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.0

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.0

Though the Heavenly Preceptor practiced the Fasting Technique, he still enjoyed drinking tea.0

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.0

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.0

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.0

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...0