Concubine Chef Youxi: Lord, Master, stop

Chapter 296 Three Paths

Seeing his wife's question, Mi Xiaoye had no choice but to explain: "Tea is to compare the quality of tea. The tea fighters each take the best tea in their possession and cook it in turn. It’s time for a tea fight. A few people, or a dozen people, most of them are celebrities and scholars, and there are many people watching, as lively as watching a football game. The place for tea fighting is mostly in large-scale tea shops, courtyards with two entrances, There are small kitchens that can make tea, and some people who are more particular will choose a garden full of flowers and bamboos in the distance to make it more artistic. Whether it is near the water or quiet, it is a good place for tea fighting."

Not only Madam, everyone in the hall listened with gusto.

Madam smiled and asked: "Then, how do you fight for tea?"

Mi Xiaoye said with a smile: "Participants in the tea fight each take out the tea they have hidden, cook it in turn, and judge each other to score the best. Grind the tea cake into powder, and drink the tea powder and tea together when drinking. Tea fighting, or multiple people fighting together, or two people catching up to 'fight', two wins in three fights. But tea fighting has also derived more tricks."

"What pattern?" asked the lady.

Mi Xiaoye said with a smile, "It's tea fighting, tea fighting order, and tea play."

"And what do you say?" Madame asked with a smile.

Mi Xiaoye said: "When drinking tea, the 'new' tea is the most valuable, and the water used for tea fighting should be 'live'. One bucket of soup color, two buckets of water marks. The first thing to look at is whether the color of the tea soup is bright white, pure white The green and white, gray and yellow are the losers. Because the tea soup color can reflect the tea picking skills."

"The color of soup can also reflect the skill?" Madam asked, "How do you say that?"

Mi Xiaoye said: "The tea soup is pure white, which means that the picked tea is fat and tender, and the preparation is just right; the color of the soup is green, which means that the steamed tea is not cooked enough; the color of the soup is gray, which means that the steamed tea is too hot; Reddish, indicating that it has been baked."

"It turns out that it is like this, too much or too little can affect the tea soup." Madam asked, "What next?"

Mi Xiaoye continued: "Secondly, it depends on the duration of the soup flower. When making the preparation, first roast the tea cake and grind it finely, and then boil water to boil it. If the grinding is fine, the tea, soup, and whisking are all just right, and the soup flower will be fine. Uniform and thin, you can bite the edge of the cup tightly, and stay together for a long time, the best effect of this is 'biting the cup'."

Jun Yize was very strange, how did he hear about this method of fighting tea for the first time?
It's no wonder that the methods of fighting tea mentioned by Mi Xiaoye only emerged slowly in the Song Dynasty, and they didn't exist at this time.Moreover, people in Dashang drink tea differently from what Mi Xiaoye described.

Previously, Su Ziling took Mi Xiaoye to Yuntai Sipin for a cup of tea. Mi Xiaoye almost flipped the table, because Dashang would add a lot of oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar seasonings when drinking tea, which made it difficult for Mi Xiaoye to accept.In contrast, Mi Xiaoye still prefers tea made with clear water.

But Mi Xiaoye is proud that Dashang has started to have "afternoon tea".Drinking cooked tea and eating snacks is very popular among the nobles of the big merchants.

However, although Mi Xiaoye's tea fight was hundreds of years earlier, everyone still listened to it with gusto, as if they had actually seen it.

"It's really wonderful." Madam laughed, "I never imagined that Dashang's tea fighting is so mysterious, and there is such a correct level. If I didn't listen to the envoy, I am afraid that I have never heard of it in my life."

"Ma'am, you are serious." Mi Xiaoye said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)