A few green leaves with morning dew, and three or five pink, slightly fragrant peach blossoms, adorn the delicate dinner plate, and in the middle of the plate are placed two small peach blossom cakes. A chic crystal pot holds Shili Taoyuan's special peach blossom brew - this is the breakfast prepared by Shili Taoyuan for guests.

It can be said that the operators of Shili Taoyuan are not careless, and they have created a back-to-basics atmosphere for guests from breakfast. Away from the hustle and bustle of the city, the feeling of retreating to the mountains and forests is what many office workers yearn for.

However, for Zhong Lin, the two pieces of peach blossom cake on that plate were too miniature for him! not enough for him to stuff his teeth, let alone fill his stomach. But in this place, you can't ask for another seven or eight plates to eat in order to fill your stomach, because that would be purely stretching your neck for people to slaughter. The money for the two peach blossom cakes here is estimated to be enough to buy breakfast for two days outside, and the most important thing is that the peach blossom cake is pleasant if you eat a little, and you will be tired of eating too much, and you can't eat enough at all!

After eating the two peach blossom cakes and drinking some peach blossom stuff, Zhong Lin walked out of the cabin. At this time, he found that there were more than a dozen young people living here like him, some of them were busy taking selfies in Taoyuan and posting on Moments, some were talking on the phone with couples, telling about the "pain of parting", and some even put on ancient costumes, what "Yehua", what "Emperor Donghua", and played cosplay......

Zhong Lin quickly broke away from the "troops" and said that he couldn't say that he could "meet" Li Xingyue on the first day! He directly climbed over a small hill and went straight to the edge of the ten-mile peach orchard. He remembered that when he first arrived at Shili Taoyuan yesterday, he saw some shops along the road, which seemed to be farmhouses run by surrounding villagers. The reason why I went there was to avoid Li Xingyue, and secondly, to fill my stomach.

Sure enough, as Zhong Lin expected, several local "indigenous" farmhouses were sold early. Zhong Lin chose a store that looked relatively clean and walked in. There weren't many people who ate breakfast, counting Zhong Lin's total of three guests, Zhong Lin ordered a bowl of millet porridge and two baskets of xiaolongbao, it seemed that these could be called real breakfasts......

"Boss, your peach blossom brew here is good, much better than the one in the ten-mile peach orchard!" said a young man who looked to be in his twenties who was eating breakfast.

"Yo, young man, have you tasted it?" said a middle-aged man in his forties with a smile.

"Our family is from Shaoxing, and our ancestors have made a living by making rice wine for generations, and I know how good or bad the general rice wine is as long as I smell it, which is a skill that I have practiced since childhood. The young man said with some pride.

"Hey, I didn't expect you to be young, or a connoisseur, today I also met a bosom friend, our family to make this peach blossom brew is also an old craft, as the saying goes, rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, rely on the water to draft, our family is relying on this ten miles of peach orchard, made a few lifetimes of peach blossom brewing......" The boss is very talkative, talking about his own peach blossom brew, it is called a gushing ah, and the eyebrows are crooked.

"Boss, listen to what you say, this peach blossom brew is much more elaborate than our rice wine!" the young man also did not hesitate to praise.

"Each has its own characteristics, peach blossom brewing is good water, good flowers, good craftsmanship, all three are indispensable, my ancestral good craftsmanship needless to say, the water is the mountain spring water, cool and sweet, the peach blossoms selected are also the flowers of the old peach trees that have grown on the mountain for decades, to say that the peach trees in the peach orchard of this ten miles are different from the peach trees in other places, the peach blossom period here is particularly long, the flowers are thick, and the fragrance is extraordinary......" The boss said, suddenly stopped, and a trace of sadness appeared on his face.

Zhong Lin had already finished breakfast at this moment, tasting the peach blossom brew that the guy poured for him, watching the boss and the young man talk, he naturally saw the change in the boss's expression. I thought to myself, looking at this boss is sentimental, is he a person with a story?

"Why is the boss still sentimental, haha......" the young man said with a smile.

"Hey, what's so sentimental, it's long past that age, I'm really worried, there are fewer and fewer peach blossoms that can be used in the back mountain, and the last peach forest that is decades old will be auctioned today, it is estimated that it won't be long before I can no longer make such a good peach blossom brew......"

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly, then looked at the young man, Zhong Lin and another guest and said, "You eat slowly, drink slowly, I want to go to the auction site to take a look and see if I can take a picture of that peach forest." ”

"There is such a thing, boss, I will follow you to join in the fun. The young man said.

Zhong Lin also stood up, he was not a person who liked to join in the fun, but he thought that there was no place to go, so he simply followed them to have a look, because the peach forest to be auctioned was definitely undeveloped, so the biggest advantage was that he would definitely not run into Li Xingyue.

"Boss, I'll go with you to see the excitement too. Zhong Lin also said.

The boss was naturally very happy to see that two young people of the same age as his son were going to accompany him. The three of them walked out of the farmhouse one after another and walked towards the back mountain under the leadership of the owner of the farmhouse.

The young man's name is Cao Dazhuang, a native of Shaoxing, and the owner of the farmhouse is called Lu Shouyi, a native of Shaoxing.

When walking through a small hillside, Lu Shouyi pointed to a peach grove in front of him and said regretfully: "Look at this peach forest, the peach trees in it are all decades old, and the location of the ground is excellent, and the wind and water are good, and the peach blossoms from these peach trees are also excellent for making peach blossom brew! It's a pity! Now that all of them have been bought by the islanders, this peach forest has been ruined......

"How can they sell it to the islanders? Do they also make peach blossom brew?" Cao Dazhuang asked.

Lu Shouyi looked at Cao Dazhuang, sighed and said: "Hey, foreign monks are good at chanting! And if they also make peach blossom brewing, no matter how good or bad they do, I will not say that this peach forest is ruined, the key is that they don't make peach blossom brewing at all, they wait all day long for those peach trees to be struck by thunder......

After Zhong Lin listened to Lu Shouyi's words, he couldn't help but feel moved in his heart. Waiting to be struck by lightning, do they want to thunder peachwood!

"Ah?!And this thing, there is a hole in the heads of the island people!" Cao Dazhuang said inexplicably.

"Do they want to thunder the wood?" Zhong Lin asked tentatively.

"Young man, do you know this thunder splitting wood? That's right, as long as there is a thunderbolt that hits the peach tree, they are like picking up a treasure, do you know what this thunder splitting wood is for?" Lu Shouyi looked at Zhong Lin and asked.

"Thunder splitting peach wood is said to be used to ward off disasters and evil spirits, so it is sought after. Zhong Lin said.

"Hey, it's really a tyrannical thing, but what you said, it reminds me that last year there was a hundred-year-old peach tree in my friend's peach grove that was struck by lightning, and he thought it was a pity at the time, but what he didn't expect was that two islanders came to the door that day to buy the peach tree that was struck by lightning with him. My friend is very shrewd, a black wood that has been struck by lightning has been sold by him for three times the price of the peach tree......" Lu Shouyi said, with a puzzled look on his face.

Zhong Lin said secretly: "If it is really a thunder splitting peach tree, not to mention three times the price of the original peach tree, a whole peach forest can be bought." ”

"Hey, now most of the peach forests have been bought by the islanders, and the only remaining peach trees in the hands of the villagers will also be auctioned today, one of which is the friend's house I said, and the peach blossoms, the most important raw material in my peach blossom brewing, are picked from the peach grove on his side. If the peach grove is taken away by the islanders today, then the peach blossom brew you drink in my store today is probably the last jar of my home brew......"

Lu Shouyi was inevitably a little sad when he said this, and it can be seen that he had already realized that he might just go to the auction today to make soy sauce in the end.

"Boss Lu, how much does a peach tree like this cost?" Zhong Lin said, pointing to a peach grove of about ten acres beside him.

"This piece, this piece may not be worth much, because the age of the tree is relatively short, and the location in the field is not particularly good, it is estimated that it will be about 200,000 yuan after 20 years of contracting. Lu Shouyi said.

"It's so cheap!" Before Zhong Lin could speak, Cao Dazhuang said.

"What, young man, are you going to take a picture of a peach forest too?" Lu Shouyi asked as he looked at Zhong Lin.

"I don't have that much money, so let's just look at the excitement. Zhong Lin said with a smile.

"I want to take a picture, to a certain extent, we can be regarded as peers! When the time comes, Boss Lu, I will join forces with you to let your ancestral craftsmanship be passed on......" Cao Dazhuang is a straightforward person, and it can be seen that he is not saying this on a whim, let alone joking.

"Ancestral craftsmanship?!Hey, how many ancestral crafts have been lost in my Huaxia for various reasons......" Even though Cao Dazhuang had already said so heroically, Lu Shouyi still didn't seem to have the slightest confidence.