"Your Majesty, you are polite."
A middle-aged man came over, with a rather handsome face, dressed as an elegant gentleman. After respectfully saluting Song Xuan, he sat down on the other side.
The waiter brought a complicated tea set.
The tea in this shop is not boiled and brewed before being served. Instead, a dedicated person comes to the table to boil and brew the tea for you. This is a sign of confidence in one's own craftsmanship and allows you to have a different experience in the process. .
This tea should be the best tea in Anleguan, and the shopkeeper, who is quite famous as a gentleman, came to brew it for them personally.
"This is your first time, guest sir."
"First time here."
"Not from Changjing?"
"I'm from Yizhou, and I just came to Changjing not long ago."
"Yizhou also produces tea."
"Yes, it produces tea, and the tea-horse trade market is over there."
The shopkeeper behaved elegantly and did everything in a hurry. He first took out the tea from the tea can, put in the tea bag, and smashed it with a mallet while chatting quietly with the customer: "This tea is homemade in our shop, but it can be considered a good quality at first." It is made in Yangzhou. When my father was young, he went to Yangzhou for fun. Once he passed by a place and randomly found a shop to eat. The shopkeeper gave him a cup of tea. Unexpectedly, the food was ordinary, but this cup of tea made my father also like it. I was surprised. When I asked the shopkeeper, he only said it was local camellia. After asking for it for many times, my father finally got the tea and then made Qingzhushang."
"Very fateful."
The Taoist nodded and replied.
I don’t know if it’s true or not, but it’s a common technique. Things and people are often decorated with stories, but sometimes there’s no need to distinguish the true from the false.
The shopkeeper put the crushed tea leaves into the tea bowl, still not in a hurry, crushing them back and forth into powder, and then sifted them again with a fine sieve, and what came out was fine tea powder.
Sanhua Empress didn't blink, sometimes staring closely at the shopkeeper's movements, as if she wanted to see what it was that cost her so much money, and sometimes looking up at the shopkeeper, as if to divert her emotions from the tea. When it came to the tea shop owner, he looked indifferent and just did his own thing, ignoring her gaze.
The green tea powder was put into the bottom of the bowl. It happened to be almost right, and the water on the small stove next to it started to boil.
The shopkeeper removed it and put it back when the water stopped steaming.
Then repeat again.
"This is a mountain spring collected from Changshan Mountain. It is sweet and delicious, and is most suitable for making tea." The shop owner raised his head and said to him with a smile, "But if you want to use it to make tea, it is best after three rounds of rolling. "
“The owner is very particular.”
"That's the word for tea ceremony."
"The mountains are so far away."
"It's far away, that's why it's precious."
"I heard that the old shop owner is also very knowledgeable in tea ceremony?"
"But the world praises you."
Although the shop owner said this, he was obviously very helpful.
First, add some water to the bottom of the bowl and mix the fine tea powder into a paste. Then flush the water from a high place to make it float. At this time, there will be a strong and pleasant fragrance of tea.
This is not enough, we have to paint on this floating white and green.
The shopkeeper was painting carefully and the Taoist did not dare to disturb him.
Even the little girl couldn't take her eyes off it.
Not long after, there was a picture of a bamboo forest on the surface of the tea in the bowl. Although it was outlined with simple lines, it was very vivid.
The other bowl was made in the same way.
"Please enjoy."
The shopkeeper stood up, bowed, and left in small steps.
But when he left, he turned back and glanced at Sanhua Empress who was sitting opposite Song You. However, he didn't expect the Taoist to turn his head and look at him. In a hurry, he inevitably panicked and smiled before leaving.
"Miss Sanhua, please have some tea."
"Why not use Sanhua Empress's own bowl?"
"Ms. Sanhua, please do as you please."
"oh……"
The little girl carefully picked up the tea bowl and raised it very high. The rim of the bowl was almost at eye level. She opened her eyes wide and stared at the painted flowers still swaying with the water on the tea surface without blinking. She didn't know what she was thinking.
"Miss Sanhua, please don't spill it."
"Will not!"
"Don't burn yourself."
"No way!"
"I feel so too……"
The Taoist nodded and took a sip of tea.
Sure enough, the tea has a pleasant aroma and is refreshing in the mouth.
Although the tea made this way is still quite different from the clear tea made in the previous life, it is relatively close. At least this bowl of tea doesn't have a bunch of ingredients like decocting tea, and it has a relatively simple tea flavor.
Unfortunately, the method of ordering tea has not yet become popular all over the country. Along the way, most areas still rely on making tea.
"Yoo yo..."
There was a strange sound in front of me.
He looked up and saw that the little girl sitting opposite him imitated him and took a sip. However, firstly, she took out the bowl later, and secondly, her tongue was more sensitive than human beings. In short, she did not expect the temperature of the tea soup. It was so hot that I breathed into my mouth. The tea soup was blown around in my mouth countless times, but I couldn't bear to spit it out.
"Goo!"
Finally swallowed it.
The Taoist looked at her and said, "How is it?"
"hot!"
"What is the taste?"
"have no idea."
"Eat a piece of dried meat." The Taoist pushed the dried meat on the table to her, "Drink it after it cools down."
"oh……"
The little girl picked up the dried meat.
The Taoist also made a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake.
Don't dare to use too much force when pinching the pastry. It will disintegrate in your mouth, and you have to spread it with one hand when eating. When I put it in my mouth, I didn’t realize how delicious it was, but I added another sip of tea. The aroma of tea mixed with pastry crumbs created a very gentle taste in my mouth. It was full of pastry aroma and tea aroma, filling every crevice of my teeth. between.
After a while, the tea slowly became warm.
Seeing that Song You was drinking with gusto, Sanhua Empress finally picked up the tea bowl, stepped forward and took a sip.
He also imitated the person next to him and smacked his mouth, saying:
"Ah~"
This time it tasted better.
However, what he got in return was a frown and a twinkling of his eyes, as if he doubted himself.
Putting the tea bowl back on the table, he turned around and stared blankly at the Taoist beside him. Seeing that the Taoist was still drunk, the suspicion in his eyes suddenly became more intense. He thought it was his problem, so he picked up the tea bowl.
"Tsk~ah~
"?"
Looking at the person next to him again, the look of suspicion on his face became even stronger, and he couldn't help but get close to him again.
The Taoist pretended not to see her movements.
The morning light is just right outside.
Song You turned around and glanced from time to time. The shop owner went to another table, chatting and laughing with a group of familiar scholars, showing off his tea skills.
Sanhua Empress held the tea bowl in her two little hands. She wanted to drink but didn't want to drink. She turned her head to follow his gaze and whispered:
"That guy is a little weird."
"Don't worry about it."
Song You glanced again and then withdrew his gaze.
In fact, he doesn't have the ability to see through monsters at a casual glance. He often has to rely on Qingming spiritual power. However, some monsters are inherently different from humans and can be seen through without any other skills.
Just like Sanhua Empress.
She looks like a beautiful and lovely girl, but she is too delicate, and her white, tender and spotless skin can easily arouse suspicion. And even if she is dressed up, even if she has learned to read, write and do simple arithmetic through study, as long as a butterfly flies in front of her, it will immediately show that something is wrong.
This shopkeeper must have been living in Changjing for a long time, and his behavior is almost the same as that of a human being. Only a very slight difference can be seen, but it is far from being inferred that he is not a human being.
Song You actually didn't realize that he was a demon.
On the contrary, it was the shop owner who noticed something was wrong with Sanhua Empress and naturally exposed his own fault.
Changjing is indeed a place that even demons and ghosts yearn for.
However, people have their own responsibilities. As long as they are not harming anyone, Song You will not meddle in others' affairs and just pretend that he does not know.
Eating snacks like this, occasionally tasting a piece of Sanhua Empress's meat, and drinking good tea, I slowly spent the morning. It wasn't until the cicadas chirped more and more noisily, the sun outside became brighter and brighter, and the temperature was significantly higher than in the morning, that the Taoist got up to pay the bill.
Sanhua Empress lowered her head and glanced at the half bowl of tea in the bowl, frowning, but finally reluctant to part with it, she picked it up and drank it all in one gulp, with a look of determination on her face.
"How much?"
"Sir, two bowls of tea are worth 800 yuan. This is a good amount. Our shop owner said that your guest is a tea lover and it is his first time here, so we are quite lucky. I will give you two plates of snacks as a gift."
Song You smiled after hearing this.
"Thank the shopkeeper for me."
After paying the money, he turned around and saw Sanhua Empress standing behind him, staring at him with a serious face.
"Let's go."
Song You led her out the door and said as he walked: "Now Empress Sanhua is also the cat who has drank the best tea in Changjing."
"Bitter and bitter."
"Doesn't it taste good?"
"Bitter and bitter."
"Then I won't drink anymore."
"A lot of money!"
"If you run out of money, you can make it again." Song You said and smiled again, and said to her, "Speaking of the ten wonders of Changjing, Empress Sanhua has already seen nine of them."
"Is it nine?"
"yes."
"Miss Sanhua doesn't remember."
"It doesn't matter. In the future, when Empress Sanhua grows up, Empress Sanhua will be able to remember what others say about Changjing, and she can tell them that Empress Sanhua has also seen it."
"I've seen it before~"
"Then they will be wowed and feel that Sanhua Empress has been to so many places at a young age and has seen so many things that others have never seen." The Taoist said as he walked.
"!"
The little girl's expression condensed, and then she asked: "What about another one?"
"There is still one……"
"Where's the other one?"
"Miss Sanhua was able to immediately realize that there was one difference between nine and ten. She is indeed a peerless genius."
"Yes!"
"I admire you..."
"Where's the other one?"
"..."
The Taoist pursed his lips and shielded himself from the sun with his hands.
The little girl quickened her pace, her little feet jumped quickly, and she ran in front of him, walking backwards facing him:
"Where's the other one?"
"The other one is boring."
"This is no fun today."
"The kid can't go."
"What about the little kitten?"
"Can't go either."
"oh……"
The little girl showed disappointment.
He slowed down his pace, turned around, and continued to follow the Taoist, walking side by side with him. But he quickly raised his head and said to him: "That person just now seems to be a four-legged snake."
Children always have endless things to say.
The Taoist seemed to have a lot of patience and asked casually: "How did Sanhua Empress see it?"
"Miss Sanhua has eaten a lot of four-legged snakes."
"..."
"It tastes similar to raw chicken. The bones are not as hard as chicken, and it breaks into pieces in no time."
"..."
"Are you going to eat or not?"
"No, thank you."
However, there are indeed more demons and ghosts in Changjing than Song You imagined, and the relationship between these demons and Changjing is deeper than Song You imagined. Many of them may have lived here for many years.
Gradually walked back to Willow Street.
There was someone waiting at the door.
Song You took a look and found it really interesting.
He had just returned from the Anleguan run by a monster and saw another monster waiting for him at the door.
What’s interesting is that these two are both outstanding in Changjing.
(End of chapter)
