Chapter 127: Inadequate Preparation
After a while, He Xiao came over with a few people with tea embryos.
"Young lady, I don't know how much you want, so I'll prepare more." He opened a box and motioned for Ming Yueqing to take a look.
"Young lady, look, this is what I picked out from the warehouse, it is well preserved, and the quality is also middle and upper-class, you can take a look."
"Yes." Ming Yueqing pointed at the jasmine and said, "Now let's pile up these jasmine flowers, probably...... So high. ”
She gestured with her hand and told everyone to pay attention.
"It's just a simple pile, don't press down."
"Okay young lady."
Everyone divided the jasmine by two, and the jasmine flowers were piled up in a pile.
The bright moon is well affected by the surrounding temperature, and from time to time she tries the temperature between the flowers.
There were no tools here, and she could only rely on her feelings now.
When she put her finger into the pile of flowers again, feeling the temperature of the last time Ling Xi was sick and feverish, she nodded.
"Everybody feel it, it's about this temperature." Ming Yueqing smiled, "It's like the temperature when you are sick and have a fever, this temperature is fine, of course, it doesn't count if you are burned." ”
The apprentices laughed.
"Okay, now we all know!" Seeing that everyone had tried it, Ming Yueqing hurriedly spoke, "Now immediately pick up the pile of flowers, spread it out and cool it down, and then wait for the temperature to drop down, pile it up again, this time the thickness will be reduced by an inch, until the jasmine flower fragrance is strong." ”
As everyone turned, there was a faint fragrance of flowers wafting in the tea room.
"Young lady!" He Xiao let out a pleasant sigh of surprise, and his eyes exuded a feverish look, "This is ......"
Several of the other apprentices also looked at her in surprise.
Mingyueqing smiled: "It's very simple, the high temperature promotes the opening of flowers, so the aroma is strong, and only the flower tea made in this way has the fragrance of jasmine." ”
After looking at it, she spoke again, "Wait until the jasmine has an opening rate of about sixty percent to sieve the flowers." ”
"Sift flowers?" He Xiao looked at it, "Does the young lady mean to divide the good and the bad into priorities?" ”
Ming Yueqing nodded: "That's right, but forget it this time, a lot of things are not ready." We'll go straight to the flowers later, Brother He, do you have a place to have flowers? ”
"Yes." He Xiao nodded, his gaze fell on a few apprentices, "You guys move this jasmine over." ”
"Yes."
Ming Yueqing looked at the apprentice who left with the bamboo basket, and thought for a moment: "Brother He, they won't need to help later, if there is anyone who wants to stay, then re-sign the contract tomorrow, what do you think?" ”
He Xiao was stunned for a moment, but he quickly understood, and he nodded: "Listen to the young lady." ”
After the jasmine was moved, He Xiao said seriously to the apprentice who came back: "Thank you for your help today, but you have also seen that although this flower tea is the first time we have made it, it is a new variety after all, so it will be made by me and the young lady later." ”
The apprentices are all understanding people, so they naturally know the truth of this, and they didn't express any dissatisfaction when they heard He Xiao say this.
"However, if someone wants to specialize in flower tea, it's okay." Ming Yueqing's eyes swept over everyone, "You have also seen today's production process, if anyone is interested in this, after going back, you can think about it and say to Manager He, we will re-sign the contract." ”
"Alright, let's all go down."
"Young lady, Chief He, retire."
The apprentices were all gone, and Ming Yueqing looked at the figure of one of them and smiled.
"Okay, Brother He, let's go quickly!"
"Okay."
He Xiao led Ming Yueqing to a spacious room.
"Young lady, this is it."
Ming Yueqing looked at it: "Okay, Brother He, now let's first spread a layer of the tea embryo you brought over underneath, and then spread another layer of jasmine on top, just like that, a layer of tea and a layer of flowers, about five layers." ”
"How thick are these flowers and tea?"
"Well, about four inches." Speaking of this, Ming Yueqing was a little embarrassed, "This, I can't grasp the thickness well, so I can only ask Brother He for you to come." ”
"Okay, no problem." He Xiao smiled.
Seeing that He Xiao was so busy, Ming Yueqing felt that even she felt incredible when she said this.
"Brother He, do you know that I only know the method, but I don't know how to do it myself, that's why you laugh!"
He Xiao glanced at her sideways and smiled happily: "I'm used to it." ”
"......" Ming Yueqing felt that her face was a little hot.
Ming Yueqing looked at the jasmine who didn't have much, thought about it and said: "After it's done, pick it up and mix it from top to bottom, and put it in this wooden box where the tea is stored, with a thickness of about seven inches." ”
"Okay, I got it."
"Oh, and!" Ming Yueqing clapped her hands, "The top layer of the flower tea in the wooden box must be a tea embryo, which can be spread thinner, so that the loss of floral fragrance can be reduced." ”
"Okay."
He Xiao nodded, busy putting together the flowers in his hands.
"This time the amount is relatively small, about three wooden boxes are enough, then directly flat, if there are more, you can cross stack, so as to maintain air circulation."
He Xiao snorted, his subordinates didn't stop, and Ming Yueqing watched from the side until all the flowers were ready.
"Young lady......" He Xiao looked at the tea leaves and jasmine in the wooden box, and had some doubts in his heart, "Since it is jasmine tea, there should only be jasmine, so the tea leaves in it ......"
"Now, we'll just wait." Ming Yueqing looked out the window, "It will take about five to six hours in the kiln time, that is, the flowers will start tomorrow morning, and the most troublesome thing is what you said." ”
She sighed, everything here can only rely on hand, which is really inconvenient.
"About three hours or so, we have to open these tea piles to cool, from the height of the current pile to about three inches, every half quarter of an hour to open again, let the tea pile fully dissipate heat, half an hour later, and then retract the pile, pile up nine inches.
After three hours, when the jasmine flowers are withered, the color has turned yellowish, and we can't smell the fresh fragrance, we should start flowering, which is also the most time-consuming. ”
"The young lady said that it is troublesome, but you want to separate this jasmine from the tea leaves?"
He Xiao is worthy of being a tea idiot, a little bit is thorough, and Ming Yueqing wants to pat him on the shoulder.
"Brother He is so powerful, you will understand as soon as I say it!"
He Xiao smiled a little embarrassedly: "Young lady, in fact, you don't have to worry too much about this, we have tools in the tea house, and there is a big gap between the size of this jasmine and the tea embryo, we can use the tools to preliminarily separate, and then completely separate." ”
Mingyue Qingyi clapped her hands: "Really, that's great!" ”
Her eyes lit up, "Another thing to pay attention to is that the speed of flowering must be fast, so as not to burn the flowers at too high temperature, and then when separating, there should be no pedicle leaves in the tea leaves, and there are no tea leaves in the jasmine. ”
"And ......" Ming Yueqing suddenly sighed, "There are still a lot of things, it seems that this time it is indeed too inadequate, don't say it, I will stay here today, and we will be together at that time." ”
"Young lady, this ...... Not so good! ”
He Xiao and several households could think that if the young master knew that the young lady would not return home at night with him, he would probably have to go to spend the winter.
"It's okay, I'll just let them go back."