Chapter 4: The Mother's Dowry (2)

The camphor wood box is dark in the shimmer of the fire fold.

Time does not allow Yan Shu to check carefully.

Directly point your finger and urge your mind, "Collect!" "Six boxes were instantly sucked into the space.

Yan Shu then restored the mechanism to its original state, and also hid into the space, and found a large dry cave in the shallow mountain area of Yunqi Mountain, where the box was specially placed.

In order to prevent the entry and damage of birds, beasts, insects, ants, snakes and rats in the mountains, she set up a mental ban under the control of the master of space, and completely isolated the cave into an independent area.

Regardless of animals, plants, thunder, lightning, fire, water, dew, and haze, it can only be used for ventilation.

In other words, the business and farming in the previous life are not in vain, and the first basic function of the space is not the storage safe? But if you have space, you have to remember to save the space as soon as you encounter any important things. Space theft is a must to bless obsessive-compulsive disorder. Those who don't make good use of the space, give the hard-earned silver to the bun father and mother for safekeeping, and are taken away by the best relatives (neng), are tyrannical things, and the abandonment of the text is quite decisive without nostalgia.

The temporal velocity of space is usually proportional to that of the outside world, and a day inside is only equivalent to an hour in the outside world. There is time to take it in stride.

Yan Shu was not in a hurry and opened the first box.

What's the situation?

I can't imagine it.

It turned out to be four smaller wooden boxes, and in each small wooden box were neatly stacked with a cake of aged steamed Qingtuan tea.

The standard specifications of one pound and eight cakes, the cake surface has dragon and phoenix gold patterns, and it is the dragon and phoenix cake made by the last emperor of the previous dynasty!

According to the memories of his predecessor and the knowledge of tea affairs, Yan Shu learned that the time and space he had traveled from belonged to the Great True Dynasty that had been newly founded for more than 30 years.

Compared with the previous Chinese Shenzhou, the overall distribution of its territorial territory and topography is specious and different. The development process of Wenyin is similar to the Song and Yuan dynasties of the official history of the previous life, and it is also an area where the nomadic Houzhen clan established a political power to rule the advanced and developed agricultural culture, but it is not as deeply destructive to the original social Wenyin as the Yuan Dynasty, but is inclusive of the culture of the previous dynasties, and at the same time alleviates the enslavement and restrictions on the people under its rule, and encourages farming, land reclamation, trade and business.

Taking the tea trade as an example, the strict laws and regulations of the previous dynasty, which monopolized the purchase and sale of tea by the government, and designated tea merchants to purchase and sell it, and forbade the sale of tea without smuggling tea, allowed some tea merchants to have a certain amount of free trade rights on the premise of obtaining the "tea introduction" authorization monopoly certificate issued by the government, and the amount depended on the size of the tea merchants' tribute and contribution to the imperial court. Because the profits of the tea trade are too lucrative, instead of corrupting and forbidding bribes, it is better to open the gap appropriately, which is conducive to filling the treasury of the new dynasty.

Speaking of which, by the way, the Yan family was a family of tea merchants designated by the government in the previous dynasty, and in the new dynasty, they got one of the few "tea introductions" and the right to purchase tea origins, and they are in a good situation of cooking oil and flowers.

Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang's one-size-fits-all reform of tribute tea and tea law in the previous Yin Dynasty, the founding emperor of Dazhen here has a more cautious attitude towards tea management. Perhaps it is due to the respect that nomads have for tea as a necessity of life, as the ancient Tibetan proverb "Gacha Re!" Kasumi fever! Gasot Fever! (Paraphrased as "Tea is blood!") Tea is meat! Tea is life! The dynasty not only embraced the pretentious tea art culture left by the former court scholar class, but also advocated the daily tea consumption suitable for the market class.

The tribute tea policy does not impose the form of tribute tea, but only limits the amount of tribute tea in the tea producing area, and does not increase the burden of tea tribute through official channels. On the other hand, it opens up the possibility of adopting tribute tea through private commercial channels.

In addition, since the Dazhen ruling class itself came from the grassland desert and deeply realized that it relied on tea as a means to bind the frontier, it actively promoted the tea and horse market, and guided the inland tea merchants to trade and purchase tea in the border areas, which was not only used by the tribes left behind by the Houzhen clan in the grassland frontier, but also made those outside the border taste the benefits of tea and couldn't stop.

Looking at the category regulation of tea, this era has been distinguished into three tea making methods: sun-dried green, steamed green, and fried green; Four major types of tea have been formed: white tea, green tea, yellow tea and dark tea; Tight teas such as brick tea and cake tea coexist with loose teas such as bud tea and strip tea; There are also many ways to brew, decoction, pointing, and brewing, and they are used according to tea.

In short, this Dazhen Dynasty worn by Yan Shu is properly for the prosperity of tea.

Under this background condition, the appearance of precious tea in the box left by Yan Shu's mother is really unexpected and reasonable.

Yan Shu picked up one of the cakes and looked at it to judge.

Obviously, this group tea is suitable for the use of the tea method in the world, the tea leaves are steamed and dried, finely ground and then powdered and molded into a ball (note: different from the dragon and phoenix group tea process recorded in historical documents, this tea is actually a tea powder group tea rather than a bud group tea), and the tea production area must be the southeast Lingyan Mountain of the country where the imperial tribute tea is produced. This kind of tea lacks activity after being made, and does not have the value of long-term storage, even if it is well preserved in the mezzanine of the gable with ventilation holes, it cannot be compared with the Song Dynasty Longfeng Tuan Tea or even Yinqing Pu'er Round Tea in Yanshu's previous life, and there will be no change in the aging and fragrant process of post-fermentation. However, this tea is the top imperial tribute tea of the previous dynasty, which is rare in the world, and it has not been broken after decades of time, but the significance and value of antique tea are extremely high.

Yan Shu was not interested in this flashy tea, put it aside, and then opened the second box.

The second box is full of ceramic tea ware.

The pottery has a set of wind stoves and tea cho (diao). Chacho is wonderful for sencha. Clay sand tea Cho is fire-resistant, temperature-bearing, breathable and odorless, and is the most commonly used. At present, this set seems to be made of ordinary material, but it is a white clay jade book simmered made and used by Lu Liuweng, a famous tea master of the Three Dynasties, and its seal is engraved on the inner wall. The boiled water has a soft taste, and the tea is fragrant and mellow. When the flow is there, it is difficult to find a tool; Si people have passed away, so it has become a swan song.

The porcelain ones are teapots and tea bowls. After the establishment of the Dazhen Dynasty, with the change of tea drinking fashion, the white porcelain suitable for drinking gradually replaced the black cup suitable for tea bucket tea and became the mainstream of tea ware.

Yan Shu's mother had a soft spot for white porcelain before her death, and naturally paid attention to storing these things every day. Among them, there is a set of extremely simple shape of a pot of four cups, the tire glaze is very delicate, the embryo is pure and dense, the percussion sound is clear and rhyme, and it belongs to the fine white porcelain fired at high temperature. Yan Shu picked it out separately and put it for the time being, and then took it out for her own use when the situation settled down in the future.

Sure that there is no purple sand tea vessel in this world, I don't know if there is no purple sand mud vein like Yixing Huanglongshan in the previous life, or if no one has discovered this raw material and process, Yan Shu has many questions in his heart, and he didn't mention it.

In the third box is a complete set of heads, ornaments, wedding dresses, and embroidered shoes.

These are not the original dowries of the mother, but the patterns designed by the mother herself, and they were rearranged for Yan Shu in advance, which are full of the love of the mother for her daughter. Yan Shu secretly shouted in her heart, "Mother, don't worry", not only for the original body to inherit this family affection, but also to tell the mother who suddenly lost him in his previous life. I can't think about it, I can't think about it. Heart-wrenching!

The fourth box was not full, but contained half a box of letters, notes, and handwriting.

The letter was written by someone else to her mother, and the notes were her mother's tea tasting records, which recorded all the types and grades of tea she had drunk since she was seven years old, as well as her own tea reviews. The calligraphy and painting are the hand-painted observations and tea poems that she attends daily at tea parties. These should be all the secret thoughts of a deep house woman who really belongs to herself.

The last two boxes contained the things that Yan Shu needed most this time.

A box full of jade and jade ornaments. White jade, jasper, purple jade and other raw stones and jade jewelry.

A box full of gold and silver ingots.

Twenty-two neat ingots also left a small wooden box carved from camphor wood, which was tiled with a century-old ticket number HSBC Bank's ticket amount of 10,000 taels of silver bills, a total of three. Below the silver ticket is a land deed and house deed, looking at the address is not in the city, but like a remote rural mountain village.

At the bottom of the small box lies a wooden hairpin quietly, showing some independent tones in this brilliant atmosphere of golden light and white jade. The style is simple and interesting.

Yan Shu roughly estimated the total number, and now he made a fortune.

Don't say that gold, jade, silver and money are vulgar, with these foundations, we don't have to be like those bitter peasant girls, starting with wild vegetables and pig intestines, well, I really can't imagine the scene of making tea after washing the pig's large intestine......

(The author raised his hands loudly, this is definitely not labor discrimination, but the heroine's experience should be in line with the theme of the article.) Of course, if you think that kind of contradictory writing is very cool, it's not impossible to arrange the heroine to experience the twists and turns...... Hey hey gossip less, back to the point)

The six boxes of Yan Shu's mother's objects are not on the dowry list registered in the palace, and they belong to the complete private collection. The reason is that the mother's family is not optimistic about the Yan family who insists on marrying at all, and is afraid that her daughter will be wronged by this mercenary style, so she will plan for her daughter in addition to the dowry on the dark side.

Don't look at the Yan family as a big businessman, there is no shortage of money, but no matter how much money there is, the surname is Yan.

Whoever has it is better to have it than to have it yourself.

Therefore, every time the second uncle came to visit his mother, he carried gold, silver, jade and silver tickets, and stored them with him, which was completely inconspicuous, but each piece was worth a lot of money. Over the years, two boxes were unexpectedly stored.

In particular, after the Yan Mansion completely lost the respect that the master mother should receive, the second uncle repeatedly conveyed the advice of the family to let the mother leave and return home, and took the opportunity of repairing the house to let the loyal servants in the house replace the craftsman to build a mezzanine storage for the mother and to avoid disasters, just in case. It's a pity that the mother has never left her daughters behind, until three years ago, the whole family of the mother's family left Yunzhou with the eldest uncle's transfer, and there was no support nearby.

Regarding this matter, we must go back and investigate.