After a busy day, and it was almost time for the sun to set, Chen Xu finally installed the last window, and then let out a long breath.

The doors and windows are completed, and there is basically no problem with the safety of sleeping at night.

At about the same time, Xing'er and Chen Jiangshi came back from the mountain with two baskets of mushrooms.

After every heavy rainstorm in the summer, many mushrooms grow on the mountain.

Villagers go up the mountain in groups to pick them, clean them up, dry them and store them, and eat them in the winter when there are no more wild vegetables.

In autumn, they go up the mountain to pick chestnuts, hazelnuts and other dried fruits, collect a certain amount and sell them in the market town in exchange for a little salt and linen and other daily necessities.

However, it is very hard and dangerous to go up the mountain at any time, and wild beasts, insects and snakes can threaten life at any time.

In the past few days, the women in the village have made an appointment to go out collectively together, and they have not walked too far, within a mile of the village, basically the shouts can be heard, Chen Xu is not too worried, but watching the two come back, his half-hung heart finally let go.

"Brother, look, we picked a lot of fungus today!"

Apricot happily took away a branch covered in the rattan basket and offered her brother a treasure.

Chen Jiang also put down the rattan basket, picked out the leaves and weeds that fell inside, and said: "After the fungus is dried, it will be purchased by the witch doctor in the town market, and it can be sold for three yuan a pound last year, I don't know if it will be ......higher this year."

But Chen Xu didn't look at the fungus in the basket, but looked at the branch in Xing'er's hand, and asked with a light of surprise in his eyes: "Xing'er, where did this branch come from?" ”

"It's on the hillside over there, there are several big trees, all over the trees are blooming, so fragrant!" Xing'er turned around and pointed to a hillside and said.

Chen Jiangshi raised his head and glanced at it and added, "Xu'er, this tree can still bear some fruits in autumn, and it is very good for washing hair......

"Hahahaha!" Chen Xu couldn't help laughing excitedly, picked up the apricot and turned around and put it down and said: "Xing'er, you have found something good this time, this kind of tree is called tea tree, pick young leaves and fry them to dry, soak them in water and drink them, it can cure many diseases, and now we are going to make a fortune!" ”

"Brother, then let's go pick some and come back!" Apricot also shouted happily.

"Don't be in a hurry, cook and eat now, and you will take me tomorrow!"

Tea tree, Chen Xu felt that he was trembling all over.

Although according to the records of later generations, tea has a very long history in China's food culture, legend has it that in ancient times, Shennong's tasted herbs, and was poisoned every day, but the symptoms of poisoning were resolved by drinking tea, but there were not many people who drank tea before the Qin and Han dynasties, and the people who could drink tea were those who practiced the Tao and hoped for immortality, so in the late Han Dynasty, Taoism began to rise The habit of drinking tea began to spread slowly, and those Taoist priests also regarded tea as a health elixir, and often drinking tea can not only strengthen the body but also nourish the spiritIt calms the mind and helps to meditate and cultivate.

But the development of real tea culture was in the Tang Dynasty, after Lu Yu, who was known as the tea saint, wrote the "Book of Tea", it really opened the history of large-scale cultivation of tea in China, and tea was a very good conditioning and health plant that slowly entered ordinary people's homes, and tea culture began to become a systematic cultural phenomenon to pass on.

And in the Ming and Qing dynasties, tea was dumped in large quantities with porcelain and silk to Western countries, becoming something that Western royal families and nobles rushed to buy, drinking tea has also become an elegant way of communication for the upper class, as a nobleman, if there is not even a set of porcelain from the Chinese Ming Empire at home, and will not make tea and drink tea, it will be seriously despised, Westerners even think that tea is a priceless treasure given to mankind by God, but this treasure is monopolized by the Chinese, And what this monopoly has brought is that a large amount of silver in the West has been continuously pulled away by China one by one.

For the Chinese in the aftermarket, drinking tea has almost become a habit, just like having to eat every day.

Chen Xu did not cross because of work, he had to make a cup of tea and put it on the battery car, grab a few sips after grabbing the order to deliver the meal, both refreshing and quenching his thirst, and almost every day after dinner, he would also make a cup of tea to relax his mood, so that the busy and nervous body and emotions were soothed and released, which has almost become his habit, and he is uncomfortable if he does not drink tea for a day.

But after crossing over, Chen Xu also looked for tea trees near the village, but he didn't find them, so he could only make a cup of mint water as tea every day, because he couldn't drink tea for half a month.

This suddenly got the whereabouts of the tea tree, and Chen Xu was excited.

If nothing else, tea will be an important step in his future development, tea can open the market of Western countries in the future, then now can also knock on the door of dignitaries, in exchange for a lot of money and wealth.

Although it is now past the season of tea picking, there is no difference for the people of the Qin Dynasty who have never drunk green tea and black tea.

Tea plants are very widely distributed in China, but most of them grow in the warm and humid areas of the south, and the provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin grow, but the distribution of the north of the Yangtze River is very sparse, and this dividing line is basically bounded by the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River, and Henan is just on this dividing line.

The climate during the Qin Dynasty was certainly very different from that of two thousand years later, but Nanyang was actually closer to Hubei in later generations, and was almost on the same plain as Xiangyang, and at this time Nanyang County actually governed a large area of places such as Xiangyang in Hubei, which led to the two cities of Xiangyang and Nanyang in later generations often spit on each other in order to compete for Zhuge Liang's former residence.

In later generations, Hubei was a major tea-producing province, and it was not uncommon for Nanyang to have tea trees in close proximity.

Therefore, after learning that there were tea trees on the nearby mountains, Chen Xu was so excited that he didn't sleep well all night, constantly tossing and turning in the haystack, and from time to time he got up in the middle of the night and sat in a daze, and then muttered in his mouth, and Yu Wuya, who was sleeping next to him, almost didn't sleep well all night.

Early the next morning, Chen Xu yawned and ate breakfast with the eyes of the two pandas, and Yu Wuya couldn't help but ask: "Engong, what was ice tea last night?" ”

"Did I say that?" Chen Xu asked in surprise.

"Well, you muttered something in the middle of the night that was crystal bright and cool, and what did you say about Tieguanyin and Da Hong Pao, it sounds very powerful!"

"Those are the two masters of the tea ceremony, very powerful, but unfortunately I can't get it now!" Chen Xu said while eating.