Within a few days, the news of the Wang and Fang clans' 'ghost shaving heads' spread all over Beixi Village, and several mothers-in-law in the village who had befriended them were so frightened that they didn't dare to sleep all night. The angry men of their own family were angry at night, and they had to scold them, and then they saw them chewing their tongues with the Wang family, so they took a break and sent them back to their parents' house.

The people in the village saw that a group of flower-like girls came to the Qingyun Tea Garden overnight, flying into the tea garden like butterflies to pick tea, and the girls who were stopped by their mothers and refused to come complained. The Xia family is blessed by nobles and God. Believing that the Fang family and the Wang family were retributioned by the two long-tongued women, they lost the opportunity to make money in vain.

The girls of the Wu family and the girls of Beixi Village quickly became acquainted, singing to the mountain while picking tea, and laughing together when they were resting.

Although the dozen or so girls brought by Zhiqiu have fine skin and tender meat, they look like young ladies raised in the boudoir, but their hands and feet are very sharp, and the tea green they pick is good and abundant, and they are not inferior to Qian Qiaoqing at all.

But no matter who asked them what their last names were, or where they came from, they just smiled and didn't answer.

As a result, they have become more and more mysterious in the eyes of others.

Qian Qiaoqing ran to ask Xia Qingyun, and Xia Qingyun could only tell her with a smile that Zhiqiu and the others used to be in the farm of a large family, and this family was the buyer of the Xia family, and they heard that the tea garden was short of manpower, so they specially sent it.

Dad and Hua Yun took a few people into the mountain early every day, and according to the method taught by Xia Qingyun, they surveyed the two newly bought mountains, drew a topographic map of the mountain, and marked the fertility of the soil layer and the growth of vegetation on the map.

On this day, Hua Yun took the drawn picture to Xia Qingyun. He didn't understand, why didn't his sister let him open up the wasteland directly, what was the use of laboriously drawing these pictures?

Xia Qingyun spread the drawings on the table and explained to him: "Not all mountainous areas are suitable for planting tea trees, for example, if tea trees are planted in these steep slopes, the soil will become loose because of the frequent loosening of the soil, and it is rainy in the mountains, it is easy to wash the soil down, and it is easy to cause soil erosion over time. ”

"Isn't more than half of the mountain land we bought unusable?" Hua Yun was puzzled, since this is the case, why did my sister spend money to buy it.

Xia Qingyun said with a smile: "The temperature on the mountain is lower than that below, and there are clouds and mist, the growth of tea trees is slow, and the tea produced is green in color, with more hair, and the buds and leaves are more tender." The resulting tea leaves will have a special floral aroma. The aroma is strong when brewed, and the taste is particularly sweet, which is called alpine cloud tea. ”

As she spoke, she took a pen and sketched on the drawing.

"Hua Yun, you see, we can reclaim terraces on the hillside, and leave some tall trees not to be cut down at the upwind of the tea plantation, the surrounding open space, and near the ditch. And when clearing the wasteland, the tea garden should not be too dense, leaving more grass. In this way, it can not only block the mountain wind for the tea plantation, but also maintain the water and soil. ”

"Sister, what are you doing here to draw a circle?" Hua Yun asked while listening.

"We need to dig some reservoirs here to retain the rainwater and use it to water the tea plantations during the dry season. Also, after the tea garden is opened, you can properly plant some soybeans, peanuts, sweet potatoes and rape among the tea trees. ”

Xia Qingyun told Hua Yun in detail how to open up terraces, how to dig ditches and reservoirs, and how to interplant various crops.

Beixi Village is located in a mountain col, and more than 200 households in the village are scattered along the mountain pass, and can only grow rice on a small piece of flat land in the mountains. Therefore, a family like the Xia family's old house with six acres of rice is relatively wealthy. If we can teach the villagers about the reclamation and planting of terraced fields, everyone can grow a lot of rice, and life will be much better.

Hua Yun thought so in his heart, so he asked: "Sister, can you teach this method to the villagers, and let them open terraces on the mountains to grow rice, so that they can receive a lot more rations a year." ”

Xia Qingyun put down the pen, she was very pleased that her younger brother was kind-hearted and could think of the villagers in her heart.

"Hua Yun, you said that planting rice or planting tea trees, which one makes more money?"

"Needless to say, of course it's tea planting!" Hua Yun didn't even think about blurting out, "A pound of tea can be sold for dozens of taels of silver!" ”

Xia Qingyun said with a smile: "So, when the tea garden on the mountain is opened, I want the villagers to wrap it up." They don't need to spend money to buy land and tea seedlings, as long as they serve the tea trees carefully, and pick qualified tea green tea on time to sell to us. But don't talk about it yet, because we have just started planting high mountain tea, and we must have a year to accumulate some planting experience before we can teach it to the villagers. ”

Thinking that in the near future, the villagers of Beixi Village might rely on the tea trees all over the mountain, eat white rice, wear muslin clothes, and live a prosperous life, Xia Huayun couldn't help but feel excited, and he couldn't wait to open all the terraced tea plantations immediately.

He said with gusting hands: "Otherwise, my father and I will simply build some sheds on the mountain and take people to live on the mountain, so that we don't have to run back and forth every day, hurry up and catch up with the planting of a batch of tea seedlings this autumn." ”

"That's fine." Xia Qingyun thought for a while and said: "If you want to build it, you can build it, and the villagers will be able to use it if they have a tea garden in the future." ”

After arranging the affairs of the mountain reclamation and tea plantations, Xia Qingyun began to concentrate on making tea.

Perhaps because of the irrigation with water mixed with the Seven Stars Spring Water, coupled with the careful care of the Xia family, the yield and quality of autumn tea far exceeded her expectations.

Xia Qingyun made all this batch of autumn tea into Shou Mei, and a total of 2,800 catties of high-quality Shou Mei and 600 catties of the best Shou Mei.

Drinking Shou Mei often has many benefits, not only to brighten the eyes and nourish the skin, but also to lower blood pressure, blood lipids, blood sugar, nourish the heart and calm the nerves, which is very suitable for elderly people to drink.

The tea of Shou Mei is white all over the body, and the leaves are flat and long, which is quite similar to the eyebrows of the old man, so it is named. When brewed, the soup is bright and apricot yellow, sweet and mellow, and has a faint medicinal aroma. And the longer it is stored, the stronger the medicinal aroma.

Therefore, in addition to loose tea, she pressed all the 1,200 catties into tea cakes, which were also covered with white cotton paper, and the paper was inscribed with the name of 'Nanshan Shoumei', which means that Shoubi Nanshan is not old.

He also drew a pattern, and asked the craftsman to make a square flat box with sandalwood, lined with pale yellow brocade, a box and a cake, antique, elegant and luxurious.

Zhiqiu came with a group of girls to say goodbye, saying that Gongzi had sent a carriage to pick them up. Xia Qingyun took out the silver that had been prepared a long time ago, and whatever she said, Zhiqiu refused to accept it.

Xia Qingyun instructed his subordinates to go to the treasury and take more than a dozen tubes of high-grade white peonies and give them to everyone, saying: "Miss Zhiqiu, white peonies are the most suitable for women to drink, brighten their eyes and maintain their faces, and the remaining tea soup can also be used to wash their faces, which can make their skin white and tender." The girl should never shirk again, just as a commemoration of coming to Qingyun Tea Garden. ”

Zhiqiu smiled: "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate." He instructed everyone to take the tea, thanked Xia Qingyun, and got into the carriage that had been waiting at the door and left.

Taking care of the affairs at home, Xia Qingyun prepared to go into the mountains again to find new varieties of tea trees.

The mother prepared all kinds of food and put them in the bamboo box one by one, so that she could store them in the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion. chose a cool day in autumn, Xia Qingyun said goodbye to his family and went to the mountains alone.

In her previous life, she was originally indifferent and liked to be alone, but after being reborn as Xia Qingyun, the relationship between her father and her younger siblings became deeper and deeper. I didn't feel it when I first went up the mountain before, but this time I only came out for half a day, and I felt a tie in my heart.

The care of her father and mother on weekdays, the laughter between brothers and sisters, bit by bit, accumulate together, weave into an invisible net, and firmly surround her heart.

A faint parting sorrow, like a faint fragrance of tea, contains a hint of bitterness in the fragrance, and after the bitterness, it is mellow and sweet, lingering in my heart.

Xia Qingyun wanted to go and see the thousand-year-old tea tree first, so he followed the route he had taken last time he entered the mountain.

The vegetation on the mountain is much more lush than in spring, the bushes and vines are like green barriers, and Xia Qingyun is like a dexterous deer, and like a fairy in the jungle, agile through it.

When it was approaching dusk, he finally found the waterhole last time, the cave was still the same, Xia Qingyun simply cleaned up, lit a bonfire, took out the food prepared by his mother from the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion, and had a full meal.

At night, the mountains and forests gradually become lively, and many small animals run to the waterhole to drink, and even a mountain beaver passes by the mouth of the cave. Beavers are very vigilant, and at the slightest movement, they stop to look or climb up the trees lightly.

But the strange thing is that the mountain beaver who walked to the entrance of the cave was not afraid of Xia Qingyun at all, not only did not run away, but even came over and hummed a few times, as if it was a coquettish big cat.

Xia Qingyun threw over a few pieces of bullfrog meat, and the beaver sniffed around the fragrant bullfrog meat, swallowed it in one gulp, and looked at her with two round eyes, as if to say, "It's delicious!" One more piece! ”

Looking at the beaver's cute appearance, Xia Qingyun threw a few more pieces to it, until he was satisfied, the beaver hummed in a low voice, circled around Xia Qingyun a few times, rubbed his body on the cave wall, stretched his waist, and then reluctantly left.

Seeing off this uninvited guest, Xia Qingyun flashed into the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion, ran a hot spring beautifully, and fell into a sweet dreamland.

In the early morning, the golden morning sun shines through the gaps in the leaves, mountain sparrows chirp and jump in the branches, and white-breasted emerald birds spread their beautiful blue wings and rush over the water.

Xia Qingyun was wearing a light cyan coarse summer cloth suit, her long black hair was combed high behind her head, and she was braided into a black and shiny braided braid, which hung down to her waist, and as she walked, the braid swayed back and forth on her slender waist.

She took out the thick hemp rope she had prepared, expertly tied a knot on it, and after a few turns in her hand, she threw it straight to the rock wall, which happened to be attached to a protruding rock.

After pulling hard to make sure the rope was firmly stuck in the rock, she stretched out her hands and feet and quickly climbed up the thick hemp rope.