "It's better not to ride when people come and go in this city, wait until I return to the suburbs, and let Hanyun teach me to ride a horse." ”

  Lin Hanyun wrinkled her nose and said: "It's best for Brother Zhou Xuan to teach, my sister accidentally falls, he can just hold it, I don't have that much strength!" ”

  The accompanying Judge Fan, the three idiots, as well as Mingfeng, Jianyue and others pretended not to hear it one by one. Concentrate on watching the masks dance with men and women.

  Rao is like this, Fairy Jingyi is still ashamed like a peach blossom, and there is no veil to cover it. The delicate shyness made Zhou Xuan's eyes straight, the beautiful red luan, and the moth was chasing after it!

  Zhou Xuan and the others led the horses to the side and let those dancers with ghost masks pass, and Judge Fan explained: "This is a sacrifice to the god of tea and a dance. ”

  Zhou Xuan asked: "Isn't the God of Tea Lu Yu?" ”

  Judge Fan shook his head and said: "The tea gods are different everywhere, Shezhou belongs to the ancient mountains and Yue country, and they believe in the gods of mountains and rivers, tea is an important source of wealth for the people of Shezhou, and the annual sacrifice is particularly grand, and this tea god does not know the name of the honorable person." It seems to have become one with the local mountain gods. ”

  Fairy Jingyi said: "In Shinshu, the god of tea is Lu Yu. ”

  Zhou Xuanxi said: "When the time comes, you must go and worship Lu Yu, the god of tea." ”

  Lin Hanyun said with a smile: "Well, it's good, my sister is a tea fairy, and Zhou Xuan's brother is a tea demon, and we worship the tea god together." Maybe thousands of years later, you, the gods, immortals, and demons, will be sacrificed by future generations. ”

  Fairy Jingyi said angrily: "Hanyun, you are talking more and more presumptuous now, full of nonsense, who did you learn this from?" ”

  Lin Hanyun confessed and said: "I learned from Brother Zhou Xuan." ”

  Zhou Xuan was speechless. Look at the Jingyi fairy.

  Fairy Jingyi was lightly angry and angry. But a smile flashed in his eyes.

  Zeng Daqian caught up with him at this time and shouted: "Zhou Gongzi, Master Fan." Hurry up to the Ming Zhan Hall, the tea fight will start soon. ”

  The tea fighting place is located in the east of the city, under the twin towers of the stars, and the "Tea Battle Hall" by the bridge.

  "Ming Zhan Hall" is the joint donation of Shezhou tea merchants to build, lasted three years, cost more than 60,000 taels of silver, covers an area of dozens of acres, known as "36 patios, 72 sill windows", after the completion of the annual tea party is held here, and the most wonderful thing about the tea party is the tea fight. (Eye to the book)

  Zhou Xuan and others came to the "Tea Battle Hall" outside, only to see three exquisite bamboo sheds erected in front of the gate like an archway, each bamboo shed was cooking three pots of tea at the same time, Zhou Xuan saw a group of people entering, each group of people had a person in the tea shed to drink a sip of tea, and the elders in the bamboo shed talked a few words, and then let go.

  Zeng Daqian introduced: "If you want to enter this tea battle hall, you must first pass these three levels, that is, taste tea, say the name of the tea, if you can't even pass these three levels, then you don't have to go into the tea fight, you are not qualified." ”

  Zhou Xuan asked: "Why does that group of people only need one person to taste tea?" ”

  Zeng Daqian explained: "That group of people means a tea variety, which includes a tea merchant, a tea taster, and a servant with tea sets and tea leaves, and each type of tea is limited to two tea tasters, and the total number cannot exceed seven, as long as the tea taster identifies the name of the tea, all of them will be released." ”

  Zhou Xuan looked back at his group and said, "I'm one of us, and Sister Daoyun, Shopkeeper Zeng, and Mr. San-

  Lin Ning interjected: "Master, I won't go in, let the third brother accompany you in." ”

  Judge Fan said: "Zhou Gongzi, the lower official will not go in, the lower official has a friend who lives in seclusion outside the west gate of Shezhou City, and he has time to visit him today." ”

  Zhou Xuan said: "Lord Fan, please." ”

  Judge Fan took two of his relatives and went to Simon.

  Zhou Xuan continued: "Sister Hanyun must be watching the excitement, there are still two places, who will go?" ”

  Mingfeng and Jianyue said in unison: "Childe, the two of us are going." ”

  Xiahou Tassel said timidly: "Childe, Tassel also wants to go in." ”

  Zhou Xuan glanced at Xiahou Tassel and said, "What are you going to do?" Mingfeng and Jianyue have been serving fairies for many years, and they can also be called tea tasters, maybe they are stronger than me, so they will go to Mingfeng and Jianyue. ”

  Xiahou Tassel lowered his head, his eyelashes drooped, and his aggrieved appearance was really pitiful.

  Zhou Xuan ignored her and led the Huangshan Ercha team to start breaking through, he was quite confident in his tasting ability. The subtleties may not be as good as Jingyi Fairy, but the three levels of this bamboo shed should be no problem, I never expected that the first level would be stuck. I can't tell what kind of tea this is? It's safe to assume that he hadn't drunk this tea before.

  Fortunately, there is a rule that if one of the two tea tasters tastes what kind of tea is released, Fairy Jingyi only sniffed the fragrance of tea and said, "Changzhou black tea." "That's all over it.

  Zhou Xuan's face is not thin, and his face is purple and swollen at this time, so he is ashamed.

  The others didn't say anything, but Lin Hanyun refused to let go of Zhou Xuan, and was about to make fun of it, when Fairy Jingyi said: "Changzhou black tea is not among the famous teas. Brother Xuan has been in the Tang Kingdom for less than a year, and he doesn't know what this tea is, so the next level is Brother Xuan's tasting. ”

  It's still Sister Daoyun's gentle and understanding. Zhou Xuan really wanted to kiss her white peach cheeks, but he Zhou Qicha was not so easily discouraged, and waved his fist at Lin Hanyun and said, "I will never give up." Go to the second bamboo shed to take the tea, the old man handed over the tea cup to the ground, sniffed it, and said lightly: "Shouzhou yellow bud tea." ”

  The old man who cooked tea didn't say much, and signaled for release.

  Zhou Xuan strode forward, took the lead in entering the third bamboo shed, took a cup of fragrant tea, squinted his eyes and tasted it again and again, and did not speak.

  Lin Hanyun shook his head and said, "Brother Zhou Xuan can't taste it again." Sister, uh--scholar Jingyi, you go and taste it. ”

  Fairy Jingyi stood aside and smelled the fragrance of tea wafting from Zhou Xuan's teacup, this is Lushan Yunwu tea, it is impossible for Brother Xuan not to distinguish it. glanced at Lin Hanyun, stretched out a sharp index finger, and made a gesture to poke her forehead.

  Zhou Xuan drank up a cup of tea, and Tao Ran said: "Beauty should not be abrupt, and good tea should not be wasted." I'm going to finish it carefully—" said to the old man who cooked tea: "The old man is good at tea." This Lushan cloud tea is cooked with Lugu Valley curtain spring water, which is really wonderful! ”

  The old man who cooked tea smiled kindly. said: "In front of the nine tea teams, the tea taster put down as soon as he touched his lips, and after saying the name of Lushan Yunwu Tea, he hurried into the tea battle hall, only this son will drink it all, the son is a real tea lover, and the old man has something to give——" As he spoke, he took a cylindrical purple clay pot from the tea table and handed it to Zhou Xuan: "The son is destined, please put it away." ”

  Zhou Xuan saw the teapot, thanked the old man for cooking tea, stepped out of the third bamboo shed, and looked at the teapot in his hand while walking, but saw two poems on it, namely:

  "Come and sit among the pines and watch the snow on the boiled pines. When it is in the waves, and it is at the end of the blue Ying. The rest of the essence is refreshing and healthy, and suddenly the atmosphere is extinguished. It's not suitable for other books, but it's appropriate to peek at the jade -

  I like to see the ghost meeting, and the first wild guest tea. The day becomes the east well leaf, and the dew picks the north mountain buds. The simmering incense is favorable, and the cold spring flavor turns to Jia. Throwing bells and foaming, bowls gather flowers. A little closer to the Zen scriptures, talk about sleeping on credit. Knowing that the monarch is in the eyes of the sky, this meaning is endless. ”

  Zhou Xuan pointed to the poems on the teapot and looked at the Jingyi Fairy, although the Jingyi Fairy was not good at poetry, but he remembered a lot of poems related to tea, and said: "Sitting in the pine is Tortoise Meng's poem "Boiling Tea"; I am happy to see that the ghost will be a poet and monk who "drank Tianmu camellia to Lu Xun, and was in Jiyuan Jushisheng". ”

  Zhou Xuan kept these two poems in his heart, and handed the teapot to Mingfeng to collect, and Mingfeng and Jianyue each held a basket in their hands, each with a set of tea sets and a pot of sealed water.

  "Ming Zhan Tang" is magnificent, just like the prince's mansion, with pink walls, green tiles, horse-head walls, bricks, wood and stone carvings, and multi-storey courtyards, high ridge cornices, winding corridors, there is really a sense of "the courtyard is deep and deep".

  Zhou Xuan saw that the door covers, window lintels, and inlaid bricks on the walls were carved with vivid and realistic figures, insects and fish, flowers and birds, eight treasures, and Bogu patterns, which were extremely decorative.

  zigzagged through the seven patios to a spacious hall, where there were already fifty or sixty people, but it was not crowded at all.

  Zeng Daqian reported loudly: "Huangshan Rongcheng tea, Fuqiu tea is also here!" ”

  Everyone in the hall turned their heads to look at it, and some said: "Rongcheng tea, Fuqiu tea, I haven't heard of it." ”

  A tea merchant recognized Zeng Daqian and sneered: "It's those two kinds of Huangshan inferior tea, thinking that changing the name of the tea can be sold at a high price and making a windfall, it's really ridiculous!" It's ridiculous! ”

  Zeng Daqian said angrily: "I wish the shopkeeper, my Huangshan Rongcheng tea is not inferior to the top ten famous teas, how dare you say that it is inferior tea, it is too deceitful!" ”

  Zhou Xuan patted Zeng Daqian on the shoulder: "Shopkeeper Zeng, don't be knowledgeable with the ignorant, I believe that Huangshan Xiancha will definitely be famous for the tea party." ”

  The tea merchant surnamed Zhuhe squinted at Zhou Xuan and asked, "Are you the shopkeeper who invited the tea taster?" ”

  To such rude people. Zhou Xuan was even more rude than him, so he didn't bother to pay attention to him, and found a round table by himself. There were four round stools at the round table, he, Jingyi Fairy, Lin Hanyun, and Zeng Daqian sat separately, the three idiots stood behind him with their arms crossed, and Mingfeng and Jianyue put the basket on the table and stood behind the Lin sisters.

  Seeing that Zhou Xuan ignored him, the shopkeeper Zhu was very angry, and whispered a few words to a person behind him, and the person walked over. Chao Zhou Xuangong arched his hand and said: "In the lower road, it is the tea taster of Shezhou Xie Yuan tea, and I have come to ask the tea master of Huangshan tea." A round of tea. ”

  Zhou Xuanxin said: "It turns out that he is also a tea merchant in Shezhou, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, Xie Yuancha naturally can't see Huangshan tea popping up to steal its business, and it will be suppressed if he seizes the opportunity." He said coldly: "Is there a problem with your ears, the shopkeeper has just signed up loudly, it is Huangshan Rongcheng Tea and Fuqiu Tea, if you want to fight with me, how can you even report the wrong name of our tea!" ”

  Xie Yuan's tea taster, Lu Hong, gradually blushed, staring at Zhou Xuan hatefully.

  The third idiot whispered: "Master, I once heard the fourth brother talk about this Lu Hongji. Last year, he fought with the fourth brother on the mountain, and if he was not the opponent of the fourth brother, the master could fight with him boldly. ”

  Zhu shopkeeper strode over and said: "If it is a famous tea, it will naturally not be wrong, you nameless inferior tea." It's not uncommon to report mistakes, not to mention that you are changing your name indiscriminately! ”

  Zhou Xuan sat still and asked, "May I ask the conditions for Mingzhan?" What happens to losers? ”

  Lu Hong gradually said: "Race tea, fight tea soup, compare camellia, please ask three of the top ten tea tasters last year to notarize, do you dare?" ”

  The shopkeeper Zhu added: "The loser will immediately withdraw from the Ming Zhan Hall. Don't change the name of the tea. Stay honest. ”

  Zhou Xuan said: "Such a bet is not strong enough to make people's blood boil. I propose, if Xie Yuancha loses, Xie Yuancha publicly announces his withdrawal from the top ten famous teas——"

  The corners of the three idiots' mouths pulled out a smile, this is Zhou Xuan's usual method, he always has a proposal when he bets, and then he raises crazily, so it is difficult for both sides to ride the tiger.

  I wish the shopkeeper a listen, wow, this bet is so vicious, if Xie Yuancha withdraws from the top ten famous teas, his tea house income will be at least three percent minus one percent, gritted his teeth and said: "I also propose, if Huangshan tea loses, the penalty is not allowed to sell tea this year, once the shopkeeper, dare to fight?" Hehe, shopkeeper Zeng, don't let the tea taster who doesn't know the height of the sky scatter your wealth! ”

  Zeng Daqian's face changed, and he was not allowed to sell tea, which was to cut off his financial route, how could hundreds of tea workers and tea farmers feed? Not only did the loss of that year be huge, but also had a very bad impact on future sales. Lu Hongjian ranked ninth among the top ten tea tasters last year, and was known as the first person in the southeast tea war of the Tang Kingdom.

  Zhou Xuan smiled slightly, the three idiots said that Lu Hongjian had fought tea with the four idiots, and won Lu Hongqian, and Jingyi Fairy Tea Art was slightly better than the four idiots, Jingyi Fairy wanted to win Lu Hongjian Naturally, now it depends on whether Zeng Daqian dares to fight, after all, this matter has to be decided by Zeng Daqian, and the tea taster has no right to make such a tragic bet.

  Zeng Daqian's face turned blue and white, white and blue, and his heart was fiercely fighting, whether to fight or not to fight? If this game can be won, then Huangshan Rongcheng Tea and Fuqiu Tea can be said to be famous in a battle, and if they beat Xie Yuan Tea, they will be able to dominate Shezhou, even if they can't enter the top ten famous teas in the end, the price of tea will definitely soar, but what about losing-

  Zhou Xuan said lightly: "Shopkeeper Zeng, this is a good opportunity, see if you can seize it, I won't say much, you decide for yourself." ”

  Zhu shopkeeper said with a smile: "Zeng shopkeeper, make a decision early, Mr. Lu Hongjian tea art you have seen, he can distinguish the smell of water in different sections of the same river, since the tea master you invited is eager to let you learn Taoism's quiet inaction, drink tea and become an immortal, you agree, you lose, you will be clean, you don't have to be busy all day long, haha." ”

  Zhu shopkeeper is actually a little apprehensive in his heart, although Lu Hong's tea skills are superb, and the Huangshan tea master in front of him is simply an unknown person, and he has not seen the tea party in previous years, but after all, he doesn't know the details, in case Yi Yihong gradually loses, it is terrible, so he wants to attack the heart, so scared Zeng Daqian did not dare to fight, so spread out, Xie Yuan tea increased fame again, and Huangshan tea was even more unaffordable, it can be said that he won without a fight, and surrendered without a fight.

  Zeng Daqian looked at Zhou Xuan, and then looked at the shopkeeper Zhu, in Shezhou Tea Market, he was suppressed by the ^H Zhu shopkeeper for many years, and he has not been able to turn over, this time they met on a narrow road, what should I do? This Zhou Gongzi is a person with a background, even the judge and the border general of Fang Zhen are respectful to him, so he believes him this time, fights, and spits out a word in his thick lips: "Fight!" ”

  Zhou Xuan laughed, patted Zeng Daqian on the shoulder and said: "Zeng shopkeeper, good job, horses have no night grass and no fat, people have no windfall and no wealth, congratulations to Zeng shopkeeper, you have made a fortune!" ”

  (Eye to the book)