The heat of the charcoal fire was warm and long-lasting. In the kettle on the small stove, a pot of water was just about to boil.
"Well, considering the slightly cold room temperature, the water temperature should be just right when brewing." Alice was satisfied and tapped the kettle lightly with the small wooden stick used to stir the charcoal fire. With a crisp sound, she turned towards Sun Suhenu.
Nuzzled, "This water is newly brought from Hupao Spring. How about I treat you well? I promised to treat you to tea, but I won't be perfunctory with you."
Sun Suhe smiled and said: "Then I have to treat you to drink sugar water ten times to repay you."
"You want to repay ten times? That's a good idea. At least twenty times." Alice joked, taking out two transparent and clean glasses and throwing them into the air. With her thoughts, the two glasses floated swayingly.
up in the air.
Alice lifted the kettle with one hand, and brushed the rim of the glass with the other hand like playing a string. The tender green and fragrant tea leaves gently fell into the cup. The hot water flowed down, and she was aroused by this.
The faint fragrance of tea immediately spread out.
Alice put the kettle back, took a cup of tea and held it in the palm of her hand, while the other cup flew directly towards Sun Suhe. To avoid burning his hands, Sun Suhe calmly concentrated, and the air flow surged in his palm, imitating Alice, he heated the cup
He held the tea in his hand. Although he was not as relaxed and free as Alice, he was already familiar with the simple air flow control.
In late autumn, the nights are deep and the weather is cold, especially the coldness in the south. A bone-deep dampness penetrates directly into the body. At this time, the warmth of the tea fragrance spreads from the small cup, and the clear tea soup still lingers.
Before it enters the throat, it already makes people feel comfortable and comfortable, and the benefits are endless.
Looking at the colorful tea leaves flying up and down in the cup, Sun Suhe felt that the boredom in his chest seemed to be relieved by the warmth of the tea fragrance. He put aside his worries for the time being and joked with Alice: "It's that simple.
Is it? I saw that the tea art performance was like a phoenix nodding, and it was like a general patrolling the city, and it seemed that there was also a way of spreading beans to form an army. You just brewed it, and I asked you fifteen times to drink sugar water, which is already overwhelming.
I can’t ask you twenty times.”
Alice listened happily and said with a smile: "It's a good thing you said this to me. If anyone else had laughed it off, they would have beaten you out."
"How do you say this?" Sun Suhe asked with interest.
"Those various tea sets and rituals have two functions. First, with the help of some tools, it is indeed easier to brew good tea. Second, ha, it is purely to create some gimmicks and forcefully pursue a sense of ritual to bluff people. You
The talk about patrolling the city and nodding the phoenix is all a marketing ploy developed by Taiwanese tea merchants in the early years, and has nothing to do with the serious tea ceremony."
Alice said angrily: "Good Cha is a natural beauty, and every move she makes is charming. If we have to use some vulgar rules to restrain her, make her put on makeup, and ask her to stand out and twist her hips, that's really embarrassing.
stained color
It's so vulgar. When it comes to making tea, I can get it just right without tools, and of course I won't do those funny tea art performances. Only by being natural can you get the true taste. How can I say it's simple? This is called Da Yin Xi Sheng Elephant
Is it okay to be invisible?”
Sun Suhe nodded hurriedly, "That's what your old man taught you."
Alice gently blew the hot air away, took a sip of the tea soup, and continued: "I read an essay by Mr. Zhitang a few days ago: Drinking tea is like drinking tea under the paper windows of a tiled house, clear spring green tea, and using elegant ceramic tea sets
"Having a drink with two or three people, half a day's leisure can be worth ten years of earthly dreams. 1 This statement has three points of truth."
Sun Suhe felt something in his heart. He put his lips to the wall of the cup and took a sip of tea. He felt the slightly bitter fragrance surging between his lips and teeth, and then turned into a clear sweetness and surged in his throat.
He is facing a very important and difficult choice in his life, but do all the troubles he is hesitating about really come from this choice? Or is he looking for trouble?
Why not drink this cup of tea, let nature take its course, and turn all conflicts and worries into idle gossip.
But, can it be done?
Sun Suhe vaguely groped for some clues, but still couldn't figure it out, and he was still tangled in his heart.
Alice said: "After I returned to this world, I read a lot of tea books here. I remember that there was an allusion about "Boya Taming the Piano" in Okakura Tenshin's "Book of Tea"2, although there is no source to verify.
, he mostly made it up himself, but it’s very interesting to read.”
Alice explained: "It is said that in ancient times, there was a paulownia tree in Longmen Canyon, which was the king of trees in the forest. One day, a Taoist with superb magic made it into a magical piano, but this piano had a spirit and was unruly.
, only the most powerful luthier in the world can tame it.”
"The emperor of China regarded this qin as a treasure, and many luthiers tried to play wonderful sounds on its strings, but all their efforts were in vain. The qin only produced a disdainful harsh tone, babbling and babbling, and did not bother to speak to them at all.
The music was in perfect harmony - the harp refused to identify its player."
"Finally, Boya, a talented person in the piano world, tamed the piano and played wonderful music. The emperor was overjoyed and asked Boya the secret of taming the piano. Boya replied, other musicians were eager to play their own songs, but I played the piano from the piano.
Pick its own theme."
This story is not complicated, but Alice told it very slowly. She rubbed her fingers on the side of the glass that was no longer hot, and whispered as if talking to herself: "The author uses this story to explain the mystery of art appreciation. But I
Another truth can be derived from the middle part. If the piano really chooses its own theme, it can play wonderful sounds. Could it be that those vulgar and inferior piano players give up their own thoughts and let the will of the piano lead them?
Are you going to make a song like this?"
"Absolutely not." Sun Suhe replied: "It is Boya who controls the piano, not the piano that controls Boya. This is the key. Letting nature take its course is by no means laissez-faire. It is really mysterious..."
When Sun Suhe said this, he suddenly stopped and seemed to have some realization in his heart.
Alice was still looking at the clear tea soup in the cup, and whispered to herself: "The pride and idealistic impulse in your heart are just like this piano. What I am most worried about is that you will be driven by it and hurt yourself. But
Your hesitation and contradiction show that you have begun to consciously think about the advancement and retreat. Hesitation and contradiction are not bad things, nor are pride and idealistic impulses. Ha, you are already qualified to tame this piano."
Sun Suhe felt like he had taken a slap in the face, and the lump in his chest disappeared instantly. He took a sip of tea and said relaxedly: "Thank you, it's great to have you here."
Alice smiled and said: "I just gave you a nod. Even if I don't say it, you will figure it out. It just takes a lot of trouble and pain, haha."
"No, it's not just that you clicked on me. A large part of the reason why I started thinking about this is also because of you."
"Really?" Alice raised her eyebrows, "It's better to ask for yourself than to ask for others."
They both laughed at the same time.
The moonlight was exceptionally bright, and the damp chill of the night was dissipated by the warmth all around. There was a stove, two cups of tea, and the water in the kettle gurgled happily.
Alice curled her lips and said, "It would be better if there were some light tea snacks. I originally asked Lao Cai to prepare some, but it seems that they were eaten by some fat cat who refused to admit it."
Sun Suhe smiled and said: "A few gossips are the best thing to go with tea, aren't they?"