The tea tree community is the destination of Yanshu.

The last time I came here, I only saw a rough idea, but this time I can explore it tree by tree.

She first came to the mother tree of the three largest large-leaved species, carefully observed and identified, thought for a moment, and suddenly smiled to solve the confusion. It turns out that this thousand-year-old mother tea tree is not a pure wild type, but a "wild flower and fruit seed, stem and branch leaf cultivation state" (see note), which belongs to the transitional type between wild type and cultivated type.

It's an interesting discovery, I don't know what kind of creation this space experienced before she took over, and what human ancestors lived and worked in.

In this way, according to the homology of the origin of tea plants and their early domestication and cultivation, it is very likely that there are completely wild-type tea trees with an earlier age on the southern peak of Yunqi Mountain. In the past life, China's Hengduan Mountains and the Lancang River basin were the origin of tea in the world, and tea species from all over the world were spread from here, including the Indian Assam tea, which was not of local origin, but was gradually introduced from southwest Yunnan. The ancient Dian people were the first people to discover and domesticate tea trees, and the wild tea trees they first domesticated were arbor large-leaved species, and the small and medium-leaved species were actually large-leaved species through natural or artificial migration to distant places.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Yan Shu is a tea addict. The idiot is not the superficial Ye Gong Haolong, but the kind that is addicted to a certain extent, and the tea he loves must be traced back to the roots. Falling in love with tea is almost a point of no return.

Let's go back to the mother tea tree in front of us, the predecessors have laid a good foundation, and Yan Shu's effort has been greatly reduced.

She bowed respectfully to the three tea trees to show her love and respect. That's right, even as the owner of the space, you should have a pure reverence for those natural beings and the blessings of your ancestors. The meaning of the master that Yan Shu comprehended was not all about supremacy, but more about love and protection.

Then I looked up and down left and right around one of the tea trees, which was nearly six meters tall, with a canopy width of three or four meters in diameter, and the bottom of the trunk was about one adult around. This is also because it grows in rocky soil and rocky soil on the cliff slope, and the root system is difficult to extend.

She chose this one tree for the domestication experiment, and the other two trees remained in their original state as the control group. After all, it has been released in the wild for too long and needs to be re-domesticated. Here are a few words, tea lovers who drink tea should pay attention to the identification of wild tea, do not be fooled by some sellers on a treasure, real wild tea can not be drunk indiscriminately before domestication, because the tea tree is very smart, in the wild state in order to protect itself will secrete trace toxins, drink lightly heartbeat or diarrhea, serious is not easy to say. In short, don't blindly chase after it as soon as you hear about the wild.

Yan Shu first gently stroked the branches and leaves of the trunk of the tree, and murmured to it to establish an emotional connection, "I'm going to start~~"

Then exert the power of the mind, fly up the firewood knife, click, click to the knife, cut off some miscellaneous branches, to ensure the lighting and nutrient enrichment of the main branches. After cutting and repairing, she glanced at her white middle coat, and had to give up the idea of climbing the tree to pick tea herself, still using her mental power, flying buds to pick leaves, swishing, after some selection, only the part near the tip was left, greatly thinning the number of leaves, and spreading the ventilation between the branches and leaves.

Due to the seasonal reasons in the space, it is already after the solar term of the fifth lunar month, and the cut branches are not suitable for cultivating cuttings at this time, and are temporarily sealed in the cave; The tea leaves that are picked will not be wasted if they are not drunk, and they will rot and mature into leaf fertilizer and return to the soil.

Yan Shu also set up a simple range to release his breath in it, leaving some "popularity" for the tea tree, which is conducive to the domestication and growth of the tea tree.

After getting this mother tea tree, Yan Shu was attracted by several centuries-old tea trees scattered in the laterite forest on the northern slope in the distance.

Because they are tall ancient trees, they are too conspicuous. This should be made into a single plant for each tree in the previous life, and the price of one pound of dry hair tea is calculated according to the harvest of ten catties of fresh leaves per tree...... Ho ho ho how much does that cost! Yan Shu's little abacus crackled, and he was a little unsettled.

After tasting and comparing the fresh leaves, two trees were decisively selected and marked as Gaopole No. 1 and Gaopole No. 2. You don't need to cut the high pole, you can fly directly to the tree and pick it up.

Finally, there are a few old tea trees closest to the cold spring, all of which are cultivated small-leaved species. It's a mystery. The small-leaf tea is the most common distribution in the tea area in the previous life, which is sweet and soft, and the tea soup made with the Yibang small-leaf seed in the Pu'er tea is "light and fragrant like a lotus", which is very popular with the women of the aristocratic class.

Yan Shu was fascinated by it, and trance-filled through the fog of time and space, and saw that there were people buried in pots to make rice and boil water to cook tea by the cold spring. And tea is a thing, how can it be drunk alone? Presumably, the fairy robes in white and the fairy couples can be worthy of such good tea and water and the loneliness of this world.