Chapter 7 The best white peony

Xia Qingyun was so busy rushing back that he didn't notice that there was a person behind him.

The way back is always faster than when you go. In the evening, you can already see the Nord Stream outside the village.

Still some way from home, she heard a crisp voice shouting, "Sister! It's my sister! My sister is back! ”

The little sister ran towards her like a gust of wind and threw herself into her arms.

"Qiuyun, why did you run out? What about Huayun? Is Daddy okay? ”

"It's all good! You didn't come back last night, we were scared to death, I've been waiting for you here since the afternoon. ”

Xia Qingyun smiled and rubbed her little sister's face, "Let's go, let's go home!" ”

Seeing her return safely, the hearts of her father and sister finally relaxed.

Seeing that there was nothing empty in the back basket, her mother comforted her and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't find anything, it's good if you come back!" If you're hungry, I'll give you a hot meal. ”

Xia Qingyun rolled his eyes, smiled and took his mother's arm and said, "I originally planned to go to the mountains, but last night the fairy suddenly appeared and taught me a good thing, saying that it can be exchanged for a lot of silver." Mother, did you say that the Queen Mother knew that Master Jin was bullying our family, so she sent a fairy to help me? ”

When the mother heard her say this, she hurriedly clasped her palms together and chanted into the air, "Thank you for the great kindness of the Queen Mother!" In the future, if you save money, you must go to Niangniang Temple to make a vow. ”

"Mother, have you made a wish in the Niangniang Temple? Which Niangniang temple is it? Xia Qingyun asked curiously.

The mother glanced at her father and said with a smile: "You were weak when you were a child, and you often had some small problems. When I went out with your father, I passed by a temple of the Queen Mother, and I heard that the incense was very spiritual, so I bowed to you and begged her to bless you from disasters and take refuge. Sure enough, it worked!"

"Oh." Xia Qingyun suddenly realized, no wonder he made up a story about the queen mother's mother, and his father believed it, it turned out that there was such a reason in it.

"Sister, the fairy gave you something good, take it out and let us see." The little sister urged.

"Shhhh A little noise, the partition wall has ears. Xia Qingyun said, raising his finger and pointing to the roof.

The man in black lying on the roof trembled in his heart, he was obviously very careful, how did she find out? The man in black hesitated for a moment, and then climbed down the wooden house, and a few ups and downs, disappearing into the night.

"The fairy said that she could take it out when it was time to catch the market." Xia Qingyun is still fooling the little sister, "Wait for my sister to rush to the market to exchange the silver, tear a piece of flower cloth for the little sister to make a new dress, and then buy a pair of embroidered shoes, okay?" ”

The little sister listened to the stars in her eyes and smiled like a flower.

"Okay, let your sister rest and eat." The mother carried a bowl of boiled taro and a plate of fried pu vegetables on the table.

Xia Qingyun got up early and ate a fish, and then he was busy on the road, his stomach was already hungry, he picked up the bowl, and quickly wiped out the taro and pu cabbage.

"Ahh ”

"Okay, sleep all of them." The mother said with a smile while cleaning up, "Hua Yun, call your father in, your sister is tired all day, go to bed early, don't disturb her." ”

In fact, Xia Qingyun was in a hurry to go to the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion to make tea, and she couldn't go in until her family was asleep.

Finally waited until the snoring was everywhere before she flashed into the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion with confidence.

Upon entering, she was startled by the sight before her.

The space inside is more than ten times larger than before.

The tea trees transplanted in the morning not only took root, but also pulled out many new branches, at this rate, in less than ten days and a half months, each tea tree picked buds and leaves can make one or two new tea.

She walked to the edge of the pond, and among the nine snake eggs, the small snake had crawled out, the thickness of the little finger, and the whole body was green.

The little snake of the bamboo leaf green snake is born with venomous fangs, and it is not a joke to be bitten by it.

However, the little snakes did not seem to be the slightest hostile to her, but swam around her unusually meekly.

Xia Qingyun tentatively stretched out her hand, and a small snake swam over, crawled to her wrist, and obediently formed a circle, as if she had put a jasper bracelet on her.

What a cute and beautiful little snake!

She gently stroked the cool and smooth scales of the little snake, and the little snake spat out the letter and licked her hand gently.

After playing with the little snake for a while, she put it back on the edge of the pond. Since the tea trees were growing so fast, she decided to divide some more branches and plant them in the ground to further expand the scale of the tea garden in the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion.

The best tea can only be used from the buds of the tea tree, and the buds are then withered and dried, and the amount of tea is very small. It's not enough to rely on just a few of them.

The miraculously fertile soil in the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion greatly reduced Xia Qingyun's workload. All you need to do is break off the tea tree branches and insert them into the soil every few steps. She even discovered that there was no need to water it, and the spring water would automatically irrigate each tea tree.

In a moment, fifty small tea trees were neatly arranged in rows and columns in the space.

Xia Qingyun washed his hands in the spring water and prepared to start making tea.

If only there were a few rooms and tea-making tools.

As she thought so, a white mist at the edge of the space began to dissipate, revealing three white-walled and tiled houses.

In front of the house, there is a stone slab platform, on which there are bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, bamboo screens, withering racks, baking cages, kneading machines and other tea-making tools.

Xia Qingyun immediately ran over excitedly.

One of the rooms on the left has a pot stove, which can be used as both for stir-frying tea and as a kitchen.

The middle room has a simple bed, chair, cabinet, etc., which should be considered a bedroom.

The one on the right is the simplest and most elegant, only a bamboo mat is spread on the ground, and a low table is placed on the mat, on which is placed a complete set of celadon tea sets for boiling tea and tasting tea.

It's so sweet! Xia Qingyun jumped up happily.

It occurred to her that if she wanted silver

As she expected, after waiting for a long time, nothing happened! It seems that you can't be too greedy, and you still have to rely on your own efforts to get the silver.

The quality of one bud and two leaves picked from the thousand-year-old tea tree is excellent, the length of the fat bud and the two leaves is roughly equal, and the buds and leaves are covered with white hairs, which is most suitable for making the best white peony in white tea.

The process of making white peony is not complicated, there is no need to fry and knead, there are only two processes: withering and drying, but the heat and process are extremely difficult to grasp, and the slightest carelessness will lead to a decline in the quality of the whole batch of tea.

Xia Qingyun took a few bamboo sieves and poured the buds and leaves picked from the thousand-year-old tea trees in the morning onto the bamboo sieve. She held the edge of the bamboo sieve in both hands and turned it to spread the buds and leaves. Quickly and briskly and repeatedly sieving and shaking, so that the buds and leaves are evenly distributed on the sieve surface without overlapping, in the jargon of tea making, it is called kaiqing.

After the greening, Xia Qingyun placed the bamboo sieve on the withering frame and waited for the buds and leaves to wither naturally.

This process cannot be rushed, it will take about a day and a half to two days.

She did the math, there were still four days left before the town's polder, just in time.

The next night, she entered the Wishful Treasure Pavilion again.

The newly planted small tea trees have also taken root and branched, and they have grown luxuriantly.

Nine small snakes become the thickness of a thumb and swim back and forth under the tea tree. Seeing her, the little snake spit out slender letters, as if to greet her.

It seems that this space has a role in accelerating the growth of both plants and animals.

Xia Qingyun came to the front of the house and saw that the buds and leaves on the withering frame had become seventy percent dry, nearly twice as fast as the speed outside the space.

The color of the buds and leaves is also excellent. The leaves are not sieveed, the color is whitish, the leaf color changes from light green to dark green, and the tip of the bud and the tender stalk are slightly upturned. The edge of the leaf is slightly curled, and the leaf color is corrugated, and it smells no longer green when it was first picked.

At this point, you can sift it together.

She removed the bamboo sieve and combined the buds and leaves in the two sieves into a sieve.

Wait for half an hour, the buds and leaves are dry, sieve two times and one sieve again, and continue to dry in the shade on the withering frame.

Taking advantage of this time, she ran to the pond to take a hot bath, and returned refreshed to prepare for the next process.

When the buds and leaves are half dry, Xia Qingyun gently picks out the tea stems, and then you can carry out the final process and dry it into tea.

After a period of busy work, the best white peony finally showed her graceful demeanor.

I saw that its tea buds and leaves are branched, the leaf color is gray and green, sandwiched with a silver and white heart, it is a heart-hugging heart, the back of the leaf is covered with white hairs, the leaf edge is slightly rolled to the back of the leaf, the form is stretched, natural and generous.

A whole thousand-year-old tea tree has only produced the best white peony with more than four taels.

Xia Qingyun took out the small bamboo tubes prepared in advance, and put about half a tael of tea leaves in each bamboo tube. The rest of the little was the first to be tasted.

Fill a pot of clear spring, put it on a small red clay stove and boil, let it settle slightly, and then pour the pot into the tea cup.

The white peony in the tea cup is brewed with boiling water, and the turquoise leaves set off the tender leaf buds, like the peony buds blooming, gorgeous and beautiful. The veins of the leaves are slightly red, spread among the green leaves, like a beauty wrapped in red makeup, which is extraordinarily tranquil and elegant.

Raise your hand lightly, pour the tea soup into the cup, see that the soup is apricot yellow and bright, smell the tea fragrance is fresh and pleasant, as if to the misty mountains, with the fragrance of the earth and the sweet fragrance of flowers.

Raise a glass and sip lightly, the taste is mellow and slightly sweet, carrying the greetings of spring sunshine, filling the heart with Tian Run and simplicity.

"Good tea!" Xia Qingyun couldn't help but praise continuously.

The thousand-year-old tea tree is born of the aura of the heaven and the earth, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon of the heavens and the earth, so the tea produced is fresh and natural, mellow and mellow, just like a goddess who has gone through the years, is still young and ageless, and naturally carves and decorates, and the noble and elegant demeanor makes people infinitely fascinated.

If it was placed in the previous life, it would have become a heirloom treasure, attracting countless senior tea customers to pursue it wildly.

White tea is not as resistant to green tea as it is, but the older it gets, the better. Aged white tea has higher medicinal value, brightens the eyes and protects the liver, and is very beneficial to the health of the body.

Xia Qingyun neatly displayed eight small bamboo tubes on the desk, and she decided to take one tube and sell it first, and if she could earn two taels of silver, she would collect the rest. The best white peony made of thousand-year-old tea trees is something that many people can't drink in their lifetime.

The newly planted small tea trees are tillered from thousand-year-old tea trees, and the quality is expected to be not bad. In the Rooiboo Pavilion, the tea trees grow extremely fast, and a batch can be picked in three to five days. It's never too late to sell it again.

Three days later, Xia Qingyun got up early in the morning and led his younger brother Huayun to the town to catch the polder.