The teahouse owner glanced at the life-killing tablet, and his smiling expression paused for a moment, then returned to normal.
"Hey! Mr. Ke seems to be a person who knows tea! Do you even know about the ghost tea in the mountains of southwest China? This tea is produced outside Jiuzhou, to the west of Bozhou. It is rare in the world and can be sent to the Central Plains every year. It only weighs a hundred catties.
"Don't say you have drunk it. People like you, Ke Ye, who know this tea are very rare in our Central Plains. The shop has been open for such a long time, and only one customer has ordered this tea before. Unexpectedly, Ke Ye looks so young. I actually know that there is such ghost tea in the world!"
Shao Xi was suddenly confused by the shopkeeper. How come he brought out the life card and the other party told him about some ghost tea? Could it be that the shopkeeper made a mistake? Or is there some other way in here?
Although Shao Xi had doubts in his heart, he didn't dare to ask at this time. If the shopkeeper was really testing him, wouldn't he have leaked the truth by asking such a question?
So he asked in a deep voice without expression, "Shopkeeper, just tell me if you have this tea in your teahouse?"
The teahouse owner showed a mysterious smile and said in a low voice to Shao Xi: "Master, you are really here. There is really a little stock in the shop, which is used to entertain people like you who know tea, but this ghost Tea is extremely precious. If you want to drink this tea, you must follow me to the back hall."
As he spoke, the shopkeeper raised his hand and made a gesture of invitation towards the back hall.
Shao Xi saw that this was unethical? Gao Cai and Xiao Liuzi were taken into the back hall every time they came, and he once guessed that the back hall was where information was exchanged.
Now that the shopkeeper invites him to the back hall, it seems that the life-killing card in his hand has worked.
The shopkeeper didn't show any surprise when he saw that he had taken out the life-killing card, which proved that he had seen the same brand before. So Long Chitai told himself that the black card that Gao Cai had used should be It's this life-killing card.
No matter what his idea is, just follow him to the back hall to see what he has to say. Since you don't understand the rules here, you should talk less and find out the truth from the other person's mouth.
Shao Xi did not hesitate, stood up and walked towards the direction of the shopkeeper.
There was a small door next to the counter of this teahouse. There was a curtain hanging on the door that was dragged to the ground. Shao Xi walked towards the small door without thinking.
The shopkeeper took three steps in tandem and lifted the curtain in front of Shao Xi before he reached the small door.
Shao Xi glanced at the shopkeeper from the corner of his eyes and saw that he still had a smile on his face, but the way he looked at her was a little different from when he just walked in.
After Shao Xi walked into the small door, he saw a small corridor in front of him. Under the guidance of the shopkeeper, the two walked along the corridor for a while before arriving at a small square hall.
The walls of this square hall are all wooden shelves. There are various tea boxes and tea cans on the wooden shelves, which look like a place to store tea.
In the center of the hall was a square table with four chairs. There was a set of exquisite tea sets on the square table, and nothing else.
The teahouse owner respectfully let Shao Xi into the hall and asked Shao Xi to sit down. Then he turned around and took out a flat tea bag from one of the wooden shelves. When he opened it, he saw a dark green round tea cake inside.
Shao Xi took a quick look, holy shit! Isn’t this Pu’er?
The shopkeeper was busy using the tea stove on the table to start boiling water. Then he took out a tea needle from the tea set bucket and started to gently pry it along the edge of the tea cake. Then he put the pried tea leaves into a delicate In the tea cup.
Although Shao Xi didn't understand tea, he had never eaten pork and had seen pigs walking before. He had also seen what it was like when others made tea.
At first glance, this is actually the normal procedure for traditional tea making.
There are seven steps in drinking Pu'er tea, namely prying the tea, ironing the cup, setting the tea, washing the tea, brewing, dividing the tea and drinking. It seems that there are many explanations, but in fact, there is nothing special about it.
After the water boiled, the steps for making tea were indeed as Shao Xi had expected, but compared to the traditional Central Plains method of directly brewing tea with tea cups and drinking it, it seemed a bit more ritualistic.
The teahouse owner handed the tea cup to Shao Xi and said politely: "Please try it. How is this tea different from other teas?"
How does Shao Xi know how to drink tea? Not to mention Pu'er, when I was in the security team, I used to get a big tea jar, grab a handful of broken jasmine tea, and after brewing it, it tasted "gudong, gudong", like cold boiled tea.
But now he didn't understand and couldn't tell, so he pretended to pick up the tea cup, first put it near his nose and smelled the tea, and then took a sip.
It felt better than the previous jasmine broken tea, but to what extent he couldn't really tell.
But at this moment, if you want to show off, you have to pretend to the end, so he said without knowing how to pretend to be understanding: "The smell is mellow, bitter at first and then sweet. It is smooth in the mouth, the tongue is moist, the tea soup is thick, the taste is mild, mellow, smooth, and the aftertaste is sweet. It’s not obvious and has a heavy aura.”
Shao Xi used almost all the words he could think of to describe tea. He didn't know if they were right or not. Anyway, he just praised the tea.
Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper standing aside looked at Shao Xi with surprise.
"Has this young master drunk this tea before? He is so familiar with this ghost tea! He mentioned all its characteristics, and he is indeed a man who understands tea."
Shao Xi said in her heart that I know your grandma's skills, but I was just talking nonsense. I don't know whether we were fooling you or you were fooling me?
Despite what he thought in his heart, Shao Xi still pretended to be humble.
He smiled slightly and said: "I have only drunk this tea once or twice. I really can't say that I understand tea. I am just talking about some of my feelings about tasting this tea. But as far as I know, this ghost tea should only be a unique tea in the southwest." One of them, if I remember correctly, is called Pu’er.”
It was obvious from the expression on the shopkeeper's face that he had never heard of the name Pu'er.
Shao Xi wondered whether this tea was not called Pu'er in this era? Ordinarily it shouldn’t be! The history of Pu'er tea is not short.
"I have never heard of a kind of tea called Pu'er. Master, do you mean that this ghost tea is one of the Pu'er teas you mentioned?"
Shao Xi is now happy. What you don’t know is that it’s what I say. I can pretend to be this any way I want!
So he pretended to be profound and said: "Yes, there is tea in the southwest called Pu'er. This tea is divided into raw tea and cooked tea. The raw tea cakes are light in color, while the cooked tea cakes are rich in color. This ghost tea should be the raw tea among them. One kind, but because it is relatively rare, it is very precious, and the taste is very unique."
Shao Xi probably only knew so much about Pu'er tea, so he told them all at once, but it shocked the teahouse owner standing nearby.
He didn't expect that the young man in front of him could speak so eloquently about the rarest and most precious tea in his teahouse.
At this time, he really regarded Shao Xi as an expert who knew tea, and he felt admiration in his heart. Not many people had heard of this ghost tea, not to mention its origin.
"Young Master is indeed well-informed. I have been dealing with famous teas from all over the world for half my life, but I still don't know that this ghost tea has such an origin! I really learned a lot from what you said today. Thank you very much for your advice!"
After saying that, the shopkeeper actually gave Shao Xi a gift. Although Shao Xi was a guest, Shao Xi was a little surprised that the shopkeeper was so polite.
But Shao Xi didn't come here to taste tea today, nor did he come to talk about tea ceremony with the shopkeeper.
Since he had just shown the life-threatening card, the shopkeeper invited him to the back hall, which proved that the shopkeeper knew the meaning of the life-killing card, but the two of them had not explained it clearly at this time.
The shopkeeper seemed to want to use tea to test Shao Xi's background. Since the other party didn't want to explain clearly, Shao Xi could only test the other party by making insinuations.
Shao Xi tapped his fingers twice on the table next to the tea cake, and asked thoughtfully: "Since the shopkeeper knows that I am here to taste this tea today, he must also know where this tea is produced. Hey, how do I purchase the goods?"
The meaning of this sentence is that since you know my purpose of coming today, then you must know who I am coming to see today? Also should know how to contact the person I'm looking for.
The teahouse manager naturally understood the meaning of Shao Xi's words, but because Shao Xi was a new face, he had to be careful and make sure that Shao Xi was not here to find out the details of his teahouse.
"Since the young master has drunk this tea before, he must know the origin of this tea and how to purchase it. But I don't know why he came to the teahouse today and asked me about this?"
The meaning of the shopkeeper's words is also very clear. Since you have approached them about something before, you should know how to contact them. Why do you come here today and ask me to help you contact them.
Shao Xi thought to himself that the shopkeeper was indeed a cautious person. It seemed that he could not make him believe him unless he made up this lie more roundly.
So he smiled indifferently and said to the shopkeeper: "Although I have drunk this tea before, I did not drink it in Daliang City. Although I know where this tea is produced, the place where I can buy it is really difficult. Not much, I just heard that your tea house might be able to stock it, so I came to try it.”
What this means is that I have contacted them in other places before, but not in Daliang City. Although I know what they do, there are too few channels to contact them. I heard that I can contact them here. They, so they came over and asked.
This explanation can be said to be reasonable.
I wanted to find the Ghost Emperor's Mansion, but in Daliang City I only heard that Xinjing Tea House could contact them, so now that I have something to do, I naturally come here to ask the shopkeeper to help me contact him.
Then it makes sense no matter how you explain the appearance of a new face like yourself in Xinjing Tea House.
When the teahouse owner saw what Shao Xi said, he didn't seem to be suspicious. He just asked, "How much goods do you plan to buy this time?"
This sentence is asking how much money Shao Xi plans to pay for this trip? The rules of the Ghost Emperor's Mansion are to pay for how much work is required, so the price must be revealed first.
This time Shao Xi placed the copper pill on the table.
