"Why are you here? Did something happen to Mo Xuanzhai?" Lin Xuan asked in surprise.
He Xinmin said: "Master Hou, nothing happened to Mo Xuanzhai. It's just that Mr. Kong Yingda Kong insists on seeing you. He looks like he won't leave until he sees you. There's nothing I can do about it."
"You didn't tell him my identity?" Lin Xuan asked.
With Kong Yingda's temperament, if he knew that Mo Xuan Zhai was opened by himself, how could he not come?
He Xinmin said: "The Marquis has told me not to reveal the identity of the Marquis. How dare I say such nonsense?"
"Okay, I'll go over now." Lin Xuan said.
He was still very satisfied with He Xinmin's attitude.
…
"Master Hou, Mr. Kong is on the second floor. You can just go up. I'll go and get busy." He Xinmin said.
"Okay, go ahead."
Lin Xuan came to the second floor and saw Kong Yingda sitting there alone, drinking tea, without any sign of anxiety.
"Dr. Kong, why don't you just go to my house to find me?" Lin Xuan walked up and said with a smile.
Kong Yingda was originally surprised, why did Lin Xuan come here? When he heard Lin Xuan's words, he asked in surprise: "Is Mo Xuan Zhai opened by Mr. Hou?"
Lin Xuan nodded and said, "Exactly."
"That's great. I have something to ask the Marquis for help. I wonder if the Marquis is willing." Kong Yingda said.
Lin Xuan said: "Sir, if you have anything to do, please sit down and tell me. If I can do it, it will be no problem."
After Kong Yingda sat down, he said: "Master Hou, the dictionary has been compiled and can be printed after the engraving is completed. However, because it contains too much content, a large amount of paper is required, and the cost of printing will be very high. Mo Xuan
Zhai's paper is very cheap, but you can't buy it in large quantities. I want you to be accommodating."
"No problem, I wonder how long sir will need it?" Lin Xuan asked.
The current limit is due to insufficient production capacity. After production is expanded, we will not have the courage to worry about this problem at all.
Kong Yingda said happily: "That's great. It will take about a month or two to engrave the engraving."
"Sir, don't worry, Moxuanzhai will lift the purchase restriction in one month. By then, you can buy as much as you want," Lin Xuan said.
"In that case, I will go back." Kong Yingda said with a smile.
"I'll see you off, sir!" Lin Xuan said.
…
"Sir, Lin Ping is back." Chunyue said.
"What! Lin Ping is back? Where is the person?" Lin Xuan asked in surprise.
"Back to you, sir, Lin Ping has brought back several carts of things and is unloading them at the door now," Chunyue said.
"I gonna go see."
When Lin Xuan came to the gate, he saw Lin Ping directing people to unload the things on the carriage.
"Lin Ping, are these all tea leaves?" Lin Xuan asked.
When Lin Ping heard the voice, he quickly turned around and saluted, and said excitedly: "Young master, I have met you."
Lin Xuan waved his hand and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Are these tea leaves?"
Lin Ping nodded and said: "Back to the Master, these are the tea leaves picked before Grain Rain according to the Master's request."
Longjing is divided into Mingqian Longjing and Yuqian Longjing. There is a saying in the industry that "Yuqian is the top grade, Mingqian is the treasure".
Yuqian refers to Longjing tea picked before Grain Rain. Temperature has a great impact on Longjing. In the spring tea season, the higher the temperature, the lower the quality of the tea, and the lower the temperature, the better the quality. At the same time, according to the annual solar term, before Qingming Festival
Generally, the temperature is in a season when the low temperature slowly warms up to the high temperature. After the Qingming Festival, the temperature often rises sharply. Therefore, the Qingming Festival is used to distinguish the quality of Longjing tea.
"Very good, are these all picked from Shifeng Mountain?" Lin Xuan asked.
Isn’t it said that the Longjing produced in Shifeng Mountain is very small? With so many cars, it’s probably only one or two thousand pounds.
Lin Ping said: "Sir, most of the tea here is produced in the periphery of Shifeng Mountain. The actual tea produced in Shifeng Mountain is less than two hundred kilograms."
Lin Xuan nodded, this is normal, but the tea produced in a certain area around Shifeng Mountain can also be regarded as Shifeng Mountain Longjing, and will be very precious in future generations.
"Have you bought Shifeng Mountain and the surrounding area?" Lin Xuan asked.
Lin Ping took out the land deed, handed it over, and said, "Young master has bought it. This is the land deed."
Lin Xuan took the title deed and looked at it carefully, feeling very happy.
"Okay, just let them do it here. Get some tea from Shifeng Mountain and come in with me." Lin Xuan said.
"yes!"
…
Longjing belongs to green tea. The common green tea processing techniques are heating and hot steam. Green tea made by steam is called "steamed green tea". Drying depends on the final drying method, including frying, drying and sun-drying.
The difference in dryness is that the green tea that is finally fried is called "fried green", the green tea that is finally dried is called "roasted green", and the green tea that is finally sun-dried is called "sun-green".
The tea brought back by Lin Ping this time was "sun-greened" as Lin Xuan said.
In fact, Lin Xuan can only have a partial understanding of these things, but he doesn't know much about them.
But there is no way, Hangzhou is so far away from Chang'an, and the fresh tea leaves are spoiled when they arrive in Chang'an, so there is no way to fry them.
Lin Xuan put the tea leaves into the teapot, poured in boiling water, rinsed the tea leaves, and poured in boiling water again.
In fact, there are many things to pay attention to when making tea, but Lin Xuan doesn't understand it, so he can only make it this way.
Not long after, the air was filled with the long-lost but familiar fragrance of tea.
Lin Xuan picked up the teapot, poured two cups, picked up one cup, handed it to Lin Ping, and said, "Try it."
"Sir, this..." Lin Ping was a little at a loss.
He is just a servant, how can he let Lin Xuan serve him tea personally?
Lin Xuan said nonchalantly: "Go on."
"Yes!" Lin Ping carefully took the tea cup.
Lin Xuan picked up the tea cup, blew it gently a few times, and took a sip.
It is sweet and refreshing. After entering the throat, the fragrance of tea is still left in the mouth.
Now I can finally have tea, and I no longer have to drink pot water or boiled water.
"Lin Ping, how much tea did you bring back this time?" Lin Xuan asked.
"Back to the young master, I brought back a total of two thousand kilograms of tea leaves. Except for one hundred and eighty kilograms of tea leaves from Shifeng Mountain, the rest are tea leaves produced in the surrounding areas." Lin Ping said.
"I've worked hard for you during this time. Go to the accountant's office to collect the reward of twenty guan, and then go home and rest." Lin Xuan said.
"Thank you, sir!" Lin Ping said gratefully.
Lin Xuan ordered people to prepare some boxes.
He was going to send some tea leaves to Cheng Yaojin and the others.
…
The next day, Lin Xuan felt that it was almost time to leave the court, so he came to the palace with the prepared tea.
"I see your Majesty!" Lin Xuan bowed and saluted.
Li Shimin asked: "Is the Cui family looking for you again?"
"Your Majesty, even if the Cui family wants to find me, they won't do it so quickly." Lin Xuan said.
"Then you came to see me?" Li Shimin was a little confused.
Lin Xuan smiled and said: "I got a good kind of tea and sent some to His Majesty."
"Oh? Li Mu, ask someone to take the tea leaves brought by Lin Xuan, make some tea, and send it over." Li Shimin ordered.
Lin Xuan quickly said: "Your Majesty, this tea is not for cooking."
As soon as he heard that tea was being made, he shuddered.
Doesn't it taste good when brewed and drunk?
If you have to add onion, ginger and other messy things in it, it will be like washing the pot with water.
"Is it possible to eat the tea without boiling it?" Li Shimin said angrily.
Lin Xuan smiled and said: "Well, I'm not good at making tea, so I changed the method a little bit and wanted your majesty to try it."
"That's right, you are usually irritable, and it is normal for you not to be able to do something as elegant as making tea." Li Shimin said with some disdain.
Lin Xuan nodded and said: "Yes, yes, your Majesty is right, I really don't understand."
You can ridicule it as much as you want now. When you drink the brewed tea, you will know that the brewed tea is just water from the pot.
"Li Mu, ask someone to bring over the tea he brought and a tea set." Li Shimin said.
"yes!"
Not long after, the palace maid and eunuch brought over the tea and tea sets brought by Lin Xuan.
Lin Xuan started to make tea.
Soon, the room was filled with the aroma of tea.
When Li Shimin saw Lin Xuan put the tea leaves directly into the teapot and poured boiling water into it without adding anything else, he originally wanted to laugh at her.
But when he smelled the aroma of tea, he was stunned.
The scent of tea was different from what he usually smelled, it seemed quite fragrant.