Chapter 85 - 083: The Male Charm max Makes Your Legs Weak [222 votes+]
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Xie Jingchen harbored his doubts but didn’t hurry to greet the guests immediately. Instead, he brought back his hunting spoils to the left wing first. He was currently covered in mud and dust, wearing old clothes. To go out to meet guests in such a state would be to lose face.
After all, he had been a military officer for over a decade now, and the attention to personal appearance had become second nature. Glancing at the clothing of the two men leading the group, even through the walls, he could discern their proper smiles, and he could tell, without being blind — the visitors were no ordinary people.
He rushed back to his room to find the new clothes his little wife had made for him, hurriedly took a shower, dried off, and changed into a white shirt and black trousers. Then he briskly grabbed the hunting spoils and went into the kitchen. All this took no more than six or seven minutes.
Just then, Zhang Shanni and her mother-in-law, hearing noises in the courtyard, came out of the kitchen to welcome the guests and lead them into the hall. Zhang Shanni went back to the kitchen to prepare a pot of chrysanthemum tea. To show respect, she also added a pinch of sugar to alleviate the bitterness of the tea.
In the countryside, good tea leaves were basically unaffordable. The Xie Family had some aged tea leaves because Mr. Xie held a position in the village committee, but from her mother-in-law’s words, she inferred that the visitors’ status was extraordinary; one of them was Station Chief Li from the grain station in town. In the late 1970s, that was an impressive national public position.
There might not be fine tea available at home, but it was already late September, and the autumn breeze was crisp. Drinking chrysanthemum tea was not a bad choice: it clears the liver and improves vision, and consuming it regularly during autumn was beneficial to health.
Compared to aged tea, Zhang Shanni preferred using chrysanthemum tea to entertain guests, along with the sweet potato cakes she had made the day before, making a perfect tea snack.