Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 280 What kind of official do you want to be?

After collecting the tea, seeing that all the tea leaves were spread out to dry according to her request, Du Jinning led everyone into the kitchen, ready to start frying tea.

After entering the yard first, everyone thought it was the West Wing Room, and did not pay attention to such a large kitchen.At this time, as Du Jinning opened the door and entered, everyone exclaimed.

I saw a row of stoves built in the middle of the stove room. All the stoves were very strange, and the pit for putting the pot was slanted.At this moment, the six large, polished iron pans were placed on the stove at an angle, and they fit perfectly, without any gaps with the stove eye.And the strangest thing is that the opening for the fire is not under the pot, but on the other side.The north and south sides of the pot and the stove are far apart, and there are large straight barrel chimneys built of mud bricks between the two.The chimney was made very high and went all the way to the outside of the roof.

Du Jinning smiled and said, "That's why I asked you three families to come here. I went to a neighboring county to fry tea last year. I was short on time and couldn't make preparations. I just used their earthen stove to fry the tea directly. The tea leaves have strong adsorption, so it's easier to fry like that. With the smell of fire and smoke, the people who fry the tea are also working hard. It is more reasonable to design the stove in this way.”

Yuan Xiuzhu turned the stove around in a circle, amazed.

He asked Du Jinning: "Is this what you came up with?"

Du Jinning nodded cheekily.

Yuan Xiuzhu looked at Qi Bokun, and opened his mouth to express emotion, but after glancing at Qi Muyuan, Guan Jiaze and the others, he swallowed the words back.

Why is there such a big gap between people?If his grandson could be like Du Jinning, he wouldn't have to worry about anything.

At this time, a pile of charcoal fires had already been burned in the stove. Du Jinning asked Lu Xiaobei to burn the stoves one by one. A bamboo dustpan matching the size of the baking cage, covered with fine white tissue paper.

The iron pots were all clean, so Du Jinning wiped the iron pots again with a clean cloth, turned around and said to the tea master brought by the Qi family, the Yuan family, and the Guan family: "How long does it take for the fresh leaves you brought to dry?" That's enough, you guys come first and experience the difference of the stove."

These masters all studied tea making with Du Jinning when they went to neighboring counties last year, and later followed Qi Bokun and Yuan Xiuzhu to the tea gardens in Huizhou to fry tea. They are already veterans of tea making.

However, seeing this peculiar stove, the three of them were still very excited. They rolled up their sleeves and went out, brought in the green tea that had been spread out in the dustpan, put it aside, and then poked their hands over the iron pot. When the pot was almost hot, I put the green tea into it and started frying it.

On the other side of the stove, Lu Xiaobei is controlling the heat.Du Jinning had trained him in how long the tea should be fried, and today he is the one who cooks all the six stoves.Now there are only three people frying tea, and he did not add fire to the other three pots.

Du Jinning took the opportunity to teach tea-making methods to Liang and Shi's tea masters and Chen Shi and others: "The firepower should not be too strong. If a piece of tea is burnt, the whole pot of tea can't be taken; of course it can't be burned." It’s too cold, so you have to control the temperature. Put your palm at a distance of two feet from the bottom of the pot, and when you feel a certain amount of heat in your palm, you can put the tea leaves.”

Seeing the tea masters put the tea greens into the pot one after another, she said again: "Only put four liang of tea leaves in a pot, not too much. First use a slow fire to roast it softly, and then use a high heat to quickly finish it. Pay attention The frequency and strength of the hand gestures of these masters. They also need to knead when frying to break the leaf cells, so that the tea juice is easy to seep out when making tea. You should slowly understand these when you stir-fry tea later. of."

The three chefs over there were very skillful in their movements. They stir-fried with their palms and wooden fingers together, and Lu Xiaobei's fire was also cooked just right, so they didn't need to worry about it at all.In a short time, the tea was half-cooked. When the fragrance came out slightly, several people shoveled out the tea one after another and put them in the baking cage behind them for drying.

Yuan Xiuzhu and Qi Bokun also have a large tea garden in the neighboring county and Huizhou, and they can be picked normally and produce a huge amount of tea. They don't pay much attention to the fresh leaves in Lishui County.Seeing that their masters had cooked a pot, they stopped the two of them wanting to continue, and said to Du Jinning: "You can use these fresh leaves, let them go up and have a try."

Du Jinning nodded: "The masters of your two families go try a pot."

The Liang and Shi families each brought three tea makers over, and there were exactly six of them together.

Seeing that there were not enough fresh leaves, Liang Xiankuan asked someone to bring in the fresh leaves he had brought.

Under the guidance of Du Jinning, the six people started to stir-fry tea.In addition to instructing them to fry tea, Du Jinning also instructed Du Fanghui how to roast tea.

At this end, the tea maker of Yuan Xiuzhu's family was still full of ideas, and said to Yuan Xiuzhu: "Old Master, let's build a few stoves like this when we go back, it's really useful."

Yuan Xiuzhu was very interested in this stove, and was about to ask his master how he felt. Seeing that he proposed it himself, his interest became more and more intense, and he asked, "Oh? How can I use it?"

"Look at its height, it's just right for people to sit on, and it's very comfortable to put your hands on. The inclination of this pot is also just right, and it's very smooth when stir-frying." The tea maker blushed slightly with excitement, and spoke Sometimes he was still gesturing.

"The stove in our house, people sit there with the mouth of the stove facing themselves, it's so hot. If you sit too close, you can't stand it, and if you sit far away, you can't reach it, and you have to move a pot of tea. When I add firewood under the stove, it not only affects my cooking tea, but the smoke also comes out, which is very smoky. Their stove is very good, and the fire does not affect me at all. Here, there is no smoke."

Yuan Xiuzhu had walked around the stove twice just now, and he very much agreed with the words of his tea maker.

He nodded: "Okay, let's build a stove like this when we go back."

He is impatient. Seeing those tea masters clumsy and not knowing when to learn, he waited impatiently, and said to Du Jinning: "Let my master teach them, you go to fry two pots of tea, and make it Compared."

"Okay." Du Jinning waited for them to finish frying a pot of tea, then replaced a master from the Liang family and started to fry tea.

After the two pots were fried, and after they were baked and dried, she asked Lu Xiaobei to boil a pot of water and make two cups of tea respectively.

After Yuan Xiuzhu tasted both cups of tea, she asked, "How is it?"

Yuan Xiuzhu sighed for a long time: "What you said is correct. We tasted many teas on purpose at that time, and specially selected one with good taste to buy their tea species. The tea grown today is not as good as The taste of the tea I tasted at the beginning was very different, it really is a mutation." He pointed to Du Jinning's tea, "Your tea has not changed, it still tastes as good as the original one. No, it tastes better than the original one, it should be the season different."

Qi Bokun sipped his tea, and suddenly asked, "Jin Ning, what kind of official do you want to be in the future?"

　What kind of official Qi Bokun thinks Du Jinning is most suitable for, please guess

　　
　
(End of this chapter)