On the referee's table, Lin Xi looked at the tea in front of her that had only moved a sip and was still wrapped in ice. Unexpectedly, she did not announce the start of voting, but looked at Christie calmly: "The result is already obvious. , and I am not in a hurry. What I am interested in at this time is how you do this. Although I have heard some rumors, the sensory shock is completely different from hearing it and seeing and tasting it with my own eyes. "
Christie smiled slightly: "If the dean wants to hear it, of course you can, but before that, I think the Third Highness should not be forgotten. She has put in her best efforts to improve coca tea and made Tea is the pinnacle in the conventional field, if you don’t mind, I hope the Third Highness will explain her method first.”
"A method that can successfully overcome the toxicity of coca tea and release its delicious taste to the extreme within the limitations of Wuhu Tea."
While Lin Xi gave her approval, His Highness the Third Highness quietly shook his head: "I'm sorry."
"I'm not good at explaining."
Christie covered her forehead silently, and then said with a helpless smile: "As expected, it is you. In this case, Teacher Lin Xi, can you allow me to explain it to His Highness the Third Highness? If there are any inconsistencies in the specific operations, please indicate to Your Highness the Third Highness."
When the Third Highness nodded slightly, Christie walked off the stage. When she returned to the original place, the strange hollow crystal vessel that the Third Highness left in the arena was already in her hands.
"As we know, coca tea has a very beautiful flavor, sweet taste and long-lasting meaning, and it also has a calming effect. It can be said to be the best tea. However, unfortunately, coca tea is inherently toxic. If it is not boiled, If it is processed, it has an acute and highly poisonous nature that paralyzes the heart. What is even more pity is that most of the flavor of coca tea comes from the secondary products of this highly toxic substance that is eventually destroyed by boiling and heating for a long time. This is innately formed. Paradoxically, all diners who dare to try the delicious taste of coca tea are always faced with the danger of coca tea being highly toxic. So, although coca tea has a very beautiful flavor, it is only popular in a few remote areas. reason."
"And the requirement of Wuhuo Tea is to innately seal all escape routes for coca tea, and the tea must not be boiled, so the toxins in coca tea can never be destroyed. Although none of the referees will be poisoned by a mere cup of coca tea, But taking a cup of poisoned tea to participate in the Buddhist teachings is a stupid act that is tantamount to suicide."
Saying this, Christie gently raised the vessel in his hand: "Of course, all of this can be easily solved in front of this tool."
"This is a very rare tea-making tool and is only used in a few areas. Its function is to continuously heat the tea without letting it boil."
None of the referees on the stage showed any surprise, because this was all something they knew in advance.
However, not everyone knows.
Continuous heating can prevent tea from boiling. From the perspective of common sense, it is too incredible.
"But this is reality." Christie said calmly. At the same time, she opened the hollow crystal ball and poured water into it. Then she closed it and raised a red flame in front of everyone to heat it under the crystal ball.
Everyone observed silently, watching the flames continue to intensify, but the clear water in the crystal ball always remained calm and waveless.
"As we know, air is not an invisible thing, but because it is light and colorless, we ignore it most of the time."
"But at this time, it plays the most crucial role."
"That's what changes the temperature point at which water boils."
Christie looked at the crystal ball that was still heated by the flame: "This crystal ball is specially made. Although the material is crystal, it is much stronger and more reliable than steel with the same structure, so it can withstand great pressure. The key to this tool It’s also here.”
"Putting water and tea leaves into it is an operation that everyone can see, but what cannot be seen is that after this, a large amount of air must be injected into the crystal ball, making the original volume several times or even ten times larger than the crystal ball. After several times of air is injected into the crystal ball, the boiling point of the water in the crystal ball will also increase accordingly. Therefore, even if the Third Prince has made the temperature of the water exceed the original boiling temperature point, the water still does not boil. In this case, it has been successfully avoided. There is no limit to the tea of fire.”
"At the same time, due to the ultra-high pressure and temperatures far beyond the ordinary boiling point in the ball, the destruction and decomposition speed of coca tea toxins is dozens of times higher than usual, and the decomposition is more complete and complete. In this case, coca tea toxins The flavor of the tea itself will also be greatly improved.”
"Am I right?" Christie looked at the girl in black and red hair: "Your Highness."
His Highness nodded slowly without saying a word.
At this moment, someone in the audience spoke loudly: "You said so much above, I can't understand it anyway. I just want to know, why do you say that the water temperature in the ball has exceeded the original boiling point but it has not boiled?" ?”
Christie smiled: "Because I can prove it."
The man couldn't help but ask: "How do you prove it?"
Christie smiled and lightly snapped her fingers with her left hand. The flame that was still heating under the crystal ball immediately went out. Then she looked at the person who spoke: "I will prove it to you."
Saying this, Christie took out another cup, turned around and poured another spoonful of tea powder into the cup, and then gently tapped the hollow crystal ball. The crystal ball suddenly opened like a shell, and a line of water rose out of it. After falling into the teacup, Christie glanced at the teacup and raised his right hand. The teacup flew straight towards the man in the distance, and he reached out to catch it: "See for yourself."
The man looked at the tea cup in his hand and his eyes suddenly straightened.
Although it was clearly out of the fire source, the tea in the cup was boiling several times faster than usual. Two-thirds of the tea had evaporated in just a few snaps of the fingers, leaving only one-third of the tea in the cup. The bottom color is blue and green.
Seeing this situation, no matter how stubborn you are, you have to give in. He was about to throw the tea cup back to Christie, but he saw Christie smiling calmly in the distance: "The tea cup will be given to you. You can try the tea, although it is not finished. , but it really has a unique flavor.”
After Christie finished talking to the man, he turned back and looked at the referee's seat: "Although I fully understand the principle of this coca tea, before His Highness used it, I never thought that coca could be cooked in this way. To put it simply, I can almost be considered a loser.”
"Then next, your majesty, can you explain the mystery of your job?" Carotes finally licked the last drop of tea in his cup and looked at Christie pitifully.
Christie tilted her head, smiled, and replied, "Of course."
Saying this, Christie came to his work - the three metal cylinders with the same appearance but completely different inner worlds. He stretched out his hand and pointed to the first cup, which contained cyan tea powder.
"As I said at the beginning, the name of my tea is chewing tea. It is a very ancient method of drinking tea, and its origins can be traced back to thousands of years ago."
"Some people here probably know that I'm from Croft, and a smaller number of those people know the birth and origin of Croft, so they have a rough idea of where this chewy tea comes from. "
"As I said, this is a very ancient and primitive method of drinking tea. At that time, humans did not understand how to make tea that could be preserved for a long time, so most of the methods of drinking tea were to chew the young leaves of the tea tree to obtain the tea. taste and efficacy.”
"In a sense, this behavior of chewing the young leaves or fruits of plants to obtain a refreshing effect is still popular in many places. However, the method of chewing tea is ultimately too primitive and is limited to the tender leaves of the tea tree. It is difficult to obtain and preserve tea leaves, so gradually, humans began to acquire the technology of making dry tea leaves. From then on, the act of soaking or cooking tea leaves in hot water became mainstream, convenient and effective."
"It's just that some conservative nobles were accustomed to staying in their own ways. On the other hand, for the sake of showing off, they developed such a chewable tea based on dry tea leaves."
“They let the beautiful unmarried virgins hold the prepared fine tea leaves in their mouths, use their body temperature and saliva to brew the dry and shrunken tea leaves, and sip away the initial dry, bitter taste of the tea leaves, and then use them to The roughly stretched tea leaves are placed in a cup for secondary brewing before the owner can drink it."
"The tea brewed in this way has a unique taste, with a slight virgin fragrance, and the inner charm is also fascinating. Therefore, this method of brewing tea has been popular within the ethnic group for a long time, and has been passed down as an etiquette for receiving distinguished guests. .”
"It's just a pity that that ethnic group did not survive until now. As their remnants, we do not have the qualifications and strength to continue this kind of licentious and extravagant behavior. Originally, this kind of etiquette will become history in the past and be buried in ashes. At that time, the Croft family emerged from the west and regained some of its glory. Even if it has not yet achieved its past status, internally, such etiquette has slowly been revived."
"To be honest, when I was young, I also served as a tea waiter like this, because when facing guests of different levels, we must have tea waiters with different identities."
"However, after I took over at Croft, chewing tea disappeared again, but at the same time I became interested in chewing tea by chance because it had a really unique and delicious taste, so for a while, I I have been trying to see if I can replicate the previous taste without the human element and slowly surpass it.”
“So during this process, I first discovered that human saliva contains some peculiar substances that can slightly decompose certain substances in tea leaves, making the taste smoother and more delicious. So after some attempts, I successfully extracted This substance is named tea enzyme because it can cause tea leaves to undergo a unique reaction like fermentation. After preliminary testing, after mastering the appropriate usage and dosage, the final processed product can reach or even exceed the level of traditional methods. Chewable tea made.”
After Christie said these words, there was silence inside and outside the stadium.
She said it so simply. After some common sense, if it weren't for her almost world-leading alchemy and potion skills, who could extract trace substances from saliva that can interact with tea, even if there are some conditions in this world person, but who can be as boring as her?
Beside Ao Xuehua, the twelve-year-old black goth Loli Xiang suddenly stood up and slapped her forehead, extremely excited: "So this is okay. If I had known earlier, I could have done it."
Ao Xuehua's head was full of black lines. While forcing Xiang back to his seat, he slowly poured cold water on her: "Although you do have this ability, can you accumulate skills for a long time like her?"
Xiang paused and thought carefully: "That's right, I have so many projects, how can I specialize in this small and useless aspect?",
Just when Ao Xuehua naively thought that she had coaxed this disaster star, she saw Xiang suddenly slapped her thigh, and the girl's pink and white thighs made a seductive "snap" sound: "I can cooperate with Christie Ah, if we join forces, what problems can't be overcome?"
Ye Qing looked at Ao Xuehua who was tortured to the point of collapse by the naughty child. Although he wanted to say something, he finally said nothing. However, he saw that Xiang had already spoken loudly to the stage: "Alaya, are you interested?" Collaborate with my laboratory? We can exchange some research results."
Ao Xuehua silently closed her eyes, no longer looking at this disastrous scene.
Christie didn't even show a trace of surprise on the stage. He smiled and said, "Okay, after the Emperor's Oath is over, we can sign a memorandum."
With that said, Christie turned back and continued to explain: "After obtaining the tea enzyme, the rest is a matter of course. Place the tea leaves in a water bath environment close to human body temperature, and apply stirring and slight grinding to simulate the oral environment. After finally getting the tea leaves that are close to being brewed, they are dried and ground to get this.”
Christie pointed to the small bucket of blue-green powder in front of her and said, "You can brew it with hot water at any time to create a product that tastes almost the same as the original chewable tea."
Christie glanced at the remaining two cylinders again: "Originally, the experiment would have ended at this point, but during the experiment I slowly discovered that the chewable tea made by this method also has Lots of room for improvement.”
Christie tilted his head slightly, with an absolutely natural smile: "So I started further research and improvement, and the other things you see are naturally the wonderful products obtained in this round of improvements."
"It wasn't until this time that I gradually realized that sometimes I can still produce such wonderful and timeless products with my own power, and I can be satisfied with this simplest happiness."
"Simply put, this chewing tea has a special meaning to me. Although it is not necessarily the best tasting tea, it is the most suitable and most desirable work for me at this time."
