In 1911, the year after Sanni became a child laborer in the tea garden, the Xinhai Revolution, a major event that changed the feudal history of China, broke out.

In February of the following year, Empress Dowager Longyu issued the "Edict of Abdication" on behalf of Emperor Xuantong, announcing the end of the Qing Dynasty and ending the monarchical feudal imperial system that had lasted for more than 2,000 years in China at the same time.

The entire land of China fell into a tumultuous innovation.

Also born in the 32nd year of Guangxu, Aixin Jueluo Puyi served as the last emperor for three years, was ousted from the emperor's throne by the unstoppable historical process, enjoyed the most noble life in China, and also had to bear the reputation of historical blame.

said that he was Emperor Xuantong, but in fact, he was not also an ignorant six-year-old child?

In comparison, Sanni, who grew up beside the patriarchal Grandma Shu, sold himself into slavery, but his life was better than he imagined.

In the Emei Mountain Tea Garden where there is no Shu family Dani and Er Ni, Sanni is not called Sanni, but Yuanyuan. The day when the Shu family sold her was also coincidental, just before the end of the Qing Dynasty in the second year of Xuantong, at that time, it was natural to buy and sell people, and the deed of sale on the official government was written in black and white with "Shu Yuan", the three daughters of the Shu family, and sold one or two whole silver.

Shu Yuan, the same as "Shuyuan", left the Shu family, she became a leather monkey, and there was no sign of a lady at all.

"Yuanyuan, hurry up and wash your hands, everyone is cooking!"

Time flies, nine-year-old Shu Yuan ran down from the hillside with a small bamboo basket on her back, the big basket of new tea firmly on her small shoulders, she threw off her steps and ran, on the rugged mountain road as if walking on the ground.

Others have to count catties and taels to pick tea, Shu Yuan put down the back basket and went directly to the kitchen, because she even belongs to the tea garden, so naturally she has no salary.

Outside the mountain, there is a vigorous innovation, and Shu Dao isolates the chaos and becomes a small world of its own. The avant-garde who shouted about women's rights couldn't control Mount Emei, and in the tea field, it was obvious that a group of female workers were the main force of tea picking, and they were not qualified to go to the hall to eat.

There is a small table in the kitchen, a large pot of meat slices fried cabbage, and a bowl of pickled cabbage, because these days are the golden period of tea picking, and the workload of each tea worker is very large, so the owner of the tea garden does not spare a few slices of fat pork, the oil and the fragrance of cabbage are entangled, and the chopped pickled pepper is used as a condiment, which looks like it makes people appetize.

Shu Yuan picked up the bowl, quickly picked up the shredded pickles and slices of meat with her chopsticks, and finished the two bowls of rice after swallowing dates.

The gluttonous appearance made the female workers quip: "Look at how much you eat at every meal, why are your arms still thin and meatless." ”

The female workers laughed and cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and Shu Yuan also smiled silly and was called aside by the steward.

The steward of the tea garden is the boss's brother-in-law, and his physique of drinking water to gain weight makes him stand up with a stomach and more heady than the boss, but he is not a bully villain in the book, but he is very kind. Strictly speaking, the tea garden owner's family is not a villain, otherwise how could Shu Yuan's "deed of sale" be signed until he was eighteen years old? You must know that it is the most valuable age for a female tea worker.

"Yuanyuan, those wild tea trees on the cliff ......" In front of such a little girl, the housekeeper felt that his "plan" was embarrassed to say.

Shu Yuan said with a smile: "Uncle Zhang, do you want me to pick wild tea, then I will start work tomorrow!" ”

The nine-year-old girl was precocious and sensible, and she sensed the embarrassment of Steward Zhang, and took the initiative to take the matter over.

The chubby Steward Zhang was both relieved and pitiful to Shu Yuan, and finally just rubbed her head.

In this world, if you want to live in peace, no one is easier than anyone else. Shu Yuan, who was sold by relatives, has food as long as she works hard, while the owner of the tea garden has hundreds of workers on his shoulders and has a great responsibility, and he can only compromise more things for the sake of life.

The few wild tea trees that the steward said have a lot to do with Shu Yuan.

In the spring of the second year of Xuantong, the third husband and wife of the Shu family fell to the bottom of the cliff and died in order to pick wild tea, and Shu Yuan became an orphan girl. For these wild teas, the accident is not a once, two years after Xuantong, the owner of the tea garden suspended the picking of wild tea, if it was not for a big man named this tea this year, Manager Zhang would not have hit Shu Yuan's head.

The times are turbulent, and the maintenance of the tea plantation is more difficult than in previous years.

On the second day, the waning moon above his head had not faded, and Steward Zhang took Shu Yuan and two other tea workers to climb to the top of the mountain with torches. When Chaoyang was about to break free from the clouds, Shu Yuan carried a small tea basket on his back and tied a two-finger-thick rope around his waist, and slowly fell down the cliff.

The uneven gravel on the cliff rubbed against his shoulders, and Shu Yuan arched his body as Steward Zhang said, trying to minimize direct contact between his body and the cliff. She gripped the rope tightly with both hands, trying to find a place to stay on the cliff on tiptoe.

The rope descended for about a few tens of meters, and Shu Yuan could already see the top of the canopy of the tea tree growing on the cliff between the clouds and mist below. In the white mist and morning light, the dark green tea crown is a little green in the middle, which is the new sprout this year.

Shu Yuan dragged the tea basket from the back to the waist, the so-called Ming Qian tea is just a few buds emerging from the crown like a cloud between the tea branches, the nine wild tea trees on the cliff are more than two hundred years old, and the yield of Ming Qian tea is not more than one pound when the year is the best. Wuyi Mountain's best red robe is worth a thousand gold, and Meishan wild tea is not famous, and it may not be worse than the former in the eyes of some people.

The white mist lingers in the mountain stream, and the young shoots are still stained with round and lovely dewdrops. Shu Yuan's two hands swept quickly between the tea trees, and the young leaves fell into the tea basket, because the rope was suspended in the middle of the cliff, and there were fine beads of sweat on her forehead after picking a wild tea.

The nine wild teas did not grow in the same place, Shu Yuan pulled the rope behind her waist when she picked up one plant, and the steward Zhang and the two tea workers at the top of the mountain would pull her up.

After resting for a while and recognizing the logo, Shu Yuan was once again dropped by the rope next to another tea tree on the cliff.

This wild tea plant is the oldest tree, and the place where it grows is abnormal, and the other plants are all grown by its tea fruit falling in the crevice of the cliff with soil. This tea tree is the oldest, the fried tea leaves are particularly mellow, and the place where it grows is also extremely steep, unlike other wild teas, there is a foothold next to it, Shu Yuan's whole person has to be suspended in the air by a rope to pick tea!

She carefully leaned her back against the cliff wall, and was about to pick the new leaves of the old tea tree, when there was a chirping sound above her head.

Shu Yuan looked up and saw a golden figure moving and jumping between the mountain walls surrounded by clouds and mist, and soon climbed the rock.

"Hey, who raised the monkey?!"

That's right, what appeared in front of Shu Yuan was a half-sized monkey. It looks no different from the wild monkeys that can be seen everywhere in Mount Emei, except that the hair on its body is golden yellow, and it is particularly oily and shiny.

Said that it is raised, because this monkey also tied a bamboo basket on his back, when Shu Yuan was stunned, it bared its teeth, its long arms were agile, and it had picked most of the new leaves of the old tea crown this year!

Shu Yuan blinked, suspecting that she was still in a dream: where did the monkey come from and snatch her tea?

The monkey was about to run away with the tea basket on his back, but Shu Yuan was in a hurry and reached out and grabbed the golden monkey's tail.

The monkey was in pain and grinned at her in protest, Shu Yuan pursed her lips stubbornly and tightly grabbed the monkey's long tail. Her actions obviously annoyed the monkey, and it was ineffective to compare gestures, baring its fangs and biting Shu Yuan's arm-

Shu Yuan was shocked, and suddenly there was another burst of shouts above her head:

"Evil animal, let you go to pick tea, don't hurt people!"

The voice is clear and cold, coming through layers of fog. The clouds and mist blinded Shu Yuan's eyes, she raised her head and saw a person standing on the other side of the cliff, she could only see him dressed as a blue-clothed Taoist priest, but she couldn't see what he looked like.

At a glance from afar, she felt that the person seemed to be coming from high in the clouds, which was completely different from the tea farm workers she had seen on weekdays. Shu Yuan hesitated, and the golden retriever monkey had already escaped, jumped a few times on the cliff, and threw himself into the arms of the man.

When she rubbed her eyes and looked again, the cliff was still the cliff, the clouds and mist had not dispersed, the breeze on the top of the mountain was blowing loosely, where was the shadow of the Taoist and the golden monkey?

Shu Yuan was shocked and finished picking tea, and told what she saw to Steward Zhang and the hired workers. Steward Zhang stretched out his white fat palm and waved his hand at her again and again: "Don't talk nonsense, beware of alarming the mountain god!" ”

Employees are also taboo about the topic.

After a long time, Shu Yuan became suspicious of what happened to her.

Wasn't it dazzling that day? The cliff on the other side of the wild tea tree is as slippery as a knife, and the monkey can swing around with mountain vines, how does a big living person climb the cliff on the other side?

In the blink of an eye, the Republic of China has been established for thirteen years, that is, in 1924 AD, Shu Yuan has already become a slim eighteen-year-old girl.

In the early winter of November this year, the tea fields on Mount Emei entered the winter break.

In distant Beijing, the warlord Feng Yuxiang staged a coup d'état in Beijing, removing Wu Peifu from the Beijing government. The Regency Cabinet passed the "Amendment to the Conditions of Preferential Treatment for the Qing Dynasty", and on November 5, Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Forbidden City, was expelled from the palace.

What is the political situation in the country, it has nothing to do with a female tea worker, Shu Yuan's world is limited to the undulating mountains of Mount Emei, she only listens to the tea house steward gossip about the Manchu royal family, and never thought that she had the slightest connection with the last emperor of the same age.

Others have stepped down, and they have also been emperors.

What about Shu Yuan?

The eighteen-year-old girl is full of worries, and the unknown fate makes it impossible for her to adapt.

After the accident of her father, Mrs. Shu and her aunt sold her to the tea farm, and now that the age has come, although Shu Yuan has grown into a tea picker valued by the owner of the tea farm, her lifelong events still depend on the elders.

Shu Yuan looks very much like her mother, and has the advantages of her father's facial features, the eighteen-year-old girl is beautiful, and often provokes the middle-aged female workers in the tea field to gossip, saying that if the royal family is still there, looking at her appearance is the life of a mother.

Fortunately, the owner of the tea farm is square, Shu Yuan's cloth dress and hairpin, forcing her beauty to hide in the deep mountains, no one beats her idea.

It is not entirely correct to say that no one has beaten her idea.

In the spring, the cousin of the uncle's family came up to the mountain to see her, and his eyes flashed at that time, and then the eldest uncle pulled her son to make two troubles, saying that she would take Shu Yuan home to get married.

The owner of the tea shop took out the deed of status that was in the official mansion that year, pointed to the black and white letters on it and sent away the eldest aunt who was playing tricks.

Afterwards, everyone comforted her, and the deed stated that Shu Yuan's marriage was not related to the Shu family, although the Qing government was gone, the contracts before the Republic of China could not be invalidated, right?

Shu Yuan didn't show it on her face, but she was extremely unsteady in her heart.

Sure enough, before the year passed, the attitude of the tea farm owner changed.

"Yuanyuan, the tea field is really difficult...... The boss's face was gloomy, and he didn't dare to look directly into Shu Yuan's eyes, and landed on a large water tank behind her.

Shu Yuan smiled reluctantly.

She suddenly noticed that the white hair on the temples of the tea shop owner had increased a lot in a short period of time.

Steward Zhang, who has always been kind, is also avoiding her sight.

In fact, she has also heard the pressure on the tea farm during this time, and Shu Yuan does not blame the owner of the tea farm, nor does she blame Steward Zhang.

Who is to blame?

Shu Yuan packed up her clothes, put away some of the money given by the proprietress privately, and left the tea garden where she had lived for six years with the package.

At the gate of the tea garden, the eldest aunt and cousin were stamping their feet and rubbing their hands in the cold, while looking inside.

Seeing Shu Yuan appear with a small package, the eldest aunt smiled very proudly.

"Sanni, my aunt will take you home and live a good life! Poor girl, you don't have to pick tea in the wind and sun in the future, look at this appearance, you were born to be a superior person...... Uncle Niang said a long time ago, my niece has a good life, and I will bring your cousin more in the future, and bring our old Shu family ......"

The eldest uncle chattered, and the cousin enthusiastically echoed beside him.

The mother and son had a big talk, but Shu Yuan didn't listen much. However, the words "good fortune" stabbed Shu Yuan's ears and her heart was dull.