After breakfast, Chen Xu couldn't wait to call Niu Dashi, and then under the leadership of Xing'er, he went to find the tea tree mentioned yesterday.

Twenty minutes later, I saw three huge tea trees in the mountain forest about a mile away from the entrance of the village.

The three tea trees have waist thickness, more than 20 meters high, obviously ancient tea trees that have grown for hundreds of years, although it is summer, but a large number of white camellia flowers bloom on the tree, and the whole hillside can smell a light and elegant fragrance.

The three tea trees are densely surrounded by thorns and miscellaneous trees, and there are also many large and small tea trees growing among them, and a thick layer of shriveled tea fruits has fallen on the ground.

Chen Xu picked a young leaf from a small tea tree beside him and put it in his mouth and chewed it, and in an instant an extremely bitter taste spread out in his mouth, and soon became an extremely familiar tea taste in later generations, his taste buds stretched, and his spirit was shocked.

"Good tea, good tea!" Chen Xu was so excited that his whole body began to tremble.

The quality of tea is not important to him, the important thing is that as long as this thing is accepted, then it will almost become an indispensable part of life, the most important thing besides food and salt.

And the most important thing is that tea has a stronger meaning for the peoples on the grassland, and a large number of cattle, sheep and horses can be exchanged for tea from the grassland.

However, the premise is that the tea must be brought out first, as for the issue of trading with the Huns, it is still separated by 108,000 miles, and it not only requires a professional caravan, but also needs to obtain the permission of Qin Shi Huang Qin Dada.

Moreover, if Qin Shi Huang knew the efficacy of tea, whether he would take tea for himself and turn it into a strategic reserve material is also a very serious problem.

But no matter what the result is, the appearance of tea is definitely the best news for Chen Xu after he crossed over.

"Brother Xu, is this what you mean by tea?" Niu Dashi suspiciously followed Chen Xu's example, picked a piece of tea and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Phew, it's bitter and astringent!" Niu Dashi chewed a few times and grinned and spit it out.

"Know a fart, hurry up and pick some young leaves! This is a good thing for us to make a fortune in the future! Chen Xu demonstrated as he spoke, and quickly plucked a handful from a few small trees and put it in the rattan basket he brought.

These tea trees are not like the tea trees specially cultivated in the tea gardens of later generations, which are pruned very low, but are in a very savage natural growth state, each one grows like a small tree, the branches and leaves are entangled with thorns, and it is not easy to pick.

The three of them almost used their hands and feet at the same time, and they only picked three or five catties of tender leaves in half an hour, Chen Xu and Niu Dashi were better, after all, their height and strength were not small, and they could still be picked by pulling and pulling, but Xing'er could only watch and be anxious.

"Brother Xu, do you want to go back and get a saw to cut down these largest tea trees and pick them slowly, it is estimated that you can get a few hundred catties!" Niu Dashi looked at the three tall tea trees and said.

"You dare, each of these tea trees must be protected, and the small trees on the ground must not be damaged, let's go, so much should be enough!"

Chen Xu looked at the tender tea leaves in the rattan basket, and felt that there was almost a pound of fried tea, so he carried the rattan basket home.

After arriving home, Chen Xu reprocessed the tea leaves he picked back, pinched them short if they were too long, and picked them out and threw them away if they were too old.

Looking at Chen Xu's serious look, Yu Wuya and Niu Dashi's hearts were full of expectations and doubts at the same time, I don't know why Chen Xu would be so interested in this kind of bitter and astringent leaves, and he would treat them so carefully, you must know that all kinds of leaves all over the mountains, bitter ones account for eighty percent, and the remaining two percent are poisonous, why is he so interested in this kind of tea tree leaves.

As for making tea, Chen Xu is basically a layman.

It's just that when I was a child, I saw my father stir-fry farmhouse tea twice at home, and the production method is very simple and rough, but the basic process is still roughly clear.

Originally, the iron pot was used to fry the tea, but there was no one at the moment, only the clay pot, so Chen Xu could only do it, when cleaning the tea leaves, let the apricots have made a fire in the stove, and the clay pot had been cleaned by Chen Jiangshi and put on the stove to dry, and after he cleaned up the fresh young leaves, he put the clay pot on the stove, and told the apricots to reduce the fire, and when the clay pot was heated and felt very hot by hand, then put about a pound of tea leaves in, and then quickly stir-fry it with his hands.

Stir-frying tea is actually not complicated, but you must master the heat very well, and the action must be fast, especially in the finishing stage, the pot at this time is relatively hot and can not let the tea and the pot contact time for too long, otherwise the tea will soon become mushy, which will not only lead to nutrient loss, but also cause the taste to be too poor.

Looking at Chen Xu's movements, everyone, including Chen Jiang's, stood by with wide eyes and watched, wondering why Chen Xu was so serious and serious about such a joke as frying leaves.

Could it be that this bitter leaf can really be exchanged for money?

Even if roasted tea leaves can cure diseases and strengthen the body, how do you sell it? Will anyone accept it?

"Apricot, get back half of the fire!" After about ten minutes of frying, the tea leaves in the clay pot began to soften and wilt, and at the same time, there was a fresh fragrance of fried green, Chen Xu saw that it was almost there, so he ordered the apricots to anneal and let the temperature of the clay pot be lowered.

After finishing, it is kneaded, which is not necessary, but just kneading the tea leaves into strips to allow the leaves to curl and reduce the volume, so that it is better packaged and stored.

The temperature of the clay pot has dropped a lot, but it still can't be touched for a long time, so you can only quickly stir-fry and shake while constantly rubbing the wilted tea leaves with your hands.

Soon more than ten minutes passed, and all the green tea leaves were kneaded and deformed, with a few traces of green tea in later generations, and the color began to darken, and the pound of tender tea leaves that fell down seemed to be only one-third at this time.

"Xing'er, take back half of the fire, but don't put it out!"

Chen Xu commanded again, his hands kept stir-frying in the tea leaves faster, and as time passed, the tea leaves in the clay pot slowly became dry, and the color became darker and darker, and at the same time, there was a very familiar tea fragrance coming out.

"Well, it smells so pleasant!" Yu Wuya was moved by the smell of the tea leaves, and while admiring, his face became more and more strange, and his eyes became more and more puzzled when he looked at Chen Xu.

This mountain village boy brought him too much shock, although he didn't say it, but the two or three days of contact with what happened every day made him feel extremely surprised, every word and deed is different from anyone he has ever seen, not only the way of speaking is very special, the opinion is also very unique, often say some completely incomprehensible and unacceptable views, and do things are even more eclectic, not to mention that he has made a few dishes that people have never seen before, the delicacy is extremely unstoppable, as far as the fried tea in front of him is concerned, Don't say you haven't seen it, you've never heard of it.