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Chapter 130 - The Story of Snow Tea

"What's not enough?" Professor Wang asked.

"Not shocking enough."

Duan Guolin rubbed the purple clay tea cup in his hand and looked straight at Ye Zhen.

"Biluochun has a common name, which is frightening and fragrant. Kangxi thought this name was tame, but I thought it was vulgar and elegant, and very clever."

“The first impression of making a superb tea should be very shocking. After the impact has passed, the sweetness and sweetness in the throat should make people feel dreamlike and ecstatic.”

"But the cup of tea you brewed has a fragrance that soars to the sky and makes everyone stunned, but the aroma is not right, so I don't think it is enough."

"Out of 10 points, I can only give it 8.5 points."

"Real snow tea can shock Japan's nearly seventy-year-old tea ceremony masters to the point where they will never forget it. You orchid is not right."

"Isn't this right? How fragrant is this? At least I have never smelled tea with a better aroma than this in my life!"

Professor Wang is an old tea drinker after all. Hearing Duan Guolin's words, he couldn't help but speak up for the tea.

In his opinion, Ye Zhen's tea could be ranked among the best in a tea fighting competition in Japan. This tea industry leader really has serious quirks.

Duan Guolin ignored Professor Wang and only looked at Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen listened quietly, and after Professor Wang finished speaking, he continued: "Master Duan is right, this orchid is picked from the mountain behind my house, and the tea trees have also been nourished by the bamboo forest, so it tastes like orchid." Smells like bamboo."

"I would like to ask Master Duan about the real snow tea orchid fragrance."

Duan Guolin did not answer the question, but changed the topic to the pricing just now, "This tea can be sold for 1 yuan per catty, but real snow tea can be sold for one million yuan per catty."

These words were like thunder exploding in the ears of everyone in the tea room.

Although the quality of snow tea is high, it is not well-known. After speculation, the price of such a little-known tea is only tens of yuan per catty or hundreds of yuan per catty. I don't know why Duan Guolin said "a million yuan per catty" Such words.

One million yuan per pound, what does that mean?
That means that the cultural value of snow tea is comparable to the mother tree Dahongpao in Wuyi Mountain and the "Eighteen Imperial Trees" in West Lake Longjing, so what you drink is no longer tea.

Xia Meng put down the teacup tremblingly, not daring to drink the golden water again.

Wang Yushi looked down at the tea in his hand, his eyes full of shock.

Professor Wang and Gu Jun also froze.

Everyone fell silent and focused their eyes on Duan Guolin's face.

Only Ye Zhen looked indifferent. Her method of making tea was derived from a certain experience in the past. She never thought that it could be related to this world today.

Duan Guolin said calmly, "Everyone here should drink tea. Not many of you have heard of snow tea, right?"

Gu Jun, who was the introducer, nodded first, "I had never heard of snow tea before drinking it from Lao Wang."

Professor Wang's expression became serious, "I thought this snow tea was Xiaozhen's original creation. From what Master Duan meant, could it be that this snow tea should still be famous?"

"Although I haven't heard of it, this is a great tea that just came out of nowhere!" Wang Yushi interjected.

Duan Guolin glanced at Wang Yushi and retorted calmly: "It's not that he was born out of nowhere, but that he came back from the dead." "Oh?" Ye Zhen became interested, "It didn't take long for me to make this snow tea. I thought it was Why is my original tea-making technique said to be a resurrection from the dead?"

"There is an anecdote here. Little friend Ye doesn't know about it?" Duan Guolin glanced at Ye Zhen inquiringly. The old man's eyes were sharp and he seemed to be able to see through the soul.

Ye Zhen smiled modestly, "Master Duan, I really don't know, otherwise I wouldn't have been told that the orchid is not right."

"Then let me tell you a historical story first. In 1972, the Japanese Prime Minister visited China and he wanted to try China's Jietan tea."

"He said that Jietan tea was a tribute tea during the Tang Dynasty and was once widely popular in Japan. He hopes to take this opportunity to try Jietan tea, but no one has heard of Jietan tea."

"People from the Ministry of Agriculture searched high and low, and finally found that this tea was produced in Ling County, Southern Province, and was indeed a tribute tea during the Tang Dynasty. However, due to various reasons, the tea gardens in Jietan have long been deserted, and this tea is no longer in name only."

"Later, with the concern of the state, tea plantation in Jietan slowly resumed cultivation, and it is still prosperous now."

After a pause, Duan Guolin said, "The snow tea we drank today, like the Jietan tea, both died once due to historical reasons."

"I'm afraid Ye Xiaoyou's tea tree is no longer the original snow tea tree."

Hearing this, Xia Meng sighed in dissatisfaction: "The tea trees in our back mountains are also pure ancient tea."

Because Qian Bin had inspected this snow tea emphatically, and after all, it was going to be a production line in the future, Xia Meng also listened to it a lot, and then she had the confidence to refute this statement.

"It is indeed a purebred ancient tea, that's why I said it was resurrected from the dead!"

Having said this, Duan Guolin nodded towards Ye Zhen and Xia Meng, "Thank you very much for letting me see the famous tea that disappeared."

"Famous tea?" Xia Meng touched her head honestly, "But this snow tea, Sister Ye only served Professor Wang and his friends in the past, so it's really not famous."

"Snow tea was used as tribute tea in the Ming and Qing dynasties..." Duan Guolin said calmly.

Ye Zhen suddenly realized that because the worlds she had experienced seemed real but not real, she was not sure where the tea came from. When Duan Guolin said this, she seemed to have seen the true source.

Xia Meng thought to himself, well, what year is this in the imperial calendar? Any tea that can be named on the market dares to say that it has made tribute tea. Who would recognize it?

"Until the 24th year of the Republic of China, snow tea was still a special offering of the upper class, and it was truly one ounce of gold and one ounce of tea."

"But in the 25th year of the Republic of China, those warlords, political figures, and Qing Dynasty veterans suddenly stopped drinking snow tea."

"As soon as these people stopped drinking, the people below would no longer pursue it. From then on, snow tea declined and was even lost."

Ye Zhen had never heard of this anecdote, not even Gu Jun or Professor Wang. For a moment, everyone in the teahouse looked at each other blankly.

In the 25th year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1936, if what Duan Guolin said was true, what was the reason that caused blood tea to change from one tael of gold to one tael of tea overnight to worthless?

Ye Zhen pondered for a moment: "Sir, you are knowledgeable. As a scholar born and raised in Nan Province, I have never heard of this anecdote! Why don't I know which book Dao Guangsheng read it from? I would also like to read it and verify it. "

Duan Guolin thought for a while and then said: "It's not a record, it's an oral statement from a Japanese tea ceremony master. 20 years ago, I went to Japan to visit this master and discuss tea with him."

"When talking about the most unforgettable cup of tea in his life, he said that in 1935, he was lucky enough to taste a cup of green tea called Xueya. That cup of tea amazed him and was something he would never forget."

"What happened next?" Wang Yushi was impatient and couldn't stand Duan Guolin's gentle way of speaking, so he couldn't help but urge him.

(End of this chapter)