"That'...... All right. Gu Qingzhu guessed that the eldest girl didn't want to talk about her family affairs in front of her younger siblings, so she took the basket and went out with her.

Gu Jiaao is too small, a little thing, especially a bad thing, the time of a meal, the whole village knows, along the way to avoid the coming and going sisters-in-law and aunts cast inquiring eyes, the two climbed to a hillside, picked two stones next to each other and sat down, the eldest girl didn't say a word, Gu Qingzhu didn't ask, just accompanied her to look at the still gray mountains in the distance.

"Qingzhu, my brother has been dismissed!" After a long time, Gu Daya finally spoke, looking sad.

"Why? Didn't you already have a bride price before, just waiting to get married? Gu Qingzhu was very surprised, and asked with a tilt of his head.

She only thought that Qingshan was injured and the marriage had twists and turns, but she didn't expect to be divorced directly by the woman. Retiring from relatives in the countryside is a very serious matter, not only is it not good for the man, but it has a greater impact on the woman, and this time it was proposed by the woman, which is a great humiliation for Gu Shifu, which makes him stand tall in Gujiaao.

"My father said a long time ago, the people in the town are lively, unreliable, and my mother is obsessed, and she recognizes the Peng girl, in the final analysis, it is not that the family is an only daughter, thinking that there will be a house or something in the town in the future, but people are not stupid, they have their own little abacus.

Now, the Peng girl somehow knows that my brother is injured and can't move in bed, she doesn't eat or drink all day at home, forcing her father to come and see in person.

You know, my father wants face the most, how can he use the excuse of divorce to ask others to lose more money? It's just that he was very angry, if it weren't for my brother's family affairs, how could the family owe so many debts, he quarreled with my mother and went out to the tea garden. Gu Daya bent down and rested her chin on her knees, her arms clasped her legs, and she was sluggish.

"Brother Qingshan also knows about this?" Gu Qingzhu came over and hugged Gu Daya's shoulders.

"The flower matchmaker is chattering, like a sparrow, it's hard to hear it, but my brother doesn't look so sad, at least, he ate two bowls of porridge as usual at noon." Gu Daya leaned her head on Gu Qingzhu's shoulder.

Her father left angrily, and she quickly carried the basket and slipped out of the door, otherwise, she would have to be scolded by her mother, and the house would be like a lit cannon today, and it might explode at some point.

"I don't think he likes the Peng family girl so much, he hasn't seen it before, so it's not sad." Gu Qingzhu pinned the broken hair that was blown around his sideburns behind his ears and persuaded lightly.

"My brother, stuffy gourd, no one can see through, if you have to say that he is sad, he is also distressed that the money has been wasted, but whoever marries in the future, the house will always have to be, I see that he used to like Zhao Di a little, as soon as I talk about her, he always listens very carefully, and occasionally takes the initiative to ask, it seems to be very attentive." Gu Daya turned her head to look at Gu Qingzhu, pulled the corners of her mouth, and smiled reluctantly.

"Zhao Di has a soft temperament, and she is also delicate, and she is very liked, but she lost her mother early, besides, Uncle Zheng lives by collecting money everywhere, there are no fields and forests, ordinary people see that he has no foundation, and he is always a little unreliable, your mother is afraid that she can look down on it." Gu Qingzhu sighed for her sister.

"It's not, but now, at this time and that time, my brother has been divorced and injured, if he goes back to Uncle Zheng to propose marriage, what will he think, even if it is for fame, he may not be willing." Gu Daya said worriedly.

"It is a big deal for the two families to get married, it must always be Brother Qingshan's willingness, and Uncle Fu will take the idea, besides, it is not the best time for the two families to say this at this time." Gu Qingzhu comforted.

"I think at the beginning, my father liked you, and I also wanted you to be my sister-in-law, but my mother ......" Gu Daya twisted her body and pouted.

"Your mother is right." Gu Qingzhu hurriedly interrupted the eldest girl's words, her eyes looked farther away, and said softly, "I promised my father and mother that I would raise my younger siblings to grow up and provide for Qingsong to study, I am the eldest sister, and it is my duty to hand over this burden to others. ”

"I know that you have a lot of thoughts in your heart, and you also know that ordinary people are not worthy of you, so we just need to be sisters for life." Gu Daya held Gu Qingzhu's hand and shook it vigorously.

"That's for sure, it won't change at any time, let's go, the sun is going down, if you don't go back, your aunt should be angry." Gu Qingzhu pulled the big girl to get up, and the sunset on the horizon was red, like a big salted duck egg yolk hanging on the West Mountain.

The two of them quickly pinched a handful of vegetable sprouts with their hands and feet, stepped on the afterglow of the sunset and returned to Gu Qingzhu's house.

After a rain, it was a good day for several days, Gu Qingzhu had to go to the tea garden to observe the growth of tea in the morning and evening, spring tea was the most fresh and tender, even if it was picked at different times on the same day, the taste was very different.

The branches and leaf axils on the tea pile have drawn out the strong bud heads, after a winter of recuperation, all of them are fat, the color is delicate yellow, full of fluff, in the sun with fresh oil, they are tightly wrapped, like a lotus heart standing on the branches, more like just dug out of the tight winter bamboo shoots.

"Ming'er is going to pick the stubble buds in a hurry, I won't come back to eat at noon, Qingsong, you take care of your little sister at home." At the dinner table, Gu Qingzhu said while drinking porridge.

"Let's go and help together tomorrow." Gu Qingsong glanced at Sister A and said.

"There are few stubble buds, and many of them are hidden in the branches, which is not easy to pick, besides, Ming'er picks the whole tea garden, and it is very great to be able to make a pound of tea cakes, it is really not the time for you to help together." Gu Qingzhu smiled and shook his head.

"Then I'll deliver food to Sister Ming'er!" Gu Qingying said with a blink of her bright eyes.

"Okay." Gu Qingzhu rubbed the top of her soft hair dotingly.

The next day, the sun was shining warmly, and after the end of the day, the dew on the tea leaves was almost dry, Gu Qingzhu wore a hat, tied a small bamboo basket around his waist, and went out to the tea garden.

After a night, the early sprouts are more than yesterday, about half a knuckle long, just suitable for picking, Gu Qingzhu started from the side of the first ridge of tea trees, picked those long buds, pinched the roots of the tea buds with slender fingers, and gently broke it, and a tender yellow and fresh bud head lay in the palm of her hand.

This is the first crop of this year, Gu Qingzhu picked a few tea buds with one hand, and after adapting, she began to pick quickly with both hands, which is one of the tea picking skills she has practiced in the past five years.

In the past, the younger brothers and sisters were weak, and they couldn't help, and the tea in the peak production period did not wait for anyone, every more bud and leaf unfolded, the price dropped by three percent, the Qingming Valley rain solar term, the people of Gujiaao were so busy that their feet did not touch the ground, women and half-grown children had to go up the mountain to pick tea, and the men were responsible for going out to sell it over the mountains and mountains, which was from Gujiaao to Cuiping Town more than ten miles of mountain roads, the most lively time of the year.

Selling tea, she can ask others to sell it by the way, but it is impossible to pick tea and ask someone to help, one is that there is no spare money, and the other is that there are no idlers at all, what Gu Qingzhu can do is to hurry up, and then faster, it is so urgent, she has trained her to move her hands together, and her fingers are like flying.

Even though Gu Qingzhu's eyes are fast, and her hands come and go like a light butterfly, she can pick more bud tea, her hands are still scratched by the branches with deep and shallow traces, and some places have been punctured skin.

The lotus bud bud is tender and small, it is not easy to pick, Gu Qingzhu walked through three long tea ridges, barely made up a fluffy basket, the bud bud is delicate, can not be pressed and squeezed, let alone exposed to the sun for a long time, otherwise, not only will it be crowded and hot, but it will soon wilt and lose its fresh fragrance.

She spread the bud tea loosely and hung it on the shady bamboo plaque in the shack, the tender yellow of a water, there are tens of thousands of buds, the length and size are generally the same, Gu Qingzhu is by the mountain spring stream, scooped water and washed her face, the slightest coolness, so that the girl who worked in the sun all morning felt very comfortable, she drank a few sips of water, turned around and went to pick tea.

The second basket was not yet full, so Gu Qingsong took Gu Qingying to deliver rice, a can of shepherd's cabbage porridge and half a basket of nest heads, and he also brought some extra dried radishes pickled in chili peppers, because he was afraid that the oil smell would contaminate the tea, so he did not fry it in the oil pot, but such dried radishes are chewy, salty, and the porridge is the best.

"Sister, let's have dinner with you." When Gu Qingying saw Gu Qingzhu, she let go of her brother's hand and circled around Sister A.

Gu Qingsong served a meal under the pine tree at the downwind outlet, and watched with a smile as his sister ran around in the tea ridge like a happy puppy.

"Come and eat." Gu Qingzhu washed his hands, took the chopsticks given by Gu Qingsong, and called Qingying.

The porridge is warm, with a little salty taste, and the shepherd's cabbage is fragrant and green, and it is refreshing and pleasant to eat. Break open the nest head and sandwich a dried pickled radish, salty, spicy and crisp with slightly sweet corn, the more you chew, the more fragrant it is.

The three sisters and brothers finished eating quickly, Qingying didn't leave, Gu Qingsong also wanted to stay and help, Gu Qingzhu couldn't help it, so he had to let them.

Gu Qingsong naturally can't be compared with Gu Qingzhu's proficiency, but she always has more hands, and Qingying is only as tall as a tea tree.

In the evening, the three of them picked all the lotus heart tea buds in the tea garden, Gu Qingzhu rushed to make tea, and sent Qingsong back with Qingying.

Steamed green tea cakes, not only high requirements for tea, in the production of tea cakes, steamed tea, pounded tea, tea, roasted tea every step is very important, a little negligence, the color of the tea cake, molding, the color and taste of the tea soup will be very different, these will greatly affect the price.

Good tea cakes, a pound can be sold for more than 100 Wen, and bud tea, is the first stubble in spring tea, long and small, short time, if the sky is not beautiful, a little careless will be missed, for this reason, the output is very low, the price will be higher.