Chapter 308 The advent of tea
After more than half a month, all the tea leaves in the tea workshop were completed, with a total of more than one thousand kilograms made.
There are so many tea leaves all because the villagers found tea trees on the top of the mountain. Now there are more than 300 tea trees, and the hills where the tea trees are planted have also been cleared.
Now this mountain has become Tea Tree Mountain.
After all the tea leaves were finished, Qin An began to invite Ying Zheng and others to drink tea.
Ying Zheng and the others had not seen Qin An for more than half a month. They knew that Qin An was busy, so they did not disturb Qin An and just took out the tools made by Qin An.
Especially bicycles, the scene has become popular in Xianyang City.
Jiang Lu is responsible for the production and sales.
Because the production process is complicated and the materials are precious, the price is very high.
However, no matter how high the price is, people will still buy it.
Just like when cars first appeared, many people wanted to buy them, but were discouraged when they saw the price.
But a truly rich person will not care about his price, but only care about whether he has a car, because it is a status symbol.
The same goes for bicycles nowadays. Although the price is high, there are still many people buying them.
Therefore, bicycles have been booked in advance in Xianyang City.
After Ying Zheng and others arrived, Qin An immediately stepped forward to greet them.
"Welcome, welcome. Everyone is welcome to come and taste the tea I just made."
Ying Zheng smiled and said: "This is the first cup of tea from ten miles away and eight towns. You have to be the first to win anything."
"It should, it should." Qin An said, and then made an invitation gesture to invite everyone to come into the yard to taste it.
"Everyone, please sit down. I will make tea for you now."
Ying Zheng and others came to the stone table and found many tools on the table, including teapots, teacups and other items.
You know without thinking that these must be the tools used to make tea, but do you need so many?
No one asked. If they did, it would mean they were ignorant. Although everyone knew that they and others were ignorant in front of Qin An, they couldn't say it.
After everyone sat down, Qin An also sat down, but he sat opposite them.
Qin An picked up the purple clay teapot and said, "I had people make these at short notice. This teapot is called a purple clay teapot.
The purple clay used in my purple clay pot is from the village, which is not very good. The best is the purple clay pot from Yixing, Jiangsu.
If I get a chance, I'll buy one for everyone. "
Everyone smiled and nodded.
When Ying Zheng saw Qin An put the purple clay pot into boiling water to clean it, he frowned slightly and said, "Qin An, didn't you wash this purple clay pot beforehand?"
Qin An smiled and said: "Of course I washed it. It's just a rule to iron it again like this. As for why, I haven't studied it in depth, but I think it is also a kind of etiquette for better disinfection.
It proves that these tea sets are all newly washed. Even if someone has touched them before, they have been cleaned. "
Ying Zheng nodded and said, "It seems to make sense. You can continue."
Everyone suddenly realized that there is such etiquette for washing tea cups. They can try it next time.
Then Qin An used a tea spoon to take out the tea leaves and put them into the purple clay pot, and then poured boiling hot water into the purple clay pot.
Then use the lid of the purple clay pot to scrape off the tea soup foam, and then pour out all the tea in the purple clay pot.
"Sir, what are you doing?" Feng Quji stood up in shock and angrily said, "Sir, why are you so wasteful?"
Qin An said: "The first brewed tea is originally thrown away, the purpose is to clean the debris and impurities in the tea leaves.
This second brewed tea is the tea that is officially given to everyone. "
As Qin An was talking, he poured boiling water into the purple clay pot, and then poured tea soup into the small teacups.
"Okay, now everyone can officially drink. There are many etiquettes in drinking tea. For example, the tea should not be overflowing, otherwise it will mean that you are not welcoming and sending guests off.
It is best to be 70% full, and even more so when there is tea until it is 70% full, and the remaining 30% is clear. "
Li Si smiled and said: "It turns out there is such etiquette for making tea. It's really enlightening."
Qin An smiled and nodded: "Everyone, the tea has been poured. It is the best time to wait for a minute or two before drinking."
Everyone nodded, and after waiting for a while, Ying Zheng took the lead in picking up the tea cup and drank the tea in one sip.
Seeing this, the others followed suit and drank the tea in one go.
Ying Yinman on the side stuck out her tongue and said, "This tea doesn't taste good at all. My husband, are you lying to us?"
Others also frowned slightly, the tea was indeed not very tasty.
Ying Zheng said in a deep voice: "Hey, don't be rude. Since Qin An said that this tea is popular all over the world, he must have a reason."
Qin An gave a wry smile, then picked up the tea cup in front of him, smelled it under his nose, nodded, expressed satisfaction, and said: "When tasting the tea soup, you should first smell the aroma of the tea soup, and then drink the tea. The taste of soup.
When drinking tea soup, be sure not to drink too much, just sip it in small sips, so that people can appreciate the sweet taste of the tea soup.
It seems that everyone drinks it all in one mouthful, just like a whale sucking a cow to drink, how can you taste the taste? "
"Suck..."
After smelling the taste, Qin An put the tea cup to his mouth, took a sip, and said with an afterthought: "It tastes bitter at first and then sweet. Although it tastes bitter when you first drink it, it will soon make you feel sweet again.
This tea soup is very pure and of very good quality. Please have another cup. "
Then Qin An poured everyone a cup of tea.
Everyone picked up the teacups again. This time everyone followed suit and no longer drank all the tea in one gulp. Instead, they imitated Qin An and took a sip.
Although the taste is still a bit bitter at first, other flavors soon appear, which is sweet. Although it is not very sweet, the taste of bitter first and then sweet is very comfortable.
This made them take another sip. After three sips, the tea in the tea cup was gone.
"Why so little? It's not satisfying at all." Ying Zheng said.
Li Si nodded and said: "It's really not satisfying. I really didn't expect that the more I drink this tea, the more I want to drink it and I can't stop at all."
"That's right, I just can't stop." Feng Quji said, "I have lived for most of my life, but I never knew that there was something like this in the world."
Meng Yi said: "I only thought wine tasted good before, but I never knew tea tasted so good."
Fu Sheng said: "From now on, Confucian masters can teach their students with a pot of tea every day. Wouldn't it be wonderful?"
"What are you thinking about?" Meng Sheng said, "There are only a few tea leaves. If you want to drink it, just grow it yourself."
Others also started talking, they just couldn't put it down for the tea.
Ying Zheng said: "I knew everyone would like it, so I prepared gifts for everyone, Manman, you will go ahead and bring them out."
"good."
Some people died, but not completely...
