Chapter 396 [Field Trip]
Yang Nianzhong and John's dedication to the green mood cigar smoke made the old man of San Diego very moved, the old man did not observe Yang Nianzhong and John with colored glasses, but warmly entertained, and after chatting, he asked his wife to hurry to the backyard vegetable garden to prepare lunch.
The beautiful translator Vanessa was left behind, and the four of them chatted happily, and the old man introduced Yang Nianzhong and John in detail. The more Yang Nianzhong and John listened to it, the more they felt a little incredible, because it was too difficult and too difficult to make these green cigars.
First of all, you have to find a very suitable seed planting site for Green Mood Cigars, because the seeds of Green Mood Cigars are very special, they are a variant of ordinary tobacco, and they are extremely demanding on soil, moisture, light, temperature, and even the orientation of planting.
Moreover, when the green mood is planted on the land, its juice is poisonous when it takes root and sprouts, whether it is the roots, stems or leaves of these tobacco. Therefore, all kinds of pests will stay away from this tobacco, and will not give birth to insects and will not be eaten by pests on the leaves, which plays a very vital role in the protection of tobacco leaves.
It's not enough to just plant it on the ground and let it take root and sprout, why is the green mood cigar smoke so precious? Because it has a metamorphosis for fertilizer, what kind of farm fertilizer is used? Any kind of fertilizer to serve these green mood cigar smoke seedlings will kill the seedlings, and he will only like the manure of Cuban crocodile droppings.
That's right, the green mood cigar plants are planted with Cuban crocodile droppings, so it's no wonder that the island is surrounded by Cuban crocodiles. It's no wonder that this small island can produce green mood cigars, how can there be a green mood without Cuban crocodiles, the growth conditions and fertilization conditions alone are perverted enough, but the perverted ones are still to come.
This green mood tobacco is mutated from ordinary tobacco, and its growing environment is different from other tobacco, which can be harvested in one year.
But Green Mood has to grow in the soil for three consecutive years, for example, in 02 you can plant seedlings of Green Mood cigar tobacco, and in 05 you can collect the ripe tobacco and make cigars.
Growing continuously for three years, not affected by any pests, absorbing water and fertilizer to the fullest, such tobacco leaves are absolutely unmistakable. Because the green fresh tobacco leaves are poisonous, and the toxicity is not small, these tobacco leaves are harvested with great difficulty, and soaked in pure and sweet spring water for 24 hours.
Because these tobacco leaves grow particularly thick, they will not rot even if they are soaked for 24 hours, not to mention the use of flowing mountain spring water, the temperature is extremely low and will not cause the plant to heat up and rot.
This is the first step to remove the toxicity of tobacco leaves, and the second part of the production process is even more bizarre, since it is necessary to use, the juice of other tobacco soaked in a certain proportion of the mixture, and then soaked for 24 hours.
Then take out the moisture on the shade to dry, not with direct sunlight can only dry in the shade, after 12 days, the moisture of the tobacco leaves will decrease, the pages of the tobacco will become very tough, the selected green mood tobacco leaves, will be selected and cut by Santiago's hands, and then rolled into cigar smoke.
The newly produced Green Mood Snow Smokers are not to be smoked, so the Green Mood Cigars made into these classic spears are placed flat in a square box carved from cigar wood. Spread a layer of green mood spear cigars, then cover the cigars with 10 centimeters of wild mint, and cover the cigars with a layer of wild mint.
Once a box is filled, it is placed in a cigar cellar five meters underground, and it takes two years to make a green mood cigar, which is why the green mood smoker has the cooling effect and taste of mint. It takes five years for a cigar to grow from planting, germinating, collecting tobacco leaves, and then making a cigar.
The storage conditions of the green mood cigar made into a real cigar are actually the same as other cigars, as long as the cigar is protected, it can be slowly purified in a constant temperature and humidity environment.
Why should these green mood cigars smoked by Yang Nianzhong be better than those cigars that John brought back from Miami? They are made in the same way, but they are not the same age.
Santiago makes very few green mood cigars each year, and there is no man in Cuba who doesn't smoke cigars, and he mails them to his family.
Every man sent a box of leftover cigars, or put them in the cigar cellar he dug in the backyard for purification, which means that the green mood cigars smoked by Yang Nianzhong were not mellowed through the cellar, they were freshly made and could be smoked, but the taste was definitely not up to the top.
These green spear cigars smoked in San Diego's house are good things that have been purified in the cellar for ten years, can they taste the same? For a whole morning, Santiago not only introduced the manufacturing process of green mood to Yang Nianzhong, but also personally took Yang Nianzhong to his own tobacco field to see with his own eyes how those green mood scientists grow tobacco? What it looks like.
In addition to the fact that the pages are thicker, they are actually similar to ordinary tobacco, and the total area of these tobaccos grown in San Diego is no more than an acre. There are only a little over 1,000 of them, and the annual production of Green Mood Spear Cigars will definitely not exceed 10,000, and it will be enough to satisfy the consumption of all the men in the entire family of San Diego.
So the amount of spear cigars left is not much, because the fertilizer needed for these green moods is the droppings of Cuban crocodiles, which are particularly troublesome and dangerous to collect, and it is simply impossible to expand production.
After taking a look at the environment in which the tobacco is grown, Santiago took the two brothers to the cigar cellar in their backyard to check the green mood cigars, the environment of the cellar, and the large and small boxes.
The two brothers were overjoyed when they saw the cigar cellar full, and had already made up their minds to receive a warm reception from Mr. and Mrs. Santiago at lunchtime. At the dinner table, Yang Nian explained his intention to Mr. and Mrs. Santiago, and when he came to Santiago's house, he bought green mood cigars.
The old man also understands very well that Yang Nianzhong has traveled so far to come to his house, definitely not to have fun, but to buy cigarettes, although the old man has no worries about food and clothing, but the old man is still more concerned about his offspring, although the life of the Cuban people, including food, clothing, housing and transportation, is helped by the state.
But who doesn't like money, with money you can buy some other items, which will make your life richer, so the old man of San Diego and Yang Nianzhong started a bland negotiation.
Why is it bland? Because the old man of Santiago is not Yang Nianzhong's opponent at all, how can the old man of Santiago, who has been a fisherman all his life, be an opponent of Yang Nianzhong, who is a master of negotiations.
It took less than ten minutes to get the price fixed, and the price of a green mood spear cigar was 20 US dollars in Cuban pesos. The price is very low, Yang Nianzhong bought more than 5,000 cigars in the cigar cellar in cash.
And signed a contract with the old man of San Diego, the green mood scientist he produced later can only be provided to the male members of his family to smoke, and Yang Nianzhong John two outsiders to taste, every year to make 10,000, green mood spear cigars to Yang Nianzhong and John, the annual transaction volume of 200,000 US dollars.
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