The drizzle is blowing, the mountain roads are crooked, the mud is wet, and the vines are tied.

During the Qingming Festival, the peasant women rushed from the county town to their hometown Longyan Village to worship the ancestors in the ancestral tombs of the mountains.

Only once a year, run to meet the deceased, but the old people are not seen, only to see the mountains and forests, weeds fluffy, holding three cups of two old leaves boiled into turbid tea, can it be a bright and quiet? Is it possible to bridge the two worlds?

Next to the grave of Nong Tianyi's grandfather, a new grave was erected - his grandmother had passed away. Nong Tian sighed unconsciously, new people are added to the world every year, and the underworld is also increased every year?

Perhaps, this is what the Buddha called the three lives. There was a new grave not far from my grandmother, and Nong Tianyi called this villager "uncle". It seems to be the year before last, during the Qingming Festival, Nong Tianyi came to cut thatch on the graves of the ancestors and ancestors, and the uncle also called Nong Tianyi to go to his house to drink tea, but he didn't expect that this year, he had already climbed the mountain, so he could only let his descendants come to bring him tea to drink.

In front of his grandmother's new grave, Nong Tianyi placed a box of tea trays, a piece of meat, a fish, a chicken, three cups of wine, and three cups of tea.

Once, these chicken, fish and other meat were called tooth sacrifices by the villagers, probably because it was rare to eat in the past, so it was called. Wine and tea, which are often drunk, life is cut off, but wine and tea are indispensable, even if the old people still continue the past habits.

Yunwu Mountain has a custom of burning new spirits, and sacrificing tea is the inevitable offering of burning new spirits on the Qingming Festival, for each new deceased, the following year's Qingming Festival, must take the tea tray up the mountain, three cups of tea to pay tribute to the soul. Is it a cup of morning tea, a cup of afternoon tea, and a cup of evening tea? Nong Tianyi burned a new spirit for his grandmother last year. The rain is pouring in, and I want to break my soul.

Last year's Qingming Festival, also like this year, and the rain seems to be heavier, dripping, the mountains are empty, the sky and the earth are not very clear, during the Qingming season, will the heaven and the earth create a cloud of rain and fog? Is it suitable for people and gods to meet in the rain and fog?

Perhaps, it is always drizzling during the Qingming season, and the sky is very low......

Wu Qing burned the hot old tea and asked Nong Tianyi to carry it up the mountain, but before he reached the mountain, the tea was already cold. It's only seven or eight months, in front of my grandmother's grave, the grass is waist-deep, hoeing weeds, hanging yellow flags on the grave, lighting firecrackers, and smog, Nong Tian thought about it, grandmother should know that they are coming.

Put the tea tray on the table, they bow in order of the eldest and youngest, the third bow, and then give her meat and food, pour tea for her, the chicken and fish are still there, the grandmother is afraid that she has not stretched the chopstick, but the tea has been poured into the grave, seeping into the ground, that is the grandmother is sipping, right?

When I was a child, Nong Tianyi was very hungry, and I couldn't wait to cut through the bottom of the pot and dig out a layer of pot on the side of the iron rice pot, and my grandmother seemed to be very hungry, she took a sip of wine in the morning and a sip of tea in the evening, as if she was full, and she didn't need to eat.

Now my grandmother is still like that, she keeps the good things for them to eat, and she still only drinks one or a few glasses of water?

This year, Nong Tianyi no longer carries tea up the mountain, no longer puts tea in front of the grave, they only fill three cups of tea under the shrine of the old house. Grandmother must have come down the mountain and into the house. My grandmother once sent a dream to Nong Tianqin, saying, "Where have you all gone, I'm the only one in the house!" In fact, Nong Tianqin has already married, and although the old house is a newly renovated house, the house is empty, and only her grandmother is there to guard it! The farmhouse often comes to this old house to look around and look around.

As soon as Nong Tian saw that the grandmother was not there above the shrine, only a photo of her, and on the photo, the grandmother's eyes were empty and misty, as if she was looking at them. This photo was taken after my grandmother had a cerebral thrombosis.

In the past, no one thought of leaving a posthumous photo of their grandmother, they thought that the life of the grandmother who was already old would be eternal and vigorous, and when she was full of energy, no one wanted to take a picture of her voice and smile. Later, this photo was taken by my grandmother herself, and when I took it, because of cerebral thrombosis, my demeanor was bloated, my eyes were scattered, and now I stayed on the shrine, looking at the old house as if I was not looking. The furniture of the old house is there, the tables, bed cabinets, stoves, pots, dishes and chopsticks, these things are all there, but they are no longer people!

Nong Tianyi and them, in the past, had relatively little communication with their grandmother, and they were able to talk to her and talk to her, basically at night, and it was their grandmother who sent them dreams. The grandmother sent a dream to Nong Tianyi's sister and to her father and mother, saying that she was lonely there; said that no one lived in the old house, and there was a lock hanging on the door every day; said that spring is coming, why are there no pepper seeds, eggplant seedlings or something in the vegetable garden, "the countryside will not return"?

Grandmother seems to have sent dreams to Nong Tianyi.

Last year, as soon as Nong Tian went to the field to run errands, he slept in the inn in the middle of the night, as if his grandmother came, saying that there was still some tea in the wooden rice barrel at home, which was very delicious! Nong Tianyi woke up from his dream. The dream was so vague that when he woke up, he couldn't remember if he had it. Does my grandmother want to drink this yellow tea too? My grandmother had never drunk good tea, and she drank all the old leaf tea she had grown. She used to occasionally drink a glass of wine, saying that it was to invigorate blood, but after she got a cerebral thrombosis, she kept drinking tea. For a while, Nong Tianyi didn't send tea back, but now that I think about it, my grandmother sent him such a dream, maybe she wanted him to send tea.

Nong Tianyi understood his grandmother's thoughts, but she was gone.

However, this Qingming Festival, Nong Tianyi still didn't bring tea. When I came back from sweeping my grandmother's grave, I twisted the iron lock of the old house and had to offer tea to my grandmother, only to realize that I didn't bring a single tea leaf. Suddenly remembered the dream that his grandmother gave him, went to the rice bucket to look for it, sure enough, there was tea, the leaves were three fingers wide, the petioles were as thick as matchsticks, grab a small handful and put it in front of the nose to sniff, a smell of staleness, and a little smell of fire. Burn the firewood and go clubbing, the color is old yellow with black, thick and thick.

Drink it at home, it's not better than drinking it in the mountains, the tea at home has a hot breath and a temperature, grandmother, you just sip slowly, don't burn your mouth, you drink it on that side, and let your grandson Nong Tianyi sing for you: "Tianxin green leaves, Xishan shoots." Yellow tea is recommended, and green rolls taste good. Drink the food, drink the immortals. The spring is brewed, and the fragrant tea is full. The wine is exciting, and the burnt fenfen is ......"

During the Qingming season, it was warm and cold at first, and the hot tea suddenly became cold.

As soon as Nong Tian picked up the leftover tea from his grandmother, he pursed his lips and drank it, it was so cold, so bitter, and so astringent!

He's leaving, he's going to go and make a living, and his grandmother is left alone, and the yin and yang are separated again. He poured the rest of the tea under the shrine, and the tea was wet and the earth was cold!

On this day, Nong Tianyi suddenly remembered an allusion to "replacing wine with tea".

Sun Hao, the fourth-generation monarch of Wu, was fond of drinking, and every time he held a banquet, the guests drank at least seven liters.

According to the "Three Kingdoms, Wu Zhi, Wei Yao Biography": "(Sun) Hao feast, all the day, no sitting, the rate is limited to seven liters, although I don't know the entrance, all are watered and taken." Yao Su drinks no more than two liters, and when the first time the ceremony is different, it is often cut, or secretly given tea to be used as wine. As for the pampering and decay, it is even more powerful, and it is regarded as a sin. ”

It can be seen how much he cares for Wei Yao, a courtier who does not drink much, whenever Wei Yao is difficult to step down, he will "secretly give tea to replace wine" for him to relieve the siege.

Wei Yao, the word Honghei, formerly known as Wei Zhao, Chen Shou changed to Wei Yao in order to avoid the father of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, Sima Zhao, a native of Yunyang, Wu County, who was valued by Sun Hao for his erudition.

Sun Hao was a tyrant, he was the last monarch of the state of Wu, before his reign was named the Marquis of Wucheng, after the death of Emperor Jing, he succeeded as the monarch, he was addicted to alcohol, and cruel and murderous. When he admires Wei Yao a lot, he can secretly cheat between banquets and secretly exchange tea for Wei Yao's wine to make him pass the "wine pass". However, once Wei Yao disobeyed his intentions, he turned his face and denied people, and drew his sword against him.

Wei Yao is upright and upright, he can secretly play some tricks of "stealing beams and changing pillars" and "secretly crossing Chen Cang" at the banquet, but once it is a matter of the country, one is one, two is two, and he seeks truth from facts. So, when he was ordered to record the deeds of Sun Hao's father, Sun He, the king of Nanyang, he was angry with Sun Hao because he wrote some unsightly things straightforwardly, and he was killed by his head.

However, the matter of "replacing wine with tea" is still widely used by people to this day, and can be called a generous and elegant thing, which is unexpected by both Sun Hao and Wei Yao.

Sun Hao was earlier named Wucheng Hou Wucheng (now Huzhou South, Zhejiang), which is also an earlier tea producing area in China. According to the "Wu Xing Ji" of Liu Song Shanqian of the Southern Dynasty, there is Wenshan Mountain in the west of Wucheng County, which produces "Yuxing". It is also tea.

Nong Tianyi believes that the production of "imperial thorns" in Wenshan can be traced back to the era when Sun Hao was named the Marquis of Wucheng, and there was an inference of the imperial tea garden at that time.

"Tea instead of wine" has gradually developed, and there is also a Qingming Festival tea festival, I don't know if there is a certain connection between the two. Nong Tianyi thought so.