Father's jasmine tea

After dinner, sitting next to the coffee table on the balcony, making a pot of favorite jasmine tea, sipping the bright golden yellow tea soup in the cup, and the rich fragrance between the lips and teeth makes people feel as if they are in the jasmine garden in early summer, and unconsciously take a deep breath and feel bright and beautiful in Shu Lang. And this moment always reminds me of those nights when I sat at the table with my father and drank a pot of jasmine tea.

Father never drinks, but loves tea, but only drinks jasmine tea all his life. When I was a child, I thought the so-called "tea" was this kind of jasmine tea. When I am old, when I watch a movie, the host always asks with great grace: Do you want black tea, green tea or scented tea? Only then did I know that there are many kinds of tea and many exquisite ones. Once I asked my father curiously why there was only jasmine tea at home. The answer is: Jasmine tea is the tea of our northerners, and it is as popular with southerners as black tea, green tea and oolong tea.

At that time, there were almost no tea shops in Fangsheng town, and the types of tea were extremely limited. My mother arranged all the daily necessities at home, but my father personally selected the tea. He likes to go to a tea shop near Beiqiao to buy tea, saying that he sells "Zhengxingde" jasmine tea. He said that "Zhengxingde" scented tea is the top grade of scented tea, which attracts tea fragrance and enhances tea taste, but it smells like flowers instead of flowers. My father, who lives a simple life, is still a little particular about tea.

In the late 1970s, people in the town were still very busy. After dinner, there are always a group of people sitting at home, including neighbors, parents, school colleagues and parents of students. In the era of material scarcity, my father only entertained guests with jasmine tea. Country people don't pay attention to tea, so they pick up the teacup and drink it off. A group of people sat at the table chatting happily, and the tea was transparent. Father doesn't talk much, and he has been helping the guests to renew their tea. Simple and warm scented tea soaked the thick fragrance between people in that era.

My mother likes tea, too. Naturally, this jasmine tea is brewed in the morning and will last all day. I look forward to the day when grandma will come to live with us. One of the reasons is that I can drink more fragrant and delicious tea with her. In the evening, the family sits next to grandma, and my father always pours a handful of tea from another tin pot and makes a pot. I leaned down to listen to the adults, drinking this fragrant tea cup by cup, and I felt comfortable all over.

Later, the family lived in the first primary school in the town for a while. After dinner, the teachers and students of the whole school had already dispersed, and only the rustling of leaves in the wind was heard on campus. Father cleaned the dining table as usual, moved to the yard, made a pot of jasmine tea, and the family sat together. In the clear and fresh tea fragrance, under the moonlight and light, my taciturn father will also tell us historical stories with great interest, perhaps the tea fragrance and the tranquility under the moon make my father's plain story beautiful.

After the mother died, my brother and sister-in-law were very busy for a while and often were not at home. I always stay with my father after supper. When I was cleaning up, my father washed the teapot and teacups early, and then I sat down on the sofa to make tea. The moment hot water was poured into the teapot, the room was full of fragrance. It doesn't matter if the father and daughter just sit together and drink tea. Sometimes when talking about people and things in the old school, my father will talk more. Speaking of his colleagues, students and old friends, he always sees a group of people going home for tea and chatting.

In recent years, drinking tea is very popular in the town, and many teahouses, large and small, have been opened, and the distribution of tea leaves is even more varied and dizzying. There are many kinds of black tea and green tea sent by relatives and friends at home. I advised my father to try. My father gave it all away after drinking it once. He still drinks his jasmine tea every day, saying that it doesn't taste right after drinking it all his life.

Recently, people who pay attention to drinking tea despise jasmine tea, thinking that its fragrance is too direct and moist, and the floral fragrance disturbs the true color and original taste of tea. I also drank Pu 'er, Longjing and Dahongpao for two years, but in the end, like my father, I took jasmine tea as my daily ration tea.

Nowadays, it is difficult to find a few people who drink jasmine tea in the crowd, as if drinking this kind of tea is a low-end tasteless performance. I think there must be commercial reasons behind the contempt in today's world, perhaps not the problem of jasmine tea itself, but because it is too well known by the northern public and hyped at an outrageous price. When I met a person who loves jasmine tea as much as I do, I suddenly felt very close and warm, and felt that the other person must have a father or grandmother like me.

A few years ago, my father suddenly left us. The night before, father and daughter were still sitting in front of the coffee table drinking the jasmine tea that he loved all his life. The next morning, people went to the building, leaving only a pot of unfinished tea on the coffee table.

Jasmine tea, tea in spring and flowers in summer are condensed into the most unforgettable past in life. Often in the evening after a busy day, I sit at the coffee table and make myself a pot of jasmine tea. The rising fragrance of tea contains the smell of home and father.