Every spring, the old tea mountains and old tea gardens grow green sprouts.

The young leaves that have just been picked from the old tea mountain are piled high, like a small emerald green mountain bag standing in spring.

At this time, in the tea-making room of the farmer's house, more than a dozen black cauldrons were opened, and the pots were naturally full of tender green leaves. The roasting tea master is responsible for a pot of tea, a group of ten people, and three or four people are specifically responsible for adding firewood to these dozen pots. Some people really can't hold on, and they will call someone to replace them, in short, they don't stop working.

Nong Lu told Nong Tianyi that once he fought for nearly 20 hours in a row, and he did not call someone to replace him, because he was not at ease, and he was afraid that the quality of the tea would go wrong.

On the mountain, on the slope, the Nonglu family has several large tea mountains, there are hundreds of acres of land, he has been carefully serving the tea mountain tea garden inherited from his ancestors, pest removal and fertilization, weeding and pruning, all year round, basically there is no idle time.

The tea produced by Tianxinyan is delicate and exquisite, looking ordinary, ordinary and ordinary, but the tea soup brewed is a clear soup with green leaves, the color is clear and beautiful, the aftertaste is curling, occasionally I will look at the leaves slightly different sizes, and the color of the tea soup is also slightly thicker, but it tastes as fragrant and pleasant, and the lips and teeth are fragrant. As long as you have tasted the taste of tea, you will not forget it.

At first, the tea farmers in Jingshan, some of the tea gardens were slightly smaller, basically free-range, lack of management, and the larger tea gardens would prune, weed, or something for the tea gardens. Fortunately, the vitality of tea is particularly strong, whether it is raised or not, whether it is managed or not, the tea garden is still thriving in the wilderness. The tea picked back in the spring is generally kept by the tea farmers themselves, and they don't need to spend extra money to buy tea, which can be regarded as saving a lot of household expenses, not to mention that the taste of the tea is not bad.

Every time winter passes, the tea garden becomes greener day by day, and the air begins to fill the air with the fragrance of new tea. Before and after the Qingming Festival, the tea farmers began to get busy, carrying baskets and baskets to the tea garden to start the annual picking season.

If the area of the tea garden is not large, most of them are hand-picked by their own families. In order to save trouble, tea farmers with a slightly larger tea garden area will hire more helpers, and the picking will be completed in three or two days. There are not many people in the tea garden, so the old and the young go together, and it is completed in a few days.

Thinking about the tea picked back in those years, some tea farmers did not want to process the tea at home, but directly sent the green leaves to the tea workshop of the farm for processing, and the farm was also willing to help the villagers, the next day, those tea farmers brought the fragrant tea home, and then directly brewed. They all praised the craftsmanship of the farm.

Some tea gardens are located on the top of small hills, saying that they are the top of the mountain, but in fact, from the foot of the mountain, you can see the tea garden in less than ten minutes. On the other side of the mountain is the Fu River, on this side of the mountain is the people, on the top of the mountain is the tea garden, overlooking the air, the tea garden is like a mermaid swimming leisurely on the top of the mountain.

This tea garden is called "Jing Tea Garden", which has existed for hundreds of years and belongs to one of the few old tea gardens. Once the tea plantation is on scale, the management method is naturally different, because it can feed the family and bring economic benefits. Therefore, this tea garden is a family's "money bag".

When the farmer took Nong Tianyi to this old tea garden, the tea trees that had just been trimmed were particularly clean and tidy, the topography of the mountain was not particularly flat, and the tea garden would rise and fall with the terrain, if it was walking through the low part of the tea garden, you could not see the weeds and trees around the tea garden, nor could you see the houses and cooking smoke under the mountain, and occasionally when you looked up, in addition to the tea trees, you could only see the blue sky and white clouds, and it was like walking in the boundless tea trees in a trance.

If you speed up your pace and walk to the high ground, when the Fu River under the sunlight meanders in front of you like a jade belt, you will find that the tea garden still has an end.

Nonglu said that when he walked into the old tea garden of Jing Tea Garden, it was not difficult to see that the owner was very careful in taking care of it.

Nong Tian let out a series of "uh-huh".

The tea gardens in the area of Yunwu Mountain, whether they are large or small, or new or old, their existence is a treasure, an extension and link of tea culture and history, if there is no tea garden, where is the tea culture? This tea mountain tea garden is the carrier of matter.

In the memory of the farm, getting up early to boil water to make tea is probably the first thing his father does every day, boiling a pot of boiling water, scalding the kettle, washing the tea, and after a clanging, the house begins to fill the house with the fragrant fragrance of tea. Interestingly, when the fragrance of tea soaked into the hearts and spleens of everyone in the family, his father was the only one who raised the glass.

Nong Lu was thinking, his father liked tea, and probably only liked yellow tea. I remember that at that time, when a friend occasionally brought a variety of new teas such as Maojian, his father did not have the kind of affection to brew it in the pot, but drank the homemade yellow tea himself when his new tea was on the market. Her mother also often talked about her father's unique tea-drinking habits.

Up to now, the scene that is still fresh in the memory of the farmer is that his father inserted a piece of charcoal into the jar where he had stored tea for many years, and then carefully placed the new tea around the charcoal until the jar was full, and then pressed the stone wrapped in cotton at the mouth of the altar, and used a small jar to drink some of the usual drinks, so that the tea leaves that had been preserved for a year would also have the aroma of new tea.

The tea mountains in Nanyi County show different appearances according to the mountain situation. Some are large-scale, dozens of acres or hundreds of acres, very imposing; Some of them are small in scale, planted in the col, and the col is large and small, and the scale of the tea garden is also different, the big one is only a few acres, and the small one is probably only a few dozen tea trees. Tea farmers often do some management work such as pruning branches, weeding and fertilizing.

This is also Nong Tianyi's favorite season. Every year when it rains in Qingming Valley, the mountains and valleys are full of tea pickers, their fingertips jumping on the tea trees, and laughter flying in the mountain col. The refreshing emerald green and fresh tea fragrance seems to have begun to permeate the fingertips. Tea pickers in twos and threes just gathered, whispered, and when it came to rise, hearty laughter would blow out of the mountain with the wind...... I always feel that the mood of tea picking is like the weather at that time, slightly moist, hearty and pleasant.

Nong Tianyi's grandmother said that they all liked the mood of tea picking and the freedom to be in nature.

From the tiny hairy tips to the long shoots, the grades of yellow tea are naturally separated over time. At the beginning, some tea farmers were limited by the technology of processing hairy tips, so the fresh leaves were generally purchased and processed by the Nonglujia Tea House.

Some tea farmers pick two or three inches long branches, after killing, rolling, stuffy yellow, drying, but also pruning, in the yellow tea belongs to the yellow tea. Although the quality is not good, but the soup made in the teapot is yellow and bright, clear and pleasant, taste a mouthful, fragrant and mellow, sweet aftertaste and moisten the throat, unique taste.

In Nanyi County, it can be said that most of the villages have tea mountains, and the villages can be regarded as small tea towns, and the geographical location of some villages is very special, almost all of them are small mountains to form a village, such as Xujiachong, Liaojiachong, Wangjiachong...... And the houses of the mountain people are hidden in these small hills.

If you rush along the hills of these Danxia landforms, the slopes on both sides of the hill are those large areas of green, which are easy to be mistaken for trees, in fact, the taller ones are the trees, and the shorter ones are the tea trees, some are artificially planted, and some are wild. Because tea seeds are a good winter food for birds and squirrels, the tea seeds that they can't eat or accidentally spill on the ground will slowly grow into tea trees, and year after year, there will be more and more tea trees, and then they will cover the hills. Even, outside the fence of some small courtyards of mountain people, there are always a few or patches of tea trees on the side of the courtyard wall.

Although Nonglu's father passed away early, he has been smart since he was a child and is willing to endure hardships. Once, he told his son Nong Tianyi that every time he remembered that he went to other places to learn roasted tea, and he had to spend money to see other people's faces, it was really not a taste, so he decided to try to make tea by himself......

It was at that time that Nonglu met a person who gave him the nickname "Yellow Tea Master", whose surname was Jiang, because he was a master of yellow tea making, so he got this name.

In the early days, Nonglu followed the "yellow tea master" to learn to roast tea. Every time the "Yellow Tea Master" roasted tea, he watched from the side, and he kept in mind the operation method and time of each procedure, "Yellow Tea Master" is a kind businessman, and the roasting tea technology is also unreserved for the farm. In this way, Nonglu not only learned a good skill, but he and the "Yellow Tea Master" also changed from the initial master-apprentice relationship to a long-term partner.

At the beginning, after the new tea came out every year, the farm house bought tea everywhere, and everyone was willing to carry out the most primitive transaction in this way of acquisition, anyway, the price was not low, sitting in the house to collect money, why not?

After all the tea leaves were fried, the farm sold them to the "yellow tea master". Their relationship lasted for several years, and it was not until they met and married Wu Qing that they set up a separate relationship. Since then, the tea made by the farm has been out of control.

At that time, some tea farmers saw that the market was not good, they were too lazy to manage the tea mountain, and felt that the income was not high, once the business opportunity reappeared and began to pay attention to the planting of the tea industry, then there would be laughter and laughter on the tea mountain, and everyone began to get busy, weeding, fertilizing, pruning, and preventing diseases and pests.....

Nonglu is different from those tea farmers, he has a brute spirit, unlike some tea farmers, watching the sky to eat, sometimes sunny and sometimes rainy, sometimes good and sometimes bad, but he has consistently adhered to the farmer's tea industry, and gradually developed and grew!