Chapter 784: Night Talk On Board
The Heavenly Preceptor’s ship was laid out similarly to the Imperial Preceptor’s, with only subtle differences in detail, and the study was naturally located in the same position.
When they arrived at the Heavenly Preceptor’s study, they found him reviewing official documents. Tang Jiaohua immediately stepped forward to brew tea for him.
Though the Heavenly Preceptor practiced the Fasting Technique, he still enjoyed drinking tea.
Tang Jiaohua’s tea-brewing was extraordinarily skillful, not because the technique was flashy, but because of how precisely he catered to the Heavenly Preceptor’s preferences. It was truly astonishing.
Tea could be hot or cool. The cool tea was not the same as the herbal tea of Lingnan. It was still fundamentally green tea, only cooled after being brewed. Since the tea had to cool naturally, the amount of tea leaves became crucial.
If there were too few tea leaves, the cooled-down tea would lack flavor. If there were too many, the long steeping time required to cool the tea would extract too much bitterness from the leaves.
Tang Jiaohua could not only measure this precisely but also ensure that every brew contained not one leaf too many or too few. It was this accumulation of such details that had earned him a permanent place at the Heavenly Preceptor’s side.
The kind Heavenly Preceptor gestured for the two young ones to sit down, then he took a sip of hot tea. Since he had not immediately served tea as a dismissal gesture, this clearly indicated that the meeting was informal, a casual chat between an elder and his juniors. There was no need for formality.
Hot tea and cool tea used different leaves. The leaves for hot tea came from Kunlun Paradise. Compared to ordinary tea, these tea leaves had cultivation-enhancing properties. For a typical Xiantian Being, simply drinking this tea daily for a few years could allow them to reach the Guizhen stage. But for an Immortal at the Heavenly Preceptor’s level, the effect was virtually negligible.
This was the way of humankind—taking from the lacking to give to the excess. Those who needed such tea to cultivate might never get a taste of it, while those who drank it daily did not need its benefits. They likely drank it for the taste or to flaunt their status.
Tang Jiaohua brewed this hot tea for the two youngsters as well.