Chen Xiuping explained the situation to Su Tianqi, and the teaching in the academy became morning teaching. In the afternoon, Chen Xiuping came back to play chess with Wang Dao and Liu Jianyuan.

I ran to the academy in the morning and ran back again at noon. I had a good physical exercise. However, I was ridiculed by the two old men every day on Wangdao. They often said that Chen Xiuping didn't know how to respect the old man.

And Wang Dao also asked Chen Xiuping to participate in the poetry meeting every day, but Chen Xiuping had no choice but to agree. This old man is really a scoundrel.

In the evening, Chen Xiuping returned home and saw Yi'er cleaning the fallen peach blossoms in the courtyard.

Although the climate this year has not warmed up much in the past few days, it suddenly warmed up in February, and the peach blossoms began to bloom.

Looking at the falling peach blossoms, Chen Xiuping thought of a kind of tea, scented tea.

Scented tea originated in the Song Dynasty, but it did not develop widely. It began to flourish in the Ming Dynasty and became popular in the Qing Dynasty.

Chen Xiuping usually drinks green tea. Looking at this peach blossom, he had the idea of ​​making scented tea.

Thinking of it, let's do it. Chen Xiuping took out a basket from the room and asked Yi'er to help pick peach blossoms.

"Sir, if you don't go back to your room to study and rest, why do you think of picking these flowers?"

Yi'er asked while helping Chen Xiuping pick peach blossoms.

"Make tea, you will understand after I make it."

Chen Xiuping thought that it was all in vain, so he told Yi'er not to ask any more questions and concentrate on picking peach blossoms.

After a while, Chen Xiuping looked at the peach blossoms in the basket and carefully recalled the steps of making scented tea. Although he had never made one in his previous life, he had a general understanding after drinking too much.

The first step after cleaning the peach blossoms was difficult for Chen Xiuping.

Since there were not so many insecticide measures in ancient times, there were still a lot of bugs on peach blossoms. If you want to remove these bugs, you need to soak them in salt water. This salt was really a treasure in ancient times. It is impossible to go to the kitchen to get it by yourself.

Yan said he would use salt to soak peach blossoms.

There was no other way, so I asked Shang Yi'er to squat beside the barrel and pick out the bugs inside with their hands.

This step took Chen Xiuping and Yi'er half an hour. Yi'er didn't feel tired at all. After all, she was used to it, but Chen Xiuping was different. He was so tired that he could hardly straighten his waist.

After completing this step, the next step is to dry it in the sun. According to the ancient method, this drying requires natural air drying, so that the dried peach blossoms will not change color, but it will take a week. Chen Xiuping has modern knowledge.

He asked Yi'er to take two handkerchiefs and wipe the water from the peach blossoms little by little. After this step, the sun had already set.

Next, Chen Xiuping asked Yi'er to light a stove.

"Sir, are you infected with the cold again? Let me ask a doctor to come and take a look at you?"

With this weather and the burning of the stove, Yi'er really wondered if Chen Xiuping was infected with the cold again and was talking nonsense.

"..., you girl, why do you expect your young master to get sick every day? It's not that I want to bake the stove, I want to bake this peach blossom, and by the way, get some low-grade tea, or

Come here with the tea residue."

Chen Xiuping flicked Yi'er's forehead and ordered.

Yi'er rubbed her forehead, pouted and went to find the stove. Don't they care about you?

In ancient times, flower teas were made by directly drying the petals and then soaking them in water. Flower tea, flower tea. How can it be done without tea? In modern times, the petals are dried together with the tea leaves. The flower tea produced in this way not only has the fragrance of the flowers, but also the tea leaves.

of fragrance.

Everything was ready, except for a baking stove. Chen Xiuping thought for a long time and saw the food box on the table. It was you.

After starting a fire, Chen Xiuping added charcoal and then laid a few stones on the top of the stove. After all, the food box was made of wood. If it caught on fire, half a day's hard work would be in vain.

After setting up the food box, Chen Xiuping now laid a layer of peach blossoms on the bottom of the food box, and then covered it with tea leaves and tea residues, making four layers in this order.

Now it’s time to wait, the result of all this hard work will be seen.

"Sir, don't look at it. Let's eat first. I'll bring you a food box to put the food in, and you can roast it on the fire."

There was a sense of punishment in Yi'er's words. After all, the food box was made of good wood from the Su family. If it burned out, she couldn't put the responsibility on the young master. She could only carry it by herself.

Another scolding was inevitable.

"It's okay, Yi'er. If it burns out, go buy a better one."

Chen Xiuping took out the five hundred taels of silver notes Su Yuer'er gave him last time from under the quilt and handed it to Yi'er.

Yi'er, who had never seen such a huge amount of silver notes, was stunned. This was the first time she saw a five hundred tael silver note.

"Sir, you didn't steal this money, did you?"

Yi'er shook her head, and after confirming that the amount on the banknote was five hundred taels, she asked tremblingly, "This is not just random guessing by Yi'er. Chen Xiuping was provided with food and clothing in the Su family, so the Su family didn't give Chen Xiuping any money."

The other Su family children also received monthly payments, so Yi'er suspected that the young master had stolen it from the young mistress.

"...Yi'er, all you have in your head is gossip. Can you think of something good about the master every day? This is what I earned based on my ability."

After saying that, Chen Xiuping wanted to give Yi'er another thought. This girl has nothing to do all day long and just makes random guesses.

In order to avoid Chen Xiuping's crazy thoughts, Yi'er hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, you earned it based on your ability."

Although he said so, Yi'er definitely didn't believe it.
Chapter completed!