I opened a tea shop in Bianjing

Chapter 14
There was a little smile on Mo Yunxiao's face, and a pair of eyes that were as clear as water shone brightly.

Song Mingxuan blushed and his heart beat, he lowered his head hastily, and said, "He Lu, you...you really seem to be safe now."

"So?" Mo Yunxiao took another step forward.She smiled brightly, her eyes were watery, and she asked softly, "You came here to see me, what do you want to say to me?"

Song Mingxuan panicked when he saw her approaching, so he hurriedly backed away.He was flustered, and he still wanted to know that he had just stepped down the steps.As soon as he retreated, his heels knocked on the stone steps, and he exerted so much force that his body suddenly lost his center of gravity. He couldn't help yelling "Ah!", and fell backwards.

There is often no time to react in this moment.Both Mo Yunze and Huan'er were taken aback, but they couldn't reach out to pull him.

But Mo Yunxiao had sharp eyes and quick hands, and hurriedly called out: "Be careful!" Her body moved with the sound, she took a lotus step, stretched out her hand, and supported Song Mingxuan's shoulder who was about to fall.

From the tea customer to the shop assistant to Mo Yunze and Huan'er, all of them stared round and opened their mouths slightly, as if they were cast on the spot by a spell.It's just that the hot soup flowing out of the spout has already filled the purple sand teapots of tea drinkers, and no one cares about the roiling heat waves rolling outwards.

Mo Yunxiao supported him like this, a strand of fragrant hair hanging down and gently brushing on Song Mingxuan's cheek.After a moment of silence, she asked with a soft smile, "Brother Song, are you not scared?"

Song Mingxuan also stared at her in a daze for a while, only to come back to his senses after listening to her words, and hurriedly said: "Thank you... Thank you sister He Lu for saving me, I'm fine."

Mo Yunxiao smiled mildly and said, "Brother, you should be more careful. If you were injured in the Minglou, if it spreads, people will say that we are not good at treating guests."

Song Mingxuan nodded repeatedly, and hurriedly said: "He Lu... He Lu is right, please help me... Let me get up."

Mo Yunxiao turned her beautiful eyes, and replied disgruntledly: "Oh." Then she helped Song Mingxuan up.

Mo Yunze and Huan'er looked at each other, both showing doubts.Mo Yunxiao's behavior did lose her usual poise and restraint, and she appeared even more frivolous in front of the public, so she didn't have the slightest demeanor of being in charge of the Mo family.

So Mo Yunze frowned, and asked Huan'er with his eyes.Huan'er was even more at a loss, shaking her head quickly, as if she was falling into the clouds.

Song Mingxuan's cheeks were flushed, so he could only lower his head and say, "He Lu, let's find a secluded place and have a good talk."

After hearing this, Mo Yunxiao beamed with joy, nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay! Then let's go to the private room to talk."

She turned around and was about to leave, but Mo Yunze came up to meet her and called out quite enthusiastically, "Big girl!"

Mo Yunxiao stopped walking and looked at him suspiciously.He looked at Mo Yunxiao, and then at Song Mingxuan behind her, who was looking embarrassed. He was so angry that he couldn't speak for a moment.

Huan'er also rushed up to meet her, took Mo Yunxiao's hand and said, "Girl, what play are you singing?" She looked around vigilantly, and continued in a low voice, "Song Mingxuan doesn't care about the face of the Mo family. Forcibly retiring from the engagement, this matter has become a laughing stock in Tokyo. Miss, you went to see him once, which is a big accommodating, why do you still have to meet alone now?"

Mo Yunxiao raised her slender eyebrows, and couldn't help but look up at Song Mingxuan.Song Mingxuan also hastily lowered his head, avoiding that sharp arrow-like gaze.

"That's why I want to talk to him." Mo Yunxiao's tone turned cold in an instant.She turned her eyes coldly, and said to Song Mingxuan as if ordering a servant, "Let's go." Then she strode towards the elegant seating on the second floor.

"Girl..." Huan'er wanted to stop her again, but as soon as she opened her mouth, Mo Yunxiao cut off her words: "You don't want to follow." The words were so sharp that everyone present was startled.Huan'er stopped involuntarily.

Song Mingxuan was even more nervous, hesitating for a while, but he had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow.

Mo Yunze stood there blankly watching the two of them go up the corridor on the second floor, then turned around and asked Huan'er behind him: "The eldest girl is she..." "She's still her." Huan'er also replied blankly.

Mo Yunxiao opened the door of an elegant room, then gave Song Mingxuan a wink, signaling him to go in first.Song Mingxuan swallowed heavily before stepping into the room.

Although the elegant rooms in the Ming Building are not as spacious as those in the Changfeng Building, you can't overlook the Jinming Pool from the window.But in terms of elegance, it is second to none.

Song Mingxuan looked around, and what caught his eyes was the plaque of "tasting tea first" written in Su Zhe's handwriting.These four characters were originally hung in the hall on the first floor, but Mo Yunxiao felt that they were too eye-catching, so he asked someone to rub them, and made them into plaques and hung them in every elegant room.It not only fulfilled Su Zhe's good intentions, but also did not make Minglou appear too ostentatious.

Different from other houses, there are no high tables and chairs in the elegant room of Minglou, only stacked mats from ancient times.Tables with short legs are placed on the mats.

There are teapots, tea cups and tea bowls on the table, as well as a small stove for warming tea, tea whisks for ordering tea, and tweezers for making tea...

Mo Yunxiao sat on the soft mat and looked around.Naturally, she didn't understand the utensils for making tea on the table, but the flowers and birds on the wall and the carvings on the screen caught her attention.

At this time, Song Mingxuan came over and saluted, "He Lu, I have something important to tell you."

Mo Yunxiao was about to get up to observe these calligraphy and paintings carefully, but Song Mingxuan interrupted her thoughts.

She turned her gaze, looked at Song Mingxuan and said, "You and I were originally engaged, but did you go back on your word?"

"Ah? This..." Song Mingxuan lowered his head and pondered, "Let's expose this matter first."

The corners of Mo Yunxiao's mouth turned up, revealing a rather haughty smile: "How can it be so easy to expose it!"

Song Mingxuan was taken aback for a moment, but could only shake his head and smile wryly: "That's right, it's not that easy to expose this matter."

"Is it because I'm vulgar and ugly, or is our tea house shabby?" Mo Yunxiao said coldly, "There must be a reason for your divorce, right?"

Hearing this, Song Mingxuan was even more surprised.He looked around vigilantly, and then came up to him and said, "He Lu, you know my secrets best. Now why..."

Mo Yunxiao was also a little embarrassed, after careful consideration, she smiled and said, "Of course I know. You have another sweetheart."

She didn't intend to make fun of it, but her words were full of ridicule.Song Mingxuan became more and more embarrassed, and drops of sweat leaked from his forehead.

Seeing his rebuttal, Mo Yunxiao felt a little jealous.She thought to herself: "Brother Song has such a handsome appearance, he must be very popular with girls. But this Mo Yunxiao and him are childhood sweethearts, their relationship is extraordinary, and their appearance is also very high. Why would he still Are you in love with someone else?"

She thought about it like this, and the more she thought about it, the more troubled she became, and she couldn't help sighing, and said, "Forget it, I can't force it to happen." Then, she looked up at Song Mingxuan, and added: "I wish you a happy life! old."

Song Mingxuan was surprised again, and also thought in his mind: "He Lu has always opposed me and Shi Yu. Why is she acting uncharacteristically today? Could it be that this is her strategy of courtesy first and then attack? No, I need to turn defense into offense."

So he chuckled, and hurriedly said, "Thank you for your kind words, He Lu. Let me order a bowl of tea for He Lu first."

After he finished speaking, he didn't care whether Mo Yunxiao agreed or not, so he sat on the soft mat opposite her, then opened the green-glazed honey pot with tea leaves, and picked up a few shriveled tea cakes with tweezers.

This small tea cake is as black as ink, and its folds are like the bark of an old tree.Song Mingxuan took a closer look before putting it into a cylindrical soup bottle for making tea.

Mo Yunxiao originally wanted to interrupt him, but on second thought, since he didn't understand the way people in the Song Dynasty made tea, he might as well just look at it like this, so that he wouldn't be too revealing in the future.So she watched with concentration.

Song Mingxuan lifted the small pot of hot soup that had already been prepared, lowered the spout, and the milky white medicinal soup poured out, directly filling the tea pot.He poured water from the pot with his left hand, and took a small broom-like object in his right hand to rinse and stir the tea pot back and forth.

Mo Yunxiao's eyes were straightened, and she couldn't help leaning forward slightly to look at the soup bottle.The hot soup in the bottle bubbled up layer by layer under the washing of the small broom, and the brown color also changed from thick to light, gradually turning blue and white.

"Wow!" Mo Yunxiao couldn't help admiring.

Song Mingxuan also noticed her amazement, and said with a smile: "Sister Helu laughed. The technique of making tea was also taught by my sister. Compared with the master, the young apprentice is very frightened when he handles the axe."

"Really?" Mo Yunxiao pointed at the broom-shaped thing, and said with a smile, "Then I'll test you. What's this thing called?"

"Hahaha..." Song Mingxuan couldn't help laughing out loud.He put the pot of water down, but his right hand was still stirring back and forth, and replied, "My sister, forgive me. Anyone who drinks tea knows that this is a tea whisk. My sister's questioning me like this is like mocking me. I really feel ashamed."

"No, no, no..." Mo Yunxiao quickly waved his hands, then put his hands on the table, and said with a smile, "I also don't remember for a while. But Brother Song's tea-ordering skills are indeed very advanced. It's amazing."

"Really?" Song Mingxuan laughed again, and said, "I'm so ashamed of my brother these days, not to mention ordering tea, even eating is tasteless. I'm afraid that this technique is unfamiliar and it will be called Helu's joke."

"Ah?" Mo Yunxiao smiled shyly, and asked again: "Are you so ashamed that you don't feel like eating? But because of me?"

Song Mingxuan's hand suddenly stopped, and seemed to hear the deep meaning in her words, so he didn't answer, but put the tea whisk aside, slowly poured the good tea into the small sand pot, then picked up the sand pot and poured it into Mo In the tea bowl on Yunxiao's side.

"The way of ordering tea is similar to how we make meals. We start with the color and aroma." He said while tidying up the utensils on the table: "Miss He Lu, please taste it too. Brother, what is the quality of this bowl of tea. "

Mo Yunxiao looked down, and saw that the tea in this bowl was green and white in color, and the ripples were clear and clean. The edge of the tea hanging on the wall of the bowl did not fade easily, but faded little by little.Although she doesn't know much about tea, she can tell at a glance that the tea is very good.

Then, she held the tea bowl up to her nose and sniffed lightly. A warm tea fragrance came to her nostrils, like peony flowers with a light fragrance.

"It smells so good." She looked at Song Mingxuan and said, "Then I won't be polite."

Song Mingxuan chuckled and said, "Please use it."

She parted her red lips slightly, and lightly tasted it against the edge of the tea bowl.This tea is really fragrant and refreshing, and there is a faint medicinal smell in the fragrance.It's just that the smell of this medicine does not make people feel bitter, but it adds a bit of sweetness to the fragrance.

This tea is so refreshing, she really wants to drink it all in one go.But she also thought that the ancients paid attention to artistic conception when tasting tea. Although she didn't understand tea, she knew painting very well.She had seen Wen Zhengming's tea tasting pictures at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and knew that the ancients had to be reserved and prudent when tasting tea, and they must never drink like a vulgar person.

So she also imitated the way of the ancients, put down the tea bowl slowly, wiped the corners of her mouth with the handkerchief placed beside the table, and said with a smile: "The tea ordered by Brother Song is very good in color and fragrance, it is beyond comparison."

Song Mingxuan cupped his hands with a smile, and said: "He Lu is admirable. This is considered as apologetic tea, but I also know that it is not enough to make amends with tea. As He Lu said, tomorrow my sister and I will have a big banquet in Fan Lou , Donate to the Quartet, and then solemnly apologize to He Lu and the Mo family."

"Oh." Mo Yunxiao nodded in understanding.

"Also..." Song Mingxuan paused and continued: "There are no outsiders here, so I will speak out when I have something to say. A few days ago, my sister almost died in the water, and my elder sister and I felt very guilty. But maybe that matter has just been let go. But who would have expected, sister, you..."

"Wait a minute!" Mo Yunxiao didn't want to miss any details: "What was the 'that thing' you just said?"

Song Mingxuan sighed, and replied, "Of course...the merger of Minglou and Fanlou."

"Merge store?" Mo Yunxiao was a little puzzled.

Seeing her like this, Song Mingxuan was also a little dazed, and said: "That's right. I didn't participate in this matter. It was you, He Lu, who discussed it with my elder sister."

"Oh." Only now did Mo Yunxiao wake up a little bit, and said, "You mean merging stores! Is it merging two stores into one?"

Song Mingxuan nodded, and half-pleadingly said: "I'm going to die for retiring the engagement and breaking the contract. But Fan Lou is tied to the honor and disgrace of our Song family, so they can't be reconciled."

"My darling..." Mo Yunxiao thought to herself: "So this Mo Yunxiao has a lot of ambitions, and wants to annex Fanlou?"

So she made up her mind and said: "You don't participate in this matter, and I can't talk to you. It's not too late to talk about it when I see your sister tomorrow."

"But..." Song Mingxuan was still talking, but Mo Yunxiao got up and walked out.Looking at the back of Mo Yunxiao going away, he could only let out a long sigh, and kept muttering: "Evil... evil..."

(End of this chapter)