Chapter 130 - The Story of Snow Tea

"What's not enough?" Professor Wang asked.

"Not shocking enough."

Duan Guolin rubbed the purple sand teacup in his hand and looked straight at Ye Hao.

"Biluochun has a common name, called scaring people, Kangxi thinks this name is inelegant and tame, but I think it is vulgar and elegant, very clever."

"The first impression of a good tea should be very shocking. When the impact passes, the aftertaste and throat rhyme will make people feel dreamlike and fascinating. ”

"But the cup of tea you brewed, although it also has the shocking power of the fragrance to the sky and the astonishment, but the aroma is not correct, so I don't think it's enough."

"Out of 10, I can only give 8.5."

"The real snow tea is one that can shock the tea ceremony master of Japan for a year to the point of unforgettable, you orchid is not right."

"Isn't that right? How fragrant is this? At least I've never smelled a tea like this in my life! ”

Professor Wang is also an old tea friend, and when he heard Duan Guolin's words, he couldn't help but speak for this tea.

In his opinion, Ye Hao's tea can be among the best in the tea fighting conference in Japan on the spot, and this tea industry leader really has serious quirks.

Duan Guolin ignored Professor Wang, and only looked at Ye Hao.

Ye Hao listened quietly, and waited for Professor Wang to finish before answering: "Master Duan is right, this orchid is picked from the mountain behind my house, and the tea tree has also been nourished by the bamboo forest, so it tastes like orchid mixed with bamboo fragrance." ”

"I want to ask Master Duan, the real Snow Tea Lanxiang."

Duan Guolin didn't answer this question, but turned the topic to the pricing just now, "This tea can be sold for 10,000 yuan a catty, but real snow tea can also be sold for a million yuan a catty." ”

This sentence exploded in the ears of everyone in the tea room like thunder.

Although the quality of snow tea is high, it is not well-known, and after hype, such a little-known tea is only a few dozen yuan a catty, a few hundred yuan a catty, I don't know why Duan Guolin would say such a thing as 'one million yuan a catty'.

A million dollars a pound, what does that mean?

That means that the cultural value of snow tea should be as good as the mother tree of Wuyi Mountain, Dahongpao, and the 'Eighteen Trees in the Imperial Palace' of West Lake Longjing, and what you drink is no longer tea.

Xia Meng put down the teacup tremblingly, not daring to drink this golden water again.

Wang Yushi looked down at the tea in his hand, his eyes full of shock.

Professor Wang and Gu Jun were also stagnant.

Everyone fell silent, and their eyes converged on Duan Guolin's face.

Only Ye Hao's expression was indifferent, her tea-making technique was also obtained from a certain experience in the past, and she never thought that this world could still be related to it.

Duan Guolin said unhurriedly, "Everyone here should drink tea, not many have heard of snow tea, right?" ”

Gu Jun, who was the intermediary introducer, nodded first, "I have never heard of snow tea before I drank it from Lao Wang. ”

Professor Wang's expression calmed down, "I thought that this snow tea was Xiao Zhen's originality, but listening to Master Duan's meaning, could it be that this snow tea should still be very famous?" ”

"I've never heard of it, but it's a good tea that came out of nowhere!" Wang Yushi interjected.

Duan Guolin glanced at Wang Yushi and retorted calmly: "It's not born out of nowhere, but resurrected from the dead." ”

"Oh?" Ye Hao was interested, "I didn't take long to make this snow tea, I thought it was my original tea-making technique, why did it say that it was resurrected from the dead?" ”

"There's a story here, doesn't Ye Xiaoyou know?" Duan Guolin glanced at Ye Hao inquiringly, the old man's eyes were sharp, and he seemed to be able to see through the soul.

Ye Hao smiled humbly, "Master Duan, I really don't know, otherwise you wouldn't have said that the orchid was wrong." ”

"Then I'll tell you a historical story first. In 1972, when the Japanese Prime Minister visited China, he asked to try China's Jietan tea. ”

"He said that Jietan tea was a tribute tea in the Tang Dynasty, and it was once widely sought after in Japan, and he wanted to take this opportunity to taste Jietan tea, but no one had heard of Jietan tea."

"The people from the Ministry of Agriculture searched up and down, and finally found that this tea was produced in Lingxian County, Southern Province, and it was indeed a tribute tea in the Tang Dynasty. But for a variety of reasons, the tea plantations in Jietan have long been deserted, and this tea has no real name. ”

"Later, under the care of the state, the tea plantations in Jietan slowly resumed planting, and they are still prosperous."

After a pause, Duan Guolin said, "The snow tea we drank today is the same as the Jietan tea, and they all died once because of historical reasons. ”

"Ye Xiaoyou's tea tree is afraid that it is not the original snow tea tea tree."

Hearing this, Xia Meng was a little unconvinced: "The tea trees in our back mountains are also purebred ancient teas. ”

Because Qian Bin focused on inspecting this snow tea, after all, he was going to make a production line in the future, and Xia Meng also listened to it a lot, so he had the confidence to refute this sentence.

"It's indeed a purebred ancient tea, so I said it was resurrected from the dead!"

Speaking of this, Duan Guolin nodded at Ye Hao and Xia Meng, "Thank you very much for letting me see the disappearing famous tea." ”

"Famous tea?" Xia Meng touched his head honestly, "But this snow tea, Sister Ye only entertained Professor Wang and them at the beginning, and she really didn't have much fame." ”

"Snow tea has been a tribute tea ...... in the Ming and Qing dynasties," Duan Guolin said lightly.

Ye Hao suddenly realized that because the worlds she had experienced seemed real and not true, she was not sure where this tea came from, and when she heard Duan Guolin say this, she seemed to have seen the true source.

Xia Meng thought to himself, alas, what year is this the imperial calendar, and the tea on the market that can be called dare to say that he has made tribute tea, who admits it!

"Until the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China, snow tea was still a special offering of the upper class, a tael of gold and a tael of tea in the real sense."

"But in the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China, those warlords, dignitaries, and Qing Dynasty relics suddenly stopped drinking snow tea."

"If these people don't drink, the people below won't follow them. Since then, snow tea has declined and even disappeared. ”

Ye Hao had never heard of this story, not even Gu Jun and Professor Wang, and for a while, everyone in the tea room was at a loss.

In the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1936, if what Duan Guolin said was true, what was the reason why blood tea became worthless from one tael of gold and one tael of tea overnight?

Ye Hao pondered for a while: "Mr. is very knowledgeable, as a native of Southern Province, I have never heard of this story!" It's better to see which book Daoguangsheng came from, I also want to read and verify it. ”

Duan Guolin said after a while: "It's not a record, it's the dictation of a Japanese tea ceremony master, twenty years ago, I went to Japan to visit this master and discuss tea with him. ”

"Talking about the most memorable cup of tea in this life, he said that in 1935, he had the honor to taste a cup of green tea called Xueya, which amazed him and made him unforgettable."

"And then?" Wang Yushi was anxious, he couldn't stand Duan Guolin's gentle way of speaking, and couldn't help urging loudly.

(End of chapter)