Chapter 174: Victory and Defeat

"The third tea contest must have increased the time limit compared to the first two. The two of you need to control the amount of time in a quarter of an hour to order a better tea than the previous two times. I announce that the third tea contest has officially begun. ”

Abbot Duyou solemnly announced the start of the third and final tea competition, and Xiao Shami placed the hourglass that calculated the time in front of the table of Su Jiudong and Feng Yingying.

Due to the attributes of tea, the third tea order is more focused on the control of the heat, the heat of the warm pot, the heat of the boiling water, and the heat of the soup, the three important processes are related to the heat.

Su Jiudong and Feng Yingying coincidentally chose to preheat the tea cup first and then crush the tea cake.

Su Jiudong couldn't help but be glad that her habit of being willing to boil medicine in person helped her, and she was able to successfully master the heat of boiling medicine, and she had always ordered tea.

Su Jiudong used hot water to flush the tea cup this time, so that the tea cup heated up quickly, and felt the temperature with his fingertips against the outside of the tea cup, and stopped washing when he felt that the appropriate preheating temperature had been reached.

After preheating the tea cup and crushing the tea cakes, Su Jiudong focused his attention on the process of boiling water, and Wen Yiheng's advice kept echoing in his mind: "It's on, and the water is inedible...... Remember. ”

Seeing this, Yao Danyun became worried again: "Sister Chu Yi, Sheng Han, look at it, Sister Jiudong is staring at the teapot again."

I don't know what she's looking at. Could it be that the longer the teapot boils, the greater the chance of winning? In the second game just now, Yingying also stared at the teapot, and then won. ”

"They're not staring at the teapot, they're staring at the boiling water." Feng Shenghan stuffed a book into Yao Danyun's hand, and said helplessly: "If you really don't know anything, then take a look at this "Daguan Tea Treatise" first." ”

Su Jiudong, who was sharp-eared, heard the "Daguan Tea Theory" talked about by Yao Danyun and the three of them behind him, and couldn't help but feel a shock to her body.

I remember that in the waterfront pavilion, Wen Yiheng carefully explained to Su Jiudong while boiling water: "When the first boiling water boils, and discarding its foam, there is water desert like biotite, and drinking it will not taste right." ”

Su Jiudong immediately removed all the dirty foam in the teapot after boiling water for the first time, and then scooped out a scoop of water from the kettle for later use.

During the second boil, the boiling water is poured into the cup filled with crushed tea and stirred along the center of the soup to evenly dissolve the tea powder in the water.

Abbot Duyou stared at Su Jiudong's action of pouring soup and tea, and saw that she was more skilled than the first one before, but the speed of the blow was slightly slower. Feng Yingying, on the other hand, continued to maintain the full state of the second game, and her technique and speed were closer to perfection than Su Jiudong.

Feng Yingying caught a glimpse of Abbot Duyou only looking in the direction of Su Jiudong, and nodded from time to time, and couldn't help but secretly beat the drum in her heart, could it be that Su Jiudong played better in the third game?

Feng Yingying focused and stared at the boiling water, but couldn't help but want to glance at Su Jiudong who was directly opposite. In the end, under the trend of unsatisfied curiosity, Feng Yingying still looked at Su Jiudong.

However, it was only this ten-second psychological struggle, and the few seconds of looking at Su Jiudong, that made Feng Yingying miss the exact time of the second boiling water. When she came back to her senses and looked at the teapot again, the water in the teapot was almost close to the third boiling state.

Feng Yingying subconsciously wanted to pour out the boiling water in the teapot and re-brew another pot, but the hourglass on the table had already shown that half of the time had passed, and it was obviously too late to re-brew another pot.

"This ...... Is this how you lost? Feng Yingying's heart immediately panicked, but she took down the teapot calmly on the surface. At this time, the water surface in the teapot has already bulged a lot of foam, and there is a momentum of splashing out of the teapot.

Feng Yingying immediately scooped out the boiling water, mixed it with the cooled water from the scoop, and gradually added it to the tea cup until the soup remained relatively still, so as to maintain the tea soup Yuhua and further "refine" the tea soup, so that the inherent shape of the tea was fully revealed, and strive to make the final effect resist the fire fault of boiling water pouring into the soup.

When Feng Yingying was a little in a hurry, Su Jiudong had already silently reached the fourth step of the soup injection stage.

Due to the influence of the attributes of the selected tea leaves, Su Jiudong could only barely pour the soup for the fourth time. The tea leaves in the third field were Huangshan Maofeng, and Su Jiudong was sure to try his best to inject the soup until the fifth time, or even the sixth time.

"Ahh She's going to make her fifth soup injection! Suddenly there was a voice in the crowd that I don't know who subconsciously shouted in surprise, which made the audience who were originally looking at Su Jiudong and Feng Yingying focus their eyes on Su Jiudong's hand.

Su Jiudong was told by Wen Yiheng: "You can be unrestrained when you pour the soup for the fifth time, just relax and beat the tea." ”

Due to the impact of the previous soup injections, Su Jiudong's wrist had escalated from a faint pain just now to an obvious soreness. So this fifth soup injection she could only slow down, stirring the tea whisk more easily and evenly, and trying not to escalate the wrist pain.

At this time, the tea foam in Su Jiudong's tea cup had formed a cloud-like shape, and the pure white tea color was all presented.

Some children of the official family discussed: "This soup flower looks pretty good, could it be that Su Jiudong is really going to win?" ”

Tang Zhen retorted firmly: "No! Su Jiudong was purely lucky

I can inject soup for the fifth time, and I am still optimistic about Yingying. ”85

Just when everyone thought that Su Jiudong was going to stop his movements and hand over the teacup, Su Jiudong saw that there was still a small part of the hourglass that had not all fallen, and it was estimated that there should be more than a few minutes left, so Su Jiudong stretched out his hand to the teapot again.

"Is she going to make the sixth infusion? No way! Tang Zhen immediately shouted loudly.

Under the surprise of everyone, Su Jiudong made a desperate attempt to inject soup for the sixth time. After pouring the soup, Su Jiudong slowly swissed around the tea noodles with a tea whisk.

At this time, the seemingly complete tea surface in the tea cup gradually has a milky dot-like protrusion and condensation.

Su Jiudong and Feng Yingying handed over the tea cup at the last moment at the same time, and Xiao Shami continued to take it away, marking the number and name.

Abbot Duyou called Su Jiudong and Feng Yingying to the table and observed the situation of the two cups of tea together.

Feng Yingying took the opportunity to stand up and quietly wiped the thin sweat on her forehead. And Su Jiudong unabashedly moved his sore wrist, and his left hand pinched the wrist part heavily to exert pressure and knead.

Everyone saw that Feng Yingying was relaxed, but Su Jiudong showed a slightly laborious state, and each made a final conclusion in their hearts.

Two cups of tea were placed in front of Abbot Duyou, and the fifth-numbered tea cup was like a cloud of fine milk on the tea surface, as if it was about to overflow the tea cup and rise into the air, swirling around the cup.

The sixth-numbered tea cup was slightly gray, and most of the tea savvy people present could see that it was obviously overheated.

Abbot Duyou commented fairly: "The tea of No. 5 is moderately thick, there are soup flowers floating in the bowl, there are oil droplet lines at the bottom of the bowl, and the soup flowers bite the edge of the bowl. Although the process was a little strenuous, the final result was very outstanding, and there was a rare bite ......"

"As for the No. 6 tea, it's useless to say more, just because the soup flowers are not pure and white enough, it's a few more water than the No. 5...... Therefore, this game is the fifth tea soup clearly wins. ”

This time, Xiao Shami only turned the back of two pieces of paper with the corresponding name written on them and showed them to Abbot Duyou.

"The winner of the third round of the tea contest is..."Abbot Du You slowly held the back of the No. 5 paper high and showed it to everyone: "... Dingwu General's Mansion, Su Jiudong! ”

"What? No way! ”

While the crowd was boiling, Tang Zhen was more excited than Feng Yingying, who had lost the situation, and hurriedly pushed away the son-in-law beside him, and stepped forward to check the difference between the two bowls of tea and soup; I flipped through the backs of papers 5 and 6 to see if there was cheating.

But facts speak louder than words, and the winner is indeed Su Jiudong.

Abbot Duyou went on to announce: "Two wins in three games. The final winner of today's tea contest is, General Dingwu's Mansion, Su Jiudong! ”

Miss Shan Ye of the General's Mansion won the first lady show in the capital, which made most of the young ladies present who were betting on Feng Yingying to win lose their hearts, and the main hall of the temple was more about the sound of discussion than the cheers of celebrating Su Jiudong's victory from the heart.

Feng Yingying pretended not to care about the outcome of the outcome, and secretly gritted her teeth and said: "This time I let you in the face of you just returning to the capital, and next time, I will definitely not let you be so proud." ”

Su Jiudong was really indifferent: "Is it really for me, I believe that others must have a real answer in their hearts." Why did Miss Yingying shout that you let me win? Inevitably, you lost the demeanor of the first lady in the capital. ”

Feng Yingying saw that she was unfortunate with Su Jiudong and Wen Yiheng, so she turned around and cried to Abbot Duyou with a slightly crying voice: "If there was enough time for me to change the boiling water again, maybe I would be the one who won." ”

"Miss Yingying, there are not so many ifs and maybes in life." Wen Yiheng stepped forward and grabbed Su Jiudong's waist, and continued to say to Feng Yingying:

"There is a cloud in the Analects: take from it, get it from it; Take from it, get it from below; If you take from below, you will get nothing. If Miss Yingying insists on using ifs, maybe perfunctory blame for herself, I am most afraid that she will end up asking for nothing and not getting anything. ”

Feng Yingying was bluntly exposed by Wen Yiheng, and she was immediately furious, and she no longer had time to care about the image and bearing of any beautiful girl, and shouted: "You! Warm and constant! You can be so domineering when you become the prime minister? Sooner or later, the Holy One will depose you! ”

"Yingying, stop it! How can you talk nonsense about things between the courts?! ”

The young master's wife of the prince and Feng Yingying's mother immediately quickly covered Feng Yingying's mouth, smiled and said to Wen Yiheng and the design fee for compensation, and took Feng Yingying down the mountain.

After the tea fight, the other ladies, ladies, and sons present dispersed together, each went to burn incense and pray for blessings, or went home directly.

After today's tea fight, there must be a lot of topics to talk about in the capital.