Most of the people who drink tea in old teahouses are old people. Some pour their own tea and taste it slowly; some bring their own pastries and taste it while drinking tea, and some come to discuss business.±,

Young people like Cai Hongming's family seemed a little out of the way to the old teahouse. The old people couldn't help but look up, but immediately lowered their heads and spoke.

Cai Hongming took his wife and daughter to sit down at a clean table, and the teahouse owner came over, "Boss, are you here to buy tea or drink tea?"

There is something to say about this. If you come to drink tea, then use the water boiled from the iron kettle on the coal stove in the back to make tea. Generally, a large porcelain pot costs five yuan, ten yuan, and twenty yuan. Of course, there are better ones. But if you come to buy tea, you have to use a small copper pot to pack the clear spring in the mountains, put it on the smokeless longan charcoal specialty of Nanzhou to boil it, and then use a small porcelain cup to soak it slowly.

What I drink is no longer tea, but artistic conception and charm.

"Buy tea." Cai Hongming replied.

"Then what tea do you want, boss?"

This question is about grade, depending on whether you want high-end, medium-end, or low-end tea, each price is different.

"What good tea do you have here?" Cai Hongming asked generously.

"It's a coincidence that we have a little bit of seren tea here. Do you want it?"

Seeing that he was so generous, the teahouse owner immediately laughed and his face was tangled up. Because every time he sold a portion of tea, he would get a commission. Even if he didn't sell it in the end, he would still get a tea money. It was much easier to earn than making that big porcelain pot.

"Sheqian Tea?" Cai Hongming looked puzzled. He had never heard of Mingqian Tea, Yuqian Tea, and Sheqian Tea.

Seeing that he didn't understand, the boss explained.

In ancient times, tribute tea was sought to be early and precious, so spring tea was divided into three types: "before the society", "before the fire" and "rain tea".

The pre-she refers to the pre-she. The ancients usually worshipped the earth god on the fifth day of Wu after the beginning of spring, called Kaichun, also known as the pre-she. Calculated by the arrangement of stems and branches, the pre-she usually ranges between 41 and 50 days after the beginning of spring, about the "Spring Equinox" (about March 20), which is half a month earlier than the "Qingming". The tea picked during this season is the most precious and tender of the year. Yangxian Zizhu Bamboo Tea, which was once listed as a tribute from the Guangde period of the Tang Dynasty to the eighth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, is this extremely precious pre-she tea.

In his book "Tea Classic", Tang Luyu recorded: "The yin forest of Yang cliffs, purple ones are on the top, green ones are on the top, bamboo shoots are on the top, and buds are on the top."

What I mean is that the leaves of purple bamboo tea are purple when they were in front of the club, and they will turn green after this season and the grade will also decrease accordingly.

Before fire, it is before the Ming Dynasty. The ancients had the custom of banning fire for three days during the Cold Food Festival. That is, no fire can be made for cooking within three days. The Cold Food Festival is the day before the Qingming Festival, so "tea before fire" is actually "tea before Ming Dynasty". When Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty went to Longjing, Hangzhou to watch Longjing tea picking, he wrote a poem "Song of the Tea Picking Tea". There is a poem that says "Before fire, it is tender after fire, and it is old after fire, and only the best product for riding fire", which refers to the quality of Longjing tea picked the day before "Qingming Festival". It is the best quality, and it is too tender to pick it too late, and it is too old to pick it too late. This is also the reason why Longjing was famous in the world before the Ming Dynasty.

Before the rain, it is before the Grain Rain. The tea picked from April 5 to around April 20 is called before the rain tea.

Although tea before the rain is not as tender as tea before the Ming Dynasty, due to the high temperature at this time, buds and leaves grow relatively quickly and the accumulated content is richer. Therefore, tea before the rain is often fresh and strong and resistant to bubbles.

After hearing the teahouse owner quoted a lot of classics, Cai Hongming finally knew what the tea in front of the club was. Since he came, he had to buy the best tea. After hearing this, the teahouse owner immediately went in happily and moved the small red mud stove up.

After a while, the bright red charcoal fire boiled the spring water in the small copper pot.

The teahouse owner held a stool and sat next to him, began to prepare tea skillfully, wash tea, make tea, and then handed over the tea.

Cai Hongming took the tea cup with both hands and saw that the tea soup was orange-yellow and clear. It was filled with a faint fragrance of cinnamon, which was mellow and sweet when you were in the mouth, and the fragrance left on the cheeks was really rare. In the past, he only thought that the hundreds of pieces of tea at home and the insect tea in the jade beads were delicious. Now all those ideas were thrown away, leaving only the tea before the shop.

Seeing him looking satisfied, the teahouse owner touched the white beards below and said with serene satisfaction: "No, right! You are also blessed people. If you come late, you might have this tea."

Then, the teahouse owner talked about the origin of the tea in front of the club. As he spoke, he talked about the tea ceremony he was studying. Cai Hongming could only listen carefully, and occasionally gave him a few of his shallow opinions. The boss immediately attracted him as his confidant and started talking harder.

When drinking tea and chatting, it is always a blink of an eye. It’s noon in a moment.

Seeing that it was getting late, Cai Hongming quickly stopped him and even wanted to talk to him without even caring about the old customers in the store.

"Boss, I want all this tea."

The teahouse owner kindly reminded: "The tea in front of our club is not as expensive as other people."

"How many?"

"At least twelve red tickets."

That's 1,200 yuan. This is not a bit expensive, it's very expensive, it's very expensive. No wonder he feels that the tea that costs hundreds of dollars at home is not as good as the tea in the club. The price is so much different, it can be imagined. However, it's worth it. The tea in the club is not available at all times, and it's only a year. Cai Hongming nodded and happily bought all the remaining tea in the club.

The teahouse owner hurriedly asked his grandson to go to the tea shop to get tea.

At this time, Cai Hongming saw a half-year-old boy playing games with a tablet on the counter.

Hearing grandpa's words, the boy suddenly ran away and came in with a bag. The bag contained wrapped tea leaves, wrapped in 3 grams a small bag and a small bag. There was a rectangular cardboard box outside, which looked very high-end and high-end.

The teahouse owner opened the cardboard box and let Cai Hongming see it.

"This is a pound, and that's all the rest of the village."

These teas in front of the club were originally planned to stay for him to drink by his old friend, but later he felt that drinking thousands of tea was a bit too luxurious and he felt heartbroken, so he took it out and sold it. So the teahouse owner said that Cai Hongming's family was a lucky person. Otherwise, a big boss came to search for tea a few days ago, and the price of one pound was as high as 1,500 yuan.

After paying the money, Cai Hongming took his wife and daughter away.

It was already noon, and they went to find a restaurant for dinner.

The food at noon is richer than in the morning. There are mountains and water here, delicious aquatic products, and wild game. Now spring bamboo shoots are fresh, and it is the tenderest time; wild shrimps in the stream are the sweetest; and local chickens raised in the mountains are even more plump and tender. Cai Hongming ordered six or seven dishes in one breath, including boiled ginger and garlic, steamed local chicken, stir-fried local chicken, white-burned spring bamboo shoots, etc.

Unfortunately, when all kinds of delicious dishes were placed in front of her, Xiao Chuchu could only watch from the side because she had not yet grown teeth. But she wanted to eat them, so she had no choice but to make some meat and shrimps and squeeze them into a spoon for her to eat.

After eating full at noon, the group went back to take a nap.

Unexpectedly, when he fell asleep, Chuchu couldn't scream no matter how hard he called. Shi Wan'er had to accompany her in the inn, and Cai Hongming went to see the tea tree seedlings by himself.

The person who sells tea tree seedlings is not in Xiamei Village, but in Shangmei Village. Cai Hongming drove over and arrived in a few minutes. Speaking of which, there are many people selling saplings in China, but only the cinnamon-flavored tea trees are available on Wuyi Mountain, and only the tea leaves here are the most authentic. When they arrived, Cai Hongming called and the person who sells tea tree seedlings came to pick him up.

This is a middle-aged man in his fifties.

The tea seedling farm is in a mountain, about ten acres of land, and all the tea seedlings are planted, including not only cinnamon, but also daffodils and strange species. Cai Hongming bought some cinnamon from relatively large trees, and he liked the cinnamon fragrance. After buying it, the boss took him to visit the old tea tree they had planted before.

The old tea tree is in a small valley near the tea seedling farm. I don’t know how long it took to plant it. The old tea tree grew very big, five or six meters tall, and three meters short. There were countless moss growing at the bottom of the tree roots, which looked very old.

The tea forest is not very big, they are all old teas from the past. The boss said that these teas are not good and bitter, so he planned to cut off the strange species. The current price of strange species is a little higher.
Chapter completed!