These days, Wang Heng is very troubled, he doesn't understand, why it should be a trip to enhance the relationship between him and Cai Yan, but after coming back, Cai Yan is much more indifferent to him, he went to Cai Yong to get the manuscript, Cai Yan tried to avoid meeting him.

The rookie who has never pursued a girl is puzzled, and he doesn't want to ask others, so he has to sulk himself, but he let him sprinkle all his anger on the knife and bow, so that his martial arts can enter the realm a lot faster.

Wang Heng has Wang Heng's troubles, many people also have their own troubles, in March, Liangzhou's Han Sui killed Bian Zhang, Beigong Boyu, Li Wenhou and others, monopolized the rebel power, the greater the momentum, the reinforcements of tens of thousands of troops into Longxi, Longxi Taishou Li Xiangru rebelled, and Han Sui joined forces against Han.

Taiwei Zhang Wen, led Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian and other fierce generals with more than 100,000 elite soldiers, not only failed to quell the Liangzhou Rebellion, but made the chaos more and more intense, and the Han Emperor Liu Hong was angry and removed Zhang Wen from his post as Tai Lieutenant.

Who is the new lieutenant? He is Situ Cui Lie, and when it comes to this Cui Lie, there is also a story.

Cui Lie became the boss apprentice, it was the year before last, that is, the second year of Zhongping, when Liu Hong clearly marked the position of Situ, Sikong, Taiwei and other three princes with a price of 10 million yuan, Cui Lie, who was the court lieutenant at the time, took a fancy to the position of Situ, but wanted to be cheaper, so he took Liu Hong's mother's mother, that is, Liu Hong's nanny Mrs. Cheng when he was a child, and only used 5 million yuan to become Situ.

On the day when Cui Lie worshiped Situ, Liu Hong said to people at the banquet of 100 officials: "I sold this Situ cheaply, and it should have been sold for 10 million yuan." ”

Mrs. Cheng said: "Cui Gong is a famous person in Jizhou, and he refused to buy an official at first, but it was I who matched him to buy this official, but His Majesty didn't know my kindness?" ”

Liu Hong and Mrs. Cheng's words were heard by many people, and they were rumored to be a joke for a while, and Cui Lie's reputation also declined significantly.

Cui Lie was also ashamed of his own buying office, and once he asked his son Cui Jun, who was later one of Kong Ming's four friends, Cui Zhouping, what outsiders were talking about him.

Cui Jun is also a straight person, and bluntly said that people outside say that Cui Lie has a copper smell on his body.

Cui Jun's sentence is also the origin of the word "copper smell".

Cui Lie was furious and raised his cane to hit Cui Jun, Cui Jun ran away, Cui Lie scolded him for being unfilial, saying that his father should not run away when he beat him, but Cui Jun said that when Shun's father beat him, he hit him lightly, and ran away when he hit him hard, which is not unfilial.

Cui Lie was ashamed to stop.

Cui Lie, a person who bought officials, is now a grand captain, which is really ironic.

Besides, Zhang Wen's position as a lieutenant was also bought with money.

When Wang Rong heard about the change of position of these three dukes, his reaction was not as big as before, but his feelings were inevitably a little lost, especially the Liangzhou Rebellion, which made him very worried.

Liangzhou now concentrates 100,000 troops in the imperial court, and consumes countless money and food every month, if it cannot be quelled for a long time, it will be a heavy burden on the imperial court, and sooner or later the Han will be dragged down.

Liu Hong is very happy now, his business of selling the official mantle is very good, it can be said that he is making money every day, especially the transaction of the Marquis of Guannei, which can be called a million profits, it does not cost anything, just a name, you can exchange it for five million dollars, is there a more cost-effective deal in this world?

Liu Hong became more and more fond of Zhang Rang, who gave him this idea, he didn't think that he was pushing the Han into the abyss by doing so, and every extra money in his treasury would be lost to the foundation left by his ancestors.

It was from the time Liu Hong began to sell the Hou of Guannei, I don't know how many people of insight began to lose confidence in the Han Dynasty, and I don't know how many careerists began to covet the artifact, maybe their ambition is still hidden in their hearts, and even they don't know it yet, but once the seeds of ambition germinate, they can no longer be contained.

Even the emperor himself doesn't take the famous lords of the court seriously, so why should others fear you?

The Han Dynasty was not entirely without good news in March, when Yin He Miao of Henan, the younger brother of the great general He Jin, led an army to quell the rebellion of the people of Xingyang.

Xingyang is too close to Luoyang, it is simply between elbows and armpits, so it is impossible for the imperial court to watch the chaos here and ignore it, the imperial court almost sent He Miao to lead the army to quell the chaos with the fastest reaction speed, and the elites were sent, and they did not spare money and food, He Miao did not disappoint Liu Hong, and quelled the Xingyang Rebellion as quickly as possible.

After quelling the Xingyang Rebellion, He Miao's style was different from that of Wang Rong and Yang Xu, and he carried out a brutal massacre of the Xingyang rebels, believing that such a massacre would deter the people of Qianshou and make them dare not rebel again.

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In addition to practicing literature and martial arts in the past few days, Wang Heng has spent most of his time in the glass workshop, and no one knows what he is doing.

A few days later, Wang Heng went to Hanshou Academy again, and he sent some tea to Zheng Xuan and Cai Yong.

This is Wang Heng took advantage of the fact that the tea leaves on the mountain are tender, and he personally fried them after they were picked, and he began to master the heat badly, and fried the paste several times in a row, which finally succeeded, and he taught the art of roasting tea to the servants at home, so that they could fry it as it was.

What is fried in this way is the green tea of later generations.

The mountains in this area of Wuling are rich in tea, and the quality of tea is quite good, Wang Heng brewed a cup and drank it himself, which tasted better than the green tea he often drank in later generations, and the fragrance was refreshing, and this was still a completely unpolluted tea.

Although the people of the time also drank tea, but their drinking method was different from that of later generations, they picked the tea leaves and did not fry, nor did they use boiling water to wash, but used to boil, and added various spices when cooking, Wang Heng liked to drink this thing, Wang Heng tried to drink it once, but after drinking a sip, he vomited all the "porphyry", he really couldn't stand this thing.

Last year, he was going to get some green tea, but when the spring tea was tender, they went to Nanyang to fight, and it was obviously unrealistic to want to fry tea on the way to war, so they could only fry it this year.

After drinking the green tea that he fried, Wang Heng breathed a long sigh of relief, this thing still tastes comfortable to drink!

Wang Heng then took two wooden boxes, packed two boxes of tea, and came to Hanshou Academy.

"What is this?" Zheng Xuan looked at the tea leaves in the wooden box suspiciously.

Wang Heng replied, "This is green tea. ”

"Green tea? Is it tea? Why is this the case? Zheng Xuan was even more puzzled.

Wang Heng told Zheng Xuan in detail about the preparation process of green tea, then took out two glass teacups, put a pinch of tea leaves in each, lifted the kettle that had just bubbled on the stove, waited for a while, lifted the kettle high, tilted it slightly, and a column of water poured into the teacup.

He did so, and the tea leaves in the other teacup began to tumble in the water.

This water is the spring water he asked him to bring from Qifeng Mountain, and the quality of this spring water is very good, and it is used to make tea, which is no better.

The tea leaves floated one by one, standing upright in the water like the barrels of a spear, and in a short time the leaves stretched out and floated like a green flag, and the color of the water soon became as green as jade.

After doing this qiē, he waited for a while to let the tea cool slightly, Wang Heng picked up a cup of tea, respectfully handed it to Zheng Xuan, and said, "Teacher, please drink tea!" ”

Zheng Xuan had been looking at Wang Heng's movements suspiciously, with his cognition, he didn't know what Wang Heng was doing, and when he saw Wang Heng coming over with tea, he asked, "Is this soup drinkable?" ”

Wang Heng nodded firmly.

Zheng Xuan took the teacup at this time, and Wang Heng said: "Please drink slowly, don't get burned." ”

Zheng Xuan nodded, and blew it without a teacher, not only making the tea on the surface cool, but also blowing away the tea leaves floating on the surface, and then took a sip carefully.

Wang Heng also picked up his cup of tea and took a sip, with a look of enjoyment on his face.

But Zheng Xuan's face on the other side was far from enjoyment, his face was very exciting, and when he took a sip of tea into his mouth, his brows immediately furrowed, obviously wanting to spit it out, but his cultivation did not allow him to do such a rude thing, so he tried to drink the tea.

After drinking the tea, Zheng Xuan said angrily: "Good you Wang Shuping, you dare to tease you as a teacher!" ”

Of course, Wang Heng could see that Zheng Xuan was just feigning anger, and he also pretended to be frightened and said, "Teacher, how dare students tease the teacher?" ”

Zheng Xuan was about to say something more, but his face changed again: "Hey, bitter is bitter, but at this time, there is a sweet aftertaste, and there is a fragrance." ”

Wang Heng said: "Exactly, drinking tea like this is the right way, and the students will never dare to tease the teacher." ”

Zheng Xuan nodded, picked up the teacup, took another sip, then closed his eyes and savored it, after a long time, he opened his eyes and said to Wang Heng: "Where did you learn this method?" ”

Wang Heng said: "The student saw the method of brewing roasted tea from an ancient book, so he tried it, but he never thought it would be successful. The book says that the method of brewing is more elegant than the method of boiling tea. ”

Zheng Xuan asked again, "Which ancient book?" When was it done? ”

Wang Heng didn't expect Zheng Xuan to ask so carefully, he replied stubbornly: "I read it in the study at home when the student was young, and I don't remember the title of the book, it seems to be a work of the pre-Qin Dynasty." ”

Zheng Xuanqi said: "One of the things of tea, also known as Tu, was transmitted from Shu to the Central Plains in the former Han Dynasty, and there was no book record before!" Could it be that there were people drinking tea in the pre-Qin period? ”

Wang Heng said: "Maybe someone drinks tea in this way by chance, but it is not known and unknown. ”

Zheng Xuan nodded and said, "That's it." ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Xuan put his face on his face and said: "Your memory is getting worse and worse, you can't even remember which book you read, it's far worse than Cai Yan's little girl." How do you learn your homework well? ”

Wang Heng had no choice but to refute, in fact, his memory of Cai Yan was only one word.

Zheng Xuan saw that Wang Heng was very honest, he picked up the teacup and drank a few sips, and then he accepted the box of tea that Wang Heng gave him with satisfaction: "Then this box of tea will be reluctantly accepted by the teacher, and it is finally your filial piety." But remember, you'll send me a box every month from now on. ”

Wang Heng was secretly amused in his heart, the teacher seemed to have liked the taste of this green tea, so he would have to fry more tea during this time.

Wang Heng nodded in agreement, and Zheng Xuan said again: "That box is for Mr. Bo, right?" ”

Wang Heng nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

Zheng Xuan smiled mysteriously: "Did you take a fancy to Cai Yan's little girl?" ”

Wang Heng's face turned red.

Zheng Xuan saw Wang Heng's embarrassment, and laughed: "My fair lady, good gentleman." Knowing lust and admiring Shaoai, people's normal feelings, don't be embarrassed, didn't the sage also say that sex is also sexy? You and the little lady of the Cai family are a natural pair, and you will definitely be able to get your wish! ”

With Zheng Xuan's words, Wang Heng's heart suddenly had a bottom, and he bowed to Zheng Xuan deeply: "Thank you, teacher!" ”

Zheng Xuan said: "Go! Mr. Bo should know about this, and he is very satisfied with you! ”

Wang Heng was overjoyed, and gave Zheng Xuan another salute, then picked up another wooden box and hurried to Cai Yong's residence.

Zheng Xuan sighed and said, "It's a pity that I don't have a daughter!" ”

Wang Heng came to Cai Yong's house, Cai Yong and Cai Yan were writing books silently, Cai Yong saw Wang Heng coming, and said happily: "Shuping is here, is he here to get the manuscript?" Yan'er, take the manuscript we have written to Shuping. ”

Cai Yan got up and brought two book manuscripts, his face was still very cold.

Wang Heng took the manuscript, put it in his arms, and said to Cai Yong: "Cai Shibo, I brought you something today. ”

Cai Yong asked, "What is it?" ”

Wang Heng took out the box of tea, picked up the kettle and boiled half a pot of water, then brewed two cups of green tea, and served Cai Yong and Cai Yan a cup each.

Wang Heng was worried in his heart, looking at Cai Yong, in fact, the rest of his eyes had been paying attention to Cai Yan.

Cai Yong took a sip of tea, silently, Cai Yan also took a sip, and after a moment, she frowned.

Although Wang Heng knew that the quality of the green tea he fried was really good, he still chuckled unconsciously in his heart.

Fortunately, after a while, Cai Yong and Cai Yan began to take a second sip, and looking at their looks, they became more and more accepting of this green tea.

In fact, this is not surprising, the Central Plains scholars, now drink a lot of tea, although the drink is boiled tea, not brewed after such a stir-fry, and the tea also put spices, but the taste of the tea itself is still relatively acceptable.

The tea that Wang Heng let people pick this time is the most tender batch of pre-rain tea, and the stir-fried heat is just right, so the bitterness of the tea is much less, and it is more fragrant.

Wang Heng was relieved.

Cai Yong Wenyan asked, "Shuping, you said this is tea?" Where did you learn this? ”

Wang Heng couldn't help but sweat profusely, why do these old masters like to get to the bottom of it so much? Could it be the sequelae of their learning?

Slander is slander, Cai Yong's question still has to be answered, of course, Wang Heng said the rhetoric against Zheng Xuan again.

Cai Yan's eyes widened beside her, although she deliberately colded Wang Heng these days, she still admired Wang Heng very much, why did he have so many things in his head that were different from others?

Wang Heng asked Cai Yong: "Cai Shibo, do you think if this green tea is sold to the north, can it be marketed?" ”

If it was Cai Yong in the past, he might be ashamed to talk about this topic, but he looked at Wang Heng with a pleasing eye, and knew that Wang Heng was not making money for his own selfish interests, so he did not exclude talking about this with Wang Heng.

Cai Yong sighed and said: "Nowadays, the northern scholars are also popular in drinking tea, this tea has an elegant fragrance and a simple way to drink, so it should be marketable." ”

Wang Heng was overjoyed, if this was the case, then there would be one more way for him to make money.

Cai Yong happily accepted the box of tea brought by Wang Heng, and then made a move that Cai Yan did not expect, he went out on the pretext of changing clothes and going to the toilet, leaving only her and Wang Heng in the hall.

Cai Yan's face turned red all of a sudden, and she wanted to go out, but it was obviously rude to do so, she lowered her head uneasily, rubbed the corners of her clothes with her fingers, and didn't know what to do.

Wang Heng was also blank in his mind, he didn't know how to deal with the current situation, he knew that Cai Yong was kind-hearted, but Cai Yong did this, which made him extremely embarrassed.

Wang Heng picked up the two manuscripts and praised them: "This word is really well written!" ”

Cai Yan looked over and found that Wang Heng's eyes were looking at the one she had copied, and she said humbly: "It's not as good as a son!" ”

Wang Heng lamented in his heart, he called me Brother Shuping last time, and today he is the son.

After saying these two words, neither of them knew what to say, and the atmosphere fell back into embarrassment.

After a long time, Wang Heng couldn't sit still anymore, he always felt that Cai Yong might come back at any time, he took out a small box from his arms in a panic, put it in front of Cai Yan and said, "Give it to you." ”

After speaking, Wang Heng walked towards the door as if he was running away, and when he walked to the door, he felt that it was inappropriate, and he turned back to Cai Yan and said: "If Cai Yong Shibo is back, he will say that I have left beforehand, please forgive him." ”

Wang Heng rushed out of the door, and after walking a short distance, he saw Cai Yong looking at him with a smile.

But Cai Yan in the room opened the box with a red face, but saw that the box was a set of glass jewelry, with a walk, hairpin, ring, and pendant, with a novel style, crystal clear, and beautiful.

This set of glass jewelry may be the only one in the Han Dynasty, which Wang Heng personally polished and smoothed after he asked the master in the workshop to make it in the past few days.

This set of glass jewelry made Cai Yan fall in love, she couldn't help but put the step shake and hairpin on her head, and looked at the mirror, perhaps thinking of Wang Heng's embarrassment just now, Cai Yan couldn't help but laugh.

Cai Yan didn't expect that all her actions were seen by Cai Yong, who had already come to the door.

Cai Yong nodded, smiled knowingly, he turned around lightly and walked towards Zheng Xuan's residence, today is a good day, he is going to find Zheng Xuan to have a few drinks.

Over there, Wang Heng's heart was beating so hard until now, almost jumping out of his chest, he had to use his true qi, and after a long time, he calmed down his heartbeat.

Wang Heng shook his head and smiled, if it was in the future life, if he gave such a set of glass jewelry to a girl, he would definitely be scolded for being insane, right?