Chapter 0034 – Tasting Tea (I)

Jing Ming Xuan’s box is very characteristic, small lattice door, small lattice window, in the doorway there is a lattice made of the bar, the wall around the half circle is made of lattice antique rack, placed above some ceramic pots, in the middle of the box, there is a long pear wood square table, around the square table placed six chairs made of yellow rosewood, making the whole room is full of a kind of Ming and Qing Dynasty architectural style.

Box area is very large, in enough to have seventy or eighty square feet, in the place near the door bar, but also divided into a small living room, a circle of red leather sofas surrounded by a glass coffee table surrounded by a circle, facing the sofa on the wall above, hanging a foot 70 inches of the large screen high-definition LCD TV, in each corner of the room are placed in an inconspicuous small speakers, set up a little bit like a movie theater! General, but very well integrated into the room as a whole, which is also considered a combination of old and new, Chinese and Western merger it!

In the room at the door for the God of Guan Gong’s residence, above the point of three sandalwood incense, long curls of light smoke filled in the entire box, a room into the room, you can smell the refreshing aroma, coupled with the sound of guzheng around the ears, so that there is a feeling of relaxation and joy.

“Oh, Xiao Song’s this box, ordinary people can’t enter ah! On this coffee table chairs, at least also worth a million or eight hundred thousand, usually but not willing to let us sit, this incense but also have to pay attention to, you do not know it! This is a small song every year on the first day of the New Year to go to the Buddha Temple to seek to the good sandalwood incense, to be lit until the fifteenth, in the middle of the can not be interrupted.”

Song shopkeeper into the box, after a very enjoyable inhalation, and then those antique shelf above the object did not look at a glance, but walked to the square table, with a very careful hand rubbing the several chairs in the eyes of Liu Chuan and other eyes inconspicuous square table, a look of love.

Zhuang Rui’s heart moved, since the color of the aura in his eyes changed to orange, he could already see through to the thickness of the wood of about a centimeter or so, since Shopkeeper Lu boasted so much about these chairs, could it be that they were also antiques? Thinking here, Zhuang Rui also learns from Mr. Lu, the side of the Huanghuali chair carefully looked up.

Wearing glasses Zhuang Rui is not afraid of other people’s attention, in the low head of a moment, will be the eyes of the aura released, the aura quickly from the back of the golden yellow chair surface delicate lines penetrated into, although it did not penetrate the whole, but in the aura into the yellow pear wood, Zhuang Rui or feel a trace of an extremely weak breath and the aura fused together.

The breath is so weak that it is almost imperceptible, than yesterday in the three rivers Liu gourd inside the absorption of the aura is also much weaker, if not Zhuang Rui attention is very concentrated, will not be able to sense, when Zhuang Rui look to the second yellow pear chair, only really feel the number of aura in the eyes, indeed increased a little.

After this discovery, Zhuang Rui can not care about others, pretending to be a picture of these antique chairs are very interested in the appearance of a week around the square table, the six chairs are looking all over, naturally, will be absorbed by the aura of the six yellow pear chairs absorbed in the aura, and yesterday the grasshopper gourd absorbed in the amount of aura is almost the same, it is clear that the antique contained in the aura, is not in order to volume size.

“Master you don’t diaphragm me, can’t one day we go to your mansion, also let these juniors open their eyes, hey, brother Zhuang you are interested in Ming and Qing dynasty furniture?” Song boss is smilingly greeted the crowd seated, see Zhuang Rui a door on the table around, can not help but speak out and ask.

“Before often heard huanghuali antique furniture is worth money, but never seen, wait a minute the ass is going to sit on hundreds of thousands of above, now have to take a good look ah!”

Zhuang Rui raised his head, pretending to be a face of wealth, attracted the crowd laughed, and only then ready to take a seat, after some pushing and shoving, so that Master Lu sat on the upper seat, Song Jun accompanied in the main seat, each person sat down, only there are still two seats missing.

At that time followed them together into the teahouse a few people, put the hands of the things on the square table, then retreated, but if you count that uninvited Xu Wei and Lei Lei Qin Xuan Bing three people, there are still eight people in the box, the six yellow pear chairs are not enough to sit.

“Lei Lei, let’s sit on the sofa there to go, that broken chair has what to do, cold days sit that thing, do not mind diaphragm buttocks …….”

See QinXuanBing and that XuWei all nonchalantly find a chair to sit down, LiuChuan pull LeiLei go to the sofa side to sit down, chatting with me, these two people to those antique manuscripts and so on are not interested in, if not QinXuanBing must come, they won’t come together this lively it!

To be after the people sit down, Song Jun to the door beckoned, two slim figure looks pretty waiter came in, one hand holding a tea set placed on the square table, the other is holding a small red clay stove, placed on a round wooden pier next to the square table, the red clay stove is long, high six, seven inches or so, the furnace charcoal has been ignited, the small stove has a cover and the door, the production of a very Exquisite.

Tea set is also very sophisticated, is the Yixing purple sand pot, the whole pot is about the size of a fist, is the ancient iron chestnut color, four sides are distributed with six small tea cups, color white as jade, thin as paper, Zhuang Rui is very doubtful when picking up this thing, if a little bit of force, is not able to pinch it to pieces.

“There are no outsiders, to be honest, don’t look at me to open a teahouse, in fact, I drink tea is to take a big teacup bubble, not so much to pay attention to, just a period of time ago to find a bit of Anxi superb Tieguanyin, this day, we also have a taste of Guangdong side of the popular Kung Fu Tea.”

Song boss while greeting the crowd, while signaling the two waiters to boil water to make tea, tea and treasure, naturally, the first tea, in addition to Zhuang Rui, these people are in the social roll for many years, quite a man of the city, who did not rush to move the square table above the antiques brought by the people, are interested in looking at the two waiters to make tea, only Zhuang Rui heart a little bit of impatience, but was immediately attracted by the action of the two waiters to make tea, the two waiters to make tea. Two waiters bubble tea action attracted over.

Although the small red clay stove is very small, but the fire is very strong, in an instant, the water boiled, after the water boiled, a waiter picked up the small kettle, and another waiter immediately put a kettle up, to introduce to everyone: “The water used in our teahouse for tea, are all taken from the natural spring water of Yunlong Mountain, Su Dongpo once said, ‘living water needs living water,’ and the water is also used for tea making. ‘Living water must also be cooked by living fire’ means that you should use a strong fire to boil the mountain spring water in the kettle.”

The waiter first used a teaspoon to take the right amount of tea leaves in the tea plate, and then will be given to the crowd one by one tasting, and introduced the origin of Tieguanyin, to be the crowd has seen a circle, the waiter did not put the tea into the alabaster kettle, but lifted up the kettle, pouring the empty kettle with boiling water, according to the words of the waiter, the purpose of this behavior is to heat up the body of the kettle, that is, the so-called The purpose of this act, according to the waiter, is to warm up the pot, which is called “warming the pot”, also known as mengchen dinglin.

“Warm pot” later, the waiter with a teaspoon will tea leaves into the purple clay pot, first fine and then coarse tea stalks, which is called wulong into the palace, and then injected water into the pot, the water is full of kettle mouth stopped, the waiter stretched out two fingers, clamped the lid of the pot to scrape off the mouth of the pot of the foam, and then cover the lid of the pot, with boiling water to rinse off the top of the pot to produce foam, the action is elegant to the extreme, let people The action is so elegant that it is pleasing to the eye.

According to the waiter’s statement, this process is called drenching the pot, the purpose of drenching the pot is to clean the pot, and the second is to make the pot inside and outside of the heat, in order to facilitate the play of the tea aroma.

Zhuang Rui’s nose twitching a bit, at the tip of the nose can already smell the rich flavor of tea, thinking, now you can always drink it! But I did not expect the waiter directly to the alabaster pot of water in all poured out, said it is called washing tea, the purpose is to wash away the surface of the tea leaves floating dust, see Zhuang Rui even rolled his eyes.

Zhuang Rui in the pawnshop when working, but also often and Uncle Tak tea drink, but Uncle Tak tea but not so much to pay attention to, tea is just a pot of two cups only, unlike this is almost 20 minutes, actually did not drink on.

After pouring boiling water into the alabaster kettle again, but also with the first bubble of tea scalding cup, the waiter two fingers to turn the cup, this is called “warm cup” natural and finally poured, Zhuang Rui still did not drink on.

To the second bubble, the waiter single-handed pot, cycle to each cup of tea, pot mouth next to the tea cup, the name is called Guan Gong patrol, the purpose is to make the cup of tea in the consistency of the soup, and low pour is not to make the aroma of too much loss, and so on when the pot of tea soup will be exhausted, will be the pot of the rest of the pot poured in each cup, which is the whole pot of tea in the essence of tea soup, should be a little bit of average sub-injection, and thus jokingly known as the Han Xin point of the army.

At this point, the whole set of procedures is considered to be demonstrated, in the Song boss’s instructions, first of all, the first cup of tea to Master Lu.

The second cup of tea is a toast to the lady, Qin Xuan Bing also did not polite, generous after receiving, with the thumb and forefinger holding the edge of the cup, with the middle finger against the bottom of the cup, but did not drink directly, but the first end to the tip of the nose at the smell, and then divided into three mouths, slowly drink into the mouth, the whole process of flowing, without a trace of fireworks, see Zhuang Rui are frozen.

“Good, three mouths know flavor, three times before moving, the little girl is also a person in the tea ceremony ah! The old man was off the mark yesterday.”

Lv old man saw Qin Xuan Bing after this action, even shouted good, the original on Qin Xuan Bing’s a little dissatisfaction, but also all dissipated, to know, the tea ceremony is also China’s traditional culture, but now there is not much young people know, like sitting on the sofa side of Liu Chuan, is holding a bottle of Coke drink not happy it!