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Chapter 2 tea rhyme

When he got into the house, Yu Feihong thought the house was too complicated, so he moved the tea set outside.

There was a small pavilion near the river behind his house. He placed tea sets in the pavilion, boiled water, brewed tea, and invited Cai Hongming to drink.

The tea soup is bright orange and bright, the tea fragrance is elegant, quiet, light and soft, with a long-lasting orchid fragrance. Drink it into your mouth and leave a fragrance on your cheeks.

As soon as I drank it, Cai Hongming knew it was Wuyi Rock Tea from his hometown of Fujian Province. Except for Wuyi Rock Tea, no tea tasted like this.

Outside the pavilion, there are cruise ships carrying men and women playing on the canal, and the sound of playing and slapping comes from time to time. Taste the fragrance of Dahong Pao and enjoy the beautiful scenery on the river. If there is another beauty playing a song of the spring moon night with a guqin next to her, it would be a great enjoyment in life.

"How is it, the tea is good!" Yu Feihong asked.

"It's really good. I wonder if it's those famous pine trees?" Cai Hongming nodded and said.

"I don't know, this is given by someone else. I just borrowed flowers to offer Buddha." Yu Feihong smiled and filled Cai Hongming with another cup.

Wuyi Rock Tea has a long history. According to historical records, tea was planted in the Wuyi Mountain area as early as the Tang Dynasty. It was listed as a royal tribute in the Song Dynasty, and in the Yuan Dynasty, a "Baking Bureau" and "Imperial Tea Garden" were established in Wuyi Mountain, which specializes in collecting and making tribute tea.

?However, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, someone created oolong tea with tea trees planted in Wuyi Mountain.

Since then, there have been more varieties of Wuyi rock tea, including the "Four Famous Firs" of Dahongpao, Iron Arhat, White Rooster, and Water Gold Tortoise. In addition, there are those named after the growth environment of tea trees, such as the No See Sky, the Golden Key, etc.; those named after the shape of tea trees, such as the Drunken Begonia, the Drunken Dongbin, the Fishing Tortoise, the Phoenix Tail Grass, the Jade Kirin, and the One-Brand Fragrance; those named after the shape of tea trees, such as the Melon Seed Gold, Money, Bamboo Wire, Golden Willow Branch, and the Beating Leaf Willow; those named after the tea trees sprout sooner or later, such as the Welcome Spring Willow, and the Not Know Spring; those named after the Tea Scent Type, such as cinnamon, stone frankincense, and white musk.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, the tea produced by Wuyi began to be exported to Western Europe, North America and South China. At that time, Europeans once called it Wuyi tea, as the general term for Chinese tea.

Traders who buy and sell tea often call all Wuyi rock tea Dahongpao. According to regulations, as long as it is the rock tea of ​​its origin, it can be called Dahongpao. However, it is like hot pot, it is a hodgepodge, and as long as it meets the specifications, it can be called this name. But in fact, there are still differences. If you buy tea from tea producers, if you tell someone to ask for Dahongpao, they will give you one of them casually. But if you ask which is famous and small varieties, they will tell you very clearly: how much is this Qidan, how much is it; how much is that Beidou, and how much is the Qitian.

The so-called Qidan, Beidou, Qidan is a variety of tea spliced ​​out of the descendants of the Jiulongke, Wuyi Mountain. It is like a bar mixing wine, mixing several different flavors of wine together to create an unforgettable cocktail.

The tea spliced ​​tastes good and of course the price is high; if the splicing is poor, the price will be lower. However, Dahongpao has grade regulations, and it cannot be called Dahongpao if it does not meet that regulations.

After drinking tea, Yu Feihong told Cai Hongming to come to see the sample the day after tomorrow and go to work hard.

Cai Hongming also said goodbye and left. Seeing that it was still early, he wanted to go to the folk collection market by the Shou West Lake to take a look. In the evening, he went to Shou West Lake to experience the wonderful scene of Du Mu's "At the bright moonlit night of the Twenty-Four Bridges, where can the jade man teaches to play the flute?"

The collection market has always been a popular place, not to mention that this collection market is located next to the food street next to the Shou West Lake, and there are even more people coming and going.

Cai Hongming came to the place, looked left and right, and had no intention of buying it.

In the past, he had bought sword coins and thumb-sized bronze mirrors from the Qin and Han dynasties, which were only about ten yuan. He would not buy them no matter how high it was. He felt that these things could not be eaten or drunk, so what was the use of buying them? Besides, he didn't understand this thing, so what if the price was too high? What should he do if he lost it if he bought fake ones? So he usually bought these things mainly because they felt good and were not too expensive. In the past, he wanted to buy a beast-headed copper furnace, which was about eighty yuan, but later he felt that the wall of the copper furnace was too thin, so he offered fifty yuan to his boss. If someone didn't sell them, he didn't buy them.

Thinking about it now, I was lucky that I didn’t buy it, otherwise I wouldn’t know if it was imitated copper.

Walking along the way, he came to a corner of the wall behind. He saw a little girl of five or six years old sitting in front of a small antique stall selling things. A woman with a mask wearing a mask and coughing from time to time and looking pale.

"Uncle, do you want to buy something?" The little girl asked sweetly when she saw Cai Hongming coming.

"Let's take a look." Cai Hongming squatted down and casually picked up a scorpion wrapped inside, looking at it with something that looked like amber.

"Uncle, that one costs twenty yuan, that one is not amber, it is plastic, but the scorpion inside is real. Mom said that it was a handicraft. This is also a handicraft, and that is also the one, that only costs five yuan, this is ten yuan... This is very expensive, it costs one hundred yuan, this is one hundred and five yuan, that is two hundred, these are all antiques." The little girl saw that Cai Hongming seemed to be interested in the things on her stall, so she introduced him hard.

"You know what antiques are, too?" Cai Hongming asked with a smile when he saw her little adult appearance.

"Mom said that the things used by ancient people were antiques, and the things we use now are called handicrafts." The little girl said with a serious face.

After hearing this explanation, Cai Hongming smiled unconsciously, feeling that it made sense. After looking at it, he put down the imitation amber and took another item to look.

Seeing that he didn't buy it, the little girl went to do her own thing. She picked up a box next to her for money, picked up the money inside and put it in a sorted manner, and the ones that cost 100 yuan, the ones that cost 10 yuan, and the ones that cost 5 yuan. After putting it in, she picked up the most ten yuan and counted it.

"One, two, three, four, five, one, ten yuan, those five are fifty yuan." The little girl pinched her little finger and calculated carefully, and then picked up the only one hundred yuan. "Add one hundred, a total of one hundred, a total of one hundred, plus two five yuan, one hundred and fifty plus ten yuan, which is one hundred and sixty."

After counting, the little girl immediately shouted happily to the woman sitting in the corner of the wall: "Mom, we sold 160 yuan today."

"It's great to fan." The woman smiled from behind the mask to encourage her daughter.

The little girl was so happy.
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