Chapter 26: Tea
"Beat pigweed," Liu Xiangxiang looked at her inexplicably, and Liu Tiantian, who was carrying a bamboo basket next to her, also looked strange, and she also had a sickle tied to her calf.
Only then did she react, every day after school, Liu Tiantian and Liu Xiangxiang were responsible for going to the mountains to hunt pigweed and cut wild vegetables, and the pigs, chickens and ducks at home were waiting to eat.
She hadn't done any of this work when she was a child, so she didn't remember it at all, and she was very unfamiliar with the scythe in their hands.
"Ahem, cough, cough," Liu coughed dryly, Liu Tiantian and Liu Xiangxiang were several years younger than her, the generation gap was like a trench, she never cared about what they usually did after school, and even they almost didn't remember that they were going to hunt pigweed, "I didn't expect you to tie the sickle to your calf, how dangerous it is!"
"It's convenient. Liu Shangxiang smiled.
When they spoke, Liu Tiantian had already started to cut it with a sickle, there are not many wild vegetables here, and they should have just been cut, but there are a lot of pigweed.
People who can have the strength to help the production team raise pigs, there are not a few households in the entire Damu production team, so few people play pigweed.
Although Liu Xiangxiang is young, he is very skinny, and he has not done this kind of digging roots, so under Liu Hao's instructions, it only took three or two efforts to dig out such a large clump of thunder vine.
Liu Hao let him cut off the roots, sat on the side, carefully shaved the skin on the roots, the skin of Tripterygium wilfordii is extremely toxic, so it is usually used to cut off the roots of the skin, after she dealt with it, she found that such a large clump of Tripterygium wilfordii really used roots are not much.
When they were busy, Liu Tiantian had completed today's task, the basket was full of pigweed, feeding the pigs was more than enough, so they picked wild flowers and made garlands on the side to play, it was spring when the flowers were in full bloom, and there were a lot of small wildflowers of all kinds in the grass, although they were inconspicuous, but they were also very beautiful to gather into a bunch.
Liu Tiantian loves beauty, wears a wreath on his head, and looks left and right at the stream.
"Let's stick the branches diagonally into the soil, and maybe after a while, this thunder vine will still be alive. She beckoned Liu to cut the branches obliquely upwards and cut a lot of thunder vines, "But whether you live or not depends on their creation, let it be." β
Several people tossed at the foot of the mountain for a while, seeing that the sun was setting and it was almost time to get off work, Liu Haohao hurriedly took the two of them to hurry home.
When he got home, the smoke was curling, and Liu Xuexue had already returned home and was busy on the stove.
Twice in a row, Liu Hao felt ashamed, but Liu Xue didn't feel anything wrong, these housework has always been done by her, she didn't take Liu Haohao's previous promise seriously, and when she saw that they were sweating, she beckoned them to come over for tea.
Liu Xuexue is busy boiling water as soon as he arrives at home on weekdays, and he brews a big teapot of tea after a little cooling, people in Southern Province love tea, regardless of men, women, children and every household has the habit of drinking tea, even in this era of poor materials, it can not change this habit, the geographical conditions of Damu Village are not good, and it can not produce any famous tea, but it still planted a large tea forest on the mountain, in addition to the tea leaves of the commune, there is almost half of the residual coarse tea left, and the production team will divide it by itself, the Liu family is a family with a head and face in the village, and the tea received by two harvests a year is three or four catties, which is enough for a family to drink for a yearγ
Of course, every time Liu Xue brews tea, he only dares to take a small handful, brew a large pot of tea, and can only drink a faint tea to quench his thirst, and only when Liu Changsheng goes out every night at home, he is qualified to drink a few sips of strong tea from the teapot left by Liu Dali.
For people who are used to drinking tea, even if they drink strong tea at night, there is no danger of not being able to sleep, anyway, Liu Changsheng slept at night as soon as he touched the bed, and his snoring was earth-shattering.
Liu Hao Hao was a little curious about the tea here, so he reached into the tea jar and took a pinch out to look at it, smelled it again, and threw it back tastelessly, it was really not a good tea, but it was the most ordinary green tea, which should be fried at home, the quality of the tea tree was not good, and the frying skills were not good, it could really only be regarded as coarse tea.
And this year's new tea has not yet come out, and this is also an old tea that has been put for a year, so I can only barely drink a tea taste.
In her previous life, she often came into contact with tea on various occasions, and she was also very delicate in drinking tea, different tea leaves had to be matched with different tea utensils and brewing techniques, and even the water used to make tea was very exquisite.
Some of her friends got the kind of good tea that is hard to find, and often invited her to taste tea together, and tinkered with a whole set of mysterious and mysterious tea tasting rituals, so I am afraid that there are not many good teas in this world that she has not drunk, so in the tea road, although she is not an expert, she can also be regarded as a "jingling" half a bucket of water.
"Study, remember to pour out the first water the next time you make tea. She said casually, tea trees are prone to insects, there are pesticides in this era, but there is no concept of environmental protection, the production team desperately sprays pesticides on tea trees to improve yield, and the pesticide residues of these teas definitely exceed the standards after decades.
Liu Changsheng and Cheng Zhaodi came back several times, with a strong smell of highly toxic pesticides.
But there is no way to do it, in this era when there is not enough to eat, the importance of production is far greater than quality, and in the face of the big problem of hunger, all organic food can be thrown to Java.
"Why?" Liu Xuexue looked strange, there were few tea leaves used to make tea, if the first water was poured out, what would it taste like just a little tea?
"Pesticides, have you forgotten that Daddy was spraying pesticides on the tea mountain a while ago? Those pesticides are highly toxic, didn't a daughter-in-law in the next village just drink pesticides to find a short look? She regretted just drinking it, and as a result, she was immediately sent to the hospital or was not saved, which shows how toxic this pesticide is. This pesticide is also toxic to stay on the tea, we drink it every day, and the pesticide has been left in our stomachs, accumulating over time, and one day it will be poisoned. She's exaggerating, but she's not alarmist.
Liu Xuexue was really frightened, and looked at the tea as if he was looking at pesticides, "Is it useful to pour out the first water?"
"Of course it works, the pesticides on the tea will dissolve in boiling water, and 90 percent of the residual pesticides will be in this first water, and if you pour it, the second one will be safe. Liu Haohao also has the habit of drinking tea, but she doesn't want to drink this kind of tea with high pesticide residues all the time to poison her body, and for the sake of her own happy life, she must reverse their concept.