Mingmen Family

Chapter 230 Dark Tea
Qi Ji seemed very happy that she asked this question, smiled at her, and said: "Excellent. He has made great achievements and has been promoted, and now he is a fourth-rank military officer. When the situation in the capital calms down, Lord Xuanwu I should invite him to be crowned son."

Hearing the news, Ye Chongming was overjoyed: "Really? That's great."

Ye Yaming frowned: "A war broke out at the border? Is Lu Guanyi injured?"

According to what Qi Ji said just now, Da Jin must be as anxious as Wei Guogong when the matter of Battelle was revealed.

But no promotion without merit, Lu Guanyi was directly promoted to the fourth-rank official, so it can be seen that he has made great contributions.Supporting the crown prince's involvement in Wei Guogong's affairs cannot be said on the table, so it is very likely that Lu Guanyi fought with others at the border.

Qi Ji glanced at Ye Yaming with great admiration, nodded and admitted: "There is indeed a war. Battelle heard the news and rushed to seize power. After failing, he fled to the border and wanted to plunder the village over there to get supplies. You can’t settle down there and build a country by yourself.”

"Zimo led troops to encircle and suppress, and successfully brought back Battelle's head. The imperial court immediately conferred him the rank of General Mingwei."

Ye Yaming asked: "Then is he injured?"

"I was slightly injured, but I'm fine."

Qi Ji said, very happy for Lu Guanyi.

All the way to Minzhou, whenever Qi Ji mentioned Lu Guanyi, Ye Yaming didn't show any shyness, talking about Lu Guanyi was no different from talking about others.In this way, he can clearly see the situation between Ye Yaming and Lu Guanyi.

Although the two had a marriage contract, it was Lu Guanyi who shaved his head and was hot, while Ye Yaming was unreasonably calm.

Now seeing that Ye Yaming cares about Lu Guanyi, it's not that he doesn't care about him at all, so he feels relieved.

He added: "After Zimo went to the border, he planned to write you a letter. But at the border, you also know that you are not allowed to send letters at will. Especially written letters, you are not allowed to pass on." He was worried about leaking military secrets.

"However, when I came back, I heard a message from his trustee, saying that you mentioned that you wanted to make tea bricks for foreigners in the border. Now Dajin is discussing with the border to reopen the tea-horse market, saying that if you have that kind of tea bricks Tea bricks, can you take out a few pieces and ask someone to bring them to him, he will be of great use."

Ye Yaming seemed very happy when he heard that Lu Guanyi wanted tea.

"Yes. But keep it at home, I'll get it for you when I get home." She stood up as she spoke, ready to go home to get tea.

Originally, it was enough to ask the servants to take a trip.But since Qi Ji said that it was about the border negotiations, it must be for the top officials of Dajin.This kind of tea cannot tolerate any mistakes.Otherwise, it would be her fault to cause the two countries to fight.

So she planned to make a trip in person and go home to get it.

Not only Qi Ji, but also Ye Chongming was very curious about what kind of tea this so-called "tea brick" was.He hadn't heard Ye Yaming say anything about it.

Not long after, Ye Yaming came back with more than a dozen square bricks.

Seeing the tea that was like bricks, Qi Ji hesitated to speak.

What a transparent person Ye Yaming is, one can tell at a glance what he was still struggling with when he was surprised by the shape of the tea.

She said with a smile: "The imperial court has just abolished the regiment, and I took out this tea again. It must make people think too much, right? So instead of making tea cakes, I made tea bricks."

She opened the wrapping paper to reveal the dark and shiny tea inside, and then used a specially made tea needle to gently pry open the tea brick to take the tea, and threw it into the tureen in front of her.

"Has Chuyang seen the side-selling tea that Dajin sent to Dajin for the people of Dajin to drink?" she asked.

Qi Ji shook his head, wondering: "Shouldn't it be the same as the tea we drink?"

"Then what do you think will happen if our tea leaves, such as the loose tea in the past and the Longjing tea in the present, are transported to Daikin?"

Qi Ji really didn't think about this question.

When Ye Yaming asked this question, he was stunned.

He went to Minzhou with Ye Yaming last fall, and naturally he brought tea to drink on the way, and also prepared some tea for drinking after going to Fujian.

After drinking Longjing, he could no longer get used to drinking other teas. He always felt that the taste was too bitter and the fragrance was not enough.

However, the Longjing tea he brought was moldy and deteriorated due to rain on the road, so he threw it away.He was so distressed that he tossed and turned for a long time that night before falling asleep.

Fortunately, when he arrived in Fujian, the Tieguanyin produced by Ye Yaming soothed his wounded heart.

His eyes fell on the tea brick in front of him.

"You mean, these teas are made in such a way that they are easy to carry?"

Ye Yaming gave him an appreciative look: "Exactly."

When she came in, she ordered Zan'er to boil water, at this time Zan'er knocked on the door and brought up the boiling water.Ye Yaming took the pot and poured boiling water into the gaiwan. After closing the lid, leaving a gap, he quickly poured the water from the gap into the water cube.

Seeing Ye Yaming directly poured out the water for making tea, not only Qi Ji, but also Ye Chongming were puzzled.

It was still Qi Ji who spoke quickly and asked: "Why did you pour out the water for making tea?" Isn't this a waste of money?
"This is to wash the tea, and also to moisten the tea." Ye Yaming said.

"The raw materials for making black tea are generally old leaves and old stalks, which are very steeped. Washing it once or twice will not affect the taste of the tea soup. On the contrary, the tea leaves will be soaked in the process of washing the tea, and the tea soup will come out better."

As she spoke, she washed another pot of tea, and then poured boiling water. After waiting for a while, she felt that the tea soup was just right, so she poured the tea soup into the sea of ​​tea.

"Is this tea called dark tea?" Ye Chongming asked.

"Yes." Ye Yaming pointed to the tea brick that had just been pried a little, "Look at this tea is black and oily, so I call it black tea."

The difference between dark tea and Pu'er is that the tea species are different, the former is a small and medium-leaf variety, and the latter is a Yunnan large-leaf variety; the other is that the fermentation and processing techniques are different.

Ye Yaming has no way to go to Yunnan, and it is not realistic to go to Yunnan, where ethnic minorities live in concentrated communities, in ancient times when transportation was inconvenient and safety was not guaranteed.If there is no special reason, she does not plan to develop Pu'er tea.

However, it is possible to make black tea by using the thick and old leaf stalks left after the tea buds are picked to make green tea.

She didn't know how far the border sales of tea in Yunnan and Sichuan had developed at this time.However, if it develops according to the original time and space history, Pu'er at this time is still immature.She hopes that through the inspiration of black tea making method, it can drive the development of Pu'er tea.

As a long-time tea drinker, she drank back and forth until the end, and only Pu’er and old white tea were her favorites; when spring came, she drank a little green tea, and she also drank some dark tea with a strong taste, and she basically didn’t like other teas. Touched.

The birthplace of Fuding white tea is in Fuding City, Fujian Province. This is a project she will develop next, and it is also one of the reasons why she went to Fujian after going through hardships.

Without Pu'er, dark tea has become her essential tea.So not long after she traveled through time, when she went to the tea garden with Ye Chongming for the first time, she asked someone to pick thick and old leaf stalks, and she made some dark tea bricks for herself.

(End of this chapter)