Turbulent Times Chapter 516: Lihua Fragrant Tea
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Yang Lihua gave him a charming look, and said, "Did you bring that fried tea over here? I'll taste it first and see if it's really worth two thousand taels of gold."
"Of course I have." As he spoke, Wang Junlin took out a beautiful porcelain bottle from his bosom, which contained fried tea.
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After a while, Yang Lihua put down the teacup with a look of disgust.
Wang Junlin looked gloomy. What made him embarrassed was that fried tea seemed to have been left out. From Chen Danying to Yang Lihua, they all showed obvious dislike for fried tea. In order to take care of his face, Chen Danying occasionally Can frown tightly like drinking medicine, raise your neck and take a sip, and then say a few unconscionable compliments. Yang Lihua and Wang Junlin are in a relationship. Many times, they don’t care about Wang Junlin’s feelings when they speak. They have always been sincere. This time it is the same in this way.
Wang Junlin feels a little disappointed, it is obviously a good thing, it has been proved by later generations, why is it not accepted by people of this era?
However, he believes that both Yang Lihua and Chen Danying are just a very few, very few, and they just didn't get used to this taste at first.
In the evening of early summer, the weather in the capital was still a bit chilly. A fire of charcoal was set up in the gazebo early on. The two sat in the pavilion while blowing the night breeze while roasting the fire of charcoal. Wang Junlin prepared to train Yang Lihua Find out his interest in fried tea.
Asked Yang Lihua to find someone to bring a teapot, Wang Junlin poured all the tea leaves from the porcelain bottle he brought into it, then poured boiling water into it directly, and a cloud of mist rose and rolled up. Smelling the strong tea fragrance, Wang Junlin was full of confidence.
"Okay, let's drink it after a while."
Yang Lihua pointed to the cup in surprise and said, "It's that simple?"
"Otherwise, what do you want?"
"What about the seasoning? What about the utensils? What about the Confucian spirit contained in it?"
"Do you know what 'big complexity is like simplicity'?" Wang Junlin looked down at her with a pioneering look, and stroked her hair by the way: "The so-called tea ceremony you like is actually outdated and wrong. What is the true spirit of Confucianism and Taoism? Do you know what is meant by "the unity of knowledge and action"? It is the same principle as Taoism's "Tao follows nature" and leads to the same goal by different routes. The unity of knowledge and action is also the highest state of Confucianism. Tea makes so many utensils, techniques, and seasonings. After all, it is far-fetched. Taoism is what the common people like to hear..."
When Yang Lihua heard the words, her eyes lit up, she nodded thoughtfully, and said, "What you said seems to make sense, but your fried tea doesn't taste good!"
"What's not good? I brewed it directly in a teacup just now. It didn't brew well. I'm brewing it in a teapot again. Take a sip." Wang Junlin was very satisfied with what he said, and smiled and put Yang Lihua's teacup The tea in it was poured into the small lake, and then the water in the teapot was refilled.
Yang Lihua had no choice but to put her fragrant lips close to the mouth of the huge cup, and took a sip lightly. When he opened his mouth to spit it out, Wang Junlin said angrily, "If you dare to spit it out, believe it or not, I'll pour the whole cup into you?"
Yang Lihua puffed her mouth, glared at him wrongedly, raised her neck tragically, and swallowed the tea reluctantly.
Wang Junlin sighed secretly, didn't even bother to ask about her impressions, she could already see everything from her expression.
In the gazebo, there was a sudden embarrassment. Yang Lihua murmured, as if organizing his words, and after a long time, he said: "This... fried tea, actually, uh, actually has a different flavor, maybe someone really I would like to drink it!"
"Do you really feel good?" Wang Junlin asked fiercely.
Yang Lihua hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded out of conscience: "It's still... delicious!"
"Then you drink this whole cup, no, this whole pot, hurry up, I'll watch you drink it." Wang Junlin stared at her expectantly.
Yang Lihua looked at the sky, and began to think that this would be the case tonight, let's wash up and go to bed early!
"Are you feeling tired and want to go to bed early, right?" Wang Junlin kindly helped her make up a lie.
Yang Lihua nodded with relief, her eyes showing gratitude: "That's right."
No matter how you break the tradition, things like drinking tea cannot avoid being mixed with culture.
As long as the word "culture" is next to anything, simple things will become complicated. There are many dazzling tricks to prove the existence of culture.
As a result, Wang Junlin's simplistic fried tea lost the market, because he was uneducated, and he couldn't sell it even to those who cared about him the most.
"If you don't drink it, then don't drink it. If you don't drink it, I'll drink it." Wang Junlin was a little sad, and grabbed the teapot Yang Lihua picked up with an aggrieved face, raised his head to the teapot spout, and took a big gulp. A strong bitter taste spread in his mouth immediately, making him shiver from the bitterness.
Yang Lihua looked at him with distressed eyes, as if watching him take a mouthful of poison. The most helpless thing was the feeling of wanting to stop but being unable to stop...
"It's actually quite delicious. Although the taste is a little weird and bitter, I'm afraid you'll get used to it after drinking it for a long time. You can leave some tea for me, and I'll taste it slowly at home. No, forget it!" I have to say that Yang Lihua is really kind to Wang Junlin, she is beautiful and considerate, she doesn't want Wang Junlin to step down from the stage, and takes good care of his self-esteem.
"Okay, I'll leave it to you." Wang Junlin didn't bother to change the self-abuse mentality of the elite class at this time. The tea he cooked was so bad that it tasted like boiled traditional Chinese medicine. Weird...
"Whether you agree or not to partner with me to sell this kind of fried tea, I will open a shop to sell this kind of tea, and the name of this tea is 'Lihua Fragrant Tea'..." Wang Junlin didn't move Sensually, he pushed the teapot away. He didn't pay attention to it just now, and he brought a porcelain bottle of tea to soak in it. It seemed that there was indeed too much tea, and it was so bitter that he couldn't even open his mouth. No wonder Yang Lihua showed such an expression.
In just one day, there were three more shops called 'Lihua Xiangcha' in the capital. The tea they sell is completely different from traditional tea. Business is not good.
However, Wang Junlin still firmly believes that people will gradually like fried tea. For example, Shen Guang, who drinks tea every day, is addicted to it. Oh no.
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