Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 350
With Qi Muyuan's family background, he would naturally marry a daughter of an aristocratic family or a lady from an official family. When a woman of this status marries, there are a lot of dowry women and maids.

Not to mention the distance, just by looking at Guan Jiayu, there are at least two big maids who serve close to her, two second-class maids who do chores, and two rough maids who do rough work such as sweeping in the yard.Plus the nanny, teaching the nanny, you can count six or seven at random.If the score is bigger, there will be more.

They have had so many servants serving them since they were young, and it would be uncomfortable to lose one of them, and they would probably burn their hands when pouring tea by themselves.If you want her to live in such a yard, she has to do everything by herself, tidy up the house and clean the yard, and she might make a fuss about packing up and going back to her mother's house before the next day.

And it's not realistic for Qi Muyuan to accommodate others.Just think about a large group of women chattering around in this yard all day long, not to mention Qi Muyuan, even Du Jinning would have a headache just thinking about it.

For a person who likes to be cold and lonely, it is absolutely unbearable for him to put him in a bustling place for a long time.

"So, I don't want to marry. Women are troublesome." Qi Muyuan said.

Well, Du Jinning further understood the meaning of Qi Muyuan's words "women are trouble".

From this point of view, women, or especially spoiled young ladies, are indeed troublesome.

"I'll get you clothes, you can do whatever you want." Qi Muyuan said, and walked into the inner room.

Two brothers, in Qi Muyuan's place, Du Jinning is really "casual".

Seeing the exquisite workmanship and ancient style of the paperweight on the desk, she couldn't help picking it up and playing with it a few times.Putting down the paperweight, she turned around and looked at the window sill, and fiddled with the tea set there.Finally, he turned around and looked at the books on the shelf.

Qi Muyuan has a large collection of books, and a large bookshelf against the wall has already placed more than half of the books.Seeing two books that he hadn't read, Du Jinning directly pulled them out and put them on the bookshelf, planning to borrow them from Qi Muyuan to read later.

Looking around on the bookshelf, Du Jinning saw a row of books on the right side of the bookshelf.The pages of the book are written in familiar handwriting, isn't it the "Legend of the Condor Heroes" and other series of scripts written by myself?

Qi Muyuan has always said that he wants to collect a complete set, and the handwriting must be the same.Du Jinning could understand his obsessive-compulsive behavior. Later, every time a script was written, after it was printed, he directly gave the original to Qi Muyuan.

At the beginning, when Du Jinning was most short of money, Qi Muyuan would still pay her money; later, when Du Jinning was rich and refused to accept Qi Muyuan's money, Qi Muyuan didn't insist, but he would take advantage of Du Jinning's birthday to send some paperweights, Give Du Jinning the pen, ink and inkstone.These things are not necessarily expensive, but they are either unique in style, or special products, or have special uses, which are very popular with Du Jinning, and Du Jinning accepts them calmly.

Of course, Du Jinning will give him something in return, even if there is no injustice.She is not good at anything else, but planting is her old profession.From time to time, she would also give Qi Muyuan, Guan Jiaze, and Zhang Hongwen some potted plants they made themselves.For example, there are several potted green plants in Qi Muyuan's house, all of which were given to him by Du Jinning.

Du Jinning nodded as he looked at the lush potted plants that were clearly well-cared for.

After a while, Qi Muyuan came out and said to Du Jinning, "Sit here for a while, and I'll take the clothes for my mother-in-law to change. You can use whatever is on the desk and read the books on the shelf."

Du Jinning pointed to the books he had chosen: "I want to borrow these two books to read."

Qi Muyuan glanced at it, nodded and said, "Okay." Then he asked, "Would you like tea and snacks? I'll ask Guanqi to bring it in."

"No need." Du Jinning shook his head and pointed to the things on the window sill: "I want to drink tea and make it myself."

It was a tea set, but it was not a simple tea set.Qi Muyuan asked someone to make a special small stove. Judging from the device protruding from the mouth of the stove, the hearth should be filled with kerosene, and there was a big wick on it; there was a simple clay pot with beams on the stove.Just now Du Jinning lifted the lid of the pot to have a look, it was mostly filled with clean water.She could guess that it was what Qi Muyuan usually made tea by himself.

Du Jinning likes to drink tea in modern times, and she also likes the atmosphere created by tea art and tea ceremony.But when drinking tea alone, she doesn't place so many complicated tea sets.All she needs is an alcohol stove with a glass beam jug on it.In the cold winter, light the alcohol stove, put a piece of Pu'er tea in it and cook slowly, and watch the wine-red tea soup being boiled in the glass vessel.Lifting the pot and pouring a cup into her simple pottery bamboo hat cup, listening to the quiet Guzheng music, flipping through a book, watching the quietly blooming flowers in the yard through the window, she feels that the years are quiet, The present world is stable.

Qi Muyuan's tea making device brought back memories in her heart.She would sit in such a courtyard and make a cup of tea for herself.

Qi Muyuan smiled, his smile was as clear and lofty as the clump of green bamboos outside the window.

He walked to the bookshelf, took out a tea box from a drawer at the bottom, and handed it to Du Jinning: "Taste this tea." He said without stopping, took his clothes and went out.

Through the wide open window, Du Jinning watched Qi Muyuan's tall and tall figure pass through the courtyard and out of the courtyard gate. Then she lifted the clay pot down, picked up the flint on the window sill to light the wick, and sat the pot on the Back on the stove, watching the flame licking the bottom of the pot, she lowered her head and looked at the tea box Qi Muyuan handed her.

There are flat tea cakes the size of eggs in the tea box.

Du Jinning frowned slightly, stretched out his hand to pick up a tea cake, put it in front of his eyes for a look, then handed it to his nose for a sniff.

Song people like to order tea, and they use cake tea.This kind of cake tea needs to steam the fresh leaves in a steamer until soft, then take them out to remove the stems, and then add a variety of precious spices to the remaining tea leaves, and then make tea cakes one by one, and store them dry.When drinking, put the tea cakes on the fire to dry and crisp them, then crush them and sieve them to get tea powder, put them in a bowl and whisk them into tea foam.

History turned a corner and lasted for hundreds of years in the Song Dynasty. Although Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Quan did not advocate loose tea, the way of drinking tea was too expensive and complicated, so many people gave up ordering tea and started drinking loose tea.Therefore, the stir-fried green tea created by Du Jinning has such a market.

During the two years of getting along, Du Jinning knew Qi Muyuan's temperament. He liked people with a pure and simple personality who didn't have too many twists and turns, and he also liked a simple lifestyle.Someone like him who doesn't even handle the servants will definitely not like complicated tea ordering.

But why did he bring out this cake and tea?Is this cake tea different from ordinary cake tea?

(End of this chapter)