Chapter 166: In the Name of the Dragon
The second floor of the Golden Dragon Martial Arts Hall is currently the residence of Zheng Chao'an.
Because the martial arts hall opened in a hurry, the second floor still looks old and dilapidated, and there is no trace of redecoration at all. Although the whole house is not small, it is empty, with no extra decoration, only a few necessary pieces of furniture. And the furniture also looks extremely old, probably left over from the previous owner.
However, Zheng Chaoan is a martial arts practitioner, and he doesn't pay attention to these things outside his body at all, as long as there is a tile to cover the roof.
After the competition, Zheng Chaoan invited Huang Xiaohao upstairs for a cup of tea, and Huang Xiaohao naturally nodded and agreed.
Lao Wu saw that the two should have something to discuss, so he went back to the restaurant first. The crowd of onlookers who were watching the competition also dispersed one by one, but they were still talking about it, and they couldn't understand why Zheng Chao'an, who had the upper hand, suddenly opened his mouth to admit defeat.
"Could it be that Master Zheng also likes to eat the dishes cooked by Master Huang, and he is afraid that he will not be able to eat them after winning the battle, so he suddenly admits defeat?" A foodie suddenly opened his mouth to guess.
His statement was unanimously recognized by most of the onlookers. These people are all those diners who have been to Tangshan restaurants and eaten the dishes cooked by Huang Xiaohao.
The top-level food may not be tasted several times in an ordinary person's life. Therefore, those who have been to Tangshan restaurants and eaten Huang Xiaohao's dishes are really highly respected for his cooking skills.
In this competition, after winning the "Tangshan Big Brother", the speculation that the foodie masses was purely fictitious, which made the name of "Tangshan Chef" even more resounding in all directions. As a result, the Tangshan Hotel has become more prosperous, and many diners have come here to taste the superb food made by the legendary 'Tangshan Chef'.
It's just that Huang Xiaohao has thrown off the title of 'temporary chef' and is no longer in the kitchen. These admiring diners are destined to be difficult to taste the legendary top food.
"Please~!"
After going up to the second floor, Zheng Chaoan spent more than 20 minutes slowly, using a small stove, lighting a fire to boil water, and then rinsing the tea set, according to a set of rigorous and cumbersome processes, before brewing out a pot of kung fu tea, and stretched out his hand to invite Huang Xiaohao, who was sitting opposite him, to taste tea.
Huang Xiaohao has been sitting on an old rattan chair, quietly watching Zheng Chao'an's flowing tea-making action, until Zheng Chaoan stretched out his hand to invite the tea, Huang Xiaohao picked up the teacup and drank it in one gulp.
To Huang Xiaohao's expectation, in inverse proportion to the simple house decoration around him, was Zheng Chao'an's set of tea sets, which turned out to be a set of simple and elegant purple sand teapots, beautifully made, and at a glance, he knew that it was not ordinary. The tea soup in the teacup is even more tender yellow and bright, mellow and fragrant, obviously the tea is not the kind of ordinary tea, but those very precious and rare tea, like what "Longjing before the rain" and "Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao" and the like.
Of course, Huang Xiaohao, who was stuffy, couldn't taste what kind of tea this was.
"Good tea~! Hehe~! A cup of hot tea entered his stomach, Huang Xiaohao could only make such a feeling, and then, he suddenly laughed out loud.
"What are you laughing at?" Zheng Chaoan asked Huang Xiaohao, who was suddenly laughing, while carrying the teapot to make tea.
"It's nothing, it's just a little strange, Brother Zheng, you don't look like a person who can drink such a cumbersome and well-behaved kung fu tea?"
"Oh~? So what kind of person should I be in the eyes of Brother Huang? Zheng Chaoan sat down and asked calmly.
"Hmm~! It should be the kind of person who doesn't ask about mundane things, indulges in martial arts, and can't extricate himself! I don't think such a person will waste their time on slow kung fu tea. ”
"Haha, Brother Huang's words are half right." Zheng Chaoan also laughed out loud and replied, "Addicted to martial arts training, you can't extricate yourself, you are indeed right." But this kung fu tea can be regarded as my only hobby. No matter where I go, I always bring my own set of tea sets and tea leaves, which can be said to be extremely obsessed. ”
"Isn't it your hobby to practice martial arts?" Huang Xiaohao heard the word 'only' and asked curiously.
"Martial arts practice is my life, and drinking tea is my hobby." Zheng Chaoan shook his head with a smile, and then said, "And, Brother Huang, don't you think that this kung fu tea is very similar to kung fu?" ”
"Where's the like?" Huang Xiaohao asked casually.
Zheng Chaoan was carrying the teapot and looking at the clear tea flowing from the spout into the teacup, and replied: "Kung Fu tea, Kung Fu tea, this word Kung Fu is enough to explain the relationship between the two." Isn't the cumbersome and regular kung fu tea process in your mouth exactly the same as the complicated and rigorous routines of traditional martial arts? ”
"But I don't think Brother Zheng is the kind of person who will stick to traditional routines, right?"
"Yes, you're right, I don't really care much about traditional routines. In the first few years of my martial arts training, I once competed with a martial artist. Obviously, it is three punches and two kicks, and the opponent who can be defeated within ten seconds, but after the two sides use the traditional routine, it takes more than 20 minutes to win with difficulty. Since then, I have begun to think about whether there is any need to care about the routines of traditional martial arts. ”
"It was at that time that I saw the similarities between kung fu tea and kung fu, and found the answer I was looking for from it, so I completely fell in love with kung fu tea."
"What I care about is that in these equally complicated rituals, what flows is the free tea, which is with different fragrances and can accommodate thousands of tea fragrances~!"
From making tea to tea, and then from tea to the essence of martial arts, Zheng Chao'an talked about the topic of kung fu, which really changed the taciturn appearance on weekdays, and seemed to be endless, extremely good at talking.
And he also tried his best to introduce his set to Huang Xiaohao, taking water as the essence, not sticking to various martial arts moves and routines, letting go of his own shackles, and using kung fu to surpass his own thoughts.
"If you just follow the traditional model, you can only survive in the shadow of tradition, you only know the old way, you don't know yourself."
"Only by letting your mind be as unfettered as water, can the greatness of the changes of moves be enlightened in the water."
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The more Zheng Chaoan spoke, the more energetic he became, "attack without thinking", "express yourself freely" and other thoughts that he had hidden in his heart for a long time, and finally had a qualified audience, which made him talk happily, and almost said all the opinions about kung fu and his martial arts in one breath.
"Taking the impossible as the law, and the infinite as the finite?" After listening to Zheng Chao'an for a long time, but he never heard this sentence about the highest purpose and philosophical core of Jeet Kune Do, Huang Xiaohao replied tentatively.
"Taking the impossible as the law, and the infinite as the finite?"
When Zheng Chaoan heard this, his heart woke up like thunder, and he felt that Huang Xiaohao's words summed up all his thoughts and the core of all his thoughts, and pointed them out, and immediately showed ecstasy, and said to Huang Xiaohao gratefully:
"Brother Huang, thank you so much. This sentence of yours really woke up the person in the dream with a word, and suddenly said the point that I have always been unable to fathom, and solved the confusion I have been puzzled all along. ”
"This... Ahem, in fact, I also heard Brother Zheng say so much, so I think this sentence is very appropriate, it's all your own thoughts, not my credit. Huang Xiaohao replied with a smile.
"Brother Huang, you have helped me so much, I can't hide it from you anymore."
After hearing Huang Xiaohao's words, especially the title of "Brother Zheng", Zheng Chaoan suddenly put away his gratitude and said with a serious expression, "Actually, my name is not Zheng Chaoan, this name is fake." ”
"My real name is Tang Long."