The Evil King's Favorite Concubine: Genius Perfumer

Chapter 307 Order Fragrant Tea ([-])
Several generations ago, the tea ceremony was dominated by sencha ceremony.

In the former dynasty, the tea ceremony changed, and the way of ordering tea became fashionable.Different from the previous method of sencha, the method of ordering tea is to put the tea powder in a tea bowl, pour a small amount of boiling water to make a paste, and then pour boiling water, or directly pour boiling water into the tea bowl, and stir with a tea whisk at the same time, so that the tea powder floats and forms porridge noodles.

In the previous dynasty, the imperial court established a tribute tea system in the local area, and the local area needed a method to evaluate the quality of tea in order to select tribute products.According to the characteristics of the tea ordering method, the custom of fighting tea has arisen among the people.

Most of the tea fights are fought by two people. Two out of three fights win.

There are two criteria to determine the winner, one is soup color, and the other is soup flower.

The color of the soup is the color of the tea, with pure white as the upper limit.Blue and white, gray and white, yellow and white, and so on.If the color is pure white, it means that the tea is fresh and tender, and the heat is just right when steaming; if the color is blue, it means that the heat is not enough during steaming; if the color is gray, it means that the heat is too old when steaming; It's overheated.

Tanghua refers to the foam that rises from the noodle soup.There are also two criteria to determine the quality of the soup flower: the first is the color of the soup flower, and the bright white is the most important; the second is the time when the water mark appears after the soup flower rises.The earlier loses, the later wins.If the tea powder is finely ground, the soup is ordered and whisked just right, and the soup is evenly fine, like "cold porridge noodles", you can bite the edge of the cup tightly and stay together for a long time.This best effect is called "biting cups".On the contrary, if the soup flower appears, you can't bite the cup, and it will disperse quickly.As soon as the soup flower is scattered, the place where the soup meets the cup will show "water marks".

However, in this dynasty, tea tasting gradually began to focus on brewing, and the old method of sencha and ordering tea is no longer popular.In the past few years, because the nobles in the palace like to "worship the ancient luxury", some people have discovered the tea ordering method many years ago, but in terms of promotion... the scope is still small.

Therefore, the Ji family did not expect that Gan Tiantian, a girl from a small town, would actually be good at tea.

Two maids from the Ji family knelt beside the small table, turning the grinder to grind tea for Ji Baoxun and Gan Tiantian.

There are also maids standing by the table, guarding the small red stove for boiling water, waiting for orders at any time.

Ji Baoxun didn't even look at Gan Tiantian, and secretly told himself not to get distracted by this humble yellow-haired girl, as long as he followed his usual rules of ordering tea, there would be no mistakes.

Don't worry about the rest, Father will definitely decide for himself!

On Gan Tiantian's side, she had already regarded everyone in the room as transparent, and only concentrated on looking at the tea set on the small table—in fact, the focus of her eyes was on Ji Bingyun who was sitting opposite her. Everyone can't see the existence of this great incense master.

"very good."

Even if it's just a void soul, Ji Bingyun's posture is still as elegant as a banishing fairy.

"You usually do well enough, now, listen to me." He raised his hand and pointed to the tea set on the table.

The room was quiet, except for the bubbling sound of boiling water on the stove.

When the tea lady orders tea, no matter how noble the tea drinkers are, the tea drinkers who are watching by the side should try to keep as clean as possible, even if they talk, they should lower their voices, otherwise they will lose their elegant demeanor.Everyone is a person of status, who can afford to lose face?

But at the moment, the quiet people were reading their own sutras in their hearts. For example, Lin Qingyang and Ji Jinyun were thinking about how to take the next step with their difficult opponents.

But when they reached the realm of two people, they didn't take the small tea fight between the two girls' house too seriously, so their expressions were still very relaxed.

However, as time went by, the way the two of them looked at Gan Tiantian changed subtly!

Lin Qingyang was pleasantly surprised to find that Gan Tiantian really wasn't talking too much, she was really good at ordering tea!
Whether it is the temperature of boiling the tea, the way of ordering the tea, the strength and posture of whipping the fragrant tea after the water is poured into the tea bowl, they are all just right, and there is basically nothing wrong with it.

At first everyone saw Gan Tiantian as an ordinary girl with plain clothes and a delicate face. Compared with Ji Baoxun, who was glamorous and extravagant and full of jewels and emeralds, she was indeed slightly inferior in appearance and demeanor, and her momentum was overwhelmed.

However, when she began to sit quietly at the small table and start ordering tea, the series of flowing movements were actually without any fireworks, people gradually forgot to pay attention to her "shabby" appearance, and felt extremely pleasing to the eye, no less than Ji Baoxun!

Even in the eyes of several perfumers including Yan Bishuang, this little girl's tea ordering technique is more comfortable and generous than Ji Baoxun's. It is definitely not a hasty practice, at least after a period of hard work.

In fact, to meet Ji Bingyun's standard of "doing well enough", Gan Tiantian really didn't know how much time and sweat he put in... In the world, there are more picky perfumers than Ji Bingyun, or more picky and stricter than Ji Bingyun There are still relatively few people...

Not to mention that Ji Bingyun is supervising her in front of her at this moment, reminding her to move half a step before, is there any more professional on-site guidance than this?
As mentioned earlier, ordering tea was only popular among some literati and perfumers in this dynasty. It is a very small thing, and there are really not many people who are willing to work hard on it.

It is true that Ji Baoxun has learned some tea, and she has learned it very well, but there are actually a lot of things she "learned very well".

She learned some tea, more to deal with the noble ladies in the capital and the palace, to win their favor, but not to fight tea with the perfumer.Ji Baoxun is a very proud person, and she also likes others to praise her for "knowing it at once", so every time she learns perfume blending or other skills from a master, she always seeks to be quick, and the results will be produced in three or two days, so that she can ask her Her father and kinsmen show off her "world".

How can the tea ladies who are good at ordering tea dare to pick on Miss Ji's family for not learning well enough?Every time I teach her, I have to praise her countless times for "high understanding", so that I can get more rewards from the Ji family, right?Whoever is full, asks Miss Ji's family to pour tea over and over again, and repeat the tea...

But when Ji Bingyun taught Gan Tiantian, it was Gan Tiantian who clicked dozens of times before he could say "better".

The two are similar in talent, but their masters are at different levels, and the hard work they put in is even more different. What is the result?
The result has not yet come out, but from the way and posture of ordering tea, everyone has already seen the slight difference.

This little girl named Gan Tiantian is even more skilled at ordering tea than the daughter of the Ji family!

There were imperceptible cracks in Ji Jinyun's calm expression.

Hmph, it's just pretending, her tea soup may not be very good...

"Brush, brush, brush", the sound of making tea gently, like elegant music, sounded again and again.

Gan Tiantian's posture became more leisurely, and the tea whisk in his hand was dancing very regularly.

Tea whisks are tools for making tea. They are made of gold, silver, and iron, and most of them are made of bamboo. The literati call them "tea stirrers".When the water is poured into the tea bowl, it needs to be vigorously hit with a tea whisk, and foam will slowly appear.

(End of this chapter)