Chapter 22 Section ten

On May 26th, Cui Hao came to Princess Anle's mansion alone.This was Cui Hao's first visit to a noble person alone since he came to Chang'an. Hui Fan took him with him the previous few times. "You should learn to take care of yourself." Hui Fan said. "I can only lead you in. As for how successful you can be, it all depends on your own efforts." "I also want to ask you to show me the way. Who can I count on Princess Taiping and Princess Anle?" Although Cui Hao is young, he is not dull. "Now it's Princess An Le. In the future... let's talk about the future. It's hard to say clearly now."

Does Master Huifan mean to rely on Princess Anle now and Princess Taiping in the future?Cui Hao knew that he knew nothing about government affairs, so he had no way of judging the stakes in it, but he could tell that the relationship between Princess Taiping and Princess Anle was very tense.Princess Anle didn't drink the tea from Princess Taiping that day, and she covered up this extremely rude behavior in the slightest.This caught Cui Hao's attention, the two princesses were both scheming and powerful. "Princess An Le knows that you are a good polo player. You have to make him interested in you, and the most important thing is to win the game for her." Hui Fan stopped here and carefully observed Cui Hao's expression.Cui Hao looked like a good student at this time, with his eyes wide open, listening to Huifan's speech with all his attention.

"One more thing, I hope you tell me everything you heard and saw at Princess An Le, especially what she is planning, what ideas she has, especially what is going on with the Queen." Hui Fan His expression at this time was very sincere. "These are very important to me, and I also hope to win Princess Anle's favor and play for her." "Yes, I will definitely do it well. But, are you doing this to make Princess Taiping and Princess Anle reconcile?" Cui Hao acted naively. "No, I'm just profiting from it." Hui Fan replied casually. Today, Princess Anle beat up her son-in-law Wu Yanxiu with her little fragrant cowhide soft boots. This kind of thing is common among this young couple who have only been married for half a year.Princess Anle first loved Wu Yanxiu for his handsome appearance, good at singing and dancing, but now she began to hate him for his lack of masculinity.

"When I become the crown princess, I will depose you first." Princess Anle's sharp cry spread far away, and it also reached the ears of Cui Hao who was waiting by the second gate.Cui Hao didn't know if the Crown Princess could marry several concubines like the Crown Prince. If so, what if she included herself in the candidate list? He was a little overwhelmed, because he had no experience with men and women, and didn't know what it was like to be with a princess. Princess Anle's temper is like a rainstorm in August, it comes and goes quickly.When Cui Hao was called into the palace, Princess Anle resumed her carefree and nonchalant air, sitting cross-legged on a wide rattan couch, about to drink tea.

"Bring a bed here. Order a cup of tea." Princess An Le asked Cui Hao to move a high chair and sit next to her. Fortunately, Cui Hao's master in Luoyang is a master tea taster, and Cui Hao learned a lot of useful things from him. The tea sets here are all top-grade. If Princess Anle is not a master of tea tasting, she must have been instructed by an expert.What Cui Hao is wearing today is a wide-sleeved white Ge gown and a leather belt with a plain gold hook.He pulled up the front and tucked it in his belt so as not to be soiled by ashes from the furnace when kneeling, but what he thought in his mind was that no matter whether Princess Anle is a master tea taster or not, he should just treat her as a master .

The shallow white jade cup is extremely thin and light, making it very comfortable to hold in the palm.This is the best tea set, Cui Hao has never been exposed to such an exquisite and expensive tea set in his previous experience.He had firmly remembered Master Hui Fan's teachings in his heart, he did not show any surprise or admiration, his hands were firm and steady. There were four or five bamboo tea buckets on the tea table. The careful Cui Hao found that one tea bucket was slightly older than the others, and it contained Mengshan tea powder produced in central Sichuan. After washing the teacup with hot water, Cui Hao picked up the bright green tea powder with a bamboo dagger, looked at Princess Anle, when he noticed the roasted almonds in Princess Anle's hand, he picked up half a dagger again The tea powder is in the cup.

This is a meticulous job, and impatience is not an option.First, spring water is poured into the teacup, and the water is injected three times. Each time the water is poured, the bamboo tea whisk should be used to rotate evenly along the four walls of the teacup, which is also called "brushing tea".The action of brushing the tea should neither be too fast nor too slow. If the action is too fast, the tea will not taste good, and if the action is too slow, the taste of the tea will no longer be refreshing.When the tea powder is brushed into a paste and a layer of fine foam emerges, pour eight minutes of boiling hot water into the cup.At this point, a cup of tea is ready.

This cup of tea is slightly stronger than the tea people usually drink, because there is half a dagger of tea powder.This is because Princess Anle is munching on roasted almonds.The taste of almonds is strong. If you drink tea at this time, you will not be able to taste the taste if the tea is weak.Cui Hao also wanted to test whether he was smart enough and whether his judgment was accurate. "Good tea." Princess An Le ate almonds in a different way. Instead of eating one by one like ordinary people, she put seven or eight of them into her mouth and chewed loudly. "You are a careful baby. My damn son-in-law is not so careful. He only talks nonsense about how strong tea hurts his stomach."

"The princess is boasting. The villain should be polite." "Do you know how to drink?" "I can only eat a little." Cui Hao actually didn't know whether he could drink alcohol at all. In his poor life in the past, he had almost no chance to drink alcohol. "That's great. Let's go inside, I'm going to give you a surprise." Princess An Le drank the rest of the tea in one gulp, and jumped off the bed.She didn't even wear shoes, she just ran into the inner hall with bare feet, holding Cui Hao with one hand, stomping on the floor. The curtain hangs lightly, the fragrance is dense, and the scorching sun in the afternoon reflects the shadow of the tree on the silk window.Four girls in palace costumes with high buns and long hair stood in a row. Cui Hao could only vaguely recognize the cloth scarves as they held various objects in their hands.There is a huge bathtub in the room. There are a large number of single-petal jasmine flowers floating in the fragrant soup.At this time, Cui Hao was like Liu Ruan who had just entered the rooftop. He only felt his feet were weak and his head was as big as a bucket. He was fascinated by this dreamlike scene.

Princess Anle stretched her arms around Cui Hao's waist, pressed her abdomen and chest tightly against Cui Hao's cold lips, and kissed Cui Hao's cold lips hard and resoundingly, and said cheerfully in Cui Hao's ear: "My sister loves you!"