The fox has no bad intentions

Chapter 168: Lao Chen, Stop Working! Come Over for Tea!
"What's the point of winning?! You're already so old! And you're still using puns all the time. Is that fun? You're trying to trick An into saying auspicious blessings before the game!"

"Ah Qing, stop pulling me! Put me down, An Mou will go over and grab his crotch!"

The little fox, who was defrauded by the strange old man, whimpered and cursed in the banquet hall of the ancestral hall.

Ansheng was a salesman in his previous life. He later accumulated some wealth and opened his own tea shop.

Although they don’t talk about how big their business is, any businessman actually pays special attention to a meaning or a good omen when talking about business or during festivals. No matter how the meaning or good omen comes from, as long as the intention is good, it’s fine.

On the eve of the competition, the little fox was defrauded and almost got into a fight with the stranger Lao Deng in anger.

There is no way. Unless the fox is cursing, all the sounds it makes are basically "ying".

Or a crisp, silvery laugh.

"If the local accent is auspicious, choose the local accent homophonic pun. If Mandarin is auspicious, choose Mandarin. Ugh! Lao Deng!"

Although he was already hugged by Yu Xueqing, the little fox still couldn't help cursing the person who was asking for a title.

"Xiao An? What did you eat just now?"

Yu Xueqing hugged the little fox from behind, with her arms naturally placed on the little fox's belly. Normally, a fox's body is slender, but for some reason, Xiao An's belly was round.

Yu Xueqing tried shaking it, but she didn't hear any sound of water sloshing in her belly. The little fox was solid.

Yu Xueqing looked at Xiao An with suspicion, who seemed to be sneaking out to eat.

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The little fox glanced sideways and saw Yu Xueqing with a suspicious and serious expression.

"Your question is very complicated. I may need to draw an auxiliary line, calculate geometric equations, and then combine psychology and folklore to explain it."

"But the bottom line is, I'm begging for food!"

"Mmmmm. Master, Master! Someone had a giant fish hanging in front of their house. I ate most of it. I jumped up and ate it. I exercised while eating, so I didn't get fat."

Rain, snow, clear: "."

"Xiao An, you're going to die! How dare you just eat something on the street? What if there's rat poison? Spit it all out!"

After being stunned for a moment, Yu Xueqing was horrified and quickly grabbed the little fox and started shaking it. She was almost about to grab Xiao An's throat and force him to spit out the food he had picked up.

Ansheng's head was almost shaken, and he quickly stretched out his hand to signal Lao Chen to come over to help.

Seeing this, Old Chen came over to smooth things over and pointed out that Ansheng might have secretly eaten the salted mackerel that the villagers had left drying outside the door.

Rat poison is distributed uniformly in the village and cannot be thrown on the streets casually, so Aqing can rest assured.

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"Ahem, ahem, Old Chen, don't worry about it. It's normal for children at home to be naughty. It's just that Aqing is a bit naughty."

The ancestral worship ceremony in the ancestral hall was coming to an end. Ansheng secretly asked Lao Chen to come out and walk to the exhibition area behind the ancestral hall. On the way, Ansheng couldn't help but explain.

In Aqing's family, his overall status is still very high.

However, Aqing is an extreme example among the group.

"Ohhh! Ohhh——" The little fox spoke to Lao Chen with a serious face, asking him not to spread the matter.

Although he is completely shameless, he acts cute and funny every day to get free food and drinks.

But Ansheng felt that he had moral integrity. He just wanted to let everyone know how cute Fuli was.

"Master Fuli, how about you type?"

Listening to the whimpering sound beside his ear, Old Chen, who was following behind Master Fuli, scratched his head and spoke.

I don't understand. I have no idea what Master Fuli was talking about. [Nothing, just asking you to come over for tea. Tell me what Master Fuli's tea tastes like, and then help me register with Aqing's family so I can participate in the tea competition.]

Seeing Lao Chen handing over the phone, An Sheng typed two lines of words on it and pointed to the constant temperature room not far away.

In the constant temperature room, nearly 30 kilograms of green tea leaves have been processed by Ansheng for several days and have now become less than 8 kilograms of tea leaves, which are placed in a snakeskin bag.

Although the tea leaves have been processed, there is still one step left and they are not suitable for packing into bags.

“Did it really come out?”

Old Chen opened the knot of the snakeskin bag and looked at the tea leaves with thick leaves and tight strips shaped like a bird's beak. He smelled the tea leaves at the mouth of the bag, which had no foreign smell but only strong and refreshing fragrance. He couldn't help but reveal a look of surprise.

Although Lao Chen didn't get to drink the fragrant oolong tea roasted by Master Fuli, just from the symmetrical and neat tea leaves, he could tell that the tea-making master was quite skilled.

Otherwise, after so many dehydration processes, the tea leaves would have been broken into pieces.

Since light-fragrant oolong tea does not require roasting, you can smell the tea aroma directly.

All Lao Chen smelled was the rich floral scent, without any smell of burnt iron pan or other miscellaneous odors.

From the perspective of smell and appearance, the tea made by Master Fuli has reached the production standards.

"However, it seems like there are more than twice as many tea stems in this tea as in a normal oolong tea?"

When tasting the finished tea made by Master Fuli, Lao Chen noticed a strange phenomenon: these tea stems were obviously added by humans and were not a natural phenomenon.

Old Chen knew the tea-making process of Master Fuli. Master Fuli told him personally and asked him to teach Aqing how to make it when the time comes. But what about the tea stems?

Although he didn't quite understand, Lao Chen still took out an appropriate amount of tea leaves from the snakeskin bag and went to the tea room next door to boil water for tasting.

Generally speaking, when drinking oolong tea, people usually take eight to ten grams of tea to brew the tea soup.

But this time, Lao Chen did not put in a large amount. Instead, he used an electronic scale to accurately weigh five grams of tea.

Drinking tea on a daily basis is as natural as you can enjoy it.

But now that we are tasting tea, it is natural to evaluate it according to national standards, and five grams of tea leaves is the standard weight.

Lao Chen first soaked the gaiwan in hot water. After the gaiwan became warm, he placed the oolong tea in the warmed gaiwan, poured in hot water, and waited.

While pouring hot water, Lao Chen also turned on the stopwatch on his mobile phone to count the time.

One minute to go.

Old Chen picked up the lid of the tea bowl and put it to his nose to smell the aroma, the first step in tea tasting.

The steaming covered bowl, carrying a rich floral and tea aroma, wafted directly into Old Chen's nose. After taking a gentle sniff, Old Chen froze in shock, a huge question mark slowly forming in his mind.

Old Chen covered the bowl and looked at Master Fuli who was squatting on the tea table and said:
"Master Fuli, how much essence did you add to this tea? How can this tea be so fragrant? I haven't even started drinking it yet, but I can already smell the allure and floral aroma of this fragrant oolong tea."

The flavor of tea sounds mysterious, but to put it simply, it is the feeling that tea brings to people when it comes into contact with taste buds.

In addition to the tea itself, the water quality and tea utensils are also very important parts of the tea flavor.

The tea made by Ansheng made Lao Chen salivate in the mouth due to its fragrance, and his mouth felt slightly tight even though he hadn't tasted it yet.

The so-called tightness refers to the numbness of the tip of the tongue, and you can already imagine the taste in your mind.

Oolong tea has a floral aroma, which is why some oolong teas are named after floral scents.

"Hehehe, this is An's special blend, made specifically to meet the judges' standards."

The little fox smiled smugly and motioned Lao Chen to continue tasting the tea.

The evaluation of oolong tea is nothing more than its aroma and the rich and mellow feeling when it enters the mouth.

(End of this chapter)