"I know you're doing things safely, and I'm just waiting to see you shine today." Su Malagu said with a rare witty joke.

"It's just that I don't ask my aunt to make fun of it, I originally came to make up for it." He replied with a slight smile.

The two were chatting, Kangxi got up and said something to warm up, and personally announced the official start of the tea fighting competition.

The first to participate in the tea fight was the concubine Zou of Zhang Ying, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy.

Zou is also a native of Jiangnan, and was born in a scholarly family, so he gestured to see that he also had the gentle taste of a Jiangnan woman like yesterday's Han, and he was pleasing to the eye just looking at it before making tea.

Zou just entered the house not long ago, still a newcomer, a little shy when he saw a lot of people, his face was always red and slightly lowered, he walked up and kowtowed to Kangxi and Xiaozhuang first, thinking that the Han women in Jiangnan were used to wearing small embroidered shoes wrapped around their feet, and they were not used to the bottom of the flower pot.

Zou brought the tea powder that was indeed used for the tea method, but it had been processed, and only boiled water on the small red clay stove next to it, and still or because he was really nervous, the furnace fire was dialed, and the flames rushed straight to both sides of the copper furnace, and a pot of water was boiled in a short time, but the water was too thick and overflowed the lid of the pot, and the charcoal in the furnace was reversed with a burst of white smoke, and the palace maid standing next to him hurried over to see if there were burns.

Zou responded shyly that nothing happened, took a tea towel and carefully padded the handle of the copper kettle, poured water into the cup, and waited quietly.

Chang Ning, as the supervisor of the tea banquet conference, had already seen that Zou was nervous, and when he saw that the water had been poured into the cup, he got up and asked, "Is it possible to record the time of 'biting the cup'?" Zou was still flushed, and only nodded slightly.

Chang Ning ordered a little eunuch next to him to pick up an hourglass, Chang Ning personally placed the hourglass next to the tea bowl, only to see the delicate sand particles in the hourglass slowly leaking down, Chang Ning and Gu Zhenguan, Rong Ruo, Zhang Tingyu The four judges all stood up and walked to the teacup, and looked carefully at the soup flowers in the cup.

Kangxi couldn't help but get up and walked over, carefully looked at the tea soup in the cup, but only stood for a moment and then went back, everyone was a little nervous, holding their breath and staring at the hourglass.

Huai Sleeve knew that he was watching the tea, because he couldn't see the tea soup in the cup on the seat, and he could only look at the hourglass next to him, only to see that the hourglass had just fallen less than half of the fine sand, Zhang Tingyu said: "There are water marks." ”

The other three people gathered around and nodded, Chang Ning put down the hourglass and invited Zou to come and see, Zou took a closer look, nodded slightly, Chang Ning took the teacup and walked to Kangxi and Xiaozhuang with both hands and said, "Please appreciate the emperor and the queen mother." ”

Kangxi nodded after looking at it, Xiaozhuang looked at the little camellia in the cup, but frowned slightly and asked, "I see how this tea is different from what we drink on weekdays?" ”

Chang Ning held the teacup in his hand and said with a smile: "Ancestor, this is the end of tea, it is indeed a little different from the tea we drink on weekdays, but it is the same as the painting that the crescent moon gave you before." ”

"Oh......" Xiaozhuang nodded as if he didn't understand, and asked again, "What kind of tea did you just say this is called?" ”

"Back to the ancestors, this is called the tea method." Chang Ning said.

"What does this 'tea order' mean?" Xiaozhuang seems to want to get to the bottom of it.

Chang Ning smiled and said: "Ancestor, I can't tell you this at this moment, this problem will be left here first, and someone will naturally solve it for you in a while, and it is much more exciting than what I said, so I will leave you a thought first." ”

"Okay, then I'll wait, today you are the judge, I know you all have rules here, I just abide by it." Xiaozhuang has always been easy-going, so he smiled and told Zou to retreat.

Then walked into the hall was the new favorite concubine Baolan.

Baolan is wearing a brocade flag dress with red piping purple grapevines today, and the dragon flower made by Bai Juan is embroidered with a phoenix pattern of pinching gold wire, and the light water waist sways gently with the straight palace step, although it is only a nobleman, the left side of the big winged flag head is repeatedly interspersed with complex and enchanting jade carved petals layer upon layer, and the right side has been gilded with the flying phoenix step swinging gently with the rhythm of the footsteps.

Suo Etu was also in the hall at this time, sitting at the banquet table next to him, watching his daughter enter the palace by herself, and her temperament was quite royal and majestic, and she was very satisfied, and she didn't feel joy flying to the corners of her eyes.

Baolan walked to the center of the hall, slowly bowed down, and said in a soft voice: "The concubine and noble Lan family give the emperor, the queen mother please be safe, long live the emperor, long live the queen mother, long live the queen mother." ”

Kangxi just opened his mouth and said: "Lan Guiren is flat." ”

As soon as Kangxi's words fell, he heard Xiaozhuang next to him say: "Lan Guiren's dress is so gorgeous, I like the embroidery of your clothes very much, but I am getting older, and I can't see clearly, you come closer, let me take a closer look." ”

Baolan heard Xiaozhuang's words, her face was peach-colored, she got up and walked to Xiaozhuang, Xiaozhuang looked at Baolan who gradually walked into her with a kind face, and when she stood still, Xiaozhuang didn't look at the clothes on her body, only stretched out her hand to decorate Longhua, who was adorned with white silk on her chest, gently picked it up and looked carefully.

Huai Sleeve and other unknown reasons just looked curiously, but Su Malagu on Xiaozhuang's side frowned slightly.

Sure enough, Xiaozhuang looked at it for a while, let go of Long Hua, and asked with a light smile: "Which palace do you live in now?" ”

When Bao Lan heard the Queen Mother ask this, she only thought that the Queen Mother liked herself, and it must be a happy event, so she hurriedly replied: "Back to the ancestors, I currently live in the Scarlet Palace." ”

Xiaozhuang then asked, "Can the lady in charge of your palace come with you?" ”

Although Baolan was puzzled when she heard Xiaozhuang's question, she didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied, "Come along." ”

When Xiaozhuang heard this, he said to the eunuch standing beside him: "The female official in charge of Xuanfeihua Palace. Hearing this, the big eunuch standing next to him hurriedly shouted: "Xuan, the female official of the Scarlet Palace has come to see ......."

An older palace maid immediately walked out next to her, walked to the center of the hall and knelt down and kowtowed: "Slave and maid Lixiang, the female official in charge of the Scarlet Palace, knock to see the emperor, and the queen mother ......."

"You get up first, come here, I have something to ask you." Xiaozhuang smiled at this time, his face was a little more solemn than before, and naturally revealed a solemn and noble royal majesty.

The nobles of the Eight Banners and the ministers sitting below didn't know what the reason was, and they didn't dare to make a sound, they just sat quietly and watched.

Rika stood up and walked in front of the Empress Dowager, because Baolan was the master, so she didn't dare to stand side by side with Baolan, and only stood next to Baolan.

Xiaozhuang pointed to Baolan and said, "You take a few steps forward to see what your master is wearing today?" ”