"Hello old man!" Zeng Zhi hurriedly greeted respectfully.

The old man smiled, glanced at Yuan Ling with some doting, and said: "You girl, how can it be like what you said, I am an old man who roasts tea, that is, I have been in this industry for a few years longer than others!" ”

Yuan Ling said: "You are too polite! This is Zeng Zhi, the owner of our village's tea base, who graduated from a famous university, and now returns to the village to develop and lead the villagers to get rid of poverty and become rich together. ”

The old man nodded at Zeng Zhi and said, "Young man, don't forget the villagers when you get rich outside, it's good." ”

Zeng Zhi also smiled modestly, of course he knew that the old man said this, but it was just polite, so he didn't say anything, but asked, "Old man, how is the tea in our village?" ”

"It's a good tea, and the taste is also very distinctive, but it's too early to say this, wait and see, but such a wild original ancient tea garden is extremely rare in the country, as long as the quality of tea is slightly higher, it will be quite popular in the market, you can rest assured." The old man said.

Zeng Zhi nodded when he heard this, no longer asked, but watched intently how the three women roasted tea.

In the small square of the village committee, three pots are lined up from left to right, and the woman in front of the first pot holds a tea broom, stirs the tea leaves and turns in the pot, turns for about three minutes, and then transfers the fried tea leaves to the second pot. There was also a woman standing in front of the second pot, and she continued to stir the tea leaves with a broom, and from time to time she grabbed the tea with her hands and shook it twice, and finally turned to the third pot.

This process is indeed very surprising from the local method of roasting tea in the countryside. In rural areas, villagers roast tea by themselves, basically first fry the tea leaves in a large pot with high heat until they are half dead, then transfer them to a basin for kneading, and then return to the pot for frying, and then knead them. In this way, at least three rounds, more than five to six or even seven times, and then put it in a pot and dry it over a simmer or charcoal fire.

The roasted tea carried out by these people now is obviously simplifying the process of roasting tea, or rather, it is being streamlined.

Seeing that Zeng Zhi looked carefully, Yuan Ling smiled and said, "Haven't you seen it?" The first pot is finished, the second pot is finished and kneaded, and the third pot is ......"

"Director Yuan, you still know how to make tea, I thought you only knew how to drink tea." Zeng Zhi laughed and teased Yuan Ling.

Yuan Ling glanced at Zeng Zhi and said angrily: "Brother Zeng Zhi, am I that bad?" ”

However, looking at Zeng Zhi's smiling expression, Yuan Ling's words gradually lost his confidence, and he said weakly: "Although I can't roast tea, can't I learn and sell it now?" ”

Zeng Zhi said with a smile: "It turned out to be learning from Zhao Kuo on paper." ”

Yuan Ling said a little unconvinced: "I'm a soldier on paper, and you won't be much better than me!" ”

Zeng Zhi said with a smile: "This is not necessarily. Although I haven't used this method of roasting tea, I still know how to roast tea using the local method in the countryside. I think these two methods, although they seem to be very different, are actually similar in essence. ”

Mr. Zhang Chunming said: "Xiao Zeng is right, whether it is the local method of roasted tea, or our assembly-line roasted tea, in fact, there are three stages, that is, finishing, stripping and drying, but the process is slightly different." In addition, the soil method of roasting tea, for the control of the heat, and the kneading technology has high requirements, if the two are not well mastered, especially the kneading technology is not good, it will directly cause a bad situation, and the quality of the fried tea will be relatively poor. This kind of assembly-line roasted tea has lower requirements for the control of the heat, and eliminates the process of manual kneading, and replaces it with a tea broom in the pot. ”

Zeng Zhi stretched out a thumbs up to the old man and said: "The old man is worthy of being an expert, and he also sees the difference between these two methods very clearly, and he is very concise and clear. For example, I know the difference, but it's hard to explain. ”

Zeng Zhi was moved to see it, and said to the woman who was standing in front of the first pot and was in charge of the preliminary finishing procedure: "This eldest sister, can you let me try it?" ”

Without waiting for the woman to speak, Yuan Ling glared at Zeng Zhi first, and said, "What are you making a fuss about, I am useful for these teas, what can you do with the things you can make at your level." Now that you know the process, there's a chance to try it out. ”

"Okay, I won't try, look at how nervous you look." Zeng Zhi said helplessly.

The middle-aged woman standing in front of the first pot looked at the two people who were arguing, and said with a smile: "You don't have to wait for later, there is a half-frame of tea over there, which can be used to practice." But we'll have to wait until we've fried these good teas first. ”

Zeng Zhi nodded, stepped aside and watched them continue to stir tea.

Fifty catties of raw tea, if the tea is fried by the soil method, how can it take three or four hours, but the use of this professional assembly line fried tea, but it saves a lot of time, only more than an hour to fry it, there is a small basket of tea leaves selected to be long.

And the three middle-aged women also fulfilled their previous promise and gave it to Zeng Zhi to practice.

So, Zeng Zhi tried it alone in three pots.

Although Zeng Zhi once used the soil method to fry tea, it was several years ago. And he has not tried this new method of roasting tea, although this new method of roasting tea looks simple, but there are still a lot of tricks in it, and people who don't know it, the roasted tea is definitely not good.

I became interested in this thing, so Zeng Zhi learned very seriously, asking questions while trying it out, plus the three women didn't have a big deal after roasting the tea here, and the teaching was also very attentive, and Zeng Zhi had surpassed tea before after all, so he soon had a bit of a beginner's appearance.

A woman saw Zeng Zhi's progress so fast, and jokingly said: "You kid is so smart, otherwise, come to our company and learn to fry tea with me!" It's a pity that you don't stir up tea this day."

Through the previous exchange, Zeng Zhi already knew that this woman's surname was Zheng, and her name was Zheng Yanli.

Zeng Zhi said with a smile: "Sister Zheng, if you want to treat this as a job, I just want to be fresh." ”

"The young man is the boss, learn what kind of tea to fry! Isn't your big girl without a partner, this young man is so handsome, smart and rich, he is simply a golden beetle son-in-law, or I will help your big girl be a matchmaker? Another woman named Lin Meiqin quipped.

Zheng Yanli said: "I really like it, but who is the master of the girl now?" ”

Several women made their own jokes, Zeng Zhi was a little embarrassed, and it was difficult to interject, so he had to pretend not to hear it, and fried the tea by himself, looking very devoted.

Yuan Ling looked at Zeng Zhi's appearance, and couldn't help but smile and shook his head, secretly saying that he was really a nerd!