Chapter 65: The Tea Set

Liu Yifu then thought that the fat shopkeeper asked about the tea set, when he was roasting tea at home, he just talked to Wei Wen briefly after resting.

When the tea leaves were just done, the tea leaves were kneaded, and the tea was baked, Liu Yifu said that the plain bowl made the tea more beautiful, and then expressed his opinion, saying that it would be better to have transparent glass.

Unexpectedly, it was just a casual remark, Wei Wen even told Zhang Xi about this, and he didn't expect the other party to take this thing to ask himself.

Wei Wen showed great interest in these theories, and no one here has systematically expounded the theory of what kind of tea utensils are needed to drink tea.

Liu Yifu and Wei Wen only discussed some very basic knowledge about tea utensils at that time, including brewing options such as gaiwan, purple clay pot, glass and silver kettle, many of which were glimpses and hastily raised. Wei Wen took it to heart.

These things may be in the eyes of later generations, as long as you understand some tea, it is very basic knowledge, and it is a large barren land before it is popularized. For example, the purple clay pot and the silver kettle are not easy to contaminate their own taste into the tea itself, and the water boiled by silver will be better.

The tea ceremony has flourished for so long, and there are also these particularities in later generations, which fully shows that there are many things that can be deeply excavated in tea culture.

But in fact, Liu Yifu didn't plan to explain it in detail now, the reason for this, in Liu Yifu's view, these have not yet reached the time of popularization, after all, even brewing this thing is still just a prototype, and then go to discuss what to use to drink tea, how to drink tea, that is also a shadowless thing, or that sentence, big tea, why do you want to pay so much attention to it, and when the fine tea making method of brewing is promoted, you can just promote these things, so the soldiers are not in a hurry.

If the other party wants it, the price is appropriate, and it is okay to tell them yourself, but the price of this thirty percent obviously does not meet Liu Yifu's expectations.

However, Liu Yifu felt that the other party might not necessarily follow his own ideas, in case the fat shopkeeper made a special tea set on a whim, Liu Dashao was afraid that he would cry and laugh.

It's better to wait until you have the initiative to think about this matter, and promote it together with the tea ceremony.

To put it bluntly, whether this matter is successful or not, it will not affect his follow-up plan to promote tea, so whether to sell it to the other party or not, this is to be sold at a price, yes, Liu Dashao still has the confidence to mediate with the other party.

"When the time comes, if the time is right, the servant will invite someone to come forward to promote, it is better to wait for the coming day, and wait for the brewing method to prevail in the world, and then make plans." Liu Yifu was unmoved, in fact, he really thought so, and there was no need at this stage.

Listening to Liu Yifu's meaning, Zhang Xi also understood, Liu Yifu didn't want to continue to talk about these doorways, unless it was really a benefit that made him excited, Liu Yifu shouldn't be able to talk about it.

However, Zhang Xi is still really curious about this tea set, out of the intuition of a businessman, he always feels that the tea set that Liu Yifu said is not so simple, at least it can give him a lot of inspiration.

In addition, out of consideration for Liu Yifu's previous tea leaves, Zhang Xi still has some trust in Liu Yifu. So he gritted his teeth and said, "This way, if it is suitable, the servant is willing to share fifty percent of the profits......"

Afraid that Liu Yifu would not believe it, Zhang Xi hurriedly added:

"All of these can be signed and pledged, and the written documents are used as evidence."

Liu Yifu was a little moved, and he was upright, but he didn't expect this old fox to be willing to let fifty percent, this profit is really a lot, sure enough, everything in the world is beneficial all over the world, for this fifty percent of the profit, it is indeed worth Liu Dashao's careful consideration, pondering for a moment, Liu Dashao thought about it, and said:

"In this way, since the owner is willing to be an open person, the servant will not hide it, and explain all this to the owner in detail."

Liu Yifu took out a long strip of stuff wrapped in cloth that was thicker than chopsticks from his sleeve pocket, Zhang Xi looked at Liu Yifu curiously and opened it, and found that it was a black thing like charcoal, so he asked curiously:

"This thing ......"

"Charcoal." Liu Yifu replied casually, and then asked Zhang Xi to bring a piece of white paper, and he scribbled and drew on the white paper, and after a while, the image of a bowl jumped on the paper. Zhang Xi looked at it curiously

There are teachers in the East Mansion, in addition to those enlightenment books that are sloppy, Liu Yifu needs to chant and satirize, books, as one of the six arts of a gentleman, Liu Yifu is also required, so he is still forced to practice calligraphy, but the calligraphy is not very eye-catching, and then Liu Yifu remembered that he also liked to paint and paint in his previous life, so it is better to make a charcoal pen to facilitate his own pen.

In addition to habits, there is also because charcoal is actually not difficult to make, fresh wicker peels off the outer skin, and burns it to make charcoal, it is naturally not good to hold it with bare hands, it is easy to make black hands, just tie the cloth, so it becomes the "charcoal" that Zhang Xi saw.

Liu Yifu didn't explain much about charcoal, only said that this can write like a brush, but it is more convenient than a brush, and there is no need to grind ink.

Zhang Xi took a closer look at this "charcoal pen", looked at the texture of the painting, and found that this should be the product of a certain plant after it was burned black, which was similar to the texture of black charcoal. If Liu Dashao knew, he would give him a thumbs up in his heart, this insight, okay.

After Liu Yifu drew it out on the white paper, he directly explained the concept of covering the bowl, the fat shopkeeper nodded, and then motioned for someone to bring a tea cup, only to see that the whole body of the tea cup is light blue, and there is a pattern of cranes spreading their wings all around, the whole is like a small bowl, and the difference with the bowl is that there is a lid on it.

Seeing such a thing, Liu Yifu was stunned, and found that there were actually similar bowls in this era, after so many years, he had never seen it, and he didn't care about Liu Dashao, everyone in Dongfu didn't seem to have the habit of drinking tea, and Liu San also found something to "try" for his Xiaolangjun, which made Liu Yifu a little embarrassed. It's off to a bad start.

However, looking at the bowl that Zhang Xi brought, Liu Yifu keenly found that there was something different, and there was no saucer, so Liu Yifu and this teacup drew the three talents of the Eight Classics, and patched the missing ones, and explained what is called the three cai bowls, what is the cover, bowl, and support, and then the three correspond to heaven, man, and earth, and then it also contains some Confucian thoughts, which are bound to cultural people.

Then, in order to show his "talent", he definitely did not sell his reputation, so Liu Yifu systematically told about the types of bowls.

Liu Dashao is talking while drawing, so in order to cater to the speed, this painting is more sloppy, there is a general shape, mainly through the explanation of the types of bowls, there are more classic skimming bowls, there are similar to the treasure bowl bowl, as well as the waist bowl, the square bowl, the round bowl, the horseshoe bowl and so on.

In addition, Liu Yifu also gave examples of six kinds of tea utensils that were common in later generations, such as purple clay pots, silver kettles, and tea ceremonies used to boil tea: tea buckets, tea spoons, tea needles, tea drains, tea clips, teaspoons, etc......

These also made the beautiful eyes of the maid standing behind Zhang Xi shine, and when it came to the rise, she didn't notice when there was an extra maid behind Zhang Xi.

Compared with the teapots, silver kettles and the like mentioned later, Zhang Xi is still more interested in the former, the derivative of the teacup - Sancai Gaiwan, because it combines the idea of "heaven, earth and man" in Confucianism, just like the tea itself is connected with the gentleman, Zhang Xi has an intuition that this thing will definitely become a classic in tea culture.

Sensing the other party's thoughts, Liu Yifu was also as good as a stream, so he took the initiative to say:

"That's it, since the shopkeeper Zhang is interested in this, the servant in the back will draw some things in detail and let people send them to Ling Sexuan, and the servant doesn't need such a high profit of fifty percent, and the three achievements will be fine."

Because he didn't know in advance that the bowl here already had a prototype, Liu Yifu didn't have to hide too much, his biggest contribution now was to add a saucer, and then introduced the binding of thoughts, he couldn't be cheeky and couldn't make such a high profit as fifty percent, seeing this, Zhang Xi also reciprocated:

"That's not as good as this, the servant is adding one percent to Xiao Langjun, which is counted as forty percent, which is equivalent to the profit of the tea before, how about it?"

A good businessman, a businessman who really knows how to make money, always knows how to share, only earns limited benefits, if you can make a lot of profits, a mature businessman often only takes nine points, and gives one point to the other party, so that everyone can be happy, and the business will go more and more smoothly, and the longer it will be. Liu Yifu, who is well versed in this, still admires the other party's attitude.

So Liu Yifu was not hypocritical, nodded and agreed, of course, these forty percent are just some ideas for the bowl, and the follow-up is that if Zhang Xi is interested in other tea sets, then the price will be talked about separately.

Zhang Xi suddenly thought of it, and asked Liu Yifu what the glass was, Liu Yifu said that it was similar to glass, but it was pure and transparent, Zhang Xi asked Liu Yifu if he knew how to make it, Liu Yifu smiled and said no, the fat shopkeeper laughed, and also knew that Liu Yifu might be an excuse to prevaricate himself, after all, his chips are not enough, Liu Yifu can say so many things It is already considered sincere, he doesn't expect the other party to really dig out his heart and lungs, all of them are broken and crumpled for himself.

Glass, Liu Yifu plans to make good use of gunpowder, after all, in fact, the difficulty of both is not very high, at this stage, there are also imported glass with different colors, and the process is not too difficult, just like porcelain belongs to China, the West also has its own secret technology - glass.

To put it bluntly, it is a mixture of quartz sand and natural soda. It is definitely impossible for Liu Yifu to leak these things to Zhang Xi, so he can only prevaricate the other party now.

However, Zhang Xi is not stupid, he has been together for so long, and after hearing Wei Wen say so much, from the keen intuition of a businessman, he absolutely does not believe that these things are all seen by Liu Yifu from ancient books.

Zhang Xi is more inclined that someone should have taught Liu Yifu this, or that this little Langjun was talented and "invented" by himself. And Liu Yifu has a sentence that is right, it doesn't matter if he wants to cooperate with him later, he can find another person, with Liu Yifu's eloquence and knowledge, this is not a difficult thing, not to mention that he puts his posture very low, at least he can't pit Liu Yifu casually.

Wait, sooner or later, one day, I will take out all the things in this little Langjun's heart.

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Liu Yin'er, who was waiting outside, puffed out her mouth when she saw Liu Yifu come out, and Liu Yifu was also comforted with kind words. Zhang Xi and Liu Yifu saluted each other and officially said goodbye.

In the carriage, Liu Yifu first instructed the coachman to send Liu Yin'er back first, and then send himself back to Dongfu, although the two families are not far away, who comes first and who comes last, Liu Yifu still knows in his heart, the little girl is like this, as long as there is comfort, follow her temper, she can often forgive you to the greatest extent, well, this is a little experience of Liu Dashao in dealing with little girls.

After sending Liu Yin'er back to Liu's mansion, Liu Yifu suddenly remembered that his father's Qingzhou Thorn Shi Dayin was still in a broken temple and had not been brought back, so he hurriedly asked the coachman to change the route and let him pick it up.

Although the day is gray, it seems that the time has not changed, but in fact, counting today's day of running east and west, it is now evening, uh no, it should be said that it is still evening, anyway, today is also a crazy day, not bad time, go back to your mother's scolding, more time, more time. Liu Yifu has evolved into a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water.

Far away, I saw the broken temple on the horizon that no one prayed for, sometimes Liu Yifu was thinking, the Buddha's incense was broken, those so-called emperors' clothes and mounds, after the change of dynasty, there was also no incense, and sometimes even for the overlapping of the distance passed by the mound and then fighting, Liu Yifu said that it was unreasonable, the name before and after his death, as long as he was famous, he didn't care about these empty heads, so, pay attention to sincerity and spirit, these Buddhist temples have encroached on too many social resources, and they have to be demolished! Liu Yifu once again made up his mind.

Liu Dashao, who had great ambitions, was majestic like a little rooster after getting out of the carriage, and as soon as he stepped into the temple, his head sank, and he was stunned......