Tea fragrance overflowing [reverse wear]

Huo Zheng left earlier than Li Yunshu imagined. He just had a meal together in the morning. When Li Yunshu and Gao Lao came back from the tea garden, he was gone in the hut, leaving only one A simple note, explaining that there are too many things to be busy, and we can only talk about it in detail after Li Yunshu returns to City B.

Holding the note in his hand, Li Yunshu frowned slightly. He looked at the sharp handwriting on it for a long time, and finally heaved a long sigh, and slowly tightened his fingers.

Why do I suddenly miss it...

"Xiao Yunshu, hurry up and help me, what are you still doing standing there? If you don't come here today, I'll just hang out!"

Old Gao's voice called Li Yunshu out of his dazed state. He casually put the note into his coat pocket, then turned around and ran over.After the two of them spread the fresh tea picked today on the mat to dry, Li Yunshu drank water while sitting on a small chair beside him panting.

"That kid...you really look familiar..." Elder Gao was squatting on the ground and inspecting every fresh tea, and he whispered while stroking the tea leaves with his fingers.

Li Yunshu was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and asked, "Master Gao, what are you talking about?"

Gao Qiuming picked a yellowed tea bud and threw it aside, said: "I mean, that friend of yours, that kid from the Huo family, looks a little familiar, as if he's seen it somewhere before."

Li Yunshu asked in surprise, "Did you see it somewhere in City B?"

"I can't go to City B once a year. It should be in Hangzhou. By the way, I remembered. It seems that I met in Hangzhou half a year ago, but the age doesn't seem to be right, so don't worry about it. Never mind." Master Gao simply shook his head and forgot about it, pointed to the fresh tea buds, and said: "Xiao Yunshu, we have picked a lot of fresh tea, now... it's time to do something else gone."

Li Yunshu was thinking about what Elder Gao said, but he didn't realize it for a while. After Master Gao repeated it again, he came back to his senses and said with a smile, "Old Gao, are we... going to make tea?"

Master Gao touched his chin with a smile, and said: "Today is the first day of the new year, and we don't celebrate any festivals, so let's make some tea and drink it. I'm just doing it today, come and see, Wait until tomorrow and I will teach you in detail how to knead, stir-fry, huiguo and so on."

Hearing this, Li Yunshu couldn't help but raised the corners of his lips and nodded again and again, and said straightly: "Then I really enjoyed my meal today."

That day, after all, was also the New Year, and it was necessary to take a good rest, so after Li Yunshu and Master Gao tasted some new tea, they didn't bother to work any more.This newly made fresh tea is extremely smooth and tender, with a tangy aroma, slipping through the mouth like a clear spring, which makes people unforgettable.

Li Yunshu tasted the tea leaves that he saw the finished product with his own eyes, and said with emotion: "The color of the soup is translucent, and the fragrance remains on the teeth and cheeks. This feeling is really wonderful. However, it is less precipitated than the Longjing tea that has been placed for a period of time. The mellow taste is a bit of a fly in the ointment."

Master Gao couldn't help looking at Mr. Li a few more times when he heard the words, then nodded and said: "Although the tea making time of Longjing tea is relatively fast, it is always best to let it sit for a few days. But Xiao Yunshu, what do you get out of this tea? Did you drink a little... anything else?"

As soon as Master Gao finished speaking, Mr. Li suddenly lost his expression, and said in a flat tone: "Yes, it seems that there is a little blood smell, um... I cut my finger when picking tea three days ago. of."

Master Gao: "..."

It's hard for Mr. Li to remember such a trivial matter so clearly.

One must know that Mr. Li asked Mr. Gao for some Band-Aids to bandage the wound when his fingers were just bleeding a little. How did Master Rengao answer?

Well, it seemed like he snorted lightly, and his eyes turned straight on Li Gongzi: "Is there a bandage for this small injury? Xiao Yunshu, I didn't say you, a man, you are tough only with a little scar Ah! You are still a little tender!"

Li Yunshu: "..."

Half an hour after he finished speaking, Gao Lao accidentally cut a wound on his finger smaller than Mr. Li while walking in the tea garden.The old man took the band-aid and put it on without saying a word, and when he turned his head again, he saw Mr. Li's cold eyes staring at himself.

Elder Gao coughed lightly, and said with a dry smile, "I really can't accept my old age when I'm old. Are you right, Xiao Yunshu?"

Li Yunshu: "..."

He didn't seem to have done anything bad in his previous life, why did he meet so many shameless people?

Mr. Li's complaints did not disappear until the second day of the Lunar New Year, and early in the morning, neither of them set out for the tea garden this time, but went to the backyard of the single-storey small tile-roofed house and began to tidy up the tea picked yesterday. Fresh tea down.The green and tender tea buds have gradually shriveled after an afternoon of drying, the water slowly disappeared, and the color became darker.

Li Yunshu divided the tea leaves that had been dried yesterday into three pieces for classification, preparing for different roasting.And this first step is kneading.

Kneading is not simply kneading by hand, but putting all the tea leaves into a special large iron pot for frying.Continuously kneading with hands while heating slightly, changes the internal structure of the tea leaves, so as to get the effect you want.

There are ten well-known techniques in kneading, including "shaking, tapping, stretching, pressing, throwing, grasping, pushing, buckling, pressing, and grinding".Li Yunshu already understood these methods yesterday when he watched Elder Gao making tea, and he also learned a little bit from gourd painting, but when he did it himself, he found that things were not as simple as he imagined.

"When you shake, you have to be agile, not sloppy."

"Be decisive when you hold back."

"When you catch it, you have to think about what part to grab, and feel the temperature with your hands."

"When pressing, pay attention to softness, use skillful force, and don't use brute force."

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While Li Yunshu was kneading extremely unskillfully, Elder Gao watched from the side, and gave some pointers from time to time.Seeing that Mr. Li has become more and more proficient during the long-term kneading process, Master Gao sighed leisurely and said in a low voice: "Oh, this pot of tea leaves must be useless."

"..."

Can you speak less?Listen up here!

Mr. Li's cheeks were flushed, thinking with some shame.

When the first pot of tea leaves came out, Mr. Gao just touched them with his fingers, put them in front of his nose and sniffed them, then shook his head regretfully, and said, "Just throw away this pot of tea leaves, even if they are roasted. It can only be a defective product, and I don't have the ability to rejuvenate like this."

Hearing Master Gao's words, Li Yunshu was so ashamed that he could hardly lift his head: "Old Gao, I'm really sorry, I..."

"No need to apologize, Xiao Yunshu, you have done a good job, at least...much better than I imagined. It's okay, let's make another pot today, I guess there will be five more pots at most, and you too There are just a few."

Although he said so, Gao Lao couldn't hide the distress in his eyes when he looked at the shriveled tea leaves in the iron pot.And Li Yunshu looked at the old man's painful expression, his heart suddenly trembled, and his eyes gradually became firmer.

When night fell, Master Gao returned to his room early to rest, and after Li Yunshu washed the remaining rice bowls, this time, he did not return to his room immediately, but opened the backyard. The door walked to the big iron pot, staring at the shiny iron pot in a daze.

But after a while, a ray of flame burned under the iron pot.

Even though there wasn't any fresh tea in the middle, those thin and slender hands were still kneading in it, as if feeling a pile of fresh tea in the pot swaying with his movements.

These hands with protruding knuckles and slender fingers are very beautiful. Under the moonlight, the complexion is even more white, but these hands, which are supposed to dance at the concert, insist on kneading stubbornly in the black iron pot.

It was not until late at night and early in the morning that the flame in the backyard slowly extinguished.

The next day, it was another beautiful morning.

When Li Yunshu finished kneading a pot of fresh tea skillfully, Master Gao was still slightly stunned, not understanding what happened.Even though it was not perfect, but at least barely a few tea leaves, Gao Lao looked at it for a long time with complicated expressions, and finally sighed, and said helplessly: "OK, OK, we can start the next step of green tea. It's over, the technique is still the same, Xiao Yunshu, are you ready now?"

Li Yunshu raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead. Because of the kneading just now, the palm of the hand was a little yellow and blue, but the fingers were a little red.The former was infected by the color of the tea leaves, while the latter was slightly scalded because it touched the hot pot wall.

"Old Gao, this green pot is not easy, you... don't feel bad about the tea leaves."

Master Gao smiled provocatively when he heard the words: "Anyway, I planned to give you all the tea leaves for this year to study, so there is no need to feel sorry for this? Xiao Yunshu, I will give you as much tea as you can fry." How much is given to you, in short, you pick and fry it yourself, so the old man doesn't bother to charge you a cultivation fee."

Li Yunshu was taken aback when he heard the words: "Really give it all to me?!"

Master Gao nodded: "I'll give it to you, I'll give it to you, now let me start the green pot! You don't know how many days you will spend on this green pot, so hurry up."

As soon as Gao Lao finished speaking, Li Yunshu moved quickly.This time, his motivation was even stronger. You must know that as long as these Shifeng Longjing are fried, they all belong to him!What kind of wealth is this, enough for Mr. Li to drink for several months.

Thinking of this, Li Yunshu began to think about the tea leaves that Master Gao dismissed and put aside yesterday.Although...according to Master Gao's standard, it is fried, but if you continue to fry it, you might still be able to drink a lot.

Thinking of this, Li Yunshu let out a long sigh and thought to himself: What a pity...

"Li Yunshu! It's overheated, it's overheated! What are you thinking? Hurry up and turn the pot!!!"

"……it is good!"

So while Mr. Li was fascinated by Gao Lao's sugar-coated cannonballs, the pot of tea leaves gradually came to an end. Looking at the pot of shriveled leaf buds, Master Gao felt distressed, and Mr. Li was even more indignant. Absolutely!

This pot... should have belonged to him in the first place.

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For several days in a row, Li Yunshu went to bed late and got up early to train himself non-stop, and the process of roasting tea has reached the last step.It is to put the tea leaves with a certain amount of water after regaining moisture into the pot for frying, so that the water evaporates again and further shape the tea.

It was this seemingly simple step, but Li Yunshu spent three days without producing anything that satisfied Master Gao.Because of the re-moisture, the water content of each tea is very inconsistent. At this time, it is necessary to have rich experience for the tea fryer to judge, when and what method should be used, and how long should be roasted.

And the process of training Huiguo did not wait for a pot of Shifeng Longjing who barely passed, but waited for an unexpected person.

The gentle and handsome man smiled and brought the big and small bags up from the mountain, and put them familiarly in the closet in the living room of the small tile-roofed house.After putting away all the things, he pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, smiled and looked at Li Yunshu, then looked at Elder Gao, and said, "Teacher, why don't you answer my phone during the New Year? I can't find you if I want to pay New Year's greetings to you in my thirties, if my grandfather said that you and Yun Shu are on Shifeng's side, I wouldn't worry about it."

After hearing Xu Yuqing's words, Master Gao looked at him suspiciously for several times before asking tentatively, "You really care about me so much?"

I saw Xu Yuqing nodded with a smile, and said seriously: "Yes, of course I care about you. You and Yun Shu are together every day. If you bring him down, my mother will have to break my leg." .”

Li Yunshu: "..."

"Hey you little white-eyed wolf! You only care about Xiao Yunshu, what about me?" Master Gao was so angry that he blew his beard and stared.

But Xu Yuqing choked back calmly and said, "Didn't you say last year that I would never come back in my life? Teacher, you are really forgetful. It was after I soaked the Pu'er that you have treasured for 12 years last year." , what you said."

"...Xu Yuqing!!! You still have the face to mention this matter!!! Go away, go away, don't even think about drinking my tea again!"