Xue Panzhi's gossip red mansion

The atmosphere in Zhen's family has been good these past few days. The servants don't know why the master always looks cheerful. This is something that hasn't happened since Miss Bei married and passed away. "Master, I've served some new tea, would you like to try it?" Seeing that the master was in a good mood, the butler went up to him and asked.

"It's the season, and there's new tea?" Master Zhen is quite keen on this kind of thing, although what he loves is not tea, but when scribes get together, they always have to discuss something based on this topic. Things are a bit vain, but you still have to understand, or let others seem to not understand at all.

"It's fragrant tea. It's much more delicate than the previous ones. When I was brewing it just now, I leaned over and smelled it. The fragrance is just like what you said last time, it can scent a room."

"It's one flower that can scent a room." Master Zhen wanted to say the following verse, but he couldn't remember it when he came to his mouth, so he changed his mouth, "Isn't it about Jasmine? Let's have a good jasmine scented tea, you can try it."

The housekeeper was busy calling for the tea to be brought up, and the brewed jasmine scented tea was poured into the cup, and a distant scent burst out, very strong and fragrant.Just by smelling it, Mr. Zhen felt that it was a good tea. After he took a sip, the combination of Longjing and Jasmine in his mouth was just right, which was even praised by his half-baked level. "This stuff is good, you can add a little more." He took another sip and asked in a good mood what he was most concerned about recently, "Is Qibaozhai okay?"

When the butler heard this, the joy in his eyebrows seemed unstoppable, "Okay, of course, my master is wise. After doing this, the business can't be better. But Xue’s family couldn’t get over it, and they’ve been holding on until now, and I guess they knocked out their front teeth and swallowed blood.”

"No price reduction?" Master Zhen sneered. What he wants to do is not only to suppress the Xue family, but it is still early. It's always okay to be forced into a dead corner, but he didn't believe Master Xue could stand it after two more visits. It's a pity that the back house of Xue's house was well-guarded, otherwise he would have reached in long ago.At that time, the Xue family, who was engaged in business, had to rely on the Jia family in the capital, so would Zhen Jia join forces, would he be worried?There is just one thing, the hearts of the Jia family are not in harmony, not every room has the same heart, and it is time to give Mrs. Jia some more advice, and those who are useless should not take the position of the overlord.

The butler watched his master thinking about something and didn't dare to disturb him, and only answered when Master Zhen looked at him again, "Shanhai Pavilion didn't lower the price, so I'm afraid Master Xue went to the capital. It's time."

"Hehe, it's good to have time, isn't it too late to see this?"

But when it was approaching the twelfth lunar month, according to the usual practice among literati and elegant guests, a cold-elimination meeting was held before the New Year's Eve, and everything that happened in the past year was talked about at this time. It's time for a must-have party in winter.And in the winter of this year, the most concerned is the quietly emerging fragrant tea.

"If you want to talk about this thing, it has been there before, why is it not so fragrant and elegant? The taste of drinking is always missing something, but this time it is absolutely perfect. This is a tea with all the fragrance of flowers."

"Isn't it? In this winter, when you walk on that street, you don't know where the scents of jasmine, brandy, osmanthus, gardenia, etc. come from. You can only smell the fragrance but not see it. I asked After a while, I realized that the fragrant tea is in its early stages."

"If you say that this tea can absorb the fragrance of flowers, it's really an elegant thing to combine green tea and flower fragrance. I don't know much about scenting, but I can vaguely hear that the upper layer puts tea leaves, and the lower layer puts petals After sealing it, the old flowers were replaced overnight and new ones were added, and after a few days, the tea smelled like flowers."

"I'm afraid it's because there's too much attention to it. It's the people in the tea garden who put in a lot of thought about things like three stops for tea and one stop for flowers."

"Don't say, it's a difficult thing in tea just to have a long-lasting flower fragrance, a tea flavor, and not be stuffy or cloudy, a mellow aftertaste, and a clear and bright soup. This time it adds a touch to the elegance. Thinking about it, we can come up with a topic based on the fragrance of flowers when we drink tea, and we don’t have to limit ourselves to tea leaves.”

"Master, people are talking about fragrant tea outside, but the business of our tea shop is soaring." Shopkeeper Hao is probably in the best mood among the big shopkeepers of Xue's family recently. On that day After the discussion, Xue Pan asked them to think about what kind of road the Xue family's shop should take. If there is a novelty to appear, this thing is not necessarily unprecedented, but it can also be a look Just like that, new tricks have been played. This fragrant tea is a good thing made by the Xue family's constant blending and proportioning in the past six months.

"Master, it's not enough for us to be effective in tea, but after discussing with a few of us, we came to a result. What you said last time is not to be surpassed by others, isn't it just to keep us new? Is it the most recommended location? This has something to do with the Crafts Pavilion, right?"

Xue Pan and several shopkeepers got together again. Before this, they did not act rashly immediately. Just like their opponents thought, the Xue family was a centipede. , Some people still come to Xue's Shanhai Pavilion to buy things. After all, it has been open for so many years, and the influence of the old signboard is still not low.

Taking advantage of this sudden change, Xue Pan also took the opportunity to conduct a thorough investigation. Some problems would not appear when the flowers are blooming, but when they are in trouble, they will all pop up.

In fact, when Father Xue left Jinling, he felt that something was wrong, and he had made sufficient money preparations, but he did not expect that there would be such a quick attack.While waiting for Xue's father and Xue mother to get off the boat with Baochai, as soon as they arrived in the capital, they received a letter from Jinling.It's just that the impact this time is much greater than originally thought, and I don't know if Pan'er's first arrangement will be effective.

Just after clearing up those irregularities in Xue's shop, one day after Laba, firecrackers were set off at the gate of Shanhai Pavilion. This was not to celebrate the New Year, but to start selling a new kind of thing.

"Old Yu, why did I see you here again?" The speaker's expression was a little teasing. Didn't Old Yu say that he had identified the Qibaozhai's things and would not change again?

"Didn't I feel itchy when I saw those glass teapots in the tea shop yesterday? Don't bully me. I just like these transparent things. What's wrong? I found out after inquiring that this is the Xue family. It has been developed, can you not take a look at it?"

While talking, some guests walked into Shanhai Pavilion one after another. As soon as they entered the door, they smelled a scent of flowers. This smell is not unfamiliar, isn't it just the scent of fragrant tea that has been popular for a while?In the past few days, the well-known tea shops in various places have a new set of tea sets, which are crystal clear glass teapots. When you put the tea in it and wash it with water, it looks really good.I saw a sign next to it, "On the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, after drinking Laba porridge, watch tea in a glass pot, Shanhai Pavilion."

After everyone entered the door, the shopkeeper shouted with a smile, "Everyone, everyone is here to watch tea today. There are tables and chairs prepared in the small place on the second floor. Please take a seat first." The interior of Shanhai Pavilion is not small. , on the second floor, there is a large living room for some guests to play with objects together, which is also one of the characteristics of the old shop.

Everyone was very curious. They had already seen the green tea soaked in it, and it was unexpectedly beautiful. What did they see this time?

After everyone was seated, their eyes were wide open, but there was no voice for a while.Hearing the gurgling music of the Guzheng, several maids came up carrying a tray with glass jugs and a few small jars on it.

I saw that they first moistened the glass jug with water, making it look dizzy with water.Then they opened the small jar on the side, and several people took out a few small flower buds and put them into the glass jug.After flushing the hot water in this way, I suddenly saw the beauty of the flowers in the pot.

The most touching thing was the daisy. Everyone didn't see the buds clearly, but they witnessed the chrysanthemum blooming quietly in the water. Everyone held their breath for fear of disturbing the beauty of the flowers blooming.

If it is said to be elegant beauty, then roses are gorgeous when they bloom, and jasmine is simple and elegant.This is just Sanweihua's dance in the water, which stunned everyone present.

It's impossible to say that you haven't seen a transparent pot, but you have seen crystal glass before, but it's the first time you've seen it so clear.It is impossible to say that you have never seen flower buds. When decocting the medicine, there is this medicine in the prescription.It's just that it's the first time to see the flowers blooming in the water with my own eyes, as if they are within reach.

As soon as they relaxed, everyone's faces showed a dreamlike expression, and they felt the scent of flowers on the tip of their noses, which proved that the flowers in the water just now were not an illusion. "What's this called? What's the point?" After a while, Lao Yu asked in a daze.

"Everyone is familiar with Liuli, and they have seen this flower before. But when it comes to viewing flowers in the water, it comes from Westerners. Daqing is a country in Shang Dynasty. There are all kinds of tea leaves, and they are also from us. It was only introduced to them in the West. So before that, they should have something to drink. No way, they don’t know how good tea is, so they just pick flowers and eat them. We can’t do anything about this. But they said After they made the glass, they soaked the flowers in it and drank it.

That English John wrote a book "A Brief History of Medicinal Herbs", saying that drinking these flowers and plants is good for the body. Don't we doctors know more about this.

However, it is because Daqing has been drinking tea for a long time that this thing looks elegant when it comes here. It is not Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty who chanted: flowers are not flowers, and fog is not fog. Come in the middle of the night and go in the morning.How long has it been like a spring dream?Going like a cloud without a place to look.We have come up with the artistic conception of flowers in the water. You can not only drink tea, but also watch flowers and keep healthy.

Shanhaige asked the doctors of several major medical centers in the south of the Yangtze River for advice, and gave a list, what kind of flowers to drink, and what diseases can be alleviated gradually, everyone should pay attention to it, it is also good for the body. "

Now the interest of everyone here has been completely aroused. They have been drinking tea for a long time. Recently, they feel that the scented tea with flowers is good. Here is a kind of water flower, which is elegant, really elegant, but not only Elegant and practical, it is time to savor it carefully.

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he poured a cup of tea for the guests, using glass cups of course. Now everyone's experience of viewing tea in a glass pot in Shanhai Pavilion is complete.

To say that a good thing is popular, the fastest way is through scribes and merchants.When a thing is elegant and touching, and when it is unprecedented, it is the combination of the literati and the businessman, and it is as unstoppable as the wind.This is an indispensable part of the annual ceremony in the capital, and the shopkeepers of Xue's family laughed crookedly.

Xie looked at the set of tea sets that Xue Pan sent to the house in a strange way, with several jars of different scented teas, along with a thick booklet, on which were densely packed appendices with the respective efficacy of these flowers.They were all transcribed by Xue Pan himself, Almighty compiled a book, and there are portraits of various flowers and plants on it.Xie nodded and smiled, there is still someone in this world who misses him.