Chapter 43 Boiling Tea Surprises the Four
Tea man, Southern Jiamu also.
Tea is the liquid of health and the drink of the soul. For this reason, the husband and wife of the farm are getting deeper and deeper, and they are getting wider and wider. Soon, after repeated speculation and careful development, a new variety of "Tianxin Maofeng" was created.
Speaking of the precious tea of "Tianxin Maofeng", there is an interesting past.
That year, the new Qi County Commander took the scholar to Yunwu Mountain for a spring outing, got lost, and met an old monk with a bamboo basket on his shoulder, so he stayed in the Tianlu Temple.
When the elders make tea and greet guests, the county order carefully looks at the color of this tea leaf is slightly yellow, the shape is like a bird's tongue, the body is covered with white hair, and the boiling water is brewed, only to see the hot air around the edge of the bowl, and after turning to the center of the bowl, it rises in a straight line, about a foot high, and then turns a circle in the air, and it turns into a white lotus. The white lotus slowly rose and turned into a cloud of mist, and finally dispersed into wisps of hot air wafting away, filling the room with a faint fragrance.
The county commander was amazed, and asked the rear to know that the name of this tea is Tianxin Maofeng, which is made of the five fairy seed tea trees on the top of Tianxin Rock Mountain.
At the time of parting, the elder gave a bag of tea and a gourd of mountain spring water, and told that it must be brewed with this spring water in order to appear the wonder of the white lotus.
The name of this county order is Qi Xiang, and after returning to the county office, he met an old friend from his classmates who came to visit, so he would brew Tianxin Mao Feng to perform.
Qi County surprised the old friends, so through the prince, he wanted to offer immortal tea to invite merit and reward.
After the prince played the emperor, he let him go to the capital to perform, at this time the emperor ordered to enter the palace to perform, but did not see the white lotus wonders appear, the emperor was furious, he said truthfully, this is the order of Qi County in Yunwu Mountain.
The emperor immediately ordered Qi Xiang to enter the palace for trial.
After Qi County ordered to enter the palace, he knew that he had not brewed with Qingxi Mountain spring water, and after explaining the reason, he asked to go back to Qingxi in Yunwu Mountain to get water.
After the quasi-performance, Qi Xian Ling came to Yunwu Mountain to meet the elder, and the elder handed him the spring water of Qingxi Mountain. He didn't dare to delay, hurried to the capital, and brewed the Tianxin Mao Feng in the jade cup again in front of the emperor, and sure enough, there was a white lotus wonder, and the emperor looked at the dragon face and was happy, so he said to the Qi County Order: "I remember that you have made a meritorious contribution to the tea, and you will be promoted to the governor of Huguang, and you will take office in three days."
Qi Xian Ling felt a lot of emotion in his heart, and secretly said: "The famous tea of Yunwu Mountain is still of high quality, let alone a person?"
So he took off the jade belt of his official uniform and came to the Tianlu Temple of Yunwu Mountain to become a monk, and his legal name was Yuanzheng. Now in the stone forest under the Tianlu Zen Temple where the pine enters the clouds and the bamboo sandwich road is repaired, there is a tomb tower site, which is said to be the tomb of the monk Yuanzheng.
The tea used by the elder in the temple was Tianxin Maofeng, which was provided by the Nong Lu family to the temple monks. This is also a tradition that has been passed down from the farm.
Nonglu is based on the five immortal seed tea trees of Tianxin Rock as raw materials to make Tianxin Maofeng and Tianxin Silver Needle high-grade tea. Tianxin silver needle brown white as silver, straight as a needle, has the miraculous effect of brightening the eyes and reducing fire, can cure "fire disease".
This also confirms what the ancients said: "All medicines are the medicine for all diseases, and tea is the medicine for all diseases." ”
Around the Yunwu Mountain Tea Workshop, it is naturally wild and interesting, with unique environment, all weeping willows blowing the ground, wild flowers fighting beautifully, frogs and bees are restless, and butterflies dancing and singing. After years of painstaking management, the tea shop has not only won a good reputation, but also has a relaxed and comfortable tea drinking environment, as if there is an invisible magnetic field, which can attract the majority of tea customers from three religions and nine streams.
From early morning to dusk, the tea guests are like a marquee, you come and go, endlessly. As for the "tea putty" who eats all day long and has nothing to do, he soaks in the tea shop all day long and occupies a seat for a long time, while the kind farmer couple never gives him an eviction order, and abides by the way of harmony and wealth.
As the first batch of tea guests every day, after walking the birds in the suburbs, they go to the tea shop first in the city to rest their legs, drink tea and enjoy the birds. And the tea shop has long been firewood, boiling tea, and fragrant. They talked about tea with the husband and wife of the farm, chatted about homely things, and their tranquil mood was overflowing.
The second wave of tea customers are some craftsmen. These people are not interested in the tea ceremony, forced to make a living, most of them come to the tea shop at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, each make a pot of tea and drink it slowly, there is no oil and water in the stomach, because they are afraid that they will be more and more panicked by the tea after being "full of water", so they just take small sips, once they are hired, they will abandon the tea and leave; If no one cares, they will go home until noon.
In the afternoon, there is another group of people, all sorts of people, who are sipping tea and exchanging news of renting, buying or selling or mortged, or making a living as usurers. There are also performers, mixed vendors, and "drumming" hawkers, who use the tea shop as a distribution center to exchange information.
Although the tea shop is small, it is all-encompassing, and it is already a big stage with vivid colors.
Wu Qing is a master of tea tasting, she often works tirelessly to fill firewood to make tea, and then guards a pot of good tea, smelling the fragrance of tea wafting out.
Wu Qing felt that tasting tea seemed to be able to get rid of the troubles in his heart, such as fugue being too empty, which was a great enjoyment. She is not only good at tea tasting, but also has a unique skill of making tea: pouring fresh spring water into the clay pot, slowly burning it over a simmer, and then taking out a delicate stone mill to grind the green tea cakes finely; When the boiling water is heard, the tea leaves are thrown into the ou.
Her original method of making tea was highly praised by friends and tea drinkers.
This afternoon, Zhu Xian ordered to be empty and came to the tea shop with his entourage to taste tea. After taking his seat, Zhu Xianling asked Wu Qing, what is the most difficult thing about making tea?
Wu Qing replied, tea, heat, water quality, utensils.
Zhu Xianling asked again, what is the "three boiling water"?
Because the method of boiling tea in "three boiling water" is the characteristic of Wuqing, so I asked.
Wu Qing settled down and calmly replied:
The water of boiling tea can be divided into "three boiling": when the water in the ou is first opened, the blister is smaller than the eye of the crab, and then it is opened, the blister is larger than the eye of the fish, and the boiling sound is low, which is called the water of "one boiling", and the water of "one boiling" is boiled tea, and the tea soup is too light.
If you fan the fire again, the water in the ou is surging on all sides, scattered like a ball, and the boiling sound is stirred, which is called the water of "two boiling", and it is best to boil tea with the water of "two boiling".
If the charcoal fire is more vigorous, the Ou water is rolling, it is the water of "three boiling", and the tea soup boiled by the water of "three boiling" is too old to drink.
When Zhu Xianling heard this, he was greatly surprised, he didn't expect an ordinary woman to have such knowledge of making tea!
The entourage watching from the sidelines was all amazed, and said continuously: "It's really amazing." ”
Wu Qing smiled slightly, but did not speak, and then, she put the two kinds of tea leaves prepared by the farm house on the saucer, pointed to the tea leaves and said: "This is the Tianxin Maojian tea picked from Yunwu Mountain this year, and the other bag is the old tea picked from Fengshan last year, all of which are tea from Jingshan before the rain." The new tea is mixed with the old tea and cooked, and the fragrance can be revealed. ”
As she spoke, she took a hot tea made from two kinds of tea leaves, and held it to Zhu Xianling with both hands: "Please taste tea!" ”
Zhu Xianling took a sip, and sure enough, he felt that the taste was different from ordinary tea, and praised: "The tea soup is unusually fragrant, and the mouth is full of fragrance." ”
Zhu Xianling drank two more cups before putting down the lamps and saying, "Good water, good fire, good tea, good soup!" It's worth coming to the door to drink tea today. ”
Zhu County ordered and his entourage to leave.
Wu Qing said: "The official walks slowly, welcome to come and taste tea often!" ”
This is exactly what it is, the tea break is gone, and the tea art will last forever!