Chapter 6 Chapter 5 Tea Battle

I wouldn't be surprised if the smell of feces and urine wafted from such a ghostly place, but at this moment, the smell of tea wafted out, which made me feel a very complicated feeling in my heart.After returning to China, because my family was getting worse day by day, I couldn't even afford meat, so how could I enjoy the entertainment of tea.After so many years, I can't help but feel a little sad when I smell the aroma of tea again. It's a pity that my knowledge is still rudimentary, and I can only smell the aroma of tea, but I have no idea what kind of tea it is.If it is a master like grandfather or uncle, you can tell what kind of tea it is just by smelling it, and your grandfather can even tell the year of the tea.This kind of skill is beyond the reach of ordinary people. Grandfather's ability to cultivate like this has a lot to do with his year-round immersion in the tea business and his daily practice and night practice.

Tea has become a worldwide drink. When I was still in Malaysia, I watched tea wars. In fact, it is the so-called tea fighting in China. There are more tea masters there.Tea Wars originated in the Tang Dynasty and were very popular in Southeast Asia. It was also held in England. I watched it four times when I was young.Although my grandfather is a master, he only watched the battle, but never participated in it. He just sat with me and sipped tea.Tea wars are usually held in larger tea shops. My grandfather's tea shop is very large and has a Chinese classical charm, so he has held it three times together.

Those who participate in the tea battle should each offer their own famous tea and taste it in turn to decide the winner.The content of the tea war includes the hue and aroma of the tea, the mellowness of the tea soup, the quality of the tea set, the priority of boiling water, and so on.When the tea war is held, although the tea leaves are prepared in advance, it takes a long time to grow and produce good tea leaves, and some tea leaves are even as long as a hundred years.Therefore, every Ming battle is very tense. This kind of competition is not the same as the God of Cookery, or a real war, but it has gathered the efforts of several generations, which is unmatched by other competitive events.

The more I thought about it, the further my eyes became dull. Zhao Shuai thought I was bewitched, so he kicked me.Although Zhao Shuai's family is rich, he only loves to drink. He doesn't care about tea, and it doesn't matter whether he drinks it or not.When I came back to my senses and told Zhao Shuai about this, he refused to believe it. He also said that no one would live in such a ghostly place, so who would make tea here?In fact, I am also at a loss. Even if tea is not brewed in an elegant place, at least it is on the ground. No matter how scary it looks, the brewed tea may have a short lifespan for a few years.

Zhao Shuai insisted on going to the room with the fire. At this time, I had put aside my safety thoughts and couldn't wait to see what happened.The brightly lit room was only a dozen steps away from us. When we walked carefully, we realized that not only one room was lit by fire.It turned out that there were fires in many rooms here, but some of them had been extinguished, and only one room was still on fire. I walked over suspiciously, and Zhao Shuai rushed ahead, more curious than me.Who knows, before we reached that room, a person suddenly ran out of it, screaming madly while fleeing into the darkness.Because we were not mentally prepared, Zhao Shuai and I were so scared that we almost peed our pants, but both of us wanted to save face and said with a forced smile that it was okay.The man's voice was that of a man. In the dim light, I could only see that he was wearing modern clothes and a pair of glasses.This man was definitely not Xiao Wu, none of the workers wore glasses, but since he appeared here, he might know what happened to Xiao Wu and the others.

I was about to catch up, but Zhao Shuai stopped me and said, "You don't want to die, the poor don't chase after you, don't you know?" I was excited for a while, and I had long forgotten the special environment I was in. I calmed down after being told by Zhao Shuai. If I really chased him just now, I wonder if there will be an ambush in the darkness.We were a little more vigilant than before, and walked softly to the room with the fire, and what we saw were indeed some pots and pots, and there was a fire boiling a pot of tea. "Sure enough, someone is making tea. I said Lu Jianxin, you really have two brushes, and you can play with me and keep it secret?" Zhao Shuai admired.

I never mentioned anything about my grandfather to anyone, nor did I say that I lived in Malaysia before, so Zhao Shuai was surprised by this.I'm not complacent, after all, this kind of thing is not very glorious, maybe people think I'm cheating on relatives.I was only vaguely queer, for the things in the little room were not ordinary.There is a sacrificial ladle in the room, which is probably a pair with the one in my hand. In addition, there is a wind stove, catkin, blue and white tea bowl, and saucer. The so-called wind stove is a utensil for making tea and boiling water. It is in the form of an ancient tripod, but it is different.The wind stove is much lighter than the ancient tripod, easy to move, and can be placed on a wooden table.The furnace body is ventilated with holes, and there are three brackets on it, which are used to put the catkins for making tea, and there is an iron plate below to hold ash (also called ash holder).The wind furnace looks ordinary, but in fact it implies a mystery, which is difficult for outsiders to see.There are two lines of characters on the wind stove, which are "Sunda on the top of the ridge and Li on the bottom of the bottom", and "Equalize the five elements to eliminate a hundred diseases".

According to the sixty-four hexagrams in "Book of Changes", Xun governs wind, Li governs fire, and Kan governs water, which means that the water for making tea is placed on top and the wind blows in from below , the fire burns in the middle, which is the basic principle of making tea.The next sentence, "Body equalization of the five elements to remove all diseases" means that the five internal organs are in harmony, and all diseases will not arise.According to the five-element attributes of wood, fire, earth, gold and water in ancient medicine, it connects the viscera and organs of the human body, and uses life, restraint, and insult to illustrate the pharmacological functions of tea.

The catkin is a utensil for making tea, and it is integrated with the stove. It is shaped like a large pot, the difference is that the ears are square, and the bottom is slightly pointed, similar to a belly button.Catches were very prosperous in ancient times, but they gradually withdrew from the stage of history in the Song Dynasty, and few people use them anymore in modern times.Ceramic tea sets were generally used in the Ming Dynasty, but in the Qing Dynasty, it was not domestic products that were used more, but foreign copper tea hangers, that is, copper hanging pots. There is nothing special about the blue and white tea bowls used for drinking tea. These are similar at home and abroad, but it would take a long story to describe them in detail, and I was not at that level at the time.Seeing this kind of thing that only existed in ancient times, I couldn't help but repeatedly exclaimed in amazement. It was mentioned in the fragmented book of tea, and I had seen it two or three times in my grandfather's collection before. .The fire in the stove is still burning, and the tea in the catkin has been boiled. It smells good, but it still can't be classified as high-quality.But I still can't figure it out, why does that man make tea here? Wouldn't it be wasteful to put such a good thing in such an environment.

I was still regretting the good tea and utensils, but Zhao Shuai had already walked to another room, peeping all the way, as if to see if there was anyone hiding in it.After Zhao Shuai looked at a few rooms, he beckoned me to go over quickly, as if he had found something strange in his tone.I walked out of the narrow room and followed Zhao Shuai through several rooms, but I was suddenly dumbfounded. It turned out that tea was being boiled in every room, but the fire had already been extinguished, some of the water was not boiled, and some were only lit.Zhao Shuai was only interested in these things for a short time, and after a while he got bored and yelled to find an exit to leave here.Although these things aroused my curiosity, the death of the workers also gave me a headache. I had no choice but to leave here immediately and report the case to the relevant department.

We walked along the rooms and counted them. There are at least 80 rooms on both sides of the pool.The room is very narrow, it doesn't look like a normal person's living room, if it is for human beings, it should be built wider.Zhao Shuai stopped when he reached the end, where there was a staircase extending faintly upwards.Since there is a ladder, it is likely to lead to the exit, and no one will repair the ladder to a dead end.The stairs are not too dark, there is a faint silver light pouring down, presumably this is the moonlight tonight. "You still said you didn't say it out, so isn't that the way out?" Zhao Shuai beamed with joy, and was about to run up with big strides. I scratched my head embarrassingly, and said, "I'm being cautious, or those two workers..." Before I finished speaking, a lot of people rushed down from the stairs, scaring Zhao Shuai, who was walking in front, back again and again.This group of people has shadows, and they are not ghosts, but when I think of the two workers who died tragically, I always feel that they are not good.Sure enough, this group of people held sticks and wanted to hit them head-on.Fortunately, I hid quickly, or I would have been beaten to death by them. Zhao Shuai slipped faster, and retreated to the edge of the pool in no time. This group of people also took flashlights, and Zhao Shuai and I stayed in the dark for a long time, when we were suddenly hit by a strong light, we couldn't help feeling pain in our eyes.Before we could react, someone said we were ghosts and we had better be cut into pieces.I immediately realized that I was misunderstood. This group of people was probably making tea here, but when I saw someone emerging from the water, I thought it was a water ghost who had come ashore.I secretly scolded you for fucking your grandma. I thought you were ghosts just now, but now it's better to beat you up. Zhao Shuai became angry from embarrassment, and cursed: "You are a fucking ghost, I am a human!" I quickly echoed: "That's right, we are human beings, real people, if you don't believe me touch my thigh, it's warm!" "Are you really human?" Someone in the crowd exclaimed. "The people in the pool are also human?" "Oops, Lao Pan killed someone!" "Where are the others? Hey, hey, where are you going, Old Pan?" At this moment, Zhao Shuai and I realized that the group of guys in front of us were really making tea here.We learned from the conversation that there is a compound near where we dug the detection hole, and there is a building in the vegetable garden of the compound that looks like a bunker.The bunker is as high as a two-storey building, and the walls are all made of red bricks. It is said that this is the underground dungeon left by the Japanese army during World War II. The bunker is the ground part of the underground dungeon.There used to be two doors in the bunker, but local residents have sealed them with bricks to prevent children from entering. After I heard it, I suddenly realized that this place is not the only place, there is also an underground dungeon on Guangxi Road in Qingdao, and the spread is amazing.In the past, some construction sites dug detection holes, and they accidentally dug into nearby underground water dungeons.As for who was imprisoned in the underground water prison, the specific purpose, and why the water never dried up, it is not clear for the time being.There are so many small rooms next to the pool. They were used to hold prisoners during World War II, but now they are used by this group of people.There are still several prison buildings in the compound, which were later transformed into residential buildings, and they are still preserved. This group of people are indeed tea lovers, and they chose this place for the tea battle only because of funding problems.It turned out that the promoter's tea shop suddenly closed down, and everyone had no public place. One person happened to live in the compound. He remembered that there was an underground dungeon here, so he proposed to hold a tea war here.Although everyone was unwilling, they all came from afar and didn't have much time to stay. Everyone was eager to win and didn't want to wait a little longer. In this way, everyone filed in at night and boiled tea in the underground prison.Unexpectedly, this underground tea war hit us, so a farce was staged, and what I learned next made me feel even more ironic.