The canvas roof of the makeshift roasting shed has been lifted and laid out on the grass next to it, which is piled with finished tea grass.

"I'm back, hehe. There's no place to put the tea grass and you can't pull the fire, so I'm waiting for these foreign iron buckets for you!"

Master Sun was very happy to see Wang Shichuan return as scheduled, handed over the roasted tea handle in his hand to the apprentice to greet him, slapped the barrels and cans in the bamboo basket with satisfaction, and smiled at the two.

"Master Sun, my eldest nephew Wang Jiajun, you just need to call him Junzi in the future!"

After eagerly setting up the bicycle and introducing the two, Wang Shichuan went straight to the tea grass all over the ground, picked up a handful and sniffed greedily.

"Master Sun, this tea is so fragrant! You can smell it half a mile away! Hahaha!"

Wang Shichuan, who is still a layman, stood up with satisfaction, and the only criterion for evaluating the quality of new tea is whether it is fragrant or not.

The day before yesterday, we stir-fried more than 1,000 catties of tea herbs, all of which were here, and our master and apprentice didn't close their eyes for two nights before they finished it. Soon the tea herbs are back, and it's going to have to be all night tonight. Your uncles and nephews don't want to go back today, help us take a hand! The roasted tea season in the mountains is like a "double robbery" on your post, and you can't delay for a moment, and the newly picked tea grass must be finished immediately, and it will be useless if you delay it overnight, hehe. ”

Master Sun was lying on his back with a tired face, and his black vest had been soaked with sweat. He compared the roasted tea season to the "double grab" of grabbing early rice and planting late rice, and Wang Shichuan understood it as soon as he heard it.

The freshly harvested grass was left overnight and the buffalo would not eat it, let alone the tea leaves.

"You're tired! I've been here all this day until the house below is built. If there's anything you want me to do, just tell me!"

Wang Shichuan was busy handing cigarettes to Master Sun, and he was very moved by the professionalism of the old tea master.

This large pile of green tea is only a hundred and ten yuan for Master Sun, but it is half of his belongings Wang Shichuan and Wei Lan!

"I don't have much to do in this stall, it's just that there is a shortage of manpower for this day and tomorrow. The process of pulling the fire in the back is slow and meticulous, and the apprentices who have been in the past three years can only operate it, and you outsiders will help more and more messy, hehe. ”

Master Sun lit a cigarette tremblingly, and his hands were full of the color and fragrance of tea herbs.

"The outer mountain tea is out of season, and you are still picking tea in the inner mountain! Master Sun, you are frying big-leaf tea, right?"

The army sells timber and bamboo all the year round in the various mountains, and knows a little about tea, the young man picked up a few leaves and chewed them in his mouth, and asked the old tea master with interest.

One dollar and one pound of large-leaf tea, the second uncle Wang Shichuan is still so excited, he feels that the gains outweigh the losses.

"Young master, you can't talk nonsense, hehe. This year's spring is cold, and the tea trees in the inner mountains before and after the Qingming Festival have budded, so this spring's tea picking season has been postponed for half a month. We have never made big-leaf tea in Hongshiwan, and these tea herbs from your second uncle are the top green tea in Dabie Mountain!"

Master Sun patted Junzi on the shoulder and smiled kindly, so he didn't blame him for having eyes and not knowing Mount Tai.

As an expert-level roasted tea master in the area of Red Rock Bay, the cloudy green tea fried by himself is regarded as the lowest grade of large-leaf tea, which is a bit too much.

"Hehe, I don't know tea and don't drink tea! The melon slices in the bat cave and the big-leaf tea in the outer mountains are all the same taste for me!"

Junzi was very alert, and he had already sensed the unhappiness of the old tea master, so he quickly touched his head and smiled innocently.

"The market price of the tea fried by Master Sun is at least fifteen yuan upward! Big leaf tea! Your second aunt won't hammer you to death when she hears it!"

The layman's nephew's remarks also made Wang Shichuan break out in a cold sweat, if the people in the bazaar can't tell the difference between good tea and bad tea like Junzi, and they also regard the top melon slices as old coarse tea, he won't have to wear the pants that he can lose for this deal.

"Erda, I'm just talking casually, you guys are still serious!"

Seeing the appearance of the second uncle as if he was facing a great enemy, Junzi couldn't help but burst into laughter.

He also knew that the business had just opened, and he should talk a lot about it, and he couldn't put forks around anymore.

A few crisp bells, the time to end school at noon came, the schoolchildren passed by in twos and threes, and the teacher also held the textbook and chalk box, and went straight to this side.

"Second brother, you're finally here! I've been exhausted to death these days!"

It has been almost three days since Wang Shichuan left Hongshi Bay in the blink of an eye, and every day he has to take care of classes, collect tea grass and call tea grass, and keep accounts to pay wages, which really makes the car teacher tired enough, so seeing them is like seeing a savior.

After shouting, I found that Wang Shichuan was standing next to a young man who was the same age as her, and he was looking at him with very special eyes, and the car couldn't help blushing.

"My nephew Wang Jiajun, the son of the army. There were a lot of things back and forth this time, and he came with me to help me out. This is Mr. Che!"

"Hello Mr. Che!"

After listening to the introduction of the second uncle, Junzi greeted the car enthusiastically.

Over the years, walking around the various markets in and out of the mountains, meeting all kinds of people, etc., his face has already been thicker than the door panel.

Especially seeing the beautiful girl with a little bookish atmosphere of Teacher Xiaoche, his eyes lit up.

A serious initiative to talk, but the wild heart turned upside down.

"Hehe, the second brother's nephews are so old!"

Teacher Xiaoche was amused by Junzi, and he didn't know how to reply to him for a while, so he turned to Wang Shichuan and smiled.

"But it's not! I told you when I first came, don't call me second brother, you should call me second uncle, you still don't believe it!"

The ambiguity and attraction between eighteen or nineteen-year-old young men and women, Wang Shichuan is a person who has come over, and he can perceive it by looking at the eyes of the two people.

He took advantage of the situation to raise his rank, and smiled and asked the teacher to call him uncle.

"It looks like I'm going to have to change my mind in the future!

Xiaoche still didn't talk directly to Junzi, and continued to talk to Wang Shichuan.

The soldier was left to the side and felt bored, so he turned around and went to the edge of the stone pile not far away, sat there steadily, lit a cigarette and swallowed the clouds and spitted out the fog very leisurely.

Under the cover of scattered smoke clouds, he unscrupulously admired the beautiful car teacher.

Her smiling eyes, her voice, and her black hair fluttering in the spring breeze all fascinated this peasant boy, and the wife of his dreams should be like this.

After the children scattered after school, they laughed all the way to tea songs, and the girls who picked tea finally returned.

"Second uncle! Today is the last day of tea picking, you give them the morning's wages to settle the money! Junzi! You can use a rod scale, right? You will collect the tea grass in a while, and you will be responsible for the scales! I will keep the accounts!"

There are two big men next to him, and I don't want to wait for a while!

Teacher Xiaoche really changed his name to Wang Shichuan, and unceremoniously called out to Junzi and sent him an errand to pass the scales.

"Okay!"

Hearing the car shouting to himself, Junzi was flattered, jumped up from the pile of stones, threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and ran over.

The crowd of people delivering tea and grass has gathered around the shed, and there are more than 50 people in a dense group, which is double the number at the beginning.

"Why are there so many people today?" Wang Shichuan looked at the crowd and asked the car teacher in surprise.

"Master Sun listened to the radio about the high temperature tomorrow, and this year's tea picking season is the last day, so he asked me to hire more people!"

The teacher replied, shouting for everyone to line up and come one by one in order.

Junzi is a businessman, and the rod scale is quite easy to use. The scale hook hangs up the back basket full of tea grass, lifts it up and pulls it in three or two and it is done.

The gross weight is removed from the weight of the bamboo basket, which is the net weight of a basket of tea grass.

The weighed tea grass was poured into the large dustpan next to it, and he turned around and reported the number to the trolley, and the whole process was completed in one go.

After half an hour's effort, all the tea herbs were weighed, and the dustpans brought by Master Sun were not enough, and the rest were all poured on the open space on the side.

A total of more than 600 catties, plus another time in the evening, the tea herbs purchased all day today can be fried into 300 catties of new tea.

Wang Shichuan was a little disappointed, he didn't expect that he only enjoyed the tea picking season in Hongshi Bay for three days, and it ended so soon. The collected tea herbs can only fry 600 catties of new tea at most, and after removing all kinds of capital costs and dividends from Hongshiwan Primary School, there is not much money left.

"Xiao Wang, are you worried that there is not enough tea? In our Hongshi Bay, as well as the nearby Huahuaping, Chapodian, and Shimenchong, every household picks tea to make tea, and also knows how to store tea. In the past, I would go to the big market outside the mountain during the New Year's festival to exchange some pocket money to buy oil and salt. After the tea factory is built, we will publicize and go out to buy it openly, and we will receive as many tea goods as possible, but I am afraid that you will not have a market at that time! These loose tea from the mountain people will be collected and pulled over the old fire, and it will be no different from new tea!"

Seeing that Wang Shichuan didn't have much joy when he looked at the tea grass, but sighed, Master Sun had already understood the reason, so he comforted him.

"Then I'll rest assured, I have invested so much money into it and only have such a little tea, and I will lose a lot of money this year! The daughter-in-law of the family will definitely fight with me! Hahaha!"

After listening to Master Sun's introduction, a stone in Wang Shichuan's heart fell to the ground, and his promise to his daughter-in-law Wei Lan was 4,000 yuan in cash for 1,000 catties of new tea, which seems to be able to be exceeded this year.

After this busy time, it is indeed necessary to plan for the big things in sales.

He, a farmer, is still a half-headed paste, and he thinks that he will be a little big in the future, so let's take one step at a time.

Fortunately, it was a golden age of entrepreneurship, and the vast majority of people who crossed the river by feeling the stones finally found their own Yangguan Avenue.