Miscellaneous Notes on Tui Sheng Zhai

In Lin'an, Ningzong of the Southern Song Dynasty, Xie Wangshu, the young owner of the Ruomu Teahouse, dug out his great-grandfather's manuscript. On the last page, there were eight words: "layers of curd cheese, and snow in the cold mountains. I can't do it anymore." The lost "one night of frost" at the tea banquet of the Provincial Zhai in the 21st year of Shaoxing has become a mystery that spans two generations. In order to restore this tea dish, Xie Wangshu stepped into the old palace stalls, the foreign goods market and the undercurrent of the court. His close friend Shen Zhibai accompanied him all the way, while Su Wan from Fengle House and Gu Qingxian, a female official from Yuefu, secretly helped each other. But there was more than just one pair of eyes watching in the dark. The plate of cold mountain cheese before Shi Miyuan's case - what was cut was not only a tea dish that had been lost for sixty years, but also the unfinished dialogue between two generations of top tea masters, and the coldest knife under the power of the Song Dynasty.