A dinner, Zhao Xiaoliang was full of praise.

praised Xia Jie's cooking skills as if there was nothing in the sky or in the earth.

The salted duck eggs that were pickled just right, and the sand and yellow oil, he dried three in one go.

Fatty river mussel roast meat, who knows who eats the taste.

A plate of small fried bacon with a full amount of meat, he specially picks fat to eat, and he can't wait to flow oil in his mouth.

The authentic old goose pot in the mountain village, the meat is crispy, the aftertaste is endless, most of the geese were all by him alone, and the ball was so anxious that the ball was screaming.

Why don't you eat any meat on your bones?

"Xiaoliang, why don't you stay here overnight at night and go back tomorrow? Anyway, I have a ready-made guest room here!"

After dinner, Xia Jie pointed to the room next to him and said.

"There's nothing fun here at night, why don't you go back to the city with me, let's go to a small event, go to KTV and roar, or go around the bar, hi pi hi pi?"

This back and forth can be regarded as familiarity, Zhao Xiaoliang said very enthusiastically.

"Forget about small activities, I just stayed up late yesterday, and I have to rest today. ”

Xia Jie shook his head and said.

"Okay, you rest, I'll go back first!"

Zhao Xiaoliang, who drove over, didn't drink at night, he just ate vegetables and ate to his heart's content!

"Well, if you slow down on the road, I won't send it!"

Xia Jie nodded and said.

Zhao Xiaoliang came in a hurry and left in a hurry.

The small courtyard of the mountain village has regained its tranquility.

After packing up his things, Xia Jie went to look at the fermented tea leaves.

After five or six hours of fermentation, the young leaves are now red in color, and the petioles are bronze and exude a faint fruity aroma.

"Well, it's time to move on to the next step!"

In the live broadcast room that was opened, seeing that Xia Jie was actually busy again, the audience couldn't help shouting.

"Dalijie, are you tired, can you rest!"

"Yes, this just sent off a friend, and I'm busy making tea leaves?"

"Let's do it tomorrow, let's go sleep first and recuperate!"

"To be honest, I admire the protagonist a lot, and he is full of energy!"

"Tell us what you're going to do!"

"Craftsmen are really idle, and they have to stay up late at night!"

Xia Jie smiled and said, "Look, the tea leaves in this basket have been fermented, and they have to be dried quickly, so they can't be delayed!"

"Okay, Encyclopedia, let's talk about why it's dry!"

"That's right, where is the knowledge?"

"This question still needs to be asked, if it is not dry, it will not be broken!"

Hearing Xia Jie's words, many "children" asked questions.

Xia Jie raised three fingers and said: "The purpose of using high-temperature roasting to quickly evaporate the water in the leaves is threefold. ”

"The first is to use high temperature to quickly passivate the activity of enzymes in tea to avoid excessive fermentation. ”

"The second is to evaporate the water, reduce the volume, fix the shape, and maintain the dryness to prevent mildew. ”

"As for the third point, it emits most of the low-boiling grassy smell, intensifies and retains the high-boiling aromatic substances in the tea, so that you can harvest the unique sweet aroma of black tea. ”

"Yo, Encyclopedia can do it, I really said something about it. ”

"Understood, no wonder black tea is so delicious!"

"Haha, next time I have tea, I can also blow a wave with others!"

Everyone was chatting while watching Xia Jie work.

The earthen oven in the yard could play a role this time, Xia Jie lit the fire, and when the fire was hot, he put the bamboo strips containing the tea leaves.

"The drying of this black tea is different from the frying of green tea, which needs to be dried twice, and the emphasis is on 'high temperature hair fire, low temperature full fire'. ”

"The so-called high-temperature hair fire is to bake at a high temperature of more than 100 degrees, which can quickly inactivate oxidation and evaporate water. ”

With the experience of firing porcelain, Xia Jie was naturally able to judge the strength of the firepower and roughly guess the temperature inside.

This process takes a certain amount of time, so he is not in a hurry, makes a pot of tea, and waits while drinking.

After drinking a pot of tea, he took out a few tea leaves and looked at them, smelled them, and then said to the camera.

"Look, this tea leaves feel a little stingy when pinched by hand, but the leaves are still soft, and they will not be broken when folded, and the tea leaves can be loosened after letting go, and there is a mellow fragrance, basically the first drying is completed. ”

With that, he took out the bamboo strips and spread them out among the two bamboo strips.

"At the end of the first drying, we must cool the tea leaves first, and then dry them a second time, which is the trick to forming a unique aroma of 'flowers, fruits, and honey'. ”

"So if you want black tea to taste good, this step must be indispensable!"

With Xia Jie's words, there was a lot of discussion in the live broadcast room.

"Encyclopedia, I know everything you said, can you give me the tea you picked next time...... Oh no, sell me some and I'd like to try it!"

"Anchor, I heard you have to be the same as the real thing, but before I drank your tea, I was deeply skeptical about your tea-making level, do you dare to send it to me to taste?"

"As an old tea farmer, I can be sure that the anchor is an expert in tea making!"

"Little brother, I also like to drink black tea, especially bubble black tea, it tastes good!"

"I feel that Dali Jie is quite mysterious, but why is the iced tea I drink the same taste?"

After almost half an hour, Xia Jie lit the fire again and put the bamboo strips containing the tea leaves into it.

"This second time is a low-temperature full fire, the temperature of the full fire only needs to be about 80 degrees, but the drying time can be slightly longer, so that the tea can fully form the aroma and taste better. ”

Although it was not too early for this meeting, most of the audience in the live broadcast room did not leave, waiting to see the final result.

While waiting, Xia Jie took a pen and paper and drew a few insects.

After all, it's summer, and there are more bugs at night, such as moths, fireflies, spiders, and everywhere in the yard.

After finishing the painting, Xia Jie took out a few tea leaves again, and gently rubbed them with his hands, the tea leaves directly turned into powder, and exuded a strong tea fragrance.

"Oh yes! the second drying is over, and the hair tea is ready!"

Xia Jie said as he hurriedly took out the tea leaves.

"Look, this tea is beautiful!"

shook the bamboo strip under the camera, Xia Jie said happily.

"It's no problem for us to drink it ourselves, if it's a tea factory, we need to continue to carry out follow-up refining, further rectify and meticulous, separate grades, remove sundries, etc., after all, the price can be high!"

"This tea can't be damp, let's put it away quickly and taste it tomorrow!"

With that, Xia Jie took out the jar and put all the dried tea leaves into it.

Because from the beginning of picking, they are all done by themselves, so the quality of this batch of tea is very good, there are no impurities, and some fragments have been directly removed.

The birth of a pot of black tea was successfully completed!