The next day, it wasn't until noon that Chu Li woke up. When he woke up, he laughed and laughed, saying that he didn't drink and eat well, and laughed at Chief Numa for being stingy.

Chu Li and Che De accompanied Numa Chief Meimei to have a special lunch on the East Island. During this period, Chu Li sighed with emotion: "Hey! It's all because I'm too stubborn and confused. After all, I still haven't seen much of the world, and I don't know the reason, so it's too late to wake up. Previously, the car was protecting me every day, but I just didn't open my mind, and I thought the car was long-winded. The temperament of the Dongmin is really the same as my Chu Li's appetite. If I had opened my mind earlier, I don't know how happy I would have been. ”

Che De smiled: "It's not too late for you to wake up now." In the future, you will have a long time to come to the East Island to enjoy yourself. ”

Chu Li shook his head and said, "What is my Chu Li, my own pleasure is not worth mentioning." What I feel most guilty about is that it is because of me that the relationship between the three islands has been so tense for a long time. Failed to live up to the good intentions of Lord Tsugo. Let the Dongmin brothers suffer so much in vain. I really regret it. ”

Che De smiled and said: "You Chu Li, didn't you say it yourself yesterday, when you arrive on the East Island, there will be no more Lao Shizi who are all protected and all protected." Today, why did you regret it yourself. ”

Chu Li said: "My lord, those are all crazy words that I first landed on the island yesterday, and I am trying to make my lord and Chief Numa laugh. How could I, Chu Li, be such an ignorant fool?! Don't be weird, adults. I really admire you. Adults are really far-sighted and tolerant. I'm ashamed of myself. ”

Che Er said: "The more you talk, the more you get angry!" This is not like your Chu Li's personality! ”

Chief Numa said, "Yes." When we arrived on the island, we were all brothers. Don't give birth! ”

Chu Li smiled: "However, I, Chu Li, am not a bad seed, and I am also a true man who changes when I know my mistakes!" In the future, I will cooperate well with the adults, get along with the East Island, and never be hostile to the East Island again. The Lord and Chief Numa just looked at me, and I did what I said. We can't be compared to this kid who melts cliffs. ”

"Very good." I have known for a long time that you are a good brother who is wise to open. ”

Chu Li turned to Chief Numa and said, "Chief Numa, if you need any help, just ask." I've been in the South Island for a long time, not in the North Island. But let me tell you, Brother Chief, Lord Du Hu is in charge of major affairs, but this fleet of ships going back and forth is directly dispatched by me. Don't hide it from the two brothers, I, in addition to delivering gold to the imperial court, I also have some private contacts with the counties of Luzhou, smuggling some gold and strange goods, earning some pocket money for the brothers on the island, and buying some women for fun. So, in the South Island, I have a lot of good stuff. Chu Li pointed to the chariot and pointed to Chief Numa, deliberately lowered his voice and said, "There are some things, even the Lord Du Hu doesn't have them." ”

"You old boy. Be careful that when I go to the South Island, I will turn it out for you. Che De laughed.

"I've hidden it tightly, huh!" Chu Li said with a deliberate grimace.

The crowd laughed and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Chu Li said, "My lord, Chief Numa." I have a suggestion. I think this is good, so I also sent two people over, and like Rongya and Puguang, they stayed on the East Island. As soon as I came, I saw that Puguang was practicing medicine here to save people, but he was really busy, and people were already losing weight. Second, if there is anything we need to do on the island, we can also let the two permanent people I send come back at any time and tell me that the South Island is closer to the East Island than the North Island is closer to the East Island, and there are some things that I can call the shots, so I can do them all, so as not to go to the North Island to trouble the Lord Metropolitan Protection. Before, Mogashen ran back and forth in the middle of the night, which was also strange and tiring. Wouldn't it be cheaper to send two people over to help? In the future, if necessary, send more people over. How is it? ”

Che De laughed and said, "What does Chief Numa think?" In my opinion, this is a good solution. ”

Chief Numa said, "Thank you, Brother Chu. The Chu Li brothers and the Che De brothers are so friendly, what else can I say? You are welcome to send someone to the East Island for permanent residence. ”

Chu Li said again: "I heard that Dongdao is growing tea? ”

Chief Numa said, "Yes." Bitter soup is just the right cure for ancestral diseases. The Chede brothers got us some tea saplings. We plan to grow our own bitter soup leaves on the island. ”

Chu Li said: "Growing tea is not an easy task, and making tea is even more difficult. If you want to grow live tea trees and make tea, you still need tea farmers, and you are afraid that you will not be able to make it yourself. ”

Che said: "What's so difficult about growing tea?" ”

Chu Li said with a smile: "The adults are good at leading the troops, but they are very rusty in farming." Before I arrived at Shamrock, when I was in Luzhou, I was in charge of procurement, transportation and other affairs, so I knew a little about this. Growing and making tea is probably the most complicated work in farming. Not to mention us, even if it is an old farmer, it is difficult to directly start planting and making tea. If you think about it, there are only a few places where tea is produced on Luzhou. If it is easy to grow tea and make tea, wouldn't it be possible to do this job everywhere? Where do the common people still need to buy tea, can't they just grow it and make it themselves? ”

Che said: "That's the reason." So what to do? ”

Chief Numa also said: "Yes, the Dongmin can't live without bitter soup now." Now that the amount of bitter soup is getting bigger and bigger, it is not always possible to rely on the Che De brothers to help them, but it is still the most convenient to be able to support themselves on the island. ”

Chu Li said: "This is not a difficult thing. In this way, I went to Luzhou's tea-producing land to find a tea farmer in Hushui County, and asked him to come over and help Dongdao grow tea. ”

Che Zhi said: "Just find a few more tea farmers to calculate." ”

Chu Li said: "One is enough. Whether or not live tea trees can be planted on this island is still between the two. And the amount of trial planting is estimated to be not much larger. After the planting work, it is not too late to find more tea farmers. In addition, after all, Dongdao is very different from Luzhou, and too many people from Luzhou go to the island, and I am not very relieved. ”

Che said: "What you say is very true. ”

Chu Li said: "In addition to the tea farmers, I will find a Langzhong who understands medical skills from the government soldiers to be stationed on the island, and he can help Puguang practice medicine here." What herbs and utensils does Puguang need, let him come back and tell me, and I will find someone to do it. How's that? ”

Chief Numa said: "Try to plant tea trees and Puguang Medical Center, just need people." The Chu Li brothers are very thoughtful and thoughtful. ”

Che De was very satisfied, but deliberately said: "Okay, you Chu Li, I can't see that you are still a careful man." You've only been here once, and you've compared me to an old friend of the East Island. In the future, you are not allowed to come to the East Island with me again. ”

Chu Li pretended to be anxious and said to Chief Numa: "Brother Chief, look at it, look at it, this is still in front of your old man." We all started to clean me up. Then he deliberately whispered to everyone, "Don't you know, our Lord Protector can pick the door, usually restrain me to death, and I don't want to come to the East Island with him." Next time, I'll come by myself. I'm close anyway, and I still have a boat. When the time comes, you will look at the amount of good wine I have. Chu Li said while afraid of hitting her big belly.

The crowd laughed.

Che De pulled Chu Li to sit down, pulled Chief Numa into his arms, and said with relief: "Good brother, good brother." Shamrock Island is finally at peace. ”

Chief Numa laughed at first, then silently shed tears.

It didn't take long for the two people from the Chu Li faction to come to the island. One was a young military doctor named Dezhi; The other is older, a tea farmer who has just been found from Luzhou, called Fanon, who is said to be from a tea-making family, and his skills in growing and making tea are very good. Chief Numa handed over Dezhi to Puguang to assist Puguang in practicing medicine and saving people; Fanon was delivered to Moga, who took Fanon to Kaolin and was responsible for the trial planting of tea trees. Chief Numa specifically instructed Maga that since the high ridge was the closest to Mobe, it was up to Mobe and Maga to take care of Fanon nearby.

Some time passed, and Tokueda and Fanon quickly integrated into Higashijima. Dezhi is a man in the army, and his medical skills are obviously inferior to Puguang, but he is very neat in his work, and he is very good at getting along with people, whether it is a person who comes to see a doctor, or a patient he and Puguang have seen when they go to the clinic, as long as they have contact with Dezhi once, they are full of praise for Dezhi. Tokueda is very meticulous in his work, often visiting the newly healed islanders at night when he is resting, either to make up some medicine, or to give a few words of advice, or to adjust the diet, or to do some simple care. Puguang saves a lot of heart, and even sometimes finds time to accompany Chief Numa and Rongya to patrol the island.

The older Fanon was more honest, did not like to talk, but only buried himself in his work, and did his work with great effort. The tea trees planted by Kaolin before were not growing well due to the lack of experience and improper care of the Dongmin, and there were signs of all of them dying. After Fanon arrived, they were replanted one by one and cared for one by one. In the process of conditioning and care, Fanon deliberately taught the know-how of tea planting to the Dongmin who tried to plant tea trees on the high ridge.

Chief Numa originally planned to ask Che De to bring in another batch of tea trees from Luzhou, but Fanon said that it was not necessary, and Fanon said: "Kaolin's land is limited, and the existing tea trees are enough. I have my own way. ”

It turned out that Fanon used techniques such as pressing branches and dividing plants, and the number of tea trees increased many times at once. Tea trees are planted all over the high ridge. These tea trees are growing better and better, and finally, Fanon said, "Kaolin can grow live tea trees." ”

"We can finally have our own bitter soup." That's what the people of the East say.

This made the chief of Numa and the people of the east worship and appreciate Fanon very much.

During a tour of the high ridge, Chief Numa asked Fanon, "Brother Fanon, thank you for allowing Kaolin to plant the bitter soup tree. However, when will these bitter soup trees on our island be able to make bitter soup? ”

Fanon said humbly, "Chief Numa, now these leaves of the tea tree can be used to make tea. ”

Chief Numa carefully held on to the delicate branches of the tea tree and said, "But these are all small seedlings. Besides, can such an old leaf also make bitter soup? ”

Fanon said: "Old tea trees, new tea trees, young leaves, old leaves, can all make tea, but the process is different and the taste is different." In Luzhou, the best tea leaves are made from young leaves, but that is for the noble family to taste. The coarse tea eaten by the common people is made from old leaves. We Dongmin planted tea, originally to treat ancestral diseases, these old leaves made of coarse tea, than those made of young leaves, in fact, is more suitable. However, when these tea trees are a little older, next year, the new young leaves can also be used to make some better quality tea. ”

Chief Numa was very happy and said, "Coarse tea is good, coarse tea is good." As I drank it, the bitterness of coarse tea seemed to be lighter and better than the bitterness of those fine teas. We Dongmin generally prefer coarse tea. On the contrary, I don't accept the 'upper leaves' sent by the Che De brothers. ”

Fanon said: "Coarse tea is fermented, so the bitterness is much lighter than that of 'upper leaves'. It is precisely because of fermentation that the effect of digestion and laxative is better, and it is also more conducive to the treatment of ancestral diseases. ”

"That's good, that's good. So, Brother Fanon, will we be able to have the first batch of our own bitter soup in Dongdao this year? ”

Fanon said, "It stands to reason that yes. However, Chief Numa, I suggest that we make a small amount this year, which can be regarded as a sign that our East Island has begun to produce tea. Don't make too much, though. These tea trees have just recovered their strength, and their vitality has not yet been raised, and if they pick too many leaves, they will not grow well. So, let's make a small amount this year, okay? ”

Chief Numa said, "All right, all right." Listen to you, Brother Fanon. Good brother, we all listen to you! ”