The next morning, after my cousin and sister-in-law woke up, they all said that they didn't sleep well last night, and in their dreams they seemed to be sitting in a car, jolting on a tattered road.

Xiao Hei was killed by Scar Liu's gang last night and left in the van, and Luo Xiaolong dug a separate pit on the side of the brick kiln and buried it.

My cousin and sister-in-law didn't care about sleeping unsteadily, and after looking for a circle, I didn't find it, and coaxed Yangyang to say that Xiao Hei might have gone to play by himself last night. After breakfast, Luo Xiaolong asked his cousin and his family to coax Yangyang to go fishing, and pretended to look for it everywhere in the villa.

Luo Xiaolong was inquiring with the waiter of the villa if there were any puppies for sale at home nearby, and an uncle who came to the villa to deliver the goods replied casually after hearing it:

"I happen to have a couple of puppies at home, I can sell you one if you like it. ”

Luo Xiaolong was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked his cousin for the car keys, Yangyang heard it, and also clamored to go, but the family followed the delivery uncle's pickup truck to a mountain village more than 20 miles away from the villa. The mountain road is relatively dilapidated, but fortunately, my cousin bought an SUV, and if it was a sedan, he couldn't drive in.

Luo Xiaolong sat in the pickup truck, chatting all the way, and learned that this delivery uncle who was about 50 years old was named Zhong Guoliang, and his family was mainly engaged in the tea business. His family's tea garden is about more than ten acres, the annual spring tea output is about 200 catties, one of the sales channels is online, and the other is supplied to the villa, and the annual income is removed from the cost, and there are hundreds of thousands of net profits.

Luo Xiaolong doesn't understand tea, and a rough calculation shows that each catty of tea can be sold for nearly 1,000 yuan.

"Uncle Guoliang, if your tea can be sold at such a good price, it must be a good tea, and you must taste it later. ”

"No problem, no problem, we just grow tea, it's hard to say anything else, tea is definitely enough. ”

"Uncle Guoliang, since the tea can be sold at a good price, don't you consider expanding the area of the tea garden?"

With Zhong Guoliang's instructions, the tea mountains in front of him can already be seen in the distance, and when you come in this way, you can see that there are mostly tea trees planted on the mountains on both sides, Luo Xiaolong saw that there are still many mountains that have not been developed, so he asked.

"In the past two years, my kid has been engaged in it, so he can sell it at this price, and when he used to work outside, I was very content to earn 30,000 or 50,000 yuan a year. ”

Luo Xiaolong figured out the reason, it turned out that a few years ago, the tea in Zhongluotan Village and the surrounding villages could not be sold at a high price, when the market was at its worst, dozens of yuan a pound was also sold, Zhong Guoliang's son Zhong Tao went home, this situation has been greatly improved, under his guidance and management, the Zhong family tea garden has reduced the amount of picking, but the quality of the tea after frying has been greatly improved, so that the income has increased almost tenfold.

After his tea was sold at a good price, Zhong Tao was not in a hurry to reclaim and expand the area of his tea garden, but helped the villagers who came to ask for advice, and gradually improved the tea quality of tea farmers in Shili and Eight Townships, which drove the enthusiasm of tea farmers around him and greatly increased the annual income of this tea farmer.

Zhong Guoliang's home is on a high ground on the other side of the river, a two-story house with a single family, the house is a few vegetable fields on the inside side, all kinds of vegetables on the vegetable field are growing gratifyingly, there is a relatively new wooden building on the outside side, Zhong Guoliang said that it is a warehouse for tea processing and preservation, there are several big trees around the house, and the mountain is not far behind the big tree, and the top of the mountain is the tea garden.

I parked the car in the open space in front of the wooden building, and as soon as I got out of the car, I smelled a faint smell of tea. As soon as everyone got out of the car, a yellow-haired earth dog ran over, spinning in circles at Zhong Guoliang's feet, his tail swaying rapidly, and then behind the big dog, four more puppies with round bellies also ran over, chasing and fighting, which was very interesting. Zhong Guoliang touched the head of the big dog and said with relief: "These puppies are enough, wait for you to see which one you like." ”

As soon as Yangyang saw the puppies, he couldn't walk, his eyes kept staring at them, and he liked them, but he didn't dare to step forward. Zhong Guoliang talked about the situation with his wife who came out, and Wang Ying also stayed with Yangyang and picked out the one together. Zhong Guoliang welcomed the Luo brothers into the living room to drink tea.

Sure enough, it is good tea, and as soon as the boiling water is flushed, a tea fragrance overflows with the water vapor. Zhong Guoliang accompanied the Luo brothers to chat while drinking tea. After drinking two cups of tea, he heard the sudden sound of a motorcycle outside, Zhong Guoliang said:

"It's our two boys who are back. ”

"Dad, we're back. ”

With a crisp and loud voice, Wang Ying, Yangyang, and two young people, a man and a woman, walked into the living room. This man is about the same age as Luo Xiaolong, about a little more than 1.7 meters, with a dark complexion, a well-proportioned figure, a short head, and a pair of bright eyes, which seems to be very shrewd and capable; this woman is about 24 or 5 years old, about 1.6 meters tall, her long hair is tied up at the back of her head into a ponytail, her face is not smeared with any makeup, and her cheeks reveal two healthy ruddens, which looks both healthy and lively, beautiful and lovely.

As soon as they introduced each other, they learned that this man was Zhong Tao, and the woman was his daughter-in-law Chen Yurong, who met Zhong Tao when he was working in other places.

Everyone chatted for a while, Luo Zhengxiang wanted to pay for the puppy and a few catties of tea, so he went home, Zhong Guoliang's family was very enthusiastic, and said that he wanted the Luo family to stay and have lunch and then go back, Luo Zhengxiang couldn't refuse, so he had to agree.

Zhong Guoliang was very happy and began to assign tasks: Zhong Tao went to the tea garden to catch two free-range chickens raised on the mountain, and went to the pond by the river to catch fish.

There are many advantages of raising chickens on the tea mountain, chickens eat grass seeds, insects and other food, which can not only kill insects and weeds, but also save part of the cost of feed and pesticides, chicken manure can also fertilize the land, so that the chickens raised in it are more tender and delicious than the chicken fed by feed.

Zhong Tao found a snakeskin bag, the sun was relatively sunny outside, so he took two hats and said, "Brother Xiaolong, do me a favor, I will carry it for a while******* just introduce each other and chat, Luo Xiaolong is one year older than him, so Zhong Tao calls him brother."

"Okay. Just visit your tea plantation!"

Zhong Tao rode a motorcycle, carrying Luo Xiaolong, and suddenly went up the tea mountain. When he arrived at the mountain, Zhong Tao parked his motorcycle next to the two tiled houses where farm tools were stored, walked to the tea garden, and quickly grabbed two chickens and stuffed them into a snakeskin bag.

Luo Xiaolong looked at the neat rows of tea trees, felt a faint aura between the green leaves, remembered Zhong Guoliang's words, and said to Zhong Tao:

"Brother Zhong Tao, you are not simple, this tea garden is full of aura under your beating, no wonder the aroma of your tea is so strong. ”

"Each other, Brother Xiaolong is not simple, it was the middle of the night last night, and he came out for a ride!"

"Good boy, I'll just say that you guys look at me a little strangely, and let me 'carry ****, you won't be a '-stirring stick', right?"

"I'm rubbing, you're such a filthy dragon! I can't stand your ......"

"I'm not going to attack you. I'm very normal!"

"There's not much time now, it's useless to talk about it, my dad is waiting to kill chickens to entertain your family. Come on tonight, I've got something to talk to you about!"

"No, are you still coming? We're both men, so let's not make an appointment! Your wife is so beautiful, you can't let her down, it's not a good thing to attack indiscriminately!"

“…… Brother, you're thinking too much. Come here, give me your hand, and I will prove it to you. ”

“…… Please, the more you talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes, I can't help but think about it too much. ”

Luo Xiaolong hesitated for a long time, slowly moved over, and slowly stretched his hand to the front, Zhong Tao grabbed the snakeskin bag with one hand and grabbed the motorcycle handlebar at the same time, and grabbed Luo Xiaolong with the other hand, the light in front of him suddenly changed, Luo Xiaolong found that the location had changed from the tea garden to the foot of the mountain, and the specific location was in the bamboo forest only two hundred meters away from the Zhong family, and the Zhong family could be reached by turning a corner.

Zhong Tao threw the snakeskin bag to Luo Xiaolong, started the motorcycle and said, "What are you doing in a daze, pick up the chicken and hurry up." ”

Luo Xiaolong said with a chill: "You go first, just two steps, I'll raise my feet and get there." ”

"Whatever you want, remember tonight's appointment. ”

After lunch, the Luo family of four, plus a black puppy, said goodbye to the men, women and dogs of the Zhong family, and went home. It was originally very difficult to separate the puppy from the female dog, but there were people with magical skills on both sides, and the mother and son were very calm.

Yangyang named this newly brought home Chinese pastoral dog Xiao Xiao Hei, which means that in order to distinguish it from the little black that "disappeared" in front of him, Luo Xiaolong said According to your meaning, you can name it Xiao Erhei, which is the second Xiao Hei, Yang Yang thought about it for a while, shook his head and said: "I think Xiao Xiao Hei is better." ”

Under Luo Xiaolong's appeasement, Xiao Xiaohei quickly adapted to the changes in the environment, and after making broth and rice in Yangyang at night, he played with Yangyang.

The tea mountain in the middle of April in the middle of the night is very in line with the artistic conception of two ancient poems: the bright moon shines among the pines, and the clear spring stone is upstream.

The mountain breeze blows through the woods, and the pine waves gust. In the treetop of the largest tree, Zhong Tao sits on a bamboo chair, next to a bamboo chair waiting for a position, between the two chairs is a coffee table also made of bamboo, on the coffee table are placed two small teacups, a simple teapot, and a bamboo tube containing tea leaves.

"You're late, sit down, sit down, sit down. ”

"I'm tired, I'm still sitting, it's just an empty stool, okay, sit on it. Hurry up, tea, make tea, make good tea!"

Luo Xiaolong flew over like a gust of wind, sat down, and said in a loud voice.

Zhong Tao smiled, stretched out his hand and half-held the teapot, and after a while, after hearing the sound of gurgling, he opened the lid of the teapot, and he could see that the water inside was tumbling, the water was boiling, and some tea leaves were poured into the pot, and the fragrance of tea was overflowing.

"When I came, I saw a roadside stall selling stinky tofu and grilled skewers, and I wanted to bring some here, but I was afraid that the smell of your tea would smell weird, so I didn't bring it. ”

"If you dare to bring it here, I will dare to blow you away. ”

"It's all here, I'm sorry if I don't bring something, I brought wine, and the beer is white, you are the landlord, and you can order the snacks on the hour, right?"

"Put away yours, when you come to me, the wine and food will naturally be mine, I have monkey wine here, and I can't drink it normally. ”

"Wow, monkey wine! I've only heard of it, but I've never drunk it. ”

The two chatted while drinking tea, and after drinking a few cups, Zhong Tao saw that Luo Xiaolong was getting more and more impatient the more he drank, smiled slightly, got up and said:

"Let's go, drink tea first to open up our appetite, and then let's go eat meat and drink wine." ”

"I'm just waiting for you to say that. ”

Zhong Tao waved his hand, the chair coffee table disappeared, and as soon as he turned around, he led Luo Xiaolong to step on the treetops and run towards the valley.

In the valley, by the stream, on the boulder, the two of them used grilled fish and called for chicken to drink monkey wine, eating and drinking and chatting.

"A few years ago, my fate was no different from that of most rural children, and after graduating from high school, I went to work in the city to earn money to support my family. The tea in the township has neither its own brand nor the formation of a scale, and the parents run the tea garden at home, feeding pigs and chickens by the way, although the life of the family is not very rich, but it is still alive.

When I was twenty-three years old, the efficiency of the factory was not good, my parents had worked hard for many years, and they were also a little sick, so I came back with my girlfriend and took over the family's tea garden, when Chen Yurong and I were not married. In fact, I have no experience in managing tea plantations, and the secret recipe for roasting tea, I was able to make my family's tea business what it is now, completely because by chance, I became the mountain god here. ”