Sleeve searched among them, but Crescent Moon took her arm and headed straight for the building.

The crescent moon walked into the building, didn't ask, and directly picked up the position of Xiaozhuang's drooping hand and sat down, and before she sat down, a palace maid came to offer tea to the two of them.

Although this journey is a sedan chair, the weather has begun to show a scorching appearance, the sleeve is indeed a little thirsty, take a sip of the teacup, moisten the throat.

There were a few little county lords who followed Ama Eniang into the palace and were about the same age as the crescent moon, and they quickly started chatting lively, sitting alone with their sleeves in their arms, looking at the magnificent palace in front of them with a leisurely expression.

After about half a cup of tea, the eunuch's loud and long voice sounded outside, "The emperor has arrived at the ......," and then came in one after another.

When the four people heard this voice, they hurriedly ran back to their seats, kneeling on the ground and shouting in unison: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live......

Kangxi was surrounded by the master of ceremonies, guards and many palace maids and eunuchs, and after being exempted from courtesy, he asked first: "I just saw the Empress Dowager's shoulder stop outside, where is the ancestor?" ”

Someone next to him hurriedly stepped forward to reply, Kangxi turned around and went upstairs, and after a while, he personally took Xiaozhuang's arm and walked downstairs, serving Xiaozhuang first, and Kangxi personally announced the start of the tea banquet.

Everyone sat down one after another, and their eyes fell on the square table set up on Kangxi's side, and they were reluctant to move away, it turned out that Rong Ruo and Gu Zhenguan, Chang Ning, Zhang Tingyu, Chen Tingjing and several others were appointed by Kangxi to set up a special position for the tea art judge.

Rong Ruo naturally also saw Huai Sleeve, resting on a few tables, and looked at her from a distance, and the lovesickness at the corners of her eyebrows and eyes was all reflected in Huai Sleeve's eyes, but there was a little tiredness in the faint smile at the corner of her lips.

How delicate his mind was, how could he not realize this subtle difference, when the heartstrings were plucked, he recalled the matter of the pearl that Ning talked about before, and thought that he must be worried about this time, so he didn't have the heart to look at the graceful song and dance orchestra played in front of him for fun.

At the end of the song, the tea banquet officially began, Huai Sleeve always felt that there was another pair of eyes looking at him uncomfortably, and his gaze subconsciously drifted to the seat of the harem concubine opposite, but he didn't expect to meet Concubine Hui's gaze.

Concubine Hui saw that Huai Sleeve was aware of her gaze, and she didn't dodge, she smiled slightly at Huai Sleeve, picked up the cup and slowly signaled, Huai Sleeve also raised the wine glass and saluted Concubine Hui in the air, then raised her face and drank it all.

Putting down the wine glass, his eyes inadvertently saw Kangxi looking at her with a pleasant face, his arms and sleeves palpitated inexplicably, and two red clouds flew on his face. Hurriedly lowered his head to ease his mind a little, and when he peeked again, he saw that Kangxi's eyes had moved to the center of the venue, and the tea sets used for tea art performances were placed one after another.

Huai Sleeve gently covered her cheeks with her hand, her skin was still a little hot, and the glance she looked at Kangxi just now seemed to be her own illusion, since it was an illusion, why was she so nervous......

"Master, are you alright? Is it hot" Princess Crescent Moon asked with concern when she found that her face was flushed with her sleeves.

Huai Sleeve shook his head: "I'm fine." ”

The crescent moon princess took the Mulan dew, poured a cup full of sleeves and said, "This is very refreshing, Master drink it to relieve fever." ”

Huai Sleeve nodded and continued to watch the tea ceremony.

The first day was originally arranged for a tea fight, but Kangxi felt that the first day should arrange some more lively performances, and the tea fight was quiet, and the atmosphere was suppressed, so Chang Ning arranged the tea art performance on the first day.

As Huai Sleeve said before, the children of the Eight Banners of Manchuria began to advocate Han culture since they entered the customs with Huang Taiji, especially the late Emperor Shunzhi, who admired Buddha and Zen very much.

Therefore, among the Manchu Eight Banners aristocracy, the study of the tea rhyme of the Han family history is becoming more and more popular, and among the several tea banquet items listed by Kangxi before, the applicant for the tea art competition is the first.

With a burst of guqin melodious mountain water sound murmuring in the hall, by several palace maids to bring out a variety of tea art required tea sets, the competition used in the tea set can be prepared in advance by the palace, you can also bring your own tea set.

Because the tea art competition was a temporary decision, most of the princes and courtiers did not bring their own tea sets, and most of them were prepared by the imperial tea room in the palace, and by the way, together with the required tea leaves, they were also prepared for everyone to choose.

The fine tea art of the market tea workshop is mostly oolong tea, and the oolong tea is headed by Tieguanyin, and the previous one who came up to perform is the Fujin Wanliu Ha clan with the yellow flag and the sea width, and the other is the side Fujin Dai Jia of Langzhong Shi Erbi.

Both of them used the tea utensils in the palace to perform, and the tea art demonstrated was also selected as Tieguanyin tribute from Putian, Fujian.

Tieguanyin was originally one of Kangxi's favorite teas, but the best place to produce was not Putian but Anxi, Kangxi saw that the two of them chose the Tieguanyin produced in Putian, so when asked about the difference with Anxi's Tieguanyin, neither of them said the reason, Kangxi was not embarrassed, and ordered to retreat.

The crescent moon looked very interested, and when she saw that neither of them had made a reason, she turned back and asked the reason for it.

Huai Sleeve was not in the middle of the original mood, but when he heard the crescent moon so asked, he turned back to his spirit, and said: "Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there are many tea products in the south into the palace, but as far as Tieguanyin is concerned, it is also the most famous in the area of Anxi, Fujian, and the four major tea products that are abundant in it, Tieguanyin, Golden Gui, Benshan, and Hairy Crab are famous in the north and south, and are known as the 'Oolong Capital'. These are all incomparable to Putian. ”

The crescent moon listened with great interest, lowered her voice, raised her thumb and said, "Master is too powerful, the crescent moon admires it very much!" ”

When she was excited, the crescent moon couldn't help but raise her voice, and the back of her hand was gently stretched by her sleeve, and then she came to her senses, looked at the emperor and the empress dowager on the seat, and saw Kangxi looking at her with a smile, and the crescent moon stuck out her tongue mischievously.

Here, several courtiers' concubines came up one after another to perform the tea art, all of which were oolong tea and the like, and many of the steps were incomplete, or some were nervous and forgot the words, because they were to please the queen mother, and everyone didn't care much.

Until the middle of the afternoon, a woman came up, who was the concubine of the cabinet scholar Zhang Shaoren, Han.

Han was born in a scholarly family in Huaiyang, Jiangnan is rich in tea, Jiangnan literati prefer to drink tea to meet friends, so for tea art than Manchu women are more proficient, this time to participate in the palace held tea art competition, Han in order to not be as good as the vulgar, choose a jasmine tea tea art with Jiangnan characteristics.

With a trickle of ancient song "The High of the Mountain", Han's slowly walked to the center of the main hall, and the Jiangnan woman was born elegant and beautiful, and Han was a typical delicate and delicate woman in the south.