The 24th Stir-Fried Tea

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  "Ah?" Ma Zhang looked at the crown princess with difficulty and said: "Your Highness, the new tea is over there."

  Under Ma Zhang's lead, Li Chengqian and his wife arrived in front of the five or six baskets of fresh tea leaves, and Li Chengqian showed an excited expression.

  There were eunuchs who came to move new tea leaves for roasting. Li Chengqian shouted: "No one is allowed to touch the new tea leaves, I'll take care of all these!"

  Taijian was startled by the sudden movement of his hand as he ate his meal, and Su Hong also jumped in fright.

  "Get me a big iron pot."

  In the tea garden, there was no shortage of large iron pots. Li Chengqian quickly stood in front of a large iron pot and had someone heat it up. When it was almost ready, he poured the prepared tea leaves into it.

  He picked up a large iron scoop, quickly rotating and stirring for one or two minutes, called full pot rotation. When the leaves were soft and dark green, he lifted the pot to lower the temperature, then used force to make the tea leaves rotate in the pot, called bringing strength. When the leaves shrunk into strips and had adhesion, he lifted the pot again to lower the temperature. He stirred until the tea leaves drilled into the branches of the scoop, repeated stirring several times, when the leaves were 30-40% dry, they could be taken out of the pot.

  The tea, with a dark green color and curled into strips, looked almost the same as the tea he drank in his past life. Li Chengqian had heard from the master of the tea factory that tea was best when roasted by oneself, as machine-made tea lacked flavor. He had visited the master's home many times to watch him roast tea, and even took over twice to try it himself. Now, in the Tang Dynasty, Li Chengqian found that he had surpassed his own abilities, roasting tea on par with his past life's master!

  "Your Highness, this method of frying tea is quite unusual. But can it work with new tea leaves that haven't been steamed?" Ma Zhang asked.

  They originally had to steam the tea before stir-frying it, no wonder the taste of the tea leaves was so bitter.

  "Of course." Li Chengqian smiled and said.

  Su He smelled it and found that the tea didn't have the strong aroma of the palace maids' stir-fried tea, so he asked: "Your Highness, I wonder what this tea tastes like after brewing?"

  Li Chengqian knew that the palace maid outside had stir-fried the steamed tea leaves, causing more than half of the fragrance to disappear. He said, "This tea isn't boiled, just use boiling water to soak it and it's done!"

  Ma Zhang quickly ordered the palace maid to bring tea cups and boiling water, Li Chengqian personally picked out a pinch of tea leaves and put them in the cup, Su Hong poured in the water.

  Boiling water poured into the teacup, and the curled-up tea leaves slowly unfolded in the water. The tea water also turned a bright green and transparent, looking like jade. However, after a moment, a light and distant tea fragrance wafted out, smelling it made one's spirit shake.

  "What a fragrant tea!" Su Hong said with joy.

  "Good tea, good tea!" Ma Zhang Zan exclaimed. She had worked in the kitchen for over a decade and had handled countless teas. As soon as she smelled the aroma, she could tell the quality of the tea leaves. The tea brewed from this roasted tea was absolutely better than any tea she had ever tasted before. Her eyes sparkled with excitement as she gazed at Li Chengqian's cup of tea, shining with an astonishing light!

  Li Chengqian waited until the water temperature was about right, then picked it up and took a sip. Hmm, it felt pretty good, much better than the tea he drank in his previous life. This wasn't because Li Chengqian's tea-roasting skills were particularly high; after all, the royal family's tea leaves were naturally of the highest quality. Li Chengqian's tea-roasting skills were just so-so, not enough to add points to the tribute tea, but also not bad enough to ruin the tea leaves, so the brewed tea was naturally not too bad either.

  He took two sips and then handed the remaining tea to Su He: "Little mushroom, you try some too!" As a couple, of course, they didn't need to worry about having mouth water.

  Su He's face turned red from his intimate actions, but he still took a small sip. The expression on his face immediately became vivid, this tea was different from what he had drunk before, and the fragrance was refreshing.

  "Try some palm sugar, you guys too!" Li Chengqian beckoned with his hand and said.

  He did so to let them know that this way of frying tea is the most fragrant, in order to easily persuade them to give up their outdated method of frying tea.

  If it weren't for his status, he would have already tasted the tea long ago. Now that he heard the prince's words, he hastily ordered a palace maid to bring over new teacups and rinse them with hot water. Several tea masters in the courtyard, who had heard that the prince had roasted new tea that was more fragrant than theirs, hurriedly gathered around, also summoned by Li Chengqian to taste the tea!

  After they all tried it, both of them showed a look of intoxication. Li Chengqian smiled and said: "In the future, tea will be roasted like this, otherwise good tea will be wasted!"

  Several masters just now didn't see Li Chengqian stir-frying tea, so he let a palace maid who was standing beside him stir-fry it once. Li Chengqian stood beside her and guided her, and soon taught the several masters. The masters tried again, and indeed they were seasoned tea-stirring masters, able to stir-fry to Li Chengqian's level in one try, earning Li Chengqian's hearty praise.

  With his own roasted tea leaves, Li Chengqian finally left the Dianyuan Kitchen and returned to the Lijing Hall, where he had a palace maid brew him some tea.

  The palace maid didn't know the new way of drinking tea, so she poured boiling water into the teacup and asked: "Your Highness, I'll go get some salt and ginger slices now."

  "Stop it! Whoever puts salt in tea again, I'll beat him up!" Li Chengqian shouted.

  He didn't want to drink that strange tea with added salt, ginger and dates again.

  After drinking two cups of tea, Li Chengqian let out a satisfied belch and dismissed the palace maid from Lijing Hall.

  The nightlife of the Tang Dynasty was withered to the extreme, no TV to watch, no movies to watch, and no computer to play. Li Chengqian's summary of his nightlife for the past few days is: as soon as it gets dark, all that's left is activity in bed!

  "Grandfather..." Su Hong brought out a chessboard, "I especially like the game of Five-in-a-Row that you invented. Let's play a game together!"

  Li Chengqian looked at Su He, whose eyes darted back and forth. Li chuckled: "Su He, classmate, it's time for class, but you're looking for a teacher to play chess with? Are you asking to be punished?" He flashed his Buddha-like palm.

  "Grandpa..." Su Hong still wanted to hold on.

  Li Chengqian swept her up in his arms and headed towards the bed, signaling the start of tonight's activities.

  Still in last night's posture, Li Chengqian asked Su Hong in his arms: "Su Hong, classmate, please review last night's homework!"

  Su Hong was threatened by the Buddha's palm and stuttered to say what is called a sponge body, when it is filled with blood, when it is not filled with blood, where a man's semen comes from, why there is nocturnal emission, and why there is ejaculation after "three thousand words" of hmm-hmm. After reviewing, Su Hong was so ashamed that he pretended to be an ostrich in Li Chengqian's arms.

  Li Chengqian's Buddha-like palm accelerated in mid-air, slapping down on Su Hong's plump and elastic buttocks with a loud smack. Su Hong let out a soft cry of "Ah!" and turned her face up to him with a pained expression. Li Chengqian said, "This is only half of what happened last night, there's still the other half."

  "But..." Su Hong said two words and felt the threat of the Tathagata Palm again.

  She buried her head in Li Chengqian's arms again and made a muffled sound, reviewing the other half of the content.

  It can be imagined that Li Chengqian's lesson to her yesterday, half of it was about her understanding of men's bodies, and the other half was about her own body. As Su Bao's muffled voice came from Li Chengqian's arms, words like breasts, nipples, areola, and various small parts of the female genitalia, such as clitoris and labia, these gynecological terms were tested in the tenth year of the Tang Dynasty's Zhenguan era.

  Su He found that her chest was pressed against something very hard and hot after reviewing the complete material, she was surprised for a moment, then the knowledge she had just reviewed took effect, wasn't this the hemorrhoid?

  Li Chengqian heard his wife say so many unpleasant words, and naturally he had a reaction. Su He started by lying in his arms, but later buried her face in his chest, and her chest was pressed against Li Chengqian's belly. At this moment, the leg that could only be used as a three-legged stool directly bumped into her chest.

  Li Chengqian explained the knowledge of men's bodies and physiology to Su He last night, and with her review just now, it has taken effect in Su He's mind. She realized that erection represents a man's desire!

  She raised her head with some fear and met Li Chengqian's eyes, which were breathing slightly heavily, and saw that his eyes were full of flames of love!