Author: The cat who doesn’t drink water

Changsun Yan was confused. What was he thinking? How could there be a big iron pot here?

You must know that iron was a scarce commodity in the Tang Dynasty. He did have it in his house, but this tea garden was not to that extent.

"No?"

Li Yanran wrinkled, isn't there even an iron pot here?

"It doesn't exist here, but it does exist in Changsun Mansion. Zhao Wu, go back to the mansion immediately and get the iron pot."

Changsun Yan was embarrassed for a while and immediately ordered Zhao Wu to go back to the house to get the iron pot.

Looking at Zhao Wu's leaving figure, Li Yanran also shook her head.

Several people looked at Li Yanran and were a little at a loss. What should they do next if there is no pot?

"How about I make a pot of tea and we can try the wonders of this new tea?"

Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Changsun Yan also scratched his head a little and wanted to show off his tea-making skills.

"Forget it, let's screen this bud tea first."

Li Yanran said directly, forget about your dark dishes.

I'm really afraid that if I drink your tea, I'll be poisoned by you.

Everyone poured all the bud tea in their baskets onto a bamboo strip and started picking out the tea with big eyes.

Until everyone was dazzled, Zhao Wu came galloping with Chang Sun Yan's donkey cart on his hips.

Li Yanran was also stunned when she saw the iron pot that Zhao Wu took from the carriage.

Is this what you call a big iron pot?

Is this fifty centimeters?

But now it is enough to use it, and I am not in a position to pick and choose.

He ordered Cheng Chubi to cut down some moso bamboos, remove the leaves and make them into brooms for making tea, and then put the iron pot on the stove.

First, heat it slightly over the stove fire. When it feels almost ready, pour more than half a kilogram of bud tea into the pot. If the pot is too small and too much bud tea is poured, the bud tea will be heated unevenly, which will affect the quality of the finished tea.

Cheng Chubi took a broom made of moso bamboo and began to stir-fry rapidly according to Li Yanran's instructions. After about two or three minutes, the tea leaves in the iron pot had become a little dark. This was the phenomenon of the water in the tea leaves being fried.

Raise the iron pot to let the temperature of the iron pot drop slightly, then wave the broom again to let the tea leaves rotate in the pot.

When the tea leaves begin to wrinkle, condense into strips, and become sticky, raise the iron pot again and let the temperature of the iron pot drop further.

Stir-fry until the tea leaves get into the bamboo of the broom. After reheating and frying several times, when the leaves of the bud tea are about 30 to 40% dry, Cheng Chubi pours the fried tea leaves into the iron pot.

On the bamboo strips.

The fried tea leaves were dark green in color and curled into strips. Not only were they exactly the same as the tea that Li Yanran drank in later generations, it was almost the same.

Seeing that her first fried tea could be made like this, Li Yanran was very satisfied.

"Brother Li, your method of frying tea is quite strange. This tea has a strange fragrance. I wonder what it tastes like when brewed?" Changsun Yan sniffed his nose and was also a little dazed.

He didn’t say what he was a tea drinker, but he still had some knowledge about tea under his influence.

The tea leaves fried in this way are indeed much more fragrant than the best ones collected by my father.

Li Yanran has black lines all over her head. If you dare to cook and eat this tea, I guarantee you will not be able to leave this tea garden.

Cheng Chubi grabbed a bunch of tea leaves, put it into his mouth, chewed it and spit it out.

"The tea flavor is very strong, but some of the stems are hard. If you really want to cook it and eat it, it probably won't taste good."

Li Yanran glanced at Cheng Chubi, could you put down my tea?

She has a deep understanding of the cow chewing the peony.

Li Yanran held on to the new tea as if she were protecting a calf, and said to the others fiercely: "Don't touch my tea. This is not for cooking or eating raw, but for brewing and drinking."

"Drinking it with water?"

How many people were all stunned, soaking and drinking?

What a magical method this is.

"Yes, there is spring water here. Go get a pot."

Li Feng nodded and left directly carrying a water bottle.

Most tea gardens will have spring water, otherwise, irrigation will be a big problem.

After all, relying on God to make a living is somewhat unreliable.

After a while, Li Feng came back with a kettle, which was filled with clear spring water.

He took a small pot and put it on the stove to boil the water. Everyone looked at the boiling spring water with anticipation.

After all, this was their first encounter with drinking tea.

Li Yanran took out a few tea cups and placed them in front of everyone. She grabbed some freshly roasted tea leaves and placed them in the tea cups. Then Li Feng picked up the water and poured it into the tea cups.

After brewing with boiling water, the huddled tea leaves begin to stretch in the water when heated, and the originally clear tea gradually turns emerald green and transparent, looking like a piece of emerald placed in a tea cup.

A light and distant fragrance of tea also filled the air, and the smell made people feel shocked.

"Huh?"

"This tea looks really different from what we drank before."

Changsun Yan is also quite knowledgeable and has drunk countless good teas. The aroma of this tea is much better than the tea he has tasted before.

As she spoke, she grabbed a handful of salt and was about to throw it in, but Li Yanran knocked it away with a broom.

"This is tea tasting, don't add anything weird to me."

Li Yanran was drunk, and you added all kinds of messy things to me. Isn't that trashing things?

After saying that, she picked up the tea cup, gently blew on the tea leaves floating on it, sniffed it with her nose, and took a small sip.

It feels ok, it tastes similar to the bagged tea that was bought for ten yuan a bag in later generations.

After all, tea frying is a technical job, which can be said to be simple or difficult.

In addition to the quality of the tea leaves, the more skilled the workers, the better the tea produced.

This is like the chefs of later generations. With the same raw materials, some can make it to the level of a state banquet, while others can only make a big stew.

As a novice, she was able to make it just by relying on the videos she saw later, without making the tea burnt. She was already very satisfied.

Seeing the satisfied expression on Li Yanran's face, several people on the side immediately picked up the tea cups impatiently, imitated Li Yanran's example, and started drinking tea.

Changsun Yan and Li Siwen were fine. Cheng Chubi and Yuchi Huan, the two idiots, blew out the tea foam all over Changsun Yan's face and body.

Changsun Yan plucked the tea leaves from his face, gave the two of them a "you are waiting" look, and slowly drank all the tea in the cup.

After finishing the cup of tea, the four of them put down the cup with a look of recollection on their faces, and looked at Li Yanran with a hint of admiration.

The fragrance of this tea floats far away, the tea is rich in flavor, and there is even some sweet aftertaste at the end of the drink.

Compared with the tea in front of me, the tea I had before was simply pig food. No, even pigs wouldn't eat it.

At this moment, a voice floated in their hearts, this is how tea is drunk.

After a cup of tea, Cheng Chubi couldn't wait to take the kettle from Li Feng's hand and make tea for several people again.

This kind of delicacy is really rare in the world, and only Brother Li can have such uncanny ability to turn decay into magic.

While several people were drinking tea, the old tea maker also returned from the mountain with the craftsman. Smelling the fragrance of tea in the air, everyone was surprised.

He walked straight to a few people and looked at the tea in their cups, with a glint in his eyes.

After looking at a few people, the old tea maker asked sheepishly: "Young gentlemen, could you please let me have a taste of this tea?"

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