After picking the tea, it's time to sort out how much each person picks.

At this time, often the back basket and bamboo basket of adults are filled with tea, and the tea leaves in the bamboo basket of those naughty and playful children are fluffy and fluffy, and the cover is not satisfied, but this does not affect the good mood of the friends.

They brought the tea leaves they had picked home, and Nong Tianyi's grandmother had already prepared a dustpan. The farmer poured the tea leaves into the dustpan, and the family gathered around the dustpan to make the tea leaves.

Short tea leaves are the first process of stir-frying Fengshan tea, which is to break the long and large buds and leaves. Because it is self-picking, you don't have to pay too much attention to the tea leaves, as long as the fresh leaves are delicate, fresh and clean, they are all picked back, which requires short tea before frying.

In fact, short tea leaves are also the happiest time for the family. The whole family sat in a circle, talking and laughing over a short cup of tea, and had a good time.

Nong Tianyi first reported to his grandmother the interesting events of the day, and as she spoke, her grandmother and parents came up with riddles for everyone to guess, what "was born in the green mountains and died in the hot kang", what "has a long neck, a small mouth, a big belly, and wears a round hat and a flower", what "a jar with two mouths, a big mouth, and a small mouth"......

When the children guessed that the riddle was tea and teapot, the family laughed, and the room was full of laughter and joy.

At this time, the tea leaves were already short, and the farmer spread the short tea leaves in the dustpan, and Nong Tianyi's grandmother had already made dinner. The dinner was very delicious, because everyone participated in the day's tea picking, and his grandmother made a few good dishes that were usually eaten only by visitors.

After dinner, tiredness crept up, Nong Tianyi hurriedly took a bath, and soon fell asleep. At this time, his grandmother, father, and mother had just begun to roast tea.

One of them stands at the head of the stove and is responsible for stir-frying, one is responsible for putting firewood on the side of the stove, and the other is assisting on the side. After the process of finishing, frying two greens, stuffy piles, picking, and frying dry, the new tea is fried after one process after another.

By the time they had breakfast the next day, the family had already drunk new tea. At this time, the "coarse leaf tea" of the tea is particularly fragrant, and when you drink the hot tea, you feel that the aroma is deep in your mind, and you are refreshed.

After a little older, Nong Tianyi never figured out a problem: several tea mountains in the front mountain of Fengshan belonged to their family, but several tea mountains in the back mountain belonged to neighboring villages, and between the two tea mountains, there were also a few small pieces belonging to villagers from other villages. These two tea mountains are both east of the Fu River, and they are not very far from the tea mountains.

It stands to reason that the tea mountain should be divided into villages and towns. But this is not the case here, but intersects with each other, that is to say, this tea mountain, you have me, and I have you. Nong Tianyi was very surprised.

One spring, as soon as Nong Tianyi went to the back mountain of Fengshan to play, he passed by the tea mountain and saw several tea farmers picking spring tea, so he talked with them. It turns out that there is a special custom in this.

A middle-aged woman surnamed Xiong said that when one of her great-grandmothers got married, her parents carved a few small tea mountains as a dowry for their daughter, so that her daughter would have her mother's tea to drink after she got married, and she could ensure that she would have her own tea when she was a guest at her daughter-in-law's house in the future. As a result, the descendants of this great-grandmother have inherited these tea mountains from generation to generation.

Later, I heard a story: an ancestor surnamed Liu wanted to marry his daughter to Nanmen Village in Fudong, and her daughter cried non-stop when she got married, and her parents thought that her daughter was too young and reluctant to her mother's family, so they asked her daughter's good sisters to comfort her and make her feel relieved. Several good sisters persuaded her for a long time, but her daughter still cried. I don't know.

When the father saw this, he asked his daughter, is there less dowry?

The daughter told her father that she married a lot, but she couldn't drink her own tea in the future!

This father is fond of tea and did not plan to row a tea mountain for his daughter to marry, but he couldn't resist his daughter, so he had to promise his daughter to draw a tea mountain for her.

When the daughter heard this, she burst into tears and laughed, and happily got married.

Tea mountains are used as a dowry, which is rare in other places. In the Fengshan area, it happens from time to time.

Every tea picking season, in addition to the locals, there are also tea pickers from afar.

Whenever this happens, the men and women on the tea mountain dance in their hands (that is, picking tea), talking about the ancients, talking about the past and the present, flirting and scolding, so lively! So the people in the nearby tea mountains have become acquaintances, in order to join in the fun, do the work regardless of each other, there is no boundary, you help me pick first, I will help you pick, noisy, laughter constantly, frightened the, I am afraid that the tea mountain will collapse!

In this way, year after year, everyone picks tea together, and picks it into a harmonious group, which invisibly reconciles the neighbors, and the atmosphere is more harmonious, and as time goes by, everyone gets along like a family.

Fengshan tea is good, Fengshan tea is fragrant, but the number of Fengshan tea is small and not large-scale. It's a hard wound.

For a long time, there were few tea mountains here, and there were only about 20 tea trees per household on average, which was extremely rare. It's a pity that the tea trees on the tea mountain have slowly become "wild tea trees", the old people can't climb the mountain, and the young people are too lazy to take care of it, and feel that there is no money to make, so a lot of tea mountains are barren, the tea trees are overgrown with weeds and weeds, and the tea trees return to the wild state, no one prunes, no one cuts the grass and weeds under the trees, and when spring comes, there are fewer and fewer new shoots on the tea trees.

Scarcity is expensive. Strangely, bad things have turned into good things, and the spring tea on the wild tea tree has become more and more precious. This has made some savvy tea merchants see business opportunities. They came to the foot of Fengshan in advance and agreed with the tea farmers to purchase new tea from Fengshan.

In March, some shrewd villagers who were idle at home saw the business opportunity and came to the tea mountain at the foot of Fengshan Mountain to pick "wild tea" and sell the fresh leaves to the tea merchants, and the purchase price also doubled.

After the tea merchants acquired Fengshan tea, they carried out some processing and packaging, and what was sold was not called Fengshan tea, but Tianlu tea, because in Nanyi County and its nearby counties and towns, people only recognized Tianlu tea, because Tianlu yellow tea has good quality, fame, high price and large profits. This drowned Fengshan tea alive.

In fact, Fengshan tea and Tianlu tea belong to the same yellow tea, soil, climate and other growth environments and production methods are exactly the same, fried Fengshan tea, its color and aroma are no different from Tianlu tea.

The reason why people in Nanyi County and other places know Tianlu tea but do not know Fengshan tea is because Tianlu tea was designated as "tribute tea" during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, with high popularity and brand; Second, because the scale and quantity of Fengshan tea cannot be increased, it has not formed a scale and fame in the market, and it is difficult to open up sales, which is not surprising.

The ancients used small place names for local specialties. Fengshan and Tianlu Temple are only more than ten miles apart, belonging to the same tea vein, so Fengshan tea and Tianlu tea are actually the same kind of tea, but people do not know the true taste of Fengshan tea. It's a big pity.

Nong Tianyi likes to drink Fengshan tea, which is what he often calls "coarse leaf tea", because it grows in Fengshan, the holy land of Taoism, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth and taking the essence of the sun and the moon. Drinking Fengshan tea, the soup color is yellow and green bright, the taste is fragrant and sweet, there is the original taste of nature, and there is the soul of Taoist fairy mountain.

The reason why Nong Tianyi loves Fengshan tea so much is because of the warm memories of his childhood, with strong tea feelings and nostalgia, and secondly, because of the deep teacher-student relationship between him and Mr. Qi Yu.

Therefore, the hometown taste on the tip of the tongue is drunk but hometown tea!