A month later, in Pei's Mansion in Daxing City, in the conversation secret room under the newly built study, Wang Huaqiang and Pei Shiju sat opposite each other and had a very happy conversation.

The last time Wang Huaqiang left Daxing was in the middle of June, this time he ran outside for four months, and when he returned to Daxing, it was already October, the weather was getting cooler, and it was early winter, and at this time, both of them also added two mink jackets to the satin clothes, plus the charcoal fire burning under a kettle boiling in this secret room, which made the foreheads of the two of them have been slightly sweaty.

Wang Huaqiang wiped the sweat on his forehead, looked at a piece of black paste, like a cake-like thing that Pei Shiju was tossing in his hand, and said with a smile: "Hongdae, is this the tea you told me?" ”

Pei Shiju laughed: "This is a new gadget that has only started to become popular in our Guanzhong area over the years. It's called Tea, and you must have seen it when you went on an expedition to Jiangnan to quell the rebellion. ”

Wang Huaqiang smiled secretly in his heart, before he crossed over, it had become a daily drink for every household, but at this time it was not popular, just a popular luxury item among a small number of upper classes, he also liked to drink tea before the crossing, but when he first crossed, he found that almost no one drank this thing in Guanzhong in this era, and he was not used to it for a while.

Wang Huaqiang looked at the tea cake in Pei Shiju's hand, and looked like it was the common bait tea of later generations, not the kind of Jiangnan Biluochun and Longjing, which are leaf-shaped, so he asked: "Is this tea from the Yunnan and Guizhou areas in Xining Prefecture?" ”

Pei Shiju raised his head and shook his head: "No, this is from Jiangnan, and this tea was recorded as early as the Western Han Dynasty." However, at that time, it was drunk as medicine. It was only later that people found out that it worked. It can refresh the mind, improve the mind and relieve sleepiness, and it is also good for people with lung disease and phlegm.

During the period of the two Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the celebrity and gentleman were romantic, and the gate valve system had been formed, not only the emperor and the nobles gathered into a fashion, but the general officials and even the scholars were proud of boasting about the rich, and the multi-effect anointing beam was thick. In this case. Some people of insight have raised the issue of "maintaining honesty." As a result, Lu Na, Huan Wen and others replaced wine with tea. It is more able to show the noble ambition and unique taste of these celebrities, this way of drinking tea, but it has become popular in the south. ”

Wang Huaqiang has never heard of this, he only knows that in the north, in addition to wine, the most popular is all kinds of dairy products, since the Wuhu Chaohua, the north of the Hu and Han mixed living for hundreds of years. Hu Feng is strong, and dairy products are popular. Even ordinary people, it is very normal to drink some yogurt and eat some cheese, but this tea is extremely rare.

Pei Shiju finally found that there was a place where Wang Huaqiang almost didn't know anything, and he was happy in his heart, so he simply said a few more words: "This southern tea ceremony is also related to their Qing talk and metaphysics, metaphysics is a philosophical trend in the Wei and Jin dynasties, mainly based on Lao Zhuang thought and Confucian scriptures.

Most of the metaphysicians are so-called celebrities, who attach importance to their family, appearance, and manners, and love the lightness of nothingness and mystery. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties, the wealth of the south of the Yangtze River made the scholars get temporary satisfaction, lingering among the green mountains and beautiful rivers all day long, and the light wind continued to develop, so that many light homes appeared.

At first, there were many drunkards in the Qing Tan family, and later, the style of Qing Tan gradually developed to ordinary literati, these people were indifferent to fame and fortune, quiet and far-reaching, and boiling a pot of tea, sitting and discussing, is the most such celebrity style move.

Six years ago, my dynasty destroyed Nanchen, and these royal families and nobles of the Southern Dynasty were also moved to Guanzhong, and they brought this kind of atmosphere of liking tea and Taoism in the south with them, by the way, don't you often have these sons and daughters of the Southern Dynasty go to your Elysium Villa, why haven't you seen this thing? ”

Wang Huaqiang hooked the corners of his mouth disdainfully: "What celebrities are there who come to me?" It's all a hungry ghost in the middle of the gang, drinking and taking five stones, and then putting on a mask and stripping naked, and going around with singers and dancers in those buildings - he, I want to vomit when I see it, and these things can also be like dogs? Hongdae, don't be kidding, okay. ”

Pei Shiju frowned: "How can this be?" I have also come into contact with some celebrities of the Southern Dynasties, such as Yu Shiji, Yu Shinan, and Pei Yun, all of whom are very good literati, and they should never go to you. ”

Wang Huaqiang thought about it carefully, shook his head, and said with a smile: "I really don't have an impression of these people, probably the real celebrities will not come to my high-end green building." ”

The two were talking, Pei Shiju broke off a small piece of the tea cake and put it in a small flat-bottomed bronze vessel at hand, and this small bronze vessel was only the size of a palm, stretching out a long handle, a bit like a pan in later generations, Pei Shiju took a brazier, baked this small flat-bottomed copper pot on the fire, and moved his hand from time to time to make the entire bottom of the pot evenly heated, and the tea cake in the pot also began to gradually break under the action of heat, dried, and became a little powdery.

Wang Huaqiang saw this so-called tea ceremony for the first time, his eyes widened and he looked carefully, only to see Pei Shiju take a paper bag, pour the powdered tea into the bag, and put it aside to cool down.

Then Pei Shiju took a small stone mill that was very finely polished, a bit like the medicine pestle mortar in the medicine shop, poured the tea powder into the small stone mill again, and began to pound it with a small tea pestle made of jade.

Wang Huaqiang was stunned for a moment, at the beginning of the roasted tea, he looked more like he used to take drugs, and now he is making such a fuss, it is more like seeing hand-grinding coffee in a high-end club.

Pei Shiju tinkered for a while, took a copper bowl, covered with a thin layer of gauze, obviously used for filtration, and then carefully poured the tea powder in the small stone mill into it, this time Wang Huaqiang's nose could smell a familiar tea fragrance in the later life, he closed his eyes, and enjoyed the smell very much.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw that the water in the tea kettle on the fire had begun to make some noise, Wang Huaqiang looked at this tea kettle carefully, and saw that this kettle was made of copper, the color was thick and atmospheric, and the size was moderate, like the rice cooker of later generations.

The surface of the water in the kettle began to have some fishtail-like fine lines, like a calm river being swept by a breeze. Pei Shiju happened to strain the tea powder at this time, took another bowl, sprinkled some white powder into it, and said while sprinkling: "Okay, you look carefully, this is called the first boil, at this time you should add salt to the water." ”

Wang Huaqiang said curiously: "Why do you put salt in the tea soup? ”

Pei Shiju smiled: "I don't know too well, this is called sencha ceremony, anyway, those people in the Southern Dynasty use it like this, and I also tried it after learning it a few times." ”

While speaking, Pei Shiju took an empty basin, picked up the wooden spoon in the tea kettle, scooped out some of the floating on the edge of the kettle, similar to biotite-like things, and sprinkled them on the ground on the side, at this time the sound of water in the kettle became louder, like a spring, it began to bubble continuously, Pei Shiju hurriedly scooped out a few spoonfuls of water, put it into the copper basin on the side, and said with a smile: "It was called the first boiling just now, and now it is called the second boiling." Pei Shiju said while constantly stirring the soup in the pot with a wooden spoon, and then picked up the small bowl of tea powder just now and sprinkled the tea powder into the center of the kettle, and the water in the kettle also boiled more and more with the continuous heating below, and soon, it became like a wave and boiled.

Pei Shiju smiled slightly, added back the spoonful of water that was poured back into the copper basin just now, and added the warm water to the boiling water, which immediately calmed down the almost boiling tea soup temporarily, and Pei Shiju wiped the sweat on his head while saying, "This is the three boils." ”

Wang Huaqiang muttered secretly in his heart: Is it so troublesome to eat tea, drinking tea in later generations is to put the tea leaves in the boiling water and it will be over, how can it be so troublesome. But now he showed a very curious look, nodded again and again, and had some expectations for the taste of this tea in his heart.

Pei Shiju picked up the gauntlets with thick white cloth on both sides of the tea kettle, took the tea kettle away from the brazier, and then took out two delicate celadon tea bowls, poured tea into them, and soon, a bowl of steaming tea soup was placed in front of Wang Huaqiang. (To be continued......)