Unexpectedly, he encountered the youngest prince of the Xiao family, who was said to be comparable to the Prince of Ruyang, along the way.
Today, he happened to be sitting across from the house rented by the Su family, drinking tea. He had also appeared in Yangzhou before. The coincidences made him somewhat suspicious.
Fortunately, he recognized himself.
The room fell silent for a moment, and Xiao Yuan remained silent for quite some time.
He couldn't help but feel uneasy.
"Get up!"
Finally, Xiao Yuan's deep voice came from ahead.
Ling Qingxue felt relieved and stood up.
Xiao Yuan nodded with his chin: "Do you know tea ceremony?"
Ling Qingxue immediately nodded: "This humble subject has learned a thing or two at home."
"If you can brew tea today and create a picture of a pine tree in the snow, I might consider keeping you here."
Ling Qingxue was stunned.
Tea art was a household name in the Zhou Dynasty. Almost every scholar and literati would use their skillful tea-making techniques to create a simple ink painting on the tea soup.
Skilled artists would use a tea dagger as a brush and tea foam as paper to paint and write, a technique known as "water painting".
However, pouring water to create illusionary tea is another tea-making technique. Without using any tea dagger, it simply involves pouring water and shaking the teacup to create the illusion of paintings or poems on the surface of the tea.
Such a person who can pour hot water and create magical tea is one of the few in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty.
Ling Qingxue was somewhat troubled, so she had no choice but to admit frankly, "Your Highness, please forgive me for not being able to create tea illusions; I only know how to paint water."
Xiao Yuan's expression remained perfectly calm: "I will give you three days. If you can master the Illusionary Tea Technique, I will keep you."
When Ling Qingxue came out of the teahouse, she looked somewhat dejected.
When he returned to the Su family, he was greeted by Ming Shu, who looked very excited.
Ming Shu glanced at him and quickly left.
Su Xuerong saw Ling Qingxue return and said, "Oh, didn't you go to the bookstore to buy newspapers?"
Ling Qingxue forced a smile at her: "I'm not buying the tabloid anymore. I need to find someone who knows the Illusionary Tea Technique to learn from."
"Illusion Tea?" Su Xuerong asked in surprise, "Why do you suddenly want to learn Illusion Tea?"
As luck would have it, in her previous life she was tormented in the palace and forced to learn how to make tea.
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