Chapter 783: Purple Clay Pot

Chuiwan requires a venue with hundreds of steps, and like golf courses in later generations, it also has various terrains. It was popular in the Song Dynasty.

With the plaster balls wrapped in cellulo, Su You also created a fun and elegant game - billiards. The price of a complete set is not cheap, but it is cheaper than billiards made of ivory. It is the second most popular game after mahjong.

After playing cards and pianos, Sitong Company made a huge contribution to the entertainment industry or gambling industry of the Song Dynasty.

Nowadays, there are billiard rooms in Fanlou and Fangzhiwei. The dandies from Beijing and China gamble heavily in the private rooms, which greatly stimulates the development of billiards activities.

What made Su You dumbfounded was that the people of the Song Dynasty were too addicted to gambling and found the rules set by Su You too slow. Soon mahjong was simplified, billiards were played on a smaller table, the number of balls was increased, and the ball was enlarged.

The golf hole, from an elegant toy of the scholar-bureaucrats, became a gambling tool in the market.

Su You estimated that Chuiwan would be simplified again by the people of the Song Dynasty before long, and then integrated with the current gameplay of the Song Dynasty, and finally become popular among the people.

The only things that can be left behind may be the ball and the pole.

Princess Wei said with a smile: "Okay, remember to call my little sister. If you can't beat her with mahjong tiles, you can only play ball and shoot arrows."

Shi Wei smiled and said, "You came here today not just to see Bi'er and the colander, right?"

Princess Wei took Shi Wei's arm and said, "You have to take care of a child. You shouldn't need those new Tuanxiang beasts that Tanhualang gave you, right?"

Shi Wei smiled and said: "I don't like that thing in the first place. If you like it, I'll give it to you."

Princess Wei said angrily: "Oh, you are so generous! I'm afraid you don't know how precious it is, right?"

Shi Wei didn't take it seriously: "It's useless to me in the first place, and it will affect the observation during the consultation. These things are all medicines, and they are three-part poison."

Princess Wei said: "I can't tell you the same thing. Tan Hua Lang's pretty eyes are all for a blind man to see."

Shi Wei had a flat jar with a colander by her side, and now her wife was even more excited: "He's just busy working on his own, so why not send some medicinal materials to me, such as sea octopus and sea dragon this time, as well as turmeric, white

Peony, lily, and white chrysanthemum are all top-grade."

Princess Wei's eyes were filled with tears when she heard this: "I don't understand what you mean by saying this. Since you think it's useless, just give me all those little beasts."

Shi Wei entered the inner room and took out two rectangular boxes.

Princess Wei opened a box, which contained six small boxes side by side. She opened the small box again, carefully took out a rabbit-shaped medicine cake, brought it to her nose, smelled it, and closed her eyes in intoxication: "Really.

Excellent..."

This is what Su You concocted based on the fragrance recipe given by Huang Tingjian. It is still the same as Lao San, fine and pure.

Each spice is extracted and concentrated, then mixed with whale oil in proportion, and then kneaded into the powder used for ignition. It is much more refined and purer than the ordinary production method of the Song Dynasty.

The twelve types of fragrances are based on the climate of the twelve months, the appropriate shades, and even combined with the seasonal flower seasons, and then made into the shape of the twelve zodiac animals. The image is cartoonish and cute.

Carefully putting the spice bunny back into the box, Princess Wei said with a smile: "Thank you so much. Your husband is so clever and ingenious. The wife of your family deserves endless blessings. No wonder you watch so closely!"

Shi Wei can usually move her hands but not keep her mouth shut: "As soon as I get something, my mouth starts to be wild. I haven't tickled you for a long time, right..."

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In the garden between the two palaces, spring is blooming.

In addition to two red plum trees blooming just right, there are also several low spring azaleas and a Daphne plant.

The flowers are not expensive, but the red plums are old piles that Su You found behind the Liuxiu Temple. They were pruned and placed with rockeries and lawns, making them look very beautiful beside the pond.

The spring cuckoo is low, but the same careful preparation, now the flowers cover the leaves, like two flames.

Daphne is a very magical plant with flexible branches that can be coiled into knots.

This Daphne plant is grown in a large pottery vat. There are several pits on the lawn, just big enough to place a large flower pot like this. These large potted plants are usually kept in the greenhouse and have special personnel to take care of them. They will be moved after the flowers bloom.

Come here and put it in the pit, as if it has been growing here forever.

This pot of flowers was ordered by Su You to arrange the flowers into four levels in an orderly manner. The top of each level is very smooth and straight, and it also has a special name. The full name is "Daixiang Four Seasons Zhengtaiping".

In this warm spring day, after Zhao Xu greeted the two empress dowagers about their daily lives, he took a rare vacation and performed a new tea ceremony for them.

The tea ceremony is not complicated, the main thing is that the tea utensils are more fun.

A silver pan was used to heat the spring water with silver charcoal. Zhao Xu used a copper dagger to shovel out some green flat needle-shaped tea leaves with fine velvet from a bamboo tube, put them into a strange pottery pot, poured water, and after a while, gave

The two Queen Mothers rushed forward.

The tea soup was tender green and clear. Gao Taotao picked up the small pottery cup and smelled it: "This tea is so fragrant. It turns out that just the aroma and taste of the tea are so refreshing."

Empress Dowager Cao took a sip: "It's really good tea. Hey, the color of this teapot seems to have changed..."

Zhao Xu poured out the remaining tea and poured it on the teapot. The small teapot in his hands looked even more beautiful.

Gao Taotao smiled and said: "Tanhua Lang is really elegant. A small clay pot can bring out so much interest. The lines look so comfortable."

Zhao Xu smiled and said: "Su Mingrun is very strange. You could say he is an elegant man. He usually looks carefree. He doesn't like colorful clothes. He doesn't even like silk furs. He just wants to be plain."

"I don't have any airs when getting along with others. I heard Yan Jidao say that the first time I met him, he was squatting under the eaves to eat with a group of children in the village. He didn't look like a scholar-official at all."

"You think he is a rough man. Look at the eight pieces of crabs he used to eat crabs in the palace, the scribe's folding knife, the glazed palace lantern, the fine porcelain, the calamus stone, the exquisite food, and the piano. He looks like a real celebrity.

With Yan Xiaoshan’s wealthy habits, I can’t hold my head high in front of him.”

Empress Dowager Cao smiled and said: "Isn't it widely rumored in Sichuan that he was reincarnated by Cang Shu? He was born with the aura of wealth and nobility, and then he was reincarnated into a country family. Look at this teapot, it looks like he has become a hermit in the mountains."

Zhao Xu said: "Today's tea is so sweet. In addition to the tea leaves, the pot itself also has a saying."

"Su Mingrun said that drinking tea with porcelain cups and porcelain pots is inherently inferior. Tea is a product of the mountains and forests. It eats the wind and drinks the dew, and gets the aura of the heaven and the earth. It needs a tea set that has no craftsmanship, is as clumsy as it is clumsy, and is completely made by nature.

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"Seeing that the natives use mud as a vat, they will clear the mud and use it as a pot. What they pay attention to is an ancient beauty and cuteness, dark chestnut color, like the iron of ancient and modern times, strong, strong and Zhou Zheng."

"The pot I just made tea in is called Dahongpao made of clay. It is usually a crimson color, similar to the color of the uniforms of fifth-rank officials. When boiling water enters the belly, it turns into the color of pig liver, which is also a natural and wonderful thing."

After saying that, he asked the chamberlain to fetch another twelve types of utensils, all of which were ancient, solemn, simple and honest.

"According to Su Mingrun, there are rock formations under Dingshan Mountain in Yixing. After grinding the rock into fine sand and settling it, you can get mud in three colors: vermilion, purple, and yellow. Depending on the temperature of the furnace, you can also bake crab shell green, millet color, and copper.

, begonia red, cinnabar, sunflower yellow, pear skin, incense ash, patina and other colors."

"The older Ni is, the better. He said this is the first batch, so the palace generals can use it first."

"This monkey!" Empress Dowager Cao picked up a small yellow pot with a pine bark pattern and said, "Brother, this is interesting to see. It's like an old pine, even with knots. Oh, it also has a sense of style."

Inside the lid of the pot, there is indeed a seal with the two characters "Zhe Gong" in seal script.

Gao Taotao picked up a cinnabar purple one and looked at it: "This shape is very familiar."

Zhao Xu said: "Liu Fengshi and his colleagues collected ancient pre-Qin gold and bronze artifacts. The current "Xining Gold and Stone Illustration" has been published in the third volume. This is a type of vessel made based on the authority of the First Emperor, called the 'Qin Quan Pot'."

"Look, Madam, even Qin Quan's inscriptions are copied intact on it: In the twenty-sixth year, the emperor conquered all the princes in the world, and Da'an, the head of Guizhou, was named emperor.

No, anyone who is apologetic will understand it."

Gao Taotao couldn't help but dumbfounded: "A clay pot has been made to look elegant. Is this still something for making tea?"

Seeing Zhao Xu pouring tea on the small pot of Dahongpao again, Queen Mother Cao was curious: "Brother, why do you keep pouring tea on the pot? What is this saying?"

Zhao Xu said: "Su Mingrun said that each pot can only brew one kind of tea, and it needs to be watered with tea soup when drinking tea. It will be a truly good pot until the luster is restrained, the color is warm, and the pot has the aroma of tea."
Chapter completed!