The next morning, Mr. Wu's father-in-law, Master Sun, came as scheduled.

This old tea master during the Republic of China is almost old, and his legs and feet are not very neat, but he is still in good spirits.

He was joined by two of his apprentices, who brought a full set of tea-making tools in a cart.

These bamboo strips are made of dustpans, bamboo sieves, tea baskets, baking baskets, roasted tea handles, etc., which are glowing with golden oil, and you can see that they are old objects of some years at a glance.

Lu Yu, the "Tea Saint", recorded in the "Book of Tea" that there were as many as 24 kinds of tools used in tea affairs in the Tang Dynasty. It includes all kinds of tea utensils used in the whole process of tea making, tea cooking and tea drinking. Among them, Luo He may refer to the baking baskets and bamboo sieves used for roasting tea and drying tea.

All objects have their own uses, such as this dustpan, which can be used to hold freshly picked tea leaves and cool them down. The semi-finished green tea after finishing is spread in a large bamboo sieve that breathes up and down, which can quickly evaporate water vapor, emit green gas, and produce tea fragrance. The most important part of the stir-frying of Dabie Mountain green tea is called "pulling fire".

Whether it is a hair-pulling fire, a small fire, or an old fire, this kind of bamboo-woven baking basket is needed.

In addition to these roasting tea tools, Master Sun also had two truckloads of chestnut charcoal transported successively.

In the tea industry, Wang Shichuan is still a layman. What he didn't expect, the old tea master had prepared for him.

Master Sun doesn't seem to be like his son-in-law Lao Wu said, the old skill of roasting tea has been lost.

Roasting tea and making tea for the state-owned forest farms or the collective tea farms of the surrounding production teams every spring seems to be his main sideline in the era of large collectives.

All the food was still there, and as soon as someone invited him, the wooden cart was pulled and hit the road.

After a few pleasantries, Master Sun's two apprentices had already taken matters into their own hands and used ready-made pebbles to build two stone stoves needed to fry the greens. The chimney of the white iron cylinder used for exhausting cigarettes was also erected. Then a few bamboos were cut down, a shack was built for a personal frame, a canvas several zhang long and wide was spread, and a temporary workshop for roasting tea was built.

Secretary Lao Che brought more than a dozen master bricklayers and invited two women to help cook the rice.

The car teacher was almost late for class, and she brought news that more than 20 tea picking girls had already gone to work, in the wild tea forest on the other side of the back mountain canyon.

It is estimated that the first batch of newly picked tea herbs will be delivered by noon.

The things that were just discussed last night became a reality in a blink of an eye, which made Wang Shichuan, who had never done anything big, a little big.

The wages of more than 30 laborers a day is not a small amount, and with the various expenses during the period, it is estimated that all the money just earned is not enough to smash into it.

Wang Yuanchu had already seen his son's panic, and before class, he recruited Lao Wu, Lao Zhang, Xiao Che and Wang Shichuan together and held a temporary scheduling meeting.

"Second brother, picking tea in the mountains is different from doing farm work on your post, and it has no effect if you do it one day earlier or later. There are only a few days left in this year's tea picking season, and after this season, we will have to wait for the next year!

Looking at Wang Shichuan's nervous appearance, Teacher Xiao Che asked him very uneasily.

"No, no, there are so many things going on at once, I'm a little blind, hehe. ”

Wang Shichuan took off his shirt and wiped the sweat beads on his face, smiled bitterly at the car, and was ready to throw off his arms and do a big job.

"Don't worry! We've got you covered!

Teacher Xiao Che laughed happily, thinking that this Brother Wang was really temperamental, as cute as a child.

"Teacher Che is right, Gu Yu has been in the past four or five days, and this spring's good tea can be picked for three days at most, if you don't hurry, you can't do it. The house can be suspended, but this tea picking and tea making can't be delayed for a moment!"

Lao Wu added that what he said was also the truth.

"The people have already been invited, how can you let Secretary Che bring them back again! In this way, Lao Zhang, you are in charge of building the house, and there are not enough stones and wood for you to take the students to prepare! The car, you are responsible for the weighing and accounting of how much tea and grass you receive and how much expenditure you spend every day! Lao Wu, you will run errands for the food during the construction period, buy rice and oil, and you will also arrange it for Master Sun! Shichuan, you have to go back. It is estimated that you don't have enough money, and you have to prepare more than a dozen tea barrels, the kind that can be filled with 100 catties. Go back and tell Wei Lan that since you have recognized this way, don't be afraid to spend money! It's better to him vigorously than to make a small fuss!"

Trivial matters were imminent, and Mr. Wang Yuanchu arranged all the affairs in a few words.

The three teachers took over the task and hurried to ring the preparatory bell to prepare for class.

Wang Shichuan, together with the master bricklayers, invited Master Sun and Secretary Lao Che to come over and make a simple design for the house structure of this future tea factory.

According to Master Sun's experience, it is rainy and foggy in the mountains in spring, and the processes of new tea finishing and cooling, baking, sorting and storage, etc., have to be completed indoors many times. Therefore, the workshop for roasting tea does not need to be too high, but it must be ventilated and bright.

And for the rest of the year after the new tea season, this roasted tea workshop is also open to the public.

In addition, the daily operation of the tea factory should not affect the children's learning, at least half a mile away from the site of Hongshiwan Primary School.

There is a flat land next to the mountain path below Gakuda, which is overgrown with shrubs such as Yingshan red.

Every year, beekeepers come in from outside the mountains and plant hundreds of beehives there.

Now the rape flowers, apricot blossoms, and pear blossoms outside the mountain have long since withered, and the beekeepers have not yet entered the mountain, so it is estimated that they will not come here this year.

This piece of land is just right to build a tea factory, and the access of board cars and bicycles is convenient, and the building materials such as bamboo, wood, pebbles, and bluestone are also available, which can save a lot of manpower.

After obtaining the consent of the old car branch secretary, Wang Shichuan signed an indefinite lease agreement with the Hongshiwan Brigade, and the contract was written on a piece of cigarette box paper.

With a symbolic rent of 60 yuan per year, this mountain wasteland, which covers an area of more than 500 square meters, has been leased for a long time.

After the site selection and construction structure of the plant were arranged, it was almost noon.

The tea-picking girls carried green tea plants full of bamboo baskets and returned together on the continuous mountain road.

Everyone was sweating profusely, and the laughter and laughter along the way also made the originally misty mountains and fields become colorful all of a sudden.

"Boss Wang, call me tea grass first!"

"Brother Wang, will you give us cash?"

The teacher must have already introduced the car in the morning, and these girls surrounded Wang Shichuan as if they saw the God of Wealth, scrambling to let him weigh his own tea herbs first.

"Girls, Mr. Che is in charge of the scales, the car, the car!"

The young woman in the mountains was simple and enthusiastic, Wang Shichuan, a farmer, had never seen this kind of scene, and he was overwhelmed for a while, and he called out to the car and begged her to relieve the siege.

"Kasumi, Lanzi! Don't crowd here! Come one by one in order! Do you still want to eat lunch!"

The trolley stood on a high place with a rod scale, and couldn't help but laugh when he saw Wang Shichuan so embarrassed.

The girls quieted down, unloaded the bamboo baskets behind their shoulders, lined up according to the requirements of the trolley, and waited for the scales to be passed.

"All the big sisters and sisters! Today is the first order of our tea factory, and all of them are not on credit! Hahaha! After passing the scales and keeping accounts at Mr. Che's side, you can come to my side to receive the money!"

Wang Shichuan held a black leather bag and gave an enthusiastic speech, and finally found a little bit of the feeling of being a boss.

These tea picking girls and daughters-in-law in the mountains must be working for the first time in their lives to earn money. So after listening to Wang Shichuan's preaching, they all cheered happily.

Wang Shichuan no longer interfered with the cart to collect tea and grass, and sat down on the tea table in the temporary shed, ready to pay.

Master Sun checked the color and quality of the tea herbs in each bamboo basket one by one, and returned to the shed with a dry tobacco bag.

"Xiao Wang, these tea herbs are good, they can produce good tea. We are surrounded by reservoirs in Hongshi Bay, the fog water is more and the temperature is moderate, and these wild tea herbs are still very tender, no worse than after Qingming!"

Master Sun knocked on the cigarette pouch on the leg of the bench and said confidently to Wang Shichuan.

"Uncle Sun, you are always an expert! I am relieved to have your words!"

With the affirmation of the old tea master, Wang Shichuan was very happy and respectfully handed Master Sun a cigarette.

He was also worried that the best solar term for tea picking had passed, and he would be able to make good tea with value.

"If you want to eat big tea and rice in the tea industry, you can't have a well-known name. Before the liberation, there were more than a dozen tea shops on Mabu Street. The owner of my helper, who has been operating Jiangbei Luosong tea for generations, was also called Lu'anzhou melon slice tea after the Republic of China, and there are several branches in Nanjing and Wuhan. The state-run tea farm on the other side of Flower Ridge used to be theirs. ”

Master Sun is also an old man in the tea industry, and he knows more things than Wang Shichuan has walked, so every suggestion he puts forward can hit the nail on the head.

The same melon slice green tea, outer camellia and inner camellia are not on the same level. And the same inner mountain tea, the green tea produced in different mountains is also different.

For laymen who don't understand tea, it is difficult to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages from the quality alone.

Therefore, although the name of the hall suggested by Master Sun, although it is still an old tradition of the old era, it is already very advanced in the era when there was no trademark awareness in the early days of reform and opening up, and it also gave Wang Shichuan a great inspiration.

The first time I practiced stalls at the farmers' free market on Sanli Street, those uncles and aunts who bought tea must have gone for his geographical indication of "Red Rock Bay".

Without the words "Red Rock Bay", tea would definitely not be sold so quickly, and it would not be sold at such a high price.

"Uncle Sun, you're really on point! What do you think our tea will be famous for in the future?"

Wang Shichuan was ready to apprentice, and took out all the two packs of paper cigarettes left in the leather bag to Master Sun, and the old tea master also unceremoniously put them in his coat pocket.

"Now Lu'an melon slices are the most up-to-date, our tea is called Hongshiwan melon slices green tea!"

"Master, can you fry the melon slice tea?"

Wang Shichuan also knew that the locally produced melon slice tea was one of the top ten famous teas in China, but he was still a little skeptical of Master Sun's craftsmanship.

"The Jiangbei bee wings that I fried for decades when I was young are now this melon slice tea! You still ask me if I can fry them! Hahaha!"

Master Sun grinned with a few teeth left and laughed disdainfully.

"This apprentice of mine has eyes and does not know Mount Tai! In the future, this tea factory will depend on you! I am responsible for selling tea, and you are responsible for making tea!"

"What about me, what will I do in the future?"

The tea herbs on Mr. Car's side had already been weighed, and seeing that Wang Shichuan was getting close to Master Sun, he also happily stepped forward to ask.

"Mr. Che is a cultural person, so he is the shopkeeper of our Hongshiwan Tea Factory, and Xiao Wang is the owner of the Tea Factory!"

Of course, Wang Shichuan does not have the consciousness of the shareholding system, and is thinking about what position to arrange for Mr. Xiaoche.

Master Sun has given Mr. Xiaoche the position of "shopkeeper" in accordance with the administrative structure system of the tea house in the old society.

The proprietor and the shopkeeper are actually the relationship between the investor and the professional manager under the modern enterprise system.

"It's Xiao Wang who is the secretary of the brigade, and Xiao Che, you will be the captain of our tea factory in the future! The captain wants to listen to the secretary! Hahaha!"

Seeing that Wang Shichuan and Teacher Xiao Che were still confused, Master Sun smiled happily like an old naughty child.

These two young people in the mountains who have never seen much of the world finally understand.