When we arrived at the tea field, looking at the rows of tea trees spitting new buds, everyone was in a very good mood. A few people spread out in each row and began to pick.

"Be careful, everyone! Don't get stung by the caterpillar above. The old village chief reminded.

At this time, it is also the time when the caterpillars show their faces, and they often like to eat those tender tea leaves. Sometimes it is seriously overflowing, and you will find that the whole tea tree, all of which is full of caterpillars, is very scary.

These hairs are stinging and don't hurt, but they're very itchy and will allow you to scratch your skin. Once you get stung by their hair, it's best not to bother. Let an attentive person help you pull out those hairs one by one, and then wash them with soapy water, and the dermatitis will slowly disappear.

"There will be caterpillars?" There are bold tourists who are quite interested.

As soon as his words fell, Brother Wren caught one and flew away quickly. No matter how powerful these caterpillars are, they are just food rations for birds, this is the law of heaven and earth, and it cannot be changed.

"The last time I saw people on a large scale, they were all picked by machines, very fast!" Someone spoke.

Professor Wen nodded: "There are three ways to pick tea, our hand-picking, which is the most traditional, also called hand-picking; There is also cutting and machine mining, the kind you are talking about, which is the product of machine mining, modernization. ”

There are three kinds of hand picking: first, pinching: also known as folding picking, all delicate standard picking bag top, teasing head are applied to this technique. Second, handle picking: This is a moderate standard picking method, which is used in most red and green tea areas.

Third, two-handed picking: this is an advanced hand-picking method to improve the efficiency of tea picking, about twice the effectiveness of single-handed picking, generally less than fifty catties per person per day, more than seventy or eighty catties, but the tea tree must have an ideal crown, the picking surface is smooth, and the germination is neat.

"Harvesting? What came from? Chu Jiaqiang asked, this was the first time he had heard this term. In Chujiazhai, there is only hand picking. Machine-picked. Chu Jiaqiang has also heard of it.

It is mainly a reciprocating cutting tea picker. Driven by a small gasoline engine or micro-motor, the power is transmitted from the flexible shaft to the hand-held picking device, which drives the cutter and the leaf collection device to reciprocate. The tea leaves are fed into the leaf collection bag under the action of a fan or sweeping impeller. The picking quality is good, and the complete rate of buds and leaves can reach about 80%, which is the main type of non-selective tea picker.

Professor Wen explained to everyone that the harvest of side tea is due to the coarse raw materials. Harvest with a wide range of tools. The tools used in various places include a small moon-shaped iron scraper, sickle or picking gourd, etc., the tools require a sharp blade, and the cutting should be fast, so as to avoid cutting the branches and affecting the germination of new shoots in the next round.

"How long do you want to pick?" Xu Bimei and others are picking tea for the first time, and they don't know which part of the shoots to start with, and how long they should be folded off is the most appropriate.

"We generally don't have a conclusion on this, and it is more appropriate to cut it off with a fingernail." Chu Jiaqiang said to them.

Everyone chatted and picked tea. The score is very good. Hong Lao and others seem to have returned to the sixties and seventies, and everyone engaged in large-scale production together.

"Ouch! Come and see! I have a nest of birds here, I don't know what breed. "A tourist discovers the New World as it is. These people, seeing this, will undoubtedly be as surprised as the rural people see a piece of gold.

"The people who make nests in this kind of place are basically ordinary birds, which are relatively difficult to domesticate. Because I don't understand human nature very much. "Chu Jiaqiang doesn't have to look at it, he should guess a few points, there is a ** out of ten that is a finches.

Just because he's not interested, doesn't mean everyone else is as indifferent as he is. Many tourists rushed over one after another, and they saw three small birds inside, and they were not afraid at all when they saw so many strangers. He also opened his mouth wide and screamed desperately. These little birds are like that, whether they are hungry or not, they see other creatures. will open their mouths wide to eat.

"The bird's feathers are green, look at it." Someone said.

"Hey! You go catch a few bugs and give them to eat, they must be hungry, and the mother bird hasn't come back yet. A girl next to her spoke.

These girls like birds, but they are afraid of insects, so they have to tell the gay men around them. Those boys, although they don't like those bugs very much, but in order to win the favor of beautiful women, they have to endure the nausea and catch bugs.

Chu Jiaqiang shook his head, these guys have now completely forgotten that they are here to pick tea. Before he came, he knew that most of these guys were soy sauce. You see, not wrong?

Chu Jiaqiang didn't guess wrong, Fu Shenglin glanced at it, and said the bottom of the little bird: "This is Liu Ying, you should have heard of it." It is a very common finch bird in the south and is also a summer migratory bird. ”

The willow warbler, commonly known as willow string or locust string, is the most common and most numerous small insectivorous bird in China. Their body size is much smaller than that of sparrows, the back feathers are mainly olive green or brown, the lower body is pale white, the beak is thin and pointed, often at the tip of the branch to fly and catch insects, sometimes fly away from the branch to fan their wings, coax the insects up, and then catch up and peck, so they are very active birds, and when jumping between the branches, from time to time make a thin and crisp "boy" sound, it is easy to identify.

Fu Shenglin also told everyone that there are many species of willow warblers in China, all of which are summer migratory birds, which are all over the mountains and forests, gardens and urban parks in various places during migration; Some of these species breed in northern China, the most famous being the yellow-browed willow warbler and the yellow-rumped willow warbler.

Chu Jiaqiang glanced at a small bird on the tea tree in the distance, it was the willow warbler, holding a worm in her mouth, looking at everyone nervously.

He suddenly laughed and said, "Who said that the mother bird didn't come back?" Look at you, lest you abduct other people's children! Disperse, everyone! Save people from worrying. ”

Everyone looked up, and sure enough, they saw a small bird looking at this side, with a worm in its mouth. Seeing this, everyone had to disperse.

"Now that you're back, why don't you scream?" Someone muttered.

Someone next to him laughed: "You are stupid! Stupider than other birds, if you call, won't the worm in your mouth fall off? Ever heard the story of the crow and the fox? That is, a bird as stupid as a crow will be fooled. ”

As soon as they dispersed, the wren flew over and chirped a few times to learn the song of the willow warbler, and the birds chirped even harder. I saw that the bird in the distance was just about to fly over, and when I saw the wren flying to the nest, he hurriedly flew over.

"Sure enough, it's a troublemaker! There's its share there. Zhou Furong scolded secretly.

The little squirrel is the most diligent, and when he came here, he has been helping Chu Jiaqiang pick tea leaves, without stopping, and his movements are quite fast. Chu Jiaqiang himself is fast, picking it with both hands, plus the little squirrel, it is even more incomparable.