After Princess Yaochi left, Du Heqiang cheered up and walked through his new mansion several times in detail. The mansion is beautifully furnished, carved beams and painted buildings, extremely poor and ingenious, and it is a relatively luxurious and classical courtyard full of the flavor of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River. Except for some luxury, Du He did not find anything suspicious, and secretly wondered, thinking: "Whether there are ghosts or not, we will know at night!" ”

didn't think much about it at the moment, went to Wannian County and brought the moon incense to the mansion to let them take care of the courtyard, and taught them martial arts by the way.

That night he stayed in the house to see what the so-called ghosts were all about.

Just slept until dawn and nothing suspicious happened.

He did not believe in evil and stayed for three nights in a row, sending people to keep vigil in the dark every day, but there was nothing abnormal at all.

"Is it really me who is suspicious?" Du He couldn't help but be surprised, after thinking about it, he couldn't understand it, and he no longer bothered about it, but just put his doubts in the bottom of his heart, and put his mind on training and making tea.

In terms of military training, Du He has Luo Tong and Wang Dezheng in charge, and it is enough to ask about it, but it makes him think about tea.

Especially in the stir-frying of the tips of the tea buds, it made him worry a lot.

Duhe's way of stir-frying tea is correct, after the flexible tea leaves are stir-fried, the fragrant and bitter, bitter and sweet taste makes people have an endless aftertaste, but the tip of the tea buds is not fried well in any case.

Du He poured the tip of the tea bud aside, and despite the heat of his burning hand, he grabbed a handful, some of which had become charcoal, and only a few of them were barely qualified.

"How so?" Du He's brows were furrowed, and his expression was puzzled, what went wrong.

In his memory, every step of his life was based on his grandfather's way of roasting tea, why can the tender tea leaves be formed, but the tip of the tea buds cannot?

These words, Wu Meiniang, with the help of Du He, contracted the fifty-six acres of tea fields in Wannian County.

The tea field originally belonged to Duhe's fiefdom, and it had been abandoned for a long time, and Wu Meiniang did not encounter any obstacles when she took it over, but caused the joy of the villagers. Because Wu Meiniang used local materials, hired women in the village to pick tea leaves, and gave them the opportunity to earn extra money.

In a few days, hundreds of catties of tender tea leaves have been collected, and as for the tip of the tea buds, it is extremely difficult to pick, so it is only more than ten catties.

Hundreds of pounds of tender tea leaves have made him fried into dry tea, as long as the packaging can be put into the market for sale, but the tips of those tea buds are scorched as soon as they are fried, and the taste of soaking is difficult to swallow.

Wu Meiniang saw Du He's brows furrowed, and saw that he was so worried about his affairs, her heart was sweet and distressed, and she hurriedly made him a cup of tea.

"Thanks!" Du He took the cup and took a sip slightly, and found that it was more flavorful than ordinary tea, and after a closer look, it turned out that Wu Meiniang carefully collected the qualified leaf buds that were not scorched in the tip of the tea buds, and brewed a cup of tea for him, admiring her for being careful.

Wu Meiniang smiled charmingly, and then asked: "Could it be that the way this leaf bud is fried is different from the way the young leaves are fried?" ”

Du He pondered for a moment and replied: "I have thought so too, but I only know this one method, since I can fry young leaves, why can't I fry leaf buds?" ”

Wu Meiniang said: "There is only one reason for this scorching, the heat is too big, it is better to try it on low heat." ”

"No way!" Wu Meiniang said that he had already tried the method, but the effect was even worse, because the heat was small, and the moisture in the leaf buds was not enough to squeeze it dry, but directly let the small heat fry it, and it was not even qualified at all, the key was not the problem of heat.

"Brother Du, in fact, Mei Niang has always wanted to ask, why does she keep reducing the temperature when stir-frying tea?" Wu Meiniang asked unintentionally.

Du He replied with a smile: "If you asked me a few days ago, I would not know, but I have learned this few days." At the beginning, the fierce fire was to remove the water from the tea leaves and squeeze the water dry, so it was necessary to fierce fire. The purpose of the second process is to squeeze out the little water left, and at the same time, it is necessary to rotate the tea pot and start rolling it into strips, so that the tea leaves will be shrunk up to protect its taste, so it should be stirred vigorously and the fire should not be too large. The last step is to consolidate, squeeze out the last bit of water, and let all the tea leaves shrink up, so that the low heat is enough......"

As he spoke, Du He suddenly thought of the crux of the problem and understood why he failed to stir tea.

The three processes of roasting tea are the result of thousands of years of accumulated experience, and there is no mistake. The mistake is that I don't have enough control of the heat.

The iron pot has a certain amount of time when it gathers heat and dissipates heat, although it has grasped the accurate time, but the iron pot will not deheat in the first time due to the small fire, and there is a long heat dissipation process here.

Because the young leaves are tough, they can withstand it for a period of time and will not burn, but the leaf buds are fragile and cannot withstand it.

Thinking of this, Du He immediately asked people to rebuild two stoves, three stoves, three pots, one pot heated over high heat, one pot with medium heat, and one pot with low heat and slow burning.

After the first process is completed, immediately pour the tea leaves in the pot into the pot over medium heat, so as to avoid the slow heat dissipation of the iron pot and the heat is difficult to control.

In this way, the heat is not bad, when Du He poured out the fried tea leaves, reached out to touch it, and sure enough, there was no longer a situation of frying scorched.

Du He was overjoyed, although this fried tea was a trivial matter, but he had been worried about it for a few days, and at this moment, he pulled Wu Meiniang to cheer happily.

Wu Meiniang was also very happy, but when she saw the two holding hands, she couldn't help but be shy for a while, but she didn't struggle.

Until Du He realized and let go.

Wu Meiniang smiled and said, "According to this method, tea will probably be on the market soon!" ”

"No hurry!" Du He's eyes flashed with brilliance, and he said with a smile: "In the Tang Dynasty, there is no one to compare with Your Majesty." As long as His Majesty appreciates and likes it, there is no worry that no one will buy it, so this tribute must be the best. What you have to do is to stock up, accumulate the supply, and wait for the tea fields in the West Lake to be bought, and after picking the Longjing, send the Longjing up. ”

Wu Meiniang said with a smile: "I have asked my eldest sister to prepare to go south, and this matter will be completed soon!" ”

Du He was surprised and said, "Why don't you go and find out in person?" "This matter is very important, Wu Meiniang handed over the heavy responsibility to Wu Shun, the miserable Wu Shun who was bullied by Helan's family, it really made him feel strange.

"I'm not going!" Wu Meiniang replied very resolutely, her seductive little face was red, but she was secretly thinking in her heart: This is not easy to build a good relationship, if you cut off contact because you go far away, where will you cry? I can't leave Chang'an no matter what, and I said with an excuse: "I want to sit in the Drunken Immortal Fang, I can't do without it!" ”

Du He glanced at her, knowing that what she said was untrue, but he didn't pursue it, but just asked, "Does your eldest sister have this ability?" Seeing her being bullied by the people of the Helan family, it's a bit hanging! ”

Wu Meiniang snorted proudly: "Brother Du, don't make a mistake, my eldest sister's business skills are much better than mine." I'm just responsible for making suggestions and coordinating the overall situation, and my eldest sister is doing the real business on the façade alone. My father was a timber merchant before he defected to Li Tang, and because Yang Guang was the emperor, he built a lot of buildings, and my father was able to collect countless fortunes and become rich. The eldest sister has followed her father since she was a child, and learned the skills of doing business all her life. After joining the Helan family, because his ability was better than my brother-in-law, my brother-in-law was small-minded and didn't let her touch any accounts. This made my sister have no room to show her talents, and later her brother-in-law died of illness, and my sister couldn't help reviving the family business. I won't be stupid enough to employ cronyism, let the eldest sister go because the eldest sister has this ability. However, five thousand taels of silver cakes are too much, and I am afraid that there will be problems along the way, so I have to be protected. ”

Du He remembered Wu Meiniang's actions in history, and decided to believe in her vision, as for the safety issue, he also felt that she was reasonable, and five thousand silver cakes were enough to make people crazy, so he said: "I have five hundred guards, and I can take out some escorts along the way." ”

Wu Meiniang smiled relievedly, "Then Meiniang thanked Brother Du on behalf of the eldest sister." ”

Du He smiled and said that it was okay, but when he saw the night falling, he also said goodbye and left.

Back at Du's house, Du He looked at the art of war and some strategies for governing the country until late at night.

Early the next morning, Du He got up to practice martial arts as usual, but Huangfu Haohua and Ba Yuxing came to the door.

The two of them looked a little abnormal, and their faces were a little pale.

Du He looked at them in surprise and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Huangfu Haohua pushed Ba Yuxing and asked him to speak.

Ba Yuxing turned his head and said in a low voice: "You say! ”

Seeing that they pushed and conceded, Du He directly named: "Haohua, you say!" ”

Huangfu Haohua scratched his head, a little embarrassed, and finally said: "Childe, can you change the place for us, the place where we live now...... Haunted! ”

Du He's heart moved when he heard this, and he feigned anger and said: "Nonsense, how can there be ghosts in the world!" ”

Seeing that Du He didn't believe it, Huangfu Haohua was anxious and hurriedly said: "Originally, I didn't believe it either, but what I saw with my own eyes last night, I wouldn't be wrong." If you don't believe me, you ask Lao Ba. ”

Ba Yuxing was a strong man from the north with a burly figure, but at this moment he said with some fear on his face: "Really, Childe." The day before, it was rumored to be haunted, but I didn't believe it with the emperor, last night we kept vigil in person, and what we saw with our own eyes was haunted, and the blue ghost fire was floating in the sky, which was terrifying. "He originally had the courage of an ambitious leopard, even if he let him fight with fierce beasts with his bare hands, he was not afraid, but the illusory and unreal thing like ghosts made him really empty in his heart.

"Tell me, what are ghosts like?" Du Hoeden was in the mood, since someone was pretending to be a ghost, he didn't mind being Zhong Kui.

"How do you describe it?" Huangfu Haohua thought for a while and said: "Thick green, floating in the air, with fire and no flame, fleeting, extremely scary, and will emit bursts of strange screams." ”

"Is there such a thing? Good! Du He smiled: "We're going to catch ghosts tonight!" ”

(To be continued)