Chapter 15: The Best Life

Zhikong, Zhizhi and others brought a table of four-fold vegetarian food. www.biquge.info Xia Zhu only glanced at it, and showed a look of disgust, although he still politely expressed his gratitude, he immediately handed the housekeeper behind him a look.

The housekeeper retreated, and Xia Zhu continued to greet everyone, and he pointed his finger slightly to the window lattice and said: "This back garden is widely planted with plum blossoms, pink and clear, green calyx, white shadow, the color is well pruned, Mei'er is sick and demonic, and she is indescribably romantic." ”

"What Uncle Xia said is that my father often praises this garden, a unique piece of good water, this landscape is good or bad, and it is necessary to look at the water when it is built: the water has no willow and no rhyme, the water has no knotweed and no autumn, the water has no fish and no joy, the water has no birds and is not far away, the water has no boat discomfort, the water has no pavilion and is not cool, the water is not lotus and indecent, and the water is not beautiful...... "Wang Anren hung the book bag there, shaking his head.

Xia Zhu's eyes had been paying attention to Fang Zhongyong, who had sneaked out just now, and at this time he quietly slipped back to the banquet, still standing obediently behind Chai Lin.

The four splendid maids of Qiluo began to put them on the tea table one by one.

Wang Anshi and others looked at these foods, and their eyes were about to fall out, firstly, they were shocked that this Buddhist hall was a place, and such a group of maids were brought out to bring out such some meat, and secondly, these foods were all high-quality products with labels, and they were bought so quickly, and they were also fast.

Xia Zhu saw them like this, but his face was indifferent, and he waved his hand and greeted: "These are all their own maids, I am afraid that everyone will not be used to fasting, Tete just sent the family to the market to buy a few good things, the monk here gave me some good tea and spring water today, let the family make tea outside, wait for everyone to have some food, and then move out to taste tea." ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hands and stretched out his head without moving. The maids who set up the side dishes are accustomed to taking hot water as a matter of course, dipping their hands in hot water, and then drying them with a handkerchief, and then using warm hot hands to constantly caress Xia Zhu's old hands.

"Isn't Uncle Xia's old problem better? Or is it easy to stiffen and need a human massage? But take care. In order to alleviate the somewhat embarrassing atmosphere, Wang Anren said while calming his hands.

"Yes, people are old, that's it. You're welcome, everyone, let's eat. The one behind Chai Gongziβ€”" Xia Zhu finally said in a lengthened voice,

"Little Fang Zhongyong-" Fang Zhongyong replied.

"Oh, Zhongyong, you also sit, sit down and eat, sit down and eat. I just heard you talk about Jiaozi Qianzhuang, and the old man sounds interesting, so why don't you also talk to the old man. Xia Zhu took the chopsticks Jinhua ham handed over by the maidservant, and said leisurely.

Seeing this situation, Fang Zhongyong once again thought of what Song Shi said, Xia Zhu's hedonistic spirit, which really reached the level of men and women as antidoes to each other in later generations.

How to say, according to the official history, Xia Zhu's bones are amazing and gifted - every morning when he gets up, he feels stiff and weak, and his body is as cold as ice, and he must warm the beautiful girls of nephrite jade with a snow-white body and warm his body naked, so that he can slowly relieve his stiffness, recover, and sit up.

The research results of later historians generally say that because Xia Zhu had the habit of drinking stone stalactite porridge every day, the composition of this porridge is somewhat similar to the "five stone powder" in the Wei and Jin dynasties, because of this toxicity, which led to this system.

According to historical records, Xia Zhu's "illness" is also very similar to the Ming Dynasty's dedication to cultivating and becoming an immortal, taking a large number of pills containing heavy metals, so that his hands and feet are often cold and stiff, and he must be warmed up by eunuchs.

However, it is also the fashion of taking poison and the stiff disease, but Comrade Xia Zhu can have fun in his illness and enjoy the blessings of all people, but Emperor Jiajing, as the emperor, must let the dead eunuch warm his body, which is really the same disease and different life.

If you cross into Xia Zhu, who is known for her "boutique life" and is very good at pleasure, then it's a big deal not to drink the stone stalactite porridge, and then continue to pretend that your hands and feet are stiff every day, and a bunch of beauties become warm water bags for yourself to warm and cold couches, how happy is it?

It's a pity that the crossing has become Fang Zhongyong-Fang Zhongyong deeply felt a kind of obscene regret for the first time.

"Zhongyong?" Chai Lin next to him pulled Fang Zhongyong, who was in a daze, and said to Xia Zhuyuan: "My scholar Fang Zhongyong is a very talented person, but he has some quirks in a daze, and he likes to wander, I don't know where he is wandering again, and I ask Uncle Xia to see the strange." ”

"How?" Xia Zhu sighed in his heart, maybe he was too careful, and he regarded a chattering neuropathy as a great talent in the world. At the same time, he felt that Fang Zhongyong's eyes had a complicated meaning again, which did not belong to his age at all, and it made people hairy.

Chai Lin and Xia Zhu come and go like this, and talk about Qian Zhuangzi's affairs inseparably for ten, which is nothing more than Xia Zhu providing military security support, and the Chai family went to deal with the relationship, get a license, and partner in this Qian Zhuangzi. The specific division and so on, but it was not decided for a while, so I only made an appointment to go back and talk about it with Chai Shao again.

As the business was negotiated, the food on the plate was also exhausted, and Xia Zhu clapped his hands slightly. Someone next to him had already come up with a full set of tea sets.

The maidservants set up a tea set for burning tea on the coffee table, and a maid with crooked willow eyebrows took a puff fan and fanned it twice at the mouth of the stove, and the small blue flame was urged.

Xia Zhu roasted tea, which represents the boutique life of the Song Dynasty scholars, is really quite elegant. On the tea set, it should be a vessel specially printed with the picture of the Spring Palace, the thin fetal porcelain, the vivid picture drawn, Rao is Fang Zhongyong, who came through the later generations, and it is also the first time to see:

The delicate mahogany stove shelf, one side is like a small coffee table, and the other side is flat, and the shape is like the shape of a beautiful woman stretching out her two arms. A small wind stove with a slight rust is placed on the flat bottom, and a Han brick is placed under the stove, which looks like another beautiful woman possessing and lying on one arm of the previous beauty.

The top boiling water is the Jingyang sand body pot, the lid is lotus leaf shaped, the shape is graceful, people have thousands of thoughts, the high like the tea table on the side, there are tea pets, water buckets, tea ladles, and tea cans below, all of which are made of a color Xiangfei bamboo.

It is convenient to put the dragon pattern charcoal bucket, which is not filled with pine branch firewood, but silver silk charcoal, so as not to spoil the atmosphere with any smoke.

After a while, the water popped up and opened. Next to the maid holding the pu fan, a beautiful maid like a peach blossom raised her hand lightly, calmly opened the lid, scooped a little cold water with a bamboo bucket, added it, covered it, and continued to cook. After repeating this, I added water three times, and this is the water that can be used to make tea.

Fang Zhongyong looked at it and said in his heart: This is the method of cooking dumplings in later generations, adding three times to boil tea, this forced pretending is very good. In later generations, the teahouses were filled with classical force, but most of them only insisted on how complicated the techniques were, and the foundation of this initial kung fu was not too in place.

The beautiful maid who was as bright as a peach blossom walked by Fang Zhongyong's side, with the fragrance of tea leaves, presumably originally serving tea in Xia Zhu's mansion, so he had such an elegant fragrance. The girl held a snowflake blue high-necked porcelain bottle, opened the lid, took out the porcelain ball inside, unscrewed it, and put the middle leaf of the tea jar into the large flat and straight, the dragon well that had just been washed with water, and the prepared small leaf Guiyang camellia, put it into the porcelain ball, and then screwed it tightly and put it aside.

Then flush into the teapot with the boiled water, shake it up and down, break it up, wait for the water to be poured out, and then put the porcelain ball in, the boiling water is slowly washed down, full of fragrance, the porcelain bottle, with the change of temperature, becomes more and more transparent, and the spring palace painting on it is vivid and three-dimensional as if to jump out.

"Cang'er, please try the tea." Xia Zhu commanded softly.

The maid nodded slightly, divided the tea cup into the small tea cup, and held it in front of everyone.