With Qi Muyuan's family background, he naturally married a daughter of a family or a young lady from an official eunuch's family, and when a woman of this status marries, she has a lot of mothers-in-law and maids who accompany her to marry.

Not to mention the distance, just look at Guan Jiayu to know that there are at least two big maids who serve closely, two second-class maids who do chores, and two rough maids who do rough work such as sprinkling and sweeping in the yard. Coupled with the nurse, teach the grandmother, and count it casually, you have to go up to six or seven. If the spectrum is bigger, there will be more.

They have so many people waiting for them when they are young, and it is uncomfortable to have one less, and they can probably burn their hands when they pour tea. If you want her to live in such a yard, you have to do everything by yourself, tidy up the house and clean the courtyard, I'm afraid that she will pack up her things and go back to her parents' house in less than the next day.

And it is unrealistic to let Qi Muyuan go away to accommodate others. As long as you think about a large group of women chattering and scurrying around in this courtyard all day long, not to mention Qi Muyuan, Du Jinning himself will have a headache when he thinks about it.

People who like to be cold and lonely, and it is absolutely unbearable for him to put them in a lively and prosperous place for a long time.

"That's why I don't marry. Women are trouble. Qi Mu said from afar.

Well, Du Jinning further understood the meaning of the phrase "women are trouble" in Qi Muyuan's mouth.

In this respect, women, or especially pampered daughters, are indeed troublesome.

"I'll go get you clothes, whatever you want." Qi Muyuan said, and walked into the inner room.

Two brothers, here in Qi Muyuan, Du Jinning is really "casual".

She saw that the paperweight on the desk was finely made and the style was ancient, so she couldn't help but pick it up and play with it twice. Putting the paperweight down, she turned to the windowsill to take a look, and fiddled with the tea set that had been placed there. Finally, I turned around and looked at the books on the shelves.

Qi Muyuan has a large collection of books, and most of the books have been placed on a large bookshelf against the wall. Seeing two books that he hadn't read, Du Jinning directly pulled them out and put them on the shelf, ready to borrow them from Qi Muyuan for a while.

Wandering around the shelves, Du Jinning saw a row of books on the right side of the shelves. The pages of the book are familiar, but is it a series of books such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" written by yourself?

Qi Muyuan has always said that he wants to collect complete sets, and the handwriting should be the same. Du Jinning could understand his obsessive-compulsive behavior, and later every time he wrote a book, after it was printed, he directly gave the original to Qi Muyuan.

At the beginning, when Du Jinning was most short of silver, Qi Muyuan would pay her silver; Later, Du Jinning had plenty of money and didn't accept Qi Muyuan's money, Qi Muyuan didn't insist, but he would take advantage of Du Jinning's birthday to send some paperweights, pen and ink inkstones, and other things to Du Jinning. These things are not necessarily precious, but they are either unique in style, or special products, or have special purposes, which are very popular with Du Jinning, and Du Jinning accepts them calmly.

Of course, there is no indecency, and Du Jinning will also give him something back. She is not good at anything else, but planting is an old business. From time to time, she will also send Qi Muyuan, Guan Jiaze, and Zhang Hongwen some potted plants made by herself. For example, there are several potted plants in Qi Muyuan's house, all of which were given to him by Du Jinning.

Looking at the potted plants, which were lush and obviously well-cared for, Du Jinning nodded.

After a while, Qi Muyuan came out and said to Du Jinning: "You sit here for a while, and I will take the clothes to my mother-in-law to change." You can use whatever the things on the desk are, and you can read the books on the shelves as you like. ”

Du Jinning pointed to the books he had chosen: "These two books, I want to borrow them back and read them." ”

Qi Muyuan glanced at it and nodded, "Okay." Then he asked, "Do you want to drink tea and eat snacks?" I asked Guanqi to send in. ”

"No, you don't." Du Jinning shook his head and pointed to the things on the windowsill: "I want to drink tea and make it myself." ”

It was a tea set, but it wasn't a simple tea set. Qi Muyuan asked someone to make a special small furnace, judging from the device exposed from the mouth, the furnace should be filled with kerosene, and there is a big wick on it; On the stove is a rustic terracotta jug. Just now, Du Jinning lifted the lid of the pot and looked at it, and it was filled with most of the water. She could guess that this was what Qi Muyuan usually made tea for.

Du Jinning likes to drink tea in modern times, and she also likes the atmosphere created by the tea ceremony. But when drinking tea alone, she doesn't put so many complicated tea sets. All she needed was an alcohol stove with a glass jug on top. In the cold of winter, I light the alcohol stove, put a piece of Pu'er tea in it and cook it slowly, and watch the burgundy tea soup be boiled out in a glassware. Lifting the pot and pouring a cup in her own quaint pottery cup, listening to the quiet guzheng song, flipping through a book, and looking at the flowers quietly blooming in the yard through the window, she felt that the years were quiet and the present world was stable.

Qi Muyuan's tea-making device evoked the memories in her heart. She would sit in such a courtyard and make herself a cup of tea.

Qi Muyuan smiled, his smile was as clear and lofty as the green bamboo outside the window.

He walked to the bookshelf, took out a tea box from a drawer underneath, and handed it to Du Jinning: "You taste this tea." With that, he stopped and went out with his clothes.

Du Jinning looked through the wide open window and watched Qi Muyuan's tall figure walk through the courtyard and out of the courtyard gate, she lifted the clay pot down, picked up the flint and steel placed on the windowsill and lit the wick, sat the clay pot back on the stove, watched the flames lick and caress the bottom of the pot, lowered her head and looked at the tea box that Qi Muyuan handed her.

The tea box contains flat tea cakes the size of an egg.

Du Jinning frowned slightly, reached out and picked up a tea cake, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it, and then handed it to his nose and sniffed it.

The Song people like to order tea, and the tea is made with cake tea. This kind of cake tea needs to put the fresh leaves in the steamer to soften softly, and then take it out to remove the stems and stems, and then mix the remaining tea leaves into a variety of precious spices, and then make tea cakes one by one, dry and store. When drinking, take the tea cake to the fire and roast it dry and crispy, then crush it and sieve it to get the tea powder, put it in a bowl and whisk it into tea foam.

History turned a corner, and after the Song Dynasty lasted for hundreds of years, although Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Quan did not advocate loose tea, the too expensive and complicated way of drinking tea still made many people abandon some tea and drink loose tea. Because of this, the roasted green tea created by Du Jinning is so marketable.

After two years of getting along, Du Jinning knows Qi Muyuan's temperament, he likes people with pure and simple temperament, there are not so many twists and turns in his belly, and he also likes a simple lifestyle. Like him, who doesn't even call his subordinates, he will not like complicated tea.

But why did he bring out this bread and tea? Is there any difference between this cake tea and ordinary cake tea?