The waiter of the teahouse, also known as the waiter in the past, is no ordinary person.
Before Li Xiao even greeted him, the waiter holding a tea set appeared next to Li Xiao.
The waiters at Heming Teahouse are all old men and women in their forties and fifties.
Wearing a retro waiter's outfit, he looked very energetic.
"Hello, sir, what kind of tea would you like to drink?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a plain white menu appeared in Li Xiao's hand.
Li Xiao took it and saw that there were many types of tea on it, including more than thirty kinds.
There are old-school black tea, green tea, Pu'er tea, as well as new jasmine tea, rose tea, and even British-style lemon tea.
The price is not expensive, the cheapest one is only 12 yuan, and the highest one is only 38 yuan. It can be said that it is high quality and low price.
However, the prices here are for a single cup, and the hot water can be refilled unlimitedly.
However, if the tea tastes bland and tasteless, and you need to replace it with new tea leaves, you need to buy a new cup of tea.
Li Xiao didn't hesitate to come here for a rare visit and ordered 5 cups of tea.
The waiter's uncle didn't show any surprise, or even raised his eyelids.
After all, my uncle has been working as a waiter since he was 16 years old.
Not to mention ordering 5 cups at a time, he has received many customers even ordering 50 cups at a time.
Taking out the QR code, Li Xiao simply scanned the code to pay.
The uncle opened the white cloth covering the basket.
Boom...boom...boom...boom...boom.
Five crisp sounds.
Five teacups fell on the table.
The uncle's wrinkled hands moved up and down.
The place where the teacups are placed inside the basket is turned over.
What was under the white cloth changed from teacups to more than thirty slender iron cans.
Inside the iron cans are different varieties of tea leaves.
The waiter took out a tea spoon that had been rubbed for many years and had become round and shiny.
His movements were very swift, and he took out almost the same amount of tea leaves from the iron can with no name on it.
The tea leaves were like a meteor shower, streaking across the sky and falling into the tea cup.
After doing this, the waiter asked.
"Does the guest want a tea art performance?"
"Tea performance?"
Uncle Tang was not surprised at all that the guest asked such a question.
He was already prepared. As soon as Li Xiao finished speaking, he continued to answer:
"The tea skill performance here is divided into 18 postures, known as the [Dragon Walking Eighteen Movements]."
"There are specialized tea masters who come here to perform."
"The charge is 18 yuan per guest."
"If you don't like the tea ceremony, you can use the hot water bottle on the table to brew it."
The waiter's speech was neither fast nor hot, and his tone was neither salty nor bland.
It seems that whether you choose the former or the latter, it has no impact on him.
Now that I'm here, of course I want to watch the show.
It’s only 18 yuan in total, and you can watch the 18-style performance. It’s so affordable.
Li Xiao took out his mobile phone again and scanned the QR code to pay:
"Then let's do a tea trick show."
The waiter nodded slightly and took back the tea order. He shouted to the guy wearing white training clothes next to him:
"Xiao Liuzi, the guests here need a tea skill performance."
"This is a customer with a professional camera, please be serious!"
"Okay, Uncle Zhou, I completely understand!"
The young man known as Xiaoliuzi came to Li Xiao quickly with a long-spout pot.
Xiao Liuzi came to the table and was obviously taken aback when he saw the old man with a black folding fan sitting next to Li Xiao.
He immediately put away the cynicism on his face and his expression became solemn:
"Hello, Uncle Tang, good luck to you."
"Well, perform well and don't lose the face of us Chengdu people."
"Come on, I promise to try my best."
As he spoke, he held the long-spout pot in his right hand and walked two steps in place.
His head shook slightly from left to right, and he muttered something:
"I am Chang Xiaoliu, and my master is Tang Yuanping. Tang Sanshui is my ancestor."
"Today, a guest performs the Eighteen Movements of the Dragon. Please appreciate it."
Saying this, he bowed his head to the end as a greeting.
Wait until he stands up straight again.
With a turn of his wrist, the long-spout pot that was gently held in his hand began to spin.
The one-meter-three-meter long spouted pot twisted slightly against the wrist of his right hand and was rotated beside him. The long-spouted pot danced like a tiger, which was really beautiful.
This action looks simple, but it is not easy at all.
The teahouses in the courtyard are densely packed, and the closest one between two adjacent teahouses is only half a meter, and the distance between them is only one meter at most.
This distance is far shorter than the length of the long-spout pot itself.
If someone with less skill comes over, don't dance like this, and the water in the teapot will spill out.
I am afraid that just by holding it in my hand, if I am not careful, the teapot may hit the guests who are drinking tea at their seats.
At first, the right hand danced unilaterally, then the left hand began to dance, and then the two hands danced alternately.
Many tea drinkers around also noticed.
Seeing that Xiao Liuzi was so serious, he cheered loudly from near to far.
"Good, what a handsome kung fu!"
"You brat, you keep saying that your hand is dislocated and you can't dance? It turns out it's not that you can't dance, it's that we, a small family, can't do it!"
"Is this the so-called tea technique? Is it so beautiful?"
"If I had known this performance was so exciting, we would have ordered one too!"
"It's really only 18 yuan. Now that I think about it, it's not very expensive!"
"Let's call one later!"
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After a period of ups and downs.
The water was unable to splash into the brass-colored long-mouthed pot because of the dance, and Xiao Liuzi took it back to his side again.
Just listen to Xiao Liuzi say:
"Okay, the warm-up is over, here are the Eighteen Dragon Walks, please taste them."
He said and raised his hand.
A copper teapot with a long mouth of 1.3 meters appeared in front of Xiao Liuzi. The fingers of his left and right hands were constantly alternating, and the whole teapot was spinning rapidly.
The speed was so fast that a brass barrier was formed in front of him.
The speed of the long-mouthed copper pot in his hand went back and forth from fast to slow and then from slow to fast twice before being lifted high above his head by Xiao Liuzi.
I saw Xiao Liuzi, holding the bottom of the teapot.
The whole person's back is slightly bent, and the teapot also bends down with the body.
A slender white water column cut through the air and landed accurately inside the tea bowl with the lid wide open.
The weight, angle, and cutting position of this water column composed of hot water are all controlled to perfection.
Xiao Liuzi's height is 1.8 meters, and the height of the teapot is 1.9 meters.
The tea table made of stone is only 80 cm at most.
In other words, this silver water column spanned a distance of more than one meter.
It landed accurately in the tea bowl. The most important thing is that this time, not a drop of water was spilled.
Seeing Xiao Liuzi's neat skills, the old man holding a black folding fan.
Close the open folding fan in your hands and pat your palms gently.
With a look of approval in his eyes, he nodded with satisfaction:
"I didn't expect that your kung fu didn't fall short."
"This Jiaolong Chuhai already has eighty-nine points of the charm of your master!"
