Chapter 38: Ming Oak Divides Tea
Some of the people in the west wing helped call 120, and some opened the doors and windows for ventilation.
The girls from the health school were doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation for Grandma Jiang, and at the same time instructed Sister Red Lips to give Grandma Jiang aspirin and nitroglycerin. After Grandma Jiang's heartbeat gradually recovered, she was sent to the hospital by ambulance accompanied by her granddaughter.
And because Grandma Jiang's tea friends also followed her to the hospital, the West Wing was a mess, and only Gu Zhaodi was left at this time.
She looked at the antique building lamp full of tea soup on the long case, and her mood couldn't calm down for a long time. And every word Grandma Jiang said and every action she did in the last moment also lingered in her mind.
"Remember, eldest grandson! For this tea, be sure to choose a wide-mouth tea bowl. Although Grandma Jiang's hands were full of wrinkles, her movements when she picked up the building lamp were like a girl, soft and graceful, "Look! The mouth of this bowl is wide enough to make a variety of patterns and verses on the tea soup. After she finished speaking, she put down the building lamp, and looked back at herself with kind eyes, "This is like our mind, only when we are open, can we draw a wonderful future!" ”
Gu Zhaodi nodded as if she didn't understand, but she didn't know what to say.
Grandma Jiang, did she hear the content of her phone call with her parents?
Grandpa Liu's laughter rang out at this time.
"Every time Sister Jiang divides tea, she has to tell some big truths!" After he finished speaking, he didn't forget that Zhang Luo's grandchildren present took Grandma Jiang's words to heart, "You all have to memorize it, and the skills you have learned are all your own." ”
didn't expect him to say this, but he only changed back to Grandma Jiang's white eyes: "Old Liu, you are wearing a high hat for me there!" Such a little trick, still use me to teach? ”
"Not really!" Grandpa Liu nodded exaggeratedly, "Every word you say, that's the essence!" ”
"Yes! Grandma Jiang! Your prestige is like thunder in our ears, you talk more, we also learn more. Grandpa Liu's granddaughter said and came over.
Seeing this, the other grandchildren also got up and gathered around Gu Zhaodi.
Seeing the thirst for knowledge on the faces of the grandchildren present, Grandma Jiang did not shirk, "Then I will talk about the tea utensils used in this tea." She said, and showed the teaspoons in front of her grandchildren one by one, "Cai Xiang of the Song Dynasty believes that the teaspoon is gold, and the world is made of silver and iron. Bamboo is too light to use. But this gold and silver teaspoon is too expensive for the common people to use, what should they do? ”
Seeing the grandchildren shaking their heads, Grandma Jiang looked at Gu Zhaodi again: "The eldest grandson, do you know?" ”
"It's just a cup of tea." Gu Zhaodi didn't even know what the tea utensils on the long case were, and how could she know the answer, so she had to reply casually, "If it's skillful, it doesn't matter what you use." ”
Who knows, after listening to this answer, Grandma Jiang not only did not count her ignorance, but also clapped her hands and praised.
"My eldest grandson is such a wonderful person!" Then he turned back to the juniors around him and said, "This Cai Xiang asked for this, but he just thinks that only a teaspoon with a strong texture can be 'powerful' when ordering tea and dividing tea." So, this teaspoon can be used not only for gold, silver and iron, but also for the most ordinary coconut shells. As the saying goes, the utensils are not gold and jade, and the products are self-reliant. ”
"Good!" Grandpa Liu accepted the folding fan and was the first to applaud, "Then Sister Jiang, this teaspoon of yours can't be made of coconut shells, right?" ”
"Exactly!" Grandma Jiang said and took the coconut shell teaspoon in her hand, shook it for everyone like a show off, and said with a straight face, "But then again, what's the point of me talking alone?" In my opinion, why don't we seven old guys share tea and teach these little ones a lesson! ”
"That's a good dare!" Speaking of this, Grandpa Liu eagerly looked at the rest of the tea friends, "Then let's be ugly!" ”
With Grandpa Liu's order, Gu Zhaodi only felt that the air in the entire West Wing Room was stagnant, and the aura of the seven old men also changed, and the grandchildren stood behind their grandparents again.
Although Grandma Jiang had her back to herself, the calm, sophisticated and otherworldly temperament she exuded still made Gu Zhaodi nervous.
"The first course, burn incense and meditate." After Grandma Jiang lit sandalwood in the incense burner, she began to close her eyes and recuperate.
Grandpa Liu began to bake cakes and tea over a simmer: "The second course, the cooking dragon group." ”
It wasn't until the tea fragrance overflowed and the cake and tea were loose that the next grandmother took it and smashed the cake and tea with a tea mortar hammer: "The third course, the mortar is broken and the full moon is broken." ”
"Fourth, come to the stone! Running! Another grandfather took the tea powder and threw it into the tea mill made of bluestone. After he grinds slowly, the tea powder quickly turns into a fine tea powder.
After the two processes of "engaging in whisking tea" and "Shumilo tea", the tea powder is swept out, sieved and packed into the tea box, and the seventh course is completed, "the dust enters the palace".
And the next eighth process, it was Grandma Jiang's turn.
I saw her put the kettle on the stove, but she closed her eyes again, and her tone was full of confidence: "Linquan listens to the waves, also known as boiling water." The Song people boiled water by listening to the sound to distinguish the temperature, and this water between two and three boils is the most suitable. ”
Although the previous seven processes are cumbersome, there is no need to explain, Gu Zhaodi can see it with her eyes, but she really doesn't understand it.
took the initiative to ask Grandma Jiang: "Then how can it be considered two boils?" How can it be counted as three ......?"
Before she could finish asking, Grandma Jiang raised her hand to interrupt her, and pointed to the kettle: "Listen, the first boiling, like a fish's eyes, has a slight sound." ”
Several grandchildren, including Gu Zhaodi, also stopped asking at this time, held their breath, and listened to the faint sound of the spring water in the kettle on the stove.
After a while, Grandma Jiang said again: "The second boiling, the edge is like a spring." ”
But in less than five minutes after saying this, she suddenly opened her eyes and lifted the kettle: "It's not yet three boils." ”
Grandpa Liu immediately took the kettle and poured boiling water on top of the tea whisk: "Ninth, the tea whisk is showered!" ”
"The tenth course, the rabbit ou out of the bath." The next grandmother didn't delay for a moment, and also drenched the set of rabbit hair with boiling water.
After the tea ordering process was carried out here, the seven old men reached out in unison, and each took a scalded rabbit hair and put it in front of them. He took out the tea powder and added it to Jianzhan separately, but he stopped talking.
Sister Red Lips whispered next to Gu Zhaodi: "This is the eleventh, Lu Chen is out of the palace." ”
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw seven steaming clear water injections spit out from the seven teapots and poured them into the Jianzhan Pot, Huo Di washed away the tea powder, and a puff of smoke and dust was raised.
"It's twelve, tea bottle point flush!"
Then, the sound of the "brush" of the friction between the tea whisk and the building lamp permeated the entire wing.
Gu Zhaodi could see clearly that the tea powder in Grandma Jiang's cup turned into a snow-white paste in a few strokes with her movements.
And her ears were still the explanation of the red-lipped sister: "Thirteen, melt the glue and clean it at the beginning." ”
With another filling of water, the water level in the bowl has reached a finger's point from the mouth of the bowl.
"This is the fourteenth way, back to the first line. That is, when filling water, you should slowly circle the circumference of the lamp and circle it. ”
And at the time of the fifteenth "bamboo whisk", Grandma Jiang's mouth was almost invisibly crooked, the seven old men were in full swing ordering refreshments, and the juniors behind them were also intently watching, but none of them noticed anything unusual.
In the next "Shui Danqing" link, Gu Zhaodi and Sister Red Lips were even more afraid that Grandma Jiang would make a mistake, so they didn't even dare to say anything more. It wasn't until a pattern of a lamb kneeling appeared that everyone cheered, and Grandma Jiang, who was a master of tea distribution, was actually a treasure knife.
But when everyone was waiting for Grandma Jiang to teach the secret of this water danqing, they found that Grandma Jiang at this time had her eyes closed, as if she was asleep.
Her hands were firmly on either side of the rabbit's lamp, and before she could even put down the teaspoon made of coconut shells, she could not hear the call of the crowd.
"Sister Jiang! Now it's time for you to talk about the key points of tea? ”
"yes, grandma!" Gu Zhaodi smiled and walked closer, "This, I really want to hear this." ”
"Grandma, I also want to learn water danqing."
Sister Red Lips also mustered up the courage to squat beside Grandma Jiang, wanting to coax Grandma to teach her once. But when she wanted to pull Grandma Jiang's arm like someone else's granddaughter holding her grandmother's arm, she found that her grandmother's arm hung down so weakly.
She was shocked: "Grandma! What's wrong with you, grandma?! ”