The next day, the sun in Chang'an City is not revealed, the green clouds overlap, the wind blows, and the heart reverberates, which is really a good season to go out and play.

Gao Yue and Wu Yuanheng walked side by side, Chu Niang of Pingkangfang accompanied Cui Yao, Guo Zaizhen took a few officials of Xingyuan Jinjuan Academy with horizontal knives, and the guards followed - the group talked and laughed, and went to Xingdaofang.

There is a big field in front of Xingdao Fang, which has always been a lively place for the people to gather during the festival celebration, and today it is full of people, cigarette smoke is around, and exclamations and praises come and go.

At this point, Gao Yue and Wu Yuanheng were surprised to see that many people put incense on their foreheads and bowed to a curtain in the center of the field, all chanting "Buddha light" endlessly.

Gao Yue even saw that there were actually many soldiers dressed in black in the crowd, some from the north and some from the palace.

Separated by layers of human heads, he and Wu Yuanheng couldn't see clearly, they could only see that there was indeed golden light shining in the curtain.

Then outside the tent, there was a bald and hooked nose of a short monk, the robe was made of colored paper, sitting cross-legged on the felt mat, puffing out his lips and playing the flute, in front of him there were several beautiful girls with fat powder dancing to the rhythm, after each dance, the monk shouted something loudly.

Then the people who came to worship in Xingdaofang worshiped the Buddha light in the curtain, and frantically bowed down, responding to the monks.

They shouted something like crazy, and Gao Yue couldn't understand it for the time being, it was about what "Yue Desecration" was.

"It's Buddha Light again, it's Yue Du again, this group of blind men and women are really terrifying." Gao Yue sighed.

"Where there is any Buddha light, there is a mirror and a golden thread inside." The sharp-eyed Wu Yuanheng was indignant, "These monks and monks have always been accustomed to using illusions to deceive people. ”

But the two of them have no good way to civilize the gangsters who are deeply trapped in feudal superstition, and it is easy to treat the symptoms and difficult to cure the root cause, so in the end, they didn't think much about it, and they stepped into the Zhide Female Crown Gate of Xingdaofang.

Since Xue Yaoying took over the women's crown, she has been much more restrained, and she no longer dares to hold any activities to teach the law at the lotus altar, and Xue Yaoying only follows Wei Yuan Ningzhen by her side, managing the industry of this female crown. But privately, Xue Yaoying's "correspondence" and "salons" with officials or cultural people have not stopped.

In the crown of the virtuous woman, it is completely incompatible with the noisy scene of worshiping the Buddha light in the outside world, on both sides of the middle road after entering the door, there are quiet pine trees and cypress trees, and there are fluttering apricot blossoms slowly descending, some hang on the branches, and some are paved on the path.

Under the corridor, Xue Yaoying, who was wearing a mica crown, held a whisk in her hand and looked at Gao Yue with a smile, while Yuan Ningzhen on the side, with both shyness and boldness in her eyes, stared at Wu Yuanheng.

Then the group walked to the corner gate and entered the forest.

Under the green bamboo with high shear and clouds, the breeze is coming, and the dwarf pestle and the hearth have already been arranged, it seems that Xue Lianshi has already prepared, and he will take the lead in entertaining Gao Yue, Wu Yuanheng and Cui Yao Sencha.

After everyone sat down, Xue Yaoying smiled like a flower, and asked Yuan Ningzhen to present a pale green and jade-colored bottle, and then presented a tea cup and a tea boat to everyone.

Next, Xue Yaoying took out a tea cake from the bottle with her own hands, and then Ning Zhen half-knelt on the ground and lit the fireplace, Gao Yue saw that the stove was covered with a fire lid, and nine holes were drilled, so that the cyan flames burst out from nine places, Yaoying twisted the tea cake and roasted it back and forth on the flame.

It turns out that the best tea cakes need to be roasted, and ordinary people drink tea, usually the tea cakes are broken and soaked in boiling water directly.

For a peerless female crown like Xue Yaoying, naturally she can't fall so low, so she has to burn the tea cake first.

The tea cake is particular, the fire can not be burned with flying embers, and the flame can not be burned by a single drill, so the fire cover is added to the hearth, and the flames in nine places are turned and baked evenly.

Watching Xue Yaoying's fingers flip, Gao Yue asked curiously (he has been an official for so long, drinking tea is basically directly breaking tea cakes and drinking), to what extent?

Xue Yaoying smiled, pointed to the densely raised points of the tea cakes, and said, "Bake the tea cakes like shrimp and toad's back, and then remove the fire for five inches until they are rolled." ”

After the roasting was finished, Xue Yaoying carefully packed the steaming tea cake into a hemp paper bag, tied it tightly with a silk rope, and waited for it to cool slowly, hoping to use paper to prevent the fragrance of the tea cake from being lost.

After a while, Xue Yaoying took out the roasted tea cake and put it into the mortar, revealing a lotus root-like powder arm, and smashed it carefully with a pestle, "At the end, its crumbs are like fine rice; Under the wood, its chips are like water chestnuts. Xue Yaoying explained, which means that the smaller the mashed tea cake, the better the appearance.

Gao Yue was very interested, and looked at the tea cakes in the mortar, so he came up with a couplet: "Grinding into dust, tender and soft as pine flowers." ”

The crowd cheered in unison.

In fact, grinding tea is not only a delicate job, but also an individual work, and soon Xue Yaoying was sweating, so she let Yuan Ningzhen take over.

Ning Zhen lowered his head, blushed his little face, and slowly pounded it.

Wu Yuanheng looked at her coquettishness, and also said in passing: "The jade girl crushes the tuan tuanyue." ”

As soon as this sentence came out, Ning Zhen's neck turned red, but the refiner taught her that no matter what she did in her heart, she couldn't show it to the distinguished guests on the surface, so she could only hang her head lower in embarrassment, bite her white teeth, and continue to hold the pestle in her hand, up and down.

Finally, the tea cake has been milled.

Xue Yaoying slapped her face lightly and said with a smile, if the tea is good, the most fundamental thing is water.

"Oh, then dare to ask the alchemist, how is this water divided?" Cui Yao hugged the grinning Chu Niang.

Who wants Xue Yaoying to be like a treasure, saying that I am recognized by the Tang Dynasty, there are twenty grades of tea, with snow water as the last, as follows:

The mountain stream water of Kangwang Valley in Lushan Mountain, the first class;

Wuxi Huishan Temple spring water, second class;

Qizhou Lanxi Stone on the water, third class;

Xiazhou Fan Mountain Shrimp Toad Mouth/Water, Fourth Class;

Suzhou Tiger Hill Temple spring water, fifth class;

Lushan Zhaoxian Temple's pool under the bridge, sixth class......

"Hey, I don't know what kind of tea the alchemist will have right now? Isn't it unequal snow water? Cui Yao continued to ask.

"If you don't enter the snow water, how dare you take it to entertain the Xingyuan Festival envoy and the Dongdu Jinshi?" Xue Yaoying said, "But whether it is Lushan or Suzhou, it is too far away from Chang'an, according to the tea scripture, if the water is away from its original location, the effect will be halved." There is no good water in Chang'an, so the refiner paid for it to let Chang'an Dipu take water from Shangzhou Xiluo Water to make sencha. ”

"Isn't this water still stored in the Kannai house?" Gao Yue asked.

"Exactly, it was sealed with a bottle and sunk into a well in the backyard." Xue Yaoying finished speaking, covered her mouth with her sleeves and smiled, "According to the rules, if this tea is opened, it must be the most honorable person at the tea party." Then you say, "Who is this character?" ”

"Haha, of course it's my cousin-in-law, everyone is now in purple gold fish bags!" Cui Yao laughed.

Gao Yue patted his knees and stood up, even if he said yes, I will go to Kaifeng to get it with my own hands, whether it is Bocang or Ziyuan, it will be purple or scarlet in three or five years.