After putting away the tea and seeing that all the tea leaves were spread out and dried according to her requirements, Du Jinning led everyone into the stove room and prepared to start roasting the tea.

After entering the courtyard before, everyone thought that this was the west wing, and did not pay attention to such a large stove room. At this time, as Du Jinning opened the door and entered, everyone exclaimed.

I saw that in the middle of the stove room, a row of stoves was built, all the stoves were very strange, and the pit where the pots were placed was oblique. At this time, six large bright iron pots were placed on the stove at an angle, tightly fitted, and there was no gap between them and the stove. And the strangest thing is that the opening of the fire is not under the pot, but on the other side. The pot and the stove are separated from each other by a long distance, and between the two are large chimneys of straight barrels made of mud bricks. The chimney was made so high that it reached out of the roof.

Du Jinning smiled: "That's why I called the three of you over." Last year, I went to a neighboring county to fry tea, but the time was tight, and there was no way to prepare, so I directly used their earthen stove to fry the tea. The tea has strong adsorption, so it is easy to get the smell of fire and smoke when fried, and the people who fry the tea are also hard. In this way, it is more reasonable to design the stove. ”

Yuan Xiuzhu turned around the stove and was amazed.

He asked Du Jinning: "This is also what you came up with?" ”

Du Jinning nodded cheekily.

Yuan Xiuzhu looked at Qi Bokun, opened his mouth and wanted to sigh, but after glancing at Qi Muyuan, Guan Jiaze and others, he still swallowed the words back.

Why is the gap between people so big? If his grandson could be like Du Jinning, he wouldn't have to worry about anything.

At this time, a bunch of charcoal was already burning in the stove, Du Jinning asked Lu Xiaobei to burn the stove one by one, and she and Chen and Du Fangfei sandwiched the charcoal into one roaster basket, and the bamboo dustpan matching the size of the roaster was placed on the roaster, and the dustpan was covered with fine snow-white cotton paper.

The iron pots are all clean, Du Jinning still wiped the iron pot again with a clean cloth, turned his head to the tea master brought by the Qi family, the Yuan family and the Guan family and said: "The fresh leaves you brought are enough time to dry, you come first, feel the difference in the stove." ”

These masters all followed Du Jinning to learn how to make tea when they went to neighboring counties last year, and later followed Qi Bokun and Yuan Xiuzhu to the tea garden in Huizhou to roast tea, and they are already veterans of tea making.

However, seeing this peculiar stove, the three of them were still very excited, rolled up their sleeves and went out, took the tea green in the dustpan and put it aside, and then probed above the iron pot with their hands, feeling that the heat of the pot was almost too hot, so they put the tea green in and fried it.

On the other side of the stove, Lu Xiaobei is controlling the heat. The size of the roasted tea, Du Jinning had trained him before, and today the fire of the six stoves is all burned by him. Now there are only three people stir-frying tea, and he does not add fire to the other three pots.

Du Jinning took the opportunity to teach the tea making method to the tea masters of the Liang and Shi families, Chen and others: "This fire can't be too fierce, if a piece of tea is scorched, the whole pot of tea can't be wanted; Of course, it can't be too cold, and this degree has to be grasped well. Put the palm of your hand two feet away from the bottom of the pot, and feel a certain amount of heat in your palm, and you can put the tea leaves. ”

Seeing that the tea master put the tea green into the pot one after another, she said: "It's okay to only put four taels of tea leaves in a pot, not too much." First use a simmer to slowly roast until soft, and then use a strong fire to quickly finish. Pay attention to the frequency and strength of these masters' gestures, and knead them when frying to break the leaf cells, so that the tea juice is easy to seep out when making tea. You will have to slowly experience this when you stir-fry tea for a while. ”

The three masters over there were very skillful in their movements, stir-frying with their palms and wooden fingers, and Lu Xiaobei's fire was also burning just right, so they didn't have to worry about it at all. After a while, the tea was half-cooked, and when the fragrance was slightly released, several people shoveled out the tea one after another and put it in the roaster behind them to dry.

Yuan Xiuzhu and Qi Bokun still have a large tea garden in the neighboring county and Huizhou, and they can be picked normally and produce a huge amount of tea, so they don't look at this kind of fresh leaves in Lishui County at all. Seeing that their master had made a pot, they stopped the two of them from wanting to continue, and said to Du Jinning: "You can use these fresh leaves, let a few of them go up and try their hands." ”

Du Jinning nodded: "The masters of the two of you go and try a pot." ”

Liang Shi's two families each brought three tea masters over, and there were exactly six people together.

Liang Xiankuan saw that the fresh leaves were not enough, so he asked someone to bring in the fresh leaves he brought.

The six of them stirred up tea under the guidance of Du Jinning. In addition to instructing them to roast tea, Du Jinning also instructed Du Fanghui on how to roast tea.

At this end, the tea master of Yuan Xiuzhu's family was still unsatisfied, and said to Yuan Xiuzhu: "Old lady, let's go back and build a few such stoves, it's really good." ”

Yuan Xiuzhu was very interested in this stove, and was about to ask his master how he felt, but when he saw that he took the initiative, his interest became more and more intense, and he asked, "Oh? What's a good way to do it? ”

"You see it's so tall, it's just right for people to sit there, and it's very comfortable for your hands to put on it. The tilt of this pan is also just right, and it is very smooth when stir-frying. The tea master was so excited that his face turned slightly red, and he made gestures when he spoke.

"Our stove, people sit there, the stove is facing themselves, it's hot. If you sit close, you can't stand it, if you sit far away, you can't reach it, and you have to move your body several times to avoid being roasted. When I want to add firewood to the stove, it not only affects my roasting tea, but the smoke also runs out, which is very smoky. Their stove is very good, the fire or anything can't affect my side at all, and there is no smoke yet. ”

Yuan Xiuzhu had already circled around the stove twice just now, and he very much agreed with the words of his own tea master.

He nodded: "Okay, let's build a stove like this when we go back." ”

He was an anxious man, seeing that those tea masters were clumsy, and he didn't know when to learn, he was impatient to wait, and said to Du Jinning: "Let my master teach them, you go and fry two pots of tea, and make a comparison." ”

"Okay." Du Jinning waited for them to finish stir-frying a pot of tea, then replaced a master of the Liang family and began to stir-fry the tea.

After the two pots were fried, after their respective baking and drying were finished, she asked Lu Xiaobei to boil a pot of water and brewed two bubbles of tea respectively.

After Yuan Xiuzhu tasted both teas, she asked, "How?" ”

Yuan Xiuzhu let out a long sigh: "What you said is right. At that time, we went to taste a lot of tea leaves, and specially selected a good one to buy his tea. The tea grown now is far from the taste of the tea you tasted at the beginning, and it is really a variant. He pointed to Du Jinning's tea, "You haven't changed this, it still tastes as good as before." No, it tastes better than the original, it should be a different season. ”

Qi Bokun tasted the tea, and suddenly asked, "Jinning, what do you want to be an official in the future?" ”