aren't we rivals

Meng Chi knew Song Min because of his good friend, Chen Yan, who fell in love with Yu Tingzhi at first sight and yelled Tiancai just after he broke up with him.

Chen Yan and Song Min are both students of Zewu University, a junior and a freshman, in different colleges and different majors, but they are in the same club, so there is some overlap.

Song Min wanted to buy tea to give to his elders, so he asked in the community group where Zewu could buy good quality tea.Chen Yan and Meng Chi had a good relationship, and when they saw it, they recommended Youran Teahouse.

When he came to Youran Teahouse to buy tea, Song Min happened to meet Meng Chi's master Yang Zhengfeng performing a tea ceremony.Song Min was very interested in it, so he decided to take tea art culture as the research topic of his traditional culture course.After that, he often came to the teahouse to drink tea and watch tea art performances.

Song Min was young, with a sense of innocence, and was unique among all the aunts and uncles. It was hard for Meng Chi not to notice.Of course, at the very beginning, what he noticed was that Song Min had a pair of delicate and delicate hands, and when he picked up the tea cup, he had a soft and pleasant attitude.

After coming and going, Meng Chi became familiar with Song Min and would teach him some basic knowledge of tea art.Meng Chi was a natural crook, and after getting along with him for a long time, seeing Song Min's docile and considerate personality, he had some unusual thoughts on the little boy Song Min, thinking about wanting to develop further.

A few days ago, Song Min wanted to buy a tea set suitable for beginners, but couldn't find a suitable one in the store, so Meng Chi proposed to take him to a porcelain factory in the suburbs to choose, and today's date began.

Now the date has gone to waste, and a suspected love rival has been discovered.Meng Chi couldn't help but feel a little frustrated, but he didn't go up to say hello to Song Min, turning the embarrassment of one person into the embarrassment of three people.

After all, Song Min chose to marry him and came to the hospital to see Tiancai. No matter how you look at it, the date with him is not as important as Tiancai.When Meng Chi stepped forward at this time, he was frankly facing the first confrontation with his love rival, and he lost completely.

Never.

In this rear-end collision, Meng Chi's car was not seriously damaged. In the evening, the 4S store called and asked him to pick up the car.

After picking up the car and returning to the teahouse, Meng Chi was surprised by the crowd in the teahouse.

Now that the real economy is depressed, and it is neither a peak tourist season nor an event day, it is very rare for a teahouse to be full of guests like this.

Seven years ago, Meng Chi came to Youran Tea House, which was just a modest tea shop.The owner, Yang Zhengfeng, is also Meng Chi's master, because he participated in a provincial tea art competition and won a silver medal, he is somewhat famous in the tea art circle.

Later, he bought the shop next door to the tea shop with his prize money and turned it into a tea house with five independent tea rooms and a performance hall. He still named it "Youran Tea House" after his eldest daughter Yang Youran.

In the past seven years, the tea art culture has continued to develop, but Youran Teahouse has begun to go downhill.First, because of the location of Youran Teahouse, the government changed the nearby old residential area into a new campus a few years ago, and the older generation withdrew from Mingshi Street, and it became a place for young people.

There are six milk tea shops within a radius of [-] meters from Youran Teahouse. Traditional tea drinks have been impacted by fast-moving beverages and have almost lost the market for young people.

But tea is one of the "life" as famous as firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar.Although Yang Zhengfeng is a bit outdated in the tea art circle now, he has accumulated some old customers after staying in Zewu for decades.With the addition of Meng Chi, a rookie tea artist, Youran Teahouse is not in decline.

But like today, when the new early spring tea is not on the market, it is still very rare that the market is almost full.

As soon as Meng Chi entered the door, he collided with the low noise floating in the room. Yang Zile, a part-time waiter, saw him appear, and immediately trotted over, "You are here."

"Why are there so many people today?" Meng Chi asked, "Where's Master? Why isn't he here?"

"My dad, he should be at home." Yang Zile replied casually, pulling Meng Chi inside, "Whatever, these young ladies are here for you anyway, so hurry up , come on stage and give them a pot."

"Come here for me?" Meng Chi looked around and found that most of the guests tonight were young women. Apart from the tea sets in the teahouse, there were also a lot of milk tea on the log-colored tables. They were probably college students nearby.

"Yeah, you're popular." Yang Zile said, "Didn't I shoot a video for you two days ago, I posted it on our store's Weibo. That video became popular, and even our store followed suit. No, they are all here to punch in the 'True Master of Tea Arts'."

The two entered the preparation room in the inner hall, and the hustle and bustle suddenly became quieter.Yang Zile still looked excited, and he didn't forget to step on his father, "Didn't my father say that I was a moth all day long? Huh! When he sees so many people today, I will see if he is convinced."

As the son of a senior tea artist, Yang Zile is naturally very familiar with tea.However, he has just grown up and is still in the third year of high school, and he has not taken the tea art teacher qualification certificate.

Yang Zhengfeng's education level is not high, so he hopes that Yang Zile can have a good diploma before he can learn tea art culture.

But Yang Zile, who is in the rebellious period, is a scumbag. He prefers to help in the store rather than study, trying to find ways to make the store's business flourish, and thinking about developing self-media to save the sparse business of the teahouse.

But the Weibo account he made himself, few people except himself actually care about it.After Yang Zhengfeng found out, he scolded him for not doing his job properly, because he only knew how to surf the Internet all day long, and didn't study well.It made their father-son relationship, which was already full of friction, worse.

Now that he unexpectedly became popular and attracted customers, Yang Zhengfeng was not convinced. Meng Chi didn't know that Yang Zile was very proud, but he could tell, but he was still puzzled.

"Aren't the Weibo accounts all zombie fans you bought? Are they activated by my handsomeness?" Meng Chi asked.

"Although I admit that you are quite handsome, remember that you are a master of tea art, not an oil field master?" Yang Zile gave him a blank look, and pushed him into the dressing room, "Hurry up and change clothes, and come out to pick up guests later."

Meng Chi: ...

Okay, that's right.

Meng Chi was indeed good-looking.He has a pair of round almond eyes, slightly pointed at the head and raised at the end of the eye, with a bit of sharpness.The double eyelids are wide, the eyebrows are high, and the bridge of the nose is as straight as a knife, but there is no overwhelming momentum.Between the end of his right eye and the end of his eyebrows, there is a small mole dotted on it. Coupled with his thin lips shaped like the bow of Cupid, his natural smile reveals a bit of ruffianism, which is very popular nowadays. The appearance of the little fresh meat.

Because he runs around all the year round and will go to the countryside in the new tea season, his complexion is a very healthy light wheat color.Coupled with the professional infiltration of a tea art teacher, Meng Chi's temperament is restrained, and he has a little charm that young people rarely have.Good-looking and durable.

This kind of charm will be fully highlighted when he makes tea, and it will be revealed in every move, every frown and every smile.

Although the business condition of Youran Teahouse has not been as good as before in the past two years, the decoration here still maintains its style.The interior style is biased towards the new Chinese style, which not only retains the simplicity of the Chinese style, but also incorporates the fashion of the new era.There are short tea tables on both sides, square tables, and semi-open ones separated by bamboo curtains. The inner wall is connected to the dense laurel trees in the yard by a moon hole window.

In the middle of the hall, there is a small indoor waterscape, and the background is a tea couplet inscribed by Mr. Yu, a famous calligrapher in Zewu - "Sit quietly and always think about your own mistakes, and don't talk about others' wrongs when you chat."In the middle of the right side is a half-person-high wooden carving shaped like a vertical harp.In the middle is a long wooden table, on which are the Six Gentlemen of the Tea Ceremony ① and the Six-piece Tea Set ② of the same color.

This is a performance stage for tea art performances. The stone platforms and tables on the waterscape can be created and changed according to the scene, so as to fit the different performance styles of tea art masters.

Because most of them are young women today, Meng Chi chose jasmine tea, and changed into an off-white Tang suit cardigan showing the dark pattern of white cranes. The cuffs were rolled up to the elbows, revealing a circle of warm yellow lining. Casual pants of the same color with a wide top and a narrow bottom, and a pair of white sneakers with warm yellow hook lines.A bit of warm yellow matches the jacket, neutralizing the inherent old-fashionedness of Tang suits, making it look young but still elegant.

As soon as Meng Chi sat down on the stage, the room fell silent, leaving only the gentle sound of the flute from the stereo.

With a straight back, Meng Chi calmed down the irritability around him, nodded slightly to the gaze with a smile on his face, and after a simple gesture of salute, he began to make tea.

As a tool for making tea, Meng Chi used his longest-used all-purpose white porcelain tureen.According to the number of people present, he selected five identical tureen bowls with white cranes spreading their wings.After lined up, move the long-mouth boiling kettle with you at a constant speed to inject boiling water.

All the tea sets are warmed in turn, and finally the waste water is poured into a round tea pot with a lid for storing the waste water.

After finishing this step, he used a teaspoon to transfer the tea leaves on the tea lotus into the gaiwan, and poured water for brewing. This time, he did not move the kettle back and forth, but poured them one by one.

In the rising white mist, Meng Chi's expression was serious, his movements were slow but not procrastinated, and even the arc of the water flowed with a sense of ease and ease.

About 2 minutes later, he picked up the first gaiwan with one hand, slowly placed it on the glass on the desk, and then turned his wrist [-] degrees neatly, and the tea soup was poured into the glass.

The first tea soup came out. Meng Chi put down the gaiwan, opened the lid and set it aside, then turned the tea soup in the glass upside down into the small white porcelain cups used for tea drinking.

Finally, Meng Chi smiled and stretched out his hand as a gesture of invitation, indicating that the guests could have tea.

At this time, Yang Zile and other employees will step forward and serve the tea soup on the saucer to everyone present one by one.

When the tea soup was served, the fresh fragrance of tea lingered on the tip of the nose, and the people who watched the performance recovered from the peaceful and leisurely atmosphere just now, and began to taste this cup of brightly colored tea soup.

The magic of tea art is probably that whether you understand it or not, without exception, you will be attracted by the charm of tea art itself, and then relax and enjoy the time of this cup of tea quietly.

"This should be jasmine tea." Song Min, who was sitting in the corner by the window, moved his nose and guessed based on the faint floral fragrance.

And Yu Tingzhi, who was opposite him, was still looking in the direction of the stage, as if he didn't hear him.

Song Min saw it, and asked with a smile, "Brother Ting, isn't the tea art show very interesting?"

Yu Tingzhi heard it this time, he withdrew his gaze and ignored it.

While talking, Yang Zile who was carrying a saucer happened to be delivered here, Song Min saw him coming, sat up, and brought out two small cups of tea from the tray very familiarly, "I'll come by myself, you go greet others. "

Yang Zile knew Song Min as a regular customer, so he was not polite to him, thanked him, and continued to serve tea to other guests.

Song Min pushed one of the cups in front of Yu Tingzhi, and then took a sip of the cup in his hand, "Well...it really is jasmine tea. Teacher Meng said that this tea has a taste of white sugar, and I can't drink it. Brother Ting, You try it."

Yu Tingzhi asked: "Teacher Meng?"

"Ah, that's the tea master just now." After Song Min finished speaking, there was a sudden burst of joyful laughter near the performance stage, and the two followed the prestige to look over.

At the end of his line of sight, after Meng Chi finished his performance, he relaxed, and the smile on his face was no longer a reserved and dignified smile, but a kind of ruffian smile.I don't know what to say, and the girls who are close to the stage are amused.

"Teacher Meng is also like a tea art master when he is doing tea art performances." Song Min said suddenly, his tone was smiling, and he said casually without irony.

Over there, Meng Chi wiped the table carefully with a brown towel, and walked off the stage with the tureen and kettle in hand. Yu Tingzhi looked back, "You know him very well?"

"It's okay," Song Min said, "I bought the tea I gave to Grandpa Yu earlier, and Teacher Meng even gave me a discount."

Yu Tingzhi declined to comment, but glanced at Meng Chi's back as he walked away.

"He knows a lot about tea art, and he helped me a lot with my project research. I also made an appointment with him to go to a porcelain factory in the suburbs, where a porcelain exhibition was held recently." Song Min paused for a while, looking at Yu Tingzhi asked: "Brother Ting, do you want to go together?"

Back in the lounge, Meng Chi heard a series of "Ding Dong", which was the notification tone of his mobile phone.

He picked it up and glanced at it, all of them were messages from Chen Yan, pouring out his passion. After many inquiries, he finally found out Tiancai's name, age, and job.

Yu Tingzhi.

28 is old.

Invited lecturer at Zewu University School of Art.

[Damn, evil fate, evil fate, evil fate!I also picked his history of art! 】

【How can he be a teacher in our academy? ! 】

[Is it wilted immediately, okay? 】

Seeing these three sentences, Chen Yan's helpless and frantic howls could already be heard in Meng Chi's ears, which shows how regretful he is.

It is indeed evil.

But if Tiancai was the teacher, why would Song Min call her brother intimately?

This is a teacher and student on the surface, but behind the scenes...

Meng Chi clicked his tongue, and another sentence popped up in the dialog box, which successfully drove away the unbearable random thoughts in his heart.

[Now I don't even have the chance to do 0 for love o(╥﹏╥)o].

Meng Chi laughed twice, knocked on his phone and was about to ask him if he knew about the relationship between Yu Tingzhi and Song Min, when Yang Zile suddenly pushed the door open and entered.

"Brother, Song Min is here."

"Oh?" Meng Chi was overjoyed, and heard Yang Zile say again, "He brought someone with him, so handsome!"

"Who?" Meng Chi was first curious about how handsome this man was, and how handsome he could make Yang Zile boast so much, then after thinking about it, he suddenly had a not-so-good guess.

When he walked out and saw Song Min's straight back, his not-so-good guess became true.

"..."

Meng Chi also withered immediately.