Ye Chen spread out all the fried tea leaves under the light.

Chen Kang and they still have a pot being fried: "Mr. Ye, the tea we fry is okay in terms of technique?"

"If my lord is still here, I'm afraid you will all be beaten. Ye Chen said with a smile, and asked Zhou Shuming, who was roasting tea, to get out of the way and demonstrate by himself.

Really speaking, there is no special technique for roasting tea, it is mainly about experience and a serious heart.

With a pious heart and a heart that just wants to get things done, the tea leaves are completely different. At least if you feel it carefully, the tea leaves that are fried are much less minced tea.

"Master Luo. ”

"Alas. "Luo Cheng, an honest and responsible tea picker.

Ye Chen fried the tea leaves and displayed them: "What is the price of tea picking now?"

"One leaf and one bud thirty-one pounds. One leaf and two buds are twenty-five pounds. One leaf and three buds cost more than ten yuan a catty. Tender tea is the cheapest...... There are also as long as one bud, and the picking price is about sixty or seventy. ”

"51 acres of tea plantations, how many pickers do you need to pick non-stop?"

"It depends on the time of picking. ”

"From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., picking a leaf and a bud, requiring a cycle of three to five days, how many tea pickers do you need?"

"At least thirty people. Luo Cheng counted and said.

"Can you contact so many skilled tea pickers?" At the end of September, when it was time to pick nectar, Ye Chen silently calculated the cost in his heart. The best spring tea in Mengshan is four or five hundred yuan a catty. Autumn tea is cheap, one leaf and one bud, and the average price is less than two hundred and one catties. If you can fry good tea, a tea merchant will come to buy it, and the price is negotiable.

About four catties of fresh tea and one pound of tea leaves. In his own tea mountain, a pound of tea leaves pays an additional 135 yuan for picking, and after counting other costs, the cost of a pound of tea is about 150 yuan. Ye Chen doesn't care about the cost, he can sell the tea at a high price and sell it to the United States. Ye Chen works in the United States and sells some tea by the way, and the tea sold last year was more than 100 catties.

"Difficult. In recent years, there has been a great demand for tea pickers, so I'm going to go back and ask first. ”

"Try to find thirty people, if the picking quality is good, you can add money appropriately......" Coming out of the workshop, Ye Chen went over to look at the warehouse that was about to be built.

"I think it's hard work to pick tea. How many tea leaves can a journeyman pick in a day?" Zhao Jiyang had experience in picking tea, took Ye Chen's hand and asked.

"One bud and one leaf, look at the yield of the tea plantation. For example, the tea leaves of the tea mountain, skilled workers can pick at least four catties a day. Those with particularly fast hands and feet may also exceed ten catties, which varies from person to person. Ye Chen said, and the mobile phone in his trouser pocket rang.

A transatlantic call from Connor.

"Hi, my dear Ye, have you forgotten my old fellow?" Connor said in broken Chinese.

"How, my dear boss. Ye Chen said with a smile.

"You've been back to China for a few months, and when will the tea be delivered? ”

"Good tea needs season, just like a great wine, you can't rush it. ”

"I recently joined an RB tea ceremony club and wanted to learn how to taste tea. But RB tea ceremony and Chinese tea are two completely different concepts, and I told them that it was not called tea tasting, and I was ridiculed. God, I want to learn about authentic Chinese tea culture, is there any good recommendation. ”

"I recommend to you the book "The Book of Tea", which should be translated into English by the San Francisco Library. You can also go to the Chinatown Tea House for a ......"

"I've been there. After drinking all the tea leaves you brought to the United States, I tried many varieties and always felt a little less flavorful. Hi man, when will the new season of good tea be available, I'm going to come over. ”

"Come here?"

"Uh-huh! A lot of my friends like your tea, you know. So, I would like to obtain the exclusive rights of your tea in North America. ”

"With all due respect, you're not good at business. Why don't you just stay and work in Silicon Valley......"

"I'm so sad about that. ”

“OK。 What time to come. ”

"You know my situation, you have time at any time. Connor was one of the founders of a technology company in Silicon Valley and had little involvement in the management of the company over the years.

"Autumn tea will be made after October. If you're free, you can book your ticket now. ”

“OK。 I'll bring an old guy over to China, and you're responsible for our safety. ”

"Safety, you old fellow, usually don't read much commentary on current affairs in the United States. Don't say it, booked a ticket and told me the time. ”

"Hey, address, address in English. ”

"I'll send it to you. ”

Ye Chen originally planned to set up a sales point in the United States after the tea was produced.

He used to work under Connor and would bring some tea every year, but then Connor fell in love with tea and recommended it to his friends, and the green tea here was very marketable in the small circle.

Foreigners generally like black tea, and the circle of green tea is very small.

But if you like to pretend to be forced, for foreigners who don't know how to do it, watching the tea leaves bloom like flowers in the hot water, it looks even higher, and then it is paired with high-quality Chinese porcelain...... Just like Connor, drinking a big bowl of tea can make a fluttering appearance.

Connor had bought some tea before, including tea from several countries, and felt that the tea that Ye Chen had brought before was the best. When Ye Chen was in the United States, many of Connor's friends would take tea directly from Ye Chen, Ye Chen returned to China, and his phone number was changed, so he approached Connor to buy tea. In the past month or so, he signed up for an RB tea ceremony class, and was ridiculed, and then got together with a few old friends who like to taste tea, which gave rise to the idea of acting as an agent for tea.

Hanging up the phone, Zhao Jiyang looked at it curiously: "Whose phone is it, one can speak English and one can speak Mandarin." ”

"My former boss. He wants to represent our tea, the exclusive distributor in North America. Ye Chen said and laughed, the exclusive agency in North America is very noble.

Zhao Jiyang snorted and laughed: "If there is an exclusive agent in North America, the tea here can add a lot of value." ”

"Hmm...... Presumably. ”

Walking back to the house, to the dam, I saw the houses on the hillside in the distance, with lights on, hazy.

It's foggy.

The time for autumn tea is from early to mid-August to early to mid-October. Generally until the end of September, good tea is produced, this year's climate is warm, and I just returned to China and did not care about the tea mountain, so I gave up the picking in September and postponed it until now.

There are 24 solar terms in China.

Tea picking follows the time, September 7, white dew, probably the middle of August of the Gregorian calendar, which means that the yin qi is getting heavier, and the dew is condensed and white. That is, the weather begins to cool, and in the early morning there are many dewdrops on the ground and leaves, which are due to the condensation of water vapor on them at night.

The tea leaves after the white dew are called 'nectar'.

Ye Chen has not studied the tea scripture seriously, and now he understands that it is all taught by the master, and there may be deviations, but the older generations must have its meaning when they call it so.

Tea has three good, snow buds, clouds, and nectar.

Ye Chen directly gave up the nectar, mainly because of the temperature. The next solar term, cold dew. Mid-autumn white dew solar terms, dew condensed and white.

After the white dew, the weather turns cooler, and dew begins to appear, and when it reaches the cold dew, the dew increases, and the temperature is lower. In mountainous areas, white fog is common.

The tea leaves picked at this time can be called clouds, good tea.

Early the next morning, Zhao Jiyang went to work. Ye Chen brought the dogs and the clumsy red panda to Chashan......

The best tea leaves should be picked uninterruptedly, otherwise the tea buds will become smaller, even if one bud and one leaf are picked, it can only be ordinary. The best picking point for green tea is when the tea buds are at their maximum, just right.