Chapter Seventeen: Tea is like life, life is like tea
The sun sets in the west.
The fiery red morning and evening reflect on the countryside of Baiyun County, creating a unique beauty.
At this moment, Qin Wenyuan is still immersed in writing the formula of Luban Suo at home.
Now, he has completely written out the Four Seasons Lock and Kongming Chain Lock.
It was also submitted to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry.
As expected, he had already received one thousand silver taels from the Ministry of Industry.
After writing for a while again, Qin Wenyuan finally wrote the entire content of the third chapter of Twelve Square Locks.
"We will take a break first and then submit it to the Ministry of Works tomorrow."
Qin Wenyuan rewarded himself with some rest time.
He stretched and then walked out of the house, intending to get some air.
Outside the door, he saw his wife at first sight.
At this time, the breeze blew across her face, blowing Changle's long black and beautiful hair, dancing with the wind, looking extremely beautiful.
Qin Wenyuan chuckled lightly, stepped forward and put his arm around Chang Le's waist from behind, and rested his head lazily on Chang Le's shoulder.
"Madam, what are you thinking about?" Qin Wenyuan asked with a half-smile.
Changle smiled lightly, "No...just looking at the scenery that I couldn't see before."
"Husband, I have never had such a peaceful life before. I really want to keep going like this with you."
Changle felt extremely comfortable and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
In this life, I really...I have never had such a happy life.
A sunny smile appeared on the corner of Qin Wenyuan's mouth, "Madam, I don't even know what to say to you. As husband and wife, we will naturally continue to walk together."
"There is a saying in my hometown, that is, how can you dare to enter the prosperous world if you are poor, and how can you mislead a beautiful woman if you have the breeze in your sleeves."
"Perhaps before today, I didn't dare to say whether I could survive, but today, I have earned money, so I have full confidence."
"For the rest of your life, if you want to run away, my husband won't let you run away and will take you back to my Qin family."
Spending his life with such a wife who cares about her family, Qin Wenyuan felt like he had just walked away from a lifetime of luck.
There is absolutely no way he would give up!
At this moment, Chang Le's face couldn't help but turn rosy after hearing this.
[How can one dare to enter the prosperous world if he is poor? How can the breeze on his sleeves mislead a beautiful woman...]
She was thinking in her mind that although she knew Qin Wenyuan was very smart, she was still surprised by such a talented poem.
My husband is really talented.
Changle's red lips raised in an instant.
now,
Just when the atmosphere was getting subtler, Qin Wenyuan coughed and said, "Ahem, Madam, let's not talk about this for now. By the way, do you have any impression of tea?"
"Tea?"
Changle's mind was gradually pulled away. She held Qin Wenyuan's big hand around her waist with her small hand and began to think carefully.
"The tea ceremony is divided into Sencha, Ancha and Boiled tea."
"Sencha is the most popular type nowadays, and the tea used in the sencha method is cake tea."
“The cake tea goes through three processes of roasting, grinding and grinding, and the cake tea is processed into fine particles of tea powder, and then it is cooked into tea.”
"First dry the tea cake, which is called [grilling tea]. After the tea leaves are cold, take them out and smash them into powder, then sieve them through a fine sieve to sift the tea to form the tea powder to be cooked."
"An tea is made by crushing the tea leaves first, then boiling them, drying them, and pounding them in the spring."
"Then put it in a bottle or a narrow-mouthed earthenware vessel, fill it with boiling water, soak it and drink it. It's called An tea."
"Sencha is to put onion, ginger, dates, orange peel, mint and other ingredients together and boil them thoroughly, or to make the soup more boiling to make the soup smoother, or to boil the tea foam."
After the words fell, Qin Wenyuan nodded.
"It seems that Madam understands it very clearly. The water I boiled just now happened to be boiling. How about it, Madam, would you like to experience my husband's tea-making skills?"
"Um? Husband, can you make tea?" Changle was slightly stunned.
Qin Wenyuan didn't take it seriously and said: "That's natural, it's just a tea ceremony, it's no more difficult than being a husband!"
After all, in front of Chang Le, Qin Wenyuan couldn't help but want to show off.
And the scariest thing is that Changle is quite useful!
She looked at Qin Wenyuan who didn't care and admired him even more!
Perhaps, this is the so-called beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
"Yeah." Changle smiled and nodded.
Then, the two of them walked into the house.
…………
Inside the room, two people were sitting at a long table.
The table was filled with various tea sets that Qin Wenyuan bought specially today.
Qin Wenyuan gently picked up a pot of tea and poured it into a celadon cup.
Tea smoke curls up.
The lingering fragrance immediately filled the entire tea room.
"It smells so good, husband, what kind of tea is this?"
Smelling this aroma, Changle's expression suddenly became curious.
His big eyes stared at the yellowed tea leaves in the celadon cup.
It seems that she has never tasted such fragrant tea in the palace.
At the same time, I also know that my husband has real abilities, not just words.
"I got this by chance when I was wandering in Yizhou. It smelled very fragrant, so I picked some and stored them to this day."
"I didn't expect it to come in handy today."
Qin Wenyuan said while preparing the tea set.
"So that's it."
Changle nodded silently and looked at Qin Wenyuan making tea with a serious expression.
“Making tea is not just about a cup of tea, it’s about all aspects of life.”
"Tea has one path, two enlightenments, three friends, four qi, five natures, six flavors, seven emotions, eight difficulties, nine fragrances, and ten virtues."
"A cup of tea is both bitter and sweet, and the aftertaste is long. This is true of tea, and so is life."
"Pick up, put down. Pick up to survive, put down to live."
"Madam, these are not written in those great Confucian books, are they?"
Qin Wenyuan brewed tea over and over again.
The sound of nature, like Sanskrit music, echoes endlessly in the room.
The voice fell.
Chang Le, who was sitting aside, was so shocked that he couldn't reply for a long time.
A cup of tea, husband... Husband, he can actually realize so many truths?
Picking it up is for survival, putting it down is for life.
Even if this is tea making, it is simply the motto of life for enlightenment!!
Husband, what kind of person was he before?
What kind of life have you experienced?
Changle's beautiful eyes slightly raised, looking lovingly at the handsome young man in front of her.
unconsciously.
He was actually a little obsessed.
I became more and more curious about Qin Wenyuan's past life, and I also yearned for the "hometown" that Qin Wenyuan mentioned.
"Madam, why are you in a daze?"
"Today I'm going to teach you how to make tea, madam. Now that I've finished the demonstration, come and make it for me."
Qin Wenyuan said calmly.
"this……"
Changle's face turned red, "Husband, I... I just focused on feeling the truth of your life. I don't know how to make tea."
"All...all forgotten..."
Changle felt a little guilty because she was completely attracted by her husband's demeanor as he made tea just now.
All of his attention was focused on his husband, Qin Wenyuan, and he completely forgot about the principles and techniques of making tea.