Listening to the fox fairy's vague voice, I felt my adrenal hormones secreting violently, and finally, when I became conscious, I realized that my fists had been clenched tightly, and even my nails were carved deep into the flesh of my palms.

"So, what about me?" I looked at the fox fairy and asked word by word, "What should I do? Are you worthy of me? Giving me such a skill has changed my destiny, and let me know that there are still strange women like you in the world, and there are fairy and beautiful women like you, but you leave at will, are you worthy of me? Don't you know that after meeting you, I will never be interested in any other woman in my life, and I will not be interested in any other woman in my life?"

As my experience grew, I thought I was in control of my emotions, but even if I was a rational and calm person, at this moment, I was on the verge of losing control.

"So, what do you want to do?" the fox fairy looked at me with interest, the back of his hand on his chin, the other hand on his cheek, and the black silk hair hung down to the side, covering his right ear.

"If there's only one way in this world for you to stay with me, even if the odds of that path going through are less than one in a million, I'm willing to give it a try. I looked at the fox fairy, calmed my breath, and as I spoke, my heart trembled even more, and in the end, I hesitated for a while, but I still stretched out my hand and grabbed the fox fairy's white and bright left hand.

It's just that at the moment when my hand was about to touch the back of the fox fairy's hand, the fox fairy's delicate little hand exposed outside the long sleeves quickly retracted and avoided my volley.

"But," the fox fairy looked at me sadly, smiling, with his arms curled, "I just don't want to be like my ancestors, who bent under men's feet and scratched their heads and flattered lewdly." You and I am a strong woman who looks down on all the men in the world. ”

As she spoke, the fox fairy's eyes became more and more ethereal and lonely, she sighed faintly, and finally read softly:

"The essence is clean and clean, which is better than dirt and ditches. The cold plum folds the branches and incense as before, and the floating water does not stick to the mud. If future generations hear its name, a piece of ice is in the jade pot. ”

In just three sentences, the meaning of the fox fairy is clearly expressed, her thoughts, her choices, and her end point are all vividly expressed. Cao Xueqin and Wang Shaobo's words, she was a little interesting.

Clean and clean, not stuck in the mud, my heart is like a jade pot.

This is the answer of the fox fairy.

The fox fairy's demeanor was so resolute, not to be questioned, not to be argued, and even to let me open my mouth at all.

I looked at her silently, not knowing what to say.

For the first time in my life, I didn't know what words to use to argue against the fox fairy.

Where is the momentum of competing with this woman and arguing with reason on weekdays?

I do not know.

I can't find it.

"Talk to me again. The fox fairy sat there quietly, looking at me quietly, with black hair like an umbrella, white clothes mopping the floor, long skirts and wide sleeves, and long plackets, outlining her most perfect face and delicate body in the world.

Like the most delicate sculptures.

The fox fairy's eyelids drooped slightly, her eyes fell on the cup of white porcelain teacup that was closer to me, she leaned over slightly, a pair of jade hands poked out from her cuffs, and gently picked up the hot teacup, pulled down her big sleeves, and delivered the cup of tea to me.

"Hold it. ”

I looked at the expressionless and quiet look on the fox fairy's face, hesitated slightly, and finally took the tea.

It's a bit hot.

After all, it is brewed with boiling water, and the water temperature is not so easy to dissipate.

The fox fairy's hand left the teacup in my hand, her dark and bright eyes looked at me quietly, and then, she slowly spoke, pointed to the tea in my hand, and asked:

"What might you have learned from this?"

I looked down at the teacup in my hand, the hot water in it was slightly rippling, the clear water, the green and moist tea roots, or a few of them were still shriveled, meandering and suspended on the water, like a boat reverberating, or a little sinking to the bottom of the water, mixed together, and a little up and down, hovering in the middle of the water, ups and downs.

I closed my eyes and took a sip before I brought the teacup to my lips and took a sip before finally reopening my eyes and staring directly at the fox fairy.

"The tea aroma is extremely mellow and rich, the tea leaves are tender and green and refreshing, and most of the tea leaves are in the state of half leaves and half buds, if I guess correctly, this should be Longjing before the rain. There is a poem in Longjing before the rain, called 'Chalcedony morning cooking Gu before the rain, spring tea is the freshest', and it is the freshest only when it is picked before the valley rain solar term on April 19 every year. It's not easy to get your hands on it. The regular dragon well before the rain is afraid that it will be sold at a high price at this stage of the season. ”

"Go on. The fox fairy looked at me calmly and said. "Tell me about your knowledge of tea. ”

"Huh. I smiled and put down the tea in my hand, "Do you want to ask me about my understanding of the tea ceremony?" This Longjing before the rain belongs to the green tea in the six categories of green tea, yellow tea, white tea, black tea, black tea and green tea. Among all the famous teas, in addition to the long-lost one of the 38 famous teas of the Song Dynasty, Fujian Beiyuan Imperial Tea Dragon Garden Shengxue and the Longtuan Shengxue that was boycotted by Zhu Yuanzhang during the Hongwu period, and there are only six Wuyi tea trees in the world, with an annual output of less than 20 grams, that is, the national leaders may not be able to drink the big red robe, which is also the most precious girl tea in the West Lake Longjing. Among the famous teas, this rain before Longjing is also enough to rank fourth. Its grade is still above the Maofeng of Huangshan Mountain and the Tieguanyin of Anxi. ”

But my remarks were obviously not the answer that the fox fairy wanted, and seeing the fox fairy's unmoved expression, I continued:

"I have little interest in the tea ceremony and the way of health preservation. But what impressed me the most was the famous poem by Sen no Rikyu, the originator of the Japanese tea ceremony: 'Bring the water to a boil, then add the tea leaves, and then drink the tea in the proper way, that's all you need to know, and nothing else, tea.'" The combination of the Japanese tea ceremony and Zen Tao is intriguing. ”

The fox fairy still looked at me quietly, his eyes fixed and unmoved.

After a few breaths, she lifted her lips, stared at me, and said:

"Yes. I don't understand either. Sen no Rikyu's words, you only know the meaning, not the reason. ”

The fox fairy gently placed the cup of tea in her hand between me and her, and a few petals of tea leaves rippled in the water.

"It's really important to be exquisite, one way of tea, all-inclusive. It's just that most vulgar people only pay attention to the color of tea and water marks when they fight tea, but it is the most narrow and inferior humble opinion. If you really want to discuss it, planting tea, planting tea, picking tea, drying tea, distinguishing tea, boiling tea, making tea, drinking tea, using tea, and understanding tea, all of them are all a skill. Even Sen no Rikyu, but he only knows the methods of picking tea, distinguishing tea, boiling tea, making tea, and drinking tea, but it is not necessarily true to talk about tea and the most basic methods of planting tea and drying tea. ”

I can only smile wryly. Speaking of which, when this woman was born, it was still six years before Sen no Rikyu's death.

"I want to hear the truth of your tea. ”

"Look. The fox fairy glanced at me, pointed to the teacup in front of him, and whispered.

I looked in the direction pointed by the fox fairy, who pointed to the loose tea leaves in the teacup and said:

"Wang Sheng, regardless of the fact that the word tea contains all things, the container for making tea alone is exquisite. Your cup is a porcelain cup, which sounds close to 'compassion', but it is compassion for the heart, the sea is inclusive, and there is a sense of tolerance for greatness. Compassion and generosity are the hearts of Buddhism. And the Buddha said that one flower is one world, one leaf is one Bodhi, because the Buddha is omnipresent, can be big or small, is to be able to accommodate these thousands of teas, thousands of worlds. ”

"Wang Shengsheng, if you look at this tea again, don't you sink and float, up and down? Or floating and swirling on the water surface, or hovering and extending in the water, or swaying from the bottom of the water, or falling from the bottom of the water, isn't it just for life? The word tea contains a person, so the knowledge of tea is also the knowledge of people. Ups and downs, ups and downs, or struggling to climb to the top, or helplessly falling to the ground, or mixed with the struggle and hesitation, up or down, miserable, are all the reflection of the world's people's hearts. Tea tasting is also a taste of life. And whether it is a tea leaf floating on the water, or a tea leaf hovering in the water, until it is soaked by the bitter cold water, it will eventually sink to the bottom of the cup and never rise again. This is life in the world, no matter how beautiful and glamorous you are, when you are old and dead, after all, you are similar to others, a pinch of loess, buried in the abyss. ”

"......" I quietly listened to the words of the fox fairy, just quietly pondered the words of the fox fairy, the words of the fox fairy, it was really the essence of her life, if there was no precipitation of the long years, she could not say such a feeling.

"Tea has ups and downs, there are floats, it is for life.

"Tea, first bitter and then sweet, bitter and sweet, is also life. However, no matter how sweet the tea is, after soaking for a long time, it will eventually be dull. Just like how big the waves in life are, it ends up flat.

"The fragrance of tea can only be emitted after it has been boiled in boiling water. If they are just huddled in a corner, no one is just a tea leaf that has not yet spread its fragrance, and it is just a small people and a common people. ”

The fox fairy picked up the tea, and a pair of watery eyes rippled slightly like the water lines in the mouth of the cup, in which I seemed to see the water rippling and the leaf veins swirling.

"Tea is exquisite. The tea is also particular. Wang Shengsheng, in order to make this pot of tea, I boiled the water three times, and waited until the third boiling water boiled, and then turned off the fire and poured it when the white foam was boiling, because if it boiled less than three times, the water would not be rich enough, and the color would be light and the taste was light. If it is after three times, this water will be 'old', and it is very particular to make tea with this water. ”

"This time I got it. I nodded, interrupted the fox fairy's words, and said, "You're trying to tell me that you have to grasp the heat and time in everything to do your best, right?"

"Clever. This time, the corners of the fox fairy's lips finally turned up a momentary smile, "Heaven gives Fu to take, but he is to blame." If the opportunity and timing given by God are not grasped well, it is inevitable that we will suffer the same disaster. It is to weigh the time in everything and grasp the proportions of the heat. ”

The fox fairy's words, this time, really gave me the deepest understanding.

I looked at the fox fairy deeply, and the stirring in my heart was unprecedented.

"Thank you. I looked at the fox fairy and spat out these words with difficulty. "Fox fairy. ”