When I went to the supermarket, I found that the hometown specialty Babao tea was very popular recently, and there were exquisitely packaged Babao tea in the large and small exhibition counters. A pack is discounted at 50 yuan, and the theme of the packaging bag is mainly bright red, which just fits the theme of Ningxia red, so I bought a pack and prepared to taste it.

Eight Treasures Tea, also known as Gaiwan Tea, and also called Three Bubble Tea, Eight Treasures, as the name suggests, refers to eight kinds of tea raw materials, with tea as the base, rock sugar, wolfberry, red dates, walnut kernels, longan, sesame, raisins, etc., and some people put sand dates, each take what they love. After looking at the packaging, the bag I bought also added roses, is it for women's beauty? Today's merchants really don't miss a little opportunity.

I remember when I was a child, my mother was very fond of buying tea sets, and at the beginning of the exchange meeting every year, she would go to buy beautiful gaiwan tea sets, also known as "three forts". Every year around the sixth day of the sixth month of June, it is the most lively exchange meeting, and vendors from all over the country will set up tents on both sides of the main street of the county to display clothes, blankets, jewelry and various household items. Until now, those lively shouting voices will still linger in my mind, "Come and come, don't miss the passing, three pieces of ten yuan, three pieces of ten yuan, you can't buy a loss, you can't buy a fool······" Don't miss the opportunity, the time will not come again, the last day is a big sale, a big sale······"

The exchange meeting usually lasts for five or six days, and the second to fourth day of the new year is lively, and people from the surrounding villages of the county will flock to buy clothes and buy daily food and clothing for the adults and children in the family. For our children, what we look forward to most every year is not the New Year, not the Mid-Autumn Festival, not the iftar and Eid al-Adha, but the annual exchange meeting, usually the early money given by the family will save part of it and hide it in the book cover of the textbook, and wait until the exchange meeting begins to buy your favorite food, there are fried stinky tofu, there are grilled flounder, there are boiled fish meatballs, and there are bamboo dumplings poured with honey······

And every time the exhibition will be an adult will also give up the usual picking, buy us some toys that we have never seen, there are small pistols that will make a "sudden and sudden" sound, there are dolls with blond hair, shake it will also make a sweet "mother, mother" sound or realistic baby crying, as well as the animated version of "Journey to the West" Sun Wukong's golden hoop stick, Zhu Bajie's rake, are all inflatable toys, carrying all the joy of our street children frolicking after dinner·······

The mother washed the tea set, will clean it carefully, and then find a large disc to put it up, cover it with a small square scarf that is also from the exchange meeting, put it on the cabinet, usually will not be used, only when the guest comes to the house, the mother will put the eight treasures of tea in the tea set to entertain the guests. There are exceptions, my father likes to drink tea very much, every time I come back from the stall to read the scriptures, my mother will make a bowl of eight treasure tea for my father, at that time my brother always feels that my father is majestic and dare not get close to my father, and I am still young, I don't understand the things between adults, I hear the sound of my father's motorcycle from afar, and I will open the gate of the yard early so that my father can ride in directly. When my father finished moving and resting on the sofa, he would stay by his side and listen to him teach me to read, sometimes teaching me to read the Koran, and sometimes teaching me to read "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales" or "Three Hundred Tang Poems". If I memorized it quickly, my father would drink the Babao tea dry, and then take out the red dates and longan in it for me to eat, and then he would show off to my brother: "Oh, look, my father gave me ······."

Up to now, I still like to drink Babao tea, and when I drink a few bubbles and have no taste, I will take out the red dates and longan in it and eat them, every time I go out to eat with my friends and finally eat red dates and longan, my friends will always dislike and complain: "Yang Li, can you not live so rough with a girl's family!" No matter how old you are, you can't be elegant in your appearance! It's a shame to eat with you every time, and I will never order Babao tea to drink in the future. ”

I like to drink Babao tea, and when I am most sad and sad, the sweetness that comes to my mouth will soak my heart. Perhaps in that barren time, when the products are not abundant enough, people come to a bowl of eight-treasure tea is a rare sweetness after a day's hard work.

But I don't know why, the red dates are still red and big, and the soaked longan is still as full as when I was a child.