Walking into the Red Mansion starts from the maid

Chapter 9 Making Tea
After exchanging names with the little girl named Ying'er in the tea room, she sat half-sitting at the table in front of the civil servant in a good manner, and it was time for the entry assessment.

But when she heard about making tea, Yunzhu felt as if there was a small person in her heart who was twisted into a ball. How could she know how much tea making skills?I have drank plain water in my two lifetimes, and I learned the showmanship from watching TV. However, the low-level maid training class in Jia's mansion is just a little bit of tea art. The course content always focuses on loyalty and brainwashing education and behavioral norms.

What's more, when he came, he said he was lighting a fire, how could he know that he would be promoted to make tea when he came?

Isn't this rushing ducks to the shelves!
But when the boat arrives at the bridge, there is no reason not to go, Yunzhu thought for a while, and said carefully: "I want to teach my sister to know, my sister came to the mansion late, and I have learned such fine work roughly, lest I spoil the old lady's tea, why don't I do it again and show my sister, if there is something wrong, I hope my sisters will not hesitate to teach me."

Seeing the other party's acquiescence, she held her breath, raised her skirt and squatted in front of the table next to the red clay stove according to the norms, slowly turned on the stove, watched the spring water in the teapot start to boil, raised her hand to open the tools on the table, and saw the needles, spoons, bowls and clips laid out in a row, and said in her heart that she was too professional!
Yun·Amateur·Zhu bit the bullet, recalling the content of the tea art taught in the maid training class, and tremblingly rolled out a cup of Laojun eyebrows.

The tea soup falls into the porcelain cup, the color is bright and clear, and there is a high probability that it will be successful.

Hearing that Shi Taijun liked Laojun's eyebrows the most, he didn't smell too much tea, but seeing the civil servant holding up the teacup and looking around, his expression was neither happy nor worried.

Yunzhu's heart beats a drum, isn't it okay?

"My sister is young, is this the first time I have made tea?" the official put down the teacup and asked her after pondering for a moment.

Really not good?

Seeing this, Yunzhu had no choice but to answer honestly: "The mother-in-law taught me carefully, but I have never seen such a good tea, so I feel a little scared, and the elder sister of the civil servant laughed."

The tea leaves used to teach the little maids tea art are ordinary tea foam, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, no matter how clever the technique is, there is no way to tell the difference between the eyebrows and eyes from the tea foam.

Not to mention the color and taste of the soup, ashamed to say, this soup is bright, tea-scented and delicious, and she has never seen it several times in her two lifetimes.

But the rules of the workplace, if you can’t say no, you have to say that I’m just not proficient, so I just need to learn more.

With a puff, the civil servant covered his mouth and smiled coquettishly. With this smile, Yunzhu was even more confused. The rules of the big family are really troublesome, and his heart suddenly felt a little swollen.

Facing the smiling face of the civil servant, Yunzhu seemed to be sitting in the examination room again, fidgeting and trying to write down an answer to a question she didn't know, and then turn the question over and copy it again, trying to let the teacher see her motivated attitude and give her some impression points.

Just when Yunzhu was about to say something to remedy, the civil servant said: "It doesn't matter, my sister is young, it doesn't matter if your skills are unfamiliar, and you are doing everything right, but the same thing, this old lady is not easy to use a white porcelain teacup, we old ladies pay more attention to color than taste when drinking tea.

Understood, drinking too much tea for the elderly is not conducive to sleep, so I like to watch it or not to drink it.This civil servant gave her a big jump, thinking she hadn't learned well.

If she was sent back just because she was not good at learning, then in this feudal society, would a little maid who doesn't like her master still have a way to survive?
"Thank you, Sister Wenguan, for teaching me. I will remember it now." After being left alone, I have to say thank you.

I can't remember how many times I have scolded this damn world. After scolding, I have to straighten up my appearance and continue to be beaten.

"There are only a few kinds of tea commonly used in our yard, let me tell you."

Yunzhu put on a pious attitude of listening attentively, staring at the civil servant with sparkling eyes, for fear that she might miss a sentence.

Everyone who is a teacher loves a student with a good attitude.The civil servant took out four kinds of tea leaves from the drawer and laid them out one by one in front of Yunzhu, then opened the bag and talked to her in a gentle voice.

"Our old lady likes Lao Junmei the most. Eight out of ten times I serve this tea. Look at it." After speaking, he opened a white porcelain pot, picked up a little bit of dark brown curly tea leaves inside with a tea spoon, and gestured for Yunzhu to look at it.

Yunzhu looked closely at the pair of soft toes, and then sniffed them closely, um, there is nothing special about it, except that the color and shape look very expensive.But facing the slightly smiling face of the civil servant, he still nodded seriously, with a solemn look on his face, as if he was going to the college entrance examination room tomorrow, and he was memorizing the answers to the real test tonight.

"Second Master Bao likes Pu'er and Fenglu the most. You can see which one you want. If Second Master Bao comes after dinner, you can serve him Pu'er. If he comes on an empty stomach, you can serve him Fenglu."

Pu'er relieves greasy, maple dew tea has a faint sweet fragrance at first smell, it is refreshing.

But…..
Who knows if he ate or not?
Probably because Yunzhu's suspicious gaze was too explicit, the civil servant added affectionately, "Our Second Master Bao has the most free-spirited temper. Every time he comes to the old lady's place, he will ask what to eat today. If he doesn't ask someday, he must have used it outside before coming here!"

It turned out to be a foodie!No wonder it looks so white and moist.

It's just that the civil servant's intimacy was not with Yunzhu, but with Jia Baoyu. Yunzhu glanced at the bright eyes of the civil servant when he mentioned Jia Baoyu, and immediately expressed her understanding in her heart. How can a maid of the right age not like a young, beautiful and rich male master?

It's just that sister Lin Zhuyu is in front of you, you tiles are destined to pay by mistake, and your thoughts are diverging, and you see the civil servant open the last porcelain jar.

"Second Mistress doesn't pick her mouth, as long as it's the new tea that came in that year, she loves it. The rest of the ladies don't have a particular preference, and it's usually enough to have fragrant tea."

The new teas that come in are the high-quality teas that are tributed to the royal family from all over the country. Even if it is Longjing, the king of green tea, it is only the best tea that can be selected.
Yunzhu has a new understanding of the three words "not picky", and also has a new understanding of the splendor and wealth of Rongfu.This tribute tea is introduced at the end, or it is not so grand, what does it mean?
It shows that the first few are more valuable!

Look at the rest, West Lake Longjing tea, jasmine tea, pearl orchid tea, magnolia tea...
These kinds of tea cloud beads are familiar, without them, they are too famous!
"The other thing is, this tea leaves have been brewed for a month, and if the masters haven't finished drinking them, they have to be replaced and replaced with new ones, remember?"

After the civil servant finished speaking, he briefly introduced what kind of tea goes with which water, and what kind of cup, and whether the respective boiling water should be made into fish-eye blisters, crab-eye blisters, or completely boiled blisters.

Yunzhu's eyes straightened when she heard it, but she still said bravely.

"Thank you, Sister Wenguan, I've made a note of it."

The refreshing fragrance of tea kept penetrating into Yunzhu's nose. Even if she hadn't dabbled in tea art at all, it didn't prevent her from knowing that all the things in front of her were good things.

She only knew that she was able to serve in Jiamu's Courtyard because the old lady sent a few maidservants to work in other yards, and released two older maids, so she brought them here to fill in the vacancies.

Mrs. Jia has her own set of standards for housekeeping directors. For older maids such as Wang Qi and eight or nine years old, Mrs. Jia refuses to come over to train them.

So Sister Shan only asked a few children around the age of six that day, and finally finalized three to be selected by Wang Xifeng. After several layers of screening, she was the only one who finally entered the final round of Jiamuyuan!
Is this luck or misfortune?In Yunzhu's view, it was probably because the average life expectancy of the ancients was short, and people were forced to mature prematurely. In the eyes of the master, the eight or nine-year-old girl had already passed the best training period, and she refused to spend any more time.

Take the ones of my own age and raise seven or eight at a time. When the previous batch of big maids are old enough to be released, the seven or eight young maids of the same batch will always be able to select one or two who can do the job and put them next to them to continue to use.

Thinking that she was only a child, Yunzhu was a little bit heartbroken for a while, and she had a hard time learning things, after all, she was already an adult at heart, and her thinking mode had already been finalized.

For example right now.

Yunzhu took a sip of the remaining tea fragrance, belatedly grasped the key points of the official's words, and asked bluntly, "Where do you send the replaced ones?"

After asking, she regretted it in her heart, why can't she control her bad mouth!
What is this place?
One of the most powerful and wealthy people in a country, do they still need to know that thrift is a virtue?Do they need to know that frugality is tradition?
They don't need it!
Sure enough, the civil servant frowned, as if he hadn't thought about replacing the tea leaves to ensure that the host's tea would always be in the best tasting period. Such an ordinary operation, do you need to ask?

Maybe because of Yunzhu's young age, she was still patient and taught softly: "If you like something, you can pick two and take it back to your room to drink. If you don't like it, just send it back to the warehouse, and the subordinates will deal with it. In short, the tasteless tea should not appear in this tea room again."

The civil servant buckled the jars one by one and put them on the antique shelf against the wall. After telling the little girl named Yinger over there not to forget to change the tea leaves in the future, and told her to tell Yunzhu the other details, he turned around and told Yunzhu that she should not forget to bring the luggage here.

After a series of instructions and arrangements, Yunzhu, who was named, was dumbfounded.The civil servant is a second-class maid, and she already has such a good way of speaking and doing things, so how powerful should the mandarin duck be?
But after a while, she became happy again, what was she afraid of? The soldiers came to cover up the water and soil. From now on, she would live in the servant's room in Jiamu's courtyard.

Seeing that the dormitory was shared between two people, he was even more overjoyed. This condition is much better than that in Huifangyuan!
Yunzhu hugged a box of jasmine tea she had replaced, and immersed herself in so many teas with excellent color and fragrance. The taste of such good teas became weak after a month of opening, so she didn't want to drink any more.

Send it back to the warehouse?

The things that the master doesn't want will naturally not be stored again, so where did they go?

Yunzhu clicked her tongue, as if she knew why she was so rich and rich but ended in ruin overnight.

(End of this chapter)