Sixteen, Illusion Tea Art

When the shopkeeper saw that Zeng Daqian dared to face the challenge, he felt nervous. When he heard Zhou Xuan, he had already congratulated Zeng Daqian on his wealth. He was really shocked, angry and laughed: "I want to see if your shopkeeper Zeng is rich or loses money! - Mr. Lu, look at you, Xie Yuancha will ask you." He bowed to Lu Hongjian.

Lu Hongjian collapsed his shoulders and then raised his head, as if he wished the shopkeeper to put a heavy burden on his shoulders. He participated in the tea party for more than ten years and fought countless teas, but a tea fight was related to the life and death of two kinds of tea leaves, involving tens of thousands of taels of silver. This was something he had never encountered before. He said in a deep voice: "Lu Mouding demonstrates his life skills and lives up to Dongweng's trust."

Mr. Fu, the chief manager of the Tea Merchants Alliance of Shezhou, came over and persuaded: "My shopkeeper, Zeng, fighting tea like this is too harmful to the vitality, so it is better for the two of you to stop fighting."

Other tea merchants in the hall sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, so why not do it? They said: "Losers are hurting their vitality, and winners are replenishing their vitality. Fight, fight, fight, and fight to the Ming Zhan Hall.

Under such circumstances, neither side could retreat. Zhu and Zeng Daqian said in unison: "Fight!"

Manager Fu Da shook his head and said, "Since the two of you are determined to fight, then all of you are witnesses, and there is no need to establish a document. Please ask Mr. Qian, who ranked fifth in Ming Zhan last year, and Mr. Wu, who ranked seventh in Ming Zhan, to taste the tea color, tea soup, and camellia of both sides. There is still a witness missing. Who will make sure?"

To place Lu Hongjian, the ninth-ranked tea art for Lu Hongjian, who has to rank higher than him or be respected seniors in the tea world. Now, the top ten tea tasters are only present, except Lu Hongjian himself, and Wu.

Someone said: "It's up to Manager Fu Da to personally prepare it. Who dares not accept you?"

Manager Fu Da waved his hand and said, "I'm dizzy and can't do this kind of tea-determined art. Wait for a while and there will be a master of Tea War."

At this time, another group of people came in. The leader was a young man with a long hair and a strong spirit. He was thin and small, but his steps were very big, which could be said to be a meteor.

Fairy Jingyi was not as enlightened as a scholar, so she waved to Zhou Xuan. Zhou Xuan approached and heard her say, "Brother Xuan, this is Mr. Zhai Junmo. Is the female saying that we are going to recognize each other and pay homage to each other?"

Zhou Xuan whispered: "Don't hurry first, it's not too late to meet again after meeting."

There was already a welcome sound in the hall, and a rumored person shouted: "Okay, Mr. Zhai is here, he will come to savor it, and he will speak for nothing."

Zhai Junmo's throne as the number one tea tasting master has been dominating for many years and has long wanted to retire. However, the tea merchants of Huzhou Zishu Tea have struggled to keep it. With Zhai Qunmo, Huzhou Zishu Tea can maintain the title of No. 1 tea in the world. The tea price is rising year by year and the wealth is booming.

Zhai Junmo bowed to everyone and greeted Manager Fu Da. He heard that Xie Yuancha was going to fight Huangshan Rongcheng Cha Ming to determine life and death. Lu Hongjian knew that his tea art was superb, but Rongcheng Cha's tea tasting master was a darling master. Even the rising star wanted to challenge the famous tea tasting master, he could not make such a big bet. The risk was too great. Zeng Daqian believed him so much? Asked: "Brother Fu, who is the name of Rongcheng Cha's tea tasting master?"

Manager Fu Da said, "I haven't asked yet." He bowed closer and said, "Dare you ask the young master's name?"

Zhou Xuan returned the courtesy and said, "I dare not, Zhou Xuanzhi of Jinling."

The flower courtesan Xiahou Liusu elopes, which made the name of Zhou Xuanzhi, the salt merchant of Jinling, spread throughout Xuanzhou, but Shezhou has never heard of Zhou Xuanzhi, who has made Xuanzhou full of storms.

Manager Fu Da said politely: "I admire you for a long time. This is Mr. Zhai Junmo. Mr. Zhou should have heard of Mr. Zhai's name."

Zhai Junmo taught Fairy Jingyi tea ceremony, and it can be said that he was Zhou Xuan's master, so Zhou Xuan was very respectful to Zhai Junmo.

Manager Fu Da said: "Mr. Zhai, Mr. Qian and Mr. Wu come to decide the level of the tea battle between Mr. Xie Yuan Chalu and Mr. Rong Cheng Chazhou--"

"Please wait a moment." Zhou Xuan said: "My book boy will fight for me."

As soon as these words came out, the hall was in an uproar.

Zhu's shopkeeper was furious and shouted: "It's too much to deceive others! It's too much to deceive others!"

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "What is this to deceive you? This is to make you sure to win. You should be glad to yourself secretly."

Lu Hongjian said with a smile: "Fighting with Tong Ming in Yishu is not a fight, but Lu refused to fight this tea. This is not a fear, but he disdained you!"

Seeing that his sister was being despised, Lin Hanyun was annoyed and said fragilely: "What disdain, you are just afraid of losing!"

Zhou Xuan nodded and said, "Yes, I'm just afraid of losing - Mr. Lu, do you still remember the tea battle on Shanyin last year?"

Hearing this, Lu Hongjian was shocked. In April last year, he had just entered the top ten tea at the Shezhou tea party. He returned to his hometown Yuezhou with a proud heart. He met a thin scholar riding a mule on Shanyin Road. The two of them had three games of tea, and the bet was 500 taels of silver. Lu Hongjian won and lost one or two. The thin scholar smiled mockingly: "Ming fought against the top ten, but that's it." He didn't want Lu Hongjian's money, and he left with a mule.

Lu Hongjian returned home shyly. He thought that the news that he had lost to an unknown person would spread wildly, but he hadn't heard anyone mention it for more than a year. Lu Hongjian gradually forgot about it. He thought that the thin scholar should be a paradise, and he had nothing to be ashamed of losing to a paradise. He never expected that Zhou Xuanzhi would suddenly mention the battle of Shanyin Dao Ming at this time!

Seeing Lu Hongjian's shocked look, Zhou Xuan laughed in his heart: "This man was frightened by the fourth brother and became a frightened bird. He was even more guilty than Sister Dao Yun's opponent." He said: "Mr. Lu, you are representing Xie Yuancha. My book boy represents Rong Chengcha. He only discusses the quality of tea, so why bother about identity and status?"

The other tea merchants in the hall were afraid that they would not be able to fight, so they encouraged them: "Yes, just talking about the quality of tea, maybe this Shutong is a tea-fighting genius, and Mr. Lu must not be despised."

Lu Hongjian calmed down and looked at Zhou Xuanzhi and his book boy. Zhou Xuanzhi was tall and obviously not the thin scribe who beat him last year. This book boy was tall, taller than the thin scribe. The thin scribe boy was not as handsome as this book boy. Hey, this book boy seemed to be a woman, and his face turned red-

Fairy Jingyi was stared at by so many people, and she was already shy. She lowered her head, her jade cheeks were bright red, and her eyelashes were trembling. Is there such a beautiful book boy in the world?

Lin Hanyun stood up and shouted: "What do you want to see? If you want to fight, you will give up the position of the top ten famous teas, and just leave Ming Zhan Hall in shame."

When the shopkeeper saw Lu Hongjian's face was gloomy and as if he was afraid, he hurriedly said, "Mr. Lu, you--"

Lu Hongjian waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "Then let's fight!" He thought to himself: "It's not that thin scholar, why am I afraid of it! And he is still a woman. Only Mrs. Zhuang in Huzhou has excellent tea skills, but Mrs. Zhuang should be in her forties, and this female scholar is only in her twenties."

Since both sides agreed to Ming Zhan, even if the servants of "Ming Zhan Hall" brought two stoves and the charcoal fire was booming, they brought two tea loads. Various tea sets were necessary in the load. In addition to the tea leaves, they must be Xie Yuan Tea and Rong Cheng Tea, and there are any other teapots and tea cups. The top ten famous springs in the world, "Ming Zhan Hall" have reserves, and they can also bring their own water.

Zhou Xuan smiled at Fairy Jingyi and said, "Yun'er, I'm looking at you."

The sound of "Yun'er" made Fairy Jingyi's heart tremble, and even her neck turned red. She hesitated and stood up.

Lin Hanyun pushed her from behind and whispered: "Sister, come on with your skills. There is not a single woman among the top ten tea-pitting masters. It's too unfair."

Manager Fu Da announced that the tea battle began. Except for Fairy Jingyi and Lu Hongjian, everyone else withdrew from the 100th century, and watched the two make tea.

Fairy Jingyi shivered at first, but after all, she was a lady from a wealthy family, so she was not at a loss. Moreover, cooking tea was very familiar to her, so she quickly calmed down because it was more beautiful than tea, tea soup and camellia. She had to look good and taste mellow. She immediately crushed the tea leaves with a milling wood, filtered the water capsule, and started to work quickly.

The water used by Fairy Jingyi is brought by himself, which is the "cinnabar spring" in Huangshan. Zeng's tea house has several tanks of this kind of spring water. Last night, I used cinnabar spring water when I cooked it into tea. The tea tasted even better. Today I brought a pot of cinnabar spring water.

Boil the pot of water for two times, pour the crushed tea into the water, stir it for a moment, and cover the pot with a lid.

A long ebony table is placed between two tea poles, and six Yue kiln celadons are arranged on both sides.

Fu Daguanshu said loudly: "Put the tea into the cup and taste it."

Lu Hongjian took the lead in holding the pot. The method of pouring tea into the cup was quite wonderful. He stood still, filling the three tea cups from far to near, and there was no leakage on the upper half of the ebony table.

Zhai Junmo, Mr. Qian and Mr. Wu walked forward slowly, first looking at the color of the tea, which was green and white, which was indeed the best; then looking at the tea soup, it was soft but not greasy, and slightly shook the tea cup, and there was no tea mark on the inner wall of the tea cup, which was indeed good at tea art; finally looking at camellia, the so-called camellia, actually foaming and water splashing when cooking tea, with fine and light, thin and dense as the best. The camellia that Lu Hongjian tea rose from these three cups of tea was fine, light and dense, impeccable.

Fairy Jingyi started pouring tea into the cup. She held the pot in her right hand and held the sleeve in her right hand. Her white wrist was as frost and her slender fingers were as beautiful as jade. The tea into the cup was beautiful and her technique was quite unique. The spout slightly rotated towards the cup, as if the tea was noodles, and the vermicelli could be coiled and stacked on it like vermicelli.

Soon, three cups of tea filled up, and then a strange scene appeared. The hot tea water first circled around the edge of the tea cup, and the whirlpool turned to the center of the tea cup, and then rose slowly, reaching more than one foot, forming a undulating peak. Three tea cups and three fog peaks. During the breathing, the three fog peaks disappeared in the air, and the mist became a piece of white fog.

The hall was silent, and the tea merchant wished the shopkeeper and the tea tasting teacher Lu Hongjian's face was ashamed.

Manager Fu Da sighed: "I really didn't expect that in this world, besides Zhai Junmo, there are people who know this illusion tea technique!"

The short-spirited old man Zhai Junmo stared at Fairy Jingyi. He didn't look at this female scholar's servant carefully. At this moment, he became more and more familiar with him. He thought to himself: "This female scholar looks like the daughter of Lin Dugu, the Fenghua Army, but how could Lin Dugu's daughter show up here and pretend to be Zhou Xuanzhi's servant?"

Zhai Junmo taught Fairy Jingyi tea ceremony twelve years ago. At that time, Fairy Jingyi was still a innocent and lively young girl. Her boudoir name was Lin Daoyun. She didn't know that there were any suffering in the world and loved the tea ceremony. Zhai Junmo was happy that she was smart and enlightened, so she taught her life's tea art. After leaving in Jiangzhou, the master and apprentice never met each other again. In the past twelve years, Fairy Jingyi's appearance changed a lot. From a little girl to a young lady. Moreover, because of the marriage, she was a trivial girl. Her temperament was very different from that of a girl. There was always a trace of sorrow between her eyebrows and eyes. She was a beautiful and sad woman!

Therefore, although Zhai Junmo was suspicious, he did not dare to ask for recognition.

Zhou Xuan was very surprised. He studied tea ceremony with Fairy Jingyi for more than half a year, but never saw the wonder of Tea Qi Ning Peak. He approached Fairy Jingyi and said in his ear: "Sister still has one trick and refuses to teach me!"

The breath from Zhou Xuan's mouth made Fairy Jingyi's ears itchy, and she said shyly: "Brother Xuan, no, I'll tell you when I go back."

When Mr. Qian and Mr. Wu saw that the girl's book boy showed this skill, this was a level that they could not reach - the illusion tea technique. Only Mr. Zhai had this technique and immediately looked at Zhai Junmo.

Zhai Junmo said: "Look at the color of tea, tea soup and camellia."

After savoring the three of them, the Huangshan Rongcheng tea cooked by the Girl Book Children is no less than Lu Hongjian's Xieyuan Tea, and the wonders of Wu Peak are even more incomparable to Lu Hongjian.

The three judges unanimously determined that Ming Zhan Rong Chengcha won.

Zhu Manager Zhu's face completely lost his blood and was speechless for a long time. He was unwilling to accept such a failure. Not to mention next year, he would lose three or four thousand taels of silver this year alone. He shouted: "I don't accept it. This is a trap set by Zeng Daqian. He deliberately framed me Xie Yuancha. Who is this Shutong? She is a woman. Why did she want to disguise herself as a man? There is a conspiracy here!"

Manager Fu Da said unhappily: "Shopkeeper, it is a matter of willingness between both parties to fight tea and bet. You are so inferior. So many people here are watching, and you can't deny it. Whether Master Zhou's book boy is a woman has nothing to do with tea fighting. Don't mess around and make people laugh."

Zhu Manager knew that he was in the wrong, and it was useless to deny it now. Youyou couldn't stop talking and said, "If you lose, you will lose, Mr. Lu, let's go." He hurried out of the "Ming Zhan Hall" with Lu Hongjian and several servants.
Chapter completed!