Early in the morning of the second day, the Xie family got up, this day was the day when Xie Ping'an saw each other, although Xie Qingshan and Xie Wang's family heard that the Zhao family husband and wife were heavy money and did not keep their promises, and they had already made up their minds to refuse this family business after looking at each other, but the face still had to be done.

The other is to take the three children to the county seat to buy some pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and prepare Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng to study and go to school. So Xie Qingshan and Xie Wang took Xie Ping'an and three children, and Xie Pingtian and Lin were busy at home.

With a mule cart is a lot more convenient and labor-saving, in the past, it was necessary to rush to the county seat early in the morning, and even wear the stars and the moon, now, Xie Qingshan sat in front of the car, holding a long whip and gently throwing it on the mule, Xie Wang and Xie Ping'an took three children to sit in the car, and a few people laughed and gossiped, not to mention how relaxed and comfortable.

About half an hour later, I arrived at Linzhang County.

In fact, the county is divided into two urban districts, namely the south city and the north city, the county government and the nobles and royal relatives all live in the north city, and the common people live in the south city. The district where the royal nobles and officials live is called "Qili", and there are four major residential areas in Nancheng District, namely Changshouli, Jiyangli, Yongpingli, and Sizhongli.

After inquiring all the way, a few people stepped into the stinky water alley, and saw the flowing water curtain of the Liu family's tea bureau fluttering in the wind, Xie Qingshan tied the mule to the tree next to him, and led a few people into the tea bureau.

Although this tea bureau is not big, it is quite clean, and there are four or five tables in the two storefronts on the street, which is a tea house, and the tea is boiled and prepared for refreshments are in the tea house.

It's still early, and there are no guests in the tea bureau, so they choose this time to see each other in search of a clean meaning.

Seeing that there were guests, a mother-in-law about fifty or sixty years old greeted her, with a green cloth wrap on her head, wearing a wool green cloth skirt, and smiled when she saw someone, "Guest, please sit down, what kind of tea do you eat?" ”

"What's the tea? Simply come to three bowls, we will wait for someone! Then there is the fruit praline tea, and three bowls for the children. Xie Qingshan said.

It turned out that when the tea culture of the Song Dynasty developed to the Ming Dynasty, because Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the group tea of the tea was too expensive, he issued an edict to abolish the group tea and make tea instead. The style of tea fighting in the Two Song Dynasty disappeared, cake tea was replaced by loose tea, and the method of brewing tea at the end of the mill became the method of brewing leaf tea with boiling water.

Different from the literati who paid attention to natural taste, elegant and simple way of drinking tea, the public in the market liked to drink rich and colorful mixed drinks, and added various flowers, nuts, fruits, and even vegetables to the tea when drinking tea. Whether it's all kinds of flowers: roses, gardenias, roses, osmanthus, jasmine, plum blossoms, or all kinds of nuts: pine nuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, olives, melon kernels, walnut kernels, sesame seeds, and all kinds of fruit preserves, even bamboo shoots, coriander, potatoes, ginger, salt, everything can be made into tea. The tea making of later generations can be seen in this style of tea drinking.

However, this is not just tea, tea is just a synonym, just like milk tea in later generations, although there is also a tea word, but it has nothing to do with tea.

"Auntie, what kind of fruit tea is here?" Xie Xuan has been curious about the tea culture of the Ming Dynasty for a long time, and couldn't help asking.

"Ouch, this is a lot, there are osmanthus mulberry tea, salty cherry tea, mulberry golden lamp tea, candied golden orange tea, rose poured brine tea, and all kinds of chewy nuts, whatever you want, just order a bowl for you!" The woman replied with a smile.

"Then I want a rose, pine nuts, walnuts, sesame seeds, kumquat candied tea!" Xie Xuan's eyes rolled and he said a string.

"I want it too! I want it too! Xie Zhicheng's eyes were dizzy when he heard this, and he hurriedly shouted.

Xie Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Then I want this too!" ”

The woman was not embarrassed at all, and said crisply: "Okay, wait a minute, guest!" So he went to the tea house in the back.

"You little devil!" Xie Wang smiled and nodded Xie Xuan's forehead.

In a moment, the woman came out with a tea tray holding six tea bowls, and put down the tea bowls in front of a few people, Xie Qingshan and the three of them were ordinary jasmine tea, and there were a few tea leaves and jasmine flowers floating on the green and yellow tea soup. In front of Xie Xuan's three children was a bowl of bright rose-red tea soup, in which some pine nuts, walnut kernels, sesame seeds, kumquat candied fruit floated heavily, and the wooden spoon was obliquely on the edge of the bowl, and a sweet rose smell accompanied by nuts drilled into the nostrils, which made people can't help but have a great appetite.

"Slow use by guests!" The woman smiled and retreated.

Xie Xuan picked up the wooden spoon and stirred it, first tasted the rose-red tea soup, which was sweet and delicious, and scooped up a spoonful of nuts, which was crispy and chewy.

Where is this tea, this is obviously porridge! Xie Xuan couldn't help but complain, except for not adding lotus root powder, this is no different from the lotus seed porridge in later generations!

Xie Zhicheng couldn't stand the temptation of the sweet tea soup, picked up the tea bowl and drank a big sip, but it was hot, and he was reluctant to spit it out, so he had to swallow it hard, his hot eyes were red, and the anxious Xie Wang patted him on the back while scolding him for "starving to death and reincarnating".

While laughing, I saw a donkey cart parked at the door, and three people came down, the first one was the matchmaker Guo Pozi, followed by a man in his forties and fifties, wearing a scarf, a yellow and cyanotic face, wearing a thin jacket of coarse cloth, and a thin and tall body. Then swaying behind followed by a young girl, slender figure, wearing a carmine ground entwined peony shuttle button-down shirt, the lower circle of chrysanthemum muslin skirt, and a circle of color disc play patterns embroidered by hand.

The three of them walked to the tea party, Guo Pozi's eyes were sharp, and when she saw the Xie family sitting inside, she greeted her loudly: "Brother Xie, sister-in-law Xie, you came early, aren't you in a hurry to see the second sister of the Zhao family!" ”

Xie Qingshan and Xie Wang's saw the figure outside, and hurriedly stood up with Xie Ping'an, Xie Wang's listened to Guo Pozi's words, so he smiled and replied: "Guo Baoshan is laughing!" "I can't help but look at the girl of the Zhao family.

When I got closer, I looked carefully, and saw that Second Sister Zhao was wearing a cloud bun woven from horsehair, four temples with black oil, a copper gilt plum hairpin next to the temples, two red silk flowers, and two silver cloves in the earlobes. Pretty raw melon seed face, dark apricot eyes, straight nose, red cherry mouth, thick dark clouds, slender body, except for one is not beautiful, the skin is slightly yellow and black, a few pockmarks on the cheeks, and the beauty has been reduced by four points.

Because she knew her own shortcomings, she covered up her face with makeup powder, which was of slightly inferior quality and not very delicate and conforming. Only the face is painted, and the neck is still the primary color, which is not very delicate, but it is still a beauty.

Xie Xuan turned his head to look at Xie Ping'an, only to see him looking at Second Sister Zhao who was swaying in the wind and swaying willows, her face was red, her eyes seemed to grow on her, and she was stunned like a goose.

"Look, look, this is the second sister of Zhao, a flower in our village, whose name is Xianglan. This is Zhao's elder brother Zhao Muchun'er, and he is the father of Zhao's second sister. Mrs. Guo Tuantuan's smile was blank, and she introduced Xie Qingshan and the others, and then pointed to Xie Qingshan and said to the Zhao father and daughter: "This is Brother Xie and Sister-in-law Xie, who have become very famous recently!" This tall and strong descendant is Hirata...... Look at Hirata, a high student, how well matched with the second sister! ”

Xie Qingshan and Zhao Muchun played against each other, Second Sister Zhao said a blessing timidly, Xie Qingshan and Xie Wang drove the three children to another table, and hurriedly invited each other to sit down, calling the tea lady to serve tea.

Mrs. Guo said auspicious words in her mouth, stared at Xie Pingtian coldly, looked at him if she wanted to see but didn't dare to look at Second Sister Zhao, her face was flushed with shame, and she knew a little in her heart, and suddenly laughed loudly: "Look at this offspring, look at this girl, one is tall and strong, the other is talented and good-looking, isn't it a marriage determined by heaven?" Look at the old body, this marriage is here today! ”