The refining of tea produced in later generations is nothing more than three steps: picking tea, frying tea, and brewing tea. The tea making at this time only did not fry the tea. At most, it just spread the tea leaves to dry, so the grassy smell of the tea could not be eliminated.

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Different from the Tang and Song dynasties, during the Tang and Song dynasties, many tea leaves were baked and dried tea cakes, grinded into dregs, boiled in water, added with aniseed and drank together, so that the grassy flavor of the tea itself would be removed.

However, in essence, this is still the form of making tea.

However, the intermediate step of frying tea is also an indispensable prerequisite for brewing tea. Liu Yifu asked Wei Wen specifically. The tea leaves in the two sacks that Ling Sexuan and the others brought over were picked not long ago the night before.

They rushed to deliver fresh tea leaves from Jiankang. After a day, these tea leaves were already wilted and a little curled up.

In fact, according to standard procedures, it is best to let the tea leaves dry for a period of time before frying to allow the water to reduce evenly, and then fry the tea.

Here the tea leaves are left to dry for a period of time, then they are roasted and then boiled directly.

If the temperature, humidity, and time are changed in the step of spreading and drying, the substances in the tea leaves may change to varying degrees, which will become the "withering" of the first step in making black tea, white tea, and oolong tea. The tea they take is in bags.

Although it also reduces the amount of moisture left in the tea leaves, it is not as uniform as the tea leaves that have been added to the drying step, which will affect the taste to a certain extent.

Some of the knowledge points in tea are indeed common sense to Liu Yifu, but this "common sense" is more systematic knowledge after the mature theories of tea making in the Ming and Qing dynasties. These contents appear to be very complex but extremely reasonable.

, and it’s no wonder that Wei and Wen were so amazed by Liu Yifu’s tea knowledge.

Several people also lamented that there was a lot of knowledge in it, and even called it "teachable". Although Liu Yifu's move convinced the other party, it was definitely not as good as Liu Yifu's ability to defeat primitive people before.

It’s so exaggerated to ask the other party to bow down. Knowledge is mutual. Wei Wen’s years of research has accumulated a lot of knowledge about tea products, which also gave Liu Yifu a deeper understanding of the development of tea in this era.

learn.

Half a kilogram of fresh and half-moistened tea leaves are stir-fried and cooled, and then cooled and stir-fried at least three times. There is a professional term for this kind of stir-fried tea called "fried green".

Although the past few times of stir-frying are all done, the purpose is actually different. The first stir-frying is to remove moisture, the second stir-fry is to retain the aroma, and the third stir-fry is to retain the aroma.

By this time, the tea is already ripe. During these three times of roasting the tea, in addition to keeping the temperature stable, the temperature of the roasted green tea in the pot must be gradually lowered.

It takes two hours to carefully fry the tea leaves. Finally, they are spread out and placed evenly in a round bamboo basket to dry in the shade. In order to speed up the process, they are also specially baked to speed up the process.

Fortunately, it had rained before, and the weather in the south was moist. It was indeed not easy to find a sunny day. I have to say that God still helped me.

Just like that, I worked like crazy for almost a day. When I was baking and drying in the shade, the sky was getting dark. Finally, I looked at the finished product in front of me. After Liu Yifu checked the appearance of the finished tea, he raised his eyebrows and announced that the tea making was a preliminary success.

Already.

Several people involved were very excited, especially Wei Wen, who was almost in tears. All I can say is that it was really... it was not easy.

Liu Yifu looked at these tea leaves. Although the final quality was not 100% the same as the tea leaves of later generations, seven, seven, eight and eight were absolutely fine. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It was so difficult for me to finally be able to drink normal tea.

, I worked hard just to get a sip.

At this time, Liu Huiyuan, who was so bored that she went out to play, also came back and looked at this group of crying and laughing artifact humans with curiosity. Among Liu Huiyuan's children, the uncles who behaved strangely when they were young have always been imprinted in her mind.

As soon as Liu Huiyuan heard that there was food and drink, her eyes widened a little more, shining with anticipation.

After hearing that the green strip-shaped leaves in the round bowl were used to soak in water, Liu Huiyuan's face felt a little bitter, because she secretly tasted it in the afternoon. It was so bitter. This was the worst thing she had ever eaten in her child.

Bitter stuff...

Then Liu Huiyuan refused on the spot. This was simply poison. How could there be something so unpleasant to drink? However, Liu Yifu couldn't stand it and tried his best to deceive her, claiming that this thing only tastes good when soaked in water. Then she asked Liu Huiyuan if it was stolen.

I ate it and then lied to her that I was exposing the toxins in it. If I ate it directly, my stomach would rot in a day.

Liu Huiyuan's face turned pale in fright, and she quickly waved her hands and said that she had never eaten it, and had never received a needle or thread from the masses. Then she cried and begged her brother not to let her stomach rot.

Well, Liu Yifu actually knew that his sister was secretly eating tea leaves from the dark side in the afternoon. Someone told him...

Then Liu Yifu continued to lie, saying that this could only be cured by drinking the soaked water.

I don’t know how Liu Yifu came up with such a nonsense reason. The similar logic is that a poisonous weed needs the water soaked in the poisonous weed itself to be cured. This is simply nonsense. I can’t stand Liu Yifu’s words, which are very contagious.

It was really like that, so Liu Huiyuan sniffed and expressed her willingness to try a drink.

Liu Huiyuan thought to herself that there must be a correct way to open this thing that my brother has been tinkering with for so long, otherwise a girl would drink such a bitter thing.

The group of people listening to Liu Yifu's remarks about scaring his sister laughed kindly, and no one tried to expose Liu Yifu's trick. Only the little cook smacked her mouth twice, with a bitter look on her face.

Liu Yifu was still a little strange at the time, knowing that later she came to Liu Yifu privately and wanted to ask for a bowl of tea, because the little cook who had been working hard to light the fire said in a tearful voice that she had also secretly eaten the dried tea leaves.

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In this way, Liu Yifu looked at Liu Huiyuan and the little cook who had taken the "poison". He couldn't laugh or cry, so he had to say that everyone who came to participate in the fried tea could be given a cup of brewed tea to taste and "disinfect" by the way.

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Half a pound of tea is not much, but it is more than enough to deal with the people in front of him. Liu Yifu also wanted everyone to "test the poison" and taste it to see what the feedback was, so he took out a portion so that everyone present could taste this new product.

Made tea.
Chapter completed!