In late autumn, after a few autumn rains, the already empty monastery became more and more desolate against the backdrop of dead leaves. Together with the bleak autumn wind, the bone-chilling chill accompanied by the heavy and solemn chanting sound penetrated directly into people's hearts, and they were in a trance.

Autumn at Longgai Temple is like this every year, and the people who live here have long been accustomed to it, and they are no longer willing to waste their time admiring this desolate scenery with a sad mood, except for the little man who likes to talk to the trees.

He was an orphan entrusted by Jigong to the Li family for adoption, and later because the Li family was homesick, they decided to move back with their family, not wanting him to suffer on the road, so he returned to Jigong's side. Ji Gong has always liked him very much, so after he came back, Ji Gong took great pains to take the "gradual" hexagram with "Yi", named him Lu Yu, and took the word Hongchuan, hoping that his future road will be a thoroughfare in all directions.

Although he was loved by Ji Gong, this little man never liked this empty and lonely temple. He was reluctant to play with the little monks who only ate fasting and chanted Buddha, because they didn't tell a lot of vivid and interesting stories like his sister. He was also reluctant to communicate with Ji Gong, because as long as he was around Ji Gong, he was either making tea for him, or listening to him talk about things related to scriptures while making tea.

He doesn't like Buddhism, but he has a soft spot for Confucianism, and he doesn't like to make tea for Jigong, but he is quite interested in tea culture.

Such contradictory thoughts filled the little one with his thoughts, but it seemed that only the little tea tree could listen to him in the whole temple. So when he is happy, he has to say a few words to this tea tree, and when he is scolded, he has to come here to cry with it. In short, everything that happened around him, whenever he was free, he would run to the tree and talk to it.

His action attracted the attention of everyone in the monastery, and they all thought that he might be crazy, otherwise how could a normal person like to talk to a tree. But he knew that he didn't, he was just too lonely, so lonely that he had nothing.

Time passed quietly in silence, and in the blink of an eye, the winter snow covered the fallen leaves all over the ground. At the same time, a girl named Ah Ye broke into his life in an extremely domineering way.

He didn't know why such a fair-eyed and smiling little girl appeared in a monastery that had always forbidden women, and he didn't know why this little girl knew all the secrets he had told to the tea tree. There were all sorts of questions in her that he didn't know the answers to, but he knew they didn't need him to find the answers.

Because he found a living person who could share everything, and this person still had something in his head that he wanted to learn.

With the encyclopedia of Aye's activities, he began to study and learn about tea day and night. In this way, day after day, year after year, he learned almost all the knowledge related to tea in Ah Ye's mind. He put all this knowledge into practice, and gradually, the tea he brewed was praised by more and more people, and these praises also made his desire to explore its roots stronger and stronger.

He finally set off, and under the persuasion of Ah Ye, he finally left the temple that left him countless loneliness and memories, and accompanied by Ah Ye, he began his journey of exploration.