Chapter 21: New Tea
Luoxia Pier is the busiest place in the whole Luoxia Town, and it is also the most depressed place for her.
The wharf in the town of Luoxia is huge.
Walk through the Drinking Horse Street in front of the pier and walk towards the torii, which is lined with a row of small shops such as food and tea shops. In front of these small shops, there is also a small stall, and the vendors are shouting desperately, and the shouting of one after another makes the already small street seem even more crowded.
Luoxia Pier is now divided into a passenger ship terminal and a cargo ship terminal.
The passenger ship terminal is a small pier specially developed for passenger ships to the west of the original wharf in the last three or four years. At this time, a passenger ship happened to be docking, and the guests on board were disembarking from the ship in an endless stream.
The cargo ship wharf is about 15 zhang east of the passenger ship wharf, and is divided into two wharves for unloading and loading.
On the unloading dock, five or six cargo ships waiting to be allowed to be unloaded are lined up on the shore on the right side of the wharf, and there are people from the inspection department who are inspecting the ship, and on the ships that have been allowed to unload, coolies are carrying things back and forth one by one. In front of the cargo ship wharf, there are three rows of nearly 40 large and small warehouses extending to the east and south, some of the large warehouses have a sign of a certain cargo company's warehouse on the face, and some of the small warehouses have the word "rental" on the door.
The shopkeeper led her into a room where the north and south tea shops were hung, and the warehouse was separated from the front and back rooms, and the men guarding behind the counter led them into a guest hall in the back room on the right.
On the front of the guest hall, a screen of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum was placed, and a bamboo mat was laid in front of the screen. On the bamboo mat there is an antique four-legged low table, on the low table, there are a small stove-like things, a kettle, a plate of tea sets, a small basin, a paper fan, and some small objects, and a few cushions are spread around the low table.
As soon as they sat down on the bamboo mat, a middle-aged uncle wearing a wide-sleeved blue-gray robe, a square scarf on his head, and a beautiful short beard like the king's shopkeeper, came in with a small tea can and a smile.
"Ziming's news is really well-informed, the boat of the tea shop only docked last night, and half an hour ago, the goods were moved into the warehouse, and you came."
"Hahaha, the little brother is anxious to see what the magic of this new tea is, I heard that the ship arrived last night, and I didn't sleep peacefully at night. Let Brother Wen laugh! ”
"This time, Brother Yu not only brought back this black tea, but also learned a new way of tasting tea from Guangxin Mansion." The middle-aged uncle put down the teapot in his hand, and while signaling the guy to put down the jar in his hand, he sat on the top seat with his robe on his hand, "Brother Foolish, I will come to Banmen today to get an axe, and use the mountain spring water I brought back from there to taste the difference between this Guangxin Wu." ”
I saw that he instructed his men to make a fire for the small stove on the low table, and he gracefully covered his sleeves with one hand, washed the kettle with mountain spring water with the other, poured it into the mountain spring water, and placed the kettle on the small stove that had been lit with silver charcoal. Then he picked up the bamboo clip on the table, took out some of the black-brown tea leaves from the teapot, and put them into the palm-sized teapot on the tea tray. After doing this, he casually took the paper fan on the table and fanned it lightly towards the stove.
Jiang Han felt that this scene was a little familiar, as if he had seen someone make tea like this before. She frowned, racked her brains and thought about it, and finally remembered that she had seen her aunt's cousin make tea like this in modern times.
At this time, I heard the uncle say to the shopkeeper Wang: "At this time, if you are in the mountain pavilion, it would be better to have some sound of silk and bamboo!" ”
"There are friends, tea, scenery and music, this is what the literati and scholars over there in Guangxin Mansion like, right?"
"Exactly, the fresh and popular way to taste tea in Fujian and Zhejiang, we don't have it here." The middle-aged uncle is very complacent.
"What do you call this little brother?" He suddenly looked at Jiang Han, who was quietly kneeling on the mat, staring at the things on the table with an interesting expression.
"This is my new guy in the store, little brother of the Jiang family, Jiang Han." The shopkeeper Wang introduced, and suddenly realized that she was just a buddy, but he knelt here with them with a big grin, which was very inappropriate, so he just said one more sentence, "He is a literate and hyphenated person, and he is very interested in tea, so the younger brother wants to take him out to see it." ”
"Oh, if you are willing to be serious and motivated, it is worth ......" After speaking, he frowned and stared at Jiang Han carefully, "This little brother of the Jiang family, I don't know if I have seen it somewhere, it is very familiar......"
Jiang Han, who was only interested in the things on the table, heard this, a spirit, she thought of the portrait, subconsciously withdrew her gaze, and replied with a smile: "Shopkeeper Wen, you are too worried, what you have seen is definitely not me, I am just too popular, and some people often say that I am familiar, but in fact, it is just that my eyes, nose and mouth are similar to many people's." This bothers me a lot! ”
"Really?" The uncle looked at her suspiciously, and after a moment suddenly said, "I remember, this morning, I saw a portrait on my desk......"
"Ahh The water is boiling! Jiang Han hurriedly pointed to the kettle to divert his gaze, fortunately, the sound of the kettle was quieter at this time, it should be bubbling.
Next, the uncle, a series of actions of taking a hot cup and pouring tea, although elegant and moving, the tea does taste different from ordinary green tea, but Jiang Han didn't dare to study it anymore, just sat quietly next to him honestly, trying to show that An An was seriously taught. She thought, although she was suspected, this was also a good opportunity to wash away her stigma with actions, and she must make a good impression on the shopkeeper of the North and South Tea Shop.
At five o'clock, Shopkeeper Wang and Shopkeeper Nawen booked a reunion time, and led her to leave from the warehouse of the North and South Tea Shops with tea bags in her arms. As soon as I walked to the archway of the pier, I met an acquaintance, and her father's good friend Niu Dali was coming towards her.
He was holding a steamed bun and was nibbling as he walked, his eyes were just on Jiang Han. Seeing that he couldn't avoid it, Jiang Han had no choice but to stop and greet with a smile: "Uncle Niu, are you busy for breakfast?"
Uncle Niu swallowed a mouthful of steamed buns and replied, "Yes, there are many ships coming today, and I am busy at the dock early in the morning, so how can I have time for breakfast!" Your dad's leg is better, isn't it? Recently, everyone has been afraid to take the darts to Shanyang, and the bandits are getting more and more noisy!"
"My dad is much better!" Jiang Han greeted him for a while, and then asked casually: "When I first came, I saw so many stalls outside, why do you only eat steamed buns?"
At this point, before Uncle Niu could answer, there was a noise not far away.
Jiang Han looked up and saw a maid wiping her tears and supporting a crying woman, and three men standing next to her. At this time, two servants dressed as they were scattering, gesturing and begging passers-by for something, and another young man dressed in a straight bean blue ran to the patrol standing on the dock with an anxious face.
Jiang Han hurriedly broke up with Uncle Niu and caught up with the shopkeeper Wang, who was not far in front of him, who was stopping on the side of the road and talking to a few passers-by who had just been begged. She approached and saw that it was the very thing they were talking about.
It turned out that this was a family that had just arrived in Luoxia Town, and the six-year-old son had just been lost on Yinma Street, and the man and the servants had been looking for half an hour, and they had found no one at the end of the street from the street. The male owner of the house went to inspect it, and the two servants were telling passers-by about the appearance and characteristics of his little master, and asked everyone to help find it.