The four of them met and smiled, raised their glasses to drink together, and the literati's spirit arose and their relationship became closer and closer.

After chatting for two hours, Yan Sihai looked at the time, stood up and said, "Last time I tasted delicious food in Huyuan, the chef was very skilled and ordinary. Today, the distinguished guest is here, and the old man is relying on his old age to prepare a few side dishes for everyone. It is difficult to enter the elegant hall, so please forgive me!"

After saying that, he asked the servant to inform him, and everyone moved to the living room and started eating. Soon the first dish was served, and there were more than a dozen sauce-colored squares on the celadon plate, which were actually dried tea.

"People say that drinking wine on troublesome days, and chewing tea on satisfied days." Yan Sihai smiled and said, "Dried tea is not suitable for cooking. Such things that are stirred with tongue must first be small and compact, gentle and elegant, and cannot fill your stomach at once. Secondly, it must be chewy and chewy, and the more you chew, the more delicious it becomes. The more rich the content, there are all salty, sweet, fresh and fragrant."

Everyone nodded and said, Yan Sihai was fond of tea, so he naturally chose vegetarian guests. When he smelled Yiming, he picked up the dried tea, which was slightly larger than the stamp, and was even red with sauce, pure quality, thin in shape, fine in flesh, and full of toughness. When chewing, it was fragrant, tough, fresh, tender, and had a particularly long aftertaste.

Wen Yiming smiled and said, "There is Taibai Tower in Caishiji. It is rumored that it has a deep connection with the poet Li Bai. The dried tea is big and thick. I tore the paper bag open and sway in my hand, but I can't break it. I add chicken shreds, shrimps or ham to it, and use chicken soup to make it braised. Therefore, the taste is very delicious and the mouth remains fragrant after eating."

Yan Sihai laughed and said, "Nothing can be hidden from the teacher's eyes. It is Caishiji tea dried. However, the Jincai Land Tea dried that is produced in Dangtu Huangchi comes from behind, and it is very popular to surpass Caishiji tea dried. Fortunately, these two types of tea dried belong to Ma'anshan and should be of nepotism."

"A bite, it is fine and tight, like chewing chicken breasts. It is accompanied by an unspeakable scent. The more you chew, the more you taste, and you can't stop. To demonstrate that their goods are "hard", the seller will take a piece of tea in front of him, fold it hard, but it keeps cracking."

Everyone laughed happily, and the seemingly inconspicuous tea dried immediately had a unique flavor. Ling Tiancheng expressed his feelings: "Sometimes, thinking about it, tasting tea dried tea is like tasting life, it is just a crushed life, and the taste is indescribable."

I finished the tea quickly and was still not satisfied. The second dish came up and it turned out tofu, which was densely covered with black fluff?

"Haha, a famous dish in Huizhou, edamame!"

Ling Tiancheng applauded and couldn't wait to pick up a piece, put it in his mouth, and said with a full face: "Every year after year, whenever he has the chance, he will go to the streets to eat authentic edamame tofu as much as possible. The edamame tofu that had just been out of the pot was greasy, and the long-haired skin became a very tough layer of tendons, wrapped around the soft tofu inside, and the scent of the cheeks was full of fragrance."

"Is this rabbit hair?" Wen Yiming laughed and said, "Emoji can be roughly divided into four varieties: rat hair, rabbit hair, cotton hair, and straw raincoat hair."

"Rat hair is shorter and gray; rabbit hair is shorter, with stripes and blue-white; cotton hair is slightly longer and full of strands, white; straw coat hair is the longest, purple sauce color, color, fragrance and taste are the best."

"The difference in length and color of the hair, in addition to the quality of the tofu itself, also depends on climate change and temperature adjustment. During the frying process, due to the different thickness of the white hair being heated, several dark stripes will appear in the golden yellow, which is the origin of tiger fur tofu."

Hu Jianmin was very interested. He saw edamame tofu for the first time and didn't want to taste it, but after hearing Wen Yiming said it, he bit his teeth and took a bite. He immediately stretched his eyebrows and started to feast.

Seeing this, Yan Sihai said happily: "You may not believe it. There is a friend from Huizhou who has given up the opportunity to develop in the provincial capital because he is greedy for his hometown edamame and has repeatedly given up on the opportunity to go to the provincial capital to develop. In his words, he still thinks about the fragrance and refuses to cross the Yangtze River."

Everyone was eating and chatting, and the next were a few refreshing vegetarian dishes. Although they were not expensive, they were very elegant. They were paired with the charm of tea ceremony and were of unique interest.

As the banquet was coming to an end, Yan Sihai stood up, took out a pack of mysterious things, carefully opened the packaging, and showed it: "This is the finale of today. I believe no one of you should have tasted it!"

After saying that, he took out a few glass cups, put them in green tea, and then threw them into hot water. The strange fragrance surprised Wen Yiming.

"Is this... Yongxi Huoqing? And... Pinyu!"

After hearing this, Yan Sihai raised his thumb and exclaimed: "Sir, I have eyesight, it's Qinyu Tea!"

Hu Jianmin and Ling Tiancheng stared at the teacup curiously, and saw green mist rising from the cup, shaking slightly, and the green mist dissipated. In the clear tea soup, the zither fish brushed their heads upwards, tails downwards, mouths slightly opened, eyes wide open, dorsal fins stood slowly, and tail wings swayed gently, as if they were swimming in the cup, like elves, and even as if they were joking, it was a wonder.

I picked it up and took a sip, rinse it slightly under my tongue, and felt that the mellow and fragrance spread out, without the fishy smell of fish at all. This sip was affectionate and interesting, which was indeed comparable to ordinary tea tasting. After drinking the tea, slowly chew the dried fish that was soaked, which was clear, sweet, salty and fresh, with a strong tea aroma and a full and novel taste.

"Good tea! Pinyu? Never seen before!"

Yan Sihai looked at everyone's surprised expression and smiled: "Driving south from Wuhu to Qinxi, Jingxian County, it takes two hours to arrive. You can drift there, see the bamboo sea, eat farmhouses, and buy good tea."

"A kind of small fish produced in Qinxi is called Qinyu. Although it is only the size of a little finger, it is famous enough. Since ancient times, it has been known as the two masters of Jingxian County along with Xuan paper.

"Jing County is located in the northeast of Huangshan Mountain. Its peaks are as dark as the forests are deep and beautiful. Each stream is clear and transparent. The water of Qinxi is particularly light and shallow. Lingyu comes from Lingyu. Although Qinyu is a fish, it never makes delicious dishes on the plate, but is famous for drinking tea."

"There are Hidden Rain Rocks near the side, and there is a Dan Cave under the rock, which is unfathomable. It is said that when it is late at night, you can hear the sound of the piano coming with the gurgling water. This is the Qin Gao playing the piano. Countless small fish with fingers long fingers come out from the rock gap near the Dan Cave under the Qin Gao platform."

The words aroused the curiosity of the crowd. Wen Yiming raised his cup and looked at the piano fish carefully. It was very strange in shape, but it was a tiger head and phoenix tail, dragon fins and snake abdomen, heavy lips and four gills, eyes like cabbage, and silver-white scales, very much like a miniature version of the scavenger fish and a super miniature four gill perch.

Yan Sihai introduced: "When you are lucky, you can find the figure of Qinyu standing by the quiet stream. When it eats, the sparse dragon whiskers on both sides of its mouth tremble funnyly from time to time, which makes people laugh. These little things are strange, and the clear stream with lush green trees, they are only derived from a section of water for several miles up and down the Qingao Platform."

"Every year around Qingming Festival, the qin fish grow fat and float on the water to play, so the locals will catch them on time. Use a special triangular dense net to pass through the deep ravine patiently and drive the fish into the net. If you come to Qinxiqiao Town at this time, you will see a busy scene."

"I saw the villagers on both sides of Qinxi Bridge holding bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, and triangular nets, and even those who built dams with shovels and caught on the beach of Qinxi. There were also children of seven or eight years old who would build a small dam on the shallows to block the water flow, then took out a small ditch under the dam, spread a fine net in the ditch, and wait for the Qinyu to catch the net."

"I don't have to put too much tea when making tea. During festivals, I am willing to serve as a cup of tea to entertain distinguished guests. Mei Yaochen, a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote many poems to praise the zither fish in his hometown. In ancient times, there were high-quality zithers, riding fish into the blue sky. Small scales arrive with the water, and the river is covered by three months."

Yan Sihai said regretfully: "Because the taste is very delicious, zither fish was listed as a tribute as early as the Tang Dynasty and was enjoyed by the royal family alone. Local people have to make zither fish every year to send it to the government, and zither fish tea is covered with a mysterious color. Until today, the output is still unable to break through, at most about two or three hundred kilograms."

"It is a blessing to be able to taste Qinyu tea. In recent years, every spring March when the grass is green, there are red clothes flying in the east bank of Qinxi River, and tourists are everywhere. One side of the road is full of cars. Many people carrying long spears and short cannons come to watch the fishing fish and watch the making of Qinyu tea."

"In the early years, friends from Jingxian gave qinyu tea, which was put into bamboo tubes made into handicrafts. Now there is a kind of exquisite packaging of ingot bamboo baskets on the market. The handle is a pair of bamboo roots, which is very exquisite and pleasing to the eye."

"But people who are familiar with the fields still like to go directly to the villagers' homes to shop. The dried zither fish that the owner holds out for you in both hands is bright and clean, not burnt or dark. Put it in your mouth and chew it. It is crisp and squishy, ​​full of faint fragrance, timeless and long."

"If you can talk deeply, the owner will rush the dried fish into the glass for you to taste, and let the guests witness the resurrection of the zither fish from the dead, waving their tails, like playing in the water, with a slightly wide open mouth, and a kind of charm that looks like a smile."
Chapter completed!