Nong Tianyi was erudite and talented, and was deeply influenced by his father and mother and Confucianism since he was a child, and took the road of Confucian businessmen.

He was also an unknown seal carver and calligrapher, and he occasionally sat at the desk in his study and carved Shoushan stone with great concentration. He also applied the seal carving technique to the carving of camellia, he carved the camellia posture thousands, the image is vivid, realistic, such as a hundred birds towards the phoenix, full of spring and so on.

His calligraphy is famous far and wide, and during the New Year's holidays, neighbors or shops often ask him to write inscriptions and write Spring Festival couplets. He is the same and responsive. Some of them held the spring couplets or big characters with the fragrance of ink, and returned satisfied.

Some say that Mr. Nong's words are like those printed.

There are also people who compare with others: you see, this word is like a dragon and a tiger leaping, and the momentum is extraordinary......

As his parents got older, the farmer's tea business fell on him, and he did it himself, and he didn't dare to slack off......

When picking tea, he went to other tea gardens such as Tianxin Rock to personally select the green tea, and when the flowers bloomed, he went to various places to select various flowers suitable for making flower tea. After returning, he and the masters worked together to make such as tea embryos, flower spelling and stacking, flowering, stacking, flowering, baking, cooling, turning, or jacquard, even stacking, packing and so on.

In order to improve work efficiency, he also dismantled the old bed foot at home and made a semi-automatic tea sieving machine by himself. After the masters used it, they praised it one by one.

At the turn of spring and summer of this year, when Russian merchants came to Hankou, Nong Tianyi received them all the way, and he let foreign businessmen live in the "Sanjitang" inn in Hankou. To this end, Nong Tianyi eats with the workers every day and allows foreign businessmen to see the whole process of the workers making tea......

Once, especially at night, where jasmine flowers were piled up during the day, the workers did not notice, and when the flowers opened around 8 p.m., all the jasmine flowers in the entire warehouse were in bloom, and the workers were dumbfounded, not knowing what was going on.

Nong Tianyi said with a smile, this time is the time for jasmine to spit fragrance, they will bloom their own floral fragrance to the fullest, this process is called Tonghua, and between 11 o'clock at this time the flowers are most suitable for making tea.

When the workers heard this, they suddenly realized, and they said, "That's what happened, and it scared us." Then everyone laughed happily.

To learn to make jasmine tea, Nong Tianyi benefited from the guidance of an old tea man in Hankou, which can be said to be taught by him. Subsequently, Nong Tianyi studied hard and walked out of a unique jasmine tea brand road of his own.

One year, a Russian businessman came to the "Sanjitang Tea Shop" to see the goods, when he first came, the attitude of the Russian businessman was more arrogant, thinking that the quality of Chinese tea was relatively low, and asked to find a bucket of tea from Nongtian, wanting to try his level. And said: "Boss farmer, are you willing to accept the challenge?" ”

Nong Tianyi has no way out, only to accept this challenge gladly, otherwise the deal will be ruined. At the same time, it also makes Russian businessmen look down on us Chinese tea people.

So, he smiled and said, "Okay." I'm willing to accept your challenge! At the same time, he also needs to suppress the arrogance of Russian businessmen, and he can't let foreigners underestimate our tea merchants.

At this time, the guys in the whole tea shop were excited, and they all gathered around to cheer.

Nong Tianyi was calm, and suddenly called a master of the tea shop to take out 12 kinds of flower tea, and then the masters carried Nong Tianyi and the Russian businessman to make marks under the teacup, invited them to drink in order, and then shuffled the order of the cups, and asked them to taste them one by one, and asked them to say at any time which season the tea, what bud shape, leaf shape, several kilns, year, single or double flowers, or multi-petal flowers were made.

This is not an average level of difficulty. This is undoubtedly a double-edged sword!

However, after hearing this, the Russian businessman smiled indifferently, was eager to try, and readily agreed to the rules of the competition.

Nong Tianyi also smiled slightly, remained silent, and then said to the Russian businessman, "Okay, now is the time to start tasting." ”

This is not an ordinary tasting, this is really the real kung fu and hard kung fu that needs to taste tea! If you make a slight mistake, you will lose all your previous efforts, and you will definitely lose!

The masters of the tea shop all sweated for Nongtian, for fear that he would make a mistake...... At this time, the atmosphere was extremely tense, and even a pin could be heard in the room.

Watching the lively people, some are playing drums psychologically, some are worried about Nong Tianyi, and some are secretly cheering for him; Others are also muttering in their hearts, can Russian businessmen really do it?

The scene was suddenly surprisingly quiet. For a while, a string of questions and uneasiness floated on the scene, and the masters were looking forward to a miracle in Nongtianyi!

The tea fight seems to be calm, but in fact it is carried out in an extremely intense and tense atmosphere, as if the calm sea is gathering surging huge energy, which is about to set off rolling waves......

The Russian businessman was full of confidence at first, the first cup, the second cup...... It was all going well, but when the Russian business representative drank the fifth cup, he couldn't say the name of the tea, and his expression was very embarrassed. The forehead of the Russian businessman began to sweat, as if he couldn't get off the stage, and stood there stupidly in a daze.

Nong Tianyi looked very generous and said, "Give you another chance!" ”

The Russian businessman representative sniffed and tasted again, but still did not guess the relevant requirements of flower tea, shook his head, and made a helpless expression, very embarrassed.

At this time, I saw Nong Tianyi pick up the teacup, smell a taste, and tell it eloquently, very smoothly, and after a while, he casually took out the 12 kinds of tea one by one, and explained the reason, and explained it to the Russian businessmen, and they finally surrendered and failed, "That boss, you are really amazing!" And humbly ask Nong Tianyi for advice.

Nong Tianyi maintained his usual modest attitude, and kindly taught them how to distinguish tea leaves and jasmine, almost to the point of teaching them by hand.

The scene exploded all of a sudden, and the masters who watched the tea fight were full of joy, and the faces of the masters were happy, just like jasmine flowers blooming on the green fields......

As a result, the Russian businessman was convinced and bought a large amount of Nong Tianyi's jasmine tea! He also said, "Boss Nong, we only need your jasmine tea from now on." Since then, the trade routes have been wide open, and the financial resources have been rolling.

Later, this incident became known as a "myth"! It is widely spread in the community.

In order to remind himself, Nong Tianyi also took two other names: Nong Changyan, that is, to be cautious in words and deeds, and to be kind to others; The three provinces of agriculture require themselves to save themselves three times a day.

At the end of summer every year, Nong Tianyi will make the leftover tea powder and the "Sanjitang Tea Paste" made from the secret recipe of Jiazu, and distribute it to the sick poor free of charge, so he also got the nickname of "Great Benevolent"!

His father and mother were very strict with Nong Tianyi's family education since he was a child, such as not being able to speak loudly, respecting his elders, and not allowing any bad habits to appear.

Nonglu once told Nong Tianyi a true thing: one year, the Empress Dowager Cixi liked the fragrance of jasmine, sometimes her head would be decorated with jasmine, officials could not wear flowers, so they wanted to use snuff instead, so at that time, Beijing officials prevailed to smoke snuff with fragrant flowers, and a snuff merchant in the capital actively served the officials and upper-class people.

When Nong Tianyi learned about this, he thought it was a rare business opportunity, and since then he has devoted himself to studying jasmine tea.

At that time, Nonglu was a good friend of a French businessman, who was received by Nonglu when he came to China, and he told Nonglu that they used liposuction method to extract jasmine essential oil for perfume.

His father told Nong Tianyi to study hard, and he was inspired, and after several months of study, he finally used the liposuction method (fat cold suction method) to extract the essential oil.

Nong Tianyi extracts the head fragrance of jasmine, because the head fragrance flower exudes the most natural aroma.

He took a lard plate, heated it and pressed the fresh jasmine between two layers of lard fat, so that the petals were replaced after 24 hours, and this process was repeated more than 40 times to saturate the flower oil in the fat, and finally used the distillation method to make wine, the flower essential oil was extracted from the oil, and made into jasmine extract or powder and put into a snuff bottle.

Due to the amount of manpower and time required, the amount of flower paste extracted from jasmine is small and expensive. Therefore, Nong Tianyi's floral snuff is favored by officials and upper-class people because of its color and fragrance, and sells well in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Hankou.

Nong Tianyi also became a New Year's friend with a dignitary in the capital, and on the birthday of Nonglu, he also specially inscribed the four characters of "Tongdeng Shouxi" as a congratulatory gift, but unfortunately it was burned down during the bombing of Hankou due to frequent wars.

At that time, Nong Tianyi also ran a money village to facilitate the exchange of goods and provide loans to tea farmers to monopolize the high-quality tea produced by tea farmers. Later, a large-scale tea processing factory was opened, and caravans were formed to transport tea to major cities, because at that time, large ships could not enter the Fu River, and only at the coastal wharf were loaded with wooden sailing boats to transport tea to Shashi Port, and then loaded on two ships to transport it to Hankou and other places.

Nonglu and Nong Tianyi are also famous patriotic merchants, when Mr. Sun Yat-sen went to Hankou to find a tea merchant to raise donations, the farmer took the lead in donating 5,000 taels of silver and some gold bars to support. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese invaded Hankou, so that the "Sanjitang Tea Shop" in Nonglu was forced to close, a large amount of tea backlog could not be sold, the Japanese wanted to invade and vomit, Nonglu would rather dump on the Yangtze River, even if he put a bayonet on his neck, he was not afraid, and said righteously: "I would rather have no tea, I would rather die than be a traitor!" ”

Since the Japanese like to drink flower tea, Nonglu and his son called on local tea merchants to boycott Japanese products, and took the lead in dumping and destroying their own tea leaves, refusing to provide them to the Japanese. This is what Nonglu said: "I'd rather have no tea!" ”

Later, the Japanese invaders bombed Dahankou, and countless buildings were razed to the ground, and rivers of blood flowed into the blood......

In the middle of winter 1944, in the bitter cold wind, Nonglu died with hatred under the double torture of worrying about the rise and fall of the nation and serious illness.