Chapter 21: New Questions

"......" Father's words were shocking, and Du Baozhu wanted to cover his forehead again.

She has always wondered where her eldest brother's unobtrusive temperament came from, but she didn't expect the root to be here.

Who would have thought that the down-to-earth, reliable, shrewd and eloquent Du Rangneng in the history books would be so detached when he was young, and he would coax his little daughter to keep a secret when he got into trouble?

However, this arrangement was exactly what she wanted.

Cui's is a worrying character, if she knows that Du Baozhu had an accident again, she is afraid that she will not let Du Baozhu go out again for ten days and a half months.

Huang Chao will enter Beijing next year, but he can't afford such a delay.

Du Baozhu thought about it and felt that he couldn't agree to his father so easily, otherwise there would be more things out of tune in the future: "Aya, you can't always be like this. ”

"Yes, yes." Du Rangneng touched his head, and his posture was very sincere, as if he was not facing his little daughter in her early tens.

This is his greatest strength, which is to treat everyone equally and with full respect.

Du Baozhu smiled in his heart, his face was still tense, and he said seriously: "It's okay to let me keep it a secret, but you have to promise me one thing!" ”

"This ......" Du Rangneng suddenly became alert, and preemptively said: "Your mother is crying, if she doesn't agree, I don't dare to agree." ”

That's how you admit your fears? Du Baozhu couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

However, Du Rangneng didn't feel ashamed of being afraid, and still looked at Du Baozhu with a smile: "Change the other, I will definitely promise you!" ”

Du Baozhu had to change conditions: "...... I don't want to go to the study anymore, can I follow you in the future? ”

Cui's attaches great importance to his daughter's education, and specially begged for a handkerchief before marriage, so that Du Baozhu entered the most famous women's school in Kyoto.

Now that Du Baozhu is busy making money, he naturally doesn't want to go to this study. She didn't dare to talk to Cui's by herself, so she asked Du Rangneng to persuade Cui's.

When Du Rangneng heard this, he made a bitter face: "Your mother ...... her"

"Aya, you are a jinshi in the Xiantong period, can't you teach me a female student?" Du Baozhu riveted his ass: "If I am taught by you to become a talent, doesn't it mean that you have no class to teach, and you are more capable?" ”

Du Rang was coaxed by his little daughter with a few words, and couldn't help but feel a little fluttering, plus he hurt Jiaojiao'er, and he felt ashamed, so he really nodded and agreed: "Jiaojiao'er is reasonable, I don't think the study is gone!" ”

Du Baozhu got his wish, so he was satisfied, and promised to keep his mouth shut for Du Rang.

When Du Guangyi came back, Du Rangneng pulled Du Guangyi to tell him again. The three of them confessed to each other and confirmed that there was no omission, so they withdrew the tent and went home in advance.

This kind of thing, Du Rangneng has probably done many times. After arriving home, without Du Baozhu and Du Guangyi telling the truth, he really covered up Du Baozhu's injury. Incidentally, Du Baozhu's refusal to go to the study was also properly handled.

Now, Du Baozhu has no worries and puts more of her mind on her milk tea career.

"Little lady, this is the drink that the slave came up with, you can taste it!"

In the hall of the Four Seasons Garden, Lin Niangzi neatly laid out a stack of dishes, each containing a different color of soup.

Although she is a little stupid, she is really good. Du Baozhu asked her to try her best, and in three days, she really made hundreds of different flavors of drinks.

Du Baozhu picked a few good tastes, and pointed to the drink with tea leaves: "Now that the trend of tea drinking in Kyoto is flourishing, my shop naturally wants to sell tea." I don't like the messy spice taste, though, you have to figure it out. ”

"This ......" Lin Niang made a difficulty.

Kyoto's tea-drinking ethos came from the south, and it has been brewed with spices such as star anise, cinnamon, and peppercorns for about 100 years.

If the little lady is just tired of the smell of the original spices, she can still think of a change. But now the little lady says she doesn't like spices, and she has no clue.

"Little lady......" secretly glanced at Du Baozhu, and seeing that her expression was calm, Lin Niang said boldly: "If you don't put spices, the taste of the tea will be too bland, I'm afraid that the guests don't like to drink it." ”

"That's what you're supposed to think." Du Baozhu's white fingertips tapped on the fleshy cheeks: "Let's do it first, if it really doesn't work, add some milk to it, I love to drink this." ”

Finally one more ingredient adjustment, Lin Niang didn't dare to ask for more, and hurriedly returned to the small kitchen with her own dishes and utensils.

Looking at Lin Niang's back, Du Baozhu was silently thinking about new things in his heart.

Although she guided Lin Niang to ponder the way to match tea and milk, there was still a huge problem in the middle - the preparation method of tea.

After the improvement of the tea saint Lu Yu, the Tang people used to make tea by steaming, pounding, and maturing tea leaves, and then kneading them into tea balls for roasting and drying.

Compared with black tea, there is a lack of fermentation process. Compared with green tea, there is a lack of frying to bring out the taste. Therefore, the taste is relatively light, closer to matcha, not as strong as black tea, and not as fragrant as green tea.

The milk tea produced in this way has always lacked some flavor.

However, if you want to improve the tea-making technique, you have to subvert the tea-drinking habits of the Tang people for hundreds of years, which is not a problem that Lin Niang can solve with a little chef.

Who to turn to? Du Baozhu's eyes flowed, and he had already screened several candidates in his heart.

Big brother, it's definitely not good, it's more reliable for him to improve the wine recipe than this. Aya...... He loves tea, but I don't know if he is willing to spend time on leisure work such as the tea ceremony.

Shou Wang?

Absolutely not! Just thinking of his indifferent face, a trace of hatred flashed in Du Baozhu's eyes, and he couldn't sink his mind anymore.

Unable to think of the right person, she simply didn't want to. Rubbing the corners of his forehead, he got up and went to the ear room to take out a stack of drawings, and said loudly: "Wenxi, prepare the car, I want to go out!" ”