After breakfast every day, several aunts of Grandpa's family would go to Uncle Xiaohu's and learn to knit sweaters.

When they all learned about the same, Erya asked them to weave a few pieces of clothing for their own families.

I felt that I could handle it, so I began to let them weave it for sale. It's just that the collar socket and sleeve socket are still taken over by the eldest aunt and the second aunt to take over the minute needle, buckle needle, and leave the needle.

The eldest aunt and the second aunt took a few aunts to weave sweaters, and the second aunt took Xiaohu and them to build a shed in their own yard, supporting a pot for roasting tea, weaving a special basket for tea picking with bamboo strips, and a special fire blue for tea picking, looking for a porcelain kiln to customize porcelain bottles, purchasing smokeless charcoal, and letting the uncle and the second uncle make wooden boxes for porcelain bottles.

When Erya prepared all this, it was four or five days before Gu Yu.

Erya took the little tiger brothers out early, and when they arrived at the mountain, they were bright.

Erya first taught them to pick tea, and while picking it for them to show them, he explained: "Look, you have to pick this kind of sharp tip of one bud and one leaf and one bud and two leaves. I filled the basket and sprinkled it on the mat I had spread beside me. Be sure to sprinkle a little thinner, not stacked. Do you understand everything? ”

"Understood!"

"Okay, I'll see how you pick it first!" Erya saw that although they picked slowly, they were not bad, so she went deeper with confidence and looked for some tea trees.

Along the way, they found dozens of tea trees, but at most they could pick them in two days.

Because I had to hurry up and take the tea grass back to finish, I had to go back first and look for it again tomorrow.

When I went back, I came quickly, and the second basket was already full. Erya put away the tea grass that had been scattered on the mat, and was busy spreading the tea grass in their frame and scattering the water.

"Have you finished picking dozens of trees along the way?" Er Ya asked the first person to come.

"The tea trees we found last year have already been harvested. Brother Daman also wanted to catch a few rabbits and raise them back, so he looked for a rabbit nest in the back. ”

Erya was annoyed for a while, how could the tea grass have the smell of other things. Besides, I didn't be able to feed so many hares last year, so what are you tossing there?

"You go, call them back quickly, and you say that the tea grass can't have any peculiar smell to bring in."

"Oh!" Laizi hurriedly ran to find them.

When they came back, Er Ya sprinkled the tea grass from their respective baskets on the mat to spread water for a while, then put them back in the basket and took everyone back.

When I got home, I was busy making Xiaohu catch fire, took out my freshly made cloth gloves and bamboo handles, and finished the tea first.

You can only fry about two catties of tea grass at a time, and if you have more, it will be heated unevenly, and it is easy to have a grassy taste.

The rest is still scattered on the mat and spread out, and it cannot be covered in the basket all the time.

None of the other teas can be made, so she can only make green tea.

Because Shigong loved to eat tea, the social situation at that time could not buy tea at all.

Fortunately, there is never a shortage of tea trees in the mountains, and the second uncle secretly consulted the local tea farmers by relying on his good popularity, and the master pondered it himself. From the initial ignorance to the last roasted tea master, it is the pride that Shigong has always boasted of.

Er Ya has not studied orthodox, but he is an audience of his master's bragging. The ears that listened to it were calloused, and I was interested in watching Shigong make zuò on the spot, until one year, he made good green tea without making a sound, and Shigong no longer bragged in front of Erya.

Erya shook the tea grass in the teapot while recalling the life in the mountains, and a faint sadness in her heart came up again. Immediately, he was forcibly pressed down by Erya!

After the completion of the fire, it is the first fire, the carbon of the fire is very particular, not too good, but there must be no smoke. Otherwise, the tea will definitely smell of smoke, and no matter how good the tea grass is, it will be ruined.

The fire head of the fire should not be too old, otherwise the tea will not only not be moist and sweet, but will also pull the throat; The yellowing of the brown color will not be as attractive as the green and transparent.

The fire head should not be too tender, otherwise the juice will not be released, and the drink will be light and tasteless.

In a quarter of an hour, the first fire was pulled. At this time, it is necessary to pick out some fragments of the tea leaves, tea stalks or something, and after dissipating the heat, then pull the second fire, (there are also three fires, this depends on your own taste.) You can also pull the second course in about seven days.

If you drink it at home, it doesn't matter! However, if you plan to sell, you have to do it in one go, before and after the rain in the valley, you can sell it at a good price.

The prepared tea leaves are put into a porcelain bottle, plugged with a cork stopper, and sealed with wax. If it can be stored at low temperature, it will taste and color like new tea after a year.

The next day to pick tea, red leaves, red clouds, red fruits, Zhilin, Zhihe, and Shanzi of the second aunt's family all have to follow.

Erya thought that there were no footprints of large animals around the tea trees she was looking for, so she agreed to let them follow.

There were no special baskets, and some of them carried the newly bought baskets to follow.

Because Erya was worried that the tea grass would be infected with a peculiar smell, they were all full at home, and their hands were cleaned before they started on the road.

Originally, when there were a few of them, they moved quickly. With a later woman and a child, they had to get up just after midnight.

The tea herbs that Er Ya let them pick separately were divided and let Xiaohu take charge. I went deeper to find the tea trees, but fortunately, the more I went inside, the more tea trees there were. Although they are scattered, one in the east and one in the west, this does not affect their tea picking. As long as there is!

Although there are a few tea trees on the cliff, Erya never thought of risking it to pick them.

Staying away from danger is the safest, Shigong's words, she will always remember! She will not put herself or others in danger for money.

Life is the most precious thing, and here she is not just a verbal slogan.

Erya walked back and found the place where they picked tea, and saw the tea herbs on a few mats that were boiling cold and scattering water, and almost vomited blood in anger.

Some are pinched regardless of size, some shoots are pinched, and some tea grass is piled directly on the mat without spreading.

Erya held her belly full of anger and ran to Daman Xiaohu and them, "Before they picked the tea, did you teach them, did you tell them that when the tea grass was scattered, it should be spread thinly?" ”

Da Man looked at Er Ya with a look of chagrin, his face full of shame. "We just thought about picking more quickly, and then we forgot."

Erya didn't want to blame them, pointing at them who were picking tea elsewhere. "Leave one to pick here, and the others will go to them, and one person will be in charge of a piece, and pick tea together next to them, and be careful not to be in any danger, and remember to protect them."

"Hey!" One by one, they lowered their heads and looked for someone to help.

Erya just saw a lot of bracken in the ditch recess that she came back from, and she wanted to cut some and take them back to eat, or dry and roast meat and fry dried fish to eat.

Wow! Good food.

Oops, there's no frame for bracken, no matter what, pull some green vines that have just grown, bundle them, and carry them on your back.

The second girl watched the sun deviate, and noon had passed. I beckoned everyone not to pick it, sprinkled the tea grass in the frame on the mat and scattered the water, and when it was almost over, I would go back.

Hongxia saw that her brother-in-law was carrying three or four bundles of things she didn't know, so she asked Erya curiously: "Brother and daughter-in-law!" What is that one you're carrying? ”

Erya looked down at the bracken bundle hanging down to her waist, and replied to Hongxia: "It's bracken!" Have you eaten it? The dried roast meat is delicious. ”

"Then I'll go get some back!"

Erya hurriedly waved her hand to stop Hongxia, "Don't! You still have to get tea grass with your hands, don't touch anything else. I'm not going to reach out, that's why I dare to do this. If you want, one day, we will go up the mountain and cut this, and this will be almost until the beginning of May. ”

Hongxia smiled embarrassedly, and Hongyun and Hongye followed and said, "Then let's cut some back." ”

"No problem, get a lot of it, save it for the winter, there is no food to eat in the winter, it's really terrible!"

Hongyun covered her mouth and smiled, and then asked Erya curiously: "Brother and daughter-in-law, don't we all come here like this in winter!" What did you eat at home? ”

Erya can't say that she used to have all kinds of vegetables in winter, so she could only pretend to be unintentional and said: "So, it's annoying to have no vegetables in winter!" It's like this year after year, and that's not going to work. We have to find a way to eat a lot of vegetables in winter. ”

Momiji has been watching Erya very attentively and listening to Erya speak. Hearing Erya say that he would find a way to eat a lot of vegetables in winter, he smiled and received: "Then we will wait to eat the vegetables you made." ”

Erya doesn't know when she will be able to get it out. sighed: "Alas! Wait! ”

Everyone packed up their tea herbs and went back.

When they arrived at home, Erya first fried Xiaohu Daman and they picked tea herbs, and let Daman help them with the rest, dividing the big leaves and small shoots into several categories.

The second girl is fried, and Xiaohu helps pull the fire and pick. Stir-fry until it gets dark and you can't lift your arms, and then you finish frying all the tea herbs.

At dinner, Xiaohu wanted to feed Erya, who shook her head, so tired that she didn't want to say a word.

The eldest aunt looked distressed, "Niece and daughter-in-law, don't go tomorrow, just go with Daman and Xiaohu, and lie down at home for a day tomorrow." ”

Erya said weakly: "I have to go tomorrow, I found a lot of tea trees later, they don't know where they are, if you look for it now, you have to waste a lot of time." ”

The second aunt said to Xiaohu: "Xiaohu! You pinch your daughter-in-law's arm at night, pound and pat, and be lazy! Tomorrow may be better. ”

Xiaohu nodded hurriedly and responded: "Okay!" ”

Then he said to Erya: "Daughter-in-law, let me feed you, you see that you can't lift your arms!" ”

Xiaolong also hurriedly took his own spoon, picked a spoonful of rice, and sent it to his sister-in-law's mouth, "Sister-in-law eat!" Baby Dragon, feed you! ”

Erya opened her mouth and wrapped the rice in the spoon into her mouth, and said with the rice in her mouth: "Thank you Xiaolong, sister-in-law let your brother feed it, you can feed it to yourself, you don't need to feed it." Good no good!? ”

Xiaolong dug a mouthful of rice into his mouth, opened his mouth full of rice, and said to Erya: "Okay! Then, Erya was tragically sprayed with rice grains on her face.

Erya shouted, Xiaohu was busy wiping Erya's face, the eldest aunt was busy wiping the table, and the second aunt was busy wiping the rice grains on Xiaolong's chest.

The Daman brothers and Hongxia sisters laughed "haha", Changcui in Hongxia's arms, and Xiaoqiu in Hongyun's arms also followed her mother's laughter, "Ah! Yes! Straight screams.

The uncle looked at Xiaolong with dark eyes, looking back and forth at the laughing brothers and sisters, looking innocent and harmless, and couldn't help coughing out.