At the end of February, it's time for the tea leaves to be picked.

Li Changan hired thirty young and good-looking women to pick these tea leaves.

Shen Chu rolled his eyes at this, saying that Li Changan was over-packaging and increasing labor costs, Li Changan refuted Shen Chu with words, she was picking "pure tea", and it was a great merit to provide jobs for these ordinary girls.

After the tea leaves were picked, Shen Chu took a few servants who had signed the contract to make tea day and night, and finally rushed out the first batch of tea before March.

Li Changan told Pei Yun that except for the tea leaves that had been booked, the rest of the tea should not be sold out for the time being.

The amount of tea produced by these 30 acres of tea fields was less than estimated by several people at the beginning, and the average acre of tea fields only produced less than 17 catties of dry tea, and a total of 500 catties of tea were produced.

Li Changan had expected this for a long time - it is strange to water that little dew every day, not to fertilize, and not to reduce production.

However, her tea is a pure tea, a noble tea bathed in the light of the Buddha and not contaminated with dust, and it is the Hermes in the tea.

She won't sell all these 500 catties of tea, and Li Changan took out 200 catties of tea from the 500 catties of tea without blinking an eyelid.

Then she used the jade box specially carved by her jade craftsman to divide the two hundred catties of tea into dozens of portions of different sizes, and put forty catties of them in two jade boxes, and went to the palace with the jade boxes.

It just so happened that Li Longji was playing chess with Concubine Wu Hui in Changqing Palace, so Li Changan didn't have to make a special trip to Xingqing Palace.

"You monkey, where are you going to go wild again?" Concubine Wu Hui saw Li Changan running into the hall in a hurry, followed by two maidservants holding jade boxes, so she simply put down the chess pieces and summoned Li Changan to her side.

Li Longji could only put aside the chess pieces and smiled at Concubine Wu Hui: "It's just that I can't play it, so I let my daughter play tricks." ”

Concubine Wu Hui glanced at Li Longji with disgust, "The concubine has become a scoundrel in San Lang's mouth." ”

Li Longji laughed loudly and beckoned Li Changan to him: "Only I can stand your mother's fierce temperament...... Guess what's hidden in your two jade boxes is your precious tea? ”

"How did Grandpa guess that?" Li Changan's eyes widened and looked at Li Longji adoringly, "Could it be that my father knows the immortal law, can I see the tea leaves through the jade box?" ”

The Li family recognized Laozi Li Er as their ancestor, and the Li family was more or less interested in monasticism, Li Longji's sister Princess Yuzhen was a female Taoist priest who had become a monk, and Li Longji had also become interested in monasticism since he got older in the past few years.

Therefore, hearing Li Changan's exclamation, Li Longji was quite useful.

He pinched Li Changan's fleshy cheeks and said with a smile: "I have already listened to you talk about your precious tea leaves for a month, and these days are the time of the tea tree harvest, so the treasure that can make your little miser in a jade box must be your baby tea." ”

"Wow, Grandpa is so smart!" Li Changan touted it at the right time.

Although the six-year-old child's praise is straightforward, it makes Li Longji feel more comfortable than the level of the official's concubine.

After all, Li Changan is only six years old, what can she lie? It must be sincere and thinks that he is smart and wise, so he will blurt out the words of praise.

Li Changan followed the words and presented the two jade boxes containing tea to Li Longji and Concubine Wu Hui, and took out a tea caddy the size of a rouge box from his embroidery bag and opened it.

"These two boxes are the tea leaves that my daughter dedicated to Grandpa and Auntie." Li Changan made a good salute, and then looked up at Li Longji and Concubine Wu Hui, and said proudly.

"My tea is a clean tea, and the tea is made by a new method, and you need to drink it in a new way to taste the taste."

As she spoke, she asked the maidservant to go to her dormitory and bring her set of tea sets that had been made earlier.

Li Longji and Concubine Wu Hui were not in a hurry to play chess at this time, the two glanced at each other, and both saw curiosity in each other's eyes, so they simply ordered the eunuch to remove the chessboard and watch Li Chang'an's busy work inside and out.

In fact, I didn't prepare much, just a set of tea sets and a pot of boiling water. Compared with the pile of tea milling and boiling tea utensils of the Tang people, it is much less.

"It's a chic." Li Longji pointed to the small and cute porcelain pot and said in appreciation.

Note is another name for the teapot, the Tang Dynasty did not have a special purple clay pot for tea, only used to hold hot water large teapot and wine pot, this set of tea set is Li Changan specially found a craftsman to fire, the main thing is a taste of elegance.

Li Changan first washed the tea set with boiling water, and explained to the two of them while washing, "This is called a warm cup." ”

The tea leaves are thrown into the teapot again.

"It's called throwing tea."

Pour out the tea that was poured in for the first time, "This is the awakening of tea, that is, to wash the things on the tea leaves." ”

Li Longji looked at Li Changan with relish and was busy with a small face.

Li Changan filled the teapot with water again, and nodded up and down the teacup three times, "This is called 'Phoenix Three Nods'." ”

The cyan transparent tea lay quietly in the tea cup, exuding wisps of tea fragrance.

Phoenix San nodded, the name is quite meaningful. Concubine Wu Hui praised it.

Li Changan smiled and pushed two cups of seven-point full tea in front of Concubine Wu Hui and Li Longji, and looked at the two expectantly: "Grandpa and Auntie taste it, you have to take a small sip to taste the fragrance." ”

Concubine Wu Hui took the lead in picking up the teacup and took a sip, raising her eyebrows in surprise: "The entrance is mellow and slightly bitter, but the taste is sweet, and it has some Taoist charm." ”

Because Li Longji likes Taoism, Concubine Wu Hui also knows a lot about Taoism.

"Oh?" Li Longji also took a sip of tea, with praise on his face, "First bitter and then sweet, there is indeed a rhyme." ”

Li Changan was proud: "This is the new tea I specially dedicated to my father and mother!" The tea tree of this tea is planted by the master of the Great Ci'en Temple, only irrigated with the dew collected by the cardamom girl, not stained with a trace of dust, and there are literati and ink writers all the year round in the side of the poems as endowments, perennial soaked in the literary atmosphere, this year there is not much harvest in total, so the first batch of new tea, most of them are here. ”

The first batch of tea was only fried for a total of 50 catties, and the remaining 400 catties were fried later, which is not the first batch of new tea, and Li Changan's words are not lies.

Li Longji bowed slightly, and was not polite: "Then I will accept these tea leaves...... But I can't ask for your tea for nothing, I can promise you a condition, can you ask for something? ”

Concubine Wu Hui's fingers clutching the teacup suddenly tightened.

Li Changan looked up at Li Longji as if he didn't notice the nervousness in Concubine Wu Hui's heart, his eyes were full of joy.

"Is it okay to ask for anything?"

Li Longji looked at Li Changan for a moment, and then chuckled: "What do you want?" ”

But he didn't answer positively whether it was anything he asked for.

Li Chang'an was happy, grabbed the corner of Li Longji's sleeve, and said coquettishly: "If you want a big grange, if you want to be near Chang'an, there must be at least a hundred ...... Three hundred acres of land! ”

He glanced at Li Longji timidly, and added in a low voice: "Actually, a hundred acres of land is fine." ”

Li Longji raised his eyebrows: "You only want this?" ”

"Actually, my daughter still wants a few craftsmen and farmers." Li Chang'an had to inch in, his eyes were full of cunning.

Concubine Wu Hui slowly sipped the tea again.

The slightly richer Jiupin petty officials can have 100 acres of land in their homes, and they don't even need official eunuchs, and there are many people who have hundreds of acres of land in the homes of ordinary rich families. Although the land around Chang'an is more expensive, it depends on who it is......

And before His Majesty ascended the throne, the nobles of the founding period of the Tang Dynasty were killed by Emperor Zetian, and the upstarts during the period of Emperor Zetian were killed by Zhongzong, and the remaining nobles of the Zhongzong period were killed by a group of people due to the disaster of Empress Wei.

Li Longji patted Li Chang'an on the shoulder: "Er Nai is a girl, why are you so cowardly even asking for a Zhuangzi?" Li Tang's princess can't be so petty......"

In the end, Li Changan received two granges, ten craftsmen, and a bunch of rewards.

After Li Longji left, Concubine Wu Hui hugged Li Chang'an, combed her hair without a pair, and asked: "Your father, Emperor Chrysostom, since he said that he promised you a condition, what he can give you is not just a grange. ”

I want him to give me the throne, and he has to say yes. Li Changan thought to himself, the leader said that he owed you a favor, and the subconscious meaning was that he could help you a small favor when you needed it.

No matter what he was thinking, Li Changan's expression was extremely innocent: "But my daughter just wants a grange, I don't lack anything else, my daughter only lacks a grange." ”

Concubine Wu Hui stared at Li Changan for a while, then smiled and stretched out her hand to take Li Changan's hand and patted it.

"My daughter is smart and has the style of a father."

This is a very high praise, it is still the Kaiyuan period, no one can predict the chaos in the Tianbao year, and now Li Longji is second only to Emperor Taizong in everyone's hearts. Especially in terms of strategy, Li Longji, who assisted in seizing the power of Wu Zhou, was able to quell the disaster of Empress Wei with only 400 people at the age of twenty-five, and took back power from Princess Taiping after ascending to the throne, can be called a political genius.

In the next few days, the courtiers who came and went to Xingqing Palace found that the sage suddenly had a hobby of drinking tea, and the tea was clear, completely different from ordinary tea soup. A few favored courtiers even got a few taels of new tea rewarded by Li Longji, and they were all amazed after drinking it.

Another group of officials' wives drank new tea at the Shangsi Festival banquet held by Concubine Wu Hui and were full of praise.

In a few days, Princess Xianyi, Princess Yuzhen, King Shou, and Zhongshu Ling ...... In short, this new tea has appeared in the mansions of the top magnates of the Tang Dynasty. These teas were all given to them by Li Changan through various channels, free tea.

Only the free ones are given away, and the rest of the non-free ones can be sold for a good price.

The remaining first-class magnates scratched their ears and asked where the new tea came from.

The king of Chu has a thin waist, and he starves to death in the palace. His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty has the same new tea, which of the courtiers doesn't want it, not to mention that it is not only the emperor who drinks this new tea now, but also the princess and the princess and the first-class officials are drinking this new tea.

This new tea is no longer tea, it is a status symbol, and the greatest use of luxury goods is to wear it on the body? The meaning of luxury is that as long as you take it out, everyone knows that you are a rich person.

Although not everyone will fall for this kind of luxury, as long as a small number of people fall into this kind of consumption trap, the luxury market is already large.

The last news came from an ordinary small businessman named Zhao Cheng. It turns out that those tea leaves are all produced in the western suburbs of the "unsullied tea tree", and it is also that only the high-end raw materials can produce such good new tea.

Higashi Tea Shop is open! Each person is limited to ten taels of tea, and the price is fixed at one tael of gold and one tael of tea, and only thirty copies are sold every day!

On March 20, the sale was closed, and it was sold for exactly 16 days, and 300 catties of tea were exchanged for 4,800 taels of gold.

It's just that at this time, new tea is no longer a matter of concern to the Tang magnates, and in the court, the undercurrent that was originally hidden under the calm water surface is surging, and it is gradually placed on the bright side.