Ning Yu looked at the five kinds of tea leaves on Zi Wan's table. After all, she came from a tea ceremony family and was very familiar with tea.
She could tell at a glance that the shape and color of the tea leaves on the tray were better than their Ning's tea.
Ning Yu had a bad feeling in her heart for the first time during the tea fighting competition!
Zi Wan looked at Ning Yu and said with a smile, "Can we start?"
Ning Yu took a deep breath: "Let's talk about the rules of the competition first! Since it's a tea fight, it's natural to have tea products, tea orders, and tea tricks! Are these girls Zi Yan familiar?!"
Originally, she only wanted to compete for tea products, but her eyes fell on the other party's tea leaves again. She was worried that she would not win, so she could only add two more!
The tea fighting order is a tea order made during the tea fighting. Princess Hui'an knows how to compose poetry, but can the maids around her also understand it
Unfortunately, Ning Yu is also pretty good at composing her own poems!
In this way, you can win the tea battle!
But the tea show is even more difficult!
This requires very superb tea-making skills to make the tea soup form various beautiful patterns!
As the number one master of tea ceremony, the Ning family all know the art of tea. The Ning family competes with each other in tea art and has never lost!
And Ning Yu's tea-sharing skills are even better among the younger generation of the Ning family!
No one at the same age is better than her!
She is very confident about this.
So the last two items win!
She can be considered a winner!
Zi Yuan frowned when she heard this. Cha Baixi was more difficult, and she was far behind compared to the princess's.
The other party came from a tea ceremony family, and she was worried that she would not be able to compete with him.
Princess Hui'an had memorized many of those poems about the Tea Fighting Order to her in advance, so she wasn't too afraid.
But those poems, etc., sometimes her mind goes blank when she is nervous and she cannot remember them!
The other party is a rich lady, so she must be able to recite poems and compose them correctly!
Zi Wan wasn't sure, so she looked at Nuan Nuan.
Nuan Nuan gave her a thumbs up, and then hinted in sign language: Come on, you will definitely win! It doesn't matter if I lose, I will win it back! Don't be stressed! it's not a big deal!
Zi Wan took a deep breath, yes, the princess said it, it doesn't matter if she loses, she will find a way to win it back!
There is nothing that the princess cannot win back!
Zi Wan felt relieved when she thought of this. She said to Ning Yu: "Then let's try three things! Can we start?"
Ning Yu naturally saw that Zi Yan was no longer confident, so she smiled and said, "Then let's get started!"
Hearing this, Zi Yuan first lit the incense in the incense burner.
The first step in the tea fight is to burn incense and meditate, and then start to bake dragon balls.
Because tribute tea is used, all the tribute tea is made into round tea cakes with dragon patterns printed on them, so the tea cakes are generally called dragon balls and full moon.
While Aster was baking the tea cakes on a low-fire stove, she began to recite a poem: "Living water must be cooked with living fire, and you can get deep clarity from fishing stones. ..." ([Song Dynasty] Su Shi)
Before Ning Yu had time to speak, she was shocked by her first line of poetry!
Can you really compose poetry
She secretly comforted herself that it was okay, maybe she had heard Princess Hui'an read it on weekdays, so she could recite it!
But making tea five times and dividing it up would take a lot of time. She didn't believe she had so many poems to memorize!
Ning Yu also started baking tea cakes and making tea orders: "Tea needs to be slow-fired..."
The movements of both of them were neither urgent nor slow, as graceful and natural as flowing clouds and flowing water, which looked pleasing to the eye.
After baking the tea cakes, the second step is to crush the full moon in a mortar. After hammering the tea cakes, the tea leaves must be ground finely with a tea mill.
This step is very important. It requires uniform force. The finer the tea leaves are ground, the easier it will be to form patterns.
After grinding the tea into powder, you need to use a tea sieve to filter the tea powder once to ensure a more delicate matcha.
Then put the matcha into the tea box. This step is called "Qu Chen enters the palace".
After that, I started boiling water and making tea.
The water for Ning Yu's tea was the water from the holy mountain that she brought all the way from Southern Xinjiang.
Sweet and pure!
The water in the aster is the plum dew collected in the early morning, and it is the plum dew taken from the health-preserving plum forest in the backyard of Duke Anguo's mansion.
The plum fragrance in the water is a bit stronger than ordinary plum dew. It is not so light that it is difficult to detect, but it is not too strong to be accepted.
Faintly visible, seemingly absent, the tea brewed with this plum dew not only enhances the health-preserving effects, but also freshens the breath, truly making people exhale like blue!
While Zi Yuan was making tea in an orderly manner, she was reciting a poem: "The graceful swallow flies to the cup, chatting and waving, so that the king can meet all the wise people..." (Qin Guan, Song Dynasty)
The speed at which she reads poetry is not fast, and her voice is gentle and pleasant, but it does not make people think that she is deliberately slowing down, and the rhythm is well controlled.
And because her voice is so nice, it makes people feel as comfortable as a spring breeze.
People all over the hall were extremely surprised to see the two making tea and making wine orders at the same time.
Civil and military officials discussed one after another:
"All the maids of Princess Hui'an know how to compose poetry?"
"Not only does she understand, but she also does it very well! Princess Hui'an, this maid is amazing!"
"The maids and servants around Princess Hui'an are all very powerful. Didn't you realize that one of the maids who used to be around her is now a general? And the guard who used to drive her carriage is also a general now!"
"If you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten. As expected, there are no mediocre people around capable people! Don't ask where the heroes come from! After Princess Hui'an, the maid, won this competition, she became a hero of the Nalan Kingdom, and she will no longer be a maid in the future. ! Just now the envoy from Southern Border looked down on her, look, he has almost finished memorizing a poem before she started composing it!"
"No, who is not qualified to compete with whom?"
"It's hard to live up to the reputation! It seems that the Ning family's tea is nothing more than that!"
"The Ning family's tea is still good, but it can't be compared with our Nalan country's health tea! We can only say that one is the sun in the sky and the other is the stars in the sky! How can the stars compete with the sun?"
"No, when the sun comes out, there will be no stars!"
You are really overestimating your capabilities! Want to compare with their Nalan Kingdom health tea
That is fairy tea!
... ...
The Southern Xinjiang envoys were so angry that their faces turned black after listening to the officials from Nalan Kingdom.
Southern Xinjiang envoy: "This competition is not over yet! I really thought that Nalan Kingdom had already won! The Ning family's tea is famous among the five countries! This is not a well-deserved reputation, but is recognized by the world! One only in Nalan The health-preserving tea spread in China is said to be the best in heaven and earth!"
Zhu Qinghua: "You will know who is the sun and who is the star in a moment! It's not just what you say it is!"
Can a maid really be so talented
Or following Princess Hui'an, I heard two poems and memorized them, so it wouldn't be surprising.
But this is a competition. After brewing five kinds of tea, even if she writes a poem for each tea, five poems in total, that is not an easy task!
What's more, for quatrains, you have to compose several of them before you can make a good pot of tea!
"The Sixth Prince is right, let's wait and see!"