In other words, sending money is to spend money to hire idle people in the town to cooperate.

Five thousand taels of silver, which were heavy, were put into stones of equal weight, and carried in wooden boxes, and they had to be carried twice.

Master Yan couldn't think much about it, but he felt like hearing the sounds of heaven, and he was excited for a while, and shouted: "Three thousand taels!" I need three thousand taels! ”

After shouting, I realized that fortunately there was no one in the inn. He has always been as steady as an old dog, why is he so unreserved at this time!

Yan Shu nodded: "Yes." Make an IOU and go back to our big boss. ”

……

The silver is in place, and nothing else is a problem. They stood on the hill of Chachang Village that afternoon.

Master Yan took the lead, not entering the village first, but surveying the tea field.

The tea field is green, but those who know how to do it can see the different levels of green.

There is the green of tea trees, the green of overgrown trees, the green of grass, and the green of wild vegetables. Even on the tea branches, there are old greens and new greens.

The climate here in Meishan is warm, the tea trees germinate early, and the picking and harvesting of tea can be more than half a month in the morning than the Jiangnan tea area.

The tips of the buds in the tea field have been swept over. The season waits for no one, and it must have been the usual tea making and paying the tea class as in previous years.

Master Yan couldn't wait to go into the village to see what kind of quality the tea farmers left him this year.

The people of Chachang Village were shocked to see Master Yan without any news circulating, and the whole village was boiling.

"Go, go, the tea merchant is here!"

"Oh my God, it's finally here!"

"Shout down the pig killer! Quick, get ready! ”

"Da Lang, catch our two chickens and send them to the ancestral hall quickly."

Chachang Village is a large village with more than 200 households belonging to the same big clan, and the clan elders, village chiefs, and villagers are all busy in their own ways.

Yan Shu followed her father and received the highest level of courtesy in the village. It was a good feeling to be respected.

For the villagers, Master Yan has benefited the whole village every year, but this year is especially grateful.

At the banquet, when they heard about the arduous journey of Master Yan to overcome all difficulties all the way here, everyone from the clan elders to the young people stood up to toast.

Master Yan looked at everyone's expectant eyes, looked at each other and smiled tacitly with the village chief, and said the sentence that everyone wanted to hear the most:

"Open the scales at an auspicious time!"

……

"Open the scales—" A long harmonic voice echoed over the tea mountain field.

Opening the scale is the most important ritual and folk custom in the tea mountain.

Every year, the finished tea leaves are sold to tea merchants and weighed. Opening the scale symbolizes the beginning of the spring tea trade of the year!

All tea farmers are looking forward to this moment, which means that their livelihood for the year depends on the delivery of spring tea.

At the opening ceremony, there are three animal sacrifice ceremonies, and incense cases are set up to offer the case, which is dedicated to the tea ancestors.

The tea ancestor worshiped by tea farmers in different places is different, and the tea ancestor here is a Taoist called "Xiaoyao". Legend has it that it was he who discovered the Meishan tea species and taught the locals to grow tea and make tea.

Nowadays, the Taoist temple has long been destroyed in the war, and the Taoist people are also free to travel outside the world, and the tea field village has three generations of people who have lived on tea.

Also present was the tea supervisor, who was also an acquaintance of Master Yan, and it was not difficult to take the silver and leave after the ceremony.

After all, I had already eaten filial piety when I collected the tea class before, so I had to leave someone a way to live.

As soon as the tea supervisor left, the atmosphere of the scene was really lively and relaxed.

The village chief summoned two strong young men with strong skills and carried a thick wooden pole scale.

"Please step on the scales, go to the big tea, and go over the big scales!"

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