Chapter 178: The Journey to Lu'an (5)
Wang Jing's tea mountain is twenty miles away from Huoshan Mountain, a place called Jinji Mountain. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
They didn't ride horses, they also rode in cars, and they walked all the way, which was a different taste.
Along the way, the mountain flowers are in full bloom, the wild fruits are fragrant, the water is clear and the mountains are beautiful, the bamboo forests are verdant, and the scenery is refreshing.
Huoshan in this season is the season when wild fruits are ripe.
Rice dates, wild chestnuts, August hawthorn, wild papaya, wild hawthorn, golden hook pear, sugar pear, pecan, wild grape, wild pomegranate, sugar pear, ...... Everything you need, everywhere.
The rice dates are all red in this season, and the trees are not tall, so you can catch them as soon as you reach out. Crispy, juicy, sweet and refreshing, delicious. A few people unknowingly picked up a large basket.
Wild chestnuts are much smaller than those planted, but you can go back and make chestnut stewed chicken or fry them with sugar. Everyone picked another basket.
However, Wang Jing's favorite is a fruit called August hawthorn.
August hawthorn, also known as wild banana, is a bit like a kiwi, but much longer than it, slightly like a banana, and when ripe, the skin is cracked and can be peeled and eaten like a banana. Its flesh is snow-white, with seeds like black sesame seeds, and the flesh is sweet and delicate, and the taste is very unique.
Wild papaya also began to turn golden at this time, but it is extremely sour to eat, but it is an excellent Chinese medicine, with the ability to dispel wind and meridians; Promote blood circulation and relieve pain; The effect of diuresis and swelling can be made into candied fruit, and it can also be used to make decanting soup. Before I knew it, I picked a lot.
Liu Yongan laughed at her: "If you go on like this, when we go back, we will hire a few big cars to pull it." ”
Wild hawthorn also turns from green to red at this time, but its flesh is very little, but it is a thin layer of skin, sour, so it can strengthen the stomach and eliminate accumulation, converge and stop bleeding, disperse stasis and relieve pain. Everyone unknowingly picked a lot more.
The shape of the fruit of the golden hook pear is like the word "swastika", also known as the longevity fruit, the raw food is a little sweet, and it can cure rheumatism and relieve hangover after soaking in wine. The scientific name is Citrus aurantium.
Wang Jing said: "This must be picked, my father has a lot of entertainment, pick more to make him decanting soup." ”
Sugar pear, also called prickly pear, is also yellow when ripe, covered with thorns, and many locals will grind it with their shoes when eating.
All kinds of wild fruits, just to name a few, you name it. Wang Jing was very busy there, but fortunately when she came out, she specially brought two bamboo baskets, and in less than an hour, the four of them actually picked two baskets full of wild fruits.
At this time, it is the autumn harvest season, and the hard-working farmers are breaking corn, cutting sorghum, cutting buckwheat, and picking mung beans......
Cattle and sheep graze leisurely in the mountains and forests, the sky is high and the clouds are light, quiet and peaceful.
As far as the eye can see, there are green bamboo forests, and bamboo products can be seen everywhere.
Wang Jing: "I really want to live here for the rest of my life and be a cattle herder." ”
Liu Yongan said: "Isn't my sister's biggest ambition to eat all the world's delicacies? If you have been living in this mountain, I am afraid that you can only drink the mountain spring. ”
The guide who came to find has gone back, and today they are accompanied by a guy named Huo Liu in the tea shop, fourteen or fifteen years old, who wants to show his face in front of the owner, and can't help but smile when he hears this: "The yellow buds produced here were specially sent to the palace six hundred years ago, and those Tatars in this dynasty did not know how to drink tea, and the tea ceremony gradually declined." ”
Wang Jing was stunned.
She remembered very well that when Master Qian gave her the jade pendant, he told her that she was buying a barren mountain, and the tea tree was discovered by accident. But why did this young man say it was a tribute?
Since it is a tribute, it cannot be a barren mountain at all.
Wang Jing: "How many tea trees are there in our tea farm?" ”
Huo Liu: "There are about two or three hundred acres, I don't know what the shopkeeper said." ”
Wang Jing: "I haven't seen the tea leaves growing on the trees yet, so why don't you take us over to have a look." ”
A few people went to Chashan for a turn, and Wang Jing became more and more sure of her inner guess.
Patches of tea plantations can't be barren mountains at all.
Originally, she still had the feeling of picking up a treasure before, but now she feels suspicious.
Since it's a tribute, how can it be taken out?
When she went back in the evening, Wang Jing specially inquired about it from the shopkeeper Huo.
"Our tea is shaped like a bird's tongue, tender green, the aroma is fragrant and lasting, the taste is mellow and sweet, the soup color is yellow and green, clear and bright, and the bottom of the leaves is tender and bright, which seems to be better than the special West Lake Longjing." Wang Jing said.
"Three days early is a treasure, and three days late is a grass. The Longjing tea picked before the Qingming Festival is the best, and the thirty or forty thousand pieces of tea are only one pound of special Longjing. Of course, it also depends on the craftsmanship of the tea maker. "Shopkeeper Huo is talking about tea." Their group tea is steamed, we are fried, and the taste is much better. ”
"It turns out that our tea master has better craftsmanship." Wang Jing looked teachable, "Then how is his salary paid?" ”
"Master Lu has invested in our shares, taking 10% of the profit every year, and a fixed income of 500 taels of silver every year."
Wang Jing smiled and said, "Speaking of which, it's the first time I've come here, so let's add an extra fifty taels of silver to each of you this month." ”
Shopkeeper Huo hurriedly stood up and thanked him, and said, "It's a pity that Master Lu went out to travel, otherwise he would definitely come over to thank you in person." ”
Wang Jing said: "I didn't expect Master Lu to be an elegant person. ”
The shopkeeper Huo said: "Who said it wasn't." It was our tea garden, which was also his family before, but unfortunately he was young at that time, and his uncle seized his property, and he was sold as a driver again, or Uncle Qian found a way for him to change his good name. ”
Hearing what Shopkeeper Huo said, Wang Jing breathed a sigh of relief.
The origin of this tea mountain is fine.
"No wonder I said how could it be so cheap."
"It's not cheap, three thousand taels of silver. At that time, the price was not as expensive as it is now, not to mention three thousand taels of silver in our area, even if there were not many people who could take out three taels of silver, and they wanted cash. Besides, the tea tree was sick at that time, if it wasn't for Qian Ye inviting Master Lu back, I was afraid that the tea tree would have died long ago. Besides, there are so many local tea mountains, and the sales are not good, even our tea is also sold by Qian Ye himself. "Who can afford to drink these five taels of silver and one tael of tea?
Wang Jing put on a teachable appearance again, but thought to herself: My cousin didn't have any money in his hand at that time, but why didn't he tell me that he had spent an extra 2,000 taels of silver? Is it because I helped him in Dingyuan and wanted to compensate me privately?
She really couldn't find any other reason other than that.
In fact, Wang Jing didn't plan to take over the tea garden here at that time, the reason why she came over was just because she thought that Qiao Chaoyang was far away in the capital, and she was really out of reach for Huo Shan, so she took it in desperation. But he planned that if he met Qiao Chaoyang again, he would definitely return this tea mountain to him.
Although she likes money, a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way. If you don't belong to yourself, you will inevitably feel uneasy when you hold it in your hand.
said goodbye to the shopkeeper Huo, and she told Liu Yongan the truth of the matter.
Liu Yongan said: "It's not easy for him, he should really return it." In the future, you don't have to think about these messy things, you are now someone's daughter-in-law, so naturally you should be raised by a man. As he spoke, he hugged her waist and kissed her face.
Wang Jing hurriedly took out the paper with the handprint pressed again, "I'm counting the time, it's only the next day." ”
Liu Yongan was secretly unhappy in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, so he really let go of him and rolled up a quilt and slept by himself. (To be continued.) )