Just after the Qingming Festival, Xiao Zheng followed Zheng Xuanli to Laojun Mountain, and as soon as he got on the island, Wu Yunshi was already waiting with dozens of tea farmers.

After going around the island, Xiao Zheng said to Zheng Xuanli: "You kid is really good at hiding, this island is really good, tea trees are everywhere, the surrounding fish products are rich, and the scenery is good."

Zheng Xuanli scratched his head embarrassedly and said: "My lord, this place is really good, there were still Jiao harm in the past, but now it has long been killed, this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is rich in products, and adults have good eyes."

When he arrived at the Taoist temple built at the foot of Laojun Mountain, Wang Yuanzhi greeted him from inside.

"How about it, I didn't lie to you, this place has beautiful mountains and rivers, it's good to be your Taoist blessed land."

Wang Yuanzhi looked at Xiao Zheng and gritted his teeth and said: "Lao Tzu spent 20,000 yuan to buy a place like you, this place is going to be bad, Lao Tzu has to find you desperately."

"There are a lot of people on the island, do more things to accumulate virtue in the future, learn from Sun Daochang, don't think about cheating people out of money."

"Lao Tzu has been demolished by you several times, and you still need to say it."

Stop and go along the way, the tea trees in the tea garden are lush, Wu Yunshi and Gao Shuang have all become tea veterans over the years, plus these people are literate and hyphenated, usually these teas are not less improved, and the farmhouse fertilizer is often applied regularly, and the tea trees grow very strong.

Looking at the mountains of tea trees, Xiao Zheng was very happy, and turned his head to see Wu Yunzhi and a few old people chatting with Wang Yuanzhi very happily, this old guy is very good at being a man, and it seems that his popularity is good when he goes to the island.

When he arrived at a few tea trees, Xiao Zheng asked Wu Yunshi, "Old man, why haven't you picked this tea now?" ”。

"Back to my lord, the current tea leaves can't be picked, the Qingming tea has just grown buds, if it is made into tea cakes, it will be noisy, and the pressure is not solid, this stubble will have to wait until after the beginning of summer."

"Still making tea cakes?! If you don't pick such a good tea now, you have to wait until the beginning of summer? Xiao Zheng asked in surprise.

"My lord, I have been on this island for so many years, and I am also a veteran of making tea, you really asked the right person about this," Wu Yunshi said with a smile.

After listening to a few old people, Xiao Zheng understood that the tea cakes made now are called "steamed green cakes", and the tea leaves have to go through more than a dozen processes of steaming tea, deblocking, and wearing before they can be turned into cakes.

After a while, someone brought a tea cake, which looked the size of a bowl and had a square hole in the middle. When drinking tea, you should find a small grinder to crack the cake and grind it into powder, add some Chinese medicine or spices, and enlarge garlic, pepper and salt as ingredients to make it paste before drinking.

It's no wonder that Tang's tea drinking is called eating tea, which has become a paste, and sometimes it can't be pulled into the mouth without a spoon.

has been in Datang for so long, Xiao Zheng has always been shy away from this scary way of drinking tea, and he can't accept it psychologically, and he is really not used to it.

"How much can I buy this tea cake?" Xiao Zheng asked.

"How much can this buy? Some tea merchants who sell tea have kept prices too low, and it would be nice to be able to get by in exchange for some food."

Since there is such a good opportunity, why do you have to get some tea to drink by yourself, turn your head and let Wu Yun lead everyone to pick dozens of catties of buds and take them to the room where the tea is roasted.

After a simple three steps, kneading and drying, the original tender green tea buds became uniform in length, and then carefully looked at the inner surface of these leaves is golden yellow, the outer layer of white hao is completely exposed, and the package is very solid, and the tea buds are staggered and mixed together.

"Grandpa, this thing looks very good, but how can you drink it?"

I asked someone to find a few bowls, boiled the water and poured it into the tea, and saw that the tea leaves changed.

The golden tea soup was in the stomach, and a few old teas raised the comfortable beard.

Xiao Zheng smiled and said, "How does it taste?" Ladies and gentlemen, you are asking for food with a golden bowl, listen to the boy, at most three years, I will make you all rich."

"Then thank you, sir, we believe what you say, this tea must have a name," said several old men happily.

"This tea is produced in Junshan, the shape is as thin as a needle, I call it Junshan silver needle, yellow and white can also be called 'gold inlaid jade' you can see good."

"Adults are talented, this name is good."

"Tea is a demanding growing environment, in the future, our people in addition to the tea planters, other people try to move down, usually do not destroy the grass and trees here, I will build a house for everyone."

"Okay, let's listen to the arrangement."

Wang Yuanzhi grabbed Xiao Zheng's clothes and said: "Lao Tzu has just built a Taoist temple, you remove people from the island, is this to cut off Lao Tzu's incense?"

Xiao Zheng whispered: "You idiot, I am going to offer this tea to today's saints soon, this kind of tea can only produce this kind of good tea by gathering the aura of heaven and earth." As soon as this tea comes out of Laojun Mountain, it will be famous all over the world, when has Lao Tzu done things badly? In the future, if someone wants to go to the island to enter your Taoist temple, you have to limit the number of people, do you think that a cat or a dog can enter your Taoist temple? Grow your brain! ”。

As soon as Xiao Zheng finished speaking, Wang Yuanzhi immediately let go of his hand and stopped talking.

Looking at the newly made tea, Xiao Zheng asked Zheng Xuanli to go to the lake to catch a few nets of shrimp, find white noodles, a large pot of tea fried shrimp and a pot of tea noodles, and several old people ate happily.

"This leaf is good, in addition to the one you sent to Chang'an, leave more for Lao Dao, and I will drink this every day in the future" Sun Simiao wants Xiao Zheng's things every time, and Xiao Zheng is also responsive.

In Chang'an, Li Shimin in the imperial study has a cup specially fired by a craftsman in the glass workshop with crystal, and the crystal transparent cup has a curved dragon on the body to make a handle, which makes people look like a nouveau riche.

Fang Xuanling, Eldest Sun Wuji and Cheng Yanjin were also at the table, looking at the things on the table curiously.

But they didn't pay attention to the cup, a few days ago Li Shimin received something sent by Xiao Zheng from Jiangnan, saying that it was a tribute tea sent from Jiangnan to Chang'an, and there was a name called "Junshan Silver Needle".

After hearing the name, Li Shimin didn't calm down for a while, who has never seen tea, and it is common for the emperor to invite ministers to have tea when he is resting, and I think Xiao Zheng will not be bored to this extent.

But Xiao Zheng said very formally that this kind of tea is suitable for brewing in a crystal cup, Li Shimin, who was born in the army, is very disdainful of Xiao Zheng's proposal, why do you pay attention to so many ways to drink tea, I have only heard of eating tea before, when can this thing be soaked in water?

Out of trust in Xiao Zheng, he really made a crystal cup.

Just after discussing things, a few people are fine, with curiosity to look at the seven or eight bamboo tubes that were taken, open one according to the method said in the letter, take dozens of sticks and pour half-boiled hot water into the cup, see the green and yellow tea leaves just put in slowly become emerald green, the tea leaves in the water after stretching out like silver needles evenly and strongly, the upper peak of the leaves shows the color of golden, with the water vapor rising, the fragrance of tea wafts out.

"Just this brew, this tea has been Zen at the beginning, wonderful tea!" Fang Xuanling and several literati were all relaxed and happy.

A few generals didn't show anything, only Wei Chi Laohei said: "Sage taste it first, how does this taste, what Mr. Xiao sent from so far away must not be bad."

"Lao Hei has to be reasonable," Cheng Yanjin said with a smile.

After the tea became warm, Li Shimin took a sip lightly, and began to feel bitter on the tip of his tongue, and after a while, he felt that his teeth and cheeks were full of relish, the tea tasted fresh and mellow, and the sweetness overflowed from the root of his tongue.

"Good tea!" Li Shimin exclaimed.