Volume 2: The Wind Rises in Chang'an Chapter 108: The Origin of Tieguanyin
Everyone looked at Lu Chen with suppressed smiles. Even Su Dingfang, the leader of the Weiwei Guards, couldn't help lowering his head and looking at his toes, but the constant shaking of their shoulders betrayed their expressions at this time.
"Humph!" Lu Chen snorted coldly and glared at Su Dingfang and the others, "These guys don't understand the rules and are making you laugh!" Lu Chen explained with a smile to Li Jiancheng and others.
"It's okay! It's all true, I like it very much!" How could Li Jiancheng not know that Lu Chen was trying to change the subject, but he still cooperated with Lu Chen's performance.
"Thank you for the compliment, Your Highness, but they cannot escape the crime of being disrespectful. Each of them will carry an extra five kilometers of weight for tomorrow's morning training!" Lu Chen turned to look at Su Dingfang and the others.
"Yes!" Su Dingfang and the others saw Lu Chen's unkind expression and could only agree obediently.
"My dear brother, you are really good at running an army, but I don't know what kind of training is to carry a load for five kilometers?" As one of the top generals of the Tang Dynasty, Chai Shao immediately grasped the key point of Lu Chen's words.
"Oh, it's just a training method. If Huo Guogong is interested, you can come over tomorrow to have a look!" Lu Chen said with a smile at Chai Shao.
"It's settled!" Chai Shao agreed excitedly, and Li Xiuning and Li Jiancheng also showed interest on their faces. Although the Beiwei Guards were formed in the Detachment of Women, Li Xiuning had been busy with military affairs in those days.
, and I went to Beiweiwei’s camp to see them training.
"If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Third Princess are also interested, you can also come and observe!" Lu Chen naturally saw the interested expressions of Li Jiancheng and Li Xiuning, and also extended an invitation to Li Jiancheng and Li Xiuning.
"So thank you Lord Lu for the invitation!" Li Jiancheng and Li Xiuning looked at each other, and Li Jiancheng smiled and agreed.
"Master Hou, is it time to tell the story of Tieguanyin? And how is such a mellow and sweet tea made?" Li Jiancheng looked at Lu Chen and asked with a smile.
"Oh, yes! I got this Tieguanyin from a farm family in Qingxi County, Quanzhou. As for why it is called Tieguanyin, it has something to do with the dream of the male owner of that farmhouse!" Lu Chen sipped.
He drank tea and turned on the story-telling mode with a smile.
"Oh? I didn't expect it to be related to dreams. This is really interesting!" As soon as they heard that there was something fascinating about what Lu Chen said, everyone became more and more interested.
The three of them, Su Dingfang, also stretched their ears and listened carefully. After all, people in this era like to listen to those mysterious things and are the most in awe of them.
"I was a person who traveled abroad before joining the Women's Army. I believe you all know it very well, right?" Lu Chen didn't believe that Li Xiuning didn't tell everyone about his past to the Li family. Of course, the "past" about Lao Shizi was also made up by Lu Chen.
"Xiu Ning has already told Emperor Guhe about this matter!" Li Jiancheng nodded, indicating that he knew about Lu Chen's past. Only Li Yanjun sat there with a blank look on his face. It seemed that he was not interested in Lu Chen.
Princess Langya knows nothing about her past.
Seeing Li Yanjun's blank expression, Li Xiuning leaned into Li Yanjun's ear and whispered briefly about Lu Chen's past to Li Yanjun. At the same time, he also told Li Yanjun about Liu Heitai.
, directly made Li Yanjun's eyes light up. An unparalleled civil and military figure like Lu Chen simply fulfilled all Li Yanjun's fantasies about his future prince-in-law.
At this time, Li Yanjun actually felt ashamed of himself. He kept fiddling with the corners of his clothes, thinking secretly in his heart: "Do I really deserve to be such a person?"
"That day, I traveled to Songyan Village, Qingxi County, and stayed overnight at this family's house. After dinner, the host brought me a cup of Tieguanyin. At that time, I didn't know that this tea was called Tieguanyin.
After tasting it, I naturally fell in love with this kind of tea, so I started chatting with the host!" Lu Chen began to tell the story in the form of storytelling.
To put it simply, Lu Chen asked the name of the male host. The male host said that his name was Wei Yin and he was a tea farmer. Then the tea farmer told Lu Chen that the tea was called "Tieguanyin". Why was it called "Tieguanyin"? It was him.
I believe in "Guangshiyin Bodhisattva" and worship the Bodhisattva with tea every day.
One night, he fell asleep and dreamed that he was carrying a hoe out of the house. He came to a stream and suddenly found a tea tree in the crevices of the rocks. It had strong branches and leaves, and an attractive fragrance. It was just like what he had seen.
The tea trees grown are different.
And the next morning, he recalled the path of his memory in the dream, and found a tea tree in the cracks of the rocks in the real stream. Looking carefully, he saw that the tea leaves were oval, the mesophyll was thick, and the buds were purple-red and verdant: Wei Yinshi
I was so happy that I dug up this tea tree and planted it in a small iron tripod at home and cultivated it carefully. Because this tea was obtained by Guanyin in a dream, I named it "Tieguang Shiyin".
"But he spoke with an accent, so I called this 'Guangshiyin' 'Guanyin', and the method of making this kind of tea is called 'fried tea'! It is completely different from the current tea brick making process, but 'fried tea' is more
It can guarantee the original flavor and efficacy of the tea!" Lu Chen picked up the tea cup and drank all the tea in one gulp. After all, he was a little dry after talking for so long.
"Oh! So it was so named. Can we still find this tea farmer named Wei Yin now?" Li Jiancheng looked at Lu Chen and asked.
"Hey!" After hearing Li Jiancheng's question, Lu Chen sighed helplessly and shook his head, "The war is in chaos, and Wei Yin's family has long been missing!"
"What a pity!" Li Jiancheng couldn't help but shook his head with regret when Lu Chen said that he couldn't find the tea farmer's family.
Who knows, Li Xiuning looked at Lu Chen with a smile: "Presumably Lu Xianhou has mastered the technique of 'fried tea', right?"
"I really can't hide it from Your Highness!" Lu Chen said with a helpless expression, "But I don't think it's time to use this technology yet. After all, the world has not yet been settled!" Lu Chen looked at it pointedly.
Li Jiancheng and Li Xiuning asked why they didn't know the meaning of Lu Chen's words, and they both nodded in agreement.
"In addition to announcing the decree, I also have something I want to discuss privately with Marquis Lu. I wonder if we can go to the study to chat?" Li Jiancheng had already finished chatting, and it was time for him to take Li Yanjun out of the palace.
It’s not too short, so let’s get straight to the point.
"Why not!" Of course Lu Chen also saw that Li Jiancheng's visit this time was definitely not as simple as announcing an edict, and Lu Chen also guessed that what Li Jiancheng was going to say was probably related to the Li family's plan, and since he knew
The outline of this plan was naturally tied to the Li family's chariot, and they naturally agreed happily.
So Lu Chen got up and took Li Jiancheng to the study. As for Li Xiuning and his wife, Li Yanjun was still sitting in the main room chatting. Li Xiuning and his wife were fine. After all, they were familiar with Lu Chen. Only Li Yanjun was a little uneasy.
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"What? Are you worried?" Seeing Li Yanjun's uneasy look, Li Xiuning couldn't help but tease her sister.
"No...no..." Li Yanjun was obviously upset by Li Xiuning's words, and he replied a little timidly.
"It's hard to find a man like Lu Xianhou, you have to seize it!" Li Xiuning continued to tease her sister.
"It's...it's not me who has the final say!" Li Yanjun naturally knew what Li Xiuning meant, and immediately blushed, "Besides, I don't know what others think of me!" Li Yanjun was weak.
The voice added.
In the study, Lu Chen and Li Jiancheng sat opposite each other. After Liu Jing served tea to them again, he exited the study and closed the door.
"What exactly is your Highness going to say?" Lu Chen asked calmly as he picked up the tea cup and blew the tea leaves floating on the water.
"Xiu Ning said that you have a way to cure Gu's illness. I wonder if this is true or not?" Li Jiancheng asked very directly.
"I'm not completely sure about this matter, because I don't know what your highness's specific illness is. To know the right medicine, you can only find a treatment method if you know the symptoms. Moreover, it's best to find Dr. Sun for help!" Lu Chen just said.
He knew some first aid methods and some simple treatments for illnesses, such as colds. If it was really a serious illness, Lu Chen would also suffer from paralysis.
"I don't know where Divine Doctor Sun is now, but I have both said that I have at least three years to live!" Li Jiancheng didn't feel any displeasure at Lu Chen's words. After all, Lu Chen told the truth, "So Gu
Do you think there is still hope of finding Dr. Sun within three years?" After saying this, Li Jiancheng couldn't help but laugh, but this sentence was somewhat self-deprecating.
"Your Highness, don't be too depressed. As far as I know, Divine Doctor Sun should be near Zhongnan Mountain now. Your Highness might as well send someone to look for it!" Lu Chen reminded Li Jiancheng that this matter was also Lu Chen's guess. After all, Sun Simiao is the
He was a doctor and a Taoist priest, and Zhongnan Mountain was Sun Simiao's favorite place because it was rich in traditional Chinese medicine and was a Taoist holy land. For Sun Simiao, who practiced both medicine and Taoism, this was a good place.
Moreover, it was Huang Yang who told Lu Chen about this matter, because Huang Yang, a military doctor in the Women’s Army, was Sun Simiao’s apprentice and had exchanged letters with Sun Simiao. In the letters, Sun Simiao mentioned that he would go to Zhongnan Mountain at the end of the year.
Chen just calculated it by looking at the day.
"Oh? Then I will send someone to look for him tomorrow!" Lu Chen couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard that he actually knew Sun Simiao's whereabouts.
"By the way, Marquis Lu, do you have someone you like?" Li Jiancheng, who had obtained Sun Simiao's whereabouts, was obviously in a good mood and looked at Lu Chen and asked with a smile.
"No, I wonder why Your Highness asked this?" Lu Chen's heart suddenly skipped a beat when he heard Li Jiancheng's question, and the figure of Princess Langya Li Yanjun actually appeared in front of Lu Chen's eyes.