In the past two days, Chengxin has been going to the orchard from time to time to take a look.

At the end of February, the wild tea that was pruned a year ago has begun to sprout, but Chengxin is not busy picking.

Now the tea leaves are showing a little bud, Chengxin feels that it is too little, and he is picking a leaf when he sends out a leaf.

Otherwise, just the young shoots, the small more than ten are fine, and the largest mother tree, the bright buds, can harvest one or two fried tea leaves.

Spring has really arrived, and the cherries in the orchard have bloomed not long ago.

White, pinkish-white flowers, interspersed with the green leaves of the cherries, which also did not grow long.

Not only cherries, but also various pear trees in the orchard are also blooming.

Unlike cherry blossoms, pear blossom petals come in two colors.

The outside is white, with a little yellow in the center.

It seems that this year, eating cherries, pears, and loquat is not going to run.

Other fruits, although they have grown green leaves, but it is not yet the flowering season, and Chengxin is not sure whether it can bear fruit.

Two days later, Chengxin arrived at the village headquarters.

"Xue'er, are you busy today?"

"What's wrong Chengxin?"

Su Xue wondered.

"The tea leaves in my orchard can be picked, there are a few tall trees, my cousin hasn't come back yet, if you're okay, help me hold up the ladder."

Cheng Xin said what he meant.

It's been three or four days since they returned to the village, and the two people who should be busy are also busy.

The tea leaves can be picked, and Zhong Tao hasn't come back yet, so Chengxin called Su Xue's family over and helped with the ladder.

No way, the mother tree is a bit tall. You have to build a ladder, and it's not easy to do it alone.

"Okay, I'm fine."

"Hu Ying, why don't we go together to help Chengxin pick tea, and I'll let Chengxin make something delicious for you later?"

Su Xue not only went by herself, but also called Hu Ying.

Hu Ying nodded and agreed without saying a word, and I don't know if I think picking tea is fun to pass the boring time, or for the sake of what Su Xue said is delicious.

Half a day in the morning and half a day in the afternoon, the three of them picked all the tea leaves.

This speed is much faster than last year's harvesting in the mountains.

However, this is also because of the good terrain and the pruning. It is also easy to pick.

After the tea leaves are picked, they cannot be fried for the first time, and they have to be left for a period of time until the moisture in the fresh tea leaves evaporates a little.

But it won't be too long, from the afternoon to tomorrow morning.

For this reason, Chengxin also went to the old house and brought three mats that were not used in the old house.

Two of them contain tea leaves from sixteen small tea trees, and one from three large trees.

As for the mother tree, there are too few, so the bamboo dustpan with a diameter of more than one meter in the Chengxin utility room is installed.

Although Su Xue said that she would make food for Hu Ying, in fact, except for a plate of lean meat, everything else was vegetarian.

These vegetarian dishes are all picked by Chengxin in the vegetable base.

One is that in his vegetable garden, there are no other vegetables except rape.

Second, if you also taste this dilute spiritual liquid, will the vegetables grown be too bad.

The result is okay, it doesn't feel much worse than the dishes made by Chengxin last year, and it's still so delicious.

When Su Xue and the two went back to the village in the afternoon, Chengxin also asked Su Xue to help find some villagers tomorrow to weed the vegetable field, and catch the insects that woke up because the temperature rose.

The main reason is that soon there will be buyers coming, and when the time comes, they will take them to the vegetable field, and they will see weeds everywhere, and all kinds of insects on the vegetable leaves, maybe they will have to suppress the price of their vegetables.

Zhong Tao hasn't come back yet, and Chengxin has no choice but to find Su Xue for this matter.

Early the next morning. Chengxin took three types of tea and prepared to find the village's roasted tea master to fry the tea.

Carrying a basket on his back and a dustpan, it didn't take long for Chengxin to come to Master Liu, who was roasting tea in the village.

Master Liu's name is Liu Minggui.

Hehe, at that time, people took their names with what was expensive, blessed, or something.

There are also two elderly people and two sons in the family, both of whom work in a place called Yunshan in the city.

Both sons inherited the old man's craftsmanship and both worked in the tea farm, but it seems that they are not in the same factory.

I heard that the wages are quite high, after all, roasting tea by hand is a handicraft, and it is quite easy to make money with craftsmanship.

"Old man Liu, old man Liu, are you at home?"

As soon as Chengxin arrived at Liu Minggui's house, he shouted inside from outside the courtyard wall made of stones.

"Woohoo, woohoo."

Before Chengxin's words fell, the dog in the yard heard the sound and stood up and barked at Chengxin.

"Yo ho, dare you call me? Believe it or not, I'll come over to you first? ”

Chengxin is idle, and the earth dog is barking.

"Dog, what is it called in broad daylight, ouch Chengxin, fried tea?"

The dogs in the yard haven't barked for a while. was interrupted by Liu Minggui coming out.

I saw the dustpan in Chengxin's hand. There is also the tea inside, and the other party also knows Chengxin's intention.

"That's right, old man, didn't I move the wild tea in the mountains to my home last year and plant it."

"No, the first batch of spring tea has come out, and I plan to let you help fry it, are you always free? It's up to you in the village. ”

"Hehe, come on, come in, come in and sit. I'm an old man, what's there to do. ”

Liu Minggui didn't wait for Chengxin to finish speaking. Liu opened the gate of the courtyard and let Chengxin go in and said.

Chengxin walked into the yard, and before he sat down, Liu Minggui reached out in the dustpan in Chengxin's hand, grabbed some tea leaves from the mother tree and sniffed it before putting it to his nose.

"Yo ho, this tea is good, you kid will choose it, such a good tea tree was planted by your kid."

Dealing with tea all year round, whether the tea is good or not, you don't need to fry it to drink, just smell the fresh tea, Liu Minggui will know whether it is good or bad.

"Hey, hey, luck."

Chengxin is modest.

In fact, he understands Mao's tea, so he thinks it's wild and it's good to drink, so he moved back to grow at home.

"Didn't you move quite a lot last year? That's all? It's the same in the back of the basket, right? ”

I don't know if this old man smelled the smell, but he only had tea leaves in his back basket.

"That's right, old man, there are few dustpans at home, so I put it in the back basket."

"The one in this dustpan is the mother tree, and there are two batches of things left in the back, the same as last year, that is, the tree is big and the tree is small."

I don't know if the old man still remembers the tea that his old man came to fry last year.

"Well, the classification is good, there are certain differences between different tree ages and the tea leaves that grow."

"Old woman, come out with that dustpan."

Liu Ming explained the tea to Chengxin, and suddenly shouted into the room.

After a while, an old woman with gray hair came out with several dustpans that were slightly smaller than the dustpans that Chengxin brought.

Liu Minggui's family is fried tea, and there are many such things at home.

"Hello Grandma Wang."

The old woman's surname is Wang, and the Chengxin top hat is greeting.

"Chengxin, stir-fry the tea, come, put the tea inside first, don't wait for it to be ripe."

Grandma Wang has been frying tea with Mr. Liu all the year round, and she also knows tea very well.

Cheng Xin didn't say a word, and took off the two bags of tea leaves in his back.

Then he took the dustpan from Grandma Wang's hand, put all the tea leaves in it and scalded it, and put it on the shelves on the side.

Seeing that his wife had brought a little too much fresh tea leaves, he went back to the house and took out two of them and handed them to them.

After being busy for a while, Cheng Xin put all the tea leaves in the dustpan.

"Chengxin, you still have a little more water in this tea, let it dry for half a day, and I'll fry it for you in the afternoon."

"In that case, you can come and get it in the evening or tomorrow morning."

"But you don't have a lot of dustpans at home, so you'd better spend an extra day with me."

"The tea leaves that have just been fried cannot be immediately packed in jars, and it is best to dry them for two days. Otherwise, there will be a resurgence. ”

"Okay old man, then I'll come back the day after tomorrow, then I'll be tired of you getting old."

Chengxin is not afraid that the other party will embezzle his own tea, after all, after so many years, I have not heard anyone say that Old Man Liu will embezzle tea.

Moreover, when Chengxin came, he also weighed the tea leaves, and he probably knew how many dried tea leaves he could lose, and Chengxin also knew a rough idea.

In fact, this is not a bird's use, after all, there is a big difference between dry and wet goods.

Chengxin didn't stay long, agreed on the time to pick up the goods, and left.

As for how much processing fee is, neither of them mentioned it.

Actually, the old man's fee is quite cheap.

Usually when people in the village ask him to help roast tea, he will charge dozens of hundreds of yuan, which is still the price of these old people.

If it had been a long time ago, the price would have been so low that you would have lost money.

Now in a year, Liu Minggui can't earn 2,000 yuan by roasting tea in the village.

There are more than 100 households in the village and less than 200 households, each of which goes to the mountains to pick some wild tea leaves in spring and summer.

Some of them are not drunk for themselves, but for their children.

Although each family will let him fry tea, this is calculated as more than 1,000 per family, and occasionally fried a few times, 2,000 is also at the top.