After eating the meal prepared by the teahouse with a mouthful of steamed buns and a mouthful of soup, Huiya felt that her strength had recovered a lot, and she also had the energy to check the situation around her, and silently looked back and forth with her eyes wide open.

The courtyard where the tea shop is located is very spacious, and there are five tall main houses facing south, each of which is very spacious. There are four wings on the east and west sides, and the place where Huiya is now located is under the wings on the east side, looking through the open window, you can see that there are tables, chairs, pens and ink in the room.

The sun shone brightly in the courtyard, and although it was steaming hot, it was still shady under the east wing. The large courtyard is paved with large pieces of green bricks, and there are many shelves made of wood in the corners of the courtyard, on which are stacked with arm-long basket mats and other things.

There are also many shelves and mats in the center of the courtyard, but there are many green leaves on them, Huiya smells the faint aroma of the leaves, and instantly realizes that this leaf is tea. But shouldn't the tea leaves be dark green or dry leaves with a hint of white or yellow? How is it such a tender feeling.

As I was curious, I heard the first noise in the courtyard, and a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties came out of the shady place next to him, churning the baskets and mats on the ground one by one. I don't know where came two more fourteen or fifteen-year-old boys, both of whom were tall and short, and they couldn't see what they looked like, but they were as black as charcoal, and they also fiddled with the tea leaves on the ground.

"Black wood, charcoal, put the shelves ready!" A clear woman's voice sounded slowly, and Hui Ya's heart was agitated when she heard it, and she couldn't help but look in the direction where the voice came from, wanting to see what a woman with such a good voice looked like.

I saw a woman slowly walking out of the main room, it was a woman about twenty years old, wearing a dress of blue muslin, and a simple piece of silk wrapped in the same blue cotton cloth on her head, and no other jewelry.

Speaking of this woman's dress, although it is not bad, it is definitely not very good, but in Huiya's eyes, it looks better than those noble ladies from high families that she saw in her previous life. Hui Ya couldn't say what it was like, the eyebrows and eyes of the woman in front of her were not surprisingly beautiful, but when they were fused together, they revealed a comforting feeling.

The woman was followed by a stout man, who also looked to be in his early twenties, much taller than the woman, but he followed the woman silently, and only took her aside when there was a shelf on the ground that might trip the woman.

Hui Ya looked at the actions of this woman and the man, and somehow felt very harmonious, the kind of mutual love that was quiet but revealed from the bones, made Hui Ya feel very envious, and stood in place and looked at the woman with bright eyes.

"Let everyone come today, our tea shop is going to recruit apprentices for roasting tea, there will be a few checkpoints later, all the people who have passed the level will be recruited as apprentices by the tea shop, with a penny of wages every day, and the tea shop will pack two meals and be full." The woman's clear voice slowly spread out, and this voice seemed to have magical power, which made the courtyard, which was still a little noisy, quiet down in an instant.

"If you have been an apprentice in the tea workshop for three years, you can be recognized by the tea master, and you can make a complete tea by yourself, you can be promoted to the tea master of the tea workshop, the tea master can be ten taels of silver per year, if you are a tea master, you can create a new tea, after my approval, you can be promoted to the tea master, the tea master, you can get thirty taels of silver per year, and the income of the original new tea can get one-tenth of the commission."

Hui Ya listened to the words of the woman or the lady in a daze, and thought in her heart that if she really couldn't go back to the capital, it seemed that it was a good choice to be a tea master.

Although ten taels of silver a year is not a lot, it is enough to maintain the expenses of a well-off family, if you can't go back to the capital, make tea and drink tea in this mountain, get married and have children, and live your own small life leisurely, it seems to be good.

"Roasting tea is a tiring job, from picking tea to roasting tea, every step can not be sloppy and can not make mistakes, if you are afraid of hardship, you can leave now." Just when Huiya was thinking about a better life, the lady's words suddenly changed, with a very sharp edge, she looked at the children below with burning eyes, and inspected seriously.

Hui Ya trembled at this bright gaze, but she didn't want to lose this good opportunity to become an apprentice in the tea workshop, so she gritted her teeth and straightened her back, and looked at the lady firmly, indicating that she understood and would be serious.

The lady seemed to see Hui Ya's firmness, and nodded with a slight smile on her face, as if spring had returned to the earth, "The selection of fried tea apprentices has officially begun!" ”

"The first level, choose tea. Each person gets a tael of green tea, these green tea is picked down different tea mixed together, a stick of incense within the time, the clearest, the least loss of tea green, pass. With the lady's words, the three people who had been tossing tea leaves in the courtyard just now began to get busy, arranging the shelves neatly, and then placing a round basket on each shelf.

Hui Ya was arranged to stand behind a basket, looking at the girl who began to entertain herself to eat steamed buns, holding a basket in her arms, grabbing a large handful of tea leaves from it, oh no, it should be called Cha Qing's stall in front of her, while carefully observing the tea green in front of her, while carefully recalling what the lady said.

Is this tea green different? Hui Ya looked at the large amount of tea green in front of her, stretched out her hand to spread them out, and observed carefully, the tea green looked similar to the leaves, but most of them were like young shoots, some had two pieces, and some did not have a leaf...... What's the difference between these tea greens!

The competition has begun, Hui Ya frowned and pinched a piece of tea green in her hand, she couldn't figure out what was going on with this tea green, but she suddenly recalled the different tea leaves she drank in her previous life. Some seem to be thin needle-shaped, and some are large and large leaves...... The shape may be the difference between these tea greens!

Thinking of this, Huiya's mood suddenly improved, and she was busy dividing the tea green closest to her into a pile of pure buds, a pile of single leaves, and a pile of double leaves according to the number of leaves. As half of the tea greens were separated, Huiya found that all the tea greens could be distinguished in this way, and she became more and more firm in her judgment.

Just when Hui Ya happily separated her tea green, there was suddenly a burst of green rain in front of her, and when she raised her head, she found that she had a handful of tea green in front of her, which Dong Taohua threw to herself.

"You!" Hui Ya glared at Dong Taohua angrily, you must know that in this selection, one of the necessary conditions for passing the tea is to pass the tea division, there is an extra handful of tea green, where can it be so easy to divide it!

When Hui Ya was about to say something, several people from Dongjia Village next to her also seemed to be reminded by Dong Taohua's behavior, and threw the tea green in their baskets to Hui Ya one after another. Although Dong Taoshu saw it, he didn't stop them, but pursed his lips and lowered his head.

You guys...... Hui Ya was indignant in her heart, she was framed by this group of little cubs, and wanted to throw Cha Qing back by her own temperament, but she felt a little reluctant. The tea in my hand is fresh and tender, as if it is still with dew, so you can imagine how difficult it is to pick.

If they threw the tea back themselves, they would probably throw it back again, or they would have crumpled it like the ones in their hands, right? That's it, Hui Ya frowned and lowered her head, picking up the tea in her basket more and more quickly.

When the end time came, Huiya only picked half of the tea green, seeing that she missed the apprenticeship quota and could only return to Dongjia Village to continue her previous life, Huiya hung her shoulders a little frustratedly.