Chapter 8 The Craft of Making Tea
Liu Zixi calmed down, and instead of being more resentful of her as Ye Lan expected, he was a little overwhelmed.
Ye Lan looked at him and said calmly and firmly: "I won't die, not only will I not, but I will also get your brother back, and then raise you two brothers to adulthood, so that you can study and read well." I will live a good life and watch you marry and have children, and become famous. ”
Liu Zixi's tears flowed even more fiercely.
Ye Lan exhaled: "You have the time to mess with me here, why don't you go and inquire about when, where, and how your brother got lost." ”
This village is called Baiye Village, which is the hometown of Mrs. Zhou's grandmother, and her youngest son was just over two years old when he was sent to Baiye Village.
I heard from the people in the village that the doll was not used to life here at first, crying day and night, and refused to eat, and then fell seriously ill, and the people who adopted and took care of him did not pay much attention, probably thinking that the disease would be gone, but I didn't expect the little body to survive.
Later, he was much more well-behaved, but his health was not good, and the family just gave him food, and the rest didn't care at all.
Last year, there was a temple fair in the village, and the child was gone.
"I don't know if he got lost or was abducted, the family originally treated him as a burden, and if he lost it, he lost it, and he never looked for it again."
Ye Lan didn't expect the fate of the youngest son of the Liu family to be so tortuous, thinking about what a beautiful family it once was, since Liu Zixi's father died, everything has changed......
If Liu Zixi's mother had a spirit in the sky, how sad it would be to watch her pair of sons suffer and lose.
Ye Lan felt uncomfortable in her heart, and breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what, she had to find her youngest son to be worthy of this body.
Ye Lan and Liu Zixi went to the county government to report the case first, but after all, after so long, the county government had no clue, so they could only inquire more in the surrounding towns and villages.
A six-year-old child is lost, it is really like looking for a needle in a haystack, even if the modern Internet is so developed, most of the children who are lost cannot be recovered, not to mention the closed ancient times.
Liu Zixi was depressed all the way, Ye Lan didn't care about him, carefully asked the villagers about the appearance and characteristics of his youngest son, and then went to find someone to paint a portrait.
When they got home, neither of them said a word, Liu Zixi saw Ye Lan holding a thick stack of portraits in her hand, her lips moved and she wanted to speak but didn't make a sound.
Ye Lan glanced at him: "Cut~"
Liu Zixi: "......"
If you ignore it, ignore it, who is afraid of whom!
Ye Lan figured it out, these days she has been forcing herself to be a mother, and she has been considerate and tolerant of Liu Zixi, and has tried to put herself in the position of a mother.
But in the final analysis, she has never been a mother, but it is easy to be self-defeating, and it is too tiring to be a mother, she is responsible for Liu Zixi, but she will never be a low-key mother.
She's really angry!
Ye Lan bypassed Liu Zixi and entered the room, Liu Zixi looked at the closed door, raised his hand and touched his cheek.
She didn't really use much force, but he felt a lot of pain at the moment.
Liu Zixi lost his soul and entered his house, but was shocked by the scene in front of him.
These books ...... And this desk......
It turned out that she really wanted to let herself study well, and then look at the neat bedding, he walked over and took the wooden box under the pillow.
The copper coins are well placed there, and there is not a single one missing.
At this moment, he couldn't help squatting on the ground and crying, his brother was gone, but she had become better, should he hate or rejoice?
The youngest son is looking for it, and life has to go on.
Ye Lan got up early in the morning and made breakfast, she didn't call Liu Zixi, but hurriedly went to the tea shop to work.
Sister-in-law Zhou was surprised when she saw her: "You live so far away, why did you come so early?" ”
"Come early to clean up, and ask for leave after only a few days of work, it's embarrassing to say."
"What's this, who's not in a hurry, don't worry."
Sister-in-law Zhou is easy to talk to, and the shopkeeper Zhou is a good person, Ye Lan is very glad that she is working under such a boss, but she has also thought about it, it is estimated that finding her younger son is a long-term thing, not only takes time, but also requires a lot of financial resources, and it is far from enough for her to work in the tea shop.
In her previous life, her family had been tea farmers for generations, and her family was ready to open a small tea shop in the county town after she graduated and stabilized, so that the family could be together.
She actually wants to do this business, she has been exposed to it since she was a child, and she also has a strong interest in tea, and she learned the skills of roasting tea from her father and grandfather.
That's right, roasted tea.
Who said she didn't have the ability, it's also a skill, isn't it?
In the past few days of working in the tea shop, she also learned that this dynasty is flourishing in tea drinking, but the quality of tea is uneven, and many good teas are monopolized, and ordinary tea shops can't buy it.
The quality of Zhou's shopkeeper's tea is actually average, but water is the mother of tea, and the victory is better than the living spring in the backyard, and the business is also very prosperous.
Ye Lan has thousands of years of accumulation of tea-making technology in her mind, so it is better to start with tea-making.
"Sister-in-law Zhou, have you ever thought about making your own tea to sell?"
"Make your own tea?" Sister-in-law Zhou smiled a little helplessly: "The tea in the hands of the tea farmers below is generally eaten, and the good tea can't fall into our hands, it's not that we didn't think of making tea by ourselves, but we don't have that craftsmanship, and a good tea master can't look down on this small tea shop." ”
"Don't hide it from Sister-in-law Zhou, I used to learn a little craft from my family in my mother's house, and I dare not say that I can compare with the experienced tea maker, but it should be better than the one in our shop."
"Really?"
Ye Lan nodded: "Don't blame me for saying this, sister-in-law Zhou, but since we have such a good living spring, if there is another good tea to match it, the tea shop will definitely be full." ”
Sister-in-law Zhou clapped her hands violently: "It's the spring tea season now, you will go to the tea farmers in the countryside with us Ming'er, and fry a pot to taste it first?" ”
Ye Lan responded, and Zhou's sister-in-law hurriedly went to find the shopkeeper Zhou.
After getting off work, Ye Lan took the portrait of her youngest son to a place with a large flow of people and posted a few photos, and then went to the restaurant and tea shop to inquire for a long time before going home.
As soon as she entered the house, she felt that there was something unusual in her home, and when she was close to Liu Zixi's room, she vaguely heard movement inside.
Got a man? There was also a smell of blood.
She was so frightened that she didn't think much about pushing the door open and seeing ...... A man with a naked upper body was looking at her in horror.
"Qin Gongzi?"
She knew this man, but then she saw the red cheeks of the people in the room, and then she covered her eyes: "Hug, sorry......"
She, she'd never seen a naked man in her life, and now she went from cheeks to ears.
As soon as she turned around, Liu Zixi looked at her in surprise with a bowl of hot soup.