Chapter 120 We Discarded It Like a Worn Shoe

Chapter 120 We Discarded It Like a Worn Shoe

When Su Xing heard the sound of the system issuing a task in her head, she actually felt relieved.

This was the first time that she felt that the system task was not only timely, but also exactly what she wanted!

She took a deep breath, adjusted her facial expression, and walked towards the table of four young guests.

"Hello, excuse me for bothering you." She said to the four people with a smile.

In fact, the four young customers had already noticed that there was a very beautiful waitress in the store. Not only the boys, but also the girls wanted to take a second look at her.

At this moment, the "waiter" suddenly came over and talked to them, which surprised everyone.

They don't need any service...

The girl in blue looked at Su Xing with a hint of vigilance and asked, "What can I do for you?"

Su Xing said: "It's nothing serious, I just want to correct some of the gentleman's statements."

She tilted her palm slightly upward and gestured to the boy with pigtails.

The pigtailed man looked at his beautiful daughter with interest and asked, "Oh? What do you want to correct?"

Su Xing said: "First, my country is the country of origin of tea! Second, the best black tea is produced in my country, and the craftsmanship also originated in my country! Third, Japan's tea culture was also passed down from my country! Japan's tea-making method originated from our Song Dynasty's seven-soup tea-making method!"

Su Xing's voice was sonorous and powerful, without a trace of hesitation!

Although her voice was not very loud, it was loud enough for the guests around to hear.

Many people looked over here.

Grandpa Su, Grandpa Zheng, Uncle Su and others also heard Su Xing's voice, and they all looked at her in surprise.

Su Yu had just served two cups of milk tea to a table of guests. When she heard her cousin's voice, she turned around and looked at Su Xing with wide eyes.

Everyone in the Su family thought they knew Su Xing's personality very well. To put it nicely, she was quiet and reserved, but in fact, she was introverted and timid and not good at dealing with strangers.

Although they all felt that Su Xing seemed to have changed a little during this meeting, it was too un-Su Xing for him to suddenly run off to correct a stranger's misunderstanding of tea culture!

The eyes of several people in the Su family were about to fall to the ground!

When the pigtailed man heard Su Xing's words, he laughed as if he had heard a joke. "Little sister, why don't you say that the whole world belongs to China?"

Su Xing suddenly remembered a sentence on the Internet in later generations: If someone traveled back to the time of the First Emperor and gave Lao Qin a world map, perhaps the world would really belong to my country...

Su Xing pulled back his wandering thoughts and looked directly at the pigtailed man. "You don't believe it, do you? Then let me tell you about the true origin of tea. Lu Yu, a famous tea expert in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in the seventh chapter of The Classic of Tea, "The Matter of Tea", that 'Three Sovereigns Yan Emperor, Shennong, and Duke Zhou of Zhou and Lu', which means 'Tea as a drink originated from Shennong and was known to Duke Zhou of Lu'. The Shennong Food Classic wrote that 'Tea taken for a long time makes people strong and happy'. It has a history of 5500 to 6000 years..."

The pigtailed man interrupted Su Xing and said, "Shennong and the like are just myths and legends. There is not even an exact record of the year. What is this? You are too funny to take myths as the origin!"

Su Xing smiled slightly, "Even if Shennong is a myth, Lu Yu, the Tea Saint, is not a myth, right? Besides, I haven't finished talking yet, why are you in such a hurry?"

The guy with pigtails choked.

Su Xing said calmly, "my country has been using wild tea for more than 5000 years. People started to grow tea in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is more than 3000 years ago. The Huayang Guozhi. Bazhi written by the Eastern Jin Dynasty historian Chang Qu recorded that during the time when King Wu conquered King Zhou, the Ba Kingdom paid tribute to King Wu of Zhou, which included tea. This shows that my country already had artificially cultivated tea at that time."

She paused and continued, "The '槚,苦荼' recorded in Er Ya Shi Mu is actually tea. '荼' is one of the ancient names for 'tea'. Guo Pu, a scholar in the Jin Dynasty, said, 'The tree is as small as gardenia, grows in winter, and the leaves can be boiled into soup. Today, the ones picked in the morning are called tu, and the ones picked in the evening are called ming, also known as cha'. In my country's historical documents and books, tu, 槚, 蔎, ming, cha, etc. are all ancient names for tea. There are also many elegant names, such as: gualu, jiatu, ruo nu, yaocao, ruicao kui, buyehou, etc."

At this moment, the surroundings were completely silent, and everyone's eyes were on Su Xing. Even the tourists passing by stopped and looked at the girl who was talking so eloquently.

The girl in white was also listening intently.

The boy with a crew cut and the girl in blue looked at each other, then glanced at the boy with pigtails who looked unhappy.

"There are so many documents and poems that can prove that my country is the country of origin of tea! In the Book of Songs, it says 'Who says tea is bitter? It is as sweet as shepherd's purse'; in the Tea Fu by Du Yu of the Western Jin Dynasty, it says 'The sacred mountain is the peak, where rare products are gathered. Looking at the winding valley, it is actually the setting sun. There grows tea grass, which fills the valley and covers the hills. It receives moisture from the fertile soil and receives sweet dew from the sky.'; in the poem Entering the Boat by the great Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu, there is also a sentence like this, 'Drink tea and sugarcane juice with everything, porcelain pots are not Xie's jade jars.'..."

The pigtailed boy felt dizzy after hearing this and interrupted Su Xing again, "But there are also a lot of historical materials in the British book The Tea Tree of Assam by Belden and The Guide to Tea written by Blake, proving that the origin of tea is in India..."

Su Xing looked at the pigtailed man with a sharper gaze. "You believe the ridiculous fallacies of those two British guys, but you don't believe in the civilization heritage that has been passed down for thousands of years in our country?!"

The boy with pigtails turned pale and red. He opened his mouth but couldn't utter any powerful rebuttal for a moment.

Su Xing stared at the boy with pigtails and said, "You admire Indian tea so much? Then let me tell you how our tea seedlings, tree species and tea-making techniques were stolen by the British and introduced to India! It was because of a British man, he was a plant hunter, a thief, and a spy! His name is Robert Fortune!"

"For thousands of years, my country has always monopolized the production and sales of tea in the world. Planting, picking, various tea-making processes, wholesale, export... everything is enjoyed exclusively by my country. This makes many countries very jealous. They also want to plant tea, but the core technologies of tea planting and production have always been in my country's hands. They can only spend money to import from my country."

"The British East India Company has always been eyeing my country's tea. In 1848, the East India Company sent botanist Robert Fortune to sneak into my country. He changed his name, shaved his hair, braided his hair, put on a long gown, and disguised himself as a citizen of my country's ethnic minority. He hid in my country for many years and stole tens of thousands of tea seedlings and more than 1851 tea seeds! In 8, he took away tea makers, as well as tea seeds, tea trees, tea-making equipment, etc. from my country and went all the way to India! Let my country's tea and tea-making technology settle down in India!"