Chapter 428
Tea Tasting Conference Rules
A month later, the long-awaited tea tasting conference and wine tasting conference were officially held in the wine city.
Tea and wine lovers gathered in the wine city, and a large number of people who did not like drinking tea or wine also went there to join in the fun. For a time, the city was overcrowded.
After Long Xuan, Shui Lao and Shui Juanyun squeezed into the wine city, they went straight to the conference venue.
The reason why there are multiple Shui Juanyuns in the team is because he and Shui Lao are from the same clan, both from the large Shui clan.
After the two people of the same clan met, they hit it off immediately and naturally decided to travel together. Long Xuan couldn't find any reason to refuse.
After entering the city, the three of them headed straight for the city center.
In the center of the city, there is a river called Boruo that runs across the wine city. The Boruo River is extremely wide and turbulent, dividing the entire wine city into two, with large and small bridges connecting the two banks.
The tea tasting conference is held on the east bank of the river, while the wine tasting conference is held on the west bank of the river.
The two conferences were held and ended at the same time. Long Xuan didn't want to miss either the tea tasting conference or the wine tasting conference, so he decided to attend the tea tasting conference in person, while Yan's clone went to attend the wine tasting conference and carried a wisp of his soul with him.
Whether it is a tea tasting conference or a wine tasting conference, it is obvious that not everyone can enter.
First of all, one must be at the Spirit Sea stage or above, and secondly, one must hand in a pot of good quality wine or tea as an admission ticket. Although this cannot stop wealthy Gu cultivators, it should be no problem to keep most of them out.
The three of them did not attend the wine tasting conference. They came to the east bank of the river and chose to attend the tea tasting conference. As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the venue, Shui Lao smiled cheekily:
"My friend, you know that my storage ring was broken in that battle, so I can't carry tea of very good quality."
"Can you give me some? When I recover to the peak state of Gu King, I will return it to you with interest."
Long Xuan looked at him helplessly. He had heard similar words countless times.
"Let me do it!" Shui Juanyun said with a smile: "Shui family is good at playing with water-related power, and is best at refining wine and tea. They have no shortage of good wine and tea. This time, I'll treat you."
As he said that, Shui Juanyun walked up to the two guards and handed over three large bags of tea. The two Linghai peak Gu cultivators guarding the door took the three bags of tea, only sniffed them gently, and knew that it was good tea, so they let them in.
Walking into the wine tasting venue, Long Xuan looked around curiously.
The tea tasting conference was very lively, with crowds of people on the streets and countless bottles of good tea.
Especially the number of Gu Kings participating in this tea tasting conference was so large that they were everywhere, which made Long Xuan amazed.
With so many Gu Kings, is it still possible to enter this mysterious river realm?
Tables are placed on both sides of the street, filled with various types of tea for passers-by to taste. People who love tea stop at each tea stall, take a sip, and then comment on the tea on the stall.
All of a sudden, the aroma of various kinds of tea filled the air, and the scent of tea was everywhere. It was like a world of tea here.
Long Xuan took a rough look at the tea stalls and found that the tea in this world was the same as in the ancient times of his previous life. There was not only tea leaves in the tea, but also many miscellaneous things, such as honey, dates, osmanthus... As long as it was something that could be used for brewing, anything could be put in it.
This also results in different flavors of tea brewed by different people. Everyone has mastered a set of tea-brewing skills that are unique to him or her, and there are hundreds of schools of thought, and each has its own merits in flavor.
But Long Xuan is different. He likes to pursue the most natural taste of tea without any modification and nothing else except tea leaves.
His tea ceremony is heretical in this world and is incompatible with this world.
After the three of them walked into the tea tasting venue and wandered around for a while, Shui Juanyun turned around and looked at the two of them and said with a smile:
"To get a ticket to the tea tasting conference, you just need to hand in some mid-quality tea. Mid-quality tea is not particularly difficult to obtain. I have a lot on hand."
"But in order to gain the qualification to enter the God of the River God Realm, you must produce top-quality tea. You can't just hand over tea leaves at this time. It must be tea that has just been brewed."
"It's not enough to just have good tea leaves, you also need to have good tea-making skills."
"You should know that the same kind of tea will taste completely different when brewed by different people. The art of tea is a very profound subject."
"I can't help you two with this. I don't have much top-grade tea leaves."
Shui Lao nodded and said with a smile: "You don't need to worry about the high-quality tea. The difficult part is how to get in here. After entering here, how difficult is it to get some good tea?"
Long Xuan turned his head to look at him with a strange look. Obviously, what he meant was that he was going to steal. Perhaps he took out a high-quality tea from his storage bag and claimed that he had stolen it.
Shui Lao ignored Long Xuan's gaze, stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Now it's time to taste the tea."
"The tea tasting session was very interesting. Everyone had to brew a pot of their own specialty tea and put tea cups on the table for passers-by to taste."
"But good tea is hard to come by, so it can't be drunk for free by passers-by. Passers-by can only take out their own good tea and trade it with the stall owner."
"But the rules of the game are that you can only trade with tea. You can't trade tea with treasures other than tea."
"This is the most interesting part of the tea tasting conference. You have to know that it is difficult to satisfy everyone. Everyone has different tastes in tea, and the pricing of different teas in different people's minds also varies slightly." "When the value of the tea of both parties is similar, some people can tolerate a 10% loss and choose to trade."
"Some even use their eloquence to get the upper hand every time they trade tea for tea."
"It's okay to take advantage once or twice, but if you can take advantage every time you trade, the quality of the tea you have will continue to improve. Then, sooner or later, you can exchange a pot of low-quality tea for top-quality tea."
"At every tea tasting conference, there are people who bring a pot of low-quality tea. After walking around and trading with countless tea stall owners, the low-quality tea in their hands turns into top-quality tea."
Shui Juanyun interrupted, "That's right. There are examples like this at every tea tasting conference. This is the charm of the tea tasting conference."
"Many people take pleasure in this. In order to prove their ability, they deliberately take out a pot of the lowest quality tea even though they are wealthy, and trade it with others, trying to create miracles. They never get tired of it."
"The tea tasting conference will last a whole day. Time is tight, so I won't chat with you two. Let's see how I can trade a pot of lower-grade spiritual tea for the best-grade spiritual tea."
Shui Juanyun looked very excited. After taking out a pot of low-grade tea from his storage ring, he walked towards the nearby tea stalls.
Shui Lao also looked very interested. After asking Long Xuan for a bag of low-grade tea, he parted ways with him and went to other places.
At this time, only Long Xuan was left in the group of three.
Long Xuan was not that bored. He looked around, then walked towards an open space and took out a table and placed it on the ground.
To refine the tea Gu, one needs to collect a large amount of top-quality tea. This opportunity is rare. In order to collect the top-quality tea that appears at the conference, he can only trade with rare tea, and he has to use tea-frying skills to show off.
In order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble, he has been pretending to be in the middle stage of Gu King since entering the tea tasting conference, so that his realm is not too high to attract other people's attention, nor too low to attract other people's bullying.
As expected, when he placed the tea brewed using the tea frying technique on the table, the extremely rich tea aroma immediately made the people around him sniff it, and then their eyes lit up and they all gathered around.
"Hmm? What kind of tea smells so good!"
"Oh my god! What kind of tea is this? Why is it so fragrant!"
"Good tea! Good tea! The best tea in the world has appeared, go quickly!"
The tea brewed by Long Xuan using the tea-frying technique caused a commotion on the street, and in a blink of an eye, his stall was full of people.
"My friend! How did you make this tea? Why is it so fragrant?"
Chashan raised one of the brewed tea to his mouth with a serious look, sniffed it gently, and suddenly his eyes were filled with shock and disbelief.
As a member of the Tea family and as the deputy city lord of the Wine City, he loves tea like his life. He has tasted countless cups of tea and is proud to have tasted all the best teas in the world.
But the taste of this tea was something he had never tasted before, which made him curious and he couldn't wait to taste it.
Long Xuan naturally saw that he was a Gu King, but he didn't know that he was the deputy lord of Jiucheng.
He never thought that he would attract such an important figure just after setting up the tea stall.
"The skill of making tea is everyone's secret, how can I tell it to others?" Long Xuan said without any hesitation.
"Haha, I am being abrupt. This is the first time I have seen such a rich tea fragrance. I can't help but lose my composure and even break the rules."
"Then I wonder what kind of tea you plan to exchange for this tea?" Chashan asked with a smile.
"I have already written down that we will not exchange the tea water, but only the tea leaves, tea plants and tea species. All three belong to tea, and I think exchanging these things is still in line with the rules of the tea tasting conference."
Long Xuan pointed to a wooden sign standing on the table.
In addition to this wooden sign on the table, there are many other types of tea. The highest quality tea among them is Bingxin Tea, which is the cup that Chashan is holding in his hand.
This old man has such a sharp eye that he can tell at a glance which is the highest quality tea on the tea stall.
In order to exchange for the best variety of tea, Long Xuan had long planned to use the killer weapon, Bingxin Tea. After being roasted using the tea roasting technology, the quality of Bingxin Tea is further improved and can be exchanged for almost any kind of tea in the world.
"Haha, it seems that you are planning to plant a tea garden. Tea of this quality must not be available for tasting. How about I directly exchange the seeds of the Earth-grade Spiritual Medicine Fairy Tea for ten cups of tea?"
Chashan looked at the young stall owner with a smile. The seeds of the local elixir could not be grown anyway, so in his opinion, it would be a great deal if he could exchange them for ten cups of magic tea.
It turned out to be a kind of earth-grade spiritual medicine. Long Xuan was delighted in his heart, but he did not show it on his face. He said calmly: "Yes!"
As he spoke, he picked up the teapot containing Bingxin tea and poured ten cups of tea for Chashan in public.
The tea is crystal clear, and seems to be both hot and cold, without any impurities... (End of this chapter)