In the blink of an eye, on the weekend, Ling Tiancheng drove to pick up Wen Yiming, the two came to Sihai Building, Hu Jianmin then arrived, the four of them gathered, Yan Sihai presided over the tea party, and everyone began to drink tea and chat.

"Come, come, let's try this tea and see what's the difference?"

There were three old iron kettles boiling on the sea of tea, Yan Sihai lifted one up, took out two purple clay pots, put them into the same kind of dragon well, and said while filling water: "The same tea, the same purple clay pot, but the water is different, let's taste a product today, and see how the water that the ancients have argued for thousands of years is different!"

Pouring water and closing the lid of the pot, Yan Sihai said with a smile: "Is it difficult to choose water? The ancients made this matter very complicated, and there were several monographs on water alone, and what is even more incredible is that the ranking of water has been debated for thousands of years from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty without a conclusion. ”

Ordinary people agree with Lu Yu's point of view: on the mountain, in the river, and under the well. This is classified by water source, plus rain and snow water falling from the sky, as well as the current tap water and distilled water, which is better?"

After listening to this, Ling Tiancheng had an idea and said: "I don't know what kind of water is best, but now due to industrial pollution, the so-called Yangtze River heart water is definitely not qualified to be the water champion anymore, right?"

In one sentence, everyone burst into laughter, and Yan Sihai said with a smile: "Tea people attach so much importance to water quality, but real water is not available everywhere, so a special service industry, the water transportation industry, came into being." ”

This business began in the Ming Dynasty, and Li Rihua, a Ming man, wrote a contract with Yunquan, explaining the transaction between the two sides of the trade of Yicha spring water, and based on it. This is an industry that caters to tea drinkers. ”

"This ancient industry no longer exists in the mainland, but there are still people who operate this business in Baodao, and most of them are purchased from tea houses, and the price of 5-gallon barrel of spring water is 50-70 Taiwan dollars. The people who transport the spring must be able to find the spring first, and the second must be able to taste the water. Their experience is that the spring water is far away from people, the water temperature is warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is sweet but not cold. ”

"Cooking tea with such spring water gives full play to the tea taste, the tea tastes good, does not bite the tongue, and there is no astringency. The same spring, autumn is the best. Moreover, it is said that the best noon water is taken from 11:45 to 12:15 during the Dragon Boat Festival throughout the year, and it will not be bad all year round, and the selling price is twice as high as usual. ”

"In the early years, the most common in Jiangnan market towns were teahouses and tea customers. Yan Sihai said leisurely: "In the teahouse, you can enjoy tea and eat breakfast, you can discuss things, talk about friendship, talk about business, or do nothing, making a teahouse is just a daily habit." ”

In fact, the scene in the teahouse can best reflect the connotation of tea. The hall man carries a towel on his shoulder, carries a long-spouted copper kettle, responds to the reward, refills the water to the tea guest in turn, sees the six roads and listens to the eight directions, the mouth is fast, the legs are fast, and the hands are fast, so as to take care of it thoroughly. ”

As long as someone greets, the cousin responds, stands a certain distance away, uncovers the teapot lid with his right hand, carries a high copper kettle with his left hand, and the long spout first draws a circle in the air, and then rushes down a little, two, three o'clock, hot boiling water fills the teapot, and the water on the table does not fall. ”

"Those calm and relaxed old tea customers, pour the tea, take the cup and smell it, take a sip gently, but they are not in a hurry to swallow, but close their eyes, hold it in their mouths, and do their best to blend into each other's ......"

The old man depicted a leisurely scene of Jiangnan water town in front of everyone in front of everyone, Jiangnan people love tea, tea is sacred in their eyes, and they are self-cultivated people who will taste tea.

"Jiangnan tea always contains the breath of the ancient town. I still remember the rainy early summer of that year, I lingered in the ancient towns of Nanxun and Zhenze by the Taihu Lake, because of the rain, I walked into a teahouse, sat against the flower window, asked for a pot of Biluochun, accompanied by the fragrance of tea, gazing at the thin smoke and ethereal pavilions on the other side of the river, and sipping carefully. ”

"The rain hits the eaves tiles, and the ears are full of mediocrity. Suddenly, two cheongsam women walked to a table in the hall and sat down with a pipa in their arms, and the graceful sound of commenting and playing rose leisurely, accompanied by babbling singing, although Wu Nong's soft language was not very understandable, but the tone was tactful and pleasant. ”

At that moment, I clearly felt that it was tea that gave Jiangnan a unique connotation and spirituality, just like a silk cheongsam that dressed up a woman's graceful figure. Half an afternoon, I sat under the window, looking at the people near the water, looking at the low eaves window, the green shade, and the stone steps like in the middle of the water. ”

In the staggered shadows, a small boat suddenly swayed out leisurely, the boat lady in white shirt and black pants, waist swing, the stern of the boat lightly cut the ripples, and the babbling sound was diffused in the fragrant long-term string rhyme. ”

"Two pots of water in a row, the green Biluochun was soaked in love, and I couldn't see reincarnation but was reincarnated freely. The tea is clear and yellowish, bitter with a rich orchid atmosphere, and in the aftertaste of the three turns around the teeth, it is like a wisp of fresh wind blowing through the forest, with a faint haze and a touch of tranquility. ”

The old man sighed incomparably: "The tea in Jiangnan is really like a graceful woman, with low eyebrows and a smile, a tranquil face, skin like clotted fat, hands like soft wattles, graceful and tender, always giving people the taste of wanting to talk about it again and again." Meiyu Jiangnan, a pot of inexhaustible Biluochun, a curtain can never get out of the dream......"

Hu Jianmin said with a smile: "The famous tea in the south of the Yangtze River is not only produced in Biluochun on Dongshan Island of Taihu Lake, which is fragrant with birds and flowers, but also Longjing in West Lake and Maofeng in Huangshan. ”

"If you say that the color is green, fragrant, mellow, and beautiful, the four world-famous Longjing are calm and leisurely, just like everyone's girlfriends. And the shape of the curly like a snail, fragrant Ruolan, the eternal aftertaste of Biluochun is a spring girl, then I think that the yellow mountain Maofeng, which has been moistened by clouds and mist for many years, has a good charm and a high and lasting fragrance, is like a small jasper out of the water hibiscus. ”

Wen Yiming continued: "So I prefer the beautiful and proud Huangshan tea, Mao Feng is brewed in a cup, the mist is at the top, the soup is clear and blue, the buds are in flowers, and the bottom of the leaves is yellow and green. Draw a good boiled top Mao Feng, release it into a cup of cups, sip it carefully, sweet and mellow, with a fragrant aftertaste, especially warm and comfortable, such as a beautiful woman in the south of the Yangtze River, quiet and elegant, and a beauty like tea. ”