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In September, the rainy season in northwest Yunnan ended for several months and began to usher in a sunny dry season, which is undoubtedly a relaxing thing for people who travel by car.

However, for Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao, the bright sunshine outside the car window did not make them feel better.

Xiao Feng saw a report in the newspaper that 'the existing coffee trees in Zhukula Village, Yunping County, Nanzhao are the oldest coffee trees in China', and he moved the idea of going to Zhukula Village to find out.

From the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-th century, southern Yunnan was a bridgehead for the French Empire's invasion of China, and missionaries of all kinds appeared in southern Yunnan with various purposes. In addition to building a large number of churches and exhibiting congregations in southern Yunnan, these missionaries also brought with them civilizations such as modern medicine and modern science, as well as another foreign product - the coffee tree!

The coffee trees in Zhukula Village, Yunping County, were introduced by missionaries during that special period, and after a hundred years of vicissitudes, they became known to outsiders last year!

Xiao Feng noticed that these coffee trees, which have been around for 116 years, belong to the purebred Bobon Tipica population, which is a high-quality variety of small-grain coffee and has considerable prospects. The International Coffee Organization believes that the quality of Yunnan small grain coffee is close to that of Colombian small grain coffee, and the product market competitiveness is strong.

Now, these ancient coffee trees can still bear fruit normally, which made Xiao Feng think about it, and this is why he made this trip to Zhu Kula.

However, after the car left the market town to which Jujura belonged. stepped on the bumpy dirt road and gravel road, which made Xiao Feng miserable!

Xiao Feng just paid it back. Anyway, he has rough skin and thick flesh, and he can stand the test, but what makes him feel distressed is Xu Mengyao, how could she have suffered like this, and her little face has turned pale.

Up to now, it is impossible to give up halfway, and Xiao Feng can only be a strong spirit, drive the Grand Cherokee as smoothly as possible, and move towards Zhukula Village little by little.

Watching Xiao Feng endure the discomfort and insist on driving. Although Xu Mengyao said that her body was very uncomfortable, she was still very happy in her heart, after all, there were not many opportunities for the two of them to be so alone.

This time, when she heard that Xiao Feng was going to Yunping County to visit the 'oldest coffee in China', Xu Mengyao couldn't sit still, so she took advantage of Saturday to drive out with Xiao Feng early in the morning.

Ever since I came to Ginkgo Village. The roads Xu Mengyao saw were all high-level highways and first-class highways, so in her subconscious, perhaps the traffic situation in most of the entire northwest Yunnan region was like this, right? However, Xu Mengyao did not expect that Ginkgo Village was a special case and could not be measured by common sense.

Needless to say, the road from Ginkgo Village to Nanzhao is a first-class highway. And the road from Nanzhao to Yunping County is also smooth, but when he really enters the road to Zhukula Village, Xu Mengyao understands the true definition of the difficult road in southern Yunnan.

If it weren't for today's drive to the Grand Cherokee with better off-road performance and a very high chassis. It's my own Jaguar, I'm afraid it won't take more than fifty meters to lie down.

But. With your sweetheart, no matter how hard you work, your heart is sweet.

In this way, Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao were uncomfortable and shook each other sweetly all the way, and finally arrived at Zhukula Village, located deep in the mountains, at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Zhukula, located in the northeast of Pingchuan Town, Yunping County, is the junction of Chu-Xiong, Nanzhao and Yaozhou, and is surrounded by the Yupao River, a tributary of the Jinsha River. Due to the inconvenient transportation, Zhukula is almost isolated from the world, so it is inaccessible and is a little-known Yi cottage.

The fresh air as soon as she got out of the car lifted Xu Mengyao's spirits, and the full green color also greatly relieved her uncomfortable body, which was really worth the trip!

The arrival of the Grand Cherokee attracted the attention of the villagers, and many children timidly poked their heads out of the door to carefully examine the guests from the city. The villagers also stared at these two handsome men and beauties plus a car with strange eyes, I don't know what these two people are doing in the village?

Since the news spread last year that Zhuqula Village has the 'oldest coffee tree in China', there will be customers who come here every now and then to have a look and buy some coffee beans curiously.

Come to think of it, these two guests also came for the coffee in Zhukula Village, right?

However, now is not the season for coffee picking, and at this time, when you come to Zhukula Village, the coffee beans have just begun to bear fruit.

"A-Niang, is the village committee leaving?" Xiao Feng's proficient native dialect of western Yunnan quickly narrowed the distance between him and the villagers, and he received enthusiastic guidance from an eldest lady.

Xiao Feng knew that instead of wandering around the village without a clue, it was better to go directly to the village committee, which would save a lot of trouble.

Xiao Feng has lived in a rural village in northwest Yunnan such as Ginkgo Village for a long time, and his uncle is also the director of the village committee and secretary of the party branch of Ginkgo Village.

After a while, Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao found Li Fusheng, the village party secretary, in the village committee and explained their intentions to him!

"If you want to visit the ancient coffee trees, this is no problem!" Li Zhishu was very enthusiastic and agreed: "In the past, the coffee trees in the village were almost cut down, and there were only a dozen acres of ancient coffee trees left, and the oldest ones have a history of 116 years!"

On the way to the coffee plantation with Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao, Li Fusheng introduced them to the origin of these coffee trees in Zhuqula Village, which was much more detailed than the newspaper reports.

In 1892, a French missionary surnamed Tien came to Chuchu Kula from Vietnam and planted coffee trees outside the church because he liked to drink coffee. Later, it was expanded to 24 trees, and then to 13 acres, 137o trees, and in 1997, the coffee tree planted by Father Tian died, surviving for 1o5 years.

Fr. Tian entered the Chuchula mission, built a church in the area, and at the same time introduced the habit of drinking coffee to the village of Chuchula. He planted a coffee grove with his own hands and taught the local villagers how to grow, drink and sell coffee. Since then, the local villagers have begun to have the habit of planting, grinding, and drinking coffee by themselves, which continues to this day.

Li Fusheng studied in junior high school, and although he was not fluent in Mandarin, the basic meaning could still be clearly expressed, so that Xu Mengyao could understand the general outline of these stories.

Xu Mengyao felt as if she was listening to a legend, and aside from some political factors, she had a trace of respect for the priest who introduced coffee to Zhukula Village!

At this time, Xu Mengyao's sensibility as a girl burst out, thinking that if she could bring the seeds of these coffee trees back to Ginkgo Village, cultivate and plant them herself, she might be able to continue the legend of Zhu Kula coffee.

When the three of them came to the coffee garden, the coffee trees had already begun to bear fruit, and the pale red coffee cherries loomed among the green leaves, presenting a pleasant scene of harvest.

Although Xu Mengyao had drunk a lot of coffee, she had never seen what a coffee tree looked like, so she was immediately interested and walked around the forest.

"Uncle Li, the annual yield of these coffee trees is not small, right?" Looking at the dense coffee cherries on the trees, Xiao Feng asked with some curiosity.

According to the information seen by Xiao Feng, the yield of coffee beans from a mature coffee tree is generally about 1o kilograms, and individual high-yielding varieties can reach 2o kilograms under fine management.

However, Xiao Feng's situation with coffee trees is only on paper, and he doesn't know what kind of output can be produced on the scale of hanging fruit in front of him?

"The average is only about 5 kilograms!" Li Fusheng shook his head and said: "In the past few years, the price of coffee was too low, and the villagers cut and changed to grow grain, and the rest of the coffee was not taken care of management, and the coffee produced every year could meet the daily needs of the villagers." Last time, the CEO of a coffee company came and said that he would purchase it at the standard of 5o yuan per kilogram after determining the name of 'China's oldest coffee'!"

This information is not a secret, and Li Fusheng did not hide it, and revealed it to Xiao Feng very happily.

"That's good!" When Xiao Feng heard this, he also nodded, and said: "We have a farm at home, and we want to plant some coffee trees, and I heard that you are the only purebred small grain coffee left here, so I came here." ”

Coffee breeding is generally divided into two kinds: seed seedling breeding and cuttings seedling, these two ways can not talk about who is superior and who is inferior, for Xiao Feng, with space Lingquan, can always cultivate the best seedlings.

He came to the village of Zhukula to buy enough seeds or shoots to start his breeding program.

It's just that after seeing this coffee garden that is not large, Xiao Feng gave up the idea of cuttings and seedlings, after all, it is really unrealistic for these coffee trees to meet the needs of a 10,000-acre coffee garden.

For this reason, Xiao Feng retreated to the next best thing, and prepared to buy some coffee seeds when the coffee was ripe this year, and go back to breed it on his own.

"There is no problem with this!" Li Fusheng didn't have much opinion on this, and nodded in agreement.

For the villagers of Zhukula, the coffee produced in this ancient coffee tree is no different from that of other coffee forests, and there is not much difference between the coffee they drink.

Since Xiao Feng and the boss of the coffee company both favor the coffee of the ancient coffee forest, it is enough to sell it to them at a high price, and there is nothing to worry about.

After visiting the ancient coffee forest and church, Li Fusheng took Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao back to the village committee and personally brewed Zhu Kula's coffee for them.

Zhu Kula coffee is made by local method, which retains the characteristics of the original ecological rich fragrance, and it is unforgettable to drink for a lifetime.

Needless to say, Xu Mengyao, a coffee connoisseur, can clearly appreciate some of the mysteries of Zhu Kula coffee, and is full of praise; even Xiao Feng, who doesn't know anything about coffee, thinks that this coffee is mellow and delicious, much better than the so-called 'handmade coffee' she used to drink in the coffee shop, and is not inferior to the imported coffee that Xu Mengyao usually drinks.

At this time, Xiao Feng had more confidence in the prospects of the coffee plantation!