Chapter 182 Tea Planting on the Hillside
Liang Chuan, a tea planter, is a layman, although he has also been exposed to some knowledge of the tea ceremony, and it is all gossip knowledge that he bragged about at the tea party. Sun Houpu is a professional, there is an old saying, don't use your hobby to challenge other people's profession.
Sun Houpu was afraid that more than 1,000 good seedlings would be ruined, and he specially asked Liangchuan if he knew how to grow tea seedlings. Fengshan's agriculture is impressive, and after getting a negative answer, especially He Lu, he is engaged in tricks that are not available in other places, and the tea seedlings cost hundreds of dollars each, so they should not be bought and squandered. As a result, Liang Chuan told him that he didn't understand at all. He began to regret a little that his brain was so hot that he had sent these treasures over.
A large team of carriages pulled tea seedlings to Liangchuan's new home, and it is not surprising that the masters of Luocheng now see a big battle, the owner is a person who does great things, and he is vigorous in doing something, and he is busy with the work at hand one by one, and he has no time to take care of these tea sellers.
The carriage had no mountain road to go uphill, so the tea seedlings could only be unloaded from the cart, carried on the horse's back, and carried up the mountain with a horse. This is also the case when someone builds a grave on the mountain, and if someone is used to carry these materials, he will vomit blood. The horses that pull the carriage are all endurance horses, and they can't charge on the march, but they are best used to endure hardships and stand hard work.
Not only in the Great Song Dynasty, but even today, when many mobile telecommunications and power companies in the mountains want to erect elevated towers, those assembled steel still rely on mules and horses to carry up the mountain, because there are no roads for cars to drive in the mountains, and there are no dirt roads.
Sun Houpu led the horse team to walk in front, he did not pester Zheng Ruoying at the foot of the mountain or chat with Liang Chuan, but personally led a horse for himself and led people to the mountain to find a suitable location for planting tea.
This point made Liang Chuan a little impressed, most of these sons and brothers who were born with a golden spoon in their mouths felt that they had accumulated great virtue in their previous lives and saved the Great Song Dynasty, and they were reincarnated to enjoy happiness in this life. Many people are wine bags and rice bags, or they are the second ancestors who don't learn and don't know how to do things, not to mention the rich young masters like Sun Houpu who are willing to do things themselves.
Some people educate their children in the family, leaving behind thousands of family wealth, but they have cultivated the child into a pampered rice worm, and the family can be small and rich but difficult to last. Sun Houpu truly explained what it means that capital outside of personal ability is equal to zero, all from scratch, and do it yourself. Liang Chuan sighed in his heart, the children of rich families are still like this, how do the descendants of the poor feel, this fine family style, it is difficult for the family not to prosper.
The land on the mountain is ownerless wasteland, whoever develops it belongs to whom, strictly speaking, this mountain also belongs to Helu Village, but no one wants to plant the land under the mountain, and no one will plant the slope on the mountain, and it is troublesome to even make a cemetery.
The government's attitude is also to encourage the peasants to open up wasteland, and the increase in the area of cultivated land will add a heavy stroke to the examination of officials in the county, which is a political achievement.
Liang Chuan followed Sun Houpu's horse team to the mountain, he did not have the Sun family's expertise in planting tea, but he also knew a little bit, his own tea was best according to his own meaning, the times are changing, the technology of frying tea for a thousand years has become unrecognizable, and the excellent technology of ancient times can be left, and then with the strengths of his later generations, the tea produced is believed to be not bad.
The altitude of the mountains in Helu Houshan is not high, but it is also a hilly area, and the terrain height is more than 1,000 meters after all frost damage, and the tea trees cannot survive the winter. This hill is surrounded by clouds and mist all year round compared to the plain, and the water of the Nanxi River brings continuous water vapor all year round, and the humidity is sufficient and the air pressure is low on the halfway up the mountainside, and the diffusion of sunlight is beneficial to the growth of tea trees.
The growth of tea trees also has certain requirements for temperature, this Longtuan tea tree originated in Jianzhou, and the descendants of the family transplanted to Quanzhou, Xinghua is more south than Jianzhou, and is in the north of Quanzhou, the two take one of them, and the latitude position is relatively superior. The temperature here is also above 10 degrees in winter and below 25 degrees in summer, which is just right for the growth of tea trees.
The convoy winds up the mountain road, and every time it reaches a certain height, Sun Houpu will personally squat on the ground, twist a handful of soil with his hands, rub it with his hands, feel the composition of the soil with the tips of his hands, observe carefully with his eyes, and smell the smell from time to time.
"Little grandson, this kind of tea tree is so exquisite? Wouldn't it be okay to dig a few pits and bury them directly? Liang Chuan said innocently.
I didn't know Liang Chuan before, I didn't know this person, Sun Houpu might have thought that this person was really a layman and spoke layman's words, but now every time he sees Liang Chuan's face of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, he feels like a thorn in his back, and he always feels that this kid is pretending to be stupid.
Especially today, he originally thought that the terrain of Xinghua was not suitable for planting tea trees, but after his field investigation today, his heart was surging like a stormy wave. The temperature, topography, soil, and sunshine here are the best conditions for the growth of tea trees! No wonder Liang Chuan, who wanted to plant tea trees on a whim, just said, everything was calculated, and now he is pretending to not understand anything, what a deep city.
Sun Houpu calculated Liang Chuan several times in his mind, Liang Chuan looked at Sun Houpu's eyes burning, he really didn't understand, he just wanted to do some tea experiments, where did he know that his image had become a master of the ninth section of thick black in Sun Houpu's eyes.
"Unique! The Land of Money! Sun Houpu's eyes were quite hot, and he was a little hairy when he saw Liang Chuan.
"Little Sun, what's wrong, can't you plant tea trees here?" Liang Chuan didn't know the bottom of his heart, and asked timidly.
You're still pretending! Sun Houpu greeted Liang Chuan's family several times in his heart, but his face was still excited, and he said: "I have been to many places in the land of Minyue, and I have an eye under my nose. Sun Houpu looked annoyed after speaking.
Liang Chuan was even more confused, "Xiao Sun, it's okay for you to say it directly, can't you plant?" ”
Sun Houpu grabbed a handful of mud and rubbed it in the palm of his hand for a long time before he reluctantly lifted the soil in his hand, "Your mountain soil layer is very thick, but the soil is very loose, aeration, water permeability, and water storage performance are very good, and tea saplings like mahogany and avoid loess, you are all mahogany here, you smell the smell of my hands." ”
The red soil on Sun Houpu's hand had been lifted, but Liang Chuan leaned his nose over to smell it, and a strong smell of corruption still came to his face.
"This smell is so earthy." Liang Chuan frowned.
"You are right, the heavier the rotten smell in the soil, the more it means that the fertility of the soil is vigorous, and the red soil is the most suitable for the growth of this tea seedling, so I said that you are blessed with a unique feng shui treasure here!" Sun Houpu couldn't stop admiring it.
Liang Chuan has heard that tea trees prefer acidic soil, and the more humus in the soil, in this era of no synthetic fertilizer, biofertilizer is the only source of nutrition for plants. He was broken by Sun Houpu a little, and it suddenly dawned on him, as if this was the case.
"This hillside is facing the sun, the sun is sufficient, the sun will make the tea tree grow sound, the ancient saying also has clouds, its mountains are more with sand and gravel, and the best products are in the south of the mountain, and the sum of the sunrise is also! Plant the tea trees here, pick them on time, and don't worry about not having good tea to drink! ”
There are many clouds and fog in the mountains, more diffuse light, high humidity, and some have a large temperature difference between day and night, etc., which is conducive to the accumulation of effective substances in tea, especially the accumulation of aromatic substances. Overall, this is the result of a combination of environmental conditions. But not all mountains can grow good tea, a superior geographical environment can make tea more prominent, but to create a good tea is from growth to frying all links are indispensable.
Liang Chuan didn't expect that his unintentional actions had also created such a good effect, this is really a windfall, tea is also a precious object, if he masters the technology of roasting tea, he will not worry about not being a source of income.
The address of the tea garden was chosen, and Sun Houpu asked the family to start digging and planting. Sun Guy Ji is only responsible for helping Liang Chuan to plant the land roughly, as for the weeding, trimming, ditching and drainage of this tea garden, he will wait for Liang Chuan to ask someone to manage it in the future. Even if he only helped Liang Chuan plant in the soil, he would have helped Liang Chuan a lot, if he invited someone to plant tea, he didn't know how many tea seedlings he would waste, and Fengshan had no place to invite tea farmers.
The tea garden was very busy, Sun Houpu didn't go into battle in person at this time, and the rest was really physical work, and he didn't need to come forward. He looked at Fengshan and Xinghua with his hands behind his back, Xinghua City is in full view of the mountainside at this moment, there is a long street running through Fengshan, and Nanxi is like a jade belt that tightly ties the two together.
From time to time, the warm spring breeze caressed the belt of this fluttering boy's clothes, and this silk dress was not only light and shiny, but also quite comfortable to wear. Like a spring breeze, he can't caress Liang Chuan's coarse and bulky farm clothes. Sun Houpu's background is very chic, and he has a kind of spirit of pointing out the country when he looks at it.
Liang Chuan quietly walked to the side, also facing this prosperity, the two stood side by side, and asked, "Do you really like Zheng Ruoying?" ”
The corners of Sun Houpu's mouth raised slightly, and he said lightly: "Don't you see that I don't look like it?" ”
"Then I'll teach you another trick today, nine out of ten!"
This can be said to Sun Houpu's heart, so he turned his face and looked at Liang Chuan hotly, waiting for Liang Chuan's answer.
"You just need to ask the matchmaker to hire him, and then carry the sedan chair eight times, blow the drum and make trouble to his Zheng family's mansion, his father sees you, a fast son-in-law who rides the dragon, how can there be a reason not to agree."
Sun Houpu smiled bitterly, "Are you saying that you rely on my family strength to win their favor, yes, his home will be very beautiful, but will she be happy?" ”
"Uhhhh According to what I know about this Nizi, not only will she not be happy, but she will hate you for the rest of her life. ”
"Then I can't do that."