"Ye Feng, do you understand tea ceremony?"

At this moment, Mr. Jiang looked at Ye Feng with a strange gleam in his eyes, asking with a beaming smile.

Upon hearing this, Ye Feng slightly startled, then replied, "I know a thing or two!"

"Oh?"

A look of surprise deepened on Mr. Jiang's face, he then smiled and said no more, contentedly proceeding to brew tea.

However, after hearing Ye Feng say he knew a thing or two, Qi Jian beside him couldn't help but snicker.

At that moment, Qi Jian sat down on the sofa with a plop, and then looked at Ye Feng with a playful gaze:

"Ye Feng, what you call tea ceremony is hardly just you drinking inferior tea! The tea ceremony is particularly particular about the quality of the tea. Some teas, even if you worked as a driver for ten years, you couldn't afford a pound!"

Qi Jian assumed that the tea ceremony Ye Feng knew was just the inferior tea that ordinary people drink, the kind that costs a few dollars a pound. Anyone who truly understands tea would definitely sneer at it!

Although Qi Jian didn't understand tea ceremony either, he knew Mr. Jiang loved to drink tea, so he specifically inquired about the prices of some teas.

At this point, he took out a beautifully packaged box from a gift box nearby, and then placed it on the coffee table.

"Uncle Jiang, knowing you love tea, I entrusted someone to specially purchase some 'tribute tea' from the Longjing tea region!"

Tribute tea!

Hearing these two words, Mr. Jiang paused for a moment, then turned to look at the exquisite box.

The tribute tea from the Longjing tea region was, of course, the top-grade West Lake Longjing, belonging to the highest quality level, the same as the best batch selected each year from the Longjing tea region for Zhongnanhai!

Tribute tea was something that money couldn't just buy, extremely rare on the market.

At that moment, Mr. Jiang's eyes gleamed fervently, and then he unwrapped the box layer by layer, revealing a green tea cake wrapped in a white cloth. As soon as it was opened, a fresh aroma wafted forth.

"What a wonderful fragrance!" Mr. Jiang seemed a bit intoxicated, inhaling the fresh scent, his face blossoming into a thick smile.

"Qi Jian, you are so thoughtful!" Mr. Jiang nodded at Qi Jian.

"It's my pleasure!" Hearing the smile on Mr. Jiang's face, Qi Jian was extremely happy, knowing that he had just closed the gap in his relationship with Mr. Jiang even further.

Thinking of this, Qi Jian, full of pride, smiled at Ye Feng and disdainfully said:

"Ye Feng, in the future, don't ever say you understand tea ceremony when you are out, or you'll be laughed at! This kind of real good tea, I'm afraid you've never tasted in your life!"

Hearing Qi Jian's words, Ye Feng just smiled, then said with an amused look:

"Your West Lake Longjing is of a rather high grade, but this is definitely not 'tribute tea'!"

Hmm?

The words of Ye Feng caught both Mr. Jiang and Qi Jian off guard, then Qi Jian exploded in fury:

"Nonsense! This box of tea was acquired at a high price at an auction in the Longjing tea region by someone I trusted! How could it not be 'tribute tea'!"

Qi Jian naturally had his reasons for anger; this box of tea had cost him hundreds of thousands of yuan!

That is to say, each small piece of tea leaf was worth hundreds of yuan; this damn thing was not about drinking tea, it was about drinking gold!

Despite the pain of spending so much money, Qi Jian didn't care as long as he could make Mr. Jiang happy, but he hadn't expected Ye Feng to intervene, which infuriated him!

"Ye Feng, this West Lake Longjing's quality is indeed very high, perhaps the best West Lake Longjing I've ever seen! Could it be that you have seen real 'tribute tea'?"

Although Mr. Jiang loved drinking tea, he had never seen real tribute tea; now after Ye Feng's words, he couldn't help but ask.

Ye Feng smiled, ignored Qi Jian's raging tantrum, and directly addressed Jiang's father:

"West Lake Longjing is world-renowned for its four absolute qualities: green in color, rich in fragrance, mellow in flavor, and beautiful in shape! It can further be categorized into four types based on their origins: Shifeng, Longjing, Yunqi, and Hupao! Among these, the highest quality is the Dragon Well tea from Shifeng! However, the tribute tea comes from the eighteen imperial tea trees in front of Hu Gong Temple at the foot of Shifeng Mountain!"

Having said that, Ye Feng took the tea cake from Jiang's father's palm and suddenly broke it apart.

Crack!

A crisp sound rang out as the tea cake split in two, but this scene shocked Qi Jian.

"Damn it! What the hell are you doing!"

Qi Jian was almost bursting with rage, that bastard had just broken his hundred thousand dollars worth of tea; he was extravagantly wasteful!

Although it was still drinkable, this guy had handled it with his hands, who knows if he washed them!

Ye Feng completely ignored Qi Jian and pointed to the tea leaves, saying:

"The tribute tea from the eighteen imperial tea trees is different from the ordinary Dragon Well tea from Shifeng. Its color is even more vibrant, and within its flatness, it contains fine, elongated striations. The edges of the leaves have tiny serrations! These are specially crafted to distinguish ordinary Shifeng tea from the tribute tea!"

Hearing Ye Feng's words, Jiang's father's eyes sparkled, and then he looked at the leaves in the tea cake, discovering that they were indeed just ordinary Shifeng Dragon Well tea, as Ye Feng had said.

Qi Jian, who had already been bewildered, now twitched at the corners of his mouth while looking at the leaves inside the tea cake.

He had been… conned!

Ye Feng didn't appear to be lying, and the first thought in Qi Jian's mind was that he'd been tricked!

No, that can't be right!

Immediately after, Qi Jian snapped back to reality and suddenly jumped up from the sofa:

"Stop talking nonsense here! None of us have ever seen the real tribute tea, how could you, a mere driver, know about it! You must have fabricated this lie to deceive us! People who come out of poor backwaters are all shameless without exception!"

Veins throbbed in Qi Jian's forehead. Even if Ye Feng were telling the truth, he would not admit it. Jiang's father had not seen the real tribute tea either, so as long as Qi Jian insisted that it was tribute tea, surely he would believe him!

Jiang's father was also puzzled at this moment. Although Ye Feng seemed extraordinary, he did not believe that a mere driver could have seen the real tribute tea.

Meanwhile, Ye Feng's face still wore a faint smile as he shrugged his shoulders, then pulled out a small metal bottle from his pocket.

The bottle appeared to be made of iron, and it was impossible to see what was inside.

Seeing this action, both Jiang's father and Qi Jian furrowed their brows, clueless about what Ye Feng was doing.

Ye Feng's calm demeanor revealed a hint of reminiscence and regret upon seeing the small bottle, an item that Li Qingshan had always carried with him.

He opened the bottle directly, and immediately, a rich and fragrant scent wafted out!

At the moment this mellow fragrance reached him, Jiang's father nearby was visibly invigorated.

"Is this..."

Looking at the vibrant leaves inside the small bottle, Jiang's father's eyes nearly popped out.

These active leaves were not just Longjing tea leaves, but also included Pu-erh, Maojian, Liu'an Guapian, and Tieguanyin.

What stood out the most, though, were the dozen or so Big Red Robe leaves!

Big Red Robe, the most expensive tea! It grows only on six tea trees on Wuyi Mountain. What's sold on the market nowadays as Big Red Robe is but the product of five generations of transplanted cultivation, a far cry from the real Big Red Robe!

But Jiang's father could tell that these leaves were definitely the genuine Big Red Robe!

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