tea ceremony inheritance system

Chapter 80 Tea Powder
Cao Lei picked up a long and thin bamboo brush and said, "This tea set is called a tea whisk, and it is the first tea set with a unique way of ordering tea. Committee member Wu has been to Fusang, so he should have seen something similar there. The matcha ceremony there also needs to use tea whisks, and their tea whisks have been gradually improved to be more detailed and artistic."

Generally speaking, tea whisks are made of old bamboo. The roots of the whisk are thick and heavy, and the brush part is made of many bamboo strips cut by thin tips. This structure can comb the tea soup on the basis of beating the tea soup. The process of ordering tea is controlled by the tea orderer, and the effect of ordering tea is more like the wishes of the tea orderer.The tea whisk used by Fusang, after improvement, is lighter and more beautiful, and it takes less effort to make matcha. Similarly, the effect of matcha is poor.

After listening to Cao Lei's introduction, Wu Mingshun nodded in satisfaction. It can be seen from the exquisiteness of the tea whisk that their preparations are relatively sufficient, which shows that they really put a lot of thought into it.

Afterwards, Wu Mingshun picked up a silver utensil with a big belly and a small mouth on the coffee table, and asked suspiciously, "Long-necked wine bottle?"

Cao Lei was amused by his expression, took the utensil, and explained: "This is called a soup bottle, and it is also a special tea set for ordering tea. It is a utensil for holding water and boiling. You see, it has a big belly and a small mouth. Both the handle and the water outlet are on the shoulder of the bottle belly, and the water flow pipe is generally bow-shaped or arc-shaped, with a slight bend. The best soup bottles are made of gold and silver. Due to the relationship between funds, they can only be made of silver. become."

"This soup bottle is for boiling water. Why do you have to make it like this? Is it just for aesthetics, or is it just a luxury preference of literati?" Wu Mingshun asked again. He knew that the aristocrats of the Song Dynasty liked great achievements It is very extravagant, so I think this should be used to show off wealth.

"Yes, it's not right. You're talking about one aspect, but it is indeed designed in this way when ordering tea, and the effect will be more suitable for ordering tea."

Cao Lei introduced several tea sets one after another, then showed an awkward smile, and said: "The introduction of tea sets is here first, I believe you can't wait to see this long-lost tea ordering method. However, it's a pity Yes, I only have a half-knowledge about ordering tea, so I won’t make a fool of myself.”

"Chairman Cao, don't be joking! You don't order tea, do you want us to order tea?" Wu Mingshun didn't agree, Cao Lei hooked his interest, and he quit at such a critical moment!

"No, no. I'm going out to call a colleague who is familiar with tea ordering and ask him to perform a tea ordering method. But let me tell you first, he doesn't know much, please forgive me later .” Cao Lei hastily explained.

"Come on, I just happen to know a little bit about how to make tea." Su Zhongkang, who had been listening quietly by the side, actually spoke at this time.

From the interaction between the two of them and Chairman Cao Lei's attitude towards Wu Mingshun, Su Zhongkang roughly guessed Wu Mingshun's identity.

His current social circle is too small, so that he dare not take out any good tea, for fear that others will not recognize the goods, such as those old Baihao Silver Needle tea.

In order to broaden his social circle and enter the upper social circle of tea, he had to meet some prominent people.In particular, that circle is quite exclusive. If he loses this opportunity, he may have to wait a long time.

It just so happened that the primary tea-making skills he had passed down before included the tea-making method and the method of frying tea.Although he hasn't tried it before, but taking this opportunity, he can show it.

It may not be very skilled, but it is enough to bluff these people.

"Su Xiaoyou actually knows how to make tea?" Cao Lei was quite surprised, and he wondered if he was just talking about it.

"The master is among the folks!" Wu Mingshun was obviously quite surprised, but after seeing Su Zhongkang's tea brewing art, he was relieved.

He believed that behind Su Zhongkang, there must be a master tea master, otherwise how could such a young star tea art master appear out of thin air.

Su Zhongkang said lightly: "I just know a thing or two."

"Well, since Xiaoyou Su also knows something about how to order tea, you can really learn from each other." After Cao Lei finished speaking, he went outside and called a familiar man in his early 30s to come in, and said, "He His name is Deng Yin, and he is a young talent in our reduction group, and he has made some progress in the research of tea ordering method."

Then, he introduced the two of Su Zhongkang to Deng Yin, and said emphatically: "Young friend Su, don't look at his young age, he also has experience in ordering tea. From now on, you two should get closer."

Wu Mingshun looked at Cao Lei chattering a lot, and was impatient with waiting, and urged, "Let's start, I've been hungry for a long time."

When Cao Lei heard this, he quickly agreed and said, "Okay, okay, okay. It will start right away. Who will come?"

"Let me come!" Su Zhongkang got up immediately, then walked to the special tea making place on the coffee table, sat down cross-legged, adjusted his sitting posture a little, and started right away.

Su Zhongkang took out the tea stove, took a few charcoals from the package next to him, lit them with a flamethrower, and put them into the tea stove.

These charcoals are specially made so that when they burn, there will be no smoke and there will be a flame on the charcoal.

The red flames danced in the tea stove like a fire snake, adding some vitality to the already somewhat lonely tea and food.

Su Zhongkang used bamboo tweezers to pick up the tea cake that had been wrapped several layers by Cao Lei.These tea cakes are all the size of half a palm, brown in color, and have a faint tea fragrance.

"This tea cake should be made by steaming green tea, but your tea grinding process is not good, the powder particles are too big, you should grind it finer, so that the quality of the tea cake will be higher, wait a moment The more effective the tea, the better." Su Zhongkang deliberately poked the tea cake with bamboo tweezers.

After Su Zhongkang finished speaking, the eyes of Deng Yin and Cao Lei next to him lit up a few times, and Cao Lei said: "We bought this tea cake from an old tea farmer, and he just relied on watching his grandfather make tea when he was young." The sporadic memories of cakes, I just tried to make some."

"According to Su Xiaoyou, you seem to have experience in making this tea cake?" Cao Lei became more and more excited as he spoke, this Su Zhongkang really seemed to know everything.

"Know a thing or two." Su Zhongkang still had such a faint expression.

After Su Zhongkang finished his answer, he kept silent. He baked a piece of tea cake on charcoal for a while, and then put it into the tea mill and crushed it carefully when the tea cake was hot.

Then, put the crushed tea powder into the stone mill, and grind the tea powder finely again with a certain frequency of hand speed. When he grinds the tea powder to a fine enough size, he sweeps all of them with a brush. In a tea box.

Su Zhongkang's movements are gentle and elegant, and his strength is controlled just right.The remaining three people, watching his movements, were amazed in their hearts.

"This tea powder is simply made." Su Zhongkang looked at the tea powder in the tea box and said.

"Next is the process of ordering tea."

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