Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 154 Good Tea!

Du Jinning was not polite, and said to Du Fangfei: "Eldest sister, help me light the fire."

Mrs. Chen thought she was afraid of tiring Du Fangfei, so she hurriedly said, "Let your elder sister do it. She hasn't been in the field today, so she's not tired."

"No, I read a recipe for making tea in a book, and I want to make tea. As for how to do it, you don't understand, so I will do it myself." Du Jinning shook his head like a rattle, "Sister, help me Just light the fire."

Du Fangfei had no choice but to sit down and help her light the fire.

There are three types of green tea: roasted green tea, steamed green tea and baked green tea. In ancient times, steamed green tea was always used to make tea cakes. It was not until the middle and late Ming Dynasty that Monk Dafang made songluo tea in Xiuning, Anhui Province, and fried green tea appeared.

Because of the high aroma and mellow taste of fried green tea, the taste is much better than that of steamed green tea. In later generations, fried green tea dominated the country, and steamed green tea basically withdrew from the stage.

Like the Guzhu purple bamboo shoots that Du Jinning drank at Yuan Xiuzhu's place, they were abandoned by the market because of their craftsmanship.It was reappeared later, and the production process was reformed, and the method of frying greens was used to complete the greening, so that it regained its vitality.

It can be seen that fried green tea is far better than steamed green tea in taste.

Now, Du Jinning's method of finishing is to stir-fry the greens.

The water at the bottom of the pot evaporated under the baking of the flame, and the temperature at the bottom of the pot gradually increased. Du Jinning felt it not far from the bottom of the pot with his hands, and felt that the temperature was almost two hundred degrees Celsius, so he put the tea Pour the greens into the pot and start to stir fry, kneading while frying.

Mrs. Chen was terrified watching from the side, and hurriedly asked: "This pot is so hot, if you fry it with your hands, you will not get burned?"

Du Jinning smiled and said, "Look, my hands didn't touch the bottom of the pot at all, they were all on the tea leaves, so it wasn't very hot."

In fact, it is relatively hot, but not to the point where it is unbearable or even scalded.

Seeing that this was indeed the case, Mrs. Chen was relieved.

Don't look at Dong Dacheng who picked a bamboo basket of tea greens, but when they are fried, they only need a pot.Du Jinning spent a whole meal frying the tea, which means that the maocha is ready.

A bamboo basket of green tea, after frying, is just a handful of dry tea.

Although this tea is winter tea, but because the raw materials picked are young and neat, the tea produced is quite beautiful. The emerald green buds and leaves are covered with pekoe. She uses the Maojian method to make the tea, so the tea is in the shape of strands , she looked at it, and there was no tea stalk, and it was good tea without further screening.

Du Jinning saw that it was getting dark and that he couldn't go to Guan Lehe's place today, so he rested his mind and asked everyone to close the door and go to sleep.

Green tea contains a lot of caffeine, and Chen Shi, Du Fangfei and the others never drink tea, so she dare not give them a drink for fear that they won't be able to fall asleep.

Even herself, she only brewed a little bit, tasted it, and felt that it was similar to the green tea she drank in her previous life, so she didn't taste any more.

After breakfast the next day, Du Jinning went directly to Guan Mansion with tea.

The academy was on holiday, only two fastmen and the old man who guarded the gate were left to guard there, and everyone else went home to celebrate the new year. Naturally, Guan Lehe was not in the academy at this time.

Guan Lehe has been the head of the mountain for many years. How many students from ordinary backgrounds in his academy have achieved fame, so the gatekeeper of the Guan family never judges people by their clothes—who knows that the poor boy in front of him will not be a scholar in the next scientific examination Woolen cloth?

So as soon as Du Jinning reported that he was Guan Shanzhang's disciple, the concierge flew in to report.

After a while, Guan Jiaze came out, welcomed her in, and asked curiously, "What's the matter with you? Did you come to ask the teacher?"

Isn't this stupid?After finally not going to school and having to rest at home, Du Jinning came to ask the teacher, should I say she is stupid or is she stupid?

He had inquired about it. Although Du Jinning only went to his uncle's place every morning, his schoolwork was not easy at all.The words they practice and the books they memorize in one day are enough for them to learn for ten days.

Now I can relax, she still doesn't do it, and the catcher comes here to be abused, isn't this stupid or what?
"No." Du Jinning said, "I have other matters to ask the mountain chief."

Guan Jiaze became more and more curious, but at this time he had already reached Guan Lehe's study, so he didn't ask any more questions, and led Du Jinning into the academy.

Guan Lehe was practicing calligraphy. Du Jinning waited until Guan Lehe finished writing the last stroke and put down the pen before she stepped forward and saluted.

"Sit down." Guan Lehe pointed to the chair, and sat down on the first seat.

After Du Jinning and Guan Jiaze sat down, the servant came up with a pot and served tea to everyone.

But Du Jinning stopped him and said, "Bring a pot of freshly boiled water over here."

The boy looked at Guan Lehe, Guan Lehe waved his hand and said with a smile: "Listen to him."

"What are you trying to sell?" Guan Jiaze couldn't help but asked again.

Guan Lehe also looked at Du Jinning.

Du Jinning took out the small clay pot, opened the lid and handed it to Guan Lehe: "Teacher, you can smell it."

Guan Lehe took a look at the contents first, and found that it was something in the shape of gray-green gray-green strands, which looked like tea leaves.His heart moved, he put the jar under his nose and sniffed, a pleasant fragrance came to his nostrils.

He was surprised and asked, "Where did this tea come from?" It was different from the good tea he had drunk, and seemed to smell better.

This tea was brought by Du Jinning, that's why he asked this question. After all, with Du Jinning's family background, he couldn't afford such a good tea.

Du Jinning said with a smile: "I said before that I heard a recipe for making tea from a wandering Taoist priest, but I couldn't make it to win the trust of Mr. Yu because of the lack of fresh tea leaves. Just happened to know that there are three wild tea trees on the mountain behind Zhuangzi yesterday. , so I immediately invited Uncle Dong to go up the mountain together, picked some fresh leaves, made tea according to the recipe, and brought it to my husband to taste today."

"Oh? Really?" Guan Lehe raised his eyebrows and looked carefully at the tea in the pot.

At this time, the boy had brought a pot of boiled water over.

Du Jinning took the pots, opened the lids first, then poured a little boiling water into each cup, scalded the cups, poured out the water in the cups, immediately put the tea leaves into the cups, and moistened them with a little hot water. Tea, just filled the cup to [-]% full, and put it in front of Guan Lehe and Guan Jiaze, and she also kept a cup for herself.

A stronger and more elegant aroma than dry tea permeated the air.

Guan Jiaze couldn't help taking a deep breath: "It smells so good."

Guan Lehe watched the strand-shaped tea leaves slowly unfold in the water, and the dense aroma became more and more intense. He couldn't help but put the cup to his lips and took a sip.

"How?" Guan Jiaze asked, and before Guan Lehe could answer, he couldn't help but take a sip himself.

"Good tea!" The uncle and nephew exclaimed in unison.

Seeing that the two had no time to comment, they couldn't help but took another two sips. Du Jinning picked up the teacup with a smile and took a sip leisurely.

Well, the tea has been left overnight, and it tastes better than yesterday.The freshly made tea will have a "fire", and it needs to be left for a while before drinking, so that the taste will be more mellow and delicious.

　I went out at 07:30 in the morning and got home at 09:30 in the evening, so tired.I’ve been coding this chapter, but I really don’t have the energy to catch bugs in the last chapter, let’s do it tomorrow.Fortunately, this chapter is written in my old business, and I don’t need to check the information, otherwise I won’t be able to get out

　　
　
(End of this chapter)