"Wrong! Wrong! Making tea is an indifferent state of mind, your actions are too rude, and the tea has not yet tasted. ”

"You've been leaving this water for too long, and it's not hot at all."

"The color of this tea is wrong, and the taste is not pure."

……

In the middle of the night, the mountain was pitch black, and there were no fingers to be seen, except for an old wooden building with faint candlelight through the window.

If someone is in it, they will see a very strange scene.

A red fox was lying lazily on the desk, with three tails flicking lazily, his eyes slightly squinting at the man on the side who was hurriedly fiddling with the tea set in front of him, and his face showed a humane look of disgust.

"Doesn't it mean that if you inherit Liaozhai, you can cultivate into an immortal and live forever? What does spiritual practice have to do with making tea? After brewing a pot of tea again, Pu Ye resigned himself to his fate, very depressed.

"If you haven't learned to practice, do you want to go to heaven?" Ying Ning returned to her original form, but her mouth was not forgiving at all, "Do you know what cultivation is? ”

Pu Ye shook his head.

"The so-called cultivation is the cultivation of the Tao. Everyone in this world is born different, and each practitioner's 'Tao' is naturally different, and the way of cultivation is also very different. Taoism practices qi, Buddhism participates in Zen, and Shinto makes wishes...... That's all the same. Liao Zhai belongs to the line of novelists, paying attention to reading books and entering the world to practice. Once Liuxian was to open a teahouse to embark on the road of cultivation, a pot of heart-to-heart tea, only to the heart-to-heart, collect the thoughts of all sentient beings, and write "Liao Zhai" ......"

In the deserted house in the mountains, the man listens, and the fox talks about cultivation.

There is a rhyme and Zen in the simple words, and Pu Ye listens to it and listens to it.

The room was completely silent, and the second truth of cultivation was revealed in front of him little by little, revealing the true meaning that had been unknown to people for a long time in legends.

Unconsciously, Ying Ning's eyes narrowed into a crescent-like arc, shaking her head.

"Everything is true, everything is fake, only oneself is true. That's what it is...... Practice! Ying Ning nodded heavily, and finally concluded,

"Cultivate the truth by pretending! Is this the practice? Pu Ye muttered to himself, as if he understood something, but also seemed to understand nothing.

"Huh?" Ying Ning's body shook, and he suddenly broke away from the artistic conception of saying Zen, and his eyes opened round the next moment.

"Borrowing the 'falsehood' of the outside world to cultivate the 'truth' of oneself, is this what I said? Can I name such a mysterious term? No, I feel like I've got a grasp again. Gotta write it down! Out of nowhere, she took out a small notebook, clawed a small brush, and wrote hastily on it, and then carefully tucked it into her furry tail and disappeared.

"Hello......" Watching her operate, the corners of Pu Ye's mouth twitched slightly.

"Ahem......" Sensing Pu Ye's strange gaze, Ying Ning's face flashed a little embarrassed, and she coughed a few times before she said solemnly: "So if you want to practice, you must learn to make tea!" Well, that's it......"

Brew tea?

Pu Ye felt powerless in his heart.

These are different from those written in the novel.

In those stories, aren't the monks just retreating and cultivating, breathing in the aura of heaven and earth, flying with swords, and enjoying themselves?

Why did you come to me so casually and... Literary and artistic?

No, it's still different.

The practice of Liao Zhai is not just as simple as making tea, but also a kind of visualization of a special state of mind through the tea ceremony.

"People are immortal in the world, and they don't ask about ghosts and gods. …… Everywhere they meet, they are either demons or demons, and they meditate in the book "Liao Zhai...... Is this the method of joining the WTO and chatting about fasting? ”

Pu Ye meditated on the mantra taught by Ying Ning in his heart, and thought thoughtfully.

Liaozhai's tea is not an ordinary tea, but a spiritual tea called Wenxin tea.

This kind of tea has the ability to ask people's hearts directly, cleanse the soul, and understand the nature, which is a rare spiritual object in practice.

It is said that more than 500 years ago, his ancestor Pu Liuxian once opened a teahouse in his own house, and invited guests to this heart-to-heart tea banquet......

Lingcha is rare and expensive.

Not every guest can afford to pay for tea, but those who come to drink tea can replace it with a heartfelt story.

With the help of this method, the ancestors collected a large number of bizarre demon stories and recorded them in their own study Liaozhai, and the ancestors were also known as Mr. Liaozhai in the world.

This is the source of "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", and it is also Mr. Liao Zhai's way of practice.

Asking the heart tea, in the process of making tea, pay attention to the clarity of the mind, visualize the heart, and think into the tea, so as to arouse the resonance of the human soul.

Pu Ye silently recited the mantra in his heart, exhaled lightly, and then picked up the tea set that Ying Ning had already prepared and started to move.

The tea is a good tea, a real mountain tea, with a slightly rough smell, but with a natural flavor of the mountains.

Scalding the kettle, use boiling water to remove the peculiar smell in the kettle, which helps to volatilize the aroma of tea.

Warm the cup, pour the hot water from the hot pot into the tea cup and then warm the cup.

Put the tea leaves, put the tea leaves into the tea lotus, and use a teaspoon to dial the tea leaves in the tea lotus into the pot.

High punch, high lifting kettle, brew tea leaves to make them tumble and spread out in the teapot to brew the tea flavor more fully.

Scrape the foam, scrape off a layer of foam on the surface of the tea leaves, then cover the pot and let it sit for a while.

Pour low, pour the brewed tea into the cup, and the distance between the spout and the tea cup should be low, so as not to dissipate the aroma in the tea soup.

……

With heart, the craft of making tea has also progressed rapidly, and a set of actions has been orderly.

How to make tea, Ying Ning told him.

Pu Ye's movements are not in a hurry, slowly adjusting, each step is getting more and more in place, and gradually has a kind of flowing taste.

His mood was completely calmed down, and he didn't have any distractions.

Pu Ye secretly recited the mantra and began to visualize.

He imagined that he was standing in front of the window of chatting, looking far away, and as far as his eyes could see, there was all the earth on earth.

Wisps of breath rose up, like smoke and mist, curling up, sinking and rising, like ups and downs, wave after wave of thought, wave after wave...... The longing of longing, the youthfulness of love, and the heaviness of obsession...... 100 emotions, 100 tastes......

In the visualization, Pu Ye breathed and breathed again and again, and those breaths came one after another like a hundred birds entering the forest.

Pu Ye suddenly felt that the whole body had mixed flavors, as if soaking in a hot spring, the pores of the whole body were breathing, and the whole person was fluttering and comfortable.

Such a comfortable feeling made his whole person feel a kind of comfortable moaning and moaning, deep into the bone marrow, itching uncomfortably......

What is Nian?

A thought flashed in Pu Ye's heart inexplicably, thinking of what Ying Ning said before.

To read is to think!

It is precisely because of the mind that life has a self-identity and a meaning.

More than 500 years ago, a high monk once said that recitation is the cause of all effects.

With thoughts, there is cause and effect.

And in the era of abundant spiritual energy, if the mind is strong enough, it can produce some unimaginable incredible.

If a person dies like a lamp goes out, if there is an obsession that has not been extinguished, there will be a remnant soul haunting him, and it is difficult to exceed it......

If there is a residual thought in the body, if the yin qi lasts forever, it can turn into bones and bring disaster to the world......

If the mind is strong enough, the iron tree can bloom, the stone can jump out of the monkey, and the lotus flower can also turn into a human......

This is the origin of demons and monsters, turning the incredible into the unbelievable......

The practice of Liao Zhai is to collect the thoughts of sentient beings and make offerings to themselves.

With the visualization, Pu Ye became more and more into a state, and suddenly the mind seemed to break through an invisible shackle, and rose infinitely, as if it was beyond the shackles of the physical body, looking at itself from a higher dimension, and the waves of tea were reflected in the pupils, gradually occupying all the sight.

The sloping tea is green and clear, as if the Milky Way falling from the nine heavens has washed away all the distractions, and the soul is clear and fragrant.

The tea is poured into the cup, and the water surface gradually rises, although the amount is not much, but it is enough to make waves, just like the heart lake, every bit of thoughts and thoughts, is a little wave, one after another, continuously.

The water waves gradually subsided, and the waves in my heart were smoothed out, and I couldn't think about it.

With Pu Ye's gaze, a little thought in his heart seems to be injected into the tea with movements, and the water waves are rising, and the scales are like broken mirrors, which can reflect people's thoughts from different angles.

……

The cups were put down, and three cups of clear green tea had been placed in front of the table, and the heat rose to give out the original aroma of tea.

A cup of Pu Ye, Ying Ning, and Xiao Qian.

Pu Ye lifted the tea cup, gently sniffed the transpiring aroma, and soaked into the heart and spleen.

Ying Ning's two little paws lay on the mouth of the cup, looking at it seriously, and the tea reflected the pair of red vertical pupils.

Xiao Qian didn't make any movements, just inhaled slightly, and the aroma of tea whistled into a cloud, sweeping away all the temperature and taste.

One person and two demons drank the cup of tea one after another, and the next moment the taste was immediately on the tip of the tongue, between the throat, and in the heart...... Blooming.

First of all, the slight bitterness immediately bloomed on the tip of the tongue, but it was not thick, the tongue coating tightened slightly, and after tasting the warm bitterness and a little cold taste, it came up again, and as soon as the mellow sweetness appeared, it immediately thickened, wrapped the tongue, and the aroma escaped in the mouth, and even made people have the illusion of coldness......

The Adam's apple slides, and the tea flows down the throat like a clear spring, refreshing, and only makes people feel that the pores of the whole body are opened.

The body becomes as if it is as transparent as crystal, as if it is soaked in the spring breeze, all the distracting thoughts in the heart are gone, and it is like a kite swaying upward, the body and mind are infinitely relaxed, all the troubles are away from themselves, and they are completely quiet.

One person and two demons closed their eyes and said nothing, immersed in the wonderful taste of tea for a long time.

Although Xiao Qian couldn't see her face clearly when she turned her back, she could see from the side of her face that the corners of her mouth had already swept a little curvature.

Ying Ning held her face high and closed her eyes, her ears trembled slightly, and she put down the teacup for a long time, but she still frowned, "Although this tea is good, it still tastes wrong!" ”

"Isn't that okay?" Pu Ye was surprised, this is his best state since making tea, and he has done his best.

"How so? It's just no taste! Asking the heart tea is not that simple. Your tea can only be called simply calming people's hearts, calming emotions, and achieving inner peace...... Tranquility tea. The reason why the tea of Liuxian is called the tea of the heart is that the key lies in the word 'ask'. Ying Ning said and spoke, her eyes narrowed slightly, as if she had fallen into some kind of thought, recalling the past scene, and her voice became distant.

The taste of tea and the transpiring aroma will not interfere with people's hearts, but will induce people to look directly into their hearts and find their truest nature. It does not make people's hearts move, but makes people's hearts automatic, their nature germinates, and they realize their original intentions ......"

It is precisely because of this that the Tea of Asking Heart has a different kind of attraction to practitioners. Cultivators go through all kinds of trials, and they are talking about a pure Dao heart, but they will always be disturbed by all kinds of thoughts, ignorant of their nature and not knowing it, which is called demonic thoughts in their practice, and if they are allowed to grow, they will become demons in their hearts! ”

"Once the demons are formed, they will cause the practitioner to fall into the evil path. Demonic thoughts are nowhere to be seen, without traces, and are difficult to detect, but they are rooted in their own hearts, and even if the cultivator has all kinds of strange methods, it is difficult to detect himself. It's easy to cross others, but it's hard to cross yourself, nothing more than that. And there are very few spiritual things in this world that can restrain the demons in the heart, and even if there are, they are in a dangerous place in the world, and they are hard to find. Moreover, it is a three-point poison, and there will be side effects and drug resistance after using it for a long time. Wenxin tea is different, it is tea, not medicine, so it has no side effects, and it is more favored by monks. In that era, I don't know how many people wanted to drink a cup of tea but couldn't get it! ……”

……

Pu Ye was listening carefully, but found that Ying Ning didn't know when he took the palm-sized little book in his hand again, shook his head and read it, and suddenly it was messy again.

How did you write down so many words in such a small book?

"Ahem, ahem...... Now do you understand? Ying Ning took back the small notebook in a mocking manner, coughed a few times, and asked.

Ask the heart tea?

What kind of tea is this?

Although Ying Ning has said it very clearly, it is still unimaginable that she has really tasted it!

Pu Ye could only visualize again, brewing tea again and again, groping for the true brewing method of Wenxin tea.

"No! The taste of this tea is too deliberate, and the suppression makes people lose any emotion. ”

"This is not Ningxin tea, but Zhenxin tea!"

"It doesn't taste right! It's so bitter......"

……

I have to say, this tea making is really a technical job!

Maybe it's experience, maybe it's talent, maybe it's mood...... In short, I don't know what it is, Pu Ye found that he couldn't substitute for that tea-making state of mind no matter what.

It's just steaming tea, and it has a little strange ability, but it can't really ask people's hearts with the tea ceremony.

"It's that simple, it won't! Liuxian used to be such an amazing and gorgeous person, how could there be such a mediocre descendant as you! Ying Ning was dissatisfied.

You're a vixen! It's really a poisonous tongue!

Pu Ye's whole person felt bad, and when he looked down, he found that Ying Ning had come over at some point, and he was so close.

She sniffed lightly, as if she was inhaling something, and looked eerie with a look of enjoyment.

For a moment, Pu Ye saw her own image reflected in her crimson pupils, and wisps of black qi escaped from her body, and were sucked in between her breaths.

The illusion was fleeting, as if it were an illusion.

"What are you sucking?" Pu Ye was strange in his heart.

"It's nothing......" Ying Ning turned her head away.

Believe in your wickedness!

A strange look rose in Pu Ye's heart, and he was about to ask clearly.

Rustle!

On the side, Xiao Qian wrote in the air again.

"Repair... Yes... No... Must... One... Decide... Use... Soak... Tea! Pu Ye read, falling into deep thought.

Ying Ning was stunned for a moment, and then the fox also showed a thoughtful look on her face.

And Xiaoqian wrote, "Cultivation is in one's own heart, and everyone has their own way!" ”

Yes!

Pu Ye's heart suddenly moved.

Every practitioner is inherently different and takes a different path.

Although he also has a chat, he is completely different from his ancestors.

He doesn't have the talent of his ancestors, and he doesn't have such an indifferent state of mind, the tea ceremony is the way of cultivation of his ancestors, but when it comes to himself, he is not accustomed to the water and soil, and no matter how his state of mind can not really focus on it.

Pu Ye's mind came alive.

So which way is right for you?

Cook? Craft? Play chess? ……

Well?

Maybe I can try......

Bartending!?