The four of them smiled when they met, raised their glasses and drank together, and the spirit of the literati spontaneously emerged, and the relationship became closer and closer.

After chatting for two hours, Yan Sihai looked at the time, stood up and said, "The last time I tasted food in Hu Yuan, the chef's skills were superb, and he was magical. Today's distinguished guests are coming to the door, relying on the old and selling the old, preparing a few small dishes for everyone, it is difficult to get into the elegant hall, please forgive me!"

After saying that, let the subordinates inform, everyone moved to the living room and began to eat. Soon the first dish was served, and there were more than a dozen sauce-colored squares on the celadon plate, which were actually dried tea.

"People say that they drink wine on days of sorrow, and chew dry tea on days when they are satisfied. Yan Sihai said with a smile: "Dried tea is not suitable for cooking dishes, this kind of thing that stirs the tongue in the mouth, first of all, it must be small and compact, gentle and elegant, and you can't stuff your stomach all at once." The second is to chew hard, and the more you chew, the more flavorful. Then it is rich in connotation, salty, sweet and fragrant. ”

Everyone nodded yes, Yan Sihai loves tea, naturally the first choice of vegetarian banquet guests, Wen Yiming picked up the dried tea, the shape is slightly larger than the stamp, the uniform sauce red, the quality is pure, the shape is thin and the meat is fine, and the toughness is full. Under chewing, it is fragrant, tough, fresh and tender, and the aftertaste is particularly long.

Wen Yiming said with a smile: "There is Taibai Building in Quarry Rock, it is rumored that it has a deep relationship with the poet immortal Li Bai, the dried tea is big and thick, tearing open the paper bag, and dangling it in his hand, but it is constantly twisting and turning." Add shredded chicken, shrimp or ham to it, and make it marinated with chicken broth, so the taste is very delicious, and the mouth is fragrant after eating. ”

Yan Sihai laughed and said: "I can't hide anything from Mr. Chen's eyes, it is the dried tea of Quarry Rock." However, now the dried tea of Jincaidi produced in Dangtu Huangchi has come to the top, and it has the momentum of surpassing the dried tea of quarrying rocks. Fortunately, these two kinds of dried tea belong to Ma'anshan, and there should be nepotism. ”

"Take a bite, fine and tight, like chewing chicken breast, accompanied by an indescribable fragrance, the more you chew, the more you taste, you can't stop. In order to demonstrate the "hardness" of their goods, sellers will take a piece of dried tea in front of them and fold it in half, but it will not break. ”

Everyone laughed heartily, and the seemingly inconspicuous dried tea suddenly had a unique flavor, and Ling Tiancheng felt it: "Sometimes I think about it, tasting dried tea is also like tasting life, but it is a flattened life, and the taste is indescribable." ”

The dried tea was eaten quickly, and the second dish came up, and it turned out to be tofu, which was densely covered with black fluff?

"Haha, Huizhou's famous dish, edamame tofu!"

Ling Tiancheng clapped his hands and applauded, couldn't wait to pick up a piece, put it in his mouth, and said with a face full of enjoyment: "Every time I go to Huizhou over the years, as long as I have the opportunity, I will try to eat authentic edamame tofu on the street as much as possible." The edamame tofu that has just come out of the pot, oily and shiny, the long-haired skin, after frying, becomes a very tough layer of tendons, wrapping the soft tofu inside, and eating it is full of fragrant cheeks. ”

"This is rabbit hair, right?" Wen Yiming said with a smile: "Edamame tofu can be roughly divided into four varieties: mouse hair, rabbit hair, cotton hair, and lily hair. ”

"The mouse hair is short, gray, the rabbit hair is also short, striped, and blue-white; the cotton hair is slightly longer, the whole lock, white, and the coat hair is the longest, purple sauce color, and the color, fragrance, and taste are the best. ”

"The length of the hair and the difference in color, in addition to the quality of the tofu itself, also depend on the change of climate and the regulation of temperature. During the frying process, due to the difference in the thickness of the white hair, a few dark streaks will appear in the golden color, which is the origin of tiger skin hairy tofu. ”

Hu Jianmin was very interested, when he saw edamame tofu for the first time, he didn't want to taste it, but after hearing that Yiming finished speaking, he took a bite of it, and immediately stretched his brows and feasted on it.

Seeing this, Yan Sihai said happily: "You may not believe it, there is a friend from Huizhou who has given up the opportunity to go to the provincial capital many times because he is greedy for his hometown edamame tofu. In his words, he still thinks about the fragrance and refuses to cross the Yangtze River. ”

Everyone chatted while eating, followed by a few refreshing vegetarian dishes, although not expensive, but very elegant, with the charm of the tea ceremony, there is no fun.

Towards the end of the banquet, Yan Sihai stood up, took out a package of mysterious things, carefully opened the package, and said: "This is today's finale, I believe that no one of you should have tasted it!"

After speaking, he took out a few glasses, put them into the green tea, and then put the dry things into the hot water, and the strange aroma surprised Wen Yiming.

"It's ...... Yongxi Huoqing?and...... Lyrefish!"

Yan Sihai gave a thumbs up after listening to it, and exclaimed: "Mr. has eyesight, yes, it's piano tea!"

Hu Jianmin and Ling Tiancheng stared at the teacup curiously, only to see a cloud of green mist rising in the cup, shaking slightly, the green mist dissipated, in the clear tea soup, the lyrefish brushed the head upward, the tail downward, the mouth was slightly open, the eyes were round, the dorsal fin was standing slowly, the tail wing shook gently, rippling with the tea soup, as if swimming in the cup, like an elf, and even heard the sound of chattering, which was a spectacle.

Pick up and take a sip, rinse slightly under the tongue, only to feel that the mellow and fragrant fragrance is overflowing, and there is no fishy smell of fish. Such a sip, affectionate, full of fun, is indeed not comparable to ordinary tea tasting. After drinking tea, slowly chew the soaked dried fish, which is sweet and salty, the tea is fragrant, and the taste is full and novel.

"Good tea!

Yan Sihai looked at everyone's surprised expressions and said with a smile: "Drive south from Wuhu to Qinxi in Jing County, it will take two hours to arrive, you can drift there, watch the bamboo sea, eat farmhouse, and buy very good tea." ”

"A kind of small fish produced in Qinxi, it is called Qinyu, although it is only the thickness of the little finger, but the fame is big enough, since ancient times, it has been called the second unique of Jing County with rice paper.

Jing County is located in the northeast of Huangshan, the peaks and peaks are like daisies, the forests are deep and beautiful, every stream is clear and transparent, the water of Qinxi is particularly light and shallow, and the spiritual water produces the spirit fish. Although the lyrefish is a fish, it never makes a delicacy on the plate, and is famous for its tea drinks. ”

"There is a hidden rain rock nearby, and there is a Dan cave under the rock, which is unfathomable. It is said that every time in the dead of night, you can hear the sound of the piano flowing along with the murmuring water, which is the qin high in the qin, and countless finger-long small fish will follow the moving sound of the piano, from the low platform of the qin near the rock crevice near the rock crevice. ”

A word aroused everyone's curiosity even more, Wen Yiming raised his cup, carefully looked at the pirefish, the shape is very peculiar, the body is less than an inch, but it is a tiger head and phoenix tail, dragon fin snake belly, heavy lips and four gills, eyes like vegetable seeds, scales are silvery-white, very much like a miniature version of the scavenger fish and ultra-miniature fourgill perch.

Yan Sihai introduced: "When you are lucky, you can find a lyrefish standing by the quiet stream. As it eats, the sparse dragon whiskers on both sides of its mouth shake comically from time to time, making people laugh. These little things are also strange, just like the clear stream of green trees, but they only originate from a section of water a few miles up and down the high platform. ”

"Every year around Qingming Festival, the lyre grows fat and floats to the surface to play, so the locals catch it on time. With a special triangular dense net, a little bit of patience is rowed forward from the deep stream to catch the fish into the net. If you come to Qinxiqiao Town at this time, you will see a busy scene. ”

I saw villagers on both sides of the Qinxi Bridge holding bamboo baskets, operating baskets, stretching triangular nets, and even wielding shovels to build dams, and catching fish on the Qinxi beach. And the seven or eight-year-old children would also build a small dam in the shallows to stop the flow of water, and then dig a small ditch under the dam, spread a fine net in the ditch, and sit and wait for the fish to be caught. ”

"Usually reluctant to put more tea when making tea, every New Year's holiday, only willing to be a cup of tea, entertain distinguished guests. At that time, the Northern Song Dynasty poet Mei Yaochen wrote many poems to praise the lyrefish in his hometown. In ancient times, there was a high piano, riding a fish on the blue sky. The small scales follow the water, and the river is full in March. ”

Yan Sihai said with some regret: "Because the taste is very delicious, the lyre fish was listed as a tribute as early as the Tang Dynasty, and it was enjoyed by the royal family alone. To this day, the output is still unable to break through, and the maximum is only about two or three hundred kilograms. ”

"It's a blessing to be able to taste lyrefish tea. In recent years, every spring grass sprouts green in March, the east bank of the Qinxi River is red and flying, the tourists are like clouds, the side of the road is full of cars, many people carry long guns and short cannons have come to watch the fishing of the lyrefish, and watch the making of the qinyu tea. ”

"In the early years, friends in Jing County sent qinyu tea, which were packed in the bamboo tube made into handicrafts, and now there is a kind of exquisite packaging of ingots bamboo baskets on the market, and the handle is a pair of bamboo roots, which is very delicate and eye-catching. ”

But people who are familiar with the land still like to go directly to the villagers' homes to buy goods. The owner gives you the dried pirefish out of both hands, the color is bright and clean, not scorched or dark, put it in the mouth and chew, crispy with cotton, full of faint fragrance, eternal and long. ”

If you can talk deeply, the host will pour the dried fish into a glass for you to taste, so that the guests can witness the reliper come back from the dead, wagging its tail and swimming, as if playing in the water, the mouth is slightly open, there is a kind of smile that seems to be smiling. ”