Seeing Ling Zikai's look of admiration, Old Man Tong's eyes showed a hint of self-satisfaction, and he said with a smile: "Brother Ling, I don't know if you can taste the origin of this tea?"

Ling Zikai understood that the other party was here to study what he meant.

Broadly speaking, tea can be divided into several categories, such as green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea, dark tea, and flower tea. However, each type of tea has different tea names because of its different origins and production techniques.

In addition to those professionals who study tea ceremony culture, even if they usually like to drink tea, make him a cup of unknown tea, let him taste it and tell the origin of the tea, I am afraid that few people can answer. What's more, for Ling Zikai, he usually drinks tea completely to quench his thirst, and there is no Yaxing who tastes tea at all.

Ling Zikai glanced at Old Man Tong, and from the smiling face, he couldn't see that he deliberately wanted to make things difficult for himself, probably just to suppress his sharpness, and secretly felt a little funny in his heart.

If it had been before, I would have been stumped. But Old Man Tong would never have expected that he had not only drunk this kind of tea he brewed, but also hid a small jar in the Yunhai Forest Farm.

Isn't it made by my father after picking it from some unknown wild tree in the mountains?

Because this wild tea contains a trace of life element qi, I am very impressed, and I want to develop this wild tea as the company's future industry!

Ling Zikai deliberately held the teacup and drank all the tea in the cup, then frowned, sighed and said, "Old man, this question of yours has stumped me. For me, the main purpose of drinking tea is to quench my thirst, and I don't know what to appreciate! Your tea does taste quite fragrant, and it has a cool smell, somewhat similar to the mints I used to eat when I was a child. “

Hearing Ling Zikai compare the tea he brewed with mints, Old Man Tong was stunned for a moment, and then felt a little crying and laughing, and was just about to open it, when he suddenly heard Ling Zikai say again: "However, I seem to have drunk this tea once before!"

"You've drunk this tea before!" Old Man Tong was a little incredulous when he heard this, and blurted out: "Are you sure it's exactly the same as the tea you drink now?

Ling Zikai pretended to be thinking hard, and after a long time, he slapped his thigh and said, "By the way, I remember! Last time when the forest farm was relocated, I turned out a small jar in the cabinet, and after seeing that it contained some tea leaves, I brewed a cup, and it tasted like this!"

"Do you know where it comes from?"

"I heard that my father picked it from the mountains, and I don't know what kind of leaves from the tree were used as tea leaves!" Ling Zikai said disapprovingly.

"Do you still have those teas?" Old Man Tong's tone was a little eager.

Ling Zikai shook his head and said, "At that time, I saw that those tea leaves were a little damp, and if I put them down, they would definitely become moldy, so I threw them all away!"

"Oh, it's a pity, it's a pity!" Old Man Tong said with some sadness: "Brother Ling, you are ruining the heavens!"

Ling Zikai said disapprenousively: "Old man, isn't it just some wild tea, just throw it away! It's a big deal to go to the mountains and pick some back." I won't make you so sad all the time!"

"Hey, how can I tell you!" Old Man Tong said with some hatred: "Brother Ling, you have been thinking about picking that tea again in your life." ”

"Why?" Ling Zikai asked puzzled.

Old Man Tong sighed and said, "Brother Ling, I don't even know how to explain it to you! The tea you just drank is not the same thing as the green tea and black tea we usually drink! In the strict sense, it can't be said to be tea leaves, because it's not picked from the tree?"

"Old man, you've confused me by what you're saying! If the leaves weren't plucked from the tree, could they still be dug out of the soil?"

"It's not dug out of the ground, but it's not much worse!"

This time, Ling Zikai didn't ask again, but looked at Old Man Tong quietly, waiting for him to explain.

"Judging from Brother Ling's accent, you should be a southerner, right?"

Ling Zikai nodded.

"Since you are from the south, you must be familiar with bamboo shoots! These are bamboo shoots that grow out of the soil, and they are delicious and delicious in the dish. After the bamboo shoots break the ground, they become bamboo, although they are the same plant, they are not the same in nature, bamboo shoots are bamboo shoots, and bamboo is bamboo. Can bamboo shoots be eaten, but can bamboo be eaten too?

In other words, the tea I brew is also taken from the part of the mountain where an unknown plant grows underground. It should be some of the spiny buds that grow from the rhizomes of that plant. These buds look exactly like the buds on a tea tree. The older generation called it "dragon bud".

This kind of dragon bud is very rare, even those mountain guests who live in the mountains all the year round, they can rarely encounter it once in a lifetime, and they are more fortunate than the opportunity to pick a century-old mountain ginseng.

To paraphrase the old saying, it is impossible to meet but not to find.

The reason why it is rare is that dragon buds grow very slowly, it is said that only one bud grows a year, and only after ninety-nine buds have grown, it will break through the soil. After breaking the ground, it is like a flash in the pan, and in a few months, after flowering and fruiting, it will wither and die.

Because its growth cycle is almost entirely underground, it can only be found in the months after breaking the ground.

Normally, even if you step over where it grows, you won't know that a dragon bud will grow in the soil beneath your feet.

Of course, another way to find dragon sprouts is to wait for the rabbit. In other words, in the area where the dragon sprout was last discovered, there will definitely be dragon sprouts growing underground, as long as you stay there, and when it breaks the ground, you will be able to find it.

But it takes decades or even hundreds of years for a dragon bud to break the ground from birth, and who can keep this long process? Besides, how long can a person live in this life?"

When Old Man Tong said this, he let out a leisurely sigh!