The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty

Although the place Yunyan looked back is closer to Tokyo, it is Kaifeng County, one of the two Chi counties in Kaifeng Prefecture from the perspective of administrative divisions. Now, here is still a desolate, fortunately there are mountains. There is water, although mountains are not high mountains and waters are not big rivers, but some tricks are enough.

In order to welcome the imperial driver, although it is impossible to build an excellent house, the bamboo shed has been set up, and then it is covered with silk and silk cushions. It is already a very luxurious temporary residence.

I haven't seen any gardens in Renzong. Although the scenery in front of him is beautiful, it can't move him. What moved him is the scene depicted by Yun Yanhui. Just thinking about what this place will be in the future will be what Renzong will look like. Happy, smiled, and asked the accompanying person to wonder: Is this place so beautiful?

Chen Lin, Chen Banban, the manager next to Renzong, confidant number one, came to the temporary kitchen to see Yun Yanhui. Mainly, he still wanted to ask him how he was going to eat today. This was for Renzong.

As soon as Chen Lin entered, he first smelled a refreshing scent of jasmine, but there was no jasmine here, and he suspected that it was the incense on his clothes. However, in addition to Yun Yanhui, there are a few small eunuchs who attacked. The former did not incense, and the latter was not qualified to incense.

When Chen Lin came closer, he realized that Yun Yan was making tea, and the scent of jasmine came from the teapot.

Jasmine is still a fashionable gadget. It hasn't been long since it was introduced into the Song Dynasty from the Western Regions, but its fragrance has been fascinated a lot. "In his years, if I cultivated the history of flowers, it was listed as the first fragrance in the world," said Jasmine.

But in the Southern Song Dynasty, jasmine tea appeared, which is what Yun Yanhui is now making. And it has only been popular for a while. As for modern times, there are more types of scented teas, and many of them are Western-style scented teas.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the more popular method of ordering tea was to grind the tea into powder, add water to make a paste, and then order water. This method of eating is more "heavy taste". The method of making tea belongs to a relatively small group.

However, scented tea is of course more suitable for brewing.

Yun Yan returned to see Chen Lin and said with a smile: "Chen Banban, I made a pot of tea, is the official eating tea already? You can give it to him, or you can try this."

Chen Lin completely forgot what he was going to do, sniffing the fragrance, "It smells so good, are you making flowers or tea?"

Although it has the scent of jasmine, if you ask carefully, there is also the scent of tea mixed in it, and the combination is very good. When Chen Lin was suspicious, jasmine was added to it, but the fragrance of the flowers was so persistent that it really puzzled him.

"Of course it's tea." Yun Yan replied, and directly poured a cup of tea to show him. The tea in it was obviously silver needles, but it was also obviously outside the tea fragrance, exuding a quiet jasmine fragrance.

Chen Lin picked up the tea and sniffed it carefully, a little at a loss, "What kind of tea is this, and why does it smell of jasmine?"

Yun Yan returned but smiled.

Chen Lin said with emotion: "It seems to be your secret recipe."

It was indeed the secret recipe, but Yun Yan didn't want to say it back, but it was a bit difficult to explain.

Before, Yun Yan recalled that he wanted to engage in reception again, so he was thinking about tricks. After pondering and pondering, I feel that it is better to actually engage in "flowers" and simply use flowers as a meal. That being the case, even the refreshments naturally have a unified style.

It coincided with the spring flowers blooming in the flower garden of Daxiangguo Temple. When Yunyan saw the jasmine flowers in it, he thought about the most widely spread jasmine tea among the scented teas.

Yun Yanhui visited a tea factory in modern times and learned some relevant information. There is a method of making traditional Chinese scented tea, which is called "scenting." The scented scented tea can only smell the flowers and not see the flowers.

Tea has the characteristic of absorbing fragrance. By using this, if the flowers and tea are mixed and dried, the fragrance of flowers will permeate into the tea, and the tea leaves will have a floral fragrance.

The more you want the fragrance of tea, the more times you need to scent.

Like Yun Yan returning this time, he was in a hurry and added the time he experimented. It took four days to scent these jasmine tea four times, which consumed a lot of jasmine. It's still a bit immature, but it can be imported, and it doesn't hurt to improve it in the future.

In fact, there are also scented teas that bring flowers inside, but Yun Yan thought about it, and it seemed that he was still so compelling, so he chose scented scented tea.

There is tea and fruit. Tengluobing is a famous specialty in Beijing. The pastry is made with wisteria flowers as filling. The petals are soaked in sugar, which is sweet and delicious. When you bite into the cake, the inside is beautiful purple petal filling. , Good-looking and delicious.

As for Bian people who love chrysanthemums, then chrysanthemums are not even more. The eggs are wrapped in petals and fried in a pot, which is another flavor.

There are also dishes. I bought a lot of jasmine when scenting tea, and the rest can be used to make soup with tofu. In the future in the Ming Dynasty, it will also be an elegant dish with a unique flavor.

There are also meat dishes such as roasted prawns with rose, scrambled eggs with acacia flowers, and sliced ​​magnolia flowers, all of which are seasonal flowers. Come on the table, it can be said that the story of spring has the taste of spring.

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Yun Yan was cooking quickly, and the jasmine tea had been brought to Renzong.

The fragrance of jasmine is light and pleasant, which makes people feel relaxed. Renzong couldn't help but look at the cup of tea in surprise, especially when Chen Lin poured the tea, but there were no petals in it, which aroused Renzong’s curiosity.

"Is this Yun Yanhui making it?" Renzong has already eaten a cup of tea here. I want to know that Yun Yanhui made the tea from this pot.

Chen Lin nodded, "Look, it's so ingenious."

Renzong opened the lid of the pot, and looking inside, it turned out that there were no flowers.

But how could this silver needle smell of jasmine? The floral scent is still so long lasting, as if it originally smelled of jasmine.

Renzong knew that there must be some special technique in it, which made him curious, no matter the many, first have a sip of tea.

I usually eat some tea, which tastes very strong. The taste of this tea is very different. And after a little taste, I feel that the floral fragrance is more suitable to be brewed. The taste is sweet, the tea is mellow, and the tea buds stand up. It is really interesting.

Not long after, dishes with flowers were also served.

Renzong praised: "The morning dew when drinking magnolia in the morning and the fall of autumn chrysanthemum in the evening meal are quite ancient."

The most important thing is that these flowers dishes not only sound elegant enough, but also tasteful enough.

Although the use of flowers to be used in dishes has been early, but the mature cooking techniques like Yunyanhui are of course rare. Taking into account two aspects, it is simply unlovable.

Especially in the environment of clear water and green mountains, it is even more refreshing.

Renzong took a bite of fried chrysanthemum and sip of jasmine tea, blowing the cool breeze on his face, very pleasant, "Call Yun Yan back."

Yun Yan ran over after Chen Banban's summons.

Renzong looked at him with a faint smile, "Tea, wine, and flowers, it seems you have studied them thoroughly."

Tea has scented tea, wine has wine, and flowers have so many fresh dishes. What Renzong said seems to be right.

Yun Yan replied modestly: "It's just arty, I have no culture."

Renzong choked for a while and laughed out of his voice: "Forget about your clever teeth, okay, let me know how this tea is made."

There was a trace of seriousness in Renzong's expression, and the court asked for tea. Since Yun Yanhui can make jasmine tea, he can also make other scented teas. If this tea becomes popular, then the technology is in his hands, wouldn't it be right? The imperial court talked about tea, did he talk about tea?

Fortunately, Yun Yanhui is not a profit-seeking person. As soon as he turned his mind, he thought of Renzong's meaning. He didn't mean to engage in a monopoly. He smiled, carefully, and explained the method of tea scenting.

Renzong silently wrote down, "Did you learn this method or did you come up with it?"

Yun Yan thought about it for a while and felt that Renzong wanted to make sure that this was not a unique technology. This technology is really unique nowadays, so Yun Yan also recognized it and said euphemistically: "Well, I am the only one who can ——Oh, you will also have officials?"

Renzong saw that his eyes were clear, his expression was natural, there was no displeasure at all, and he was very satisfied, "Well, I still said that.

Now that Yunyan regained his acquaintance, Renzong didn't mind reciprocating.

Yun Yan thought back to his heart, last time you voted for a pleasurable job, you got me to demolish, come back?

Of course, he dared not say this, but said happily: "Ah, official, can I walk sideways in Bianjing from now on?"

Renzong: "..."

Yun Yan regained his enthusiasm, "I'm a little excited when I think about it. I shouldn't have to wait in line for shopping anymore." Pushing everyone in front of him, and shouting, I'm messing with the official!

The corners of Renzong's mouth twitched, "Are you just like that?"

"Officials, I really don't want to hide..." Yun Yan said cautiously, "You can reward me with anything, but don't reward me for being an official." He doesn't want to be a civil servant at all. Temporary work is great and free. The degree is high, there are people covering it, and there is no need to experience the darkness in the officialdom-look at Pang Taishi, how dark!

Renzong snorted, "You have no way to do it, you have no culture."

Yun Yan replied: "..."

——Return to the other body by the way of the other, only Yunyanhui just claimed to have no culture. Renzong obviously agreed to Yun Yan's return, but he was just kidding. If he wants to be an official, whether he has culture or not is not a problem at all.

This is also Renzong, who was refused to be an official without getting angry.

Seeing Renzong's "contempt" eyes, Yun Yan had to say, "Yes, the official is right..."