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Chapter 9 Amazing Magic Skills (3)
It’s just that Ji Cheng didn’t expect that strange man in the pine path to suddenly raise his head. Ji Cheng inexplicably wanted to take a step back, but he quickly suppressed it. It’s so far away, so it’s strange why there is a feeling of being discovered by him. She didn't do anything wrong.

Fortunately, the man only took a glance and then lowered his head again, Ji Cheng retreated to sit in the pavilion, Shen Cui took a sip from the teacup in the girl's hand, and glanced down the mountain with disdain: "Wang Siniang is also funny In front of us, there is a sister who is a concubine Shu, with eyes on the top of her head, but when she sees the second brother, she jumps up like a Pekingese dog, and pretends to be clever that no one can see it. "

It was only now that Ji Cheng knew the identity of the person at the foot of the mountain, and it turned out to be the well-known second son of the dude in the Duke's Mansion, but he didn't know why people like Wang Siniang fell in love with him.

"The funniest thing is that Wang Yueniang also admires the second brother in private. I don't know if Wang Siniang can see it. Hehe, Wang Siniang's elder sister is the concubine Shu in the palace. If she has the ability to ask for an imperial decree to marry her, then I admire her. Follow us What score is there in front of you?" Shen Cui sarcastically said.

Ji Cheng didn't know where Shen Cui's complaints came from, and he didn't know where he was worthy of Shen Cui's trust, so he complained all over to himself.

While drinking tea, he saw a young man coming up from the stone ladder, showing his head, it was Shen Cui's elder brother, Shen Jing, the fourth son of the Shen family.

A few days ago, Ji Cheng had already seen this cousin when he was waiting by Ji Lan's side.

"Why is fourth brother here?" Shen Cui also saw Shen Jing, and Ji Cheng stood up after him.

Shen Jing wore a robe of Tianhua brocade with blue ground treasure pattern pattern, elegant and courteous in his richness, and he heard Shen Cui's voice laughing: "I saw you drinking tea in the pavilion from afar. , It’s really comfortable, I’ll come up and ask for a cup of tea.”

After finishing speaking, Shen Jing looked at Ji Cheng who lowered his head slightly and said with a smile: "Cousin, don't be restrained, please take a seat, we are all close relatives, you are welcome."

Only then did Ji Cheng take his seat, and Shen Jing looked at the girl making tea and said, "Nishang, why are you here?"

Before Nishang could speak, Shen Cui said: "Second brother drank tea here just now, and we just came up after he left, so I asked Nishang to make us a cup by the way."

It was only then that Ji Cheng realized that this unattractive Nishang was the girl next to Second Master Shen.Shen Che must have seen these girls start walking around, so he avoided suspicion and left before even collecting the tea sets, but he was blocked by sisters from the Wang family as soon as he got down.

Of course, Ji Cheng did not rule out the possibility that the second young master left in such a hurry just to go down the mountain to meet the Wang family sisters by chance.

Ji Cheng immediately thought again, it turns out that Shen Cui is not an idiot, this is to make it clear that he said bad things about the Wang sisters in front of the girl next to Shen Che, which means that he does not want Wang Siniang to be the second sister-in-law.

Shen Jing couldn't help sighing, even the eldest girl next to the second elder brother dared to order around, his younger sister was quite courageous, she was afraid that she would be taught a lesson in the future.

"It turned out to be the second brother's tea set, so I said that this set of frozen flower stone cups is not something that a vulgar person like you can appreciate." Shen Jing said.

Shen Cui's eyes widened immediately, and Ji Cheng was also surprised, how could a brother say that about his sister, not to mention he didn't know what Shen Cui was most taboo about?
But Shen Jing just said it, and he said it in front of the girl.

Ji Cheng would not take Shen Jing as a fool, this fourth cousin was taken to the old lady to raise him after birth, and later Ji Lansheng's little six, Shen Zheng, was also raised in the old lady's yard, only Shen Cui followed Ji Lan grew up.Ji Cheng felt that people like the old lady would never be able to raise fools.

Besides, who in this world is a fool?Even Shen Cui has her own scheming.

Therefore, Ji Cheng had to think that Shen Jing's words were actually meant for Nishang, and of course it could not be ruled out that Shen Jing looked down on his younger sister's style.

"Fourth brother, why are you talking? Are you still my brother?" Shen Cui said angrily.

Shen Jing ignored Shen Cui, and turned to Ji Cheng and said, "Cousin is lucky. Nishang's skill in making tea is considered to be the best in our capital. Most people don't have this kind of good fortune. Even if we want to drink, we still need two. Only when brother is in a good mood can he ask for a drink."

Nishang smiled and said, "Fourth Young Master, stop praising Nishang like this, it's too much."

Ji Chengfang knew that Shen Jing was flattering Nishang, although it wasn't flattering, but he definitely didn't want to offend him, so he stabbed Shen Cui first.Ji Cheng couldn't help thinking, that Second Young Master is such an arrogant character, even the cats and dogs around him can't tolerate being manipulated at will.

Ji Cheng thought that it was indeed a little rude for Shen Cui to come first.When he came to Deyue Pavilion, he saw a girl cleaning the tea set inside, Ji Cheng thought that Huang's arrangements were really thoughtful, even the rest pavilions in places like this had girls waiting for them to make tea.Only now did I realize that it was just a coincidence, and Shen Cui casually ordered the girl in the cousin's room.

The girl named Nishang was also obviously stunned at the time, but she started making tea without saying a word, and Ji Cheng didn't think much about it.But obviously, Nishang ignored Shen Cui's orders because she was the big girl in Shen Che's house, but she was a polite girl.

In a daze, Nishang had already brewed two more cups of tea and served them to Shen Jing and Ji Cheng respectively.

Ji Cheng took a sip, and felt that his mouth and teeth were fragrant, and his mind was purified. The tea was good, the water was good, and the skill of the tea maker was excellent.

Shen Cui sneered and said, "Fourth brother, you are not a brute, so tell me what kind of tea is this tea and what kind of water is it?"

Ji Cheng didn't want to join the fight between the two brothers and sisters, so he simply stared at the exquisite and lovely frozen flower stone teacup in his hand. This one she frozen was a plum blossom, and she looked at Shen Jing and Shen Cui, both of which were in different forms. The plum blossoms, I am amazed.

This frozen flower stone is a specialty of Yuedi. It is not particularly precious in itself, but the frozen flower stone is named because its color is like frozen ice, and it is born with frozen patterns. Among them, the frozen pattern like flowers is particularly rare. The plum blossoms on this cup are very complete, and The shape is beautiful, a small cup is worth a hundred gold, but looking at the set of frozen flower stone cups in front of you are actually plum blossoms, its value is at least a thousand gold.Silver is still a trivial matter, the main thing is that it is really rare to be able to gather such a set of cups, and it may take a hundred years to gather the materials for making this set of cups from the frozen flower stones that have been mined.

When Ji Cheng was admiring and admiring, he only heard Shen Jing say: "It's the snow bud of Qishan."

How could Shen Cui know what kind of tea it was? He looked at Nishang, who nodded slightly.

Shen Cui gave a "tss", as if to say that although Shen Jing could taste the tea, it was not a real skill.

Ji Cheng from Qishan Xueya had never heard of it. She asked herself that she had been supplementing all kinds of tea scriptures these years, but Qishan Xueya had never heard of it, so she felt a little uncomfortable for a while.After all, they are not from a noble family, without their background, I am afraid that even if they get their wish and marry into a noble family in the future, they will be ridiculed by relatives and friends in the details.

In fact, Ji Cheng has really worked hard. In order to be able to taste all kinds of tea flavors, she has controlled her diet very lightly over the years, so light to the point of lack of taste, all spicy spices such as pepper, Chinese prickly ash, dogwood, ginger, etc., and even spring onions Never touch it.But today, although she tasted good or bad tea, she really didn't know what kind of tea it was.

"Fourth young master has such a powerful tongue, even Qi Shanxueya knows it. Just a few tea trees can only produce half a catty of tea leaves, and the young master accidentally discovered it when he went to Qishan a few years ago." Nishang laughed.

Ji Cheng let out a sigh of relief when he heard the words, it turned out that it wasn't that she was ignorant, it was just that Qi Shanxueya was a small breed and there were only a few people who knew about it.

"I once got a cup from my second brother, and I still have a lingering taste in my mouth, so I always remember it." Shen Jing said.

"My lord only likes to drink the tea he picks himself." Nishang laughed.

Ji Cheng took another sip of tea, the aftertaste was indeed lingering, moist and sweet, not to mention unforgettable in a lifetime, but at least this taste will not be forgotten in ten years.She sighed in her heart, when she was still trying to taste the world-renowned teas that money could buy, the second son of the Shen family had already only eaten these delicious teas that were only half a catty in the world.How different people are.

"Fourth brother, you haven't said what water it is yet." Shen Cui didn't bother to listen to Shen Jing and Nishang boasting to each other, she just wanted to make Shen Jing make a fool of herself, so that he wouldn't look down on her all the time.

Shen Jing was really not sure about this, and he didn't answer for a long time.Shen Cui couldn't help laughing triumphantly.

Shen Jing's ears turned red slightly, and he couldn't help but glance at Ji Cheng.In fact, whether you can taste the water or not is not an important skill, but at this moment, I always feel a little ashamed.

Ji Cheng knew that Shen Jing's words just now were for the good of Shen Cui, and seeing that Shen Cui didn't appreciate it, he couldn't help but lean towards Shen Jing at this moment, and besides, the third room will rely on Shen Jing for support in the future, Ji Cheng naturally wants to talk to this cousin Get along well.But it's not easy to make it clear at this moment, she only looked at the Yongquan Pond at the foot of Hegang when Shen Jing was looking at her.

Shen Jing looked at Ji Cheng three times, and every time she looked at Yongquan Pond with her eyes, his heart moved slightly, and he said to Nishang, "The water is from a spring under Hegang in Fuzhong, right?"

Nishang smiled and said: "The fourth young master's tongue is really powerful."

Shen Jing knew that he deserved this praise, so he just smiled lightly.

Shen Cui let out another "tow", while Ji Cheng continued to appreciate the frozen flower stone cup in his hand.

Nishang lowered her eyelids and looked at this cousin girl from Jindi out of the corner of her eye. She didn't expect her to have such elegant skills.

The taste of tea is light, but it is much richer than water. The difference in the taste of water is only a slight difference. Even though Nishang has been immersed in the tea ceremony for more than ten years, I dare not say that I can tell the taste of water [-]%. At least five points out of ten are based on guesswork. .

But Ji Cheng didn't guess, she also likes to make tea, and after she came to Shen's mansion, she couldn't go to the mountains to transport spring water as much as she did in Jindi. Fortunately, the water drawn from this fountain was boiled. The taste of the tea was not bad at all, she had been eating it for days, if she couldn't even taste this, it would be in vain for her to forbid so many delicious sacrifices.

Shen Jing couldn't help looking at Ji Cheng, but he only glanced at it and didn't dare to look any further. He only remembered that her eyelashes were long and curled up, just like a tiger butterfly flapping its wings to gather powder in spring, The broken light fell on her eyelashes, just like the shiny dots on the wings of the tiger butterfly, it was astonishingly beautiful.

Shen Cui felt that sitting was boring, so she yelled for Ji Cheng to accompany her down the mountain to play, Ji Cheng couldn't wait to stand up quickly.Although Shen Jing is very polite and almost doesn't look sideways, Ji Cheng is still keenly aware of the difference. She doesn't want to get involved with Shen Jing other than cousins, otherwise her aunt might tear her up and eat her. .

Shen Jing looked at Ji Cheng's back and smiled, his cousin was born too shy, and he was so different from his ignorant younger sister.

Shen Jing recalled his surprise when he saw the grown-up Ji Cheng for the first time, today he saw Ji Cheng on the Hegang from a distance, and he came up by a strange coincidence, in fact, he also knew that it was not appropriate for him to do so.His mother had already planned for a rainy day, since he met Ji Cheng in the upper room that day, and then went to his mother's couch to say hello, he had never seen this cousin again, but his mother kept talking about his marriage. Side, how could Shen Jing fail to understand such an obvious implication?

But it's one thing to understand, but another thing to control yourself, Shen Jing sighed slightly, even if he could catch a glimpse of such a cousin every day, his eyes would feel comfortable.

Looking at the back of Ji Cheng leaving at the foot of the mountain, Shen Jing said in a low voice: "The mountain is empty and rainy is also strange."

Besides, after all the people in the three rooms in this room left, Nishang also hurriedly packed up the tea sets, carried the bamboo box and went down the mountain.As soon as he entered the yard, he heard Yuyi complaining: "Where have you been, the young master is back, waiting for you to make tea, but you are fine, you have only come back now after strolling."

Nishang put down the tea set, turned around and entered the tea room to make tea for Shen Che.Yuyi also followed in, and Nishang had no choice but to explain: "Just when the tea set was about to be packed, Miss Wu came and asked me to make tea, but I couldn't say no."

"Why can't you say no? You are the young master's girl, not their third wife's girl." Yu Yi said unhappily, "If you don't refuse anyone who comes, you will be bullied to death sooner or later."

Nishang didn't take it seriously: "They are masters, we are slaves, it's not a big deal, why bother to refute."

"You, you." With an angry expression on his face, Yuyi snatched the teacup from Nishang's hand vigorously, "I'm going to deliver tea to the young master, so you should clean up these. Wash those teacups a few more times, wash them It’s clean, it’s the young master’s favorite set, it’s hard to get together, if you change it to something else, just throw it away.”

Nishang sighed helplessly, Yuyi's temperament really offended others for the young master.

That Yuyi didn't care about these things, he took the tray and left, but when he came to the study, he immediately got up lightly, and called softly on the porch: "Young master." He walked in after getting the answer.

"My lord, Nishang just came back." Yuyi put down the teacup and said softly, "The fifth girl asked her to make tea, so she came back late."

Yu Yi didn't hear his young master's answer, so he secretly raised his eyelids, saw his face was calm, and then continued: "The fifth girl has done too much, but Nishang is too easy to bully."

The person on the couch put down the scroll in his hand: "Go out."

Yu Yi was stunned for a moment, then peeked at the person sitting on the couch by the south window, and retreated without daring to say anything more.She felt a little thumping in her heart, but then she felt that she had done nothing wrong.

But less than half an hour later, Nanny Kong brought someone into the yard, and asked Yuyi to pack up her things and go with her without saying anything.

Yuyi's face turned pale in an instant. Before her, there were several girls named Yuyi who lived in her house. She originally thought that she would be the last one named Yuyi, but she didn't expect that she would have to leave within half a year. At the time she didn't even know why.

"Nurse, why on earth?" Yuyi murmured with tears streaming down his face.

But Nanny Kong didn't feel any softness, she just silently watched Yuyi kneeling in front of her and weeping.

"Mother, why is this? I want to see the young master, I want to see the young master." Yuyi cried, obviously in memory, the second young master always smiled kindly to her.

"Have you thought about it, are you really going to ask?" Mother Kong said coldly, and stood sideways, not intending to stop Yuyi at all.

Yuyi stood up staggeringly, wanting to go out, but couldn't lift her legs, after a long time, she just lowered her head weakly and started to pack her things. A smile appeared on the corner of Nanny Kong's lips, she was quite sensible.

It's good to be sensible, and sensible people usually don't end up too badly.

Nishang watched Yuyi leave by the door, sighed slightly, and sighed why these people couldn't think about it so much.

Although there were many girls named Yuyi by Shen Che's side, there was always only one girl named Nishang.

On the second day after Yuyi left, another handsome Yuyi aged fifteen or sixteen lived in the former Yuyi's house again.

(End of this chapter)