The waves crashed on the beach, and the sound of water gushing woke up Ye Ling from his coma. He slowly opened his eyes and found that he was lying on the shallow beach. He quickly got up and saw Xu Hong, Pan Yulin, and Cuiyu not far from him, unconscious.
He calmed down and looked around. It turned out that several people were on an island. He couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, got up and walked over to wake them up.
Xu Hong rubbed his head and asked: "Where is this place?" Ye Ling said: "I don't know where the island is." Pan Yulin said: "Could it be Zhendao?" Cuttlefish looked around and said happily: "It is Zhendao, three of you sir Immortal, we successfully made it to the island!" The three of them were all happy when they heard this. After taking a short rest, they got up and walked to the island.
I only saw this island
The name "Zhen" is really strange. It is a fairy island with wonderful scenery: "It is connected to the vast blue sea, and it has three rivers and lakes. The tide hits the whitebait and rushes to the shore, and the waves encourage the gulls to fly. The strange peaks on the left and right are steep, east and west. Strange rocks are rugged. Luan and phoenix sing high on the cliff, and round turtle lies alone under the pine forest. Yao grass and Qionghua never fade along the way, and jade trees and cypresses are everlasting. The branches are bright with spiritual fruits, and the sky is blue with few floating clouds. A winding road with sources from all sides. The grass on the stream is new. It is a pure place outside the world. It turns out that there are sages who practice." Xu Hong sighed: "It is really a precious fairyland. If we can find such a place in the future, we can practice immortality, enlightenment, and gather together to have fun. Okay." Pan Yulin nodded and said: "This is very true. If you can find a place like this as a dojo, you should find close friends and live together." While they were talking, a voice came from behind them and said: "If you don't inform me, I will On Zhendao, today’s juniors are really rude.” The three of them couldn’t help being startled, and turned around to look. They saw an old man standing there, looking slovenly, holding a wine gourd in his hand, smelling of alcohol.
Xu Hong and Pan Yulin were both shocked. They were not aware of this person appearing behind them. However, Ye Ling who was standing by was overjoyed and stepped forward and said: "Senior Cong Zhongxiao, why are you here on Zhendao?" The old man in front of him was none other than Jiang Fan's uncle, the Jiuzhongxian who once treated Ye Ling's injuries, Cong Zhongxiao. Laughing.
Cong Zhongxiao looked at Ye Ling carefully. Although his appearance had changed, his aura would not change. He smiled and said, "It turns out he is the boy from the Ye family who was with Jiang Fan."
"It's this junior," Ye Ling said with a smile: "Senior is here, could it be that you are one of the Four Friends of Zhendao?"
"No," Cong Zhong said with a smile: "I am a drunkard, free and at ease, how can I find an island to restrain myself? I just have nothing to do recently, so I come here to drink with Mr. Xu." As soon as he finished speaking, Seeing an old man floating over, dressed in gray, with white beard and hair, he said with a smile: "Old drunkard, are you here to steal my wine again?" Cong Zhong smiled and said to Ye Ling: "The four Zhendao people you are looking for My friend is here, his name is Xu Jiancheng." The three of them bowed and saluted, and Xu Jiancheng said, "Why are you going to the island?" Ye Ling said, "We are looking for Zhendao spinners, and there are unexpected letters from the cold-faced scholar here." Xu Jiancheng said Waving his hand: "Come with me." Xu Jiancheng led the way. The three of them laughed with the bush, and the cuttlefish followed, walked out of the forest, and came to a hut.
Xu Jianjin opened the door and invited people in. Everyone sat around the wooden table in the yard. Xu Xiangcheng said: "Since you are going to find the Zhendao spinner, you need to pass my test first." The three of them looked at each other, puzzled.
Cong Zhong laughed and said: "Old man Xu, don't let yourself go and play with the younger generation." Xu Jiancheng smiled slightly, took the wine jar and the wine cup and said: "Let's drink first, then talk about other things." After that, he opened the jar and poured the wine, the fragrance Intense and long-lasting.
Cong Zhong smiled and said: "This is brewed exclusively in Zhendao. I cherish the remaining spring and brew it with the drunken flowers and crabapples of Zhendao. It has a strong floral fragrance and is really rare. You three boys are lucky." The three of them raised their glasses and drank it. It turned out to be good wine. , Pan Yulin even said: "This wine is soft and fragrant, but it is gentle and charming like a woman." When Xu Xiangcheng heard this, his eyes lit up and said: "You really know how to drink!" Five people sat around and drank. , the solitary cuttlefish lay on the side with no chance to taste.
After drinking three cups, Ye Ling said, "Please give me some advice, senior, on how to find the Zhendao spinner." Xu Jiancheng said, "If you answer my question, I will let you go. Just drinking is not interesting. I have given you a drinking order. If you can't answer, I will kick you off the island!" Upon hearing this, the three of them immediately became nervous.
Xu Xiangcheng held up the wine cup, thought for a moment, and then said: "I want to survive, cherish Yuchun, and dare not ask the person." As soon as these words came out, Ye Ling and the other three fell into silence. Although these three sentences seemed Ordinary, but actually there is a lot to be said for it.
This first sentence comes from the Book of Songs, which means it is not the person I miss. The word "Xi Yuchun" in the middle is the name of the wine, but it is also the name of the brand. The last sentence is a poem, but it also contains the meaning of inquiry, so this drinking order is Blame Ye Ling and others for coming uninvited, and they also need to answer according to this format.
Among the three of them, Xu Hong was a disciple of Confucianism and was quite proficient in writing, so after a moment of reflection, he blurted out: "A gentleman likes to be brave. If you pass the Qin Tower, you will be the best among flowers." Xu Hong's words were flattery, and he only meant this. The island is a place that everyone yearns for, so they come here because of its reputation.
Immediately after Xu Hong, Ye Ling said: "Like the moon, Zhe Hongying knows that this matter must be carried out."
"Eternal as the moon, rising as the sun" is also a sentence in the Book of Songs, describing people's future. Ye Ling's words mean that they come for important things.
After Ye Ling finished speaking, Pan Yulin also smiled and cupped his hands and said: "My heart is deep in the blue clouds, and I have to be merciful and merciful!" After Xu Xiangcheng listened, he smiled and raised his cup and said, "Very good!" The cuttlefish on the side listened. While they were talking, I suddenly realized that the wine was not that delicious, and I should be glad that I couldn't drink it.
Seeing that Xu Xiangcheng was about to speak again, Pan Yulin hurriedly stood up and said: "Senior's wine is very good. I have nothing to give as a gift when I come from afar. I also have a few jars of mixed wine here. I would like to invite you to have a taste." After saying that, he took out several jars of wine from the Taoist storage vessel, among which were the chalcedony that Ye Ling drank and the Zuiyun Brewing gift from Ye Ling.
Pan Yulin opened the wines one by one, poured them for Xu Jiancheng and said, "Senior, I would like to invite you to taste it." Xu Jiancheng smiled and said, "You are trying to stop me with fine wine!" Having said that, Xu Jiancheng met. He was very happy about the fine wine, so he took a taste of the wine cup and said: "It is indeed rare to have good wine." Pan Yulin said: "It is a blessing for me to be able to catch the eyes of my seniors. These jars of wine are given to my seniors so that we can go to find Zhendao." Spinner." Xu Xiangcheng smiled loudly, and then waved his hand, the Taoist rhyme circulated in the void, and a towering mountain appeared behind the hut, which shocked several people.
Xu Xiangcheng said: "Let's go to the top of the mountain and look for the wooden house. That's where the spinner is."
"Thank you, senior!" Ye Ling and the others said goodbye to Cuiyu and hurried up the mountain. Cong Zhongxiao stayed here with Xu Jiancheng and said with a smile: "Li Qing left you here to guard the mountain gate, but you just let them go up there. How do you explain it?" Xu Jiancheng said: "Eating people is soft-mouthed, and taking advantage of others is short-handed. Besides, I had an agreement with them beforehand, so I let them go when they were ordered to drink. How could I break my promise?" Cong Zhong smiled and said, "It's just for a few jars of fine wine, why bother to make excuses?"
"You don't drink"
"drink!"
"Then don't say any more words."
"Just follow the order." ... But Ye Ling and the others were walking up the mountain road. About halfway up the mountain, they suddenly smelled the fragrance of tea. Looking for the fragrance, they saw a mountain pavilion in front of it. Sitting in the pavilion was a middle-aged man in white clothes, boiling water and making tea.
It seemed that Ye Ling and the others had already known about the arrival of the three of them. He said: "My friends, why don't we come and have a cup of tea before we go on our way." The three of them looked at each other. This pavilion was built just on the way up the mountain. The road was almost the same as Luka's, and the three of them couldn't take any detours, so they had no choice but to go forward.
After bowing his hands, Ye Ling asked: "Juniors are often rude. I bow to my seniors, but I don't know their names." The middle-aged man smiled and said: "One of the four friends of my Zhendao is wearing the same clothes. Please sit down, my friends. The water has been boiled. "The tea is also ready, why not have some." Ye Ling and the other two people sat down after hearing this.
The cuttlefish was still lying on the ground. Yi Xianghe asked with a smile: "Why don't you sit down?" Cuiyu was afraid that Yi Xianghe would also make things difficult for him like Xu Jiancheng, so he refused.
Yi Xianghe didn't force it. He stood up and made tea. The fragrance of tea floated out, refreshing. Xu Hong couldn't help but sigh: "Good tea!" Yi Xianghe said: "This tea is called Cuiluo, and I planted it on this precious island. The water is collected from the tea trees and the clear spring behind the mountain. It should complement each other." As he spoke, Yi Xianghe sent the tea cup to the three of them: "Please have a taste." Ye Ling and the other three raised their cups and took a sip, and the aroma of tea suddenly appeared. , drive away the alcohol, and even clear your mind.
Xu Hong said: "This tea reminds me of the words of the ancients." Yi Xianghe smiled and asked: "What's the saying?" Xu Hong said: "One bowl moistens the throat, two bowls break the loneliness. Three bowls search the dry intestines, but only words Five thousand volumes. Four bowls will make you sweat lightly, and all the uneven things in your life will be dispersed into your pores. Five bowls will clear your muscles and bones, and six bowls will bring you immortality. You can't eat seven bowls, but you can feel the cool breeze blowing in your armpits." Hearing this, Yi Xianghe heard the words. He was overjoyed and said: "It seems that my little friend is also a tea lover!" Xu Hong said: "I don't dare. It's just that when I was in the academy, my mentors and professors often sat across from each other to discuss tea, and the juniors were waiting around and listened. ." Yi Xianghe said casually: "In that case, I would like to think about it, and I dare to ask you about the four essentials of sencha, but I don't know if I know it." Xu Hong blurted out: "The four essentials of sencha are, one is to choose water, and the other is to wash the tea. The third is waiting for the soup, and the fourth is choosing the food. These four points are the most critical." Yi Xianghe nodded with a smile, and asked: "There are three points for ordering tea, and why?" Xu Hong said, "There are three points for ordering tea, and the first is The second is the polyester vessel, and the third is the fruit." Yi Xianhe asked again: "Tea has five properties, I don't know why?" Xu Hong said: "Qing, clean, harmonious, long, and exuberant. These five properties are tea. The root of it." Yi Xianghe then asked: "Tea has six flavors, have you ever tasted it?" Xu Hong picked up the tea cup, took a sip and said: "It is light when entering, soft when touching the tongue, slippery when passed through the teeth, tender when passed through the throat, and leaves a mouthful. The taste is thick, and the aftertaste is sweet. The six flavors are connected, and this is truly a peerless tea!" Ye Ling and Pan Yulin, who were listening on the side, were at a loss. They drank well. This tea discussion was really done by literati. They both This person just knows nothing.
Ye Ling was secretly glad that he had met Xu Hong and brought him with him, otherwise he would not have known how to pass this test.
Of course, the same lucky person was the Cuttlefish lying on the ground. He couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth as he listened to the two people's questions and answers. He secretly lamented that these human races were really troublesome. They just liked to do these stupid things and thought they were smart.
Yi Xianghe smiled and asked again: "There are eight difficulties in smelling tea. I don't know which eight difficulties they are." Xu Hong replied: "The eight difficulties in tea are: picking and roasting are not refined, it is not made; distinguishing shapes and colors, it is not distinguishing; carving gold Carving jade is not a utensil; being dark and unclear is not fire; being rough, old and turbid is not water; not knowing how to drink tea is not a drink; not being familiar with tea principles is not a taste; inhaling the fragrance and sipping the taste is not a drink. After listening to this, Yi Xianghe laughed loudly and said, "Great kindness! My little friend knows the art of tea, how about you make a cup of tea for us?"
