Chapter 165: Dragon King Tea Tree
After breakfast on the Dragon Boat Festival, Yue Haohan and Cheng Ziying went to Yangjiang Hotel together, Ye Yunqing, Zhang Haiming, and Fu Rongsheng had just had breakfast, and several people were accompanied by Tao Chunxiao, drinking tea and chatting in Zhang Haiming's room.
Yue Haohan entered the room and exchanged a few words with everyone, looked at Ye Yunqing, and asked, Mr. Ye, how about we go to the black Yazi management area in Wulong Township this morning to see the tea garden and tea processing workshop there?
Ye Yunqing said, a few of us originally planned to do this, go over and have a look today, and tomorrow Professor Fu Lao Tongzhang wants to go to Wudang Mountain for a day, the most important thing is that Fu Lao wants to understand Taoist medicine.
After everyone discussed, Tao Chunxiao reported to Gu Zhengshan, secretary of the county party committee, and asked for a car from the county party committee office, and took Yue Haohan and Cheng Ziying to lead the way for Ye Yunqing and his party in front, and drove towards Wulong Township.
Before leaving, Yue Haohan hung up the phone to the Heiyazi management area, the call was answered by Zhang Cai'e, Yue Haohan asked Zhang Cai'e to tell Deng Shaochun, let him wait at home, and asked Deng Shaochun to prepare a table of meals for more than a dozen people at noon.
At nearly eleven o'clock, the car arrived at the Wulong Township Government, and the two cars had just stopped in the courtyard of the township government, with the township mayor Lin Ping first, Deng Xuanfa, deputy secretary of the township party committee, and Huang Zijian of the township party and government office, followed closely and enthusiastically greeted them from the foyer of the government building. Lin Ping and the three of them arrived at the car, and everyone in the car also came down, everyone stood in the yard, Yue Haohan introduced each other to everyone, and when Cheng Ziying was introduced, Yue Haohan said, this is my classmate, called Cheng Ziying, who works on the Donghai Stock Exchange.
Lin Ping looked at Cheng Ziying again, smiled at Yue Haohan, and said, Haohan, I haven't finished introducing it yet, it's not just a classmate, isn't it still being kept secret from all of us.
Yue Haohan tilted his head and glanced at Cheng Ziying next to him, smiled, and said, Ziying still has an identity, my girlfriend, we are classmates and friends.
Deng Xuanfa interjected with a smile and said, when will you two pick us up to eat candy?
Yue Haohan said, when the time comes, you will definitely be indispensable Secretary Deng.
Everyone stood in the courtyard of the township government and greeted for a while, because today is Sunday, and it is the traditional Dragon Boat Festival, everyone else has gone home, and the leaders of the township government are Lin Ping and Deng Xuanfa, and the party and government office is Huang Zijian on duty. After a brief discussion, the group got into the car directly and drove in the direction of the black Yazi management area.
The car got on the winding mountain road, and after a while, it stopped in the open field, Yue Haohan got out of the car and went to Ye Yunqing's car, Ye Yunqing parked the car and got out of the car with Zhang Haiming and Fu Rongsheng, and looked into the distance, seeing that the hillside was lush everywhere, Ye Yunqing pointed ahead and asked, are those tea gardens on the hillside?
Yue Haohan next to him replied, saying, Yes, they are all tea gardens, most of them are green tea trees, and some of them are camellia trees. It's a pity that it's basically deserted, and no one runs it.
Ye Yunqing said that after the added value is increased, if the tea farmers have money to earn, they will naturally not be barren.
Lin Ping, the township mayor standing on the other side of Ye Yunqing, took over and said, Mr. Ye, you are a famous tea expert and tea distribution king, I hope you can pay attention to us and provide me with technical help, so that our tea gardens all over the mountains can be effectively used, which is also a meritorious thing for the benefit of the people.
Ye Yunqing glanced at Lin Ping and said with a smile, Township Chief Lin, I am a businessman first, not a philanthropist, businessmen are all profit-oriented, so let's see how much profit I can get from it.
Yue Haohan said, Mr. Ye, you have a good feeling, in terms of our geographical location and climatic conditions, this tea is absolutely pollution-free natural organic tea, if the reprocessing technology is upgraded to a higher grade, the tea produced is definitely the highest grade.
Ye Yunqing smiled, changed the topic, and asked, these tea gardens were probably developed in the late seventies to mid-eighties, right? It hasn't developed in recent years.
Yue Haohan replied, I have learned in detail, most of the tea on this mountain was developed in the seventies, I don't know what the variety is? However, the production is not too high.
Ye Yunqing said that if the tea garden developed in the 70s should be a bumper yield now, it would be a waste!
Yue Haohan said, Mr. Ye, there are still a few century-old tea trees in the tea garden contracted by Deng Shaochun in Heiyazi Village. Among them, there is a tea tree that is five or six meters high, and it is necessary to build a shelf to pick tea green tea every year.
"What? A century-old tea tree? How many strains are there? Ye Yunqing turned his head to look at Yue Haohan and asked. Obviously, Ye Yunqing was very interested in the ancient tea tree.
Yue Haohan replied that there were seven or eight plants in total, and one of them was particularly large.
Ye Yunqing said that he must go and see it at that time.
Standing in the open area to observe and rest for a while, everyone continued to drive towards the black Yazi management area, when they were about to arrive at the management area, they saw Zhu Changyou and Deng Xingguo in the management area standing at the gate of the management area, looking in the direction of the car, the car slowed down to the two and stopped, Yue Haohan jumped out of the car, shook hands with Zhu Changyou and Deng Xingguo, and asked, Secretary Zhu, Director Deng, today is Sunday and the Dragon Boat Festival, you are not resting at home?
Zhu Changyou replied, Zhang Cai'e received a call from you, saying that you want to bring experts to inspect our tea here, and Director Deng and I know about it, so we are waiting for you in the management area.
Yue Haohan turned around and introduced Ye Yunqing, Zhang Haiming, and Fu Rongsheng, who had just gotten off the car, to Zhu Changyou and Deng Xingguo. After the introduction, everyone stood at the door of the management area, greeted each other, and Yue Haohan said, we will go directly to Deng Shaochun's house.
Zhu Changyou walked in front to lead the way, and when he arrived at the gate of Deng Shaochun's house, Deng Shaochun was already standing there, with a smile on his face, holding a bag of Hongtashan cigarettes in his hand, and greeted everyone warmly.
Deng Shaochun let everyone into the hall and sat down, took out a glass cup, and took out a tin can of tea from the cabinet where the tea was placed, put tea leaves in everyone's cup, brewed with boiling water, and said, This is the leaf picked from my century-old tea trees and processed, the amount is not much, just fried more than a catty, everyone tastes and tastes.
After the tea leaves in the cup were brewed, Ye Yunqing picked up the cup, first smelled the tea in front of his nostrils, carefully observed and observed the unfolded leaves in the cup, then gently tasted it, smacked his mouth twice, put down the cup, and said, The taste is different, vast, the taste of this tea is not the same as the tea you brought to me to taste before the Spring Festival.
Yue Haohan also picked up the cup and tasted two sips, looked at Ye Yunqing with questioning eyes, and asked, Mr. Ye, why can't I feel it? I feel that the fragrance of this tea is lighter.
Ye Yunqing said, yes, the difference is here, the tea you brought before the Spring Festival is rich in fragrance and wild, today this tea has a light fragrance, but the fragrance is long, and the aftertaste is endless! Good tea!
Ye Yunqing picked up the cup again, tasted two sips in a row, and then said, Maybe we found a treasure this time. In the process of tea phylogeny, there are certain requirements for environmental conditions. The effects of many environmental factors on tea plants in time and space are different in different situations, and exploring the relationship between environmental factors and their influence on the growth and development of tea plants is conducive to the formulation and implementation of correct tea high-quality, high-yield, and high-efficiency cultivation technology measures. Some tea trees can grow for hundreds of years or even thousands of years, which means that the place where this tea tree grows is very suitable for this kind of tea tree in all aspects.
Tasting tea, chatting, Zhang Cai'e, the cook in the management area, went to the hall to call everyone to eat, and everyone followed Deng Shaochun to the large dining room next to the kitchen, and saw that the table was already full of peasant dishes, and there was a small pot of zongzi in the middle of the table, and there was a plate of cooked fresh garlic and a plate of tea eggs next to the zongzi.
After everyone sat down, Deng Shaochun carried the hot rice wine and poured it for everyone for one night, saying, this rice wine is my homemade realgar wine, which is specially drunk during the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone can taste it.
Fu Rongsheng picked up the realgar wine in front of him, took a sip and said, as a traditional Chinese medicine, realgar can be used as an antidote and insecticide. Therefore, the ancient people believed that realgar can restrain snakes, scorpions and other insects, "good can kill a hundred poisons, ward off a hundred evils, make Gu poison, people admire it, enter the mountains and forests and tigers and wolves ambush, enter the river and avoid a hundred poisons." However, it is still okay to drink a small amount of realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival, and if you drink it excessively, there is a risk of poisoning, because realgar contains arsenic compounds, and arsenic is the main component of arsenic.
Deng Shaochun said, Fu Lao, don't worry, our realgar wine, the amount of realgar in it is small, after the realgar is mixed into the rice wine, it is dried in the sun, from the first day of the fifth month, until the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, and then a small amount of drinking.
At noon, everyone drank a bowl of realgar wine, and then began to eat, and after the meal, they sat down and drank tea, Ye Yunqing had been thinking about going to Deng Shaochun's tea garden, so he refused Yue Haohan's request to let everyone go to the management area to rest. Under the guidance of Deng Shaochun, the group walked along the Longwang River towards the tea garden on the hillside.
Walking on the trail, everyone felt the scenery on both sides of the Longwang River, with lush trees, clouds and mist, moist soil, and fresh air. The water of the Longwang River is crystal clear, and small fish can be seen swimming in the river from time to time. The breeze was blowing, making people feel unusually cool, Zhang Haiming looked around while walking, and sighed, what a good place!
After a while, Deng Shaochun took everyone to the place where a few old tea trees were, pointed to a few tea trees several meters high, and said, this is our "Dragon King" tea here, where the rain and dew bathe the tea trees in the morning, and the sun gives them sufficient nutrients at noon. The mountain spring water flows down from the mountain and directly into the Longwang River, moistening the soil under the tea trees. The old people say that it is because of the mineral-rich soil here that these tea trees are still flourishing after a hundred years.
Ye Yunqing, Fu Rongsheng, and Zhang Haiming walked to the largest tea tree, which was a veritable ancient tea tree, with a thick trunk and a huge umbrella-like crown, all of which showed that this tea tree had grown for a certain number of years. Ye Yunqing, who was of medium height, stood under the tree, and was only one-third of the height of the tree.
Looking up at this tea tree, Ye Yunqing's face was excited, as if he had found a treasure, he watched around the tea tree, and Deng Shaochun next to him introduced, saying, The tea we drank just now was the leaves picked on this tea tree. This tea tree can produce about eight taels of finished tea every year, and the processed tea tastes particularly good.
Ye Yunqing looked at the tea tree for a while, turned his head and asked Deng Shaochun, saying, do you know the origin of this tea tree?
Deng Shaochun said, I can't tell the origin of this tea tree, it is because of these old tea trees here that I contracted the surrounding tea plantations. Just listen to the word of mouth of the older generation, this is a wild camellia tree. The leaves of this wild tea tree are much larger than the common small-leaf tea of our generation, and a tea leaf is twice as large as the small-leaf tea when unfolded. What kind of varieties these less wild tea trees are, we people here can't tell.
Ye Yunqing pointed to the tea garden next to him and asked, what varieties are these?
Deng Shaochun replied that most of my nearly 200 acres of tea plantations were cultivated by this old tea tree. In the early 70s, when the collective development of the tea garden here, because there were no seeds and seedlings, I came up with the idea of cutting the branches of these old tea trees and inserting them in the ground. Therefore, we people on both sides of the Longwang River call this old tea tree "Tea Tree King". Most of our tea plantations here were cultivated by a few ancient tea trees here, and we later called this tea tree "Dragon King Tea Tree".
Listening to Deng Shaochun's introduction, Ye Yunqing looked at the tea tree and thought, and after a while, he suddenly said, baby! These are all treasures, and such a good thing is buried like this!
After sighing, Ye Yunqing asked Deng Shaochun and said, how many tea gardens of this variety are there on both sides of the Longwang River?
Deng Shaochun said that there are about 1,500 acres in several villages, but except for my 200 acres of weeding, pruning, and picking two crops a year, most of the others are barren, because there is no market, no profit, and no one wants to operate. My 200 acres of tea plantation has only seen some income in the past two years with the help of Director Yue.
Ye Yunqing said, if all the barren tea gardens are contracted over and you are allowed to manage them, I will provide the tea processing technology, and I will be responsible for the sales of the processed tea, are you willing?
Deng Shaochun said, of course I am willing, as long as Mr. Ye is willing to provide technology, invest funds, and be responsible for sales, of course I am willing, not only I am willing, I think our villagers here will definitely be willing.
Fu Rongsheng interjected at this time and said, in fact, the scenery here is also very good! You can also rely on tea to develop the tourism and leisure industry here, and the only deficiency is that the transportation is inconvenient.
Lin Ping said: This year, we plan to strive to widen the highway from Wulong Township to here.
Ye Yunqing said, it would be great if this was the case! When I go back this time, I will arrange for the personnel in my company to come over to negotiate the contracting of the tea garden and the construction of a factory here, which is a treasure of feng shui!