Chapter 379 Household Slaves
At dinner time, Zhu Huaizhen knelt on a straw mat and placed a gilded silver teapot, a gilded silver tea cage, a gilded silver tea grinder, a gilded silver tea basket, a gilded silver tortoise box, a gilded silver salt table, and glazed tea cups on the rectangular table.
The person who came in had light footsteps and was holding a black gold folding fan with ivory carved ribs and painted floral and bird patterns.
Without opening the folding fan, he gently pried the door open. It was so rude and arrogant.
"Are you the owner of Happy Island?" Zhu Huaizhen asked in a low voice.
"Don't you think so?" The man was only in his early thirties, with an ordinary appearance, but he looked very noble.
The so-called nobility refers to his clothing.
Pure black Kunlun black jade, carved into the shape of Ganoderma lucidum, has an oily and smooth texture and is used to make jade hairpins.
She wore a jasper-carved pomegranate-shaped sachet around her waist, which was scented with a faint gentleman's fragrance.
The main ingredients of gentleman incense are agarwood, jasmine flowers, and fresh cypress leaves. The production process is relatively simple. First, the agarwood is ground into extremely small particles. Next, dried jasmine flowers and fresh cypress leaves are stacked into a round cake, with the cypress leaves on top and the jasmine flowers on the bottom. The cake is then tightly pressed together. The agarwood particles are then pressed into the jasmine flowers, creating a thin, portable incense cake.
A gentleman wears jade, how can he not be happy?
"Not like it, more like..." Zhu Huaizhen deliberately dragged out the tone, smiling without saying anything.
After hearing this, the visitor remained calm and did not ask any further questions.
So, Zhu Huaizhen rolled up his sleeves slightly, held the fire tongs in his left hand, took out a steamed green tea cake from the gilded silver teapot, placed it on the stove to bake, and fanned the fire with a yellow kesi round fan with a pattern of a phoenix perched on a wutong tree in his right hand.
Wow, Zhu Huaizhen has become so quiet and elegant, as beautiful as a peony.
When the owner of Happy Island saw this, he couldn't help but exclaim in amazement that Princess Ronghua was indeed living a life of wealth and glory.
Zhu Huaizhen then smashed the baked tea cakes into pieces with a wooden hammer and placed them in a gilded silver tea basket. He then picked up a gilded silver tea grinder, crushed the broken tea cakes into powder, sifted it into a fine powder with a gilded silver tea sieve, and carefully poured it into a gilded silver tortoise box.
"Less salt." The owner of Happy Island said softly.
Zhu Huaizhen raised his eyelids, shook his head and laughed.
During the Zhou Dynasty, when brewing tea, one had to specify how much salt to use or how little salt to add.
However, the Great Zhou Dynasty had already perished, the Five Kingdoms were in chaos, and people were restless. Most people wanted less salt, so they just accepted it.
Finally, for the first boil, boil clean water and add a little snow salt, the water droplets are like fish eyes or crab eyes; for the second boil, the salt water boils again, and the bubbles are like springs; for the third boil, first scoop out a ladle of water for later use, then hold the bamboo tongs and stir it in the center of the tea pot to form a vortex, then scoop a spoonful of tea powder along the vortex and pour it in, the water vapor is like rising waves.
"If you want to drink tea, pour it yourself." Zhu Huaizhen smiled like a flower, his eyes moving.
As soon as he finished speaking, a beautiful maid came in and poured half of the tea for the owner of Happy Island.
Half? Zhu Huaizhen shook his head and laughed again.
When drinking this brewed tea, it is usually more than half of the glass cup.
The owner of Happy Island probably realized that he had done something wrong. When he held the glass cup, his movements were extremely slow, and he took sips one after another, just like Zhu Huaizhen's movements.
Unfortunately, Zhu Huaizhen did it on purpose.
The true way to enjoy sencha is with a gilded silver tea spoon.
Zhu Huaizhen is usually lazy and likes to learn from common people.
However, when the time came for Zhu Huaizhen to use her powerful aura to overwhelm others, she showed no mercy. This was the dignity that a princess should have.
So, Zhu Huaizhen said leisurely: "Master of Happy Island, you used to be a house slave, right?"
Being a house slave is not humble, but using the same methods as a house slave to enslave others is simply ridiculous and pathetic.
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