Dream Island's grandest Qunfang Tea Party was held at the Junlan Pavilion of Kirin Temple. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, seven or eight maids, smiling from between the seats, shuttled back and forth. I saw that one of them was holding a saucer in his hand, carrying a small cup on the saucer, moving the lotus step lightly, while distributing the tea in the saucer to each person's table, while saying with a smile: "Please use tea!" ”

Everyone smiled and took the tea, seeing that the teacup was small, not enough to fill their hands, and the tea in the cup was shallow, less than a mouthful. Each person's teacup has a different shape, such as a lotus leaf, a lotus flower, a hat, a cylinder, or a square. The color of the teacups is also different, whether it is azure, or pear skin, moon white, or pure white. Although it comes from the same teapot, the color of the tea soup in the cup is also very different due to the different colors of each person's teacup.

Someone took a sip of the teacup, but most of them were not in a hurry to drink it, and they all brushed their eyes on the host Mingyu.

Although Na Mingyu and Princess Yanran sat side by side, because she had to cook tea and share tea, she set up a large rosewood tea table in front of her. There are six gentlemen on the table, tea stove, tea sets, tea cups and tea ceremony, although there are many items, but they are quite refreshing and tidy. A maid knelt under Mingyu and waited for the stove to boil water.

I saw Mingyu holding a transparent teapot in her right hand, and gently squeezing the cuff of her right sleeve with her left hand, pouring tea into the special-shaped tea cup in front of her very elegantly. After pouring the tea, gently pick up the rim of the cup with one hand and place it lightly on the saucer. Add water, cook, pour tea, clamp the cup, all these actions are done in one go, and almost no drop of tea leaks. Mingyu is always smiling and calm.

The maids immediately squatted down to hold up the saucers, and then got up and sent them to each table.

Suddenly, everyone present had tea in front of them.

Mingyu put down the teapot, pinched the small teacup with three fingers in one hand, raised it with one hand and gently stroked it into the air, and said with a smile: "Everyone, please taste tea." ”

Everyone picked up the teacup, raised it to their lips, or drank it dry in one gulp, or took two sips, or shallow it.

When Mingyu saw that everyone drank tea, he smiled and asked, "How does it taste?" ”

Naturally, everyone said yes one after another.

"What do you taste like?" Mingyu asked with a smile.

When everyone listened, some smashed their mouths and tasted, some picked up empty cups and smelled them, some said they were fragrant with flowers, some said they were medicinal, some said they were with the taste of wine, and some said that they didn't taste anything.

Mingyu Yingying smiled and said: "Drinking tea is mainly about quality. You don't know what it tastes like. ”

"Product-oriented?" Everyone asked in unison.

Mingyu smiled and explained, "Yes. Wine is used to get drunk, and tea is used to taste. Wine is used to show a man's boldness, while tea is suitable for a woman's elegance. The so-called tea tasting, as can be seen from the glyph, three mouthfuls are the product. From the tea ceremony, one sip is for drinking, two sips for drinking, and three sips for tasting. ”

The Yunchu County Lord's nose is high and straight. I saw her pick up the teacup, look it up and down, and ask puzzledly: "Such a small cup, one bite is not enough, and you have to divide it into three bites?" Can't you taste the taste of tea in the first sip? ”

"It's not that you can't taste it at the first bite." Mingyu smiled, "But these are some of the rules of the tea ceremony, just like there are rules for doing everything." Of course, there is still a sense of this rule. The first and second mouthfuls can make our mouth, tongue, throat, stomach and intestines adapt to the tea gas, tea aroma, and tea taste. The third sip is savored carefully, and you can taste the strange fragrance. ”

"Taste the taste, taste it carefully." Princess Yan Ran raised the tea cup and smelled it, smiled and nodded in agreement, "If you drink it dry in one sip, won't it become Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit." I didn't taste anything, and I went down to my stomach, isn't it a tyrannical thing! ”

Princess Chu Xi smiled and gestured with her hands and feet: "If you bow your head and drink with a bang, won't you become a cow drinking water?" ”

Everyone couldn't help but laugh when they said a word.

The county lord of Yunchu leaned forward and leaned back with a smile, laughing so much that the golden hairpin on his head trembled, after laughing, he turned his eyes to look left and right, stretched out his hand to cross in front of the person, and asked jokingly: "Who is Zhu Bajie?" Who are cattle drinking water? ”

"There are no pigs and no cows to drink water here!" Lord Wumei shook his head, and begged Ming Yuyang with a smile: "But how to taste tea correctly, let's ask Miss Mingzhu to demonstrate it for us first." ”

"Okay. In fact, tea tasting is not complicated. Mingyu said, pinched the tea cup with three fingers of his right hand, and the other two fingers made an orchid shape, lifted the teacup and slowly turned half a circle to the left and right, and then raised it to Sakura's lips, moved his nose lightly, sniffed and inhaled twice, and then raised his other hand very elegantly, covered his mouth with his sleeve, and took three sips gently. After the demonstration, Mingyu gently put down the tea cup, put his hands on the table, and explained with a smile: "Flowing water can't take pictures, and only the static pole can produce wisdom." Meditation is meditation, and tea ceremony is meditation. Therefore, Zen tea is one. ”

Everyone sighed when they heard this: "It seems that Miss Mingzhu has achieved the integration of Zen and tea!" ”

At this time, the maids changed the cups on everyone's case.

Everyone also drew gourds in the same way, first holding the teacup and sniffing, and then covering their mouths and sipping. Suddenly, there was a sound of sniffing and snorting in the hall, and then there was a sound of drinking tea.

After drinking, some people say that it looks like orchid, some say it looks like lilac flowers, some say it looks like jasmine, some say it has a bitter taste, and each says it is different, but it is much more detailed than when I drank the first cup.

"When you taste the bitterness, you enter the door of the tea ceremony." Mingyu raised his eyebrows and smiled in the direction of the bitter taste, but slowly explained, "The ancient original form of the word tea is the character 荼. Tu means bitter herb. So it's not bitter, it's not astringent, it's not tea. As for the other flavors, they all vary according to the different moods of each person. That is, the same person drinks the same tea in different moods, and the taste may be very different. ”

The county lord of Yunchu couldn't help but smile at Mingyu and nodded in admiration: "I really can't see that Miss Mingzhu is so good at tea ceremony." It happened that when we set off from Chu State, my brother Wenquhou specially bought two catties of fine Junshan silver needles, and 70,000 buds were made into one catty of tea. Incomparably valuable. When I turned around, I asked my brother to send a pound to Miss Mingzhu. ”

Mingyu was about to open her mouth to say something.

Princess Yan Ran, who was at the same table, waved her hand and said first: "Speaking of tea, the most well-known tea in the world belongs to our Liang National Tea. The famous tea of our Liang country has Biluochun and Da Hong Pao. For example, our pre-Ming tea, which should be picked at the same time the day before Qingming. The morning pick is not the same as the afternoon pick, and don't want anything that is too big or too small. A pound is more than 70,000 buds. Rao is so precious, there are more than a dozen baskets piled up in the palace, and they are all picked in the morning before Qingming. This time, my brother Wang brought a basket over and gave it to Mingyu. ”

The county lord of Yunchu was choked by this sentence, his face turned crimson for a moment, but there was nothing to answer in his mouth, so he took the empty cup and made a tea drink to hide the unhappiness in his heart. When they heard this, they shook their heads.

"Thank you! I appreciate the kindness of the two of you! Mingyu smiled slightly, and thanked Princess Yanran and Lord Yunchu politely: "But there is really no need. I just make a pot of tea once in a while and have fun. Where is such a valuable tea leaf needed? ”

"No matter how valuable those tea leaves are, they are just tea leaves, and you can buy them anywhere. Dream Island is the home of the richest man in the world, what not? There will also be a shortage of those teas. Princess Chu Xi glanced at Princess Yanran, then proudly swept around the audience, and said with a smile, "My brother Wang also likes the tea ceremony, and once visited the most famous old porcelain worker in the world, and used white porcelain mixed with blue jade to create several sets of tea sets that look like jade and non-jade are better than jade." The calligraphy and painting on the tea set are also specially painted by the world's most famous painters. After the tea set is fired, it has a rare aura. I think it's more suitable for Sister Mingyu's tea. ”

Chen Guowu sneered in his nose, and said sarcastically: "What about suitability? I'm afraid that I will be slapped again when I send it, and when the time comes, it will be broken and broken, and it will not be beautiful. ”

This is also because Chen Wei is a country, otherwise how dare a county lord ridicule the princess? Princess Chu Xi looked at each other with anger, frowned and looked at each other, seeing that her eyes were big and charming, she belonged to the kind that everyone loved, and she couldn't have a seizure for a while, so she said angrily: "How do you speak!" ”

The county lord of Wumei ignored Princess Chuxi, turned his head to look at Mingyu, shook his head and said: "My brother Wuyang Hou is one bucket taller than Zijian, and his appearance is three points better than Pan Ansheng." When the time comes, let my brother write a beautiful woman cooking tea fu to record the grand event of today's group feast, wouldn't it be a good story that shocks the past and the present! ”

Mingyu waved his hand to the county lord of Wumei and said, "I can't do it." My Mingyu is a layman, and cooking tea is also a mundane business, where do you need to alarm the great talent to write poems. As he spoke, he slowly glanced at the crowd again, and said with a smile on his face: "Today I will cook tea for you, you will taste a few more cups of tea, and praise more, I will be happy." ”

"Yes. Since it's a tea party, it's better to taste more tea. Ling Xue saw that the two princesses and the two county lords were coldly opposed, and they didn't want to let each other, so they hurriedly got up and said, "Sister Mingyu has worked so hard to cook such a good tea for us, isn't it a pity that it's cold?" ”

"yes, it's still important to drink tea." Several eldest ladies of the business all echoed in unison, "Speaking of brother and brother, none of us have one." But this is a women's tea party, let's put down my brother and brother for the time being, and have a good cup of tea. ”

These eldest ladies of the business originally wanted to promote Zhang Ben for their respective brothers here, but seeing the proud posture of those princesses and county lords, they were like proud roosters, and they were invincible. In this kind of situation, whoever dares to provoke will keep silent and not mention the matter of his brother and brother, otherwise it will be tantamount to humiliating himself.

Besides, Mingyu agreed, and he would arrange time to meet with them alone, what words, can't you stay and say it when they meet alone...

Of course, these young ladies don't have to travel thousands of miles to come to Dream Island with the group, of course, there is another extremely important purpose, that is, I hope to take this opportunity to get the green eyes of those princes and princes...