Chapter Ninety-Eight: Preparations
After grinding until half past three, the group had no choice but to go down the mountain.
There is a saying that it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, which means that although it is laborious to go up the mountain, it is not easy to be dangerous, and it is easy to lose your footing when you go down the mountain.
When going up the mountain, it consumes a lot of physical energy, and the movement of going down the mountain is different from normal walking.
Set off, Ye Chen and his guide kept reminding everyone to pay attention to their feet, to be fast, to slow down.
Zhao Jiyang got acquainted with several archaeology college students and walked together.
"Your boyfriend is so long-winded. Yang Huan heard that Ye Chen was asking everyone to pay attention to his feet again, and couldn't help but muttered in Zhao Jiyang's ear.
"We got married. Zhao Jiyang didn't care much about Yang Huan's surprised look, and looked at Ye Chen: "He usually doesn't do this, because he is worried about everyone's safety." ”
She knew that Ye Chen took the trouble to remind everyone, even to the point of annoying, but she hoped that everyone would be safe. This is different from the usual Ye Chen, probably because the old man had an accident in the mountains.
Coming over to the rocky mountain, Ye Chen slowed down his pace again and told everyone to pay attention to their feet.
This is a downhill road, and in some places it is very steep, and there are many pebbles on the side of the mountain stream and ravine at the flat point. On the way up the mountain, someone almost broke his foot......
Ye Chen repeatedly reminded that someone still won the bid, and a person from the scenic spot assessment team stepped on a loose stone and fell.
Hearing an exclamation, Ye Chen hurriedly returned to take a look, and someone was rubbing his feet.
"Are there any ice packs?" Professor Kang asked anxiously.
Whoever would want to come out with ice packs on the mountain shook their heads.
Ye Chen took out a plastic bag in his backpack, filled it with stream water, and put it on the man's ankle to cool down the injured part, which probably can also have a pain-relieving effect.
When the man felt better, Ye Chen took the initiative to carry him, but fortunately, the injured person was not too serious, about one hundred and thirty pounds.
Next, Uncle Mu led the way, and also reminded everyone from time to time that after this incident, no one took the guide's words as wind in their ears, and carefully watched the road under their feet.
When he came to the place where the mobile phone had a signal, it was already dark, Ye Chen took out the phone and called Luo Cheng, asking him to help send the tea to the tea factory in Lotus Village to sell it.
"Brother Ye, you've been carrying me for more than an hour, if you don't let me down, you can go." ”
Ye Chen looked at Zhou Cheng's ankle, which was already swollen: "It's dark, go down the mountain early." I ...... on my back."
It was dark, some people were holding flashlights and some people were lighting with mobile phones, groping for almost eight o'clock, and then they came out. Ye Chen put Zhou Cheng down on the cobblestone river beach of the pond under the waterfall and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Okay, let's take a rest." ”
"Xiao Chen, this trip is thanks to you. Li Zhi took out his briefcase and sent money to several guides, and the road fare, three hundred per person. also took three hundred yuan and handed it to Ye Chen......
"It's ......"
"The guide fee, three hundred per person. Take it, don't call the uncle a bad man. ”
Ye Chen smiled and took it.
Guide fees, every guide has them, and even Zhao Jiyang got three hundred yuan.
After resting in place for more than ten minutes, I returned to the side of the road to pick up the car and went back to my home.
"I'm tired. Zhao Jiyang stretched his waist and sat heavily on the sofa under the eaves.
"I will pick up people at the airport on National Day, is there a high-speed rail station from Mengshan to Rongcheng Airport?" Ye Chen went to wash rice and cook, and asked.
"Yes. Why don't you drive there?"
"On National Day, people are congested on the highway to defecate in the open. ”
"Alas, you're cooking, you can't say it so disgusting. Zhao Jiyang said something to him and took out his mobile phone: "I'll book a ticket for you, what time will it be?"
"It was supposed to be a plane at one o'clock in the afternoon. Don't be too early. ”
“OK。 ”
Zhao Jiyang ordered the high-speed train at 11:48.
After dinner, today I no longer have the interest of walking after dinner, I took a shower upstairs early and went upstairs to rest.
The next day, the thigh was sore, so I didn't mention it.
"My leg hurts. What about you?" said Zhao Jiyang.
"Again, I'm not an iron man. ”
"You're just, and you're still hard......"
Wonderful morning, wake up almost noon.
Zhao Jiyang played games at home, and Ye Chen went to the tea-making workshop.
An automated tea roasting machine is being installed. This machine is 310,000 yuan, and it can fry 300 catties of dry tea in two hours. By hand, one person can only fry two to four catties of dry tea a day.
Ye Chen glanced at the machine and asked Zhou Mingshu to come over to help light the fire and fry the tea.
Hand-fried tea can not be too much at a time, and the amount of half a catty of dry tea out of the pot. The more delicate the tea leaves, the smaller the amount of tea each stir-fry.
Now roasted tea is mainly for hand practice.
Two catties of green tea, put into the pot and out of the pot five times, the shaped tea leaves are shaped into strips, and there is very little residue at the bottom of the pot.
"Boss Ye, no, Master Ye, a craftsman. This tea is fried beautifully, and I am afraid that only Master Zhou and Master Chen can compare with each other in the entire Qingshan Town. I don't know when Ye Chen was surrounded by a lot of people watching, Luo Wei complimented, but he said in his heart, this tea is quite beautiful.
If you want to say that the most beautiful master of fried tea, it may be Ye Chen's grandfather. Not only the appearance, but also the inside, the mastery that blooms in the water with one hand, even Master Zhou and Master Chen can't do it.
Flowering in water, that is, tea leaves bloom like petals in water. This kind of tea depends on the tea product, and it is difficult for ordinary tea to make a similar effect, it must be the tea of the rocky mountain, take one leaf with three buds or one leaf with four buds. Either it is one bud and three leaves or one bud and four leaves of the ordinary tea tree, but the one bud, three leaves and four leaves of the ordinary tea tree, the tea leaves are too large, not beautiful and not delicious.
Ye Chen brewed a cup of fried tea leaves in a gaiwan, looked at the tea, and in general, it was above the level: "By the way, Master Luo, can you help me find some master of roasted tea?"
"I can contact a few people. Luo Wei said.
"I have a batch of tea that may be exported abroad, and I need a master chef to come and roast the tea. There are twelve iron pots here, can you fill them for me?"
"I'll try. ”
"Thank you. There is another thing, I want to make the dragon group Shengxue, which requires a lot of workers. There are about 200 people, and it requires careful handwork...... What are the other 20-year-old tea gardens in Qingshan Town, take me over to see in the afternoon. ”
In Qingshan Town, there are many people who know that Master Ye Chen will make Longtuan Shengxue, but they have never seen real tea. This is a lost tea product, the origin of FJ, why it appeared in Qingshan Town no one knows, it is a tea exclusively for the emperor. There are also people in Qingshan Town who can make Longtuan Shengxue, probably the process is to peel off the water buds after steaming...... Many tea masters have tried it, and the tea leaves they make have a light taste and no fragrance......
But people who have seen Longtuan Shengxue tea have spread that the color of the tea is like Bitan, and the tea fragrance is elegant.
"Okay, I'll contact you if you need it. I don't know if I can watch how to make it next to Master Ye, I used to help Master Chen make two or two dragon group Shengxue, it doesn't seem to be like that. ”
"Do it all in front of you, and watch it when you want to. Ye Chen smiled and shook his head, Longtuan Shengxue didn't seem to be a craft passed down from his ancestors, he learned it from someone when Ye Chen was young. The lord didn't say much about this, but he knew that the dragon group Shengxue craftsmanship was not spread. Even if his father, the master didn't teach him, Ye Chen knew the general core skills, because he was young, and the master didn't pay much attention to him.
There are pots for cooking in the workshop, and the tea pickers bring their own ingredients to cook.
At this time, the tea picker's meal had been prepared, Luo Wei invited him over for dinner, and Ye Chen readily agreed.
The tea picker's lunch is not so exquisite, full of dry goods, bacon sausages, stir-fried vegetables, and replenishes physical strength after rice.
"Mr. Ye, you can order the 5,100 yuan that sold tea yesterday. Luo Cheng and the others also ate here, took out a stack of hundred-yuan bills and handed it to Ye Chen.
Ye Chen took it and didn't count it, and gave it to Luo Wei directly: "Take it for you, you can't treat you badly when you work here, and the five thousand yuan should be used as a subsidy for everyone's food expenses." ”
"Mr. Ye is atmospheric. Luo Wei took it with a smile.
"Tell me something, do you have a National Day holiday?" Ye Chen asked.
"The saying that the tea pickers have a holiday. We have only passed one tea leaf in the tea mountain, and we will have to go through at least two more to produce high-quality tea. Don't take a holiday, keep dry. Luo Wei said with everyone.
"In this case, after two roads, it will be the second of next month. From the 3rd, I need dew tea, which is the tea that is picked before dawn in the morning until sunrise. As long as one bud, the most tender tea bud, I will give you a picking price of 120 yuan. Let's see if there are any problems?"
The tea pickers discussed: "No problem. Leaves always have to be budding just up?"
"It must be a small green sprout, and the purple sprout should not be ......"
Just after eating here, Zhao Jiyang called and asked him to go back to eat, Ye Chen had eaten, so he drove with Luo Wei to other villages, looked at some tea gardens that were at least twenty years old, and asked about the price of tea.
As long as a bud of dew tea, because of the cost of picking, it is a high-grade tea garden, the cheapest green tea of a bud costs 130 yuan a catty, and the most expensive price is 160 yuan a catty. There are not many old tea gardens in Qingshan Town, adding up to less than forty acres, and Ye Chen ordered thirty-five acres of dew tea.
The production of Longtuan Sheng Xue Yechen is not afraid of spending money, anyway, the Qingshan Town Government pays for it, and the price is more expensive.
One afternoon, I went to the town and asked my uncle to help order 2,000 charcoal, and then went to the bamboo weaving craftsman to order bamboo chips, bamboo strips, wooden shelves more than five meters high, wooden stakes, and so on.
Dragon Tuan Shengxue is a big job, and if it can be made, it will be a famous thing.
I came back in the evening, and by the way, I went to my grandfather's house and took down the plate that the master had put on the high cabinet.
銙, the ornaments attached to the belt in ancient times, there are gold, silver, jade and so on. The board is a large board with many patterns carved in hollows, including large dragons, small dragons, phoenixes, flowers, checkered and so on. This plate has a lot of history, and the carving is exquisite, and you can know at a glance that it is not a product of Qingshan Town.