Chapter 43: The Tea Ceremony
After a while, two slightly older boys came over with a lot of tea-making utensils.
The little fat boy before hugged a big porcelain Weng, and when he put Weng down, he hurriedly put away the tea set he had just drunk, and the other two people hurriedly put the new tea utensils on the table.
The tea fairy set up a small clay stove on the small iron table beside him, and the little boy handed over a box of fine charcoal, and set the stove on fire after a while, and Qixia saw that the charcoal seemed to be burned by olive pits.
The fat boy took a silver spoon and scooped the water from the big porcelain in a black jug.
Yue Lao asked, "Is this the rootless water harvested every other year?" β
"No, this is the water from the jade spring in those thirty-three days." The tea fairy replied.
"Oh," Yue Lao said in surprise, "that unicorn can let you get water?" β
"No," Cha Xian smiled slightly: "I bribed him with two Shangqing Pills to let me take such two handfuls of water." β
After that, he put the black pot on the tandoor and boiled it, and the little boy squatted on the ground with a fan and fanned it a few times, and the tea fairy said: "Don't fan it, boil the water over a slow fire." β
Qixia looked at the black kettle, and couldn't help asking, "This kettle is an old rock mud kettle?" β
"Exactly," said the tea fairy, taking an ordinary little teapot from the table, and asked her, "what do you think this pot is?" β
She took it over and looked at it carefully, and said: "This pot is made of raw purple sand mud, the key is that this mud has been rotting for thousands of years, right?" β
The tea fairy smiled and nodded, took the small pot and soaked it with boiling water, and scalded the five concave tea cups in a white porcelain bowl.
Then he took a small red clay tea can, picked up a bamboo tweezer and took out a tea leaf from the jar and placed it at the bottom of the pot, and so on, and soon the bottom of the pot was covered with layers of tea leaves, and finally he poured all the broken tea left in the jar into the pot.
Mo Yin secretly thought that this pot of tea was really enough.
At this time, the water was already boiling three times, and the tea fairy picked up the kettle and rushed the boiling water along the edge of the kettle into the small teapot, covered the lid, and pinched the teapot with four fingers to quickly pour out the water again.
This is a tea wash.
At this time, the tea is made officially, the right hand is slightly tilted, and a stream of water rushes into the pot, and after overflowing, pick up the lid and gently brush the mouth of the pot, cover the lid, and take the boiling water to scald the outside of the teapot again.
Then he took the five cups out with tongs and lined them up.
After a moment's pause, the water outside the teapot was slowly dried by the heat inside.
The tea fairy picked up the teapot and poured the tea into the fair cup first.
This fair cup is made of crystal, transparent and even, and the soup is much heavier than the previous drink, and the wine is red.
After brewing eighty percent full, he picked up the fair cup and poured the teacups one by one, and the tea fairy gave the teacup a rough black wooden saucer, and held the cup like a dark cloud to the moon.
Qixia picked up the teacup and took a deep breath, this cup of tea is like a floral fragrance but not a floral fragrance, fruity but not fruity, and she almost didn't spit it out when she took a sip of bitterness.
When I looked at the faces of everyone, they all had painful expressions, as if they were not drinking tea, but extremely bitter medicinal soup. I couldn't brush off the beauty of the tea fairy, so I had to swallow it patiently.
The others were also reluctant to drink.
As soon as the boiling tea entered the abdomen, I suddenly felt that my stomach was full of gentle squirming, and in an instant, my whole body was brisk, my throat was slightly sweet, and my armpits seemed to be windy.
Between the lips and teeth, I only felt a strange fragrance, as if I had eaten some sweet peach melon fruit, and the bitter taste was still in the mouth, but it was slowly getting lighter and β’β’β’β’β’β’lighter.
A few people looked up and drained the rest of the cup, and reached out to ask for more.
The tea fairy smiled and poured them another cup and asked, "Can you still eat it?" β
"Enter, enter," Changhua said busily: "Such a good tea can be drunk every day." β
Yue Lao said: "You fool! I haven't seen you take out such good tea in one place every day, but today you took it out when you saw a beautiful girl, really! β
"Oh, I just want to test this girl," the tea fairy looked at Qixia and smiled, "What kind of tea do you say this is?" How is tea? β
Qixia picked up the tea in her hand and drank it slowly, and said to the tea fairy with a smile: "This tea is neither before the Ming Dynasty nor before the rain, but picked after the autumn, so the bottom of the leaves is thick and has a long aftertaste." β
After thinking about it for a while, he continued: "This tea is heavily fermented, roasted high, to nourish the stomach, into the five organs, heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, tea is not cold or hot, because it is stored for a year after it is done, so it goes to the fire." β
"As for this tea, I don't know what the name is, I think it's a new tea created by the tea fairy."
After speaking, the tea fairy clapped his hands and smiled: "It's really amazing!" This is the Yixian tea I made last year, and Miss Qixia is really a tea master. β
Emperor Changhua laughed and said, "Aren't you still at ease with Ziyi*'s people? I'm going to have to drink this apprenticeship today. β
The tea fairy was silent and looked at Qixia with a smile.
Qixia looked at his expectant eyes, slowly stood up and said, "I am willing to worship the immortal as a teacher." β
Mo Yin didn't expect this to happen, he only said that he came to Yue Lao here to ask about the marriage, even if there was no name of the two of them in the marriage book, he also asked the old man to change it, so that Qixia's heart was good, and he was with him with peace of mind.
But now that a tea fairy β’β’β’β’β’β’ has appeared, nothing will go wrong, right?!
He had a bad premonition.