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Hearing that the other party was so tough, Liu Qingyu didn't have any dissatisfaction or anger, but just smiled lightly: "No question, we will arrive at the teahouse on time at around 5 pm."

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, outside the antique Tianlong Teahouse, Liu Qingyu and Qin Shuai got off the car and walked towards Tianlong Teahouse.

This is an indoor courtyard-style tea house, with a red brick and white wall on the outside. The wall bricks are full of classical style. The gate is an archway, and on the archway are written several seal script characters - Tianlong Tea House.

Entering the gate, the courtyard is deep, with pavilions, pavilions, winding paths, flower bushes, arched corridors, small bridges and flowing water. Walking into the courtyard, it seems that you have entered an ancient Jiangnan courtyard and entered history.The quiet environment and exquisite design do not belong to Jiangnan gardens.

Walk through the winding corridors, smell the fragrance of flowers and birds on both sides, and come to the door of the teahouse.

In front of the door stood two slim beauties in cheongsams, standing there, swaying.Looking at the faces, the two beauties on the left are petite and exquisite, with fair skin and delicate faces, typical Jiangnan beauties.The one on the right is tall and tall, with slender jade legs. Although the face is not as exquisite as the two beauties on the left, it is also full of typical northern characteristics. The four beauties, plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, each have their own characteristics.It is pleasing to the eye.

Before entering the tea house, but first admire the beautiful women, the charm is endless.

Liu Qingyu just glanced at the four beauties, and without any hesitation, he stepped forward. A beaut opened the antique door for Liu Qingyu, and Yingying Yanyan's voice came out neatly: " welcome."

Raise your legs high, step over the threshold, and walk into the room.The first floor is an exhibition hall. The surrounding walls and tables are covered with literati calligraphy and paintings, antique cultural relics, and exquisite ceramics.Walking here is like walking into the corridor of Chinese classical culture and art.

Liu Qingyu took a closer look and found that these antiques and cultural relics were all genuine, and there were even some high-quality goods.Especially the literati calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall include works by the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and works by modern masters. When you look at it, you can feel a strong sense of traditional culture.

At this time, a tall young woman in her 30s wearing a big red sleeveless cheongsam walked over from the hall, looked at Liu Qingyu and Qin Shuai with a smile and said, "Are you the guests who came to participate in the tea fight?"

Liu Qingyu nodded slightly.

"Those two come with me, but today's situation is a bit special. Originally, my boss promised to have a tea fight with you, but it happened that a Japanese guest came here not long ago, and this guest also asked to have a tea fight with my boss. Tea, so our boss temporarily decided to join this Japanese guest during the tea fight." When the young woman spoke, she did not speak in a tone of discussion, but in a tone of notification.

Liu Qingyu still just nodded lightly after listening, and didn't care.

Walk up the wooden stairs to the second floor, and enter a large hall, and a light sandalwood smell hits your face.

Entering the hall, Liu Qingyu saw two people sitting in front of a moderately high and large rosewood tea table.

Sitting on the main seat is an old man about 50 years old with black hair and ruddy complexion, wearing a red Tang suit and wearing a five-eyed conch dzi in his hand. A few strands are deep, giving people a sense of inscrutability.

Sitting on the left of this person is a man wearing a traditional Japanese samurai costume. He is about 40 years old, about 1.6 meters tall, with a crew cut and a mustache under his nose. His eyes are shining brightly. He had a haughty look on his face.

At this time, the man wearing the five-eyed dzi raised his head, glanced at Liu Qingyu and Qin Shuai lightly, and said with a smile: "Since you are here, please sit down. Today, everyone's goal is very simple, which is to fight tea, Sagawa Suzuki Sir, do you mind adding another tea fighting friend?"

Sagawa Suzuki glanced at Liu Qingyu and Qin Shuai disdainfully, and said in a somewhat haughty Chinese: "What's the matter, in my eyes, your Chinese tea ceremony has already been known, and it can be called the tea ceremony. Only our Japanese tea ceremony."

After Sagawa finished speaking, the five-eyed dzi bead man didn't answer, but his brows were tightly frowned, but his eyes were on Liu Qingyu and Qin Shuai.

Liu Qingyu said directly and coldly: "Mr. Sagawa, I don't agree with your statement. I think that the real tea ceremony began in our China. Your Japanese tea culture is also deeply influenced by our Chinese tea ceremony, even the tea leaves are It was introduced to your Japan from China, isn't that right?"

At this time, the man with the five-eyed dzi bead said suddenly: "My friends, I think our tea fight today will be divided into two parts. The first part is for sitting and discussing the Tao. Let's discuss the tea ceremony first and see how your tea ceremony is. .After this part is over, we're going to have a real tea fight, what do you think?"

Liu Qingyu didn't make the decision directly, but looked at Qin Shuai.The reason why he refuted Sagawa Suzuki just now is because Liu Qingyu has done research on the traditional Chinese tea ceremony after all. Although he is not as deep as Qin Shuai, he still has some understanding of the real tea ceremony culture.And Sagawa is simply turning black and white.This is something Liu Qingyu can't tolerate anyway.But once it comes to the level of sitting and talking about Taoism, Liu Qingyu knows that he can't reach it, and can only see Qin Shuai's meaning.

Qin Shuai smiled and nodded: "Okay, no problem."

The eyes of the five-eyed dzi bead man lingered on the faces of Liu Qingyu and Qin Shuai for a moment respectively, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. He already knew the position between Liu Qingyu and Qin Shuai.But when he saw that Qin Shuai was only about 30 years old, there was still a hint of disdain in his eyes.In his opinion, if one wants to truly understand the tea ceremony, one cannot master it without decades of experience in tea tasting and tea fighting, and without decades of research on tea culture, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.However, the traditional Chinese culture has a long history, and the culture of any one of the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism is enough for a person to spend his whole life studying, but he may not be able to achieve much.And how much research can these two young people who are only about 30 years old have?

Sagawa Suzuki nodded without the slightest hesitation.

As the direct descendant of the Sagawa school of Japanese tea ceremony, he is confident that few can surpass him in the tea ceremony.

Hearing Sagawa Suzuki's answer, Tianzhu Man smiled slightly, then looked at Qin Shuai and Liu Qingyu and said: "If you want to fight me for tea, you need to pass my first test, and I will treat you this time." The biggest test is, do you know the origin and meaning of my bracelet?"

Liu Qingyu doesn't play bracelets, so he doesn't have much research on this thing.

Qin Shuai just glanced at the other party's bracelet, and then said calmly: "This is just a string of five-eyed dzi beads."

Hearing what Qin Shuai said, Tianzhu Man was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect that this young man would actually call out the name of his bracelet, then he smiled and asked: "Then do you know that this bracelet has a name?" What does it mean? Why is it called the Five-Eyed Dzi Bead?"

Qin Shuai smiled faintly: "This bead string has three eyes on the front and two eyes on the back. It is collectively called five-eyed dzi beads. The five eyes represent Buddha, lotus, Vajra, Baosheng, and Karma respectively. The five gods of wealth gather together to achieve success and complete auspiciousness." The meaning of endless joy. It is said in the Book of Changes: the number of days is five, and the number of earth is five, so the human body has five fingers, five sense organs and five internal organs. Food has five flavors and five grains.

After Qin Shuai finished speaking, Tianzhu Man's expression really changed this time. When he looked at Qin Shuai again, his eyes were already a bit serious.

But Liu Qingyu has a calm expression. In his opinion, although Qin Shuai is sometimes unreliable, in terms of the inheritance and research of Chinese traditional culture, in Liu Qingyu's opinion, he can surpass Qin Shuai. , I'm afraid there is only that wonderful teammate I met when I was a soldier.That teammate belongs to the weirdest existence in their special forces.In terms of division of labor, he is a military doctor. It can be said that he uses traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine superbly in his hands, and his understanding of traditional Chinese culture is so profound that even Liu Qingyu feels admiration.

Liu Qingyu thought that he already had a relatively in-depth study of Confucianism, but compared with this teammate, Liu Qingyu felt ashamed, and under the influence of this teammate, almost everyone in their special operations team had a deep understanding of Confucianism and Buddhism. The understanding of these traditional cultures of Taoism has reached a very advanced level. Without him, this teammate has a habit of being a teacher. When he is free, he will tell them his understanding of the traditional culture of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, especially when he gives When his teammates were treating injuries, it was even more when he was a teacher. At this time, no one dared to offend him, even if they didn't like to listen, they had to listen, so everyone got used to it.

However, based on Liu Qingyu's understanding of Qin Shuai, even if Qin Shuai's understanding of traditional culture is not as good as that of his teammate, it is not much worse. But in terms of understanding of Chinese medicine, Liu Qingyu believes that even if any teammate It may not be able to surpass Qin Shuai.

At this time, the Tianzhu male suddenly asked: "What is the five-eyed merit?"

"Five ways to make money, no disadvantages, and good roads, you can get the blessing and help of the five Buddhas, the five gods of wealth, and the earth gods, and you will get wealth and longevity. This is called the five-eyed merit."

"What are the five eyes interests?"

"Getting the empowerment of the five Buddhas, the five ways to make money, the five blessings coming to the door, and the five sons enthroned in the imperial examination, etc. It symbolizes that the heaven and the earth are born with the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth."

"What is the zodiac corresponding to the Five-Eyed Dzi Bead?"

"Horse, sheep, monkey!"

Between a question and an answer, it is like flowing clouds and flowing water, smooth and natural.

At this point, the Tianzhu man completely wiped out his contempt for Qin Shuai and Liu Qingyu, his expression became serious, and he asked, "Above the five-eyed Tianzhu, is there a good one?"

Qin Shuai said: "Yes, it's called the Nine-Eyed Dzi Bead! The Nine-Eyed Dzi Bead is the highest grade among the Dzi Beads. It can avoid all disasters, increase compassion, have great authority, and have great benefits. Among the merits of Dzi Beads, the Nine-Eyed Dzi Bead Contains the symbol and artistic conception of all totems, the last state in Buddhist practice, the nine-pin lotus flower transformation. Nine also symbolizes the unpredictable, insurmountable, and infinitely broad realm. Nine eyes symbolize the operation of the nine planets in nature, including the operation of the universe and human beings. thinking, turning weakness into strength; it represents the collection of the merits of the Nine Vehicles, the final state in Buddhist practice, and the transformation of the Nine-Rank Lotus Blossom."

After Qin Shuai finished speaking, Tianzhu Man nodded lightly: "Okay, you have passed the test. The following question, you two can express your own understanding. If I think what you say is unreasonable, I will be eliminated directly. My question is , what is tea?"

Such a simple question made both Sagawa Suzuki and Qin Shuai frown.