Xiaozhuang twisted the dried new tea to smell, but it was not as fragrant as it was in his hand just now.

"Why doesn't this tea smell as fragrant as yours?" Hyo-joo asked.

Huai Sleeve hurriedly replied: "The tea I brought with me was specially smoked with jasmine and peony buds, so it carried the aroma of flowers, which were not smoked, so there was no such fragrance." "

Xiaozhuang liked it more and more when he heard it, and his sleeves also saw Xiaozhuang's thoughts, and took out the pre-prepared ceramic teapot from his arms and offered:

"This year is the first year to take care of the tea trees, and there are not many tea leaves, so I have to get these, but it is a newly made Ming Qian tea, you can try it, and I don't know if it suits your taste."

Xiaozhuang hurriedly unscrewed the lid of the tea can, and sure enough, a refreshing new fragrance wafted out.

Su Malagu hadn't seen Xiaozhuang so interested for a long time, and proposed: "It's rare for the ancestors to be happy, today is also the Guyu Festival, and the peasant women on Moshang have been stepping on the green since ancient times, and the custom of 'walking the Guyu' is the same, and we are walking in this garden." "

"What Sister Man said is that we will not go to the Buddha Hall today, but also be a strange woman, walking in this garden, and letting the placket be stained with rain and dew. Let the shoes and socks step on the dust and get some fresh air on the ground. "

Xiaozhuang said, holding his sleeve with one hand and supporting Su Mala with the other, and the many palace eunuchs behind him accompanied him, enjoying the spring scenery in the garden.

Huai Sleeve saw that Xiaozhuang had already left, and he was afraid of his thirst and said: "Ancestor and rest for a while, this garden is closest to my Zhihua Zhai, I went to fetch water, and cooked tea for the ancestor here, which is more interesting than sitting in the house and drinking tea." "

"Okay, just follow the attention of the pregnant girl."

This remark is in Xiaozhuang's thoughts, Xiaozhuang's face is happy, and he turned back to Zhuqing and said: "Pass it on, I will set up breakfast in the garden today, Sister Man will accompany me to eat, and after a while, the girl will take water to make tea, and there is no need to go back." "

Zhuqing and Huai Sleeve both went down to prepare, and after a while, the food came up, and the little eunuch brought a table of eight immortals and placed it in the hexagonal pavilion in the center of the garden. "

Aunt Su Mala carefully tried all kinds of dishes with silver needles, and when she heard the impatience of Xiaozhuang and the others, she smiled and said: "This girl with sleeves is delicate, thinking that Gu Yu prepared a new tea today to be filial to the ancestors, maybe there is something we can't think of for a while!" "

Xiaozhuang heard Su Malagu's words, and agreed very much: "Indeed, these days when the girl came to me, I looked coldly at this girl who is indeed more clever than others, and she is meticulous, and her character and appearance are good, and among the concubines in the emperor's harem, it is rare to pick out one or two ...... who can match her."

When Su Mala Gu heard this, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she could show a happy face and say yes.

While the two were talking, the eunuch had stopped setting up breakfast.

Su Malagu got up and picked up ivory chopsticks to serve Xiaozhuang to eat, Xiaozhuang only glanced at the dishes on the dinner plate, and said with a slightly gloomy face: "This refreshing solar term, still make these greasy things, I don't know how to observe the time, these can be swallowed at the moment." "

Xiaozhuang said, so he just put the chopsticks down and didn't move.

Seeing this, the eunuch who was waiting for the meal next to him hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "The slave should die, I didn't expect this, the slave should die......"

When the eunuch was kowtowing here, he walked in from the moon gate behind him with a small copper kettle in one hand and a delicate and small food box in the other.

With a smile on her sleeves, she entered the hexagonal pavilion, put the food box and the copper kettle on the table, and followed by Jian Yue, bringing an iron bucket stove for making tea outside the pavilion. Xiaozhuang waved his hand, signaled the eunuch to retreat, turned to his sleeve, and pretended to be annoyed: "How did you get a piece of water and come back for a long time?" "

Huai Sleeve knew that although Xiaozhuang questioned, he was not really annoyed, and joked with a smile: "I'm late, and I want to punish the old ancestor for listening, but if the old ancestor tastes this dish and is happy, the punishment will be lighter for a while." "

"If it's a good thing, you can take it out and talk about it. If it's really good, I'll punish you with a reward, and if it's not good, I'll punish you twice! Xiaozhuang listened to her curiosity and urged with a smile.

Huai Sleeve gently opened the lid of the food box, a fresh aroma hit the nose, and everyone gathered around to see, but only saw a plate of ordinary scrambled eggs.

"Ah, this girl really has a heart, this is exactly what the ancestors liked!" Aunt Su Mala looked at it and couldn't help but glance at her sleeve with appreciation.

"Exactly, the refreshing and fragrant toon flavor is a good time to eat this." Xiaozhuang was amazed, and suddenly his mouth was full of relish, and his appetite was opened.

Huai Sleeve copied a plate of freshly picked toons with hu oil until tender yellow, accompanied by a copy of the tender eggs, and added a little pigeon meat foam and white sesame seeds in the middle, which was fragrant and smooth, but not the slightest greasy.

With the toon in his sleeve and the eggs, Xiaozhuang ate a whole piece of roasted steamed buns, which was more than the usual lunch.

After the meal of Xiaozhuang, the palace maids and eunuchs removed the cups and plates, took a bright yellow square bucket carved from Shoushan stone in their sleeves, put a few tea leaves in it, brewed it with the water of the small copper kettle driven on the fire, and gently poured it in front of Xiaozhuang when the tea leaves were cool to eight minutes.

He took another porcelain cup from Ru Yao, made the same cup, and put it in front of Su Malagu.

When Aunt Su Mala got up and took the teacup, she smiled lightly at Huai Sleeve and nodded slightly, Huai Sleeve knew what it meant, and lowered her eyes with a smile.

"The new tea is really different from those who come from afar, the fresh juice in the mouth is still wrapped in the aroma of the earth, and there is a simple charm, this is the taste of real tea!" After Xiaozhuang was tasted, he couldn't help but admire.

Su Malagu also claimed the same.

A few people drank tea for a while, put down the cup, Xiaozhuang couldn't help but ask in his heart: "You live in the northern frontier all the year round, and it is said that you can't see tea, how can you learn the skillful tea-making process every day?" "

Huai Sleeve expected that Xiaozhuang would ask this, smiled indifferently, and slowly replied: "The northern Xinjiang where I once lived is indeed not as pleasant as the capital.

Since I was a child, I only heard my grandmother say that she had been to the south with the regent when she was young, and after conquering Yunnan-Guichuan, the imperial court had recruited a large number of tea farmers there to pay tribute to the capital. "

When Xiaozhuang heard this, he understood and nodded slightly.

Huai Sleeve continued: "I heard my grandmother say that making tea is actually very hard work. During the day, I was busy picking tea, dividing tea, and frying new tea overnight, and I didn't sleep for a few days and nights.

I didn't even have time to eat, so I stayed in front of the stove and took a few bites to solve a meal when I ate, and I didn't sleep, and some were even so tired that I fell asleep while eating. "