Prime Minister

Chapter 153 Tea Fragrance
Hearing what Ouyang Fa said, Wu's expression changed and he smiled: "Recently, I've been busy with work, for Xian'er's homework, and the matter of inviting Mr. Zhang, but I forgot about Zhang Jiasanlang, I blame me for this matter. "

Ouyang Fa was a little dissatisfied when he heard Wu's words, but now he was considerate and said: "Xian'er's homework is of course important, but the things that father personally explained must be kept in the bottom of my heart. Fortunately, Zigu and my family are not outsiders. Others said we kissed each other, what's the face of you and me?"

Wu said apologetically: "It's an official, I didn't think carefully about this matter, but how did Zeng Zigu fall in love with Mr. Zhang Sanlang?"

Ouyang Fa said: "Ma'am, the nobleman forgets things too much. I told you before that Li Zhidao in Taixue thought that Sanlang's poetry and prose were not good. Therefore, Sanlang asked his father to find a famous teacher to learn poetry and prose. Later, his father entrusted Sanlang to Shugu Gu under the door."

"It just so happened that Zigu went to visit Shugu and saw Sanlang, so he fell in love with him. It was also a coincidence. I remember that when Li Zhidao established Xujiang Academy, Zigu used to study there. Now Sanlang is married to Li Zhidao. Knowing Zeng Zigu, isn't this a fate of marriage?"

Ouyang Fa was very happy while talking.

Wu's expression was a little unnatural, but he smiled agreeably: "That's really a coincidence."

Ouyang laughed and said: "It's not just a coincidence, it's also a good thing. Zigu is my good friend for many years. He is really a gentleman with good conduct."

"At the beginning, Zigu's father and brother died early, and his family was so poor that he couldn't even pay for his father's funeral. In the end, Du Shumi (Du Yan) paid for it. Later, he raised four younger brothers and nine younger sisters. Among the single and weak, eunuchs learn to marry, all rely on their efforts, so that they only get married at the age of 32."

"In fact, Zigu got the favor of Fan Xianggong and his father. Many scholars in the capital were jealous of him. That year he and his younger brother Ke Jia failed, and there were scholars in Beijing who wrote poems sarcastically saying, "It's held every three years, and you will be killed." There are two scholars in the Zeng family, one is like two swallows between the curtains, one pair flies away and the other comes back'. But Zigu didn't have a single complaint, he objected to what I said, poor and strong, never falling into the blue sky."

"Last year, Zigu went to Beijing to rush for the exam. Before leaving, Zigu's stepmother Zhu said to the brothers of the Zeng family that her family is poor and it is not easy to pass the exam with the Ministry of Rites, let alone you have many brothers. Now that she is old, she doesn't have much hope. If one person can win, then one's heart is satisfied."

"In the end, the six sons of the Zeng family reached the first place. Zigu didn't get carried away or grow out of the bad breath in the past. He just talked to me. Finally, the fur is not falling."

After hearing this, Mrs. Wu also admired her sincerely from the bottom of her heart.

Jiqiu will not fall, Ke Shaojiqiu's words, can inherit the career of his father and brother, so that the family business will not fall, this can be said to be the duty of a son of a noble family in the Han and Jin Dynasties.

After the emergence of the imperial examination, there was also a flow between the gentry and the poor.

If the children of officials and eunuchs have not passed the imperial examination for several generations, it will be difficult to maintain the original glory of the family.

Therefore, the saying that the fur does not fall has become even more rare and precious nowadays.After Zeng Gong's father and brother died of illness, he raised his younger brothers and sisters alone, and once again glorified the family.

Now Zeng Gong, who made the family "keep the fur from falling", Zhong Zhangyue.

Mrs. Wu stopped talking after hearing this, but Ouyang Fa continued enthusiastically: "Zigu is my friend and daddy's favorite student, and Sanlang is also a rising star who is favored by daddy. If the two of them can Marriage, so whether it is Zigu or Sanlang, the relationship with our Ouyang family will be closer. It seems that you didn't match up with Sanlang at the beginning, but it turned out to be a good thing in the end, and it can be regarded as unintentional. "

Seeing Ouyang Fa's happy face, Wu said with a smile, "Okay, okay, I don't have much to do, and I seem to have helped Zeng Zigu."

"Of course," Ouyang said, "Zigu brought up his fourth younger brother, he got a salary successively, and he married several younger sisters in time. He fell in love with Sanlang, not only fulfilling his elder brother's responsibility, but also because of Sanlang's outstanding character and talent... Ma'am, why do you look a little ugly?"

Wu forced a smile and said, "I must have caught a cold recently, and I'm a little tired. I'll be fine after a short rest."

Ouyang Fa said: "Alright, my lady rest at ease, I'm going to study in the study."

Wu Shi nodded.

After Ouyang Fa left, a servant girl walked into the room with a bowl and said, "Madam, the goji berry porridge you ordered to clear the liver and brighten the eyes is ready. The servant girl will serve a bowl for my uncle later."

Wu took a look and said: "Cleansing the liver and improving eyesight? No need, just pour out my uncle's bowl and feed it to the pigs!"

The maid couldn't help but bewildered.

But seeing Mrs. Wu sitting on the kang, she said bitterly: "When it comes to clearing the liver and improving eyesight, wolfberry porridge has nothing to do with boy's urine!"

Too learn.

Is raising fast.

After dinner, Zhang Yue took the bowls and chopsticks to the outside of the restaurant to wash them, and then walked back to the restaurant.

At this time, the Zhaishe had just turned on the lamp, and Liu Zuo and Xiang Qi were sitting on their own couches, watching Huang Haoyi sitting on the side with his untouched rice bowl.

Huang Haoyi raised his sleeves and wiped his tears from time to time.

Zhang Yue and the others all knew that Huang Haoyi was not feeling very well now, mainly because Liu Jiancheng's family's marriage ([-] dowry) had turned sour, so that he couldn't taste his food and couldn't sleep at night for several days.

Not only did Huang Haoyi's marriage with Liu Jiancheng fail, but even Yulian left after receiving his [-] guan money.

Now that Huang Haoyi has just responded to that sentence, his money and color are empty, and he is a little bit helpless under this heavy blow.

Not even going to Chonghuatang Dianmao.

Liu Zuo, Xiang Qi frequently watched Zhang Yue and asked him to persuade Huang Haoyi to comfort him.

Zhang Yue walked up to Huang Haoyi, but saw him looking at Zhang Yue and said: "Sanlang, you don't have to persuade me, now because of my marriage with Liu Jiancheng, I am already a laughing stock in Bianjing, not only the Liu family laugh at me , Even my brother and sister-in-law complained about me, and even my classmates in the Taixue laughed at me."

"No, no," Liu Zuo said hurriedly to Qi, "Si Lang, we never mean to laugh at you. We are all sorry for you in this matter, so don't take it too seriously."

Huang Haoyi looked at Zhang Yue sadly and said: "Sanlang, don't persuade me, let me be at ease, this will make me even more shameless to see you, I, Huang Haoyi, really... really shameless to see Jiangdong's elders."

Zhang Yue shook his head and thought, you still know too little about Huang Haoyi.

He said earnestly to Huang Haoyi: "Don't worry, Shiro, I will never persuade you. Well, you can't eat anyway, and I'm still a little hungry. Let me eat this bowl of rice for you."

Seeing that Zhang Yue stretched out his hand to take the bowl, Huang Haoyi raised his hand and moved the bowl slightly and said, "I'll eat it later."

laugh!
Liu Zuo, Xiang Qidu shook his head and turned around.

Liu Zuo sneered: "Silang, I advise you not to eat, but to read the book. How can I say it? There are thousands of millet in the book."

Xiang Qi also taunted: "Yes, Qian Zhongsu, you will definitely be full. What else do you eat?"

Liu Zuo, after talking to Qi, saw Huang Haoyi burst into tears.

The two also panicked, and hurriedly asked, "Why is Shiro crying?"

Huang Haoyi wept and said: "You said that there are thousands of bells in the book, and I thought of Yan Ruyu in the book. When it comes to Yan Ruyu, I thought of Yulian and Liu's wife. Why don't you feel sad!"

"You don't have to persuade me any more. I really can't afford it! Let me cry a lot!"

Everyone was dumbfounded when they saw this, we are really not trying to persuade you.

Zhang Yue also sighed with emotion, mother, how did a person like Huang Haoyi get into the Imperial Academy? Are we really ashamed of all the scholars in Jianzhou?
"Is there Yan Ruyu in a sentence?" Liu Zuo shook his head and said.

Zhang Yue said: "There is Yan Ruyu in the book, it's the first time I've heard someone describe reading pornographic books so fresh and refined."

After speaking, the four people in the dormitory burst out laughing.

Even Huang Haoyi wiped away tears and said with a smile: "Sanlang, you are too kind, you know I am sad, and you tell me jokes in a different way to comfort me.

Liu Zuo on the side also smiled and said: "Okay, okay, Shiro also laughed, let's not talk about this, I just bought some good tea, how about treating you to tea?"

Several people applauded.

Immediately Liu Zuo took the earthen pot and put it on the stove for heating in winter to boil water.

After the water boiled, Liu Zuo directly poured the tea in the tea bag into the crock.

But I felt a fragrance suddenly filled the whole house.

But Zhang Yue was a little surprised, this tea fragrance... Isn't it the tea fragrance of jasmine tea?

But in the Song Dynasty, in the city of Bianjing, where is there jasmine tea?

How can this be?

Zhang Yue suddenly felt that something was wrong, and said to Liu Zuo, "This tea is not ground into tea powder, it is herbal tea from Zhejiang and Zhejiang! But how can it smell like flowers?"

Liu Zuo smiled and said: "You don't know, this tea has a strange fragrance, and my family also got it in the past few months. I drank it before and thought it was very good, so I asked someone to invite you to drink with me."

"That's great, thanks to Brother Liu, otherwise I wouldn't be able to drink such good tea." Xiang Qida said happily.

Huang Haoyi also said with a shy face: "I have shed a lot of tears, and my mouth is a little dry. I will also drink some."

Liu smiled to both of them.

"Sanlang, drink some too."

Zhang Yue walked up to Liu Zuo and took a sip from the teacup he handed over, but felt that although the taste was a little different, it was generally similar to the taste of later generations of jasmine tea.

Jasmine tea is Zhang Yue’s favorite tea (not expensive) on weekdays. When he is at 996 in the company, Zhang Yue will sneak away to make a pot of jasmine tea to pass the time, smelling the refreshing tea fragrance to relieve his tired body and mind.

But how come here?
Zhang Yue remembered that there was no method of scenting tea in the Song Dynasty.

Suddenly, Zhang Yue remembered that when he was in Ouyang Xiu's mansion, he had fully mentioned how to make this jasmine tea with Ouyang Fa.

Could it be that Ouyang Fa did it immediately after hearing it?
Zhang Yue thought in his heart that with Ouyang Fa's temper for tea, it is possible to make such a plan.

But no, jasmine was only found in Fuzhou in the Song Dynasty, and jasmine bloomed in April and May, so it took at least several months to scent this tea.

After hearing the method in Bianjing, Ouyang Fa ordered people to go to Fuzhou to pick flowers and make tea, and then traveled thousands of miles to Bianjing non-stop.

What a waste of time!
Zhang Yue felt strange in his heart, and planned to ask Ouyang for a question. It was too much for this person to steal his patent and not even say hello to him.

I have to ask this matter clearly.

(End of this chapter)