Chapter 50: Tea Tasting

Liu Yifu asked people to bring a few plain cups, the tea was evenly divided into the cups, "the plain embryo outlines the blue and white", the white cup seems to be very compatible with the green nature, the whole creates a light and elegant beauty, which seems to complement each other, the hot water that has been prepared in the teapot is so flushed, the green leaves are stirring with the whirlpool, and with the hot water surging, Liu Yifu thought, it would be better if there was a glass cup, it would be more feeling, and there was a chance to get a whole one.

Its realization is not without glass today, but the firing is difficult, the technology has not made much breakthrough, and there are many glassware similar to glasses, but there is no large-scale use, and the glass is more called "glass" here

The first is the cost problem, the difficulty of firing, the second is the practicality, the fragile property does discourage many people, and the glass here is not transparent, you can call it tinted glass, the aesthetic is not as good as transparent glass.

Therefore, under various factors, glass has not been used on a large scale, even if the upper class, the amount is very small, the use of China has not been until the Qing Dynasty, glassware has gone through such a long period of development, it has gradually become popular, as a "crystal" transparent glass is even more shadowless.

Liu Dashao must be thinking of using transparent glass. It is not difficult to make transparent glass, and the sand with a high content of quartz sand is mixed with natural soda and fired.

It is said that the first to invent glass were the Phoenicians, one of the ancient peoples of Europe, who also claimed to be the king of the Mediterranean, and made the Greeks and Romans suffer.

The Phoenicians were also a good merchant people, and they were the first to accidentally discover the recipe for firing glass, which was obtained by mixing trona and quartz sand, and with this recipe, they made transparent glass that made Europe crazy.

The Phoenicians made a windfall by relying on this transparent glass formula, no way, who made this cost so cheap, let's talk about it when I have a chance in the future, Liu Dashao thought in his heart, soda ash must be used to fire transparent glass, and soda ash can only use trona ore before industrial scale.

And China's largest alkali mine was later discovered in Tongbai, Henan, and Tongbai is now in the hands of Hou Qin.

Before drinking tea, Liu Yifu still washed the tea in accordance with the process, the step of washing the tea, some people think it is chicken ribs, some people think it is necessary, there is no such trouble, but there is no such thing as washing tea for so long, and it has become an inseparable part of tea culture.

Finally, the tea was ready, and after waiting for a while, the tea leaves unfolded, and the tea soup gradually turned light green, emitting bursts of fragrance.

Wei Wen closed his eyes and took a deep breath, looking extremely intoxicated, he couldn't wait to pick up a cup, hide his face with his sleeve, and slowly take a sip with his head up.

Put down the cup,

Sweet, aftertaste, superb!

This is Wei Wen's most intuitive idea at this time.

Perhaps it is the result of his own efforts, but after Wei Wen became a tea master, he always felt that today's tea was the most delicious.

Liu Yifu took a sip and frowned slightly, it is still a little different from the tea he drank before, but it is basically the same, it can have seven points of similar original flavor, and there is no hurry, it is enough to have this taste, improve it slowly.

Looking around, everyone present took a sip more or less curiously, and everyone's reactions were different: the maid was a little embarrassed; Mu Nianyuan and Wei Yu took a sip and nodded; The little chef pursed her lips and squinted, feeling a little uncomfortable; Liu Huiyuan had a small face, and she didn't think it was delicious at all, but Liu Yifu estimated that she was afraid of a rotten stomach, but it turned out to be the cleanest......

Liu Yifu saw everyone's reaction in his eyes and nodded, indicating that he was not surprised. In this, Wei Wen felt that this tea was simply the best taste in the world, Wei Yu and Mu Nianyuan really felt that it was not bad when they asked, but the astringency at the end was a little unaccustomed to drinking, but on the whole it was still acceptable; As for a few women, it's really a bit too much to drink......