Mingmen Family

Chapter 136 "The Book of Tea"

The others were also very itchy, and said: "Tomorrow morning is already up, let's go to Jixiang Tower together."

"Okay, okay." Everyone agreed.

On the second day, a group of people went to Jixiang Building, saw a set of tea sets on display upstairs, listened to Master Ye Er's lecture on the arrangement of tea seats, recalled the scene shown by Fan Yu yesterday, and immediately bought a lot, everyone bought it Several sets.

Seeing that his friends are very satisfied with today's trip, he wished to buy all the tea sets in the teahouse, Fan Yu was also very happy.

He asked Ye Hongsheng: "Hongsheng, did you find that book you mentioned yesterday? Have you brought it?"

"I brought it here." Ye Hongsheng smiled and cupped his hands, "Concubine Fan, please wait for a while, and I will get it for you later."

"Go quickly."

After Ye Hongsheng left, Tan Xuan and the others asked curiously, "What book? It's worth your questioning?"

You must know that Ye Hongsheng is a merchant, so he probably hasn't read any books.It is understandable for Fan Yu to come here to buy tea sets and tea leaves; it is very strange to chase after a merchant for a book.

"A book about tea." Fan Yu said.

"Talk about tea? Who wrote it?" Everyone became more and more curious.

There were also many literati in the Jin Dynasty who wrote tea literature and tea poems.But all of them were written when I was drinking group tea with my friends. I used tea to express my inner feelings.

However, Fan Yu himself is a great talent, and there are not many poems that can catch his eyes.But why are those poems of everyone in the hands of the owner of Jixianglou?Could it be that those people drank his tea and thought it was good, so they proposed a poem to Ye Hongsheng?
Fan Yu let everyone diverge their thinking, smiled without saying a word, and only said: "You will know in a while."

When he came two days ago, he heard Ye Hongsheng talk about tea in a clear way, with many subtle insights.He asked where these great opinions came from, and Ye Hongsheng said that some of them came from his own feelings, and some were obtained from reading a tea book.

Fan Yu was very interested in this book and asked Ye Hongsheng to bring this book to the teahouse so that he could borrow it to read it when he visited the teahouse.

But he has never read this book, he doesn't know if it is well written, and he doesn't know who wrote it, so he dare not recommend it to his friends easily.

After a while, Ye Hongsheng brought the book.

Fan Yu took the book and looked at the title - "The Classic of Tea"; the author - Lu Yu.

He has an excellent memory since he was a child, and has read many books. He is very sure that he has never read this book, and he does not know the author.

And although the writing in that book is vigorous and powerful, but to be honest, it is only at an average level, not outstanding.

The first impression this book gave him was the word "flat".He even secretly disliked it in his heart.

Without him, an unknown person, who doesn't even have a good handwriting, dares to name his book "The Classic of Tea"!
What is "jing"?A classic too.

It's just boastful, and I don't know the heights of the world.

Half of his interest in the book dissipated in an instant.

However, asking for this book in front of all his friends, without even opening it, he suddenly walked away, that would be unreasonable.

He frowned slightly and flipped through the book.

The words inside are exactly the same as those on the cover, obviously written by one person.

But after reading a few pages, he slowly concentrated his attention, his eyes became more and more focused, and he couldn't help but let out a "huh" when he saw the back.

Or standing behind him, or sitting beside him, those who read this book with him will know exactly what his "huh" means.

"In this land, rotten rocks are born in the upper part, gravel soil in the middle part, loess in the lower part... Yangyayin forest, the purple one is the top, the green one is the second; the bamboo shoots are the top, the teeth are the second; ..."

"On that day, if there is rain, there will be no harvest, and if there will be cloud, there will be no harvest."

To be honest, they usually drink tea, but they don't know much about tea picking and tea making, nor are they interested in it, nor do they bother to know about it.

For example, if they eat green, crisp and sweet green vegetables, if they still want to know how it grows from the sludge, how many times it needs to be fertilized during the growth process, and how it will be covered with dirty dirt under the nails. Wouldn't it be off-putting for old farmers to pick and sell them?

But they read how to pick tea and how to make tea in this book, but they think it is very good, and they are full of interest in the process of picking and making tea.

It turns out that a small piece of tea requires so much attention during the picking process, let alone tea making.

Then the book wrote: "Heaven nurtures all things, which is more wonderful than existence... There are nine difficulties in tea: one is making, the other is farewell... For those who are fresh and fragrant, the number of bowls is three; The number of bowls is five. If the number of guests reaches five, serve three bowls...it will fill the gap forever."

Seeing this line of words, Tan Xuan shouted again and again: "High opinion, high opinion."

Someone said ashamedly: "Seeing this Weng Gao's commentary, I realized that ordinary people like us usually drink tea like cattle drink."

Everyone couldn't help but "haha" laughed.

"Look, the book says that tea with green onion, ginger and orange peel is added, 'the water ears are discarded in the ditches, and the custom is endless'. It can be seen that this old man is a fellow of ours."

"Extremely so."

After Fan Yu finished reading this book, he couldn't put it down. He didn't remember his disdain at the beginning, and he just felt convinced.

As a gourmet, it is necessary to go back to the source of the raw materials.They keep saying that they are tea lovers, but they don't know that it takes sunny days to pick tea, purple bamboo shoots to choose tea, and only three bowls of tea to drink.This person named "Lu Yu" is the real elegant person.

"Brother Hongsheng, who is Lu Yu?" he asked.

"A relative of mine." Ye Hongsheng said, "But she doesn't want to be famous, and she doesn't like to meet guests. She once said a word, eat two more eggs if she knows they are delicious, and don't need to know the hen that lays eggs. "

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and immediately burst out laughing "haha".

After laughing, he said: "Interesting and interesting."

"That's a wonderful statement!"

"This is a high theory!"

Unwilling to reconcile, Fan Yu rolled his eyes and asked: "Did you copy this book?"

"Yes." Ye Hongsheng said.

His daughter's handwriting is not something that any stinky man can comment on.

Fan Yu nodded.This can explain why the words in this book are mediocre.

He asked again: "Has the wise master read this book?" He suspected that this book was written by the wise master.

The person who wrote this book is good at picking tea, making tea, drinking tea, and even the water for making tea is very particular, especially from the latter, it can be inferred that he is a wealthy and idle person; can see.

Those who meet this kind can only be smart masters.

But who is a smart master?Ye Hongsheng is a merchant in Lin'an, how dare he call him a relative?He has the guts?
Ye Hongsheng didn't know what Fan Yu was thinking. When he mentioned Master Zhizhi, he remembered the praise Master Zhizhi had given his daughter, and he beamed: "I have read it. Master Zhizhi praised this book very highly, and even wrote a postscript for it."

　Happy Saturday~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)