Shinji Nomura seemed to have come back to his senses. He picked up Ye Zhenxing's tea, took a small sip and slowly swallowed.

The tea soup is extremely fragrant. The tea smell goes all the way into the Dantian, and then flows up from the Dantian. It seems that even the breath you exhale is fragrant. The feeling is wonderful.

His fingertips trembled slightly, and a layer of brightness appeared in his clear eyes. No wonder his great-grandfather would say, 'Death without regrets. Understand the "Tao" in Chinese tea ceremony.

All the tea masters who were watching couldn't help it, and brought translators to pay tribute to Ye Zhen, and expressed their desire to have a cup of tea with her.

Ye Zhen continued to make tea, and with the help of the monks, she distributed tea to each tea master.

During this period, Ichiro Nomura slowly revealed his relationship with snow tea.

He seemed to be lost in memories, and the light in his eyes converged into one point, "In the ninth year of the Showa era (1934), I accompanied my mother to visit the Munzai Clan for the first time - my mentor. During that meeting, I was fortunate enough to taste the delicious food from your hometown. of snow tea.”

"My mentor said that this kind of tea is highly sought after by aristocrats in China, but because the output is small, it is difficult to buy. Unlike ordinary green tea, this tea is not only made with exquisite roasting techniques, but also has a very mysterious brewing method."

"My mentor saw that we were all fascinated, so he took out the treasured snow tea and made tea for us himself. I still remember the scene that day."

"My teacher did not use a traditional tea set, but used an open porcelain pot to make tea. He first put a kind of golden dried flower into the porcelain pot and brewed it with hot water, and then took the tea soup to make tea."

"After the tea leaves enter the water, they fly like a dancing phoenix. Soon, a strange fragrance will hit your face."

All the tea masters listened to the simultaneous translation and nodded slightly while looking forward to Ye Zhenxing's tea.

"The process was very enjoyable, but because I have seen top-quality Biluochun before, I am not surprised by such tea dance and tea aroma."

"However, something surprising happened. After the tea was brewed, our teacher did not invite us to drink tea. Instead, he sat quietly and waited for the tea in the porcelain pot to cool down."

Hearing this, all the tea masters looked at Nomura Ichiro in astonishment.

As the saying goes, drink tea while it's hot. Only heat can gather the tea's "elites"; once the tea is allowed to cool down and the tea "elites" disperse, the tea soup will be tasteless. Drinking this kind of herbal tea in the stomach will not be of any benefit to people. , but it will harm the body.

Ichiro Nomura noticed the astonished expressions of the tea masters, nodded slightly to them, and continued: "While we were waiting incomprehensively, the tea in the porcelain pot slowly cooled down. Waiting for the second pot of mountain spring water on the stove After three boils, the teacher changed his gentle and respectful approach, picked up the kettle at a very fast speed, and poured the scalding hot water into the herbal tea."

When Shinji Nomura heard this, he looked at Ye Zhen in surprise. Every move she made just now was caught in his eyes, and it was completely consistent with what his great-grandfather said at this moment!
Ichiro Nomura also looked at her, "The strange fragrance that followed was just like the one we smelled just now. It was intoxicating and shocking. Before I tasted the tea, I was already dumped."

Everyone was stunned after hearing this, and they thought about it for a long time before they suddenly realized it.

Duan Guolin once heard the "old tea ghost" in Shantou mention this method of letting the tea cool down and then brewing it with boiling water.

These tea drinkers who have been drinking Gongfu tea all their lives believe that the tea that has been stored for a long time has a stronger flavor and the mixture of hot and cold taste is just right. However, Duan Guolin ignored such counterintuitive arguments and regarded them as intentional by the older generation. Tell people some interesting facts.

Thinking of this, Duan Guolin breathed a long sigh of relief and said "Oh" blankly.

It turns out to be like this!Raw water is like this!

Because his long-standing mystery was finally solved, was Yuan Xue Cha Jing going to use such a desperate method of brewing tea?

A smile escaped his slender face, but there were tears in his eyes.

"My mentor gave us tea in Qingfei porcelain cups and asked us to taste it. I picked up the tea cup and felt a layer of condensed fragrance cloud covering the mouth of the cup. My heart and soul melted into the fragrance, and it seemed that I had become that Part of the cup of tea." "After the tea came into my mouth, as written in the poem, I suddenly saw the bright spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River in China. It was a beautiful encounter like first love, and I have been partial to tea ever since."

"But fate plays tricks on people, and there is no chance to meet it again..." At this point, Nomura Ichiro fell into silence with regret.

His expression was sad and dejected, as if he was reminiscing about his first love, whom he fell in love with at first sight but missed and couldn't find.

But when he turned his eyes and lowered his eyes to the tea cup in his hand, the expression on his face changed to one of surprise and emotion that he had found it, "Thank you for letting me find it."

Ye Zhen nodded.

After drinking the tea, Ichiro Nomura took some tea residue from the bottom of the pot, looked at it, and rolled it in his hands.

He nodded frequently while studying the tea residue carefully.

After the tea leaves absorb water and expand, they return to the shape they were in when they were picked. For experts, they can fully understand the entire process of a tea from picking and making to the time it is put into the tea leaves.

The tea leaves in Nomura's hand are bright green in color and tightly wrapped in buds and leaves. If compared to a beautiful woman, it is like a girl tightly wrapped in a cheongsam in the spring light.

A piece of bud and leaf that has become dregs is still so beautiful, which fully shows the skill of the tea maker.

Ichiro Nomura looked at Ye Zhen approvingly and said slowly: "Do you know that I visited your hometown in the 11th year of Showa (1936)?"

Ye Zhen nodded slightly.

The letter sent by Duan Guolin mentioned the story of Nomura Ichiro personally going to Luoxi to ask for tea.

"In the spring of the 11th year of the Showa era, I went to China with a merchant ship and waited for the first pot of spring tea in your hometown. Therefore, I was fortunate enough to visit their tea-frying process."

"The production process of snow tea is very delicate. The leaf tips and petioles need to be removed, and someone needs to fan beside them to remove the heat when frying. This way, the tenderness and fragrance of the tea leaves can be retained to the maximum extent."

"I just looked at the bottom of your leaves and found that you didn't remove the tips and stems. I guess it's because you don't know the ancient method."

Ye Zhen listened attentively to Nomura Ichiro's suggestions and nodded to him from time to time to thank him.

"Besides, is the pine forest in your hometown still there?"

"Still."

Nomura Ichiro nodded, with a wise smile on his face: "When I visited the tea-making process in your hometown, they did not show me the whole process. But I observed one detail: during the tea-making season, many people moved Dried pine needles go into the teahouse.”

"Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I guess they use pine needles to stir-fry tea over a live fire. You can try the method I told you next spring. Maybe you can regain the lost flavor."

Ye Zhen was lost in thought for a while and thanked him again for his guidance.

Nomura Ichiro stood up from his knees and said, "Please come to my table, and I will personally order a cup of tea for you."


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