went home, Ye Chen carried out the sixteenth research to the end.

It was on the balcony upstairs grinding, until after nine o'clock in the morning, when the tea leaves were ground into paste and gelatin......

Each grinding must be water-dried and tea ripe.

After sixteen studies, Ye Chen's arm was sore, he shook it, and turned around to see Zhao Jiyang staring at him.

"Can't sleep?" Ye Chen said.

"Hmm. Zhao Jiyang got up: "Is there anything I can do to help?"

"Help get in shape. Ye Chen took out the tea mold.

The tea mold is also called the plate. 銙, an ornament attached to the belt in ancient times. On tea, 銙 is a unit of measurement, one 銙, two 銙 and three 銙.

Then different models have different weights.

The tea template is one and a half meters long and sixty-seven centimeters wide. There are large dragon discs, small dragon discs, phoenix discs, carved squares and squares. Two big dragons, six small dragons, six phoenix regiments, ten carved styles, and twenty small squares, from large to small.

This tea mold should not be the tea mold used in the official production of Longtuan Shengxue, it is most likely a mold engraved by craftsmen, or a specially made 'ruler'.

It is recorded in the book that Longtuan Shengxue has dragon tea, phoenix tea, and 銙茶. Each pattern and the characters that can enjoy it are also different. The dragon and phoenix tea group is generally paid tribute to the court, and in addition to the emperor's reward, it is difficult for the princes and ministers to enjoy it. The top dragon group wins the sixteenth research of snow, and Song Huizong himself can't drink enough...... That's because making top-grade Longtuan Shengxue requires unique raw materials, but it is not an ordinary tea leaf on Yechen Tea Mountain. The dragon group Shengxue made by Ye Chen is at most god-like and shape-like......

Ye Chen brought the tea mold and began to shape it.

The tea leaves of the sixteenth ground are delicate and silky in the hand. After looking at the weight, he made a big dragon group, a small dragon group, two small phoenix groups, two carved groups, and two square groups.

The tea mold is made of two boards, one board is shaped and the other board is pressed.

It is recorded in the book that Dalongtu 8 cakes are 1 catty, and each cake is 2 taels, which is less than 75 grams now. The small dragon ball is less than 60 grams. Fengqi should be similar to Miyun Dragon, small and delicate, each cake of tea balls is only eight yuan, that is, less than 30 grams now. Fang Cheng and Hua Cheng are also about the same size......

The two plates just coincide, and they are pressed for about half an hour.

Ye Chen went downstairs to cook, and Connor and Anderson also got up and teased the dog and the red panda in the yard.

"Haven't slept all night?" Connor said.

"We'll rest later. ”

"The car rented online called, and the car was picked up in Qingshan Town at ten o'clock. We're going to look around today, can we arrange a guide?"

"No problem. Ye Chen washed his face, called Ye Mingzhu, and made a simple breakfast.

The meal was not eaten, Ye Mingzhu drove over, and Ye Chen told her about Connor's itinerary. Pick up your car at Castle Peak Town, and then visit the tea factories and private tea workshops in Castle Peak Town.

It's normal to shop around. Foreigners are not affectionate in business, and they will not spend a lot of money on unworthy goods if they know you well.

Sending the three away, Ye Chen took Zhang Xiaozhu upstairs, took out the pressed and shaped tea ball and put it on top of the bamboo pipe, and then took a small electric fan, turned on the rocking head, and dried the tea ball. It is a mat like a bamboo mat made of thick bamboo, and it is often used to dry grains in rural areas.

"I'll sleep, you go to the workshop and ask Master Zhou to pull the wooden rack over, as well as charcoal. By the way, wake me up before twelve. Ye Chen's eyes were already very sour, and he went back to the house and lay down.

"Well, drink a glass of honey water and go to sleep. ”

Zhao Jiyang brought honey water, Ye Chen pulled the quilt after drinking it, and fell asleep after a while.

I slept only two hours and woke up before noon.

The tea powder solidified into a dark cyan substance like a paste block, and went downstairs with a bamboo mat, and several tea masters who followed him came over to see the semi-finished products made by Ye Chen.

The surface of the tea dough is neat and clean, and no impurities can be seen, just like the dough after repeated kneading and shaping, which should be said to be more delicate than the dough.

"Boil a pot of boiling water. Ye Chen said to Zhao Jiyang.

"Roger. ”

Pile up the wood to make a fire, the flame is more than a meter high, even the bamboo mat and the tea ball are brought into the fire, baked with a blazing fire, the time must be mastered, the bamboo mat can not be burned, it is only three or five seconds of time, take out and pour hot boiling water, repeat three times. The surface of the tea ball is smooth and smooth, with a hint of luster, and the color of green and yellow. Then start drying......

This process can have an open flame and no smoke, and it is baked with the radiant temperature of charcoal.

The wooden frame is five meters high, cuboidal, and looks like a belvedere from a distance, surrounded by drawer-like frames, and the top is transparent with a rain baffle.

The first roast is 1.5 meters from the charcoal Mars, and only a slight temperature. Take it out at night, put it in a three-meter position, and continue to ......

But it's not a non-stop baking, just like the bacon on the stove, often smoky and burned, and it has a more mellow taste.

Ye Chen didn't know what the difference between the dragon group Shengxue he made was and the one in history. It's not even clear if it's like this, but that's what it does......

Thick tea balls need to be baked for 10 to 15 days, and thin tea balls can be baked for 6 or 7 days.

It's the seventh day.

Connor and Anderson visited many tea factories, tea estates, and also went to the famous Mount Emei and Mengding Mountain......

Ye Chen was a little worried that these two guys would choose other teas, and early in the morning, Zhao Jiyang went out to apply for an export license. Ye Chen took a thin tea ball out and passed it through a boiling water.

The tea cake is tight, there is no void inside, and a boiling water is poured to enhance the color of the tea cake. The tea cake taken out of the oven was black, poured boiling water, the tea cake turned dark green, and then taken upstairs to dry with a fan, the color of the tea cake changed again, it was light green, and even a thin layer of transparent white was seen on the surface. With such fine workmanship, the tea cake that comes out is as smooth as a mirror, and even reflects the light under the light, which is exactly the same as the ancient people's admiration in the imagination.

Two cakes of phoenix, two flowers, two squares, weight of 174 grams, each cake is less than 30 grams.

Finally having the result, Ye Chen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and his mind moved, and he entered the cave space.

Connor and Anderson went to Mount Emei first, and should now be in Mengding Mountain.

Mengding Mountain has the reputation of "the hometown of fairy tea", and it is recorded that more than 3,000 years ago in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, it was famous for its abundant tea production. There is good tea in Mengding Mountain, but the large tea producing areas are uneven. The cheap one is thirty-fifty-one taels, and the most expensive one is ten thousand pounds...... Usually the mechanically picked tea is cheap, the hand-picked tea is expensive, and the taste mainly depends on the process and the source of the tea......

Ye Chen is applying for an export license here, and if Connor and Anderson choose other teas, they will have a lot of trouble on their side, so they have to go abroad by themselves to find other partners.

After all, the price of tea here is really high.

The premium tea leaves of ordinary tea trees cost $500 per kilogram, which is almost 3,400 yuan a catty. Small leaf camellia, 300 US dollars for 100 grams, 10,000 yuan a catty.

In order to keep these two guys, Ye Chen wants to take out the real treasure.

The small-leaf tea seeds dug in the rocky mountain before were all raised in the pond of the space.

The water in the space not only nourishes people, but also nourishes plants. The tea tree is covered with small young leaves, picked and crushed in the hand, and the fragrance of the tea naturally overflows, which is intoxicating.

The tea trees raised in the space are several grades higher than the thousand-year-old tea trees in the Rocky Mountain.

In the space, Ye Chen is already a god-like existence, with a super BUFF bonus from the space.

As soon as his mind moved, the buds of the tea tree fell off one after another, flying into the bamboo basket in front of Ye Chen like an assembly line.

151 tea trees, of which more than 30 tea trees are relatively large, the scattered branches and leaves are three meters square, and about 1.5 catties of dry tea can be made at one harvest.

Ye Chen entered the space four days ago to pick tea and found this ability, at that time I felt that the speed was too slow, I tried the ability to control objects in the space, I didn't think to sit down easily, and the work of picking tea became simpler.

Ye Chen's spiritual power can be blessed in the space, and picking tea requires a lot of energy, but it can also be endured. If he wasn't in the space, Ye Chen could use his mental power to lift the embroidery needle in the air, but without the blessing of space, the embroidery needle would have a headache and swelling when he moved one meter......